692. So Am I Not Allowed to Live Anymore?

Inside the shop,

Wen Wan was discussing renting the shop together with Gu Heng.

She and Jiang Qian had found the place after searching all the way from their side, and only walked in after noticing a sign saying the entire building was available for rent.

By the time they entered, Gu Heng was already discussing the rent with the landlord.

Gu Heng thought the shop was too large and the rent too expensive, so he wanted to rent only half of it.

The landlord refused, saying it would be difficult to rent out the remaining half.

Wen Wan had been searching for so many days that she truly could not find another shop. The moment she heard this, she thought of renting it together.

The shop was indeed very large, probably around one hundred and thirty square meters. A small shop selling clothes did not need that much space at all. They could put up a wooden partition in the middle, divide it into two shops, and split the rent between them. That way, they would kill two birds with one stone.

Wen Wan discussed it with Gu Heng. "Uncle, this shop is over a hundred square meters. How about we each take half and pay half the rent? We can just put up a wall in the middle to separate the two shops."

Gu Heng already thought the rent was expensive—it was almost equivalent to half a month of his wages—so he agreed to Wen Wan's proposal.

Dong Yan and He Yun had also said that the shop did not need to be too large; fifty or sixty square meters would be enough.

Seeing that Gu Heng had agreed, Wen Wan began haggling with the landlord.

Wen Wan said, "Auntie, we want to rent the shop downstairs. We