Chapter 43 Chapter Eight The Tenant

The house Liu Sheng rented for her was on Toon Street. As for the street in the north of the city, she had imagined its dilapidated and shabby condition, but she was not mentally prepared for such impolite enthusiasm when the neighbors lined up to welcome a strange tenant.When she and Liu Sheng got off the taxi, they saw the spotlight-like gazes of the residents of Toon Tree Street. She was like a fashion model walking a runway, facing the criticism or admiration of the audience on both sides, she felt awkward walking through the street naked.There were cheers of unknown origin buzzing in the air, and she heard their discussions clearly, most of them were praising her appearance, beautiful, with a good figure and a pretty face.In addition, there was a vicious voice that reached her ears, beautiful is beautiful, just like that, a bit like a lady, right?She rolled her eyes at the talkative woman, opened her mouth to scold, but held back after thinking about it, as she was new here, it was not appropriate for her to quarrel with others.Liu Sheng reminded her that although the women on Toon Tree Street have thousands of different faces, they all have one thing in common. They all have a talent for quarreling.

The proprietress of the pharmacy next door stood by the door, checking her face and body, especially her waist and abdomen, like a laboratory technician.She heard the proprietress say to Liu Sheng, Liu Sheng, you are so capable, keep quiet, you are going to be a father?She walked around the smart-witted woman and felt a finger press on her waist secretly.She glanced at the woman, inconvenient, and said, please, please don't touch your hands, okay?The woman curled her lips and said, I'm not a man, what's the point of pressing it?I know you for a few months as soon as I press it.She bowed her head and walked towards the door, complaining, "I've been with you for a few months, what's your business?"Liu Sheng said, don't you really say that. In our street, your business is everyone's business. They are all enthusiastic people. If you hate it, close the door. Once the door is closed, it will be clean.

So she slammed the door hard.The bunch of residents on Toon Tree Street were isolated outside the door. She leaned against the door to listen to the movement outside. I don’t know which woman let out an ambiguous laugh in time. The laugh was wild, ouch, the door is closed, it’s a hot day, They are so impatient!Many people laughed along.Someone said, this Liu Sheng, I saw him pressing the road with a girl last month, how could he bring back a pregnant woman in the blink of an eye?I'm pregnant, why don't you go home?Someone asked, are you stupid? This is called cutting first and playing later. Shao Lanying forbade this girl to come in, so Liu Sheng rented this house. They are living together. Young people nowadays do this, and we will talk about it later.She got annoyed when she heard it, and yelled disgusted at the door, then turned around and asked Liu Sheng, did I live with you?You deserve to live with me?What exactly did you tell the landlord?Liu Sheng said innocently, I didn't say anything, don't wrong me, it's their own thinking.He also said that the people on Xiangchunshu Street are actually not bad, they just like to chew their tongues, don't listen to them, won't your ears be clean?

The house has been tidied up sloppily, and it is considered clean, but the interior light is dim, and the furniture and walls smell musty. A mouse jumped off the Eight Immortals table in the living room and quickly escaped into the corner.Looking up, the gabled roof is very high, the wooden rafters are blackened, and there are traces of rain leakage on the top wall.Standing under the roof of a strange old house, she felt that there were countless ancient and mysterious bacteria flying in the air. She was still being watched, this time, it was the ghosts of an old family watching her, and those ghosts were burning under the roof. Running around, asking each other, who is this?Who is she?

Liu Sheng put the kettle on the stove, came out from the kitchen, saw her wandering eyes, and asked her if she had chosen a bedroom.She said, what is there to choose?Everywhere in this broken house is gloomy, and I am worried that it will be haunted.Liu Sheng smiled shyly, if you are afraid of being haunted, I will accompany you.Seeing that she was going to turn her face, she didn't dare to be frivolous anymore, and said, you don't have to be afraid of ghosts, aren't you pregnant?Pregnant women have two lives, ghosts are afraid of you.She said sharply, I'm not in the mood to listen to your nonsense, can you be more serious?Liu Sheng said seriously, I'm serious, the old people on Xiangchunshu Street say so, pregnant women are the biggest in the world, even ghosts dare not bully pregnant women.He checked her face, picked up the broom and swept it a few times, and said, the software in this house is not compatible with your hardware, overcome it, stay for half a year, and when the child is born, you will have a good life.

She looked around the house with distasteful eyes, first she saw the attic above her head, half of the stairs were made of concrete, half of the patchwork of miscellaneous wood, a man's hat was hanging on the stair column, and the hat was printed with Hong Kong tourism. Four words.She asked Yagyu, who is this friend of yours, who is so poor and still travels to Hong Kong?Liu Sheng smiled and said, can the poor also travel? You have been to Paris, why can't people go to Hong Kong once?She asked again, what about others, why didn't the landlord show up?Yagyu said, my friend doesn't like staying at home the most, and he goes out to travel again. He has not only been to Hong Kong, but also to many places.

She was interested in the attic, so she grabbed the travel hat, swept the ashes from the handrails of the stairs, and climbed up.The attic is a bit stuffy, the sun shines on an old-fashioned camp bed, the straw mat is new and exudes the fresh aroma of reeds, the pillow mat has not been prepared in time, only a greasy pillow is standing on the corner of the bed.There is an oval spot of light drifting on the camp bed, furtively.She suspected that someone on the street was watching them through glass, so she walked to a small window facing the street, and when she poked her head, she found that the street was still full of people, so she quickly retracted, stomped her feet, and said, "I'm dying, but they haven't left yet, what the hell are they doing?" What to watch?Liu Sheng said, they didn't know it themselves, they were all laid off, so they had nothing to do, you didn't want them to see it, so you used that piece of bed sheet as a curtain and hung it up.She took the sheet on the chair, looked at it and put it down again, and said sensitively, it can't be hung up now, I understand this kind of people, and they won't leave after hanging up the sheet.

Amidst the clutter of people on the street, a familiar woman's voice suddenly sounded, Yagyu, Yagyu, go to the infirmary quickly, it's time to change the medicine!She dodged to the window and saw Shao Lanying on the street.Shao Lanying was standing in front of the door of the opposite house, talking to some women, raising her eyes from time to time, and glanced at the small window.Yagyu, are you deaf?Shao Lanying shouted loudly, your injury is not healed yet, go get your medicine changed, the clinic is closing soon! She signaled Liu Sheng to leave quickly.Liu Sheng touched the gauze on his body, it didn't matter if he changed the dressing or not, just leave her alone, I'll settle you down before leaving.She blocked the stairs and chased him away like a duck. Don't pretend to be considerate to me. There is nothing to settle down. You hand over the key and change the medicine quickly.She said, go back and tell your mother, I didn't seduce you, I didn't force you, I came to live on your Toon Street, that's a disaster.Liu Sheng nodded, feeling for the key in his pocket, feeling a little bit reluctant.Do you want me to make another one?Is it easier to get in and out?He observed her reaction, and tentatively said, I have no other intentions, you are not familiar with the place here, and you have a key, so I can take care of you.She lowered her face and said sharply, isn't that really living together?Don't talk sweet words to me, no matter how depraved I am, I haven't degenerated to the point of cohabiting with you.She spread her palms towards him, quickly, hand over the keys, and go back to your good mother.Liu Sheng reluctantly handed over the key, walked to the door and remembered something, turned around and said, I will come back tomorrow, Chun Geng and the others will take care of me, go eat seafood, you go together.

She flatly refused.What seafood?Rotten fish and rotten shrimp, right?I love shark fin abalone, can your friends afford it?I'm not going with you, I'm not your girlfriend.She turned on the TV casually, and a knight with white beard and long beard jumped out of the screen, chasing and killing a monster with a knife, she slapped the TV, hated it to death, it was this kind of bad movie again, living in this kind of place , if there is no good TV series to watch, how will life survive?Liu Sheng turned around and said, "It's not easy to pass the time?"Watching DVDs if you don’t like watching TV, Ah Liu’s brother runs a DVD store, let him get what you want to watch.She was noncommittal, seeing Liu Sheng still standing by the door, and said, why don't you leave?If you don’t leave, I will remind you one more thing, we are ordinary friends, do ordinary friends understand?You only think that I am in prison in this house, and if you want to visit the prison in the future, please call to apply in advance.

She's trapped under a strange roof. There is a wooden door leading to the patio. Through the small window beside the door, you can see the moss on the floor in the patio and the sundries piled up in the open air. One of the old-fashioned twenty-six-inch bicycles is leaning against the wall, rusty, and the rear rack The rope was neatly wrapped around it.She went to push the door and found that there were several locks on the door. It turned out that the well could not be entered that day.From the attic, she looked towards Toon Street, and the first thing she saw was a light box advertisement in the pharmacy downstairs, prolonging life and rejuvenating youth.This dull street, this old house, was tailor-made for her downfall.She is a prisoner, the prisoner of a fetus.She was a hostage, a hostage to a vague future.She was also a pledge, lifted by the hand of fate, and mentioned to this strange attic.

The first day she was very tired and went to bed early.It rained at night, and there was a hint of coolness in the sultry air. Toon Tree Street was very quiet and there was no noise intrusion, but she woke up inexplicably. It seemed that a man was sleeping next to her. When she opened her eyes, there was a piece of green on the straw mat. There was no one in the moonlight, but the smell of a familiar man woke her up. The smell seeped out from the bed, crawled out from the pillow, and entangled her face and even her body.who?She yelled preemptively downstairs, but there was no response. She was still suspicious, went to the small window in the attic, opened the curtain to check, and saw a cigarette butt on the window sill, which had been softened by the rain.There was no one on the street, and the night rain left several pools of water on the newly paved asphalt road, all of different sizes, all round, shining like broken glass.A white cat stood on the roof of the opposite house, motionless, and confronted her across the street. She always liked cats and dogs, but this white cat came at an inappropriate time. It looked like an insidious watcher. She picked it up. The cigarette butt was thrown towards the opposite side, the cat was startled by her, and disappeared into the night in the blink of an eye. The next morning she heard someone knocking on the door, thinking it was Yagyu, but when she opened the door, she saw that it was a woman from the pharmacy next door.The woman carried a few large plastic bags and said, Liu Sheng asked me to give it to you to see how considerate he is to you.She took the vegetables and fruits, and was about to close the door, but the door couldn't be closed. The woman had already stepped in with one leg, looked through her shoulder, and looked inside. Do you live here alone?Not afraid?She said, what's so scary?Is this house haunted?The woman had a secretive expression on her face, she waved her hands and said, that's not what she meant, ghosts don't mess with pregnant women, but you have to be wary of people, our street has a bad atmosphere, doors and windows must be closed at night.She said, I know, I also close the doors and windows during the day.She made an obvious gesture of chasing the guest away, but the woman refused to leave, and her gaze was cast eagerly around her abdomen, four months, right?Is it Yagyu's?She laughed arrogantly and said, how is it possible?Me and him, do you think it matches?The woman said, that's not necessarily true, many flowers are planted on cow dung.As the woman spoke, one hand quietly reached over, trying to press her waist, but she dodged away.Let me press what are you afraid of?If I press it again, I will know whether you are pregnant with a boy or a girl.The woman said, I don't have to be so estranged with me, beware of anyone, don't be wary of me, you go to the street to ask, who doesn't know who I am, Mrs. Ma?If the neighbors in the neighborhood have any difficulties, they always consult with me.She said, I don't have any other problems. Anyway, I just stay here, eating, drinking, and sleeping. What problems can I have?Mrs. Ma said, that's not necessarily true. I heard that she will live until delivery?There are still half a year to go, whether it is long or short, there are many gossips on our streets, you must be careful, it is best to go out less.She said, what's going on in your street is none of my business. If I'm not used to living here, maybe I'll move tomorrow.He also said that I was used to staying in hotels before, and it was stolen, so I had no choice but to make do with it.Seeing her refusal to be thousands of miles away, Mrs. Ma's enthusiasm finally solidified, and she slowly retreated to the door. You are so angry, it is not good for the fetus, you must pay attention to the pregnancy, I have a new arrival in the store Fetal protection pill, do you want me to bring you a box?She followed Mrs. Ma to close the door, and said, thank you, I don't care if I have a baby or not.