Chapter 3: The Real Goodbye
Straightforwardness requires wisdom. I've met a lot of cunning customers who will find a lot of faults before renting, just to keep the price down after you give the lowest price. Although it is said that the buyers are the buyers, but renting a house is not a one-shot deal, and it is not suitable to play this kind of small means, after all, once the contract is signed, at least in the next year, you need to deal with it non-stop, and there is no need to break off the relationship at the beginning. The rental price of a lot is relatively transparent and stable, and it takes a little effort to understand that it is not authentic to defraud tenants or squeeze landlords.
"I can be a little noisy, but I practice a little bit every day." She smiles so calmly that you understand that this is just a friendly reminder and doesn't have a completely real meaning: "Does the landlord have any special requests?" β
"There is only one requirement, don't do what the police don't let you do." I also try to laugh as easily as possible to make myself look humorous and easy-going: "As long as you don't beat gongs and drums and practice anything, the sound insulation of this building is still good." β
A woman's beauty is a strategic weapon, like an atomic bomb, there is no need to deliberately show off, existence itself is power. I'm a small landlord, a depressed patient, and I'm constantly supervising myself to reflect on my patients, and I'm laughing a little bit at this moment.
Generally speaking, when it comes to this, the matter is basically finalized, and I am thinking about how much to reduce the price and what tone to give a fixed price. The beauty smiled again: "I don't rent a house, I'll laugh with you." β
I was a little surprised: "You're not renting?" Didn't you make an appointment to view properties online? β
The beauty was still laughing: "No, in fact, I'm here to find someone, I'm Jiang He." β
I was electrocuted, my adrenaline hormones spiked, my face went numb, and I felt my blood quickly pull out of my brain.
I raised my head and stared at Jiang He, my eyes glowing white, and I almost forgot to breathe. Fifteen years have passed, and the changes are really big, but now that I carefully certify it, I feel that my eyebrows and eyes are the same, and I can still see the appearance of my childhood, and it is really Jiang He!
There was a strong sense of unreality in this dramatic reunion, and the frenzied joy caused me to be a little dizzy, and it was as if two parallel trains were rumbling after me in my brain.
So I said to Jiang He with affection: "Xiaohe, are you here to find me?" I'm Lou Lanyu! β
Jiang He smiled with relief, and his eyes were suddenly full of tears: "Of course I know it's you, you have inexplicably commanded me to look at the house for a long time." β
I jumped over and grabbed her hand, not knowing what to say.
I stretched out Jiang He's arms like in the movie and looked her up and down: "Your illness is cured?" When did you return home? β
Jiang He looked at me, the tears that had been stored in his eyes flowed down, he shook his head and said, "I'm fine, don't worry." β
"If you don't write to me when you go abroad, I thought I would never see you again in my life!"
Jiang He smiled with tears in his eyes, and exhaled like an orchid: "Something unexpected happened, isn't this meeting again?" β
"You are the grand prize of my life, a big gold medal! I think all the good luck of my life has run out! β
Jiang He shook off my hand and said, "It's a shame again!" β
"You don't know, I've been in Hangzhou for four years in college, and I can't find your family, I saw your parents two months ago, but they disappeared in a blink of an eye, I suspect that I was tired and saw the hell in those days." In the end, I actually choked up, only to realize that I had burst into tears.
I cried and said, "Let's sit down and talk, I seem to have a little low blood sugar." β
I pulled Jiang He to sit on the sofa, wiped away my tears and sat opposite Jiang He, so excited that I forgot what I just said, just smirked and looked at her. This person, who had been inseparable from me for nearly half of my life, actually appeared again, and the urge to roll on the ground stirred in my body. It took a while to realize that Jiang He was asking.
"I ask you how you got a scruffy beard, and when did you become unkempt?"
"I've had a problem with my brain lately, and I've learned through life now, so that's it."
Usually I am an emotionally introverted person, I used to be able to completely let go only in front of Jiang He, I thought that the distance of more than ten years would change, and I knew it with one mouth, at least I had not changed.
Jiang He's smile lit up the entire room: "It seems that you haven't changed much in so many years." β
"Of course I'm not going to change, do you remember when we said that we would be best friends for life! I haven't even fallen asleep in my dreams! The more I talked, the more excited I became, the ischemic brain was spinning rapidly, memory and reality were chaotically intertwined, and a sentence appeared more and more clearly in my brain, so I read it out: "I have met many people in my life, they are like fireworks between my fingers, flickering and dimming, and finally only reduced to a smear of ashes, but you are different, you are like a Beidou, shining in my whole life." β
Jiang He laughed: "It seems that he is really sick." β
I also laughed: "I forgot what I see, I think it's appropriate, just use it." β
A question has been bothering me for several years: "Didn't you go to Hangzhou, why can't I find you in Hangzhou?" β
"At that time, we were young and didn't understand a lot of questions. My father's hometown is Huzhou, and when he changed jobs, he chose to receive a one-time compensation to choose his own job, and his plan was to go to Hangzhou for development, but our hukou was sent back to his hometown. Later, my father did not develop in Hangzhou, and soon went to Shanghai, and now my parents are both in Shanghai. Jiang He explained with a smile.
"No wonder I can't find your information in Hangzhou, I think you are going abroad, and your identity information will not be deleted, the strange thing is that there is no news of you on the Internet, it seems to have disappeared out of thin air, I even found the original army, but people don't bird me at all."
"There's a reason for that, and I'll talk to you about it later. But in my childhood, you really went to find me? Jiang He seemed to be smiling.
"Of course, I promised you, I specially applied for the school in Hangzhou, and I went to look for four years, you don't know that it is so difficult to find someone out of thin air, I haven't found any news in four years, and then I know what it means to be a vast sea of people."
"It can't be that reading in college is boring and boring, and you suddenly remember me as an old friend, right?" Jiang He still seemed to be smiling.
"What do you mean? I went to Hangzhou for the exam, specially! How do you say it's weird! "Men are always naΓ―ve in front of women, and I'm really a little amused.
"You're in such a hurry!" Jiang He gave me a blank look.
This expression is familiar to me, and she used to use it to show her superiority in intelligence over me. The feeling of going back to the past made the bones in my body lighten for a moment.
"Did you really come to Xiamen to look for me?" I laughed silly.
Jiang He glanced at me, didn't answer directly, sighed and said, "Everything is plausible. She looked around at the furniture: "I think these furniture are very familiar, but I feel different, and you, your complexion is so bad, your eyes are gloomy and your beard is unshaven, I am a little afraid to recognize it at once." β
"I almost don't want to admit it, do you?" I'm hippie smiling.
Jiang He smiled and did not speak.
The two of us sat there for a long time without talking again, and the sun shone into the living room, and for a moment I felt very calm and comfortable.
After a while, Jiang He said softly: "Actually, I've been paying attention to the news about you, but I can't contact you, Daddy Lou died, my parents didn't tell me, and I couldn't come to see off the last ride." β
I smiled bitterly.
Jiang He said: "The world is impermanent, there have been a lot of changes over the years, I was worried at the beginning that you would have forgotten the previous friendship, if you become polite and strange, I haven't thought about what to do next." β
I also sighed: "I was more pessimistic, I thought you had forgotten about me a long time ago." β
Jiang He diverted the topic and asked, "What about Mother Lou?" β
I said, "She went to my aunt's in Beijing, and she would be very happy if she knew you were here!" β
Jiang He looked at me, smiled and didn't speak, I also looked at her, and then I said, "Where do you live now?" Pack up and move in, you live here, with old furniture, and it feels like you've stepped back in time. β
Jiang He nodded and said, "I stayed in a hotel after getting off the plane yesterday." β
I offered to help her move over now, she said that there will be something to deal with later, and it will be good to call me tomorrow, I feel uneasy, I asked for her phone number, added her WeChat, and wanted to add her QQ, she smiled and said: "When did you become so insecure, I worked hard to find you, will you run away by yourself." β
I half-jokingly said to her, "I suddenly figured out how I sat down and got sick, that is, you didn't do what you promised, and you never wrote to me." β
Jiang He looked at me calmly and steadily, just like in the poplar forest back then: "Okay, tomorrow I will start treating your illness." β
We chatted for a while, Jiang He said that she still had some things to deal with, and she didn't eat with me at noon, so she made an appointment to move over directly tomorrow morning, and when she went out, she just made an appointment to see the house online, and I wanted to send it directly, Jiang He disagreed, so I continued to rent it out, and sorted out the guest room at home for her to live.
As she turned away and walked towards the elevator, I was tempted to rush over and grab her from behind. I know that this kind of affection is by no means as simple as the love between a man and a woman, and my feelings for her have actually lacked the opportunity to transform into love, just because everything she has to do with me is the sum of the best memories of my life, and I cherish it immensely.
The moment the elevator door closed, Jiang He's bright eyes looked at me, and the corners of his mouth rolled into a smile.
My heart shook.