Chapter Forty-Nine: If the Diary - Home
June 8, 1993 was sunny
"Ru Jing, are you up?" I heard someone knock on the door, opened my eyes, looked around, saw the poster on the wall, and suddenly realized where I was. I already have a new home.
"Ru Jing, are you up, I'm coming in?" There was another knock on the door, it was Ru Ling, my half-brother. Yes, I slept in his room last night, and he was arranged to sleep in the study. So what time is it, what is he doing when he comes in.
I glanced at my watch on the bedside table, it was 7:00 a.m., it was so early. I don't have to do a morning class here.
"Come in." I didn't get out of bed, I sat on the edge of the bed and shouted to the door.
Ru Ling pushed open the door, poked his head in, saw me sitting at the head of the bed, smiled at me, and then straightened up and walked in.
"Did you sleep well? Is my bed comfortable? If you don't feel used to it, ask your dad to buy you a new one, because you have a lot to buy anyway. Ru Ling walked to the bedside table and began to load books and notebooks in her school bag. Looks like I'm going to school.
Speaking of which, he made me feel more comfortable than those two adults. Always smiling and paying special attention to my feelings.
"It's fine." I looked at him and smiled back.
"I'm in class today and I'm going to school. Breakfast is outside, Mom has already made it, you can go to eat it when you get up. ”
"Hmm."
"Dad will go to the school in the next two days and handle the enrollment for you. It should be in the same school as me. You don't have to rush. After loading her schoolbag, Ru Ling did not immediately go out, but stood there looking at me and tried her best to show me goodwill.
"Okay."
"There are some books in the study, if you are bored, you can go and read them, I don't know if you like martial arts novels, I have a lot of them."
"Okay."
"My key is for you, my parents are also at work today, if you want to go out, you can go downstairs, but don't go far." He pulled out a bunch of keys from his bag and placed them on the table.
"Hmm" I wondered why he hadn't left yet.
"I'll be out of school at 5:00 p.m., if you have nothing to do, you can wait for me at the intersection, and I'll take you to the small park next to it, so you can get acquainted with the surroundings. The school is not far from home, and I was about half an hour away. He pulled out his pen again, tore up a piece of paper, and began to draw a simple version of the map on it.
"Here you go, this is the neighborhood where we live, you walk along this road, turn left, there is a newsstand in this location, you can wait for me here." Remember to bring your keys. Ru Ling gave me another description of the route on the map, and it seemed that I had no chance not to go to the park.
"Okay." I nodded and took his map.
"Then I'll go first."
"Hmm," he finally finished.
"By the way, do you know how to cook?" He walked to the door and suddenly stopped again to ask me.
"Huh?" I didn't react, why do I ask, do I still have to be in charge of cooking like Cinderella?
"Mom, we're not at home, what do you eat at noon?" Ru Ling shouted in the direction of the kitchen. Thinking that Aunt Tang was still busy in the kitchen, he thought about it a lot. I really haven't thought about what to eat, Aunt Hong has taught me to cook before, although I don't know much, but I can barely make a living.
"Is Ru Jing awake?" Aunt Tang asked as she appeared at the door. Her eyes are still a little swollen, her face is not very good-looking, and her anger and sadness are really very lethal to women.
"Ru Jing, wake up, get up and have breakfast, your father and I will go to the unit today to deal with the work first, and then tomorrow I will take you to buy some daily necessities, and your father will also go to school tomorrow to have a look and arrange for you to go to school."
"Good. Thank you...... Tang Dynasty...... Mom. "I almost wanted to call her Aunt Tang.
"It's okay, if you're not used to it, you can call me Aunt Tang. Don't push yourself. Aunt Tang looked embarrassed, but she still tried to comfort me.
"Mom, what does Ru Hua eat at noon?" Ru Ling interjected at the right time.
"Oh, by the way, Ru Can, do you know how to cook? I've prepared some rice and vegetables, and you can just heat them up in a rice cooker at noon, will you? "Aunt Tang has been standing at the door and has not come in. I wonder if I'm going to have some time for her to accept.
"I will." I replied.
"That's great, get up quickly, breakfast is going to be cold, your dad and I are both at work at 8:00, and we are going to go out." Aunt Tang said and turned to Ru Ling and said:
"Ru Ling, if you don't leave, you're going to be late."
"Oh, then I'll go first, I'll take Ru Jing around after school." As he spoke, Ru Ling waved at me and left.
"Okay, you take care of Ru Jing more." Aunt Tang followed behind him and helped me put the door on.
I sat there, slowed down, and decided to get up and take my first day in my new home. If Ru Ling and Aunt Tang said just now, the daytime should be relatively better on this day, after all, the three original residents are not at home. I can take a good tour and relax myself. But since Ru Ling got out of school, I should have started to accept all kinds of compulsory care from this family. Speaking of which, Ru Ling is indeed too enthusiastic. And Aunt Tang, the stepmother, seems to be quite gentle. But Daddy Ru, why didn't you greet my daughter?
Breakfast was white rice porridge and xiao long bao, and Aunt Tang specially added an egg to me, which was also part of the overture. Because of me, everyone is cautious. Even the breakfast was exceptionally quiet. After eating, the two adults went out one after another meal.
This should be the daily life of ordinary people, breakfast, work, lunch, work, dinner, TV or walking, and then sleeping, the pace is tight, but very slow.
After seeing everyone off, I began to tour the new home generously.
When I came back with Ru's father yesterday, I was a little late, and I only noticed that this is a newly built community, and the buildings are relatively new compared to the other areas I passed. The community is a closed management model, when I entered the door yesterday, it seems that the door still needs to swipe the card, well, yes, Ru Ling's key, there is a card of the hometown. Because it was dark, I didn't see it too clearly, and the name of the community seemed to be Ping'an or Public Security Garden. If it is the latter, then this place is likely to be equivalent to a family building, then my fall from the sky is estimated to bring a lot of trouble to Ru's father. Aunt Hong's side will also be affected.
The community seems to be quite large, a long one, about 8-9 rows, and 4-5 buildings in each row. We were in the second building in the back row, and we couldn't read the house number. On the other side of all the buildings, half is a parking lot and half is a small garden. When I came back yesterday, I saw children swinging next to the basketball court and others walking their dogs on the grass. The overall greenery of the community is not bad, and at night I can see the black shadows of the trees and the green pruned tree walls. In short, it's a relatively new neighborhood.
The decoration style in the house proves my extrapolation about the construction age of the complex. It is a spacious apartment with 3 types and 1 living room and 2 bathrooms, and there is a large balcony that extends out. Entering the door is a rectangular living room, with sofas, coffee tables, TV cabinets and wall cabinets, the overall color is brown and white. To the left of the living room is the kitchen, which also has a small balcony with a washing machine and clothes to dry. Outside the kitchen, against the wall, there is a dining table. That's where I had breakfast.
The living room is facing a corridor, at the end of which is the study, the master bedroom on the left, and Ruling's bedroom on the right with a small storage room. There is a large double bed in the master bedroom, and the wedding photos of Ru's father and Aunt Tang are hung on the wall at the head of the bed. There is a dresser on one side of the bed, on which some of Aunt Tang's cosmetics are placed, and on the other side of the bed, there is a chest of drawers, on which is a group photo of the family. Of course not me. There is a built-in wardrobe on the wall on this side of the chest of drawers. On the wall opposite the wardrobe is a row of windows. The curtains are dark brown with crystal beads hanging from the bottom. To the left of the bedroom entrance is the bathroom in the master bedroom.
The display of the study room is very simple, a large bookcase, stuffed to the brim, more than half of it is textbooks and reference books, and half of it is a variety of martial arts novels, of course, there are also must-read books such as the four famous books. There was a sofa bed by the window, and the bed was neatly folded with quilts and pillows, which Ru Ling used last night, and it seemed that he was still a very neat person. Opposite the bookcase there was a desk, 2 chairs. The table was also full of books.
I've already seen Ru Ling's room, which is a single bed, a table, a wardrobe, and a small bookcase next to the wardrobe, on which there are all kinds of Ru Ling's gadgets and some awards. Looks like a good student. There is a basketball and a pair of badminton rackets in the corner. There is a poster of Bruce Lee on the door, hey! It's so vulgar.
After a turn, there was nothing fun, so I went back to the study, and the window of the study was facing the sun, which should be more comfortable. I took a random book and lay down on the couch and looked at it. It's really rare to be so laid-back, so cozy, to enjoy a sunny morning alone. Holding the book, I read it for a while, but I didn't know what I was talking about, and I felt bored, so I got up and finished the morning class. After the morning class, the sun warmed up, and I fell asleep on the couch before I knew it.
I heard that it was very noisy outside, and after a while, someone knocked on the door in a hurry, and my aunt looked at me who was stuck on the sofa, and knew that I was too lazy to pay attention, so I had to walk over and open the door by myself, I watched her open the door, and a man appeared at the door, and before my aunt spoke, a bullet slammed, and shot through my aunt's head, and she fell backwards, and her eyebrows seemed to be pasted with a bright red petal, bewitching.........
I sat up jerkily and looked around to realize that I was dreaming.
At this moment, there was a knock at the door, and I couldn't help but get nervous. After listening quietly for a while, someone did knock on the door, and it was indeed knocking on our door. I tiptoed to the kitchen, picked up the fruit knife on the knife stand, and then walked gently to the door, put my ear to the door, listened for a while, but there was no sound, so I stood on tiptoe and looked out through the cat's eyes......