Chapter 7 Photographs of fires
Pushing open the door of 403, you will see a simple wooden bed, a desk, a chair, and nothing else.
The real reason why I decided to rent this room is that the words written on this wall, and the wall next to the bed, are all inspirational sentences, although these sentences are empty words for me now, but in such an environment, they can cheer me up and add a little color to my sad life.
After paying this month's rent, I went out and bought a lot of daily necessities, pots and pans, induction cookers, etc., and the most important thing was the bucket, because there was a regular supply of water.
At night, when I cleaned up in the room and opened the table drawer, I found a bunch of old photos, and the date on the photos, all of which were old photos of zero years, I looked at it casually, and I was really a little surprised, and I was even more convinced that this room, once the richest man in our county lived, because most of these photos were himself!
To be honest, I didn't believe the landlady's words at first, but after seeing the photos, I was convinced, and I didn't think that I would be lucky enough to live in the room where the richest man lived.
But as I flipped through it, I stopped, because there was a very special photo, it was a photo from 2007, and the photo was not taken by the richest man himself, but a row of tiled houses on fire, and in the courtyard of one of the tiled houses, a person could still be seen, but the figure of this person was very blurry, and he couldn't see his face.
But in any case, it is enough to prove that the richest man of the year was a photography enthusiast, after all, the camera is so expensive, and it will cost a lot of money in the past few years.
I didn't think anything was going on at first, but when I looked up, I saw downstairs, and not far from the downstairs was a row of tiled houses, with courtyards next to each other, with sporadic lights and cooking smoke.
This angle direction and position, I immediately understood that the richest man was standing in my current position to shoot the fire scene, because the angle was just right.
"Young man, you hold these two empty buckets, there is a community water dispenser at the gate, you can use it. "The landlady came over at some point, and when I saw her carrying two empty buckets of pure water, I immediately stepped forward to take it and thanked her.
The old lady smiled, saw the photo in my hand, and said with a smile: "I didn't lie to you, Wang Tiefa, the richest man in our county, really lived here, he was a young guy like you at the time, he liked photography and videography, these are the photos he took, those photos of him were taken by his girlfriend, and his girlfriend seemed to like to take pictures or something at that time." ”
"Girlfriend, is that his current wife?" I seemed to hear the gossip and asked curiously.
The landlady shook her head, let out a long breath and said, "No, I heard that his girlfriend died, and I don't know what it was." ”
I nodded in agreement, took the photo of the row house on fire in my hand and asked, "Grandma landlord, is the house still on fire over there?"
The old lady took the photo and looked at it, and said strangely: "I have lived here for so many years, I don't remember that there was a fire on the side of the row house, those tiled houses are very old, if they are on fire, they should not be able to be repaired, this photo looks so big on fire." ”
I really think it's a little strange that the old lady said this, but it is true, the tiled structure of the row house, the beams inside should still be wood, and it is very troublesome to repair such a structure after it catches fire.
At this moment, another person appeared at my door, a man who looked to be in his twenties, wearing a blue and white plaid shirt on his upper body, a little dirty, and a pair of big blue pants on his lower body, a pair of shabby gray sandals on his feet, leaning against the door frame, the fingertips of his palms gathered together on his chest, with a silly smile on his face, and his mouth was still drooling, he was a fool.
"It's the stars, this is your new neighbor, ...... Lin," said the landlady to the fool.
"Lin Zhiwu. I replied immediately.
"Yes, yes, this is you Lin Zhiwu, Brother Lin, don't make trouble for your Brother Lin in the future, you know?" The landlady said in a tone like teaching a child, but before she finished speaking, the fool turned around and ran away with a smile.
The landlady told me that Xingxing lived with his eldest brother, in the westernmost south household, and this Xingxing had an intellectual disability, and his eldest brother had no money, and it was not easy for the two of them to live.
I couldn't help but sigh, there is no way to do it, but as long as there is money, no one wants to live in such an environment.
After a brief chat with the landlady, she went back to her room tremblingly, and I locked the door to go out for some dinner.
Although it was night, it was not dark in the corridor, it was the kind of sensor light that would turn on if there was a sound, and when I walked to the staircase, a door in the corridor opened, and a man in white pajamas appeared, his eyes were dark, and his eyes were blank, just looking at me.
I'm very awkward in my heart, not to mention the poor environment here, how do the people who live there are all so strange, don't you feel embarrassed to look at me and not speak?
After looking at each other for a while, I couldn't hold back for a while, smiled embarrassedly, and beckoned: "Hello, I'm a new neighbor, my name is Lin Zhiwu, and I live in 403." ”
However, the man ignored me, took a step back, and slammed the door shut.
I was really helpless, so I went to dinner, and on the way I called Hua Jin, but he didn't answer, so I simply sent him a message and left a message, telling him that I had found a house and would start looking for a job tomorrow, so that he could rest assured that the money would be returned to him when I earned it.
I didn't dare to eat anything good, so I simply ate a noodle at the noodle restaurant opposite, then bought a pack of cigarettes and went back.
This night, maybe I have a place to live, I slept very comfortably, especially when I opened the window, the cool breeze reduced the heat of summer, and made me feel more comfortable, and I slept until dawn.
I don't know if it's going to be the time or what, but as soon as I opened my eyes, a phone call came, and someone on the Internet saw my resume and asked me to apply.
I didn't dare to slack off, I got up and washed, but when I went downstairs, the man at the entrance of the stairs reappeared, standing at the door and still looking at me in a daze, without a word of.
If I was in a bad mood, I would have cursed, but today I was in a good mood, and I still greeted him with a smile, but his actions were the same as last night, he took a step back, and then slammed the door shut, and at the same time the fool Xingxing ran over from the west with a wooden stick, and shouted rush, rush, rush, I didn't want to have any conversation with the fool, so I hurried away.