Beauty Comprehensive 1999

Chapter 16 Melinda

He took out the key to unlock the door and pushed open the glass door of the coffee shop with a typical federal decoration style. The clear doorbell rang, but no waiter came out to say hello.

Xie Zihao walked to the bar, put down the large and small bags first, raised his wrist and looked at his watch, and found that it was already past twelve o'clock, and he had just been delayed a little by the two gangsters.

So I quickly walked to the back door of the store and sent everything back upstairs.

In fact, those who live upstairs usually go upstairs through the shops below because it is more convenient. However, Xie Zihao these days goes out to do things that cannot be seen in the light, and the store has to be locked at night.

So we all went around to the back of the apartment and took the stairs there to go straight to the third floor, so as not to disturb the tenants on the second floor by taking the stairs inside.

Each house behind this row of apartments has an external staircase that you can go up, which is also a safe passage for the apartments.

Xie Zihao worked hard for half an hour. He took out the frozen dumplings from the refrigerator and paired them with a plate of cold cucumbers. He had some fried dumplings for lunch. He was sitting in front of the window on the third floor with a cup of tea to eat, looking down.

As people were passing by, I suddenly saw a medium-sized van and a Beetle parked in front of my downstairs door.

He immediately knew that the person he was waiting for had arrived.

I walked downstairs and walked out of the store on the first floor.

Then I saw a woman wearing a black dress, no more than 160cm tall, getting off the Beetle and smiling at Xie Zihao.

"Hello, you must be Mr. Lance Sherman, right? Melinda Wilson, your new tenant!"

The beauty extended her hand to him generously and introduced herself.

Xie Zihao's heart skipped a beat because this Melinda Wilson really excelled in his aesthetic sense.

Melinda, who looks to be in her twenties, is a beauty with a height of 160cm. She may not be particularly outstanding in Lao Mi's side, but she fits Xie Zihao's standards very well. She has an oval face, big watery eyes, and a look as pitiful as a deer's.

, although she does not have a cherry mouth, she does not have the big-mouthed beauties commonly seen in Europe and the United States. In addition, she has a slender figure that can be regarded as bulging forward and backward. She is definitely the best among pure lustful and sweet-hearted girls.

Even the men passing by on the street, ranging from middle-aged men in their thirties to forties, to girls in their fifteenth or sixteenth year, all stared at Melinda as if they wanted to eat someone.

Who said that Eastern and Western aesthetics are different? Isn’t this quite the same?

Fortunately, Xie Zihao's concentration was extraordinary after practicing. He was just stunned for a moment before he came back to his senses and gently shook the opponent's slender hand. The hand was cooler than ordinary people and felt very good.

The beautiful woman opposite said habitually:

"Sorry, my hands are cold!"

"It doesn't matter, the weather is so hot now."

Xie Zihao said, but there was a surprise in his heart.

Because this woman looks very similar to Jennifer Love Hewitt, an American beauty star he liked in his previous life, and she looks younger, more beautiful and slightly taller.

Then he opened his mouth and asked deliberately and tentatively:

"Mrs. Wilson, isn't Mr. Wilson here?"

Melinda smiled and said:

"If you're asking about my father, I'm sorry he's still in Oakland. Also, please call me Miss Wilson!"

Xie Zihao felt happy in his heart. Isn’t the beautiful lady getting married? That’s great!

"So Miss Wilson is single?"

Melinda Wilson looked at Xie Zihao with interest, looked at the fair and handsome face that looked a little childish, and then said with a smile:

"Mr. Sherman seems to be still a student, right? If you want to date me, it would be better to wait a few more years!"

Xie Zihao frowned. He remembered that the real estate agent didn't tell him the age of the new tenant. Could it be that this person was very old? It didn't look like it?

"I'm old enough to drink, and I've graduated from college. Please don't treat me like an underage child, okay?"

Melinda quickly said in surprise:

"Oh, it turns out that Mr. Sherman, you are already twenty-one years old. I thought you were just eighteen or nineteen, or even under eighteen! Forgive me, after all, your Asian age is easily misunderstood!"

"It doesn't matter!"

"It's my fault. To express my apology, may I buy you a cup of coffee?"

"Where to go? There is a cafe opposite."

Unexpectedly, the beauty shook her head and smiled:

"I brought a full set of machines. Can we boil water in the shop now? Anyway, we have to wait for the lawyers to arrive and sign. How about you let me make a cup of coffee for you? Of course, I need to let the gentlemen in the truck move things first.

Come down."

Xie Zihao had no intention of refusing at all, he nodded quickly and said:

"my pleasure!"

So the two of them came to the side of the store, and Xie Zihao watched Melinda direct the movers to move a car full of belongings into the store.

Here in the federation, renting a house is a very serious matter. Generally, a lawyer must be hired to take a look, and the contract must be strictly followed. Tenants are not allowed to sublet the house privately. Once such behavior is discovered, all

You will face prosecution and heavy fines, and in serious cases, jail time.

After a while, lawyers and real estate agents from both sides will come over and accompany the landlord and tenant to sign the contract.

Xie Zihao left all these contracts and other matters to his parents' acquaintance, John Zhou, who worked in a law firm on this street. Although the other party would not pay special attention to him, they would not deliberately cheat him. After all, they are all neighbors.

, the credibility of more than ten years cannot be destroyed in our hands.

They are all standard charges, so who doesn’t use them?

Therefore, Xie Zihao did not rashly change some of his original decisions.

John Zhou's sister happened to be a real estate agent. After the former tenant quit the lease, Xie Zihao simply entrusted the other party to list the property for rent. Unexpectedly, there was a new tenant within half a month. The other party did not come in person, but only hired a lawyer.

I paid a deposit after taking a look at it.

It looks like this Melinda is in a hurry to move in, Xie Zihao thought thoughtfully.

In fact, the original owner of the cafe had rented a house with the Xie family for five or six years, and the relationship was not bad. He also took care of Xie Zihao after the Xie family and his wife had an accident.

It's just that business has been really sluggish this year. In the early years, on this street surrounded by many Chinese restaurants, the cafe's business was pretty good. Excluding the rent, the annual income earned was slightly higher than that of ordinary working-class people.

However, with the development of the times and the rise of second and third generations of young immigrants, most of this street is occupied by Tang people, and the number of Western-style fast food and cafes has gradually increased. Coupled with the approaching of the millennium, the number of young people has gradually increased.

The pace of life has also become relatively fast, so convenient fast food and simple meals in American cafes have become the best choices for office workers to solve breakfast and lunch.

This seems to be a good thing. The previous tenant also chose to expand the store and rent the first floor of Xie's house after seeing the future. However, this trend has further squeezed the business of the old-school Italian cafe downstairs of Xie's house.

In the past two years, only regular customers have come here to dine regularly, so the first-floor store with a usable area of ​​nearly 80 square meters is a bit empty for the current cafe business.

So the original owner couldn't afford the rent here and was planning to move the cafe to a smaller store in another neighborhood. This was an idea that the cafe owner had been considering for some time. In the past, the business could still be maintained, but now the situation is different.

Since the past two months, I have discovered that after calculating the rent and various expenses, he still has to pay dozens of pounds every month. Although it is not much, it is not feasible to continue like this.

So last month he mentioned to Xie Yuanshen about vacating the lease. After Xie Zihao traveled through time, considering that Yuanshen got along quite happily with the tenant, he agreed and allowed the other party to move out without much delay.

What to say, I happily returned the deposit.

Anyway, his store is in a good location and he doesn't have to worry about renting it.

In Xie Zihao's opinion, his three-story building is now definitely considered a good asset.

Although the federal economy seemed to be on the rise last year and this year, due to the economic crisis in the Far East, many rich people in the East suffered considerable losses, leading to more and more wealthy Asians choosing to immigrate to the Federation, and illegal immigrants who came here illegally

It also increased significantly in a short period of time.

As the Golden State with the largest number of Asian immigrants, it is the largest area in the federal states affected by this. Although Pasadena, as a city where Chinese people live, cannot be said to be full because of this, a large number of low-income people have poured in at a time.

, some low-cost businesses such as restaurants, convenience stores and small workshops have begun to collapse, and it is a fact that they are all harder to do than in previous years.

On the contrary, the real estate industry is bullish.

However, Xie Zihao knew that if he was right, a large number of foreign immigrants would choose to enter the White Eagle Federation, the world's largest economic power, in the next ten years or so. And the two major metropolitan areas of the Golden State on the west coast, San Francisco and Los Angeles,

Definitely the first choice for Chinese people and Asian immigrants.

Please read it and read the last chapter!

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