Chen Xizhu always treated Fu Shitian's affairs as her own. She promised to help them understand, and soon there was a follow-up. The next day at noon, she sent them three houses that she thought were suitable, and asked them to go and see the houses together after class in the evening.
The three houses are not too far from the school. One is a room in a community suite that my senior sister wants to sublet after changing jobs. It is a shared room with three reliable girls. The room has good lighting, a shared living room, kitchen, two bathrooms, and a balcony. It is well-equipped, quiet and clean. Everything is good, except for one thing - the rent is more than half of the budget. The other two are very close to each other and have the same landlord. Except for the slightly different room sizes, everything else is similar. They are all old bungalows outside the school, hidden in the deep alleys of the old street. You have to walk through a noisy student street with many stalls to get there. The outer wall of the house is old. Push open the rusty door and walk inside. The stairs are dim and the corridor is long and narrow. There are five or six single rooms separated by a row on the floor. The conditions in the room are not good. The walls are peeling white walls, and the furniture is an old wooden bed and a narrow single table. There was a bathroom, but it was a small one without even tiles. The shower was above the squat toilet. When you walked in alone, you were blocked by the sink, and you had to turn sideways to find the right angle to close the door.
Fu Shitian was not unfamiliar with such an environment. When she was a child, she had lived in worse places. However, Shi Yi had never experienced this. Compared with Shi Yi's home, or even just the apartment in the community that the senior sister wanted to sublet, the difference was too big.
It was not until this moment that Fu Shitian began to feel the reality of the disastrous consequences she had brought to Shi Yi.
Shi Yi was calm and not even surprised, and went into the bathroom to take a closer look. But Fu Shitian was standing outside, and just seeing her standing in such a dark and cramped room, his heart felt like it was being pricked by something, with waves of sharp pain.
Seeing that Fu Shitian didn't look satisfied, the landlord tried to gauge their intentions: "If you want it, you'd better decide as soon as possible. This is the peak season, and graduates are all looking for houses. I only have this room and the two upstairs. If you're late, they will be gone."
Fu Shitian didn't say anything, so Chen Xizhu helped to smooth things over: "Okay, Auntie, let's take a look and consider it. Can it be cheaper?" She said in a lovable way: "Auntie, you see, we are poor students, we don't have much money in our pockets, it's not easy, it's cheaper, we will introduce friends to us in the future. You can be absolutely assured when you hand over the house to us, we will definitely behave properly, we will definitely return it to you in the same way as you hand it over to us, or even more beautiful. You can just give it a cheaper price." m.
The landlord was so coaxed by Chen Xizhu that he lowered the price by another fifty yuan, saying that the current price was four hundred and fifty yuan, and the other one with a balcony and kitchen that we were going to see later was six hundred yuan. He also said, "Almost all the houses in this area are in my condition. If you are talking about the price, you don't need to look anymore. The price I give is definitely the lowest price."
Chen Xizhu had learned about the market in advance, and it was indeed about the same. She looked at Fu Shitian and asked him. Fu Shitian looked at Shi Yi, and Shi Yi said, "Then let's take a look at the one with a kitchen."
The landlord said readily, "Okay."
The landlord led the way, walking in front of them, amid the smell of oil smoke and the cries of vendors selling barbecue, hand-pulled pancakes, and multi-grain pancakes. Fu Shitian, Shi Yi, and Chen Xizhu deliberately slowed down their pace and followed at a distance.
"How is it?" Chen Xizhu asked the two victims for their opinions.
Fu Shitian stared at Shi Yi's white shoes stepping on the barbecue skewers with a little meat left on them, on the milk tea straws, and on this dirty road, and his heart ached so much that it seemed like it couldn't beat.
Shi Yi shouldn't belong here.
What is she doing? What is she doing to Shi Yi
"What are you thinking about?" Shi Yi pinched her palm.
Fu Shitian came back to his senses.
Chen Xizhu reminded: "I just asked you how you guys think about it? Shi Yi said it's okay, but you prefer the one with a kitchen. Let's see how the one with a kitchen is later. If they are similar, then decide on it. What do you think?"
Fu Shitian looked at Shi Yi with a little surprise. Shi Yi smiled faintly and nodded, waiting for her opinion with his eyes.
"I think, why don't we choose the first one." Fu Shitian clenched his five fingers and said tentatively: "Although the rent of the first one exceeds the budget, it will only last for half a year. If I work another part-time job, I can still afford it."
Chen Xizhu just frowned slightly, Shi Yi stopped smiling and asked in a deep voice: "Do you think you are Nezha? You have three heads and six arms."
Fu Shitian fluttered his eyelashes and said nothing.
Shi Yi saw that she was a little helpless and aggrieved, and realized that his tone might not be very good, so he softened his expression, shook her hand, interlocked their fingers, and said in a gentle voice: "If you like, you can. We will rent the first one, but I will pay the rent."
"No." Fu Shitian immediately retorted. How could Shi Yi solve the problem? She was penniless now, and the only way to solve the problem was to go out and work part-time. She couldn't let Shi Yi work harder, and she couldn't bear to let Shi Yi go out and suffer the slightest possible grievance.
Shi Yi was helpless. She knew how much Fu Shitian opposed her taking a part-time job. "Then I can only choose this one and the one I'll be taking later?"
Fu Shitian bit her lip, as if she wanted to say something, but because Chen Xizhu was there, she silently endured it. She didn't say anything else, and obediently followed them to see the room with the kitchen.
The room with the kitchen is generally similar to the one we just saw, but its overall area is a little larger, and there is an extra balcony used as a kitchen. The overall lighting and feeling are also much better than the one we just saw.
Shi Yi and Chen Xizhu both thought it was pretty good. Although they asked the landlord for some time to consider and did not sign it immediately, Shi Yi's words meant that he was inclined to sign it, and Fu Shitian did not object.
The two people sent Chen Xizhu to the school gate, and then continued walking towards the community with their own thoughts.
All the way leading to the community, the lights are bright, the road is straight and wide, the green belts are neat and clean, and the breeze brings the fragrance of roses from the villa area in the distance.
The greasy and noisy snack street was like an absurd scene from another world. And she seemed to be doing something even more absurd and unforgivable—she took a shovel and stole the carefully maintained flowers in the garden of someone's villa, and then turned around and planted them in the barren desert.
Fu Shitian held Shi Yi's hand, and his heart felt like it was thrown into boiling water, hot and painful.
"You are unhappy." Shi Yi suddenly stopped.
Fu Shitian turned his head to look at her and retorted subconsciously: "I didn't, I..." When his eyes met Shi Yiping's calm and understanding eyes, the remaining concealment dissipated in his throat.
"Do you really like the first house?" Shi Yi said gently.
Fu Shitian felt her good attitude, and her heart ached even more. The heartache and guilt almost overwhelmed her. It was obviously Shi Yi who was wronged, and it was obviously she who made Shi Yi feel wronged, but Shi Yi still coaxed her in this way.
She suppressed her bitterness, shook her head and said, "No, I'm not unhappy, really."
"I'm just a little frustrated."
"Shi Yi, I want you to live more comfortably, but I'm so useless."
Shi Yi looked at her deeply, opened his mouth and was about to say something.
Fu Shitian suddenly tried hard to force a smile, her eyes sparkling and determined: "But, I won't be useless forever." She said this to Shi Yi, and also to herself: "Shi Yi, this will only be temporary. Just endure these six months, and things will definitely get better."
Shi Yi was stunned for two seconds, then smiled and said sincerely: "Well, I believe you."
“We’re working together.”
She liked Fu Shitian's positive and hopeful look. It seemed that the future was firmly under their feet.
This was the first time she had smiled with her eyebrows relaxed and eyes open that day. Fu Shitian looked at her cold and gradually tender features, and the undisguised trust and expectation in her eyes, and felt a deeper pain in his heart.
However, she didn't show it this time. She couldn't let Shi Yi coax her anymore.
No matter how outstanding, calm, and composed her Shi Yi is, she is still just a girl of her own age. She will also get flustered, feel uneasy, have to put on a forced smile, and need a shoulder or support.
She wanted to be that shoulder for her to lean on, rather than the one who could only cry on her shoulder.
She suppressed this pain in her heart and hid it in all her subsequent actions.
*
The house had not yet been moved in, but the school was finally efficient for once and issued an announcement on the sixth day after being condemned by the entire network. After research and decision, Chen Hong was expelled, his teaching qualifications were revoked, and he was expelled from the D community. He would be dealt with in accordance with the law.
It was a great relief to everyone, and the whole network applauded. Fu Shitian thought Shi Yi had escaped unscathed, and his heart, which had been hanging in the air, finally settled down.
Zhang Lulu called, crying and laughing, saying she was sorry for dragging them in regardless of anything, and thanked them, saying that without their help, she would not have been able to hold on to this point. She said she wanted to treat Fu Shitian and Shi Yi to a meal, and she didn't know how to express so many thanks.
Fu Shitian and Shi Yi were busy packing up the newly rented house and moving things, so they didn't have time, so they said no. Zhang Lulu asked and found out that they were moving, and took the initiative to say that her boyfriend had a car and could help if needed. It was hard to refuse such a kind offer, so Shi Yi didn't hesitate, and made an appointment with her, and asked her boyfriend to help her go back and forth twice, and within a week, they completely moved out of the house that Fang Ruohua gave her.
On the day of moving out, before closing the door, she stood in the living room and looked around the house for the last time. She sent a text message to Fang Ruohua, telling her that she had moved out, closed the doors and windows, and left the green plants and succulents cultivation manual on the coffee table.
Fang Ruohua didn't reply to her until the evening when they arrived at the rental house.
Shi Yi knew that Fang Ruohua would not reply to her.
Mom has always been such a rational and calm person who always keeps her word. What on earth is she expecting? Shi Yi felt that he was a little ridiculous and despicable.
She looked at "Mom A" in the address book, clicked edit, and changed "A" to "Z", allowing this expectation and concern that should not have existed to sink to the bottom with difficulty and thoroughly.
"Shi Yi, do you want steamed eggs or poached eggs tomorrow morning?" Fu Shitian asked her.
In front of the simple balcony cooking utensils, the girl was wearing an apron and holding a spatula, smiling at her.
In the deep blue night, between the lights and fireworks, her eyebrows and eyes were beautifully enlarged, deep and shallow, like stars, like lakes, like poetry and like a painting.
Shi Yi's sinking heart lifted up again naturally and easily.
She still has expectations that can be realized.
They can live well.
She replied "All right", put away her phone, squeezed onto the balcony, and hugged Fu Shitian from behind.
Contented.
Fu Shitian would never let her lose the bet.
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