Chapter 7: A Can of Beer
"Shanshan, do you know Xiaoya?"
Li Shan was watching TV with a pillow, a Japanese horror movie, and she raised the pillow high from time to time to block her view. The lights in the living room were not turned on, only the light of the TV flickered on and off with the switch of the lens.
"What Xiaoya?" Li Shan's mouth seemed to tremble when she spoke, but her eyes were still staring at the TV screen.
Du Li suddenly thought that Xiaoya was actually a nickname, but it was a pity that Ah A and they didn't remember Xiaoya's real name. But looking at Li Shan's look of wanting to see and being scared, it couldn't help but be a little funny.
"Shanshan, do you remember that two years ago, a small girl lived here, she was a hairdresser, and she lived for more than half a year and then moved away. Du Li sat on the sofa and continued to ask.
The movie is over, and the end credits roll in line with a mournful tune.
"This ending is really perverted. Li Shan said and thought about it again, "Sister, what you said should be true, she is a hairdresser who has lived here, and she has cut my bangs......
"Did anything strange happen to her when she lived here? ”
"This ......" Li Shan seemed to hesitate, "Sister, have you heard what others have said?"
"No...... I went to get a haircut with Kiki today, and it happened that Xiaoya ...... That is, Zhenzhen used to work at that store. They said that Zhenzhen lived in our place before, and then something strange happened, and Zhenzhen's hair ......" Du Li seemed to be a little unable to speak.
"Sister, in fact, there is nothing strange about this. I know a little bit about her, and I really took her to the airport on the day she left Shanghai. ”
"She left Shanghai later?"
"Hmm. Li Shan paused, "Alas...... It's nice to be a real person. It's a pity that at that time, her father was sick and hospitalized for a long time, and she had to save money every month and send money to her family. For a while, I went to KTV to work part-time at night. ”
Zhenzhen always likes to rest in the rest of the barbershop, maybe it's because she goes out to work part-time at night, Du Li thought.
"Sister, what are you thinking?"
"Nothing, what about later?"
Later, her father's illness became more and more serious, and he heard that he needed a lot of money for surgery. Their family is only one daughter, and the money she earns from haircuts and part-time jobs is not enough for surgery. In fact, she also has two uncles, but every time she mentions them, she really just smiles, maybe she can't count on them. In the end, her father did not have surgery and died in the hospital. I remember that I really took many days off at that time, and when I came back, I became very untalkative. That's when her hair started to fall out, and finally ...... Alas, I really didn't expect that. She said that it was a familial alopecia, and it usually began to show microscopic signs after the age of 30, but she did not expect that she was already ...... in her twenties I think it's because I'm too sad. I really don't know how she's doing now. ”
In life, if you don't have the experience of others, sometimes it's really difficult to understand other people's situations, Du Li thought, it's like driving away the real store manager, maybe she didn't even think about learning about things other than real work, her responsibility is just to choose the right person to work in the shop and take care of the barbershop's business.
"Did you get in touch afterwards?"
Li Shan shook her head: "I added her QQ at the time, but I never saw her online." I sent her a few messages, but there was no reply, and then there was no contact. I think her father's affair hit her hard. ”
I didn't expect things to be like this, and it seems that I was thinking too much about it.
Kiki was supposed to want Du Li to move out the next day.
"Lili, that house is really uninhabitable, I don't want to see you become like a bald nun, and maybe even more terrifying. ”
Du Li also felt a little strange in her heart, but she still pretended to be calm: "What's wrong with becoming a nun? ”
"I mean really. Kiki seemed to be in a hurry.
"Okay, I'll go back and ask Li Shan. ”
At work the next day, taking advantage of lunch time, Du Li told Qiqi what she heard from Li Shan.
"I didn't expect things to be like this, it's really scary, it's really pitiful. However, Ah A said that the house had died three years ago, and it was a strange death. Lili, I don't think you'd better live there, if I had moved out a long time ago, you see that it's boring for me to live alone, so you should accompany me to live with me. There is also a shuttle bus to and from work. ”
"I know you have good intentions, but now that the truth has been revealed, everything is our fantasy, how can there be so many evil things in this world, you say yes? I think it's good to live now, dear, you don't have to worry about me." ”
When she returned late from work that day and left the company, Du Li looked at her watch, and it was already past one o'clock in the morning. The street was dimly lit, and there was no sign of pedestrians. Walking alone on the long street full of fallen leaves, Du Li suddenly felt a kind of calm that had not been seen for a long time. She looked up at the dark night sky, lifted her collar, blew hot air into her palm, and continued walking.
Qiqi finally stopped being entangled, maybe everything was because she was thinking too much, Du Li thought, after all, this year was indeed a little unsmooth. Putting aside some troubles at work, at the age of thirty, God seemed to be joking with her, moving three times and twice for various reasons, thinking that this time she could live in peace, but she chose a house that had died before.
If you can live a peaceful life, there is nothing, but some boring people do some pranks, think about the little girl's tricks, her own nightmares, real stories, and those rumors about Miss Su's mysterious death three years ago and the scare away of many tenants after that...... I really don't know what's going to happen next?
Walking at night, she could clearly hear her own footsteps, and after walking for a long time, Du Li recalled what she had just thought, and not only smiled secretly. At the age of thirty, life will be exhausted by some seemingly absurd things. The heavy work of the past is not yet like this, maybe it is just a kind of innocent moaning.
When she walked to the door of the community and suddenly wanted to drink beer, she knew that there was a 24-hour supermarket not far away.
In the supermarket, a man and a woman sat on a bench talking and laughing, and on the long table in front of them was a pile of empty beer cans, and the woman seemed to be drunk, holding out a finger as if talking to herself.
Du Li ignored it, walked to the beer shelf, took two cans of beer, and walked to the cashier to pay.
"It's you. Du Li looked a little surprised.
The other party smiled and nodded to her: "It's you, I want to thank you that day." ”
"Oh, you're welcome, it's just a gesture, it's a little meaning. You...... You work here?" Du Li originally thought that he should be a professor or something, but she didn't expect him to be a cashier in a supermarket.
He nodded: "My name is Lin Yutong, dare to ask the honorable name?"
"Du Li, Du Fu's Du, beautiful Li. ”
He smiled: "Oh, the forest of the woods, the language of the language, the paulownia of the plane tree." ”
"Oh......" Du Li smiled as well.
"Boss, get two more cans of beer. ”
"Okay. Lin Yutong gestured to Du Li and walked to the shelf, took two cans of beer and put them in front of the man and woman.
"Open, I'm going to drink. The woman said drunkly.
Lin Yutong helped them open the can, and they picked up the beer and continued to drink.
"You can help me calculate how much it is. ”
"I'll ask you, just thank you for your help that day, you're welcome. ”
Du Li smiled: "It's because you're too polite, it's better to pay." ”
"I really don't need to, but it's not good to drink too much beer at night, you can ...... with a can" He stopped suddenly, as if he felt that he had said something wrong.
Du Li smiled: "Okay, I accept your thanks, I accepted these two cans of beer, but since you said that you only drink one can, then I will invite you to this can." ”
"I'm not that ......," he smiled a little embarrassed.
"I know, I'm going back, good night. Du Li greeted him and walked outside the store with a can of beer, suddenly thinking that he might have to stay up all night to watch the store, and the good night didn't seem to be very appropriate, and couldn't help but smile helplessly.