The Black Card Chapter 103 - Foreigner Who Really Had Good Manners

Chapter 103 - Foreigner Who Really Had Good Manners 

Translator: Lav

Editor: Levs

Quickly, the police and the team of forensics also came. s.h.i.+ Lei and the agent recorded a simple testimony for them and the police would take care of the rest without needing them to worry. The police also took the old lady and her son back to the station. Even if they didn’t commit the crime, but they would have their hands full for a while. 

As for their house, it probably won’t attract any potential tenants for a while. Even if they did, the price would be lowered significantly. Not everyone wouldn’t mind living in a house with a dead person inside, especially if the person didn’t die from natural causes, but murdered. 

When the agent’s manager came, they just finished recording the testimony for the police and the police gestured that they could leave. Before he left, s.h.i.+ Lei glanced at the old lady who was so stubborn before but now in distress, as well as the even more unreasonable son, he couldn’t help but to shake his head: “That foreigner really had good manners. He killed someone, hid the body under the bed and framed your family!” 

The old lady almost fell down from fury but she could no longer say anything. 

After s.h.i.+ Lei left, he seemed to remind the old lady about it and she immediately shouted: “That lad was right, the person was killed by that foreigner tenant. I was wondering why he stopped renting the house. I signed a three year contract with him yet he left after only a year……” 

The police could tolerate her before because she was an elder. It was also a small case when she called the police. But now, a homicide case was reported in her house and how could the police treat her nicely when he didn’t have any good impressions of her? 

“Stop the nonsense. We’ll obviously investigate into who killed this person and this is not something that could be solved by your accusation! What if someone else said you killed her? The body was discovered in your house and it’s impossible for you stay out of this. This house will be sealed off from now on. No one shall enter without the case being solved.” 

The old granny blacked out and fainted from sheer terror. 

The agent’s manager was two floors up from where they were. He was probably waiting for them right now so s.h.i.+ Lei and the agent climbed up the stairs to meet him. 

On the way, the agent exclaimed: “Mr. s.h.i.+, you were really right. How did you know there was a corpse inside?” 

s.h.i.+ Lei couldn’t tell the agent about the prophecy card, so he replied: “It was purely a joke, even I was shocked. If that old lady wasn’t so stubborn and kept pestering, I wouldn’t remember the strange smell in the house.” But in reality, s.h.i.+ Lei couldn’t distinguish the smell of rotten meat at all and relied entirely on the prophecy card. 

Things went rather smooth upstairs. The house was exactly the same as the pictures and indeed, no one had lived in there before. 

Due to the acceptable and reasonable requests and price, s.h.i.+ Lei didn’t try to bargain the price and agreed to pay half a year’s rent with two months’ deposit. 

The agent’s manager delightfully expressed that they could sign the contract as soon as they return to the office and when they receive the money transfer, s.h.i.+ Lei could move in any time. 

At the same time, he spoke: “When I came here, I saw a few police cars downstairs. I wonder what happened.” 

The agent immediately recounted the story with excitement. The manager was dumbfounded but patted his chest in relief: “Luckily it wasn’t rented out in our hands. Otherwise, it doesn’t matter who the murderer was, the tenant would definitely let out the anger on us and our agency’s reputation would also be ruined. Lucky, lucky……. Aiyo, Mr. s.h.i.+, we really have to thank you. If it wasn’t for your joke, we will most likely have rented out this house and we will be in big trouble……” 

s.h.i.+ Lei smiled and said: “It’s just a coincidence. Actually, you should thank that unreasonable old lady. If she was tiny bit nicer, we wouldn’t have discovered the truth today. I also would thank her because if it wasn’t for her pestering, I wouldn’t have gave up on that house. I might not even check this one out and just rent that one. These two houses are similar but there’s a rather big price difference. Who wants to rent the pricier house?”

The agent and his manager blushed. The manager knew exactly why the agent tried really hard to advertise the house because in comparison, that house was much harder to rent and it was rare for them to meet clients who didn’t care about the price. After they rented that house, this house would be a lot easier to advertise. 

“Mr. s.h.i.+, I’m really sorry, this is our fault. What about this, I’ll negotiate with the landlord for you and maybe he could lower the price a little……”

Although the manager did it for s.h.i.+ Lei’s sake, but s.h.i.+ Lei was rather b.u.t.thurt. 

He didn’t care about the money at all, he even wanted the rent to be higher so that he could spend his money easier. But since the manager already suggested, s.h.i.+ Lei knew that if he stopped the manager from doing so, the Scepter would definitely make a fuss out of this. 

s.h.i.+ Lei sighed and thought that the manager ruined this with his good heart. 

As the result of the negotiation came out, the landlord was rather easy to communicate with as s.h.i.+ Lei agreed to pay the rent in the period of six months and said he could decrease the price to 5,000 yuan per month. The manager was delighted as he pa.s.sed the information onto s.h.i.+ Lei as he basically saved 300 yuan for s.h.i.+ Lei per month and he could save 1,800 yuan a month. However, the agency fees will also decrease by 150 yuan. 

But s.h.i.+ Lei really wasn’t happy at all. He thought, how could the landlord be so lenient? Why couldn’t you be stubborn and keep the original price?

After he sighed and signed the contract and paid for six months’ rent and the two months deposit, s.h.i.+ Lei suddenly realised something. The rent and agency fees were definitely counted within the sum, but what about the deposit? If the Sceptre said that the deposit could not be counted within the weekly sum, did it mean that s.h.i.+ Lei had to pay for the deposit himself first?” 

Two months’ rent was 11,000 yuan. Including the 1,500 yuan of allowances his parents gave him, he still didn’t have enough. Here comes trouble! 

After a second thought, Zhang Liangliang gave him 120 yuan from tutoring and it should almost be enough. If not, he could still earn 120 yuan from tutoring on Sat.u.r.day, except he was slightly irritated by it. If the deposit couldn’t be counted into the sum, then s.h.i.+ Lei wouldn’t have any money for investment. 

It wasn’t that he was short on money, but am I really not going to have my own money? —— s.h.i.+ Lei held the contract and key to the house in his hands and left the agency with a long face. 

When he walked to the house, s.h.i.+ Lei noticed that the police cars had left already and he thought that the old lady would be going through a lot of trouble. 

The more he looked at the house, the more satisfied he was. Looking at the key, he suddenly realised a problem. 

He quickly called the agent and asked: “I want to change the lock for the house, would the landlord have a problem with that?” 

The agent laughed and said: “That’s a normal thing to do. Usually people would change the lock after they rent a new house. It’s okay, you can change it, but the agency will cover that fee for you.” 

After he hung up, he found an ad for changing locks and was finally relieved after a locksmith came and changed the lock for him. 

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