Chapter 118: A brief episode on renting a house

"No. 38, Laogu Street... This should be it!"

Li Yi raised his head and looked at the small courtyard in front of him, with a puzzled expression on his face.

It stands to reason that a two-story building near the scenic area should be very popular, right?

Why does the owner of this small building live in a small courtyard that looks quite shabby?

There must be a story here!

Li Yi walked forward slowly and knocked gently on the wooden door of the courtyard.

There was a rustling sound from the courtyard, and then Li Yi heard the sound of the door bolt being opened.

Then, the wooden door was opened a crack, and then a little boy who looked five or six years old poked his head out from behind and looked at Li Yi very vigilantly.

Li Yi raised his eyebrows, not expecting that the person who opened the door was a child.

Afterwards, Li Yi directly took out a rent transfer GG torn from the second-floor building, and asked with a smile: "Little friend, is your house for rent?"

To Li Yi's surprise, the child quickly retracted his head and closed the door tightly!

Li Yi touched his nose helplessly. He didn't expect to be rejected. This was a bit embarrassing.

But then, Li Yi adjusted his mentality and knocked on the door of the yard again.

The address on the GG should be correct, that is, there is a problem with this family.

A few minutes after Li Yi knocked on the door again, the wooden door was opened again!

But this time, the person standing behind the wooden door was a young woman who looked to be in her twenties!

The woman had a pretty face and a tall figure, but it was difficult to hide the haggardness on her face.

Behind this woman, the little boy poked his head out and looked at Li Yi with a very unfriendly look.

Li Yi was a little confused. What was going on?

I'm not that fierce, right?

However, Li Yi still smiled and said:

"Hello, I came here because I saw GG for rent and transfer. May I ask if this two-story building at No. 16 Tiancheng Street, Lishan Scenic Area is yours?"

The young woman showed an apologetic smile on her face, then pulled the little boy out from behind her and said with a smile: "Yes, it's ours. The child is ignorant, please forgive me!"

"It doesn't matter!" Li Yi said immediately.

"Do you want to rent a house or buy it?"

Just as Li Yi was about to speak, the little boy said again: "You can't give him the house, Dad and Mom will come back!"

Li Yi was embarrassed when he heard it.

This child...isn't it this young woman's?

The woman turned around and whispered: "Hu Zi, you listen, if you don't deal with the house, how can your aunt have money to support you to go to school!"

"I don't want to go to school!" The boy said stubbornly.

"You must go to school! That's what your mother said!"

When the little boy heard the word "mother", his mouth pouted and tears welled up in his big eyes, but he still said stubbornly: "This is the house left by my parents... I don't want to give it to others!"

The woman was also very helpless, but she still smiled and said to Li Yi: "I'm really sorry, if you don't mind, please come in and talk!"

Li Yi nodded naturally, and then asked curiously: "Isn't this your son?"

The woman shook her head and replied: "This is my sister's child. My sister's family..." at the beginning of this year

Li Yi suddenly understood a little, and then said: "From what you said just now, the child hasn't gone to school yet?"

The woman nodded and said: "My name is Zhang Jing, I'm a local, you can just call me by my name."

"I just graduated from college and returned home, and this happened. My salary is very low, so I had to miss the time to let Hu Zi go to school, because my family is really..."

Li Yi nodded thoughtfully!

In 1986, Longguo officially began to implement the compulsory education policy, but there was a big problem, that is, there were no schools in many places. In this county, some primary schools were still private, and the tuition was very expensive. Zhang Jing, a newly graduated college student, how could she afford to send her children to school?

The two of them quickly came to a small table in the yard. Zhang Jing took out the few tea leaves in the house and boiled a pot of water.

But Hu Zi ran into the room by himself, as if he was sulking.

Zhang Jing sighed and whispered: "I plan to set the price of this two-story building at 500 yuan a month. If I buy it, it will be about 100,000 yuan..."

500 yuan a month sounds expensive, but where is this place?

This is a tourist area!

Just like the hotel that Li Yi just investigated, what is the price?

More than 100 yuan a night!

So in comparison, this price is really not expensive.

The sales of Li Yi's home appliance city in one day can directly rent this house for half a year!

And even if he bought it... 100,000 yuan, Li Yi could buy it now.

But Li Yi was a little curious, why has no one rented such a low-priced house?

"The price is indeed very reasonable, but I have a small question, why has no one rented this house until now?"

Then Li Yi said again: "The price of 500 yuan a month sounds very low, and the business of tourist attractions is so hot, it's unreasonable!"

Zhang Jing pursed her lips after hearing this, and after hesitating for a while, she spoke:

"Because... because the merchants nearby are saying that I killed my sister's family in order to get this house..."

From Zhang Jing's tone that sounded very calm, Li Yi saw a picture.

A young girl who had just walked out of the university campus, with a five or six-year-old child, had to endure the abuse and insults of neighbors every day, and work hard to earn money and save money so that her sister's children could go to school!

Such stories are not uncommon in this era.

In fact, Li Yi has heard many such rumors.

Because in this era, throwing dirty water on others does not cost anything, and the cold violence before the Internet age is even more terrible.

Since it has happened, Li Yi will naturally not sit idly by!

Li Yi has always remembered a sentence: If you encounter injustice, if you don't stand up to stop it, then you are also one of the accomplices.

So Li Yi decided to help this broken family.