Chapter 399: Where Did the Shoe Shiner Go
Xu Shuang also began to go out early and return late. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
In order to avoid the morning rush hour, she went out a little later than Chen Chi, went to the library for a day, made do casually at noon, and went back at four o'clock in the afternoon, buying vegetables and cooking and mopping the floor, Chen Chi went home, just as the food was fresh, the floor was clean, and the neighbor's house was quiet.
Xu Shuangchuan stayed up like this for three or four days, and was forced to adjust again, because she couldn't even cook. There was always a constant noise next door, especially the sound of an electric drill. In this compartment, she was sweating and stir-frying by the fire, the oil pot snorted, the range hood whined, and there was a sudden sound of electric drills in the other compartment, and it was easy to stop, but after a while, a new burst of sudden sound began.
September is still very hot, Xu Shuang is stuffy in the kitchen, sweating profusely, her brain is drilled to pain, her heart is disturbed by all kinds of noise, sometimes she forgets the weight, the dishes are either spicy or salty, and when it comes to eating, she is so tired that she has no appetite at all. It takes her two hours to cook dinner, but it only takes two or three minutes for her own meals.
So Xu Shuangchuan began to return more late, and half an hour before Chen Chi went home, he went to the vegetable market to buy some cooked food, and came back by himself to cook a white rice and make a seaweed soup.
Although the noise was avoided, but the food was hard, Chen Chi did not complain, Xu Shuang gave him what to eat, but occasionally in the living room at night when he and Xu Shuang shared watermelon to eat, he would joke that the dinner lunch was more unpalatable than the lunch box provided by the company.
Xu Shuang flattened her mouth, thinking, he still has a standard lunch box of 30 yuan to eat, and finally had a good meal a day, she was forced to flee in the library, and she couldn't find a snack bar around, sometimes she could only sit on the high steps outside the library and eat two mouthfuls of bread with mineral water.
Living next door to the wall of the decoration household, the bitter taste is the same.
Speaking of dust, this is something that Xu Shuang can't avoid even if he hides outside. She now has one more chore, and the first thing she does when she comes home at dusk is to sweep the hallway outside the door. The next door has now become a construction site, and the cement and yellow sand are all transported inside, and it is inevitable that some will be sprinkled on the passage. Moreover, Xu Shuangchuan suspects that the renovation workers still left the door open for ventilation when the neighbors did not complain, and a lot of dust and debris were raised, and the workers could also bring out a lot of dust when they walked in and out. Now, there is no time when public passages are not dirty.
The cleaning aunt said that she can't take care of the decoration garbage, and it stands to reason that the decoration household should be responsible for cleaning it up. But the owner doesn't come often, so he invited a team of contractors, and the decoration master raced against time to work, so how could he have time to sweep the corridor for you every day.
Xu Shuangchuan was helpless and picked up the broom by himself. She searched all over the vegetable field and the supermarket, trying to find the sorghum broom used in Uncle Wang's house to sweep the field, which was obviously more suitable for scraping the ground, but unfortunately she couldn't find it, so she had to continue to use the soft broom, and every time she had to use a lot of strength to sweep the dust into the dustpan.
After sweeping it once, the whole body is too tired to work, and all the ash raised is on himself, especially the leg bar. Xu Shuangchuan also tried to sprinkle the water sweep, that is a tragedy, after the water is sprinkled, the ground instantly becomes a mud ground, the broom is destroyed, not to mention, the ground is dry and evaporates away the water, and the mud that should be left is still on the ground.
This is not the only thing to worry about sweeping. In addition, the aunt next door will also sweep the corridor outside the door, but the aunt is probably angry and impatient, and she actually swept the gray in the area in front of her house to the side of the decorator. Isn't the aunt's house separated from the decoration household by Xu Shuangjiang's house? The aunt kept a sense of proportion and ran to greet Xu Shuangjiang: "This decoration household is so ignorant of the rules, and it makes the public walkway so dirty, and it doesn't matter at all." Aunt Cleaning refuses to sweep, in fact, we shouldn't sweep, really our own family wants to go in and out, there is really no way, otherwise how can he decorate and I sweep the floor for him? I don't sweep into the dustpan, just sweep to a pile for them to see. ”
Where is the pile of ash swept by Auntie? It is on the dividing line between her house and Xu Shuang's house, of course, Auntie did not let the ash pile cross the line, and it is still in the outer corridor section of Auntie's house. Auntie wants the decorator to take a good look when he comes in and out.
Chen Chi came back and hit the trick first.
He rushed back with a box of mooncakes, bought a bag of sugar-fried chestnuts on the way, and without looking closely at the ground, the tip of his shoe kicked the pile of dust. Rao pushed hard a few times outside his door, and the upper of his shoes was still covered with a layer of gray powder.
"Why is it so dirty outside, who's piling up garbage in the hallway?" he asked, standing in the hallway.
Xu Shuang squatted on the ground holding Chen Chi's shoes, and wanted to lament.
Since the renovation next door was renovated, she ordered Chen Chi and herself every day not to take two steps into the door, and could only take off their shoes on the spot as soon as they entered the door, in order to block the soles of the shoes brought in from outside the door. This is good, the soles are not gray, and the upper is poked to dust.
"You know how dirty it is now, don't you? You came back the other day and didn't feel dirty, it was the result of what I had already swept. Xu Shuangchuan learned her aunt's words like this with a bitter face, "She also told me not to sweep into my own dustpan, and swept in their direction." ”
Chen Chi calculated: "Didn't that sweep to their doorstep?"
"That's right. My aunt swept the ashes over and leaned against our house, and I swept the ashes over against the door of their house. Xu Shuangchuan nodded.
Chen Chi couldn't laugh and cry, and admonished: "You must not do this." ”
"Then endure it?" Xu Shuangchuan asked distressedly, "I suspect that every day is so gray and gray, and one day when I lose my mind, it will really pass by." You don't know, it's really dirty, I sweep outside every day, and I patted my body after sweeping it, and it's all dust, and I've been entangled when I enter the house, is it better to change my clothes and mop the floor first, or mop the floor first and then change my clothes?"
"Come, hug. Chen Chi hurriedly hugged her and touched her head, comforting, "I'll go over and tell them to pay attention." ”
Xu Shuangchuan wanted to follow, but Chen Chi didn't let him: "Stay at home, you don't need so many people." In the future, if you are at home or next door, you should not come to the door to theorize, tell me, and let me deal with it. ”
Xu Shuang stood at the door and listened.
Chen Chi knocked on the door next door, and an old man in his fifties came out, holding a yellow enamel rice bowl with potatoes and fried cowpeas on the rice in the basin, and a stainless steel spoon diagonally inserted.
The old man's face was dark, wearing a pair of dirty coarse cloth trousers, and at first glance he was the kind of person who was particularly honest and wooden, standing inside the door and looking at Chen Chi suspiciously.
Chen Chi said very politely: "Master, I live next door, it's like this, when you decorate, the aisle outside is too dirty, can you pay a little attention to it in the future?"
"Oh, good, good. The old man kept nodding.
When Chen Chi came back, Xu Shuangchuan teased: "You just have this effect." But she could only say magnanimously, "Okay, go wash your hands and get ready to eat." ”
Recently, she was disturbed by the decoration next door, and she didn't want to stay at home to cook, she always gave Chen Chi a quick fried box lunch on the stall, today she was reluctant, and she couldn't hold it anymore, so she went to a restaurant to pack a canned chicken, a dried bamboo shoots and roast pork and a celery lily, which had already been put on the table.
Taking advantage of Chen Chi's time to freshen up, she squatted at the entrance to wipe his leather shoes first.
"Wow, it's so rich today?frost, what day?" Chen Chi said in surprise.
"Ordinary days. Xu Shuangchuan replied in a raised voice, curling his lips, and he was a little happier.
"Come and eat, what are you busy with?" Chen Chi urged.
"Busy your shoes, you eat first, I'll come." Xu Shuangchuan muttered, "I've been thinking these days, when I was a child, I could still see one or two shoe shiners on the street, but now I can't see them, where have they gone?
"Where?" said Chen Chi as he walked to the entrance to the entrance to sneak Xu Shuang down to the dinner table.
"Isn't it at your house?" Xu Shuangchuan held Chen Chi's shoes and looked up and smiled.