"Uncle Li...are you prepared?
Looking at Old Li Tou who looked drunk and felt like a mirror, Tianyi asked with a smile.
Old Li Tou narrowed his eyes, looked at the 8-year-old baby in front of him, and said with a wicked smile.
"Erpi told me when he came to see me that Erpi's mother usually helps me with laundry, cooking and so on. If I don't give you this face, how will the neighbors see each other in the future?"
Old Li Tou smiled and took out a ballpoint pen from his trouser pocket and put it on the contract.
Looking at Old Li Tou, who sells goods to two families, Tianyi smiled and nodded to Ximao. Ximao winked at his mother again. Xiangqin took the contract with understanding, signed his name on it, and finally returned He didn't forget to touch his lips with his thumb, and put a pink fingerprint on the contract signature.
"Hmm...it smells good!"
Smelling the fragrant lipstick mark, Lao Li happily kissed the contract.
Looking at Old Li Tou with a look of shamelessness on his face, Xi Mao really wanted to go up and kick him, but he held back in the end.
Reluctantly, he counted out 1,500 yuan from a wad of money and handed it to Lao Litou with a fake smile.
"Click on it...this is a quarter's rent, 1,500 yuan!"
Lao Litou took the money, but frowned.
"Where's the one-month deposit? Don't you know you need to pay a deposit when renting a house?"
Old Li Tou asked extremely soberly?
"ah…………….?"
Xiaomao, who was confused by the question, looked at Tianyi, and when Tianyi nodded, he reluctantly took out 500 yuan and handed it into Lao Litou's hand.
He thought to himself that this old Li was really greedy. He had endured the first month's payment from Lao Wang, but now he was still not satisfied with paying three months' rent in two and a half months.
"Okay... The contract has been signed, the money has been collected, and the food has been eaten. It's time for me to withdraw."
Lao Litou picked up the Erguotou on the table and poured the few drops of wine left at the bottom of the bottle into his mouth.
He folded the contract in a square shape, put it in his pocket, and walked away with a smile.
"Ah...Brother Li, are you leaving now? Why don't you sit down for a while?"
Looking at Lao Litou's back, Xiangqin pretended to be trying to persuade him to stay.
"Today's food is good, and the flower wine is delicious, so I won't sit down. Let's meet in two and a half months?"
As he spoke, Lao Litou disappeared into the night without looking back.
"Bah...it's so fucking disgusting. He looks like a shriveled eggplant, and he still wants to eat swan meat."
Xi Mao endured it all night and finally sent Old Li Tou away. Looking at Old Li Tou's retreating back, he spat on the ground angrily.
"Oh, that's fine... Just achieve your goal!"
Xiangqin patted Xi Mao's back, looking indifferent.
"How did the kids eat today?"
He said it to everyone, but Xiangqin kept looking at Tianyi as he spoke, as if waiting for something.
"Aunt Xiangqin has worked hard today. When the scrap collection station comes out, I will give 10% of the dry shares to Xiangmao, so that you will get dividends every month. Do you think this is okay?"
Tianyi looked at Xiangqin with a smile.
"Oh... How can I be so kind? I won't pay for it, but I still have money to take it. Where can I find such a good thing?"
As he spoke, Xiangqin cast his eyes on the remaining 7,000 yuan on the table.
"This is all the boss's. He didn't ask us to pay a penny, so don't worry about it."
Xi Mao quickly put the remaining money back into his trouser pocket, rolled his eyes at Xiang Qin and said.
"Ximao hasn't cared about me asking for a penny for three months, and he stuffs 20 yuan under my pillow every day when I get home. I know it's all because of knowing you. I can't help but watch him stay overnight. I go out to catch fish to make money, and I’m so tired that I don’t sleep until I come back during the day. I know that this kid has grown up, so when he asked Lao Litou to come for dinner, I agreed without even thinking about it. I know you won’t You’ve treated my son badly.”
"Don't worry, Aunt Xiangqin. We are all brothers. We can make money together. I still expect Brother Mao to look after me on Taoyuan Road in the future?"
Tianyi looked at Xiangqin with a serious look on his face and said with a smile.
"That's necessary. If he accepts your benefits, he must protect you at all times."
Xiangqin was talking to Tianyi, but his eyes never left the contract on the table.
“Boss…….calling me Brother Mao is not trying to offend me?”
Xi Mao whispered.
Tianyi hurriedly kicked Ximao under the table.
"Okay, Auntie will be relieved with your words. Where is this contract?"
Xiangqin looked at Tianyi lustfully.
"I'll leave the contract with you first. When we take over the scrap collection station, I'll exchange it with you for the share contract!"
Tianyi understood Xiangqin's thoughts and said with a smile.
"Okay, okay...I'll keep the contract first. This kid is really sensible."
Seeing Tianyi speak, Xiangqin immediately stuffed the contract into the drawer beside him.
"Boss, what should we do next?"
Xi Mao asked eagerly, thinking that the house was also rented. If the scrap collection station couldn't get it, wouldn't the money be wasted?
"Erpi...tomorrow you ask your mother to take you, Ximao, Mouse, Lemon and a few others to go door-to-door to inform us that as long as everyone sells their scraps to us, we will collect twice as much as Wang Li's head. Erpi Pi Ma is familiar with people, and she has comprehensive information about every household in this area. It would be more convincing to have an adult follow her, but the delivery period is three days later."
Tianyi broke open the chicken head, took out the chicken brains from the chicken head, and slowly stuffed it into his mouth.
"Why 3 days later?"
Xiaomao asked confused.
"Because after three days, Lao Wangtou was homeless. He had no business for three days, his house was due for expiration, and he had no place to put a yard of goods. This forced him to sell the scrap collection station. Did you give it to us? Haha..."
Tianyi bit off the cockscomb in one bite, chewed it, and said with a smile.
"Boss...isn't it a bit too cruel?"
In his mind, he imagined a scene where Lao Li was sixty or seventy years old, homeless and sleeping on the street, and Xiao Mao said with compassion.
"Hard...? Aren't you so angry just now that your teeth were itching and you were spitting on the ground? Why are you so soft-hearted now?"
"Well………………"
"Remember... shopping malls are like battlefields, and there is no husband without drugs! Besides, this is fair competition, okay? But you should keep your heart in mind, I won't make him homeless."
Although Tianyi said this, he was thinking in his heart that this child who grew up on Taoyuan Road had a cleaner heart than Balipu.
If this happened to Wang Pipi, he would only wish that Lao Wang slept on the road so that he could make fun of him.
"Why do you charge twice as much? That way we won't lose money, right?"
Mouse returned to the topic at the entrance of the Internet cafe and continued to ask Tian Yidao.
"From every household to the tricycles walking down the streets, this is the first hand. From the tricycles to the collection point of Laowangtou, this is the first hand. From the purchase point of Laowangtou to the large waste collection and distribution center, this is the first hand One hand, from the scrap collection and distribution center to the renewable resource processing plant, this is the first hand. Our twice higher collection only saves the tricycle, and what we sell is directly to the renewable resource processing plant. After all, We will only earn more, not less.”
After Tianyi gnawed all the chicken skin off the chicken head, he closed the chicken head again and put it into the bowl as if it were intact.
"Boss, I should buy you a banana fan!"
Xi Mao looked at Tianyi in surprise and joked.
"What? You want me to be Princess Iron Fan?"
Tianyi gave Ximao a white look.
"No, it's Zhuge Liang who is alive, haha... You are a better settler than my mother!"
Xiaomao extended his thumb to Tianyi in admiration.
"Go! Go! Go……………"
Hearing his son's words, Xiangqin slapped Xi Mao's head in embarrassment.
"Is everything okay with everyone?"
Tianyi opened his two small oily hands, sat in front of the dining table, and calmly confirmed with a few people again.
"No problem, boss..."
Several people said in unison.
At this time, Xiangqin took out a piece of toilet paper from the toilet and handed it to Tianyi with an attentive look.
"Brother Yi... quickly wipe your little hands."
Xiangqin said with a smile on his face.
Looking at the toilet paper handed over by Xiangqin, Tianyi was so embarrassed that he didn't know whether to accept it or not.
Finally, he took it bravely and said thank you to Xiangqin with a smile.
"That's a good name, haha, but the boss is a woman, so it's a little inappropriate to call me brother, right?"
"What's wrong? Whoever can resist trouble now is the boss. Whoever can help you make money is the brother. Use your ability to speak. Brother is a pronoun, regardless of gender."
Xiangqin said with a convinced look on his face.
"That makes sense... I'll call you that from now on, Brother Yi!"
As he spoke, Xi Maoyi cupped his hands toward the sky and said with respect.
"Brother Yi......"
Mouse, Lemon, and Erpi also stood up, cupped their hands toward Tianyi in agreement, and said in unison.
"Actually, it doesn't matter what the name is, as long as you call it fluently, I'll be here first today. Remember to get up early tomorrow to find Erpi's mother."
Tianyi instructed.
"Don't worry, boss. We will meet at Erpi's house at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning to ensure that the task is completed."
As he spoke, Xi Mao saluted Tianyi and said jokingly.
"I'm going home to sleep. I have to go to school tomorrow morning."
Tianyi nodded to Xiang and thanked him before going home.
That night, she slept very soundly.
Early the next morning, Xi Mao and others ran to Erpi's house early. Under the leadership of Erpi's mother, they walked through the streets and alleys, beating gongs and drums from door to door to make announcements.
The neighbors also really gave Erpi's mother face. When they heard that the price was twice as high, everyone was willing to save their own rags and sell them to her together.
Erpi's mother also worked hard for her son. She didn't even bother to eat lunch and went around doing publicity. Finally, when night fell on the third day, she completed the task entrusted by Tianyi.
On the morning of the fourth day, Tianyi led his team to the gate of Lao Wangtou's courtyard as promised.
Looking at Lao Wangtou sitting in the yard having nothing to do, Ximao asked with a smile.
"Uncle Wang, why are you so free today?"
When Lao Wangtou saw that it was Xi Mao, he thought he was here to talk about the exchange shop again, so he pretended to be convinced of the other party and said with a smile.
"How come...you haven't given up yet?"
"You can fill a moat with one bite. If I don't give up, what else can I do?"
Upon hearing that the other party was not here to talk about the exchange shop, Lao Wangtou's smile immediately froze, and the hand holding the teapot shook unconsciously.
"Although I don't pay the store, the rent still has to be collected, hehe..."
As he spoke, Xi Mao took out the rental contract from his trouser pocket and showed it to Lao Wangtou.
“You………….Are you taking advantage of someone’s misfortune?”
Seeing Old Li Tou's signature on the rental contract, Old Wang Tou was so angry that his legs softened and he sat down on the ground. A tea jar of jasmine tea also spilled all over his crotch.
"If you haven't paid the rent when the contract expires, we have the right to rent the house. This is called fair competition!"
Xi Mao put away the contract, fearing that Lao Wangtou would get hot-headed and tear it up again.
"This old Mr. Li, I have been renting his house for three years. When did I miss his rent payment?"
Lao Wang was so angry that he threw the teapot away.
"We paid the rent for four months together, but you are much more generous than you. If Lao Litou doesn't sign with us, who will sign with us? Are you a fool who won't sign with us?"
Xiao Mao said with a smirk.
"What do you think now? Do you still want to continue renting the house to me?"
Lao Wangtou put away his arrogance and looked at Xi Mao with a slight pleading.
"It's okay to rent it to you, but does the rent have to be increased?"
Xiaomao paced back and forth in the yard with his hands behind his back and his head shaking.
"How much does it rise..."
When he heard about the increase in money, Lao Wangtou was trembling in his heart.
"The rent is 1,000 yuan a month. If you don't rent, you have to clear out the yard within one day."
As he spoke, Xiaomao kicked the pile of paper shells beside him and said with a rogue expression.
"You...you are so deceptive. I can't make much money in a month. All the money I make every month is given to my daughter. My grandson has leukemia and needs expensive medicine to stay alive. I can cut out 8 petals for a penny a day and spend them. It’s not me. I really can’t help it. You want me to move out within a day. My legs and feet are not good. Where can I move to? You Doesn’t this push me to a dead end?”
As he said this, Lao Wangtou, who was sitting on the ground, wiped away his tears.
Looking at Lao Wangtou, who was sitting on the ground with a bitter look on his face and howling to the heavens and the earth, a trace of compassion flashed through Tianyi's heart.
But then I thought again, although this old Wang’s words sounded sad, why did it thunder but not rain?
Thinking of this, Tianyi gave Ximao a look, and Ximao said understandingly.
"Can't afford to rent? Can't move out? The only option is to sell. After all, you are getting older. It's time to find your daughter and enjoy your happiness. Didn't you say that your grandson has leukemia? You just have time to help take care of your daughter. Is this person always looking at things getting worse day by day?"
Xi Mao pressed forward step by step, performing scheming.
"I've already gone if I could. My uncle looks down on me and says I'm just a rag collector. He says I have germs on my body. He won't even let me hug my grandson."
Lao Wangtou looked aggrieved, but his eyes were chattering around unconsciously, as if he was thinking about something in his heart.
Seeing the old king-headed chicken thief, Tianyi felt funny in her heart, she took a step forward and said.
"There has been no business for three days, right? You gave your daughter the only living money you had. Even the goods in the yard were sold and it was not enough for your moving expenses. Are you going to sleep on the road next?"
Tianyi tilted his head, looked at Lao Wangtou with a smile, and said slowly.
"It turns out you guys are causing trouble. Why haven't you seen anyone selling goods in the past few days?"
Lao Wang sat on the ground angrily, kicked his feet, pointed at Tianyi and the others and said with gritted teeth.
