Chapter 70
Ye Jiayin saw her stunned for a second, then immediately guessed something, and walked over to talk to Su Miao.
"Miao Miao, you've been accepted into No. 1 Middle School, right? Do you want to rent a house?"
Su Miao said happily: "Yes, let me introduce you, this is my dad, and this is my cousin. We will move to Yongcheng together to develop our careers. Dad, this is Jiayin, the sister who accompanied me in the last competition."
Su Yuanzheng smiled and said, "I remember. Thank you for helping Miaomiao out that day. You played the piano very well."
"It's a small matter, no need to thank me, uncle. By the way, what kind of house are you looking for?"
"We want to find a courtyard that can be rented as a whole, but most of the people here are shared. We are just about to call the landlord." Su Miao asked Ye Jiayin to look at his notebook.
Ye Jiayin glanced at the information on the notebook and said, "I don't recommend you rent this place. The landlord is a bit stingy. The previous tenant didn't get his deposit back after he moved out."
"Oh, so that's it. Then we can only look for it again. Thank you, Sister Jiayin."
Ye Jiayin hesitated for a moment and said, "You seemed to have said backstage before that your family is in the food business?"
"Yes, our self-service porridge stall is quite famous in Ning County. We also have Laoyou fried pork offal and braised food. Sister Jiayin, do you like it? Once we settle down, we will invite you to our home as a guest."
"Where will you open your store next?"
"I don't know yet, but I probably won't go too far. After all, this area is still part of the downtown business district, so the flow of people is still good."
Ye Jiayin seemed to have made a decision and said to Su Miao, "My house is divided into two yards, front and back. My mother and I live in the back yard now, and the front yard is empty. Do you want to go and take a look?"
"Okay! Okay!"
Ye Jiayin led Su Miao and the other two and walked more than ten meters inside. They stopped in front of a big door and took out the key to open it.
"This is it. The courtyards on this street are larger than those in the alleys. They all have two courtyards. When they renovated the toilets two years ago, they specially built a front and back courtyard. They also separated the front and back courtyards with a wall and connected them with a moon gate. When the gate is closed, it's no different from two unrelated courtyards."
Su Miao walked into the yard and found that it was bigger and more elegant than the old man's yard just now. It was made of large blue bricks and blue tiles. There was a flower garden in the small space of the yard. There was a big osmanthus tree in the yard. It looked quite old. The lush leaves could cover one-third of the yard. There was a set of stone tables and chairs under the shade of the tree, which was very comfortable.
The yard is about ten meters wide and more than ten meters deep. Together with the main house and the ear room, there are five rooms and a hall in total. There are also bathrooms, toilets and utility rooms. There is running water and the toilets also have sewage disposal. It can be said to be very advanced.
Su Yuanzheng noticed the different decorations of the houses in the front row and asked, "Jiayin, is the front row used as a storefront?"
"Yes, this yard was bought by my mother and me after we came to Nancheng two years ago. This was a shop built by the previous owner. Although my mother renovated the yard after buying it, she couldn't live in it, so she left the shop there. I just heard Miaomiao say that you need both housing and a shop, so I brought you to see it."
Ye Jiayin brought them to the front shop to have a look. They could reach the shop by simply opening a locked door in the yard. Just like the old house in Ning County, two rooms were connected into one large room, and the room next to it was made into a kitchen with three stoves.
"Because this was previously used as a restaurant, the previous owner set up the kitchen here and didn't have another one in the front yard. This way the yard is cleaner, but it does require a few more steps to carry food from here to the front yard."
The front bunk was not too deep, only about five meters, but it became much more spacious after the two rooms were connected. Su Miao felt that it was completely sufficient.
Because we wanted to do business with the outside world, we opened a very large door and made several terraced windows, which provided good ventilation and lighting.
Su Miao looked outside and said, "If this is the case, then the business will mainly be for residents, right? How's the traffic volume?"
Ye Jiayin said, "It's not just residents. There are several units just down the road from the alley. The food in the cafeteria is incomparable to what you get outside. People often come out to eat at noon."
"The food in the canteens of the units in the city is not tasty either?" Su Yu asked in surprise. He originally thought that the residents of the city were already amazing, and the employees of the units in the city must be very capable. He didn't expect that they also disliked eating in the canteen.
Ye Jiayin laughed and said, "I really don't know anyone who likes to eat in the cafeteria."
It was already time to get off work, and many employees lived in this residential area, so they all went inside.
The front shop faces the main alley which is about 8 meters wide. Opposite is a convenience store and a barber shop. There are quite a few people passing by at this time.
Unlike the Ning County Sugar Factory before, the several nearby ones are administrative units. The employees are dressed very smartly, and many of them wear small watches and ride bicycles.
Su Miao thought, wow~ This is definitely a wealthy area, there is money to be made!
Su Yuanzheng was a little worried and said, "People here are so well off, will they look down on the food we eat?"
Su Miao wasn't worried about that. "Dad, are you worried that people in the city won't eat offal? Look at Fu Ji Lao You, isn't that also pig offal? It sells so well."
"Are you also selling Laoyoufen?" Ye Jiayin asked, with a subtle excitement in his voice.
"No, we sell self-service porridge, fried pork offal and braised food."
“They all sound delicious.”
Seeing that Ye Jiayin had been entertaining them all along, Su Yuanzheng asked curiously, "Jiayin, where are your parents? Do we need to discuss such a big matter as renting an apartment with them?"
Ye Jiayin glanced at the backyard with a helpless look and said, "My mother is a reporter and a co-writer for a magazine. She often has to work all night long to write articles. She's probably still sleeping now. It's okay. You can watch it first. I'll tell her if it's appropriate."
Su Miao withdrew his observational gaze and said, "Since we have to consider the storefront, we'd better go around and see what other snack shops are like. It's noon now, so it's a good time to see when the busiest customers are."
Ye Jiayin said, "Okay, there are snack shops at the alley entrance, the main alley, and several side alleys. You can go and have a look. If you find one suitable, you can come over and knock on the door or call me. This is my home phone number. If you knock on the door, you can go around to the back through the side alley. My mom and I usually go through that door so we can hear more clearly."
After saying goodbye to Ye Jiayin, Su Miao and the other two walked through all the alleys inside and outside the residential area. Su Yu took a small notebook and wrote down the number and conditions of the restaurants.
It took me more than half an hour to walk through the entire residential area. I was hot and hungry, so I finally stopped at a raw rice noodle shop at the corner of the alley and ate noodles while enjoying the fan.
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