My 26-year-old Female Tenant

  After eating at Alin Hotel, I wandered around the streets of Suzhou at night with my guitar and Le Yao on my back. Fallen leaves, cold wind, light and shadow, and towering buildings make up the city in the appearance of late autumn.

Light a cigarette, enjoy the smog blurred after food and clothing, can't help but look back at the city frequently, and when I really want to leave, I realize that I don't hate it so much, and even have some reluctance, at least it once recorded my life Youth and life, including love, I understand here: thinking about a person is called loneliness, and here I understand: if the love of two people is sublimated into marriage, it is called love, if only memories are left, it is just love. A legend, a legend that makes people lonely and lonely.

  Tired from walking, Le Yao and I sat on the bench by the street, we were silent for a while, and I finally asked Le Yao, "How about you, how have you been recently?"

  Le Yao shook her head in a daze, and said, "It's not good as usual, but I never gave up trying."

  I nodded and didn't know how to answer Le Yao's words for a while, because I could understand what she said. When she said that she didn't give up her efforts, she was actually asking me why I gave up my efforts.

   After a brief silence, Le Yao asked me: "How do you plan to live when you return to Xuzhou?"

I took a deep breath on the cigarette, thought for a while before answering, and said, "It would be best if my dad is willing to arrange a job for me in his unit. If not, I can find a job by myself, and find someone to work with Women who live a life are waiting for birth, old age, sickness and death in the end."

   "Don't subjectively arrange your life so far, life is full of variables, isn't it?"

   "Actually, I would rather see the end of my life at a glance."

  Le Yao smiled and said, "That's why you imagined a crystal clear city as your sustenance."

   "Yes, only crystal clear can see the furthest distance without any obstacles."

   "Maybe we really are not the same kind of people!" Le Yao exclaimed.

   "Yes, you have to swim across a piece of sea to reach the island with cooking smoke in your fantasy, so you have to experience more than crystal clear."

Le Yao suddenly looked at me as if she understood something, and said after a long time: "Do you feel that we are like two stars destined not to appear together, I am at the end of the sea, and you are at the edge of the sky, echoing from afar but never leaving close?"

  I didn’t respond, I just looked into the distance, and in a trance, I seemed to really see the city in the sky and a beach echoing in the distance, but they couldn’t get close to each other.

This night, Le Yao and I hugged and bid farewell. Maybe after leaving Suzhou, we will really go further and further in the direction we each expected. After all, one day we will no longer remember that we once had a lingering night. Maybe life is Consisting of countless forgettings, and finally forgetting everything in death.

  …

  The time has moved forward for another three days. In these two days, apart from eating, sleeping, and going to the bathroom, the only thing I do is to bring each tenant to see the bachelor apartment I am renting now.

  This afternoon, I brought a total of three tenants to look at the house, but all of them failed to negotiate for one reason or another. The last one who came was a couple who had just graduated from college.

  The two held hands and looked at the room back and forth, and finally felt that it was not bad. The boy asked me: "How do you plan to rent this room?"

   "One bet pays three, a total of 50 yuan."

  The boy and the girl looked at each other and whispered a few words, the boy said to me again: "You wiped off the 0 yuan change, we want this room."

"Little brother, 0 yuan is not a small change. If I hadn't left in a hurry, I wouldn't have given you this price." I said without any room for negotiation. Of course, this is my truth. I rented it for 5,600 yuan at the beginning. Yes, it's only been less than a week.

  Boys and girls whispered again, this time the girl said to me: "50 is fine, but we're moving here tonight, do you think it's okay?"

  I weighed it up and said, "Yes, if there are no other questions, we can sign the contract now."

  Boys and girls nodded to indicate that there was no problem, and I immediately went to the house and took out the house sublet contract that had been drawn up earlier.

While the two were looking at the contract, my cell phone rang again. I subconsciously thought it was another call to ask to see the house. I took out the cell phone from my pocket and unexpectedly found out that it was from Mi Cai, whom I hadn’t contacted for several days. .

This phone call made me have mixed feelings. I used to bully this woman without limit, but because of this woman, I lost the job prospect I had so hard to win in this city. Maybe we are really destined to be enemies, even though we have a little time Kind of like a friend.

  I walked out of the house and connected to the phone. The two of them had a tacit understanding and waited for the other to speak first.

  In the silence, I finally couldn't hold back and said: "You call me, why don't you talk?"

  Mi Cai seemed to hear me suddenly: "Ah!...Excuse me, I was looking at the file, I didn't know it was connected!"

   "Oh, you seem to be very busy. Aren't you a building manager of Zhuomei? Not so busy, are you?" I knew Mi Cai was the CEO of Zhuomei but said nonsense.

  Mi Cai didn't care about my nonsense, she smiled and said, "It's quite busy, but it's almost over."

   "Oh, tell me, what are you calling me for? Is there a leak somewhere in my room that you took over?"

   "No, I got off work early today, didn't you say that I can have dinner at your place?"

  I was a little surprised. I told Mi Cai that, but I didn't expect her to come. Could it be that we can really be friends after we no longer have disputes over that room?

  Seeing that I hadn't spoken for a long time, Mi Cai asked, "Is it not possible, or are you not confident in your cooking skills?"

  I came back to my senses and asked Mi Cai: "What do you think of my dad's cooking skills?"

"great!"

   "Have you ever heard that a tiger father has no dogs? Come on, I'll show you tonight, so you won't think I'm worthless!"

   "Okay, I'll be there later."

   "Well, go to the supermarket to buy whatever dishes you like, I don't provide the ingredients."

  I thought Mi Cai would call me stingy, but she just said "OK" and hung up the phone.

  …

  I went back to the house, and the young couple over there had already signed the contract and signed their names.

I took the handed over contract and said to the two in a negotiating tone: "Negotiate something with you. I have a friend who will come to dinner later. I can't move out tonight. I will give you a discount of 0 yuan." , as compensation for you, okay?"

  Boys and girls began to bite their ears and whisper, I was a little speechless, this young couple really treat each other like guests, and they have to discuss with each other about trivial matters.

  I waited for a long time, and the two finally discussed it. The boy said to me: "It's 400 cheaper!"

  I frowned, and said, "Little brother, you have to be kind, 0 yuan is enough for the two of you to find a hotel for one night, and you still have spare money to eat some supper."

   "The contract has been signed, and now we have the right to use this house. You are not cheap 400, and we will not agree to your request."

   "**..." I habitually swear.

  Boys and girls seemed frightened by me, and looked at me with frightened faces.

  I said a little funny: "You two are so timid, don't be like those social scoundrels playing tricks on you!"

  The boy finally had the courage to say: "Who made you refuse to give us 0 yuan cheaper just now..."

  I hate sissies the most in my life, so I interrupted him impatiently and said, "Okay, stop competing, 400, right, I promise you."

  The boy and the girl looked at each other again, as if they had picked up a huge bargain, they were overjoyed and took out the money from the bag, counted 4800 yuan and gave it to me.

  I gave them a copy of the housing sublet contract, and gave them a key, and they left afterward.

  Without thinking about it, I picked up the mop and cleaned the house to welcome Mi Cai. After Le Yao, God gave me another chance to say goodbye to Mi Cai.