We started chatting over tea.

It didn't take long for Zhilei to come with her baby green beetle.

"This car is so beautiful!" Chu Fangfang exclaimed.

"Classic women's car!" I said with a laugh.

"My single status," Zhilei said cheerfully as soon as she sat down, "is that everything is ready, only the family matters!" ”

"Can you express it in a song?" Chu Fangfang asked with a smile.

"Okay," Zhilei cleared her throat and began to sing affectionately, "The fridge is frosted and the coffee is hot/I can't cook the easiest breakfast/My life is a mess/Maintaining a single feeling is dazed......"

"This is Jinsha's "Stupid"!" I blurted out.

"Is it you interviewing or am I interviewing?" Chu Fangfang asked me expressionlessly.

"It's you," I said apologetically, "I'm sorry! ”

"I was only 18 years old when I came to Beijing," Zhilei said with a smile, "and it was as simple as pure water!" ”

"18 years old," Chu Fangfang said with emotion, "I was also very simple when I was 18 years old, as clear and transparent as the lake water on the plateau, without a little impurity!" ”

"That year," Zhilei said with a serious face, "I failed the college entrance examination, so I chose to go out to work." It was my first time going far away, and it was also the first time I came to Beijing, and I felt that everything was so fresh and beautiful. ”

"When I first came to Beijing," Chu Fangfang said with emotion, "I jumped up with joy!" ”

"As soon as I arrived in Beijing," Zhilei mused, "I got a job in a bar. The bar's dormitory for the staff was in a quadrangle. That yard is so beautiful! At that time, although the room we rented was small, we liked it very much, and we felt that we had a home in this city. At that time, my biggest dream was to have my own courtyard house in the future, like a landlord, the family in it and amiable and beautiful, happy, in the spacious courtyard to plant trees and flowers, raise birds and fish, and can also rent out the extra room at a high price, how good! ”

"There are a lot fewer courtyard houses in Beijing now," Chu Fangfang said with a smile, "I haven't been in there yet!" ”

"Yes, a lot less," said Zhilei with a smile, "and in that courtyard there are some artists who are always so talented and uninhibited. I liked their frank and angry personalities, and gradually fell in love with one of them. I am willing to work hard with him, drift together, and then save money to buy a house together......"

"I also like art men very much," Chu Fangfang said with a smile on her cheeks, "They are all more romantic!" ”

"Men who engage in art are quite romantic," Zhilei smiled, "and a lot of the time, we would drink in his little gallery, talk about art, and have sex." Sometimes, we would go outside the house together and have fun at the major attractions in Beijing, and every day would be as happy as a party, and sometimes I would get drunk! ”

"I've thought about days like this!" Chu Fangfang said with a smile.

"It was really a time of freedom and happiness like a fairy," Zhilei said with a serious face, "In the days of unrestrainedness, while I wasted my youth in luxury, I also fell deeply in love with this interesting and amorous city." I always thought that such happy days would continue for a long time, but as soon as the police came to check the temporary residence permit, I calmly realized that I was still a passer-by in this city, and that I only lived in someone else's house. Since then, I have vowed that no matter what, I will buy a house that is truly my own in Beijing. ”

"And then?" Chu Fangfang asked with interest.

"Later," Zhilei said with a complicated expression, "the world where the painting evaporated, and I don't know where it went; Later, I met the owner of the bar, who had a family, but who cared about me and more importantly, was rich. He swore more than once that he wanted to start a family with me after a divorce, and I believed it. We opened bars together and worked hard to make money. When I really found out about the boss's ugly face and lies, my youth was gone. The only thing I got was to realize my original dream and buy my own house in this city. ”

"Just buy it!" Chu Fangfang said seriously.

"It's still not good," Zhilei smiled bitterly, "Originally, I didn't feel too much about being a foreigner, but when I bought a house, I really felt that I was a foreigner: I went to the relevant departments again and again to handle the application form for outsiders to buy a house in Beijing, apply for a temporary residence permit, and hire a lawyer to fill out the loan contract...... Bought a house, renovated it, bought furniture, and finally had it all in place. ”

"That's it!" Chu Fangfang said with a smile.

"It's still not good," Zhilei said indifferently, "I have my own house, so I want to get a hukou quickly, and if I don't have a hukou in Beijing, I have to drift forever." In order to leave my household registration, I worked hard to do business, and at the same time, I was exhausted by all kinds of difficulties made by the yamen, intentionally or unintentionally, and struggled to move forward in various unreasonable systems with and without words. Gradually, I finally felt tired and tired, and I was no longer the girl who was obsessed with the house, so the hukou has not yet fallen. ”

"In other words," Chu Fangfang asked tentatively, "are you still living in the house you bought?" ”

"Yes," Zhilei said quietly, "for the rest of her youth!" ”

"Are you married now?" Chu Fangfang asked thoughtfully.

"If I'm going to get married, can I still be interviewed by you today?" Zhilei said with a wry smile, "Think about it, after all these years, there seem to be many people I have loved and loved me, someone can buy a lot of roses for me, someone can generously buy gold necklaces and diamond rings for me, some people can even buy a car and a house for me, but no one has ever given me what I want, that is a man's promise, the happiness of a family of three!" ”

"Maybe!" Chu Fangfang said with emotion, "No matter how much love you have, no matter how much you love it, if you don't have a home to hold it in the end, it will eventually be scattered like quicksand!" ”