Dong Qiangqiang looked on the map and found that the second house was very close to the private student dormitory, just across the river. You can get there by crossing the bridge, and it won’t take long.

When crossing the bridge, a large group of people gathered on the lawn on the shore under the bridge attracted his attention. He guessed that it might be a flea market. He always had a special liking for rushing and jumping, not to find a bargain, but mainly to watch fun and lively. Before, Hannover's market and agricultural products market were still open together, and the fireworks were very hot. Whenever the pressure was high, Dong Qiangqiang liked to visit these two places to relieve stress. These beautiful memories prompted him to take two steps in three steps.

As the saying goes, you have to throw away goods compared to goods. A more popular sentence is: There is no harm without comparison.

Before he could finish shopping, Dong Qiangqiang discovered that Trier's market jump was not only larger than Hannover's, but also far more old goods than Hannover. There were a wide variety of new things that he had never seen before, and he could pick them up everywhere.

Many flashy, useless but fun things impressed him, such as British ceramics in the 1950s that were different from Chinese blue and white porcelain, ancient colored glassware from Venice, German books between World War I and World War II, Lego toys from the 1970s and 1990s, and even some stalls selling ivory micro-carving products.

Of course, what excites him the most about jumping into the market was the German banknotes, coins and stamps issued at different times. In addition to various banknotes and coins (mainly silver and nickel coins) during and after World War II, the seller even had a German mark with a face value of 100,000 yuan issued before World War II. Unfortunately, he did not have the legendary Mark banknotes issued by Germany in 1924 with a face value of 100 trillion yuan.

The stall owner was a bald old man with a beard on his face. He looked at his wrinkles at the age of seventy. It was completely different from other cold sellers in the market. Seeing that Dong Qiangqiang was interested in his own things, he tried hard to praise his treasures. When he was excited, he stood up and took out more inventory in the box. However, his accent was very strong, and coupled with the physical sound insulation effect of the bearded man, Dong Qiangqiang didn't understand what he was saying, so he could only listen to it in a quick way, and finally just quoted it directly.

After some bargaining, Dong Qiangqiang finally spent 240 euros to wrap all the banknotes, coins and stamps of the stall owner. The stall owner was so happy that he smiled. When the seller at the stall next to him saw that Dong Qiangqiang was a big customer, he also came to join in the fun. After a wave of lobbying, Dong Qiangqiang spent 60 euros to buy a new variable speed mountain bike of 90%.

Before the house was rented, he spent a few hundred yuan. Although he kept advising himself not to consume impulsively, he still couldn't help it. However, he was soon replaced by the joy of consumption. Ten minutes left before three o'clock, Dong Qiangqiang took away the spoils, whistled, and rushed towards the target.

The scenery along the way was picturesque, and Dong Qiangqiang couldn't help but think: If this house could have a window facing the river or terraces, then how comfortable it would be to study and live every day!

The bicycle was parked in front of a traditional German chevron-shaped sloping roof building. Before contacting the other party, he first observed the surrounding environment.

Dong Qiangqiang, who has lived in a private house for more than a year, is deeply touched by living in a private house. Excluding the rent factor, he will first observe the living environment near his residence, such as the level of security near his residence. Germany is not as rich as the United States, and public security is not as chaotic as the United States and France. However, even in a city, there are still a big difference between places with more people in Germany and places with less people. If the car is often paddled or smashed into glass, he will not be able to bear it. Secondly, look at some invisible factors, such as the distance of the trash can in the street. If the trash can is too close to the house, he will definitely be quarreled by the garbage truck every day. If it encounters memorizing or writing at home, it will be very annoying. Again, see if the transportation is convenient, whether there are enough supermarkets and close, the distance to the school, etc.

Of course, he also knew very well that there was no perfect house. All the houses were basically very "huge" for rent, so he could accept a house with a very good one. He could tolerate some small and unspeakable places. For example, the last landlord asked him to clean the public bathroom every week and responded very happily.

He has become accustomed to accepting what cannot be changed, changing what cannot be accepted.

The building is located at the foot of the mountain, with an altitude of about 100 meters. Trier University of Applied Technology is halfway up the mountain. Although it is still during the holidays, there are many vehicles coming and going up and down the mountain.

The building has three floors in total.

A large area of ​​the dark purple wall fell off but was unrepaired, and it was mottled. The corners were sprayed with indecent patterns with paint. Perhaps because of chemical reagents, most of the creepers next to the graffiti died, and the grass and trees were so sparse that it made people feel desolate. There are three colors of tiles on the sloping roof, which can see obvious traces of repair. You can see that the master is extremely unconscious in stoppage time, and his life is neither beautiful nor layered.

Look at the small building next to it. The sloping roof is covered with solar glass panels. The bright yellow walls and the ivy with branches and leaves complement each other, which is pleasing to the eye. The windows on the second floor are open, and there are several flower pots placed under the window frames. Flowers with different yellow, red, purple and pink swaying lightly with the breeze.

Dong Qiangqiang couldn't help but sigh: There would be no harm without comparison*2.

There is a convex debris room with locks on the side of the building. There is a trash can in brown, black and green outside the debris room. There is a white grid painted on the ground next to the trash can, and an elderly classic car is parked in the grid. Dong Qiangqiang carefully observed it closely and found that the maintenance of the classic car is still in place. Germany’s regulations on old cars are allowed to go on the road as long as the car can be inspected during the New Year. The maintenance fee of this kind of classic car is much more expensive than that of Hyundai. It seems that the owner should be a good owner. He couldn’t help but feel confused. Whether the owner is a tenant or a landlord, it feels that it doesn’t match this building.

He thought the whole building had only one entrance, but after searching for a long time, he didn't find the name of the person who was talking to him on the phone. After walking around for a while, he found an entrance on the other side of the building. This time he found the name of the person.

The first, second and third floor windows facing the mountain all have aluminum roller shutters that can completely block the entire window. This kind of anti-theft facility belongs to the Germans. Unlike in China, Germany has few cage-style anti-theft windows (there are no balconies).

Dong Qiangqiang was a little worried that if the room rented by the landlord was facing the mountain, it would mean that you could only see the mountain instead of the river when you opened the window, and the scenery would be greatly reduced.

After hesitating for a few seconds, Dong Qiangqiang still rang the doorbell.

The landlord came out quickly. He was a thin and shriveled German old man with his waist straight and a bunch of keys hanging around his waist. He walked and looked like a landlord when he looked at the accessories.

The old man looked at Dong Qiangqiang up and down for more than a minute, but he didn't rush to let him go into the room to look at the room, but instead interrogated him first like an inmate.

"Are you Japanese or Korean?" The old man spoke with a strong accent, and his accent was not as heavy as that of the old man who sold paper money. However, most Germans would use the honorific "you" to call strangers. Even if they were elders and juniors, they would do the same if they were strangers. But the old man said "you", which seemed very rude. Dong Qiangqiang was too lazy to care about him when he saw his age.

"Chinese."

The old man stared at Dong Qiangqiang's face suspiciously, then looked at his bicycle: "Then what are you doing in Germany?"

“Study in college.”

“What major?”

"National Economics."

"Show me your student ID." The old man spread his hand in front of Dong Qiangqiang.

Dong Qiangqiang patiently handed over the student ID. The old man studied the photo on the student ID for a long time, and continued to ask, "Cold rent is 300 euros per month. How long do you plan to rent it?"

Dong Qiangqiang felt ridiculous: He didn't even look at the house, but the other party asked him how long he could rent it. It seemed that the other party was a confused person.

"I need to look at the room first," Dong Qiangqiang actually didn't want to go in and see it, but Zheng Chunhua gave him the information and he came too. It was really unreasonable to leave without reading it. He could only answer with a tough bullet, "Only then decide whether to rent it or not."

He actually hoped that the old man in front of him would continue to ask him many questions, so that he would have the courage to leave directly.

To his surprise, the old man smacked his lips a few times, said nothing, turned around and entered the building.

Dong Qiangqiang sighed and had to follow him.

As soon as he walked into the building, Dong Qiangqiang stopped moving.

Although it was daytime, the light in the corridor was extremely dark. The entrance was originally facing the other side of the mountain, and most of the natural light was blocked by the mountain. There were no windows or lights in the corridor. What surprised Dong Qiangqiang even more was that the stairs and walls were all dark colors. He suddenly walked in and thought he had entered the cellar.

Hearing that there was no movement behind him, the old man walking in front urged without looking back: "Your room is on the third floor."

Only then did Dong Qiangqiang's eyes gradually adapt to the light in the building, and climbed up and asked, "Why don't you turn on the light?"

"Why do you need to turn on the lights during the day?" The other party answered with confidence, loud and loud, sonorous and righteous words. "Opening the lights during the day is not environmentally friendly, and it also wastes electricity." The old man taught a lesson, "Don't you guys pay attention to environmentally friendly?"

"Of course we will pay attention to saving electricity," Dong Qiangqiang said with his head raised, "but it's too dark here, and I can't even see the stairs."

"It's good to get used to it." The old man's footsteps stopped on the third floor. "The main reason is that people on the first and second floors have not come back now. When they come back, the lights in the house can illuminate the corridor when they open the door."

Dong Qiangqiang was dumbfounded when he heard this. What kind of fallacies are these?

He suddenly felt a strong sense of curiosity, wanting to see what kind of "fine decoration" the room the old man wanted to rent was.

The steepness of the stairs is not inferior to the steep slopes on both sides of the Moselle River. If Dong Qiangqiang stands completely straight on the stairs, he will touch his head. The stair space is narrow and cramped, and he will be able to turn around at the corner of the stairs. He is very suspicious about how his big suitcases can be brought up the stairs if he really moves in. At the same time, the wooden stairs squeak at his feet, which feels very unstable. He is very worried that he will suddenly fall from the middle of the stairs.

When he finally stood in front of the door, he found that the old man was already standing in the room.

The door frame is very low, and Dong Qiangqiang has to bend over to enter the house.

As soon as he entered the room, a musty smell came to his face, and Dong Qiangqiang hurriedly covered his mouth and nose.

The old man seemed quite dissatisfied with Dong Qiangqiang's actions, frowned and explained: "The room to rent is this inner and outer room. The outer room is large and the inner room is small, which is 18 square meters in total. As long as he moves in, he insists on opening the window every day, he will get used to it in a few days."

Dong Qiangqiang knew this: the two houses had not opened windows for a long time to ventilate, so they were afraid that the smell of mold would have penetrated into the walls long ago, and it was not possible to solve the problem of opening windows.

He covered his nose and swayed around the two houses simply. Since the ceilings of the two houses were less than 2.3 meters high, some places were still oblique roofs. In less than 3 minutes, Dong Qiangqiang had kowtowed three or four times.

This place is too depressing and frustrating, and it is not a place for people to live. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would never have thought that this was in Germany in the 21st century or in Marx's hometown. This was not as spacious as his living in China. At least he would not be stubborn if he stood in China.

Seeing Dong Qiangqiang's lawsuit, the old man did not realize his dissatisfaction and confusion at all, but began to talk endlessly to help Dong Qiangqiang calculate other parts of the monthly rent: "If you plan to move in, in addition to rent, I will also prepay for your 100 euros of water and electricity bill at the beginning of the month, but the prepayment is not the actual money you spent. At the end of each quarter, you will also calculate how much you actually spent, and then refund the extra money from 300 euros. In addition, the monthly TV fee and garbage disposal fee total 40 euros. There is no network here and you cannot accept the tenant's own safety net because there will be radiation. There is only one parking space downstairs that is my private, and you cannot use it. Of course, you can't park your car on the side of the road because there is no parking space on the side of the road..."

When Dong Qiangqiang noticed a pool of yellow stains in the center of the front of the mattress in the inner room, he couldn't hold on anymore and turned around and wanted to leave.

The old man misunderstood his actions and hurriedly chased him out of the inner room. He took out the key and said, "When going out, turn right, it's the bathroom."

The bathroom is still locked? Dong Qiangqiang waved his hand with laughter and cry: "No need to open it, I won't go."

"If you think the place (inside) is small, you can take a look at the attic. The attic is empty now. If you rent it together, I can give you a substantial discount." The old man said generously.

"Okay. Look." Dong Qiangqiang agreed.

The old man pointed to the stairs up the bathroom and changed the keys: "Go here."

As soon as Dong Qiangqiang leaned his head into the patio at the entrance of the attic, he smelled a more choking smell than downstairs. He couldn't open his eyes at all. Before he could complain, he heard a rumbling sound of wind rushing towards him from the darkness. He had no time to tell, so he hurriedly lowered his head and happened to hit the old man's expectant face.

The old man seemed to have expected his actions and comforted him indifferently: "It's okay, that's just a few bats. If you move in, they will leave."

Dong Qiangqiang felt amazed and opened his eyes. He didn't expect that the house viewing could be so exciting. Society is indeed the best teacher.

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Chapter completed!