Lu Baiwei was worried that the house could not be bought and sold at this time.

Going to the street office for renting or viewing a house won’t solve any problems.

You know, there are many people like Lu Baiwei who have already started a family in the countryside. Some have sent their families to Kyoto to attend university, while others have brought their families with them and planned to settle down in Kyoto.

Their housing problem needs to be solved, right?

The subdistrict office has received instructions from higher authorities to solve the housing problem for students' families.

The clerk knew everything about the way He Ting, Lu Baiwei and their group were dressed by looking at their attire.

"Oh, you are students from Kyoto University across the street?"

"It's the last day to register. You're here with your family. Why are you only asking about the house today?"

The clerk opened the cabinet and took out the key: "The vacant rooms in the better locations have been rented out long ago."

"How many rooms do you six want to rent? If you want three, I can't spare a yard and three rooms to rent to you."

Zhou Yanfeng and Tang Yunling were newlyweds, and he was indeed thinking of renting a house and living outside to fight against his old man.

Lu Baiwei and He Ting really had no plan to rent a house outside.

The school has dormitories, and the triplets live in the compound, and Gu Min helps them take care of the children.

The main purpose of their following to look at houses was that Lu Baiwei was thinking of buying a house and wanted to inquire about the market conditions.

Houses cannot be bought and sold openly nowadays. You have to get acquainted with the people in the street office first.

Lu Baiwei came mainly to make herself familiar to the crowd.

"Let's find a room for the young couple first. We have a large family, including three children. We definitely can't accommodate them in just one room."

Lu Baiwei told the clerk: "The child is now being looked after by her aunt, so there is no rush to move here. I will consider whether to move here once I find a suitable yard."

After hearing Lu Baiwei say that it would be best to rent a small courtyard, the clerk looked around with a sneaky look and took Lu Baiwei and her group into a courtyard.

Some people were washing clothes in the yard, some were eating melon seeds and chatting, and when they saw the group of six coming in, they all gathered together and looked at them.

"Hey, Sister Li, is there another college student coming to see the house?"

The old lady spat out the melon seed shells in her mouth and said, "There's only one empty room left in our compound, and it can't accommodate so many people."

"Just look at the empty room. The newlyweds want to rent it. The others are accompanied by her classmates."

Tang Yunling thought that renting a house outside would be like renting a house in the countryside with its own door and yard.

It was also because she had never been to the capital and didn't know the situation in Kyoto. The facts were completely different from what she thought.

They visited several courtyard houses in a row, all of which were occupied by several families and the spacious main houses had been rented out long ago. The street office clerk only showed them the small side rooms left in the courtyard.

Living in the same yard with strangers, she had no privacy. The house was small and could only accommodate a bed and a desk, so she had no room to move around. She felt there was no need to rent a house.

The clerk who took them to see the house even said confidently: "Look, you newlyweds, a small room is just right for you."

"Other people's rent is two yuan a month, I'll charge you one yuan and fifty cents."

Tang Yunling expressed his disdain, saying that it would be better for them to live in their own dormitory at school than to rent a small house with others.

"I haven't agreed to let you rent a house outside. It's more convenient for us to live in the dormitory."

Tang Yunling told Zhou Yanfeng: "I just came to take a look. I still don't want to rent a house outside. Unless I can live in the same compound with Weiwei and the others, I don't think it's necessary to move out and live outside."

After showing the house to me for a long time, he suddenly said he didn't want to rent it anymore.

The street clerk looked unhappy.

"You guys want to live in your own courtyard. It's not impossible if you don't want to live with others. There's only one middle courtyard left in the whole alley, which can accommodate several families. Even if you count all six of you, you can't rent such a big house."

The clerk pointed to the depths of the alley and said, "Look, over there, there's a yard with ginkgo tree branches sticking out."

Walking on the blue bricks in the alley deep in the alley, Zhou Yanfeng felt a familiar feeling.

When Zhou Yanfeng saw the yard that the clerk was pointing to and saw the ginkgo branches extending from the courtyard wall, he suddenly realized why this alley felt so familiar.

When he was a child, he followed Grandpa Zhou to visit Professor Gu once. The yard bought by Professor Gu was said to have been left by a eunuch from the previous dynasty. There was a ginkgo tree planted in the yard.

Standing in the alley, a sense of familiarity came over me.

Zhou Yanfeng said: "Show us around the yard."

"This yard has not been rented out yet, and you two are the only ones renting it..."

The clerk seemed to be hesitant to speak, as if she had something to hide.

Zhou Yanfeng interrupted her: "If it's suitable, my classmates will also rent here. They have a large family."

Just by looking at the branches of the ginkgo tree extending out of the courtyard wall, Lu Baiwei could tell that the ginkgo tree planted in the yard was quite old.

At this moment, the ginkgo trees have just sprouted new buds, dotted in the quiet alleys, with an indescribable artistic beauty.

The yard is not only close to the school, but also a rare quiet place in the bustling city.

Zhou Yanfeng wanted to go in and take a look, and Lu Baiwei was also interested.

Zhou Yanfeng looked at Lu Baiwei and He Ting anxiously. Lu Baiwei quickly replied, "Well, we have a family and we will move here sooner or later. Let's see if the house is suitable first."

The street clerk took the key and opened the long-sealed house. Zhou Yanfeng took the lead and stepped into the threshold, followed by He Ting and Lu Baiwei.

It is a house with three entrances in the central courtyard.

It is divided into the outer courtyard and the inner courtyard, separated by a moon gate with hanging flowers in the middle wall.

There is a wing room on the east and west sides of the outer courtyard.

After passing through the moon gate with hanging flowers that separates the courtyard wall, you enter the inner courtyard. There are seven main rooms in the south building, five rooms in the east and west wing rooms, and courtyards stacked on top of each other.

There is also a well under the ginkgo tree in the backyard.

The house had been uninhabited for a long time, and a thick layer of dust had accumulated in the yard.

Zhou Yanfeng wiped the window frame with his hand, and his hand was covered with dust.

"The boss of this house said that they want to rent out the whole house, not one room at a time."

"For this reason, the house has not been rented out since it was seized, so it has been preserved in such good condition and has not been arbitrarily modified by tenants."

The clerk didn't hold out much hope either, she spoke to Zhou Yanfeng, He Ting and the others.

"The owner of this house said that the rent is fifty yuan a month, and seven or eight families can squeeze in."

"I told you guys that you couldn't take in such a big house, right? You insisted on seeing it."

"I'll bring you in here to feast your eyes. Let's go!"

When Tang Yunling heard that renting a house would cost fifty yuan, he turned around and left.

What a joke, these days the monthly salary is only 20 or 30 yuan, and renting a house requires two months' salary.

But Zhou Yanfeng stopped and started chatting with the clerk.

He also spoke out what was in Tang Yunling's heart.

"The rent for this house is two months' salary for an average person. It's too uneconomical. And they insist on letting people rent the whole house. Can't they be more flexible?"

"No, the higher-ups have told us not to do anything about it."

The clerk's eyes rolled around, and I don't know what she was up to.

"Unless someone is willing to buy the house and rent it out."