Rebirth of Siheyuan starts in the 1980s

Chapter 560 My neighbor is a female star?

Author: Tang Juyi

Chapter 560 My neighbor is a female star?

"No, Section Chief Tomioka, is this the house you found for me?" Cao Zhiqiang looked at the somewhat familiar building and frowned subconsciously.

"Yes, this is the house I found for you." Nobuo Tomioka chuckled, "According to your requirements, this is the house here that best meets the conditions."

"Is there no other choice?" Cao Zhiqiang asked.

Nobuo Tomioka smiled and shook his head: "Cao Sang, renting a house is not that simple. It doesn't mean that if you want to rent a house, you can rent it immediately.

What's more, you have many requirements and the price must be appropriate. This is already the best house I can find so far.

Furthermore, we have already arrived, and the landlord has made an appointment and is waiting for us to come to the door. It doesn’t seem good if we don’t go now.

How about you come with me to have a look first and then tell me if you are not satisfied?"

Upon hearing what the other party said, Cao Zhiqiang said nothing more and just nodded lightly.

However, after Cao Zhiqiang followed Nobuo Tomioka to the third floor and saw a familiar house number, his expression finally changed.

Yes, that room No. 3301 near the stairs is the house where Akina Nakamori lives.

Cao Zhiqiang was here last time, only a few days ago, so he is relatively familiar with this place.

Fortunately, Nobuo Tomioka did not stop in front of Room 3301, but continued to walk forward until he reached Room 3302 next door, then stopped and rang the doorbell.

"Mrs. Matsumoto!" Nobuo Tomioka shouted, who rang the doorbell, "I am Mr. Tomioka who contacted you before. I am now bringing someone to view the house."

Soon, a young woman's voice came from inside: "Please wait a moment, I'll be right back."

Soon, the door opened, and a woman in her early thirties appeared who was a little over 1.5 meters tall. She looked ordinary, but was dressed very delicately. She wore gold and silver, and her family background was very good.

Seeing the woman appear, Tomioka Nobuo immediately bowed lightly, and then said with a smile: "Hello, Mrs. Matsumoto, I am Mr. Tomioka. I am here to show people the house this time. I really want to trouble you."

"Ah, okay, okay." Mrs. Matsumoto smiled and nodded, then looked at Cao Zhiqiang next to Tomioka Nobuo, and her eyes immediately lit up.

There is no way, although Cao Zhiqiang is only wearing a simple white shirt and jeans now, but he has fair skin, is tall and thin, and has a very handsome appearance, which makes him especially popular among housewives like this.

Especially the height of 1.85 meters, which was rare in Japan at this time.

"Is this the gentleman who wants to rent my house?" Mrs. Matsumoto looked at Cao Zhiqiang with a smile and asked.

Nobuo Tomioka chuckled: "Yes, that's him."

Mrs. Matsumoto blinked, and then said with a smile: "That's it, then please come in and let's talk."

After saying that, Mrs. Matsumoto opened the door completely.

"Then excuse me!" Nobuo Tomioka smiled and nodded again.

Cao Zhiqiang had no choice but to nod.

He has no choice but to do as the Romans do. Sometimes when others bow and nod, he will subconsciously follow suit. Maybe this is conformity.

After Cao Zhiqiang followed Nobuo Tomioka into the room, he immediately looked around.

How can I put it this way? The decoration of this house is really good, it is a classic Japanese modern style decoration.

To put it simply, a sunken porch is built at the entrance door, and the height difference between the upper and lower floors is at least ten centimeters.

The sunken entrance area is covered with brown floor tiles. You can change shoes, clothes, etc. in this sunken entrance area.

Above the entrance, that is, on the indoor floor, there is a wooden floor. Just by the texture of the wooden floor, you can tell that it is most likely solid wood.

In addition, there are no slippers or shoe covers here, which means you have to take off your shoes at the entrance and then go in wearing socks or barefoot.

Regarding this design, Cao Zhiqiang doesn’t know whether to say it’s good or bad.

This is great from a cleanliness perspective, but it would not be great if a guest has stinky feet, such as athlete's foot.

Fortunately, neither Mrs. Matsumoto nor Nobuo Tomioka, and of course Cao Zhiqiang himself, have athlete's foot, so there is nothing wrong with taking off your shoes and entering the house.

After entering, you are directly in the living room. The living room is decorated in a very modern style. It is not the traditional Japanese tatami. There is no need to kneel on the coffee table. Instead, there is a sofa and a coffee table. Opposite the sofa is a TV cabinet. The TV cabinet is empty, but the one in the past

There should be a TV somewhere.

Behind the sofa is a dining room with a dining table and dining chairs, and behind the dining room is an open kitchen.

The walls are covered with off-white wallpaper, and ceiling lamps are hung from the ceiling, with white energy-saving lamps inside, which is pretty good in this era.

Surprisingly, there is air conditioning here, but it is a window air conditioner. It is installed next to the window and looks like a large ventilation fan.

It seems that the air conditioner should have a separate hole in the wall and not be installed on the window.

In short, it is a relatively modern Japanese-style home decoration style according to current standards.

Well, Cao Zhiqiang is actually very familiar with this style of decoration. After all, in his previous life, he often saw similar decoration styles in romance action movies in the island country, but here it looks more lifelike.

Soon, several people were invited to sit at the dining table.

Yes, it's the dining table, not the sofa.

Because of the custom here, when outsiders come to visit, they always go to the dining room to sit on the chairs, and only family members who are very familiar with them sit on the sofa.

In fact, this is quite good. Sitting at the dining table looks more formal, and serving tea and snacks is less likely to get dirty.

Sure enough, as soon as Cao Zhiqiang and Nobuo Tomioka sat down side by side at the dining table, Mrs. Matsumoto started serving tea and snacks.

After a lot of work, after tea and snacks were served, Mrs. Matsumoto sat across from Cao Zhiqiang and Tomioka Nobuo and began the formal negotiation.

At the beginning, it was Mrs. Matsumoto who asked where Cao Zhiqiang was from, what he did for a living, how many people lived there, etc.

Cao Zhiqiang thought it was okay. After all, the other party's house seemed to be very caring at first glance. It was normal to be picky about guests.

When she heard that Cao Zhiqiang was from China and came here to be an artist and lived alone, Mrs. Matsumoto just nodded without comment.

The next step is to talk about money.

Mrs. Matsumoto’s request is 400,000 yen per month, and three months’ rent must be paid in advance.

Other water, electricity, gas and garbage bills are calculated separately and paid separately by Cao Zhiqiang.

Furthermore, the house must be taken care of and cleaned frequently. Mrs. Matsumoto will come over once a month for random inspections. If it is found that Cao Zhiqiang is not hygienic and the house is in a bad condition, she has the right to terminate the lease contract in advance.

Cao Zhiqiang said that he could accept this, but he did not talk to Mrs. Matsumoto directly. Instead, he quietly told Nobuo Tomioka and asked Nobuo Tomioka to talk to her.

Nobuo Tomioka began to bargain with Mrs. Matsumoto, and finally settled on 360,000 yen a month, with three months' rent paid in advance, and other conditions remained the same.

After the discussion, Nobuo Tomioka took out a contract from his briefcase and asked Mrs. Matsumoto and Cao Zhiqiang to sign it.

This surprised Cao Zhiqiang. He thought that signing a rental contract required the presence of a housing agent.

As a result, Nobuo Tomioka said that this kind of house leasing contract, as long as both parties agree, sign, seal or fingerprint, it is also legally binding and does not require an intermediary.

What's more, there is a third person, Nobuo Tomioka, present, so there is no problem.

In this regard, Cao Zhiqiang can only lament that the Japanese people during this period were really big-hearted.

Soon, both Cao Zhiqiang and Mrs. Matsumoto signed and stamped the document.

Of course, Cao Zhiqiang did not have a private seal in Japan, so he had his fingerprints pressed, but Mrs. Matsumoto did have a private seal.

After the contract was signed and sealed, Mrs. Matsumoto was obviously much happier, and then she began to talk endlessly about her family's affairs with the two of them.

It turns out that Mrs. Matsumoto's husband has been away on business for a long time, and she and her children are the only ones here.

Originally, Mrs. Matsumoto was quite satisfied with living here, but she wanted to change her place so that her children could go to a better school.

You may think that Cao Zhiqiang is Chinese, but Mrs. Matsumoto also specially explained the concept of school district housing here.

It turns out that at this time, public schools in Japan all enrolled students nearby. If a child wanted to go to a public school, he or she did not need a household registration. It only depended on where you lived.

If your residence is near the school and falls within the school's zoning area, then you can enroll in this school.

Although Japanese public schools do not distinguish between key and non-key points, the teaching equipment of different public schools is generally the same. The teacher rotation system has even been implemented for a long time. Both principals and teachers have to work in different schools regularly. It is said that in the world

In terms of scope, it has been very fair, but there is still the concept of school district housing.

The so-called school district housing in Japan is actually calculated according to the school district.

In other words, in general, areas with higher housing prices and higher household strata have better student quality.

After all, the richer the family, the more emphasis they place on their children’s education.

Anyone who really understands knows that for a school, the most valuable thing is the quality of students, not the hardware facilities and teaching staff.

If a school has a good student population, and they are all good children with high IQs and a love for learning, then the results will generally be good, and vice versa.

Otherwise, there would not be places like Hengshui Middle School in China in the future. It is really a method of gathering high-quality students together, which is really great in terms of the efficiency of admission.

In the same way, schools in good districts have good student quality, high enrollment rates, and high-quality classmates. If you can grow up with good classmates, when your children graduate and become adults in the future, these former classmates can be a help.

Although Shibuya looks good now, it is not a good school district after all.

To be considered a good school district in Tokyo, it has to be Bunkyo Ward, where famous schools gather. For example, the University of Tokyo is in Bunkyo Ward.

At the same time, Bunkyo Ward’s public security is also the best in Tokyo. This is the case now and will continue to be the case in the future.

Especially when a woman like Mrs. Matsumoto takes care of her children, she attaches great importance to public security. She doesn't want her children to be bullied by classmates or blackmailed by peripheral members of the Yakuza organization when they go to school.

After saying this, Mrs. Matsumoto started to talk about the hard work of a woman raising children, and at the same time, she showed off her superiority in a subtle way, such as her husband's monthly income of one million yen.

One million yen, calculated now, is almost more than 8,000 yuan. If converted to 2023, it would be more than 50,000 yuan.

This level is a reasonably high income now and in the future.

No wonder she is so proud and is willing to stay at home and take care of her children like a widow. She is given too much money.

However, Cao Zhiqiang always felt strange when he heard this.

The husband is on a business trip for a long time, and the rich wife is home alone to take care of the children. The children are in school, and the wife is home alone...

Hiss, this plot seems a bit familiar for some reason!

Sure enough, art comes from life, I am honest.

Interestingly, a telephone was installed here, but the telephone was not removed.

Mrs. Matsumoto told Cao Zhiqiang that when he lived here, he had to pay the monthly phone bill here, but he could use the phone here. However, if someone called Mrs. Matsumoto, he had to inform the other party of his rent.

Please confirm your identity as a guest and tell the other party Mrs. Matsumoto’s new phone number.

In other words, Mrs. Matsumoto gave Cao Zhiqiang her new phone number and told him with a smile that he could call her at any time if anything happened.

For some reason, when Cao Zhiqiang heard this, he always felt uncomfortable in his heart. He even felt that Mrs. Matsumoto looked at him in a wrong way, and he always felt that she had something to say.

Of course, this may be Cao Zhiqiang's illusion. After all, he watched too many movies in his previous life, and it is normal to think too much sometimes.

After all, this was the conservative 1980s, so that shouldn't be the case.

Just like that, I signed the contract in a daze and paid the money in a daze.

After Mrs. Matsumoto and Mr. Tomioka both said goodbye and left, leaving Cao Zhiqiang alone at home, he suddenly woke up.

"Hey, that's not right. Why did I choose this place so blindly? Didn't I just come here to have a look? How did it get done so quickly?"

After frowning and thinking for a while, Cao Zhiqiang thought about what happened before, and suddenly realized that it seemed that Mrs. Matsumoto and Nobuo Tomioka had been talking before, and he had been unable to get a word in.

After much talk, under Nobuo Tomioka's enthusiasm, he signed a contract with Mrs. Matsumoto in a daze and pressed his fingerprints.

But in fact, Cao Zhiqiang didn't think about living here at the beginning.

The reason is very simple, not because I think there is anything wrong with Mrs. Matsumoto, nor because the house is not good, nor because the price is too expensive, but because of Akina Nakamori.

Yes, Akina Nakamori lives next door. What does it mean if he moves in here?

Friendly neighbor girl?

My neighbor is a female star?

Hiss...it's another very familiar plot.

After raising his eyebrows, Cao Zhiqiang gently raised his forehead, feeling like he was being tricked.

After receiving the aid, Cao Zhiqiang decided to accept the reality.

After all, the money has been given and the contract has been signed. You can't regret it now.

If you renege on the contract, you won't get your money back.

That’s three months’ rent, 1.08 million yen, which is quite a lot!

"Forget it, I'll make peace with you now that I'm here, let's stay here and take a look," Cao Zhiqiang said with a sigh, "It's just Akina Nakamori, just a neighbor, so it should be fine... right?"

(End of chapter)