Ji Nianqin and the prince finally managed to keep Xiaoxi, but they heard a girl being scolded not far away.
"I blocked the keyhole, don't you understand? I just don't want you to live here. If you can't even afford the 300 yuan monthly accommodation fee, then you might as well just sleep on the street."
"It's not that I don't want to pay, it's that I don't have the money."
"That's the same thing. I hired someone to block the door specifically to prevent people like you from living in the house for free. You need to pay me."
"Give you money? What kind of money?"
"Of course I paid the rent."
"All my stuff is in there, and now I can't get in. Those things in there are all my hard work."
"Bullshit, what kind of painter? You can't sell anything, and you call that hard work? You paint for yourself, for your own amusement, right? The little girls who study art all come from well-off families, but you have nothing, and yet you want everyone to help you? Why? Just because of these crappy paintings of yours?"
"Of course, all my paintings are here, and they are worth a lot of money."
"And then? What can you do? No one will buy it. I advise you to stop daydreaming. No one will buy anything you have."
"What did you say? You're insulting."
"I'm going to scold you. This is the first time I've seen someone so fresh and refined even though they're in arrears with their rent."
"As soon as I entered the house, I turned off the lights. I didn't waste any electricity."
"Why aren't you wasting electricity? Not only do you waste electricity, you're also wasting water. I was wondering why the utility bills were so high this month, and it turns out you're still here. Normally, people like you wouldn't dare live in my place, but you're different. You're so shameless! You haven't paid a month's rent, and you still paint in my house every day, washing your palette."
"Landlord, you said I can do it, but please don't insult my paintings. One day, I will become the best painter in the city."
"Stop dreaming. Others call it a dream, and you call it wishful thinking."
"Isn't it just 300 yuan of rent owed for one month? I can just pay it for her."
Ji Nianqin took out a card and went to a nearby bank to withdraw money from another bank. She didn't mind even if she was charged a few dollars in handling fees.
"Who said 300? She's lived here for over a month, so it must be much more than 300, okay?"
"How much is it?"
"Including the water and electricity bills, it will cost at least 500 yuan."
"500? Landlord, I only exceeded it by one day, and the utility bill didn't even reach 200 yuan. You know, I always turn off the lights when I get home."
"You turned off the lights? How do you paint with the lights off?"
"I paint during the day, and at night I always look at the moonlight and count the stars."
"That's right, how much does it cost to count the stars?"
"Landlord, I really can't stand it any longer. This girl can count the stars, but they are in the sky. Are you a fairy? How can you collect parking fees for the stars in the sky?"
Ji Nianqin held four hundred yuan in her hand and said, "This is all I have. Take it or leave it."
"Of course not. That's my window. If you look out through the window, the view is definitely from my house, just like the surrounding buildings. As long as you see it from my house, you have to pay, regardless of whether you use it in your painting. You know, many basements don't have windows, so my price is 500, not a cent less..."
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