I will never give in to Miss Death

【ah】

This time, the housing manager remained silent for several minutes.

[Sorry, I don’t know about this yet]

Five minutes later, Yang Kun, the housing manager, sent another reply: [No wonder I always felt something was wrong with you guys during those few days. What was the specific reason for this? Can I ask?]

[Maybe it was because he often stayed up late, he was always in sub-health condition, he died when he went to the hospital, and they couldn’t save him.]

I thought for a moment by the window: [My brother said on the phone that he was not feeling well, and he was afraid that he would faint in the house one day and the property manager would not notice it, so he asked me to come over to play for a few days and take care of him by the way.]

I'm sorry, Yin Shiren, for portraying you as a guy who cheats on girls. You...just go with peace of mind.

[So I said... Alas, I don’t know if he has been unemployed or something in the past few months, and his work and rest schedule has been irregular.]

The housing manager replied with a "hug you" emoticon: [My condolences]

[Well, I am very optimistic. My brother has almost moved all his things these days, so I want to take advantage of today’s free time to return the house.]

[Okay, then come over, I'm at your door]

【it is good】

"..."

Half an hour later, with the bus driving smoothly, I returned to the entrance of my small apartment in the central area.

Following the familiar path at the door, I soon arrived at the entrance of Building No. 3 of the Snail House Apartment.

"Don't you want all these things anymore?"

"Yes, I don't want any of them. Just take whatever you need. If you want to pay...haha, I don't mind."

Just like the days when she became a girl, today there were several residents standing at the entrance of the first floor of Building No. 3, and the corner of the hall was filled with furniture such as rice cookers, induction cookers, tables, and chairs.

"Is this rice cooker from your previous tenant? I've seen it at least twice."

"How do you know? I picked it up here half a year ago."

"Nonsense, I've lived here for three years, and I remember many of the heirlooms clearly, haha."

"Now that this induction cooker heirloom has been passed down to your generation, you must use it well."

Maybe because the tenants who moved this time had a lot of stuff, including a lot of their previous appliances, the residents in the corner of the first floor basically didn’t notice the arrival of a little girl like me. I easily walked through the crowd and went upstairs.

"Awaited."

In front of the door of Room 301, I saw the room manager Yang Kun, who was playing with his phone: "Don't you have the key?"

"If the boss knows that we opened the tenants' doors without their consent, we will be fired."

Yang Kun scratched his head, looking embarrassed: "You...what's your name?"

"Yin Nuoer."

"Noel?"

"The promise of promise."

"Oh... Sister Nuoer, you... ahem, are you okay?"

The housing manager obviously didn't know how to handle this kind of thing: "What's your current situation? Are you in high school or..."

I took out the key and opened the door: "Let's deal with the problem here first."

With a "click", the door opened.

"There's nothing left in there. I basically cleaned it up when I came here before. Take a look."

I led the house manager into the house and pointed to the house I had worked so hard to clean for most of the day. "Is there anything else that needs to be cleaned?"

"Let me see……"

The house manager walked into the room, first looked at the bed, bent down to observe under the bed, then walked to the window on the side and wiped the dust off it with his hand.

"Or... forget it."

"what?"

"I mean...how about this, I'll ask the cleaning lady to come over and take care of it later. Are you sure there's nothing in this house?"

I gestured downstairs and said, "There are two more bicycles. I'll drive them back later."

"Your height..."

The house manager gestured at the ahoge on my head and asked: "Can you reach the pedal?"

I instantly felt myself explode: "I'll push it back."

"Okay, then you can push the cart back later. Ahem, you can check again, like in the closet or the bathroom, to see if there's anything else you need to take."

I shook my head: "I checked it many times before and made sure it was gone."

At most there are some small clips by the bed and a few hooks in the bathroom, so it’s better not to take them.

"Then I'll call Auntie to come over and do the cleaning. How many months is the deposit in the contract you signed before?"

"Two months."

Then I added, "1700 yuan."

"Then I'll ask the technician to check how much water you've used, and I'll return your deposit after deducting the water charges."

The house manager held out his hand: "Give me that... key and room card."

I took out something I had prepared long ago from my pocket and handed it over.

"There's nothing left. Be careful when you push the cart out later."

"Eh?"

I was a little puzzled: "Then...how do you calculate the sanitation fee and depreciation fee?"

The Snail House Apartment uses commercial water and electricity, and the water fee is deducted when you check out. Over the years, I roughly calculated the water fee and it is estimated to be around 400 to 500 yuan.

The contract I signed stated that if the hygiene was not up to standard when I checked out, they would hire a special cleaning lady to clean it up again and disinfect it, and would deduct between 50 and 200 yuan. If they found something damaged in the house, such as a refrigerator missing a few compartments, or curtains covered in dust from long use that needed to be washed, these miscellaneous items would add up to about 1700 to 800 yuan, so I calculated that I would get back about 1000 to yuan of my yuan deposit.

And now the property manager said... only the water fee will be deducted, and nothing else will be counted?

"Since you have already cleaned it, I won't deduct it."

The property manager didn’t seem to want to discuss this topic in depth, so he waved his hand and said, “It’s not easy for you either, forget it.”

Well……

It seems that I accidentally took advantage of "Yin Shiren's death" and aroused strong sympathy from the property manager, so that he arbitrarily canceled the "liquidation" of cleaning fees and various furniture depreciation fees.

Sorry, brother, I didn't mean to...

At this point, I couldn’t say anything, so I could only pretend to be “flattered” and said, “Well…thank you.”

"No, no, go downstairs and get the car... oh, right."

As he spoke, the house manager named Yang Kun seemed to have remembered something and took out his cell phone from his pocket: "The guy who used to come to our place to steal things has been caught. This is his photo."

"Hey?"

I moved closer and took a look at the property manager's phone screen.

Uh... this isn't...

Isn’t this the “Uncle Bei San”?

Before, when Miguabao was setting up a stall at the comic convention, he mocked the male authors in the group who used female avatars. Then he ran to the comic convention to find me, Pipi Marisa and the others and boasted that he was a "contracted celebrity" and that he was making 200 yuan a month before he even graduated?

A long time ago, my avatar was a male supporting character in "Shakugan no Shana". Later, after watching "Puella Magi Madoka Magica", I liked the character Nagisa Momoe in it, so I changed my avatar to a female one. I didn't expect to be ridiculed by the group of authors.

He had just been ridiculed by Marisa and the others at the comic convention, and now he was running here to steal shoes near the rental house?

"According to the police, this guy is a repeat offender. He dropped out of college after two years of study. His parents were so angry that they just ignored him, so he just started to hang out. He makes money by stealing small things every day. The amount in each case is not large, just like the electric fan cardboard boxes left outside the rental house. Some people are too lazy to call the police."

The property manager looked very relieved: "I didn't expect this guy to be so bold and steal from us. He stole more than once. The tenants kept complaining. We were so angry that we installed more than ten surveillance cameras. Finally, we caught him and sent him to the police."

"That's very good."

I pretended not to know the man in the photo: "It's good that he was caught. I hope he can learn a lesson in there."

"Your brother... your brother's shoes were also recovered. He sold them at a second-hand market. I think he only paid five dollars for them."

Yang Kun put away his phone: "It may be impossible to recover the things. He has no money to pay for it at the police station. Take a look..."

"That shoe is no longer needed."

I smiled, shook my head, and pretended to have just emerged from the haze.

"My brother...just assume he's gone to a very far place."

"..."

……

No. 176 Kun! Yang Kun! There are beauties, come on!

After carefully checking the electrical appliances in the rental house and the hygiene of some hidden corners, the property manager checked the water meter, took out a piece of paper and a pen from his jacket pocket, and calculated on it for a while.

"You... ahem, your brother withheld two months' salary, right? 850 a month?"

I nodded. “Yes.”

"That's 1700 yuan for two months, and the water bill is 530 yuan. I won't charge you for the rest. At the end of the month, I'll ask the cleaning lady to come over and do some cleaning and disinfection. Just treat it as a meal for her and charge her 20 yuan, so I'll deduct 550 yuan."

After writing two strokes on the paper, Yang Kun, the housing manager, handed me the note: "1700 yuan minus 550 yuan, 1150 yuan, right?"

"Eh?"

I took the note in a daze and took a quick look at the deduction details: "Ah... yes, that's right."

It turned out that the deduction was not less than one thousand yuan. Did the housing manager have a change of heart?

Or did he see that I was a little girl and my brother had just passed away, and he felt it would be embarrassing to deduct fees randomly again, so he did his best to calculate the highest refundable deposit for me?

When I rented the Snail Apartment, I paid a deposit of two months' rent. It is said that this deposit is used to pay for water, cleaning and furniture damage fees when you move out. The Snail Apartment is similar to the long-term rental apartment. It is advertised as a "move-in ready" type of apartment. It is equipped with very complete range hoods, induction cookers, electric water heaters, refrigerators, air conditioners, etc. Even if you are a wanderer from another province without any personal belongings, you can enjoy the same treatment as an ordinary family from the day you move in.

However, in return, we need to bear the maintenance costs of these electrical appliances in the house, which are included in the deposit.

In theory... as long as they are not used violently, most electrical appliances will not have any quality problems. After so many years of observation and reading the news in the apartment group, I found that the most deducted fee when people check out is the water fee, because the water meters here are inside the house, and the property management cannot check the water meter and collect the money every month. They all handle it when people check out, and refund the excess and pay the shortfall.

I did the math when I was alone at home. According to the water fee deduction rate here, an ordinary man in society would spend no more than 30 yuan a month on water for boiling water for drinking, bathing, and washing clothes, which is about yuan a year.

This is still an estimated maximum, because I spent most of my time working hard in the company in the past few years. Some companies require overtime all day long. I get up at seven in the morning and go to work. The only water I use is when I brush my teeth and wash my face by turning on the faucet. I work overtime in the company until ten or eleven at night, and sometimes I don’t even get home until one o’clock. I can’t even open my eyes. If it is winter, I am too lazy to take a shower. I just go to bed when I get home. So I don’t use much water at all.

So I previously estimated that the water bill would be around 500 yuan for two or three years, and it turned out to be more than 500 yuan.

As for those home appliances... I can only say that even though I was an uncle before, I was a relatively "quiet" type of uncle who wouldn't do anything clumsy or use too much force. After renting a house for a few years, the appliances are now in good condition except that they are a little dirty.

"We usually take 7 working days to return the deposit. If it is a holiday, it will be extended. Today is May 5th, and your rent is due until June. If you check out now, this part of the rent you paid will not be refunded."

Seeing that I seemed to have no problem, the property manager Yang Kun said, "Do you want to stay for a few more days? Or cancel now?"

"You don't need to stay for a few more days. There's nothing left here. Check out now."

I smiled and said, "Will the refund be credited to my account in seven days?"

In 7 days it will be May 5th, and I still have money left, so I will definitely be able to hold on until then.

I received the deposit back on May 5th. With more than a thousand yuan, I can last until June. Then around June 27th, I will receive the royalties from Miguabao. Although it is only a few hundred yuan for full attendance and some monthly reward tickets, it is enough for me to use until next month. What's more, there is still a "bonus" for the maid work in the cafe that has not been paid, which is a big expense.

By then, as long as I can get the commission bonus from the coffee shop and the money earned from taking photos with me, I won't have to worry about money anymore.

This is… the end of the tunnel, right? I guess so, right?

When I was living in a small apartment, I had always been looking forward to the day when I could be financially independent. I didn't have to seek wealth or fame. As long as I could eat what I wanted every day, and occasionally buy something I liked without hesitation, and have time to pursue my hobbies and dreams after work, that would be enough.

I feel that I am not the kind of person who spends money like crazy when he has a lot of money and then lets his desires expand infinitely. I will not eat instant noodles when I have no money and eat roast duck when I have money. No matter how much money I have, I will think about eating a full banquet. Because I have been poor before, if I have extra salary, I usually save the extra part to deal with various changes that may happen in the future.

Unfortunately, the company boss ran away and the Luke Novel website went bankrupt. At that time, the successive blows really exceeded my risk tolerance limit.

"I will report it to the manager shortly. Once they have verified everything, they will apply to the head office for payment. The company will approve it in about a week and then transfer the money."

The property manager nodded and looked at me curiously. "But when we signed the contract for this house, we used your brother's ID card and bank card. Is it okay for us to transfer the money to that? Do you have the password?"

"It's okay. I can use that card too."

I affirmed, “Just call directly.”