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Chapter Fourteen: Landlord

“Split a house?”

Gu Yun was stunned for a moment. Does the foundation branch have such operations?

Unlike ordinary daily necessities, houses are the lifelong pursuit of most people in City X. The uncles and aunts in the vegetable market downstairs worked hard all their lives just to buy a house in their later years. Because of this, Gu Yun never considered buying a house.

The customs of this world are very different from those in the village. There are no real estate developers in the village. If you want to live in a good house, you can only build it yourself. However, building your own buildings will be divided into the illegal buildings column.

"Don't you think the living environment around here is very poor?"

Every day when Chen Yue went home, she could smell a mixture of fishy smell and rotten fruits, but she could tolerate this. After all, when she was training at the headquarters, she had experienced various harsh living environments.

But the real problem is that Gu Yun’s rental house is too small, so small that it only has two bedrooms and one living room, and the kitchen is still renovated with a lanai.

Senior Sister Gu and Gu Yun both have their own rooms, and she, the resident, had to be squeezed to sleep on the sofa.

It can still bear it after sleeping for a few days, but if this continues, her waist and neck will sooner or later have big problems. It is said that lumbar disc herniation is a major problem that troubles contemporary people.

"Your current treatment is basically the same as that of senior employees, and you can choose a duplex house at the most."

At least in terms of the status of a senior employee, Chen Yue can be regarded as a veteran. When she first arrived in City X, Chen Jiang took a list to ask her to choose her residence. Although the duplex house is spacious and the environment in the community is good, it is too far from the school. She finally chose a residential building less than five minutes away from the school.

The place where Gu Yun and his friends live now is not only in poor environment, but also have to take buses or subways to attend classes every day, which can be said to be quite inconvenient.

"Then I'll go and ask?"

"No, there should be room available in the residential area I used to choose from. I'll help you choose."

"Then I'll bother you."

"No trouble, no trouble."

Chen Yue didn't expect Gu Yun to be so easy to talk to. She thought Gu Yun was the kind of hard-working guy who advocated training his willpower in a difficult environment, so she thought of a series of rhetoric, but she couldn't use it now.

"If it goes well, you will be able to move in tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."

"Okay, I'll discuss it with the landlord tomorrow."

……………………

The next morning, after his sister and Shen Yue went to school together, Gu Yun called the landlord whom he had not contacted for a long time. As usual, he only needed to call the rent to the other party every month.

In about a quarter of an hour, the landlord rushed to the rental house.

The old man is a local from City X. He bought many apartments during the Great Depression. Now in his later years, he only needs to collect rent to live a very decent life.

Gu Yun had never studied this aspect. He only knew that the old man was pretty good and had never raised his rent in the years.

"Long time no see, Xiaofu!"

The old man is in good spirits and always keeps a kind smile on his face.

It just starts to say something that makes people completely unaware of who he is calling.

"I'm Xiao Gu!"

Every time we meet, Gu Yun has to correct the other party.

"Xiaofu?"

"It's Gu Yun!"

"Hey, don't remind me, I'm not confused yet, aren't you Fuyun?"

To be honest, if it weren't for knowing in advance that the old man had bad ears and was a little forgetful, Gu Yun would probably think that the old man was here to make an appointment with him.

According to people in the neighborhood, the old man was hurt by a bad woman when he was young, so he became a lifelong unmarried man, without children, and did not find a wife in his later years, and did everything himself.

"Uncle Feng, I'm planning to come to you this time..."

"Pay the rent, right? Just call me directly, don't make it so troublesome."

Uncle Feng said happily.

However, Gu Yun couldn't be happy. His eyes seemed to be in deep darkness - how did he remember that he had told Mr. Feng and the others that he didn't plan to rent it on the phone?

The old man came here all the way, but in fact he even forgot what he was here for.

In fact, Gu Yun has always had a premonition over the years that Mr. Feng never raises rent or urges rent. It may not be because of his kindness, but because he may have forgotten that he has such a suite.

"Mr. Feng, I actually plan to move out tomorrow or the next day."

"Move out? It's great to move out. The environment here is really not very good. If you make money, you have to let your sister live a good life... By the way, where is that girl Futian?"

“…I went to school.”

Gu Yun didn't know who Futian was, but he didn't want to get involved with Uncle Feng on the issue of name. With his forgetfulness, he could still vaguely be anxious that he had a sister, which was already considered to be a super-level performance.

But no matter whether Mr. Feng was kind or really forgot to raise the rent for them, Gu Yun was still very grateful to the other party. After all, he also provided them with a cheap house when the two were in the poorest and destitute so that he and his sister would not sleep on the street.

"Go to school? It's good to go to school. That girl Futian should be in junior high school, right?"

"I'm already in my second year of high school."

"All in the second year of high school? So fast!"

Not only is it fast, but the exact same conversation happened once the last time I called.

Mr. Feng seems to have always maintained his impression of them several years ago.

"Anyway, thank you."

"No need to thank you, no need to thank you."

Uncle Feng said happily, "I understand, so let's do it today and contact us often if you have any questions."

"good."

"I'll come here to see you next month and say hello to Futian on my behalf."

As Gu Yun said, Uncle Feng is in good spirits and steps like the wind.

However, he still didn't know whether the old man understood what he was saying just now.

and……

Until Gu Yun was about to move out of this old house, he still didn't know how the name Futian came up.

Forget it, even if it is done, a big thing has been resolved.

Gu Yun sat on the sofa in the living room, silently looking around the old house that had accompanied them for several years. The morning sunlight illuminated the house, and the light and shadow of the past seemed to be visible in every corner.

He is actually not a person who likes to be intimate with the scenery, so why he looks at this room for so long...

It was purely because he was fooled by Mr. Feng.

Uncle Feng has been away for a long time, and Gu Yun has not recovered.

"Dingling, Dinglingling--"

The most original ringtone that came with the phone rang. Gu Yun took the phone screen and took a look, and Wang Lu's name was displayed on it.

"Hello?"
Chapter completed!
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