Chapter 21: Is it Hard to Have a Home?
I never thought that someone would stand up for me.
Mei Mu'an looked at Lin Changan, who was bleeding from his palm, and had an indescribable feeling in his heart.
The yellow-toothed man showed his weapon to the two of them with his teeth and claws, and took out a folded Swiss Army knife from his pocket to be murdered, Lin Changan reached out to stop the man and waved it on Lin Changan's palm very fiercely.
"How? let go!"
Lin Changan's hands were bleeding nonstop, and that person probably just wanted to scare this person, but he didn't expect that he really dared to resist with his hands.
"Let it go! Do you think it's so easy to bully people in this society ruled by law!"
Lin Changan's voice shouted hoarsely, the man's eyes trembled, and he looked at Lin Changan's bleeding hand, so he quickly let go of Mei Mu'an's wrist, threw down the knife, and ran out.
Mei Mu'an breathed a sigh of relief at this time, Lin Changan ignored the bleeding palm and still held Mei Mu'an's wrist tightly.
"I just went to the same place to look for you, and found that you were not there, but fortunately I arrived in time, otherwise I would not have dared to imagine the consequences. ”
Mei Mu'an wanted to show a smile to Lin Changan, but she couldn't squeeze it out after all. On the contrary, Lin Changan gave Mei Mu'an a smile and slowly let go of Mei Mu'an's wrist.
"It's okay, let's go back early, it's like a water margin on the way, I really can't bear it." ”
Lin Changan relaxed a lot, and the tone of his voice was not at all the same as when he talked to the man just now.
"Don't worry, that person only dares to act as a murderer because you are here alone. It seems that he is a repeat offender, just go back and report him. You're not hurt, are you? blame me for not going away!"
Lin Changan babbled to himself, covered the wound on his left hand with his right hand, and motioned for Mei Mu'an to go forward and leave here.
"Thank you! If it weren't for you, I'd probably be ...... today."
"Since something has never happened, there is no need to think about it. But there is one thing, we still have to make an agreement, so as not to have another problem in the future. First, it's me who is wrong today, and I shouldn't be too far away from you. Second, I don't want to talk about the cause of our quarrel, but I hope we should keep our distance, I won't force you to do things you don't like, and of course please don't interfere in my personal affairs. Thirdly, I think it is necessary for you to spend money on a handset computer, I don't care where you came from, you are now my employee, I hope you can still be safe. ”
Lin Changan looked at Mei Mu'an's eyes very seriously, Mei Mu'an thought for a while and nodded, glad that he met Lin Changan in this era instead of the yellow-toothed man he had just seen.
"Since you agreed, then let's go! Hey, my hand is a scalpel and a single-lens reflex hand, and someone must arrest him and pay me money!
Lin Changan could see that Mei Mu'an was frightened, so he deliberately pretended to be very funny and wailed to make Mei Mu'an happy, but Mei Mu'an never reacted.
"If it were all people like you, there would be no bad people in the world. ”
Lin Changan smiled, shook his head and pointed to the parking lot in the distance, Mei Muan didn't quite understand what he meant, just looked in the direction of his finger.
"Actually, there's no real good guy or bad guy, it's just a matter of seeing what happens to you and who it happens. The person you just asked for help, he may have wanted to save you, but he didn't dare, why? Maybe he has a child, a sick old mother. So, don't hold a grudge, it's okay. Oops, I said I wouldn't nag it, but I started nagging again. ”
Mei Mu'an stared at Lin Changan's still bleeding hand and couldn't laugh, but she didn't know how to express it, so she stiffened and didn't say a word.
"Get in the car, you keep staring at my hands, and my hands won't bleed just because your eyes don't bleed. ”
Lin Changan took a handkerchief from the car and tied the wound on his hand, then looked around and then got out of the car, not knowing what to ask where he was looking at the car.
Mei Mu'an stretched out his hand to test whether the door could be opened, and found that Lin Changan would lock it up every time he got out of the car, so he was relieved.
I saw Lin Changan ask a few words to the person watching the car, then took his mobile phone and took a photo of the license plate of a car on the other end, and took a few photos before and after getting into the car.
"You're filming that guy's car?"
"Yes, everything is evidence-oriented, this man is a repeat offender, and people here can see him almost every day. ”
After Lin Changan got into the car, he locked the car door and called the police, after all, he was not familiar with the place, if the person entangled others to come to retaliate, it would really be unbearable.
Mei Mu'an leaned back on the chair and breathed a sigh of relief, if it weren't for Lin Chang'an being here today, he wouldn't dare to think much about what would happen if he was really pulled away by that man.
"Wait here for a while, you have mineral water and bread at your place, and if you are hungry you can eat some. If you're dizzy, I've got wind oil here. Take a break and don't get cranky. ”
Lin Changan took out alcohol and some gauze from the small bag he was carrying, originally thinking about backup, but he didn't expect it to be so thrilling along the way, but he used it.
"Why didn't the man drive away?"
"I guess it's because we are coming from this direction, so it's not good for him to come and drive, no matter how much, just wait for the police to come. In the past few days, we have been bothering the police every day, don't you think we are like the people in the Water Margin, who either beat or kill every day?"
Lin Changan lowered his head as he spoke, wiping the blood on his hands with alcohol, and smiled lightly.
Mei Mu'an couldn't squeeze out half a smile, since he came here, he had brought a lot of trouble to Lin Changan all day long, and it seemed that he had never stopped for a moment.
"You can help me find a part-time job or something like that earlier, so I can help you share some of the burden. I probably owe a lot of money to you, and I think I'll have to work for a long time just yesterday's hospitalization and medical expenses. ”
Lin Changan compulsively tied up the remaining gauze completely before putting it in the bag, and then smiled at Mei Mu'an, who had just finished speaking, and did not comment too much.
Not long after, the police car arrived, came up and asked for a record of going back to the police station together, Lin Changan nodded in agreement, and the two tossed for a long time, and did not go on the road until the afternoon.
After taking notes from the police station, Mei Muan didn't say a word along the way, his face was pale and his eyes were closed, thinking about everything he had done since he came here.
When I didn't come here, because I had a contract with Paramount and some fame, I was able to protect my life. But when he came here, no one could defend himself except Lin Changan, and Lin Changan was not related to him, and he didn't know when he would have to part ways.
At the moment, it is imperative to save more money to learn something that can be used in this era, where no one can be relied on except yourself.
"I'll find a way to help you get a temporary residence permit or something, if you don't have an identity, you can't do anything. ”
"Good. You really don't ask where I'm from?"
The highway was smooth all the way, and Lin Changan glanced at Mei Mu'an in the rearview mirror and bowed slightly, as if he didn't care much about this problem.
"You don't want to say, even if I ask, what's the point. Besides, I know so much that there's no need. By the way, I'm going to free up some of the upstairs room next month to be used as a homestay, and I can increase my income a little bit, what do you think?"
Mei Mu'an nodded, thinking about how to leave Lin Changan and live all the way.
"Your face has been ugly, or is it uncomfortable?"
"Can you show me your phone?"
Mei Mu'an rarely spoke in such a tone, very softly, Lin Changan was stunned for a moment, unlocked his mobile phone, and handed it to Mei Mu'an, who was sitting in the back row.
Mei Mu'an took it with both hands, feeling that it was not big but it was also a little weighty. There was a light inside, and there was a sea on the screen, with the date on it.
Mei Mu'an didn't dare to start easily, but after looking left and right, he thought about returning it to Lin Changan.
"It's okay, I've unlocked it, you can click on it and try it, just press it according to the words above. ”
Lin Changan looked at Mei Mu'an in the rearview mirror in disbelief, she didn't look like a person who had never been exposed to modern electronic products, but that look couldn't deceive people.
"You really haven't used your phone?"
Mei Mu'an didn't hear Lin Changan's question, but concentrated on studying the things in his hand, this gadget that can shine and make music is quite interesting, but how can they call this thing without a wire!
Mei Mu'an didn't ask this, but in just over eighty years, this era has changed so much, and he is lucky to be able to come here to take a look at this era that does not belong to him.
"What can this phone do besides making calls?"
"Uh...... You can also chat, pay, send documents, take photos and videos, take the bus, buy tickets, and watch the news...... Quite a lot. ”
Mei Mu'an asked with a sincere face, which made Lin Changan have to think about it seriously, this person is really a little weird. If she came from an area where communication was not developed, she would not have such a habit of dressing and talking, but she knew almost nothing about these modern products.
"This gadget can still be photographed?"
"Uh...... Yes, it's pretty high-definition, if you want to shoot, you can try it!"
Mei Mu'an shook his head and didn't point his finger down, but after looking at it a few times, he put the phone in the co-pilot seat next to Lin Changan.
"Won't you try?"
"Not first!"
Although Mei Mu'an had put the mobile phone in the passenger seat, her eyes still looked there from time to time, Lin Changan paid attention to her eyes, and although she was puzzled, she never said anything.
"If you want to take it, you can take it, and the password is 111399. I don't have any secrets in this phone, and it won't break if you push harder, so don't be afraid to poke it. ”
Mei Mu'an kept staring at the mobile phone, as if this mobile phone was a very novel thing, Lin Changan saw that Mei Mu'an didn't take it, so he stretched out a hand and handed the mobile phone to Mei Mu'an again.
"If you don't know how to use it, you have to try it, and no one will use it in the first place. You try, that's not a rectangle in the bottom right corner, it's kind of like a camera, you open it and see. ”
Lin Changan looked at Mei Mu'an in the rearview mirror, and after Mei Mu'an listened to what he said, he reached out and opened his mobile phone very carefully, as if he really didn't know how to use it, or looked left and right.
"How much does it cost to buy this phone?"
"The price varies, depending on the brand. By the way, there is also an old phone from my previous one in the store, which is quite new and not broken. Can I give it to you first?"
Lin Changan asked gently, Mei Muan handed the phone back to the passenger seat, and for some reason there was some unhappiness in his heart.
When I came here, I was like a weirdo, I didn't know anything and didn't understand anything, everything had to rely on Lin Changan.
Lin Changan didn't know what this person meant, so he had to concentrate on driving.
"If you can't do that identity, then I can't do anything?"
"Rest assured, there will always be a solution. You can take a rest first, and you will get off the highway and go home. ”
Go home?
Lin Changan said very naturally, Mei Mu'an chewed the word "go home" in her heart, and no one had mentioned the word "going home" in her ear for a long time.
Do you still have a home? It seems that there is no more, in the previous era, it was still here, and it was all under the fence.
"It costs a lot of money to buy a house here, right?"
"Do you want to buy a house?"
Mei Mu'an's questions one after another made Lin Changan feel a little inexplicable, but it was not good to ask more.
"Isn't that weird?"
"It's not surprising, it's just that the house prices are really not cheap right now. ”
Mei Mu'an looked at Lin Changan's eyes in the rearview mirror, obviously wondering why she would ask such a thing.
"Is it hard to have a home here?"
"Home?"