Chapter 23: A Sleepless Night
"Boss, open two rooms. ”
Xu Le carried Tian Tian on his back, holding two futons in one hand and his broken cardboard box in the other.
Tian Tian carried her cloth bag by herself.
This picture filled the eyes of the female boss sitting behind the counter with disdain.
"There is only one heart-warming couple's room left, 588 a night, with a deposit of 800 yuan!"
The female boss glanced at Xu Le and Tian Tian with disdain.
Can these two afford to live?
"800 yuan, that's too fast, isn't it?"
"The hostel in our town was only 20 dollars a night. ”
"Xu Le, why don't we stop!"
When Tian Tian heard 800 yuan a night, he pursed his lips in fright.
800 yuan, too expensive, enough for her living expenses for a semester.
"Swipe your card!"
Xu Le took out his bank card.
The female boss took it, swiped it twice with the credit card machine, and threw it back: "You can't swipe this card." ”
It's a new credit card machine again, and Xu Le's bank card is too old.
"Then go Alipay!"
Xu Le thought that he was using an Apple 5 smartphone now, and he could pay online.
took out her mobile phone and swiped Alipay, and the female boss's face eased slightly.
"Be careful, if the sheets are dirty, they will be paid according to the price. ”
When handing over the door card to Xu Le, the female boss also gave two special instructions.
"Okay!"
Xu Le didn't say much, and carried Tian Tian upstairs on his back.
"Xu Le, I'll give you back the money when I go back. ”
Tian Tian whispered in Xu Le's ear.
"It's okay, you don't have to pay it back, I have money. ”
Xu Le smiled stupidly, found the room, and swiped the card to open the door.
"Wow...... It's beautiful!"
The layout of the theme room is a more popular love room.
A large red heart-shaped bed sits in the center, and on one side there is a large circular bathtub wrapped in solid wood.
On the wall, there is a pink hellokitty pattern, a sofa, a bouncy ball, an eight-claw electric chair, and a long belt hanging from the air to the top of the bed.
"Wow...... This chair is so weird!"
Tian Tian sat on the eight-claw chair and gently pulled the armrests.
'Ahem......
"It's a little weird!"
Xu Le coughed dryly, his old face turned red, this girl is really innocent, she doesn't know anything.
Of course, he couldn't explain it to her, so he could only pretend that he didn't know anything.
"It should be safe here, you wait here, I'll buy you a band-aid, if you're afraid, lock the door, don't open it if anyone calls it." ”
After Xu Le finished speaking, he walked out of the Red Bean Hotel.
Just when Xu Le and Tian Tian entered the Red Bean Hotel, Tian Xin rushed in in a Rolex store not far away.
Li Juan had already returned to the office on the second floor at this time.
On the first floor, there were only two female salesmen from before.
"Ah, Tian Xin, didn't you leave your job, why did you come back again?"
Seeing Tian Xin come in, one of the female salesmen asked.
"Sister Lu, have you seen my phone? I remember, I just put it behind the counter to charge, but I couldn't find it. ”
Tian Xin said to the female saleswoman in embarrassment.
The female saleswoman's name is Zhang Lu, and her relationship with Tian Xin is usually not very good, if she is not in a hurry to find a mobile phone, she really doesn't want to speak.
"I don't see my phone, I'm afraid someone will steal your broken phone! ”
Zhang Lu sneered coldly.
"Sister Lu, I really can't find my phone, my sister came from the countryside today, and she hasn't been contacted yet, I'm afraid that something will happen to her, please help me find it?"
Tian Xin said as he leaned over and looked at the counter.
It's a pity that there was nothing in the place where her phone was charged before.
"Your sister ......"
Another female saleswoman was about to speak, but was kicked hard by Zhang Lu underneath and immediately closed her mouth.
"Yes, my sister, now I lost my phone, I can't contact her, I'm in a hurry. ”
Tian Xin's eyes were red, as if he was about to cry.
"Then you have to hurry up and find it, the sea is so big, your sister is alone, in case she is targeted by some bad person, it will be a big trouble, hurry up and find it, don't waste your energy here, if we see your mobile phone, we will tell you." ”
Zhang Lu suddenly changed her words and reminded Tian Xin as if she was kind.
"Okay, okay!"
Tian Xin bit his lip and reluctantly turned around and walked out of the store.
"Sister Lu, why didn't you tell her?"
As soon as Tian Xin left, another female saleswoman asked in a low voice.
"Hmph, this little hoof has robbed us of our business, and we have to lose something, I deserve it!"
Zhang Lu said, snorted, and threw a turned off Redmi mobile phone into the trash.
Tian Xin didn't know that her mobile phone was deliberately lost, and she was still anxious to look for Tian Tian everywhere.
On the other side, Xu Le bought a band-aid, thought about it for a while, and went to 1912 to fry two side dishes, asked for two boxes of rice to pack and take back to the Red Bean Hotel.
"Tian Tian, I'm back!"
Xu Le knocked on the door.
"Oh, here, here, wait a minute!"
Tian Tian's panicked voice came from inside, and then the door was opened a crack, and after seeing Xu Le's face clearly, Tian Tian opened the door.
helped Tian Tian treat the wound, and then the two of them ate, and after chatting for a while, it was already dark.
"You take a shower later, get a good night's sleep, I'll pick you up tomorrow, and then we will report to the school together." ”
After eating, Xu Le picked up the garbage and said to Tian Tian.
"What about you? Where are you going?"
Tian Tian looked at Xu Le worriedly.
"I'll go home. ”
Xu Le said casually.
"You lied, you said everything, you were kicked out, how can you have a home. ”
Tian Tian was smart and reacted immediately.
"Uh...... I'm going to open another room. ”
Xu Le forgot what he told her about being kicked out, and quickly changed his words.
"There's no room here, it's just this one, do you want to go out and sleep on the street?"
Tian Tian felt that Xu Le must have gone out to find a place to deal with it for a night, and maybe he would choose a place like the bottom of the bridge and the reclining chair.
Thinking that Xu Le spent 800 yuan to book a room, and he actually wanted to go outside to live on the street, Tian Tian always felt that it was not like that.
"No, I...... You!"
Xu Le scratched his head, and he didn't know what to say for a while.
"I'm scared myself, you'll stay here at night, just ......"
Tian Tian pursed his lips: "Don't have bad intentions!"
"Uh...... It definitely won't!"
Xu Le hurriedly waved his hand, it is better to live in the room than to go out and sleep on the street.
Of course, Xu Le has money now, and he won't sleep on the street when he goes out.
It's just that Tian Tian said that she was afraid, so it didn't matter if she accompanied her.
"Then you wait outside first, I'll take a shower first, and then you come in!"
Tian Tian suddenly changed his words, pushed Xu Le out of the room, and locked the door with a click.
"This girl!"
Xu Le smiled bitterly and threw away the garbage.
The night time is wonderful.
Xu Le was lying on the ground, with the futon laid out for him by Tian Tian under him, smelling the fragrance in the room, looking at Tian Tian who was staring at him on the bed, and there was still a sense of satisfaction in his heart.
"This room is so nice, this bed is so soft, how nice it would be to be able to sleep in a room like this all the time!"
Tian Tian felt the comfortable mattress and sighed softly.
She has had a bad life since she was a child, and there is a lot of hostility around her.
In the countryside, they are orphaned and widowed, and are constantly bullied and threatened.
It was the mother who single-handedly held up the family.
When she arrived in the city, everyone looked at people with colored glasses, because she was poor, and no one wanted to take care of her.
was knocked down, Tian Tian felt the malice of the people in the city.
Encountering a robbery, Tian Tian was full of fear of the city.
It was Xu Le who gave her a quiet harbor.
"yes, if only we could keep doing this. If you like it, you can live in the future. ”
Xu Le also sighed.
He once dreamed of a relationship and cherished it immensely, but in the end, he was ruthlessly betrayed.
At this moment, he was moved again, but he just wanted to be able to contact Tian Tian slowly, so that the two sides could get closer, at least in terms of heart, there would be no gap.
"800 yuan a night, I won't live tomorrow, and I won't live in the future, it's too expensive, it's a waste of money." ”
Tian Tian stuck out his tongue, and now he is still distressed about the 800 yuan.
"Then what if I have a lot of money in the future, and I can't spend it all, please live there?"
Xu Le laughed.
"That's okay, but next time I won't live in a room like this, it's too embarrassing. ”
Tian Tian said, suddenly blushing and covering his head with the quilt.
Just when Xu Le just went out, she took a look at the eight-claw chair and knew what it was for.
"Xu Le, why did you say that my sister hasn't contacted me yet, and the phone can't get through. ”
"Maybe there's something wrong with her phone, it's okay, I'll go to school tomorrow, I should be able to find her." ”
"Xu Le, is that the Cowherd and Vega? They are so pitiful, they can only get together once a year. ”
"That's why there is the festival of Tanabata!"
"Xu Le, the fruit here is so delicious, it's so sweet, you can eat one too!"
"Well, that's sweet. ”
"Xu Le, the food just now is delicious, it must be very expensive, right?"
"It's not expensive, it's only a few dozen dollars. ”
"A few dozen dollars is not expensive, but it is really delicious. ”
"Tian Tian, after tomorrow, can I ask you out to play at school?"
"Okay, okay......"
This night is destined to be sleepless.
Early the next morning, the two of them each carried their own bedding to check out.
In the theme hotel, there are many people who check out in the morning.
Especially in the vicinity of the university town, there are young men and women living in it.
"Brother Pi, you see those two poor people are really wonderful, they actually brought their own bedding when they came to open the room, do they think the bedding in the room is dirty? Or do you think they are dirty, afraid of polluting the hotel sheets?"
"I guess I want to make it thicker, I'm afraid that there will be too much blood, and I can't afford to dye the sheets!"
A pair of young men and women who were waiting to check out behind Xu Le pointed at Xu Le and Tian Tian unscrupulously and talked.
Tian Tian lowered her head, she was looked down upon, but she didn't dare to refute.
Because she was born with low self-esteem.
It was this inferiority complex that made Xu Le feel pity for her and want to protect her.
Xu Le frowned, turned his head and glared at the man and woman.
This man is a little familiar!
Xu Le recalled, isn't this the little gangster who scolded Tian Tian and pushed him at the door of MINT yesterday?