Put the wine in the high hall, and the sad song is coming.

Life expectancy, death is like morning frost.

Time is not heavy, and Hua is no longer yang.

Apple with Chunhui, Lan with Qiufang.

The coming days are short, and the going days are long.

I'm not happy today, the crickets are in the room.

Happiness will be prosperous, sadness will be another chapter.

How can it be said that there is no feeling, and the worry is forgotten.

My wine is the purpose, and my food is the same.

Short songs can be sung, and there is no wilderness in the long night.

It's still this small courtyard, it's still this homeowner, but time flies like a shuttle, and in a blink of an eye, ten years have passed. Hong Tao knows the destiny of heaven, and his appearance is still the same, almost the same as ten years ago, if it weren't for the early appearance of some white threads in his hair, he would be in his thirties.

The phrase that things are not people has to be changed when he comes here, and it should be said that people are things and things. The person is still the same person, but the small courtyard is obviously old. The antique tiles on the outer layer of the wall fell in a few places, revealing the reinforced concrete inside. The courtyard gate is black and the paint is cracked and drummed, and it is slightly mottled.

The two rat statues guarding the door have also been crippled by the years, and the first two years on the left let a hand tide driver reverse the car and touch off the weapon and half of the arm, leaving him bare-handed. The one on the right is full of beards and tails, but the top of the head is often touched, and the color is dark, as if wearing a melon skin hat.

Walking into the courtyard, the phrase "things are people" has to be restored to the original state. The houses are still those houses, and even the small wooden rafts hanging at the bathroom and kitchen doors on both sides of the weeping flower door are still handwritten by Hong Tao. If you want to say that you can keep the font so stable, and you won't grow it for decades or a few lifetimes, his skill should be considered top-notch.

Ten years ago, Wang Yajing, Zhou Bicheng, Wu Youliang, and Bai Yun moved away, and two years later, Dave and Sherman ended the Chinese wine business and returned to China with a full harvest.

Jiao's mother listened to Hong Tao's suggestion, and bought a house in the East Fourth Ring Road while the purchase restriction was not fully rolled out, and when her son graduated from primary school, the mother and son moved to a new house. Millet entered a private middle school, where it is said that it is bilingual teaching, and after junior high school, it is directly sent abroad, and high school and university are all in one.

It was Chandley who was the strongest, and the restaurant he and his uncle had a good business, and they went to Wangjing to get a branch. But he is a little smart but is clever and misunderstood, in the first few years of hard work, he can save and steal, and the tax record is incomplete, which is not enough to apply for a residence permit.

After the connection between this thing and buying a house, buying a car, insurance, and a bunch of other things is getting tighter and tighter, it will be too late to regret it, and I had to end the restaurant business here the year before last, and return to my hometown to get married with the female foreman of the restaurant over the years.

The houses in the courtyard are not empty, but none of the new tenants have been able to live in them for three years, and they are basically in and out for a year and a half, and they are replaced frequently. As of yesterday, there were only two tenants left in the courtyard.

Early this morning, Aunt Liu and Lao Gao were also sent by Hong Tao to the West Railway Station to return to their hometown. Lao Gao is getting older and can't do cleaning work anymore, so he quit his job last year.

It is said that there is a commissary to support the two of them, and Hong Tao is also ready to let them live here, it can't be said that the old age is sent to the end, but it is always a good thing to have someone in the family who knows the roots.

It's a pity that God doesn't give face, and the business of the commissary is getting more and more day by day. The old couple don't want to rely on Hong Tao to feed, and it is not like a family with children and daughters to say it, so they just go back ruthlessly. After working hard all my life, I can't let others poke my backbone in the back when I'm old.

Hong Tao sent the station back, he was in a very bad mood, standing in the yard and wanting to look up to the sky and sigh, but God didn't give him a face, and there was a haze, and the slightest sunshine at noon could not be seen. Seeing the love of things, he opened his mouth and came to Duan Luji's tanka.

Over the years, Hong Tao can be regarded as infinitely close to cultural people, holding an ancient book and reading it blindly when he has nothing to do, drinking too much or being happy and anxious, and chanting two songs.

According to his own estimates, after another ten or eight years of study, he will almost be able to compose poems by himself. It's just that the words are not quite successful, and the brush looks very pleasing to the eye in the hand, but how awkward the words are written.

But he himself is not in a hurry, the tanka line says that life is too short, and time cannot be repeated. But he's the opposite, life is long, time goes by over and over again, and he always has no head, which seems to be quite sad.

After reading so many poems and songs, I still want to practice calligraphy, not to be elegant, but to prepare for the next rebirth that may come at any time.

In the past, in ancient times, he had endured the hardships of being uneducated, and could only do business and play with force, and he couldn't get touched by the slightest grace. This time I have to make up for it, in case I am thrown into ancient times again, as long as it is not too far away, relying on these poems and songs in my stomach and splendid articles, I have to get a poet and a poet or a poet. Don't get old to march and rebel, it's fun to play with that thing once or twice, and it's a job to always play with different tricks.

"Brother Hong is so interested! Yo ...... "Lu Ji Ji School Notes"...... Didn't you say Lu You last time, it was written by his son! Before I could finish expressing my feelings, I was interrupted by a crisp voice.

Two young women walked in outside the second door, and the melon seeds with the head were wearing large and square sunglasses on their faces, which were heavier than slightly powdered, and they could not be modified too much.

She wore a black slip dress, and her long hair was coiled on top of her head, which set off her already not short figure. It's just that he walks with a tiger and speaks crisply, otherwise he can be called a classical beauty.

"Yo, the flowers are coming...... If I hadn't seen you, I'd have forgotten it's the weekend. I'm blessed, I'll ask your sister to call for a large portion of sheep and scorpions later, it's the store last time, I'm in for a treat! Hong Tao ignored the black skirt, slapped the book in her hand, and then greeted the woman behind him with a smile.

This one is bigger than a black skirt, and even if he wears sneakers, he has to be 1.75 meters. Ordinary short-sleeved shirts and denim cropped pants can't hide the slender figure, coupled with melon seed face, big apricot eyes, and a small nose, it can't be said to be a national color and fragrance, but it has to be considered beautiful and delicious.

The main thing is that she didn't wear makeup, and she didn't even seem to wear lipstick. This year, it can grow like this, if you find a professional to draw and paint, you must add another ten points to the screen!

"Brother Hong is so ......" But compared with the black dress, the white-shirted girl looked too shy, her face turned red before she could speak, and she held the strap on her shoulders and pinched it vigorously.

These two are Hongtao's only remaining tenants, sisters, and Dalian people. The black skirt is my sister's early autumn, in her early thirties, and used to be a nurse. About seven or eight years ago, my father died of cancer, and the two sisters were left to rely on each other.

At that time, my sister was still in middle school, and in early summer, she was not only good-looking, in good shape, but also good at studying, and had a great hope of being admitted to a key university. But going to college costs money, and a lot of tweed, and the burden of life is all on my sister's shoulders.

The old father has been ill for several years, and he has long emptied his family, which is not wealthy, and has also pulled a famine. If you add that my sister goes to college, it will definitely be useless to rely on her salary as a nurse alone.

Although early autumn is not as amazing as early summer, it looks good, especially with a good personality, lively and outgoing, can speak well, and is not afraid to see people, which is very suitable for sales work. simply gritted his teeth and resigned, and followed his fellow villagers to a real estate company in Beijing to do sales work.

In the first few years, he did a good job, and his income was quite high, and he rented Hong Tao's house after being introduced by an acquaintance at the end of last year. But the good times didn't last long, and seeing that my sister was going to graduate school again, my sister pulled her crotch here.

The real estate industry is getting more and more sluggish, and the company she works for is not immune. In the early autumn, I lost my income, and I couldn't find a suitable job in a short period of time, depending on the situation, and my diploma was low.

"Huihui, you go take a bath first, this ghost weather is really hot!" In early autumn, he didn't give Hong Tao a chance to get close to early summer, so he pushed his sister to the West House first, and her body was just in the middle, which was a bit of a posture that you would withdraw from me first.

"Early autumn, no, I'm not a hungry wolf, why do you guard against me like a thief every time you come in early summer!" If Hong Tao can't see such an obvious action, it will be in vain.

Can you pretend you didn't see it when you saw it? It was done before, but it didn't work this time. The sisters have been overdue for a month and have not paid their rent! Oh, I didn't rush people out of the way if you owe money for the house, and you ended up treating me as a thief, I can't say anything yet, there's no reason for that!

"Where's that...... By the way, Brother Hong, I was eating opposite in the morning, and I heard two people say that you are in your fifties, it can't be true, right? ”

It's a pity that this level of counterattack has no effect on Chu Qiu, a salesman who comes into contact with all kinds of people outside all day long, and if she couldn't even bear these words, she would have starved to death.

"You don't think anything about me, do you? Don't talk about these useless things, last week you said to find a way, it's been a week, have you thought of a way? Don't look at the early autumn, it seems to be mentioned casually, but it is difficult to calm down in Hong Tao's ears.

As we get older, our appearance and body do not age together, and the mental burden that is completely different from ordinary people is getting heavier and heavier. Why is this happening, Hong Tao knows very well in his heart that he has lived to be more than 200 years old in a certain life, and this body may have traveled too many times in time, and there has been some kind of change.

In my previous lives, I would occasionally get a minor illness, but then I didn't even have a cold. The most terrible thing is that the mosquito bites do not bring a bag on them, and the skin does not change at all, and it is not itchy at all.

Originally, these subtle changes were not a big deal, there was no hukou in ancient times, and it was not very accurate to figure out how old a person was, and he could still fool the past by making up nonsense. Even if you live longer, there are only benefits and no harm, and the ancient people were very in awe of people who lived a long life.

But in modern society, if you still look the same for decades, it's a bit scary. It's nothing to live in your early 100s, and it's not without precedent in the world, but who has ever seen a person in his 100s and looks the same as a forty or fifty-year-old!

There is no place to hide this thing, and there is no way to change the ID card and passport anywhere in the world, and it is all connected to the Internet, which can check a person from birth to death!

“…… Or...... Brother Hong, what do you think I have...... A few more months of tolerance will not make ......"

In the early autumn, he stabbed Hong Tao's lung tube, but he didn't fall well, and he was in turn generalized. Compared to her, she is even more uncomfortable, buying things to give money, and paying rent for housing, which is justified.

Although the landlord doesn't look like a good person, he is still an old bachelor, and he sees a little beautiful girl's small eyes shining. But the people are really benevolent, they didn't say anything too much because of rent arrears, they didn't rush people when they saw them, and they didn't even let their sister know about it.

But after all, it is a relationship between a tenant and a landlord without relatives and no reason, and early autumn really can't be delayed any longer. But the job hasn't been settled yet, and the little money on the card will not be left except for the study expenses prepared for my sister, and if I pay the rent for another year, there will be nothing left. Even if you go to the construction site to move bricks immediately, you will have to get paid next month, and you can't quench your thirst.

It's not that I haven't thought about quitting the house here to find a cheaper place to live, with the departure of a large number of North Drifters, the housing in the capital is very sufficient. But there is still a three-month deposit here, which is more than 20,000 yuan.

According to the contract, if you breach the contract, the deposit will definitely not be refunded. I lost so much money in vain, and I was really reluctant to lose it when I was most short of money.

Not to mention that the thickness of people's faces is forced out, seeing that they can't hide, Chu Qiu simply gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, preparing to go into danger. Use your body to change yourself and your sister to a more stable buffer period, and always carry this most difficult day through it, and then talk about the rest.

In fact, she said this with another intention, if the landlord was not as squinting as he seemed, he might be annoyed and would drive him away. According to the contract, if the landlord takes the initiative to evict someone, the deposit must be refunded. Even if you can't return all of them, you can discuss them carefully and get a little more money back.

“…… Don't you regret it? Hong Tao had already taken the book back and was about to enter the house, but when he heard this, he immediately stopped again. He knew the predicament of the two sisters in his heart, if it weren't for Chu Qiu's mouth being too powerful, he wouldn't have pressed her with rent. I didn't expect this pressure to actually press out dry goods!

Squinted his eyes and looked at the West House first, but he didn't find the shadow of early summer, and immediately grinned at the corners of his mouth to show his trademark smile, and leaned his face forward, staring at each other with early autumn that was not too close and not too far away.

"What can you do if you regret it...... I won't hide it from you, the situation is all obvious. I'm not even sure when I'll find a job, and even if I go to work tomorrow, it's a month before I get paid. Or...... You refunded the deposit and let Xiaoxia finish this weekend, and I will find a house and move on Monday. Can you not tell Chu Xia, she is thin-skinned, if she knew that I was unemployed, she would definitely not continue to take the postgraduate entrance examination with peace of mind. I chose nursing school instead of university because my family was not very wealthy, and I didn't want to delay her whole life...... You're okay......"

Don't look at the early autumn and all kinds of people I have seen over the years, no matter how difficult the customer is, I have dealt with it, but when I met the landlord's little eyes, I didn't hold on for five seconds and quickly dodged away.

It's not eyes at all, it's a pair of hands, just by looking at it, you can rip off all your clothes, even your skin and muscles, and pierce them straight into your heart, forcing you to tell the truth.

"Don't even think about a penny of a deposit! You go around and inquire, the money is in my pocket of Hong Paoskin, who can take it out without dropping a piece of meat! But what you hear in the restaurant is true, I just celebrated my fiftieth birthday in June, and I made a big cake on that day. You two sisters said they would eat together at noon, but they ran away, right? It was my birthday cake, and 99.99999% of the people in the world didn't have the opportunity to enjoy it, and you didn't cherish it! ”

No matter how pitiful and affectionate Chu Qiu said, Hong Tao's heart did not fluctuate. Are they pitiful? It really deserves sympathy. But there are countless people in the world who are more pitiful than them and should still lend a helping hand, and the longer they live, the more they will see. If you see too much or experience too much things, you will be tired, or insensitive.

The little hope in the eyes of the early autumn of "......" suddenly dissipated without a trace, and there was no need to deliberately inquire, after moving over, the neighbors told them a lot of things about the landlord, intentionally or unintentionally. There are good and bad, but the vast majority are bad.

According to their description, this landlord is about to jump out of the category of people, how much lack of virtue and how much lack of morality, how vicious and vicious, only you can't think of it, you can't do it without him.

Of course, I must know that I can't believe all of these words, but I can't not believe them at all. But even if it is multiplied by ten times, the landlord's character doesn't seem to be high, not to mention scum, the title of a hooligan must be particularly suitable, or a sitting cannon and an old rascal!

It's really useless to reason with this kind of person, besides, the reason itself is not on his side, as long as the landlord is not happy, he really can't get a penny back, and he can not chase after Amitabha Buddha with some interest.

"However, I am still quite interested in your suggestion, but recently the doctor said that my kidneys are not very good, and it is not suitable to do yin and yang intermingling. This account will be hung up first, and when I get some tonic medicine for maintenance, when the kidney will be healed, when will it be cashed! You live in the house first, and add 500 yuan of interest every month, okay? ”

Seeing that the sparkle in early autumn's eyes was gone, Hong Tao was also satisfied. He is a greedy person, and he is even greedy for his sister and sister. But time has passed, and the mood of a fifty-year-old is definitely different from that of a thirty-year-old, including women.

Just now these words can only be regarded as a torturous play, there are fewer and fewer people who are willing to raise their bars and quarrel with themselves, and if they don't create an opportunity to find someone to say a few more words, I'm afraid that the mouth will degenerate, and it will be troublesome to get Alzheimer's disease again.

"Ah...... Oh...... No, no, no opinion...... "Chu Qiu was stunned for a few seconds before he came back to his senses, where is this old rascal, he is simply a living Bodhisattva, and he actually dragged the rent down indefinitely.

What old Chinese medicine and bad kidneys are, it's all. Two nights ago, the landlord brought back a girl in her twenties, tossed around in the house for half the night, and left until noon the next day. looks like a white-collar worker, the income should be good, skirts, high heels, and bags are all first-line brands.

The landlord didn't know what he was doing, and he would bring back a young girl in a similar outfit from time to time, but he rarely brought one person in a row, always changing around, and sometimes coming back in a luxury car, which was really incomprehensible.

As for the rent increase of 500 yuan a month, that is also deserved. If you are not related to your relatives and who borrows money, you can't give interest, and in this society, it's a great affection to lend you money, and you can't ask for more.

"Oh yes, and ah, you don't have to go to work anyway, and being idle is idle, and three meals a day in the morning, noon and evening is not a problem, right? I'll pay for the dishes, let's eat together...... With such a big yard, it's too lonely to eat alone! Come on, don't pretend to be pathetic to me, save your strength to go and say hello to your precious sister. If she mixes up in the future, she will be a white-eyed wolf if she doesn't treat you as her own mother! ”

Without waiting for the early autumn, Hong Tao turned around and left first, but stopped after taking two steps. Since the sisters can't even get the house money, the living expenses are estimated to be tight enough, and the sister is still unwilling to let the sister know, so she has good intentions.

Send the Buddha to the west, save people to the end, and even pay for the meal. Anyway, I have to eat by myself, and the food money of two people is no different from that of one person, and I can save the labor of three meals, so I should hire a nanny. This year, I want to find a young and beautiful nanny, and it is no fun to pay 20,000 yuan a month, which is really not a loss!

"This guy won't really take a fancy to me, will he...... But he's fifty years old...... Phew, I look like this at fifty years old, why don't I believe it! Hong Tao entered the house, and Chu Qiu was dumbfounded. The change was a bit sudden, and my mind was in turmoil.

Seeing that he is still alone in his early thirties, and the other half is far away, I am afraid that when I continue to graduate from graduate school, I am afraid that I will really become a yellow-faced woman that no one wants.

If you think so, the landlord should also be a good choice, and it is very likely that my sister will also stay in the capital to work after graduation, after all, there are many opportunities here. With this yard, even my sister has a place to stay, killing two birds with one stone.

But here's the problem, although I'm not a big girl, I'm also the first marriage, and I don't want to find an old man to make do until I have to. What if this guy is really fifty years old and his kidneys are really bad? Wouldn't I be a nurse again in the rest of my life, or obligation!

This problem has been plaguing the early autumn, and the sheep and scorpions at night have not eaten anything, and every time those little eyes stare at themselves, their hearts are empty, as if they have been seen through their minds.

But it's hard to avoid my sister on the side, so I can only endure it and immediately shrink back into the room after eating, and I don't even follow the landlord who took the early summer to the beach for a walk. It's impossible to drop this in normal times, let alone being alone, the landlord dares to get close to his sister, and he has to be closely monitored immediately.

"Brother Hong, is my sister sick?" Not only did Hong Tao see that early autumn was a little abnormal, but early summer also found it.

"She is tired, in the Beijing dialect, it is hard to earn money, and it is hard to eat. Now it's difficult in all industries, don't you see, even my house is empty. Study hard, find a good job in the future to earn more money, and let your sister rest and rest. ”

Hong Tao is not talking nonsense to fool the early summer, the early autumn is really tiring enough, selling the house and getting a commission is not a job that anyone can do, especially a pretty girl, I usually don't know how many grievances I have to endure, and how many tears I secretly shed to survive today.

"Hmm...... Originally, I didn't want to go to graduate school, but my sister said that it would be better to find a job after going to graduate school. She's amazing, she pinched me if she was a little disobedient, too violent! ”

In early summer, I have a good skin, and my studies are good, but this brain can't be said to be stupid, but it's not too bright. How much money can your sister make, and how much effort it takes to support you, she won't be able to look at words and looks. It's really a blessed life to be kept in the dark until now, but your sister has to suffer by nature.

"Walking over there today, I know a foreign trade clothing store, and he often sells big prices, let's go and see if we can pick up a bargain. Your sister said yesterday that she wanted to buy some seasonal clothes, do you know her size? ”

However, early summer also has a lot of advantages, such as being obedient, doing whatever my sister tells her to do, and rarely disobeying yin and yang. In addition, it is also relatively hard and simple, and there is no problem with comparison. I wore this shirt last year, I still wear it this year, and the jeans are old, so I have never complained about it, and I don't even bother about it.

"You know, she's one size smaller than me, but she's the size of her feet...... Ah, I didn't bring my phone, so why don't I go back and take my sister with me! "But there is no girl who doesn't like to dress up, and when she hears that she wants to buy clothes, she immediately laughs like a flower blooming at night in early summer.

"Let her rest for a while, I have money, I'll ask your sister to give it to me when I'm done buying it, and I can return it if I don't like it." Hong Tao only felt that the street lights were much brighter than usual at this time, and he could walk side by side with such a beautiful and dazzling girl for a while, listen to the laughter of young people, and spend some money without losing money.

Go to the song hall to find a singing companion, you can't do anything to eat and drink, and you still have to tip. The appearance is definitely not as good as in early summer, then this is called super value, and it is earned! This crooked, casually earn a few hundred, is there such a good thing in the world?

"Uncle Hong, why do you have kung fu today!" Hong Tao didn't tell all the nonsense, he did know the owner of a foreign trade clothing store, to be precise, he knew the boss's father, so this man in his early thirties had to call him uncle, so his seniority was not messy.

"I'm full...... What good goods are recommended to her, the old rules, all two folds! Hong Tao took the cigarette handed over by the shopkeeper, let Chu Xia go in and choose, and stopped outside the door and whispered to the boss.

"Hey, hey, understood...... Today's this is amazing, and it's the secretary of the big boss? "It's not the first time that the shopkeeper has received this Uncle Hong and brought a little girl to pretend to pick up leaks, and he has already become proficient in the routine.

However, he also wondered in his heart, if he can drive a big boss's sports car out, and he can also be a big boss's little secretary, why is he reluctant to go to the brand store to consume, and he has to go to his own small store to pretend to be his grandson, which picture is the same.

"Not this time, she's my tenant, a college student. By the way, if she comes back in the future, you have to wake up, don't be too dark, the difference will be calculated together when I come! Hong Tao didn't hide it, as long as he was happy in early summer this time, he would definitely have to bring early autumn with him, and he couldn't show his stuffing at that time.

"Don't worry, I understand...... My dad kept saying he wanted to get you together, why don't I give him a call? ”

The shopkeeper is precocious about this set, and all the girls brought by Uncle Hong will come to see it again. Of course, they don't have a two-fold treatment when they come alone, how much should they cost, not a penny less, and they have to go up if they have the opportunity. It's all the secretary of the big boss, it's really not bad for these money, it's not a pit!

"Another day, I just ate a sheep scorpion at night, and it's a bit supportive. You go and get busy, don't just talk to me, or your daughter-in-law will be unhappy again! Hong Tao nodded at first, and then shook his head again.

The shopkeeper's father is an old friend, and he hasn't seen each other for almost two years, so it's time to find a chance to get together. But it's not today, there are still a few friends I haven't seen for a long time, and if you want to get together, you can call them all together.

I came out at less than seven o'clock, and I didn't go back until nine o'clock, and I came three times in the early autumn during this time, and I was not at ease. As soon as I got home, I was even more uneasy, looking at the clothes and shoes carried by my sister in a large bag and a small bag, I said that it was good and cheap, but in my eyes I fired a surface-to-ground missile and an armor-piercing warhead at the landlord!

Hong Tao's armor is top-notch, his face does not change color and his heart does not beat, if it weren't for the early autumn blocking the door of the house and not dodging, he would also plan to go into the house to comment on the aesthetic vision of early summer.

"Alas, what a cabbage...... The age gap is a bit bigger...... This fucking blind when you don't want to cross, you want to cross, you have to spend it with me. Come on, uncle, I'll go through this sleep quickly, I can't bear it here. You don't want to see me being treated like a freak and sent to a medical institution for dissection! ”

If you don't let in, don't let you in, Hong Tao went back to the house to play computer games for a while, took a shower and lay down early, remembered one more thing before closing his eyes, and began to chant at Fang Liang for the Nth time.

He firmly believes that someone is staring at him in the sky, even if he is hiding under the roof, he can still hear every word, as long as he insists on saying and scolding every day, he can't keep that sentence working.