When we arrived at Qianyingfa’s location, we found a community called “Jinxiuyuan”.
This place is very close to the Xujiahui subway station, and the price of a single square meter of housing is around 170,000.
Lai Yang and Li Dian had joked about this place before, saying that if they kidnapped anyone in this community, they could extort tens of millions of dollars.
After following the crowd into the residential area, Lai Yang looked up to find the building number.
Qianying said that the old man's surname was Wu and he owned several commercial houses. He was a wealthy man but had a very strange temper.
But even if there is plenty of money, there must be a reason why the shop is left vacant and not rented out. Only when the reason can be dug out can normal communication be carried out.
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Lai Yang knocked on the door of Room 1306, Building 5. After a while, a voice came from inside and asked who it was.
"Hello, Uncle Wu. It may be a bit presumptuous of me to come here today. I was recommended by a friend. He said that you have a shop on Zhaoping Road. I wanted to come and ask if you have any plans to rent it out."
"No!"
"Uh... has it been rented out?"
"Who told you I lived here?"
"To be honest, a friend of mine is an agent, and you've listed your property with her before, so she has your contact information. I heard you have other shops in other places, and I want to rent them all at once. Do you think we can talk about it?"
Hearing this, the security door opened a crack, and an old man with a thin figure but bright eyes looked at Lai Yang suspiciously.
"You want to rent all of them? Do you know how many shops I own?"
"Well, my friends have told me that you have four shops in Xuhui District, and the locations are all very good. I have visited them all before I came to talk to you."
"What do you plan to rent it for?"
"Uh... this is a bit complicated, but I want to ask if there is any problem with your shop? I think the location is good in every way, so why are there so many empty shops?"
The old man looked at Lai Yang cautiously, and after a while he opened the door and let him in to sit down.
As soon as he entered the house, Lai Yang was surprised by the decoration inside.
It’s not that the decoration is good. On the contrary, it’s basically just a bare room with painted walls, wooden floors, some basic home appliances, and even a very old sofa.
This was not quite what Lai Yang had imagined, but as he looked around, he noticed a family photo on the wall behind the sofa.
The old man and
An old lady was sitting in the center, and behind them was a young couple who looked like a married couple.
"sit."
Old man Wu didn't even offer me a glass of water. He just sat on the sofa and drank a sip of water.
"Are these your children?"
The old man rolled his eyes at him and didn't respond. Instead, he asked what Lai Yang wanted to do with the rent.
When he asked the question for the second time, Lai Yang realized that the old man seemed to have a strong desire for control.
Normally, when merchants rent a shop, the main topic of discussion is the rent, so Lai Yang asked back: "Uncle Wu, do you have any requirements for the use of the shop?"
"I don't have requirements for the use of shops, but for people. People in the catering industry are particularly cunning, and I don't want to rent shops to them."
This really made Lai Yang a little confused, but when he thought about it carefully, this old man was not short of money and was a native of Shanghai, so it was normal for him to be a little discriminatory.
It was probably this kind of personality that caused him to look so lonely now.
"Why do you think these people are cunning?"
"I have no knowledge, I just want to make money. Every time I rent to them, they always argue with me about the rent. I would rather not rent to them than be cheated out of a penny."
"I see. Actually, your focus is not on what the tenant wants to do, but you don't want everyone to be unhappy because of a little money, right? How about this? I'll rent your shop on Zhaoping Road first, and I'll pay an extra three months' deposit, so you can rest assured, right? Once the cooperation goes smoothly, you can rent the whole shop to me later."
Old Man Wu looked at Lai Yang for a few times, his face darkened and he said, "I was wondering why you looked familiar. I've seen you in that store. Are you friends with that guy... called Alu? Are you trying to trick me on purpose today?"
Hiss~
Lai Yang took a deep breath. He didn't expect that Old Man Wu had been there in advance and met him.
Just when Lai Yang didn't know how to respond, Old Man Wu suddenly stood up, grabbed Lai Yang's arm and tried to push him out, saying that he wouldn't rent it and that there was no point in wasting his energy.
"Uncle Wu, please wait a moment. If it's a cost issue, we can talk about it later."
"I don't need the money. I hate it most when people cheat me!"
"Yes, everyone hates being cheated, but if you don't even give them a chance to communicate, then everyone is a stranger to you. In this way, no matter who it is, if they say one or two things wrong, you will think they are insincere..."
Lai Yang was mumbling to this point when the old man suddenly loosened his strength in his hands.
He looked at Lai Yang with a very shocked expression.
At this time, Lai Yang also had a rough judgment in his mind.
Old man Wu is not short of money, but the way his house is decorated shows that he doesn't care about material things.
But even if he doesn't care, won't his children come to arrange it
Judging from his strong desire for control, he probably has a bad relationship with his children, so he lives a closed life, becoming more stubborn and less trusting of others.
Seeing him relax, Lai Yang sighed and said, "Can I talk to your children about this matter? Are you a son or a daughter?"
There was a rare tenderness in Old Man Wu's eyes. He looked up at Lai Yang quietly, like a child who had been wronged. After a while, he said that his daughter was not in Shanghai.
After saying that, he wiped his face with his withered fingers and continued; "I can give you a chance to communicate, but this does not mean that I will rent the store to you, but... forget it... you speak first."
Lai Yang looked at the old man, his Adam's apple moved, and he spoke slowly.
"The reason I came to discuss the store is mainly because my childhood friend and Aru invested in the store together. When they invested, I strongly opposed it, but there was nothing I could do because they were a couple. In addition, Aru was quite strong at the time, and no one could stop him. Now that this has happened, Aru is a young and inexperienced boy, so I am the only one who came to talk to you, because if they don't rent this store, they will suffer a great loss."
"Your childhood friend is a girl?"
"Um."
Old Man Wu had a blank expression on his face, but Lai Yang saw that his lowered fingers were trembling slightly.
"Since she didn't listen to you, doesn't she deserve this consequence? Why are you still helping her?"
Lai Yang took a deep breath and touched his face.
"Whether I was advising her back then or helping her now, my purpose was to wish her the best, not to prove that I was right."
After taking a breath, Lai Yang continued to look at Old Man Wu and said.
"Of course...after the incident, I was also angry that they didn't listen to me, but then I thought, they didn't listen because they didn't want to involve me in their entrepreneurial disputes, especially my childhood friend. She was actually doing me a favor...sometimes keeping a distance may be because you care about me."
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