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On the third day of Lin Xia's arrival, classes began. During the three days, she had to get acquainted with the campus, classmates and teachers, and kept asking various rental agencies if there was any suitable house.

However, she came too late, and there are almost no cheap housing available for international students around. If you don’t care about the price, you can still rent it, but Lin Xia is not the kind of person who spends money when he has money, let alone The tuition fees and living prices of London Business School are much higher than those in China.

With such busy days, two weeks have passed in the blink of an eye. Seeing the daily hotel fees of more than [-] pounds kept being paid, Lin Xia decided to take a look a little further.

After class was over in the afternoon, Lin Xia greeted a few classmates he had just met, took a map of the school's surroundings, and walked to Regent's Park.

The school is only five or six minutes walk from the park, next to each other.

She entered the park by one gate, then walked out through another gate across the park and into a street.

The map shows that there are several housing agencies over there, maybe there can be suitable houses for rent there.

This is an ancient street, surrounded by buildings with stone foundations and walls, and smooth stone roads that do not know the age under the feet.

A small house with a simple sign of Will’s housing agency on the door without any other introduction, dark green doors and windows, half white curtains hanging on the windows, and an ancient door knocker in the shape of a lion’s head on the door.

Lin Xia walked over and knocked on the door knocker.

The door opened, and Lin Xia just said, "Sorry to bother you, I think...Mr. Will?" Then he looked at the person inside the door in surprise.

"Oh! Miss Summer, I'm so glad to see you again!" The person who appeared in it was John Will, the son of the old man who Lin Xia took care of on the plane.

He looked excitedly at Lin Xia who suddenly appeared at the door of his company.

Lin Xia looked at the sign of Will's real estate agency posted on the door, the surprised expression hadn't disappeared from her face, but she quickly laughed, "What a coincidence! I didn't expect this place to be yours! "

"Please come in!" John Will enthusiastically opened the way to the door and let Lin Xia inside, "I'm so lucky, I didn't expect that, as you said, we would be back again soon. We met."

Lin Xia walked into this real estate agency, and the inside was different from what he had seen before. It seemed that the old features outside had also kept the office.

It's not a big place, with two desks, a few chairs, a small sofa and a small round coffee table on the right hand side when you enter the door, there are two printers in the innermost part, and the walls are covered with various advertisements and The message note is a bit messy, but it doesn't look messy.

"Please sit down!" John Will said, "Tea or coffee?"

"White water is fine! How is your father?"

"Okay, wait a minute!" John Will turned around and went to the water dispenser in the corner to get a glass of water. "He has been discharged from the hospital. He reminds me of you almost every day, saying that no matter what, he will thank you in person again!"

"You don't need to thank him, anyone who sees him will help him! Good health is more important than anything else!" Lin Xia took the water with a smile.

"Miss Summer, how do you know that I work here?" John Will pulled a bench and sat opposite Lin Xia, rubbing his hands together, seeming a little nervous.

"I came here to study, but I came here late, and there are no vacancies in the school dormitory, so I can only look for a suitable house everywhere!" Lin Xia put the water glass on the tea table, "But there seems to be no suitable one around the school. I just wanted to see if I could find it a little farther away, but I didn't expect such a coincidence to find Mr. Will here!"

"You can just call me John!" John Will said quickly, "Don't be so polite with me, if it's my honor to help you, tell me your request first, and I'll see if there is anything suitable for you! "

"Okay!" Lin Xia nodded with a smile, and did not reject John Will's enthusiasm. From the first meeting to this coincidence, Lin Xia could tell that this man is still a good person, "Wei... John!" Lin Xia smiled, "As long as there is a place where I can cook and bathe myself, the place doesn't need to be too big, and I can't use too much space by myself, and..."

"No matter what you ask, please tell me, I will definitely find you a suitable place!"

"No, just clean! I don't have too many requirements."

"What about the rent?" John nodded and asked again.

Lin Xia thought for a while, and suddenly smiled mischievously, "Of course, the cheaper the better! However, you don't have to be embarrassed, I will find a job later, and I will definitely not default on the rent!"

John nodded again, and suddenly asked: "You come to study abroad, except for the tuition fee, is it difficult to live?"

"No!" After Lin Xia was stunned for a moment, she realized that what she said just now might have misunderstood John, "The living expenses I brought are enough, but I think it is more practical to continue working to earn living expenses!"

There was a slight strangeness in John's eyes, but he quickly returned to normal, "Summer, please allow me to call you that!"

"of course can!"

"I, I think, you are different from other Chinese people who came to me to find housing!"

"Really?" Lin Xia smiled, the families of the people who come to study here are superior, of course they will not be as low as her request.

"Please wait a moment!" John stood up and walked back to his desk. He was basically the only one here at ordinary times, and another assistant often took clients to see the house, so he was not here often.

John flipped through a pile of papers on his desk, and then found a blue folder in the pile of papers, "Found it!"

John sat back opposite Lin Xia, opened the folder in his hand, and looked at it, "The conditions here are very good, although it is not the same as your requirements, but the rent is very low, and if you can afford some work, the rent is still very low. It can be cheaper!"

Lin Xia took the folder, still wondering where such a good thing could happen?Haunted house?Dangerous house?
"Live with the landlord?" Lin Xia asked doubtfully after reading the introduction.

"Yes, the landlord is an old lady with a weird personality, and she lives alone in this big house," John scratched his head, a little embarrassed, "The community arranged people to take care of her, and she almost drove them away. Been there for over a week!"

"Where's her family?" Lin Xia already knew in her heart that the so-called work can reduce the rent.

"She is alone and has no family!"

Lin Xia nodded, and looked down carefully. The house is next to Regent's Park, very close to the school, and it is a large independent house.

The above requires that tenants must be female, clean, hygienic and well-bred. The rent is really low, only 0 pounds per month. If you can take care of the elderly and housework in the house, the rent can be negotiated from [-] to [-] pounds.

There is a long list of rent reduction and exemption items, including, in addition to housework, taking the old lady for a walk regularly, medical examination, and meeting some other requirements that the old lady needs.

This is the first time Lin Xia has seen such a request for renting a house.

"Why didn't anyone rent a house for more than two weeks before?" Lin Xia asked strangely.

John shrugged and spread his hands, "They signed the contract without understanding anything for the sake of cheap rent, and finally left because they couldn't stand the old lady's weird temper!"

"How weird?" Lin Xia became even more curious.

"I can't say for sure. Some people say that the old lady dislikes the cooking. Some people say that being woken up by the old lady knocking on the door in the middle of the night can't sleep well. Some people say that there are too many housework. Anyway, there are all kinds of reasons."

"Okay, I'll rent it!" After hearing this, Lin Xia felt that these were not big things. She had lived with her grandma for so long, and she hadn't experienced any hardships. She was afraid of an old lady?
"Do you want to think about it again, I have other options here!" John said.

"Let's do this!" Lin Xia said, "Do you have time to take me there to have a look? Then we will decide!"

Lin Xia felt that as long as he could get along well with the old lady, such a cheap rent and such a good location would be ideal!

"Of course, we can go now!" John also stood up, took his briefcase, and put some needed documents in it, "Let's go!"

Lin Xia followed John and left this street, entered Regent's Park, walked through it and came to a street. Not far to the left of this street is Lin Xia's school, and to the right is where they are going.

The street at the entrance is also very old. There are many former residences of celebrities and many pedestrians. Many of them are domestic tour groups who visit under the guidance of tour guides.

This street is not long, go to the end and then turn left to the Thames River, and go straight to several independent houses.

While walking, John introduced to Lin Xia that the rich people live here, and the houses are more than 100 years old, and they are going to the innermost one, which is next to the park, which is equivalent to living in the park Same.

There are more than a dozen independent houses here, each of which is more than ten meters apart, especially the last one. The surrounding trees almost isolate all other residents.

Typical British architecture, thick wooden frames, white and dark brown well separated doors, windows and walls, three-story big house, pointed attics, square chimneys, tall trees and flat lawns, make this building The house looks more like a scene in an oil painting.

"What a beautiful house!" Lin Xia exclaimed.

"Indeed, this house is very old, and the government has special personnel to come and maintain it every month to protect it!" John also sighed, standing in front of the door and looking at it with Lin Xia.

"Isn't it private? The government still manages these?"

"Because it was originally a royal property, and later it was given to a nobleman for some reason, and it has been until now!"

Lin Xia nodded, no wonder!
John went to the door and rang the doorbell. An advanced intercom system was installed at the door, and the face of an old white lady with white hair appeared on the small screen, with a look of impatience.

"John? What are you planning to bring here? As I said, I don't need someone to take care of me!" The old lady disappeared after she finished speaking, but opened the door.