Xu Shuangchuan and Chen Chi went to a house near the city center in the morning. www.biquge.info The man looks like he is in his sixties, surnamed Qian, a Hong Kong immigrant, and the hostess was not seen that day, and it is said that he went to buy vegetables. When the door opened, Xu Shuangchuan saw a picture of a horse on the snow-white wall of the living room at first glance, with big red Chinese knots hanging on both ends, and he was very impressed at the moment.

"Take off your shoes, my sister has a hard time mopping the floor. A mouthful of Mandarin shouted, revealing a choking spicy smell.

Xu Shuang subconsciously looked over, a middle-aged aunt in her early forties was sitting on the sofa in the hall, dressed very pretty, her short hair was cut very layered, and she was even slightly hot, the eyeshadow and lipstick did not fall, and her eyebrows were also painted.

She was accustomed to seeing the tall teenagers of fourteen or fifteen years old to the middle-aged people in their forties and fifties on the street, all of whom looked casually in jeans and sneakers.

The man was polite: "No, no, there are no slippers at home, so I came in like this." ”

Chen Chi and Xu Shuangchuan naturally took off their shoes at the door, and then walked in.

The aunt glanced at them, sat down on the sofa, and asked in a loud voice, "Do you live alone or two?"

"Alone, I come over on weekends occasionally. Chen Chi replied.

The aunt opened her mouth, probably about to ask what their relationship was, when the man came over with a coffee pot: "Miss Xu, Mr. Chen, let's have a cup of coffee." ”

"No hassle, we wanted to see the room. Chen Chi excused himself.

The man immediately led them upstairs. Xu Shuang hesitated, the small bedroom was next to the master's bedroom, the privacy was not good enough, and it was too small, the three of them stood in it, there was basically no space to turn around or move, the bed was a single bed, it seemed to have traces of use, and it was used as a guest room before I came, maybe the aunt in the hall came here as a guest, and it was not necessary to spend the night in it.

But there are also advantages, the rent is much cheaper, and the bedroom opens onto a small terrace, which also counts as hers.

Xu Shuang's eyes lit up when she fell, during the day she could stretch out a folding drying rack on the balcony, and her clothes could be exposed to some ultraviolet rays, she especially longed for the evening, she could move a stool and sit on the terrace with Chen Chi to watch the stars.

"My wife is very capable, the dumplings are very delicious, Miss Xu, if you don't want to cook, you can usually partner with us." Xu Shuang listened to the male owner praise his own wife in a non-standard Mandarin mixed with English words, and she and Chen Chi glanced at each other.

"Let's go back and think about it and give you a definite answer this afternoon. Chen Chi said with a smile.

The two followed the man downstairs. The aunt in the hall sat upright, glanced at them lightly, and slowly crossed the orchid fingers to peel the grapes. Xu Shuang descended out of politeness, and when she looked at her, the corners of her mouth pursed a light smile, but her expression did not change, and she put the grapes in her mouth, and her cheeks moved slightly.

Xu Shuangjiang walked to the door to change his shoes and went out, the male owner opened the door for them very thoughtfully, Chen Chi said goodbye to the male owner in a friendly manner, and a raised female voice came from the hall: "Brother-in-law, this grape is sweet, come and eat." ”

Xu Shuangchuan understood Chen Chi, and when he went out, he asked, "You don't like it?"

"Frost, you have to be able to listen to the words. They are willing to partner with you, perhaps because they live at home, they cook properly every time, and they have to use the kitchen for a long time to eat, and the renters either cook it in advance or are hungry and waiting, so they suggest partnering. Chen Chi rubbed Xu Shuang's hair and persuaded, "It's very troublesome to partner up, you can't choose by yourself, if you don't get used to the taste, you will be uncomfortable eating." ”

"I think it's a good partner," Xu Shuangchuan thought about the benefits, "You don't have to cook it yourself, you can eat when you come back, the landlord said that his wife is very good at cooking, I guess they are so old, the cooking skills must be better than me, I don't know how many times." ”

Chen Chi still shook his head: "You have a mouth like this, and you don't have a temper, you are not embarrassed to give opinions to outsiders at all, if you can't get used to it, you can only endure it." ”

Xu Shuangchuan listened to Chen Chi say that she looked like a glutinous baby who was bullied, but she was not annoyed, but only pouted and argued: "Where can I choose? Obviously, I eat everything." ”

"I eat everything, but I'm very particular about how I eat it. Chen Chi nodded the tip of his nose, and said that his mother-in-law would be such a baby, every meal on the dinner table was her favorite dish, chicken thigh meat balls or something, and she would pick up the good ones and put them in her bowl, if she went to someone else's dinner table, what to eat was secondary, the problem was that she didn't bring her relatives or reasons, so that the blue and gray soft-shell crab silently ate a meal from someone else's pot, no matter how she thought about it, she felt that it would restrain her.

"Partners don't have the freedom to cook their own meals. ”

"This can be discussed," Xu Shuangchuan waved his hand nonchalantly, and added, "I think the terrace is okay." ”

"The terrace is not practical, the distance between the houses in the community is not large, this one sees that one, are you embarrassed to watch it on the terrace every day?" Chen Chi retorted, moving out for more reasons, "There is no radiator in that room, and a door leads to the terrace, which will chill you in winter." By the way, this person is about the same age as my father, does he have any children in his family, whether he is a man or a woman, and whether he will come back to live, have you ever known this?"

Xu Shuangchuan muttered: "I haven't heard that there are children, I only heard that the couple usually live, let me confirm it." ”

"Forget it, don't ask, this one is not good, let's go to the next one. ”

Xu Shuangchuan was very itchy about the terrace, insisted on calling and asking, and when she learned from the introducer that the man's ex-wife and children lived a few blocks away, she immediately felt that the family relationship was complicated.

"Wouldn't it be embarrassing for them to live so close?" she asked, incredulous.

"I don't know, it's quiet. ”

"What's wrong?" Chen Chi asked.

Xu Shuangchuan's face was strange, and explained: "My classmate asked a person who had lived here before, and said that it was indeed only a husband and wife who lived, and they usually had no relatives. This Mr. Qian, I heard that he had immigrated here for eight or nine years, and at first his family did not come with him, he ......" Xu Shuangchuan thought about Mr. Qian's gentle and polite attitude, and was a little disbelieving, "Well, he met a foreign woman, and his wife and children divorced after they came over." Mr. Qian moved out and found another one, and now only a fellow villager of his current wife came around, as if he had recognized a godsister, who worked in a barbershop in Amsterdam. ”

Sometimes, a barbershop can represent multiple meanings.

Chen Chi just hummed, didn't comment more, and didn't see any curiosity, and directly hugged her and said, "Let's go, look at the next one." ”

On the contrary, it was Xu Shuangchuan, who was speechless for Mr. Qian's complicated past, and couldn't help but think of the aunt in the hall, the sharpness in her eyebrows and eyes, and the enchantment in the twilight, which made her feel that many of her own guesses about that aunt were undeserved. (To be continued.) )