Before Su Qingluan pushed open the shop door, she really didn't expect the scene in front of her - had she mistakenly entered some Venetian water city?
Originally, this shop sold various musical instruments, such as guzheng, guqin, pipa, dongxiao...
As a result, for some unknown reason, the floor of the entire store was covered with water. All kinds of well-made musical instruments were just soaking in the water. Some of them were cracked and deformed, and they were almost scrapped.
The people in the shop were wading through the water, and everyone was in a hurry, anxious to move their instruments to high-rise shelves that were not affected by the water.
Even so, there are many musical instruments that are damaged due to being soaked in water.
Seeing someone coming, a waiter hurriedly waded over and asked with a smile: "What musical instrument does the guest want to buy? They are all sold at a cheap price now. If you buy more, there will be gifts. It's a good deal if you catch up!"
Su Qingluan shook her head: "I don't buy musical instruments."
When the waiter saw this, he immediately stopped smiling and turned his head, his expression changing as fast as flipping through a book.
Su Qingluan asked with great interest: "Is this the way your store treats guests?"
The waiter turned around and looked back at Su Qingluan, and said with a sad face: "Hey, little brother, can you please stop making fun of us? Can't you see that this place has become a mess?"
Su Qingluan did not embarrass the young man again, and only asked shopkeeper Liang next to him: "Uncle Liang, what's going on?"
Shopkeeper Liang shook his head: "It's just that this family is unlucky."
It turned out that there had been many heavy rains in the past few days, causing the ground to collapse in many places.
However, the lower floors of general buildings have foundations, which will easily lead to the loss of sand and soil on the ground and cause the ground to collapse. It happened that the previous owner of this house had secretly built a basement in the house. Although it was filled back when they came to this house, the foundation was damaged. Over the years, the underground has become dilapidated.
There has been no filling of sand, soil and rocks for a long time, leaving the foundation empty. When heavy rain washes over, the ground collapses. In addition, there has been a lot of rain recently, and the water in the ground suddenly rose up, soaking a large number of musical instruments placed close to the ground. Moreover, the store was also covered with water, and it was impossible to enter with sight.
Now, if you want to walk in the store, you also need a "pathway" paved with wooden boards and stones. Tread carefully.
In fact, this situation is easy to handle. Just wait until the water recedes, fill in the missing parts of the foundation with sand and gravel, compact it, and then renovate the floor of the store.
But the difficulty is that now is the rainy season in summer, and the next wave of rain may come again before the water in the house recedes.
In this era, there were no modern large-scale water pumps that could pump away the accumulated water in a short time, so in a sense, it was "resigned to fate".
Su Qingluan and Shopkeeper Liang stood at the door, neither buying instruments nor turning around to leave, which looked very eye-catching.
After a while, I saw a thin young man wearing a light blue straight-sleeved robe walking over and clasping his fists and asking, "What advice do you two guests have when they come to my 'Gong Yu Pavilion'?"
Su Qingluan also returned the gift: "I heard that the store owner wants to rent out this shop?"
Shopkeeper Liang was a little startled when Su Qingluan asked this question, and immediately turned to look at her, with an expression that seemed to say: Are you kidding me? I've told you the actual situation of this store, why do you still want to take over this hot potato and rent this store?
Su Qingluan didn't seem to feel the thoughts coming from Shopkeeper Liang's eyes, and still looked at the young man opposite with a smile. The young man's face was sallow, and there were two big dark circles under his eyes. It was obvious that he was in poor spirits.
He looked Su Qingluan up and down and sighed: "Little brother, if you have a whim, please don't make fun of me." After saying that, he showed a wry smile that seemed to make him cry, "I'm really in trouble right now. I can’t stand any more jokes.”
Su Qingluan looked at the water on the ground: "A puddle of this size should recede in three or two days. Even if it is the rainy season now, we only need to wait for another one or two months until autumn comes. There will be much less rain, so why worry about renting out the shop at a low price at this moment?”
When something goes wrong, there must be a monster. Su Qingluan always felt that the store owner was not telling the truth.
Sure enough, the young man was still joking: "Since the shop has been flooded like this, we might as well lower the rent so that someone can rent it."
Su Qingluan looked at the young man carefully: "The price you offered is very favorable." It's not just a discount, it can be regarded as rent that breaks the bones.
Even though this store is relatively small, roughly based on the market conditions of other stores, even if it cannot reach the annual rental price of 50 or 60 taels of silver, it will still cost at least 40 taels of silver.
Now this house actually offered to rent for twenty-two years, which made Su Qingluan instantly raise the alarm level - what seemed like an advantage could actually be a big pitfall!
Hearing Su Qingluan put the emphasis on the word "discount", the young man pursed his lips tightly, and then asked impatiently: "Are you renting or not? I'm still busy here! But we don’t have that much free time!”
Oh, you're actually angry?
Su Qingluan touched his chin with interest and chose a compromise reason: "Look, I took out dozens of taels in one breath, which is not a small amount for me. I want to go back and discuss it with my family. In two days, Come again."
Seeing that she seemed to be really interested in renting a shop, the young man returned to his original polite manner and bowed to her: "If my little brother and his family are interested, the rent can be negotiated easily."
Su Qingluan raised his head suddenly: "It's so cheap, how can the rent be so easy to negotiate?"
The other party obviously knew that he had slipped out of his mouth in a moment of impatience, so he pursed his lips tightly and stopped talking.
On the way back, shopkeeper Liang said apologetically: "I'm really sorry, niece Xian. I only saw that the location of the shop was rare, and I also saw that the shop was flooded. I said in my heart that this village will be gone, so I didn't ask in detail. many."
Obviously, shopkeeper Liang didn't think deeply about the "low rent". But the thin young man in "Gong Yu Pavilion" was so busy renting out the shop that he even broke his bones at the cost of the rent. He simply had the words "There is something fishy in this house and I am anxious to take action" written all over his face.
This made both Su Qingluan and Shopkeeper Liang hesitate.
but……
"It's not a bad thing if you think about it," Su Qingluan recalled the young man's facial expression that could be seen at a glance, "at least that person is not good at lying." Although he tried his best, his expression still betrayed him.
Shopkeeper Liang smiled and shook his head after hearing this: "Although it's a pity, niece Xian should not consider this family for the time being."
Su Qingluan rolled her eyes and asked: "Uncle Liang, what do you think is the reason why the store owner is eager to rent out the store?"
