Chapter 1 Upstairs Residents Downstairs Dogs
As night fell, the lights on both sides of the narrow streets lit up one by one. With the dim street lights, the quiet road during the day gradually began to be noisy, as more and more hurried pedestrians poured in from the corners on both sides, the small streets also began to show the prosperous side of the night, the street food stalls could not stop shouting, and the sound of customers at the door of the snack bar began to fill the entire waiting road.
The small street is very ordinary, it looks no different from the small street in any city, the only difference is that this small street belongs to the magic capital, whether it is a mottled old community, or a narrow street with a unique temperament of the magic capital, and most of the people who live here are also working in the magic capital, all of them also have a common characteristic, that is, they are in a hurry, even if they sit on the side of the road, they also have a fast pace unique to the capital when eating, as if someone is holding a whip behind them to drive them away.
The small streets are not stained with the bustle and brilliance of the night demon capital, and it seems that this place has been forgotten by the big demon capital, just like the people who live here, covered with exhaustion. On both sides of the street, the food stalls and snack bars are filled with young faces, and these young people have returned here just for a simple night's rest, so that tomorrow morning they will face the first rays of sunshine in the magic capital, and devote themselves to their dreams of the magic capital as countless mornings.
At this time, in the small street, a small restaurant sat a pair of relatively strange two people at a small table by the roadside window, a young man, the young man was dressed very ordinary on the street, a dark suit, a light gray sweetheart neck sweater, a light gray shirt, and a dark red tie.
Opposite the young man sat a woman of about fifty, who looked of good temperament, even if the years had left marks on her face, but she could still see a little bit of her youthful demeanor on her face.
The woman wore gold-rimmed glasses, a brownish turtleneck, and a jade ornament around her neck, although the water head was not very good, but it was not three or five thousand to pass away, and a slightly thick wrist was wearing a brand-name women's watch, no matter how you looked at the price, it had to be thirty or forty thousand.
In front of the two of them, there was a steaming mutton pot, and the pieces of mutton exuded an attractive aroma with the sound of the soup in the pot.
It's a pity that neither of the two people at the table seems to be interested in eating, so they sit so awkwardly and seriously face to face.
The woman took a card from her bag, placed it gently on the table, and pushed it in front of the young man with her white fingers.
Retracted her hand, and the woman opened her mouth and said: "Xiao Cang, Huihui has been taken care of by you a lot over the years, this is a little bit of care from your aunt and your uncle, if you accept it, it will not be more than 80,000 yuan!"
The young man glanced at the bank card on the table, glanced at it only, and then reached out and pushed the card back in front of the woman.
"Auntie, I don't know what kind of custom you have, but there is no reason for women to spend money when they fall in love in my hometown, I am a seven-foot man, if I accept your money, what is the matter?!"
The woman's face was a little embarrassed, and she looked at the bank card that had returned to her, and instead of reaching out and pushing it back, she paused, as if to reorganize her language.
After about five or six seconds of silence, he continued: "Xiao Cang, don't blame Auntie for being ruthless, Auntie knows that you are a good child, and she is also sincere to Huihui, but in this place of the Demon Capital, you are both outsiders, and it is not easy to take root here! Taking a step back, even if you have a house of forty or fifty square meters, your aunt and your uncle will not stop the two of you from being together, but now neither you nor He Huihui have this condition, you are now alone and there is no one at home, you can't help much, your uncle and I are also small civil servants in the county, even if we take out the old book, it is only two or three hundred thousand, I want to buy a house for you here in the magic capital, not to mention a down payment, it is not enough to even make a down payment, where is there a house of four or five million here now......."
The woman frowned slightly as she spoke, and sighed from time to time.
There was no expression on the young man's face, but there was a sense of loss, unwillingness, and some faint sadness in his eyes.
Seeing that the woman was going to continue, the young man stretched out his hand and interrupted the woman's words: "Auntie, I know what you said, in fact, what you said is not as complicated as you think, that is, Xinhui's words, she opened her mouth and said that we are not suitable to be together anymore, and I will respect her ideas."
"I know, I know, isn't it that Huihui can't open her mouth, she always feels that she has lost you, hey! You are still young and don't know what it means to be a parent, and you want to ask who doesn't want your daughter to live a comfortable life? The woman chattered.
The young man nodded and hummed softly, "Auntie, I understand!"
"I've said everything I need to say, this has nothing to do with our family Huihui, if you blame it, blame your aunt and your uncle......" The woman said.
The young man raised his hand slightly: "I don't blame you and uncle!"
The young man said, "Do you blame you?"
After saying that, the young man stood up, turned around and came to the counter to settle the bill, turned back to the table and said to the woman, "Auntie, you eat slowly, I have just come back, go home and tidy up my things."
"Auntie doesn't have an appetite either" The woman looked at the pot on the table, smiled and reached out to put the bank card back in her bag, picked up the coat hanging on the back of the chair, and put it on.
The young man waited for the woman to get dressed, and the two walked out of the door of the small restaurant together, and the two of them turned into the door of the community more than 100 meters without a word, turned a corner, and walked side by side into an old corridor without even a lamp.
After climbing to the fifth floor, the young man took out the key and twisted it gently, heard the click and pushed the door open.
The lights in the living room were on, and on the sofa in the living room sat a beautiful girl in her twenties, with a goose egg face and curved willow eyebrows, a pair of beautiful big apricot eyes, a high nose bridge with a well-sized lip, and long black shawl hair. With this look, there is at least seventy or eighty years of turning back when you stop on the street.
Seeing the young man, the girl looked a little cramped, a little overwhelmed, as if she had made a big mistake, she hung her head, and did not dare to look directly at the young man who entered the room.
The young man's eyes fell on the girl's body, and there was a mixture of flavors in his eyes, I am afraid that at this time, the young people themselves don't know how to face this woman who has experienced seven years of vows in such a situation.
Then the woman who came in gently closed the door: "Huihui, I told Xiao Cang everything, he can understand!"
After speaking, he seemed to want to calm his daughter's heart, and asked the young man again: "Xiaocang, right?"
The young man didn't answer, but looked directly at the girl and asked softly, "Xinhui, is this your decision?"
"I ......" The girl's head hung lower, and after only one word of me, she seemed to use up her strength, and hung her head without a word.
The young man waited for about a minute, then replied softly with a look of loss in his eyes, "I see!"
After speaking, he turned around and walked towards the door: "I forgot to buy something, I'll go down!"
After speaking, he pushed open the door and went straight out of the door, the moment the young man closed the door, his body couldn't help but be stunned, and he was almost swallowed up by a huge sense of loss.
Standing at the door and holding on to the railing for about ten seconds, the young man came back to his senses, gently lifted his feet and went downstairs in a daze, picked up a beer in the commissary, hurriedly called a car, and went directly to the Pujiang River in the magic capital.
When I arrived at the edge of the Pujiang River, because it was already winter, there was nothing to sit on the stone bench by the river, so it was easy for the young man to find a stone bench and sit down, pick up a bottle of beer, unscrew it, and then began to pour it, drinking beer at night at almost zero degrees This is not a good enjoyment, but at this time, the young man no longer feels the cold in the beer and the weather, and the helplessness and unwillingness in his heart are the portrayal of his heart.
Goo knock!
With three bottles of beer in a row, the young man looked up and saw the dazzling prosperity in the endless night of the magic capital, the Pearl Tower opposite, countless towering skyscrapers, and the Western-style buildings across the bank from the Pearl Tower, at this moment there is no longer the appearance of the past, in the eyes of the young people is so dazzling, not only dazzling, but also particularly piercing!
Evil is born from the guts! Violence arises from the heart!
Picking up the beer bottle in his hand, the young man used all his strength to throw the bottle in his hand at the Pearl Tower, eager to smash the tower at once.
While throwing it, he also yelled at the Pearl Tower: "If there is a special kind, don't let Lao Tzu have money, wait for Lao Tzu Canghai to have money, buy two houses upstairs and downstairs, and raise dogs on the top and below!"
The roar of the young man startled the people and tourists nearby, and everyone glanced at the young man and avoided it one after another, as if he was afraid of being caught in the bad luck of the young man.
Just as the young man was about to sit down, suddenly an exclamation sounded in his ears: Someone has jumped into the river!
Jumping into the river?!
Canghai's heart was stunned, and he immediately ran in the direction of shouting, stood on the shore, and followed the direction of the crowd's fingers to see a vague figure rising and falling on the cold river!
At this moment, the heavens and men in Canghai's heart are fighting: Can you save people? Save people? My swimming skills are not good?
Then another thought jumped up: You are like this, and you are still afraid of a bird! The big deal is to die, save people!
In normal times, Canghai would never dare to jump down to save people, but at this moment, with the idea of breaking the jar and breaking it, Canghai only had one jump of shorts left and jumped into the cold river water of the Pujiang River in winter.
The water is very cold, and people can be saved! When Canghai swam over, the people who jumped into the river did not have any great resistance, and after struggling for three or four minutes, they were fished up by Canghai, and the people who jumped into the river turned around and did not swim two steps, and another enthusiastic person who jumped down reached out to take it, and Canghai found that he was about 200 meters away from the shore.
When Canghai swam back, he felt that the river seemed to freeze his body, and his upper and lower teeth couldn't stop making a clicking sound, and the strength of his whole body began to flow away rapidly!
"That lad is in danger!"
Canghai only heard a human voice, and felt that his body was sinking weakly into the river, at this time Canghai was not afraid, nor panicked, his whole mind was blank, only felt that the cold river water seemed to freeze his whole person, and at the same time kept pulling himself under the water.
I opened my eyes and watched through the river as the endless prosperity on both sides of the river bank became fainter and fainter, and gradually turned into a gloomy, and a thought came out of Canghai's heart: I'll go, Lao Tzu will hang here today!
Just when Canghai felt that he was going to drive the crane to the west and go to play mahjong with the ancestors of the old Cang family, the whole body was warm for no reason, and the lungs that had been emptied suddenly poured into a warm air, which seemed to be pure oxygen, and Canghai was a little dizzy all of a sudden!
Suddenly, a voice rang out in my head: Dog, save your life!
For no reason, Canghai used both hands and feet, and under the domination of this voice, he quickly swam out of the water, and as soon as his head came out of the water, he saw a simple middle-aged face appear in front of him.
"Little brother, are you alright?"
Canghai was stunned for a moment, and then replied, "It's okay!"