"Can't this problem be solved? I can only do it myself? I won't come over? Uh, I have shown you the photos, and the situation is really serious now..."
With a headache, he raised his hand and pinched his eyebrows. Xia Lian had just finished talking with the landlord on the phone.
Regarding the mildew growing in the house, the landlord's attitude is that he doesn't want to come here at all. Even if he took photos and videos to respond to the problem, the landlord still said perfunctorily on his mobile phone that this situation is very normal, making him a big man Do not be too concerned about.
Since I rented the house, the intermediary has basically lost contact, and I can only contact the landlord if I have something to do, and the landlord's attitude is that he only takes money and doesn't care about other things. He also said that if he really couldn't stand it, he would charge less rent next time and ask Xia Lian to deal with the mildew in the house by himself.
In fact, he has asked people about the problem of thorough treatment of mildew spots. He said that if he really wanted to clean it, he had to shovel and repaint the wall. Cheap, and the landlord is unlikely to repaint the house because of mildew problems. So at the end of the conversation, he was still asked to ignore the mildew spots, saying that this season should be much better, or he can just wipe it off by himself, and if he can't use something to cover it up, he can't see it.
It’s not that Xia Lian is obsessed with cleanliness, but the mildew in the house has become more and more serious in the past few days. After several days of continuous attempts to scrub and disinfect, the mildew in the bathroom continues to grow and expand, and even spread to the living room Mold started to appear on the ceiling too. The oval-shaped mildew stains one after the other are very dazzling on the white ceiling. At this time, he had given up the idea of wiping away the mildew, because his experience of wiping for several days told him that no matter how hard he wiped, it was useless.
The only thing I can comfort myself now is that the mildew has not grown into the bedroom yet, but even so, when I stood in the bathtub and took a shower, I saw a large piece of gray mildew in the corner of the wall, and my heart was still very disturbed.
In addition to the problem of mildew, Xia Lian's head is throbbing these days because of poor sleep quality. Every night he would start to have some absurd and weird dreams, in which he could hear rustling sounds that were extremely close to his ears, and the sounds in his dreams became louder every day, but he was still trapped in the darkness of nothingness and could not find an exit. Meaningless dreams are very exhausting. Xia Lian feels like he hasn't slept every day. He can't concentrate at work, and his colleagues who usually just say hello and leave can't help but ask him how he is recently. It's not that I didn't sleep well, the dark circles under my eyes are a bit serious.
Staring at himself in the mirror, the pale complexion and the blue-black shadows under the eyes are really a little scary. Picking up a handful of tap water with both hands and splashing it on his face vigorously, Xia Lian glanced at the mildew spot next to the bathtub, and felt that the shape of the mildew spot seemed to slowly transform into a headed, Hands and feet, like a figure standing in the corner...
etc,
silhouette?
Xia Lian turned his head abruptly, carefully observing the mold spot that was almost taller than him now, feeling uneasy in his heart. I feel that I seem to associate too much. After all, when I usually look at clouds, I will imagine what they look like. Now when I look at mold spots, I also associate some things. It is normal and nothing weird. While comforting himself like this, he still decided to make a video call with his friend.
Although it has been said that he is not the kind of popular person who is very popular, but he is not completely socially incompetent to have no friends. My roommate and classmate in college has maintained a good relationship until now. It's not to the point where you have to chat every day, but you can still find anything you want to talk about. Taking a look at the current time, Xia Lian decided to make a video call to his friend Huang Hao, who should have nothing to do now and who works in the city next door to him.
Because we haven't chatted for a long time, Xia Lian didn't bring up the annoying problems he encountered with the landlord and the house at the beginning of the conversation. He said that nearly an hour passed in a flash, and Xia Lian almost forgot what he was talking about on the video call during the chat. On the contrary, he even knew the snacks and lipstick numbers that Huang Hao's girlfriend liked to eat recently. In fact, he doesn't care about what Huang Hao's girlfriend wants to eat and uses, but he really can't stop the man who is sweetly in love and wants to confide strongly.
It took a long time to talk nonstop before realizing that he was too embarrassing. Huang Hao coughed lightly, temporarily cooling down his full love brain, and finally noticed Xia Lian's unusual reaction. You must know that Xia Lian and Xia Lian have been classmates for several years, and it is almost impossible to say that you don't understand him. It is extremely rare for Xia Lian to contact him on his own initiative. Observing Xia Lian in the video camera, Huang Hao seemed to understand something, and asked with a playful smile: "Hey, is it because I stole your talk and talked about dating my girlfriend first, without letting you talk about it?" Did you break the news in advance and hand over the good news to your girlfriend?"
"?" Xia Lian asked with a question mark.
"Isn't it?" Huang Hao blinked his right eye at the camera very deliberately.
Pursing his lips, Xia Lian frowned and looked at Huang Hao's flamboyant expression on the phone, remembering that he was leaning against the head of the bed in the bedroom with Huang Hao in the video, behind him was the hot pink wallpaper, probably Huang Hao misunderstood the color , after all, he himself is not the kind of person who would decorate the room in this color style.
"No, no, the pink wallpaper behind me was there when I rented this house, and I didn't have a girlfriend."
"Eh? Don't be embarrassed~ I'm here at my girlfriend's house, brother, how could I laugh at you, this is a good thing, congratulations!"
"No, I'm just in the house I rented, alone." In order to prove himself, Xia Lian immediately held up his mobile phone and swayed it around the bedroom to show Huang Hao. Except for the pink wallpaper, all the decorations in the room are You can tell at a glance that he only looks like a single person.
"Isn't it? But I clearly saw a person leaning against you just now?" Huang Hao didn't misunderstand that Xia Lian had a girlfriend because of the pink wallpaper background in the video, but because he just saw a black-haired person clinging to you. By Xia Lian's side, he thought that the person who could get so close to Xia Lian must be at the girlfriend level, even though the figure immediately withdrew from the camera, Huang Hao thought it was just the woman who was shy.
"... Did you really see someone beside me?" Xia Lian's heart beat suddenly, and Xia Lian suddenly turned his head to look around. He was the only one in the room, so what happened to the figure? Thinking of the more and more human-shaped mold spots in the bathroom, I feel more and more terrified...
"You really didn't lie to me? Don't you have a girlfriend?" Seeing that Xia Lian's complexion instantly became bad in the video, Huang Hao, who was still giggling, asked hesitantly.
"I also want to ask you the same question, are you lying to me?"
"But... I really saw it just now, it wasn't dazzled~"
"What's it like?"
"It's just... just a figure that I didn't see clearly. I thought it was leaning against you, but it disappeared in an instant." The more Huang Hao thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong, and he said casually, "Could it be... a ghost? "
"... That's all for today, I'll hang up first."
Obviously I contacted my friend because I wanted to feel better, but I didn't expect my mood to plummet even after the video call. The mildew spots that keep growing and spreading everywhere are becoming more and more humanoid, and now the so-called human figure that my friend said appeared beside him...
How could there be ghosts in this world? Unconsciously twirling the fingertips that suddenly became cold in the scorching heat, Xia Lian didn't seem to be intimidated on the outside, but his heart was as messy as a typhoon of category eight had just passed through.