Trouble Today
"The rent is so low, it's too much! It's the same price as the big houses we have. How can we continue to do business?"
"That's right, 100, 110? Why didn't she say it was free?"
"No, I have to ask the village chief. Why is the price so low?"
Chen Jin naturally saw those people whispering to each other and pointing at her quietly, so she stood with her arms folded across her chest and watched them talk. There are only a few families with unhappy faces, and they all have "good houses for rent at 100 yuan".
Chen Jin felt that there was nothing wrong with her pricing. First of all, their house was just clean and tidy. In fact, the area of each room was really small. It was not as spacious as the "good houses" of the villagers. Only her building was slightly bigger, so the price was a little higher.
Furthermore, the rent in Jinxiu Community and its surrounding areas at the intersection of Nancheng District and Xicheng District is also around 120. Qiaoxi Village is close to suburban factories and there are many workers, so the rent is generally 80 per month. Their rent is too high and they are having trouble recruiting people to move in.
As for the industrial parks and science and technology parks that have been established in the future, the rental prices will certainly be different. But we still have to wait for them to be established. It is not like a large number of factories and companies will move in immediately after the buildings are completed. Everything takes time.
So, those people came to ask the king for help, and her house was also rented at this price!
What the villagers think is their business, but some tenants have started to come and ask if they can see the house. Someone couldn't help it, and a fierce-looking auntie stood up and approached Chen Jin, "The village was kind enough to grant you the land, and you come here to steal someone else's tenant, right? You... why are you staring at me? I tell you, this is not okay. You're poaching other people's tenants like this..."
"Which eye of yours saw me stealing someone else's girlfriend?" Chen Jin put his hands on his hips. "There's nothing wrong with my pricing. Can't you read the black and white? What's wrong with pricing a house of more than 10 square meters at this price? I think someone has poked your brain. You don't even look at anything else and get so mad when you hear the price. You control everything and even my pricing. What? Did your family open a market supervision bureau in the village?"
At this moment, some people also responded, "Yes, their house is smaller."
"Really? I went to see it two days ago, and it seemed to be about the same size as my house."
"Their house is square and shiny inside, so it looks big. But the land is so small, it wouldn't be that spacious even if it were bigger. The price seems reasonable."
"You are stupid. It doesn't matter if it's bigger or smaller. Look at those tenants. Do they seem to mind if the house is bigger or smaller? They all come to ask for the price and look at the house. Oh, no, if my tenants run away, I have to rent it out again. If they cancel the lease temporarily, I won't return the deposit."
What I'm afraid of is that they will only live here for one or two months at most and then move out. After all, they don't have any minimum rental period here. Migrant workers are highly mobile and come and go, and many of them only regard this place as a transition point. Once they find a more suitable house or have some savings, they will not choose to continue living in the village.
Especially in the past, the sanitary conditions in the village were poor and people despised it.
Liu Mantang didn't want to join in the fun. After all, the new building had a residential plot that he had transferred, and he was afraid that he would feel uncomfortable after seeing it. But people from the village came to him one after another, insisting that he go over to "seek justice."
It gives me a headache just thinking about it. What's the point of hosting this? They aren't doing anything! Especially since he had just arrived and heard what Chen Jin said, he was even more ashamed to go forward. What the other person said made sense and the rent was indeed reasonable.
He was still thinking about building a good relationship with Chen Wenqiang and interacting with him frequently in the future, so why would he come out and make himself annoying at this time?
"Don't worry about what others do. Take care of your own business. Renovate what needs to be renovated. Renovate what needs to be renovated. Then you can rent your house higher than theirs. Okay, let's go. Go do what needs to be done. Stop sitting around here."
Some people still refused to leave and stayed to continue watching.
Chen Yongfei walked around the yard and didn't see anyone. He came out and saw Chen Jin standing outside the door like a gatekeeper, with his chin raised, like a rooster ready to fight at any time.
He patted her head and said, "Be careful, this is in someone else's village. Hey, I think they are quite polite to you. Why did they ask you to cause trouble?"
He used to think that it was Chen Jin who was making trouble at her grandfather's house, but after chatting with Meng Chong for a while, he found that there might be other reasons.
Chen Jin scratched her head. When she became famous in Qiaoxi Village, her third cousin was in high school. Transportation was even less convenient at that time than it is now, and the family conditions were not that good. In order to save money, he only went home once a month, and sometimes it was normal to come back once every two months. As soon as I come back, I help with the work. I don’t have time to pay attention to her affairs.
"What is there to be embarrassed about telling me?"
Chen Jin: "After I recovered from an illness, I was in poor health. The fortune teller told me to come and stay for a few days, which would be good for my health. I was bullied when I came here. I was in poor health, but I had brains. I bought firecrackers and blew up their pig pens and manure pits, uh..."
Thinking about it now, she couldn't believe that she had done it.
A sixth-grade elementary school girl had a serious illness and underwent surgery, spending a long time in the hospital. Later, when she entered junior high school, the school conditions were poor, the accommodation and food were not good, and her health became worse. Seeing a doctor did not help, so she found a fortune teller who told her to stay at her biological father's house for a few days. Of course it was impossible to go to Liu Shisheng's home in the city, and Liu Shisheng did not agree, so they compromised and came to Qiaoxi Village.
The adults in the village were mean and the children followed suit. They laughed at her when they saw her and told her to get out of Qiaoxi Village.
Chen Jin refused to leave. She took the pocket money given by her family and happily bought several strings of small firecrackers. She set off at least five pig pens. Back then, the village still used public toilets, which were the kind that were dry toilets. When she caught someone who cursed her, she threw firecrackers into the pit when they went to the village toilet...
Back then, the whole village of Qiaoxi Village was catching the pigs that were running around. Several children who were covered in dirt and splattered all over ran back crying... Anyone who is a little older in Qiaoxi Village should never forget that lively scene.
After the bombing, she ran back home. I heard her say that she was bullied. Her uncle and his friends happened to be home from work. More than a dozen people went to Qiaoxi Village with sticks and started cursing at each other at the entrance of Qiaoxi Village. Her uncle alone could curse for half the time. At that time, the whole country was carrying out a severe crackdown and no one dared to really take action. They just shouted. The police from the police station came and watched them quarreling.
After that, Chen Jin refused to go to Qiaoxi Village again. Miraculously, she became very healthy and full of life afterwards.
Later, when she went to her grandfather's house several times, she either beat this one or scolded that one, which made her three aunts so angry that they started throwing things around at home, but she still looked so smug. Isn't that infuriating? Someone scolded her mother for not being able to teach her children, so Chen Jin specifically caught that person's child and beat him...So, in Qiaoxi Village, he got the nickname "Troublemaker Jin".
Chen Yongfei was shocked. "Why didn't anyone tell me about this before?"
He really doesn't know anything!
Chen Jin sighed, "This is not an honorable thing." Who would tell others about it? Especially the elders in the family are afraid that others will gossip about her, so they don’t allow others to talk nonsense when she returns home.
At that time, her uncle took the villagers out to work, and everyone looked up to him. In addition, she was in poor health at the time, and the villagers did not dare to say anything about her in other villages, for fear that her mother would come to her house with a knife.
"Tsk tsk." Chen Yongfei was shocked and proud. "No wonder my dad and uncle always say you have a good brain. I have never thought of blowing up the pig pen."
Chen Jin: "I didn't think of blowing up the manure pit either. Didn't I learn it from you?"
"......" Chen Yongfei was speechless: You can't learn from me alone.
"Actually, they don't have to worry about what I will do. Nowadays, every household has a well-built toilet, and it's not easy to blow it up." Chen Jin said, glancing at the ferocious aunt just now, and sighed with regret.
The past is too painful to recall.
"Third sister, come in for a moment."
"Yeah, here it comes."
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Chen Jin thought about appearing in graduation photos in June, so Lin Xinran asked her to change her hairstyle. Chen Jin brought her to Sister Jiang's barber shop.
Seeing Chen Jin, Lin Xinran joked, "Are you not happy enough with the money you spent today?"
Chen Jin burst out laughing, "Not really, I haven't spent much today."
"You didn't look very well just now."
"Oh, I was almost set up at the intersection ahead. I stopped my car to answer a call, and a man ran towards my car and tried to hit me. Luckily, I reacted quickly. He wanted to ask me for compensation, but I started the car and left. Don't bother to pay attention to him. Come find me if you have the guts."
Lin Xinran breathed a sigh of relief, and said with lingering fear: "Then you should be thankful that the person didn't lie on your car and refused to leave, otherwise you wouldn't be able to get rid of him. My dad was cheated before and was defrauded of several thousand yuan. Later, when my dad encountered such a thing, he would directly call the police and call an ambulance. If there was a real collision, they would pay the compensation. If there were some deliberate collisions, they would just pay the medical expenses and leave it at that."
"Some of them are really hard to tell whether they hit me on purpose to extort money. But in this case today, I saw it clearly. My car was parked there, and he ran over and yelled."
When faced with such a situation, she would not argue about right or wrong, and the most practical thing to do was to drive away. If he can catch up with the one with four wheels, then let him catch up.
"You don't know, he was stunned when I drove away. He probably didn't expect me to run away so quickly. I'd better piss him off to death!"
Lin Xinran smiled, this was indeed the Chen Jin she knew.
"Cut your hair shorter, it's a bit long."
The hairdresser standing behind her asked her if she wanted to dye her hair, “Brown suits you very well.”
"Ah, no, no, no, I won't dye it." Chen Jin was a little bit tempted to try it, but wasn't he preparing to take graduation photos? He decided to wait a while. She will start working in July and she has to leave a good impression on her colleagues and boss. Right now, many people cannot accept hair dyeing.
The two of them can sit next to each other and chat to pass the time. Lin Xinran wants to perm her hair, which takes a long time.
"I asked my dad to buy me a camera. I'll bring it to take pictures of you when the time comes."
"I have one too, let's take pictures of each other!"
The two also discussed what to wear that day, anyway, it had to look good.
"Oh, I almost forgot to tell you a big gossip." Lin Xinran got a little excited when she remembered something, and her hair was pulled. The hairdresser asked her to sit still and not move.
Chen Jin saw her rubbing her scalp and grimacing, and became anxious, "What big gossip is this?"
Lin Xinran has never used the term "big gossip" before, so it seems like it is really "big".
"Yang Qian and Zhuoran, the golden boy and girl of our class, actually broke up! You definitely couldn't imagine it, right?!"
"That's it?"
"Yeah! Isn't this gossip big enough? Everyone thought they were going to get married after graduation. Although Zhuoran is going abroad, aren't their two families old friends? Zhuoran will always come back to China in the future."
Chen Jin: I already knew this big gossip from the parties involved a long time ago, and I even knew more. By the way, she is really curious now whether Yang Qian will choose Zhuoran’s cousin or Zhuoran’s uncle in the end? I really want to contact Yang Qian. But she felt embarrassed and rejected Yang Qian's "shopping invitation" several times.
Chen Jin echoed, "It's a big gossip for sure."
"Qin Xuemei is the happiest that they broke up."
"I can't understand her."
The next day after getting a new hairstyle, Chen Jin got up early in the morning to wash and change clothes. She only put on a very light layer of lipstick and looked much better.
Check the materials you need to bring, then pick up your car keys and go out.
Professor Song was watering the flowers in the front yard. When he saw her about to go out, he said to her, "Xiao Jin, are you going out?"
"Yes, today we have our Chinese Department graduation thesis defense."
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