They originally thought that renting a house in Guangzhou would not be difficult.
But Huang Qinqin and the others were wrong.
There are indeed many houses for rent or sale near the venue of the Canton Fair.
However, Huang Qinqin discovered that the locals in Guangzhou seemed to treat them like fools.
They dared to charge them 60 yuan a month for such a small two-bedroom apartment!
The three-bedroom apartments are even more outrageous, with prices starting at eighty dollars a month.
Upon hearing the price, Zhang Yumei immediately turned and left.
And he muttered curses, "Are they trying to take advantage of us?!"
"Eighty yuan a month? They might as well rob us!"
"If it's that expensive, we might as well stay in a guesthouse."
Xu Weiguo also agreed: "Who can argue with that? This price isn't much different from that of a guesthouse."
"And the guesthouse is cleaner, at least someone cleans it every day."
Huang Qinqin looked at the groups of local Guangzhou residents and felt something was off.
If renting a place in Guangzhou is so expensive, the person who just received them probably wouldn't have suggested that they rent a place outside, right?
So is there something about them that makes them seem easy to fool?
Or perhaps the people of Guangzhou knew they were from out of town and wanted to rip them off?
Just as Huang Qinqin and her group were about to leave, a group of foreigners walked over.
They walked straight past Huang Qinqin and her group, heading towards the alley where the rental house was located.
"Mom and Dad, let's wait a little longer."
"I want to see how much rent they charge foreigners."
"Okay, then let's stay a little longer."
"Um."
Because they were a little far apart, Huang Qinqin was afraid she wouldn't be able to hear their conversation.
So they walked back a little bit.
The locals in Guangzhou saw that they had returned, but they didn't pay them any attention.
They greeted the foreigners directly and obsequiously.
Huang Qinqin and Xu Hongxia were surprised to find that all the people from Guangzhou could speak foreign languages!
Although my pronunciation isn't perfect, I can still communicate with foreigners, and we can both understand each other.
The surprise lasted only three minutes, after hearing locals and foreigners talk about how much the monthly rent was.
Xu Hongxia was furious.
Huang Qinqin suddenly realized, thinking to herself: So that's how it is.
Xu Jianwen tugged at Xu Weiguo's sleeve and asked, puzzled, "Uncle, why do foreigners only need to pay fifteen yuan a month in rent?"
When they went to ask, the same house cost eighty dollars in rent.
Xu Weiguo and Zhang Yumei only understood why Xu Hongxia was so angry after hearing Xu Jianwen's question.
"This is just too much!"
Upon hearing this, Zhang Yumei understood everything.
Isn't this just blatantly ripping them off?
Zhang Yumei shoved Pingping into Xu Weiguo's arms, rolled up her sleeves, and was about to "reason" with them.
"Hey, honey, don't be impulsive!"
Seeing Zhang Yumei's posture, Xu Weiguo was afraid she would start a fight with the locals, so he quickly followed her.
Seeing that Zhang Yumei and Xu Weiguo had already gone over, Huang Qinqin and the others followed them.
The locals of Guangzhou had no idea what was going to happen to them.
They continued to enthusiastically introduce their houses to the foreigners.
"Our houses are very affordable, you can choose them!"
Zhang Yumei got angry and, without saying a word, forcefully pulled the local man's hand.
He angrily demanded, "What do you mean?!"
"It only costs 15 yuan a month to rent to foreigners, but they charge us 80 yuan a month to rent to them!"
The locals were initially quite angry when they were dragged away.
As soon as he heard Zhang Yumei's words, he immediately shut down the engine.
The reason is simple: the locals didn't expect that someone in Zhang Yumei's group would know a foreign language.
"I suddenly feel that eighty yuan is too expensive, so I've lowered the rent, is that not allowed?"
Although their trick was exposed, the locals still stubbornly argued their way out of it.
Zhang Yumei sneered, "Sure, why not? Of course it's fine."
"So you mean, this house is now fifteen dollars a month, right?"
"right!"
"If you're right, we'll rent this house."
Zhang Yumei didn't intend to argue with her any further. She directly stated that she wanted to rent the house and quickly took out fifteen yuan for her.
Upon hearing this, the locals widened their eyes and shouted, "No way!"
Zhang Yumei squinted at her, looking at her dangerously: "Why not?"
The locals initially wanted to say that no meant no, she didn't want to rent to them.
But when she saw Xu Weiguo behind Zhang Yumei, who looked like a formidable fighter, she swallowed her words.
Glancing at the foreigner next to him out of the corner of his eye, he quickly came up with a clever idea: "Because my house has already been rented out!"
"Look, it's already been rented to these foreigners, so you can't rent it anymore."
Zhang Yumei scoffed and, without turning her head, said to Xu Hongxia, "Girl, go and ask them if they really rented this house."
"no problem!"
Xu Hongxia was itching to try her hand at it.
She's been studying foreign languages for so long, but apart from communicating with George, she hasn't had a conversation with any other foreigners.
When the locals saw Xu Hongxia speaking a foreign language even more fluently than they did and conversing with foreigners, they knew something was wrong.
Yes, how could she forget that some of them do understand foreign languages?
Only then will you find out that she only paid foreigners fifteen dollars a month, which was still too hasty!
Sure enough, after Xu Hongxia finished talking with the foreigners, they left immediately.
Xu Hongxia didn't care whether she understood their conversation or not, and bluntly said, "You're lying."
"They said they only asked about the price and didn't indicate that they wanted to rent the house."
"And they think it's bad for you to lie, so they won't rent your house."
The locals blushed deeply after hearing Xu Hongxia's words.
However, since she herself could understand foreign languages and knew that Xu Hongxia had not exaggerated, she didn't say much.
All she could do was curse inwardly: Why is she so unlucky?!
Everyone else was doing it this way, but she just happened to run into a tough nut to crack.
In fact, they treated everyone the same from the very beginning, whether they were from out of town or foreigners.
They all cost eighty yuan a month.
However, another foreigner later reported the situation directly to the embassy.
This resulted in local landlords being summoned for questioning.
Since then, they have stopped charging exorbitant rents to foreigners.
However, people from other places are not afraid, because no one will stand up for them.
"What are you spacing out for?! I'm asking you if this house is still available for rent?"
Zhang Yumei asked again, somewhat impatiently.
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