Chapter 36 Peacock Forest (36)

The year is almost over and the new year is coming. After Christmas, the old year is disgusting, and everyone can't wait to send it away. On the night of New Year's Eve, Rong An and I went to Yum to count down the countdown. "10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1..." "Happy New Year!" In the first second of the new year, the three of us, Rong An and Xiao Yun, wished each other a happy new year. Everyone says this sentence every New Year, no matter how boring people are, they will not say mourning in the New Year. "Time flies," Xiao Yun said, "It's another new year."

"Yeah." Rong An nodded, "I think time passed very slowly when I was young, and it takes longer when you grow up. It goes by faster. " "One year, for a three-year-old child, is one-third of his life.but for twenty For young people, it is one-twentieth of his life.If you are seventy years old, Then one year is only one seventieth of your life. ’ I paused, "So the older he gets, the shorter a year feels to him, and of course it feels like time goes by faster. 』 "Interesting statement." The three of us turned our heads at the same time after hearing the sound, and it turned out that Mr. Martini spoke.

"thanks. ’ I said, nodding at him. "Happy New Year." He raised his glass to greet the three of us. "Happy New Year." Rong An and I toasted back, while Xiao Yun just said with a smile. Mr. Martini wore another tie today with a picture of a woman on it. I guess it's a Picasso painting because the woman's face is torn apart, Fully in line with the characteristics of Picasso. It is rare to see that the pattern of a tie is made of famous paintings, so I couldn't help but look at that tie a few more times. It occurred to me that every time I saw him, he must have had a tie on.

"The New Year is here, I wish you success in your studies." Xiao Yun said to me first, and then told Rong An: "I wish you every step of the way." She turned to Mr. Martini and said, "I wish you..." "It's going to rhyme," Mr. Martini cut in before she could finish. She smiled, thought for a while, and said, "May you and your lover be in love forever." "Thank you," he said. "Do you have a lover?" Xiaoyun asked. "There used to be," he replied. Xiaoyun might be a little embarrassed, and secretly stuck out his tongue towards me.

I secretly thought it was funny, I didn't expect her to say the wrong thing as soon as she opened her mouth, just like Rong An. "Then I wish you instead..." She thought for a while, "Find a lover this year and make an eternal vow with you." "Thank you." He finally smiled, "Thank you for your hard work." The expression on Xiaoyun's face seemed to be relieved. "If you really find a lover..." Mr. Martini raised his glass and said with a sigh: "I just hope she doesn't keep me waiting." He found the glass was empty and said, "Please give me another Martini, please dry it."

Xiaoyun nodded and began to mix drinks for him. I thought about the meaning of "lover" in Mr. Martini's mouth. Is it the lover I once had? Or another brand new love? Maybe he thinks it doesn't matter, as long as it is a lover who doesn't have to wait. Mr. Martini stayed late that night, when Rong An and I left Yum, He still stayed at the bar, drinking and smoking quietly by himself. A new year for us is the beginning of new hope, but for him, Seems like the beginning of another wait? Not long after the New Year, Rong An was transferred to the construction site in Pingtung.

Although the train journey from Tainan to Pingtung is only about 1 hour and 15 minutes, But he can no longer return to me after work as he did when he was at the new industrial site. Then go to work from me the next day. He probably can only come to me when he is on vacation. I have to get used to Rong An no longer appearing in front of me every day; Xiaoyun also has to get used to me going to soak Yum alone. I spent more time with myself, and I accidentally developed the habit of talking to myself. One day I climbed to the upstairs room, re-read the writing on the wall, and looked at the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Suddenly, I felt that the tree outside the window seemed to be talking to me. I approached the floor-to-ceiling windows and put my right ear against the window. "what?You want me to move up? 』 "Because you wish you could talk to people more often? 』 "Since you're so lonely, I'll move here!" 』 So I moved to an upstairs room. Anyway, it was just upstairs and downstairs, and no one was urging me, so I moved slowly, one by one. It's usually the little things I don't want to take, including the love letter I stuffed under the bed. I once hid that love letter in the upstairs room, and when Rong An came over often, I took it downstairs again.

Now being thrown under the bed, her fate is rough. The days after moving upstairs are no different, but the vision has improved and people can see farther. I really like looking at the trees outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, and I also like talking to him (her?). When Rong An first came to see me from Pingtung, he was really shocked to see me move into the upstairs room. "What hit you again?" he said. I didn't want to talk to him, I just told him to sleep downstairs from now on. At the beginning of spring, the landlord came to visit me, and this was the second time I saw him.

Over the years, I have remitted the rent directly into his bank account, and we have never met each other. "Huh?" He was surprised, "I didn't expect you to move upstairs." I smiled and nodded. "You should have noticed the writing on the wall?" he said. "You also know that there are writings on the wall? 』I was a little surprised. "Yeah." He nodded, "I used to rent it to a young man, and I saw it after he moved out. I want that wall to stay the way it is so I don't rent out the rooms upstairs. " "That's right. ’ I said, ‘Then I…’

"It doesn't matter." He smiled, "As long as you don't move that wall, you can continue to live." "Actually, I also write on the wall. ’ I was a little embarrassed, ‘but I used a blue pen, To avoid confusion with the original black characters. 』 He laughed out loud, patted my shoulder, and just said, "Very good." Before leaving, he took the initiative to lower my rent by five hundred yuan and asked me to do me a favor. Help him rent out the downstairs room. "The rent is about four thousand or four thousand five thousand," he said. "what? 』 "If the renter is pleasing to you, the rent is four thousand; if you don't feel anything special, The rent is four thousand and five. " I nodded, thinking to myself that this landlord has a real personality. After all, the house belonged to the landlord, and it wouldn't be too much inconvenience for one more person to live here. If Rong An comes looking for me, just squeeze with me upstairs. Two days later, I wrote more than a dozen red papers for renting a house and posted them on the bulletin board nearby. From the third day onwards, people came to see the house one after another. Whenever they asked me how much the rent was? "Four thousand five. ’ I always answer like this.