Chapter 653 (Page 1/2)
Huo Qingci signed the contract with Chen Cai with a smile, and handed him one month's salary without hesitation.
Not only that, Huo Qingci was also extremely generous and gave Chen Cai two days of vacation, allowing him to go back to his hometown for two days before returning to work.
Chen Cai's eyes widened, his face full of surprise. He had never expected that his employer had already paid his salary in advance before he officially started working.
This unexpected surprise made him so happy that he could not express his joy in words. In fact, at the beginning, Chen Cai had no intention of returning to his hometown.
However, Huo Qingci said to him earnestly, "Uncle Chen, you're going to be staying here for a long time to help me look after the house. You should at least let your family know and say hello, right? Otherwise, they'll be so worried!"
These words were like a revelation, and Chen Cai instantly understood the truth. Now that he had changed his employer, he had to go back and talk to his family.
After some thought, Chen felt that what Huo Qingci said was indeed reasonable, so he nodded happily and said, "Okay, in that case, I will set off now and try to be back tomorrow afternoon."
After Chen Cai left, Lin Man and Huo Qingci immediately took action and began to decorate the living room of the main building.
The two worked together to clean the house carefully inside and out, leaving no corner untouched.
Afterwards, Lin Man took out a set of exquisite antique European-style sofas from the space with ease, and then took out a matching long coffee table and a Western-style dining table.
These pieces of furniture are placed just right, giving the entire living room an elegant and noble atmosphere.
After finishing the decoration of the living room on the first floor, they went up to the second floor without stopping.
Likewise, the two of them took the trouble to clean each bedroom one by one, ensuring that the room was spotless.
Immediately afterwards, Lin Man once again used her magical powers to move out sets of beautiful antique European-style furniture from her mysterious space.
Each bedroom is carefully decorated with luxurious European-style beds and chaise longues, exquisite European-style wardrobes, European-style dressing tables and table lamps.
After finishing their work, the two collapsed exhausted on the bed in the master bedroom. Huo Qingci looked at his watch. "It's already half past twelve before I knew it. I didn't expect that several hours would pass by just by doing this. Is Manman hungry?"
Lin Man shook her head. "I'm not really hungry, I'm just exhausted. I didn't expect there were eight bedrooms and two study rooms on the second floor. There seem to be several bedrooms on the first floor as well."
"The downstairs is rented for servants. We haven't finished the kitchen downstairs yet. Manman, let's clean up the kitchen this afternoon!"
"Okay, let's do it this afternoon. I'll take a break for half an hour. We'll go into the space and cook some noodles later."
This villa has more than a dozen rooms, and the other villas are built like office buildings, some of which have three or four floors. If only the two of them were to clean, it would probably take several days to finish.
Lin Man thought that if they stayed here, they would definitely have to hire servants to clean the house.
So she said to Huo Qingci, "Qingci, let's hire a nanny two years ago! Just for a month."
Huo Qingci knew very well that it was not an easy task to keep the entire yard clean.
Especially the other western-style buildings, which they are not using at all at the moment, so it doesn’t seem to have much impact if they are not cleaned.
However, when he thought about the upcoming winter vacation, Lin Man would bring the children to accompany him to spend the New Year, and his wife would have to clean the building every day. It seemed that he had to ask someone to come back to clean and cook.
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"Okay, next time Manman comes, I will definitely hire a temporary nanny to clean the house in advance."
"Maintaining hygiene in this main villa is difficult enough, and there are three other three- and four-story buildings."
Huo Qingci also thought about the hygiene of the other western-style buildings, which were more difficult to clean than their main courtyard. He then considered whether he should continue to rent out those buildings.
"Manman, Director Zhao asked me a few days ago if I would like to rent our three unused Western-style buildings to their company for use as office space.
At the time, I told him I needed to go back and think about it. Now I want to ask for your opinion. Do you think we should rent it out? "
After thinking for a moment, Lin Man asked, "How long do they plan to rent it for?"
Huo Qingci replied, "Director Zhao said they planned to rent the place for ten years and that they couldn't raise the rent at will during that period, so I didn't agree to it right away."
Indeed, ten years is not a short time, and the world is full of unpredictable changes during this period, and all kinds of situations may occur. If the rent cannot be increased for ten years, it is obviously not a good deal for them.
After careful consideration, Lin Man said, "A ten-year lease is too long. How about this? We can rent it to them for five years and promise not to raise the rent during those five years. I think this plan is more reasonable."
Huo Qingci nodded repeatedly in agreement, "Well, you make sense! The next time Director Zhao comes to me, I'll talk to him as you said.
In fact, their unit originally wanted to buy the house outright, but the higher-ups didn't approve the funds, so they had to give up the idea and rent it instead.
"If their company is really determined to rent this place, then we will rent it to them for five years. Those houses will just be sitting there anyway." Lin Man looked at Huo Qingci with a serious expression.
"Okay! Don't worry, I will definitely have a good talk with Director Zhao when the time comes. Manman, are you hungry? Let's go back to the space and prepare dinner. After dinner, we need to rest for a while and then continue cleaning."
Lin Man nodded in agreement: "Okay, let's cook first. But we have to work harder this afternoon, because we have to rearrange all the rooms in this building.
Especially those places where curtains should have been installed, now they have been ripped away by the Wang family, it really gives me a headache!"
At this point, Lin Man couldn't help but frowned, but soon relaxed again: "Fortunately, I still have a lot of Roman rods for hanging curtains in my space, and the fabrics and yarns needed to make curtains are also available.
There's no other way. It seems I have to work harder in the afternoon and make two pairs of curtains as an emergency measure.
I'll try to make two more tomorrow morning. As for the curtains in the other rooms, I'll have to wait until the next time I come over to take care of them."
"Manman, those curtains were probably taken away by Mr. Wang's two daughters. There's a shortage of cloth and cotton this year..."
"Well, I understand their approach, but it's a pity that I don't have that much time here, otherwise I would make curtains for all the rooms."
Thinking of the tight schedule ahead, Lin Man sighed inwardly.
They also need to take time to tidy up the back garden tomorrow afternoon to make the building look neater and more beautiful.
She must catch the train back to Beijing tomorrow night. After all, she has been away from home for so many days. Now that things here have been dealt with, it is time for her to go back.
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