(a)

Because the rent is cheap, rent in a dilapidated old neighborhood. Standing in the house, the opposite building has gray spots due to the wind and sun, and the walls of the sand and cement solidification cannot be seen during the day, without a trace of green. Near the railway station, the roar of the train crossing the railway seemed to shake the dust of the entire community, making the darkness of the community almost fall apart.

On a rainy night, the wind whined through the wooden window lattice that had been closed for a long time, and one person shrunk on the bed, cold bed and cold quilt, shivering from the cold,

"Sycamore trees, three more rains, not to be separated from love is bitter. A leaf, a sound, the empty steps drip to the light. ”

Always renting a house, so far, she hasn't even been willing to match a pair of curtains. I always feel that when the time comes to change places, the curtains can't be taken away.

After Bai Xian left, the door lock was broken; The lights in the living room are sometimes bad and sometimes good, and when you walk through the living room, it is a blurry darkness. Everywhere is a kind of broken and broken day.

Of course, the rented house resembles a dilapidated hostel. Or because the rent is cheap, so the rented house is always like an old man on crutches. Maybe it's because the faucet in the kitchen is broken, and the sound of water dripping at night leaks into the eardrum. Maybe it's because the old-fashioned sewer is too narrow, like a chick's throat, and a piece of accidentally falling straw paper fills the toilet with water.

The toilet seems to be only the thickness of a chicken's intestines, and a few hairs can be gambled.

Chang Xia, who had finished washing his hair, cursed and began to go to the toilet. The tools are a loop-shaped wire hook and a leather tiger that can go up and down. Pumping with a wire hook for a while, and then sucking with a leather tiger for a while, she almost despaired. Cursing this damn toilet, damn life, the toilet is open.

She became a toilet master. "What are you doing?" "Toilets". She replied quietly, "When you come back, if it's blocked, you can get through." ”

"Okay, okay, I'll get through." He couldn't help laughing.

When it was almost dark, the lights went out. I walked to the kitchen and turned on the light, and there was electricity in the kitchen, so the bulb was broken. So I went down and bought a light bulb and brought a chair.

Standing on a chair and staggering, I can't reach it. Chang Xia looked around the room, if you add a chair to it, what about the second mountain, there is not even a person to help, it is very unsafe. Standing there worried, it's completely dark, and you can't stay in the house for a month, and wait for Bai Xian to come back and change it.

Her eyes were on the stacks of books on the shelves, and she suddenly had an idea, jumped out of her chair, and carried a bunch of books to the chair. Stepping on this stack of bricks made of books, my hand finally reached the lamphead. Tilt your neck and rotate the screw of the bulb. Luckily, I bought the bulb right one. It also took a long time to screw it on. Looking up and admiring his achievements, he was a little proud.

She wanted to tell Bai Xian about her results. Go downstairs again. This neighborhood is already a suburb. She walked across the road and found an IC public phone booth. Behind him are peasant houses, which should be compensated by the government for demolition. Each house has a small courtyard with a small independent house, and from the lighted windows, you can also see the spiraling staircase.

That's someone else's warmth. Standing in the rainy twilight of Chang Xia, holding the microphone, she told Bai Xian that she had just made a proud masterpiece.

Bai Xian didn't respond immediately, and was silent for a moment before saying, "I've been blaming myself for letting you run around with me like this, and you've suffered." ”

She stood in the rainy twilight, looking at the warm scenery of others, holding the microphone, which held Bai Xian's voice. Because of love, there is the strength to persevere.

(b)

Chang Xia plans to rent out the empty house next door. Originally, he said that he would rent it with another colleague, but he temporarily changed his mind so that the house would be vacant.

Began to post messages online, leaving a phone number and the address of this shabby neighborhood. In the evening, the bedside phone rang, thinking it was Bai Xian calling, but it was a strange man.

The man's voice was soft, "Do you want a little BB". She wondered: "What does this call mean?" Her ears didn't understand what was going on with the little baby at first.

But then the phone call smelled even stronger: 'Put the little baby in you, it's so warm.'

This sentence made her feel like seeing a naked man standing in front of her in a daze, Chang Xia was startled for a while, and then came to her senses, she blushed in a panic, hung up the phone in a hurry, and was accidentally splashed with foam by others, and her heart was sad, this is the dangerous life of a single woman.

Another phone call came to her and asked if she lived alone, and she replied without thinking: "Yes, I live alone for more than 20 days a month." ”。

So the man made an appointment to come to see the house and asked Chang Xia to go downstairs to pick him up.

She closed the door and descended the stairs, walking down the dirty stairwell, perhaps the darkness of the staircase casting a shadow on her mind.

She hesitated on her feet, feeling that there was a vague shadow in the sound. It's not like a normal walk in the sun, walking on the street with the sound of natural footsteps. And it was like a cat at night jumping on the roof in a panic.

Repeatedly asked her if she lived alone? Urgently asked her how she came? I didn't care about the furniture in the room, I didn't care about the price, and I asked him if he wanted to rent it, and he hesitated and answered the question.

Is it because I live alone, I have this extra loneliness and fear.

It's already up to the next floor. Across the building is the bus stop. She was there to pick him up and look at the house.

At this moment, the phone rang, and it was another girl who wanted to come to see the house, and it was almost there. She breathed a sigh of relief and could let the two of them come up together to see the house.

(c)

When she saw the man, she was so disgusted that she almost wanted to vomit, why would someone give such a strong impression of stimulation.

He was wearing a black suit and holding a small black bag in his hand, which seemed to have been borrowed or robbed, and a criminal wanted to disguise himself, and put it loosely and loosely on him. It seems that the legs are particularly short.

What does that face look like? The cheeks are very broad, with two small eyes and two mustaches, it is like two mice tied together in parallel, and the eyes are not looking directly at others, but the rats do not know where to go.

This man gave her intense feelings of uneasiness and disgust. She simply walked away.

"Go upstairs," he asked. "Wait a minute, there will be two more people to look at the house together." Two or two girls came, and she breathed a sigh of relief. The three of them went upstairs together, and it was time to turn on the lights.

The man didn't ask many questions, saw a lot of people, and after a while, he left with the two girls.

The phone rang again, she went downstairs, and several boys stepped out of a van.

At this time, Chang Xia became vigilant and remembered the newspaper report that the young girl was killed alone in a rented house. Just now, the man's face was obviously not a good person.

The more Chang Xia thought about it, the more scared he became. "I'm sorry, I'm not renting this house."

"Why?" "I didn't know you had so many boys, sorry." The boys got in the car and left.

Look up at the house, there is a light in the little room. But there was no second person to accompany her under the lights. She walked in loneliness and fear, like walking in the rain of the night.

I checked the news she announced on the Internet, and I have been specific to which building, leaving only the last line of defense, and I didn't tell others how many times it is, this is not telling this festering, turbid, spitting sewage strange world: In a certain room in this building, there is a single woman living all year round.

She felt the danger howling like wolves around the building. Eyes shining with green forests.

told Bai Xian, Bai Xian was anxious: "Why are you renting out that house?" If you want to rent, you can only find a familiar colleague to share the room. What if something happens to you? "Almost.

"Didn't I want to lighten the load a little bit? The phone bill is so expensive a month, plus the rent, how heavy the burden is. ”

"Xiao Xia", Bai Xian lowered his voice: "If something happens to you, what should I do?" "He was irrepressibly anxious, restless and painful." I'm a man, let me bear all this, don't think about it, okay? "He was coaxing her, begging her.

She held the microphone and remained silent. A mist was stuck in her throat, when will such a difficult day end? She often has a feeling that she can't hold on, but there is no way out.