Chapter Eighty-Nine: A True Dream
Until he came outside the house in a daze, Wang Fatzi still felt a little confused.
"That's it, it's done? Still not a bargain? β
Although he was already ready to be stabbed in his heart, he didn't expect that Wan Hongzhuang, when he had the upper hand, didn't even have any intention of bargaining.
So...... Is he smart or confused?
Wang Fatzi didn't know, but when he saw the transfer prompt of 4,800 yuan on the mobile phone screen, he felt a burst of excitement inexplicably.
The 4,800 yuan includes a 2-month deposit and the rent of the month, and the other 1,200 yuan is the intermediary fee for his service...... Counting up, just this order, he has 1,600 yuan in income.
- At that time, the landlord's request was only to rent out the house for 800 per month.
If Wan Hongzhuang can continue to rent in the future, then he can have an additional income of 400 yuan every month.
For a lone traveler who works alone in a small intermediary store, this income is enough to make him feel excited!
Thinking of this, he not only clenched his fists and swung them violently in the air...... He seems to be able to see that a bright future beckons to him!
Although this money is not much, it is better in the long run.
At least, Wan Hongzhuang knew that he would spend more than three years in this dilapidated house until ......
Standing on this terrace, which is not very large, Wan Hongzhuang looked down on everything with a strange expression, and an inexplicable emotion surged from the bottom of his heart, stirring up endless ripples......
Choosing this house at that time, purely attracted by this terrace.
It is said that a person cannot step into the same river twice, but miraculously, he returned to that moment and made the same choice.
He didn't know whether what he had done was right or wrong...... Just following the guidance of his heart, he still resolutely made such a choice.
- the same, but different.
The dusty memory began to wake up slowly, and he remembered that at that time, when he rented this house, he seemed to have a lot of disputes with Wang Fatzi.
After all, he has always been a door-picker, and if he really wants to make him pay for nothing, it is better to kill him.
But at that time, he was shy in his pocket, so he could only rent this suite.
ββThe price is similar to that of a single room, but the space is a lot more spacious. The most important thing is that for him, who is afraid of society, he can avoid the trouble of dealing with people...... It doesn't get any better than his house.
Fortunately, Wang Fatzi is only a half-baked intermediary, and Wan Hongzhuang didn't even open his mouth to bargain, he was most of his heart timid, and then went through some bargaining......
The final price seems to be 850 a month.
At that time, he was also in this position, looking at the extremely lost back with a victorious attitude.
Even after the two became friends and told everything, Wang Fatzi still laughed and said that this was the biggest Waterloo in his intermediary career, and took advantage of his drunkenness to tell all the defects of the whole house.
Of course, now Waterloo has become a great victory, and I don't know if this slightly flapping butterfly wings will bring some changes to everyone's lives.
- Although, after transferring this money to Wang Fatzi, there was less than 1,000 yuan left in his wallet......
Of course, there are still a lot of doubts in his heart:
Why are you here, or at this point in time? The name engraved on the phoenix tree on the side of the road, although it was indeed carved by his own hand, but the time of appearance was obviously wrong. If it wasn't him, who would have carved it?
Is all this deliberate or coincidental?
Also, what should he do next?
He regretted a little why he didn't have the habit of buying lottery tickets on weekdays? Otherwise, by writing down a few grand prize numbers, wouldn't it be easy to reach the pinnacle of life? Also, why is it so boring on weekdays, and I have no interest in some sports competitions, otherwise, as long as I remember a few unpopular games, or the World Cup and NBA championship, I should be able to easily achieve financial freedom......
As for house speculation, he didn't dare to think about it for the time being, although he knew that the core assets of some core cities would continue to rise, especially Ludao, and housing prices would continue to rise for a period of time in the future, but this start-up capital was obviously not something that he could hope for as a poor man with only 1,000 yuan in his pocket.
"Alas......" Wan Hongzhuang sighed helplessly.
Looking back on the more than three years he spent in Ludao, he basically lived a life of two points and one line every day, which is no different from the life he lives in Yongzhou now.
And Egret Island, although it is only a stop in his life, but about the memory of Egret Island, even if he recalls it now, it seems that he can't find any shining points, some specific things, specific memories, somehow, with the blurring of time, no matter how hard he racks his brains, he can't recall a minute.
And then there's ...... He really couldn't remember why he had come to rent the house and what had happened after renting the house.
A lot of things seem to be stuck in a fault, like walking into a labyrinth with no clue.
Take this house as an example, although the rent is rented, but it is basically still in a state of waste, the bed is there, but the cup, and some other daily necessities, there is no ...... But where would he go to find these daily necessities?
Definitely not to buy it, because he was sure he definitely had it, but where were those things?
Wan Hongzhuang's brows furrowed, and he couldn't remember any memory of this for a while. Standing on this small terrace, bathed in the bits and pieces of light that passed through the gaps in the leaves, a wave of sleepiness suddenly came at him, and then his eyelids began to fight violently.
Before he knew it, he was leaning back on a dilapidated rocking chair on the terrace and fell asleep completely......
When he woke up again, he found himself in a dark corridor again.
It's the same as before.
β but his intuition told him that this was the same path as before, because both the direct physical sensation and the subtle texture he felt when he touched it were exactly the same.
"What's going on?"
An inexplicable look of panic appeared on Wan Hongzhuang's face.
He couldn't figure out what this mysterious tunnel was that would appear as long as he was asleep. What made him even more frightened was that everything he had experienced before was too real...... He couldn't figure out which side was real and which side was the dream?
Also, his dress seems to have changed into the bloated outfit he used to be.
"Is it everything, back to the way it was before?"
Subconsciously tucked the corners of his clothes, Wan Hongzhuang was a little at a loss. But he still followed the guidance of his instinct and began to grope forward...... He was sure that the exit was ahead!
It didn't take long for another light gate to appear at the far end of the line of sight.
It's just that the color of this gate of light is slightly different from the one I saw before...... The light gate I saw earlier was composed of yellowed light spots, faintly revealing a sense of obsolete vicissitudes; And now I see this light gate, the whole body is pure white and flawless light spots, although it seems to be a little dark, but between the two, there is still a distinct difference.
Wan Hongzhuang's brows furrowed, but his steps became faster and faster. There was a vague guess in his heart, but he didn't dare to be sure for the time being.
As he gradually approached, the oncoming wind became cold for no reason.
Slammed his head and face into him, leaving him no room to breathe......
The further you go, the more resistance this wind brings.
and the kind of chill mixed in the middle, which made him almost freeze all over.
By the time he was a few steps away from the light gate, the resistance was so great that he needed to lift up his whole body every time he took a step forward.
- In this comparison, the wind outside the yellowed light gate can really be regarded as warm.
Before he knew it, his mind was gradually becoming stiff. Just follow the instinct and move forward slowly...... Finally, he successfully came to the door of light, closed his eyes, his heart was horizontal, and he used the last bit of strength in his body to throw himself into this door of light.
"Ah......h
With a low and terrible roar, Wan Hong jumped up from the bed violently.
There was still an endless darkness around...... Due to the sudden rise of his feet, his eyes were still unable to adapt to this drastic change in the environment for a while. Although he didn't know exactly what was going on, this real feeling of the fusion of soul and flesh still made him gasp a little in shock......
"So...... Is this reality, or is it a dream? β
Wan Hongzhuang looked at the nothingness in front of him in a daze, and suddenly felt a burst of emptiness. This emptiness is not only a physical emptiness, but also a spiritual nowhere to rely on.
I don't know how long it took for his eyes to gradually adjust to his surroundings.
The place where he was the room of the unknown inn before...... The dilapidated air conditioner, the mottled walls, and the broken bed that began to creak as his body shook.
- Everything is exactly the same as before.
"I'm back?" Looking around blankly, Wan Hongzhuang was a little distracted.
If everything you have experienced before is just a dream, then this dream is too real, right? He can even vividly recall the scenes and details that appeared in the dream.
If what was originally left in his memory was just a rough line drawing, then, in the dream just now, he was writing and inking, blurring all the pictures in his memory and imprinting them into his mind.
Everything seems to be his own experience, and the real one could not be more real.
Wan Hongzhuang smiled bitterly and shook his head, everything was so illogical, just like many things he seemed to have forgotten a long time ago, and he didn't think he would think about it again, but he couldn't think of it......
"Is that you?"
Wan Hongzhuang slumped weakly at the head of the bed, and it took a long time to slowly come to his senses, and after thinking about it, he still picked up the mobile phone on the bedside table.
It's six o'clock in the morning.
Another night...... Passed!