Chapter 13 Renting a House

On the second night, Zhou Tiancheng, U19 teammates and coaching staff came to the Schalke Stadium together, but the protagonists tonight were not them, but the first-team stars.

Like all the flocking fans today, they came to contribute to Schalke 04's Bundesliga finale and the life-and-death battle for the championship this season.

Zhou Tiancheng only saw the frenzy and terror of the Schalke fans today, which is a completely different concept compared to the deserted scene of the youth team match yesterday. It's not too late for them to enter the arena an hour before the game, but the atmosphere in the arena is already quite hot. Every fan who enters the arena, from children of a few years old to seniors in their sixties and seventies, has obvious The Schalke team logo logo, and all fans who enter the stadium in groups of three or more people, holding a Schalke team flag is standard.

What made Zhou Tiancheng even more uncomfortable was that the seats at the scene seemed like decorations to these fans. They were afraid that their voices would be drowned out, and the players on the field would not feel their presence, so they all stood up and walked over. Sing and dance, with great energy.

In this situation, Zhou Tiancheng couldn’t sit still anymore—according to the unified requirements of the team, they all wore Schalke 04 jerseys. If Zhou Tiancheng’s actions were not in line with the mainstream of the scene, at least he would be looked down upon by the surrounding fans In contrast, heavy people will easily be labeled as "disloyal" and become criticized by thousands of people.

And from the second the referee blew the opening whistle, the fans began to sing the Schalke team song "Blue and White I Love You". Although Zhou Tiancheng was still not proficient in singing, he still followed the singing Hum a tune.

He also gained something from this game. He memorized the lyrics and practiced pronunciation over and over again with the fans around him. By the end of the game, he could sing the team song "Blue and White I Love You" completely.

Cheered by the singing of all the fans, Schalke 04 lived up to expectations and defeated the twelfth place in the standings 2:1, Bielefeld, who had no desires.

However, news came from another field that broke the hearts of all Schalke fans: the top-ranked Stuttgart defeated Cottbus 2:1 at home, with 21 wins, 7 draws and 6 losses with 70 points, winning the 2006 FC by two points. -07 season Bundesliga champion. Schalke 04 regrettably missed another league championship in the team's forty-nine years.

Before the official disbandment of the U19 echelon, Coach Elgort told everyone: "It's okay to relax during this month's vacation, but don't play too crazy. I hope that more of you will enter the first team next season and serve the club again. Do your part to hit the league title."

In just one day, the training camp, which was crowded with people and extremely lively, quieted down. Only Zhou Tiancheng, who took the initiative to stay, and Jiang Hao, who was left alone to continue the final trial training, went in and out of the base every day.

Zhou Tiancheng suddenly had a lot of extra time without training days, but he was not free. Taking advantage of this month's vacation, he had to settle the renting issue as soon as possible. He wants to gain a foothold here for a long time, which is a very important condition.

Although Zhou Tiancheng is very familiar with the German way of life, he has absolutely no experience in renting a house. After searching around, he finally found some rental information posted by some landlords on the Internet, but when he took the initiative to contact the landlords, almost without exception, he was rejected. Euphemistically refused. Zhou Tiancheng couldn't understand the reason at all.

After procrastinating for a few days, Zhou Tiancheng simply put his rent-seeking information on the website, and when the landlord took the initiative to contact him, he didn't believe that Gelsenkirchen, a country like Gelsenkirchen, can only be counted as the county's population size in China. In cities, how tight is housing availability?

Zhou Tiancheng didn't expect this method to be very effective. Within a day, five landlords contacted him, expressing their strong willingness to rent an apartment. Obviously, these landlords saw that Zhou Tiancheng had filled in "Schalke U19 echelon player" in the work column, and immediately realized that Zhou Tiancheng had a stable income and might become famous in the future. Naturally, he became Hot item.

But after Zhou Tiancheng saw it in person,

Four of them were directly rejected. There are two reasons that the house itself has been vacant for a long time and is very messy. Zhou Tiancheng usually trains intensively, not to mention that he has no time to clean up. Facing such a bad environment every day when he goes home, his mood will definitely not get better .

In addition, although Zhou Tiancheng has a private car, he doesn't want to commute between the rental house and the training camp for too long every day, so he directly vetoed the third rental house that is 20 kilometers away from the training camp, even though the landlord sounds very easy to talk.

As for not being the fourth one, the turning point was completely accidental.

Originally, Zhou Tiancheng and the landlord negotiated very well in terms of price. The landlord saw Zhou Tiancheng's career and immediately said that he was a veteran Schalke fan for 20 years, and he was completely willing to provide convenience to the young people of Schalke. In terms of rent, he quoted a very low price, and said that he can still meet and talk, and he can even make some more concessions, as he is right to contribute to the club.

When Zhou Tiancheng heard that the location of the rental house was two kilometers away from the training base, and the type of the house was two bedrooms and one living room, which just met his ideal needs, he immediately rushed over to see the house. Since the two sides chatted so happily, they should only need to go through the written legal procedures, and they will have a long-term foothold here.

The landlord is an unshaven bearded man in his early forties, who has been waiting here for a long time. Obviously, he is very excited when he thinks that his future tenant is a young talent from the Schalke team.

But when he saw Zhou Tiancheng for the first time, his eyes were obviously surprised, and his brows were slightly frowned.

After the two shook hands and greeted each other, he took the lead in asking tentatively, "Chinese?"

Zhou Tiancheng nodded in agreement, thinking that the uncle was quite curious, so he continued to walk into the house. But as soon as he took a step, the landlord uncle stopped him with one hand, and then said politely and firmly: "I'm sorry, I don't intend to rent this house to you!"

Zhou Tiancheng paused for a few seconds, and asked puzzledly, "What? Didn't we have a good discussion on the phone?"

"That's because I haven't met you before." The landlord uncle replied, "But after seeing you, I think it's too risky for me to be my tenant and as a landlord."

Hearing this sentence, Zhou Tiancheng couldn't help becoming angry. He looked directly at the landlord and asked forcefully, "What do you mean? Are you afraid that I will default on your rent? Do you want me to remind you again that I play for Schalke U19?" , the income will not be able to pay your rent?!"

The landlord spread his hands and said confidently: "If you have been playing for Schalke U19, there is no problem. But who can guarantee that you can stay forever? This is Schalke. I have been in Schalke for 20 years. Schalke fans, I have never seen a Chinese who can get ahead in Schalke, let alone want to enter the first team from the Schalke echelon. If one day you are kicked out by Schalke, you can still pay for it Pay rent?"

"You!" When Zhou Tiancheng heard this, flames shot up to the top of his head instantly, but he soon realized that he couldn't find any reason to refute the other party except for his hands, and he wanted to prove that he could do it, but now no one believed it .

Although the other party's perception of labeling was extreme, it gave Zhou Tiancheng a real sense of powerlessness that went deep into his soul.