"You also said that was the contract you signed at the beginning, and you only paid three months' rent. Now three months have passed, and you are still talking to me about the contract? Moreover, I have already given you a preferential price this month. I told you last time that if you don't pay by the end of the month, you will move out of my house!"
"Discounted price? You charged me 18 yuan for rent this month. Which landlord is as shady as you?"
"Eighteen dollars is not much for each of my two popular shops. I see how hard it is for you women. I don't even bother with you for only giving me eighteen dollars. How dare you say I'm black?"
Lian Rongrong was so angry that she laughed, "You don't care about me? You asked for such a huge rent increase, and you said you don't care about me!"
"Rongrong!" Jiang Yue interrupted the conversation between Lian Rongrong and the landlord.
"Jiang Yue, did you hear everything?" Lian Rongrong was very angry. When she saw Jiang Yue, she hurried over to her.
"Are you the owner of this store? I remember it was you who signed the contract with me." The landlord was about fifty or sixty years old, with a very dark face and a little fat, and his face was full of wrinkles when he smiled.
"Yes! It's me!" Jiang Yue said with a smile, "Hello, landlord!"
Seeing Jiang Yue being so polite, the landlord's expression softened a lot, but his tone was still tough, "Your clerk should have told you that if you renew the lease of these two popular shops, the rent will be increased. Twenty for one room and forty for two rooms a month! You have to pay for half a year at a time!"
"Well, I did. But uncle landlord, isn't the rent a bit too high? It's five hundred yuan a year. I can't even afford two rooms for that much money!" Jiang Yue hated the landlord's malicious rent increase, but he was still polite and even smiled.
"Can you make it cheaper? Can you give me a discount?"
"Hmph, then can you buy a shop with such a good location? Look, ever since you rented my storefront, the business has been so good! This is a prosperous shop, it is not comparable to those ordinary small houses in the corners! It can't be cheaper, not even a penny!" said the landlord proudly.
"That's right!" Jiang Yue agreed.
Lian Rongrong snorted coldly and was about to speak, but was stopped by Jiang Yue's look.
"You'd better pay the rent quickly, otherwise you'll have to move out of my shop. There are many people who want to rent my shop! Others offered to rent my house for fifty-one rooms, but I didn't rent it. I'm giving you a discount because you're old tenants!" Seeing that Jiang Yue didn't let the difficult clerk speak, the landlord thought that Jiang Yue was easy to control. Although his attitude was not very firm at this time, his tone was also unquestionable.
"Uncle landlord, aren't there still a few days left this month? Our store is purchasing goods recently, but we don't have enough funds. It will take half a year to pay two or three hundred yuan, and we can't take it out at the moment. Can you give us a few more days?" Jiang Yue deliberately made her tone cautious.
"Jiang Yue!" Lian Rongrong thought Jiang Yue really agreed and hurriedly tried to stop her.
Jiang Yue squeezed Lian Rongrong's hand, signaling her to stay calm.
The landlord was delighted when he heard this, but he still had to pretend to be reluctant. "I'll give you two more days. You must pay the rent on the 30th, or don't blame me for renting the house to someone else!"
"Okay, okay! Thank you, landlord!" Jiang Yue saw the landlord out and rolled her eyes as she watched him leave in such triumph.
"Jiang Yue, do you really want to renew the lease?" Lian Rongrong was worried and asked Jiang Yue another question.
"How is that possible!" Jiang Yue patted Lian Rongrong's hand. "I've already prepared the storefront over there. It has three rooms, a yard, and two more rooms in the back that can be used as a warehouse or for living. It's only five dollars a month! I'm sick and I only spent forty dollars to rent his shabby house. It's a prosperous shop. I want to see who else he can rent it to besides me!"
When the landlord returned home, a woman in a blue cloth jacket came to greet him and asked, "How is it? Did you receive the rent?"
"No! But the shop owner said he would give it to me in two days!" The landlord proudly took out a wine glass, poured some wine and hummed a tune.
"Did they really agree to a rent of forty dollars a month?" The woman couldn't believe it.
"Why not? If I didn't have those two shops, how could their business be so good? Where can she find such a good shop? Not to mention twenty per shop, even if I charge her fifty, she will have to pay!"
The landlord was lying on the bed with his legs crossed. He was in a very good mood when he thought that he would soon receive several hundred yuan in rent. He would not have to work anymore and could just lie down and collect rent every month while enjoying delicious food and drinks.
"Old woman, go cut up a pig's head, weigh a pound of beef, and get half a pound of sorghum wine. I need to have a good drink tonight!"
When the woman heard what the landlord said, although she was still a little worried, she thought that the two girls doing business there might be afraid of trouble and didn't want to find another storefront, so they were willing to spend money to renew the lease. So she didn't say anything more.
"Just wait. I told them that someone wants to rent my shop. In less than two days, they will definitely find a way to pay the money themselves!"
However, the landlord waited and waited. One day passed and no one came to pay the rent. Two days passed and still no one came to see him. He could no longer sit still, so he put on his shoes and went out.
When he arrived at the two doors of his own house, the landlord noticed from a distance that they were locked. He began to wonder, it was already eight or nine o'clock, why were these two girls so lazy that they didn't open the doors to do business at this time?
The landlord thought, maybe the tenant didn’t want to pay the rent, so he closed the door and hid away?
Then he would have to wait here, and he had to wait until the two girls collected the rent today!
"Hey, Old Zheng, why are you sitting here? Who are you waiting for?"
The landlord sat there until noon, but no one came. However, a neighbor saw him sitting there and came over to ask.
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