My 26-year-old Female Tenant

  Sitting at the entrance of the corridor and waiting for nearly forty minutes, Robben hadn't finished his work yet. I was a little bit overwhelmed by the cold autumn wind, and wanted to go up and urge him.

  As soon as he got up, the woman named Lily came down from above, and the air was filled with a strong smell of perfume.

   "Are you done?" I asked, tucking in my clothes.

   Lily glanced at me and said dissatisfiedly: "If it weren't for you, I would have spent the night here tonight."

   "Roben still has several bars to go to tomorrow, so don't bother him."

   "I don't understand why two men live together!" Lily still said to me unwillingly.

   "I will stay here for a while, and I will move out when I find a house." I explained to Lily with some regret.

  Lily nodded, and then said: "I forgot my wallet, give me 50 yuan to take a taxi."

  I was a little surprised: "Why didn't you ask Robben just now?"

   "Just forgot, I'm too lazy to go up again, so stop talking, hurry up." Lily asked me for money again.

   "You can't be a lady, can you?"

   Lily gave me a blank look and said, "Have you ever seen a lady who comes out for only 50 yuan?"

   "That's right." I said as I took out my wallet from my pocket. After searching for a long time, I couldn't find a 50 one. Lily directly drew a 100 denomination one and shook it in front of me, as if I had slept with her.

  After Lily left, I felt that living here with Robben was not a long-term solution. After all, it was inconvenient and far away from the company, so I had to continue looking for a house.

  …

  Back in the house, there seemed to be a lingering smell in the air. I subconsciously looked at the bed, but the quilt was still folded.

   "I didn't do it on the bed because I was afraid you would feel uncomfortable sleeping." Robben explained to me.

"Thanks for your hard work!"

   Robben smiled: "It's not hard, it's the same when you are asleep or standing."

  I put the cherries I brought from Mi Cai on the table and said to Robben: "It's a gift from a friend, try it."

   "Hey, it's still imported from Chile, which friend of yours is so extravagant?" Robben said, picked one up and threw it into his mouth.

  I didn't answer for a long time, and realized that calling Mi Cai a friend is a bit wishful thinking. In fact, we are at best better than strangers. At least most of the time, Mi Cai is very annoying to me.

   "Just a friend." I responded vaguely.

This was originally an innocuous matter, and Robben didn't ask any further questions. He took out the guitar from the guitar box, plucked the strings of the guitar, and asked me again: "Did you use this awesome guitar to pay off debts?" Is it? Why is it back in your hand?"

   "She gave it back to me again." I replied truthfully.

   "Who is she?"

   "Should I **** write a book to answer you?"

Robben smiled at me with a look of understanding: "Calm down..." Finally he stopped asking me, and then he plucked the strings of the guitar, and a song "Cinderella" floated out of the ten-square-meter attic in the autumn wind at night .

  …

  The night was as quiet as a pool of stagnant water. Robben and I were lying on the bed, holding a cigarette in each hand, equally dazed and silent.

  A gust of wind suddenly blew hard outside the window, and immediately dispersed the smoke in the house.

  I competed with this wild wind. I took a deep breath and exhaled heavily, and the house began to smell of tobacco again.

  A cigarette was quickly finished by me, and I put it out in the ashtray, and finally asked Robben: "Ben, what are you thinking?"

   "I miss the girl." Robben took a deep breath of cigarette as he spoke.

  I teased: "Didn't you just sleep with Lily?"

   Robben smiled and extinguished the cigarette in his hand, took another cigarette from the box and lit it, and said after a while, "I don't know how she is doing now."

   "If you miss her, contact her, and care about her as an old friend."

   "It's been more than two years since you broke up with Jian Wei, do you dare to contact her?" Robben asked me back.

   "Why are you teasing me and Jian Wei?"

   "It's the same reason, what can be changed after contacting, just think about it!"

   "I was wronged for you, obviously still in love, obviously forced by her parents, but in the end she left a bad name of betrayal in her heart."

   "As long as she lives happily, my grievance is nothing."

  I also lit another cigarette, took two puffs and fell into silence, not encouraging Robben to contact that Beijing girl.

   "Go to sleep, it's almost dawn." Robben said to me as he extinguished his half-smoked cigarette in the ashtray.

  I looked out the window, as if I had seen through all the darkness before dawn, and I couldn’t help but sigh in my heart: Human life is really an unsolvable problem, right and wrong, true and false...

  …

The next day, I spent another busy day. This kind of busyness was something I had never experienced in the first two years in the company. The main reason was that Fang Yuan's work fell on me temporarily, but it was not a bad thing. If I am lucky enough to be the leader of the planning copywriting team, then now is a process of adapting in advance.

  Besides a busy day, I have other gains. I finally got my salary today, so when I was about to leave work, I planned how to spend this month’s salary.

After thinking about it for a long time, I decided that the first consumption of this money will be used to treat Mi Cai to a dinner. I still remember how annoyed she was when I tricked her to Fangyuan's wedding in the name of eating a few days ago. There is no doubt that I did this without consideration, so I have to invite her with the most sincere attitude for this dinner tonight, first to apologize, and second to thank her for the performance she performed in the bar with me the night before yesterday. Play, so that I will not feel ashamed in front of Jian Wei.

  I found Mi Cai's phone number and dialed it. She answered after a while, her tone was still calm, and she said, "Hello, what's the matter?"

   "Would you like to invite you to dinner tonight, as a favor?" I said sincerely.

   "Which friend of yours is getting married this time?"

  I was a little speechless, she always choked me to death in such a calm manner, and then said after a while: "This time it's really not that my friend is getting married, but I just want to treat you to a meal."

   "Oh, forget it today."

  I was a little disappointed, but I still insisted: "Come on, I will pay my salary today, and I will be the first to think of you. Don't refuse me so kindly."

   "My car has been sent for maintenance, and it's not convenient to take a taxi here. Next time." Mi Cai finally gave me a reason not to come this time.

   "This is easy, I have a car, I'll pick you up, where are you?"

   "Do you have a car?" Mi Cai asked doubtfully.

   "Yes, it's similar to your car, so you can save face and take you to a very interesting restaurant tonight, I'm sure you like it."

  Mi Cai thought for a while and finally replied: "Well, I'm in Liu'an Garden, come here."

   "You live in Liu'an Jingyuan!" I sighed, because this is a very high-end community in the local area. It should be that the bathroom was sprayed with insecticide yesterday, so Mi Cai went to live in Liu'an Jingyuan.

   "Why do you ask so many questions?" Mi Cai hung up the phone after finishing speaking.

  I smiled and didn't care about Mi Cai's attitude. I had expected that she had other houses in Suzhou.

  Put the phone in my pocket, and I said to Zhao Li who is still busy next door: "Zhao Li, lend me your little Alto Prince tonight."

  Zhao Li raised his head and looked at me vigilantly, and asked, "What are you doing?"

   "I'll fill up the gas when you're done, hurry up." I said impatiently.

   "You said it, don't play tricks on me." Zhao Li took out the car key from the drawer and handed it to me.

  …

It was getting dark, and I drove Zhao Li's Alto towards the "Liu'an Jingyuan" community. This time I really didn't fool Mi Cai. The car I'm driving now is indeed similar to hers. Her name is Audi, and mine is Otto is also eye-catching purple.