"Bang bang bang!"

A fierce knock on the door woke up the young man who was resting on the bed, he pulled up the corner of the curtain, the slightly shiny sky was white, and lowered the curtain heavily, and the young man shouted impatiently: "Who? Early in the morning, I didn't let people sleep! ”

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A sharp and angry voice came from outside the door, completely waking up Duan Buqi on the bed, he immediately lifted the quilt, put on his clothes and pants in half a minute, slightly tidied up his hair that looked messy because he hadn't taken care of it for a long time, and a harmless smile hung on the corner of his mouth, and quickly opened the door.

"Who did I say, it turned out to be the landlord, you are here, why don't you say a word in advance, let me prepare first?"

Standing outside the door was the landlord's aunt, who was nearly fifty years old, with a colorful cardigan and tight trousers stretched out of layers of swimming rings by her bloated body, with a face full of horizontal flesh and a fierce expression, it was really hard to believe that this was still a woman.

"Humph!"

The landlord snorted coldly, sat down unceremoniously on the not sturdy wooden bed, and sneered: "Say a word in advance, so that you can escape?" My mother tells you that I have eaten more salt than you have walked, so don't give me this set. ”

"How so?"

Duan Buqi smiled again and again, looking at the creaking wooden bed, and his heart was secretly dripping blood.

"Don't talk this nonsense, the old lady told you that you already owe me two months' rent, if you can't get the money today, don't blame the old lady for sending you into the bureau for tea!"

The landlord's aunt glared at Duan Buqi viciously, crossed Erlang's legs and began to look around, and began to calculate how much the things in Duan Buqi's house could be worth.

"Don't worry, I'll be paid in a few weeks, and I'll definitely be able to make it up to you then."

"How many weeks?"

The landlord smiled disdainfully and said lightly: "Lady doesn't care, you have to give me money today, if you don't let me, I'll send you into the bureau and help you clean up all your things." ”

"You!" Duan Buqi finally couldn't bear it anymore, and a trace of anger appeared on his face.

"Oh, you still want to be angry with my mother?"

The landlady stood up, crossed her hands on her hips, stared at Duan Buqi with disdain and shouted: "Just a little rabbit cub who hasn't grown any hair, a waste that can't afford to rent a house of 500 yuan a month, and the ability to be angry with the old lady!" ”

The landlord's aunt's roar penetrated the entire building, and the neighbors nearby poked their heads out, looking at all this indifferently, Duan Buqi looked around, and finally became disheartened: "Is this the human heart?" ”

He clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, excitedly took out a second-hand Samsung from the stall, and yelled at the landlord's aunt: "Account! I'll transfer the money to you now. ”

The landlord was stunned for a moment, the previous aggressive attitude instantly improved a lot, and after a while, the landlord and aunt left happily with her mobile phone, Duan Buqi glanced back at the empty corridor, his excited heart gradually calmed down, he looked down at the savings of eighty-three yuan left, and closed the door with a wry smile.

"Still impulsive."

In the rental house, Duan Buqi sighed and slowly sat on the creaking wooden bed: "There are still a few weeks before the salary is paid, and I only have less than a hundred yuan left now, even if I only eat one meal a day, I can't get through it." ”

With another long sigh, Duan Buqi's young face was filled with deep solemnity, and his tired eyes were full of vicissitudes that did not belong to this age.

"Let's sleep in the park."

After hesitating for a while, Duan Buqi reluctantly made this decision, his work is all manual work, if he doesn't eat, after a few weeks, he can stand firm or not, how can he still get a salary?

Looking around at the miscellaneous items piled up in the house for a week, Duan Buqi nodded: "There are a lot of dispensable things, selling them to the scrap collection station can be regarded as a few days' worth of food, and counting the five hundred yuan of rent saved, it shouldn't be a problem to survive this month, as for next month's ......."

With a wry smile, Duan Buqi stood up and began to pack his things, silently comforting himself in his heart: Let's talk about it.

With a little friendship on his face, Duan Buqi sold all his sundries to Uncle Li who collected scrap products next door, Uncle Li heard the news that Duan Buqi was going to move away, sighed, and patted Duan Buqi's shoulder seriously: "Xiao Duan, you are still young, don't give up hope, as long as you live, you have infinite possibilities." ”

"Thank you."

Duan Buqi didn't take his uncle's words to heart, he was extremely clear about the pressure of reality, even if he died violently on the street one day, he didn't feel strange, he just felt a little sad, he had already thought about it, and when he couldn't live here, he would pretend to rob, and then turn himself in to prison to continue living.

"Alas......"

Uncle Li couldn't see that Duan Buqi was perfunctory to him, he shook his head, and didn't say anything more, after weighing, he gave Duan Buqi a favor price, Duan Buqi glanced at Uncle Li gratefully, said take care, put on a slightly white cloth backpack on his back, and walked downstairs without hesitation.

Sitting by the flower bed in the community, the morning breeze was blowing with a moist cold, Duan Buqi couldn't help but tremble, quickly pulled the zipper of his coat, and sighed hot air into his hands: "It's winter." ”

I took out my phone and saw that it was December 25.

"Christmas."

Duan Buqi was a little distracted, he was alone, he knew some festivals of the people in the city, but no one knew that this day was still his birthday.

"It's the same birthday as God."

Duan Buqi shook his head and laughed at himself: "God? If there really is a God, why is the world so sad? ”

"Didi!"

A three-wheeled electric car slowly stopped in front of Duan Buqi, and a courier brother in a dark blue uniform walked down, and the little brother held a courier in his hand and began to make a call.

"Jingle Bell ......"

The old and familiar ringtone rang, Duan Buqi picked up his mobile phone in confusion and connected the phone.

"Hey, is it Mr. Duan Buqi on the 13th floor of Area A? There's a copy of your courier downstairs. ”

"Uh......"

Duan Buqi smiled awkwardly, stood up and walked to the courier brother and shook his mobile phone: "I am Duan Buqi." ”

The courier brother glanced at Duan Buqi in surprise, and didn't say anything, and directly handed the small package in his hand to Duan Buqi: "Please sign for it." ”

Duan Bu signed his name, watched the courier brother gradually move away, sat on the side of the flower bed and curiously flipped through the small bag in his hand: "It's strange, I haven't bought anything recently, and it seems to be a gadget." ”

Idle, Duan Buqi immediately dismantled the outer layer of plastic and the inner carton, and took out a delicate copper pocket watch, the smooth surface layer glowed with a faint light, and the front was engraved with a lifelike yellow dragon, surrounded by auspicious clouds, quite beautiful.

"It's pretty, but who would send me such a valuable pocket watch?"

Looking down at the carton, Duan Buqi found that there was still a folded letter inside, and immediately took it out:

Brother, I wish you a happy birthday, I got this year's national scholarship, a total of 8,000 yuan, because the family has been rich recently, I am specially allowed to keep 50 yuan for myself, today is my eighteenth birthday, but also my brother's eighteenth birthday, I remember that my brother once said that I like those exquisite pocket watches, I went to the second-hand market with fifty yuan to pick a good-looking one for you, I hope you like it.

Younger brother, Duan has no regrets.

"Fools, you know how to spend money indiscriminately."

Tears were left in the corners of his eyes, and Duan Buqi stood in place, looking up at the sky: It turns out that there are still people who remember me.

Without so much time to be moved, Duan Buqi quickly calmed down, opened the lid of the pocket watch, and the three copper needles of different sizes inside rotated regularly, with a subtle sound with a unique charm, wiping away the remaining tears on his face, Duan Buqi overlapped the letter several times, stuck it in the gap of the lid, and put on the pocket watch with his underwear.

After glancing at the time, a sincere smile hung on the corner of Duan Buyi's mouth, and he got up and walked towards the nearby Jinhua Hotel.

At the door of the Jinhua Hotel, a security guard who was buttoning up saw the slow Duan Buqi, waved his hand to him and shouted: "Duan Buqi, you are here, go and change your clothes, today the hotel was contracted by a big boss called An Heqi, and the convoy will come in another hour, don't go wrong." ”

"Got it."

Duan Buqi nodded gratefully, and walked towards the staff locker room at a faster pace.

Yes, Duan Buqi is an ordinary security guard, some people may think that standing at the door for a few hours is nothing, but in fact, the requirements for security guards are particularly high now, except for the shift change and bowing, the security guard must not have a little extra action, if it is found by the foreman, he may be fired, so for several hours, it is not a real high-consumption physical work.

Duan Buqi locked his backpack in the closet, changed his clothes and went to the kitchen to get two meat buns, stuffed them into his mouth one by one, chewed while washing his hands, and when he washed his hands, the things had already been eaten and mixed with breakfast, Duan Buqi nodded with satisfaction, walked to the gate and stood in his place.

"Why did you put on your bag today?"

The foreman hasn't come yet, and the security guards can still chat for a while, and by the way, to refresh themselves, Duan Buqi told the truth, after all, such things are common in people like himself.

"What a poor child."

The security guards shook their heads one after another, but they couldn't help Duan Buqi, after all, they were older than Duan Buqi, and there were more places to spend money, and a security guard in his thirties proposed: "If you don't dislike my brother, come and share a room with me, such a person is only three hundred a month, but the distance is farther." ”

Duan Buqi's eyes lit up, and then he shook his head helplessly: "It's okay to stay away, the important thing is that I don't have much money this month, so I can only wait until I get through this month." ”

"Well, we'll talk about it next month." The security guard didn't care, he just gave a suggestion.

At this time, a passing chef apprentice said to Duan Buqi: "It's not easy for everyone, I can't give you financial support, I can only tell you an experience of sleeping on the street when I just came to Beidou, don't go to the park to rob, there has long been robbed by local beggars, go to the unguarded rooftop or station underpass, it's a good place." ”

"Thank you."

The experience of his predecessors is very important, Duan Buqi is very good at learning, in fact, with his grades, even if he is not as good as his younger brother, who always has a perfect score, it is still no problem to be admitted to a well-known university, but the blame is only that he was born badly, and his family can only afford to go to school alone.

"The foreman is here."

A security guard reminded him softly, the chef apprentice nodded at Duan Buqi, picked up a carton of eggs and walked towards the back door, the security guards immediately held their heads high and stood steadily, Duan Buqi was the same, all his sources of life were here now, and he really didn't dare to be careless.

"Hmm."

The foreman paused at the door, very satisfied with the performance of the security guards, just as he was about to walk into the door, a taxi stopped at the door of the hotel, and a beautiful woman in a black suit and uniform strode over, took out her business card and showed her identity to the foreman: "I am Karin, the secretary of Mr. An, come and see your preparations in advance." ”

"Yes."

The foreman nodded: "We are ready." ”

"Okay."

Karin was about to follow the foreman inside, when suddenly she inadvertently turned around and saw Duan Buqi, and then frowned and shouted softly: "Duan Buqi? ”

"Zhao Li!"

Duan Buqi lowered his head and thought about it, a name blurted out, the woman in front of him turned out to be a fellow villager he met when he arrived in Beidou, when the two walked to the door of the train station, several robbers used it to snatch Zhao Li's luggage, and Duan Buqi, who was standing next to Zhao Li, quickly fled in order to keep his things, leaving Zhao Li alone and crying at the train station, but he didn't expect that after many years, Zhao Li had changed her name, and even her identity became the secretary of the big boss.

"It's been a long time."

Karin smiled coldly: "Although we were just passers-by at the beginning, it is reasonable for you not to help me, but please forgive a hard-working woman for being angry for no reason." ”

As she spoke, Karin pointed to Duan Buqi and said lightly to the foreman: "Open him!" ”