Chapter 107: Find a shop and watch the quarrel
At 5:30 in the afternoon of the next day, Su Yuchen took Zhao Xiaojing to the snack street next to the school, and then rode his stall bike to the night market.
Today's sweet soup is the same as yesterday's. Su Yuchen has been practicing for two days and is now able to make it, so she will teach Lu Hongwen. Zhao Xiaojing will go to the snack street to check out the situation and inquire about the prices of shops like those that sell three-fresh bean curd.
Zhao Xiaojing walked around and finally found a braised food shop that was advertised for rent in the middle of the snack street.
The braised food shop is very small, and the entire store is a large display window with various braised dishes on display. There is a narrow passage on the left side of the window that leads to the inside of the store.
"Is anyone here?" Zhao Xiaojing looked through the window at the braised dishes on the counter. The color was very dark, and it was obvious that they had been braised several times. It seemed that the business was not very good.
"Is anyone there?" Zhao Xiaojing shouted again at the top of her lungs.
"Here I come!" A middle-aged man came out with a cigarette in his mouth. His apron was so greasy that you couldn't see the color. "Beautiful lady, what are you eating?"
"Hello, I saw the sign hanging on your door. Is your store sublet?"
"Yes, subletting." The man looked Zhao Xiaojing up and down. "You rent it?"
"Can I go in and take a look?" Zhao Xiaojing asked.
The man nodded casually, and Zhao Xiaojing went behind the window to look around.
The store is about six or seven square meters in size, with shiny black walls. At most two people can stand behind the window, and a curtain is pulled back to create a simple partition.
"The kitchen is behind this." The man pulled open the curtain and Zhao Xiaojing took a look inside.
It's called a kitchen, but it's actually just two or three square meters, crammed with pots, pans, and several large metal buckets for braising. Even standing there, one has to be careful not to bump into the utensils. There's only one small, high window on the back wall, but it's so high up that it's difficult to open or close, resulting in poor lighting throughout the shop. The lights have to be on even during the day.
Including the kitchen, the entire store is about 89 square meters.
"Boss, what's the price for subletting this store?" Zhao Xiaojing looked around, got a general understanding of the situation, and asked.
"The rent is 3,000 yuan a month, and I can pay the deposit and three installments every six months. The transfer fee is 100,000 yuan."
When Zhao Xiaojing heard the 100,000 yuan price, she wanted to leave, but after thinking for a moment, she stopped and asked, "What does your 100,000 yuan transfer fee include?"
"It includes everything. Everything here can be left to you." The man's words were very vague and concise. Zhao Xiaojing didn't say anything, but frowned and looked at the window.
"All the kitchen utensils, seasonings, ingredients in the store, including the water, electricity and stove I use myself, can all be given to you. If you want my braised meat recipe, I can even give it to you. I spent a lot of money to learn it from the neighboring province!" Seeing that Zhao Xiaojing didn't say anything, the man added.
"Then how much does it cost if I don't want any of this?"
"It's also 100,000. Here, no matter whether you want the items or not, the transfer fee is 100,000. It was the same when I took over the previous store. The items were just gifts." The man threw away the cigarette butt and stomped it out with his foot.
Zhao Xiaojing stopped thinking immediately, said a few perfunctory words and left.
Not to mention that she didn't have 100,000 yuan, even if she did, she still felt it was a bit unfair to pay 100,000 yuan to rent a shop with such serious hygiene problems. As for the things the shop said they would give her, the only things she could actually use were a few large metal buckets that were barely usable for washing.
Speaking of this, when I make the secret pork trotter rice later, I have to get two big iron buckets and a big pot.
What she made in the past few days was sugar water. The blender and various tools were sent by her from Yangcheng. The fried ice machine was from the system stall. She only bought a few small buckets of materials here, and some things she received from Lu Hongwen.
These ingredients were enough to make sweet soup, but now that she had Su Yuchen as her partner, Zhao Xiaojing wanted to make a pig's trotter rice business. After all, this was a recipe she had spent 10,000 yuan on, and she had been practicing it in the virtual space for the past two days, so it was time to put it to use.
Zhao Xiaojing walked forward a few steps and found herself in the middle of the street. There was a clay pot rice noodle shop that was also looking for tenants. However, the shop consisted of two rooms with a connection in the middle. The shop looked clean and bright, and there were several students eating inside.
Although it was obviously more expensive than the previous one and she definitely couldn't afford to rent it now, it didn't stop her from understanding the market and inquiring about the situation.
Zhao Xiaojing walked in and saw three people arguing and pulling each other. There was also an old lady joining in the fun, standing aside with her neck stretched out and eyes wide open, listening.
"It's clearly written on the receipt that I've refunded you double the money. What are you still talking about? Go away!" A middle-aged man in an apron pushed a young man.
"What are you dissatisfied with? Don't be ungrateful and try to blackmail us?!" A woman wearing the same apron chimed in with her hands on her hips.
"Don't touch me! How can you be like this? You have to be honest when doing business, don't you know? Don't touch me!!" The young man stretched out his hand to stop the middle-aged man from pushing him, but the woman next to him also joined the fight. The two of them stopped talking and pushed him out the door.
"I'm #￥%...&%, I'll call the police, believe it or not! How could you be so unlucky as to try to find another woman?! I *&...#$@!" The young man was pushed to the door, his curses growing louder and more venomous. The two aproned men slammed the door shut with a sneer, unconcerned. "What do you want, beautiful lady? We have clay pot rice and rice with toppings."
Zhao Xiaojing was about to speak when she saw the aunt who had been watching the excitement on the side walk out and stand next to the man who was shouting and cursing. Zhao Xiaojing responded casually and followed her out.
"Hey young man, how much have you talked to him about before?" Zhao Xiaojing walked to the man and heard the aunt ask with a gossipy look on her face.
"Fifteen thousand! We discussed it clearly. He said he would keep it for me and asked me to pay a deposit!" the young man said angrily.
"What did you write on the note? Let me show you." The woman asked the young man for the receipt and squinted her eyes to study it carefully. "Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, there's no point in calling the police. Look, he wrote: If you breach the contract, the 500 deposit will not be refunded. If he breaches the contract, you will be refunded 1000. He just refunded you. This is at most his immorality and bad character. The police can't do anything about it."
The woman shook her head and handed the note back to the young man. His anger gradually turned into a breakdown, and he put his head in his hands and was about to burst into tears. "What should I do? I've already ordered the machine and everything. What should I do now? I have nothing left..."
After standing aside and listening for a while, Zhao Xiaojing finally understood what had happened.
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