Chapter 31: Charlatans

Before the bus stopped, I couldn't wait to get off the bus, looking and waiting for the taxi.

I became more and more convinced that my encounter with Mi Cai was not a wonderful arrangement, but a torture that I couldn't hide.

Finally, I waited for a taxi and drove non-stop to the farmer's market, where I remember that there were small vendors selling some insecticide powder, and the pesticides sold in the supermarket generally can't kill cockroaches, so I can only ask those vendors to close their stalls at this time.

When I came to the farmer's market, it was pitch black, not to mention the small vendors, and even the shops inside had all closed, and I was a little melancholy, although I had worked hard, but I was destined to not be able to buy insecticide powder this night.

In desperation, I had to settle for the next best thing, and went to the supermarket to buy a bottle of insecticide, trying to fool the test.

……

When I came to the old house, it was already 10 o'clock at night, and the more than an hour of back and forth could torture me enough, I just hoped that Mi Cai would not find out that I had brought only insecticide instead of the insecticide powder that I had promised.

I knocked on the door, and after a while, Mi Cai opened the door for me in her pajamas, and she seemed to be eating something in her mouth.

I asked curiously, "What are you eating?" ”

"Cheerilee."

"What's a cherry?"

Mi Cai seemed to be very satisfied with my compliance with the agreement today, and patiently explained to me, saying, "Cherries are cherries, you go wash your hands first, there are quite a few there!" ”

"You're going to treat me to dinner?"

Mi Cai nodded, I immediately walked to the bathroom, a little happy in my heart, Mi Cai's attitude towards me at this time is much better than before, so there is no harm in being a reliable person.

When I came out of the bathroom, Mi Cai had already put the box of cherries on the sofa in the living room, holding a book and eating it while reading.

I sat down next to Mi Cai and looked at the box, the box was very exquisite, and then I realized that it was an authentic cherry imported from Chile, not the kind of parallel goods in the supermarket with the name of import, this box is at least thousands.

I picked up two cherries and stuffed them into my mouth and said to Mi Cai: "You said that we all have one nose and two eyes, why do you live so luxuriously?" ”

"What?" Mi Cai looked at me with some confusion and asked.

"I said you live a luxurious life, I haven't eaten such expensive fruit since my mother gave birth to me!" As I spoke, I picked up two more and threw them into my mouth.

"A friend." Mi Cai answered, and his attention was on the book he was reading.

"Then you say, why don't any friends give me such expensive fruits, in the final analysis, your class is corruption and luxury! The big moth of socialism. After I finished speaking, I hatefully picked up several more and threw them into my mouth.

Mi Cai seemed to be in a good mood, and she didn't compete with me, but said, "If you like it, take it back and eat it." ”

"Gotta take it back." I got up from the couch as I spoke, found a handy bag, and packed the box.

At this time, Mi Cai finally put down the book and asked me, "Have you bought your insecticidal powder?" ”

"If I didn't buy insecticide, would I be embarrassed to come?"

Mi Cai nodded in agreement and said, "If you dare to come to me without buying it, that's harassment!" ”

"Buy, buy, say what harassment, ruin my reputation." I said "impatiently" and took the insecticide out of my briefcase and prepared to hide it.

Mi Cai stared at the insecticide, frowned and said, "Didn't you say insecticide powder?" This doesn't look like it! ”

I panicked, and then said, "Of course not, this is the latest insecticide, which has a miraculous effect on killing cockroaches." ”

Mi Cai looked at me suspiciously and said, "I have read in the book that cockroaches are very resistant to pesticides, and ordinary insecticides have no effect at all. ”

"Don't be dogmatic, am I an ordinary insecticide? If I don't brag to you, just this can in my hand, I can cut down all the cockroaches in this room, it's inhumane! I said nonsense.

Mi Cai still said with a look of disbelief: "Why do I feel that you are so much like a charlatan?" ”

I was a little weak and still angry: "I'm doing it for your good, the insecticide powder is very toxic, accidentally poisoning a mouse or something, are you disgusting?" ”

Mi Cai was frightened by me and hurriedly said to me: "Then don't stand still, do what you have to do." ”

"Are you going to come in and watch?"

Mi Cai shook his head again and again, I turned around quietly, and then walked to the bathroom ...... get carried away, at this moment I had a sense of pleasure in recovering the city, and said happily in my heart: "Silly girl, come and demolish me again, come on, "

……

I said goodbye to her with the cherry that Mi Cai had given me, it was already 11 o'clock at the moment, and it was at least 12 o'clock when I returned to Robben's, and I couldn't help but feel what a tossing night it was.

Before leaving, I told Mi Cai: "Don't use that bathroom tonight, after spraying pesticides, there are too many toxic substances." ”

"Got it."

I was bored and asked, "Can you hold it all night, I feel choked, I usually have to go to the toilet several times a night." ”

Mi Caiguo frowned and said, "Why are you talking so much?" ”

"I'm worried about you!"

"I won't stay here tonight."

Mi Cai's words aroused my curiosity again, and from her words I was almost certain that she had other houses in the city, but why did she have to buy this place and live there?

I didn't ask my doubts after all, because Mi Cai wouldn't tell me, I asked last time, and besides, knowing that the answer doesn't mean anything to me except to satisfy my curiosity, and now I'm used to doing something meaningful, so I don't ask.

I took out a cherry from my pocket and threw it into my mouth, and said to Mi Cai: "Then I'll go, and call me if there is something that can't be done in this house or community in the future." ”

"Hmm."

I coughed, the sensor light in the hallway came on, and I turned to leave.

"Zhaoyang, wait."

I turned around and looked at Mi Cai in surprise and asked, "You're not planning to let me stay, are you?" I can't hold back the bathroom here! ”

"Take your guitar with you." Mi Cai said and turned back to the room where I used to live and took out the guitar from it.

I didn't want to take the guitar from Mi Cai's hand, so I was silent for a long time and said: "I said that you find someone who knows how to do it, this guitar can definitely be sold for a good price, and I don't have the money to pay it back to you now!" ”

"I asked you to pay back the money that day, I was angry with you, take the guitar away, it doesn't belong to anyone, it belongs only to you and Janeway, at least a memory."

I was surprised and asked, "How do you know this guitar is related to Janeway?" ”

"The guitar has your and her names engraved on it." Mi Cai's tone was calm.

After a long silence, I stopped looking at the guitar that was standing in the corner of the wall and whispered, "I don't want it anymore." ”

Mi Cai smiled: "You can lose a guitar, but you can't lose that memory in your heart, so why deceive yourself?" ”

I don't speak.

"Take it." Mi Cai placed the box with the guitar outside the door and closed the door.

……

With this lost guitar in hand, I returned to Robben's house with a heavy heart, and happened to meet Robben at the entrance of the stairs, and a bewitching woman he was carrying.

The woman took off her helmet and stepped off Robben's modified track motorcycle, and Robben took off his helmet as well.

I immediately understood that this was Robben's PAO friend who had brought him back.

Robben put his arm around the bewitching woman and introduced me, "Zhaoyang, this is my friend Lily. ”

I smiled and said, "It's not in the way of you two, right?" Or I'm going to stay in a hotel. ”

"It's okay, don't stay overnight, just for a while." Robben said.

"Nacheng, I'll sit downstairs for a while...... You help me bring the guitar first. ”

Robben took the guitar from me, patted me on the shoulder, and after signaling that it would be done quickly, he put his arms around the woman and walked upstairs, I sat down at the entrance of the stairs, opened the cherry I had brought back from Mi Cai, and ate it again.