Chapter 1 The Wonderful Journey of Three Middle-Aged Lives

Next Chapter

In the rental house, Black Feather sat on the bed in a loose white vest and brushed the circle of friends.

At the moment, he feels extremely confused, he has been graduating for almost ten years.

Today is the 100-day banquet for his roommate Zhang Qiang's children, and many classmates in the circle of friends are posting group photos and videos of the banquet, all of which are dragging their children and daughters.

Some of our children are in elementary school.

And he is still a single young dog who wants money but no money, and wants women without women, no...... Middle-aged dog.

Zhang Qiang also sent him a WeChat message a few days ago, wanting him to come to the banquet and get together by the way.

But Black Feather turned down the invitation on the pretext that he couldn't come back from a business trip.

It's not that I don't want to go, but I don't have the face to meet these brothers at all.

In the past ten years since graduation, Black Feather has lived too hard.

In the first year of graduation, I worked as a handyman in a mobile phone store, and after half a month, the mobile phone store was hit by online shopping, and I couldn't make ends meet, and I went bankrupt, and I didn't receive my salary.

A few months later, he found another job as a clerk, staying next to the printer every day to help his colleagues copy and print documents.

Later, intermittently, he found several jobs, none of which lasted more than a month, either the boss of the company ran away, or the company wanted to open up sources and reduce expenditure, so he chose to lay him off.

In the blink of an eye, Kuroba was thirty-two years old, and now he could only do some part-time jobs that were settled on the same day, and he could only spread the word to a single type of part-time job, maintaining a minimum level of living.

After such a long time, he didn't dare to submit his resume anymore, and job seekers at his age all wrote on their resumes that they had several years of work experience as a department head, and even ordinary employees were at least veterans of the workplace who had participated in some projects.

How embarrassed is he to say that he left after sitting next to the printer for more than half a month, and the age of thirty-two is there, there is no experience, and there is no youth, why should other companies invite you to be a middle-aged wastewood?

Not only did he not dare to contact his classmates, but even in his hometown, he had not been in touch for five years.

Hei Yu is a child from the countryside, and he was finally admitted to an undergraduate degree in the state capital of a first-tier city, and he thought that he could make a difference after graduation, but he was beaten up by reality.

I want to be high-spirited and swallow thousands of miles like a tiger.

Those good classmates and roommates who used to shout Brother Yu by their side are now posting in the circle of friends either checking in at major attractions at home and abroad, or taking pictures with their wives and their millions of luxury cars.

He was the vice president of the student union in the past, won the MVP in the college basketball game, won the second place in the campus singer, received more love letters than the books in the library, and was in the top ten black feathers on the school forum people list.

What the hell is going on now?

The character of his proud son that day has completely collapsed now, and the more he thinks about it, the more aggrieved he becomes, touching his big belly that has been three months old, and sulking.

At this moment, he lives in the most dilapidated rental house in the urban village of the state capital, with a rent of only 300 per month, and the landlord takes care of the food and electricity bills.

The landlord is an old grandfather named Uncle Liu, whose son went abroad with a family of three a few years ago and has not returned for several years.

At the beginning, I saw Hei Yu sleeping under the overpass with his luggage and was driven away by the city management.

Uncle Liu was indignant and led Hei Yu to his house.

said that he had a job for him to do, and he was in charge of food and housing.

The so-called work is actually to let Hei Yu live in his house as his nanny, do cleaning, cook or something, and give Hei Yu a salary of 3,000 a month.

Most of the first month passed, Hei Yu saw that he could finally get his first monthly salary, but Uncle Liu was hit by an electric car and was hospitalized, the perpetrator escaped, Uncle Liu could only bear his own medical expenses, Hei Yu took Uncle Liu's passbook to the bank to withdraw money, only then did he know that Uncle Liu himself was not rich, and lived on a pension of more than 1,000 every month.

Hei Yu is not good at raising his salary, in addition to continuing to do housework for Uncle Liu, he also does some part-time work outside, and he can earn more than 1,000 per month.

gave Uncle Liu 300 as rent, and occasionally bought vegetables and rice, and Hei Yu used his own money.

The two live together like father and son.

But they all know that they are nothing more than a community of interests.

Sooner or later, this unstable combination will fall apart.

It's just that the day came too suddenly.

At noon that day, Hei Yu had just finished running a trick for a crew, received a salary of 200 yuan, and packed a box of roast goose in the roast meat shop at the corner of the street, intending to add vegetables to Uncle Liu.

Humming a little song, he walked towards the urban village.

The fire trucks drove their sirens, blocking the entrance of the urban village, and finally walked to Uncle Liu's house, and the scene in front of him made Hei Yu stunned.

I saw that the red brick wall, which was still red before, was now blackened and dripping with water.

Two firefighters carried out a charred body in the house.

Hei Yu recognized the golden front teeth that glowed with golden light, which were Uncle Liu's logo, golden front teeth.

Seeing this scene, Hei Yu collapsed directly to the ground, the lunch box in his hand fell to the ground, and pieces of roast goose meat rolled to the wet ground.

"Hey, get out of the way. A young firefighter said as he lifted Black Feather up.

Hei Yu is one meter seventy-five tall, not tall, and his body that lacks exercise has grown a circle of fat, almost two hundred pounds, and the firefighters finally helped him up, but he was almost taken down by Hei Yu's weight.

Fortunately, the middle-aged firefighter next to him reacted quickly and made a timely move to stabilize the two.

The middle-aged firefighter saw Hei Yu's expression and understood the situation, and said in a hoarse voice: "Mourning." ”

Black Feather had a pale face, her head bowed, and tears poured out of her eyes.

Aggrieved!

When he went out in the morning, Uncle Liu also joked that Hei Yu Zhang was so handsome, if he was lucky enough to be a group performer, he would be photographed by the director and replaced the actor.

Hei Yu smiled and said goodbye to Uncle Liu, who was sitting on a mahogany bench watching TV.

At this moment, heaven and man are separated.

Who would dare to believe it?

Kuroba followed the ambulance to the hospital.

Policemen, doctors, firefighters, one by one, communicated with him and understood the situation.

They learn that Kuroba and the old man are just tenant-landlord relationships.

Kuroba also learned from the police and fire department that the aging electrical wiring in the house caused the fire.

At night, the police drove Kuroba to the entrance of the urban village.

Kuroba returns to the rental house, and the door of the rental house is open.

With a sad expression, he took out his mobile phone and lit a flashlight to shine inside the rental house.

The mahogany bench that Uncle Liu sat on in the morning was burned into several pieces at the moment, and fell to the ground crookedly.

The walls are white, and they are black.

The ceiling fan slammed into the coffee table, and a large pile of glass shards scattered all over the ground.

The TV cabinet against the wall was also dyed black, and the place where the TV set was originally placed was now empty.

Missing the TV?

Stolen?

Hei Yu took the mobile phone and took a photo again, who would steal that bulky old color TV?

He glanced at the TV in confusion and walked around the hall with his phone.

The refrigerator next to the TV bench is also missing?

He went into the kitchen again, and the rice cooker and induction cooker were gone!

went up to the second floor, broke and was reluctant to throw it away, and the old electrical appliances that Uncle Liu put in the utility room were all gone.

Kuroba called the middle-aged firefighter just now.

"Captain Fan, I'm Black Feather. ”

Captain Fan on the other end of the phone recalled it, and quickly remembered that the fat man who had just been in the hospital had just been separated.

"Hello, do you want me to find you a place to live?" Fan Xiangdong asked, he had mentioned to Hei Yu before that if he couldn't find a place to live, he could help, after all, he did this by himself, and he didn't often encounter things that needed his help to find a house to live temporarily.

"It's not like that, I want to ask if you saw the household appliances in the house when you put out the fire today?"

"Household appliances?" Fan Xiangdong recalled, when he led a few firefighters to enter the burning house with fire hoses, at that time, he saw that the house was placed with household appliances like ordinary people, and he also deliberately asked the team members to pay attention to the location of those electrical appliances and be careful of the fire escalation, but when the fire was controlled and the smoke decreased, he and the team members withdrew from the house, and he vaguely felt that there was something different in the house.

Now that I think about it, those household appliances were gone at that time, and I actually took it for granted, and actually came out of the house directly?

Fan Xiangdong thought of this, and suddenly felt a chill down his spine.

Who's going to go into the house and steal those appliances at that time?

There are firefighters inside and outside the house, in that case, moving such a large household appliance, even if there is really this idea, who will choose to do it at this time, the key is that the person is still successful?

Fan Xiangdong has always been confident in his memory, but at the moment he is a little less sure.

"I'll take a few brothers over now. Fan Xiangdong didn't reply directly, but asked Hei Yu to wait for them in the house.

Next Chapter
Back to Book