March 18, 2005, fine.

Lin Yilan walked out of the elevator with the cardboard box in her arms, passed the grand reception hall, and the company's front desk gave her a professional smile.

On weekdays, Lin Yilan will smile back, but today she only silently looked at the logo flashing behind her, thinking about the yearning and worship she was full of when she first came to the company, did you ever think that she would leave here so calmly one day?

The mobile phone in the pocket suddenly rang non-stop, Lin Yilan held the cardboard box and leaned against the corner to open the phone, it was her mother calling.

"Your father is gambling again, he owes 300,000, and he will want it at the end of this month, you hurry up and find a way to ......"

The voice that usually sounds cold is turning into cold needles at this time, drilling into Lin Yilan's bone marrow along her ears, she was pierced and fainted, forced herself to listen for a long time, and when she hung up the phone again, she had no strength, and she could only stand by the wall behind her.

The sky was clear in front of her, but she knew that there was a large dark cloud hanging above her head, and it turned into a big dark face and sneered at her.

Lin Yilan frowned, a group of irritability swelled in her chest, she held the cardboard box and threw it to the front desk, ignoring the screams of the beautiful woman at the front desk and the security guard who wanted to rush into the women's toilet to arrest people, she rushed into the women's toilet.

When there was really nothing to vomit, Lin Yilan cleaned up the vomit with a white face. When I rinsed my mouth with water, I heard the familiar laughter that I heard every day.

"It's really unfortunate that you can meet her when you come down to pick up someone!"

"Yo-look at how hard people are spitting up, maybe it's been a few months! We have to keep our distance, so as not to disturb people's tire gas......"

"Huh...... Of course, I'm going to interview the one who just returned to China in the afternoon, and who will I cry in case I am touched? Any idea how long it took me to get an appointment? I've got to get dressed up, maybe I'll be on the ......."

"Hey-people don't allow you to take pictures at all, maybe you even wear a mask for an interview, so you can save it!"

"That doesn't have to be ......"

Ignoring the whispering and unbridled laughter of his former colleagues behind him, Lin Yilan looked at the guarded eyes of the security uncle, smiled awkwardly at the front desk with rare white eyes, and hugged his cardboard box.

Standing in the sun again, people came and went around him, but Lin Yilan's ears were silent. She struggled to calm her breathing, tried to listen to the sounds around her, and finally ...... She heard it!

There it is—

On the Hengjiang bridge, she saw many people waving at her and smiling at herself. She has to go over, what if the boat leaves late? She ran and ran, and her ears were silent, and she could not hear the shrill honking of the horns and the cursing of the drivers. But before she could run to the bridge, the lovely people waved at her, turned around and jumped.

"Wait for me—"

Lin Yilan stretched out the cardboard box in his arms out of the bridge and let go-

A few seconds later, the carton crashed into the river that was happily reflecting the golden light, rolled out a few bubbles and disappeared. She glanced up at the huge black smiling face that had been following me all along, smiled goodbye at it, and was about to climb up the bridge when a man grabbed her back collar.

At the same time, the noise around her finally broke into her ears, which made Lin Yilan frown, and then look at the river, how can there be any boat to pick her up?

Who?

Lin Yilan turned around in displeasure, stumbled and fell into a small lake that was tumbling over the waves. A whirlpool writhed in the center of the dark brown lake, stirring the edge of the dark brown water, which shimmered brown and was as bright as the stars in the sky.

I really don't want to be ashamed, but she has to admit that she has a bit of a gaffe.

This person could see that he was panting through the navy blue windbreaker, he frowned cleanly and pulled Lin Yilan's back collar to tear her off the bridge, looked her up and down with sparkling eyes in his eyes, and glanced at the river surface that was also shining, frowning:

"If you want to eat fish, you can't go straight down and catch it! You catch fish, I catch you? ”

"Huh? Fishing? What fish? Lin Yilan struggled to climb up from the beautiful small lake, looking this person up and down with his eyes, could it be that the dark gray boarding suitcase next to him was full of insurance policies? I wonder if this person is buying insurance? Then you're looking for the wrong person, I don't have the money to buy insurance, why don't you lend me some?

As soon as I thought about this, I heard this man's stomach start to bark, quite loudly.

He didn't care about it, and stretched out his hand to pat it comfortingly: "Oh, I'll call it later." He turned his head to look at Lin Yilan again: "I need someone to help me clean the house, I see that you are quite fateful, do you want to come and try it?" ”

"What?"

The man smiled shyly, and the beautiful little lake rippled: "I just returned to China and want to go back to the countryside to live for a while, and I need someone to take care of me during this period, would you like to come?"

Perhaps Lin Yilan's puzzled face was too obvious, and he continued: "10,000 a month." ”

Heart.

"Food, shelter and food."

Heart.

"Everything included."

"Let's go now." Lin Yilan picked up the dark gray boarding suitcase and looked at him with burning eyes: "Where is your home?" ”

The man seemed surprised, and opened his mouth for a long time before saying, "You are ...... Gone with me? ”

"I'm not even afraid of death, am I still afraid of you? Besides......" Lin Yilan looked him up and down and smiled: "You can't beat me." ”

The man's big sparkling eyes flickered a few times, smiled, and reached out to stop the taxi.

Lin Yilan sat upright in the back seat of the taxi, her eyes staring at the speeding scenery outside the window, gradually turning from prosperity to desolation. She swayed from side to side in the bumps of the car, unconsciously biting her lip.

After not hearing the movement of the person next to her for a long time, she looked over suspiciously, and found that the person was sitting on the other side, staring at her. Lin Yilan glared threateningly, and the man laughed, pretending to cough, and stared at the window on his side.

Lin Yilan kept comforting herself in her heart, "Be indifferent, don't get excited", when she was putting on makeup in her heart, she seemed to hear the person answer the phone, saying something like not accepting. His voice was very quiet, and Lin Yilan didn't pay much attention to it.

By the time Lin Yilan was woken up, the sun was already blazing. She pulled her suitcase and followed Mr. Trench Coat out of the taxi, and there was a two-meter-wide concrete road under her feet. I got off the cement road and walked back on the soft soil before stopping.

In front of it was a very dilapidated two-story building, and from the outside, it seemed that it had not been inhabited for a long time. The surrounding residents sprinkle beans like this family, that family.

Mr. Trench Coat copied in front of Lin Yilan, Lin Yilan pulled the boarding box and followed him, watching him unlock and push the door, and the dust did not show weakness compared with the number of humans.

He stood up with the suitcase and plunged into it, put the box down lightly and messed up the dust on the ground, and easily went to tap the switch on the wall, there was no electricity, turned around and went out of the house, and it didn't take long for the lights in the house to come on, illuminating the dust in the room.

"Come in, what are you doing standing?" Mr. Trench Coat came in from outside, Lin Yilan said a word, and as he walked, he took out a string of sparse keys from his pocket and opened a wooden door on the right. There was a dull sound of wood colliding, and the man finally couldn't help coughing and retreated. A layer of ash fell on the collar of the originally clean shirt, which was very dirty on the navy blue trench coat, and even the neatly combed hair was not spared, and without exception it was full of dust.

Such a closed and dark room will make Lin Yilan's mood worse. She put down the two cardboard boxes to hide her reaction that she wanted to vomit again, and her face was a little bad. Mr. Trench Coat retreated to Lin Yilan with a face full of dust, and slapped the key into her hand: "I'm too dirty, I have to go out and take a shower, you clean up at home." I'll be back before dark. ”

Lin Yilan pinched the key and looked at his departing back in a daze, deeply impressed by the decision he had just repented of, and wanted to rush up to tell him that I would not do it. Who knew that this person turned his head like a sharp heart, and took a pair of beautiful small lakes and waved at her: "I can't cook here today, I'll buy food, what do you eat?" ”

"Shredded potatoes."

"That's it?"

Lin Yilan nodded at him expressionlessly, he looked at her for a while, nodded and left, well-behaved like a child. She turned to face the provocation of the countless dust armies in front of her.

"It's time to get to work. You'll have to work hard when you get to a new place! Lin Yilan. Lin Yilan looked at the dust in the room and said to herself with a smile.

She found a basin and a rag from the kitchen to scrub everywhere, and was busy until four or five o'clock in the afternoon. The hungry Lin Yilan went to the kitchen with a basin full of sewage to dump it, unscrewed the water faucet to fill it with water, stretched his sore waist, and went up to the second floor with a basin full of clean water. The wooden staircase creaks up and creaks unexpectedly nicely.

The most difficult thing upstairs is the piano in the living room upstairs, although it is covered with a cloth, Lin Yilan is almost exhausted when it is cleaned up. After pouring out the first few basins of sewage, the upstairs floor finally obediently served as a mirror for her.

Lin Yilan stood at the door and looked inside the small building, the incandescent light embraced everything in the small building, there was a painting hanging on the white and slightly yellowed wall in the front, the bedroom on the right hand, the bathroom behind the front wall, and the kitchen on the other side.

Like a victorious general, Lin Yilan happily stepped on the stairs to the second floor and continued to observe the territory he had built. Upstairs in the living room is the piano that is about to exhaust her when it is cleaned up, the bedroom is on the left, and the study is on the right, except for a large bookshelf, a new rectangular table curled up in it, a little pitiful.

Lin Yilan couldn't open the door, and was a little full of nothingness in this small room.

"Good." Lin Yilan praised himself for contributing a lot of voices today. In a trance, through the window of the staircase, I saw the lights flashing outside from far and near, and not long after, there was movement below, it should be that the person returned.

All right! Lin Yilan twisted her sore waist, comforted the stomach hero who was assigned to the frontier, and just stepped on the stairs and saw that the man was moving things into the house.

She watched him move box after box in a daze, rubbing her fingers to gather courage, and was slapped on the head by him coldly, her good-looking eyes were full of fierce light: "What to see, I don't know how to help, do you want me to be tired to death?" There's no one to pay you. ”

Lin Yilan watched him rush over and continue to move the carton, and his body unconsciously leaned forward with him, leaning over and moving with him.

By the time the things were unloaded from the van, it was already eight or nine o'clock in the evening. Lin Yilan took the time to stare at the various packaging bags, cartons and Xiaoice boxes in the living room, it was really no exaggeration, there was everything. Pots and pans, food, clothing, shelter, and even hoes.