OBS Chapter 17: Maximum Self-Drive
Chapter 17: Maximum Self-Drive
The replies were all over the place, and Chen Yuanzhou glanced at them. Most of them were meaningless, so he opened his private messages.
The private messages were completely different. A small portion could be summarized as "Want to hook up? Paid!", while another small portion was inexplicable insults.
The remaining majority are people who are genuinely inquiring about housing.
After all, 300 million for 348 square meters is a very attractive price per unit!
However, there are still significant differences among these private messages inquiring about houses.
Chen Yuanzhou simply ignored those questions that were clearly just casual remarks.
Chen Yuanzhou carefully recorded all those who asked detailed questions about the neighborhood, apartment type, and other information, and who specified their needs and price range, while also providing their phone numbers.
He was busy with this task for a long time, and the private message notifications only slowed down near midnight.
Chen Yuanzhou counted them one last time; his notebook contained nearly a hundred customer records.
These are all highly targeted large clients who are willing to accept a total price of at least 300 million and who are actively seeking consultation!
In other words, this is a treasure!
"Isn't this much better than stupidly listing properties?"
Chen Yuanzhou closed his notebook with satisfaction, then turned off the lights, closed the shutter door, and headed home.
Previously, due to financial difficulties, Comrade Xiao Chen rented a house in a village called Caoxiepo.
After leaving Qinchun Garden, walk more than a kilometer to the northwest, then walk along a path full of weeds on both sides, cross a transport railway, and you can enter Caoxiepo from the side.
It wasn't that Chen Yuanzhou was reluctant to take a taxi, but rather that there was no road accessible by car on the side of Caoxiepo. To get to the front of the village via the main road, he would have to detour more than ten kilometers...
Upon entering the rented room, one finds only a bed, a plastic clothes hanger, and a dim light bulb.
Water needs to be drawn from the hand pump in the yard. Although the weather hasn't cooled down yet, the icy well water is still very refreshing.
The monthly rent for such a basic rental room is 180 yuan.
This was a last resort for Comrade Xiao Chen; otherwise, even a decent house in the suburbs would cost four or five hundred yuan a month in rent.
In the city center, the cheapest farmer's house in the urban village costs seven or eight hundred yuan, and apartments often cost two or three thousand yuan.
However, Zhuowu Company currently only pays its agents a base salary of 800 yuan!
"No, I need to find a place near the store tomorrow, otherwise walking like this every day is such a waste of time."
Just as Chen Yuanzhou was considering what kind of house to rent, someone suddenly started banging on the door!
"Chen Yuanzhou! Chen Yuanzhou!"
A woman's gruff voice rang out, sounding particularly jarring in the village late at night; it was the voice of the landlady, Aunt Du.
Aunt Du was clearly impatient and full of fighting spirit: "Chen Yuanzhou! Come out now! I know you're home, don't hide inside and stay silent, I saw your light was on!"
"Coming, coming!" Chen Yuanzhou hurriedly ran over to open the door.
The door had barely opened a crack when Aunt Du's thick arm gave a powerful push, and her imposing figure stormed into the house!
"Hmph~ I finally caught you!" she snapped, her face stern. "You get up earlier than the chickens and come home later than the dogs every day, do you think you can avoid me like that?"
"I only agreed to let you pay the rent monthly because I felt sorry for you, considering how difficult it must be for someone so young to be living in the provincial capital. And what have you done? You've just disappeared!"
"Wow, that's amazing! I had to stay up until the wee hours!"
"Starting next month, you'll need to pay three months' rent as deposit and one month's rent as a deposit! Pay up!"
"If you don't pay me today, you'll be sleeping on the streets!"
As soon as Aunt Du entered the door, she started talking non-stop, and even Chen Yuanzhou, who was so eloquent, didn't get a chance to speak.
"What are you standing there for! Get your money out!"
"Uh~" Chen Yuanzhou chuckled awkwardly, "Aunt Du, it hasn't been a month yet~"
"You don't understand that rent should be paid a week in advance? And you call yourself a real estate agent!" Aunt Du's face was still full of anger. "Don't even think about running away! I know where you work!"
Chen Yuanzhou looked at her, thinking that there was really no need to continue living there, so he asked, "Aunt Du, is it okay if I don't stay here anymore? I'll cancel the lease tonight."
"Huh?" Aunt Du was taken aback. "You're not staying here anymore? Then the deposit won't be refunded! I need to check to see if anything is damaged."
Chen Yuanzhou's face immediately darkened!
This dilapidated rental house only has two things in it. It's so bare that you can see it all at a glance. How bad could it be?
Aunt Du ignored all that and went to the bedside to lift the bedding. She glanced at the briefcase that Chen Yuanzhou had borrowed from Li Jing and found it a bit in the way.
She didn't care about any of that, grabbed her briefcase and threw it at Chen Yuanzhou, but the clasp popped off, and the briefcase opened wide in mid-air...
With a few "thuds," several stacks of hundred-yuan bills, bound together with cable ties, fell to the ground in a spectacular fashion!
When Aunt Du saw the tens of thousands of yuan scattered on the ground, she was first stunned, then her whole body trembled... she was dumbfounded!
"Couldn't you be more careful?" Chen Yuanzhou frowned, picked up the money, and put it back in his bag. When he looked up, he found that Aunt Du's eyes were full of fear!
Aunt Du enjoys watching TV dramas, especially crime dramas like "Serious Cases Squad 6" and "Red Spider," which she watches with great interest every time.
Now, suddenly finding myself in this situation, my brainstorming began to veer off course uncontrollably, generating countless associations…
This kid leaves early and comes home late every day. He couldn't even afford the rent before, but now he suddenly has a lot of money.
Could he have committed murder and robbery?
Is the sudden termination of the lease an attempt to run away?
Now that I've found out, will he try to silence me?
Good heavens!!!
Aunt Du recalled the TV dramas she had watched; those criminals all liked to live in remote places, going about their own business alone, leaving early and returning late…
It matches! It matches perfectly!
The more Aunt Du thought about it, the more convinced she was that she had guessed the truth. Clutching her bedding, she was caught in a dilemma: should she put it down or not?
She looked at Chen Yuanzhou and felt that his calm face was filled with a ferocious aura, and his eyes were flashing with a chilling light.
In the dimly lit rented room, the atmosphere instantly froze!
"Aunt Du, go ahead and investigate if you want. If it's really broken, I'll compensate you," Chen Yuanzhou said, sighing, somewhat helpless at the unreasonable behavior of the rural woman.
But when this sigh reached Aunt Du's ears, it was a completely different story!
Murderers in TV dramas often sigh like this before committing their crimes…
"I'm not checking anymore, I didn't see anything!" Aunt Du's voice trembled as she tentatively backed away. When she passed Chen Yuanzhou, her heart was in her throat.
Fortunately, Chen Yuanzhou didn't make any move. After Du Dama went out the door, she ran away quickly without even turning her head back, for fear that if she did, she would see that the other party was chasing after her!
"What the hell! It's like she's seen a ghost." Chen Yuanzhou chuckled as he watched Aunt Du run off. "She's pretty fast! No wonder she works every day."
But with her making such a fuss, we definitely can't stay here tonight.
After all, one should not flaunt one's wealth. Chen Yuanzhou was also a little worried about this remote, desolate place. What if Aunt Du, that shrew, really had bad intentions?
Thinking this way, Chen Yuanzhou didn't even bother to pack Xiao Chen's luggage and clothes; he simply picked up his briefcase and left.
In the end, I had no choice but to walk back to the vicinity of Qinchun Garden and find a Super 8 hotel to spend the night.
……
Chen Yuanzhou got up very early the next day and checked out around 7 a.m.
He locked the door last night, and he has the key, so he's responsible for opening it today.
As Chen Yuanzhou walked towards the store, passing by Qinchun Jiayuan, his stomach began to rumble in protest.
I was busy all day yesterday and only ate two chicken nuggets last night. For a 20-year-old, that's not even enough to fill me up. Now that another night has passed, I'm really hungry.
Then I remembered that everyone had said there was a steamed bun shop in the commercial street of Qinchun Garden that tasted really good, so I decided to go and try it.
As soon as Chen Yuanzhou walked into the commercial street, he saw Zhou Yun, dressed in sportswear, standing at the entrance of the steamed bun shop.
"Good morning, Ms. Zhou!" he greeted her, "Did you just finish your morning run?"
Zhou Yun smiled immediately when she saw him: "Manager Chen, what a coincidence."
She thought for a moment and then said, "Don't always use 'you' in the way you usually say; it sounds really strange."
"I'm used to it, sorry, sorry, have I been making you sound old?" Chen Yuanzhou joked.
"By the way," Zhou Yun asked, "that client from yesterday...?"
Chen Yuanzhou tensed up, then quickly smiled apologetically: "Yesterday's client booked another house. But don't worry, I've already found another client, and they should be bringing them to see your house this afternoon."
"Okay, thank you so much! I really need your help with this house." Zhou Yun thanked her earnestly.
Upon hearing this, Chen Yuanzhou asked suspiciously, "Is it... your ex-boyfriend pressuring you?"
Zhou Yun did not answer the question, but her instantly somber expression spoke volumes.
He called again last night, saying that regardless of whether the house is sold or not, he will not make any more loan payments next month.
Moreover, Zhou Yun's recent daily expenses were all saved up from before.
In other words, she currently has no source of income and can only hope to sell the house and then consider doing something else.
Chen Yuanzhou had a vague idea of what was going on, so he didn't say anything more, but secretly thought that he needed to speed up the process.
Zhou Yun's house is crucial to him right now; if it can be sold smoothly, he will immediately buy another one.
That's equivalent to closing two deals at once, which can generate very substantial profits!
Self-interest has always been Chen Yuanzhou's greatest driving force!