After dinner at Alin Hotel, I carried a guitar and swayed on the streets of Suzhou at night. The fallen leaves, cold wind, light and shadow, and towering buildings formed the city in late autumn.

I lit a cigarette and enjoyed the mist of the smoke after being fed and fed. I couldn't help but look back at this city frequently. When I really wanted to leave, I realized that I didn't hate it very much, and even felt a little reluctant. At least it once recorded my youth and life, including love. Here I understood: thinking of one person is called loneliness, here I understand: If the love between two people is sublimated into marriage, it is called love. If only memories are left, it is just a legend, a legend that makes people lonely and lonely.

I was tired of walking, Le Yao and I sat on the bench on the street, and were silent for a while. Finally, I asked Le Yao, "Where are you, have you been doing well recently?"

Le Yao shook her head blankly and said, "It's not good to be the same as before, but I haven't given up on my efforts."

I nodded, and didn't know how to answer Le Yao's words for a while, because I could understand what she meant. She said that she had not given up on her efforts, but was actually asking me why I gave up on my efforts.

After a brief silence, Le Yao asked me: "How do you plan to live after returning to Xuzhou?"

I took a heavy puff of cigarette, thought for a while before answering, saying, "It would be best if my father was willing to arrange a job for me in the unit where he worked. If he didn't want to, find a job by himself, and then find a woman who lives with him, and finally wait for birth, old age, sickness and death."

"Don't arrange your life so far subjectively. Life is full of variables, right?"

"Actually, I would rather see the end of my life at first sight."

Le Yao smiled and said, "That's why you fantasize about a crystal clear city as your sustenance in your heart."

"Yes, only crystal clear can you see the farthest without any obstacles."

"Maybe we are really not the same type of people!" Le Yao sighed.

"Yes, the island you fantasized with smoke from cooking fires needs to swim through a sea to reach, so you have to go through more than crystal clearness."

Le Yao suddenly looked at me as if she had figured out something. After a long time, she said, "Do you feel like two stars that are destined to appear together? I am in the cape, you are in the sky, echoing from afar but never getting close?"

I didn't respond, but just looked away. In a trance, I seemed to really see the sky city and a beach echoing from a distance, but I couldn't get close to each other.

This night, Le Yao and I hugged and said goodbye. Perhaps after leaving Suzhou, we will really go further and further in the direction we expect. Finally, one day we no longer remember that we had a night of lingering, perhaps life is composed of countless forgettings, and finally forgetting everything in death.

...

Time moved forward for another three days. In the past two days, except for eating, sleeping, and going to the bathroom, the only thing I did was to bring tenants one by one to see the single apartment I rented now.

This afternoon, I brought a total of three tenants to see the house, but all of them were not agreed upon because of this and that reason. Finally, a couple who had just graduated from college came.

The two of them looked back and forth in the room holding hands, and finally they thought it was pretty good. The boy asked me, "How do you plan to rent this room?"

"One deposit and pay three, a total of RMB 5,200."

The boy and the girl looked at each other and whispered a few times. The boy said to me again: "You wiped out the 200 yuan fraction, we'll have to take this room."

"Little brother, 200 yuan is not a fraction. If I hadn't been in a hurry to leave, I wouldn't have given you this price." I said without any room for negotiation. Of course, this is my truth. I rented it for 5,600 yuan, and I only lived there for less than a week.

The boy and the girl whispered again, and this time the girl said to me: "5200 is OK, but we will move here tonight. Do you think it's OK?"

I weighed it for a while and said, "Yes, if there is no other problem, we will sign the contract now."

The boy and girl nodded and said there was no problem. I immediately went inside the house and took out the house sub-lease contract that had been planned.

While the two of them were looking at the contract, my cell phone rang again. I subconsciously thought I was calling again to see the room. I took out my cell phone from my pocket and unexpectedly found that it was called by Mi Cai, who had not been in contact for several days.

This call made me feel mixed emotions. I used to bully this woman without a limit, but because of this woman, I lost the future of work that I finally fought for in this city. Perhaps we are really destined to be enemies, although we are still like friends for a little time.

I walked out of the house and answered the phone. Both of them were waiting for each other to speak first.

In the silence, I finally couldn't help but say, "Call me, why don't you speak?"

Mi Cai seemed to suddenly hear me talking: "Ah!... Sorry, I'm looking at the file, I don't know it's connected!"

"Oh, you seem to be very busy. Aren't you just a building manager of Zhuomei? You're not that busy, right?" I clearly knew that Mi Cai was Zhuomei's ceo but said nonsense.

Mi Cai didn't care about my nonsense, and smiled and said, "I'm quite busy, but I'm almost done."

"Oh, tell me, what are you doing when you call me? Is there some leak in my house that you occupied?"

"No, I got off work early today. Didn't you say you could have a meal there?"

I was a little surprised. I told Mi Cai that this is what I said, but I didn’t expect her to really come. Can we really become friends after we no longer have any disputes over that room?

Seeing that I was not talking, Mi Cai asked again: "Isn't it possible? Or are you not confident in your cooking skills?"

I came back to my senses and asked Mi Cai: "How do you think of my dad's cooking skills?"

“It’s great!”

"Have you heard of the tiger father without a dog? Come on, show you something tonight, so you can always feel that I am useless!"

"Okay, I'll be there later."

"Well, I buy it at the supermarket myself, and I don't provide ingredients."

I thought Mi Cai would say I was stingy, but she just said "yes" and hung up the phone.

...

I returned to the house, and the couple had already made a fuss about the contract and had signed their own name.

I took the contract and said to the two in a negotiated tone: "I have a friend to come for dinner later and I can't move out tonight. I'll give you 200 yuan cheaper, which is considered compensation for you. I can't compensate you?"

The boy and the girl began to whisper while biting their ears again, but I was speechless. The couple really respected each other and had to discuss any trivial matters with each other.

I waited for a long time, and the two finally agreed. The boy said to me, "It's 400 yuan cheaper!"

I frowned and said, "Little brother, be kind. 200 yuan is enough for you two to find a hotel to stay overnight, and you still have free money to have some late-night snacks."

"The contract has been signed, and now we have the right to use this house. You are not cheaper than 400, and we will not agree to your request."

"Fuck..." I swear habitually.

The boys and girls seemed to be frightened by me and looked at me with horror.

I said with some amusement, "You two are so brave, don't learn from those scoundrels in society to take advantage of the situation!"

The boy finally plucked his courage and said, "Who told you to refuse to give us 200 yuan cheaper..."

I was most annoying in my life, and interrupted him impatiently and said, "Okay, don't compete, 400 is right? I promise you."

The boy looked at the girl again, as if he had taken a huge advantage. He was overjoyed and took out the money from his bag and counted 4,800 yuan and gave it to me.

I gave them a sub-lease contract and gave them a key. The two of them left afterwards. I was a little amused and laughed. I didn't expect that Zhaoyang was even cheated by others, and I was still a sissy!

Without thinking any more, I picked up the mop and cleaned the house to welcome Mi Cai's arrival. This was after Leyao, God gave me another chance to say goodbye to Mi Cai.
Chapter completed!