Chapter 129 Chapter 129 Black Internet Cafe
The two houses Zhao Ruyue booked are both the largest in the community.
The area is 68 square meters, and the minimum down payment for each house is less than 100,000 yuan, but Zhao Ruyue did not only pay the minimum down payment, nor did she choose the longest term to take out a loan.
After paying the down payment, the monthly mortgage repayment for one house is about 600 yuan, and the total repayment for two houses is only more than 1,000 yuan.
Seeing that the monthly payment was only this little, Zhao Ruyue was tempted to buy two more sets.
When she went to look at houses and decided on a house, she didn't know how much compensation her family would get. She thought it would be about 500,000 or 600,000 yuan.
How much did she buy the house for? Now it has increased by more than ten times. She is actually very satisfied with 500,000 or 600,000 yuan.
Unexpectedly, the amount was so much more than expected, which made Zhao Ruyue feel that she was too conservative before and bought too little.
After completing the formalities, Zhao Ruyue returned to the hotel and told Ning Shaoming about the matter. After they discussed it, they decisively bought two more sets.
Use some of the remaining money to do some simple renovation of the house, buy some basic furniture and appliances, etc. Once the renovation is completed, let it air out and then rent it out next year.
They also had to lend Ning Shichun some money to buy a shop in the county town. In addition, they also planned to buy a larger house in a better location in the county town.
Their whole family will live in this house together in the future. After the children grow up and pursue their own careers, Zhao Ruyue plans to live here with Ning Shaoming.
The current house is made of authentic materials and should be able to be used as their retirement home in the county, so they only plan to buy one.
The decoration matter also had to be entrusted to Fan Xiaorong to help find a decoration company. Occasionally when she was free, she would go to help check the progress and supervise the decoration workers.
Fan Xiaorong had decorated a house herself, so she was very familiar with the process. The decoration company she found last time was good, so she planned to help Zhao Ruyue find that company this time.
She even joked with Zhao Ruyue, "I'll introduce them to the business of selling four houses. They will definitely give me a commission when the time comes. Sister, I'll split it with you."
Zhao Ruyue also smiled and said, "What do you mean by splitting equally? Logically, I should also give you some hard work compensation!"
She paid the deposit and 20% of the renovation fee in advance.
The day before returning to Yunshan County, Fan Xiaorong invited Zhao Ruyue and her family to her home for dinner.
When they got there, Zhao Ruyue looked around Fan Xiaorong's house and thought it looked quite big. "I didn't expect that a house of more than 30 square meters wouldn't look that small after being renovated."
Fan Xiaorong smiled and said, "I forgot to tell you that this house is not over 30 square meters, but over 40 square meters. I had my eyes on another one at first, but when I was about to pay, I changed my mind. It just so happened that I had enough money on hand, so I bought a bigger one that could be used as two rooms, one large and one small.
The larger room is my bedroom, and the smaller one is where I work and study when I get home from get off work.
After knowing that you were attending night school, I had been thinking about improving myself, so I also signed up for a night school in Yangcheng to study English.
Our factory plans to do foreign trade business. Once I have learned well, I can earn money from foreigners and get a higher salary! ”
"That's great!" Zhao Ruyue was very happy for Fan Xiaorong's progress. Just as she was about to say something else, someone suddenly knocked on the door.
Fan Xiaorong walked over and looked out through the peephole. The person knocking on the door was a colleague with whom she had a good relationship, so she opened the door.
Her colleague stood at the door and asked anxiously, "Xiao Rong, do you have the telephone number of the plumber? The water pipe under my kitchen sink burst and is spraying water out now."
Fan Xiaorong was shocked: "Did you turn off the main valve when you came out?"
"What main valve? I don't know. My parents were the ones who took care of the whole renovation of my house. They were in charge of these things before."
Fan Xiaorong was helpless: "It seems that you really didn't turn off the water valve."
Zhao Ruyue heard the noise, walked out and said, "We have to go over and turn off the main water valve first, otherwise the water will leak too much and soak the floor and seep downstairs. Most kitchens are not waterproof. If you have tools at home, I can help fix it."
Fan Xiaorong gave a thumbs up and said, "My sister repairs things like this! You are so lucky to meet my sister here today!"
The colleague said hurriedly: "Great! I do have some tools left by my father at home, but I don't know if they are suitable."
She quickly ran home to find where the main water valve was.
Zhao Ruyue and a few others also followed.
When she arrived at the place, Zhao Ruyue discovered that the layout of her colleague Fan Xiaorong's house was the same as the houses she had bought.
While the girl was still running around in the house in panic, Zhao Ruyue had already found the location of the main water valve.
But he did not turn off the water valve immediately. Instead, he went to the kitchen to check the leak and found that the water inlet pipe under the sink was broken.
Then he came out and tightened the water valve: "It's not difficult to repair the burst water pipe. If you have a suitable pipe at home, I can replace it for you directly. If not, go to the hardware store and buy one."
Zhao Ruyue has made it a habit for Su Shengnan to teach her. When repairing something, she would start explaining and tell her how to deal with similar situations in the future.
After turning off the water valve, the water pipe in the kitchen finally stopped leaking.
Fan Xiaorong's colleague heaved a sigh of relief and thanked Zhao Ruyue: "Thank you, I'll remember it. Fortunately, I have your help today, otherwise I don't know what to do."
Zhao Ruyue: "You need to hurry up and deal with the water in the kitchen. You should be able to mop the floor, right?"
"Yes, yes, I really can do this." She hurried to get the mop, but halfway through she remembered that she hadn't taken out the tools yet, so she ran to get the tools again. When she came back, she followed Fan Xiaorong and called Zhao Ruyue sister, "Sister, do you think these are okay?"
Zhao Ruyue took a look and found that everything was there. She nodded and said, "Okay."
"Here are the tools. I'll use the mop to clean the floor. I'll go buy a water pipe later. I don't have one at home."
Fan Xiaorong reminded him, "There is also a bucket that you don't use often. Find one and take it out. There is no floor drain in the kitchen. You need to use a bucket to collect the water sucked up by the mop and then take it to the bathroom to empty it."
After she finished speaking, she went to find a rag with better water absorption and soaked up the water on the floor with her colleagues.
Ning Shaoming and his two children who followed also squatted down to help. Without a rag, they waited for them to absorb most of the water and then they wiped it with paper towels.
Zhao Ruyue used a wrench to remove the faucet directly, then unscrewed the leaking water inlet pipe, and checked the hot water outlet pipe, and found that there was a problem with the hot water outlet pipe as well.
He said to Fan Xiaorong's colleague, "Why don't you just buy a pair of these pipes later? The other one is no good. It looks fine now, but it will probably leak again in a while."
Fan Xiaorong's colleague quickly responded: "Okay, okay."
Seeing that the floor was almost mopped, she hurriedly grabbed her wallet and ran to the hardware store to buy water pipes. She was afraid of buying the wrong ones and taking the broken pipes down with her.
After buying the things, she and Fan Xiaorong watched Zhao Ruyue change them together.
After reading it, he said to Fan Xiaorong: "It doesn't seem that difficult. I thought only men could unscrew it."
"It's really easy." Zhao Ruyue couldn't help but teach them again.
Both girls seem to know how to do it, but I don’t know if they really can do it.
After Zhao Ruyue finished teaching, she said, "If you still don't know how to do it next time, you should ask a master for help. Don't try to be stubborn."
The two of them nodded after hearing this. Fan Xiaorong still felt a little traumatized about staying in the same house with a man alone. "It's a pity that all the masters I can find are men. It would be great if there were female masters."
Zhao Ruyue also knows the current status of the maintenance industry: "It's really not easy to find."
After they finished expressing their feelings, they returned to Fan Xiaorong's home. Her colleague specially gave her a large piece of unsliced marbled steak as a thank you gift for helping her: "If you guys are having fun, I won't bother you anymore. I don't know how to repay you, so please accept this. It's an extra dish for your dinner today. If you don't accept it, I'll feel really bad."
"Okay, then I won't be polite!" Fan Xiaorong didn't push it to her. They were not that kind of people. After accepting it, she would just treat her back next time she had the chance.
Fan Xiaorong accepted it promptly and took the others home.
After the meal, Zhao Ruyue and her family took the train back to Yunshan County the next day.
This time, the two children replaced the game consoles with imported ones, and there were also several kinds of game cards. They played happily all the way and couldn't finish all the game cards.
After returning home, the game console can be connected to the TV and play games online together.
The two children even forgot about computers and spent all their entertainment time that was originally spent on computers on game consoles.
Until I played all the games in both stand-alone and online modes and had a really good time, I became less addicted to games every day and divided half of my entertainment time with the computer.
After Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming came back, they were busy looking at houses, shops, and holding meetings in the town.
Amidst the busy schedule, a conclusion was finally reached on the development of a tourist attraction in the town.
It is expected that the renovation of the houses in the town will start in the second half of this year. Except for the school and some special institutional buildings, many places in the town will be renovated.
This is the result of discussion after so much time and so many meetings.
On several streets in the town, the facades of the two- or three-story buildings or bungalows that have already been built are going to be changed into a retro style to make them look ancient.
On this basis, each family can further decorate according to the business they want to do. The money for changing the facade will be borne by the company developing the scenic area. They will provide building materials and construction teams, and then carry out the construction in a unified manner.
After the construction is completed, if people who want to do business plan to make further changes to the appearance of the house, they must report it in advance, the decoration style must meet the requirements, and the money for further changes must be paid by themselves.
Those who don't want to use their own house to do business don't have to worry about it. Just live your life as usual. When the town's major teams notify you to go for training, just attend the training on time.
Since the shops in Zhao Ruyue Town are bungalows, the facades also need to be renovated.
The outer walls are decorated with imitation bamboo building materials, and the roof is also made into a sloped style of a bamboo house.
Originally, the development company had requirements for the store's decoration, but after the reviewer came to see the interior of her home, he was very satisfied.
I just pointed out some inappropriate parts and asked them to make some simple modifications.
This is all thanks to the homemade pair of cards that her son and daughter made when her business first opened. At that time, they drew the pair of cards themselves in order to avoid making customers wait too long in the store.
He would tear off half of the pair card and keep it for himself, and give the other half to those who bought things from his house, asking them to show the pair card when they came back before they could take the things.
The group of middle school students who were buying things were just addicted to martial arts dramas and thought this was very martial arts style.
When Zhao Ruyue saw that this style was so popular, she customized a batch of ancient-style pairs of cards, which inadvertently set the tone for the store's subsequent decoration.
Whether it is a restaurant in the town or a branch in the county, the decoration in the store is relatively ancient, but in the past people did not pay much attention to making the style of everything in the store completely consistent.
For the sake of convenience, there are inevitably many things in the store that conflict with the overall style of the store.
For example, when there are not enough tables, Guangdong Province stools can be used as tables.
It was a square, backless, bright red plastic stool that was cheap and very durable.
A high stool, plus another lower stool, gives guests a single table and chair for eating.
It can be stacked up to save space when not in use, which is very practical.
In the past, they had no choice but to do this to save trouble. Now that others have stricter requirements, they have no choice but to remove the stool from the store in the town and use it in the store in the county.
In addition, I will customize some wooden ones for use.
The renovation of a building is more troublesome, but the renovation of old houses is much simpler.
There are not many buildings in Rongxi Town, but there are quite a few old houses.
When the old house was built, it had very local characteristics and there was no need to redecorate the facade.
The fence and the walls of the house should remain the same as they were before and can be decorated but not with too many modern things. Things like planting flowers along the fence and growing flower walls are more encouraged.
It’s just that the doors and windows that are too modern need to be modified, as well as the main room and the toilet and the courtyard door in the backyard that will be seen by tourists, also need to be modified.
People who grow vegetables in the backyard need to either replace or modify the things they use, such as buckets, ladles, and water pipes.
Those who do not want to do business can just modify the main hall and the backyard. But if they want to do some business, such as running a B&B or an inn, they will have to make major changes.
Of course, whether it is an apartment building or an old house, if you find it troublesome and don’t want to take care of anything, you can hand over the house to the development company.
The development company will arrange other places for the people who originally lived there to live, and then let their employees play the role of residents. The original residents can no longer return to their own houses.
Subsequent work assigned to them cannot be done in the original house.
Of course the house will still belong to the original residents unless they sell it themselves.
Zhao Ruyue was busy from returning from Guangzhou until her daughter's birthday, and then she took a day off.
But although she said she was busy, she was actually just doing the work she was supposed to do every day. She almost never let herself and Ning Shaoming work overtime.
If she hasn't finished her daily work by the time she sets it, she won't force herself to work overtime to finish it before taking a break.
If you can’t finish it on the same day, then don’t finish it. Do the rest the next day.
This year, Ning Shixia also had a three-layer cake for his birthday.
Last year, Ning Shiqiu had such a big cake on his birthday, but she only had a small one, and someone even gossiped about it in front of Ning Shixia.
I deliberately asked her, "On your brother's birthday, your parents made him such a big cake, but on your birthday, there was only a small one. Do your parents like your brother more?"
Ning Shixia didn't fall for it and replied, "Why didn't you tell me that my brother never had a cake on his birthday before, and the small cake on my birthday was the first cake in our family's birthday celebrations? According to you, does this mean that my parents like me more?"
The man saw that she was not easy to deceive, so he walked away embarrassedly.
Ning Shixia was not angry about this matter. She put it behind her after she had scolded the person. But Zhao Ruyue was very angry after hearing about it.
Many of those who deliberately gossiped were people who wanted to borrow money from her family after they received the demolition compensation, but failed.
Some people would just complain a few words if they couldn't borrow money, but some people would hold a grudge and dare not do anything too bad, so they would deliberately talk nonsense in front of the children to disgust others.
Zhao Ruyue failed to catch the man in the act, so she could only praise Xiao Xia for her good response, and then told her children not to pay attention to such people in the future.
After Ning Shiqiu’s birthday, Ning Danping was about to take the high school entrance exam. She had worked hard for a year and was about to test the results of her efforts in this hot June.
In town junior high schools and county junior high schools, many students can choose to go to school or not after taking the final examination.
Zhao Ruyue saw many junior high school students who were familiar to her wandering around the streets of the county town doing nothing, and the Internet cafe where Lin Lili's boyfriend was staying was packed.
Many people couldn't get a computer, and some even shared one with friends to chat on QQ and play games. Some students often went to her store and knew that she had computers in her store and at home.
I asked her quietly: "Boss Zhao, your computer should be able to access the Internet, right? Can you let me play on the computer for a few hours? I'll pay you according to the Internet cafe's price."
When Zhao Ruyue heard this, she thought, if she agreed, would her internet be considered a black internet bar?
But she certainly couldn't agree: "My computer is not as good as the one in the Internet cafe. I can't download games and too many programs. Besides, we also need to use it for work. I really can't earn the money you guys are making."
In fact, her computer performance is not bad, and because there is only one computer occupying one network cable, the Internet speed may be faster than that in the Internet cafe.
She just said this on purpose to discourage these junior high school students.
Those junior high school students had no choice. They couldn't just go and check whether other people's computers could download games without their consent, so they had to leave with regret.
But a few days later, Lin Lili brought a little girl who was about her age and introduced her to Zhao Ruyue: "Aunt San, this is my friend Tian Qing."
After she finished speaking, Tian Qing also greeted Zhao Ruyue.
This little girl looks quite rebellious.
She has several pierced ears on her left ear and wears a row of earrings. She has one pierced ear on her right ear and a nose stud. She has black nail polish on both hands and tattoos on her fingers and backs of her hands. She is very unique.
But she speaks very politely. When she starts talking, if you don't look at her appearance, you would think she is the kind of good girl with a scholarly temperament. Compared with the stereotype given by her appearance, the contrast is very big.
Zhao Ruyue asked Lin Lili: "Is he a new friend? I haven't seen him before."
Lin Lili said, "Yes, she is a friend I just met not long ago. She is planning to start a business in the county town. She can't find anyone to help her with some things. It is not convenient for me to find Brother Lei and the others, so I had to bring her to you."
Zhao Ruyue said: "Tell me what happened first."
"That's it..." Lin Lili lowered her voice, as if she was afraid of being overheard, "Aren't Internet cafes in the county very popular now? If you go too late, you can't even queue up. Tian Qing wants to open a small Internet cafe to earn some pocket money."
Zhao Ruyue suddenly understood. No wonder Lin Lili said that it was not convenient to ask her boyfriend for help in this matter.
She looked at Tian Qing: "What do you want me to help you with? If it's applying for a business license, I may not be able to help you."
Tian Qing saw Lin Lili calling Zhao Ruyue "Aunt San", so she started calling her "Aunt San" as well: "I heard from Lili that you can assemble desktop computers. I want to do this business, but I only know how to play with computers and I don't know anything about accessories and equipment.
So I would like to ask you to help me with the process, mainly purchasing computers and assembling them, and I will give you corresponding compensation when the time comes. ”
If it's just this, it's easy to handle. Zhao Ruyue didn't say she didn't want any compensation. After all, helping with purchasing and assembly would take a lot of time and energy.
Zhao Ruyue directly asked Tian Qing about his general requirements for the computer.
After listening to Tian Qing's request, she said, "I don't need many computers, at most □□."
Zhao Ruyue then realized that the small Internet cafe this girl wanted to open was most likely an unlicensed black Internet cafe.
But Zhao Ruyue wasn't the one who specifically looked into these things, so she couldn't do anything about it even if she knew.
People entrusted her to help with purchasing and assembly, so she only needed to do these two tasks well. Whatever Tian Qing did afterwards had nothing to do with her.
Zhao Ruyue heard Tian Qing say that she had already found a venue, so she went with them to take a look at the venue: "I bought two houses in a community and connected them, but the location of the community is relatively remote in the county town, and the location of the house I bought is also relatively remote in the community."
The venue she chose was in an apartment building in a walk-up community in the county town. The building was located very far inside, close to the demolition area.
Because there is construction going on in the demolition area, the road is blocked, cars can't pass through, and there are few pedestrians passing by, so it looks relatively hidden.
Zhao Ruyue was not surprised that such a young Tian Qing could afford to buy two houses at one time. Instead, she was a little surprised by this community.
The house that Tian Qing bought turned out to be in a community developed by Zheng Junsheng.
When Zhao Ruyue followed Tian Qing and Lin Lili into the community, she even saw the person from the town who had exchanged houses with Zheng Junsheng in the community.
This person is barely an acquaintance.
That was the old bachelor nicknamed Lao Qian who lived on the same street as her old house and spent money to buy a wife!
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