When a person reaches thirty, it is easy to have a midlife crisis.
Because at this time, most of them have families.
Moreover, he is still burdened with mortgages, car loans, and family expenses.
And when a person reaches middle age, if he has not worked hard to climb to the position of supervisor or enter an important department, then the next thing to wait for is likely to be a crisis of dismissal.
When people reach middle age, they will be inferior to young people in all aspects.
Companies need fresh blood to survive in a competitive market.
So this is why most companies would rather dismiss old employees than increase wages for them.
Would rather give newcomers a higher salary.
Because the company is determined that you don’t have the courage to speak up and don’t dare to resign easily, so working overtime, not getting a raise, and facing insults from bosses and customers every day has become the norm for middle-aged crisis groups.
This society with a high cost of living is slowly domesticating men into weak rabbits who have lost their blood.
Lin Xing is 29 years old this year, and he will be 30 years old after the Chinese New Year, but he already has a sense of midlife crisis when he is only 29 years old.
He is just an ordinary clerk in a private company, with a monthly salary of 4,000 after tax, and then he has to support his family, pay rent, and spend on food, drink, and clothing every day.
With so many deductions, there is no way to save much money every month.
Lin Xing is now full of confusion about his future life, not knowing what to do
Perhaps, when I return to my hometown to be a security guard, I can earn more than 3,000 yuan a month, and my hometown also has an old house, so I can save more money than I earned in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
When Lin Xing dragged his tired body and walked out of the subway station after get off work, a heat wave hit his face. Although it has entered October and the time has reached 7 o'clock in the evening, Nanyue is located in a subtropical region, and pedestrians on the road are still wearing clothes. Shorts and short sleeves.
After leaving the subway station, within a few steps, Lin Xing's back was already wet with sweat.
The house Lin Xing rents is two or three kilometers away from the subway, but he is reluctant to take the bus. He has to walk for half an hour after getting out of the subway every day to return to the apartment building he rents.
This is an old apartment building.
The words "Jiangtian Apartment" have long lost their luster, and have become black and black under the sun and rain.
Lin Xing lives on the fifth floor, and climbing up and down the stairs every day consumes a lot of energy.
This is an old apartment building.
When it was built that year, no elevator shaft was reserved.
Even if it is possible to install an elevator outdoors now, the installation cost of an elevator is hundreds of thousands of yuan. Obviously, no one will spend such unjustified money on tenants like them.
When Lin Xing climbed to the fifth floor, he was already a little out of breath. In the intense panting, Lin Xing faintly smelled a foul smell.
But when he wanted to smell where it came from, he couldn't smell it again.
Without thinking too much, he walked towards his door.
Because it was completely dark at this time, the corridor was a little cold and dark, but Lin Xing, who had lived here for four or five years, didn't feel any discomfort.
However, when he reached the door of his house, he glanced at the door opposite him with a little bit of taboo, then hurriedly took out the key, opened the door and slammed it shut after entering the house.
I saw a bowl of rice at the door opposite, sticking incense sticks on the rice, and a few incense candles lit on the ground.
This is the meal offered to the dead.
It seems that the opposite door has recently died.
As soon as Lin Xing entered the door, he saw his wife from the same village walking over worriedly and handing over a pair of plastic slippers: "Husband, is your company working overtime again today?"
"My husband, you come back so late every day, I'm a little scared."
"My wife, I'm sorry, it's all because of my incompetence. Not only do you have to buy and cook vegetables after get off work, but you also have to stay at home alone until I come back. I know that you are timid, and you are most afraid of darkness and Thunder, but left you alone at home." Lin Xing blamed himself.
The wife shook her head, the worry on her face did not diminish, and she said worriedly: "Husband, I'm not worried about myself, I'm worried about your husband, you work overtime every day and come back so late."
"You said that the wife of the old man at the opposite door has been dead for more than seven days, and the first seven days have passed. He still places dead food at the door of the house every day, lights incense and candles, and says that he will wait for his wife to come back. It sounds creepy."
"I always feel that the old man who lives across from us is a little out of his mind. I'm worried that you come back so late every day, my husband. If you meet that old man who's out of his mind..."
After hearing this, Lin Xing said with a smile: "My wife, don't think too much, as long as we don't take the initiative to provoke him."
But the wife still said worriedly: "But my husband, I still feel very scared, or, my husband, let's rent a house in another place. There are people who put dead food on the opposite side of the door every day. When I pass by after work every day, I always feel that there is something special in the corridor. cold."
Lin Xing looked at his wife with some distress, and hurriedly comforted him: "Then I will look for a few days to see if there is any new suitable place for us to live in."
Although the economy is very tight.
But Lin Xing also knew that his wife had been timid since she was a child, and he loved her wife who was willing to live a simple life with him, so he followed her wishes.
Afterwards, Lin Xing put on the slippers handed by his wife, and prepared to wash his hands and eat.
However, while his wife was warming up the dishes in the kitchen, Lin Xing came out of the bathroom after washing his hands. When he passed the door, he curiously lay on the peephole behind the door and glanced at the residents opposite.
The door opposite was still closed.
Nothing unusual.
"Did I hear it wrong? I seemed to hear a movement in the corridor just now?"
Just at this time, his wife called him to eat in the restaurant, the dishes were already hot, Lin Xing didn't think about it any more, he responded and went to eat.
After dinner, Lin Xing helped his wife wash the dishes and clean up the kitchen waste, and the couple sat tenderly on the sofa chair in the living room, watching urban soap operas.
There is a clock on the wall, and the time is jumping from second to second.
Just when Lin Xing was sleepy and slowly getting sleepy, the phone rang suddenly, waking Lin Xing up.
Who else will call this late? Lin Xing rubbed his sleepy eyes, turned over and took out his mobile phone from his trouser pocket. The caller ID showed a series of unfamiliar numbers.
"Hello."
"็ Hello Who are you?"
Lin Xing picked up the phone.
As a result, the handset of the mobile phone was very quiet, and there was no human voice.
"Hello? Who are you? Why don't you speak?"
tick.
tick.
In the handset of the mobile phone, there is no one to answer loudly, only the sound of water droplets.
Lin Xing yelled a few times into the phone, but he still didn't answer him, only the sound of water droplets that made him puzzled.
Lin Xing thought it was a prank call and hung up the phone.
"Husband, who is calling?" His wife asked Lin Xing concerned.
Lin Xing: "It's okay, it's just a prank call."
But within ten minutes, the phone rang again, and it was the same phone number as before.
This time there was still no human voice, only the strange sound of water droplets.
(end of this chapter)