We settled in a hotel four blocks away from the third factory.

I took Soeren to a small shop down the street and bought a box of fairy sticks and crackers while he was choosing a beer and snacks.

I asked the owner about a small park nearby.

When I got to the park, I showed him fairy sticks and throwing cannons and told him that they were fireworks and firecrackers, and I fulfilled my promise.

"What is this?" He said disappointedly, "I want it...... In Heaven...... Boom!! Like a flower! Not on earth, but in heaven! ”

"It's not the Chinese New Year, you can't buy that, these are children's toys, so you can buy them!"

"No, when I was in Yunnan, I saw it, and there was it on the street!"

"This is Shenzhen!" I quibbled and said, "Shenzhen is a big city, fireworks are strictly prohibited, you see, there are no streets!" ”

He turned around three hundred and sixty degrees, and there was not even a street corner as far as his eyes could see.

"Let's go to a better place, a place with a lot of people, ask, we can definitely find it!" He said stubbornly.

"But how do you know which way we should go? What if you don't know the place well, what if you get lost? And I'm a little tired, I can't walk anymore! ”

"Over there!" He pointed out of the park, "We can find a car, he will take us there and bring us back!" ”

I had to be honest: "Soeren, we don't have that much money anymore. ”

"What?"

"I'm sorry, I didn't tell you the truth, there are only more than three dollars in that bank card in your hand. The money I have in my hands is all our money before your new bank card comes down. ”

"Why?" He was so surprised that his teeth were about to fall out: "Are you still keeping that woman?" ”

He was referring to Gao Run. Back then, because of Gao Run's salary, I urgently needed to find a part-time job with a higher salary, and when I was angry, I talked nonsense in front of him, "I took care of a woman". He always believed it.

"Nope. Now it's time to take the money to feed the others. ”

"Oh!" He laughed.

He took my wallet over, "How much money is left?" ”

"You count."

In the two seconds that Soeren was counting the money, a call came from lawyer Ma, who was inviting someone to dinner to understand the case. The new news is that the police have found a record that Yi Xu has purchased a psychotropic prescription drug, which is a sleeping pill.

"Prescription drugs? Who saw the doctor? I asked.

"His mother."

"Psychotropic drugs, do you see a psychiatrist? Did the police get any clues from the doctors? ”

"The doctor only prescribed sleeping pills to Yi Xu's mother that day, and made an appointment to go to the consultation the next day when she was in better spirits, but it dragged on for a few more days, and the last time was about 10 o'clock in the morning on September 10, but in the early morning of that day, there was a fatal case."

"Oh my God." I couldn't help but sigh.

"Yes. Oh, and one more thing, because the evidence in the case is relatively simple, the court may prosecute in advance, and the problem of funds on your side may have to be taken care of. ”

"Oh...... Good...... All right! "I was so nervous that I forgot to ask the court why it thought the evidence was sufficient, and why it was so hasty to prosecute in advance.

It was like a fist beating my heart hard, I pressed my chest hard, comforting myself, it's okay, it's okay, there may be a way for money, even if there is no way, Yi Xu should come out before the lawsuit. Even if you don't come out, isn't there a government-appointed lawyer?

However, if lawyer Ma doesn't help, does it have a good chance of winning?

No, there's Zhang Yi! Didn't Zhang Yi say that she had a way? Didn't Zhang Yi say that she would do things? Didn't Zhang Yi say that she was sure? Does Zhang Yi know what Lawyer Ma said?

I turned off my phone with a shaky voice. Call Zhang Hengli and turn off the phone as well. called Lin Musen and asked him if he had contacted Zhang Yi in the past few days, and he said no. I sent Zhang Yi a long text message, telling her all the information that Lawyer Ma had told me, telling her to hurry up and not have much time. Tell her to reply to my messages or calls, I'm so worried that I can't breathe!

I sat on the floor and wanted to cry. Looking up, he saw Soeren pressing the calculator and held back.

"You Germans, you're really bad at math!"

"Oh oh oh, you can't say that!"

"I said something wrong?"

"We shouldn't buy fireworks so expensive!" Soeren said, "115 RMB!" ”

When did I go, when was the unit of RMB so abused?

"15 pieces." I said, "I secretly used 100 bucks." It's a block, not a block! ”

"Why? Didn't you say you want our game to win? Why do you use so much money? He was so angry that the corners of his eyes hanged.

"When I said it, I forgot that I still have to write to Changsha every day, and my letter needs to arrive quickly, so I have to use express delivery, 10 yuan a day, and 100 yuan in ten days."

"So expensive?"

"This is already the cheapest courier, I originally wanted to use more than twenty."

"Are you a liar?"

I hung my head and said, "Yes for you! What day have I not been a liar these days? ”

He reached out and nudged me, "Hey, justkidding." ”

“Iknow……”

"Do you need to write to your company? That letter? ”

"Sort of!"

"Why can't you use Email to have a very old person in your company? Don't know how to use email? ”

"He's a young man who knows how to use email, but there's no email where he is."

"Oh, okay! However, did we still win the game? ”

"You've won! So this box of fireworks and this box of firecrackers, you come and put it! ”

He nodded.

"By the way, how is Funny doing? When I called her, she didn't answer. ”

"She has a boyfriend, it's new."

I laughed and fell to the ground: "Wouldn't it?!" ”

My German landlady is Funny, her name is Susanne Emmanuel Stockhaus in her passport, and she is a cool old lady, a German who doesn't speak German.

In 1937, the girl named Susanne Emmanuel Stockhaus was born into a Jewish family in Hamburg, Germany. At the end of 1938, when Kristallnacht broke out and the Nazi massacre of Jews began, desperate parents gave their infant daughter to a young American couple whom they had only met twice, and the adoptive parents gave her a wonderful firstname, Funny.

In 1988, the year I, Yi Xu, Zhang Yi and Zhang Hengli were born, 51-year-old Funny was found by a Jewish charity in Hamburg, DNA tested, and returned to Hamburg to identify the only surviving aunt in the family. Her parents were deported to Poland in early 1939 and died in a Nazi concentration camp in 1941.

After Funny's door to an apartment in the United States was knocked on for the first time by someone from a charity, she thought she had met a scammer and splashed three people with a basin of water. The second time the community police came along, she thought it was a prank, took out a gun and shot at the police, and was almost imprisoned in the police station.

At that time, Funny had just suffered a heavy blow from the "87 stock market crash" in the United States, the financial company that had been running for many years had collapsed, millions of bank deposits had disappeared, the property had been taken away by the bank, friends avoided her, and even her husband abandoned her. With such an opportunity, she couldn't wait to leave the United States.

Funny's aunt passed away less than a year after they were reunited. Funny said that the two of them don't understand the language, so you can only look at me and I look at you, and my aunt may have been stared at to death by her. That year, her eyes were full of anger, and her adoptive parents died without explaining her life experience. She realized that there was a reason why her personality was different from theirs - her adoptive parents were free and uneducated, and the money for a trip to Germany in 1938 was stolen from her parents. Funny herself, since the age of four, has been planning the furnishings of the home. At the age of seven, he began to take the initiative to go out as an apprentice, entered the American stock exchange at the age of fifteen, and began to raise a family by himself at the age of eighteen; The adoptive parents are optimistic and gentle, and they never worry about the next meal, but she likes to plan everything for the next two years; The adoptive parents are content with the status quo, but she has been working hard, starting a business, and running the company.

She used to wonder if this personality could be inherited from one generation to the next, but the money that her adoptive parents stole from her grandparents back then was deceived by her grandparents from the bazaar!

It turned out that she had been tossing all her life uneasy because she had Jewish blood in her veins! What makes her most angry is that she knew that her bloodline was so good, and she would give birth to one no matter how much she didn't like a child, so she let him kill himself at the age of six, and let him raise the whole family at the age of ten! At the beginning, I didn't want to give birth because I was busy, and I was even more afraid that I would be born with the same virtue as my parents and grandparents, and I didn't want to create another creature that dragged me down!

In my third month in Germany, in order to save money and exercise, I bought a bicycle and planned to ride it to school and work every day. THE BIKE WAS BOUGHT ON EBAY AND FOUND THAT IT NEEDED TO BE INSTALLED BY MYSELF AFTER RECEIVING THE GOODS. I just followed the instructions and installed one screw and one component at a time. Three hours later, I rode my bike for a trial and found that the installation was a success, and as soon as I was happy, I rushed downhill. Before the slope was completely finished, the front wheel ran first, and I fell into a big heel and fell into the ditch. It's not the worst thing to fall apart, the worst thing is that there is an old lady lying next to her for some reason.

“Youhavefuckinghurtme！” She lay on her back on the ground and yelled at me with all her might. (You hurt me)

I was shocked to hear for the first time in Germany that someone so old spoke English so neatly. I quickly asked her in English if she needed to call an ambulance, and she gritted her upper and lower teeth, and I almost thought she wanted me to count how many teeth she had. I didn't know it was dentures at the time.

She bit and gurgled and said angrily, "FuckingTaxi!" ”。 That voice resounded in the sky!

Not only does she speak English well, but she scolds even more. I obediently called a car and took her home.

She lives in an old house with "1861" carved on the wall next to the door frame, which is almost 150 years old.

You don't have to look at this number to know that it is an old house, because the style of the house is already very different from the architectural style of this century. The house has three floors, a steeple house, and the top floor is like a high and steep slope, one and a half times the height and steepness of the current new houses. Local Germans have different opinions about this design, some say that it is to prevent the thick snow from crushing the roof in winter, some say that it is so that they can see the farmland in their own homes, and the children say that it is so that Santa Claus can slide down the roof as soon as he arrives, so that he does not have to go into the chimney so that he can quickly give gifts to everyone.

There is also a hole in the outer wall of the house, and later I heard that it is a bullet hole left by World War II, it is a strong house, it keeps what the years give it, it does not cover it up, it does not embellish, and the life is still so long.

I asked Funny if she needed to go to the hospital or call a doctor, and she shook her head. I made her dinner and waited until she went to bed to make sure she was okay before I left with my two wheels. The next day after class, I bought fruit to visit her, and she gave me a newspaper and said you translate for me.

I saw two familiar figures and two wheels in the newspaper. I actually got in the local newspaper! In the photo, I was holding Funny, and as the taxi had just left, my car was pitifully thrown in front of the bushes by the driver. The photo is black and white, and it can be seen from the distance and angle, and the newspaper people have found the surveillance data of the street in front of Funny. The title of the article is "Seniorenbitteaufpassen! ChinesischeStudentinnenaufFahrrdernunterwegs！ (Attention the old Germans, Chinese women studying abroad are riding bicycles!) ）

My legs suddenly became weak, I just lost face, what is the matter with losing the face of the country! Do you want me to be a person in the circle of Chinese students?

Funny seemed to understand my confusion, and she crooked her mouth and said with a wicked smile, "Icanhelpyou." (I can help you)

The next day, I gritted my teeth and gave up a month's deposit and half a month's rent and moved to become a tenant of Funny. The room was a third smaller than the one I originally rented, and it was 10 euros more expensive. On the fourth day, a clear headshot of me and Funny appeared in the newspaper, with the headline, "DasFahrradderStudentinwarKaputt, abersiehalfderaltenDametrotzdem" (She broke down her car, but saved her).

In this article, Funny says that she walked and slipped into a ditch by herself, and although she was in the ditch at the same time as me, it didn't matter to me, and if it weren't for me, she might not have been able to get up.

I think that's the truth, especially after spending time under the same roof as her, and I know that if I really got her in the ditch, she would never make up a story to help me, and the way to punish me would definitely not be as gentle as just letting me rent her house.

She is not a person who repays grievances with virtue, she has already "sueed" me.

I'm not a simple tenant in her house. She didn't do much bad either, because she barely did anything. She brought me into her house to get back to the life she used to have with a nanny to take care of. I fell into her clutches because I naively believed that I had bumped into her and volunteered to take care of her for one afternoon and the next day, and she thought I was a manufactur.

On the third weekend I moved in, I wanted to clean the whole house, and when I finished cleaning all the rooms and picked the rusty lock in the storage room, I found that there was everything in it, many things were stinky and moldy, and a sour smell came to my face, and I shouted the loudest Chinese sentence in Germany: I lean, the king of Yama must commit suicide when he sees this scene!

I told her that you will be nicer to the storeroom in the future, and your last name is Stockhaus, don't you know? She said yes, what's my last name?

She never wanted to learn German, except that she never remembered her original last name. When she came back, she was still a Christian, and there was a synagogue at our next bus stop, which she didn't even want to see, and she refused to be invited to Jewish meetings. Every Sunday take a long trek to St. Michaelis, the largest cathedral in Hamburg on the Elbe.

There is also a Christian church in our community, and she said that the church is too small to accommodate her piety, but in fact, the people in the community are avoiding her, and she criticizes people from the top of her head to her toes as soon as she meets, thinking that this is old-fashioned, that she doesn't know English, that she has no taste, and that the dentures are too fake. When she arrived, the community was united like never before, and even the same thing was said about her: DenBalkenimeigenenAugenichtsehen, aberdenSplitterimfremdem. (I don't see the beam in my own eyes, but I only see the thorns in the eyes of others). They deliberately speak only German.

There are many events that the church is supposed to have, and Funny is rarely invited to participate, and over time, she prefers to go to the larger, more inclusive St. Michaelis. Our neighbor, Mrs. Wang, said that Funny is not all negative for everyone, and some people say that when they see her, the pain on her body is no longer a problem, because they want to die directly.

Less than a month after I moved in, I found her very difficult to get along with, she was mean, unreasonable, indifferent, and often made me want to abandon the idea of "respecting the elderly", and I gradually felt that some old people are used to resist. She yelled at me if she was fine, because people from non-EU countries did not feel safe in Germany, and they were refused to renew their visas or even deported to China by the immigration bureau if they were fine. I was constantly being threatened by her, and I felt like a criminal who had absconded.

There is a saying in Germany that AlteBumesindbsbiegen, old trees are hard to bend, and the older a person is, the harder it is to change. I tried to persuade her to be polite to others, gentle to me, and kind to the world. Mr. Wang's family is so good to her, she refuses to even smile at her little grandson. By the second month, I had already found a new house, and although I decided to stay, getting along with Funny was still the hardest thing I had learned in Germany. Until Zhang Yi woke me up.

Once I asked Zhang Yi to make a video. Funny didn't say hello, he rushed his face directly to the camera, and said to Zhang Yi, "Youlooksougly!" (You're so ugly!) )

I saw Zhang Yi's face turn white instantly through the screen. Zhang Yi has a bad personality, but her appearance is a sign of first-class, she went out to work when she was a student, and before she was relegated to the kitchen or warehouse because of personality problems, she was the façade.

Not to be outdone, Zhang Yi poked Funny's death hole and said, "Youaresoold! (You're so old!) )。

As he spoke, both of them snorted and covered their notebooks.

This friendship was shattered before it could be established.

But what's particularly strange is that Funny will ask me if I want to video with Zhang Yi after a while, I don't dare to wipe her face in my own name, so I pretend to call Zhang Yi, Funny wants to watch with you, are you very busy? As a result, Zhang Yi said that he was not busy.

Well, I arranged Sino-German dialogues between the two of them again and again, and the language of the dialogue - English, and the content of the dialogue - quarrels.

On Zhang Yi's birthday last year, I spent real money to make an international call for her to show my sincerity, and Funny heard it, grabbed my phone and said, "Congratulations!" Youaregettingold！ ”。 (Congratulations, getting old)

In a word, the two of them are at war again, and I don't know what Zhang Yi said, anyway, all Funny said here was "Howdareyou......" (how dare you...... Sentences, foaming at the mouth.

Zhang Yi was probably unhappy, so he hung up the phone directly, and Funny immediately dialed back, and as soon as he got through, he began to shout, "Howdareyou!" hanguponme" (How dare you hang up on me?) ）

As soon as the words are finished, they will hang up. Zhang Yi did not open international long-distance calls in China, so he could only send a text message to ask me to call again. I dialed it, and she said you let the old guy listen, I gave the phone to Funny, and Funny was just about to speak, when Zhang Yi hung up the phone again. Funny dialed over again and said "Ihanguponyou!" "(I hung up on you) and hung up. Then Zhang Yi's text message came again, and I was about to put my phone away, and Funny took the sole of my shoe and patted my head and snatched the phone. I begged her to help me save some money, the computer video was free, and you could look at each other's faces and scold each other as usual.

But she said that one thing is one thing, and when this thing starts, she must win. This was followed by the Funny "Itismyturn! gotyou，bitch！ ”“Fuck！” “Iwin！” The phone bill in my phone is getting less and less, and the game is over because I have no money in my phone, and I just charged fifty euros the day before.

Zhang Yi's birthday was very lively, China and Germany celebrated together!

From their wonderful communication experience, I gradually found a way to make myself more comfortable with Funny - to deal with her in her way! She said shit, I'll shit! She said asshole, I'll go back asshole! She said fuck, I'll fuck back! She said she wanted to sue me, and I provoked her, saying "please!" ”。

She broke my bottom line again and again, and I tested her bottom line again and again, and finally we found that neither of us had a bottom line.

So I stayed at her house until I returned home, without fear.

She also fell ill suddenly before returning home, which led to the postponement of my return to China. I should have comforted her earlier, but all my thoughts were on Yi Xu for more than a month, and I almost didn't think of her, and the connection between the two of us was that she sent me a WeChat photo, and I praised her at will.

The only time I called her was that she ended so coolly, and I was relieved that she was safe and happy.

Unexpectedly, not only was it safe and happy, but it was also sweetly in love.

"Why are you laughing?" Soeren looked at me puzzled.

"Because it's so cute." I say.

"I know what this is." He pulled out the fairy wand and said, "But there is another thing, I don't know what it is." ”

"Then you play this, I'll play the other one."

I let out a sinister smile at him, pulled out a smashing cannon, and threw it at his feet. He jumped in fright!

“Iknowit！” He said, "When I was younger, I ...... But I forgot! Let's change. ”

"I won't change it!"

I dug it out as I spoke, and threw it all at his feet, and he ran, and I chased, and he screamed, and I threw it laughing. My tears were already flying out, and I laughed louder so that he wouldn't find out I was crying.

When all the firecrackers were thrown, I wiped my eyes and said, "I'm so happy to throw you with tears when I laugh!" ”。

“Ohmygod，evil！” (You're wicked)

"Iknow, angel, finish your fairy stick, don't waste it!"

"Do you like this too? Are we in this together? ”

"Okay!"

We lit two fairy sticks.

"Beautiful." He said.

"yes!"

"You're looking good, too." He held up the glittering fairy stick in front of me and said.

I smiled.

"Soeren, if everyone told you I was a bad person, would you still believe that I was a good person?"

"But." "I think you're the bad guy," he said. ”

I smiled helplessly.

“Justkidding！” (I'm kidding)

"Let's put it this way, what do you think is the situation when people all over the world are whispering in your ear, there is a person who is a bad person, he is a bad person, he is true

is a bad guy, but you firmly believe that he is a good guy? ”

"Convinced?"

"Hold on to believe, always believe."

"If I were deaf." He said.

The fairy stick clattered before my eyes. No matter how weak the spark is, it is all the best. The street lamp can only illuminate the road under the lamp, and the spark in my heart illuminates the whole direction of my progress.

Just let me be a stubborn deaf!

"Hey, I have a question, plus the ...... we are coming back from the hotel"

"Deposit."

"Is it a deposit?"

"Yes."

"With the deposit, we only had 294. 5 pieces. Should we play that game again, or we'll die? My bank card takes two weeks! ”

"I hope so! But I feel that the next factory is the most difficult, the so-called blessing and misfortune are not a single line, no one in their factory answers the phone, as if they know what to do, I feel very bad! ”

"Don't worry, I'll help you."

"Adapt to the situation! Kill it tomorrow morning. ”

He gave me a thumbs up and said, "You have a little bit of ability." ”

Ability? Someone actually said that I have the ability! I would have been so happy to have been praised for so many years!

This little bit of ability is forced out. I want to be incompetent, I want to be incompetent for a lifetime. If I were a singing bird, I would like to hide under the leaves and sing to the other bird, and I would never be able to stretch my neck in front of the public.

The night in Shenzhen is quieter than in Changsha, and the city is like a wounded beast, paralyzed here, gloomy and lingering. This is actually a city that has been highly praised by Yi Xun. Why do good things become a monster when they are presented to me?

Confused, he asked, "Are you okay?" ”

"Hmm."

How can I say no? How do you tell him why it's bad after saying it's bad? Just lie and don't say anything.

I gave myself a thumbs up and said in a very conceited tone, "Look how good I am!" After two factories, I will be a successful person from now on! ”

Soeren nodded innocently, smiling innocently.

I laughed too, and I had to laugh. The laughter is cold, the night is cold, I am afraid of people asking questions, and I pretend to be happy with tears.

"You're not the same in China as you are in Germany."

"What's the difference?"

"Your smile is different."

Of course it's different, when people are in a bad place, they sing about wine, and Qiangle is still tasteless, and I can feel that my smile is as tasteless as wax.

"Is it different to just laugh?"

"Nothing else. Why? Why is it different? That's a short period of time! ”

"Because I know that life is no longer as simple as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division."

"How easy is addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division?"

“einfachwiedasEinmaleins。”

“Einmaleinseinfach?” (Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are simple?) ）