Gu Nuan and Xiao Yebai were both speechless.
For professional investors like them, it was impossible for prices to skyrocket to exorbitant levels. There was a ceiling to the price of any commodity, and if there were no profits to be earned beyond that, no one would invest.
Of course, for farrs who only thought about selling their land to escape poverty, the higher the selling price, the better, as once the land was sold, they couldn’t hope to get it back.
Gu Nuan cleared her throat and asked the elderly lady as if in passing, "Grandma, may I ask how we should address you?"
"Oh, my surna is Zhou. You can call Grandma Zhou or Sister Zhou," the elderly lady clearly didn’t think of herself as old.
"Do you live alone?"
"Yes. I am a widow, never married, without children," she stated.
"Does everyone in the village share the surna Zhou?"
"No, most people are surnad Yang."
Gu Nuan glanced at the large white dog next to her.
The little guy looked extrely wronged and pouted at her.
"Grandma, we don’t have much money right now, can we stay here for a few days? You could charge us a little rent, would that be okay?" Gu Nuan proposed.
Grandma Zhou was very frugal and inquired, "How much money do you plan to give ?"
She had completely forgotten that the two of them had just helped her carry so things.
Gu Nuan said, "We’d like to stay for a week, and all we have right now is five hundred yuan. We hope you could take into account the help we’ve provided earlier and cover our food and lodging for the week."
Grandma Zhou was clearly not too keen on the idea, saying, "The nicer houses in the village are now renting out for three thousand yuan a month, and that doesn’t even include food. Plus, we pick our tenants carefully; we don’t rent to those with unclear backgrounds, without ID cards, and whose intents aren’t known. The villagers are simple folk and don’t want to bring any trouble from outside into the village."
"Grandma, we understand," Gu Nuan smiled, "Do we look like bad people who would do evil things?"
Suddenly, Yebai’s eyes began to whirl, and there was a flash in his gaze as he looked at his wife, asking whether they looked like bad people who would do bad things.
Were they bad people?
Grandma Zhou looked at them, noted their good deanor, and they seed to be well-educated. She also heard they had eloped, so she suggested, "Alright then, I’ll let you stay here for a week to cool off and think things through. Isn’t there anything you can’t discuss with your family? After a week, go ho and talk to them properly."
Seeing that the elderly lady had agreed, the two followed her upstairs to see the guest room they would be staying in.
Since the old lady lived alone, there were several rooms available for them to choose from. They decided on the room facing the sea, with a window that offered a view of the ocean.
After giving Grandma Zhou the five hundred yuan, Gu Nuan had a little more than a hundred yuan left in her pocket, which would be enough to buy a few pieces of clothing for sumr and toiletries like a toothbrush and towel. The cost of living in the village was probably not high.
Thinking this, Gu Nuan prepared to go downstairs to shop.
However, Yebai suddenly sprawled on the large bed in the room, taking up nearly the entire space of the narrow bed with his large fra, blowing bubbles as he breathed.
The youngster needed a nap after lunch.
Gu Nuan hadn’t expected that this man, despite being a dandy, would have a routine that was even better than that of a primary school student.
Let him sleep. She knew he hadn’t slept well the night before. The bed at the inn they stayed at last night was also very small, and he had almost ended up sleeping on the floor.
Gu Nuan pulled the quilt over his head and tiptoed out of the room.
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