Ch120.1 - Renting a Place (1/2)
The signal wasn’t very good as it was rather intermittent. Yu Hao found an old residential building about one stop away from the office and rented one of its rooms. Zhou Sheng suggested that he not share an apartment with someone else, since he could end up with a weirdo as a roommate. But this was the most value for money place that Yu Hao could find. The nephew of the landlady lived there by himself and was an otaku addicted to gaming. He was preparing for the civil service exam, had no girlfriend, played games all day, and studied at home.
One room and one living room was remodelled into two rooms. Yu Hao was very satisfied with it, as it had the effect of noise isolation as well. 2,800 per month, rent to be paid once every three months. Yu Hao paid 11,200, including a one-month deposit.
Zhou Sheng video called him again, “I’ll demand my salary from the old man in a minute.”
“It’s enough.” Yu Hao said, “I still have more than 10,000 left.”
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Zhou Sheng wasn’t very pleased with the fact that Yu Hao was sharing an apartment with someone else, but looking for houses was quite tiring. After Yu Hao found one that was somewhat suitable, he really didn’t want to rush about everywhere anymore. In any case, before his internship ended, he would only come back at night to sleep for a few hours, and he wouldn’t hold any dinner parties here for guests either, so it didn’t really matter much.
Yu Hao knew Zhou Sheng’s principle was “don’t scrimp, it’s fine as long as you like it’, so Yu Hao led the topic to ‘I like it’, and Zhou Sheng finally accepted it doubtfully.
“Why don’t you buy it?” Zhou Sheng said, “Since you like it. The card’s on you, I’ll borrow some from the old man and add another four million into it. It can be treated as an investment.”
“I’m going crazy!” Yu Hao blew up, “To spend more than six million yuan to buy this one bedroom, one living room apartment that’s 40 square metres and 30-years-old, do I have nowhere else to spend my money? The windows are about to fall off!”
Zhou Sheng, “Then it looks like you don’t really like it that much. Do as you like ba, but don’t let yourself suffer.”
“I thought you’d buy the house.” Lin Ze said after he heard Yu Hao describe his rented place.
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Yu Hao, “Uh, I really can’t afford it. That one bedroom and one living room costs more than six million yuan.”
Situ Ye said, “In these times, property prices really are an abnormality.”
Yu Hao said, “It’s not for us to dabble in property in the first place. Renting’s pretty good.”
Lin Ze said, “Property prices have nothing to do with whether or not one rents. It’s proven to be a rather vile proposition for the entire country: toiling away for a year can’t be compared to investing in two apartments. Think about it, what does that mean?”
Yu Hao said, “The rich will get richer, while the poor will get poorer ba.”
“No.” Lin Ze corrected, “To some extent, it negates the national value of ‘diligence’.”
Yu Hao thought, holy shit, you really dared to say it. But after he thought about it carefully, that really was the case. Lin Ze sighed, “Working hard for your entire life can’t be compared to buying a house and waiting for it to appreciate in value, then who would still be willing to diligently create riches? That’s the most fundamental and devastating blow.”
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“Do you have a camera?” Situ Ye asked.
Yu Hao said, “I do, but it’s really cheap. A 3,000 yuan camera, I don’t know if the photos taken would meet the requirements.”
Situ Ye said, “It’s enough, don’t worry. I’ve used lousy cameras before too. As long as the photographer is handsome, any photo he takes will look good.”
Lin Ze, “And what kind of logic is that? Then……Jin Laoshi, Yu Hao will follow me, while Xiao Ye can follow you?”
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“Xiao Yu can follow me.” Jin Weicheng said, “We won’t tear the couple apart.”
Yu Hao was not yet able to understand the subtext that Lin Ze and Jin Weicheng had exchanged in those two short sentences, and it was only when Jin Weicheng spoke that he had a vague sense of the implication behind their words.
Jin Weicheng said, “Let me take a look at your camera?”
It was Yu Hao’s first time taking his camera out in the office. He took a photo of the office, and when he took it out, Situ Ye’s, Lin Ze’s, and Jin Weicheng’s expressions were all frozen.
Yu Hao, “???”
Situ Ye, “Your camera’s 3,000?”
Yu Hao, “Yeah.”
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Situ Ye, “GET, ME, ONE, TOO!”
Yu Hao, “……”
Lin Ze understood. He glanced at Situ Ye reproachfully and asked, “It’s a gift from someone ba?”
“Zhou Sheng bought it for me as a gift for starting work.” Yu Hao was a little frightened as he asked, “How much does this camera cost?”