He Huan was still wearing Zhou Shen's pajamas, she tiptoed out of the door, walked through the corridor to the bathroom where she took a bath last night, and just walked halfway up the stairs to an old mother.

"Miss, you're awake."

He Huan suddenly saw that the clothes she was holding were the ones she wore last night, and she asked with joy, "Can you give me the clothes?" ”

When the old mother saw her cautious appearance, she couldn't help but laugh.

"I came up to bring you clothes, and they have been washed and dried."

He Huan was overjoyed, took his clothes and was about to go back to the room, when he remembered one thing and asked, "Where is Mr. Zhou?" ”

"Mr. Zhou left early in the morning, and before leaving, Mr. explained that if you want to go back to school, I can call the driver to come and see you off."

"No, no, no." He Huan refused, she didn't know why she had already troubled others by staying here for one night, "I'll just take the car and go by myself." ”

He Huan originally wanted to take the bus back to Tsing Yi Lane, but she didn't find the bus stop from the boulevard, but the rain didn't stop, but fortunately, the people in the old house gave her an umbrella before leaving.

Let's take a taxi, He Huan was afraid that something would happen on Tsing Yi Lane, so he finally gritted his teeth and stopped the taxi.

After getting in the car, He Huan thought about it, and felt that he should call Zhou Shen, thank him or say goodbye, he should always say something to him.

He Huan took out his mobile phone and dialed Zhou Shen's number, and was just about to call out, but he contacted her first.

"Hey..."He Huan picked it up at once.

Zhou Shen stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the office, listened to He Huan's slightly brisk voice on the phone, and smiled, "You left?" ”

"Well, there's something to deal with."

"Back to Shen's house?"

"It's not..."He Huan didn't explain much.

Zhou Shen felt that he seemed to be asking too much, so he paused and didn't ask any more.

There was some coldness on the phone, but he didn't seem to want to hang up.

He Huan could hear the other party's breathing, a little heavy, she felt that it was not possible to go on like this, it was so embarrassing.

"That's... Mr. Zhou, thank you for taking me in last night. ”

"Hmm."

He stopped talking again, He Huan was a little anxious, leaned on the window and scratched his head, and could only speak again: "I have the opportunity to invite you to dinner, you have taken me in many times, the last meal of the pot chicken is not counted, please eat a better meal." ”

Ground pot chicken?

Zhou Shen remembered, and then began to laugh.

He Huan was baffled by him.

"What are you laughing at?"

"It's nothing, I just want to say that I paid for the pot chicken last time!"

“…… Do you pay for it? He Huan began to recall, and in his impression it should have been paid by her.

Zhou Shen stopped laughing: "Well, the money I paid, you were very drunk at the time, I helped you out, do you think you will remember to pay in that state?" ”

He also explained in detail, as if he was going through old accounts with He Huan.

He Huan pouted, such a stingy old man.

"Then when I'm done with things, or the day after tomorrow? Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, I will go to Changfu Palace to play the piano, and by the way, I will invite you to dinner in the evening. "She's a little more serious, because she doesn't want to owe anyone anything.

Zhou Shen calculated the price of a dinner in Changfu Palace, and smiled: "Okay, I'll wait for your call the day after tomorrow." ”

He Huan was a little angry in his heart, he was really not polite, one meal in Changfu Palace would at least eat her part-time salary for a month, but the words were spoken by her, so she could only grit her teeth and swallow them.

"Then hang up first, and contact the day after tomorrow."

"Wait!" Zhou Shen shouted again.

"What else?"

Zhou Shen thought for a while: "Did you get the umbrella?" It was raining heavily outside. ”

He Huan's heart twitched, for some reason, she felt a little bit of intimacy when she said a very ordinary word, but he was so intimate that she couldn't detect anything wrong.

"Take it, thank you."

After hanging up the phone, He Huan kept pinching his phone, looking at the pouring rain outside the window, and suddenly laughed stupidly......

Zhou Shen stood alone at the window for a while, and the smile on the corner of his mouth never dissipated.

Just when Fang Qin walked in, he saw Zhou Shen standing in front of the window with his back to him.

"Mr. Zhou, the city's demolition and relocation office called in the morning, saying that the engineering team of the demolition company had entered the site two days ago, and everything was going well so far."

Zhou Shen didn't react.

Fang Qin waited behind for a while, and urged softly: "Mr. Zhou......?" ”

"Huh?" Zhou Shen turned around at this time, Fang Qin repeated what he had just said, Zhou Shen seemed to be slightly thoughtful, and paused for a few seconds before saying, "Do I have any itinerary for next Monday night?" If there is, push it for me and free up that night for me. ”

“……”

Seeing that he didn't answer the question, Fang Qin knew that he was thinking about something else, so he only answered and didn't talk about the demolition again.

When He Huan arrived at Tsing Yi Lane, the rain had already lightened a lot, but the alley was blocked by all the scrap bricks and tiles that had been demolished.

He Huan could only get out of the car and walk in, the houses on both sides had been demolished, and several huge excavators and forklifts were parked at the intersection, but because of the rain, the engineering team had stopped.

She didn't expect the demolition team to move so quickly, in just a week, most of the village has been demolished, and at a glance there are white walls with beams that have been torn off, and the blue bricks have been washed and shiny after a night of rain, but there is a lot of mud stuck to the stone slabs in the alley, and there is a sound of feet stepping on it......

It seems that the government has sold the land, and even if the residents are stiff, they can't change anything, at most they will ask for more demolition fees.

He Huan stood at the entrance of the village for a while, holding an umbrella and walking towards the door of the house.

When he entered the door, He Hai was squatting on the threshold and smoking, shrugging his shoulders, and his clothes were soaked.

He Huan took a breath.

"Dad, what about those people on the phone just now?"

"Gone!"

"Just left so easily?" He Huan asked as he entered the house and took away the umbrella, only to find that the house was in a mess, and the bench and small table beer bottles were exposed everywhere, He Huan was shocked.

"Those people are doing something to you?"

"Phew, they don't have the guts!" He Hai scolded very impulsively, stood up with the door frame, and limped into the house.

He Huan immediately helped a chair for him to sit down, He Hai didn't speak, he smoked a cigarette, and the smoke star flashed and disappeared in the dark room.

He Huan didn't know how to persuade him, so he turned around and turned on the lights, but all the switches were pressed again, and the lights didn't turn on.

Vaguely aware of something.

"They pinched the electricity?"

He Hai snorted and took another puff of his cigarette: "Don't stop the electricity, the water is gone." ”

“……”

This is an old trick of the demolition company, cutting off water and electricity, forcing residents to live in.

He Huan glanced at He Hai, he had been sitting there smoking, his injured leg was half-bent and resting on the chair bar, the soles of his shoes were full of mud, and his hair was dripping with water, which was so embarrassing that it made people panic.

"Dad..."He Huan shouted and walked to his side, "Or sign it, take a demolition fee, let's go to the suburbs to buy another house, anyway, we will definitely not be able to live here, even if we are stiff, the boss will not put the project on hold because of our family!" ”

That being said, He Hai is also dead.

"What to sign? This is my house, I don't go away what they can do to me! ”

"They can't do anything to us, but they have a way to make us uneasy, and now these demolition teams are all ruffians and hooligans, and they can do anything!"

"Phew! It's just those old tricks, water and electricity are cut off, and no new tricks can be played! He Hai was not convinced.

He Huan could only sigh, she understood her father's temper, Jiang Xiuyu used to scold him for being as hard as a stone in a dung pit.

"But I don't feel at ease if you live here alone, and now the water and electricity are cut off again, and your legs are not convenient, or ......."

"Okay, okay, you don't care about the house, I won't let them tear it down no matter what." He Hai finished the last bit of cigarette, threw it directly on the ground and stepped on it, and got up to go out in wet clothes.

He Huan was so anxious to catch up.

"Where are you going?"

"Go to the store and buy some candles and come back!"

"......" He Huan was speechless, it seemed that He Hai was going to fight them to the end, and when he looked up again, he had already gone out, He Huan chased after him and shouted: "Okay, you change your clothes and go again." But He Hai couldn't listen to it at all, so he limped into the rain like that.

He Huan stayed overnight in Tsing Yi Lane, and ate a bowl of noodles casually outside for dinner, and there was no water at home anyway, so he couldn't cook.

It was so cold at night that there was not even an electric blanket, and the wet quilt was wrapped around my body and shivered with cold.

stayed up all night, and He Huan felt that he had to persuade his father to sign no matter what.

He is not in good health, and he has a leg disease, so it is not a way to endure it like this.

"Dad, my arms can't turn my thighs, it's useless for us to stay up like this."

"Then I don't care, if you don't move, you won't move!" He Haiqiang looked like a scoundrel when he got up, and He Huan had no way to take him, but it rained all the time that weekend, and the demolition team didn't come again.

On Sunday afternoon, He Huan was going to work part-time.

Before leaving, I didn't worry, I went to the supermarket and bought a few large buckets of purified water and instant noodles and frozen dumplings back, I wanted to take care of my neighbors and take care of my father, but most of the surrounding houses were demolished, and several familiar neighbors moved away, so He Huan could only give up.

On the bus to her part-time job, she called Yu Weitong.

The two have not been in touch since the last time Su Wei's matter was over, and she doesn't know what Yu Weitong has been busy with recently.

The phone rang a few times, and someone finally answered it.

"Hey..."Yu Weitong's voice sounded a little tired.

"What's wrong? Caught up with a night job last night? ”

"It's not." Yu Weitong's voice was a little hoarse, "What kind of night work, I'm fighting a lawsuit with Ou Jiawei!" ”

"What?" He Huan was surprised, "You really terminated the contract with Ou Jiawei?" ”

"Nonsense, is there still a fake? But it's just a lot of anxiety, it was easy to sign the deed of sale at the beginning, but now it's difficult to redeem yourself! ”

"What? Ou Jiawei doesn't let go? ”

"Well, at first, he refused to let go, and persuaded me bitterly, but I made up my mind this time, and he tore his face when he saw that I couldn't persuade him to come back, and it is estimated that if he wants to terminate the contract this time, he will at least let me peel off my skin!" Yu Weitong spoke very quickly, with a bit of resentment and sourness in her tone.

He Huan could only sigh.

It was a love affair back then, but now it is so much that it has to go to court for some interests.

"By the way, what are you calling me for? And what's going on with you and Shen Che? I saw the news that you eloped? … How did you make such a drama? I've been busy lately and don't have time to call and ask you. Yu Weitong said a lot to herself.

He Huan couldn't explain: "Let's talk about this later, I called to ask about the demolition of your house." ”

Yu Weitong used to be from Tsing Yi Lane, and it was a little strange to hear He Huan ask this.

"What's wrong with the demolition?"

"Did you sign the contract?"

"Sign early, why don't you sign, it is said that this time the developer has a very good background, and the compensation is also good, my parents can't wait to move into a new house as soon as possible." Yu Weitong's parents' psychology is the same as that of most demolition households, who wants to stay in that broken alley for the rest of their lives.

"What? Your dad won't sign it? ”

"Well, it's stiff, it's been pinched and the water has been pinched."

"What, what the hell does your dad think?" Yu Weitong felt strange, but He Huan understood it very well in his heart.

"I know why my dad won't tear it down, because there are so many things in that house that he cherishes."

Whether it is a person or a thing, He Hai is stubborn, just to be able to keep that little bit of previous memories.

Yu Weitong roughly understood, and sighed: "He Huan, you'd better persuade your father, don't be stiff, it's not good for him, and do you know which demolition company you are looking for this time?" Shi Kun and the second son of the Chi family are joint ventures, and there are people in both black and white, what does your father use to fight them? Take your life? They are not afraid to take their lives! ”

Yu Weitong said something serious, He Huan could only smile bitterly and hung up the phone.

He Huan was a 2-hour part-time job that day, and it was only about 8 o'clock when he got off work.

The rain had stopped outside, but the temperature was very low, she stood at the door of Xiuzhong Pavilion and called He Hai again, never reassured that he lived alone in a house without water and electricity.

He Hai's voice was a little lazy.

As soon as He Huan heard it, he knew that he was drinking again.

"Dad, why did you drink again so late?"

He Hai laughed twice over there, and his laughter sounded a little helpless: "Just drink half a bottle of soju, drink it and sleep well, there is no one in the village who plays cards and chatters, and you can't watch TV, if you don't get some wine to drink, you will freeze to death if you don't suffocate to death!" ”

He always has a lot of truths, and He Huan has no choice but to tell him a few words and hang up the phone.

Walking to the bus stop, when I got to the school gate, I saw a black BMW parked there.

It was the Shen family's car.

"Huanhuan..."Jiang Xiuyu opened the car window.

He Huan could only walk over and ask with a cold face, "Why did you come to me so late?" ”

"Something, can you get in the car and say?"

He Huan thought about it, opened the car door and sat down.

There was a lot of heating in the car, and it seemed that Jiang Xiuyu had been waiting for her at the school gate for a long time.

The mother and daughter didn't speak at first, Jiang Xiuyu glanced at He Huan's wind-blown white face, and suddenly grabbed her cold fingers.

"It's cold outside, do you have to do it so late every day?"

The sudden enthusiasm made He Huan very uncomfortable, she withdrew her hand, shook her head, and asked, "What are you looking for me?" ”

She doesn't like to beat around the bush, and she also knows that Jiang Xiuyu specially came to the school to wait for her, and she definitely didn't want to ask for warmth.

Jiang Xiuyu was stunned and smiled reluctantly: "I have something to do with you, why don't we find a place to sit down and talk about it, Mom hasn't eaten dinner yet." ”

It seemed that there was something to talk about for a long time, He Huan stared at her and nodded.

Jiang Xiuyu immediately asked the driver to turn around and found an American-style simple food restaurant in the commercial street near the school.