Cheng Ke stood in front of the map of the subway station, and it took him several minutes to figure out how to get on the bus and at which station to transfer.
This was the first time he had taken the subway in his life. In addition to sighing that there were so many people, he was glad that he knew the geographical features near Xu Ding's house, otherwise he didn't even know which station he should get off at.
As the crowd crowded into the carriage, Cheng Ke was squeezed onto a pole, with an elder sister's hand holding the pole on his stomach. He was angry at the elder sister, "Why are you so incompetent to hold a pole alone? Everyone else's hands are pressed by you and you don't know how to get out of the way." He tried his best to lift his breath, and let his body move back and away from the pole.
After a long torment, when there was one stop left to get off the bus, there were finally fewer people getting on the bus.
When Cheng Ke walked out of the subway station, he lowered his head and tugged at his clothes, and two small white hairs were blown past his eyes by the wind.
It was only now that he suddenly noticed that he was walking all the way with a hole like this. The fleece in the down jacket was already floating. The two small groups just now were probably the last two.
Cheng Ke pressed the cut, and the stab wound on his waist began to sting again.
Cheng Ke had actually only been to Xu Ding's house twice, and they both passed by and stayed for a while. When he went to the property to get the key, maybe it was because he looked a little miserable in clothes. The property looked at him hesitantly for a while, and then gave him the Xu Ding called and determined that he was the one who was going to take the key.
Cheng Ke entered the house with the key, took off his coat and fell on the sofa, not wanting to move anymore.
He has lived for more than 20 years. Although he does nothing all day and accomplishes nothing, he does not worry about food and drink. He has never experienced or even thought about the concept of "no money".
Or that he never thought that he could not reach this level without money.
Now he can't even buy a box lunch.
Hold!
Although he didn't want to eat lunch.
He was thinking about what he was going to do next. After a short rest, he should go out to replace Xu Ding's coat, to replace his card and buy his mobile phone.
But when he thought that the only means of transport he could choose to go out were buses and subways, he didn't want to move at all, and was very irritable.
What the hell, why did things suddenly become like this
Cheng Ke was reluctant to ponder these meaningless questions, but it was always lingering in his mind.
He was stunned on the sofa until after lunch time, then he slowly sat up, walked slowly into the bathroom, and looked at himself in the mirror.
The mental outlook is okay, not too decadent, after all, I have been dealing with mental illness for the past two days.
He turned to the side, raised his right arm, and saw the knife edge on his clothes, but there was no bloodstain as he had imagined. He lifted the clothes again and saw a dark red opening two or three inches long.
Cheng Ke turned on the faucet, wiped the wound with water with his hands, wiped off the dried blood, and some more seeped out from the wound. The scene was very mild and not cruel at all.
Cheng Ke is not a vengeful person, but Jiang Yuduo's inexplicable stab, he remembered.
Will definitely be back.
Jiang Yuduo lay sideways on the bed, and in front of his face was a sleeping cat curled up in a ball. Because it was too small, it might not be able to survive, so Jiang Yuduo didn't name it, just called it Meow.
There are very few stray cats who can finally have a name. Names are not what they need, what they need is just to live.
name.
Jiang Yuduo has always thought that the name is a very magical thing.
When someone dies, it's a completely different feeling from someone dying.
Presumably the name is to prove that the man lived when he died.
His nose was a little itchy, probably from cat hair, Jiang Yuduo didn't have time to turn his head and sneezed at the cat in front of him.
The cat that was sleeping soundly didn't wake up in a frightened way.
"You dare." Jiang Yuduo rubbed his nose, turned over and lay down, closing his eyes.
The sun shines from the courtyard wall to the bed, and his entire face is covered in a bright halo, and his eyes are full of shining and beating spots of light, and a bright red behind the spots.
Jiang Yuduo raised his hand and shook it in front of his eyes. When his hand covered the sun, the light spot slowly disappeared, then moved away, the light spot jumped back, and then covered it...
The light spots gradually blurred, and the bright red in the background also began to darken, revealing blood.
Jiang Yuduo suddenly opened his eyes and sat up quickly.
Meow, who had just grabbed the sheets and climbed to the edge of the bed, was so frightened that he fell back to the ground, and ran into the bottom of the cabinet again.
Jiang Yuduo sat on the edge of the table stunned, the phone rang for a long time before he picked it up and answered it.
"Are you going to collect rent in Building 2 these two days?" Lucy's voice was a little irritable. "The second floor, the fourth floor, and the fifth floor on the other side of Building 1, the three idiots haven't paid their rent yet."
"It seems that I didn't pay it last month." Jiang Yuduo took out a cigarette.
"The one on the second floor hasn't been paid for two months. If he doesn't pay it in this month, let him go!" Lucy said, "I'm looking at the poor family and let them slow down. It's good. Who the hell will have pity on me. what."
"I pity you," Jiang Yuduo lit a cigarette and glanced at the small alarm clock by the bed, "I'll take someone to take a look later."
"You don't have to be too fierce on the second floor, you won't be able to squeeze money out of money if you die, and the children are still young," Lucy confessed, "You can do whatever you want on the fourth and fifth floors. Walk."
"Then drive away." Jiang Yuduo said.
"That won't work!" Lucy's voice increased. "You have to take the money before you leave!"
"Got it." Jiang Yuduo smiled.
"I'll be back for dinner later," said Lucy, "I made a big pot of sweet and sour pork ribs, your favorite. Bring some wine when you come."
"Well." Jiang Yuduo responded.
At more than four in the afternoon, Jiang Yuduo asked Chen Qing to call two people and went to Building 1 together.
Building No. 1234 are all rented houses by Lu Qian in the urban village. Each building has seven floors. Most of the rent is paid monthly in cash, which Jiang Yu takes away.
He called Lucy's ten-year-old sister. From Building 1 to Building 4, he watched and built it up.
He has lived in Building 1 for several years. After Lucy bought the house, he let him live in this old house. He was a little reluctant when he moved out.
At first, every time I went back to collect the rent, I felt a sense of disappointment in revisiting the old place, but after a long time, I felt nothing. After all, I went dozens of times a year, and there were so many unfavorable things every month, which was very annoying.
"It's hard or soft?" Chen Qing followed him and walked domineeringly. If Jiang Yuduo didn't dodge a little bit, Chen Qing could probably step on his feet eight times in ten steps.
"Come straight." Jiang Yuduo said.
"What is straight?" Chen Qing patted the steel pipe stuck in his trouser legs, "The steel pipe is straight."
"Walking," Jiang Yuduo glanced at him, in order to maintain Chen Qing's image in the eyes of other little brothers, he tried his best to restrain himself from roaring, "walk in a straight line, and then put your feet in front of me. I'll give you a discount."
Chen Qing was stunned for a while and then rejoiced: "You didn't know that I walked with splayed feet until today."
"Do you call it the splayed feet today?" Jiang Yuduo said, "you have to call it the leg sweeping."
"I'm building momentum for you!" Chen Qing said, "Building momentum, understand?"
"Come on," Jiang Yuduo sighed, "Let's go collect a rent, not a robbery."
Half an hour later, Jiang Yuduo felt that today might still be more like a robbery.
"Don't open the door again!" Chen Qing patted on the door of 502, "Open the door!"
"There are keys." Jiang Yuduo reached out and shook his hands behind him. A child behind him put a bunch of keys in his hand, and singled out the one from 502. He glanced at the child, "called what name?"
"Just call me Dabin, third brother." The child smiled.
Jiang Yuduo nodded and took the key to open the door.
After twisting it twice, the door lock did not respond, it should be locked.
"You still have ten seconds to open the door," Jiang Yuduo threw the key back into Da Bin's hand, felt it in his pocket, took out a receipt, took off the two paper clips on it, and slowly Straightening the needle, "When I open the door myself, it won't be as simple as collecting a rent."
There was still no movement inside, Jiang Yuduo frowned and clicked his tongue, poked two paper clips into the keyhole, twisted his fingers a few times, and the door was unlocked.
"Damn it!" Chen Qing pushed open the door.
The scene inside the door was quite amazing, anyway, when Chen Qing stepped in, he was stunned.
The tenants of 502 are a young couple. The woman is very thin. Because of the heavy makeup, Jiang Yuduo has never seen what she looks like. The man is strong and bearded. There are tattoos from the neck down to the waist and above. As for whether there is any on the buttocks, I don't know, after all, I haven't been able to run.
Now this strong man is sitting shirtless on a chair facing the door, holding a knife around his neck, next to his small girlfriend sitting on the bed, crying .
"Where did you play this?" Chen Qing was very shocked, but he still didn't forget his aura. After he was amazed, he added, "Fuck you, uncle!"
"Are you asking for money?" The strong man said in a low and firm voice, "If you have the ability to take your life!"
Jiang Yuduo didn't say a word, he stepped over in two steps, and when the strong man stared at Chen Qing's eyes and turned to him, he pushed it on the strong man's elbow.
The strong man was piled up by him and turned into a posture of hugging himself with one hand, and the knife on his neck also shifted. Jiang Yuduo pressed his elbow without loosening, and reached out and twisted the knife from his hand. down.
Very easy.
It was easy for Jiang Yuduo to question the physique of the strong man.
"Your muscles were drawn with your wife's eye shadow, right?" He handed the knife back to Chen Qing.
"This knife is real." Chen Qing threw the knife in his hand.
"What!" The strong man jumped up from his chair, very angry, "I still want to steal money!"
Jiang Yuduo slashed his face with a knife, and then followed his inertia, grabbed his hair and pressed it on the bed: "Are you playing with me and making movies?"
"You..." The strong man struggled to get up, but he was silent again.
A knife slipped out of Jiang Yuduo's cuff, and he followed it without using his fingers, the tip of the knife lightly stuck in the strong man's beard.
The beard is quite thick, and it is estimated that he has not touched the meat, but the strong man is still silent immediately.
"Looking for money." Jiang Yuduo said.
"Look!" Chen Qing waved his hand, and several people began to rummage around the room.
The girlfriend who had been chatting beside her finally stopped chattering now, and wiped away tears: "Where did you get the money! If you have money, can you still be bullied like this!"
"Who bullies who?" Chen Qing glared at him, "You don't pay for renting a house for two months, who bullies whom?"
"No money!" The girlfriend lay down on the bed with her legs kicked, and shouted at Jiang Yuduo, "You have the ability to sleep with me! Meat compensation!"
Several people in the room were stunned.
Jiang Yuduo was stunned for a while before he came back to his senses, and sighed, "You are so fucking beautiful."
Compared with the strong man who looks very social, this girlfriend is much more difficult to deal with. When Chen Qing and his two brothers were looking for money in the house, Jiang Yuduo kept going around the house, hiding and grabbing him. Girlfriend who wants meat.
In the end, he couldn't bear it anymore, so he picked up the thin girlfriend and threw it on the strong man, pointing at the strong man: "Hold it up, let go and I will castrate you."
The strong man hugged his girlfriend tightly.
Chen Qing flipped through the cabinet a few times and turned his head abruptly: "Third Brother!"
Jiang Yu took it away and saw that he was holding a small sealed bottle in his hand, half of which looked like shredded tobacco.
"This guy is still a pilot." Chen Qing said.
"Call the police." Jiang Yuduo said succinctly.
The strong man who had been watching them rummaging through the boxes and turning the cabinets indifferently finally broke out at this moment. He swung his skinny girlfriend on the bed and rushed over.
Jiang Yuduo turned around and kicked him in the chest. After he fell to the ground, Chen Qing and Dabin held him down. Another child took his skinny girlfriend's pantyhose and tied his hands tightly.
"Third brother, third brother!" The strong man was anxious and twisted on the ground, "That thing is not mine, the last renter left it here! Don't call the police, don't call the police!"
Jiang Yuduo didn't speak, he glanced at Chen Qing, Chen Qing took out his mobile phone, turned around and walked out.
After finishing everything, Lu Qian's third call came, Jiang Yuduo sighed: "I shouldn't have called her sister, I should have called her mother."
"Sister Qian smokes you." Chen Qing said with a smile.
"How's it going?" Lucy asked on the other end of the phone.
"I'm going to eat now," Jiang Yuduo said, "I'm done."
"Beat him!" Lucy raised her voice. "Get these things in my house! You son of a bitch!"
"Beat." Jiang Yuduo said.
"That's alright, come over quickly, just come directly, I've already bought the wine and so on." Lucy said.
"Well." Jiang Yuduo responded and hung up the phone.
"I also went to eat." Chen Qing looked at him.
"You take them to a meal," Jiang Yuduo took out his wallet from his pocket, "Following the hard work, we will have two tomorrow."
"I have it here." Chen Qing held his hand.
"Come on," Jiang Yuduo frowned, "You are so poor that you want to rob a rag-picker."
"... Jaeger-LeCoultre doesn't pick up junk either," Chen Qing took the card that he handed over, "I'm wearing a watch worth hundreds of thousands... But you still have the skills, you can get this watch as soon as you take it..."
"I didn't say I wanted to take his watch," Jiang Yuduo gritted his teeth, "Get out."
Lucy's new house is quite big, and she and four Alaskans live there.
When Jiang Yuduo entered the door, Lu Qian had already set up the dishes and put six stools, and one was empty.
"Stay away from me." Jiang Yuduo pointed to the dogs sitting on both sides when he sat down.
The two dogs moved to the side cooperatively.
"Do you have to go tomorrow? Let's get the one on the fifth floor today?" Lucy scooped him a bowl of soup and poured wine.
"Well." Jiang Yuduo nodded.
"Come with me in the morning to pay the house money." Lucy said.
"Buy again?" Jiang Yuduo glanced at her, "Don't you already have an empty set?"
"If you rent out that set, you should go to the agency again in the next two days," Lucy put a piece of spareribs on him. "Anyway, it's ready, hang it up, rent it or sell it."
"Well," Jiang Yuduo nodded, "the location is good."
"Tell the agent, don't rent everything, and find something clean and careful," Lucy frowned, "I don't want to go into that house with stuff like today's fifth floor."
"You can't afford to rent your apartment like that." Jiang Yuduo smiled.
When Cheng Ke pondered in Xu Ding's house until the third day, Liu Tiancheng called.
Cheng Ke stared at the phone, and the ringtone rang for almost thirty seconds before he picked it up: "Hello."
"Where are you?" Liu Tiancheng asked immediately, "how is it?"
"Qiaodong," Cheng Ke said, "just picked up half a box of leftovers."
Liu Tiancheng laughed: "Come on, it's not really going out of the house. If you don't ask your father to take the money, you have a lot of money on hand."
Cheng Ke smiled and said nothing.
"Where are you, I'll pick you up later, and ask them to come out at night to shock you." Liu Tiancheng said.
"Ask Cheng Yi," Cheng Ke yawned, "without him nodding, this shock can't be suppressed casually."
"You, it's boring to talk like this," Liu Tiancheng laughed dryly, with embarrassment in his laughter, "I really didn't hear the phone ringing that day, and then I couldn't get through after calling."
"I didn't bring my mobile phone out of the house, and I borrowed someone else's mobile phone to call." Cheng Ke didn't want Liu Tiancheng to come off the stage. "You can play by yourself at night, and I won't go."
"Don't, you're not here, we're boring to play." Liu Tiancheng said.
Cheng Ke sighed softly: "I'm not going, I still have to find a place to stay. I've been really busy and tired these days. I'll talk about it later."
"Then... Okay, I guess you are quite busy, and there are a lot of things in the store just getting started." Liu Tiancheng said.
in the store? Cheng Ke was stunned for a while, but did not speak.
"I heard about this. Did Cheng Yi give you the shop that he bought and played with before?" Liu Tiancheng said, "Let's do it first, although it's a little small, it's already on the right track. , you are familiar with it for a few days, you don't need to worry about it in the future..."
"Ah." Cheng Ke responded.
Liu Tiancheng didn't continue talking, and the two of them chatted casually and hung up the phone.
Cheng Ke sat up and stared at the tree outside the window for a long time.
What Liu Tiancheng said, he has only now reacted a little.
Cheng Yi checked it out before, but he didn't take care of it after it was put down, so he occasionally sat there with some of his friends. Cheng Ke never went there once, and he didn't even know the exact address. Now it suddenly became his
The key is that no one in this store really said they would give it to him.
Cheng Ke didn't know where Liu Tiancheng heard it, but he felt that he had lived with Cheng Yi for more than 20 years, and he had not seen through him until now.
Suddenly there was a chill in the back.
Xu Ding came back in the middle of the night, and when he opened the door and entered the house, Cheng Ke was still lying on the sofa, fascinated by the TV, and he didn't know what was on.
After Xu Ding entered the room, they were both startled.
"You didn't sleep in the middle of the night?" Xu Ding looked at him in surprise.
"It scared me to death," Cheng Ke sat up, "I thought it was a thief."
"There's nothing to steal in this house," Xu Ding smiled. "Besides, if a thief really enters, it's not a problem for you to deal with one or two."
"Why didn't you go home?" Cheng Ke asked.
"Come here first to see what's going on with you," Xu Ding said. "Yesterday, when Liu Tiancheng called me, I found out that you had a falling out with the family."
"Did you tell him I'm here with you?" Cheng Ke hurriedly asked again.
"No," Xu Ding threw his luggage and coat on the floor, poured a glass of water and sat beside him, "I don't think it's that simple, so I didn't say it."
"Thank you." Cheng Ke heaved a sigh of relief.
"Did you fall out with your father or with Xiaoyi?" Xu Ding looked at him.
"It's all the same." Cheng Ke said.
"If you have anything to help, just say." Xu Ding did not continue to ask.
"I'm looking at the house these two days," Cheng Ke leaned back on the sofa, "I'll stay with you for a few more days."
"Where do you want to buy?" Xu Ding asked.
Cheng Ke glanced at him: "rent."
"Oh," Xu Ding smiled, "do you want to ask for you?"
Cheng Ke hesitated for a few seconds and shook his head: "No, I can do it myself, I'm fine."
"Okay, I'll take a shower," Xu Ding said, "I'll go home in a while."
"Don't," Cheng Ke was a little embarrassed, "you sleep on yours in the middle of the night, I've slept on the sofa these days."
Xu Ding stood up and looked at him: "You..."
ah what
Xu Ding didn't say anything, and Cheng Ke didn't ask any more.
I feel that these friends, whether they are familiar or unfamiliar, probably think that he is quite useless. Even with the simple matter of renting a house, Xu Ding will habitually ask if he wants to help.
Cheng Ke is a person who can't even handle things like renting a house properly.
"You bought all the things in the bathroom?" Xu Ding came out and asked after taking a bath, bare-chested while wiping his hair.
"Ah, yes." Cheng Ke glanced at him and quickly put his eyes back on the TV.
He is not too familiar with Xu Ding, and he doesn't usually play together. When he first met Xu Ding, it was because Xu Ding was looking for him through Liu Tiancheng and asked him to help record a video of sand painting.
"Why don't I rent it to you." Xu Ding said.
"I can't afford it," Cheng Ke said. "It's too advanced."
Xu Ding laughed for a long time: "I feel a little uncomfortable when you say these words."
"Don't worry about it," Cheng Ke said, "I'm not used to living with you."
"Okay." Xu Ding nodded and entered the bedroom.
Cheng Ke continued to stare at the TV. He didn't want to stay here with Xu Ding for too long. Apart from the fact that they didn't know each other very well, he was also reluctant to involve Xu Ding in these crap in his home.
He looked at the agent's phone number stored in his mobile phone and went to see the house tomorrow.