The proprietress paused for a moment before she added, "That woman is a liar!" The mouth is messy, and I don't know what I'm talking about! ”

I didn't expect her to be this kind of reaction, and I asked, "Don't be so nervous, what did she tell you at that time?" ”

The proprietress stood up: "Didn't say anything!" ”

When she said these words, I saw that her expression was obviously a little flustered, but it seemed that she was deliberately hiding something, and at this moment, the man on the other side of the counter called her: "Lotus, there seems to be something wrong with this money, you come and take a look." ”

The proprietress Lotus sighed and hurriedly walked towards the counter.

Her husband was holding a piece of paper money and talking to her about something, but Lotus's eyes were not on the banknote, but glanced at me intentionally or unintentionally, with a solemn expression.

I lowered my head and ate the cold cake again, and just then, I heard a giggle.

I saw a boy's face next to the curtain hanging down from the kitchen door, and he I had seen him before, it was the son of Lotus.

The child held a lollipop in his hand, stuck out his tongue and licked it, and looked at me and laughed as he ate.

I smiled at him, and beckoned to him, and the child looked left and right, and was about to walk towards me, but was picked up by Lotus who stepped forward quickly.

"Hao Hao, don't disturb your uncle to eat, mom will take you to the side to play."

As she spoke, she carried the baby into the kitchen again, and when she lowered the curtain, she didn't glance at me.

When I looked back at the counter, Lotus's husband was sitting there, looking at me coldly, and when he saw me looking back at him, he quickly looked away.

At that moment, I felt like I was an unwelcome guest. After the last bite of the cold cake, I left.

All afternoon, I sat at a table by the window of "Huatianjindi", Zhang Ming is really good at business, the business in the store is good, people flow in and out, so lively.

Through the glass, my eyes kept on the fish rice noodles that I was diagonally across the door.

The shop is only one-fifth the size of mine, and it's not a street frontage, but the rent shouldn't be cheap, after all, it's a prime location, and the business is a little worse than enough to last for a day.

In the evening, Zhang asked me if I wanted to drink something, and I shook my head and said that I could just ask the kitchen to get me some light food.

Zhang Mingming nodded and said something to He Bi, and after a while, He Bi brought a plate of shredded pork with green peppers and a bowl of rice.

This is very much to my taste, white rice with shredded pork with green peppers, a perfect match.

I asked why bother to bring me a spoon, and simply poured the rice on top of the shredded pork with green peppers, stirring quickly while it was hot, and the whole thing looked like a plate of rice.

When I was in college, I liked to eat it the most, and many people didn't understand it and felt greasy.

In fact, every time I take a bite, I have a very familiar feeling, just like the taste of many years ago, and I always feel that when I eat it like this, I will slowly remember something.

Eating bibimbap one bite at a time, He Bi handed me a cup of tea during the period, I said thank you, and just took a sip, I saw the lotus flower diagonally opposite the child out of the door.

At this time, it is the peak season of dining, and it stands to reason that Lotus, as the proprietress of the shop, should be guarding the store, so why would she leave now.

Quickly put down the spoon, I wiped my mouth and followed.

Lotus walked in front of her with the child in her arms, her steps were hurried, holding the child in one hand and leading a plastic bag in the other, which seemed to contain a lunch box.

I followed her forward, and after a few blocks, I changed the subway three more times, and then she walked into a community of 10,000 people.

I'm familiar with this place, and I've been here to look for it when I rented a house before, but I didn't find a suitable one and gave up. At that time, I heard from the intermediary that the reason why this community is called a community of 10,000 people is because it was a large state-owned factory with tens of thousands of employees, and this is their dormitory building.

Later, the factory was dissolved, and it became a mixed community of 10,000 people.

The people who live in such places are either people who go to the city to work, or poor people who have no money to change houses, in short, the conditions are not very good.

These houses are too high, mostly five or six storeys, and most of them are stairs.

Lotus carried the child up to one of the units, and every time she went up the floor, the lights in the corridor turned on, and standing downstairs, I saw that the lights in the corridor were on until the sixth floor.

The houses in the old community have such characteristics, one ladder and two households, and when you enter the room, the lights are on, and it is clear.

After a while, Lotus went downstairs, she was just a person at the moment, and the child and the lunch box she was carrying before were gone.

Turning to the side, I wasn't facing her, and she didn't see me.

After she left, I hurried upstairs and followed the stairs all the way to the top floor. The house is really dilapidated, and the concrete floor of the staircase is already uneven.

Rusty fence iron gates are rare now, I have the impression that the old house of the uncle's family more than ten years ago is like this, when the uncle renovated it for the second time, he sold it to a tattered one, and it seemed to get back five yuan.

This old-fashioned community is equipped with wooden doors, and later the living conditions improved, and there were more thieves, so people began to install this most primitive iron door.

It's just that I can't imagine that after such a long time, there are still people living in this kind of house.

knocked lightly on the door, and an old man's voice came from inside: "Who is it?" ”

"......" I paused, thinking that I was a stranger, and suddenly ran to someone else's house, which was really abrupt, and I was thinking about how to speak, when the wooden door inside had already opened.

It was an old man, with a red face and a good complexion.

This kind of iron door actually has an advantage, that is, even if you don't know who the outside person is, if you open the wooden door, the other party can't get in, so it's more reassuring to take a look.

The old man looked at me kindly, and I saw that behind him, Lianhua's two- or three-year-old son was walking around on the plastic patchwork carpet, playing with building block toys.

"I'm doing census work, so I'll just log in and leave, and I won't delay you a lot of time."

When I was lying, my face didn't change and my heart didn't beat, because just yesterday afternoon, there was a census in my community, and I happened to be at home at the time, because I was quite familiar with the process of this work.

When the old man heard this, he laughed a few times, and then opened the door and let me in.

As soon as I entered the house, I felt a chill.

My heart trembled, sure enough, there was something wrong with the lotus family!