Chapter 8 Start with life
inquired, in the past few days of investigation, Li Ruoqing has not had a stable residence. He was always reluctant to settle down and spend the night where he could, and had no time to satisfy himself with a comfortable place to live.
When he decided to stay, he set out to find a suitable, simple place to live.
He wanted to have a comfortable place to live, and to use it as a base to further take care of the surroundings of life, so as to extend the ideal things.
However, when he officially planned to rent a house, he visited several families who rented houses, but none of them were willing to rent it to him. The reason is simple: you can't just pay half of the rent, you have to owe half of the rent.
This makes sense. But the money he had with him was running out and he couldn't afford to pay it in full. Now there seems to be no other way.
I thought I would find a place to live first, and then I would go to find a job and turn around my life, and then I could deal with my own plans. Now it seems that all of this has become a suspense!
Li Ruoqing thought about her current situation, she didn't know what to do, how to do it? But it seems that you have to solve it yourself.
He turned into an alley in the old street. Walking listlessly on the uncertain road, the whole person looked very haggard and helpless.
Beneath your feet is a paved stone path with hard walls on both sides, which can only be pushed forward or backward. Either go back the way you came, or go back and go back and go another way.
He didn't know what the scenery would be at the end of the alley, what the situation would be, what would await him; It's not clear who will appear in the alley or what will happen, but it's still going to move forward.
Li Ruoqing was frustrated and wanted to find a reason to resist, but now sleeping on the street seemed to be the best reason.
There is an old mansion facing the fork in the alley.
He thought about what had happened to him, how to deal with it, his mind was still busy, he forgot to turn the corner, and almost crashed into the yard.
After looking at it squarely, I noticed that something was wrong, and I stopped to look closely, and found that there was a lot of space in the courtyard, and there was a neat row of houses side by side. And the yard was cleaned up neatly, but it seemed to be very empty, as if it was much more deserted.
Li Ruoqing looked at these and thought that she might have to face sleeping on the street again, so she gave herself some courage and comforted herself, maybe the family was renting a house!
He still walked timidly towards the center of the courtyard, and even he could not imagine what he would have done if he had not walked in.
The choice he gave himself may be just a casual thought, or even a persecution, which doesn't seem to matter anymore.
Looking around the courtyard, he wanted to know the final answer. Before he could call out and ask, the door of the middle house opened softly, and an old man walked out. The old man was a thin old lady with gray temples and wrinkled cheeks. Although he is very short and thinly dressed, he looks weak, but the whole person seems to be unusually energetic, clean and diligent.
Li Ruoqing hurriedly greeted him, directly explained his intention, introduced his current situation, and sincerely expressed his intention to rent a house.
The old lady stared at him, looking him up and down. The main thing is to notice the tone of his words just now, and conclude that he must be from a distant place.
At this time, the old lady had some doubts. After all, she is a left-behind old man, her wife has passed away, and her children work outside all the year round and are not around. In addition to his daily life, he also has to take care of a grandson and a little boy who is in elementary school. Sometimes when you have difficulties in life, you just ask your neighbors for a favor.
The old lady hesitated for a moment. During this time, neither of them spoke again. It's a crucial period of time, and it seems that silence represents everything, but if you can't catch it, it's fleeting.
In the end, the old lady surprisingly agreed, and arranged a place for him by the way: an empty room near the corner of the gate.
In order to be grateful to the old man for his care and to keep his promise, Li Ruoqing handed over some seemingly important items he carried with him to the old man.
The old man was reluctant to accept such a form of "guarantee", but when he saw Li Ruoqing's helpless and sincere eyes, he had to reluctantly agree to accept it, and agreed to return it after paying the rent.
Only then did he put his mind at ease, and then returned to the house where he would be with him in the future.
The house is an old house. The exterior of the wall is hard to distinguish, as if several layers of color have faded, revealing its true color.
The house was cleaned very quietly. Although the skin of the wall has fallen off in some places, the furniture around the wall is very clean and there is little dust. It should be someone who cleans up often and deliberately takes care of these things. What's even stranger is that there are all kinds of simple daily necessities, daily utensils, everything. It seems to have been deliberately prepared and arranged for late visitors.
All this made Li Ruoqing feel very down-to-earth, and also made him fully feel the positive power from the outside.
At night, he lies in bed, facing a chandelier on the roof. Looking at it, I fell into deep contemplation and self-blame: thinking of all kinds of changes that may happen at home, living conditions; What does it mean to think that you are alone like this? What will be the end? However, when I think of what I have experienced these days, I feel that it is like a change, from exile to stability, from uncertainty to peace of mind, a little bit is enough, and it is also a kind of progress.
He stared at the temporary glow of the chandelier and wanted to hurry on!
The light seemed to be wished, rushing to meet the sun, and when the two intersected, it was just when he woke up.
Unexpectedly, I fell asleep looking at the chandelier. I slept nervously.
After waking up, Li Ruoqing regained her spirits and prepared to find new "things".
He set out again to find resources for the plan.
Li Ruoqing doesn't know what she can do and what she will do!
In fact, he couldn't find a good way to deal with it, but he just wanted to keep moving forward with a lot of courage. But he always thinks that he will not remain the same, it is impossible to stick to the old rules, follow the example of many people squeezed into a torrent to compete, just want to experience, perceive, continue to accumulate, take everything he has learned and want to learn, to meet an effect, to do one thing, to complete a wish!
But when he really stepped into the fringes of society, for the first time he really felt a sense of crisis, a sense of hardship, and all kinds of difficulties piled up on him. But he warned himself that everything here is society, not rivers and lakes, and what it brings is rapid change.