Chapter 4 Living Alone
Wake up on time at seven o'clock comfortably, without any hesitation or laziness. Get up and drink a small glass of warm water, then do a simple stretch in a 60-square-meter room.
The house is rented, three hundred a month, and water and electricity are counted separately. Located in an old community near Westlake College, the house has been idle for a long time, it has been dusty, and the home inside is also very old, and the only place that can make you feel comfortable here is that there is a window with a rising sun.
After moving in, Shuxin cleaned and renovated the room, replaced it with new window screens, some old but usable tables and chairs, laid beautiful cushions and then used them, the only furniture she bought was a sofa and placed it by the window, she liked to lie on the sofa while listening to music and basking in the sun. Later, I bought some simple kitchen utensils and had time to learn to cook by myself. Shu Xin feels that girls should live independently, because only independence can have freedom.
The monthly rent of 300 and the cost of water and electricity are also a lot of expenses for ordinary college students, not to mention daily living expenses. The reason why Shu Xin has the financial ability to rent an off-campus apartment is because of the sudden change in her family.
When his parents were in a car accident when he was a freshman, he was hit and killed by a young boss who was only in his thirties, and he knelt in front of his grandmother in front of him hoping to be forgiven and be able to take it personally. The comfortable grandmother was expressionless, and after being stunned for a moment, she asked the other party to compensate one million and then it was over.
Because of this incident, Shu Xin once did not have a good face for her grandmother, and her grandmother did this to make her feel that her father's death was exchanged for money. Grandma is usually amiable and sensible, and has a very good reputation in the village, but why did she choose to be private in this matter? Shu Xin couldn't figure it out, and he was depressed all day long.
The comfortable grandmother knew what she was thinking, and said to her meaningfully at a dinner: "Your grandfather died when you were one year old, and now your parents are gone, and only you and I are left at home, I am seventy-eight years old this year, and my health is getting worse and worse, I can't live long, how can you live if I am gone, you are only eighteen years old, and the only thing I can leave you is this money." I know a little bit about that man, his wife died in childbirth, he was raising a three-year-old child alone, if he went to jail, his family would collapse, and how would his three-year-old son live.
The first thing she did comfortably with this money was to buy a lot of *** for her grandmother, she hoped that her grandmother would live a long life, after all, she only had such a relative. The second thing she did was to move out of the school and live in a rented apartment, which she loved as a free and easy way of being alone.
After ten minutes of simple stretching exercises, Shu Xin took out a book from the small round table next to the sofa and began to read, there were five books stacked on the table, including Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", Zhang Ailing's "Love in a Fallen City", Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre", Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner", and the top one was Haruki Murakami's "Norwegian Wood", and Shu Xin took this book to read.
Half an hour to an hour of reading a day was a comfortable habit, and she maintained this habit for three years. Maybe she read too many books about love, and she gradually longed for a love of her own, which led to the "Autumn Wind in the Afternoon".
When I returned to the room last night, it was already three o'clock in the morning, and the first thing Shu Xin did was to delete the contact information of "Afternoon Autumn Breeze", and block his phone number, then took a hot shower, and lay down in the quilt to sleep deeply. How can you really fall asleep if you say it's sleeping, after all, the autumn breeze in the afternoon is the person who has moved her heart, although the other party has deceived herself, but once the girl is tempted, how can she say that she will let go, and if you want to let go, you will inevitably have sad tears.
The stray cat suddenly barked, and then Shu Xin realized that he had brought back a cat, and when he first entered the door, he put it on the ground without much thought, and now he almost forgot that it existed. Anyway, I couldn't sleep and got up, so I first gave the cat a hot bath and wiped it clean with a clean towel, judging from the touch on my hands, the cat was already hungry and skinny. There was no cat food prepared at home, but there were leftover snacks and dried fish, and after feeding the cat a few pieces, the cat seemed to regain its vitality and began to circle around Shuxin.
Comfortably sitting on the sofa, looking out the window, the rain had stopped, and the slightest cold air seeped in through the cracks in the window. Shu Xin hurriedly closed the curtain and looked at the kitten circling around him. I don't know what happened to the cat? The boy seemed careless and wondered if he would throw it away?
It wasn't until four o'clock that fatigue hit. Shu Xin entered the bed again and fell asleep deeply.
At 7 o'clock in the morning, she got up comfortably and made a simple breakfast, two fried eggs and a bowl of clear soup noodles, she likes to add a small amount of chopped shiitake mushrooms and chopped green onions to the noodles, and every time she must drink the noodle soup cleanly. After leaving a fried egg for the cat, Shu Xin went out to prepare for a class at West Lake College.
When she closed the door, she took a special look at the kitten in the house, and the cat was looking up at her. Shu thought to himself: Maybe there is one more creature in the house, and he will not be so lonely. After all, she is a young girl, yearning for the life of the bustling city, and where does she come from to endure the lonely and lonely Buddha nature.
This is an old building with only seven floors, and she lives comfortably on the fifth floor, and every time she passes by the fourth floor, her eyes can't help but look at the door of the fourth floor resident, who lives a girl her age and a student at Westlake College. It's just a few times that Shu Xin bumped into different men coming out of her door, she subconsciously thought that the alumni on the fourth floor might be doing a "part-time" line, although this possibility is very large, but Shu Xin also did not see it with her own eyes, this possibility of trading, she just doubted, when she went down to the third floor, she heard the sound of the door on the fourth floor opening, and then heard the sound of leather shoes walking, Shu Xin knew that a man came down.
Shu Xin walked out of the building first, and then the man also came out, and the two of them were only eight meters apart. There was an aunt who was cleaning and saw that the two people came out at about the same time, so she looked at them twice, and Shu Xin saw from her eyes that she was thinking of herself as the girl on the fourth floor, and after touching Shu Xin's eyes, the aunt hurriedly removed her eyes.
There is a convenience store at the entrance of the community, the proprietress is a woman in her forties, slightly fat, dyed yellow hair, is knocking melon seeds, Shu Xin knows that she is a well-known long-tongued woman in this area, Shu Xin and her after a glance. looked at each other politely and smiled, but when she saw the man eight meters behind her, her eyes changed suddenly, and she comfortably guessed what she was thinking.
It doesn't matter, as long as you're good, why care about the opinions of people who have nothing to do with you, this is Shu Xin's thoughts at this moment.
Walking and walking, Shu Xin suddenly wondered about the appearance of the man behind her, she pretended to look back at something, her eyes focused on the man's body, about thirty years old, one meter eight tall, medium build, short hair, wearing a full suit, sunny and decent appearance, walking with the wind, straight waist, not only handsome but also temperamental.
The man also looked at Shu Xin, his eyes met, and in the face of the man's polite smile, Shu Xin hurriedly showed the same embarrassing smile as the convenience store proprietress. The man walked up to the front of Shu Xin and looked at his straight back. Shu Xin thought to himself, would such a person also look for a "part-time job"? really knows people and faces, but doesn't know their hearts, which reminds him of the "afternoon autumn wind". Hmph, no matter how disguised a man is on the outside, he is the same in his bones, "hypocritical, dirty, disgusting, and full of sex." ”
It wasn't until the man turned the corner that Shu Xin thought again: No, maybe they were really a couple.