vrcanaries Chapter 107: Find a shop and watch a quarrel
Chapter 107: Find a shop and watch a quarrel
At 5:30 in the afternoon of the next day, Su Yuchen took Zhao Xiaojing to the snack street near the school, and then rode his stall bike to the night market.
Today's sweet soup is the same as yesterday's. Su Yuchen has been practicing for two days and is now able to make it, so she will go to teach Lu Hongwen. Zhao Xiaojing will go to the snack street to take a look and inquire about the prices of shops like the one that sells three-fresh bean curd.
Zhao Xiaojing walked around and finally found a braised food shop that was for rent in the middle of the snack street.
The braised food shop is very small, and the entire store is a large display window with various braised dishes on display. There is a narrow passage on the left side of the window, which allows you to enter the store.
"Is anyone here?" Zhao Xiaojing looked at the braised dishes on the counter through the window. The color was very dark, and it was obvious that they had been braised several times. It looked like the business was not very good.
"Is anyone there?" Zhao Xiaojing shouted again at the top of her lungs.
"Here I come!" A middle-aged man came out with a cigarette in his mouth. The apron he was wearing was so greasy that you couldn't tell its color. "Beauty, what do you want to eat?"
"Hello, I saw the sign hanging on your door. Are you subletting this store?"
"Yes, I'm subletting." The man looked Zhao Xiaojing up and down, "You're renting it?"
"Can I go in and take a look?" Zhao Xiaojing asked.
The man nodded casually, and Zhao Xiaojing went behind the window and looked around.
The store is about six or seven square meters in size, with shiny black walls. At most two people can stand behind the window, and a curtain is pulled back to make a simple partition.
"The kitchen is behind this." The man pulled open the curtain and Zhao Xiaojing took a look inside.
It's called a kitchen, but it's only two or three square meters, crowded with pots, pans, and several large iron buckets for stewing. One person standing there has to be careful not to touch the kitchen utensils on all sides. There is only one tall window on the wall behind the kitchen, which is too high and difficult to open and close, resulting in poor lighting in the entire store, and the lights have to be turned on during the day.
Including the kitchen, the entire store is about 80 to 90 square meters.
"Boss, how much is the sublease price for this store?" Zhao Xiaojing looked around, got a general understanding of the situation, and asked.
"The rent is 3000 yuan a month, and you can pay a deposit and three installments every six months. The transfer fee is 10 yuan."
When Zhao Xiaojing heard the price of 10, she wanted to leave, but she stopped before asking, "What does your 10 transfer fee include?"
"It includes everything. Everything here can be left to you." The man's words were very vague and concise. Zhao Xiaojing didn't say anything, but frowned and looked at the window.
"All the kitchen utensils, seasonings, ingredients in the store, including my own water, electricity and stove, can be given to you. Even if you want my recipe for braised meat, I can give it to you. I spent a lot of money to learn it from the neighboring province!" Seeing that Zhao Xiaojing didn't say anything, the man added.
"Then how much money do I have to pay for all this?"
"It's also 10. Here, no matter whether you want the things or not, the transfer fee is 10. It was the same when I took over the previous store. The things were just given as gifts." The man threw the cigarette butt away and stomped it out with his foot.
Zhao Xiaojing stopped thinking immediately, said a few perfunctory words and left.
Not to mention that she didn't have 10 yuan, even if she did, she felt it was a bit unfair to rent a store with such serious hygiene and environmental problems for 10 yuan. As for the things the store said they could give her, the only things she could really use were the few large iron buckets that were barely usable for washing.
Speaking of this, when I make the secret pork trotter rice later, I will have to make two large iron buckets and a large pot.
What she made in the past few days was sugar water. The wall-breaking machine and various tools were sent by her from Yangcheng. The ice-cream machine was from the system stall. She only bought a few small material buckets here, and some things she received from Lu Hongwen.
These things are enough to make sweet soup, but now that Su Yuchen is a partner, Zhao Xiaojing wants to make a pig's trotter rice business. After all, this is a recipe she bought with 1 yuan in real money. She has practiced it in the virtual space for the past two days, and it's time to use it.
Zhao Xiaojing walked forward a few steps and still in the middle of the street, there was a clay pot rice noodle restaurant that was also looking for tenants. However, the shop had two rooms with a connection in the middle. The store looked clean and bright, and there were several students eating inside.
Although it looked more expensive than the previous one and she definitely couldn't afford it now, it didn't stop her from understanding the market and inquiring about the situation.
Zhao Xiaojing walked in and saw three people arguing about something. There was also an old lady joining in the fun, standing aside with her neck stretched out and her eyes wide open, listening.
"It's clearly written on the receipt that I've refunded you double the money. What are you still talking about? Go away!" A middle-aged man in an apron pushed a young man.
"What are you dissatisfied with? Don't be ungrateful and try to blackmail us?!" The woman wearing the same apron chimed in with her hands on her hips.
"Don't touch me! How can you be like this? You have to be trustworthy when doing business, don't you know? Don't touch me!!" The young man stretched out his hand to stop the middle-aged man from pushing him, but the woman next to him also joined the fight. The two of them stopped talking and pushed him out the door.
"I￥％……&％, I'll call the police, believe it or not! How can you be so good as to look for a better woman?! I *&…$@!" The young man was pushed to the door, and his curses became louder and louder. The two people wearing aprons closed the door lightly, sneered, and didn't care. "What does the beauty want to eat? We have clay pot rice and rice with toppings."
Zhao Xiaojing was about to speak when she saw the aunt who had been watching the fun on the side walk out and stand next to the man who was yelling and cursing. Zhao Xiaojing responded casually and followed him out.
"Hey young man, how much have you talked to him about before?" Zhao Xiaojing walked to the man and heard the aunt ask with a gossipy look on her face.
"Fifteen thousand! We discussed it clearly, he said he would keep it for me and asked me to pay a deposit!" the young man said angrily.
"What did you write on the note? Let me show you." The lady asked the young man for the receipt and squinted her eyes to read it carefully. "Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, it's no use calling the police. Look, he wrote that if you breach the contract, the 500 deposit will not be refunded, and if he breaches the contract, he will refund you 1000. He just refunded you. This is at most his immorality and bad character, the police can't do anything about it."
The aunt shook her head and returned the note to the young man, who gradually turned from angry to devastated, holding his head with both hands and about to cry. "What should I do? I have already ordered the machines and everything else. What should I do now? I have nothing left..."
After standing aside and listening for a while, Zhao Xiaojing finally understood what had happened.