Chapter 12 Where the clouds come from
I had no dreams all night, and when I woke up the next day, the sunshine had moved to the attic flower room.
After spending some time washing up and tidying up, changing into dirt-resistant home clothes, Meng jumped down the stairs.
When I arrived on the second floor, I stopped in room 205, remembered what happened between the previous evening and Bai Tu, hesitated for a moment, and finally mustered up the courage to raise my hand and knock on the door.
After a while, no one opened the door, and no one responded to themselves.
Meng thought to himself: Bai Shu may have gone out to work, after all, he is still a lawyer, and it took him a few days to pick him up before, and there should be a lot of backlog of work at hand, so it is reasonable to go to work early in the morning.
Well, it's definitely not because you're still angry with yourself.
So, Meng Li, who was psychologically comforted, happily left the second floor, went down to the kitchen on the first floor, and began to prepare today's breakfast.
Meng Liao was boiling porridge, Xu Qingyun and Meng Ji came down from the upstairs one after the other, still one wearing sunglasses, wearing a robe, but not wearing a top hat, and the other wearing a pullover sweatshirt of different colors from yesterday, ripped jeans, and flip-flops.
When the two arrived at the restaurant on the first floor, Meng Ji yawned and muttered to Xu Qingyun:
"I said I wouldn't have breakfast, and woke me up early in the morning, ha—you don't know what time I came back from work last night. ”
Xu Qingyun listened to Meng Ji's complaints, chuckled, pressed Meng Ji to the dining table and sat down, turned around and came to Meng Liu's side, looked at the movements of Meng Ji's hands, and said in a frivolous and casual tone:
"Landlord Xiao Meng, morning, what are you going to eat this morning?"
Meng didn't look back, holding a big spoon in one hand and stirring the porridge in the pot, and forking his waist with the other, "White porridge and mustard!"
Meng Ji, who was sitting at the dining table, heard today's breakfast recipe, and his frowning brows relaxed: "Hehe, white porridge is good, and mustard is wonderful." ”
Xu Qingyun, who was standing next to Meng Li, stretched out his hand and pinched out a piece of cucumber from the mixed fruit salad on the other side, Gaba Gaba bit it, and sneered at each other:
"You are also worthy of eating pickles and white porridge, a big man, like a little lady all day long, clamoring to lose weight.
The little girl just shouted, in fact, she ate more than anyone else, you are good, look at your legs that are not a few taels of meat, tsk. ”
At this time, Meng took a plate in one hand, and a pot of vegetable salad in his arms, walked to the table expressionlessly, put down the things in his hand, and turned around and shouted:
"Fortune teller, bring the porridge!"
Meng Ji and Xu Qingyun, who came over with the porridge, looked at each other, and then glanced at Meng Li, who was sitting upright with a serious face, one lowered his head weakly, and the other put the porridge on the table with a wry smile.
The three of them were speechless for a while, awkwardly facing each other, eating breakfast tastelessly.
Why did Meng Li's attitude change so drastically after just one night?
Because Meng thought about it all night, he finally figured it out, and after figuring it out, Meng felt that he had been deceived and was very, very unhappy.
From the caution when Meng Ji met him yesterday to the appearance of Xu Qingyun, what the two of them said was premeditated, that is, acting in front of themselves.
After living in an apartment for so long, how could you not know what strange species are under the same roof as you?
Now that he knows, how can he be so timid like Meng Ji? Even if he was really timid before, he would be fattened by these foxes and mermaids, how could he be so careless.
The more Meng thought about it, the more wrong it became, and he already knew that Meng Xu and the others were acting with him, but what was the motive?
As the new owners of the apartment, even if the two have noble character and disdain to please themselves, they should be friends rather than evil.
Besides, if you want to be yourself, shouldn't you be very lucky to finally meet a landlord who is also a human being? At the very least, there will be no biased and indiscriminate rent collection.
I don't understand, just what happened in the past few days made Meng Xueba's brain directly paralyzed.
"Why lie to me?"
Meng decided to ask bluntly, even if he continued to be deceived, he could have a reason to convince himself not to continue to dwell on this matter.
"This ......"
Meng Ji lifted his head from the porridge bowl, stopped talking, and turned his head to look at Xu Qingyun's face.
Meng Liao also looked at it together, only to see that Xu Qingyun had just finished drinking a bowl of porridge, putting the bowl in one hand, and brushing the beard on his face with the other, and chuckled:
"No, no, how can landlord Xiao Meng use the word 'deception'? We are just tempting. ”
"Tempting what?"
"You. ”
Meng Ji looked at the two people in front of him and asked and answered, knowing that it was none of his own business, he put down his heart and filled another bowl of porridge with a good appetite, completely forgetting his ambition to lose weight for his ideals.
Xu Qingyun saw that Meng Ji finally started to eat seriously, thinking that it was because of Meng Ji's cooking skills.
smiled with relief, and threw Meng an appreciative look, but saw Meng looking at himself with a look of curiosity, knowing that if he didn't make it clear today, there would be no way to eat this breakfast properly.
"Since Landlord Xiao Meng has come to this apartment, I want to know something about this apartment. ”
Meng Liao wanted to interrupt Xu Qingyun's words, and replied, "I don't understand." ”
Xu Qingyun continued: "Before you came, there were only two humans in the entire apartment, me and Xiao Meng. As for the other guests, I don't need to say it, you should understand it, and I won't explain it to you one by one, anyway, you will see it in the future. ”
Meng Liao secretly slandered: "Nonsense, I can naturally see it when I collect rent." ”
Over there, Xu Qingyun stopped talking, glanced at Meng Li, and saw that she didn't interrupt, knowing that he was letting himself continue to speak.
"Of course, I can also guess the reason why the former landlord Ms. Meng left, everyone knows it, why you came, Xiao Meng and I are not very clear, since we want to talk openly and honestly, please say it first. ”
After speaking, Xu Qingyun stretched out his right hand and made a "please" movement, and Meng Ji also looked up at Meng when he saw this.
So, Meng Liao told him how he saw Bai at home and how he inherited Meng Wanqiu's inheritance, and then saw Quanke in the apartment, and briefly said what happened to Feng You, but it didn't explain that Meng Wanqiu actually went to heaven to get married and have children.
Xu Qingyun listened to Meng's words, wrote the cause and effect in his heart, and corresponded with what he saw and thought, and knew that Meng had nothing to hide.
Since the other party is so honest, in exchange, he should indeed show sincerity, so he will tell his own experience:
"I am the twenty-fourth generation of Xuanmen, and I am the only one left from the Spring and Autumn Period to the present...... After my master passed away ten years ago, I wandered alone in the world, living in a muddy nightmare, and when I was sober, I thought I was looking at people, and I was a part-time feng shui master.
Six years ago, one day, by chance, I sorted out my master's belongings, only to find two letters sandwiched between the master's homework, one of which was left for me, and the letter said that I should come here with another letter and the teacher's tokens, looking for one person, that is, the former landlord, Ms. Meng......"
Speaking of this, Xu Qingyun stopped talking, picked up the cup on his left hand, drank most of the glass of water, and continued:
"Ms. Meng read the master's letter, and after confirming that the master's token was correct, she kept me for one night, and then informed me the next day.
The master had already given her the news and asked her to take care of me, I thought that I would come here to look for her after the master went ten years ago, but who knew that the master went suddenly, and I lived in chaos after that, and I did not study the master's homework as diligently as the master was in, and I did not find the letter left by the master at the first time......
And after her master left, she never received a message from her master, knowing that my master might have died, and she couldn't find me in the vast crowd, so she had to give up......
Later, I moved into this apartment for six years. ”
When Xu Qingyun said this, he explained the ins and outs of his arrival here to Meng, pondered for a moment, and then said:
"A month ago, Ms. Meng approached me and said that she was running out of time and that her granddaughter would inherit the apartment after she left.
Xiao Meng was brought by me, and it was no different from telling me that it was the same as saying it, and after that, I also briefly mentioned two sentences when I was out of the stall with Xiao Meng Night Market, and I didn't elaborate.
Besides......"
Xu Qingyun looked at Meng and stopped talking.
"And what?"
Meng Liao was listening to it, and Xu Qingyun suddenly twisted his attitude, which really subverted Meng Liao's deep initial impression of him, and asked;
"You've said so much, no matter what you're going to say next, it's not bad. ”
"Besides, I have lived here for six years, and I have never heard of or met any of Ms. Meng's relatives......
When I first moved in, I guessed that Ms. Meng might be a lonely old man who had received the favor of my master earlier, and then I met the other residents of the apartment, and after learning about it, I knew that my previous guess was completely wrong, and Ms. Meng was not so simple.
So, I told Xiao Meng that my guess about you may not be Ms. Meng's granddaughter at all, maybe not a person at all.
In addition, you came suddenly, neither I nor Xiao Meng received the news, so Xiao Meng suddenly saw you last night, and he reacted so much. ”
Meng thought to herself: I really guessed that I am indeed not her granddaughter.
Meng Ji interjected: "I really didn't lie to you, if it weren't for the fact that there was really nowhere to go, I would have been scared away when I saw the guys living on the third floor."
Meng heard this, and thought to himself that he had seen several known residents: Bai Shuzhu Room 205, Mengji Room 202, Xu Qingyun Room 203, and Room 201 and 204 When I checked it yesterday, I found that no one had moved in yet.
All the rooms on the third floor are locked and can't be opened at all, so what I can know now is that the third floor is full of guests, and Quanke and Feng You all live on the third floor, and as for the other guests, I haven't seen them for the time being.
Meng Ji's words immediately aroused Meng Ji's curiosity, "The guy on the third floor?"