Chapter 7 Renovation: The rented house is low and dirty
The mother and daughter followed Lian's mother into the yard.
This is a very typical courtyard-style compound. The layout of the entire courtyard is like a gate. There are four rooms in the main house on the north side, two rooms each on the east and west sides, two rooms on the south and west sides, and one room on the east side facing the sun. The gate is near the middle.
It is square and very grand, but the illegal self-built houses in the yard, like psoriasis, have destroyed the image of the entire yard.
However, these days, it's rare to find an unroofed courtyard. After passing several small, psoriasis-like houses, the three of them stopped by the one closest to the west wing.
This is naturally not the house that the Lian family wants to rent out.
The house the Lian family wanted to rent out was a small outpost built in the corridor to the south of the main house, against the wall. The outpost wasn't very high, perhaps no more than three meters.
Compared to the main house, which was five or six meters tall and bright, it looked rather shabby. The northern side, near the main house, was taller, while the privately built wall to the south was shorter. It was covered with asbestos tiles, with no translucent glazed tiles or windows, so you could imagine how dark it was inside.
When Lian's mother opened the door, a stench of dust and mildew hit her face. Then, a rat, claws and fangs bared, scurried out of the doorway, squeaking and yelling.
When Dong Taohua entered the room, she found that the room was very small, probably only about six or seven square meters.
Opaque, pitch black.
If there was one good thing to say, it was that the shape of the house was quite regular, an ordinary square, which was much more normal than the cone-shaped, trapezoidal, and semi-arc-shaped ones they had seen when they had just entered the door.
Compared to their large courtyard in Gan Province, this house was pathetically shabby. Even their toilets at home were bigger and brighter than this one.
Dong Taohua was a little disappointed. Since she was going to pay for the rent, why not rent a better house?
Xu Heye thought it was okay. Not to mention her life sleeping on the floor at the Dong family's house, she had also lived in the staff dormitory for a long time in her previous life. Now she had a place like this, a space that belonged to her alone, so what was there to complain about?
Besides, even though the house looks dirty, it can be cleaned up properly.
If the house is dark, buy some glazed tiles and replace the opaque asbestos tiles on the roof. Then let the sun shine in and the house will be bright. When you go to bed at night, you can even see the starry sky for free!
Install another light so there will be light at night.
But Dong Taohua still wanted to take another look. One of the reasons was that the house was low and the space was narrow.
On the other hand, she was also concerned about safety.
The south wall of the outpost was not very high, and the asbestos tiles on top were easy to move, so she was afraid that someone would have bad intentions.
A man who is a little taller can climb up to the roof by placing two stones under him and climbing the wall. Then he can move the asbestos tiles and slide into the house through the open window.
If someone just wanted to come in and steal something, she wouldn't mind. What she was most afraid of was that someone had bad intentions towards He Ye. The girl was fourteen or fifteen years old, with a grown-up figure, 1.65 meters tall, willow eyebrows and bright eyes, which showed her beauty.
Having spent more than 20 years in the countryside, and having worked in the Women's Federation for many years, she had seen all sorts of dirty and scandalous things. To ruin a woman, exploiting her chastity and reputation was the easiest, quickest, and most profitable method.
This is also the reason why she lied and told the owner of the convenience store that they had a good relationship with her mother's family.
If you really want to rent a house in this area, knowing that He Ye's grandparents live nearby and love her, and the child has someone to support her, even if others have some ulterior motives, they have to consider whether they can bear the consequences.
It would be better to rent the main house, which has a high roof and a wide room, so that you can live comfortably and feel at ease. Unfortunately, it was not so easy to find a house at that time. After leaving Lian's house, the two of them walked around the neighborhood twice, but the houses they found were not as good as Lian's.
After going around in circles, they finally rented the Lian family's house. At Xu Heye's strong request, the two parties signed a rental agreement.
The content of the agreement was drafted by Xu Heye.
The Dong family rented the outpost to Xu Heye. The Xu family could decorate it according to their own needs, but they must not destroy the overall function of the house.
A three-month deposit is required in advance and will be refunded upon expiration of the rental contract.
The monthly rent is five yuan. If the overall rent in the vicinity increases in the next two years, the Lian family can request a rent increase based on the market price, but the increase cannot exceed 10% of the rent, and the price can only be raised once a year.
Rent must be paid on the 15th of each month. It can be paid in advance but not later. In the event of an emergency, the extension cannot exceed three days. If there is a breach of contract, the deposit will be deducted. Once the deposit is deducted, the Lian family has the right to terminate the rental agreement.
The lease term is two years, during which the Lian family is not allowed to breach the contract without reason, otherwise they must compensate the Xu family five times the rent for two years, which is 600 yuan in cash as liquidated damages.
After two years, Xu Heye has the priority right to rent.
Of course, if Xu Heye wants to terminate the lease temporarily in the next two years, she must inform the Lian family one month in advance so that they can find a new tenant, otherwise she will have to compensate the Lian family for one month's rent.
The agreement was made in duplicate, taking into account the interests of both parties. Both families had no objections, so the rental agreement was signed under the witness of the grocery store owner.
After signing the rental contract, the mother and daughter began to make drastic changes to the house.
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