In the middle of summer, the weather was clear, and in the splendid sales department of the decoration, Zhang Rui looked at a set of apartments in front of him.

One house after another was excluded by him, not because the house was bad, but because the house was so good that he didn't have so much money in his pocket to buy it.

There was a faint voice from the side, "How can the house here be so cheap, there won't be a problem, husband." ”

Zhang Rui turned his head to see that a big boss with a fat head and big ears was hugging a young girl who was like a flower and jade, and the woman was coquettish in the boss's arms.

"It's really capricious to be rich." Zhang Rui turned his head and no longer looked at this scene, which was a bit spicy, but also made him envious.

Zhang Rui has graduated from college for two years, but fortunately, the prospects of his major in school are not bad, plus he studies hard, and he usually participates in various innovation competitions.

So by the time he graduated, he could easily find a job, and the salary was not bad, and he could get more than 7,000 yuan a month.

Zhang Rui did not plan to go to graduate school, or to go to graduate school, although he knew that he could make more money after going to graduate school.

Studying in graduate school means spending two more years in the laboratory, and in the golden time of these two years, Zhang Rui calculated that he could earn more than 100,000 yuan by going out to work, while studying in graduate school wasted more than 100,000 yuan.

So Zhang Rui gave up his plan to study in graduate school for the sake of the hundreds of thousands of yuan.

In the final analysis, it is because of lack of money, just like now, he bowed his head in the face of high housing prices because of lack of money.

"Money, money, money can make grinding ghosts." Zhang Rui shook his head in frustration.

In the bank card, there are 100,000 yuan that he saved by working two years after graduation, and more than 400,000 yuan earned by his parents working hard.

A total of more than 500,000 yuan, nearly 600,000 yuan, sounds like a lot, but in this sales department, you can't even pay the down payment for a satisfactory house.

Zhang Rui doesn't want to use the hard-earned money earned by his parents for decades to buy a house he doesn't like, it's not worth it!

But housing prices are soaring, how can you get married without a house, how can you study without a house, do you have to pay a rent every month without a house, and you have to look at the landlord's face and beg him not to raise the rent?

It's hard to move an inch in the world without a house, but a house is so expensive, and it's not so easy to buy a house.

A house that is not too good can make Zhang Rui's family hurt their bones, and it can make half of his parents' savings come to naught, and he will owe a lot of debt.

Zhang Rui retreated, he didn't want to waste his parents' hard-earned money to buy a dilapidated house that he didn't look up to.

He was going to look elsewhere tomorrow, maybe the houses in other places would be cheaper, and he prayed in his heart that a house at a good price would appear tomorrow.

Coming out of the cold air from the central air conditioner of the sales department, Zhang Rui suddenly felt the scorching temperature of the sun, and his skin secreted fine beads of sweat, which gathered into a large drop and dropped on the ground.

Zhang Rui felt a thirst in his throat, just now he should have poured two large mouthfuls of water from the sales department before coming out, and now he was embarrassed to go in again. In order to save money for a bottle of mineral water, Zhang Rui plans to go home and boil water to drink.

His house is far away from this sales department, and he has to take two subway trips and a bus, and he has to spend two hours to get to work every day.

But what if you don't have money?

When Zhang Rui returned to the rented home, he worked on the bed, and poured out the already cold water from the boiling kettle and drank it.

The room he rented was not big, but the rent was not cheap at all, and a small half of his salary went into the landlord's pocket a month, but he had to bow his head under the eaves.

Forced to make a living, there is nothing to do.

The sun no longer had the temperature of noon, and on the way, Zhang Rui couldn't help but be thirsty, so he bought a bottle of the cheapest mineral water and drank it in one go.

At this time, the doorbell rang at the door, Zhang Rui opened the door, and saw the landlord's arrogant face again, as if he owed him money.

But it is true that Zhang Rui has not paid this month's rent, and he is busy looking for a house.

"Xiaorui, the rent is still the same, give it at the end of the month, don't forget." The landlord gave some advice at the door and left.

Zhang Rui closed the door and lay on the bed, and when he had rested enough, he planned to call his parents first to report to them that he was safe, so as not to worry them.

With the sound of "doodoo", Zhang Rui's mother answered the phone.

"Hey, Mom"

"Xiaorui, how is the house looking?"

"Mom, it's good, I've almost seen a set, the price is cheap, I plan to go to the field tomorrow to take a look."

"Good, good, good! It's good to look at the house, and my mother is worried about you, because I can't marry a daughter-in-law because I don't have a house, but now that I have a house, my mother is relieved. ”

"Mom, don't worry, your son is so good, someone wants it even if he doesn't have a house."

"How can you do without a house, now whoever marries a daughter doesn't want a house or a car, it's good to have a house, it's good to have a house."

Zhang Rui's mother was finally talking to herself.

"Mom, then I'll hang up first."

"Okay, you've been busy all day, rest early."

After Zhang Rui hung up his mother's phone, he finally couldn't help it and cried out with a "wow".

Crying that the housing price is so high, crying that his parents are so hard, crying that he has achieved nothing, and even the house for marriage has to be bought by his parents.

And you can't buy it!

In the evening, Zhang Rui planned to get some snacks in the rental room alone, and he bought a little liquor from outside.

Taking advantage of the fact that the night was still good, I planned to drink two sips of wine in the small courtyard of the rental house at night to relieve the depression in my heart and get drunk.

Since he was a child, he has never drunk liquor, only beer, and drinking beer is still a bottle of alcohol, but today, he doesn't care whether he drinks well or not, he just wants to get drunk, and he will rest when he is drunk.

From rummaging through the rental room, he found a corrugated cardboard box, glued it, put it on a small table, and then moved a small pony out of it, which was a simple place to eat, and then went to the dining table and took a plate, poured a bag of drunkard peanuts, and used it as a snack.

The highlight is the bulk liquor bought on the street, packed in a plastic wine jug, Zhang Rui poured a small glass in the cup, followed the appearance of an adult, smacked it, and squirted out before he could drink any taste.

Zhang Rui went out of the play directly, and the things he prepared at night were all yellow, and the liquor was put back into the house by him, but it was also bought with money, and it couldn't be wasted.

Without the company of wine, Zhang Rui, accompanied by the northwest wind, ate drunkard peanuts over and over again, and looked at the stars over the city over and over again.

But the neon lights in the city are too bright, and there are only colorful lights in the sky, and there are no small stars that twinkle in the sky.

But Zhang Rui couldn't find any other place to pass the time, so he just looked at the distant sky like a fool, and swallowed the chewed peanut kernels from time to time.

It is like a big white goose with its neck stretched out and eating.

Zhang Rui craned his neck to look at the flashing lights over the city, eating the few drunkard peanuts left, and passing the time of boredom.

In a flash of negligence, he rubbed his eyes, as if something had just flashed in the sky, and when he looked closely, nothing had happened.

"I'm dazzled."

Zhang Rui said casually, thinking that he had been dazzled after watching it for so long, and he didn't care about this kind of thing.

took out his mobile phone and looked at the time, it was almost eight o'clock, let's sit for another half an hour and go in, Zhang Rui thought.

Then he raised his head and continued to look at the colorful sky idly, expecting a sister Lin to fly down from the sky and take him to the sky to be happy.

Suddenly, he saw something flash in the sky again, and he was sure that this time it was not his hallucination, and this time the light was brighter than the last one.

Zhang Rui suddenly came to his senses, this kind of brightness is not the flashing brightness of the plane, but the brightness that flashes for a long time.

What else will the lights of the airplane flash in the sky, is it the stars?

There are stars that can shine through the neon lights of the city, shining their own light thousands of light-years away into my eyes.

Or maybe it's a shooting star?

Wishing towards a meteor must be a special spirit, and I really hope that the house price will come down tomorrow.

Zhang Rui stared intently at the flickering light in the sky, the frequency of its flashing slowly became faster, and the brightness was also increasing, from an invisible light the size of a rice grain to the size of a watermelon.

He felt that something on his chest was very hot, and it was getting hotter and hotter, so he hurriedly took it out and found that his father gave it to him and said that he couldn't mix it up, and the pendant that he could buy a house in Beijing after selling it became red.

The frequency of that light cluster in the sky also became faster and brighter. So that Zhang Rui couldn't look directly.

However, Zhang Rui doesn't have the light on the top of his head now, the pendant in his hand is a treasure, and every time he can't sleep at night, he can sleep well by touching this pendant.

As a result, he developed the habit of not being able to sleep without this pendant.

The pendant became hotter and hotter, and the pendant stuck to Zhang Rui's palm, and he couldn't shake it off.

Suddenly, with a "bang", the pendant turned into a red mass of viscous liquid, seeped into Zhang Rui's palm and disappeared.

At this time, the sky suddenly flashed, and the surroundings were bright, so the place was full of dazzling light, Zhang Rui came back to his senses, turned his head and squinted his eyes to see a scene that surprised him extremely much.