Chapter 88: The Person in the Car

  The place where they rented a house was not far away, and in more than three minutes they arrived at the location.

  The original furniture store has moved, the entrance looks a bit dirty and messy, with a large lock hanging on the glass door, and some discarded old items from the furniture store can still be seen inside, mostly trash.

  "Aunt He, you first!"

  The salesperson smiled politely at He Aihua and said, if it weren't for Ouyang Xuan holding onto He Aihua's arm, she would have taken her arm too.

  This salesperson is clever, she has already figured out that the key to today's successful transaction lies with the elderly couple. Through her previous observation, she felt that the success rate of this transaction was very high, so on the way, she deliberately chatted a few more sentences and asked for the surname of the elderly couple, then called them Auntie and Uncle one after another.

  Now everyone in the family has unified their opinions on renting a house, and all that's left is whether the house can satisfy them.

  The house is very large and empty, as it is the intersection of two roads, with large glass windows on both sides that make it look extremely bright. Unfortunately, it looks very messy now, but the chaos inside did not affect Liu Yi Yang, who nodded silently after looking around for a while.

  This place is not bad, the downside is that after entering, it is dispersed to both sides, there are a few more pillars, which reduces the usable area. However, this is just suitable for supermarkets, and at times can be divided into two areas. They are not opening a particularly large shopping mall, ordinary supermarkets with such a layout have no impact.

  "This place is not bad, how much is the rent?"

  After taking a careful look around, Liu Yi Yang asked in a low voice, the first house they looked at was very satisfactory, at least much better than those small storefront houses, and could also be decorated into a supermarket that met Liu Gang's ideals.

  As early as when he was in junior high school, his father often told him that once their family made some money, they would open a supermarket. It would be very big with this and that placed on each side. He could never forget it. When his father said these things back then, there was a hint of longing in his eyes.

  It was precisely because of these memories that after making money, the first business he thought of was a supermarket, which can also be said to be his father's wish for many years.

  "Mr. Liu, this house was vacated by the tenant after the lease expired. The landlord is Huatian Group, you must have heard of it, it's one of the top two conglomerates in our province. Actually, the whole building belongs to Huatian Group!"

  The salesperson's face showed a hint of pride as he continued, "Hu Tian has cooperated with our company many times. Some of the scattered industries under their name are also handled by us as agents. This suite is no exception. The rent is 2.2 yuan per square meter per day. There are 608 square meters here. We can waive the decimal part and the final annual rent is 480,000 yuan!"

  The salesperson introduced quickly and finished, then looked up at Liu Yi Yang.

  "Is this Huatian Group's house?"

  Liu Gang nodded slightly. The Huatian Group was indeed very famous in their local area, it was the largest private enterprise. If they rented a house from them, then afterwards they could also be quite stable.

  "It's too expensive, 480,000 is too much! We can just rent a small place at the entrance for 20-30,000!"

  He Ai Hua quietly walked to Liu Yi Yang's side, gently pulled his hem and said with great concern. In He Ai Hua's eyes, 480,000 was an unimaginable huge sum of money.

  They had the 400,000 yuan that Liu Yi Yang sent over earlier, but they never considered it their own, so when she heard this number, she would have such a reaction.

  "Yes, your mom is right. The 480,000 is just the rent, and then there's the agency fee. Renovation will cost at least 100,000 to 200,000 yuan more. And then there's the inventory, it can't be done with less than a million. Let's find a smaller place instead!"

  Liu Gang also said a sentence, he liked this place very much and fell in love with it at first sight, but his rationality told him that such a large expenditure was absolutely not feasible.

  "Uncle, auntie, this house is really not expensive. Think about it, in other places, the transfer fee for renting a house would be so much more. This one doesn't have any transfer fees. And look around, some places are almost 3 yuan per square meter, their rent of 2.2 yuan is really not high. If you give up this time, next time it'll be hard to find a house like this!"

  The salesperson hurried over and said a few words of persuasion, glancing secretly at Ouyang Xuan as she spoke.

  In her heart, the richest person among them was actually Ouyang Xuan.

  "Dad, Mom, as long as we like it, don't mind the price. Besides, we're doing business, big investment means big returns, right? We'll be investing tens of millions, but in less than two years, we might make it back, and later we can earn even more money, maybe even open an even bigger supermarket!" Liu Yi Yang smiled and shook his head, fortunately this was their hometown Licheng, the rent here wasn't too expensive.

  This area is not the real city center after all, there are many old residents around, and the traffic is a bit congested, so the rent has never been able to rise. If it were in other areas of the city with better transportation, I estimate that the rent alone would be over a million.

  There are many old residents around, not suitable for high consumption, but it's just right for supermarkets. The supermarket itself sells cheap daily necessities, and Liu Yi Yang has already determined that this is the place after hearing the price.

  Seeing his father still hesitating, with a hint of reluctance on his face, Liu Yi Yang smiled slightly and directly told the salesperson: "Hello, please contact the landlord, we've decided to rent this house, let's sign the contract today!"

  "Sign it today, ah, okay!"

  The salesman was taken aback at first, then a look of surprise appeared on his face. The business had been settled so quickly that it was somewhat unexpected for him.

  The contract for this 480,000 yuan house rent has an agency fee of around 40,000 yuan. Her commission is twenty percent of the agency fee, no wonder she's so happy.

  "You've come to see, it's just this, huh? How is there someone here?"

  The salesperson had just taken out his mobile phone and was about to dial a number when several people walked in, including two young men in their twenties and two middle-aged men who looked like they were in their forties or fifties, a total of four people.

  "What do you do and how did you end up here?"

  A young man with acne on his face walked over, looking very unhappy. He raised his head and asked a question, his attitude as if he were a superior adult and others were his subordinates.

  "I am a salesperson from Zhongyuan Real Estate Company, who are you?"

  The salesperson hurriedly walked out, He Aihua stood beside Liu Gang, looking slightly worried at the few people coming in from outside, while Liu Yiyang and Ouyang Xuan's eyebrows jumped.

  The intermediary company just said that this is an industry of Huatian Group, fully entrusted to them, how can there be others coming in when they are viewing the house?

  "This is private property, who allowed you to come here, hurry up and leave! Who am I? I'm the owner of this house, and now I want to rent it out!"

  The young man with acne impatiently waved his hand, and Liu Yi Yang's eyebrows furrowed even tighter as he looked at the salesperson.

  This real estate agency is headquartered in Zhengzhou and is a relatively well-known company within the province. It has several branches in various cities, with a good reputation. The boss's old friend used to work for this company but was later poached and became a small manager.

  Such a company should not have cheated, how can someone say this is his house?

  "We'll see about that!"

  Ouyang Huan grabbed Liu Yi Yang's arm, currently the two are saying different things, if it's not the intermediary company's person who is lying, then it must be the newcomer who lied.

  "How is this possible? Director Li had already signed an agreement with us, and the exclusive agency rights for more than 20 commercial properties under Huatian Group's name were all given to us. Who are you people?"

  The salesgirl was a young girl, which made her seem a bit anxious, shouting loudly.

  She can't help but rush, a big order is about to be suddenly destroyed, which means a large sum of money flies away from her hands. A decent three-bedroom apartment in Licheng costs more than 4 million, and this is just the storefront rental, with a commission higher than selling two houses.

  "Director Li, is it Li Jianda?"

  When she said that, the young man actually laughed. The little girl nodded unconsciously, and the acne-faced young man's face suddenly changed. He said: "Hurry up and leave! Li Jiandong is nothing, he dares not say anything in front of my dad. You don't have to be an agent for this house anymore, go back and get rid of it!" The acne-faced young man said while waving his hand. "Mr. Liang, what's going on?" Two middle-aged men also walked over at this time.

  "Director Huang, don't worry about it, I'll give you this house as promised. Later, I'll draw up a contract for 7 million yuan, signed once for ten years, but I'll only collect 6 million from you each year, haha, isn't that generous?"

  The young people with acne were smiling and giggling, and the middle-aged man also smiled, but a hint of dissatisfaction flashed in his eyes.

  He is a public servant, this time to rent a new office, looked at here, through connections found Mr. Liang, Mr. Liang himself was just an ordinary person, but his father was a vice president of the Huatian Group, with real power.

  This house happened to be under his father's jurisdiction, which is why there was a prior agreement.

  The actual price of the house rent will definitely not reach 700,000, but it can be signed for ten years at a time, and the inside story belongs to them. Such things cannot be seen in public, let alone said in front of strangers, or even in front of an intermediary.

  Director Huang was dissatisfied in his heart, but the other person had already spoken out, and he couldn't take it back. He could only scold silently to himself, "No hair on his mouth, not firm in doing things, a complete idiot."

  "How can you do this? We have a contract, Director Li personally signed it with us at the beginning. Everything was entrusted to our agency!"

  The little girl also heard their conversation, with tears in her eyes. He didn't know who this young man with acne was, but that Director Li was indeed named Li Jian Da. This little girl had a very bad premonition in her heart.

  If Director Li can't even stop them, it's possible that the house will be taken away by them. After all, the company won't risk offending Huatian Group over a single storefront, and in the end, she'll be the one to suffer personally.

  "Yiyang, shall we take a look around and change places?"

  Liu Gang suddenly understood everything, sighed, and slowly shook his head. This house had been targeted by the powerful, and even if he liked it, it would be useless.

  "No swap, why should we swap? We came first, so we should be reasonable. You come over, don't you have the agency rights? Contact their people immediately, and we'll pay now and sign the contract!"

  Ouyang Xuan suddenly shouted, her face still puffed up with anger. The acne-ridden boy looked up, took two steps forward, and after getting a clear look at Ouyang Xuan, his mouth immediately fell agape.

  They didn't know that in the Mercedes-Benz on the road outside the house, there was a person frowning and looking inside. He was sitting in the car, and from the outside, you couldn't see inside, so naturally he wouldn't notice him either.