Chen Xiang took a train for more than ten hours to Beijing, and all that accompanied him along the way was loneliness and despair, and the air in the car was so stuffy that he couldn't breathe. After getting off the train, Chen Xiang found a public phone and called his cousin's own brother--- that is, his cousin. My cousin told him to wait at the phone booth and not to wander around, and it was about two hours before his cousin arrived at the train station.

Chen Xiang's cousin came by car, except to confirm whether he was "Chen Xiang" when they met, and along the way, his mother's legendary "rich and capable" cousin didn't say anything to him, and took him directly to their residence. The cousin's dullness gave Chen Xiang a strange feeling, and he only felt a wave of humiliation creeping up in his heart, and his young self-esteem felt like it had been stabbed.

At his cousin's house, Chen Xiang saw his cousin in his distant impression, and his current cousin was a little more foreign than his impression: his hair was dyed yellow, and after being permed, it was fluffy and fluffy on the top of his head, like a ripe mushroom. The grass-yellow hair makes the originally not white face even more sub-healthy. My cousin was a little taller than I remembered, no, it was much taller, because, this time, his cousin was wearing a pair of sky-high heels.

It's just that my cousin, who is already short and thin, looks extremely weird and indescribably awkward when she wears these high heels. Chen Xiang muttered to himself, "It's really ugly and ugly." He didn't think about it, the "ugly" and "ugly" mean the same thing, and he really hated it in his heart, and the two words muttered together.

Dinner was eaten in a restaurant, and my cousin paid for a shredded pork with Beijing sauce, a scrambled egg with leeks, and a gnocchi soup, which cost dozens of yuan, but for him, this meal was already very good, but he didn't have the heart to taste it.

During the meal, his cousin squinted and said to him, "It's not early today, after eating, rest first." Tomorrow morning, I'll take you to my printing house. You'll be there to work from now on. The cousin's voice sounded a little stiff, as if he had grasped that Chen Xiang had nowhere to go, and it sounded a little arrogant.

Chen Xiang replied "yes" and stopped making a sound, only buried his head in eating rice, thinking wildly in his heart.

The cousin said to his brother, "Zhang Xia will ask for leave tomorrow, did I tell you?" The cousin replied in his unwarm voice, "I see, she called me, she is going to take the child to see the teeth tomorrow." They're talking about work. Chen Xiang has no mental awareness. To be honest, he didn't have a good impression of this cousin, not to mention the fat and short figure, and the two small eyes squeezed on the fat face, looking too shrewd.

The meal was completed in this cold and weird atmosphere, Chen Xiang didn't know how the two of them usually got along, and in his feeling, the brother's attitude towards his sister didn't have much intimacy.

In the evening, Chen Xiang's cousin deliberately arranged for him to live with his cousin, and the cousin said this: "You two can stay here at night, and I will come to pick you up tomorrow morning and take you to the factory." When he spoke, his voice was flat and did not have a trace of heat, as if the leader was condescending to give instructions. Chen Xiang was very disgusted in his heart, but he also knew that people did not respect him, they knew that his family was poor, and they started to cultivate him as a brother-in-law.

Chen Xiang didn't say anything, and when he and his cousin were the only ones left in the house, he asked the cousin, "Is there any other place to live?" Where can I take a bath, I'll take a shower and rest. The cousin stared at him, rolled her eyes a little cloudy and said, "There is no land, just such a place, let's live together, didn't your parents tell you?" The bathroom is next to it, I'll take you to take a shower. ”

When Chen Xiang heard this, he froze: "Is there such an open woman?" Speak so boldly and directly! He suspected that there was something wrong with his cousin, how could there be a woman who had never been married and met for the first time, and spoke so explicitly? Thinking about it in his heart, he felt scared, and he hurriedly said quietly: "Then I'll stay in the hotel tonight." I'll come back tomorrow. Take me to the hotel. ”

Seeing that he didn't want to live with him, his cousin felt that Chen Xiang was disgusting her, so he said coldly: "Then you can go by yourself, when you go out of the gate of the community, there is a cheap guest house on the right." She emphasized the word "cheap", Chen Xiang knew that she was telling the truth to herself, she couldn't afford to live in an expensive place, but when she heard it in her ears, she still felt harsh.

Chen Xiang cursed in his heart, but there was room for him to say: "Then I'll go over first, and I'll come back tomorrow morning to go to the factory with my cousin." After that, without waiting for his cousin to respond, Chen Xiang carried his duffel bag, went out, and closed the door with him.

At this time, he noticed that this was an old community, and the floors seemed to be only five or six floors, while his cousin and cousin lived on the first floor, and the houses in this neighborhood looked dilapidated, with cardboard boxes stacked haphazardly on the windows, and two or three plates of flowers on the windowsills, but more clothes were hung. Walking out of the community, turning right, I saw a guest house, and there was an acrylic light sign hanging at the door of the guest house, flashing five big red characters of "Happy Guest House".

Chen Xiang has never lived in a hotel, nor has he lived in a guest house, in his opinion, a guest house is a hotel, and the two are the same thing. He didn't know what the price of the hotel at home usually was, he thought that this was Beijing, and the hotel cost must be much more expensive than in his hometown. He hoped that it would not be too expensive, so that he could live for two or three days, get a little familiar, and then think of countermeasures. He didn't want to live with his cousin.

Chen Xiang walked to the reception desk and saw a man and a woman at the reception desk, of the same age, both in their early 40s, chatting. The waitress saw the guest and greeted him warmly: "Hello, are you staying in a hotel?" Chen Xiang coughed lightly and asked with a pretending to be old-fashioned, "Hmm." How much is the cheapest? The waitress said, "It's 30 yuan." Cheapest, single bed. ”

Chen Xiang lives alone, and it is not important to him whether the single bed is single or not, the important thing is that the rent is cheap. He felt the few thin bills in his pocket and said, "Well, get a 30 dollar room." Stay for 3 days. ”

"Take your ID card."

Chen Xiang took out his ID card from his jacket pocket and handed it to the waiter. The waitress seriously looked at the avatar on the ID card and then at Chen Xiang, and copied Chen Xiang's ID card information onto a yellow-covered notebook with a black carbon pen.

"Pay a deposit of 100 yuan, 30 yuan a day, a total of 190 yuan." The waiter said quickly.

"Here, it's 200 yuan."

Chen Xiang took out two hundred-yuan bills and handed them to the waitress. The waitress took out two five-dollar tickets from the drawer and gave them to him, and said, "Follow me." With that, the waitress picked up a hollow annular wooden board with a bunch of keys hanging from the table and led Chen Xiang to room 307 on the third floor. When I opened the room, I saw nothing but a bed, a table, and a chair.

"This key is for you, don't lose it, return it when you check out. If you lose it, you have to accompany 20 yuan. The waitress explained.

"Oh." Chen Xiang agreed, took the key, closed the door, and carefully put the key in the middle of the table, he didn't dare to lose the key worth 20 yuan.

I took off my shoes and lay down on the bed, feeling lonely and helpless in a foreign land for a while. At this time, Chen Xiang didn't have any thoughts, and he couldn't come up with any opinions, and the only thing he had was that he decided not to marry his cousin. However, it is certainly impossible to go back. How can I stay in Beijing?