Chapter 30: Distress and Remembrance
In the past two days, Shirley has been cleverly maintaining a state of confusion, and her little head, which has always been clever from morning to night, is dizzy for inexplicable reasons. And just three days ago, the landlord's deflated mouth man with a gloomy smile and a long dark gray blanket on his chest, specially brought a basket of leftover fruits to find her and the girl who shared the house with Youyou, the old-fashioned man swaggered around without waiting for the two little girls to greet him, and then he bowed very politely, and slowly straightened his waist again, his eyes were full of seriousness and paranoia. The landlord told them to move out within a day, and he told them in a slow and logical tone that the reason was that the house was in dire need of renovation.
"It's just such a reason, it's headless and brainless. Shirley was stunned for a moment, and she looked at the man in her eyes with a long fresh palm mark on her iron-green face. Compared to the wandering dragon with palm marks, the depths of his dark eyes were as dead and silent as the water in the middle of the night.
"Why is it so sudden, we haven't packed our bags and have to move out of here? The cold in late autumn, the early snow and rain, and the damp and cold of the ninth day of the new year, we all relied on a righteous body and the self-provided electric heater next to the pillow to survive, coincidentally, I think we should be the most careless and non-bargaining with you among all your tenants. Besides, when you signed the contract, you were not very satisfied with those conditions, but you only enjoyed the property fee for less than half a year after paying for a year, and even the maintenance fee for household appliances, we did not work for your driver, nor did you dig into your pocket to get out of the silver. Putting it in my heart, now that we are in a passive position, for the sake of three months under the same roof and each other, at least let us take a breather. Whether you are in a hurry to repossess the house for another use, to sublease it at a price hike, or that you have found the best time to sell the house, you can tell the truth, and the ambiguous statement is really like an excuse to prevaricate the student. "Yoyo, who has always been stupid, always rushes to the front to take the lead when he encounters an urgent situation.
"Oh, I'm afraid that the two girls have forgotten a very important thing, I am the landlord here, as for the specific reason, I should not have to negotiate with you, when will your little sister scrape together enough money to buy this room and ask me such a private question. ā
The eggplant-like uncle has always had an indescribable disagreement. Especially since the first few days, he has always stood alone on the attic balcony drenched in the night snow, taking advantage of the floating wind stained with a little wet marks under the star waves, methodically fiddling with the antique flower pots stained with old mud, and then under his chatter, he raised the watering can with a thin layer of ice at the bottom of the pot.
"Uncle, you are watering the flowers, how can there be flowers that can grow in winter?"
The morning light shone on the pure white flower pots that were becoming more and more transparent, and the broken edges and corners faintly reflected the rippling silver light.
The turbulent and fine jets of water splashed onto the pots, and at the same time as the tumbling ice water splashed onto Shirley's white hands.
"Dodge and dodge, the flowers that affect me rest. ā
Thinking of this, Shirley bit her lip and looked at Yoyo cautiously.
"Uncle, do you remember the black and white words on the rental contract? If we breach the contract during the rental period, we will pay you double, do you have to fulfill this hard target now? Don't forget that the contract specifically states the time problem. ā
The landlord's gloomy face was tinged with gloom. He stared at the two girls for a long time, and then he waved his hand to signal the two girls who were not to be outdone to sit down before talking.
This time he imagined himself as a boxer who had just entered the venue, and he bowed deeply more politely, and when Huo Ran raised his eyes, his dark eyes instantly became warm as usual.
"Of course, if you don't mind if the house is demolished and the walls are blown into a hornet's nest. He sat straight on the highest chair and said lightly in a stereotypical and humorous tone.
"And I'm not going to vacate my attic for you to live in. He smiled calmly, his head tilted like a weeping willow on top of a mixed soup. Shirley let out a long sigh as she turned her face to look at the dead trees swaying wildly under the moon.
The man quickly pulled out a pair of black-rimmed glasses from his jacket pocket like a wisp of cigarette, and he said with words as he counted the bills with saliva.
"Well, have you thought about it now? I've probably calculated, three weeks and one day a month, and today should be three weeks a month, so for the sake of your part-time work, I'll return two months' rent to you, how about it?"
As he spoke, he unhurriedly spread out the banknotes in his hand.
"The problem is, you just told us to move out, where are we going to find a place to stay, and if we had known in advance that you had such urgent intentions, we wouldn't have rented your house at all. We just don't lack 200 yuan no matter how bad the money is. ā
A woman's angry voice pierced through the deep darkness and finally pierced into Shirley's ears.
"That's your business, it's none of my business. Besides, for the sake of your good performance on weekdays, I have done my best, and you have not asked how the six residents are going. This one slap is equivalent to the half-moon heart-saving medicine. Besides, I'm an old man, are you too young to ask for two more pension money from my pocket?"
The landlord's voice was as cold as iron, and even the overstretched emotional intelligence was incredible.
"Well, I don't think there's any need for us to talk any further, so please forgive my presumptuousness, for the sake of you going your separate ways, I won't bother you to pack up your things and tell each other to talk more about yourself at the end. After all, out of my house, it's rare for you to see each other. Old classmates and old hair are still like this, not to mention that you have met in the water. ā
Shirley Huo Ran raised her misty eyes to meet the landlord's calloused pupils. His voice slowly faded like a distant spell. But when she was unbelievable, it was like a hurried wind chime. At this moment, an expression that Shirley could not read appeared on his face like a tidal wave of light that he had never seen before, but the expression of surprise that could not be recalled dimmed for only a moment.
The old fellow walked through Shirley's frightened shoulder, his hand on the edge of the door frame trembling slightly, and even the dark red horizontal stripes on the back of his hand were bulging. In the stunned eyes of the two girls, he slowly disappeared into the torrential rain that poured into the girls' hearts.
"Damn! an out-and-out miser, bastard old thing. Phew!" Wooyo chased after the landlord, and she stomped her foot angrily.
But thinking about how nervous he was that day and saying such disgusting words today, Shirley always had a chilling convulsion. However, there are some intriguing surprises in addition to the convulsions.
"It needs to be renovated, so why did you agree three months ago to rent it to two student girls who are not financially available at a low price, and make an extra day of earning? I'll just say, those sandbags piled up in the stairwell out of thin air are so in the way, you don't even come down and move the place, so you had planned to do so earlier. Wait until the deadline to blow us away. And before that, those wrong clues were all for their own convenience and to block others. ā
Rather than being angry, she shouted as she waved the contract like a lace tie in the windless night sky, even though the sudden anger was only felt by her and Shirley. Yoyo locked her fingers tightly, her stomach ache wringing violently and the helplessness in her heart intertwined in her gradually irrational brain, and for a moment she also had the urge to rush into the landlord's house and tear off his fake kind mask.
"Forget it. Shirley turned and grabbed her arm. "We're not that old guy's opponent, didn't you listen to him just talk about how he used the radical method to get half a month's free medicine? We're lucky not to be fooled by the old ghosts. And the other day, the old ghost was always silently fiddling with empty flower pots, and I thought there must be something wrong with his brain. ā
"I don't care if he's sick or not?" yelled indignantly, and then there was a hint of sharpness in her voice. "Cui Xueli, you are just too good at talking, so people use you as a stepping pad to step on. If I want to say that even if I can't get justice, I will find a dark and windy night to pretend to be a ghost to scare his hypocritical courage and see if he dares to continue to bully people. ā
As she spoke, she was already brewing emotions to herself, and she repeated the words of revenge in a slightly ruthless and cold language.
"You always don't understand what I mean, you always have to be unforgiving, you happen to meet a Laipi, you really want to rush up and spill, because of a small loss, don't blame me for not reminding you. ā
Shirley walked back to the room in a daze, she shivered without the blessing of heating, her hands tightly wrapped around her shoulders at the same time, her body shivered violently, she turned to glance at the pink fridge magnet with "hello, Kitty" drawn, and the standing kitten holding a side that said "fighti."
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"Hey. Shirley hesitated and sniffed, then opened the closet with a heart full of concern. If it weren't for the fact that she came home from overtime yesterday, she received a crying and swollen voice telling her that her father had suffered cardiac arrest and was sent for rescue. She was still at a loss for the future. I was so confused that no matter what I did part-time, I was confused and at a loss.
"Please, you can't let yourself fall anymore, only when your life reaches its peak, you won't worry about your family's life, and you are willing to live in the cracks of the ground forever?
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eć can see that she wants to refuse and welcome Song Minghao, as well as Zheng Muxuan's trick of wanting to capture and indulge, no one needs to teach her, she is born with it, no wonder Liang Xia, who is following her, will stumble Zhou Huixi. "At that moment, July was like the source of all the evil in this world, she was proud and shameful.
Since hanging up yesterday, Shirley has collapsed into the couch pit in despair. The sore pain was as fierce as a gunshot and tormented her fragile mind.
The wind outside the window was blowing strongly, a heavy, wet wind that heralded the imminent landfall of a blizzard.
There was also a gust of wind blowing in her heart, and she didn't believe in fate, but she had to bow her head. What a sadness it is. I feel that she wants to break her bottom line and do something that goes against her original intention.
The phone rang and rang, followed by a frustrating busy tone.
Shirley couldn't tell what was wrong with her, she was obviously eager for the other party to answer the phone, but she was afraid that the other side would really connect. She has never restrained herself from drinking more than she drinks, does she really want to socialize with customers?
Shirley's hanging heart became uneasy.
Shirley smiled softly and looked at her long, pale legs in the mirror. At this moment, how much she wanted to turn into the warm and smoky quilt, and have a good dream without other thoughts.
In the silence, she slowly lifted a bright lipstick, and under the background of the flames, her white skin shrouded in the night became more and more crystal clear, but her eyes without a trace of smile were a little scattered.
"Go, don't go, don't go, go. In the flickering and dim dappled light, there was a bewitching charm in her eyes.
After a while, she muttered open the half-hidden door, and in the face of a whirlwind filled with moisture, she paced around the room irritably, and then cursed and packed her suitcase.
A sharp knock came from the blue-spotted ceiling, and then large drops of snow like goose feathers rushed into the room among the crackling rain.
Shirley hurriedly rolled onto the bed and covered her lap with a thin velvet blanket.
"Who is reluctant to surrender the rent of such an old and dilapidated house, and it is uncomfortable to live in this half a year. Look at the musty smell of this room, it's suffocating. The key to the cold is that my head is so cold that I have a headache. Shirley, I'm a three-nil girl who doesn't want to have a good quality of life, but you, you're too wronged to live like this. ā
Heavy snow and moisture occupy every inch of the world, including Shirley's heart and eyes, and her mouth and face.
In this world, no matter what choice you make, you have to do what you can, but it is too difficult for her, and she is really overwhelmed by her family's high hopes, her hopes for the future, and the current predicament of her family.
At that moment, she looked at her haggard self in the mirror with a sad and desolate look.
"Hey, Cui Xueli, do you want to join me to provoke that old ghost at the end, it's really a game for me to think about this matter. I just remembered a clue that the old ghost had gone up to his attic with three men in lifeless black suits half a month ago. And the sandbags that filled the hallway had appeared out of haze since the people left. I think the guys must have said something to him, and I heard them babble on and on about the contract, the assignment, and the deed, and I want us to inquire about it. Anyway, I'm like that, I don't feel good about him. ā
"Yoyo, are you too nervous, I guess it's because you've read too many suspense books and practiced guessing, the house belongs to someone else, and it's not people's freedom to bring someone in. Why do you have to wait for those rigid sculptures to find you, are you willing to take a step back? You came back that day and mysteriously said that those people were wearing dignified turquoise threaded shirts in their dark suits as dark as the night, and I thought they were bodyguards who had done group performances, and you said that those people's eyes were bright red and domineering like roses, and I thought they were vampires walking on the long street. But looking at the landlord's set of people behind him, the flies and dogs are all their own little abacus. No matter who the other party is, they are also in the same boat. Hey, I still have a lot of reasons to lose my mind, so I won't talk to you inexplicably. Boring, no one knows how failed I am when I look at myself like this. I'm desperate enough to mess with me. The heart is in a mess, his head is as heavy as iron, and there is no weight on his body. ā
What Yoyo didn't notice was that Shirley's eyes had completely lost their luster at the moment. She reluctantly adjusted her emotions, and there was hardship in her pretended arrogant voice that she didn't realize.
"You fail, how do you fail. Compared to you, I'm the one who is ashamed of myself? You don't want to think about Qingyi, but we have the most famous university here. And didn't you have a rich second-generation boyfriend? Why do you still say that you failed, could it be that he made you unhappy? No, it should be that you made him unhappy, so he suffered so much. However, I always feel that you are a little overkill in maintaining a humble figure in front of him. You're always looking down on him, and you're going to turn on a red light sooner or later, even if you're a close couple right now. By the way, you were full of confidence when you hung his appetite? I said you, don't be unhappy, you always look at others and can't see yourself black. It's as if the whole world owes you. How did I enter a school, and my mentality is still distorted. ā
There was a hysterical catharsis, even though she had noticed that Shirley's face turned pale in an instant. But she still stimulates her with words that Shirley can't accept.
"And don't always blame all this on insecurity, the sense of security is always given to yourself, when you complain about the Spring and Autumn Dream, the sense of security is actually an insatiable dream and an ambition that you can't realize at all. I wonder if you should think that you have no background at this time, but that is not the key to you reaching out to Gu Beichen for a sense of security at all. Your sense of security is a bottomless pit, even if you climb the Gu family's tree like ivy, one day his free source will dry up. ā
Shirley turned her face away and put a quilt over her head. Her eyes unblinked, looking at the color of the sea on the screen saver of her phone.
"I can't figure out my own life, you think I have the leisure to take care of your business. Besides, let's get together and break up today, hey, this time you don't have to find a reason to sneak around someone's house, it's more pitiful to be blown away by the landlord than to get along with your roommate, Cui Shirley said that this is not necessarily a bad thing for you. ā
In the whirlpool of the storm, the corners of Cui Shiri's lips stiffened in the face of the cynicism of Yoyo, and she refused to answer any of her questions, but she really wanted to jump out of bed and find a glue to glue to her mouth that couldn't speak.
The day before Tae-hee left, a gust of wind blew in Wancheng that could move the sand and rocks to take-off, and the blue-purple canopy gradually merged with the dark room shrouded in wet wind.
Gu Beiming sat down on the red velvet sofa stained with the smell of Margaret in the secluded corner of the bedroom. His heart swelled up inexplicably, and he stood up sharply in the dark fragrance of the night, and his facial expression was clear or complex in the backlight.
The uneasiness he had never felt before was like a relentless wind outside the window, violently shaking and tugging at his heavy heart.
In this familiar and unfamiliar home, where people are boiling every day but seems to be so empty that even he doubts whether he is real, Gu Beiming has long been tired of it. Even though he had the idea of escaping from reality, every time he thought of his ultimate goal, he still smoothed the heart that was about to jump to his throat and put it in place.
The night rain drips down on the silent glass windows.
The study next door,
Li Xianzhen casually found two oranges of similar size from the basket on the desk, she couldn't put it down for a while, and then reluctantly put down one of them, she stuffed the cracked orange petal into her mouth, and before she could chew it, her face suddenly wrinkled like a bitter melon.
"Unlucky, how can bad luck chase me, since I learned about the existence of that Tae-hee, I haven't had a few days to live in peace. ā
The golden retriever, who had always been docile in the living room, suddenly tore her throat and whimpered a few times, Li Xianzhen didn't say a word, she grabbed the sour orange from the table and threw it in the direction of the door.
In an instant, the crystal cold raindrops shimmered like a tide, crisscrossing the window that had just been densely covered with a layer of fine lines.
In the living room, which had already been restored to tranquility, there was a roar that was ten times more powerful than just now.
"Annoying, wait for tomorrow, I will definitely throw this beast out, throw it far away, and it's better not to come back for the rest of my life. Li Xianzhen held the broom high in her hand, she strode forward to drive it away, and the dog was really very tame and lay on the ground, wagging its tail and looking at her pitifully.
Li Xianzhen was not angry but felt very funny, she breathed a sigh of relief, slowly lowered her hand, and then she turned around and walked towards the study, "Whoa" There was another dog barking behind her. The Golden Retriever tried to pounce on her unrelentingly. The golden retriever's attitude of fighting back was so determined that she was frightened and took several steps back.
"You're not done yet, are you? ā
Lee Hyun-jin crossed her hands on her hips, and she panted as she ran up and down the golden retriever around the spacious and bright three connected living rooms.
The rain crackled wildly against the dark glass window, and after the barking of the dog, which was louder than thunder, the golden retriever flew towards her like wings. "Ahh
The heavy rain and restless humidity that gradually fell silent conquered every corner of the world, and in the bedroom, Gu Beiming, with his arms wrapped around his chest, stood quietly in the eye of the whirlwind, he sat down lonely and got up from the sofa with great irritability, and his cold fingertips always held the three letters that Tae-hee had written to him himself.
The night wind violently lifted the curtain behind Gu Beiming.
Gu Beiming slowly raised his head from between the words that he had plunged into.
"Tae-hee, we're never going back between us, are we?" he murmured with a glazed gaze.
"I can't go back, I really can't go back. ā
Gu Beiming's watery eyes were full of pain, and he used trembling fingers to lock the long letter in his palm that was slightly blowing.
"I can't clean up that Tae-hee woman, I can't clean you up anymore, damn brute, even you jumped out to see me laugh. Li Xian, who was completely enraged at this time, looked at the golden retriever angrily. She rolled up her arms and sleeves and beat the whimpering dog. Until the dog lay motionless beside the fern and begged for mercy.
"Restless you, restless you. ā
"It's all against me, Gu Beiming, Taixi, and you dog. ā
The wet leaves swayed violently, and the thunder that pierced through the darkness burrowed into her sensitive ears.
"You all give me to die, go to die. ā
Li Xian's defense line collapsed violently, and in the devastated mud and mist, she rushed towards the golden retriever with a trailing footsteps.
"Time goes round and round, and we can't go back to where we used to be. ā
What Gu Beiming didn't expect was that in the early morning of the next day, Tae-hee suddenly floated out of his life like a wisp of smoke.
The distant sky was gloomy, and the rain had not yet fallen all night.
The stack of letters was slightly blown, and each letter was signed with a stack of numbers 520.
"You, even if you can't stay together, do you love me as much as I do?"