Strategy to develop champions

Chapter 96

"I... I'm here to look for a house. In two months, my elder brother will go to Beijing for the exam, and I haven't even settled in a place to live." In order to prevent cross-examination, Zhao Caifeng simply opened her mouth delicately, only saying that it was for My brother came to Beijing to look for a house.

"Where are you from?"

"I'm from Heqiao Town."

"My sister married into Heqiao Town, which is fifty or sixty miles away from here. Why are you here alone? What about your family?"

"I didn't let my brother come over. He's still studying at home. I'll go into the city and take a look. If there is a good house, I will rent it first and then go back to pick him up." The bottom line, but seeing that this woman doesn't look like a bad person, I said a few more words.

"It's so pitiful. I look at you. You're only fifteen or sixteen years old, right? Why do your family members let you come out alone? It's really painful." The woman helped Zhao Caifeng up, and said: " My surname is Wu, and everyone calls me Mrs. Wu. The row on the left side of this street is the house of my ancestors. It just so happens that there is such a vacant room today. If you want to find a house, you might as well go in and have a look. It's cheaper for you, whoever asked me to go out will hit you!"

Aunt Wu was in her early forties, her face was puckered up when she smiled, and the wrinkles on her brows deepened, but she looked very happy.When Zhao Caifeng heard the words, she thanked her with a limp, and followed Aunt Wu into the yard to take a look.

After entering, I found that there are two small houses at the back of the yard, one is a latrine and the other is a stove room. If Song Mingxuan lived and studied here alone, that would be enough.

Zhao Caifeng was a little moved at the moment, but she really didn't know the market here, and she was afraid that someone would see through her mind and the other party would raise the price, so she just wondered: "Ms. Wu, we are from the countryside, we don't have much money, and we don't know How much money does it cost to rent this house for a long time? Do you think it is possible that my brother will go back after finishing the Qiuwei exam? Can you only rent it until then, and then you can rent this house to others. "

Aunt Wu thought about it, and it is not a peak season until August, but there will be more people going to the capital from other places to visit relatives after August, and they can rent a good price at that time, so she said: "Then Okay, it's settled like that, but this time I can make it clear, pay the deposit first, and you can see that the tenant in front of you came to ask him for the cash yesterday and said he would pay it today, and everyone who came here today If I run away, I will be unlucky for eight lifetimes."

Zhao Caifeng looked at the courtyard for a long time, and then asked Aunt Wu about the situation among the neighbors. When she learned that there were no people engaged in noisy work, she felt relieved and said, "Then it will be settled like this." Well, today is the sixth day of June, and the exam starts on the ninth day of August, but it's only been two months."

Aunt Wu was also in a good mood. The original tenant ran away. She thought the house would be vacant for a while, but she bumped into a new tenant when she went out. She just smiled and said: "Today is also considered fate , I won’t overcharge you for this rent, I’ll give you the cheapest one, two taels of silver a month, what do you think?”

Zhao Caifeng really didn’t have much research on the currency of this era, but she calculated according to the noodles sold by old man Yang. A bowl of big meat noodles costs 15 Wen, ten bowls are 450 Wen, and the thirty bowls are 50 Wen. .According to modern prices, a bowl of big meat noodles is about 50 yuan, and thirty bowls of big meat noodles is [-] yuan.Two taels of silver is equivalent to seventy bowls of big meat noodles, which is [-] yuan, but in modern times, it is impossible to rent a small courtyard like this with a yard in Beijing for [-] yuan. The basement is more or less the same!

Zhao Caifeng thought about it in her mind, and immediately felt that the price was really not expensive, so she just nodded and said, "That's two taels of silver."

Zhao Caifeng followed Aunt Wu back to her home, weighed the silver with a pen and paid the deposit, and went back to the small courtyard just now.

The three rooms are bright halls. Except for the dirty kitchen, other places are acceptable. Zhao Caifeng did what she said, rolled up her sleeves and started cleaning.She took a bamboo pole and tied a broom to make a circle of cobwebs in the house. She coughed several times because of choking, and she didn't know how the previous tenant lived.

Zhao Caifeng wrung out the wet cloth and wiped the window sill, and suddenly remembered the scenes of being with Song Mingxuan by candlelight, she was doing needlework and he was reading a book. If it were romantic, it couldn't be called romantic at all, but she still couldn't help but feel very warm in her heart. .Zhao Caifeng smiled, rubbed a few rags vigorously, and wiped clean the few pieces of furniture left in the house.

She used to be a very clean person, and it should be said that she had a little cleanliness, but since she came here, she has nothing to live, eat, or wear that can be judged by her original living standards, so this kind of Over time, her cleanliness obsession was almost abandoned by her.And today, when she was able to clean up happily again, Zhao Caifeng felt that she was full of energy.

(End of this chapter)