Chapter 3 Chapter 3 “Life is not easy for a little girl. …
The next day, Ji Ci was on the early shift, so he started work early and left early.
Because of what happened a while ago, Sister Xu left work an hour earlier. When it was getting dark in the evening, she went to the auto repair shop next door to find out what was going on.
Boss Jin's house has three bedrooms and two living rooms, and the monthly rent is three times what Ji Ci paid before.
Ji Ci: "Excuse me."
She planned to retreat slowly.
Boss Jin bit down on a cigarette but didn't light it. He asked, "Are you in a hurry to rent a house?"
"It's not urgent," Ji Ci said, "it's just that all the properties here are rented out as a whole, so it's hard to find a single room."
"Why didn't that company continue to rent it?" Boss Jin asked again.
Ji Ci frowned: "There are quite a lot of questions..."
Boss Jin had nothing to do, so after listening to Ji Ci, he took a water pump from the house and installed it in her rental house in no time. The water flow immediately increased.
Ji Ci asked how much it cost, but Boss Jin waved his hand and said it was free.
"You'd better use it. It's not cheap." Ji Ci said.
Boss Jin: "It's old, not worth much."
Ji Ci didn't believe it: "Before, a craftsman came here and asked me for 500 to install a water pump."
Boss Jin sneered, "Five hundred? Why doesn't he just go and rob?"
Ji Ci showed him the photos she had taken before.
Jin Sen played with a wrench in his hand, leaned over, looked at the screen that Ji Ci had flipped over, and said, "Oh," "This dust pump is a bit expensive, but it's not even five hundred, more than two hundred. You don't need a dust pump with a water heater."
Ji Ci was stunned by what she heard.
"This pump of mine is only ninety cents new. It's been gathering dust in the shop for a year and isn't worth much. If you feel bad about it, I can take it back when I move out. That's fine."
After he said that, he checked the kitchen's drainage system.
Finally, I put the wrench into my pocket. The pocket of my jacket is deep enough to fit a roll of tape and a screwdriver.
Boss Jin left the kitchen and looked up at the ceiling. "The other problems are minor. It's just that the water seepage upstairs is quite serious. If you can avoid renting it, don't do it."
Ji Ci nodded obediently.
You can't stay in a girl's room for long, so the door was open when Boss Jin came in.
It was dark when he left, so he didn't let Ji Ci go out to see him off.
Ji Ci scratched at the door and said thank you again. "Don't open the door for anyone at night," said Boss Jin standing in the corridor.
Like teaching a child a lesson, Ji Ci muttered, "You can't do it either?"
Boss Jin was quite shameless: "I'll say it again."
Ji Ci wanted to laugh: "Oh."
Boss Jin closed the door for her.
In the following month, Ji Ci went looking for a house as soon as she got off work, but either the location was bad or the price was not right.
Finally, she found a pretty good roommate. The other roommate was also a girl. They agreed to start in February, and Ji Ci called her current landlord right away.
The landlord agreed, and Ji Ci mentioned the deposit.
She paid one-third of the deposit in advance and the landlord should return the deposit to her when she moved out.
The landlord said that he had to go and see the house to get the deposit back, and Ji Ci said she was always free.
Xiao Zhou is there to support the pet shop, so it's okay to leave for an hour.
Just listening to the landlord's hesitant attitude, Ji Ci felt that it would take some effort to get her deposit back.
Sure enough, a few days later the landlord looked at the house, picked out a lot of problems, and finally told Ji Ci that if she wanted her deposit back, she had to restore the house to its original state, including the large area of damp wall on the roof.
This is a bit too bullying.
Ji Ci decisively called the police.
After a long period of mediation, the landlord just said on the phone that he was out of town and would not show up, trying to drag Ji Ci along.
Since they can't see the person, the police can't reach into the other person's pocket and take the money out.
After a week of hard work, Ji Ci was a little tired.
But she is not a pushover and she insisted on fighting with the landlord. If he doesn't return my deposit and doesn't show up, then I will continue to live there and not pay rent.
Xiao Zhou was a little worried when he found out. Ji Ci was a girl from another place, and if she confronted the locals head-on, she would be the one who suffered in the end.
Ji Ci was dissatisfied: "Can they kill me?"
"Ding Dong~Welcome~"
The sensor doorbell at the entrance of the store rang, and Boss Jin pushed the door open and asked with a smile, "Who wants to kill you?"
Xiao Zhou rushed over as if he had seen a great immortal: "Boss Jin! You've come just in time, Xiao Ji is in trouble!"
To be honest, Ji Ci didn't want to tell Boss Jin about this because they weren't that close yet and the other party had already helped her a lot.
Xiao Zhou's sudden request for help was like putting Boss Jin in trouble, and it would be unreasonable not to help.
"No trouble," Ji Ci pulled Xiao Zhou closer, "It's nothing."
Xiao Zhou ignored Ji Ci's wink and continued to speak to herself, "It's nothing yet. You're definitely going to suffer!"
Boss Jin patted the puppy's head, walked up to them, and tossed the wontons back and forth in his hands like a ball: "Tell me."
Xiao Zhou told everything in a flash.
Boss Jin nodded in agreement after hearing this: "That would be a loss."
Ji Ci hung her head: "Never mind, it's just a few hundred yuan..."
"It's a few hundred dollars," Boss Jin said, "give it to me if you want."
Ji Ci was speechless: "Why don't you come over..."
Boss Jin smiled and said, "I'll ask for it for you."
Ji Ci: “…”
"But after I'm done, the landlord will kick you out. Have you found a new house?"
Ji Ci nodded: "I've arranged a roommate."
"How did you make the appointment? Did you pay the deposit?" asked Boss Jin.
"No," Ji Ci hesitated, "but it should be fine."
Boss Jin smiled and said nothing more.
The next day, Boss Jin took Ji Ci to bang on her landlord's door. The other party had not left the city at all, so scoundrels had to be dealt with like hooligans.
At the beginning, Ji Ci was afraid that the situation would be out of control.
But the door opened, and Boss Jin politely lit a cigarette for the landlord, speaking softly and smiling: "I'm her brother, if you have any questions, please tell me."
A 1.9-meter-tall man blocked the door, and the landlord's problem became no problem.
On the way back, Ji Ci transferred the deposit she had recovered to Boss Jin, who refunded it: "I was just joking, but you took it seriously?"
"I have to thank you," Ji Ci said softly, her head hanging. "You helped me a lot."
"It's a small matter," Boss Jin put out his cigarette on the trash can by the roadside. "Life is not easy for a little girl."
Ji Ci's eyes turned red.
"Let's move as soon as possible." Jin Sen said.
That night, she dismantled Boss Jin's water pump by herself, and then contacted the new landlord, planning to move her things there first.
However, what she didn't expect was that Ji Ci's WeChat account was blocked and her phone number could not be reached. She hurried over to ask about the situation, only to find that someone had already moved in before her.
The girl who had verbally agreed with Ji Ci at the beginning stammered that they had not signed a contract either.
This is like being stood up.
Ji Ci didn't know what to do for a moment.
She had no choice but to temporarily leave her luggage at the pet shop and make do on a folding bed at night.
In the middle of the night, a headlight swept by and the puppy suddenly barked wildly.
It was a cold night and Ji Ci had been sleeping uneasily to begin with. She jumped up with a start, picked up the broom at hand, turned on the light, and walked carefully to the door of the store, only to find Boss Jin who had returned late.
She remembered the water pump she had just removed and took it out to him.
"Why are you here?" Boss Jin got out of the car, very surprised.
Ji Ci looked embarrassed and stammered, unable to say anything.
"Did the new landlord stand you up?" Boss Jin took off his leather gloves, took the water pump and asked with a smile.
Ji Ci: “…”
"How do you know everything?"
Boss Jin laughed out loud, bent down and pulled the rolling shutter door open with a "clatter".
"I thought you were unreliable when I heard you say that before. Who would be willing to wait for you if you didn't pay?"
It was a bit cold outside the store. Ji Ci wrapped her coral fleece pajamas tighter and spoke with a slight nasal tone: "She didn't ask me for it either."
This kind of implicit social etiquette is really annoying, and no one told her, so how would she know?
Boss Jin stopped there and looked at her sideways. Ji Ci's palm-sized face was wrapped in black hair, which was originally white. Against the backdrop of the moonlight, she looked like a malnourished female ghost.
"Why are you so pitiful?" Jin Sen found it more and more funny the more he looked at her. "Look at what you've done to yourself."
Ji Ci frowned her pretty eyebrows, closed the door and was about to go back to the store.
"Hey," Boss Jin, still laughing, strode over and grabbed the door handle. "Why don't you rent my house? I'll rent you a bedroom."
"Aren't you renting the entire place?" Ji Ci asked.
"Originally I rented the whole place, but after the New Year a relative from my hometown came to visit, and I had to find a place for her to stay, so I had to tear down a room."
Ji Ci blinked: "Female relative?"
Boss Jin exclaimed, "Ah!" "I even specially arranged a place for a man? He sleeps under my bed."
Ji Ci rubbed her eyes, amused by his tone and wanted to laugh: "If your relatives come, I will rent it."
The matter was decided.
The next day, Ji Ci went to see the house.
Boss Jin bought the house not long ago. There are two households on the first floor, and their doors are right opposite each other.
The house is fully furnished, with tiled white walls and some basic furniture, both new and second-hand.
Ji Ci chose the smallest bedroom facing north, but Boss Jin said that the bedroom was too exposed to the west sun, so he moved it to the master bedroom.
"I, I, I'll just go to the second bedroom," Ji Ci quickly refused. "The master bedroom can be left to your female relative."
Jin Sen was silent for a moment, then raised his eyebrows slightly: "Did you misunderstand something?"
Ji Ci's face turned red and her eyelashes trembled.
"What a relative!" Boss Jin sighed and laughed.
Ji Ci said "Oh": "I see, relative."
Ji Ci finally stayed in the master bedroom, which had good lighting and a large balcony. She could hang clothes to dry without going out and had good privacy.
Boss Jin collected the rent from the house where Ji Ci was stood up, but Ji Ci felt that the conditions of Boss Jin's house were much better.
The two signed the electronic contract in the living room. When Ji Ci saw the signatures of both parties, she realized that she had known Boss Jin for some time, but only today did she find out that the other party's name was Jin Sen.
"You're from Beijing?" Boss Jin was slightly surprised. "You're here as a guest?"
"I... I'm avoiding life." Ji Ci stuttered.
Boss Jin smiled and didn't ask too many questions.
Before leaving, Ji Ci asked Boss Jin if he wanted to have dinner together in the evening.
After saying that, he quickly realized something was wrong and added hastily, "Xiao Zhou, Sister Xu, and Doctor Liang are all here together."
"Okay." Boss Jin agreed immediately.
However, when Ji Ci notified them in the afternoon, Sister Xu could not go due to health reasons, so Dr. Liang naturally would not come either.
Xiao Zhou had a lewd smile on his face: "The three of us? I'll be the third wheel?"
Ji Ci was shocked: "Don't talk nonsense!"
"Don't you think Boss Jin takes good care of you?" Xiao Zhou said.
Ji Ci pinched the soft pad of Wonton's foot: "That's because I'm useless."
"No," Xiao Zhou tried to brainwash Ji Ci, "This is favoritism."
"Boss Jin is just a nice guy," Ji Ci sighed, "He helps everyone no matter who they are."
Seeing that this approach was a dead end, Xiao Zhou sought another approach: "So what do you mean?"
"Me?" Ji Ci's eyes widened. "What do you mean by 'I'?"
"How is Boss Jin?"
"Shh...sh!"
“…”
The tips of Ji Ci's ears were a little red, so she raised her hand to rub them.
How is Boss Jin?
Boss Jin is very nice.
He looks fierce at first, but he is a good person with a kind heart.
Xiao Zhou squeezed her and said, "I think the competition for Boss Jin is quite fierce. If you like him, take action quickly."
Ji Ci covered her mouth: "Stop talking, I don't have that idea at all."
As they were tugging and pulling, the doorbell rang, and Sister Xu's voice came from outside the store: "What are you two whispering about?"
Xiao Zhou was smiling slyly, and Ji Ci was afraid that something would come out of her loose mouth, so she quickly chased after her and covered her mouth.
But the next second, they both stopped.
Following Sister Xu were Dr. Liang and Sister Sun.
"I bought a cake for you to share," Sister Sun said, smiling as she placed the cake at the front desk. "You guys get busy."
She was holding another bag in her hand. Ji Ci glanced at it but couldn't tell what it was.
The other party walked out of the store and turned left directly. The auto repair shop was over there, so it was obvious where he was going.
"It's going to rain in a few days," Dr. Liang said, looking down at his phone. "Go to the hospital early."
"That's fine," Sister Xu said after being assigned a piece of cake. "I won't be accepting orders for now. You two can take turns in the store, each taking care of the foster babies."
This is a disguised holiday, and Xiao Zhou cheered happily.
"It's just the bad weather these past few days," Sister Xu stopped him in time. "When the weather clears up, we still have to work."
Ji Ci held the tray and took a sip of the cake on her lips, her mind already flying to the next room.
What Xiao Zhou had said before was too far-fetched, she hadn’t thought about it.
But it’s not realistic to say that I have no ideas at all.
But he can’t even catch up with someone as beautiful and intellectual as Sister Sun. How high are Boss Jin’s standards?
"There's still one piece left," Sister Xu suddenly said, "Husband, don't you want to eat it?"
Doctor Liang waved his hand: "Too greasy."
"Give it to Boss Jin." Xiao Zhou poked Ji Ci with his elbow.
Ji Ci's eyes became vague for a moment, and she glanced at Sister Xu, who was also looking at her.
"You send it off." Ji Ci coughed lightly.
Xiao Zhou finished his cake and threw the fork and plate into the trash can: "Let's send it together."
Ji Ci was pulled out.
The door of the auto repair shop was open, and Sister Sun's voice came from inside.
"It's going to rain these next few days. If you really feel pain, tell me."
"It's not that serious," Boss Jin said with a smile, "It's healed already."
"Boss Jin!" Xiao Zhou interrupted their conversation loudly, "Xiao Ji and I brought you a cake."
Ji Ci walked in and saw Boss Jin sitting on a recliner, lowering one of his trouser legs.
Sister Sun was squatting nearby, but when she saw them coming, she stood up.
There is a faint bitter smell in the air.
Ji Ci was very familiar with the smell, it was the smell of plaster.
"Sister Sun brought the cake," Xiao Zhou picked up the thing in his hand, "Doctor Liang doesn't want to eat it, I'll ask Boss Jin."
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