The salty life in Life of Pi

Chapter 84 I was afraid I would laugh out loud

While Wu Xianyu was busy bringing in the furniture, Lin Dawei brought the client to the third building of Country Garden. In the house of the old man, the client frowned and looked at the room, with his hands behind his back, not very satisfied.
"Dawei, this house is too old, how can people live here?"

Lin Dawei was not in a hurry. An old house could be renovated, but the problem of school district housing was not so easy to solve.

"If it's old, you can renovate it. If you're in a hurry to move in, you can just do a clean-up. Everything here can be replaced. Besides, this house is no longer a question of whether to live in it or not. It's now in the school district of an elite middle school. Just relying on this reputation, many people come to me to rent. If I hadn't seen that you had contacted me a long time ago, I might not have brought you to see the house."

The customer with his hands behind his back also knew this. His previous disdainful expression was just to lower the price. His real identity was the sub-landlord. Lin Dawei also knew this, otherwise he would not have been so rude.

Seeing that Lin Dawei was not frightened, the second landlord put on a smile again, took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and handed one to Lin Dawei.

"So how are you going to rent it out?"

Lin Dawei took the cigarette but did not smoke it, and politely declined the other party's offer to light the cigarette. He said
"This house is quite special. The landlord is only willing to rent it year by year, but he does not restrict renovations. You can tear it down and renovate it. He offers 12,000 a month."

After saying this, Lin Dawei didn't even look at the other person, but looked at the house calmly.

After hearing Lin Dawei's offer, the other party immediately shook his head, took out the cigarette in his mouth, shook off the ash, and looked at Lin Dawei.
"This price is not good, it's too high. I can understand if the house is fully furnished, but now the house is worse than rough. It will take me some time to clean up these things, not to mention the money for a simple renovation."

"Then give me a price. That's how business works. It's a give and take."

Lin Dawei was not surprised, as quotations always leave room for bargaining and it was rare for a deal to be closed in one go.

"I'll give you 10,000"

Lin Dawei shook his head and was not angry.

"You're so brave to ask for 2,000 right away. How about this, 11,000, we can both compromise. I know you can still make some money at this price. If it works out, then sign it. If not, forget it."

“Okay, okay, okay, the house is in your hands, just sign it.”

Although his tone was unwilling, the second landlord had a smile on his face and was obviously satisfied with the price. He already had a client who was rich and in urgent need of renting a house. By spending some money to clean the place and do a little decoration, he could make tens of thousands of dollars from this house, but the time was short, just one year.

After signing the contract, the second landlord transferred the money to Lin Dawei and asked

"Hey, Dawei, I heard that the landlord of this house is an old man who is not in good health."

Lin Dawei put away the contract, with a smile on his face, and looked at the other party.

"Are you well-informed? Why, are you planning to take over this house?"

"We are all in the same industry. Who among the real estate salesmen in Jiangzhou doesn't have ideas about the houses here? I would say, Dawei, you must build a good relationship with the landlord. I guess when the time comes, you will be the one to sell the house. The agency fee is not a small amount."

Hearing this, Lin Dawei's smile faded a little, he sighed, and walked out of the house with the second landlord.

"Alas, the landlord is actually a pretty good person, but he has a bad temper. I don't want that day to come."

"Ring ring ring——"

Lin Dawei stopped and took out his cell phone. Seeing this, the second landlord next to him offered to go first and waved goodbye to the other party. Lin Dawei frowned and answered the phone.
"Hello, who is it?"

"Hello, this is the Municipal People's Hospital. Is this Mr. Lin Dawei?"

"Yes, what can I do?"

When Lin Dawei heard the word "hospital", his heart skipped a beat. When people reach middle age, the things they fear most are calls from relatives late at night or calls from the hospital. However, Lin Dawei's parents died early and he rarely has contact with relatives. How could the city hospital call at this time?

"It's like this. You know Mr. Lin Shanmin, right? He wants to see you. Is it convenient for you to come over?"

Lin Dawei breathed a sigh of relief, as if nothing had happened to his family. Thinking back, he remembered that Lin Shanmin was the landlord of the house he had just rented out, and also the old man he had helped. He had a bad feeling in his heart, and immediately called the person on the phone.
"I know you, I'll be right there"

After hanging up the phone, Lin Dawei picked up his phone and called Wang Shengnan
"Hey, Shengnan, I need to go to the city hospital. Do you remember the old man we helped last time? He's in the hospital again and he wants to see me. I'm going to go see him."

Wang Shengnan was half asleep, and didn't take it seriously. She just said:

"Go ahead, can I stop you?"

"I'm telling you, I made some money today, let's go out for dinner tonight."

"Got it, hanging up"

Wang Shengnan hung up the phone without any change in her tone.

Lin Dawei was used to it. Wang Shengnan was still in a bad mood when she woke up, so he drove to the municipal hospital.

When he arrived at the front desk and asked the nurse about the details, Lin Dawei felt a little heavy-hearted when he learned that Mr. Lin did not have much time left.

The door of the ward was closed. Lin Dawei gently pushed it open. This was an intensive care unit with everything. It seemed that Mr. Lin had lived here for some time.

Coming to the bedside, seeing the old man's sick face, Lin Dawei spoke softly.

"Grandpa, I am Lin Dawei"

Hearing Lin Dawei's name, the old man opened his eyes with great effort, looked at Lin Dawei with lifeless eyes, curved his mouth slightly, smiled symbolically, and spoke with great effort.

"coming."

Lin Dawei sat beside the bed, frowned, and gently asked the old man

"Uncle, didn't you go to America? Why are you here?"

The old man turned his head when he heard this, his chest rose and fell a few times, and the sound slowly came over
"The old saying is right, when you get a wife, you forget your mother, not to mention me as your father. I am not welcomed. There is no custom of supporting the elderly in the United States. When his wife saw me coming, she didn't look at me in a good mood. In order to make her happy, I was sent back."

In this situation, Lin Dawei had nothing to say, so he had to change the subject.
"Master, why didn't you contact me when you came back?"

"What's there to connect with? We just met by chance. Besides, where else would I live if I don't live here? Living alone at home? If I die and stink, no one will find me."

Lin Dawei shut his mouth in dismay. Although he didn't have much time left, he was still very ruthless. "Dawei, I have another favor to ask of you."

When the old man's voice came, Lin Dawei quickly stood up and leaned over to listen to his words.

"When the rent is due, please help me sell it and donate all the money to the children in the mountainous areas. My own child was not well educated and is an ungrateful child. I want to make use of my remaining energy to raise more good children."

"Hey, okay, I promise, just stop talking for now."

Seeing that the old man's breathing was getting weaker and his chest was rising and falling more and more, Lin Dawei became a little worried, so he quickly agreed and asked him to stop talking.

But the old man still spoke with difficulty

"Don't leave any of this money to my son. I have severed all ties with him. Don't inform him when I die. Just bury me somewhere."

Before he could finish his words, doctors and nurses rushed into the ward, calmed Mr. Lin down, and asked Lin Dawei to leave the room.

Lin Dawei stood in the corridor watching the doctors and nurses busying themselves, feeling a little confused.

Standing at the hospital entrance, Lin Dawei called his agency colleague

"Hey, brother, I'm Lin Dawei. I have something to ask you. The house has been rented out, but the landlord wants to sell it suddenly. Is it easy to sell in this situation?"

When the intermediary colleague heard this situation, he frowned and thought about it.
"It depends on the buyer's willingness. After all, our business is about buying and selling, not renting. If the buyer doesn't mind agreeing to move in a few years later, then it's easy to solve, but most people are unwilling to do so. And even if they are willing, the price will definitely be lowered a lot. After all, this is a business based on years, and who knows if the house price will fall?"

Lin Dawei squatted at the entrance of the hospital, frowned as he listened to his colleague's explanation, sighed, and realized how difficult this matter was to resolve. He thanked his colleague and hung up the phone.

After pacing in front of the hospital for a long time, Lin Dawei gritted his teeth, picked up his phone and called the sub-landlord with whom he had just signed the contract.

"Hey, I'm Lin Dawei. I want to ask, has the house been rented out? It's been rented out?! So quickly!"

Lin Dawei originally wanted to spend some money to help the old man fulfill his last wish, but he didn't expect this man to act so quickly.

As for the second landlord, he listened to Lin Dawei's explanation coming from the phone and looked at the contract he had just signed in his hand. The corners of his mouth could not help but twitch a few times, wondering if he was a pessimist.

He looked up at Deng Xinhua who was standing opposite him. Before he could speak, Deng Xinhua, who had already seen something, spoke first.
"Boss, we have signed the contract. You are not going to go back on your word, are you? There is a penalty for breach of contract."

The second landlord opened his mouth and laughed awkwardly twice. He felt like his heart was bleeding. If he really sold this house, he would earn more than just the agency fee.

After hanging up the phone, Lin Dawei completely lost hope and returned to the hospital with his head down.

Came to the front desk and asked about Mr. Lin's condition. The nurse checked the medical records and started talking.

"Mr. Lin is no longer in danger of death, but he is still in a coma. As a family member, you should be mentally prepared."

"Okay, I know"

Lin Dawei didn't care about the other party's misunderstanding that he was a family member. Uncle Lin had helped him a lot and was older than him, so he just let him take advantage of him.

After returning home from the hospital, Lin Dawei sat on the sofa and began to frown and think of a solution, but in the end there was naturally no solution. Even Wang Shengnan could only shake her head helplessly.

There was no other choice, so Lin Dawei posted a message on his WeChat Moments, writing down all the situations that needed attention.

Sure enough, not long after, information kept coming in, but many people asked if they could solve the one-year lease. If they could, they could buy it immediately, but the contract had just been signed, and the most important thing in the intermediary industry is reputation. If they really broke the rental contract in order to buy a house, their reputation would plummet, and it would be a problem whether they could carry out their future work well.

He still had to think about his family and couldn't ruin his career because of this. He no longer had any chance to waste. Lin Dawei's thoughts were a little selfish, but he was also helpless.

The dinner that was originally planned to be eaten out was hastily eaten at home. Lying in bed, Lin Dawei thought about it all night and decided to go and communicate with the person who rented the house to see if he could discuss the contract and get compensation.

After telling Wang Shengnan about this in the morning, Wang Shengnan glanced at him with a somewhat unhappy tone.

"Why are you causing trouble for yourself?"

"Well, mainly because my current job was given to me by Uncle Lin. If it weren't for his house, I wouldn't have gotten off to such a smooth start. I've seen many young colleagues in my field unable to close a single order in half a year, unlike me, who has closed several orders with this house. Now that Uncle Lin has this obsession, I must definitely do my best."

"Okay, okay, you are right, but let's make it clear, you can help, but you are not allowed to harm the interests of our family."

Wang Shengnan's warning hit Lin Dawei's weak spot, and he was speechless. Wang Shengnan knew what he was thinking by looking at him like this, and said a few more words
"I have no objection to you helping me. After all, that's your personality. I married you because of your honesty and kindness. If we were still young, I would support you in doing this.

But you have to remember that you now have a family behind you. I am going to send Miaomiao to a cram school today, which costs money. When the senior year of high school starts, the tuition and miscellaneous fees will be another amount of money. When the senior year of high school is over, college will cost even more. You don't expect Miaomiao to get a scholarship, do you? I am thankful that she can complete three years of high school safely.

When she finishes college, Miaomiao will get married, and we have to prepare more gifts, otherwise the man will look down on us."

"Dare he?"

When Lin Miaomiao was mentioned, Lin Dawei's eyebrows immediately raised

"I don't believe that Xiaoyu has the guts to bully Miaomiao. So what if he is rich? Our family doesn't lack Miaomiao for food. If he treats Miaomiao badly, I won't live with him. I will take him home and raise him."

Wang Shengnan rolled her eyes and said unhappily

"Keep your voice down, Miaomiao hasn't woken up yet. Also, who said they want to marry Miaomiao to Xiaoyu?"

Lin Dawei looked back at Lin Miaomiao's door with a guilty conscience, and then spoke quietly after making sure there was no movement.

"We're all men, don't I understand what Xiaoyu is thinking? He obviously has a crush on our daughter, but he's sensible and knows how to please us. In fact, I'm quite satisfied with Xiaoyu. To put it bluntly and selfishly, if Miaomiao marries him, she won't have a mother-in-law and a father-in-law, and her life will be much better. Xiaoyu also has a good financial situation and is a martyr's relative, so at least he won't be bullied. As long as Miaomiao can control Xiaoyu, life will be better than with us."

"Hey, why didn't I realize you were so smart before?"

Wang Shengnan held back her laughter. Lin Dawei had analyzed Xiaoyu thoroughly, but he just didn't realize that his own daughter had become a rebel.

The couple was talking about Lin Miaomiao's future at the dining table. In the room, Lin Miaomiao, who was eavesdropping by the door, pressed her chest to hold back her heart that was about to jump out of her chest. She had just been awakened by Lin Dawei's voice and was about to open the door when she heard her old father's analysis of salted fish.

Covering her mouth, Lin Miaomiao was afraid that she would not be able to hold back her laughter.

(End of this chapter)