My 26-year-old Female Tenant

   At 7:30 in the evening, the doorbell finally rang. Wearing slippers, I ran to open the door, and the person standing outside the door was Mi Cai who had made an appointment to have dinner.

  Mi Cai was holding a huge convenience bag in her hand. I took it from her and took a look. There were some vegetables and meat in it, as well as a bottle of red wine and a bottle of fruit juice.

  Mi Cai said to me: "The red wine is for you, and I will drink the juice."

   "What's the matter with drinking some red wine with me, I'm afraid that if we drink too much, am I plotting against you?"

   "I didn't say that, I just don't have the habit of drinking."

  I smiled and complained: "You are really boring, I just want to take advantage of you with words, why don't you cooperate at all?"

   "Why should I cooperate with your obscenity."

   "Dirty is a good word, sometimes I really feel that I am not very noble."

  Mi Cai looked at me speechlessly, apparently not knowing how to answer my words.

  I closed the door and said to Mi Cai: "Sit down for a while, I will cook, and you can sit back and enjoy the achievements later."

  Mi Cai shook her head and said to me: "I can help you with what I can."

   "It's not a couple's lung slice, why do you want to help me as much as you can!" I said and walked into the kitchen with the bag.

  Mi Cai looked at me wordlessly again.

  …

  I work in the kitchen on both sides, one dish takes ten minutes on average, and all the stir-fried dishes are ready in about fifty minutes. At the same time, the bone soup that is simmering in the pot is also ready at the same time, and the timing is perfect.

  At this time, Mi Cai, who had been idle all this time, finally came in handy. She came to the kitchen and brought the prepared meals to the table as best she could.

  Turn on all the lights in the house, so the small dining room was brightly lit. I took off my apron and sat opposite the rice color. I drank red wine, she drank fruit juice, but it was not a candlelight dinner.

  I said to Mi Cai who was eager to try: "Shall we have a toast first, or should you try my craft first?"

   "I'll try your handicraft first." Mi Cai said as she put a piece of sweet and sour fish into her mouth, tasted it, nodded and praised: "Not bad, your handicraft is not bad."

   "That's right, I said that the tiger father has no dogs." I said with a little pride.

   "It's hard to imagine that you can cook, and you can do it well. When did you learn this?" Mi Cai asked and looked at me curiously.

  I replied while eating: "Our father said that I was wild and had a bad temper, so he forced me to learn to cook when I was very young, saying that I can cultivate my body and mind, and I will be able to please my wife in the future!"

  Mi Cai ignored my implication and asked me: "Your father?"

   "That's right, I call me Dad, Dad, haven't you heard me call me that before?"

   "Didn't pay much attention, why did you call him daddy?"

  I explained patiently, and said: "Because he is old-fashioned, not only I call him Ban Dae, but his colleagues also call him Ban Ke, but he always thought I called him My Dad...haha...!"

Mi Cai was also amused by me, and said for a long time: "You are really hurt, even my father will not let go!" After saying that, her expression suddenly darkened, and I suddenly realized that she remembered the accident that happened to me in the car accident. The deceased father, Mi Zhongxin, finally understood why she was full of kindness towards Ban Dad.

  I raised my glass and said to Mi Cai: "Let's stop talking too much, let's clink a glass and celebrate that we have the opportunity to turn hostility into friendship."

  Mi Cai nodded, picked up her own juice and lightly clinked a glass with me, then took a sip, smiled at me again, and got rid of the gloom and depression just now.

  …

  Dinner continued. I had already drank two glasses of red wine, while Mi Cai only drank half a glass of fruit juice.

  I looked at Mi Cai with a complicated expression for a long time, and finally put down the wine glass in my hand and said to her, "I'm going back to my hometown tomorrow."

   "What's the matter, are you going on vacation?" Mi Cai asked indifferently.

   "No, I'm going back to my hometown to live. My job here has already quit."

  Mi Cai looked at me, put down the chopsticks in her hand, and asked in surprise, "I resigned! Did something happen at home?"

No wonder Mi Cai was surprised, because a few days ago she accompanied me to rent the single apartment I live in now, but she didn't know that I was struggling at the time, and although I was struggling, I didn't have the idea of ​​leaving. But when I finally chose to tell her about Mi Zhongde's power conspiracy in an anonymous letter, my fate of leaving this city was irreversible.

I smiled and said to Mi Cai: "You know, I don't have a serious job, and I'm not too young, so I really don't have much time to continue struggling in this rootless city. , so.....going home to live a stable life is also a good choice, people, especially adults, must learn to make the most correct judgment on their environment.”

   Mi Cai nodded and agreed with my words, but she didn’t say too much. We are not people from the same world, and we are destined to live a life that does not understand each other and cannot penetrate each other.

I raised my glass to Mi Cai again, and Mi Cai raised the wine glass to beckon to me. I nodded and drank half of the glass of red wine in one gulp. An emotion that could not be expressed in words filled my body together with the wine. Come.

  …

The dinner ended with a few words between Mi Cai and I. When Mi Cai was about to leave, I took out all the cash on me. Some of the cash was my salary, and some of it was transferred. The money I got after renting this single apartment is 10,318 yuan in total. After paying off the 10,016 yuan from Mi Cai, I have 302 yuan left, and this 302 yuan is the last thing I got after struggling in this city for more than two years.

  I put the money on the table, carefully counted out 10016 yuan from a pile of scattered coins and handed it to Mi Cai, saying: "Hey, return your money."

Mi Cai looked at me, and then I took the stack of money ranging from one hundred to one yuan, but unexpectedly pulled out 16 yuan from it and handed it to me, saying: "I like round numbers. "

  I looked at Mi Cai in surprise, and didn't reach out to pick it up, but she had already put the loose 16 yuan on the table, and then put another stack of money into her handbag.

   "It's getting late, I have to go back." Mi Cai said to me.

   "Oh, good...be careful on the road."

Mi Cai nodded and then turned to leave. I suddenly realized that after this night, we might not have the chance to meet again. My departure turned those brief pasts into dust, and was slowly erased by the passing time.

   "Mi Cai..." I called out her name.

   "What?" She turned her head, her long hair hanging down her shoulders made her look so clean.

  I was silent for a long time, and asked in a low voice, "Are we friends?"

  Mi Cai thought for a while, nodded and said to me, "Forget it."

   "Yes." I nodded heavily.

  Mi Cai smiled at me, then turned around and walked towards the elevator not far away. After a while, the elevator closed the door, and once again separated us from the two worlds.