(3) Black-hearted intermediaries
After the middle-aged man received the money, he smiled with satisfaction, and the two sides finally reached an agreement. Li Xiaocan finally stopped feeling sorry for his repeated pickiness, and the middle-aged man happily handed over the key to her. The two were relieved and agreed to meet again the next day.
The next day, when Li Xiaocan and the moving truck stopped at the door of the house and opened the door, Li Xiaocan was dumbfounded. Because, yesterday's scene was completely changed. The background wall is gone. The sofa is also gone, replaced by a newly built partition room. The floor was covered with new white wall ash. And the room she liked was also divided into two. The washroom is wrapped in another room. And her residence is only a bed and a wardrobe. Turning on the phone and dialing the phone, she almost questioned the intermediary man in a roaring voice: "Didn't you say that you wouldn't use the partition?!" Why are you still using a partition today?! ”
"I don't know, I don't know if it's the company." The intermediary man argued.
"The money I just signed yesterday for the contract, why did it change in less than 24 hours for you, I clearly said that I was not allowed to partition why I just played the partition! You liar! ”
"I don't know if the company people beat me, if you want to ask, just ask our company." The man said lazily on the other end of the phone.
A wave of anger rose from his chest. Seeing that it was getting late, it was already nine o'clock in the evening after finishing work and having a meal and moving, and it seemed that there was nowhere to go today. She looked at the pile of luggage piled up at the door and felt that she had no way out, so she called the intermediary man again and asked her supervisor to negotiate. Li Xiaocan wanted to communicate further with the supervisor to see if there was a place to stay tonight.
"That's right, you go to the market and ask, houses under 1,000 yuan are like this, and your request is not partitioned, which is simply impossible. You can't live in this house, it's all in this condition anyway. You've seen a lot of houses yourself, and you should know it in your heart. The supervisor in ripped jeans said in a calm and rational tone.
Li Xiaocan forcibly suppressed his anger: "Then why didn't you make it clear yesterday?" Why did you put up a partition in less than 24 hours, what are you not cheating? ”
The director didn't even look at Li Xiaocan: "You can't live in this house, anyway, if you don't live, there are still a lot of people waiting to rent it." It's the money you paid for the contract you signed, no one forced you to sign it, no one forced you to pay the money, you made your own decision and you want to regret it now, and it's up to us. The director looked reasonable.
Li Xiaocan was angry: "If you don't deal with it for me today, I'll sit at the door." It was you who deceived me first, and now that I have moved everything here, you have changed your mind again, don't blame me for spilling here, rely on you! ”
The supervisor's tone finally changed: "Okay, you are amazing, I will call you now to accuse you of trespassing on the house and harassing the residents!" ”
Li Xiaocan thought to himself, I'm not afraid when 110 comes, anyway, I don't have anywhere else to go tonight, just sit here, and he won't dare to do anything to me! This supervisor is black enough, the wicked will sue first!
After a while, a police car with flashing red lights stopped at the door.
A uniformed policeman stepped out of the car, and the supervisor changed his face like a Peking opera, and in an instant changed the face of the old man with a smile that was happier than seeing his own mother, walked up, leaned forward and bent down to light a cigarette for the policeman, this action looked extremely skillful, as if he had met an old acquaintance who had not seen him for many years. encountered this kind of old fritter, maybe this black-hearted agency would have had something to do with them a long time ago, Li Xiaocan secretly complained in his heart.
"What's going on?" The policeman asked nonchalantly as he puffed out a smoke ring.
"It's like this in the market, this girl doesn't understand the market, don't partition, don't mix men and women, want the same age, and the price is less than 1,000."
The director squinted his eyes and played the report.
"Have you seen the house yourself?" The policeman asked Xiaocan.
"Looked. My requirements are high, but there is no need to change the hexagram as soon as you receive the money! Less than twenty-four hours. If you don't have such a house, don't let me sign it! Now I've moved my things over, but the house has changed, and you let me sleep on the street as a girl at night! ”
"Gotcha, gotta gotcha! Mediate yourselves! The policeman looked like a peacemaker, and simply sat on a chair and played with his mobile phone.
The supervisor followed suit, smoking a cigarette on the side.
Li Xiaocan was helpless, he had to go to work the next day, and he hadn't gained a firm foothold in the new branch, so he didn't have the energy to spend here. The police are obviously partial to them, and they are weak, and if they really throw my things away, I can't do anything about it. The hero didn't want to suffer the immediate loss, so he took out his laptop in his luggage and wanted to find a hotel to spend the night.
It was 00:30 in the middle of the night, and Li Xiaocan was walking on the deserted street with his laptop on his back. The street lamps seem to be tired. The streets are no longer full of people, and there are occasionally three or two pedestrians on the empty road. The evening breeze blows, and the leaves are waving lonely. The whole city fell silent. No matter when it was on the lights, no matter how prosperous it was at the beginning, no matter how staggered it was at the beginning, no matter how brilliant it was at the beginning, no matter how popular it was at the beginning, now it is like a half-old, with decadent makeup and vicissitudes that cannot be concealed on the face; Like the leftovers after a gluttonous feast, the table is full of cups and plates. A kind of sadness suddenly welled up in her heart. This is something she has never had before. She didn't feel this way when she didn't pass the application, and she didn't feel this way when she was being ridiculed. For the first time, life reveals its cruel and real side, making her feel isolated.
She couldn't help but call him and whimpered and cried. On the icy streets, he was the only savior.
He hurriedly booked her a hotel and called a car to pick her up. When I arrived at the hotel and settled in, it was already two o'clock in the night. She fell into a deep sleep.
At seven o'clock in the morning, the alarm clock goes off. She rubbed her eyes, and the phone rang, and he said, "I'm coming." She ran to open the door in surprise, her hand touched the doorknob and folded it back, ran to the mirror, quickly brushed her hair a few times, wiped her face a few times, rinsed her mouth, pulled the folds on her clothes, approached the mirror and made a standard smile with eight teeth, and felt that she was not sloppy, so she ran to open the door. I saw him standing at the door with a bag on his back, xiaolongbao and soy milk in his hand. The second time we met, I didn't feel so strange.
"When did you arrive?"
"Five o'clock." He replied in a low voice, avoiding her gaze.
"So early?" She watched him staring at the floor, was there gold or silver on the floor?
"As soon as you call, I'll buy a ticket and come over." A very ordinary sentence, but it fell on her heart word by word.