Someone knocked at the door outside, and the horse's eyelids jumped a few times. He slowly approached the cat's eye and looked out. A woman with curly hair and a shawl stood in the corridor. After a pause, he asked in a rough voice, who are you looking for?
"I am your downstairs, and the sink in your kitchen is leaking! Soak my rice noodles! "
Ma Baoxiao said, "Wait a minute!" , turned and went into the kitchen.
He just rented this one-bedroom apartment yesterday and has no time to use the kitchen. He looked at the tap first. The faucet is rusty, and there is a circle of dry yellow scale around the faucet. Obviously, it has not been used for a long time. He opened the door under the sink and a musty smell made him frown. The elbows are covered with cobwebs. He took a photo with his cell phone light, and a frightened black spider spread its long legs and quickly moved to the dark. All pipes are dry and there is no leakage.
He went to the door, rushed outside and said, "It's not my fault. I didn't miss it here. "
"How is it possible! You must have missed it! " The woman is angry. Ma Bao Xiao pressed the fire and said, "I don't need to lie to you. I just moved in and haven't used water yet. Go to the landlord! "
"The landlord let me come to you, you open the door! Let me see! " The woman shouted.
"Tell you there is no leakage, just look at it!" Ma Bao Xiao said grumpily.
"Didn't miss what are you afraid of? Open the door! " The woman slapped the door several times.
The horse was most afraid of women pestering him, so he opened the latch. The woman wore curly hair, and the angry lion rushed in, stepped on the tile with pointed high heels and went straight into the kitchen. Ma Bao Xiao leaned against the door, clutching his chest, and looked at the woman with disdain, scanning around crazily.
"What the hell!" The woman said to herself. She opened all the cupboard doors and bent down to look in. Ma Bao Xiao looked at her plump hips dangling, and her throat was a little dry. The last time he touched a woman was when he passed Jialin Station two years ago. He can't remember the woman's face.
But he remembers the first time that the old woman was the place where he worked after he escaped from prison at the age of 20. In a small room with a shampoo and massage sign in the middle of nowhere, there is a thin and dry woman in her forties selling skin and meat.
The thought of the woman's shriveled breasts and red lips and her shriveled hands stained with red nails made Ma Bao Xiao feel sick. He hated his curiosity, followed a group of boring and poor migrant workers, and finally had a bad appetite. From then on, he no longer cares about what the woman under him looks like.
No wonder those migrant workers have no taste. It's hard to meet a woman in this remote place of Banpan Village. The migrant workers who smashed stones left their homes and never saw women all the year round. This shampoo room has become a gentle town.
2
The woman straightened up and her face was full of disappointment and doubt. She told Ma Bao Xiao half and said to herself, "Damn it!"
Ma Baoxiao was lighting a cigarette when suddenly his hand stopped. He found that the woman in front of him was familiar, with a white face, almond eyes, eyes reaching to the sideburns, eyebrows and rosy and sexy lips. ...
Especially the dimples in the corners of the mouth! Specifically, it's not a dimple, it's a scar.
It's Zhu Xiuzhen!
Ma Bao Xiao stood up steeply, but he suppressed his cry. The woman obviously didn't recognize him and was glaring at him. Ma Baoxiao knows very well, not to mention Zhu Xiuzhen, whom I haven't seen for ten years. Even the buddies who worked together five years ago wouldn't recognize him.
At present, the horse's heart is a little itchy. The woman in front of him is his junior high school classmate, and it is the front and back table. At that time, Ma was still a shy boy who had just entered the experimental class from the countryside. He is short and plain, but his grades are good, which is his only pride.
On the other hand, Zhu Xiuzhen is a poor student. Although she looks beautiful and dresses more western than others, in the experimental class, grades are everything. He remembers that this beautiful and stupid girl was often called away by the teacher and then came back crying.
"She entered the experimental class through the back door, and her mother is a traditional Chinese opera actress ..."
At that time, Ma didn't know what the singer had to do by going through the back door. Of course, he didn't pay attention to these. Only girls who are jealous of Zhu Xiuzhen's beauty are keen on gossiping. At that time, the horse's mind was only on learning. For him, middle school life is like white water, tasteless and colorless. Six years of study is for knock knock, and that's his home.
However, shortly after he received the notice, the door was closed to him.
three
"Can you go to my house and take a look at it for me?" Zhu Xiuzhen's tone softened a lot, with a little temptation in his eyes, but he also caught something. She is well aware of her driving force for beauty. After graduating from junior high school, she stood in front of the cosmetics counter and knew that a beautiful face was a passport without resistance.
"Your man can't fix it?" Horses don't want to get themselves into trouble. According to his understanding of women, a body like Zhu Xiuzhen must have had a man, and maybe even a child.
"He's ... sick. Just take a look. It's really impossible I'll call someone to repair it. " Zhu Xiuzhen's eyes are watery.
Ma Bao Xiao's toes moved. He took a sip of his cigarette butt between the bricks on the wall and said simply, "Go down and have a look."
Zhu Xiuzhen was replaced by a smiling face. She walked briskly ahead, holding the railing. Ma Baoxiao smelled the fragrance in her hair. He thinks it's special. Yes, it is beer.
Zhu Xiuzhen turned his back on him, and he could enjoy himself. This tight cashmere dress wraps the body very delicately and has a charm he has never seen before. He has never been in love, and women are such tissues and organs to him. He doesn't remember being loved by a woman. If anyone really loves him, it is the tall old man who adopted him.
The old man is very kind to him. He cooks ribs for him every weekend when he comes home, and fills his backpack with snacks when he leaves. He never lacks pocket money. The old man is a capable electrician. But he doesn't like being forced to call Lao Gaoman, the son of cerebral palsy with runny nose and drooling, "Dad". Because of this stupid father, he was bullied by the children in the village since he was a child.
After the college entrance examination, Lao Gaoman fell ill. He called Ma Bao Xiao to his side and forced him to swear that he would never leave his father with cerebral palsy. The horse spent the night in insomnia, and finally covered his cerebral palsy with a quilt when he was sleeping, until he stopped moving.
He knelt in front of the old man Gao and confessed everything to him. Old man Gao didn't scold him, but he was already in tears. The son with cerebral palsy lost his mother at birth. He was raised by Lao Gaoman himself. Only he can understand his son. He often chats with me. The horse doesn't understand and doesn't want to understand.
He hates cerebral palsy, and gradually alienated from the old man when he grew up. He always thought that his existence was only to replace the son with cerebral palsy! This blatant selfishness makes the horse very angry.
He advised Lao Gaoman not to be sad and vowed to die for the old man. The old man cried his nose and tears, and he didn't want to eat rice. The funeral home picked up the cerebral palsy, and when Ma was happily preparing his luggage for college, the police car stopped outside the old man's door.
four
Zhu Xiuzhen gave the door a twist and pushed it open. Ma Baoxiao smelled an indescribable smell, which strangely reminded him of his childhood home. Yes, the taste is very similar, only with a little more fragrance.
Zhu Xiuzhen invited the horse in and changed his boots into slippers. Ma Bao Xiao stood awkwardly. He doesn't know whether to change his shoes, because the house in Zhu Xiuzhen is too clean.
"Oh, come on in! You don't have to change. " Zhu Xiuzhen Road.
Ma Bao Xiao walked to the front of the white tile and followed Zhu Xiuzhen into the kitchen.
"Look, my rice noodles are soaked in water." Zhu Xiuzhen pointed to the grain bag on the stove, and then pointed to a water stain on the roof. Water stains extend downward along the corner line, and water flows downward along the tile wall.
"Have you seen the ceiling?" Ma Bao Xiao found that the ceiling of the kitchen had been decorated.
"No."
Ma Bao Xiao took a stool. He wants to take off the aluminum alloy interlayer and have a look. Zhu Xiuzhen is busy getting the ladder. Ma Bao Xiao climbed the ladder and dug the partition with his fingers. He found that the nut on the elbow was leaking. He ordered Zhu Xiuzhen to take a wrench and marijuana, and Zhu Xiuzhen handed it over. Ma Bao Xiao neatly tightened the nut and wrapped the marijuana. He waited for a while and found that the water didn't seep out again.
"All right!" He reinstalled the ceiling partition and asked for another cloth to dry the wet wall.
"Thank you!" Zhu Xiuzhen smiled as he stepped down the ladder. The dimple was as special as when he was a child.
On the first day Ma Baoxiao remembered, Zhu Xiuzhen had no dimples, but it was an accident. For some reason, some girls in physical education class quarreled with Zhu Xiuzhen. Usually gentle girls insult each other with rude words like "shameless". Finally, the taxi rolled in one place, and a girl's glasses were broken, and the fragments pierced Zhu Xiuzhen's face.
But the girls didn't expect that the disfigured Zhu Xiuzhen became more beautiful after the wound healed!
five
"Who's here? Xiuzhen? " A man in the bedroom asked.
"The somebody else is upstairs. I showed him the leaking place. "
"Is it fixed?" The man asked.
There was no answer. She was busy boiling water and asked the horse to sit in the living room.
The horse sat down on the sofa. He looked around the unusually neat room and felt a feeling he had never felt before. When Zhu Xiuzhen put a cup of milk tea in front of him with white hands, he was sure it was sweet and warm.
"Hello!" It's a man's voice Ma Bao Xiao looked up and saw a wheelchair appear in the living room. A man in his thirties is sitting in a wheelchair, slightly fat but with a straight back and handsome appearance.
The horse nodded and replied "Hello". Zhu Xiuzhen peeled an apple and said, "This is my wife, Lao Xue."
"Thank you for your help." The man said gently.
The horse was a little surprised. After he perfunctory "You're welcome, it's easy", he stopped talking.
He bowed his head and took a sip of tea, and suddenly understood why the smell in the room was so familiar. This person probably has the problem of Gao Laotou's cerebral palsy son-incontinence. At the thought of this, the horse has an inexplicable sense of superiority.
"I haven't asked your name yet?" Zhu Xiuzhen smile to ask.
"Your name is Wang." Ma has made several ID cards, the longest of which is the present one, and its name is "Wang Zaishi". The name is both common and decent, and he did it. No matter where he works on the construction site, he is honest, for fear of getting himself into a little trouble. Although after years of wind and rain, his appearance is far older than his actual age, but seeing his young self on the wanted order, he will still have some palpitations.
If time is a knife, the horse thinks he is a sculptor with a knife. He is very satisfied with his present appearance: tough and smart, wandering the rivers and lakes alone, penetrating everything. Sometimes he thinks he is lonely, although he wants to be Li when he is 18 years old.
He despises 18 years old, pale and thin, timid and shy, looking for life in books like a fool. But he doesn't regret losing the opportunity to learn. The only regret is that he was too timid and naive to tell the truth to the old man Gao. The best way is to hide from the old man and create the illusion that cerebral palsy is a natural death. No one will care about the death of a cerebral palsy, let alone doubt that a promising young man will murder a cerebral palsy.
"What do you do, where are you ..." Zhu Xiuzhen, a stupid girl, really grew into a vulgar woman! Realizing that he would put on airs and get to the bottom of it, the horse stood up.
"I'm sorry, I just moved in and the house hasn't been packed yet. I have to go back! "
Busy to the door, warmly greet and say goodbye to the horse.
"Come over when you are free!"