red dust under the lamp

Before dawn, irregular creaking noises came from downstairs, and the rusty pillars of the bed scraped and hummed stubbornly. Ning Jue was woken up, propped up, lifted two layers of old mosquito nets, and took off the bed. A wow-ha-ha foam box board exposed a big square hole, facing the outside, the wind was blowing in slowly, and the moonlight was not very bright.

Leaning against the dilapidated window, Ning Jue sat up from the bed. The old folding bed creaked, and a thin stainless steel thorn protruded from the outside of the nylon thread, which scratched her sock—the stainless steel bracket came out along with it. The folding bed was about to fall apart. Ning Jue got up and tidied up the bed, repaired it in the dim moonlight, and lay down again. There was no sound downstairs.

A woman floated out of the door, faintly, as if crawling out of the TV, her face was still white, her long hair was tied on her head like a dangling face, she was Ning Jue's neighbor, she was a chicken, and she invited men in day and night .

Ning Jue covered a thick quilt and stared at her.

"Do you have any painkillers?" The woman's voice was weak, her right hand tightly pressing her stomach.

Ning Jue got up and rummaged through the medicine boxes she had collected. The painkillers had expired for half a year, and she was still looking for them. The woman was chatting with her. For some reason, she suddenly talked about her recent affairs, and gave her advice in a weaker voice: " You are acting bravely in this matter, and the Xie family will give you a reward or a pennant no matter what, at least they will get them 200 yuan."

Ning Jue was speechless, and finally brought a bunch of medicines for the woman to choose, but when she turned her head, the woman suddenly rolled her eyes, and she slid down against the door frame, lying limply on the ground, not even breathing. Out.

Turning on the flashlight, Ning Jue looked at it for a while, and confirmed that the woman had passed out. He threw down the medicine, picked out 100 from his meager [-] yuan deposit, and put it in his arms. He put his arms behind the woman with both hands, and helped her up. Throw it on your back.

Blindly stepped on the shoes, went down from the unrepaired and shoveled corner of the third floor, and arrived at the bottom floor of the Fengshou Building.

Ning Jue stomped on the door: "Don't sleep, get up."

A man with an unshaven beard, wearing a blue and green indistinguishable cotton-padded jacket and a pair of open-toed slippers, smelled like he had been dug out of an old coffin, yawning.

Ning Jue said succinctly: "She is sick and passed out and is about to die, go to Wang Da's place quickly."

Wang Da opened a small clinic, saying that only infusions and injections are available. In fact, he has done acupuncture, delivered babies and cut corns. The most important thing is that the fees are cheap, the procedure is simple, and the source is not asked.

Without saying anything, the man hurriedly took out the key, walked to the shadow of Fengshou Building, and used the key to open two iron chains, which were tied to a rickshaw.

Men used to be rich and cared about driving, but now they are also very particular about riding tricycles, as if they were afraid of someone stealing them.Ning Jue swept away the waste products on the car, put the woman in the back of the car, and climbed up by himself. The man smoked a cigarette, and the smoke was booming.

The tricycle is on the road.

Only then did Ning Jue realize that her shoes were worn backwards, and her socks were all torn. She was the most respectable girl in the whole Fengshou building, and she was still a girl.

The woman who is lying down will take care of her, and the guests occasionally feel sorry for her and give her stockings and underwear. She picks out the clothes she thinks are decent and packs them for Ning Jue, fearing that her prettiest age will ruin her beauty for no reason.

But that's all there is to Ning Jue. In the eyes of this woman, Ning Jue only has the word "beautiful". She is the walking youth, the passing years, and a gorgeous totem that makes people envious for a short time.

The man suddenly said: "If I get seriously ill, I don't have much money."

"Then go to hell, she usually gives you bacon and chicken soup, how dare you open your mouth to ask for it."

"At this time and at that time, if I want to be the big boss, I will definitely give you 100 million."

"Damn it, you don't have any hair on your body now?"

"No."

"Then what about the 600 yuan in your pillow?" Ning Jue poked at someone's weak spot and ruthlessly poked it. When she accidentally saw it, the man immediately said, "I want to send it back to my daughter."

"Fuck your mother, you'll bet on it when the time comes, you've been out and running for five or six years, you really have the backbone, you've gone back a long time ago."

The man's age could hold three Ning Jues, but she was unceremonious, and she used her mouth knife to uncover the short, layer by layer, exposing the man's flesh and blood, getting anxious, and swore: "If I go out again, I will be shit! "

"Fart, you're already shit."

"Look at this year, no, I will save enough 1000 yuan to go home during the Chinese New Year next year." The man shook his head and let out big words. Ning Jue wanted to poke him a few more words, but when he was in a hurry, he didn't have to pedal too hard. There is no result of cursing.She couldn't speak softly in front of the two residents of the Harvest Building, and she was planning to give up as a philistine who came out of her mouth easily and couldn't pretend to be a lady.

Going back to the original topic, if money is really used, she will take hundreds of dollars from the man.

But the man's words are good. If they are seriously ill, no one of them can give much money.

What's more, if it's not relative or reason, there's no need to sell blood or kidney for a prostitute.

At this time, the two of them were already thinking in unison, if the woman died, who would own the space on the second floor, how to divide it, how to eat those cupboards, rice noodles, and the hen tied downstairs.After thinking for a while, Ning Jue realized that the man was also thinking about this, and immediately poohed him: "Why are you pedaling so slowly?"

The car immediately became faster, and both of them were secretly ashamed.

Next, the division of labor became more polite. One person knocked on Wang Da's door, and the other went up the stairs behind his back, and threw him on a half-new white sheet. Wang Da rubbed his eyes and listened to Ning Jue's words. With few symptoms, the curtain was drawn, the bed was pushed to the depths, and the two of them were isolated from the outside.

There was a smell of disinfectant in the clinic.

Ning Jue and the man sat side by side on the chair outside the door, separated by a railing.

She lay down, he sat up, then he lay down, she sat up again, for a while she stepped on his lap, and for a while he covered her head, and spent the whole night lying upright, if it wasn't for their fierce expressions, they would have seen Looks like father and daughter.

When Wang Da opened the curtain and came out, both of them stood up.

"Appendicitis. Give me a hundred and seventeen."

"You can do this?" Ning Jue turned her head curiously.

"I know everything, buy me another cigarette."

"how is she?"

"Not dead, just lie down and eat something good later."

The man breathed a sigh of relief, and pushed Ning Jue to ask her to pay. She wrinkled her face and reluctantly threw out the 50 yuan change. The man stretched his hands into his arms, grabbed a handful of money, and counted , Pass it to Wang Da.

Then he looked back at Ning Jue: "I'm going to buy cigarettes, and Wang Yu will go with me to have breakfast."

Ning Jue and the man drank soy milk from the enamel mug together, feeling a little concerned, wondering if it was him, if he died at this moment, would anyone still be so dedicated?

But the topic was gone before it even started. Ning Jue didn’t have any family members. She was young. As long as she found a good man to marry, she would get rid of her current life. A man has a family of his own, and Ning Jue was his daughter he couldn’t get. It has nothing to do with them, what is this?Is it a neighbor?family?What kind of life is this?

The man suddenly mentioned her recent events: "The police saw your situation and didn't care about you. They want you to go back to school?"

"What are you going to study at such an age?" Ning Jue impolitely knocked on the bowl with her chopsticks, using discordant sounds to cover up the sudden sympathy between the two... The man is like an elder, she is not used to the replacement of the other's identity.

"Then you saved two lives, and they won't give you money?"

The thinking of this man and that woman is the same, everything must be exchanged for money to be happy.

Ning Jue braced his face: "If someone is rich, I will extort money. What should I do if I am poor? Should I go too?"

"What's wrong, they have money, their lives are precious, our lives are not expensive, but they are short of money, exchange it, it's fair." The man said as if she saved the driver and Xie Yichen only after a narrow escape.

But Ning Jue didn't want to see Xie's family anymore, so she stood up and ended the conversation.