This is the place where Haiping chooses and rents to settle down.650 yuan per month.Originally, she just wanted to live here for a while, but she didn't expect it to be five years at one time.During this period, she and her husband had a major marriage and changed jobs. Her younger sister Haizao stayed with her for more than half a year, and it was her first home after her son was born.Almost all major events in life are done under the rented 10 square meter roof. Haiping originally thought that once she had saved enough for the down payment, she would buy a house and then have her own nest!

There is a long way to go.After five years of blood and tears, she found that the speed of saving money can never keep up with the speed of price increases, and the distance is getting farther and farther.If we wait any longer, maybe Haiping will still live in this 10-square-meter house on the day he is buried.If this old Shikumen house is not demolished, she will keep renting it, keep saving money, can't make up enough money for the rent, and share the small bathroom on the second and a half floors with five other families, all the while sharing a few extra dollars. The water fee is exhausting.Maybe in the end, just like the old Li's house on the second floor, three generations of grandparents and grandchildren live in one room.The fart sounded louder, and the floors on the third floor trembled.

Every time Haiping passes by the second floor to the third floor, she likes it, or subconsciously looks into the 10-square-meter hut with the same area as her own home, and sees the bunk bed and the bed leaning against it. A camp bed by the door.Maybe it's because the room is too small. The old Li's house on the second floor never closes the door, even in winter, and things are piled up outside the door. At least Grandma Li's small bench is always placed in the aisle.And his family has never eaten at the same table, they always share meals, one person at a time, or Lao Li carries a bowl to the alley downstairs to eat.

Looking at Lao Li who had nowhere to hide, Haiping's mind became much more peaceful.At least, in terms of area per capita, Haiping is not the person with the lowest occupancy rate in the city.In the same room, she still occupies 5 square meters! People rely on this kind of comparison to have more than enough to have the belief to live.Most people will suffer from depression if they are always outnumbered.Beckham, for example, was unhappy because he didn't live in Buckingham Palace. Haiping often says: "It's all your fault." Su Chun is used to this, and always answers with a smile: "Okay, blame me, blame me."

In the morning, when Haiping was still looking for the keys in a small place where she couldn't turn around, she would yell, "It's all your fault! Why didn't you remind me to put it in the bag last night?" Su Chun didn't realize that it was Haiping. My fault, always helping to find, while saying: "Blame me! Blame me!" Su Chun also couldn't understand why there is always an endless space to hide these small things like a maze in such a small place, such as cleaning the table. Sometimes it accidentally rubs it into the shoebox, or it disappears when it is pressed by a newspaper.Sometimes Su Chun would comfort himself, thanks to the small space, so things are easy to find, if you change to a big house of 100 square meters, you don’t have to go to work every day, and play hide-and-seek all day long.

Su Chun once joked with Haiping about this.Haiping said seriously: "Absolutely not. The house will be orderly when it is big, and everything will be in its place. I will nail a grocery bag on the wall where the entrance is, and put umbrellas, keys, and letters in it. All shoes It will be open in the room like this, and it should be put into the shoe cabinet. Don’t put the TV under the desk, squat every time you watch it, but put it on the TV cabinet, and the computer will have its own room. I will make a Haier cabinet Utensils, buy a set of American Corning tableware..." Every time Su Chun came to this time, he regretted mentioning the house with Haiping.She seems to have already figured out what kind of house she wants to buy, what kind of orientation, how to decorate it, what color the walls are, what furniture to add to the house, and she is so accurate that she can install a magic mirror in the entrance.

At this time, Haiping's face will be filled with a layer of excited red light, and the wings of her nose will also expand due to excitement. Wherever she swings her hands and feet, you have to beware of her kicking the TV on the floor or accidentally bumping her hands against the wall.Su Chun would pretend to inadvertently stop her big moves with his hands, lest she suddenly wake up from the dream when she was bumped, and then become more depressed because of the contrast with the reality in front of her. When Haiping talked about the house, almost all the details were designed, except the money.Mainly, this is out of the question.When it comes to this aspect, all dreams can only be called dreams.

In fact, 3 years ago, just 3 years ago, when Haiping's belly was just a little bulging, their family almost had a house.If Haiping had been more practical then. At that time, housing prices in Shanghai were beginning to rise sharply.After 10 years of silence, the house in Shanghai is like the newly awakened winter grass, with a little bit of spring.Haiping was just 5 months pregnant at the time.Originally, that was the best time to buy a house. Haiping took Su Chun to look at second-hand houses in various districts of Shanghai every day after work while he could move.In the real estate market at that time, we can call it "the hero is dead".That was the time when Haiping was most familiar with Shanghai traffic.Apart from the joy of pregnancy, she was immersed in a traffic map in the city.Draw the location of the house according to the map every day, and then check how many buses arrive at the work place, and estimate how long the journey will take; at that time, any passer-by can ask Haiping for a bus route, and she can tell you exactly where it is going.

According to this momentum, the house could be settled before Haiping gave birth.It's a pity that the success fell short, people, there is greed in the heart. At that time, the young couple had a deposit of 40,000 yuan on hand. Adding the money raised by the two families, it was enough to pay for the down payment of a small and medium-sized second-hand house.That is, near Lancun Road or Zhangyang Road! My God! Lancun Road! Zhangyang Road! In this area, any house would cost more than a million dollars! My heart hurts! The real estate agent called to make an appointment to see the house.When I went to the place, I found that the small two-bedroom and one-living room belonged to the design of the early 1990s. All the doors opened to the living room, kitchen, toilet, and two bedrooms.So that hall is purely an aisle, basically no furniture can be placed there.The then homeowners left the lot vacant.Haiping was not very satisfied.Two bedrooms, one facing north and one facing east.With this type of apartment, the small hall was filled with people who came to see the house, so there must be five couples in total! There are old and young.Coupled with several groups of real estate agents crowding the door, the whole house feels extremely depressing.

Haiping didn't show any emotion on her face, and secretly "cut" in her heart, thinking: "Build momentum! It's scary! I thought it would be sold if there were so many people here! I don't even want this kind of house for you! Does the child live in Beijing?" Room? Isn’t there still no place to put the computer and TV? This kind of life is too different from what I thought in my heart!” The homeowners began to point to the hostesses of each house and ask, "Do you want it? Do you want it?" Haiping was the first to ask, but Haiping obviously shook her head and didn't ask Su Chun's opinion at all.When asked about the second house, the hostess had already expressed her intention, and asked carefully about the estimated price, which seemed to be 300,000.For this kind of house that is more than ten years old, the owner has the guts to ask for 300,000! Look at the wall, it’s peeling! Look at the floor, it’s still made of leather! Look at the kitchen pipe, it’s still exposed! I'm ashamed to say 300,000, I must be poor and crazy.

The corner of Haiping's mouth couldn't stop a sneer. If Haiping could have predicted the future momentum, she should have cried. There are many smart people in this world.Haiping should be regarded as stupid in judging the situation. The third couple had no intention of bargaining at all, so they planned to pay the advance payment on the spot.The fourth couple and the fifth couple started to increase the price, and one of them said, I will add you 20,000, and that's it, don't let others see it. Haiping took Su Chun and went out. Definitely don't show with idiots.Never show a house with a child care provider.This interferes with your normal thinking. Haiping thought so at the time. That was the first house Haiping saw. Then, during the period before the birth of her son, Haiping looked at several houses one after another, and the housing prices had already accelerated, and Haiping found that she had also entered the circle of idiots and childcare.No matter how crappy the house is, the first thing you want to do when you walk in is to give a price, first to overwhelm the opponent from the momentum, and then buy it. But Haiping always fails.Once, Haiping was almost on the verge of becoming the best at the scene, and no one could beat her asking for 40,000 more than the landlord's asking price.She smirked triumphantly, and finally she was sure of winning.I, Haiping, am also a man of property! In fact, that house is not as good as the first house.While bidding, Haiping missed the big north room with its impressive height.At least in terms of usable area, that house is still suitable for living.If I had bought it at that time, the house would have four rooms and two halls! Just one night, Haiping bought a second-hand house with an area of ​​60 square meters with a deposit of 4,000 yuan.At that time, Haiping's stomach was as big as a blown balloon, and the main reason was that she couldn't wait anymore. Unexpectedly, three days later, the homeowner called and said, "I'm sorry, but I will pay you back the deposit, and I will make up another 500 yuan for your loss. I can't sell you the house. Someone paid 25,000 more than you." For the sake of the baby in her stomach, Haiping kept taking deep breaths, suppressing her anger, and said, "Don't be angry, don't be angry. It's just a broken house, just a broken person who doesn't keep his word. When mom has money, buy a villa for the baby!" Because of this shock and disappointment, Haiping's house viewing career came to an abrupt end at its climax.It's like the dislocation of the hands of the conductor rushing to the high place on the stage, like the husband's shrinking of the sun in the heart of the married life.In short, amidst unwillingness, anger and anxiety, Haiping entered another stage of sprinting.The house is temporarily stranded. Then Haiping had a son Huanhuan. With Huanhuan's arrival, Haiping's life suddenly fell into a chaotic confusion.Although I greeted it with all my heart, I still didn't expect that a little boy could waste money so much! All that wasted was Haiping's future house one square meter by one square meter! Huanhuan's one-month ration is more than that of the husband and wife.It’s enough to just eat, and he still sucks! A can of imported milk powder costs more than 100 yuan, and a pack of diapers costs more than 100 yuan.Seeing the house blueprints on the deposit slip falling down square by square meter, Haiping was often reluctant to part with the heavy diapers full of garbage bags.The ones thrown out are all tickets! She slapped her son's fat butt bitterly: "You charge for two-way entry and exit! It's even more ruthless than China Mobile!" The home is even more crowded because of the arrival of grandma.Grandma and mother sleep on the bed with the baby, and father sleeps on the floor.If the small mouth on the top of the baby is waiting to eat, and the bottom is busy pulling, everyone is in a hurry, and when everyone is on their backs, grandma may get confused and throw the diaper stained with feces on Dad's bed without wrapping it tightly.The pile of baby bottles and diapers in the house is high, and the old lady is reluctant to throw away the empty milk powder cans, and the small clothes sponsored by others, it is impossible to call it home.When Su Chun and Haiping thought of that small place, mixed with the cries of children, the smell of feces and urine, the smell of sweat from adults, and the sounds of a few people arguing over feeding, they really didn't want to go in. Three months after the baby was born, Haiping announced: "I'm going back to work. I have to earn money. The house is too small and the expenses are too high. Mom, please take Huanhuan back to my hometown for me!" Haiping said When he said this, he was refreshed with relief. But I never thought my son was gone.Haiping's soul also left. Only one long distance call per week is allowed.They are only allowed to go home twice a year. Save money, save money, save money. This is the goal of Haiping's life. As soon as the child returned home, Haiping made a long-distance call to his hometown after 9 pm, asking his mother to describe his son's growth in as much detail as possible.The son can recognize people! The son can wave! The son can sit! The son can crawl! Haiping enjoys the phone so much.So much so that when the long-distance phone bill came, Su Chun endured it and sighed unbearably: "Hai Ping, if this continues, you will destroy several square meters of us in no time!" Haiping decided to quit the phone. But the longing came in like a tide, which made Haiping suffer a lot. Haiping decided to buy a camera and a computer for her mother so that she could see her son without long distances. Su Chun said: "Haiping, a computer is one square meter. Besides, old men and women don't know how to use it, so you have to find someone to help them. You have to find someone every time, and soon everyone will get bored. Maybe No one will use it there. And the broadband fee is very expensive. After a long time, it will be one square meter. Haiping, you just bear with it, bear with it. You might as well send the money back to buy milk powder for your son , more affordable. When we buy a house, as soon as we buy a house, we will take the children back!" Haiping couldn't even shed tears.