Surrounded by sultry and humid air, it always makes people extremely irritable. It has been several months since Xia Lian moved into Qipan Jiayuan's house, and the weather has been heating up crazily. Grabbing the toothbrush and brushing mechanically back and forth, Xia Lian's head was still awake, and his eyes were staring at the mirror above the sink.
Looking at the mirror, you can tell that it has been around for many years. There are some damages and cracks at the corners. obsolete.
And Xia Lian's eyes slowly focused on one part of the mirror, which is behind him reflected in the mirror—the white old-fashioned bathtub that is only big enough for an adult to curl up in, and beside it is a translucent yellowed shower curtain that twists and clings to the wall , and a patch of mildew on the white wall near the corner of the bathtub.
Mildew? !
Xia Lian suddenly woke up, turned around and walked to the bathtub, bent down and carefully observed the mold spot near the corner of the wall. It was about the size of a palm and spread out in a semicircle. The gray-black mold spot was surrounded by dotted edges. There are also some irregular water marks in yellowish brown, which make people feel uncomfortable and feel numb.
"This... when did the mildew grow?" Xia Lian raised his hand to touch the mildew spot, but felt a sense of shock, and withdrew his hand halfway. It looks like I have to buy a bottle of disinfectant alcohol on the way to get off work tonight. Sure enough, renting a house at such a cheap price will always cause some headaches.
I thought the blinding pink girly wallpaper in the bedroom of the house and the dark and humid environment in the house all day long were the limit, but I didn't expect the walls to be moldy? I haven't been in such a situation in the past few months. Forget it, for the sake of the rent price, Xia Lian straightened up and took a deep breath, and went back to brush his teeth. He had to hurry to work later and didn't have time to think about it. .
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Xia Lian is a newcomer in the workplace who has just graduated and entered the society. He is as ordinary as his name. An ordinary family, an ordinary school, and an ordinary graduation. With the same eye shape as his mother, he seems indifferent, which always makes people think that he is not too enthusiastic. Since childhood, the most commented person is that he is young and mature.
Although in fact he is not as unapproachable as he seems, and he will try to participate socially, but he is basically transparent on the edge of the crowd, and he has never even received love letters or confessions from girls.
If you try to find the advantages, it seems that someone once praised him for his slender, slender, white and clean fingers, which are suitable for playing the piano or making hand models. Of course, he has no interest in these two things, nor does he have much ambition. He did not choose to graduate and go to a big city to work hard, but continued to look for a job in the city where he was studying.
He can quickly master work matters. Although he has made a little effort in socializing among colleagues, he is not too positive and has only just nodded and said hello to his colleagues.
Xia Lian found the house he lives in now under the introduction of an intermediary. The moment he entered the door, he felt that the inside of the house seemed a little weird. He couldn't tell what was wrong, maybe the light was a little dark? Not too bright? But after negotiating with the landlord and being tempted to deduct a few hundred yuan from the rent, he still chose to rent the house. After all, in a house of this price near the company, you can probably only rent a room with others, and this house can live in one room, one living room, which is really very affordable.
It was fine for the first few months of living here, but the mold that suddenly appeared in the bathroom disturbed people's mood very much.
Xia Lian, who is used to cooking at home and has no need to socialize, came home with newly bought vegetables and disinfectant alcohol at night. The first thing he did was to go to the bathroom to wipe and disinfect the mildew on the wall. The effect was not as good as he expected. Although he tried hard to wipe it, the gray-black mold spots turned into a gray mass. Even if he tried a few more times, the color only became lighter, and the shape remained in the corner of the bathroom. In the end, I applied force until the wall skin was almost wiped off, and finally only a little bit of gray was left.
Xia Lian raised his hand to wipe off the sweat that had already flowed down to his chin. After working for a long time in the closed bathroom without air conditioning, it would be strange if he didn't sweat all over. I wondered if I needed to buy a bucket of white paint online to paint the walls, but thinking about the money in the card gave up this idea, the money still needs to be spent on more important places.
Make the lunch and dinner together at noon the next day, put the lunch in a clean lunch box, and bring the dinner to the dining table by the window in the living room, and finally you can have dinner. Outside the airtight glass window, cicadas kept chirping, announcing heartbreakingly that the scorching heat would continue...
In the middle of the night, Xia Lian had a dream. The dream was like a world stained with ink. He could vaguely hear extremely subtle rustling sounds in his ears. The darkness began to dissipate gradually, and the rustling sound was accompanied by the gray and black snowflakes on the old TV, surrounding Xia Lian in it. At the end of the dream, he didn't know what he was dreaming about. It's just that when I woke up in the morning, I was surprised that I was sweating all over. The air conditioner was not turned off, and the temperature was not so hot.
The most irritating thing was that when he walked into the bathroom to take a shower, he found that the wall that was barely wiped clean yesterday actually had new mildew spots? !
The new mildew spots that grew rapidly overnight became even larger than the area he wiped off last night. They had spread from the size of a palm to the size of a basketball. It grows up towards the ceiling.