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"Dad has to go to work tomorrow, so you can ask a few classmates to find a car and move the house first, and grandma won't let her do things."
"Okay, anyway, it's not far from my new home, so I asked two classmates to move in by ourselves, and we don't need to look for a car."
"Then you can do it, call me when you ask for money."
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It's been more than a year since we last moved, and the living environment of our family of three has changed from a small room of more than ten square meters to a room of more than sixty square meters. And today, we're moving again.
The three of us now live in a duplex building, one family has two floors, the first floor is the living room, kitchen and bathroom, and the second floor is two rooms, the partition between the two floors is very thin, basically you can hear any sound below. In Shanghai, this kind of duplex building will generally be a commercial and residential building, which means that the water and electricity are higher, which is basically about twice that of the normal residential building, but at the same time, the rent will be cheaper than the normal residential building, because the quality and environment are still too poor compared to the residential building.
The new home is not far from where we live now, that is, a little more than a road away, and it is not more than a kilometer away. It was a house in a neighborhood, it was a residential building, I had seen it before, the house was very large, the living room was more than twice as big as the house I live in now, and the sound insulation was much better than here, there were three rooms. In my impression, with our family's income and assets, we should not be able to afford to live in such a good house, but there is a room here that the landlord wants to put things that he can't take away, so it means that the house we borrowed is a two-bedroom apartment, and the price naturally drops a lot.
Today is the day of school return, and I am 13 years old and I have been promoted to the eighth grade of junior high school. My dad told me about moving yesterday afternoon, so I looked for my classmates last night, and we just waited until we went back after school today to start moving.
On the bus back, I called the two classmates I had told me to help last night, and why they didn't come to school because they had been picked up by their parents before I could find them.
"Crooked, Hadron, when are you going to come over?"
"I suddenly have something I can't go to, you can find someone else."
"Okay, I'll take a look at it then."
"Gigi ~ Come and help me move!!!!"
"Ah, my mother suddenly didn't let me go out, and told me to prepare the materials for school at home, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
"Pinch the damn, okay, then I'll see if I can call someone else."
I heard that the two people who said good last night couldn't come, and I didn't want to force it, so I flipped through the friend list, and it seemed that no one could come. I leaned my head against the car window, and the air conditioner above my head blew directly through my head, blowing into my heart and calming my irritability a little. I'm starting to wonder how to move today, or move alone? Forget it, there are a lot of things, this has to be moved to tomorrow, and the landlord has stipulated that you must move out today. Looking for a moving company on the fly? Tsk, don't want to spend that money. I thought about it for a long time, but I still didn't think about it.
I got out of the car and I was walking on the road, someone tapped me from behind, I turned my head, and a girl walked side by side with me.
"Hey, do you have something to do in the afternoon?"
"It's nothing, what's wrong."
"Then help me move?"
"Where are you going to move and come back?"
"It's not far, it's the neighborhood opposite."
"Okay, then I'll go back and ask my mom later, and I'll go up to you if she agrees."
"Okay, send me a message if you can't come."
Her name is Yingqiu, she suddenly appeared beside me more than half a year ago, in the same school as me, in the same grade, in different classes, at first I didn't want to pay attention to her, so I had a cold face for a long time, but for more than half a year, I have become familiar with me by constantly taking the initiative to talk to me and constantly entertain guests. On the other hand, she lives in the same building as me, and sometimes meets her in the elevator.
We walked to the elevator together, the two elevators that originally carried hundreds of families broke one today, we waited in line for a long time but could only squeeze one more person, so I let Yingqiu go up first. After watching the elevator close, I thought that the next elevator might take more than ten minutes, and I was a little impatient, so I chose to climb the 12 floors and go home.
When I went upstairs, I saw someone standing in front of my house, and I thought it was the landlord who had come to urge me to move out, but when I got closer, I realized that it was my grandmother.
"What are you doing standing in the doorway?" I am puzzled by this.
"You call your dad, and the landlord changed the code of the door lock, and the original code can't be opened."
"What are you doing, didn't you say you would move out today?" At this time, I was really irritated and wanted to have a set of quintessence exports, "Okay, I see, I'll ask him." ”
After that, I made a phone call to my dad, and he asked me to call the lock picking company first, and he didn't tell me anything else, but I had no choice but to do it. The locksmith said that he would arrive within half an hour, which was so normal that it could not be normal to come to the door but made me feel anxious, after all, in my eyes, the old man was almost eighty, but there was no place to sit on it.
"What are you doing standing in the doorway?" The crisp girl sounded, which calmed me down a little.
"Your mom agreed?" I don't think she's breathing well, so she should have climbed straight up from the sixth floor.
"Well, agreed, so why are you standing in the doorway with your grandmother?"
"I can't get in after the password is changed, and I'm waiting for the lock to be unlocked."
"Hongyu, this little girl is your classmate?" My grandmother asked from the side.
"Well, you're here to help me move things."
"Hello grandma, I..."
"How do you solve lunch?"
"I don't know, my mom told me to look at it myself."
"Then wait a minute, the door opens, you will have lunch with us first?"
"Okay."
After that, the two of them have been chatting, chatting about homely things, chatting about me, Yingqiu, she also said that I was "pidgin" first, as a Shanghainese who grew up in Shanghai, I really didn't know what "pidgin" meant, so I couldn't even refute it. But the first thing I heard was not a good word! (Pidgin roughly means that Shanghainese is not authentic)
As soon as you said a word, we quickly passed a full hour, and the locksmith who had said that he would arrive in half an hour did not arrive, and the phone call did not answer, which made me a little angry. But fortunately, at this time, my father called me, saying that the landlord gave us the password, but the requirement was that we must move out today, and it will not wait for the expiration date.
"Okay, the password is here, but I'm going to finish moving it today."
As I spoke, I opened the door, and after helping up the old man who was already sitting on the ground, I said to the girl who had been standing with us for an hour,
"Please, by the way, can you eat the flat-tipped roast pork?"
"I'm not a picky eater."
Hearing this, I was a little relieved, and when I saw her looking around and stepping into the house, I was about to close the door, but I suddenly felt that the door could not be closed, what if the landlord changed the password within today? I walked over to the table, pulled out a chair for Yingqiu to sit on, and then picked up the other one and placed it in front of the door.
"Alright, now it's time to eat."
At this time, my grandmother had already brought the dishes to the table, "Little girl, do you want to cut the rice?" ”
"One little is enough."
"Hongyu, you want to cut down?"
"Half a bowl is enough."
And then as I expected, Yingqiu's "little bit" became what I thought was "a bowl", and I wanted "a bowl" to be too much, and there was no way, this is the love of the elders.
I didn't eat two bites after I started eating, and someone knocked on the door.
"Hello, did you call to pick the lock?"
"Yes, but this time is not right, the half hour I said is now an hour and a half, and I have made several calls and have not answered." I spoke with a hint of anger.
"The elevator downstairs is broken, I've been queuing ......"
"Alright, you can go, this door doesn't need to be opened." He hadn't finished his sentence yet, but the more than an hour of waiting had obviously worn out my patience.
"We have stipulated that the door-to-door fee will be charged 50, and it will be difficult for me to leave directly."
"It took you more than an hour to arrive in half an hour, and the old man stood here for more than an hour, and you don't need to open the door to collect money from me?" At this, I put down the bowl in my hand, and my voice gradually became louder.
The locksmith's face was a little embarrassed, he was obviously not the kind of master who couldn't cope with my intense emotions at this time. But in the end, he still tried to communicate with me, "But the company stipulates that no matter whether you open the door or not, you will be charged 50 yuan, and I don't want to be late, the elevator is broken, and I have such a long queue downstairs." ”
"I'll give you 20 if you want to, take it if you want, and leave if you don't!"
"This can't be done, the company has to set 50."
"Don't just leave!" Yingqiu looked at my angry face a little overwhelmed, and the change in her eyes made it even more difficult to guess what she was thinking.
In the end, my grandmother couldn't help but come out to be a peacemaker, "Hongyu, don't argue, young man, I'll give you the 50 yuan." With that, she took out a stack of change from her pocket, counted out 50 dollars, and handed it to him. I didn't know what I was thinking, I watched my grandmother hand him the money, and I didn't speak, in fact, I silently picked up the bowl and continued to eat the meal I had just finished.
The locksmith got the money and left relieved, and I listened to the pace of his departure gradually calmed down, ready to deal with the big bags and small bags all over the house.