On an early spring morning, it was a little cool and a little cold, and the streets were a little slippery after the rain. In Miracle City, a shantytown that is not luxurious and does not fit in with the surrounding high-rise buildings.

A house built in the sixties of the last century, surrounded by dilapidated construction debris, is scattered all over the place, in a very damp and remote small room of less than six square meters, which is filled with cluttered daily necessities.

The faucet was not tightened, and a drop of water flowed out, and the water drip fell on the sink with a crisp sound. A simple bed made of two wooden planks, and in the ashtray next to it, thick soot and countless cigarette butts accumulated.

The face with black messy hair and a full beard was melancholy, and it could be vaguely seen from between the melancholy eyebrows that this was a handsome young man, and two-thirds of the quilt on his body had fallen to the ground, and he was still asleep and didn't know it.

It wasn't until I felt a biting cold wind coming from my back that I pulled the quilt off the ground in a daze, and then rolled up and fell asleep.

Knock knock!

A few dull and hurried knocks rang out at the door, "Hey! The little cub surnamed Sheng, if you don't pay the rent today, you will get out of the old lady, otherwise don't blame the old lady for being polite! ”

With an angry voice, the door made of wooden planks, which was not very thick, was knocked down violently, making a crisp clicking sound, and dense cracks crawled all over the door panel.

Sheng Chen opened his hazy sleepy eyes, and said extremely annoyed, "I know, what is urging, isn't it just five hundred yuan, Lao Tzu will give it to you tonight, it's endless!" ”

A disdainful answer came from outside the door, "Yo Yo Yo, isn't it five hundred yuan, don't forget that this month's water and electricity bill is sixty yuan, plus the rent is a total of five hundred and sixty yuan, you must pay it tonight, otherwise there is one less, and you will roll up the cover for the old lady and get out!" ”

The charter wife, who was extremely bloated and fat outside the door, looked disdainful, and immediately said in the nasal and heavy Northeast dialect, "You kid has nothing to do for a day, you eat and sleep, and you deserve to be like this." ”

Sheng Chen's rubbing became popular all of a sudden, in the past nine months in Miracle City, she has been oppressed by this dead fat woman, and when she first came by herself, she didn't let her die by paying five months' rent in one go, and she came here from time to time to be courteous.

I had no choice but to give up on myself a month ago because of my broken love, and I got drunk late at night, squandering the money I earned from my part-time job.

Outside the door, the sound of the bloated-looking charter woman going upstairs in slippers echoed throughout the empty corridor, which was the basement on the lower floor.

Sheng Chen, who was woken up by the angry scolding just now, had no intention of sleeping after hearing the footsteps of the landlord in the distance, so he got up and sat on the edge of the bed. Looking at the messy room, clothes, pants, shoes and socks scattered all over the ground, and the thick soot piled up in the ashtray, I remembered that I had borrowed wine to drown my sorrows in the past month, and I was willing to fall back, tears slipped down my eyes, and the whole person couldn't help but smirk.

For the original promise, I left my hometown and came out of Miracle City alone to work hard, and in the past few months, I have been dissatisfied with life, indifferent to human feelings, and feel pressure, but I also understand one thing, I have been looking for her for so long, I know that I can't find her, should my mind be clear......

Looking at the messy room, the beer bottles that had piled up over the past few months were scattered on the table. Suddenly, Sheng Chen's eyes lit up, as if he saw something in the stacked beer bottles.

Where the beer bottles were piled up, a photo of a yellowed and unknown amount of time came into view.

"That's ......"

2011 Chenguang Junior High School Junior High School Graduation Class......

Looking at the person in the photo, tears gradually blurred his vision, tears dripped on the yellowed photo, and the feeling of being absent for a long time instantly returned to the deepest part of his heart, looking at the childish faces on the photo.

"Fangzi, Ning'er, Shi, Xinyi, are you okay? I miss you ......."

The black eyes flashed with unprecedented excitement, and there was an inexplicable heartache in that feeling.

Sheng Chen eased his senses, took out half an unfinished cigarette from the ashtray full of smoke and dust, saw that the brand was the cheapest cigarette in Miracle City, put down the yellowed photo in his hand, and sat on the bed in thought.

Straightened the long, messy hair, lit half of the cigarette in his hand, took a hard puff, and then rubbed it out in the ashtray.

Sheng Chen came to the washstand barefoot, looking at himself in the mirror, there was a kind of self-deprecating irony, this mirror was still picked up by himself to take out the garbage, the man of the year in Chenguang Junior High School, he was like this bear now, and he couldn't help but have the urge to slap himself.

With long messy hair in the mirror and a beard growing from his chin, Sheng Chen was in a trance, muttering to himself, "This... Is it me? ”

used to be the head of the three junior high schools in Chenguang, and he has grown old like this, smiling bitterly, laughing at himself, and the three years of junior high school come to mind......

The figure of that girl, I don't know how many times it appeared in my dreams, every time I woke up from the dream, the corners of my eyes would be moist, and the tears of my heart could only represent the thoughts in my heart.

They can only owe each other......

After being stunned for a long time, he was woken up by the biting cold wind, Sheng Chen lived in a fifteen-square-meter attic at the beginning, but because he couldn't make ends meet in the past few months, he couldn't afford the expensive rent for Sheng Chen, who was now penniless.

I had no choice but to choose this somewhat dark and damp basement, but this cheap rent is also a burden for Sheng Chen now, and I began to miss the youthful campus life from the age of fourteen to sixteen.

I washed my face, looked at the long dirty hair in the mirror, and the beard that sprung up like mushrooms on my chin, picked up the rusty razor that I don't know how long it had been in the cold and repaired the beard little by little, and washed the dirty long hair with cold water, which looked many times better than before, at least not as messy as before.

Looking at the messy room, Sheng Chen couldn't help but smile bitterly and began to think of his mother who was far away from home, at least she was there, so she wouldn't be so sloppy, and the room wouldn't be so messy.

Sheng Chen tried to calm himself down, and began to clean the extremely messy room, the clothes scattered all over the ground, and the gray ground that had accumulated thick dust for an unknown amount of time, made him really a little big.

The fast food box that has overflowed in the garbage can has been stuck at home for more than half a month, and the stomach that has not eaten any food from yesterday morning to the present has begun to protest.

I grabbed a pair of pants from the ground that I don't know how long I hadn't washed, it wasn't that I didn't have pants to wear, and among all the pants, only this one was clean, and the rest were simply unsightly.

It's not too cold in the house, compared to the biting cold wind outside the house, although this nest is a little messy, but it is also a foothold for Sheng Chen in this international big city, although the home is broken, it is still warm.

Under Sheng Chen's nearly half an hour of tidying up, the dirty room that originally had no place to settle has been completely renewed, and Xindao can't do it without a woman in the family......