It's hot, it's unbearable, the sun is hot overhead, the soles of your feet are hot enough to fry eggs, the air smells of tar, there are only cars coming and going on the street, and you rarely see pedestrians, no one wants to run around outside on such a hot day.

A young man of about twenty years old was fanning the wind with his hands, while walking on the side of the road, his army green T-shirt was already soaked, clinging to his vest, in order to keep himself cool, he slipped under the shade of the trees all the way, if there was no shade in a place, he was willing to go around, but he couldn't get around, so he ran two steps quickly and rushed into the shade in front of him.

The young man's name is Jiang Ning, and he is a student at a certain university, so he won't talk about any university, the third-rate kind. It's summer vacation, everyone else has returned to his hometown, and he still stays in X City to find a house.

Others are looking for a house to live outside for freedom, especially for people who have girlfriends, and they have to have a nest of love, he is not, he is to hide from others.

He was unlucky, and he got two birdmen as roommates. One of them is okay, but he just likes to abuse dogs, and he brings his girlfriend over to show affection for two days in three days, and sometimes he will blast other people out of the dormitory, as for what are you doing in it with your girlfriend? Everybody understands that.

The other birdman is more disgusting, this guy's hands and feet are not clean, and there are two things in the dormitory for three days, everyone can guess that this guy did it, but there is no evidence. Jiang Ning and several other roommates once installed cameras, but the footage of stealing things was not captured, and a lot of things that were not suitable for children were photographed, so several of them were almost punished for this.

What's even more troublesome is that he came up with the idea of installing a camera, so the birdman has his eye on him, and he was stolen three times in the month before the final exam, and it was useless to change dorms, so he was stolen anyway.

So he had to find another house.

It's not that I'm afraid of things, but I don't want to meet the birdman in general, anyway, there are still three years, and it's gone in a blink of an eye, who will know who by then?

But at the moment he regretted it, he didn't expect the rent in X City to be so expensive.

"Drip, knock, knock......" The phone rang.

Jiang Ning glanced at the number and didn't recognize it, but he still took it.

A foreign accent came from the other side: "Big brother, you want to rent a house, right?" Ever considered buying a house? Now it is the most cost-effective way to buy a house, and then the house price will rise again, at least double. ”

Jiang Ning hurriedly interrupted: "This is true, I haven't seen it fall in housing prices, but I have a house." ”

He doesn't want to talk nonsense, this kind of person is all kraft candy.

"That's fine, have you ever thought about selling your house? With such a high house price, you can definitely make a lot of money. "The person on the other end of the line doesn't miss any opportunity to do business.

Jiang Ning had nothing to say, hung up, and blacked out.

He now regrets that he has found so many real estate agents, it is useless, he can't read the rental information, it is ridiculously expensive, and those people are still like dog skin plasters, and there are twenty or thirty such calls every day. So now he only looks at small advertisements, the kind that are posted on the walls and telephone poles, although the houses are rotten, it is cheaper.

As he walked, he looked around, looking for small advertisements everywhere, and wrote them down when he saw them.

Suddenly, a small advertisement lit up his eyes.

The small advertisement is only the size of a palm, pasted on a telephone pole, the upper half has been pasted by other small advertisements, and the words "house for rent" are only the lower half, not the upper half, but what attracts him is the small word "1500 yuan / month" at the bottom, followed by the address - "No. 128 Miaohou Street", and finally the person who rents the house - "202 Mr. Gui".

So cheap? Jiang Ning was first overjoyed, and then became suspicious.

It's also too cheap.

Miaohou Street belongs to the city center, away from Zhongsheng Department Store, Hengyi Plaza, China World Mall is very close, if the prime location is divided into grades, Zhongsheng, Hengyi, Guomao is 24K, Miaohou Street is at least 12K gold, if he remembers correctly, there is a one-room household with public coal guards, five square living area, and the rent is also two thousand seven.

It can't be fake, right? Is it a bait, a trap, a black den? If you go in, you will be detained, and you won't be allowed to leave if you don't give money?

It's not overthinking, it's called caution, at least that's what he thinks.

Why don't you go back?

But the thought of that birdman made his eggs hurt again.

If he lowers his head once, he can solve the problem, and he will let it go, but will it be useful? He has seen a lot of guys who kick their noses and faces, and bully people enough.

After thinking about it, he decided to go and have a look, but he had to make some preparations before going over, what if it was really a black den?

Take out your mobile phone, first upload and backup the photos, text messages, address books and the like, and then delete it, Taobao has to delete it, there is an account on it, the mobile phone itself is worthless, second-hand bargains, can be sold for three hundred and snickered, the money on the body is a bit much, and five hundred yuan is stuffed into the soles of the shoes, leaving only two hundred yuan in the pocket, which is regarded as life money.

Sure that there was nothing of value left, Jiang Ning finally sent a letter to his mailbox, just one sentence, "No. 128 Miaohou Street, Mr. Gui".

If something really happens, the police uncle can also have a clue when he investigates.

I put my phone back in my trouser pocket, took a deep breath, and reported that I was at home...... He flagged down a taxi.

Half an hour later, Jiang Ning stood at the intersection of the back street of the temple.

The reason why Miaohou Street is called Miaohou Street is because it is behind the Confucian Temple, for X City, this Confucian Temple is already one of the best monuments and a tourist hotspot, so it is not surprising that the surrounding area is more lively.

As an old street, there is not even a sidewalk here, the middle is very narrow, the car wants to drive over is a little choked, on both sides are old houses, built before liberation, green bricks and green tiles, the ground floor is full of shops, if you come here on Saturday or Sunday, you will see a lot of small stalls, then it is called lively.

Jiang Ning came here when he was a freshman, and after squeezing it once, he didn't have the appetite to come again.

The house number of No. 128 is easy to find, but Jiang Ning didn't dare to enter for a while, because it was a sandwich, the width was about the same as a door, the car definitely couldn't get in, you had to be careful when pushing a bicycle in and out, the ground and the walls on both sides were full of moss, giving people a very deep feeling, as if the inside and outside were two worlds.

He trusts his instincts because his instincts have always been spiritual.

Do you want to turn back immediately? What about that birdman? Besides, is it worth the twenty yuan car fee?

Jiang Ning looked left and right.

On the right side of the alley is a shop selling leather goods, and when he looks at the contents of it, he can only hehe, those bags and belts are marked with the trademarks of Louis Vuitton, Pudala, and Gucci...... Everybody understands that. On the left is a restaurant, and judging by the price list hanging on the wall, this one is on the civilian route, so there are really a lot of people inside.

He was a little more confident, and if he called for help, the people in the restaurant should be able to hear him.

Jiang Ning stubbornly walked into the sandwich.

The clamp is not deep, only a dozen meters, and there is a building inside.

There is only one building, and this structure is kind of interesting, and I have never seen it anywhere else.

It was an old-fashioned public house, only six floors, the exterior walls were not painted, directly plastered with a layer of cement, the windows were iron kind, painted with green paint, and from the style point of view, it should have been built in the eighties. Such houses can be seen everywhere, but Jiang Ning always feels a little different, as if something is missing.

Carefully going upstairs, the staircase is directly opposite 202, 201 on the left, 203 on the right, and the three rooms are in the shape of a pin.

The door of 202 is a wooden door, the most ordinary kind.

Jiang Ning finally realized that something was different. After people get the house now, the first thing they do is to change the door, either with an anti-theft door, or with a beautiful wooden door, and then add an iron railing outside, and here are all ordinary wooden doors, not only that, but the ground floor and the second floor are not equipped with anti-theft windows, which is basically standard in X City. In addition, the passages and balconies here are very clean, unlike other husbands' houses, where there are a bunch of rags at the door of every house.

The building was weird, but he knocked on 202's door anyway.

There is no reaction inside.

He knocked again.

Still no response inside.

Hit hard again.

There was still no response inside.

"Whew" Jiang Ning exhaled, he couldn't tell if it was disappointment in his heart? Or rejoice?

Just as he turned around and wanted to leave, the door of 201 next to him opened, and it was opened by an aunt, who looked to be in her fifties, a little short and fat, with a round face, a very kind face, but a hint of shrewdness, she was wearing a floral cloth shirt, an apron tied around her waist, and a Donald duck printed on it.

Seeing this aunt, Jiang Ning felt a lot more relieved, this shouldn't be a trap, even if it is, at most, it is a pyramid scheme, deceiving people into joining the gang, he is not afraid of this.

"Are you looking for the second master? You're here to rent a house, right? "Auntie is very enthusiastic.

"Is there really a house to rent?" Jiang Ning asked happily, he was no longer afraid.

"Yes, the occupants of 502 have just moved out, and the room is empty." The aunt took out a bunch of keys from the pocket of her apron and opened the door of 202 casually: "Don't stand at the top of the stairs and talk, come in, come in." ”

As soon as he entered the room, Jiang Ning was so hung that he was killed by the heat, it was like an oven, and there was an old man sitting in such a hot room, the old man didn't know how old he was, his face was full of life spots, and the wrinkles were so deep that he could trap flies.

Is this a living person? Not a wax figure or a sculpture? Jiang Ning had an impulse to go over and touch it.

Before he could make a move, the aunt had already walked over, stretched out her slap and patted the old man's bald head: "Someone rents a house, where is the contract?" ”

Jiang Jing waited quietly, and waited for at least three minutes before he saw the old man slowly raise his arm and point towards the TV cabinet. The slow movement reminded him of a cartoon he had just watched, Zootopia, in which the sloths felt like that.

"Alright, alright, I got it." Auntie walked over and pulled out a stack of papers from a drawer.

That's a printed contract.

"Don't you go through an intermediary?" Jiang Ning asked kindly.

"Why do you go through an intermediary? Isn't that a waste of money? One thousand five a month, you pay half a year as a deposit, but some words are ahead, you can only live in this house, you can't sublet, you can't share it with others, and you can't bring others in, there are too many people in these years, it's really worrying, and you can't keep pets, there are old and young in this house, it's not good to let dogs and cats bite, even if you don't bite, there may be infectious diseases, by the way, do you have a mobile phone? Take it out, I'll copy the phone number. ”

Jiang Ning was confused by this series of cannons, and handed over the mobile phone stupidly, to be honest, he was indeed a little curious, what did he do with the mobile phone when he copied the number?

"I'll give the landlord a call." The aunt explained with a smile, and then asked, "What is the boot password?" ”

"2325," Jiang Ning replied calmly.

The aunt ran to the window with her phone.

"Hey, Xiao Yuan, have you eaten? This weather is really hot, I don't know how long it will last, I heard the weather forecast that the typhoon is coming, and I don't know if this typhoon will log in, don't take a halfway detour to Japan like the last typhoon, by the way, when it comes to ......Japan, "Aunt didn't forget to greet Jiang Ning while calling: "Find a place to sit by yourself, this call will take a while!" ”

The corners of Jiang Ning's mouth twitched, he understood, the aunt was just trying to rub his mobile phone.