Chapter 4 Novella Course-1

Pip June's flat was in one of those common tenements that abound in the city.The buildings are generally seven or eight stories high, with gray exterior walls, a large pool of oil stains on the windows of each kitchen, and a platform on the roof with TV antennas strewn all over the place.There is no elevator in the building, garbage is piled up beside the narrow and dark corridors, and the electric lights in the stair corridors are always broken, so people can only walk in the dark at night, stepping on garbage. Pip must have been a bachelor of fifty-two and lived on the top floor of the building, the eighth floor.His suite has one bedroom and one living room, the kind with a small kitchen and toilet.Pip was supposed to work in a department of the government, which was not very important. In the suite room.Usually, the room is deserted and deserted. When Pip gets home, he puts down his briefcase, sits down and smokes a cigarette, cooks some instant noodles or rice porridge after smoking, and hastily eats the cooked meat he brought back. Fill the stomach.After eating, I watch TV while rinsing the dishes, and after rinsing the dishes, I wash my face and feet while watching TV. After washing my feet, I feel that I have nothing to do, so I turn off the TV with a bang and go to bed.

Of course, Pip Zhun's nightlife is not the same.Sometimes, maybe two or three times a month, curious neighbors would come to his house to sit for a while.The neighbors are always looking around, their eyes are evasive, and the expression on their faces seems to be flattering, but also seems to be worried or contemptuous. In short, it is difficult to tell the neighbor's expression.Sometimes they are men, sometimes women, sometimes middle-aged, sometimes old women.No matter who came, there was really nothing to look at at Pipzhun's house: an old square table with plastic panels in the living room, a few old chairs, a TV set on the square table, and Pipzhun also ate on this square table .There was a simple wire bed in the bedroom, under which were piled haphazardly the kind of gaudy magazines that boring old bachelors love to read.Along the bedroom wall was a row of old wooden boxes, full of Pip's daily necessities, clothes, and forgotten odds and ends.The utensils on the chopping board in the kitchen are all greasy, and mouthwash cups and slippers are thrown on the ground casually.There was a faint smell of urine in the toilet.Whenever a guest enters the house, Pip Zhun's belongings can be seen at a glance.He never bothered to close the toilet or bedroom door, just leave it open for anyone to study carefully.

Pip must be very talkative. When the neighbors came, he would tell them some anecdotes from the tabloids and magazines, or trivial things that happened in the city. The smell of something, in the end always makes the other party leave angrily, and has a bad impression of him.But Pip certainly didn't care, and it was also a question of whether he knew what other people thought of him.For him, a night with guests just means he goes to bed later.But usually, even when he went to bed, he didn't fall asleep right away. He was always thinking wildly.This is not a sexual commotion. At his age, he has been celibate for a long time, his food is messy, and his health is not very good. It can be said that his sexual impulse is getting weaker and weaker.Speaking of his cranky thoughts, this is an old habit that began in his youth. He himself has not figured out a clue yet, and he cannot use words to state what he is thinking.In recent years, he has let himself go more and more, sometimes going to bed at eight o'clock.He went to bed early in order to fully enjoy the pleasure of his imagination, which he called "a little bachelor's privilege."

On a cold winter night, someone timidly knocked on the door three times, and then a clear and clear child's voice sounded: "Is Mr. Peep June at home?" It was the young girl who lived on the third floor who came in.Although the girl was shivering from the cold, she still looked around curiously like everyone else. After looking around, she boldly walked to his bed, bent down, picked up the magazines with her frozen hands, and flipped through them. Breathing.Ten minutes passed with the sound of flipping through the paper. "You have done some things over the years." The girl finally raised her head, said word by word, and planned to leave after speaking.

Pipzhun was washing his face, but at this moment he hastily put down the wet towel, blushed, pulled the girl's sleeve with his wet hands, and said some strange and inexplicable words. He said, "Don't be interested in me. Do you know why I'm single? No. I tell you, it's because of selfishness. Every night before I go to sleep, I'm alone and think about nonsense, like a dog or A cockroach or something, things that most people never talk about, and I can't really put it into words, but I'm just a mess and nothing. You think, if I got married and slept with someone else, I'd be bored Are you going to die?"

"Please don't grab my sleeve," said the girl, pale and sullen. "I still have something to tell you." He still grabbed her sleeve, "I can't think of it for a while, please give me a moment. Let me think about it-by the way, you upstairs One, does he have a few mistresses? This old fox is very rich. Today I saw him go to the store to buy some women's underwear. I didn't follow him, I just ran across it by accident." "Please let go of your hand." The girl made an angry voice through her teeth. "Are you going? Go now? Wait a minute, I forgot to ask you, what are you doing here?"

"What am I here for?" The girl sneered, threw off his hand abruptly, and patted her sleeves, lest there be any dirt on them. "I'm here to investigate you! You're so cunning and suspicious. Do you think I'm here alone? My family is at the door!" she said angrily. "But why on earth are you interested in me?" He stared at her. "We're worried about losing things, that's why, are you satisfied?" "I still don't understand why you just noticed me, the most unobtrusive old bachelor on the top floor. Am I that worthy of interest? You've given me a new idea of ​​myself, It's like waking up after years of sleep... Don't you think I'm too old? Hey..."

He was still nagging, but the door had already closed with a bang, and there were chaotic footsteps outside, and it turned out that her family members were waiting outside the door. Pip looked at his watch, it seemed that it was getting late, so he turned off the TV, packed his things, and got into bed.Because of the cold, he slept with his head covered in a quilt.This time, he didn't fall asleep after thinking about it for a long time.But that night, something strange happened. About an hour after Pip fell asleep, he awoke suddenly.Yes, that's how the old bachelor woke up.He opened his eyes in the dark, tossed and turned, and finally got up and walked to the roof terrace.Although it was cold that night, there was no wind. Looking around from the platform, sporadic lights blinked like ghosts.When Pip was squatting on the roof in a daze, a black cat came up and squatted very close to him, and he and it stared at each other for hours without moving.It wasn't until almost dawn that Pipzhun returned to his residence, lay down and rested for a while, then got up and went to work.

It will be like this every day.Due to the tossing around at night, Pipzhun's face became thinner day by day, and his footsteps upstairs also showed a tired old look. Although he tried his best to conceal this fact, every time he went upstairs with all his strength, the people in the building The truth of the matter was soon discovered.They saw Pipzhun's embarrassment, so they deliberately waited at the entrance of the corridor when he came home from get off work, and all fixed their eyes on his footsteps.So whenever he approached the door of the house, Pipzhun's heart beat wildly, as if passing through the enemy's blockade.After a few days like this, he found that his schedule was completely disrupted.He is distracted and distracted, and can no longer cook and rinse dishes as skillfully as before. He often either forgets to turn off the fire, or puts too much salt in the dishes, and the food completely loses his appetite, or even can't eat at all.And there is no hope of any change in this situation.Pip must have decided to make something happen, it seemed out of a desperate determination.

Pip must have had his supper, cleared his room, and went downstairs without much thought.He remembered that young girl everyone called her "Miss Li", so he knocked on the door.Miss Li was not at home. Her parents were picking fleas for a cat. When they saw Pipzhun coming, they asked him to hold the cat down so that they could continue working. Although Pipzhun felt a little awkward, he did so. up.The cat was skinny and skinny, crying sadly, trying to get away, but the man and the woman caught one after another like an addiction, strangled the little creatures with their nails, and brought Get some cat hair.Pipzhun couldn't bear to watch it, so he let go of his hand on purpose, and the cat ran away.The faces of Miss Li's parents immediately changed, and they began to speak sarcasticly and insinuate.

"We already know what kind of guy you are. You are idle, wandering here and there, and spreading rumors. Look at the back of your head. You have begun to bald, and this habit has not changed." The old woman curled her lips as she said, "You Don't you see that we are busy? You have time. If someone wants to be my son-in-law, he must first learn how to work! Our family is hardworking people, and there is no room for lazy people." "I'm not going to be your son-in-law," Pip Zhun said, feeling the excitement faintly, "I'm too selfish to be married, and I have a shameful old habit. It's just random thinking..." "Hahaha!" the old man laughed, "Isn't this self-inflicted? We also tell you that we don't have a daughter. Miss Li is just a distant niece. Besides, she ran away again. You don't help me when you come here. We work, what are we here for? There was a man like you here a long time ago, that man was younger than you, and his head was not bald, guess what he came for?" "I can't guess." "If you can't guess it, don't guess it. You'll figure it out. Do you have that magazine in your pocket?" Hearing the word "magazine", the old woman's eyes lit up, she couldn't help leaning towards him, and said with a smile: "You man, what are you wasting your time for? We are so busy. Tell us about the news in the magazine. People say you are an old hand at this job. Tell us, we love to hear it." "Another big thing happened recently," said Pip Zhun slowly, and began to search for sentences in his head, "an old woman of ninety years old went to a ballroom to dance and jumped through the soles of a pair of shoes. I'm too ashamed to hide." "You're making it up." The old man looked uncomfortably at the thinning spot on the back of his head. "You're always making things up and you've got magazines in your pocket, and it's getting weirder and weirder now. Don't do it with us, you've got the wrong idea." The old woman also echoed: "That's right. It's impossible to get what you want. You are so old and so naive. There is a girl in the upstairs family over there. She looks as beautiful as a flower. Yesterday there was a girl The old widower who sells sesame seed cakes went to propose to her family. Isn’t he out of his mind? One must keep one’s own law and order. I don’t mean by saying that you want to hit our girl Li, because Miss Li is not our girl either, and she has already away." "I live very comfortably by myself, and I think about it every night." Pip replied, as if he was a little powerless, "Don't you want me to tell you the stories in the magazines? You don't believe me when I tell you. Then Alright, I'll follow the script and read it to you sentence by sentence." Pipzhun took out the book from his pocket called "International Provocation, Prostitution, Twisting, Returning to the Brain and Disturbance". The two of them seemed to have been electrocuted. , snatched the magazine from his hand, went to the window sill and threw it vigorously, and threw it below.Only then did the two turn around and look at him, as if they were relieved.The old woman also came over and squeezed his arm, as if to make sure that he was still alive. "We've been trying to save you," said the old man, "and it's taking us a lot of time. The fleas are getting more and more on the cat every day, and our cat is suffering, and we're talking here. Hey, old woman, I ask you , who is this man? How did I forget how he got in? Isn't it strange that we should let him mess around?" The old woman drew close to Pip Zhun, and urged him to get out, for the old man had lost his temper.It's no fun for him to lose his temper, especially recently, because the girl ran away, and his temper was even more terrible. She was always worried that he would kill someone.As she spoke, she pushed Pip Zhun out the door.Pip was confused in his mind, and collided with a person walking in front of him. He looked up and saw that this person was Miss Li. After Miss Li stood still, she gave him a blank look, and then spat fiercely on the ground. "I—" he began. "You don't want to get married," Miss Li interrupted him, "it's because of selfishness, right? Then why are you looking for my parents? Ah? Tell me!! You hypocrite! Don't destroy our family!" She He stomped his feet and entered the house. When Pipzhun went upstairs, his steps were very heavy. In the dark, he knocked over a dustpan containing garbage. The garbage scattered on his feet, and it was sticky to the touch, like leftovers.The owner of the dustpan took a look at the cracked door and cursed him, calling him an "old romantic" or something.Pip went home, changed his dirty clothes and socks, and went to bed without washing his face or feet in a fit of anger.This time, for the first time in history, he didn't think about it, and he kept cursing as soon as he fell asleep, swearing out all the nastiest words.After scolding for a long time, I was still so angry that I couldn't sleep, and I searched for those vicious words to scold.Finally, almost all the vicious words were cursed, and he stopped to think: who is he cursing?With this question in his mind, he couldn't fall asleep no matter what. Suddenly, a light illuminated his dark brain.He remembered that three years ago, he had bought a flashlight in the store, because he was on night shift at that time, and every day when he got off work before dawn, he would use that flashlight to illuminate the road to strengthen his courage.Later, when he didn't work the night shift, he put the flashlight in his wooden box and didn't use it anymore.And now, as he recalled the darkness and filth in the corridor, he remembered his flashlight.He put on his clothes and got up, turned on the light, and found the flashlight and two batteries in a wooden box. He put the batteries in, and it was strange that the bulb in the flashlight lit up immediately, while ordinary batteries had been left for so long It's long gone.With the weapon-like flashlight in his hand, he felt daring.He put on his clothes and walked out the door, using a flashlight to shine on the surrounding garbage, and went downstairs carefully.As soon as he got down to the seventh floor, he heard a "squeak". It was the doors of the units on both sides of the corridor opened, and the lights made him unable to open his eyes.Old Wang who lived in the east unit grabbed him into the house.Old Wang was tall and big, and you caught him like an eagle catches a chicken.Pip was still in shock, trembling all over, looking at the old Wang in front of him with dizzy eyes, as if he had seen a ghost. Lao Wang snatched his flashlight, looked at it for a long time, and finally said sternly: "Pip, how dare you use this thing to take pictures in the corridor?" "There's rubbish everywhere," complained Pip, "and the clothes are very dirty. I'm a bachelor, and I wash myself, and I'm selfish, and I want to live in comfort..." "Aren't our clothes dirty?!" Pharaoh shouted loudly, interrupting his chatter. "Can you take photos casually in the corridor? You take it for granted. Who am I? An old resident of more than ten years, much older than you. Your hair is about to fall out. Go upstairs How can you be so childish like an old man? It's really hard to understand." At this time, Lao Wang's wife and son also came out with their coats on. They stood aside with disgusted expressions. The son even took a flashlight from Lao Wang's hand and looked at it for a while, then fell to the ground and said: " What the hell." "I'm not very old," said Pip, impatiently. "Really?" Lao Wang's wife sneered, "Then, why do you run as fast as you can every time you go upstairs? No one is chasing you. I don't know what the plan of the family below is, if I have a daughter... Hey, Lao Wang, how come no one cares about this kind of harassment in the middle of the night? Isn’t it too free? How can it be done like this? In my opinion, the disguise should be stripped off. Isn’t he almost sixty years old? Is this Mr. Pip Zhun? This man, and I have heard the scandalous news about him! Today's incident is a general explosion." Lao Wang's son found a hammer from the back room, "bang! bang..." After a lot of hammering, the aluminum flashlight was finally hammered flat, and the glass was also shattered.Pip wanted to slip away, but was held tightly by Lao Wang's big hand and couldn't go.Lao Wang said that he had long wanted to "kill the long night" with Pip Zhun, but he had no chance. Now that the opportunity came to him, how could he let him go?So he ordered his wife and son to "bring the two bamboo chairs and put cotton pads on them".The wife and son complied, and Lao Wang dragged Pip Zhun to lie side by side on the bamboo armchair with him.Pip must have thought he was going to chat, but he put out the light, and lay silent in the dark, while his wife and son had at some point left the room and gone inside. After lying down for about half an hour, Pip must have felt uncomfortable all over.Bamboo armchairs are icy cold, and if you lie on them for a long time, you will almost freeze, and you can't "think wildly" at all.Those "cotton pads" were not filled with cotton at all, but some sand, small stones, and who knows what kind of granular things, which made his back hurt.Looking at Lao Wang again, he didn't seem to feel uncomfortable at all, he just lay there peacefully, as if he was asleep.Pip must have sensed from the way he was breathing that he was not asleep, and, indignantly, got to his feet. "I'm going back," he said in the dark. "How is it possible?" Lao Wang was still lying on the bamboo chair, his voice became majestic, "How can you come and go as soon as you say? It's just a joke. Let me tell you, it is impossible to go back now, you You have to wait until dawn. In the middle of the night, everything has changed. There are thousands of mountains and rivers between my house and yours. You can’t find your way back if you want to go back. Besides, your flashlight broke again. We just want to kill you It’s the back road that hit it. You’re so reckless, it’s no wonder you don’t throw yourself into a trap! I advise you to lie down. If you are really upset, I’ll ask my son to scratch your back for you.” While speaking, the tall and burly son had already slipped into the room, and pushed Pipzhun down on the bamboo armchair without any explanation.He hit it hard, not scratching his back but pinching and pressing, like tickling his limbs, which made Pipjoon laugh and tell him to stop, but he kept on scratching for more than a dozen times. minute. "Now you can sleep well." Lao Wang said. But Pip Zhun couldn't sleep more and more, and he desperately wanted to chat with Lao Wang, so as to distract himself and resist the cold. "You heard about Miss Li on the third floor," he continued in his own way of thinking, "she came to my house to tease me, and then she turned her back on her and beat her up, saying that I wanted to propose to her. That's what her parents said. Those two old fools whose only specialty was catching fleas for cats. In good conscience, I've never considered marriage. I'm old enough to be young. I messed around when I was a kid, and now I do sometimes, but when it comes to getting married, it’s not okay, because I have to think about it every day, and I don’t want to be disturbed by anyone. In addition, I have to go to work in the office during the day, so there is no need How about the energy to start a family? I’m a person who thinks things through and I don’t want people to misunderstand me. Now I don’t sleep at night and I’m exhausted, but I’m still going on. It’s not easy. I just want people to get me right. Are you up? Let me tell you something, the guy downstairs, I met him at the store, what do you think he's buying?" "You just mentioned a sensitive issue," Old Wang stretched out a cold hand from the right and pressed Pipzhun's cheek, "you said that the only specialty of Miss Li's parents was catching fleas for cats, You said this in a very arrogant tone. Now I want to ask you, what is your specialty? Do you have one specialty or a combination of specialties? What other specialties do you have besides poor disguise? Excuse me?" Pip must have felt as if there was a piece of ice on his face, and sneezed in pain. He tried to move Old Wang's hand away, but it pressed against his cheek as if rooted, so he jumped up. up. At this time, the old Wang's son who was standing in the dark came over and asked Pip where he was going. "I can only go to Miss Li's house to apologize." Lao Wang said, "You must tell Miss Li's parents of your true intentions. You have broken their hearts. We all know this matter well. Just now you used a flashlight to take random photos. Did you think we were asleep? We were awake! Do you know why? We know you're going to make a move tonight, and everybody's got your concerns. Are you going?" Pip must have thought it over, and decided to stay.He was really afraid of going to the third floor at the moment, afraid of meeting Miss Li's family.He sighed and lay down on the bamboo armchair again. "Did you bring your magazine?" Pharaoh asked gloomily. "No, I didn't intend to come out to chat, I just wanted to come out and have a look." "Come out and have a look!" Pharaoh scolded, "You don't even have magazines, is there anything more naked than your behavior? You don't bring magazines, but you have a flashlight dangling back and forth. Things have been turned upside down. In that case, make up some story for me now." "Girl Li's father said that I was making things up all the time, pretending to have magazines in my pocket. But I do know a secret in this building, which I discovered by accident." "Don't say it," Lao Wang said, "you will make yourself more childish when you say it. They say you are fifty-nine years old. From the outside, you look about sixty years old, and you claim to be five years old." Twelve, it doesn't matter. The important thing is that you are always dawdling, doing some irrelevant things, such as the act of shining a flashlight just now. At this age, a person should know what honesty is. I hear After talking about Miss Li, I feel really lucky for her. We all privately think that you are not worthy of her. What did I tell you just now? I didn’t ask you to tell the secrets in this building, I am  Are you ignorant? Listen, you can't even listen to my orders, you are too conceited." "I'm lying here, facing you, my back hurts from the gravel in the cotton pad, and I can't make up a story in my head. What time is it?" "How dare you ask this kind of question in front of me, I will not answer you. If you want to make time go by quickly, you have to make up some stories. Can't you make up? Who told you not to bring a magazine You deserve it! Since you can't make it up, tell me about your so-called secret." "There's a guy in our building who has mistresses outside and is very rich. And his actual occupation is petty theft, I've seen him do that on the bus. Honestly , I envy him." "The person you mentioned, I am not unfamiliar with him at all, and I am not surprised, but I am surprised that you reported this as news; and you went downstairs without the magazine, and you even took a flashlight to us, you Such frivolity amazes me so much. I can't figure out how a person can be so free-spirited. Don't you have any scruples? There are accidental things everywhere in this world. For example, when Miss Li reads your magazines, she falls for you Stop, maybe she just had a quarrel with her parents that day. Such an excellent girl sometimes makes mistakes." "I respect her a lot, really, we can talk, we are bosom friends." Pip Zhun blurted out. "But it's too late!" Old Wang said sternly, "You have been scheming from the very beginning, you have hurt their family's heart, you should go and apologize." Old Wang stood up and pushed Pip Zhun into the dark outside the door. "It's dark outside, so be careful." Pip was walking down the escalator step by step. After walking for a while, he suddenly forgot which floor he was on.He simply went down to the first floor and stood in the empty space in front of the building.The night was bitterly cold and it was raining lightly.He looked up and saw that the lights were on in his bedroom, and there were two figures reflected on the window glass, fighting. With a "crash", a piece of glass shattered and fell to the ground.The two men were still beating, one of them was strangled by the other, pushed to the window sill, and was pushing down. "Help me!" Pipzhun yelled for no reason, and ran upstairs in a daze, when he heard a muffled "Boom!" behind him, probably because the person was pushed down. Pip jones bumps into someone as he goes upstairs. "Has something happened at home?" said the man. "Murder," said Pip, despondently. "I want to go back and see." "This was expected. You don't need to look to know. Did you hear the crying? The door on the right is the girl's home. She couldn't sleep well at night and was crying. Of course you know why she is crying. They It is said that you broke her heart, so go in and comfort her." Pip went over and knocked on the door a few times, the door opened and the lights came on, and standing in front of her was Miss Li, holding in her hand the magazine he put under his bed. It's called "City Trivia", and the cover has been torn by him.Girl Li's eyes were red and swollen, her hair was disheveled, and she was still sobbing with a shrug of her shoulders.Pip would come over and rub her shoulder to comfort her. "All right, all right," he said. "How can you lie to someone like me?" Miss Li looked up at him with tears in her eyes and said, "I'm only twenty-three years old, and I've never lied to anyone. Haven't you read come out?" "I want to apologize to you." "What's the use of apologizing? You've done something you shouldn't have done, and now I'm just going to sneak around with you because my parents are mad. Shhh, take it easy, don't let them hear. Now I Being caught between you and my parents is really bitter, and they have a deep prejudice against you. Just now I was thinking that I should break up with you, but I borrowed your magazine and I have to return you, so I can't make a clean break. I am. When you came, I was very angry. I just wanted to make a clean break so that my parents would not be angry. What should I do? Tell me?" "You go with the flow." "It's easy for you to say, lightly and delicately, but there will be murder cases here." "There has been a murder case in my house just now." "Bah! Nonsense! Be quiet, don't let them hear you. After you left yesterday, my father brandished a knife and yelled to kill me, because I brought you into the house. I can't think of such a thing now. Just thinking about it makes me dizzy. Didn't you notice anything unusual when you came to my house yesterday?" "When I went, they were picking fleas for the cat, and they seemed very busy." "Shh! Don't talk nonsense, how can you talk like that? That night, I went to your house and looked through your magazines, and I made friends with you. I'm only twenty-three years old this year. You can't lie to me. Listen, mom is coughing and she can't sleep well, let's turn off the light and talk in the bathroom. You come with me... Careful, there's a chair in the aisle, okay. Now, you make up a story Listen to me." Pip must have felt ill at the smell of damp mustiness in the bathroom.Although the young girl was holding his hand and standing close to him against the wall, he felt nothing of the sexual urge.He was surprised by his own physiological reaction. Could it be that he is really so old?Could it be that this young girl is so bold because she has seen through his aging?Did she take him for a mummy?He didn't know how to express his dissatisfaction. He shook off the girl's hand sullenly and said: "Everyone wants me to make up stories, and when I make them up, they don't like it, find fault with me, and tell me I'm useless. I've been to hell." "Mr. Pip Zhun, what kind of result do you expect? You always say such childish things. I really can't help you. You ask too much. As for the matter between you and me, I am Very serious, you don't get your temper. Come on, put your hand here! That's right. I tell you, I'm very, very serious. Now start making up stories." "I don't want to make it up now, I'm tired. Besides, if your father wakes up and wants to kill me, where will I go? This must be decided immediately." "I have a rope here, and I'll hold one end of it, and you jump through the window." "Isn't it too dangerous? I've never done anything like this." "There are so many things you haven't done. Do you think you have done everything when you are in your fifties? There is one more thing you must pay attention to. When you jump out of the window, I may Let go of the rope in your hand, it depends on my mood. My father is very fierce, you must fight. Any questions? You start." "A man jumped from the window of my house just now. He must be dead. The murderer is hiding in my room. I don't worry about it. Something happened at home, and I'm messing around here." "You call it nonsense!" she screamed. "Ah, so you are a liar! So you pretend to be honest, but you hide your ambition! I trusted you so! I entrusted my youth to you I, pure and innocent, never lie, what am I to do now?! Oh, mother! Mother--" she roared, and Pip was running away. He slipped out of the door and ran desperately to his upstairs apartment, and finally opened the door with the key and entered his room.There was no one in the room, but it had been turned upside down, the pile of magazines under the bed was gone, and the row of wooden boxes were all upside down.He hurried to look on the window sill and saw some drops of blood there, and then looked down, it was dark and he couldn't see anything.The windows on the third floor were also dark, maybe everyone was asleep.Pip looked at his watch, it was already four o'clock in the morning, he thought he had to go to work in the morning, so he quickly fell on the bed, and he fell asleep after a while. At seven o'clock, he was woken up by the alarm clock, washed his face in a hurry, ate a pack of instant noodles, and went downstairs with his briefcase under his arms.As soon as he got out of the corridor, he saw Miss Li walking in front of him with her head bowed, so he hurried over and walked side by side with her. "I told you that I've always been a selfish person, and that's true. But after yesterday's unusual night, some of my basic ideas have been shaken. I think maybe I should talk to your parents about my relationship with you. thing." He said blushing. "Mr. Pip Zhun, don't talk nonsense." The girl stared at him, "What do I have to do with you? There is nothing. How can I have the nerve to talk to my parents? Besides, they are not my parents. I just sneaked back at night, I have already left this house, and you will never see me here again." "I don't quite understand what you are saying. You and your parents say you have left, but I always see you in this building, and see that you have not left at all, and you are cared by everyone." Miss Li smiled ambiguously, and said, "Everyone must care about me, and you don't even understand that. I'm only twenty-three years old, and I'm the only young girl in this building. They don't care about me. Who?" "So, are they also chatting with you in the middle of the night?" Pip asked hastily. "never." "So, I'm the only one who talks to you in the middle of the night?" "Did you ever look for me? I don't remember. I'm a man who can't remember trifles. Can you confirm that?" "Last night I talked to you about something in your bathroom, and then your mother coughed and I slipped away." "Is that so? How do you prove it? I didn't sleep at home last night, and you're totally mistaken. Are you going that way? I'm going to the car. Good-bye."