Jingle, jingle, an hour passed.

I sat down on the old newspaper on the floor, gasped for a few breaths, stood up, dragged my sore, swollen arms to the outhouse, turned on the faucet and rinsed my face and hair. When I wiped my face with a towel, I felt my arms shaking and I was choking. Usually lack of exercise, cold and hard work, the body naturally can't bear it. When I returned to the northwest corner of the wall and looked down, the floor tiles that were comparable to the hardness of marble were only a small pit of one centimeter in size by me, and there was no soil at all, and there was still hard stone inside.

I squeezed a wry smile at the floor tiles, sat down on the bare bed and rested for a while, and then reluctantly picked up the small hammer and knocked on the horns little by little.

Bang bang bang!

Someone's knocking on the door!

I looked back and saw a dark figure with long hair printed on the curtain, which seemed to be a woman's surname.

My heart tightened, it couldn't be Ms. Wang coming back, right? I quickly stuffed all the shovels and hammers on the ground under the bed, and there were digging marks in the corners of the wall with waste newspapers, and cleaned the crushed stone foam, and then I walked over with suspicious eyes, opened the curtains and looked out. Opposite the glass stood a very mature young woman, not too old, with coiled hair, professional clothes, and a capable dress, she was the kind of melon seed face, not to mention her beautiful face, and her figure was also very slim.

I was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously said, "What's the matter with you?" ”

The young woman's face was not very good-looking, and she glanced at me: "You are the one who newly moved in?" "Ms. Wang and Mr. Wang may not have a good relationship with their neighbors, and they moved out without saying hello to everyone, making everyone think that they rented the house to me.

I didn't argue, "Yes." ”

Hearing this, this very beautiful young woman patted the glass on the door impatiently with the back of her hand with a dark face: "...... Open the door! ”

Seeing her attitude, I couldn't help frowning: "What the hell are you?" ”

The young woman stared into my eyes: "...... I'll let you open the door! Just count to three! Otherwise, I'll call the police right away! One! Two! ”

"Call the police?" I was a little baffled, and I wasn't afraid of what she could do with a woman's house, and I clicked to unlock the door.

As a result, the angry young woman stepped on her high heels and squeezed me into the house, and she walked briskly to the back room, while swinging her head to look for something, and before I could ask questions, the young woman's eyes moved, and she walked two steps quickly, picked up the cone I had dropped on the dining table, and looked at me with a stiff face in her hand: "...... I'll put up with it for a minute or two! But you know how long you've been tinkling? More than an hour! You're still not letting people sleep? She pointed to the east wall with a change cone: "My bedside is attached there, are you arguing with me?" ”

Oh, she lives in the room next to me, so it's no wonder it's so atmospheric.

Although I have tried to keep my movements as light as possible, other people's homes may not be able to hear them, and the room next to me will certainly not be too peaceful. Thinking of this, I immediately put down my posture and sneered: "I'm really sorry, there is something wrong with this table, I just want to fix it, uh, I thought there was no one in your house, I went to work, sorry, sorry." "If neighbors want to get along well, they must first understand each other, and this time I am wrong, and I should apologize.

The young woman's face softened slightly, and she put the cone on the table, "What kind of broken table, throw it away quickly, what else to repair?" ”

I said, "I'll be a little lighter later, and you can go to sleep, I'm sorry." ”

"Yanjing people?" The young woman looked at me.

As soon as I said yes, she hummed: "Yanjing's is good, I thought I lived in a foreign place." Without saying anything more, she twisted and turned to walk out.

After locking the door, I turned back to the back room, flicked my cuffs, bent down and pulled out the hammer from under the bed, and crouched in the corner to continue digging.

In order to keep the volume to a minimum, this time I didn't chisel, but dug with the tip of a hammer, hoping to pull the tiles out of the ground through the small opening.

Squeak, squeak, the hammer head grinds against the hard brick with a subtle sound.

Bang bang bang! Knocking on the door again!

Before I could look over, the young woman's angry voice came from outside: "What are you grinding! You're endless, aren't you? It's hard to rest for a few days! Look at you, knocking, grinding! Don't let people live! ”

I sighed and hurriedly stopped what I was doing: "I'm sorry, I won't do it." "I'm moving lightly enough, but maybe the sound insulation of the house is too poor, and she can still hear it in the house, right? Alas, it's so hard to dig something, look at this trouble, what's wrong with it.

"I warn you! If only I could hear it again! I'll call the police immediately! ”

Kicking and kicking, the high heels gradually faded away, and boom, a door next to her rang twice, and she seemed to be back in the house.

I smiled bitterly, yes, I had offended my neighbor less than a day after I moved in.

I didn't dig the ground anymore, I took out my phone out of boredom and chatted with my college classmates, thinking about waiting for the young woman to wake up and try again. About twenty minutes later, the door of my house was pushed from the outside, and when I heard a noise, I looked up, and saw that the figure standing in the door was not the embodiment of a young woman, but a little short and fat.

Confused, I walked over and opened the door, and there was the aunt of the second family in the south standing outside, and I thought she had asked Ms. Wang yesterday where she lived, "It's you, come into the house." I opened the curtain and let the old lady in, and closed the door, "I'm sorry, I didn't buy any tea when I just moved in, so I can't entertain you, well, I'll go buy a drink, what do you drink?" "It's not necessarily that you want to buy it sincerely, but you have to say at least the kind words, Yanjing people pay attention to this, and the so-called etiquette is not strange.

The aunt smiled kindly: "Don't bother, hehe, I'll sit for a while and leave." ”

I moved a chair for her and sat across from her: "Auntie, what do you call it?" ”

"My surname is Cao, just call Aunt Cao." After talking for a while, Aunt Cao suddenly lowered her voice, looked at the wall opposite Nunu, and said, "What did Yuan Yazhen do just now?" ”

I sighed, "I made it too loud when I repaired the table, and it made her noise." ”

Aunt Cao said: "Hey, I heard Yuan Yazhen shouting and called the police, how big of a deal should I be, it turned out to be this?" "I could hear her words in the wind, and she didn't have a good relationship with the young woman," ...... Xiaojing, ignore her, she is so virtuous, very snobbish, you said last time, a relative of mine from other places came to Yanjing to visit the door, and lived in my house, usually said that they met face to face, how can neighbors say hello to each other, right? As a result, guess what, my relatives nodded to her and said hello, Yuan Yazhen didn't even care about it, and avoided you, hum, that woman, you are from Yanjing, you have money, then she will tell you a few more words, you are from other places, you have no money, then she ignores you, what about the world! ”

I just came, and I don't know the situation of every household, so naturally I can't interject, so I smiled and didn't talk.

Aunt Cao pouted and said, "Hmph, we still look down on others, we have no money, but our house is at least our own, what about Yuan Yazhen?" It's a renter, at most the work is better, and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China works, in addition to this, her family is also poor, and she has a stinky shelf all day and night, what do you have to do? ”

I didn't like to take this talk, so I just didn't say anything.

Aunt Cao Xu also noticed that she had spoken too much, and said back: "I'm also angry with her temper, but really speaking, Yuan Yazhen is also quite pitiful, I heard that her brother and sister-in-law died early, leaving a child Xiaolong has been following her, and her family conditions may not be good, so she took the child out to rent a house, alas, it has been several years, and it is not easy." ”

I said, "She's alone with the kids?" ”

Aunt Cao said: "Yes, anyway, I haven't seen her man, so I guess I'm not married, but her nephew Xiaolong is quite likable and sensible, better than his mother...... Oh no, better than his aunt. ”

"He's in school?"

"Xiaolong is almost eight years old, in the second grade of elementary school, just over Niujie." After chatting for a while, Aunt Cao stood up and said, "It's time to go back to cooking, come and sit with me when you have time." ”

"Okay, goodbye Aunt Cao."

After sending Aunt Cao away, I touched my nose and returned to the house, my eyes slightly distressed. The bricks are unexpectedly hard, and the progress of digging the ground is not fast, but this is good, and I have to avoid the time of the young woman named Yuan Yazhen, alas, I don't know if she will go to work tomorrow, otherwise how can I dig it?

Well, let's try it at night.

Seeing that things were not going well, I simply made a slight adjustment to the plan, in order to complete the digging as soon as possible, I went back to the Qianmen courtyard after dinner, and told my mother to live with the waist family these days, and I won't come back for a while. I agreed, went back to the hut and got a suitcase, loaded a series of daily necessities such as pillows, quilts, mattresses, teacups, etc., put on my Sony laptop bag, and returned to Niujie.

Outside the bungalow, I took a call from a small advertisement on a telephone pole and called the lock repair company to help me change the locks, then went back to the house, spread the quilt sheets in my suitcase on the bare bed, made a pot of boiling water, and filled the kettle. At this time, the person from the lock company also arrived, and when the door lock was replaced, I was standing in the courtyard thinking about the key carefully, well, there should be nothing to forget.

Just as I was about to go back to the house, there was a sound of the door opening the door.

Yuan Yazhen walked out on the shoulders of a seven or eight-year-old boy, and when she saw me, she frowned.

I smiled politely, "Hello." ”

Yuan Yazhen hummed unhappily and pushed the child in front of her: "Go, let's play with classmates and come back later." ”

Khan, other parents want their children to play less, you are better, let you come back late?

If you are not biological, you can't do this, how old is the child, and you can rest assured that he will go out alone?

The boy who should be called Xiaolong looks very quiet, not as naughty as ordinary elementary school students, he nodded obediently: "Goodbye, aunt." He looked at me with big innocent eyes and said politely, "Hello brother." ”

I smiled, "You're okay too." ”

"Alright, let's go, stay safe." Yuan Yazhen pushed Xiaolong impatiently. The little one said goodbye to his aunt again, and then walked slowly out of the yard and turned in the direction of the little garden to the south.

Yuan Yazhen didn't look at me again, turned back to the house, and closed the door with a bang.

I shook my head, went back to the back room, picked up my hammer and struck the hollow in the corner of the wall twice, pricked up my ears to listen, and struck three more times, and after a while, I leaned down on the east wall, and there was a faint sound of laughter, as if it were an entertainment show. I must think to myself, since she is watching TV, then it doesn't matter if I use a little effort, right? She shouldn't have heard it.

Picking up tools such as hammers and hoes, I began to dig into the ground.

The hard work pays off, under my unremitting percussion, the corner of the floor tile finally appeared a long crack, exhaled, with the tip of the hammer to pry the corner, and then with the hand to break, landing, half of the floor tile left the soil, was lifted to the ground by me, through the light to look down, all porcelain solid loess, near the wall of the soil is a little damp, near the house side of the soil is dry.

"Okay, let's dig from here."

After I lifted the other half of the floor tiles, I was afraid that everything would be dirt, so I took water and watered the soil, and then dug it with a shovel.

Dig five centimeters - no.

Ten centimeters were dug - and there was none.

Since I don't know how deep the treasure chest is buried, I can only dig three feet into the ground stupidly, trying not to miss the slightest possibility.

Shovels of rehmannia mud were shoveled up by me to the edge of the big closet, and they fell into small mounds half an arm's high.

When it was almost eight o'clock, I couldn't hold on any longer, so exhausted I poked my shovel into the dirt, washed my hands, and tried to go to the door to buy a bottle of cold mineral water.

After paying the money and coming out of the commissary, I turned my head and suddenly found a familiar figure.

Over there, Xiaolong was sitting on the curb under the street lamp next to him, and he was silent as he dragged his chin and stared at the speeding cars on the main road.

I walked over strangely: "What are you doing here alone?" ”

Xiaolong looked sideways at me: "My aunt asked me to play until half past eight and then go home, but it's not time yet." ”

"Huh? Can't go back if you don't have time? ”

Xiaolong pursed his mouth: "Well, otherwise my aunt will scold me." ”

Hey, what's this called? I touched Xiaolong's hair: "Then why are you sitting here?" Don't you want to play with the children? ”

"He went to the mall with his mother, and he wasn't at home." As soon as the words fell, a little boy who was holding hands by his mother waved across the road and shouted Xiaolong's name, Xiaolong stood up, waved his hand, and then said to me, "Brother, I'm going to play." ”

"Okay, let's go." After a pause, I added: "If you have nowhere to go in the future, don't sit on the road, it's not safe, come to my house to find me when the time comes, you know?" "He doesn't have a father or a mother, it's weird and pitiful.

Xiaolong nodded: "Goodbye, brother." ”

When I got back to the house, I picked up the shovel and prepared to continue, but the shovel would make some slight noises, and I was afraid that the young woman would be noisy, so I leaned on the wall again to hear if she was still watching TV, and if so, I could dig with confidence.

"Hmm...... Well...... Call...... Sizzle...... Ah......h

The sound of staccato moans fell into my ears.

I snorted, my heart pounding!

I see!

I said how did she let Xiaolong come home late!

Eh, I just don't know if it's from her mouth, or if it's on a computer or a DVD.

(To be continued)