twenty-two

Under this soft and beautiful, tungsten light like the sunset, the madman took a few sips of liquor, then completely arranged his bedding, and took out a gel pen and notebook, which was ready to record the things that happened during the day, mainly the girls next door to the old dormitory, and the discovery that there were mosquitoes in winter.

It's just that one of the roommates will have a small quarrel with the other roommate, in fact, their previous small quarrels didn't happen very often, so the madman was a little curious, so he listened carefully to what they were arguing about.

It turned out that one of the roommates bought an electric blanket and wanted to spend this cold winter, but the other roommate was very dissatisfied with this, saying that the electricity bill in the big city is not like in the countryside, one or two dimes per kilowatt-hour of electricity, but it takes a whole piece of five dimes for one kilowatt-hour of electricity, so if one of them uses an electric blanket, then when it comes time to pay the electricity bill, the other people who do not use the electric blanket will not suffer?

In fact, the madman thinks that the roommate's analysis is very reasonable, but there are also incorrect points, because according to what the madman has learned, although this is a big city, the price of electricity is the same as that in the countryside of their hometown, that is, one or two dimes a kilowatt, but why is the current price so high? In fact, it is very simple, the landlord deliberately raised the price of electricity, and the landlord will also tell everyone that the landlords who rent houses in the neighborhood do the same, and all the people who come to their big cities to rent a house are treated the same, and everyone is the same.

This is also an eternal truth, children or adults who come to the big city from various poor rural areas to pursue their dreams must accept these rules unconditionally, and if they do not accept that they can't even rent a house, then there is no place to live.

But the madman thinks that at present, he still doesn't care about these little things, because he currently has at least seven or eight thousand yuan in the bank card in his pocket, and this is a very huge amount of money for any child who comes out to work, so the madman shows an indifferent attitude, just continue to write records, he should have recorded some trivial things.

Another is that the rooms where the madmen live are conjoined at the moment, just like the makeshift houses on the construction site, and there seem to be people living next door? But it seems that no one lives, in short, the madman understands that the sound insulation of this kind of house is simply unimaginably poor, and it can be said unceremoniously that if the person next door snores a little louder at night, it can be heard very clearly in this room, and sometimes it even feels like there is no wall at all.

The madman's roommates made their beds and began to chat, but the topic still revolved around the group of girls next door to the old dormitory, as if there was nothing else to be interested in.

It's just that for all this, the madman just silently writes it down in a notebook with a pen, really just a record, because the madman he definitely does not express any of his own opinions.

As time passed, the night began to become gradually quiet, but in such a silent night, you can still hear the whirring wind, and now, this extremely simple dilapidated house that costs 300 yuan a month in addition to the utility bill will be the home of a total of six people, including the madman, to resist the cold winter.

Maybe everyone is fantasizing about working and having money in the future, and then in this strange and familiar beautiful big city, they have their own luxury house that others envy, of course, crazy people have also fantasized about this, but they just think how luxurious it should be to have a house of their own in this kind of big city? Housing prices here start from the millions, is this a joke?

Although everyone may have a lot of thoughts, and they may be secretly sad in this silent and cold night, time will remind all dreamers that it is time to go to bed and go to work tomorrow.

The madman also recorded what he was going to record, looked at the time on his phone, it was about one o'clock in the morning, and he took a few sips of wine, and then said, "I turned off the lights?" ”

The madman wanted to say that he turned off the light because he was currently living in the position of the door, which was also the lower bunk, and happened to be next to the light switch, but no one answered the madman's question, and the madman quietly lit a cigarette and glanced at all his roommates with his eyes, it turned out that they were already asleep, they might just be too tired and tired, right? It seems that they are still talking, but when did they fall asleep?

The madman smiled faintly when he thought of this, picked up the wine bottle and drank two sips of liquor, then picked up the cigarette, curled up in the quilt and smoked silently, then turned off the light, and stared at the tungsten light bulb when it was just extinguished, which outlined the last ring shape of the afterglow, and then the whole world was silent, so the madman whispered: "Good night, dreamers all over the world." ”

After the madman whispered, it was as if there was some mysterious force controlling him again, and then he took out his mobile phone, looked at the only phone number on it, and began to fall asleep with his fantasies, as if he could hug his beloved Yuhan in a dream, maybe he could only hug in a dream, right?

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This is a large courtyard in the ancient town, a long distance from the noisy and bustling city street, so the noisy car sound can not be heard at night here, only the sound of the cold wind in the winter night, and the slight snort of the roommates, although it is almost half past one in the morning, but for some reason, the madman still can't sleep peacefully, is there something missing in his heart? Do you miss people who are far away and not far away? No, it's thinking about someone else's girlfriend, it's really strange, and it's such a humble thought.

And in the second half of the night, the madman originally wanted to get up and go to the bathroom, but he heard movement next door, it should be a couple, right? The man is obviously breathing very quickly, and there should be a shelf bed next door, right? With a slight creak, the madman understood what was going on next door, and they were enjoying the bliss of our human nature in a shabby rental house in this big city.

What is the woman next door like? Why can't you shout out because of happiness like in a special movie? Is it afraid that the whole world will know that she is enjoying happiness? Or are you afraid that others will say that she is immoral? Maybe it's the latter? Therefore, the only way to enjoy this happiness of our human nature is to hide it, even in the dead of night, and sneak it up.

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The next morning, the madman got up, it seemed that the madman's roommates didn't know what happened next door last night, so they lit cigarettes and were about to start brushing their teeth and washing their faces, but the madman knew what happened next door last night, so the madman got dressed alone, opened the door of the room, and went out to the faucet, washed his face with the extremely cold tap water, and didn't even have a towel, no toothbrush and toothpaste, but the madman's plan was to buy it after work today.

When he went back to the room, the madman saw through the crack in the door next door that they were indeed a couple living next door, no! It shouldn't be said to be a couple, right? It's supposed to be a couple, right? In short, the man looked very thin, flat-headed, about thirty years old, and the woman was not very fat, dyed yellow hair, and looked about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, but the woman was wearing a kind of sky-blue clothing, which was obviously the work clothes of a certain hotel, and it was not difficult to judge from here that this woman who was not very fat was working in a certain hotel.

Then the madman went back to his dormitory, looked at the almost empty liquor bottle in a daze, lit a cigarette, smoked it, then picked up the bottle, drank the little liquor left in the bottle, and then walked to work with a group of roommates who didn't even wash their faces and brush their teeth.

At this time, the alleys of the ancient town are not so dark, after all, it is daytime, and a few floating white plastic bags can be seen in the moat on the side from time to time, as for the ancient buildings in this ancient town, all of them are with big locks on the doors, and they are also locked from the outside, obviously there are no people living inside, but the former owners of these ancient buildings are definitely no longer alive, because these buildings are full of traces of vicissitudes of life, telling that they must be more than a few hundred years old. But where have the descendants of the owners of these buildings gone?

There is a reason why madmen can't figure this out, because madmen's rural houses are passed from one generation to the next, and then the next generation is passed on to the next generation. Unless the family moves out, or some major change occurs in the family, or there is no one left, then the house will begin to be abandoned and slowly covered with traces of vicissitudes of life.

But at present, all the houses in this ancient town are uninhabited, according to normal theory, are they all moving out? Or is there something going on in the whole family? The madman has to think that we in China forty-nine years ago, it was the war years, is it because the original owners of these houses abandoned this place because of the war, so that the current houses here belong to the state?

As for what the situation is, in short, there is no one to solve the confusion for the madman at present, and the madman they walk more quickly, after all, the weather is cold, but when they arrive at the company, it is different, the madman immediately feels that he has reached heaven, and even thinks that he will simply sleep in the company at night, right? Pull a few chairs and lie down here?

Because the company has air conditioning, this kind of air conditioning maniac he has not seen much in the countryside before, only those big families can have, it is a rare thing, but also a luxury, but now for the madman, or for the company in the big city, the so-called air conditioning manufacturing warm in winter and cool in summer is already the standard configuration of every company. And the madman also admired, air conditioning is really a good thing, and even thought that the ancient emperors did not have air conditioning, so how did they escape the heat and winter?