On the last weekend of August, Xiang Cai went through the check-out procedure before the school bombarded people.
Tan Yiming called him in advance and asked if he would help him move.
Xiang Gu said no, he had very little luggage.
But Tan Yiming couldn't sit still, but he was cheeky and took the initiative to drive the car to the downstairs of Xiangchai's dormitory.
So, when Xiang Guai walked downstairs alone with two 24-inch suitcases and a backpack on his back, he saw Tan Yiming standing next to his silver-gray SUV, talking to the security uncle.
"I'll stop for a while... and leave in a while."
"I'm here to pick up someone."
"No, no, I'm not a student's parent. I'm only thirty, and I'm still young. Do you think I look like someone with such an old child?"
Xiang Guai was helpless and funny, and walked over to interrupt their conversation: "Brother security guard, he's here to pick me up."
Moving is a physical task. Xiang Guai was wearing a Chinese dance shirt, and his clothes were very thin. He just moved two large pieces of luggage downstairs, and his clothes were soaked with sweat.
The uncle of the security suddenly realized, and looked at Tan Yiming: "Oh, you are driving DiDi!"
Tan Yiming: "...No." He said, "Where can I use such a big car for running Didi? I'm a cargo guy."
Xiang Guess: "… "
Then, the "Master Tan" who was in charge of moving and pulling goods, opened the trunk and stuffed Xiang Gu's two large suitcases into the car.
As soon as the door opened, cold air rushed in. Xiang Gu was sweating all over, and greedily leaned in front of the air outlet to blow air.
Tan Yiming was afraid that he would catch a cold, so he raised the temperature.
Tan Yiming looked at the two boxes and asked, "What about the other luggage?"
"There is no other luggage." Xiang Gu pointed to the box on the left, "This box is winter clothes", and then pointed to the box on the right, "This box is summer clothes and some sundries. The bedding and the clothes that heat up quickly, small The electric cooker and so on are all left to the dormitory."
That is to say, the two mere 24-inch suitcases in front of him contained all of Xiang Guai's 11-year-old luggage.
It's not like moving at all—Tan Yiming's company organized a group tour, and during the 7-day trip, the female colleague brought more things than Xiang Guess.
Seeing Tan Yiming's surprise, he explained to Guai: "Our dormitory is for bed and table, and the cabinet is only so narrow that it can't fit too much stuff, so I don't buy anything except the necessities of life."
His roommates can move game peripherals one by one, and buy sets of sneakers and fashion clothes, because they can take home the things they can't fit in the dormitory. But Xiang Chai has no home. He only has a bed, a table, and a cabinet in the dormitory. Every time he sees something he likes in the store, he thinks about his limited living space and eventually leaves empty-handed.
"Don't worry about it in the future." Tan Yiming looked at him and said softly, "The guest bedroom is very spacious, no matter how many things you have, you can put them down."
After thinking for a while, Tan Yiming added: "Even if the guest bedroom can't fit, the cabinet in the living room can be freed up for you."
Xiang Gu moved his eyes away and said nothing.
The two got into the car, the car drove out of the dance academy, and turned right onto the road.
The Dance Academy is close to the Sports University, which starts early, and the playground is densely packed with army green camouflage uniforms, all freshmen who came to the military training ahead of time.
The average altitude of physical education students is very high, and basketball students are even more "superior". From a distance, a group of big men with an average height of 1.95 meters lined up in a square array, shouting chants and kicking straight steps.
Xiang Gu's eyes were involuntarily drawn away by them.
After breaking up, Xiang Guai and Cen Manchuan deleted their contact information. Although this relationship ended with regret, it left Xiang Guai with a "sequelae". Every time he saw basketball teenagers on the street, he would always stop to take a look. It can't be called seeing things and thinking people, but there will always be a shadow.
Tan Yiming naturally noticed the boy's gaze. His heart was instantly sour, but he didn't have any position to be sour. Realizing this, he became even more sour.
So, when the signal light changed, Tan Yiming stepped on the accelerator immediately and rushed out, leaving his body far behind the car.
Xiang Guai: "...I remember that at the intersection just now, you should turn left."
"It doesn't matter." Tan Yiming replied calmly, "All roads lead to my house."
…
Xiang Gu finally moved into his new house. He had very little luggage. After the two suitcases were taken apart, they only filled half the door of the closet.
Xiang Guai walked into the bathroom with the toiletries, and put the toothbrush, toothbrush and skin care products on the shelf together.
In addition to skin care products, Tan Yiming noticed that Xiang Guai still had a few bottles of cosmetics.
"Do you usually wear makeup too?"
"It depends on the situation." Xiang Gu replied, "If you come to the stage, there will be a professional makeup artist. However, there will be occasional interviews, so you need to apply light makeup yourself."
Boys' makeup is not as complicated as girls' makeup, and the foundation is good, just apply foundation and eyebrows. Xiang Guai's cosmetics are bought from the school's flea market, and they are sold at high prices every graduation season. In his freshman year, he bought a bottle of foundation for a third of the price, and it has not been used up till now.
Tan Yiming glanced at the production date on the bottle: "...this has expired for two years."
Xiang Guai grabbed the foundation from him and put it on the shelf carelessly: "As long as I don't die, my makeup will never expire!"
Tan Yiming: "…"
After Xiang Guai packed his luggage, Tan Yiming took him to the nearby supermarket to buy things.
Boys of this age always buy a bunch of stuff when they go into the supermarket. But Xiang Guess can make money and spend it on his own, and make careful calculations. Just to buy a pack of six packs of instant noodles, he must carefully compare the prices.
Seeing Xiang Gu reach for toilet paper and shampoo, Tan Yiming quickly stopped him: "What do you do with these? I have them at home, you can use them with me."
Xiang Gu said, "You are the landlord and I am the tenant. You have already given me so much discount on the room rate. I can't take advantage of you on this kind of small money."
Tan Yiming said immediately, "This is all included in the rent."
Putting the interests of the tenants at the highest level all the time, Mr. Tan is really the best landlord in the world.
When the two left the supermarket, they met two hawkers at the door.
A tricycle pulls up cheap processed china, with unmatched plates, bowls, and garishly patterned mugs.
On the other car are all kinds of potted plants, such as spider plants, green dills and cacti, which are easy to support, planted in clean small white plastic pots. You are next to me and I am next to you.
Xiang Guai's footsteps stopped.
Whether it is a beautiful mug or a green plant that cultivates life, it is something he would never buy in the past. His bedroom space is too cramped, there is not even a square centimeter of space.
But it's different now, he has his own little house, he pays the rent, he can decorate it as he likes.
Tan Yiming has been paying attention to Xiang Guai's every move. Seeing Xiang Guai's eyes fell on the tricycle, he immediately asked, "Do you want to buy plants?"
"Well, would you like to decorate the room?" Xiang Gu said, "but I heard that plants may attract small bugs, do you mind?"
Tan Yiming shrugged: "It doesn't matter, if there are really little bugs, I should give my son extra food."
"… Your son?"
"Oh, I mean my lizard, it's called Dabao." Tan Yiming said, "Actually, it's our company's mascot."
Xiang Guai had never seen Dabao's appearance, but he had searched the Internet for blue-tongued skink in advance, and knew that it was an omnivorous lizard with a large size but a docile personality.
Although this lizard is large, it actually has no means of attack. The only way to intimidate opponents is to stick out its tongue. Its tongue is not long, it is blue, and it looks funny.
Speaking of the lizard, Xiang Gu became interested: "There are not many people who like to keep crawling pets."
Tan Yiming: "It's a long story... Our company rented a small courtyard house as an office space. A friend said that a courtyard house is not a casual place to live in. It's very particular. In the past, there were geckos in the courtyard house, which means 'protection'. We Think, it's a bit troublesome to raise geckos, it's better to raise lizards."
Xiang Guess: "..." is really a unique problem-solving idea.
Tan Yiming added: "I went to the pet shop to pick up two skinks, but they got into a fight. There was really no other way. I could only give the other one away, and what was left was Dabao."
Xiang Guai nodded: "Then the other one is called Erbao?"
"No." Tan Yiming raised his eyebrows, "The other one is called Yu Meijing."
Xiang Guess: "… "
"What's wrong?"
"Mr. Tan, you can't understand this cold joke after 00."
In the end, Xiang Gu bought two pots of Chlorophytum and a mug with a plaid pattern at a roadside stall. It was a "non-essential" expense, but Xiang Guai spent it happily.
As a result, when he took the spider plant home, he found that there was no place to hang the spider plant in his bedroom, and it was placed on the ground, afraid of accidentally kicking it.
He had no choice but to put two pots of green plants in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room, which added a bit of greenery to the house.
…
On Friday night, Tan Yiming took Dabao home.
The blue-tongued skink is a very common pet lizard, native to Australia, with a large size and a docile personality.
It needs a warm environment, so Tan Yiming will only keep it free-range in summer, put it in a breeding box in autumn and winter, and heat it with a roasting lamp.
At the end of August, when the temperature was high, the blue-tongue lizard slowly paced the living room with a palace-like aura.
Xiang Guai stared at it in horror. I have to admit that even though he had done countless psychological preparations before, when he actually saw the big lizard, he still flew out of control and flew to the sofa.
Tan Yiming laughed at him deliberately: "Didn't you say you want to bathe it?"
Xiang Guess thought about the five hundred yuan rent, so he could only bite the bullet and climb off the sofa.
And at this moment, the blue-tongue lizard moved - its mouth was like lightning, and it actually grabbed the spider plant in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, and then yanked it fiercely!
In an instant, the spider plant was ripped off by a stubborn corner!
Xiang Guess: ! ! !
Tan Yiming: ! ! !
The two behaved very differently, Xiang Gu immediately rushed over and lifted the spider plant to a high place; while Tan Yiming was concerned about the lizard and began to Baidu "Will the lizard be poisoned by eating the spider plant?"
Xiang Guai was so angry that smoke rose from his head: "Why does your lizard eat everything!"
Tan Yiming said righteously: "It is an omnivorous animal, and usually eats vegetables and fruits. It is normal to take a bite of plants that have never been seen before."
Xiang Gu said, "Then feed it fruits and vegetables, and don't harm my spider plants!"
"Fruits and vegetable leaves can't be eaten all the time. Our big treasure must have a reasonable diet and balanced nutrition."
Xiang Guess thought, I come back from dance practice every day, and I'm not as tired as a dog. Adding extra sausage to instant noodles is a luxury. Why does a lizard live better than me
"How reasonable? How balanced? How nutritious?"
Tan Yiming opened the locker and took out a box of canned food with patterns of vegetables and puree on it.
Xiang guess looked strange: "...Isn't this canned dog food?"
"Yeah." Tan Yiming flicked the pull tab on the can, and Dabao stepped on the hot wheel in an instant and crawled over from the balcony, "Blue tongue lizards eat dog food."
The author has something to say: as soon as the two meet, they become naive ghosts.