Reborn as a landlord in Shanghai

Chapter 41 Three Candidates

However, finding a trustworthy person to do this job is really not easy.

First, you definitely can't hire people from Shanghai. After all, this kind of thing doesn't require any special skills and is too easy to imitate. People from Shanghai are locals and have a huge advantage. If you let them do it, Mao Xiaoyu will have another competitor in a few days. So, the best way to do this is to hire people from other places.

But it's not easy to find people from other places. You can't just randomly pick someone from another place and you won't know them well. You can't find someone from another place you know very well either.

Of the people he knew, the ones he was closest to were Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei. In fact, Mao Xiaoyu had thought about having Zhang Fei, one of the Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, help him with his work.

But Old Zhang has already rented an apartment and has his own bed.

If he were to manage two properties on his own, I doubt he would be able to fill both spaces with tenants.

If, in the end, his house is fully booked while his own house only has half the people each day, then that will be a problem.

Another reason is that it's difficult to pay Lao Zhang his salary.

The current fee for introducing a tenant is 20 yuan per person. If you need him to bring in tenants and arrange for them to rent, then 20 yuan per person is definitely too little. But if you give him 30 or 40 yuan, then how can you make any money?

After all, I have to pay for my own water, electricity, and gas bills. I spent so much money to buy this house, and I was here to make money, not to do someone else's favor.

Therefore, Mao Xiaoyu ultimately rejected hiring Lao Zhang. In Mao Xiaoyu's view, she only needed to find someone who only paid 3000 yuan a month, provided room and board, and who did not have great ambitions to do this job for her.

More importantly, you need to know him well so you don't fall for a scammer. And most importantly, he has to be a man.

As for why a man is preferred, it's because women might cause problems. Also, when young women are recruiting tenants, the physical contact can easily lead to misunderstandings. More importantly, when women show tenants around the house, unnecessary things can easily happen.

Furthermore, men can easily find a bed to sleep in, but it's not necessarily safe for young women to sleep in such a place at night. Renting an additional apartment specifically for women would be too costly.

Therefore, to avoid unnecessary trouble and to save time, Mao Xiaoyu's goal was to hire a man who was willing to do this job.

Of course, such people are not easy to find. Mao Xiaoyu thought that if it didn't work out, she would find someone from her hometown to work for her. After all, her hometown was in another place, and she had lived there for more than ten years. She knew the people there a little, so it would be easier to manage them.

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Because she had an idea, Mao Xiaoyu spent the afternoon trying to find someone to come from her hometown. After all, Mao Xiaoyu had graduated for more than half a year, and her classmates were either in school or apprentices. They couldn't just sit at home playing, so she had to think more about who to bring over.

Finally, after busying herself until the house was full of tenants that evening, Mao Xiaoyu decided to hire someone from among her classmates and friends from her hometown.

As for why it was classmates and friends, and not other people, the main reason was that they were recruiting other people. People from the hometown thought that Mao Jun had brought people over to work. If they came over and asked Mao Jun about this, wouldn't Mao Xiaoyu be exposed?

In Mao Xiaoyu's view, the only way to distance herself from her father is to hire her classmates and friends to work for her.

As for who to recruit, Mao Xiaoyu had three candidates in mind.

The first person I chose was my classmate, Ji Fei.

Ji Fei's real name is Gong Fei. He and Mao Xiaoyu were classmates in the first and second years of junior high school and were about the same age. However, their relationship was not very good, but it was not bad either; it was just an average relationship.

As for why Mao Xiaoyu thought of him, it was mainly because this guy had been a pathetic figure in his previous life.

In her past life, Mao Xiaoyu would go back to her hometown when she had nothing to do. Every time she went back, she would see him. At that time, he worked odd jobs in town and earned only enough money to eat and drink. This guy never seriously learned a skill.

The main reason for his situation was that his father died in a work accident when he was in the second year of junior high school. His mother was irresponsible; she took the compensation money after her husband's death and didn't care about her son's future at all. Therefore, when he graduated from junior high school, no one cared about him, and he could only find odd jobs in town to earn a couple thousand yuan to make a living.

Furthermore, with his father's death leaving the family without any able-bodied members and his mother not being particularly hardworking, the house remained dilapidated. In such a family, women were even less likely to visit. Therefore, in his previous life, this guy was still a bachelor in his thirties or forties.

In addition, Gong Fei was short and skinny, like a chick. He gave people the impression of being small, insecure, and irresponsible. Some people felt that being friends with him was beneath them, so he didn't have many friends to help him. This also led to his miserable life in his previous life.

As for why Mao Xiaoyu thought of this person, it's mainly because this person left a very deep impression on Mao Xiaoyu in her past life, which is why Mao Xiaoyu thought of him.

Although Mao Xiaoyu felt that this kind of person was not very promising, he was just right to be used by her, and Mao Xiaoyu's good heart was stirred up, so she wanted to give him a hand.

As for the second candidate, it was the brother of one of Mao Xiaoyu's female classmates.

Seriously, it was a female classmate, not a girlfriend. You could tell from Mao Xiaoyu's junior high school graduation that he wasn't a very good student. Moreover, he repeated a grade in the third grade because of illness when he was young, so he was a year older than his classmates. While others graduated from junior high school at sixteen, Mao Xiaoyu graduated at seventeen.

As for the female classmate mentioned, her name is Liu Liya, and her brother's name is Liu Yong. Their home is actually only a few minutes away from Mao Xiaoyu's grandparents' home, which is very close.

In addition, Liu Yong was only two years older than Mao Xiaoyu. This age difference was nothing when they were young. Moreover, Mao Xiaoyu was slightly taller than the average child, so the two were about the same height when they stood together. Therefore, the two had a really good relationship.

In addition, his personality is very similar to Mao Xiaoyu's; they both like to play. This resulted in his grades in school being just like Mao Xiaoyu's, often failing. So after graduating from junior high school, his parents sent him to enlist in the army in order to change his personality. He served for two years and came back last year.

However, since Mao Xiaoyu came to Shanghai last July, and Liu Yong only retired from the army in September, Mao Xiaoyu didn't run into him. If you count the time, it's been about three years since they last met.

Based on his past life's trajectory, this guy only served two years of compulsory military service, so he didn't have much experience. When he came back to be assigned a job, he could only be assigned a job as a gatekeeper.

In other words, this guy is still working as a gatekeeper for the government. To be honest, this kind of job is really hard to describe. After all, many of his colleagues are elderly people in their fifties or sixties. It's such a waste for a young guy to be a gatekeeper.

As for what Mao Xiaoyu knew from her previous life, this guy worked as a gatekeeper for a year, but eventually couldn't take it anymore. He quit his job and went out to find work. He worked four or five jobs and eventually became a chef. He even ran a restaurant, but it failed. After getting married, he opened a small restaurant in his hometown serving home-style dishes.

In her past life, every time Mao Xiaoyu went back, she would go to his place for a meal. The two of them would eat, chat, and reminisce about their youth. As for this guy's life in his past life, it was neither good nor bad; he was just an ordinary person.

And now is the time when this guy is most bored. Mao Xiaoyu thinks that if she calls him and tells him that she has found him a job in Shanghai, he might actually come over. After all, Shanghai is a big city, and there are more job opportunities here than at home. Besides, she has already found a job for him.

Besides, his job as a gatekeeper only pays a little over 1000 yuan a month. What's so great about it? A young man in his early twenties doing this kind of work must be quite embarrassing for him.

As for the third candidate, it's Li Gang!!!

How should I put it? This person was also Mao Xiaoyu's childhood playmate, but among all of Mao Xiaoyu's playmates, he was the least noticeable one.

He is two years older than Mao Xiaoyu, and is already 20 years old this year. However, he is Liu Yong's classmate and they have a good relationship, at least better than Mao Xiaoyu and Li Gang.

Li Gang was born into a family that sold vegetables. He was his parents' biological son and the eldest son in the family.

Does that sound a little strange? Well, that's normal.

As for the strangeness, it's mainly due to the family environment.

This guy was probably born with some kind of illness in his parents, so he was born with a limp. As for his speech and behavior, he's fine. At most, he has a slight lisp, but otherwise he's not much different from ordinary people.

Because of this problem, his parents adopted another child when he was two years old. The adopted child was a normal child.

The problem is that a normal child, whether in school or in terms of obedience, is better than Li Gang, who has polio. In addition, Li Gang's appearance is similar to his parents and he is not good-looking, which makes Li Gang's status in the family slightly lower than that of his younger brother.

After graduating from junior high school, this guy has been selling vegetables in town like his parents for the past few years. Unfortunately, although he has a stall and has been selling vegetables for several years, his parents control all the money he earns from selling vegetables, and he doesn't get any money for himself.

Don't let his age fool you; he probably doesn't even have 5 yuan in his pocket. He's quite pitiful.

As for why Mao Xiaoyu thought of him, it was mainly because in her previous life, this guy committed suicide early on.

It's quite sad to think about. If a healthy child and a disabled child grow up together and are compared, and if the parents show a little favoritism, the mental pressure on Li Gang must be immense.

In addition, given his physical ailments, people's thoughts can sometimes easily go to extremes. Perhaps Li Gang wanted to prove himself better than his younger brother, so he will start working in the second half of this year, around September next year. He will return home and ask his parents for 100,000 yuan to start a business.

Although his parents had the money, and Li Gang had been selling vegetables at home for four years and probably earned that amount, Li Gang felt it was only natural to ask his parents for the money. After all, most parents would say, "I'll save it for you, and you can ask for it when you need it later," when they receive money from their children.

However, when Li Gang returned to ask for the money, his parents refused. After arguing for a whole day, they gave him 10,000 yuan. Li Gang sat by the river all night with the 10,000 yuan, then jumped into the river without taking the money and drowned.

When he was finally discovered, it was because his clothes, shoes, and money were left there, but he was missing. After a large-scale search, his body was finally pulled from the river by a grappling hook after 18 hours, but he was already dead by then.

After he died, many legends about Li Gang emerged. Some said he worked at Yi Niao in Zhejiang Province for a year, felt the wholesale business was profitable, and wanted to invest 10 yuan to start his own wholesale business. However, his parents disagreed, feeling ashamed to return to Yi Niao, and in a moment of despair, he died.

Some people say he got involved in a pyramid scheme and was scammed, so when he came back to ask his parents for 10 yuan, it wasn't for business, but actually for the pyramid scheme. His parents thought their son was stupid and easily fooled, so they didn't give it to him. He felt there was no point in going back, so he committed suicide.

Of course, all of the above are just legends. As for the reason why a young man in his twenties sat by the river all night and then died, whatever the reason, it is a tragedy in itself.

In her past life, Mao Xiaoyu also found it unbelievable when she heard about this. How could such a cheerful person do something so extreme? How disappointed must she have been in her parents?

And this disappointment is not a single disappointment; it must have accumulated over time until the person was utterly devastated and felt like dying.

As for his parents, they continued doing business as before, but never talked about their son. His adopted brother also got into university. As for what would happen to the family in the future, no one knew. After all, Mao Xiaoyu was in Shanghai and couldn't care less about other people's lives.

Now that Mao Xiaoyu has been reborn, she wants to find people from her hometown to help her. That's why she thought of these three people. After all, she has a good relationship with these three people. She couldn't help them in her previous life, but she really wants to help them in this life.

That's why Mao Xiaoyu was thinking of calling the three of them that evening to see who was willing to come over. Of course, if all three were willing to come, that would be fine too.

If all else fails, just send two people to work at a real estate agency. As for the apartments where they work at the agency, with all the houses I'm going to buy, do you really think I'll have trouble finding them a place to live?