After eating at the Alin Restaurant, I carried my guitar and Chu He on my back and wandered through the streets of Suzhou at night, with fallen leaves, cold winds, light and shadow, and towering buildings, forming the city in late autumn.

Light a cigarette, enjoy the smoke after food and clothing, I can't help but look back at the city frequently, when I really want to leave, I find that I don't hate it very much, and even have some reluctance, at least it has recorded my youth and life, including love, here I understand: thinking about a person is called loneliness, here I understand: the love of two people, if it is sublimated into marriage, it is called love, if there are only memories left, it is just a legend, a legend that makes people lonely and lonely.

Tired of walking, Chu He and I sat on the bench on the side of the street, and we were silent for a while, and I finally asked Chu He, "What about you, how are you doing lately?"

Chu He shook his head a little dazedly, and said, "It's the same, it's not good, but I haven't given up my efforts." ”

I nodded, and I didn't know how to answer Chu He's words for a while, because I could understand the meaning of her words, she said that she didn't give up her efforts, and she was actually asking me why I gave up my efforts.

After a short silence, Chu He asked me, "How are you going to live after returning to Xuzhou?"

I took a heavy puff of my cigarette and thought for a while before I answered, "It would be best if my father was willing to arrange a job for me in the unit where he worked, and if not, find a job for myself, and then find a woman to live with, and finally wait for birth, old age, sickness and death." ”

"Don't subjectively arrange your life so far, life is full of uncertainties, isn't it?"

"Actually, I'd rather see the end of my life. ”

Chu He smiled and said, "That's why you fantasize about a crystal clear city as the sustenance in your heart." ”

"Yes, only crystal clear can see the farthest without any obstacles. ”

"Maybe we're really not the same kind of people!" Chu He sighed.

"Yes, the smoky island you imagined would have to swim across the ocean to get there, so you'll have to experience more than crystal clear. ”

Chu He suddenly looked at me as if he understood something, and said after a long time: "Do you feel that we are like two stars destined not to appear together, I am at the cape, you are on the edge of the sky, echoing from afar but never getting close?"

I didn't respond, just looked into the distance, and in a trance I really saw the city in the sky and a beach echoing in the distance, but they couldn't get close to each other.

This night, Chu He and I hugged goodbye, maybe after leaving Suzhou, we will really go farther and farther in the direction we are looking forward to, after all, one day we will no longer remember that we have had a night of lingering, maybe life is composed of countless forgetting, and finally forget everything in death.

......

Time went forward for another three days, and the only thing I did in these two days, except for eating, sleeping, and going to the bathroom, was to bring tenants one by one to see the bachelor apartment I was renting.

This afternoon, I brought a total of three tenants to see the property, but all of them didn't work out for one reason or another, and the last one came a couple who had just graduated from college.

The two of them held hands and looked back and forth at the room, and finally thought it was good, and the boy asked me, "How are you going to rent this room?"

"Bet one and pay three, a total of 5,200 yuan. ”

The boy and the girl looked at each other and whispered a few words, and the boy said to me again: "You wipe the 200 yuan fraction, and we want this room." ”

"Little brother, 200 yuan is not a fraction, if I wasn't in a hurry to leave, I wouldn't have been able to give it to you at this price. "I didn't have any room for negotiation to say, of course this is my truth, I spent 5,600 yuan to rent, and I only lived for less than a week.

The boys and girls whispered again, and this time the girls said to me, "5200 is fine, but we're moving here tonight, do you think it's okay?"

I weighed it up and said, "Okay, if there are no other problems, we'll sign the contract now." ”

The boy and girl nodded that there was no problem, and I immediately went inside and took out the sublease contract that had been prepared earlier.

Between the two of them looking at the contract, my mobile phone rang again, and I subconsciously thought that I was calling to see the house again, and I took out my mobile phone from my pocket and unexpectedly found that it was Zhang Rixuan, who had not been in contact for several days.

This phone call made me have mixed feelings, I used to bully this woman without a lower limit, but because this woman lost the job prospect that she had won so hard in this city, maybe we were really destined to be enemies, although for a little time we were like friends.

I walked out of the house and answered the phone, and both of them were very tacitly waiting for the other to speak first.

In the silence, I finally couldn't hold back and said, "You call me, why don't you speak?"

Zhang Rixuan seemed to suddenly hear me speak: "Ah...... Sorry, I was looking at the file and didn't know it was connected!"

"Oh, you seem to be quite busy, aren't you just a building manager of Zhuomei? not so busy, right?" I said nonsense knowing that Zhang Rixuan was the CEO of Zhuomei.

Zhang Rixuan didn't care about my nonsense, smiled, and said, "It's quite busy, but it's almost over." ”

"Oh, tell me, what are you calling me for? Is there a leak in my house that you have taken over?"

"No, I got off work early today, didn't you say I could come to your place for dinner?"

I'm a little surprised, I told Zhang Rixuan like this, but I didn't expect her to really come, can we really be friends after we stop fighting over that room?

Zhang Rixuan saw that I didn't speak for a long time and asked, "Can't you, or are you not confident in your cooking skills?"

I came back to my senses and asked Zhang Rixuan: "What do you think of my father's cooking skills?"

"Great!"

"Have you ever heard of the tiger father and no dog? Come on, show you a hand tonight, you always think I'm useless!"

"Okay, I'll be there later. ”

"Well, I go to the supermarket to buy whatever food you like, and I don't provide the ingredients. ”

I thought Zhang Rixuan would call me stingy, but she just said the word "OK" and hung up the phone.

......

I went back to the house, where the young couple had already read the contract and signed their names.

I took the contract and said to the two of them in a negotiating tone: "Negotiate a matter with you, I have a friend who is going to come to dinner later, and I can't move out tonight, I'll give you 200 yuan cheaper, which is considered to compensate you, okay?"

The boy and the girl began to bite their ears and whisper again, and I was a little speechless, these two people really respect each other, and they have to discuss everything with each other.

I waited for a long time, and the two finally finished discussing, and the boy said to me: "400 cheaper!"

I frowned and said, "Little brother, be kind, 200 yuan is enough for you two to find a hotel to stay overnight, and you still have spare money to eat some supper." ”

"The contract has been signed, and now we already have the right to use this house, you are not cheap 400, we will not agree to your request. ”

"Fuck ......," I habitually burst into a foul mouth.

The boys and girls seemed to be frightened by me and looked at me with horror on their faces.

I said with some amusement: "You two are so timid, don't follow those social scoundrels and fall into the trap!"

The boy finally got bold and said, "Who made you just refuse to give us 200 yuan cheaper......

I was the most annoying sissy in my life, so I interrupted him impatiently and said, "Okay, don't you fight, 400, right, I promised you." ”

The boy and the girl looked at each other again, as if they had picked up a big bargain, and they were overjoyed to take out the money from their bags and count 4,800 yuan to me.

I gave them a copy of the sublease contract, and gave them a key, and the two of them left later, and I couldn't imagine that my Jiaming was also pitted by others, and she was a sissy!

Without thinking about it anymore, I picked up the mop and cleaned up the house to welcome Zhang Rixuan's arrival, which was after Chu He, God gave me another opportunity to say goodbye to Zhang Rixuan