Chapter 31: The Cheaters
Before the bus stopped, I couldn't wait to get off the bus and looked at the waiting taxi. But the weather was not going as expected, and all those passing by were already carrying passengers.
I am increasingly convinced that my encounter with Mi Cai is not a wonderful arrangement, but a torture that cannot be avoided.
Finally, I waited for a taxi and drove to the farmers' market without stopping. I remember that there were small vendors there who sold some insecticide powder, and the insecticides sold in supermarkets generally cannot kill cockroaches, so I can only ask the vendors to have not closed their stalls at this time.
When I came to the farmers' market, it was pitch black. Not to mention the vendors, even the shops inside were closed. I felt a little sad. Although I had worked very hard, I was destined to be unable to buy insecticide powder this night.
In desperation, I had to settle for the second best, so I went to the supermarket to buy a bottle of insecticide, trying to get away with it.
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When I arrived at that old house, it was already 10 o'clock at night. The more than an hour of going back and forth had caused me a lot. I just hope that Micai would not find out that what I brought was just insecticides instead of the insecticide powder I had agreed to have.
After knocking on the door, Mi Cai opened the door for me in her pajamas, and seemed to be eating something in her mouth.
I asked curiously: "What did you eat?"
“Cherry.”
"What is a cherry?"
Mi Cai seemed very satisfied with my compliance with the agreement today, and explained to me patiently, saying, "Cherries are cherries. You can wash your hands first, there are still a lot of them there!"
"Are you going to treat me?"
Mi Cai nodded, and I immediately walked towards the bathroom, feeling a little happy. Mi Cai's attitude towards me at this time was much better than before, so it was no harm to be a reliable person.
When I came out of the bathroom, Mi Cai had already put the box containing cherries on the sofa in the living room, and held a book and ate while reading. She had a graceful posture and a leisurely expression.
I sat down next to Mi Cai and looked at the box. The box was very exquisite. Then I realized that it was authentic cherries imported from Chile. It was not the type of parallel goods in supermarkets with the name of import. This box was at least thousands.
I picked up two cherries and stuffed them into my mouth and said to Mi Cai: "You said we all have one nose and two eyes, why do you live so luxuriously?"
"What?" Mi Cai looked at me with some confusion and asked.
"I said you are a luxury to live. I have never eaten such expensive fruits since my mother gave birth to me!" I said and picked up two more and threw them into my mouth.
"Sent from a friend." Mi Cai responded, focusing on the book she was reading.
"Then you say, why don't you give me such expensive fruits? After all, your class is corruption and luxury! A big socialist borer." After I said that, I picked up several more and threw them into my mouth.
Mi Cai seemed to be in a good mood and didn't compete with me. She just said, "If you want to like, you can take it back and eat it."
"It must be taken back." I said as I stood up from the sofa, found a convenient bag and put the box on it.
At this time, Mi Cai finally put down the book and asked me, "Have you bought your insecticide powder?"
"If I didn't buy insecticide powder, would I be embarrassed to come?"
Mi Cai nodded in agreement and said, "If you dare to come to me if you don't buy it, that's harassment!"
"I bought it, I bought it, and I said something about harassment, and I defeated my reputation." I said "impatiently" and took out the purchased insecticide from my briefcase to protect it.
Mi Cai stared at the insecticide and frowned and said, "Didn't you say insecticide powder? This one doesn't look like it!"
I felt panicked and said, "Of course it's not like this, this is the latest insecticide developed, which has miraculous effects on killing cockroaches."
Mi Cai looked at me with a sceptical look and said, "I have read it in the book. Cockroaches are very resistant to drugs, and ordinary insecticides have no effect at all."
"Don't be dogmatic. Am I an ordinary insecticide? If you don't brag about it, just this can in my hand can cut off the cockroaches in this room. It's inhumane!" I said nonsense.
Mi Cai still looked disbelief and said, "Why do I feel like you are so like a liar in the world?"
I felt a little guilty and still said angrily: "I am doing it for your own good. The insecticide powder is very toxic. If you accidentally poison a mouse or something, are you disgusting?"
Mi Cai was frightened by me and hurriedly said to me: "Then stop standing and do what you should do."
"Do you want to come in and watch?"
Mi Cai shook her head repeatedly, I turned around quietly, and then walked towards the bathroom proudly. At this moment, I felt the pleasure of regaining the city, and I said happily: "Silly girl, come and expose me again, come..."
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I held the cherry given to me by Mi Cai in my hand and said goodbye to her. It was already 11 o'clock at this moment. It was at least 12 o'clock when I returned to Robben. I couldn't help but sigh in my heart what a tossing night it was.
Before leaving, I told Mi Cai: "Don't use that bathroom tonight. After spraying insecticides, there are too many toxic substances."
"knew."
I asked boredly, "Then can you hold it in this night? I feel so bad. I usually have to go to the toilet several times a night."
Mi Cai frowned and said, "Why do you say so much?"
"I'm worried about you, okay?"
"I just won't live here tonight."
Mi Cai's words once again aroused my curiosity. From her words, I was almost certain that she had other houses in this city, but why did she have to buy this place and live there?
I didn't ask my doubts after all, because Mi Cai wouldn't tell me. I asked it last time. Besides, knowing the answer has no meaning to me except satisfying curiosity. Now I am used to doing meaningful things, so it's better not to ask.
I took out a cherry from my pocket and threw it into my mouth, and said to Mi Cai: "Then I'll leave. I'll call me if I have something to do in this house or community in the future."
"Um."
I coughed, and the sensing light in the corridor lighted up, and then turned around and left.
"Zhaoyang, wait."
I turned around and looked at Mi Cai in surprise and asked, "Are you planning to let me stay? You can't even use the bathroom here, I can't hold it in!"
"Take your guitar away." Mi Cai said, turning back to the house I used to live in and taking out the guitar from it.
I didn't want to take the guitar from Mi Cai, and I was silent for a long time and said, "I said, you find someone who knows the profession. This guitar can definitely be sold at a good price. I don't have the money to pay it back to you now!"
"I asked you to pay back the money that day, but I was angry with you. Take the guitar away. It doesn't belong to anyone, it only belongs to you and Jian Wei, at least it's a memory."
I asked in surprise: "How do you know that this guitar is related to Jane Wei?"
"You and her name are engraved on the guitar." Mi Cai's tone was very calm.
After a long period of silence, I stopped looking at the guitar that was standing in the corner by Mi Cai, and whispered: "I don't want it anymore."
Mi Cai smiled and said, "You can't lose a guitar, but you can't lose that memory in your heart. Why should you deceive yourself?"
I don't speak.
"Take it." Mi Cai put the box containing the guitar outside the door and then closed the door.
...
With this lost guitar, I returned to Robben's residence in a heavy mood. I happened to meet Robben at the entrance of the corridor, and a charming woman he brought with me.
The woman took off her helmet and stepped off Robben's modified track motorcycle, and then Robben took off her helmet.
I immediately understood that this was a friend brought back by Robben.
Roben hugged the enchanting woman and introduced to me: "Zhaoyang, this is my friend Lily."
I smiled and said, "It won't bother you, right? Why don't I go to a hotel?"
"No, it's not bad, it's night, it's fine in a while." Robben said.
"That's it, I'll sit downstairs for a while...you can help me bring the guitar up first."
Robben took the guitar from me, patted my shoulder, and signaled that he would get it done soon, so he hugged the woman and walked upstairs. I sat at the entrance of the corridor, opened the cherries I brought back from Micai and ate them again.
Chapter completed!