Chapter 43 move place

move place When I first arrived in Shanghai, I couldn’t afford to live in a bungalow apartment, so I had to choose a front building in a certain mile near Beisichuan Road. The second landlord is from Cantonese and loves cleaning very much. Although our room is narrow, it is Brand new white paint, but also elegant, fortunately we did not bring any bulky objects, except for two wire beds, a writing desk, and two single-back chairs, there are only a few shelves of old books in the room, and the suitcase is hidden under the bed .My husband studies in a university at night, and takes classes in two middle schools during the day. Outside of magazines and pictorials, I always stay at home on weekdays, reading books, walking here, sitting and sleeping here, so this small room is far more familiar to me than it is to the second landlord; Every little black dot on my head, these are the ones I counted and counted when I was bored.But after half a month, I don't think I need to do this kind of stupid thing anymore, because I have thought of a very interesting way of pastime, which is to do monologue: At first I took out a book on the old bookshelf. The Best One-Act Plays, the first one is Lady Gregory's The Risiny of The Moon, so after I read the full text, I used several voices to represent several characters, and I talked to myself, and then I did it myself As a director and theater critic, I try to figure out the tone of every sentence over and over again.It went on like this for more than a month, until I had memorized five or six scripts, and suddenly fell ill with a serious cold. Whenever I lay alone on the bed, I heard the downstairs and the next door chattering and laughing in Cantonese, I couldn't help feeling homesick for a wanderer, and felt that it was extremely desolate to be among strange foreigners; later, whenever I heard the sound of clogs on the stairs, I would tightly cover my head with the quilt.

After this incident, we moved to another alley nearby. Almost six out of ten of the residents there are from Ningbo. During the day, you just need to listen quietly, and the peddlers are shouting: "Buy Ningbo radish"!Or "Ningbo Oyster", etc., and the sound of "Allah" was endless all around, so I was overjoyed, and I stopped doing the one-man show. But after living for less than a week, the trouble came again: it turned out that the second landlord here was a lonely old woman, and living with her was her mother-in-law, goddaughter and son-in-law, and many godfathers and grandchildren; The adults would greet me briefly when they saw me, and the children would only peek at them sideways and then whisper to each other; but within a few days, after I participated in a shuttlecock competition in their team for a moment of pleasure, I got to know them well. Yes, everyone shouted "Aunt upstairs" when they saw me, and I was happy to deal with them.Later, they simply came to my room in groups and begged me to teach singing and dancing, and I agreed, and gave them some biscuits and candies to eat, and everyone laughed and laughed for a while.They have been regulars in our house ever since.Sometimes when I closed the door and wanted to write some letters or read a book, they always knocked on the door so loudly that I had to put away the paper and play with them again.For half a month, I couldn't do some things; when my husband came back, he saw that the house was messed up, paper scraps, shells, etc. were everywhere, and a large group of children were still pulling me to play and sing again, although he didn't say anything. What, but I know he must be very annoying, just because this is the only way I spend my time at home all day, so I refrained from talking about it.At the same time, I was also very embarrassed. Seeing these children like to get close to me, I can't bear to refuse them and drive them out immediately?And how happy I am with them!

Until one night when they accidentally broke the vase—the vase was a gift from a friend to congratulate us on our wedding—I felt that I had to bear with them for a while. After thinking about it dozens of times, I had to be tactful Tell them what you can do: Although I like playing with them very much, my husband is a clean person. I hope they will just wait for me downstairs in the future. If I have time, I will come downstairs to find them. "We want to come to you: we want to come to your room! It's interesting here," everyone yelled in confusion. I tried to persuade him to no avail, but I felt that I couldn't displease my husband anymore, so I went to the hospital the next morning. I whispered this to their grandmother, but she immediately answered me with a livid face as if she had been insulted: "Okay, okay, I won't ask them to come to your door for begging in the future. It's you I am happy to ask them to go up to play and give them candy to eat. My grandmother is poor and I am poor, and I will never teach my grandson to ask for life-saving things to stuff his throat..." I heard her talking more and more angrily, so I stopped declaring I didn't call them, but they wanted to come up by themselves, so I forced a smile and flew upstairs, only to hear the grandma still nagging: "We are the second landlord, we have a living room and a patio, what's not fun?" , it would be strange if you come to your side to do a Taoism in a snail shell; if the rich live exclusively in a bungalow..." Because no one answered, she gradually felt tired, and her voice dropped.

"Grandma, I want to buy five-spice dried tofu." Ah Si yelled in from outside. "What else do you want? You can't fill your prison with three meals a day? You have to keep the biscuits for yourself, and you won't be allowed to beg for food in the future!" The grandma found a partner, and she started to scold again, "Six A seven-year-old still doesn't know what to do. He keeps his own money all day long and wants to stand at someone else's turtle door. Do you want to have sex with her too? The prison door is closed in the sky and the two of them are inside, and no one else is allowed to enter. How can a straight-headed couple be so shameless? Like me, when your grandfather was with you, you even had straight eyes... Ah Si, where do you want to go again? If you dare to go upstairs in the future, you will be smashed immediately. Dog feet!"

"Don't you want to go upstairs to Auntie's house? I want it!" Ah Si's voice said. "What kind of aunt is she, do you want you to shout so kindly? She wants to have two quiet fucks with her concubine, there's no need for you brats to fuck!..." Her words became more and more obscene, and my heart was full Annoyed and annoyed, he was not happy to listen any more, so he just read a novel by himself. Since I offended her that day, their mother-in-law, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law turned their heads and pretended not to see me, and ordered their maids not to work for me anymore; She also made an agreement with her maid that at the price of two yuan a month, she would empty the toilet for us every day, make boiled water, and deliver letters from the postman and newspapers from the newspaper distributor upstairs; The second landlord agreed, because at the same time they also agreed with the maid to pay one yuan less wages per month from now on.But now, in order to fight against me, they are willing to give an extra dollar, which makes me very embarrassed.In addition, if our letters were thrown or wet on purpose, or because their son-in-law or children greeted me and caused a quarrel... I couldn't live anymore, so I decided to do it in the first ten days before the expiration of January. On that day (November 18 in the lunar calendar), I fabricated a reason and told them politely that I would move.

The iron-blue face was more fierce than before: "Is it possible to move when December arrives? You are also educated and sensible. Shanghai rules never allow you to move in December and the first month. If you don't want to live, you have to pay for the vacant room for three months. " "What?" I couldn't help getting angry when I heard her tough tone, "You didn't show me any regulations when I came in, saying that it's not easy to move in the first month of November! Besides, it's not October! February. I don't owe you rent at all..." "Shanghai's rules are like this. Your term expires on November 28, isn't it already December? Anyway..." Her eyes became more fierce.

"We're moving anyway!" I stormed straight up the stairs. So she continued to play her favorite role, and ran to the Kitchen God alone to scold for a while: "You still say that you are a scholar, I think they read their books up to their ass eyes." That bastard who used to live in the pavilion was not a good guy either. He went upstairs and downstairs without turning off the lights. Okay! Get out of here! My old lady is going to pay for the vacant room. Who cares about you stinky tenants? The landlord is not good, move, see if you are lucky to live in a bungalow!" After cursing for a while, he went in.

The next day, the rental poster came out, and we hurried to find a house. Everyone avoided the road, and it took a few more days like enemies. This time we were frightened. We looked around in one place, fearing that the landlord would smoke opium, and looking in the other. We also feared that the landlady's wife would be abusive until the twenty-sixth day. How long will you stay upstairs in the wing room? Let's talk about it after a year.That morning, I tidied up my things, and after lunch, I went to call two rickshaws to carry my suitcase and quilt first. "Are you moving today?" When I took off the quilt for the second time, three hooligan men suddenly stopped the back door and asked.I couldn't help being surprised, so I had to bite the bullet and answer: "Yes; what do you ask me?"

"The second landlord said you can't move!" A Mapi seemed to use force against me. "We don't owe rent, so what right does the second landlord have to interfere with my move? Besides, who are you from his family, to speak for them?" I said it forcefully, and hurriedly called the driver: "Come and get it!" But the two coachmen stood outside like chickens, not daring to move. "No matter what, you can't move today! Can you still move in December? No matter which second landlord you meet, you won't agree to it!" "If the second landlord doesn't agree, why would he post the rent?" I pointed to the rent at the door and questioned him.At this time, he heard arguing upstairs and came down. Seeing that it was a hooligan, he hurried out to report to a guard.When the policeman saw the hooligans, he begged them cautiously: "This gentleman has to move because of an urgent matter, so don't make things difficult for him. Besides, he does have the freedom to move..."

"Freedom?" The second landlord also came out, "You are dead and your wife is free to steal, and is there freedom to move house?" The guard also got angry and cursed back: "My wife won't steal, you are the one who takes care of the orphans!" Hearing this, the second landlord immediately roared and charged at the guard, yelling red-faced and angrily: "You say I support the elderly, show me the evidence! Catch the adulterer! I'm in my fifties. Care for the orphans? Steal your ancestors?" Seeing that it was not the way, the guard hurriedly slipped away, muttering and cursing alone, and she turned to us again: "Go and call, you go and call a few more policemen, my mother will see you Chiang Kai-shek is not afraid either!"

The hemp-skinned hooligan cheered again, patted his chest and said: "Which dog dares to move and talk to me, Li XX, how can there be such a reason in the world, to move out four months' vacant house money!" At that time, the rickshaw driver also pulled the car and went to find other customers. We saw that there was nothing we could do for a while, so we had to say, "I will argue with you later", and we still took the quilt upstairs. Looking for his friend Xu Jun, because Xu has an older brother working in the arresting room, so he locked the door and hurried out, and heard them laughing: "Look at what rescue they ask for, the powerful will not come here Come live, "..." When we arrived at Xu's house, the friend had just gone out shopping with his wife, and he didn't know when the maid would come back, so he left a business card and returned it, and then went to his cousin, who tried his best to persuade us not to come back. Let's spend a few dollars to fight for the spirit, even if we report to the arrest house, it will prevent us from being plotted against by these two hooligans in the future.Although we were unwilling, we had no choice but to retreat. We didn't take a car, and walked home lazily step by step, discussing with each other what we would say when we saw them. "Hello, where are you going?" Sun Jun, one of his off-duty customs officers, greeted us. "We're moving today," he didn't have the mood to elaborate on him, "we'll see you after we move." "I'm on the night shift today. I'm free now, so I'll help you move. --Since we're moving, why are you two still walking outside?" There was nothing I could do, so I had to tell him the details.After hearing this, he couldn't help but angrily said: "It's unreasonable. Are you really letting them cheat? Pay for the vacant house in March? You won't use it to buy Shaoxing wine! I can do something about it." He suddenly became happy, "I I met a dancer in the ×× ballroom, she is only nineteen years old this year, her face is tender, and..." "What does this have to do with dancing girls?" I interrupted anxiously. "Oh, I'm not talking about this dancer, because she is also acquainted with the brother of the third aunt of XX, and XX is a powerful old man in the International Settlement. How dare those two hooligans do anything? Now let's go to the dancer Let's go once, tell her to ask that concubine brother to come out and talk to the gangster." "But things have taken so much trouble, what if she or he is not at home?" My husband hesitated. "And it's almost five o'clock now," I added. For a moment everyone was silent.Suddenly, Sun Jun patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Yes! Yes! The dancing girl also told me that the concubine has a younger brother who works in Hong Kong Customs. He is about the same age as me, so I will pretend Bar." "However, you may show your feet." I was a little worried. "It doesn't matter, don't worry, don't worry." He pulled us onto the No. 5 public tram and returned home. When he got inside, he shouted from the stairs: "Three brothers, please come up and talk." The rascal came up with a challenging face. "I was called by Mr. XX. He said that everyone is from his own family. If you guys have something to say, go to the XX mansion and discuss it." Sun Jun seemed to speak in a serious manner, but I was full of ghosts. "Mr. X is the same as...?" Ma Pi's attitude was much more modest. "I'm the second brother of the third wife of his family. I just came back from Hong Kong the day before yesterday. Today, Mr. X came to tell me that the second landlord woman here is very unreasonable. I think the brothers have never met Mr. X, so I don't know. We are all from our own family... I am afraid that I am also a newcomer to Shanghai, and I am not very familiar with the brothers. So I immediately went to my sister's place to ask them to talk, but they were not free, so they called me Please come over to him, brothers, and talk." When the three of them heard this, they immediately burst into smiles. They even said that it was rare for uncle to come here, and they repeatedly apologized to us that they didn't know at first.So the man in the peaked cap went to call for a delivery truck, and while they were carrying things down for us, they laughed and talked with Sun Jun about the length of the third wife and the shortness of the third wife, with a very coquettish attitude.Sun Jun also put on the air of a complete uncle, saying that his sister often asked him to buy small handkerchiefs, and that his sister liked to play cards all day long... and he insisted on inviting the three of them to X's mansion. "Let's come to visit another day. When we meet Mr. X and his wife, please cover us up; today we really fell for that old woman's trick." They said embarrassedly. When we got on the truck, my husband took out three banknotes to buy them cigarettes, but they refused repeatedly and had no choice but to accept it with thanks. When the car turned a corner, we looked back and saw the second landlord was burning white paper at the back door, Sun Jun was furious and wanted to jump down to scold her, I hurriedly stopped him and said: "Forget it, forget it, uncle will save it for next time." stop."