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There was no cooking at home at noon, so the three of them went out to eat. We stayed outside for the whole afternoon and didn't return to the small building until after five o'clock, and then we walked to the restaurant together.
At the store entrance, Chen Lu met other people from dormitory 405. She found it strange to see the three of them coming from the other side together.
Chen Jin and Lin Xinran have a good relationship, so it is normal for them to go together, but Yang Qian is also following them? Thinking about how Yang Qian sat with Chen Jin for the first time yesterday, I wonder when their relationship became so good.
Qin Xuemei is now avoiding Yang Qian because Yang Qian and Zhuoran broke up and she said something else in the dormitory. She thought Yang Qian didn't know about it, but when she met Yang Qian when she went to the college to submit a paper one time, she wanted to say a few words to her, but Yang Qian directly exposed her.
She knew she couldn't afford to offend Yang Qian, and thought that as graduation was approaching, she couldn't get herself into trouble. So when I saw Yang Qian, I tried to lower my presence as much as possible.
There is nothing special about the teacher's farewell banquet. It is a rare excuse for teachers and students to have a meal together. Classmates in the class are passing around the "classmate directory", which is actually asking classmates to leave each other contact information and the units they are assigned to. In the future, these classmates may become "connections".
Chen Jin also prepared a notebook, but when she looked around, she felt that most of the classmates were more unfamiliar than each other. Some of them were now dressed up, and at first glance, she almost couldn't remember their names. She thought that she didn't communicate much with others when she was studying, so these "connections" might not be a good match for her.
But everyone was exchanging notebooks with each other, so she just went with the flow.
In fact, even if she didn't go to others to exchange contact information, others would still come to her.
Now everyone knows that Chen Jin is rich. In this era, there are many people who quit their jobs and go into business with the sole intention of making a lot of money. They also think that if they really want to do business in the future, they might be able to find Chen Jin for cooperation.
"Chen Jin, keep in touch when you have time."
Chen Jin returned to his desk and looked through the twenty-odd pages of records in the small notebook and found that most of his classmates chose to stay in Rong City to work.
Half of the students in their class are from Southern Province, but there are not many local people in Rong City. Almost all the students from other cities in Southern Province chose to stay in Rong City. Only one female student chose to return to her hometown to become a high school teacher.
Looking at the units everyone is assigned to, most of them are schools. There are students from junior high school to high school, and there is also a deputy monitor. He ran for the position of college counselor with her but failed. However, he still became a counselor, but went to the School of Economics and Management of the same school.
Chen Jin did not let people like Lin Xinran, Yang Qian and Chen Lu who continued to stay for postgraduate studies write. Meng Shengnan and Liang Xiaoyu in the dormitory were both found. Both of them were going back to their hometowns, one to a state-owned factory in her hometown city, and the other to a high school in her hometown county.
She completely ignored Qin Xuemei. No matter whether this person stayed in Rong City in the future or what kind of success she had, she was Chen Jin's "ineffective connection" and not worth associating with.
It's bustling here. Some are reminiscing about certain moments from their college days, some are reluctantly saying goodbye, and some, like her, are just bystanders, with no waves in their hearts.
From junior high school to now, every time she sees others crying at graduation, she feels embarrassed. Sometimes she wondered if her temperament was too cold, but she also felt that this was her most comfortable state.
"Will you travel after graduation?" Yang Qian came back with her notebook, put it back in her bag without even flipping through it, and discussed with her which city in the country is worth visiting.
Lin Xinran also joined in, "I don't have much money left, so I can join one or two trips. Call me when you go. But it's not safe for us to go alone, right? We need to find someone we can trust to go with us. Chen Jin, when will your third brother's travel agency open?"
"I don't know if he's still open. But I don't have time to go out and play. It's only half a month until July, and I have to go to work. There are other things at home that need to be dealt with."
Before she starts working, she wants to take some time to check out the rental situation of houses in Qiaoxi Village. Also, the renovation of Jinxiu Community is almost completed, so she has to start arranging the rental of houses. She had agreed with Tian Miao that she would open a small supermarket in one of her two shops so that she could handle the business by herself. We will see later whether we should connect the other one to make a bigger supermarket, but for now we are planning to rent out the other one.
Well, when the time comes, I'll leave an apartment empty for Tian Miao to live in, and leave the subsequent renting out to her. I can offer her a higher salary, so she won't have to worry about anything.
"What else can you do? Going to collect rent again?" Yang Qian glanced at her. She remembered that Chen Jin had rejected her invitation to go shopping several times, saying that he was either going to collect rent or going back to the village to check on her buildings...
"Do you think collecting rent is a simple matter? You have to make an appointment with the tenant. If the tenant is not at home, you have to pick another time. If you are unlucky enough and encounter someone who refuses to pay the rent, you still have to collect the rent."
In fact, this is not the case yet. The current rent for her family is collected by her third uncle and aunt. She has told the tenants that they can just pay the rent to the owner of "Yongfei Supermarket", and she will go to her third aunt to get the rent every month.
She was just looking for an excuse not to go out, fearing that Yang Qian would use shopping as an excuse to ask her to help with her paper.
Lin Xinran said enviously: "If it's collecting rent, it's okay if it's a bit tiring. I'd really like to have such a job."
Seeing that there were finally not many students around the teacher's table, after the teacher had eaten a few more chopsticks of food, Chen Jin called Yang Qian and Lin Xinran, "Let's go, let's toast to the teacher."
Although she did not like the Chinese major, her teachers were all good teachers. They were knowledgeable, responsible and had great teacher ethics, which allowed her to see the true character of literati. Unlike Liu Shisheng, who deliberately created the image of a "cultured person".
"Get some drinks? Would you like to drink a little wine?" Lin Xinran saw Chen Jin pour white Sprite for them both.
"The teacher won't mind these. What's important is the thought. Besides, you will all go home later, so you'd better not drink." Chen Jin gestured to them, "That's it, let's go."
Seeing the three of them coming over, Professor Jiang said with a smile: "Don't bother to be polite with me, we will have a long time to meet in the future."
Chen Jin smiled. That was true. He should toast well now. Maybe he could make these teachers mad in the future. But Chen Jin still thanked several teachers very seriously and solemnly.
During her more than ten years of study, she encountered many bad classmates, but at every stage, she met very good teachers, which was a very lucky thing.
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After getting his diploma, Chen Jin was not idle.
We first went to Qiaoxi Village because cousin Mengchong said that except for two vacant shops, the houses had all been rented out. However, some people in the village had some complaints recently, feeling that their business had been taken away. However, most of these tenants have never rented a house here before. They were introduced by friends and it is not a matter of them stealing the business from the villagers.
Meng Chong's cousin asked her to go back and "calm the situation down."
Chen Jin:......
What else can she do now? Going crazy and causing trouble is no longer working. In the past, she could rely on her young age and being “ignorant”, but now she is an adult and she has to convince others with reason.
When Old Man Liu heard the sound of a car, he strolled out and saw that it was indeed Chen Jin.
Ever since he was absolutely sure that he could not take advantage of Chen Jin, Old Man Liu's attitude returned to what it was before. As the head of the family, he didn't interfere too much in Chen Jin's affairs, but he didn't ignore them completely either. He still had to notify him if there was anything.
"All your houses have been rented out, so it's better for you to take a car when you go there later." Otherwise, you might even be thrown rotten vegetable leaves at people in the village. Destroying someone's source of income is like killing their parents.
Chen Jin was speechless. "These people are crazy again, right? What does it have to do with us if their own tenants leave? Most of the people who rent houses from us have rented houses before, right?! Day after day, they don't do their own things well, but just stare at others and can't see others doing well. I'm afraid they won't be able to keep their wealth even if they get rich from the demolition."
Old Liu stopped lighting his cigarette and asked in surprise, "Are we really going to demolish this place?"
In an instant, Old Lady Liu, Uncle Six and others stared at her with shining eyes.
Chen Jin: "...I didn't say I wanted to demolish it!!!"
She knew it, and from then on she was careful with her words and actions and forbade to mention the word "demolition" in Qiaoxi Village.
These people are obsessed. She is afraid that if she says a few more words, within a day, a message will spread throughout Qiaoxi Village: Chen Jin said Qiaoxi Village is going to be demolished!
"You guys should just focus on renting out your cars." Chen Jin wanted to say a few more words, but when he saw them, he realized something was wrong. There was no point in wasting time talking to them. They should just mind their own business.
After learning about the current situation of the villagers from Old Man Liu, Chen Jin drove away.
She did see some people glaring at her fiercely.
When they arrived at the end of the village, the gate of the yard was open, so Chen Jin parked the car in the open space outside.
There were many bicycles, motorcycles and tricycles parked under the iron sheds on the corners of the yard. Opposite the gate was her building. The sign of "Ruyi Supermarket" owned by cousin Mengchong was very conspicuous. Cousin Mengchong, who was sitting behind the cashier counter, looked up and saw her. After paying for a customer, she walked out.
"Are you done with school stuff?"
"I'm done with my work for now. I'll start working next month." Chen Jin said, "Cousin Mengchong, you do your work. I'll just hang around here. I'll go see the village chief later."
"Okay then." Meng Chong wanted to say a few more words, but there were customers in the supermarket urging him to check out, so he had to turn around and go back.
Chen Jin took a look and felt that the store opened by his cousin Meng Chong was doing good business. Two people who were paying the bills were walking out with their things in their hands. They should be other tenants in the village. Anyway, it’s not a villager. The villagers would not react like this when they see her. All the hundreds of rooms in the five buildings were rented out. The speed was so fast that she could hardly believe it.
But with so many people, it is not easy to manage this place, and she saw someone throwing garbage at the corner of the stairs. The tenants paid the sanitation fee and there were special cleaners to clean the place, but they even packed up the garbage and dumped it directly on the ground. How lacking in civic ethics! Tenants passing by upstairs would all have complaints when they see this.
Unfortunately, this kind of thing can only rely on everyone's self-awareness. She can't just hire someone to come and watch every floor. Then we can only ask the hired cleaners to do more cleaning.
Mengchong's cousin was also troubled when he heard her talk about the garbage problem in the corridor. "There's really no way to control this. I've put up a sign saying that those who litter won't be given a lease renewal, but some people still do this. The cleaning fee is two yuan a month, and this money goes to the cleaning lady. She cleans at nine in the morning, two in the afternoon, and seven in the evening."
However, cleaning five buildings is a considerable workload. It is possible to clear the garbage and sweep the floor, but it is impossible to mop the floor every day. Over time, corridors and stairways may become dirty.
"Let's hire another auntie to do the cleaning. Let's take good care of our new building." In a year or two, the rent here will definitely go up, and by then we won't feel it's a waste to hire two aunties to do the cleaning.
Cousin Mengchong has made a rent collection list, which is easy to understand without any brainpower. Every month, she only needs to check the amount of rent collected, count the rent, and pay Cousin Mengchong's salary.
"This month's rent is paid by the day, and starting next month it will be paid for the entire month. This money..."
"I'll leave this money with you first. I see there are still many things that need to be purchased, so you don't have to reimburse them again and again. Cousin, just keep the receipt and use this money to buy things when the time comes. That's what my uncle and the others said."
It’s not good to let my cousin pay for it first. He runs a supermarket and the payment for the goods is borrowed from my second cousin.
Meng Chong took the money back and said, "Don't worry, I have a record of every penny spent."
After looking at the houses here, Chen Jin went to the home of the village chief Liu Guangman.
Liu Guangman got a headache whenever he saw her. Wasn’t it because of Chen Jin’s buildings that the villagers have been making a fuss about recently? He knew that it was actually just some people in the village who had red eye disease, and it had nothing to do with anyone else, they just wanted to make some trouble.
Not to mention other people in the village, when he saw Chen Jin, he almost got conjunctivitis. He shouldn't have transferred the homestead, allowing Chen Jin to get such a large piece of land. If this happens to coincide with the demolition, Chen Jin's wealth will double again.
Chen Jin jokingly said, "Village Chief, do the people in this village want to take revenge on me? They stare at my house all day long."
Liu Guangman practiced Tai Chi and said, "You're overthinking it. Why would they take revenge on a young man like you?"
"Oh, it's not the best." Chen Jin changed the subject, "Village Chief, when Mr. Zhang from Mutang Village approached you last time, did he also want to buy a homestead and build a house here?"
Liu Guangman glared at her. "Can you buy the housing plot in the village just by saying so? If your biological father wasn't Liu Shisheng, you wouldn't even be able to transfer your household registration here. Only after you have your household registration, the village will allocate a large piece of housing plot to you."
"Does your uncle really want to buy factory land in the suburbs in the future?"
"I don't know about that." Chen Jin added, "But I'll go to my uncle's company later and ask for you. I'll come back and tell you in a couple of days."
"You don't have to make a special trip, just call me. I'll leave you my home phone number."
Chen Jin said, "No need for that. I have to come to the village more often in the future. My cousin said he was worried that the villagers would gather at my house to cause trouble, so he asked me to come more often when I have time."
Liu Guangman rolled his eyes, pretending to be thoughtful for a while, and then said: "Well, there are some bad trends in the village recently. I will talk to someone in the next two days. Don't just focus on the small piece of land in the village. People should have a long-term vision and look outside."
Chen Jin smiled and said, "Yes! Village chief, you are really insightful."
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