Start living in Tokyo by inheriting the shopping street

"Oh, I got it, I got it, it's Chiba." Akiyama An's eyes lit up and she introduced him to her mother.

"Oh, it's a cute boy." Mrs. Akiyama smiled and squinted her eyes, looking at her silly daughter thoughtfully.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 14 The Easily Deceived Akiyama Mother and Daughter

Mrs. Akiyama looked at Chiba Shuichi, as if trying to explore the relationship between him and his daughter.

"Are you Akiyama-san's mother? If she hadn't said she was coming with her mother, I would have thought she was coming with her sister."

Chiba Shuichi's praise was not insincere. Mrs. Akiyama did look very young. Only the slight tiredness on her face and the slightly rough skin on her hands showed some signs of aging.

"Did you hear that? He praised mom for being like her sister. Are all boys nowadays so good at talking?" Mrs. Akiyama happily pulled her daughter to show off.

"Then my sister might not be very happy, but I also think my sister is more like my mother." Akiyama An complained.

Chiba Shuichi watched the interaction between the mother and daughter, and suddenly understood where Akiyama An's silly cuteness was inherited from.

"What do you plan to do in the store? How big a store do you need?" Chiba Shuichi asked as he led the two people into the shopping street.

"The area of ​​a ramen shop doesn't need to be too big. Twenty square meters is enough. But if this is a place, can the second floor be used for living?" Mrs. Akiyama observed the surroundings curiously.

"That's right. The second floor is used for both commercial and residential purposes. You can decide the specific planning yourself." Chiba Xiu nodded.

"That would be great. I don't have to run back and forth between my residence and the ramen restaurant." Mrs. Akiyama clapped her hands happily.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can sleep a few more minutes in the morning next time. This place is closer to school, so I don't have to rush to go to school." Akiyama An expressed her satisfaction.

Chiba Xiuyi looked at her in surprise. It takes 40 to 50 minutes to get to school from this place. Is this considered close? Where did you live before?

However, the average commuting and school time in Japan is 38 minutes, so Chiba Shuichi's time is at least close to the average.

When they arrived at the management office, Chiba Shuichi asked the two to sit down and showed them the information of unused shops. Then Akiyama mother and daughter were disappointed.

“There are no shops of suitable size.”

"Yeah, that's a shame, I quite like this place."

Chiba Shuichi heard this and asked, "Although a ramen shop doesn't need a large area, it wouldn't be a big deal if it were a little bigger, right? It would also give it more space."

"But the rent will be very different." Mrs. Akiyama said worriedly, but even though she was worried, she puffed out her cheeks like a young girl.

"The store manager is Mrs. Akiyama, right?" asked Chiba Shuichi.

"That's not right." Mrs. Akiyama corrected her with a slightly annoyed look, "I am the store manager, but you can't call me Madam. It makes me sound old."

Chiba Shuichi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Then I can't call you sister, right? Akiyama-san won't agree to that."

Mrs. Akiyama held her chin in distress when she heard that. "That's right. Yue-chan and Xing-chan are already so old. There's nothing we can do. So we'll just let Chiba-kun call you that."

"..." Chiba Shuichi felt that the mother and daughter were really in the same boat. How did they live to this age?

Because the Akiyama sisters were very famous in school, the situation of their family also spread. Akiyama An's father died very early, and it was Mrs. Akiyama who raised the two daughters.

I thought it would be a widow who was tortured by life and had lost her luster in the eyes, but I didn't expect it to be like this.

Chiba Xiuyi took a look at the system quotation and felt relieved. Fortunately, it passed the system's approval as an excellent store owner, otherwise he would have to let the two of them leave disappointed.

However, the prices this time are still outrageous. It would be okay if they were a little more discounted, and it could be covered up by saying that the neighborhood is old and the store is in a poor location. However, the system clearly favors excellent store managers too much, and the prices given are difficult to explain!

But last time it was mainly because it happened suddenly, and it was the first time I saw the system really discounted. In addition, the two Xiaochuans previously opened women's beauty salons and women's fitness studios. Not only was the reason he thought of useless, but it might even make him more suspicious...

In addition, the system unexpectedly showed a new tip this time - [An excellent poster girl can make the store popular and is also a living signboard of the shopping street. Getting along well with a poster girl with a stable relationship is also one of the administrator's jobs. ]

The poster girl... Chiba Shuichi glanced at Akiyama Anzu and suddenly understood. So that's why. No wonder the discount was even more excessive than that of the two Mrs. Ogawas.

It turns out that outstanding poster girls can also get discounts!

So if the two Mrs. Ogawas had hired an excellent signboard girl, would the rent have been lower?

This idea flashed through his mind and was quickly rejected by Chiba Shuichi because the system emphasized "stable relationships."

After all, a store manager is different from a store manager. It is a position with a high degree of mobility. A truly outstanding store manager will not work in such an old shopping street for a long time.

They prefer to go to bustling commercial centers where the income is much higher.

Hire a poster girl with outstanding appearance, sign a low-rent contract, and then fire her the next day. The system will not allow such loopholes to be exploited.

Chiba Shuichi regained his composure, looked at Mrs. Akiyama, and handed her a piece of shop information.

"If that's the case, why not take a look at this one. The two floors together are 6 square meters, and the rent is only yen, and... there's one additional condition."

"Sixty thousand yen?" Mrs. Akiyama was stunned for a moment, then she said happily, "It's so cheap? This is great!"

"It's really a good deal. I didn't expect the place Chiba-san recommended is so reliable."

Akiyama An also knew a little about the rent, so she nodded in agreement, then looked at Chiba Shuichi with a smile on her face, "What are the additional conditions?"

"It's very simple. Since Mrs. Akiyama is planning to open a ramen restaurant, just let me eat for free." Chiba Shuichi said lightly.

Obviously, the two Mrs. Ogawas' previous women's beauty salons and women's gyms could not use this excuse, and saying it out loud would make them seem to have ulterior motives.

However, even with this condition, the rent is still abnormal.

But Mrs. Akiyama didn't think much about it, and didn't even take this additional condition seriously. She smiled and said:

"Even if this doesn't happen, Chiba-kun, as Xing-chan's classmate, can definitely come and eat for free~

But shops like this are in great demand, right? Are the managers of the shopping street on holiday today? Can we rent one?"

"Oh, that's right!" Akiyama An suddenly realized.

"..." Chiba Shuichi really couldn't understand. It was fine if it was Mrs. Akiyama, but why could Akiyama An, who had good grades, be so stupid?

He knocked on the table, "Akiyama-san, don't you realize where we are sitting now?"

"Hmm?" Akiyama looked around and realized belatedly, "It seems... to be the management office of the shopping street?"

"Hmm, what are these documents you just looked at?" Chiba Shuichi pointed at the documents in the hands of the two people.

"What's the situation with the store?" Mrs. Akiyama replied with a blink of her eyes.

"So, why can I sit here and show you these things casually, and even put forward additional conditions?" Chiba Shuichi's eyes wandered over the faces of the two.

Akiyama An was thoughtful, and suddenly her eyes lit up, "Chiba-san and the manager of the shopping street are acquaintances!"

"Is that so? That's great." Mrs. Akiyama said happily.

"..." Chiba Shuichi sighed, having been completely defeated by the two men. "Well, let me get this straight. I am the owner and manager of this shopping street. You can just sign a contract with me. I won't take weekends off."

"Eh? What a coincidence?" Akiyama An blinked her clear and stupid big eyes, still not coming to her senses.

"Well, it's quite a coincidence. Did you bring the documents needed to rent a house? We can sign the contract in a moment."

Chiba Shuichi has been driven crazy by the mother and daughter. If he had known earlier, he would not have explained so much and would have just lied directly.

"I've got it." Mrs. Akiyama quickly took out a stack of documents from her handbag.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 15 Chiba said he didn't lie to me

The gray-haired old butler came again, signed the contract and left.

Chiba Shuichi looked at the mother and daughter who were so excited about moving into a new home, and felt a little reluctant to watch.

"Now that the contract has been signed, is it time to go and see the store in person?"

"Oh, yes." The mother and daughter reacted in surprisingly consistent manner.

To a ghost!

How can you view a house after signing the contract? !

I would feel sorry for their cooperation if I didn't lie to them!

Qianye Xiuyi stood up and took the two of them to the next door to look at the shop. He couldn't help but say something extra, "Don't trust others so easily in the future. What if they are scammers?"

"Huh?!" Akiyama An's eyes widened. "So Chiba-san lied to us? Is there something wrong with the contract?"

Chiba Xiuyi held his forehead and said speechlessly: "No."

"Oh, that's good." Akiyama Xing immediately felt relieved.

Mrs. Akiyama even tapped her forehead and said, "How could Chiba-kun, such a well-behaved child, lie to others? Xing-chan, don't talk nonsense."

"You also said that my sister is well-behaved, but she often lies to me." Akiyama Xing retorted with puffed cheeks.

Chiba Xiu felt a little itchy, as if his brain was being eaten by something. He couldn't listen carefully to the conversation between these two people, otherwise his IQ would be assimilated.

"Wow~ It looks so big. Now it won't be so crowded." Akiyama An happily ran around the store like a tit jumping among the branches.

The two floors together cover 60 square meters, and the area on the second floor for mother and daughter to live in is only 30 square meters at most.

Even though in Japan it is all usable area and there is no common area, it is actually not that big. This shows the living environment of the Akiyama family before.

Chiba Shuichi didn't feel sympathy or pity for this. When he first started working in his previous life, the place he lived in was also very small.

In a metropolis like Tokyo, it is normal for living space to be cramped.

"It doesn't look this big after we moved our things in." Mrs. Akiyama looked around the new house with a smile on her face. "This shop used to be a restaurant, right? It seems that it doesn't need to be renovated, just change the sign and it can be opened directly."

"Yes, it used to be an izakaya." Chiba Shuichi answered in the affirmative, which was one of the reasons why he recommended this one.

"This way we can save some money, that's great~" Mrs. Akiyama said happily, easily satisfied. "This time it's all thanks to Chiba-kun, otherwise we really couldn't find such a suitable place."

When Qianye Xiu saw her satisfied expression, he suddenly remembered to check the system.

Sure enough, several messages popped up one after another.

Mrs. Akiyama's sense of belonging to the shopping street rose to 30 in just a short while, faster than Ogawa Fumika!

"Monthly salary... 800,000..." Chiba Xiuyi murmured with a gleam in his eyes.

Wouldn’t it be great if there were more excellent shop owners like this who are easy to satisfy and can easily enhance a sense of belonging?

I wonder if there are other students like this in their families at school...

Maybe we can ask Uchida Yaichi? He is the only familiar person in my previous life.

After accompanying the excited mother and daughter to look around the shops for a long time, the smooth progress finally encountered a setback - Akiyama family's eldest daughter, Akiyama Tsuki, was on her way.

The reason why she didn't accompany Mrs. Akiyama to look after the shop was because she was busy taking English lessons at a private school. She received the news around noon and hurried over.

When Akiyama Tsuki arrived at the store, Chiba Shuichi had already gone to Yoshinoya for lunch. She found the place, rushed into the store, and held her mother's shoulders, asking anxiously:

"What's going on? Why didn't you tell me and just rented the shop?"

"Don't be anxious, Yue-chan. This shop is very cheap. If you don't rent it quickly, what if someone else gets it first?" Mrs. Akiyama explained slowly.

"How cheap?" Qiu Shanyue frowned, looked around the first floor of the shop, and secretly made an assessment in his mind based on the location of the neighborhood.

If it is a 12-square-meter first-floor shop in this location, the rent should be around yen.

"It's only 60,000 yen~" Mrs. Akiyama looked like she was about to praise me.

"How can it be so cheap? The price of 30 square meters is almost half of the price nearby, right?" Akiyama Tsuki immediately became alert, his mind worked quickly and his speech was also very fast.

"Is there something wrong here? I see several shops next door are vacant as well."

"No." Mrs. Akiyama did not follow her daughter's train of thought and only grasped the first sentence.

"It's not the price of thirty square meters. The upstairs is also included. The second floor can be used for living. It's very convenient. Yue-chan won't have to run back and forth in the future."

"What? Such favorable terms?!" Qiu Shanyue was shocked. This price was even more outrageous. There must be something wrong!

"Not only that, you don't have to pay a gift money or a deposit, and the management fee is included in the rent. Isn't it amazing that Mom found such a great place?" Mrs. Akiyama looked proud.

"It was clearly me who found it, but mom is taking the credit from me." Akiyama An puffed up her cheeks in dissatisfaction.

"Do you two think I'm praising you?" Qiu Shanyue was almost going crazy. He grabbed his mother and sister's faces with one hand each, and said frantically, "Don't you think this price is outrageous? You must have been cheated!"

Mrs. Akiyama and An Akiyama explained vaguely.

"No, Chiba-san said he didn't lie to me. It's so cheap because this street belongs to him."

"Yes, Chiba-kun is such a good kid, he definitely wouldn't lie."

"Chiba?" Akiyama Tsuki suddenly grasped the key point and looked at his sister. "I seem to have heard this last name recently. Is it the one you mentioned a few days ago, the one who mistakenly thought you were going to confess your love on the rooftop and expressed regret?"

"Yeah, yeah, it's him." Akiyama An nodded repeatedly.

Akiyama Yue let go of the two people, closed his eyes, and calmed down the anger in his heart. "Stupid mother, you didn't even know you sold out your stupid sister!"