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006 Tenants

After talking about the landlord, the tenants in Hongtao's yard are also quite distinctive.

There are two American devils living in the west wing, about the same age as Hong Tao. The big man wearing glasses is called Dave, and the short man with a bald man is called Sherman.

They are senior staff at a British wine training institution in Beijing. Their specific job is probably to get money from Chinese bartenders. If you spend tens of thousands of dollars to learn a British wine tasting certificate, you can be superior to the domestic wine industry.

It sounds quite unreliable, right? The taster relies on talent and strict training, so he can become a talent after half a year of study. But the company's business is very good, and the monthly salary of these two grandsons can match all the rents of eight households in the yard.

Every time Hong Tao thinks of this, he can't help but want to raise the rent, but he succeeds very few times. Because Dave and Sherman didn't come to him, they are historical problems.

Didn’t there be a pair of American foreign teachers living in Hong Tao’s yard? They resigned and returned to China six years ago. Before leaving, they helped find two tenants from organizations similar to the hometown association to continue to contribute their rent. This is a thank you to Hong Tao, a foreign landlord.

The two of them originally rented a living area around the Asian Games Village, and seemed to be not satisfied with their living environment. After seeing Hong Tao's yard, they were very interested. They spent another two days to redirect around and immediately signed a long-term contract, paying the room fee one year and placing the rent for three months.

At first, Hong Tao thought it was Sam's and his wife who guaranteed it to make them so decisive. Later, they gradually got to know the inside story by accident.

The two materials are not very familiar with Sam and his wife. They are also thousands of miles away from the United States and have never met each other before. I am willing to rent here. In addition to the good quality of the house, convenient transportation and closer to the unit, the most important thing is that I have a crush on the bar street along the Houhai coast.

They really like to sit there for a while. It can take several hours to get two bottles of beer. There is no other reason, but they are used to it. In addition, these two grandchildren are single, and it is not clear whether they have a wife in their hometown. They say that they do not agree with Hong Tao. Foreigners are more ruthless than Chinese, and they do not take lying seriously at all, nor do they think that God will punish them.

When a single man is far away from a foreign country, there are always personal physical problems that need to be solved urgently, so the bar becomes the best place for Dave and Sherman to solve physiological problems. Not only do they like exotic styles, but many Chinese girls who go to the bar also like it. It is easy for both parties to hit it off, and then you can often see girls you don’t know in and out in the west wing of the courtyard.

There is no clause in the rental rules set by Hong Tao that you are not allowed to bring the opposite sex back. He feels that doing this is inhumane and does not think there is any security problem like this. A hooligan must be no one except for fear of the police. If you are afraid, you are not worthy of being a hooligan.

What's more, hooligans also have physiological problems that need to be solved, so go find them yourself... To be honest, Dave and the others are not as good as college students and white-collar workers. If you have a little experience as a professional player, you won't be able to pass the level without having to choose the two of them yourself.

The most important thing is that people prefer to talk about life feelings and never ask for rewards, which greatly sublimates Hong Tao's soul. By the way, there is no need to worry about whether there will be police visiting. Such a simple friendship is fine, standing on the street and shouting to every passerby once.

But when the number of pure friendships is too many, whenever the rent is raised, the two foreign grandsons will introduce one or two simpler female friends to Hong Tao in time. The man in the capital is very proud of his face. As the saying goes, he will not hit people with a smile. If he is so polite, we can't be too disgusted.

The young widow living in the east wing room is surnamed Jiu and named Jiaying. She is thirty-five years old. She majored in accounting at the School of Management of Shandong University. She works in an accounting firm near Dawang Road, Beijing.

When Hong Tao saw her ID card, he didn't dare to read it for a long time, for fear that he would be laughed at if he was wrong. He went home and secretly searched the Internet to confirm that he really had this surname, and it was an ancient surname. It originated from Prince Jiu, the brother of Duke Huan of Qi. Coincidentally, Jiu Jiaying was from Zibo, Shandong, and the capital of Qi. If he wanted to be placed on the European continent, he might have the blood of aristocratic people.

Jiu Jiaying has an only son named Jiu Yue, nicknamed Mi Li, who is the little fat man who uses a submachine gun to shoot crows. He is just six years old this year and is studying in the preschool class of Yaer Primary School. He can enter the first grade the following year.

Jiu's mother is a certified intermediate accountant. She seems to have a statistical certificate. Her income should be good, but her life is very difficult. No, it should not be called financial difficulties. How to say it is a bit biased.

Most of her income is spent on Xiaomi Li, but she saves money herself. In addition to a few sets of suits that she must support her store at work, she has never seen her buy new clothes, shoes and jewelry all year round. However, she is very good at dressing up, and she must be very neat when she goes out, and the house is also very clean.

Moreover, she is also a workaholic. She often works overtime when she goes out early and comes back late. After she gets home, she always brings a lot of documents to write and calculate. The lights in the living room are often on until midnight.

Hong Tao knew in his heart that the reason why he worked so hard was 100% because Xiaomili could go to a good school. If there was no such urgent need, Jiu's mother should have stayed away after seeing her for the first time. At that time, two words were clearly written in her eyes: Hooligan!

But two days later, she actually came to visit alone, and talked about it all. She wanted to be 100% sure whether Xiaomili could enter Yaer Hutong Primary School after renting her place.

Of course, Hong Tao did not dare to speak nonsense. The next day, he went to the district education bureau to find an acquaintance to find out the situation about Xiaomili's admission, and recorded the various requirements in their original form. He also stated what conditions met, what required a person to ask, and what fees must be noted, and then faxed them to the unit.

When Jiu's mother came to the door for the third time, she not only brought Xiaomi Li, but also followed by a van from a moving company. This person was also impatient. She moved her home before she signed the rental contract. She had never considered what to do if the landlord took the opportunity to raise the price.

Of course, Hong Tao would not earn such unethical money. He didn't even mention the expenses of asking someone to help him and enroll in the school. He made a pity that as long as the policy remains unchanged, Xiaomili must be able to enter preschool until his age. He also stated this additional clause on the rental contract. If he could not do it, the mother and son would live in vain.

After Xiaomi Li's preschool class was successfully completed, Hong Tao did not feel that Jiu's mother's attitude towards her improved at all. She usually only said in the yard that she would not dare to enter the north house and would not invite herself to visit her house.

Why is this happening? Hong Tao doesn't want to ask? It's nothing more than a question of his face. Dave and Sherman were nervous for more than half a month when they first moved in. They accidentally cut off a piece of pomegranate bark by pushing their bicycles. Without waiting for him to open his mouth to ask, they took the initiative to take out a hundred yuan to pay compensation. If they were a single mother who came to Beijing to work hard, if they could still talk and laugh with him, then the one who should be nervous was himself.

But the adult's mood did not affect the child. Xiaomili was just the age when people disliked dogs and couldn't get idle all day long. Jiu's mother refused to let him step out of the yard, and there were no peers playing in the yard. Others could not understand whether the taste was clear. Anyway, Hong Tao felt it empathy. He was an only child when he was a child, and he tasted what loneliness felt.

Can Hong Dashanren refuse to save him? Surely he can't, so he used a little trick and first sacrificed the computer game to add a toy to Xiaomili. However, after Jiu's mother found out, she protested very tactfully, not wanting her son to be addicted to games and ignore learning. Xiaomili's future is aimed at key middle schools and key universities, and it cannot be delayed every minute!

If a plan fails, Hong Tao is not discouraged. He is afraid that computer games will delay learning, so he can change to a more positive energy game. Go! This time, I can’t talk about playing things anymore. The school teacher also said that he should sign up for at least one extracurricular interest class for his child, including Go. He has to pay for the class outside, so we teach it for free, and he can also teach it anytime and anywhere.

This time, my mother had no choice but to pinch her nose and allow Xiaomili to go to the landlord's house to learn Go on the weekend. But the problem came again. Xiaomili is really not a material for playing Go. Not to mention Go, after a few months, I haven't even learned Go.

Seeing that Jiu's mother raised questions about her Go skills again, Hong Tao had to change her move, English! This thing is a big killer. When Jiu's mother heard Hong Tao translate the news broadcast for Xiaomili in English, she probably had to bite her teeth and didn't mention anything about studying her homework in the house after school. The rules of the landlord who could only go to the weekend were abandoned.

Today is Saturday, and Jiu's mother still has to go out to work early, but on school holidays, Xiaomili became a burden, so the landlord and uncle once again became an English tutor and nanny. The more Hong Tao is good to Xiaomili and does not seek compensation, the more weak Jiu's mother's heart becomes. When she meets her eyes in the yard, she dare not look directly at her.
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