Chapter 14: You are my new tenant
In the evening after work, Fang Yuan and I found a Chinese restaurant near the company, ordered some food, and sat opposite each other.
After a while, the food was served. Fang Yuan picked up the chopsticks and started eating on his own. Seeing that I didn't move the chopsticks, he said, "You guy, you eat it."
"Are you not waiting for Yan Yan?" I asked.
"She went to Shanghai to meet Jian Wei, so let's have this meal today." Fang Yuan said calmly.
"She went to see Jian Wei? You guys are getting married in a few days. Can she leave?" I asked with some confusion.
Fang Yuan replied indifferently: "I just got off work and came back tomorrow morning, so I won't delay any trouble." I nodded and started eating.
Fang Yuan put down the chopsticks, stared at me, and then asked for a moment, "Zhaoyang, why don't we have some wine?"
“I won’t drink it today.”
After a while, he looked at me and said, "I think you are a little depressed!" After that, he looked at the watch and said, "Yan Yan probably hasn't gone far yet. Why don't I call her and ask her to answer you again? You will also meet Jian Wei while you are sober..."
I was silent for a while and sighed: "Yan Yan really married a dog and followed the dog!"
"What do you mean?" Fang Yuan asked after changing his seat, not minding me turning around and scolding him.
"You are both unethical. Please don't comfort someone who wants to die until he really dies, okay?"
"Have I comforted you?" Fang Yuan asked innocently.
I was a little angry: "Can you still eat this rice? You can't eat it."
My anger made Fang Yuan sigh. He shook his head and said, "You kid still looks like this. Every time you talk about things related to Jian Wei, you will turn your back faster than reading. Are you really unable to overcome this hurdle?"
Only then did I realize that it was just a test of Fang Yuan, but I didn't know how to respond and fell into silence again.
Fang Yuan asked the waiter to take two cans of Qingdao beer, tear open one can and hand it to me, and drank one can himself, and asked me as if he was deliberately changing the topic: "How are you doing with that graphic model recently? I think she seems to be quite interesting to you."
"Stop talking, she and I are just toys from each other's emptiness period at best."
“Sex toys?”
"It's all right." I said indifferently, picked up the beer in front of me and took a sip into my mouth.
Fang Yuan took a sip with me and asked again: "Tell me the truth, since Jian Wei left, has there been no girl in the world that makes you moved?"
"No." I replied without thinking.
Fang Yuan shook his head and said, "No matter how you look at you, you don't look like a kind of infatuated person. In fact, your heart is unstable over the years. You calm your heart down and think about it carefully. Is there a girl that has always made your heart moved by your side, but you just haven't noticed it."
"I'm unstable?" I asked Fang Yuan in confusion.
Fang Yuan nodded seriously, and made another guiding gesture and said to me: "Drink about it carefully, and now you will definitely gain something."
I was half-believing, but I still followed what Fang Yuan said, took a sip of wine, and then spread my mind, taking out the girls around me from my heart one by one, and I really didn't realize that I had ever been moved by anyone. I would rather freeze the memory of being with them on a night of spring.
I still remember every morning after spring night, when the sunlight falls on the quilt held up by the two of them, it will not give me a sense of peace of mind. I often want to put on my pants and run away in panic. It seems that the sunshine at dawn is just material poverty, and I still remember the heart-warming and ecstasy at night.
If a woman sat on the same bed with me on a certain morning and talked about marriage based on a house, I would definitely collapse. With this kind of collapse as the premise, I would not remember what it felt like to be moved.
"Is there any?" Fang Yuan picked up the beer and ran into me, and asked again with concern.
I just shook my head, picked up the beer and took a sip, but I was too lazy to say another word, and I was even more reluctant to think of any woman again.
But people's thinking is very strange. When I was unwilling to think about it, my female landlord's beautiful and unreal face suddenly appeared in my mind.
I stared at the pot of bonsai behind Fang Yuan like a machine, and my thoughts surged like a tsunami - Could it be that Mi Cai was the woman in Fang Yuan's mouth that moved me?
I hurriedly denied that this was a ridiculous idea. Mi Cai and I only spent a few days together. Even if she was so beautiful that Chang'e came down to earth, I would not be attracted to her. Because of her fantasy and impulse for women, I had already died in the mean years.
Fang Yuan was still waiting for my answer, but I didn't want to be entangled with him anymore, which means nothing to me, so I continued to play silence.
...
The two of them finished a can of beer and continued to eat. The sky outside the window dimmed without any notice. The street lights on both sides of the road were in the same posture, rendering the city under the night.
Fang Yuan and I lit a cigarette and were having fun doing nothing after dinner. The two continued to chat. As we were chatting, Fang Yuan looked at the night outside the window and asked teasingly, "Zhaoyang, this is a little wrong today. It's dark this day. Why are you still sitting there? Don't you have to find happiness?"
"I won't go anywhere, I'll go home and go to bed later."
Fang Yuan seemed to be shocked by me and exclaimed: "Who murdered your night?"
I was asked by Fang Yuan. I was indeed murdered by a woman who had just appeared in my life.
I was not in a hurry to answer Fang Yuan’s question, but I was eager to ask him to help me analyze a question that has troubled me for many days. I still couldn’t figure out why Micai, who was driving a luxury car, lived in that dilapidated house. I didn’t want to believe that this was a fate that God deliberately created for us. It was also far-fetched to say that fate was because I threw her quilt a few days ago, and she then threw me into the wilderness. This world seemed to have no such fate to torture.
After a while, I said to Fang Yuan, "Tell you something very new."
"Is this new thing directly related to you if you don't go out and mess around?"
I nodded, and then I and Micai selectively told Fang Yuan about the various things that happened in that house these days.
After hearing this, Fang Yuan looked at me half-believingly and paused for a moment before asking me: "Are you sure she was driving a luxury car worth one million yuan and moved into your bad house?"
"Of course it's certain. Please help me analyze, analyze, and see what her motivation is?" I said to Fang Yuan very seriously.
"Anyway, it's not a murder for money." Fang Yuan said and glanced at me disdainfully.
"I know I have no money and a bad life, but now I'm really telling you something very serious. Can you be serious?"
"Zhaoyang, we live in a very realistic world. In fact, you really don't expect her to owe you anything in her previous life and to repay her kindness in this life."
I touched my chin and said seriously: "Don't say it, maybe this is really possible. You said that I will do all kinds of evil in my life and become stinky. It must be because I did too many good things in my previous life. Maybe my female landlord received my favor in my previous life and will repay my kindness and serve me in this life."
"Serve you? Didn't you say that she tricked you to the junction of the Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway between Suzhou and Wuxi in the middle of the night, and you were so froze that you were snot flowing. Was she so serving you?"
I pointed at Fang Yuan and was speechless for a while before saying, "You are just a bad friend!"
Fang Yuan smiled, got up, patted me on the shoulder and said, "Zhaoyang, it is not a good thing that a woman appears to divert your attention from Jian Wei..."
Before I could answer, I said again: "It's 7:30 soon. I'll make an appointment with the wedding company's planner at 8:00. Let's part with you today."
Looking at Fang Yuan's departure back, I lit another cigarette in a daze, and I always felt that I didn't understand what he said. Why did Mi Cai's appearance divert my attention from Jian Wei?
...
After leaving the restaurant, I bought another can of beer. While drinking, I followed the crowded crowd, listening to the laughter of others, thinking about my own worries and walking towards home.
When I returned home, I opened the door. The room was pitch black. I turned on the lights in the living room and looked around. The room was full of desertedness. My female landlord, Mi Cai, seemed to have not come back yet.
I was bored and sat on the sofa and watched TV. I missed the drunkenness of sleeping in nightclubs. The night seemed to be endless and long. I can't remember when I was like this now. When the night first arrived, I looked for entertainment at the TV like a little man at home... and then I felt bored!
It was only 8:30, but I was tortured by boredom and scratched my heart and lungs. I smoked a cigarette and stayed there for a while. I only walked for ten minutes. I wanted to die a little. It turned out that nights alone were so difficult!
I found the guitar from the room, found a guitar score, and started practicing songs. If I say that the things I like to do in addition to being drunk and dreaming every night are probably the only things I like to play the guitar and make my entertainment bored.
After singing the song and preparing to play the next song, there was finally a movement outside the house. The door was opened, and then I saw Mi Cai, who was so beautiful that she was deadly.
Although we have a bit of a festive relationship, I am not a narrow-minded person, so I belittle her beauty. This woman seems to be a masterpiece under God's impulse.
I put down the guitar in my hand and asked with a smile: "Are you back?"
"Yes." Mi Cai responded and walked towards her room.
"Stop." I shouted to her with a stern face, but it was because of boredom. I was unwilling to be alone and wanted to tease her.
Mi Cai turned around and looked at me: "Is there anything wrong?"
I looked at Mi Cai, and the more I looked at it, the more I wondered why this woman could have been so beautiful. Then I asked without any restraint: "Why do you think you are so beautiful? You can't be a monster who turned into it?"
Mi Cai frowned slightly and said to me coldly: "Please don't let me feel like I'm leading a wolf into the house, okay?"
I immediately stood up and said excitedly, "Girl, you are not wrong. I moved into this house first. Is your statement of attracting a wolf into the house a bit inappropriate?"
Mi Cai ignored the statement I made about coming first and coming, and her tone was still cold: "If you think I was transformed from a monster, you can move out at any time, and I won't have any objection."
"Why should I move? Originally, I live in this house. You are a new tenant at best. Besides, you promised me to live here. I also abide by the agreement. After work, I squatted at home like a Buddha and didn't go anywhere. So don't mention moving matters to me in the future." I said as I stood up from the sofa to show excitement.
"I am your new tenant?" Mi Cai's tone was obviously unhappy.
But I didn't care about her displeasure and said, "Yes, from today on, you will be able to regard yourself as a female tenant in front of me. In this room, whoever has a deep experience will be the landlord."
"Don't you think you're bored? In addition, I have to remind you that there is no need to change your concept and force the title of the female tenant to me, because I only promised you to live here for one month, and you will soon leave here with the identity of the tenant." Mi Cai looked at me with a fearless expression and said.
"What's wrong with a month? I'll feel good even if I've only been a landlord for one month!" I said stubbornly, but my emotions were depressed by Mi Cai's words "Leave here forever."
Mi Cai didn't want to argue with me anymore, so she said "Who cares about you" and then turned around and walked towards her room.
...
In a person's living room, I took out a cigarette and lit it. In the pleasure of the cigarette coming in and out, I felt funny because of the landlord status I had won with the scoundrel.
The smoke that was spit out slowly floated out the window against the backdrop of the light. I was sober. A breeze that was floating from somewhere made me awake again. In this breeze that seemed to be borrowed, I suddenly saw Jian Wei's hazy outline and suddenly remembered: We will meet at Fang Yuan and Yan Yan's wedding in three days. I seemed to have a premonition that the next three days may be even harder than the three years of separation...
To this day I have been unable to understand why we have managed our love for 4 years with the best time in our lives. Why can't we start and end well? Even if we break up, we have to give me a reason, but...
I closed my eyes, and the smoke kept coming out of my fingertips, which made me want to cry!
Chapter completed!