I saw Li Mingcheng handing out lollipops to two children, one to each of them.
Tao Zhiyun walked over and patted Qiqi's little butt: "Have you thanked uncle?"
Qiqi said blankly to Li Mingcheng: "Thank you, uncle."
Li Mingcheng touched his little head and said with a smile: "You're welcome."
Tao Zhiyun picked up Qiqi and led Doudou out of the door so that Li Mingcheng and Lin Mai could talk freely.
This is the trouble of living in someone else's home.
No matter how kind his master is to him, he cannot always be like a searchlight at home.
If others have something to talk about, you have to avoid it.
It's the end of the month in two days, let's see how much bonus Lin Mai gives himself.
If the bonus is high, she plans to rent a single room at a high price and move out with her son.
Although the house is not easy to rent, there must be brave men under the heavy reward.
She didn't believe that she couldn't rent a house she was satisfied with at the high price.
In the room, Lin Mai poured a glass of cold water for Li Mingcheng and asked: "If you want to ask me anything, just tell me."
Li Mingcheng chuckled twice: "How do you know I have something to do with you?"
Lin Mai gave him a blank look: "Since you moved out, you have hardly visited my house. Now that you suddenly come to my house, you must be looking for me for something."
Li Mingcheng touched his head: "You were right, I want to borrow money from you to buy a house."
"Buying a house? It's a good thing. How much money do you need to borrow?" Lin Mai asked happily.
She wished that Li Mingcheng and the others could buy a house in the city while house prices were not high now, so they wouldn't have to worry about the house in the future.
Li Mingcheng asked tentatively: "Seven hundred yuan, okay?"
Lin Mai was stunned for a moment: "Borrowing so much? You live frugally every day and you should have saved a lot of money. You shouldn't borrow so much."
Li Mingcheng explained: "Although I saved some money, I sent it all to my parents to build a house in the countryside and prepare a dowry for my eldest sister. There is not much left."
"Your eldest sister is getting married soon? When will it happen? I will give your eldest sister a red envelope then."
"We are getting married on National Day this year. Are you going to have a wedding drink?"
"...Go when you have time." Lin Mai frowned and asked, "How big is the house you want to buy, and why does it cost so much?"
The single room she bought on Qianjin Road only cost 300 yuan. It was in a prime location. For 700 yuan, it was definitely not a single room.
"One bedroom and one living room, more than fifty square meters."
"Location?"
"It's right next door to the community where your single room is located."
Since the house is in the community next door to the single room I bought, the location is not bad.
And it’s a one-bedroom, one-living room structure, so it costs almost this much~
Lin Mai took 700 yuan from the room and gave it to Li Mingcheng.
Li Mingcheng took the money and said: "From now on, all my monthly salary will be used to repay your money until it is repaid."
Anyway, he worked in Lin Mai's shop and received three meals a day, so he had no expenses. All his monthly salary was used to pay off the debt, so it had no impact on him.
He now has a monthly salary of at least 60 yuan, and 700 yuan can be paid off in a year.
Lin Mai nodded in agreement: "I gave you the money, but I will go to see the house with you tomorrow to check whether the house is worth spending 700 to buy."
Lin Mai took time out of his busy schedule to help Li Mingcheng look at the house because he was really easy to deceive.
If it weren't for this reason, Lin Mai was too lazy to help him look after the house. Wouldn't it be nice for him to save time and sleep?
Lin Mai was a bit sleepy during this period, probably because of the hot weather.
Li Mingcheng wished that she would help him look at the house, so that he would not buy the wrong house.
The next day, Lin Mai went to see the house with Li Mingcheng.
The house Li Mingcheng wants to buy is the house of a big cadre.
These days, despite the housing shortage for workers, there are still many big cadres who use their power for personal gain and buy themselves several houses.
The big cadre who wants to sell his house to Li Mingcheng is this kind of person.
The one-bedroom apartment that the senior cadre wanted to sell was located on the top floor. It was too high and he didn't want to live there. It was difficult to rent and water leaked when it rained, so he simply sold it.
Although the one-bedroom apartment has its own kitchen and only shares a bathroom with the other two families, it is not too expensive for the landlord to sell it for 700 yuan.
But Lin Mai felt unbalanced when he thought about how, as a high-ranking cadre, he was using his power for personal gain and occupying more houses.
In addition, this house did have many shortcomings, so after a lot of bargaining, I helped Li Mingcheng negotiate the price for 550 yuan.
After handing over the money and the house, Li Mingcheng was overjoyed to get the real estate certificate and land certificate, and he admired Lin Mai.
If she hadn't intervened, he would have had to pay an extra 150 yuan.
Lin Mai looked at him sideways: "Don't be too happy, go find Master Zhang and add cement and glue to add a waterproof layer to your roof so that it won't seep in when it rains."
Lin Mai learned this trick from the craftsman who built her a villa in her previous life.
No one should know this at this time, otherwise the big cadre would have used this trick to solve the problem of water seepage on rainy days, and he might not have sold the house to Li Mingcheng.
In just half a day, Master Zhang used cement and glue to lay a waterproof layer on Li Mingcheng's roof.
After dinner that day, Li Mingcheng couldn't wait and moved happily.
Lin Mai and Tao Zhiyun both went to help.
Wan Hui stood in front of her house and asked pitifully: "Brother Mingcheng, where are you moving to?"
Lin Mai glanced at her in surprise, very surprised that she was talking to Li Mingcheng with such an expression, as if Li Mingcheng was her support and she was reluctant to let him leave.
When Li Mingcheng bought a house, he was inevitably upset and said proudly: "I bought a house in the machinery factory community next door and will move there."
Mother Wan is cutting a piece of Doliang flower cloth on the dining table at home.
Hearing this, he immediately rushed out of the house, widened his eyes and asked Li Mingcheng in disbelief: "Did you buy a house? How much did it cost? How big is the area?"
Li Mingcheng told her everything.
Wan's mother looked him up and down: "I didn't expect you to be so rich. You just spent a few hundred yuan to buy a house with one bedroom and one living room."
The words are all full of envy.
Li Mingcheng smiled naively: "I have no money, so I bought the house with borrowed money."
Wan's mother obviously didn't believe what he said, her eyes swept back and forth between his and Wan Hui's faces, as if they were thinking of something.
It wasn't until he arrived at Li Mingcheng's new home that Lin Mai asked Li Mingcheng gossiping: "What's going on between you and Wan Hui? I think she seems to be very attached to you."
"Ah! Really?" Li Mingcheng was very surprised, "I just saw that her mother was partial and her sister always bullied her, which was quite pitiful, so I comforted her a few times to prevent her from becoming attached to me."
As for Wan Hui, she asked her mother for money to go out to play with her classmates. When the money was not received, she was severely beaten.
He secretly gave her five dollars and never told Lin Mai.
I was afraid that she would say that she was stupid enough to give money to others and that she was probably fooled again.
But he firmly believed that he was not fooled, and the injuries on Wan Hui's body were not fake.
Lin Mai thought that even if Wan Hui had any thoughts about Li Mingcheng, since Li Mingcheng had moved away now, the possibility of Wan Hui coming to pester him would not be too great.
These days, a girl who pesters a young boy has a bad reputation, unless she and Li Ming become friends.
But she would never be friends with Li Mingcheng because she looked down on him as a country boy.
After moving for Li Mingcheng, Lin Mai and Tao Zhiyun left.
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