Migratory birds

(134).

Beijing not only welcomed me with a heavy snow, but also gave me a great gift.

After many rounds of negotiations, shanty town landlords finally signed an agreement with the government on compensation related to demolition. That means we happy Place tenants have to make it a priority to find a new place to live.

In fact, some people spread the rumor that Happy Apartment would be demolished after the New Year. However, the landlord went door to door, patting her chest and assuring us: “If she is here, the house is here.”

Who bear just over the New Year, the landlord old lady changed a face. In Huang fei’s words, there was no one more calculating than his aunt, who did not want to lose any rent and wished that a bulldozer had come to the door of the apartment and torn down one room before she could give up one.

Just after graduating from college, Lao Pan and I came to the village to look at the houses. At that time, someone said they would be demolished. Two years had passed. The delay in demolishing the shantytown, which sits at odds with the surrounding high-rise buildings, is said to have been caused by greedy landlords who have refused to budge on excessive prices.

Now, it is finally agreed that the government will have new land to sell, developers will have new buildings to build, landlords will have a lot of money to collect, and luxury car shops will have a lot of buying power…… Everyone is happy.

Many people’s rental contracts have not yet expired, and landlords who evict people early are in breach of contract and have to pay compensation. But from the landlord’s tone, compensation is out of the question. She said she didn’t care if people didn’t want to leave because there would be no water or electricity in another ten days and a half.

Getting the deposit back from her landlord was a good result, but most chose to swallow their bitter pill and find another way out.

The fitness eldest brother liuli that always talks with fist is not very unconvinced however, he is chasing landlord old lady to ask for compensation. Huang fei is also full of complaints. His aunt said a lot of bad things about him to her family during the Spring Festival, and he was the worst at it to make her sick.

Qianglong difficult pressure ground snake, liuli with Huang Fei where to fight the landlord old lady. After several fights, both men were defeated.

Liuli consider again and again, chose not to leave here ye, ye own, he directly rolled up back home. He plans to use his expertise to open a gym in his hometown county. Really hope for many years north drifts to learn art, what he brings back home is scientific and effective fitness way, not roll money to run away wretched routine.

Huang fei fell out with his aunt and moved to the south city. He rented a bungalow in Daxing Huang Village for 900 yuan a month, which was relatively cheap. In two months, he will graduate from an IT training institute. Recently, he was worried that he would not find a suitable job and the money he had invested would be wasted.

Getting a place to live is every wanderer’s dream, especially when rent is rising or you’re packing up and moving. But now, no matter how big Beijing is and how many houses there are, there is no place for me. Ann mansion tens of millions, dabie north drift all happy yan.

I had to work during the day, and only at night and on weekends could I find a new place to live. It is difficult to buy a house in the imperial capital, and renting is not easy. False housing, deceptive intermediary, deposit is difficult to return…… There are traps everywhere.

I collect house information on the Internet, a number of phone calls in the past, most of them are intermediaries. During my years in the imperial capital, I heard too many stories of rent-seekers pitting their wits against unscrupulous agents. Therefore, my first rule of apartment hunting is to go directly to the landlord and never to an agent.

Never underestimate the creative power of unscrupulous agents and primary landlords to swindle and kidnap. They actively practice the purpose of “all benefits belong to me, you bear the risk”, and keep up with the development of The Times on the road of oppressing tenants.

I visited more than a dozen houses. I was so dazzled that I had a headache. Each of these houses has its own features, but each has its faults. House hunting is a great test of one’s patience, and I’m not one of them.

(135).

Another night when the moon was covered by smog.

I have an appointment with a landlord to see the house. The house is about one kilometer away from xi Erqi subway station. It is a two-bedroom, and I want the second bedroom. Second bedroom’s listed online for $2,000 a month, three for one. B: The rent isn’t too expensive, according to the market.

Before you leave, plan to get the rental deal done tonight, no matter what. Apartment hunting has seriously affected my daily life and work.

As promised, I arrived at the gate of the community where the house was located. The neighborhood is old but quiet, mostly populated by elderly people. I stood in the wind and waited for the owner.

A few minutes later, a middle-aged woman in pajamas and curly hair came into view. A north wind came, and she gathered her coat tightly around her and quickened her pace. She stopped at my feet and asked, trembling, “Do you want to see the house?”

I nodded again and again, but a flicker of doubt crept into my mind. In front of the landlord elder sister holding a thick northeast dialect, more hesitating is her hand also carrying a bunch of keys. Is she not the owner but the agent or principal landlord?

The more I thought about it, the more suspicious I became, and I backed off. But I had a prior appointment with someone else, and I was too embarrassed to turn around and leave. Can only brave scalp, followed the northeast elder sister into the community, thought that the big deal is not rent, see also no loss.

The house is located on the first floor of a six-story board building, and it is very similar to Wang Xu’s wedding room, a standard glasses room. Sparrow is small, small living room, small kitchen, small toilet, small bedroom. Precious is still equipped washing machine in the sitting room, refrigerator, microwave oven.

Wayan searched through a pile of keys for the key to her second bedroom. After trying several keys, she finally unlocked the door. She turned on the wall lamp and got a good view of the second bedroom.

The room was clean and empty except for a single bed and a small wardrobe. There was a gap of about a metre between the bed and the wardrobe, just enough to fit galen’s villa. There was an east-facing window, wrapped in a guardrail, that allowed for potted flowers and laundry to hang.

I grew a little fond of the small bedroom. But the bright key in Wayan’s hand made me worry.

“If I may ask, is this your own room?” I made an inadvertent remark.

The smile on wayan’s face faded in an instant. “Of course,” she said impatiently, frowning.

Still guarded, she pulled a red estate book from her nightgown pocket and handed it to me. I must have been the only person to ask similar questions.

I leafed through the book and examined it carefully. But I had never seen a real estate book before, so I couldn’t tell. However, in terms of the printing quality and brand-new degree of the real estate book, there is really a suspicion of fraud.

“This house must be 30 years old?” “I asked casually, pretending to scan the surrounding walls.

“Something like that.” Wayan was leaning against the door, her arms wrapped around her, not looking at me.

“So your house would have been new enough?”

“What do you mean? To rent or not to rent?” Wayan snatched the property from my hand and stuffed it in her pocket, her voice rising in arrogance.

Suddenly, an old woman of more than 60 years old came out of the master bedroom. The old lady’s head is very tall, almost 180. She’s the tallest old lady I’ve ever seen.

The old lady smiled at me and said, “Young man, the landlord is very nice. We have been renting here for more than a year.”

I wondered if I was going to live with an old woman over sixty. If so, our schedules are bound to be conflicted.

“I don’t live here,” she explained. “My son lives with his girlfriend. They’ve gone abroad, so I’ve come to help them clean the house.”

“Aunt Zhang. You let the children do their own work. You are tired of worrying here and there at your age.” Wayan seems to know old lady very well.

“I just came to feed the baby’s cat.” The old woman suddenly turned to look at me with a smile on her face. “Oh, by the way, young man, we have two orange cats, do you mind?”

The old lady has a good face, which makes people feel very close. I shook my head and said, “No, I have a blue cat myself. It’s good to be afraid people will mind when you’re looking.”

“My wife and I live in Building 9 in this community. Now young people don’t want to live with old people, so my old couple rented this room for them.” The old woman was talking to me.

I looked up at the old woman and nodded politely.

Maybe I talked with the old lady on the right way, the words showed some intention to rent a house, the elder sister’s attitude towards me was a little more friendly.

She explained to me, “Young man, after the sale of the house, the buyer needs to replace the ownership. I just bought the house for less than two years, and the new ownership certificate has just been issued, so it looks very new.”

“Oh, I see. I’m sorry, I don’t understand that.” I nodded guiltily.

“Well, go home and think about it, but give me your answer as soon as possible. I’m not sure if you want it. It’s not booked yet.” Wayan reminds me as she walks me out the door.

So says almost every landlord during an open house, a tactic they use to create panic.

(136).

Within a few days, the wall of the happy apartment was painted with several big “demolition” words, and there were excavators and bulldozers. We’re running out of time for a bunch of tenants.

Most of the tenants in the apartment have found a good place to go, but most of them still choose to stick to Beijing. After all, for many people, it’s not easy to change cities, change jobs and start all over again.

After some consideration, I finally rented that second bedroom from the Northeast big sister. Before always imagined that after the salary must move into the building, have bathroom, washing machine, refrigerator, a good life in the kitchen. Now this small goal should be realized immediately, but some do not give up parting.

All men are more or less slaves of habit, bound tight or loose by habit. During the hundreds of days I lived in the Happy Apartment, my life went round and round.

The monotonous life made me sum up many survival skills. I know when there are squatters in the public toilet of my apartment, I know when there are fewer people at the subway entrance, AND I can even estimate the traffic flow of the road outside after midnight……

But life doesn’t always turn out the way you want it to. Migratory birds can’t change the temperature around them, so they have to migrate to survive. Are we at the bottom of the society?

Over the weekend, I hired a gold cup van online to help me move. I thought I didn’t have much, but I found that the van wouldn’t fit in one trip. It’s double for two trips. In order to save $80, I had to throw away some belongings that I didn’t need at the moment and that I had been reluctant to give up.

The adjustment period in a new environment is always difficult. Galen and I moved into our new house, and for the first few days he was a little timid, hiding under the bed and refusing to come out.

I bought a pan online and made it a goal to get up early every morning to fry eggs and eat breakfast. But this goal lasted less than a week, and it ended in failure. Warm warm bed is imprisoning me from beginning to end, that lazy person in my heart seems to lack sleep forever.

On a blustery morning, I was lying soundly in bed, wrapped in a quilt, when I was awakened by the sound of objects colliding in the living room. Sleepily, I opened the door and took a look, only to find that the garden was full of spring scenery. A man and a woman came into my eyes.

A man and a woman in the living room were hugging each other. They kissed each other, the man’s hand groping over the woman’s, her eyes closed and her face flushed.

Love honey meaning, live color fragrance. I was instantly awake.

“Fuck you.” The bear-like hero suddenly opened his eyes and let out a cry.

His hand slipped out of the lady’s jacket with the speed of a flash. He exhaled slowly, trying to calm his restlessness.

From his size and appearance, Xiong da must be the tall old woman’s biological son. He is about 190 centimeters tall, slightly puffy, with a square face and black-framed glasses. That size and size on the road will definitely make a lot of heads turn.

The heroine didn’t know why. She stood up and opened her eyes so they met mine. For a moment, she blushed with shame, covered her face with her hands and hid behind xiong, looking as if she had lost her reputation.

She was about the same size as me, with a ponytail on her head, a gray down jacket and flesh-colored silk stockings wrapped around her legs. Great figure, but looks really very average, is a senior figure killer. Age is not particularly old, but it gives a person a kind of old cucumber brush green paint – installed tender feeling.

“Hello, I’m a new resident.” I turned my eyes away from the two of them, as if I were a gentleman.

“Welcome, I’m really sorry to disturb your rest, I didn’t think the first bedroom was rented out so soon.” Bear apologize again and again, full Beijing accent.

He turned and took the key from his pocket to open the master bedroom door. Xu is nervous, groped for a long time did not succeed.

“How can you be so stupid?” The heroine has a whine voice, like a sheep. The first time I think of another famous cartoon protagonist — Beautiful Sheep.

Beautiful Goat pushed bear to one side, holding the key, bent his head to open the door, and fiddled for a long time, the door finally opened. Two people pull a suitcase quickly into the house, then only hear the master bedroom vaguely spread the sharp cry of the Beautiful sheep.

I feel bad about screwing up other people’s business. I hid in bed, silently read the Buddhist sutra “color is not different empty, empty is not different color. Color is empty, empty is color.”

Count sheep, debug code in mind…… I tried everything, but I couldn’t sleep. So I lit up my phone and searched for a little movie to cleanse myself of what I’d just seen.

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