Saturday, the 16th.
At eight o'clock in the morning, Varina checked out of the guest room and walked onto the street with his suitcase.
He planned to go to the Tingen Municipal Housing Improvement Company and rent a one-bedroom apartment with a shared bathroom nearby.
Generally speaking, this kind of houses are mainly concentrated in the lower street of Iron Cross Street.
The Tingen City Housing Improvement Company was on Daffodil Street, and Varina didn't have to walk far to get there.
The person in charge of receiving him was a middle-aged man with a kind smile. He was not wearing formal clothes or hat, wearing a white shirt and a black vest.
He glanced at the suitcase that Varina was carrying and asked proactively: "My name is Scat. I wonder what kind of house you need?"
"One-bedroom, preferably on the lower street."
Scat nodded clearly, "Yes, quite a few. Do you live alone?"
"Yes."
Scott lowered his head, turned over the documents and files in his hand, and asked again:
"Do you have any other requirements? For example, rent, location, neighbors, etc."
After asking, he explained familiarly:
“There is also a difference between the one-bedroom apartments on the lower street.”
"The further away from the intersection, the worse the location. If the number of neighbors increases, more than ten people can live in one room."
Having said this, he smiled and said, "Haha, of course, the rent for this kind of one-bedroom apartment is naturally cheaper."
"It needs a good location."
After asking clearly about the customer's needs, Scutt turned over the file in his hand and made a "squeaking" sound.
Soon, he found a suitable house and read to the document in his hand:
"Apartment No. 67, Lower Street, second floor on the south side..."
Varina took the document from his hand, "I can read."
He glanced at it and even had a rough look at the neighbor's information. He felt that the one Ska had chosen was pretty good.
"Bring the standard contract and let's go take a look together."
"Huh?" Scatter was a little uncomfortable with Varina's unconventional approach, and his reaction was half a beat too slow, "Oh, okay, follow me."
The two walked for more than ten minutes and arrived at No. 67 Xiajie Street.
From the stairs to the second floor, Skater took Varina to the room farthest from the stairs and opened the door with a brass key.
The furnishings of this kind of one-bedroom apartment are similar.
Necessary furniture such as beds, tables, chairs, coal stoves, wardrobes and cabinets are placed on the sides, leaving a certain amount of space in the center.
The most important thing is that there is no smell in the room.
This is what he pays most attention to when choosing a room.
"No problem, just this one."
Varina put the suitcase on the empty bed, walked to the desk, and stretched out his hand to motion for Scat to bring over the contract and keys.
"The weekly rent is 4 sole and the deposit is 3 sole. How long do you want to rent?"
"Uh... By the way, even if you sign a contract here, you still have to go to the Justice Office in Jinwutong District to have it notarized..."
From the moment he found a suitable house, he couldn't keep up with the young guest's thoughts, and he was half a beat slower every time.
"Let's rent it for one month first."
Varina took out 1 pound from his pocket and put it on the table, indicating to Scott to fill in the contract, "As for the notarization, I won't go, 1 suler, I believe you will help me get it done, right?"
There was no fuss, no counter-offer, advance payment, and even a full tip of 1 sole... Scat's mouth opened a little bit.
The next moment, he quickly shut his mouth, put away the cash on the table, and quickly filled out the contract.
In this way, Varina regained a temporary residence in Tingen.
He then spent another two hours shopping for daily necessities, cleaning and decorating the room before he was completely settled.
In order to ensure the safety of the two potion ingredients, Varina cut two gaps in the upper part of the door frame, placed the wooden box inside, and put a dozen soles in change in the suitcase.
In this way, even if a thief comes, it will be safe.
After settling down, and until the repeal of the Corn Laws, Varina had little to do.
Conditions are currently inadequate for most of what he plans to do.
Either you need to completely digest the magic potion, or you need to be promoted to Sequence 7.
The two are roughly equivalent to a certain extent.
…
The place Varina rented was located on what was called "Middle Street," and there was a bar called "Wild Heart" nearby.
He had lunch there.
In less than half an hour during the meal, he intensified a drunken argument with three sentences, leading to a drunken brawl involving 18 people.
As the chaos spread and the bar guards and bartenders struggled to deal with it, Varina left with some of the drinkers who didn't want to be implicated.
In fact, he has done this kind of thing in bars in the East District, and the performance feedback he brought can only be said to be better than nothing.
In the afternoon, he went to the real lower street.
No wonder the residents of "Middle Street" distinguish between "Middle Street" and Lower Street. Although they are on the same street, there is really an invisible boundary in the middle.
This boundary is actually a concrete food and clothing line.
The residents of Xiajie are all struggling below the food and clothing line for various reasons, and all their energy is devoted to ensuring survival.
This layout is actually different from Backlund's East District.
Perhaps because of its large scale, in Backlund's East District, "Middle Street" and "Lower Street" are mixed together, making it difficult to distinguish.
After passing that invisible boundary, there was more and more dirty water and debris on the street, and the air gradually took on a stench similar to that of a sewer.
In the afternoon, there were not many people on the street.
Passers-by here are all wearing old and tattered clothes, and Wali's relatively neat clothes are more obvious here.
This attracted some wary attention and scrutiny.
But it was obvious that Warina's clothes were not enough to arouse the greed in their hearts, and these eyes quickly withdrew.
Following the direction they were walking, Varina quickly passed them and not far away, he saw the West End Workhouse in front of him.
It's not even time to open, but there's already a long queue outside the gate.
After standing in the distance and watching for a while, Varina discovered that there would always be some disputes such as queue-jumping and pulling in the door where the arrogant-looking gatekeeper could not notice.
And when the gatekeeper's eyes turn back, both parties involved in the dispute will tacitly give up at the same time.
Obviously, it can be seen from their reactions that if they are discovered, the gatekeeper will most likely kick both parties out of the team without asking the reason.
Along the way, Varina saw countless acting opportunities.
For example, deliberately "losing" your money in a place where passersby gather on the street will definitely cause a robbery;
For example, when the places in the workhouse are distributed for the day, stirring up the desires and unwillingness in the hearts of the remaining people will definitely cause a riot;
…
But these opportunities will undoubtedly bring very bad results.
Perhaps it’s because Lower Street is different from Backlund’s pure slum environment, or perhaps it’s because it’s the first time Warina observed with the eyes of a pure “instigator”...
In short, Wariner truly understood the true meaning of "Instigator"——
The "instigator" is the source of trouble hidden among the crowd, the amplifier of contradictions, and the fuse of disputes.
At this moment, he clearly felt another obvious digestion of the "Instigator" potion.
