Chapter 6: Troubles

Life is still going on, the two have been together for more than a year, they get along very well, and the occasional small fight has also become a lubricant to enhance the relationship between the two. Soon it was time to collect rent for another quarter, and finally you could experience the pleasure of counting banknotes again, but recently there was an annoying thing that troubled the fat man, affected the fat man's mood, and seriously affected the fat man's feeling of counting banknotes.

Life is like this, it doesn't go all the way it goes all your life, and few people can mix it up carefree until they die. No, suddenly one day, the tenant of Grandpa's house called the fat man and asked, "Mr. Long, do you have time now?" Can you do me a favor?"

As soon as he received the call, he was asked for help, and the fat man didn't come back to his senses, and subconsciously said: "Help? What are you helping? Is there something broken at home?" The fat man thought about it, and only thought of such a reason.

But the tenant's focus was not here, but he said to the fat man a little vaguely: "It's not this, the things at home are not damaged, I have another place where I need Mr. Long's help." ”

Listening to the tenant's words, the fat man felt that he and the tenant should have no intersection with other places, and said in the spirit of thinking that more things are better than less things: "Isn't this the case?

Listening to the tone of the fat man's voice, for fear that the fat man would refuse his request, the tenant hurriedly said: "That, that matter is actually very simple, it will not have any impact on Mr. Long, it can be regarded as a gesture." ”

Hearing this, the clever fat man guessed that the matter was probably the tenant's own, so he replied: "Oh? You said it was just a gesture? Then why do you want me to help you for such a simple matter, and no one else can?"

Hearing that the fat man had the intention of refusing, the tenant was a little anxious, and said quickly: "No, no, no, Mr. Long, you misunderstood, only you can help me solve this matter, please help me!"

After thinking about it for a while, the fat man felt that the tenant had rented his house for so long, and the rent was paid on time every quarter, so he let go of the idea of refusing just now, and said to the tenant: "Okay, you have also lived with me for so long, then I should listen to what you want me to help you with." ”

After hearing this, the tenant seemed to rekindle hope in his heart, and said happily: "Thank you, thank you, I really thank you, Mr. Long!"

"Eh, wait, don't thank me yet, I haven't promised you yet, don't be in a hurry to thank you first! Let's say it first, in case what you say is troublesome, I won't necessarily help you! ”

"It's not troublesome, it's not troublesome at all, as I said earlier, this matter is just a gesture for you. ”

"It's a gesture, and it depends on whether I'm willing or not. The fat man muttered to himself.

It's one thing to think in your heart, but it's another thing to say, "Okay, then let's talk about it first." The fat man said.

After the fat man finished speaking, the voice on the other side was silent for a while, and then sounded again, "Actually, it's not a big deal, I just hope that Mr. Long can help me go to the community to talk, and don't let some idlers and others enter and leave the community freely." ”

After listening to the tenant's request, the fat man's mind began to run rapidly, and after a while, the fat man replied, "What do you mean by idle people? ”

When the tenant heard this, he said weakly: "No, no, I just think that anyone can come in will have a great impact on the safety of the community, so I want to go to the community to reflect, but after all, the owner is Mr. Long, so I still need Mr. Long's help." ”

Listening to the tenant consciously bypassing the point, the fat man said in a deep voice: "Okay, don't say anything useless, I'll help you reflect it, but you also have to tell me the real reason, at least you have to tell me who the idle people refer to." ”

Knowing that the fat man found something strange, but the tenant seemed to really have something unspeakable, he didn't tell the fat man the real reason, but said to the fat man: "Mr. Long, you think too much, I really just think about the safety of the community, so I want to ask you to help reflect it, after all, if the community is not safe, it is not safe for me to live here, and it is not as complicated as you think." ”

Listening to the tenant's nonsense, the fat man sneered: "Hmph, is it? If you say so, then you don't have to look for me, you go to the community by yourself or find a neighbor to report it, why do you have to look for me?"

"You must have caused something to me in such a hurry, I'm afraid someone is about to come to the door, so they want to find me, the landlord, to help you solve the access problem quickly, who wants you to not be from here, and the property doesn't want to care about you!" However, these words The fat man just thought about it in his heart, and did not say it.

Knowing that if he didn't tell the reason, the fat man would definitely not care, but the tenant still said to the fat man hopefully: "Mr. Long, it's really not what you think, you really misunderstood me." I admit that I went to the community to reflect, but the property said that I am not from here and ignored me, so I don't have no choice but to ask you. ”

The tenant's words full of loopholes made the fat man feel a little bored, and he thought to himself: "Hmph, there are so many people living here that no one has reported this problem, how can anyone pay attention to you if you go alone, not to mention that you are not the owner of the house here." Besides, the security here is much better than in other places, and you don't think I'll believe what you say, am I a fool?"

Thinking about it, the fat man said coldly to the tenant: "I'm sorry, I've been really busy lately, and I don't have time to go back to help you solve this problem, remember to close the doors and windows when you live there, so it's safer." The security guards of the community also patrol the community overnight, so it will not affect your safety, and you can live with peace of mind. ”

Seeing that the fat man was about to end the conversation, thinking of the threatening phone calls he had received these days, the tenant couldn't calm down anymore, and said stubbornly: "Mr. Long, you can't do this, you really have to help me, I said, I'll tell you everything." ”

Hearing that the tenant was finally about to explain the reason, the fat man was still ready to give him a chance, and said calmly: "Okay, while there is still some time, I can listen to your reasons before making a decision." ”

So the tenant began to talk about what happened in the past few days, "Actually, this is the thing, in the last few days, I don't know what is going on, I often receive harassing calls from strangers, and they intimidate me and ask me for money, at first I thought it was nothing, and then the harassment became frequent, and he claimed to come to the door, so I was scared, and I wanted to call you and need your help." ”

The fat man listened carefully to the tenant's explanation, contacted what the tenant said earlier, frowned, and asked suspiciously: "Then why don't you go to the police, this kind of harassment problem can be solved by the police for you, isn't it more practical to find the police than to find me?"

After listening to the fat man's question, the tenant said: "Mr. Long, I think these people are just scaring me, so it's good to go to the community to report it, and it shouldn't be enough to find the police to solve it." ”

Hearing this, the fat man smiled and asked seductively, "Oh, yes, since it's just to scare you, I'm afraid there is a reason, can you tell me?"

After listening, the tenant reacted that he seemed to have leaked his mouth just now, so he said to the fat man: "No, no, no, Mr. Long, I don't know why, these people come to harass me for no reason, I really don't know why!"

"Oh, then you can call the police according to what you said, do you want me to call the police for you?"

Hearing the alarm, the tone on the other end of the phone became more urgent, and he exclaimed, "Call the police! Don't, don't, you don't need to bother the police for such a trivial matter, Mr. Long." ”

"You don't need to bother the police to bother me? Hahahaha! You are really not an honest person, and you refuse to tell the truth now, so I can't help it, you better solve it yourself, all I can help you is to call the police." ”

When the tenant heard this, he hurriedly said: "No, no, no, Mr. Long, you have to help me, this matter will not affect you, I swear!"

"It's useless for you to swear, I don't like trouble the most, let alone someone else's trouble. I can only say sorry for this matter, if there is something about the house, you can still find me, forget about this matter, as a landlord, one yard to one yard, I can still tell the difference. Well, having said all that, I'm hanging. ”

"Mr. Long, Mr. Long" Before the words on the other end of the phone were finished, the fat man ended the call.

After putting the phone away, the fat man stood up and walked back and forth in the living room a few times, then walked to the balcony, looked out the window, and said to himself: "It's better to be careful about this matter, since he doesn't say anything, then I don't care about anything." ”

Although he said that he didn't want to care, what made the fat man care was that after he hung up the phone, the tenant didn't call again. After standing on the balcony for a while, the fat man finally breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It looks like he won't call again, it's okay, more is better than less." ”

But things didn't go the way the fat man thought, and a few days later, the tenant called again. Seeing this, the fat man thought it was something else, so he picked it up, but the tenant still asked the fat man to help, so that the fat man could only shirk something, and then several times, the fat man refused in the same way.

As the days passed, maybe the tenant couldn't wait, so he increased the number of harassing calls to the fat man, which made the fat man even more tired of it, and simply did not answer the tenant's call. What's strange is that after falling into the whirlpool of love, the fat man's temper has become much softer, although he has been harassed all this time, he has never been mad at anyone, and his girlfriend doesn't care much about this matter. But some negative emotions have been accumulated for a long time, and there will always be an outburst one day, and with the tireless harassment of tenants, the fat man will still be unable to stop his anger after all.

One day, the fat man was sleeping in bed, and suddenly the phone sounded, and the fat man who was woken up subconsciously touched the mobile phone on the bedside table, picked it up and looked at it, and the annoying name appeared on the screen, and the fat man pressed the call without thinking about it and threw it aside. However, the sweet dream that the fat man was looking forward to did not come. It didn't take long for the phone calls to come one after another, and the phone ringing never stopped all morning, and the fat people who had no mute habits were about to be disturbed. Finally, the fat man, who had woken up for an unknown number of times, picked up the phone next to the bed again, and the hateful name was still displayed on the screen. The fat man thought for a while, knowing that he still couldn't hide, so he turned on the answer button in his heart.

After answering, the fat man seemed to want to vent all the anger he had accumulated recently, and he didn't give the other party any chance to speak at all, and shouted directly at the other end of the phone: "What do you mean by being a person! If someone else harasses you, you can't solve it, so you can harass me! I'll tell you, you have nothing to do with me! Anyway, my words will be put here today, I really don't bother to take care of your business, you can do it yourself, if you have nothing else, please don't call me to harass me, understand! It's really annoying!" With a beep, the fat man quickly hung up the phone, threw it in the corner of the bed at random, and then exhaled to calm down his irritable mood just now, and then lay on the bed and looked at the ceiling, not knowing what he was thinking.

Because he had just spoken too loudly, the fat man didn't know that his girlfriend had just come back from grocery shopping. As soon as my girlfriend entered the door, I heard the fat man's roar spread far away, changed into slippers, put away the vegetable basket in her hand, and walked quickly to the fat man's room.

"Good brother, what makes you so angry!"

Hearing his girlfriend's gentle voice, the depression in the fat man's heart dissipated a lot, and after a pause, the fat man straightened up and sat on the bed, and said to his girlfriend: "Hey, it's not the tenant's business, I just made a morning call, it's really annoying." ”

"Is it the tenant's business again?

"yes, I don't want to ask, I think there must be something wrong here, so I don't bother to care. ”

After listening, his girlfriend frowned and thought for a moment, and said to the fat man: "Good brother, if you don't do this, I think it's better to help him, in case others have any unspeakable hardships." ”

"I don't think so, I think it's supposed to be a cause of trouble and then can't solve it, I'm afraid that someone else will find me. ”

"Good brother, don't think about the bad side, some things are actually not complicated, maybe they are very simple. Besides, it doesn't take much effort for you to help him. ”

"Why should I ask for help?" the fat man thought to himself.

But looking at his girlfriend's innocent eyes, the fat man's firm determination was still shaken, and he sat on the bed and thought about it for a long time, after all, he sighed, softened his heart, and said to his girlfriend: "You are really a little fool, so old and so naΓ―ve, don't you know the sinister truth of people's hearts? I really don't know how much you will secretly suffer in the future." ”

"Who's sinister, good brother is too heavy, that tenant pays rent on time every quarter, and he doesn't look like a bad person. ”

After listening, the fat man could only explain helplessly: "Okay, even if he is not a bad person, you can't guarantee that the person who troubles him is not a bad person, in case a bad person is looking for him, why should I put myself in it again, do you say you are stupid!"

Hearing this, his girlfriend said in a coquettish voice: "People are obviously very smart, why do you keep calling me stupid, smart people are about to be called stupid by you." ”

Seeing his girlfriend's pitiful appearance, the fat man's irritable mood in front of him almost dissipated, and then replied: "Okay, okay, I won't say it." I don't say. My little fool is the smartest, a clever little fool, hahahaha. ”

The girlfriend frowned and said to the fat man: "Hmph, what, it's not that I am stupid." Then he paused, and continued: "Yes, I'm stupid, and I'm easy to suffer, but don't I say that it's a blessing to suffer? ”

Looking at his girlfriend's appearance, he really had nothing to do with her, and the fat man could only say helplessly: "Okay, good, it's a blessing to suffer a loss, a blessing to suffer a loss!" I'll help him do it this time, lest he come to bother me, even if he meets a bad person, he will look for him, and he will never look for me." But this matter has to wait for him to call again, and I won't call it anyway. ”

Thinking that the fat man was scolding others just now, he wouldn't call again, but the fat man finally listened to himself, and his girlfriend happily said to the fat man: "Well, my good brother is the best." ”

As soon as the words fell, the fat man's mobile phone rang a familiar ringtone, and when he saw the caller ID, the fat man pursed his lips and answered it.

"Hey, Mr. Long, are you still there? I know it's not good for you to trouble you all the time, but I can't help it, I really want to ask you for help, okay?"

The fat man paused after listening, and then replied in a relatively steady voice: "It's not impossible to help, I just want to know what's going on, in case you sell me, I don't know, then I'm not at a loss?"

After the fat man finished speaking, the tenant's voice fell silent as if it had suddenly disappeared.

Sensing something strange on the other end of the phone, the fat man asked, "Hey, hey, are you still there, why don't you speak?"

After a while, the tenant's voice came again, "Okay, Mr. Long, I can tell you the truth, but I don't want to say it on the phone, can you find a chance to talk face-to-face, I won't force you if you don't want to help me after listening, after all, I caused it myself." ”

The tenant's words made the fat man very entangled in his heart, whether to go or not, the fat man couldn't make up his mind at once, but after a few seconds, after repeated ideological struggles, the other party had already said this, and the fat man with a kind heart still decided to understand the truth of the matter before making plans.

"Well, I see, do you have time in three days? I'll come over if I have time. ”

The tenant, who saw hope again, hurriedly replied: "Well, of course there is time, then we will talk about this matter at that time." ”

"Yes, okay"

Hung up the phone, looking at his girlfriend's puzzled look, the fat man smiled, and then said: "Okay, let's talk about it, I'll go over to understand the situation in three days and then decide whether to help him, now you understand." ”

"Three days later, I'm off work in three days, why don't we go together?"

Hearing that his girlfriend also wanted to go, the fat man said uneasily: "Are you going? What are you going to do? I'll just go by myself, do you know how to rest at home?"

"No, it's rare for me to take a break from work, let's go see your parents together, and I'll go with you by the way, I don't worry about you alone. ”

"Are you sure you want to go along?"

"Of course, when we don't go out together, this time is no exception. ”

After finishing speaking, his girlfriend looked straight at the fat man, and his girlfriend's concerned eyes made the fat man feel very warm, and then readily agreed to his girlfriend's request.