Aunt Zhou pushed her bicycle parked by the tree and pointed to a road for Su Jianwei and Lin Yulan. "Look at this road."

The asphalt road was right in front of the three of them, so Lin Yulan and Su Jianwei nodded.

"Go to the end, turn right, and when you see the Shuhua store, turn left at the intersection. When you see a big banyan tree, you'll be there. I'll wait for you there."

Lin Yulan smiled and nodded, "Okay, thank you, Sister Zhou."

"It's okay!"

After Aunt Zhou left, Su Jianwei asked, "Mom, where did you get to know this Aunt Zhou?"

Lin Yulan said happily, "When I went to buy popsicles, I happened to hear Aunt Zhou chatting with the boss. She said that the bookstore outside their community had moved, but they left some bookshelves in the store and didn't clean it up."

"Then they said the bookstore's landlord was going to put up the rental flyer in the next couple of days."

"I heard them talking, so I asked where the bookstore was."

"They said that at the east gate of Pengcheng University and the back gate of Agricultural University, although the flow of people is not as heavy as here, there are still quite a lot of people."

“So I wanted to go and see.”

Su Jianwei was completely relieved after hearing what Lin Yulan said.

The university town is not small at all. Although the place Aunt Zhou mentioned is not difficult to find, it still took about twenty minutes to walk there.

On the way, Su Jianwei happened to see students coming and going at the east gate of Pengcheng University.

Although I haven’t seen the entrance to the Agricultural University yet, this place is really nice.

There are many shops along the street, but most of them are stationery stores, graphic arts stores, supermarkets, and beverage stores.

There are also places selling food, just two breakfast shops and a fast food restaurant.

It seems that everyone is used to eating in the university town, where there are many varieties of food and the prices are reasonable.

The original bookstore that Aunt Zhou mentioned faces the street on the front and right side, and there is a beverage shop on the left side. Business is pretty good.

Lin Yulan fell in love with this store at first sight.

The store is indeed very large, just as Aunt Zhou said. It is about twenty meters long and about twelve or thirteen meters wide.

The windows are also large. The five wooden windows on the north and south sides provide good ventilation and can also frame the scenery outside the window to create a landscape.

Especially the big banyan tree at the entrance, just one look at it makes me feel that the heat in my heart has dissipated a lot.

Su Jianwei could almost imagine the comfort of sitting in a bookstore, with the sunlight filtering through the leaves onto the table.

However, at this time, the entire bookstore was left with only messy bookshelves, and a few scattered books that had not been moved away. The place was in a mess and there was nowhere to step.

The two stood at the door of the store and looked inside. Lin Yulan had even thought about how to plan the store after renting it.

"Comrade!"

Aunt Zhou came over with a tall man wearing glasses, who was about forty years old.

She smiled and said, "Let me introduce you. This is the landlord of this store."

Lin Yulan smiled and said, "Hello, comrade. My last name is Lin."

"Hello, my surname is Zhang, as in article." The man looked like a teacher.

"Hello, Comrade Zhang."

Zhang Hui looked at Lin Yulan and said, "Judging from your accent, you don't seem to be from Pengcheng."

Lin Yulan nodded calmly, "We are from Q City and came here to do some business."

Zhang Hui looked at his shop and asked, "What business do you want to do with this shop?"

"I'm a chef and I want to use this shop to open a restaurant."

Zhang Hui frowned slightly when he heard that Lin Yulan wanted to use this place to open a restaurant. "This place used to be a bookstore."

The transition from a bookstore to a restaurant is too big a step. By then, his house will definitely be ruined by the smoke and fumes.

Lin Yulan also heard Zhang Hui's reluctance, "I know."

"Do you want to continue renting it to the bookstore?"

Zhang Hui didn't say anything. Aunt Zhou, who was standing beside him, looked at his slow pace and said, "Just tell me whether you want to rent it or not. They've been wandering around for so long, don't waste their time!"

Zhang Hui was confronted by Aunt Zhou and coughed twice, saying, "Isn't this what I'm considering?"

"What is there to consider? The price is right. If we both want to rent it, then we can. If not, then we don't have to." Aunt Zhou seemed to be very annoyed with Zhang Hui's dithering character and she confronted him several times in a row.

"Look what are you so anxious about."

Zhang Hui turned to Lin Yulan and said, "I'm definitely not willing to do that. After all, if you use it to open a restaurant, it will definitely cause more damage to the house than opening a bookstore."

"Can't we negotiate?" Lin Yulan really liked this store, and she could see that her daughter liked it too.

Zhang Hui thought for a moment and said, "Of course I can, but at this price..."

"You name a price and we'll negotiate it." Lin Yulan was quite straightforward.

After seeing Lin Yulan so happy, Aunt Zhou nodded in agreement.

"We rent here on an annual basis. It's 7,500 yuan per year."

After Zhang Hui finished speaking, Aunt Zhou subconsciously wanted to say something, but finally shut her mouth.

If she remembered correctly, the rent to the bookstore was only 4,500 yuan per year, but it suddenly increased by 3,000 yuan.

Lin Yulan also pursed her lips slightly. She had only spent tens of thousands of yuan to buy a shop back then. Seven thousand five hundred yuan a year was really not cheap.

You know, the salary of an ordinary worker in Q City is only about 300 yuan. The rent for this year is more than the annual salary of an ordinary person.

Su Jianwei, who was standing by, was not clear about the specific prices in this era, but she knew from the look on Aunt Zhou's face that she wanted to say something but hesitated that Zhang Hui had quoted a very high price.

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