Man Lu

Mrs. Gu packed up the bowls of quick pots at home and took them away.The old lady Gu asked Weimin and Jiemin to pawn the second-hand clothes that she bought before, as well as the clothes that were not really useful and had no commemorative value.

At dawn, all the Gu family evacuated from the Gu family's house except Man Lu.Manlu bought ten buckets of paint and seven brushes.Four buckets of white paint for the walls and two buckets of reddish brown for the furniture.

Gu's house was to be leased to others, and Mrs. Gu was very reluctant to part with it. She was very worried that the tenant would discard the layout and furniture of the house.In order to take care of the old lady's wish, she stayed to do the following work.Of course, the rest of the Gu family didn't know that she stayed to do this job, and she lied that she was handing over to the tenant.

Man Lu's current physique is not comparable to that of ordinary people, and staying with the Gu family will only help.

The Gu family cleaned up the sanitation before leaving.This saved Manlu a lot of trouble.After she saw that the Gu family had all left, she immediately put on the men's clothes she had prepared, and then moved all the furniture to the middle of the room, covered them with newspapers, strung up and down the window frames and door frames, and then painted the walls.

Man Lu was working hard, and the five members of Gu's family entered the mansion in the French Concession, and everyone except Manzhen was stunned.When Mrs. Gu and the Gu family boy heard that Mrs. Gu said they were moving, they thought they were moving to a smaller place. Now that they saw it before them, they couldn't believe that they could live in a foreign-style building in the foreign concession.

It was still the old lady Gu who was so shocked that she came back to her senses very quickly, sent Mrs. Gu and the Gu family boys to look at their room, and then tidied up their belongings.

The two boys and two sisters of the Gu family still lived on the second floor, while Mrs. Gu and Mrs. Gu lived on the first floor.The bungalow has two bedrooms on the first floor and a small study, four bedrooms on the second floor and a large study.In this way, each of the six members of the Gu family has a room of their own.There are also two worker's rooms at the back of the bungalow, both of which are equipped with toilets.According to Manzhen's instructions, the Gu family put the old things that have not been moved and will not be used temporarily in one of the two workers' rooms as a warehouse.

In the Gu family, the old lady Gu brought the most old clothes, and the second one was Weimin's, which was intended for Jiemin to wear.It was because when the two sisters of the Gu family left home, none of her clothes had been pawned.Mrs. Gu has already pawned off most of them, while the Gu family sisters have pawned off most of them, leaving nothing behind.The younger brothers of the Gu family have grown up in the past two years, and neither of them has bought new clothes.Most of Jiemin's clothes purchased in the past two years are not fit.

Mrs. Gu and the younger brother of the Gu family opened the closet in their room, and all three were delighted.They all heard that most of the clothes were left by the original owner, and Manlu remade part of the summer clothes for them, suitable for them to wear.Manzhen pointed out to them both new and old clothes that were newly made.Old lady Gu frowned, it was too much of a trick.

Mrs. Gu thinks that other people's old clothes are quite good, and there is no need to buy new ones.She has her own clothes and doesn't need to buy them again.In the old lady's closet, apart from the five cheongsams, Manlu chose some of the landlady's summer dark clothes and changed some for the old lady.In this way, her closet is one-third full of unmade winter clothes.The wardrobes of Mrs. Gu and the younger brother of the Gu family are four-fifths.The Gu family sisters are the most full, but the only clothes that can really be worn are summer clothes, which are less than one-tenth full.The rest are clothes from the home of the original owner's little girl.Seeing the pile of children's clothes in the Gu family's closet, the old lady frowned again, but said nothing.

Manzhen saw that the clothes of the former homeowner's girl's house were not needed and were about to be pawned, but Manlu stopped her.In front of her, Man Lu removed the decorations from the little girl's clothes and sewed them on to their clothes, which instantly added a lot of color.Using other people's clothing materials, Manlu made another dress by splicing, which is also very eye-catching.The scraps of material were then made into a headgear. Seeing this, Manzhen naturally no longer thought about pawning it off.

With such a neat collection of clothes in the room, it would be much more convenient to organize your own original clothes, and file everything in one hour.When Gu Weimin saw the probably new bicycle, he immediately pushed it up and learned to ride in the yard.

When Manlu saw the bicycle, she was excited, but when she stood in front of her to check, she found two wheels and no air at all. How could she ride this?Fortunately, the tools for repairing the bicycle were found in the warehouse, otherwise it would be a big trouble.But she didn't reach out to tidy it up, but pushed it out with Manzhen and let others repair it.When repairing the bicycle, Man Lu watched the master's hand movements without closing her eyes, while Man Zhen stood aside, secretly surprised that her elder sister would steal the master even for this.Before the two of them went to the tailor shop to look at the clothes, and when they were tailoring and making clothes, Man Lu did the same.

Mrs. Gu checked in the kitchen, and Mrs. Gu checked in the compound.She wanted to get rid of the flowers and plants and plant small vegetables and melon seedlings.If Manlu hadn't told Manzhen to look after Mrs. Gu, don't let her destroy the garden.This flower has been shoveled by two grandsons appointed by the old lady.Her old lady was very elegant before, but when elegant and hungry, she disappeared without a trace.

In the Gu family's old house, in a little over three hours, Manlu finished painting the two floors, five bedrooms, a study room, a hall, a kitchen, two bathrooms and all the door and window frames.Next is the furniture, which is arranged one by one for easy painting.All the furniture was painted and it took almost two hours.This includes even the small table in the kitchen.After finishing all this, it was only a quarter of an hour before twelve o'clock at noon.

After Man Lu tidied herself up briefly and changed into men's clothes, she took out the three sesame seed cakes she bought in the morning and poured well water for lunch.She is planning to hand over the house to the tenant today. Today is the last day of July, and the tenant will be given a two-month rent-free period. The rent will start in October, and the rent will be 30 yuan per month, paid annually.

The location and security of Gu's house are good.The people living around here are not small government servants, but also school teachers, newspaper staff, and bookstore staff are full-time people, and most of their salaries are between [-] and [-].The reason why Man Lu advocated moving was because this body had once been a dancer;

At 04:30 in the afternoon, the furniture was dry. After she put all the furniture back in place, she did the sanitation work again.After all the work was done, she smelled of paint as she expected. She took a simple cold shower, and then she changed back into women's clothes, a high school uniform.

Before 05:30, Mr. Huang followed the real estate agent and knocked on the Gu family's house.The real estate agent told him last night that the house introduced to him last week would be vacant tomorrow, and he would be able to view the house tomorrow afternoon.At this time, he came out to look at the house following the median price of the property.He was transferred from another place.He discussed with his wife, because of the current national chaos, he will not buy a house for the time being.If you don't buy a house, you can only rent it.He hasn't visited the Gu family's house. He is still staying at a friend's house now, and the whole family will come over next month.

The Gu family's house was slowly opened, and what came into view was a tall middle school girl with a somewhat resolute face, a pair of big eyes, her face and neck were tanned, and her expression was slightly serious.He just glanced at her and stopped paying attention to her.Instead, he checked the courtyard. He was a little satisfied when he entered the area, and he was even more satisfied when the courtyard door was opened.Four small vegetable fields, water spinach and potato vegetables, as well as long beans and cucumbers, and one or two pumpkins can be seen if you look closely.He was able to see these, thanks to Man Lu, if Man Lu hadn't confessed, these would have been taken away by Gu's family long ago.

As he approached the small building, he smelled a strong smell of paint from the wind just now. Mr. Huang frowned instantly, and the previous satisfaction disappeared immediately.But he quickly covered up his displeasure.He has already entered the courtyard gate, the girl's family has been waiting here for a long time, and the real estate agent is still by his side, that can't refute the face of everyone, he bites the bullet, holds his breath, and makes a plan, once he enters, he has a quick look, and immediately refuses.

Entering the building, the hall is bright and bright, the light is good, the walls are white, and even the furniture is shiny with oil.Seeing this, Mr. Huang was overjoyed.He didn't care about the smell of paint at this time, and he didn't need the little girl next to him or the real estate agent to introduce him. He looked carefully from room to room, up and down, left and right.When going up to the second floor, Man Lu didn't intend to follow, and let Mr. Huang see for himself.Mr. Huang could only be happy that the landlord did not follow him upstairs.This will make it easier for him to see more clearly.The real estate agent followed him up the stairs slowly. The stairs and handrails were just painted, and he walked all the way, touching them all the way.Twenty minutes later, Mr. Huang came down from upstairs.

Mr. Huang is very satisfied, the walls are white, and the furniture is repainted to look like new, so he only needs to buy furniture and kitchen utensils.In this case, there is no need to re-purchase furniture, which can save at least two or three hundred yuan.He couldn't believe it, is the rent really 30 yuan?Although it is an annual payment.

Now the housing supply in Shanghai is tight, he has been in Shanghai for more than a month and nearly two months, and he has only been able to see two apartments. The location, environment and facilities in the building before are far from here.If you really want to rent one of the two sets, you will have to spend another sum of renovation and furniture costs. If you can't move in immediately after the renovation, you will have to pay another month's rent.And the rent has been called 35 yuan.It was those two houses. Last night, the real estate agent told him that the houses had been rented out by others. Except for the suite, he didn't have a house that met his requirements.This set is still the owner of the house and has requirements for the tenants, so it's his turn.

The three of them sat on the small side of the hall, and Mr. Huang listened to Man Lu and agreed on the rent and lease period as originally negotiated.Calculated in this way, it is equivalent to the landlord returning a rent-free period of two months. This is such a good thing that renting a house has a rent-free period has never been heard. Mr. Huang immediately paid an annuity of 360 in front of the real estate agency Yuan gave Manlu, and happily accepted the rent receipt and six sets of building keys handed over by Manlu.He thought that the landlord's old lady might come back to check the house, and he didn't take it seriously at all, and he agreed.The old man is nostalgic, which he understands very well.At the same time, he is naturally willing to rent a house where the owner is easy to talk to.

After the handover was over, it was nearly six o'clock. Man Lu hurried to the French Concession, leaving behind her tenants and real estate agents.

Seeing Man Lu leave the house, Mr. Huang also left with the real estate agent.The house has to be vacant for a month before moving in.He just needs to have a house when his family comes in September, and that doesn't bother him at all.On the way back, he cut half a catty of pork belly and bought a bottle of white wine. Today he had to celebrate it.

Mr. Huang had some complaints about the house of a dancing girl introduced to him by the real estate agency before, but he no longer minded after failing to find a suitable house for more than a month or two.Then he learned that the dancer and her younger sister were both admitted to Fudan at the same time, and he was relieved.

On the way, Mr. Huang learned from the real estate agent that the girl just now was actually the eldest sister of the Gu family. He thought it was the younger sister of the Gu family.The elder sister of the Gu family gave people the impression that she was a lady of every family, with no sense of dust.Looking young, she really looks like a high school girl.

A little tired, Man Lu hailed a rickshaw and headed straight for the French Concession.

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