Chapter 4 Renting a House
There were still more than three hours until two o'clock, and before going home, Mo Fei did not forget to go to the fruit shop downstairs to buy the peaches he had reserved.
"It's so hot today." Li Hong complained as she packed peaches for Mo Fei. The fruits that she had originally placed outside had now been moved into the store.
"Yeah." Mo Fei nodded in agreement. She looked up at the sun hanging high in the sky. The heat was not supposed to be there in this season.
It wasn't too hot when I went out in the morning because the sun hadn't come out yet, but now it was close to noon and the temperature had risen to 34 degrees. Many people wore long sleeves when they went out in the morning, which made them sweat and feel like they had been soaked in water. Mo Fei surprisingly felt that it was okay. Although he sweated a little, it was not that exaggerated.
When Mo Fei was about to go upstairs, she suddenly heard a violent crash not far away. She turned around and saw that it was on the way back that she had just come. Suddenly, a large crack appeared in the ground. A car just happened to pass by and got stuck in the crack, causing the cars behind to crash into it one after another.
Mo Fei's eyes darkened and a strong sense of uneasiness surged in his heart.
Perhaps they heard the sound of the key opening the door, and both children ran to the door to greet her.
"I brought you some peaches." Mo Fei raised the two kilograms of peaches in his hand.
Mo Jianian took the bag naturally and handed the slippers to Mo Fei.
Mo Jiayue took a fan and fanned Mo Fei.
In today's weather, even if you stay indoors, without air conditioning or fans, you will probably faint from the heat. Mo Fei looked at the old-fashioned air conditioner at home, and then looked at the two children whose hair was sticking to their foreheads due to the heat.
In the past, they would wait until the hottest months of July and August to turn on the air conditioner for a few hours a day. It's only May now, and it's already this hot.
"Let's turn on the air conditioner." Without thinking, Mo Fei took out the air conditioner remote control from the drawer.
"Okay." Mo Jiayue couldn't stand the heat anymore and ran under the air conditioner to wait for the cool air to blow out.
Mo Jianian came over with three washed peaches and began hesitantly, "Mom, the electricity bill for air conditioning is too expensive, we can just use a fan."
"Let's be extravagant today. I'll turn on the power saving mode." Mo Fei picked up a peach and took a bite. It was sweet, crisp and delicious.
With the doors and windows closed, the cold air at a constant temperature of 26° filled the house.
The heat from Mo Fei's body and the sweat on the two children's heads gradually dissipated.
"Please sit down. I have something to say to you." Mo Fei said before going to make lunch.
The two children looked at each other, ran to sit next to Mo Fei, and listened to her very carefully.
Mo Fei then told him about his plan to move and sell the house.
Although this place is close to the vegetable market and hospital, it is very convenient to do anything, but there are many people and many people know her family of three, and they know that there is no strong labor in their family. If she really wants to do something, she can hide in the space, but the two children will suffer. Moving is imperative.
Mo Jiayue had only eaten half of the peach in her mouth. When she heard that they were going to move, she seemed very excited: "Really? Where are we moving to?"
Mo Jianian thought more: "Mom, we have lived here since we were young, why do we have to move? Where should we move to?" In fact, the condition of this house is not very good. After living here for a long time, there are problems such as aging of lines and clogged pipes from time to time. Mo Jianian is worried that it will cost more money for Mo Fei to move them to a better place.
"Don't worry about the money, we'll rent a house." Mo Fei saw Mo Jianian's worry, "The streets have been uneasy lately. I want to take you to a safer place. If necessary, I will go to school to ask for leave for you to stay at home first. The content of elementary school is easy, I can teach you first."
Mo Jianian hummed and nodded, agreeing to Mo Fei's decision.
After talking to them, Murphy turned on her phone and played a cartoon for the children. She went to the kitchen and started preparing lunch.
Mo Jianian had already steamed the rice and was keeping it warm. Mo Fei only needed to stir-fry the vegetables.
Sometimes when Mo Fei really couldn't take care of it, Mo Jianian would cook some simple dishes by himself, such as scrambled eggs with peppers and stir-fried cabbage. This child is so worry-free. Mo Fei couldn't help but sigh, and then started to chop vegetables.
The first dish was salad shredded lettuce. The shredded lettuce cut by Mo Fei on the chopping board was thinner than that cut by a shredder. The green shredded lettuce was mixed with minced garlic, chili pepper, soy sauce, oyster sauce, balsamic vinegar and chili oil, which was very refreshing.
Mo Fei put the shredded lettuce into the refrigerator and started to prepare two other dishes, namely cucumber egg soup and fried squid with garlic sprouts. One cold dish, one hot dish and one soup, two dishes and one soup.
After lunch, the two children prepared to go to their interest class. The interest class was not far from home, in a tall building in the distance, and it only took ten minutes to walk there. Mo Fei had to wait for the real estate agent to come at home, so he didn't send them off.
But before leaving, Mo Fei took out two five-dollar bills from his pocket and stuffed them into the hands of the two children.
"It's too hot. If you're thirsty, buy something to drink."
Most of the children in the cram school are their classmates. When they see other students buying drinks and popsicles, they will inevitably be greedy. Mo Fei knows this very well.
"By the way, remember to go through the shops when you go out, don't go to the main road." Mo Fei watched them go out and gave them a few more instructions. From what we can see so far, those cracks in the ground will only appear suddenly on the main road, and have not yet affected the buildings next to them.
Mo Jiayue looked at the brand new five dollars and squinted her eyes happily: "Popsicles, brother, let's go buy some popsicles. I want strawberry flavor."
Mo Jianian looked at the money in his hand in surprise. His mother suddenly became so generous. In the past, she gave him pocket money one dollar at a time, but now she gave him five dollars at a time. Mo Jianian nodded in agreement with his sister, and the brother and sister walked towards the cram school together.
After the children left, Mo Fei walked around the house, tidied it up a bit, and carefully wiped the stains, so that when the real estate agent came to take pictures of the house, it would look much better.
The agent knocked on Mo Fei's door on time as agreed.
"Ms. Mo, I'm Luo Yonghe, the agent of Anxin Company. I spoke to you on the phone before. You can just call me Xiao Luo." The thirty-something agent Luo Yonghe handed Mo Fei a business card, then took out shoe covers from his pocket and put them on. "This is our company's photographer, Xiao Xia."
"Hello." The photographer was carrying the camera and was so hot that he barely had the strength to speak.
"It's okay, just change your shoes, no need to wear shoe covers." Mo Fei was reluctant to trouble others. It was also her first time to sell a house, and she didn't expect that the agency would send a special photographer to her house in addition to the real estate agent.
"It's okay. This is our company's requirement. The shoot will be quick, and it will only take about ten minutes." Luo Yonghe said with a smile, "Your house looks good, and it has a lively atmosphere. In addition to Qinglang Primary School, there is also Heguang Middle School. It can be said that it is hard to find a house here. I think the previous price of 1.2 million can be raised."
Mo Fei nodded, poured a glass of water for the agent and the photographer, and took out the house's certificates and asked the agent to register them.
After the photos were taken, the three of them left Mo Fei's house together.
The photographer went back to the company first, while Luo Yonghe drove a small electric scooter to pick up Mo Fei to see the house to rent.
It was about 2 o'clock when the sun was at its hottest. Mo Fei was wearing a helmet and sitting on the hot electric scooter seat. He felt dizzy from the heat.
She silently added an item to her shopping list. She wanted to buy a water purifier and an ice maker. A home ice maker costs about 1,000 yuan and can make ice 24 hours a day. She also wanted to buy some popsicles. Both her and her children are afraid of heat, so popsicles would be a good way to store cold drinks...
Mo Fei wanted to buy more and more things, and she felt that even if she got 1.2 million now, it would not be enough. She couldn't just sit there and wait for death, she had to continue to make money.
It is easy to find a storefront in a remote area, but it is hard to find one that is willing to pay a monthly rent.
Finally, the agent worked hard to find a storefront that was willing to rent for three months at a monthly rent of 800 yuan. The storefront was about 50 square meters, and there was no one around, almost in the suburbs. Mo Fei was very satisfied with the place, signed the electronic contract on the spot, and got the key from the owner. Then he sent the address of the storefront to the wholesalers who had ordered it in the morning.
The storefront has been found, but the house to rent requires careful selection.
Luo Yonghe took Mo Fei to four or five places in one afternoon, and Mo Fei always found some faults. Just when Luo Yonghe thought that he could not make this deal today, Mo Fei nodded and agreed to the set he was looking at.
This community is located in the developing southern part of the city. It is very quiet. There is a large supermarket one kilometer away. There are two 24-hour convenience stores and a drugstore outside the community. There is even a planned park next to it.
Luo Yonghe showed Mo Fei two houses here, one was on the first floor with a 200-square-meter garden, and the other was on the top floor with an area of 150 square meters and a large terrace of 100 square meters.
Mo Fei decisively chose the top floor of a three-bedroom, two-living room apartment. Living on the first floor is not only damp, but also makes her feel insecure. Although the top floor is cold in winter and hot in summer, she can solve this problem by putting up a sunscreen and planting green plants.
"How much did you say the rent is for this place?" Mo Fei looked at the house on the top floor and became more and more satisfied.
I heard that the owner had renovated this place and planned to use it as a wedding house. Unexpectedly, due to a job change, he was assigned to Europe and had no time to come back for several years, so the house here became idle.
The owner is a young girl who has stipulated that the house can only be lived in by women who love cleanliness and that it can only be rented for a long period of time.
"The rent for this house is 5,000 yuan a month, which is 60,000 yuan a year," Luo Yonghe quoted.
In fact, Mo Fei had checked the average rental price in this community on her mobile phone. She smiled gently and asked Luo Yonghe to give her the actual price. Otherwise, she would not have to entrust her company to sell her house exclusively.
Luo Yonghe was eager to make a deal: "If the lease starts from three years, 50,000 per year, is that okay?"
"Okay, let's sign for three years. When can we move in?"
"Just wait until the company signs the contract!"
The money Mo Fei had left was not even enough to pay for a year's rent, so he used his credit card to get together 50,000 yuan and paid for a year's rent first.
Now I really have nothing in my hands, and my pockets are cleaner than my face.
But Mo Fei was very happy. The house was her biggest concern. Living in that 40-square-meter house, with many residents nearby, no one could be sure what would happen in the future. For the sake of the children and themselves, they had to move to a place with better conditions.
Looking at the remaining tens of thousands of credit limit, with the idea that it would be a waste if he didn't swipe his credit card, Mo Fei called a moving company.
After renting the house, Mo Fei returned to the storefront and stayed there for more than two hours, receiving a batch of supplies that arrived today, and some would not be shipped until the day after tomorrow.
The move was done at night, and Mo Fei specifically asked the movers to be very careful. The old house was not very soundproof, and no matter how careful they were, there were still neighbors who opened the door to see.
Those who were familiar with Mo Fei asked him where he was going to move to. Mo Fei laughed it off and only said that he was changing jobs, but he didn't say where he was going to move to.
The two children were even more tight-lipped. They followed Mo Fei and said hello to the neighbors they knew and then stopped talking.
The fruit shop on the first floor had not closed yet, and the moving company's car was parked not far from the fruit stall.
Li Hong saw Mo Fei coming downstairs and asked in surprise: "Xiao Mo, why didn't I hear you say you were going to move out before?"
Mo Fei politely replied: "Hey, this is also a temporary decision. I haven't decided whether to move yet. I just happened to go out this afternoon to look for a rental house."
"Oh, you and I just get along well in this building. Now that you're gone, I really... Come on, take this box of watermelons and pineapples with you." Li Hong was an honest person and quickly stuffed the fruits into the hands of the two children.
The two children looked at Mo Fei, and only accepted it after seeing her nod, and said sweetly, "Thank you, Aunt Hong."
"Oh, that's good."
Before leaving, Mo Fei bought several hundred yuan worth of fruits, which surprised Li Hong so much that she insisted on giving Mo Fei a small portion of the money and even a pound of peaches.
Mo Fei said to Li Hong: "Sister Hong, remember to buy more rice, flour, grain, oil, medicine, and first aid tools, especially cooling and heat dissipation to prevent heat stroke..."
Before Mo Fei finished speaking, Li Hong laughed: "Xiao Mo, did you also believe what was said on the Internet, that there was a natural disaster and the end of the world? Those are all rumors, and the official has refuted them! Last week, many people went to the supermarket to buy things like they didn't need money. I bought more than a dozen bags of rice and noodles, and now I'm worried about when I can eat them."
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Mo Fei is obsessed with cooking, but the original owner is busy with work. No matter which "Mo Fei" is, he has no habit of surfing the Internet to check the hot searches. He didn't even know that the hot searches about the natural disaster and the end of the world were already flying all over the sky.
But when more and more people started talking about it, it became like "the wolf is coming" and no one believed it anymore.
It's as ridiculous as the Mayan prophecy that "December 21, 2012 is the end of the world."
Now it is 2030. Blue Planet is still doing well, and its people are doing well.
Those who advocate natural disasters are a group of young people who are chasing fashion. Once the experts debunk the rumors, these young people will move on to pursue the next trend.
Mo Fei shook his head helplessly and took the children into the Huolala car. Sitting next to the packed luggage, they drove towards their new home.
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