I followed my cousin's address, changed two buses, and walked two or three miles before I found my cousin's place in a dilapidated alley.

When my cousin came back from the Chinese New Year, she was dressed very brightly, and her gestures made people feel that she was very successful outside, and she also told me a lot of interesting things she encountered in Shanghai, in my impression, she was like a white-collar worker in a TV series, living in a high-rise building, mixed in the high-end workplace, surrounded by handsome men and beautiful women, and the kind of domineering president from time to time to point out the country.

I looked up at the old attic that had been weathered for at least a hundred years, and it didn't match what I imagined.

My cousin told me that she lived on the third floor, and I climbed up the creaking wooden staircase with a light step, for fear that I would collapse it if I stepped on it too hard.

It is said to be the third floor, but in fact, the owner of the house temporarily built a simple house on the original building, and the wall is the kind of discarded wooden box board of the construction site, which is used for pouring concrete. I have dismantled the boxes on the construction site, and most of them are better for recycling, and the missing corners or cracks are kicked out and thrown away as garbage.

The further I went, the lower my heart became, and the illusions I had at home were shattered.

I originally thought that my cousin had mixed well in Shanghai in the past two years, and how could I have a relatively high starting point if I defected to her, but I never thought that under her glamorous appearance, she would be such an existence in Shanghai.

Maybe I'm thinking complicated, and where I live is not necessarily related to what she is like.

Before I could climb to the third floor, I heard my cousin calling out to me: "Xiao Xu, have you arrived?" Come on. ”

My cousin, who was wearing pajamas, happily took my hand when she saw me and dragged me to the attic.

The entrance was a narrow aisle with two small wooden doors on the other side, and my cousin let me into a south-facing room.

I actually have no sense of direction, and the reason why I say southward is because through the glass of the small wooden window, I can see the sun rising overhead.

"You stay with me for a few days first, and when you find a job, you will usually arrange a place to live, and I will go and squeeze with my sisters for a few days."

The room is still clean, and there are many girls' knick-knacks that add warmth to the simple room out of thin air.

"Cousin, can't you squeeze with others? Or I'll go find a job in the afternoon. ”

"How can it be so easy to find a job, you live first, I will help you ask about work, you have nothing to go to the intermediary, and there is a suitable job."

I put my bag on a small stool next to the bed and told my cousin that I needed to take a shower and rolled under the seat of the train for the night, with dirt and a sour smell on my body.

My cousin ran out and pushed open the door on the opposite side to take a look, and when she came back, she said to me: "Lina is still sleeping, you go to the bathroom next to you to wash, I'll help you watch it, Lina didn't know you were coming, and when she got up after a while, she saw a naked man taking a bath, and she was probably scared to death." ”

Only then did I realize that there was a girl living across the street, and they shared a bathroom.

My cousin gave me a bath towel, I took a change of clothes from my bag, went out and saw the door on the opposite side closed, looked back at my cousin standing at the door, and then walked through the aisle and went to the bathroom she said to take a shower.

There was a washing machine in the small bathroom, a homemade wooden shelf with some toiletries, a simple washbasin, the toilet was pitifully crowded in the corner, and there was a shower head above the toilet, which was said to be a toilet, but the space that could accommodate me was too small, but fortunately, I was still thin at that time, and I could barely move freely.

As soon as I took off my clothes and turned on the faucet, I heard another girl talking outside: "Zhang Li, someone is coming?" I heard movement in the bathroom. ”

The bathroom was next door to hers, and she heard the sound of rushing water presumably through the plank wall.

"Lina, my cousin, came to look for a job, stay here for two days temporarily, he's taking a shower, do you want to use the bathroom? I told him to hurry. ”

"Man, I can't help it, you let him wrap up a little, I want to pee."

I heard them clearly.

I was covered in soap foam, and the key was such a small space, and she ran in with a girl, and I didn't even have a place to hide.

What kind of woman is so violent, they all say that they are men, and they have to break in.

Cousin: "You bear with me for another minute, I'll let him come out first." ”

"Oh, isn't it your cousin, and he's not an outsider, just cover his eyes."

"Lina! Hold back, I'll call him. ”

Where would I wait for her to call me, I rushed out of my body and wrapped in a bath towel.

Fortunately, my cousin's bath towel was big enough, although it was embarrassing, it would not go away.

When I got to the door, Lina had already rushed out in her nightgown and hit me headlong, and the bath towel suddenly missed and slipped down.

Lina glanced up at me and nodded at me: "Cousin, I'll be fast, you can continue to wash later." ”

She hurried into the bathroom, completely ignoring me naked, and made me want to find a crack in the floor.

My cousin smiled and leaned back, I hurriedly squatted on the ground and picked up the bath towel and wrapped it around my waist, glared and said to my cousin, "You are happy to see me make a fool of yourself, aren't you?" ”

"My brother has really grown up and knows how to be shy."

After saying that, he continued to laugh.

I hurried into the room and rolled my eyes at my cousin.

I grew up with my cousin, and I don't have secrets in her eyes, but that doesn't mean I'm so honest in front of other girls, right?

My cousin went back to the house and closed the door, held back a smile and said, "It's okay, Lina and I are good sisters, and my brother is her brother, so what's shy." ”

"After you took a shower, we went down to eat, and after sitting in the car for so long, you were hungry, right?"

She didn't say that it was okay, but she said that I was really hungry, so I nibbled on two dried steamed buns on the way, drank a bottle of water, and my stomach gurgled.

I packed myself up, my cousin got dressed up, and she went to call Lina to the door.

Lina answered, and it took a long time to come out.

I followed my cousin and said hello to Lina, and I still had the great embarrassment just now, so I quickly lowered my head after saying hello.

As if something had happened, Lina smiled brightly, stared at me with a small dimple on one side and a pair of talking eyes, and said, "Cousin is quite handsome, huh?" Do you have a girlfriend? Do you want to think about the beauty in front of you? ”

The cousin reached out and pinched her: "Can you do it?" Want to win it when you see a handsome guy? ”

"Isn't this that fertilizer and water don't flow into the fields of outsiders? Is it not good to digest internally in your own people? ”

"Day by day, my brother has just graduated, and he hasn't entered the society yet, so you have to frighten him like this."

"Hey, what age is this, there are no girls in college, don't fall in love, maybe my cousin has read countless girls in school, and he is better than you and me."

I couldn't blush, although I did fall in love, and I wasn't a virgin, but I couldn't match the countless women I told her.

My cousin hurriedly dragged her downstairs, temporarily relieving my embarrassment.

Cousin: "Let me tell you, he is an honest person, you can't be so insignificant." ”

"I know, I must be gentle with him, it's all right?"

Cousin: "Are you finished?" Either you eat it yourself, and we won't go with you. ”

"Okay, can't I stop talking? I finally rubbed you a meal, and I had to kill you well. ”