squirrel

The squirrel was awakened suddenly in the middle of the night by the sound of the wall clock outside.

He was exhausted before, and Gao Liyuan called him up after sleeping for half an hour to have lunch, which was Gai Diao packed back from the gate of No. [-] Middle School.It's a pity that I broke my mouth during the fight with Qian Laoer and the others, and it was extremely difficult to eat a meal, and I don't even remember the taste.After eating, he retreated back to the hut to lie down again. The sun shone brightly on the window, and he felt dizzy after looking at it for a long time. The squirrel got up and closed the curtains, but unexpectedly fell asleep again unknowingly.

He vaguely remembered that Gao Liyuan asked himself through the door if he wanted to have dinner, but at that time he was in a daze, he yelled "don't make noise" and buried his whole head in the pillow again.When I woke up at this time, my head was no longer dizzy, but I was so hungry that my chest was pressed against my back, and my left arm was aching. I didn’t feel sleepy at all, so I wanted to eat something to fill my rumbling stomach. .

Feelings of regret surged up all over the brain, and some complaints about Gao Liyuan were also brought along: why didn't he want to shout more?There is no clock in the house, and the squirrel has forgotten how many times the bell struck before, but judging from the sky outside, it should be very early before dawn.

The squirrel walked around the house a few times, and finally pushed open the bedroom door in a low voice, and walked into the living room on tiptoe.He probably still remembered the cabinet where Gao Liyuan used to get instant noodles, and he only hoped that there was still stock in it. At this time, it would be enough for him to eat half a noodle cake.

However, through the moonlight outside the house, the squirrel saw two sea bowls upside down on the table.He blinked, and picked up the rim of the bowl and opened the bowl one by one - three simple things, a bowl of vegetable porridge, a bun, and a plate of pickles.

The porridge was already cold, the skin of the buns was hard, and the chili in the pickles stung the squirrels.But he still ate up these few things in a flustered manner, and then went to the kitchen in the dark, washing the dishes with one hand.

The renting career of the wounded squirrel kicked off like this. When he got up the next day, he bumped into Gao Liyuan who opened the door and came in from the outside. When they met each other, both of them were shocked.Gao Liyuan seemed to mutter something, but the squirrel didn't hear it clearly, and when he wanted to ask again, he handed over a bag of steamed buns: "Breakfast."

"oh oh……"

He hurriedly took it, nodded, Gao Liyuan turned around and went out again, but he returned before the door was closed: "What do you want for lunch?"

The squirrel glanced at the wall clock in the living room. It was 09:30 in the morning, and he had fallen asleep by this time.Gao Liyuan was still waiting for an answer, his mind went blank, he choked for a long time and could only say: "Whatever."

"Row."

So the lunch is scallion ginger beef rice bowl.

Gao Liyuan went into the house to take a nap after lunch. The squirrel had a full sleep yesterday, but today he didn't feel sleepy at all. He switched channels over and over for the whole morning.There was no good program at noon, so he lost the remote control and went back to the room. After thinking for a while, he took out all his belongings from under the pillow, and counted several times, but it was still the same number: 72 yuan and [-] cents.

On the side is the rental contract signed yesterday, clearly written in black and white, the monthly rental fee is [-] yuan, including water and electricity, excluding meals.But Gao Liyuan himself doesn't cook, Squirrel made a rough estimate in his heart, thinking of the price of those steamed stuffed buns and rice bowls, his heart pounded.

Gao Liyuan didn't know that the squirrel across the wall was worrying about the meal money. To put it bluntly, he never thought about charging the other party's meal money.After the afternoon nap, he went back to No. [-] Middle School under the sun. When he entered the school gate, a student came chasing him on a bicycle: "Mr. Gao, why did you ask for leave suddenly yesterday afternoon? It caused us to have another physics class. "

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" He felt guilty for a while when he thought of the excuse he made for being sick, so he could only bite the bullet and say, "There will be no next time."

"Hey, we didn't blame you. We were worried about whether you had a heatstroke. Zhou Xiao also wanted to ask Director Wu about your home address to see you——I'll go first, Teacher Gao."

"Okay, let's go, thank you all." Gao Liyuan waved his hand quickly, thinking to himself, it's a good thing he didn't come.

Fortunately, no one else asked about yesterday's incident in the afternoon. Gao Liyuan went to class as usual, was baked by the sun for several hours, and the back of his clothes was soaked in sweat again and again.When school was over, he was thinking about the cold noodles outside the school gate, but the guard Lao Qian suddenly called to him: "Liyuan, come here."

"What's the matter?" Gao Liyuan walked into the guard room, only saw Lao Qian rubbing his hands, and smiled at him embarrassedly: "Well... Liyuan, do you have a date now?"

He vaguely realized something, but with a short circuit in his mind, he confessed the truth: "No."

"Oh, that's good, that's good—no, look at what I'm saying," Lao Qian took a picture of himself, took out another cigarette and handed Gao Liyuan another, and whispered, "It's like this, before Didn't you go to my kid's wedding party too... My aunt was there that day. She has a girl who works as a cashier in the Hongqi supermarket in the east district of the city. She's a pretty good girl. I just want to ask you..."

"That's it..." Gao Liyuan was stunned for a moment, and he only remembered that he agreed with this sentence, but he couldn't remember what nonsense was said after that. The sun shone on the metal window frame of the guard room, making his eyes dazzled. Old Qian's earnest expression fell into his eyes, which made him feel the urge to leave quickly.

Fortunately, Lao Qian is not a very talkative person, and he sent people out of the house when he brought his meaning.Gao Liyuan walked a few hundred meters sullenly, only to realize that he forgot to buy the cold noodles, and then turned back, only the last one was left at the cold noodle stand.He bought that portion of noodles, thinking of Squirrel's difficult eating situation yesterday and at noon, he went to another restaurant and packed a lean meat porridge.

But Gao Liyuan didn't expect the squirrel to squat at the door and wait for him.

"What's going on?" He just turned around from the stairs before his eyes widened, and he hurried up to open the door in two or three steps, "Why did you run to the door and squat down?"

"You think I'd like to squat here on a hot day!" The squirrel still had an arm wrapped around its neck in a bandage, but it fought back energetically, "Who told you not to give me the key?"

I squatted at the door for almost an hour. I don’t know how many times I was asked by people who came and went. Although I knew that the reason for forgetting the key was in it, the squirrel still put the blame on Gao Liyuan viciously. .Didn't I expect you to go out so soon...Gao Liyuan saw the fine sweat on the other's forehead, explained in a low voice, and suddenly caught a glimpse of the box under the squirrel's buttocks: "What did you buy?"

"Instant noodles, aren't they printed?"

After calculating the food expenses for a long time, he finally came up with this way of dealing with it. He went to the canteen outside to buy a box of instant noodles, and took the box upstairs with one hand in a daze—but forgot that he didn't have a key.

Seeing that Gao Liyuan opened the door, the squirrel stretched its leg and kicked the box half a meter into the room, but the second kick missed. Gao Liyuan picked up the box one step ahead of him, and put it in the corner of the living room. He didn't reply and said, "It's not good to eat too much instant noodles."

"Who wants to eat this if they have money?" The squirrel sat down on the sofa, picked up the old cattail fan next to it and fanned it repeatedly.When he paid the rent before, he took out all the money. Even if Gao Liyuan didn't remember it, Gao Liyuan probably understood what he meant when he said it today. Looking down at himself, he said, "Why not?"

Gao Liyuan's proposal is very simple: the time at noon is too short, so he should pack takeout or make instant noodles. In the evening, he can buy vegetables, Gao Liyuan cooks, and the squirrel washes the dishes.

"I still know how to cook." Gao Liyuan saw the skeptical expression on the squirrel's face, and deliberately emphasized, "I just live by myself, it's troublesome."

"Really……"

Squirrel actually didn't disbelieve him at all, but felt that Gao Liyuan was really a good old man when he got home, and he could eat his own food - but his salary as a physical education teacher, he couldn't save money by packing all day, he curled his lips , I couldn't help but think again.

But Gao Liyuan did what he said, and bought a bag full of vegetables the next day.The squirrel nestled on the sofa and watched the live basketball game on TV. First, he heard the sound of water washing vegetables in the kitchen, followed by the sound of tuk tuk chopping vegetables... Finally, the oil pan slammed, and Gao Liyuan's voice rushed into the living room along with the oily smoke. : "Squirrel, do me a favor!"

"What's the matter?" The squirrel hurried to the kitchen, and saw Gao Liyuan frowned while avoiding the continuous splashing of oil in the pot, while struggling to shovel the slices of meat in the pot to avoid burnt: "I forgot to bring the salt, the cabinet at the back Add a spoonful to the bottom slot."

"Oh." He turned around as he said, opened the cabinet with peeling paint, and glanced at the three condiment boxes connected together underneath. He was hesitating that Gao Liyuan had already issued a second reminder, so he simply scooped the one in the middle blindly. past.

"What are you doing!" Gao Liyuan almost wanted to hit him with a shovel, "This is starch!"

It was almost eight o'clock when the dinner, which was in constant state of affairs, was finally brought to the table.The squirrel sat down and stared at the plate of potato chips and fried meat. Gao Liyuan didn't say anything at first, but seeing that the bowl of rice on the opposite side had already gone down halfway, he finally couldn't help but said, "Eat a la carte."

"Aren't I just eating?" The squirrel tapped the potato chips in the bowl, and picked up another piece of meat.

"I mean green vegetables." Gao Liyuan frowned, and involuntarily picked up a lot of green beans and put them into the squirrel bowl——then got a disgusted expression as expected.

"so troublesome."

The meal was really not very tasty: Potato chips and fried meat were a bit old, green beans were too oily, and the taste was a bit bland.However, the squirrel ate with a lot of peace of mind, and even the few coins in his pocket seemed to become thicker.