"I resign. ”

When Xu Wen said this, the boss's voice stopped abruptly.

Xu Wen stood up, saluted him, and began to silently clean up the things on the table.

"Hey, what do you mean by that? The young man can't stand it like this? Am I still wrong?" the boss was anxious.

Xu Wen pursed his lips, did not speak, took out the resignation letter that had been printed long ago from the drawer, and handed it to him.

"On the 10th of next month, I will settle the rest of my salary. After saying this, he hugged a little of his miscellaneous belongings and walked out silently.

His actions were so resolute that his boss opened his mouth and closed it again.

Xu Wen walked out of the company's gate, the cold air was blocked behind, and the rolling heat wave came from all directions, enveloping him inside.

Xu Wen braved the scorching sun, swept a shared bicycle from the side of the street, rode it and walked back.

He calculated as he rode.

The money in the bank is enough to live on for two months. If you are looking for a new job, the salary during the probation period is relatively low, and you will not get the money until the payday of the next month. You have to find a job within a month, and the sooner the better.

The place where he lives is not too far from the company, and when he first rented the house, he was close to it. After riding for half an hour, he finally arrived, Xu Wen was sweating profusely, and his head was a little dizzy from the sun. However, he was still used to this feeling, returned the car to the car array, and walked into a small four-story building.

The small building is very dilapidated, it is a sunny afternoon, the corridor is still dark and narrow, and the air is filled with the smell of rotten fruit and other things, which is terrible. There are a lot of debris in the corridor, so you can only walk sideways, and sometimes you have to ask yourself to put them back when they fall down.

Xu asked for rent on the top floor of the fourth floor, and he didn't go back to the house immediately, but turned to the outside of the house at the end of the corridor on the third floor, and without knocking on the door, he pushed the door directly and walked in.

As soon as the door was pushed open, Xu Wen heard a soft "meow", followed by the old man's chattering voice: "Don't tell your father, let's eat a little." Come on, ah-"

The old man was so engrossed that he didn't notice him walking in.

"Grandma, I told you that you can't feed cats and people. Xu Wen walked over helplessly and said.

There was an old lady sitting by the window, her hair was all white and a little messy, but it was neatly groomed. She was eating, holding a rice bowl in her hand, and some vegetables pressed on top of the white rice. She picked up a piece of fish meat and fed it to a black cat on the table in front of her, the black cat opened its mouth and was about to eat, and when she saw Xu Wen come in, she jumped off the table with a bang, and rubbed around his feet.

Xu Wen rubbed it back with his legs, walked to the old lady and sat down, took the rice bowl, wiped the rice grains on her mouth with a tissue, and began to feed her.

The old lady smiled and narrowed her eyes, obediently opened her mouth to eat, and complained in a low voice while chewing: "What can't be fed, when we used to raise cats, it was not what people ate and what they ate, why are they so particular?"

"I didn't know before, but now that I know, I have to pay attention. Xu Wen said patiently.

The black cat followed Xu Wen and sat down next to him, looking at his chopsticks with wide eyes. The old man looked at it lovingly and said, "You want to eat it too, don't you?"

"You can't feed it if you want to eat it, it's so fat!"

"Where is the fat ......?"

"Black looks thin!"

The old man was aggrieved and stopped talking, and ate honestly.

Xu Wen shook his head helplessly and started the topic by chatting about other things.

The old man, surnamed Liu, is a neighbor who lives downstairs from him, living with his divorced daughter. The daughter has a job and children, and has done her best to take care of her mother's life, but after all, it is impossible to do everything. The old man often sits alone by the window and is very lonely.

At first, it was Xu Wen's cat who ran to her house, and Xu Wen went downstairs to look for it. Gradually, he would come down to talk to the old man and help do something when he was free, and the relationship between the two became closer and closer.

After eating, Xu Wen cleaned up and washed the dishes. The room is small and narrow, it is not easy to turn around, and the kitchen is located directly in the corner of the room. The old man talked about raising cats when he was a child, and Xu Wen listened through the sound of the rushing water.

The old man is a native of the old imperial capital, and when he was a child, he lived in an alley, and he was one of the four families in the courtyard. She misses the small yard, the old locust tree in the alley outside the courtyard, the people chatting in the shade under the tree, and the shouts of going from house to house to help repair pots and pots.

As she spoke, her voice gradually became distant, and the whole person was completely caught in the old thoughts.

Finally, she whispered, "I really want to go back to live in the yard......"

"Is it really that good?" Xu Wen couldn't help but ask after washing the dishes, "Our company ...... The former company engaged in construction, I have been to a lot of old courtyards, cold in winter and hot in summer, and I know the streets and alleys with a little sound. There's not even a public toilet, right? You have to go out of the toilet and pour it, how troublesome it is. ”

Xu Wen recalled the situation of the original investigation, and did not feel much better than the current place where they lived.

"That's different. What's wrong with emptying the toilet?'s the trouble?" retorted the old man.

"I think it's still a good elevator room in the community, clean and convenient, and it's much more comfortable to live in. Xu asked.

"What's so good about the elevator room? Qiuqiu doesn't even have a place to walk!" the old man accused.

Xu Wen shook his head and didn't argue with her. He estimated that the time was almost up, and after serving the old man to take the medicine, he packed up his things again, picked up the cat and prepared to go back.

When he was doing these things, the old man was lying on the rocking chair by the window, looking at the shadows of the swaying trees outside the window, and suddenly asked, "Xiao Xu, why do you say that people live for a lifetime?"

Xu Wen stopped and looked back at her.

The old man had already turned his head and was looking at him, with a faint smile on his lips and a gaze as clear as water.

Xu Wen finally didn't answer her question.

Xu Wen returned to his house.

The layout is the same as Grandma Liu's house, a single room of twelve or thirteen square meters, which is rigidly separated by the landlord in two rooms, and sometimes it is difficult to take something and turn around.

The fourth floor is the top floor, the roof has no thermal insulation, and it has been exposed to the sun for a day, and Xu Wen feels like he is going to be roasted as soon as he enters the house. Qiu Qiu meowed and jumped to the ground and walked directly to the electric fan. Xu Wen reluctantly turned on the fan, but the hot air was still blowing.

Tough.

In such a room, the rent is still 3,002, and the imperial capital is really not easy.

There is a sink in the corner of the house, washing face, washing vegetables and dishes are all in one, Xu Wen put down his things, walked over and prepared to flush his face to cool down, but when he turned on the water pipe, he found that there was no water.

It's using water downstairs again...... This old house is like this, the water pressure is not enough, as soon as the downstairs faucet is turned on, the water is cut off upstairs.

Xu Wen raked his hair and fell on the sofa next to him.

What is the purpose of human life?

Grandma Liu's question just now floated faintly in his mind again.

For what, don't they all have to live?

He closed his eyes, took his phone to open the job search app, and began to enter the filter conditions, ready to browse if there was a suitable job.

He had just finished typing when the bell rang suddenly, and a strange phone number was beating on the screen. Fixed telephone, under the area code, there is a prompt of "Wanyuan City, Jiangnan Province".

Wanyuan's customers?

Xu Wen picked up the phone while reminiscing.

"Hello, is it Mr. Xu?" The male voice on the other side spoke clearly, and his Mandarin was very standard.

"I am, may I ask if you are ......"

"Hello, my surname is Wu, and I am a lawyer at Dingsheng Law Firm. ”

Lawyer: What do I have to do with a lawyer?

"May I ask if you now live at No. 80 Cabinet Hutong in the East Second Ring Road of the Imperial Capital?"

"Yes, but how do you know?"

"I have some things I would like to confirm with you, which is related to the inheritance of an inheritance, and if it is convenient, please answer truthfully. ”

"Legacy?" Xu Wen raised his voice slightly.

"Yes, a property in Wanyuan City. The other side replied.

Xu Wen didn't say a word, hung up the phone directly, pulled the number into the blacklist, and marked the word "fraud" on it.

In the next two days, Xu Wen was busy looking for a job, so he fostered Qiuqiu at Grandma Zhang's house during the day.

Grandma Zhang was so happy that she waved her hand and said that he didn't have to come back, it was enough to have a ball. Although he knew that Grandma wanted him to go out with peace of mind, Xu Wen was still very helpless.

The job is not so easy to find, especially in comparison, Xu Wen is not a fresh graduate, has no qualifications, and the university is not famous, so there is really no advantage to get started. Commendable diligence can be reflected in the actual work, but not in the resume. Two days later, Xu Wen left his resume in several companies, and none of them responded.

At the end of the day, it was really tiring, especially when it was so hot. Xu Wen took a shower when he went back, and as soon as he lathered the shampoo on his head, he stopped the water again.

Xu Wen ran to the window wrapped in a bath towel and shouted below: "Please turn off the water, take a bath, it'll be fine for a while!"

They have a good relationship with their neighbors, and they usually shout like this, and everyone will help.

As a result, this time, Aunt Xu downstairs shouted back in a louder voice: "Xu Wen, express delivery! SF Express arrives, from Wanyuan City!"