Chapter 19 Renting
As long as the average student rents it, he will basically live there for three years until he graduates from junior high school and goes to the county town to attend high school.
So the summer vacation is the most lively time for these tenants. Students who graduate from the third grade of junior high school will withdraw their rents, and students who are about to enter the first grade of junior high school will rent them.
After passing through the vegetable market, the asphalt road turned into a gravel road, and the pits were bumpy. Ma Tianyao didn't dare to try to step on it. With one step down, the puddle would definitely flood her rain boots.
So she followed the mine formation and walked carefully while looking at the houses on the roadside.
The residents on both sides are residents of local towns, and almost every household has signs such as "stay staying for rest" or "house rental" hanging at the gates.
She roughly calculated and walked to the middle of the street and the school, and chose a newer three-story building.
Standing at the doorway, she looked inside and could see that the living conditions of this family should be much better in this area, even the doorway is made of terrazzo.
There is a room on both sides of the doorway, with big red door curtains hanging on it, a pair of mandarin ducks embroidered with gold thread, and the word "囍" in the middle, which seems to be a wedding room arranged by this family.
Looking inside, I was blocked by a screen wall with a green landscape painting on it. I could only see the goose warm stone path on the right that extended into it.
Ma Tianyao was wearing rain boots, a little afraid of trampleting the clean terrazzo floor, so she stood in the doorway and shouted.
"Is anyone?"
"Who?"
Crunch!
The wooden door with the character "Happy" hanging opposite her was opened, and a corner of the curtain was lifted up, and a middle-aged woman poked her head out of it.
"Hello, Auntie, I rent a house. I want to ask if you have any available house?"
“Yes, yes!”
The woman smiled and crawled back to the room, as if she was not wearing shoes just now. After a while, the sound of slippers tickled, and she came out again to smile at Ma Tianyao.
"Haha, girl, go in and see the house."
Ma Tianyao smiled and nodded, and the two of them walked around the screen wall from the right and walked into the backyard.
The house structure of this family is quite standard, with bungalows in front (this is mostly done in rural areas in the north, which is convenient for drying grain), a courtyard in the middle, a kitchen on the right, and a three-story building at the end. In fact, it should be called two and a half floors, and the uppermost floor is just a high roof, which is only more than one meter high inside and cannot be occupied. It is mostly used to store agricultural utensils and debris.
The three-story building behind was covered with white porcelain pieces. It can be seen that even in the town, this family is either rich or noble.
The woman pushed open the door on the first floor of the back building, and there was a room on both sides.
Both rooms were locked with doors, and took out a bunch of keys and opened one of them. There was a earthen kang inside, and there were also blue porcelain pieces on the edge of the kang. Although the ground was not terrazzo, it was also a concrete floor, which was clean and tidy.
There are three quilts on the kang, all rolled up and piled up on the head of the kang, revealing the bamboo mat below. The house is relatively spacious. Just opposite the earthen kang is a simple plastic assembly wardrobe. On the right side is a rectangular wooden table against the wall, with some books and two old desk lamps piled up, and below are three square wooden stools.
"Girl, the room types upstairs and downstairs of my house are exactly the same. Let's look at this one, which is more convenient..."
"Is there anyone living in this room?"
"No one lives there. These are three students from Tuliangzi Village. They have graduated during the summer vacation. They don't want these beddings. The other tables, chairs, benches and wardrobes belong to my home."
"oh……"
Ma Tianyao looked around the room. She originally wanted to pick some problems to bargain, but after five minutes, she couldn't pick out any problems.
The floor is cement, clean and hygienic, with white ash painted on the walls, and even floor-to-ceiling curtains are hung in the room. Even lights are chandeliers that pay attention to.
As if he saw Ma Tianyao's thoughts, the woman smiled and spoke.
"The environment in my house is definitely the best in Meadianzi Town. This house was built two years ago. To be honest, my son and daughter-in-law went to work in another place. If I weren't afraid that the family would be empty, I wouldn't have rented it no matter how much money I gave it."
"Auntie, do you live alone?"
"Yes, my wife left early, and finally pulled her son up, built a house and got married. Unexpectedly, her son and daughter-in-law also went to work in another place. She only came back for the Chinese New Year a year. Otherwise, she would rent the house out, and I was afraid that my family would be smelly and no one noticed it..."
"Haha, auntie, you are still young. OK, I like this house. It just so happens that the three of us girls live in one room. You can offer a price."
Ma Tianyao smiled and agreed to rent it. She looked up and asked for the price. When she heard that Ma Tianyao had three people to live, the woman was also happy.
Generally, people rent houses are single students, and they basically rent beds. After one leaves, the other comes. Their house is a earthen kang. If you ask three people you don’t know to squeeze on one kang, who would like to?
If you only rent it to one person, the price is not easy to open, so although their house is good, it is not easy to rent. Only those who happen to be looking for a place together are suitable.
She lives alone and dares not rent it to three boys, so this is equivalent to limiting gender and adding another layer of difficulty to renting a house.
Now when he heard that Ma Tianyao moved in at once, how could he not be happy, but then asked again.
"All three of you are women, aren't you?"
"Haha, of course they are all women, one is my sister and the other is from the village."
Ma Tianyao said this is not nonsense, how can one woman, two men, or two women and one man live? Does she look like such an open person?
The landlord smiled embarrassedly and asked for the price.
"Our house rent is 300 yuan per month, one deposit is 3 yuan, and the deposit is 500 yuan. Don't bargain with me. In this way, I will pack all the water and electricity bills for you, and you can use the washing machine for free. The garbage will be thrown into the yard trash can every day, and the key will be given to each of you..."
Giving a key alone made Ma Tianyao a little moved. Those who rent a house here will hardly give you the key. First, these people are afraid that the students will throw the keys and will cause thieves to get in the family.
Second, I dislike the irregular work and rest of these students who disturb their lives, so if students come here to rent a house, it depends on the landlord's work and rest.
It's okay to open the door in the morning. I'm afraid that some landlords will lock the door early at night, or occasionally students will go back to the dormitory if they don't have a key and the landlord is not here, so they will be in trouble.
Anyone who lives here is locked outside and smashed the door almost every day when they come back late. This has to be said to be a special pain that the accommodation students cannot express.
Although Ma Tianyao is satisfied with everything, she is not enough money. The total amount of funds she can do now is 1,000 yuan. The deposit is 500 yuan, and the remaining 500 yuan is not enough. Even if she pays a month's rent, it's not enough. After all, the system is still waiting for her to open a store to sell white porridge!
"Aunt……"
She opened her mouth and was about to communicate with the landlord and aunt, but unexpectedly there was a noisy sound coming from the gate behind the screen wall.
"Is anyone? Rent a house!!!"
Chapter completed!