When people reach their thirties, they are prone to have a midlife crisis.

Because at this time, most of them are old and young.

And he is also burdened with mortgages, car loans, and family expenses.

When people reach middle age, if they have not worked hard to climb to the position of supervisor, or enter an important department, then the next thing they are waiting for is likely to be a dismissal crisis.

When people reach middle age, they will be inferior to young people in all aspects.

Companies need fresh blood to survive in a competitive market.

So that's why most companies would rather lay off old employees than give them a raise.

It is better to give newcomers a higher salary.

Because the company is determined that you don't have the courage to speak up and dare not resign easily, working overtime, not raising salaries, and facing abuse from bosses and customers every day has become the norm for mid-life crisis groups.

This society with too high the cost of living is slowly domesticating men into weak rabbits that have lost their blood.

Lin Xing is twenty-nine years old this year, and he will be thirty years old after the New Year, but he is only twenty-nine years old and already has a sense of mid-life crisis.

He is just an ordinary small clerk in a private enterprise, with a monthly salary of 4,000 after tax, and then he has to support his family, pay rent, eat, drink, and wear expenses every day.

With so many deductions, you can't save much money every month.

Lin Xing is now full of confusion about his future life, and he doesn't know where to go?

Perhaps, when he goes back to his hometown to be a small security guard, he earns more than 3,000 a month, and there is an old house in his hometown, and he will save more money than he made in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.

When Lin Xing dragged his tired body and walked out of the subway station after work, a heat wave came to his face, although it has now entered October, and the time has reached seven o'clock in the evening, but Nanyue is located in a subtropical region, and pedestrians on the road are still wearing shorts and short sleeves.

Leaving the subway station, not a few steps away, Lin Xing's back clothes were already wet with sweat.

Lin Xing's rented house is more than two kilometers away from the subway, but he is reluctant to take the bus, and he has to walk for another half an hour after getting out of the subway every day to return to the rented apartment building.

It's an apartment building that's been around for a while.

The words Jiangtian Apartment have long lost their luster and become jet black and jet black under the sun and rain.

Lin Xing lives on the fifth floor, which is a little higher, and it can consume a lot of physical strength to climb the stairs up and down every day, but the rent on the upper floors can be cheaper.

Here are the old apartment buildings.

When it was built, there was no elevator shaft reserved.

Even if it is possible to install elevators outdoors now, but the installation cost of hundreds of thousands of elevators, it is obvious that no one will spend these unjust money on tenants like them.

When Lin Xing climbed to the fifth floor, he was already a little out of breath, and in the violent panting, Lin Xing faintly smelled a foul smell.

But when he tried to smell it carefully, he couldn't smell it.

He didn't think much of it, and walked in the direction of his door.

Because it was completely dark at this time, the corridor was a little cold and dim, but Lin Xing, who had lived here for four or five years, did not feel any discomfort.

It's just that when he walked to the door of the house, he glanced at the door of his house with a little taboo, and then hurriedly took out the key, opened the door and quickly slammed it when he entered the house.

At the door of Lin Xing's house, there was a bowl of rice, with incense sticks on the rice, and a few incense candles lit on the ground.

This is a meal for the dead.

It seems that the other door has just recently died.

As soon as Lin Xing entered the door, he saw his fellow countryman's wife, coming worriedly and handing over a pair of plastic slippers: "Husband, your company is working overtime again today?"

"Husband, I am a little scared when you come back so late every day. ”

"I'm sorry wife, it's all because I don't have the ability, not only let you have to buy vegetables after work, cook and cook, but also let you stay at home alone and wait for me to come back. I know that you are cowardly, and you are most afraid of darkness and thunder, but I still leave you alone at home. Lin Xing blamed himself and said.

The wife shook her head, the worry on her face did not decrease, and she said with a worried face: "Husband, I'm not worried about myself, I'm worried about my husband, you will work overtime every day until you come back so late." ”

"You said that the old man's wife has been dead for more than seven days, and the first seven have already passed, and he still puts dead people's meals at the door of his house every day, lights incense and candles, and says that he will wait for his wife to come back, which is terrible to hear. ”

"I always feel that the old man who lives opposite the door is a little abnormal, I am worried that my husband you come back so late every day, in case you meet the old man who is not in his senses......"

After hearing this, Lin Xing smiled and said, "Wife, don't think too much, as long as we don't take the initiative to provoke him." ”

But the wife was still worried and said: "But husband, I still feel very scared, otherwise, husband, let's rent a house in another place, there are people cooking dead people opposite the door every day, and when I go home from work every day, I always feel very cold in the corridor." ”

Lin Xing looked at his wife with some distress, and hurriedly comforted: "Then I'll look for it in the next few days to see if there is a new suitable place for us to live." ”

Although the economy is tight.

But Lin Xing also knew that his wife had been timid since she was a child, so she could only follow his wife's wishes.

Afterwards, Lin Xing changed into the slippers handed by his wife, ready to wash his hands and eat.

However, when his wife was hot in the kitchen, Lin Xing, who came out of the bathroom after washing his hands, passed by the door, he was curious to lie on the cat's eye behind the door and glanced at the residents opposite.

The door to the other side was still closed.

There are no anomalies.

"Did I mishear? I heard a movement in the hallway just now?"

At this moment, his wife called him to eat in the restaurant, and the dish was already hot, Lin Xing didn't think much about it, answered, and went over to eat.

After eating, Lin Xing helped his wife wash the dishes and chopsticks, and after cleaning up the kitchen waste, the two of them sat on the sofa chair in the living room and watched the urban soap opera.

There is a clock on the wall, and the clock is beating by second.

Just when Lin Xing was sleepy and slowly sleepy, the mobile phone rang suddenly, which woke Lin Xing up.

Who else will call at such a late hour? Lin Xing rubbed his sleepy eyes, turned over and took out his mobile phone from his trouser pocket, and the caller ID was a string of unfamiliar numbers.

"Hey. ”

"Hello, may I ask who you are?"

Lin Xing picked up the phone.

As a result, it was quiet in the receiver of the mobile phone, and there was no sound of anyone talking.

"Hey, who are you, why don't you speak?"

Tick.

Tick.

In the receiver of the mobile phone, no one should be loud, only the sound of water droplets.

Lin Xing shouted a few times into his mobile phone, but he never answered him, only the sound of water droplets that made him confused.

Lin Xing thought it was a prank call and hung up the phone directly.

"Husband, who called?" the wife asked Lin Xing with concern.

Lin Xing: "It's okay, it's just a prank call." ”

But within ten minutes, the mobile phone rang again, and it was still the same mobile phone number as before.

But this time there was still no voice, only the strange sound of water droplets.