regardless of

The moment Gu Chou opened the door, the loud sound of music rushed out through the crack of the door.

Thinking about it, the reason why Xi You's face was stunned just now was that besides seeing that he was the head of the household, he was also shocked by the singing voice piercing clouds and cracking rocks.

But at this moment, they looked at each other silently, and the song behind them was playing to its climax.

"You are the most beautiful cloud in my sky, let me keep you (stay) with my heart..."

It only took a short time for Xi You to see through everything through the loud music and the strange and colorful lights behind Gu Chou.

It's too early in the morning to set up a family disco, is it a pain in the ass?

Xi You didn't bother, and pointed it out bluntly: "It seems that you are not the one who wants to rent out the house."

And at this moment, he also remembered the girl Xia Xuyan who was talking to him about renting a house. Her name was mentioned by Gu Chou when he met those provocative people in physical education class a few days ago.

At that time, he only felt that it was familiar, but he didn't take it seriously, and now he can't help but feel a little dazed.

Gu Qiu Liushen returned to his seat, opened the door a little, and the man gave way: "Come in."

Xi You settled for a moment, and wanted to say "Give me two shoe covers", but Gu Chou had already opened the shoe cabinet at the entrance, brought out a pair of men's slippers, and threw them at the door, with the shoes facing him.

Xi You looked down, took a step forward, and changed his slippers.

Gu Chou had already gone inside.

Xi You closed the door.

As soon as the door was closed, the music in the room became more three-dimensional and louder.

After a while, Gu Chou turned off the stereo and the colorful lights, the living room returned to silence, the light was pure, and only the bright sunlight came in through the French windows of the balcony, making the room a warm white.

Gu Qiu turned to Xi You and said, "Sit down, I'll get you a bottle of water."

When Gu Chou came out with two bottles of water from the kitchen, Xi You still didn't sit down.

With one leg bent and the other straight, he was leaning loosely on the slightly protruding partition wall from the living room area to the dining area, with a backpack on one shoulder, looking down at his phone.

Hearing the sound of approaching footsteps, Xi You raised his head, and Gu Chou passed by him, throwing water to him.

"Is my sofa planted with cacti or buried with landmines, so I have to stand?" Gu Chou said, walked to the sofa by himself, and sat down.

Although Xi You didn't appear to be restrained, Gu Chou still thought a little bit more, and raised his finger to point to the cashmere blanket beside the coffee table: "Just put the schoolbag there, it's clean."

Xi You took the water, took a look, put down his schoolbag, and sat down on the sofa beside him.

The place where they are sitting now is facing the TV wall. The far left side of the TV wall is a wide area, with a spiral staircase leading to the second floor of the duplex, a bathroom on the first floor, and a large second bedroom.

Gu Chou didn't have any extra words, he raised the mineral water bottle in his hand, pointed the bottle mouth outwards in the direction of the second bedroom: "You live there, is it okay?"

"..."

The process was too jumpy, Xi You paused, and looked at Gu Chou.

Gu Chou stood up: "Forget it, let's stand up again, and look at the room first."

Xi You asked, "Do you want to rent?"

Gu Chou asked back, "Why not rent it?"

"..."

Xi You glanced in the direction of the speaker, Gu Chou caught it, and explained: "I didn't know it was you before."

"Then why am I willing to rent?"

Gu Chou was stopped by the question, and after thinking for three seconds, he gave an answer that couldn't stand up to scrutiny: "Maybe it's because you are handsome, quiet and introverted, good at hygiene, and a top student?"

"..."

Isn't the condition of co-authorship already set?

Xi You didn't point out his bug, and said silently for a moment: "Let's talk about some issues first."

Gu Chou sat down again: "Okay."

Xi You said: "Pan Chao told me that a junior high school classmate of one of his classmates who played well in the second class had a friend who wanted to rent out the house."

Gu Qiu didn't bother to figure out how many layers of relationships were involved, so he continued naturally: "A friend of mine said to help me ask her junior high school classmates who are currently studying in the third middle school, if anyone wants to rent a house."

It sounds long, but it's actually not that complicated.

Xi You simply reasoned and said, "It's a coincidence."

"It's a coincidence." Gu Chou said, "I asked you before, didn't I say that I wanted to live alone?"

"That's the ideal state. It's not cheap around here. Rent it all," Xi You said, "There is no such condition."

"It's not cheap to rent together here."

"Well, so let's take a look."

"Then take a look?" Gu Chou raised his finger and pointed in the direction of the second bedroom.

Xi You obviously hasn't finished speaking yet, he doesn't talk much and doesn't like to say a lot of things at once, but Gu Chou is obviously different from him.Gu Chou usually doesn't talk much, but he doesn't have enough patience. He likes to settle everything quickly, and he hates procrastination.

Xi You hasn't had much contact with him so far, but he still has a good understanding of his temperament, so he simply doesn't continue to engage in question-and-answer sessions with him, and is going to talk about it all at once.

It's just that Xi You thought about it before saying it.

"I came to see this house because your friend said that the owner of this house is timid, and someone in the community just died. Let me come here to increase the popularity and strengthen the owner's courage. Rent is not a problem."

No matter how carefully you think about these words, you can't get around the fact that Gu Chou was betrayed by his friends because of his timid nature.Although Xi You had already seen through when he heard those people in the class telling ghost stories in the classroom a few days ago, Gu Chou still felt very embarrassed.

This must be the information that Li Pei and Xia Xuyan negotiated and threw out because they were afraid that the rent in Jinbang County Mansion would be too high for ordinary students to afford.

Gu Qiuya gritted his back molars itchingly.

Xi You saw Gu Chou's forbearance in his eyes, a little smile appeared in his eyes, and he picked up his fallen face: "But I see that you didn't intend to add more money when you created a family disco. Its popularity at least shows that it is not so afraid of ghosts."

Gu Chou picked up the side he picked up for himself: "Thank you."

"You're welcome."

"..."

Gu Chou choked.

Fine.

Gu Qiu straightened the topic and said, "I just don't want to rent it to strangers, you can come and live here."

That guy Li Pei was sleeping on the floor next to his bed and snoring loudly at night, but he didn't think it was a big deal.Whether Xi You's personality is introverted or not is uncertain, but the attribute of being quiet is still in line with objective facts. When the time comes, Xi You will live downstairs and he will live upstairs. Too much influence.

Just now when Xi You asked why he was willing to rent it out to him, Gu Chou froze for a moment, but now that his mind is clearer, the answer naturally becomes clearer.

"Yeah." Xi You said, "There is one more question."

"ask."

"Why is your friend so keen on finding you a roommate?"

This question has little to do with curiosity.

At first, Gu Chou obviously didn't care about the matter of renting out the house, and even rejected it, but his friends tried their best to facilitate it.The girl who communicated with Xi You was called Xia Xuyan. Through the communication with her these few days, it can be seen that she is a very gentle girl, but when it comes to finding a roommate for Gu Chou, he can vaguely feel the other party's urgency .

The sixth sense told him that it was necessary to ask this question.

However, after hearing what he asked, Gu Chou subconsciously frowned.

After a while, the eyebrows stretched, but the expression did not ease down.

He also felt that this matter should be discussed with Xi You, but there was no need to explain it in such detail.

So after a brief consideration, he said: "I provoked someone before, and the other party has some skills, so I didn't stop him. The hidden danger will naturally remain."

Xi You nodded: "Understood."

Ask again: "Is it related to what that person said at the basketball court that day?"

Gu Chou said "hmm" without emotion.

Xi You nodded again.

There was a moment of silence in the space, Xi You is a smart person, although Gu Chou summed it up briefly, he already understood it, but he didn't continue to ask.

Gu Chou thought for a while and said, "It's fine if you just live here, I didn't want you to be my guard."

Xi You smiled lightly: "I know."

"So it's all clear?"

"It's still short of rent."

Gu Chou asked, "How much can you bear?"

Xi You said frankly: "The location of the fifth ring road in the northern capital."

This question is obviously beyond the outline for Gu Qiu.

Looking at Gu Chou's troubled expression, Xi You added: "About 1500." He was referring to the monthly rent.

Gu Qiu scratched his ears and temples.

It's hard to say whether Xi You is eligible for the bursary application, because Gu Chou has met his younger brother, and he doesn't look like a child who would grow up in a family that can't tell the truth.That is to say, it is not necessarily or not entirely because of poor family conditions that Xi You works several jobs to make money, there may be other reasons.

Gu Chou didn't like to speculate on other people's private affairs, so he stopped when he thought about it.

After all, it is very short of money.

But he didn't move the so-called compassion, he felt that Xi You shouldn't need such a thing.

Moreover, he doesn't have to deliberately waive the rent or rent it to Xi You at a too low price because Xi You has to go to school and work part-time at this age and feel that Xi You is very hard.

Self-esteem is more valuable than money. If you want to protect yourself, you should also protect others.

Gu Chou rested his index finger on the sideburns, tapped twice: "Okay, 1500."

Xi You said, "Okay."

"But I want a job."

"Ok?"

"My family hires a part-time worker once a week, and the salary is 40 yuan an hour. Usually, the part-time worker works for two hours at a time. That is, four times a month, a total of eight hours of work, and the salary is 320." Gu Qiu looked at Xi You, " You will do this job in the future, I don't like strangers coming to my house often."

Xi You was silent for a short while.

Gu Chou looked at his expression, and was about to say something more, but Xi You said, "Yes."

Gu Qiu unscrewed the water on the sofa at hand, took a sip, and said naturally: "Then your monthly rent is 1180." When tightening the bottle cap, he raised his eyebrows and said, "Besides, as a Chinese, I I’m following the path of communism, and I don’t bother to be a capitalist who is evil. I’ll put a zero on you, how about 1100?”

Not 1000, but 1100, intentionally but not deliberately.

Keep the self-esteem of the boy in front of you well.

Xi You's fingertips resting on his knees paused for a moment, and his heart went silent for a while, something flashed in his glass-like pupils like a shooting star, and then flew away quickly.

He smiled lightly: "OK."

Gu Chou didn't answer his call, and turned the mineral water bottle in his hand with his head slightly lowered.

Xi You said: "There are also deposits, monthly and quarterly payments, contracts..."

Gu Chou cut him off directly: "You don't need to be so honest. You can transfer to my WeChat account every month. You don't need a deposit, let alone a contract. Could it be that you can escape from No. [-] High School?"

"it is good."

"You really love to say the word 'yes'."

"otherwise?"

"Love to talk." Gu Chou kept playing with the mineral water bottle in his hand, and changed the subject, "It doesn't matter when you move in. The passwords for the access control and the living room door of my house are both 121040."