Chapter 75: The King's Journey (2)
Lin Ruolan is a girl with a pure appearance and a simple heart, she graduated from the Changge City Conservatory of Music. I used to work in a media company, but the company closed down not long ago, and I haven't found a new job yet, so I have to work as a resident singer in a bar to earn some living expenses.
The two of them chatted all the way. The topic is quite speculative, because Su Yi can not only play the guitar, but also compose lyrics and music, which aroused Lin Ruolan's strong interest. Su Yi jokingly said, otherwise, let's make a combination.
Lin Ruolan believed it and replied "Okay!" Then the two of them laughed in unison.
The car drove all the way to the community. It's a dilapidated old-fashioned neighborhood with more than a dozen buildings being multi-storey.
Su Yi parked the car on a small road, ready to say goodbye to Lin Ruolan and go out to find a hotel to have a good rest, after driving for a day, he was really tired.
Lin Ruolan was about to get out of the car, when her expression suddenly became nervous, and her eyes stared straight at a room with lights on the third floor.
Su Yi glanced at her gaze and asked with a little confusion, "What's wrong, is there anything wrong?"
"No ......" Lin Ruolan hesitated for a long time, then turned her head and said to Su Yi: "The light in my room is on." β
"Is your family waiting for you?"
Lin Ruolan denied: "I have always lived alone. β
"Could it be that you forgot to turn off the lights when you went out?" Su Yi said.
"No! It wasn't dark when I left!" Lin Ruolan shook her head lightly and got out of the car nervously.
Hearing her say this, Su Yi unbuckled his seat belt and got out of the car with her, "Why don't I accompany you upstairs to have a look?"
Lin Ruolan hesitated, and finally nodded, "Well, then I'll trouble you, Brother Su." β
"No trouble!"
The unit door is long gone, and the corridor is pitch black, and there is not even a sound and light sensor light. The two of them came to the third floor cautiously one after the other, and Lin Ruolan took out the key and slowly opened the door.
The moment the door opened, a strong smell of liquor came to my nose. As far as I could see, I saw a man of about fifty years old in the living room, crouching in front of a suitcase rummaging through something.
"What are you doing here?" Lin Ruolan was startled at first, then strode up to the man and pushed him to the ground.
The man was drunk and smiled, "You still like to keep money in the box." As he spoke, he waved a black handbag in his hand.
"Give it back to me!" Lin Ruolan rushed to the man's side like crazy, and reached out to grab the black handbag, "You can't take it away, that's the money I saved for half a year, and I have to pay the rent the day after tomorrow!"
Seeing that the two of them knew each other, Su Yi stood still and did not move.
"Get out of here!"
The man raised his hand and pushed Lin Ruolan to the ground, then got up, greedily took out all the money in the black handbag, and then threw the black handbag in front of Lin Ruolan, who was already in tears.
He patted the wad of banknotes in his hand and sneered: "I have raised you for fifteen years, you have to give something in return!"
Lin Ruolan sobbed, "You don't want to take it all, I still have to pay the rent, if you take it all, I will be homeless!"
The man glanced at Su Yi with a cruel smile, "Yo, are you looking for a boyfriend? I can't afford to pay the rent, so I ask my boyfriend!"
Knowing it or not, burglary is a crime. Su Yi was going to do it, but when he heard the other party say that Lin Ruolan was his daughter, he held back and looked at him with a sideways face and an expressionless face.
"Ruolan, I have raised you for so many years, but it is far more than this money, you don't have to pretend to be poor with me, I see that this kid is rich and noble, you can live a good life with him, and if you have no money in the future, I will come to you to get it." β
The man laughed wickedly and patted Su Yi's chest, "Boy, I have seen my parents, do you have to express it?" As he spoke, he stretched out a palm to Su Yi.
"What does it mean?" asked Su Yi.
"What are you talking about! Money, 10,000 yuan, otherwise, I will blast you out of my daughter's room, you have to think carefully, a moment of Spring Festival is worth a thousand dollars!"
"You get me out!" Lin Ruolan cried angrily, she picked up the black handbag and smashed it at the man, but due to the angle, the handbag smashed on Su Yi's face.
The man was not tall and had a sharp-eared monkey cheek, he turned his head and laughed, "You treat me like this!"
Lin Ruolan stood up suddenly, strode up to the man, opened the door, and pushed him out, "Get out, I don't want to see you again!"
Bang. The door was closed.
Lin Ruolan leaned against the door, slowly squatted down, buried her face in her knees, and cried with her headache.
There was a knock at the door, "My son-in-law's meeting gift hasn't been given to me yet, I'll take the money and leave, open the door, open the door quickly." β
The knocking on the door lasted for half a minute and finally stopped, and then I heard a sound of footsteps coming downstairs, "I have a white-eyed wolf!"
Su Yi bent down to pick up his handbag and looked at the room. It's a two-bedroom house, old-fashioned dΓ©cor, the rooms are clean and tidy, and there are a dozen stuffed teddy bears on the sofa.
"Don't cry!" Su Yi comforted: "Your father may have been forced to come to you to get the money!"
Lin Ruolan slowly stood up and wiped her tears, "He's not my father!"
Su Yi was stunned for a moment, "He's not your father?"
"He is my adoptive father, and my father went abroad when I was three years old and never came back!" Lin Ruolan was in a very depressed mood.
"The grace of nurturing is greater than the sky!" Su Yi continued to comfort her, "You can earn it again when the money is gone." β
Lin Ruolan has something unspeakable, she will have to pay the rent the day after tomorrow, and now she only has a few hundred yuan in her pocket. If she can't pay the rent then, the landlord will definitely kick her out.
Su Yi guessed her difficulty, pondered for a while, and said, "I just moved to Tianzong City, the house has not been renovated yet, and the hotel cost is too expensive, so I thought about renting a house to live in, or let's share a house?" β
The purpose of what he said was to get closer to Lin Ruolan, so that he could get information about the Yao family from her.
Hearing this, Lin Ruolan was somewhat surprised, she raised her head and looked at Su Yi, and she didn't speak for a long time.
Su Yi was a little embarrassed, and after shifting his gaze, he said, "If you find it inconvenient, I'll think of other ways!"
Lin Ruolan was silent for a moment, and said, "I don't even have the money to share a house now!
"It's okay, I'll pay it this time, and you pay it next time, so it's okay, what do you say?"
Lin Ruolan turned around and walked to the sofa, sat down and said, "I have irregular work and rest times, and I often go out early and return late, which will affect your rest." β
"I often leave early and come home late. Su Yi returned the handbag to her, "I have to watch those renovation workers!"
"Then ......" Lin Ruolan was a little embarrassed, but there was no other way at the moment, the favor was as thin as paper, and it was indeed a little difficult to borrow money from someone now, "Okay, do you want the master bedroom or the second bedroom?"
Su Yi smiled indifferently and said, "Any one is fine, isn't there a sentence that is said, even if there are tens of thousands of houses, it is only three feet wide to sleep." β
"Then you sleep in the master bedroom, and I'll sleep in the second bedroom. Lin Ruolan pointed to her room, "The rent is four thousand a month, half of us are one of us, and I will pay the water and electricity bills, is it okay?"
"You're my landlord, you have the final say!" Su Yi said with a smile.
"And when are you going to move in?"
Su Yi looked at the time, "Just today!"
Lin Ruolan was relieved, now that the rent problem has been solved, she will have to start working hard to find a job and make money tomorrow. She grabbed a teddy bear from the sofa, got up and handed it to Su Yi, and said with a smile: "Thank you, Brother Su, for giving you a gift, I'll go clean up the room." β
Su Yi took the teddy bear the size of a school bag and looked at it repeatedly, not understanding what it meant, "Your singing is really good, but that kind of song is not suitable for singing in a bar." He put the teddy bear back and patted them one by one, "You're better suited to singing that kind of rock 'n' roll song." β
Lin Ruolan walked out from the master bedroom holding a bed, "I like to sing folk songs, because folk songs can evoke people's memories, Brother Su, what songs do you like to sing?"
"I'm just singing. Su Yi replied nonchalantly.
"Be sure to listen when you get the chance. β
"I'm afraid I'll scare you away. β
"No, you have a good voice and a great singing voice. Lin Ruolan walked into the second bedroom.
Su Yi looked around and said, "Your guitar is still in the car." Shall I fetch it for you?"
Lin Ruolan poked her head out, "Is it in the way of putting it in your car? If it doesn't get in the way, don't bother, I won't go to the bar tomorrow night." β
"It's not in the way, I'm ready to continue to cheer you on tomorrow, it's a pity that you don't go. β
"Tomorrow we have a class reunion, and we can continue to go the day after tomorrow, if you like to listen to it, I can sing it to you at home, anyway, we live together now." After saying the last sentence, her face instantly turned red, pursed her lips, and lowered her head into the master bedroom.
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Because Su Yi didn't have anything, Lin Ruolan gave him her extra pillow and quilt.
Since it was too late, they cleaned up briefly, and after a few polite words, the two of them went back to their rooms to sleep.
Lying on the bed, Su Yi smelled a faint fragrance on the quilt. Like perfume, like the smell of shower gel or shampoo.
He closed his eyes, the experience was truly dreamy. Just a few hours after arriving in Tianzhong City, I shared a house with a girl I didn't know. It's unpredictable!
Bite!
The mobile phone next to the pillow vibrated for a moment, and it was a message from Yan Bing.
Yan Bing: Kitchen knife poet, have you slept?
Su Yi scratched his nose and wondered in his heart, why hasn't this stupid girl slept yet? Is there something wrong with sending a message so late? So, he replied to the message.
Su Yi: I was woken up by you, why haven't you slept yet?
Yan Bing: I woke up from a nightmare.
Yan Bing: I'm sorry for the noise.
Yan Bing: Does your back still hurt?
Yan Bing: Have you found a place to live?
Su Yi: How can it not hurt!
Su Yi: I am flattered by the unprecedented concern.
Su Yi: What kind of nightmare are you doing?
Yan Bing: It's a bad nightmare anyway.
Yan Bing: After you left, I was always afraid.
Yan Bing: I really can't imagine what the consequences would have been if you hadn't been wearing body armor at that time, why would you be so stupid.
Su Yi: There is everything in this world, but there is no if. Am I stupid? How do I feel like you're complimenting me?
Yan Bing: So you're stupid!
Su Yi: Fools have foolish blessings.
Yan Bing: You seem to be a different person.
Su Yi: Is there one?
Yan Bing: Compared with before, you are completely two people. I don't even know you anymore.
Su Yi: Which do you think is better?
Yan Bing: It's not good.
Su Yi: Honest child, good and pertinent evaluation!
Yan Bing: Don't you ask why?
Su Yi: Why?
Yan Bing: Because you lied to me, you have been lying to me all along.
Su Yi: Knowing too much is not good for you!
Yan Bing: Hmph!
Yan Bing: Sleep, good night.
Yan Bing: You also go to bed early, it's been a tiring day.
Su Yi: Well, what a dream!
Putting down the phone, Su Yi guessed what kind of nightmare Yan Bing's nightmare would it be?
There was a sound of soft footsteps in the living room. Within seconds, there was a knock on the master bedroom door. Lin Ruolan's voice came in, "Brother Su, have you slept?"
Su got out of bed and opened the door, "Not yet!"
Lin Ruolan wore a loose set of light blue cotton pajamas with long hair and a loose set of light blue cotton pajamas, and she said apologetically, "I want to trouble you to do me a favor." β
"Say it!"
"I want to ......" Lin Ruolan's psychological struggle was fierce, "I really can't think of any other way, I want you to accompany me to tomorrow's class reunion, can you promise me?"
Her voice grew quieter, "I know, this may be a bit excessive, after all, we haven't known each other for more than a day. β
Su Yi was stunned for a moment, frowned slightly, and thought about it, only by having a good relationship with her could it be possible to find out some things about the Yao family, "Okay, I won't have anything to do tomorrow anyway!"
"Thank you so much, Brother Su!" Lin Ruolan thanked her and smiled like a child.