Across the hall (short story) (original)

Zhang Yong regretted it very much when he moved home.

It takes three years for a child to go to high school. In three years, if they make so much noise every day, adults can't stand it, and children can't stand it.

Zhang Yong sulks here alone, and his lover Li Gang nags Zhang Yong early in the morning:

"We pay a high price to rent a house here, just to accompany our children and let our son study with peace of mind. Three years later, we will be admitted to a good university. The door is so noisy, how can you let the tree study with peace of mind? "

Before moving, Zhang Yong had doubts. This house is a school district. Not only is the location good, it is also close to the school, and the rent is surprisingly cheap. After seeing the house and negotiating the price, the landlord was afraid that they would go back on their word and quickly signed the contract and paid the deposit.

Zhang Yong a face of depressed said:

"Look at the house, you pay the deposit, and you urge the whole family to move. What can I do if I pass on a neighbor like this? "

"I don't think the house is very good in all aspects, afraid that the landlord will go back on his word?" Li gang's voice is obviously a little lower.

"After signing the contract, I will make a fuss about moving the next day. I really thought there would be a pie in the sky! "

Zhang Yong insisted, "I'm in a hurry to move here. I only lived for two days. I'm not curious anymore. There is a reason for the low price. "

Sure enough, everything happened for a reason, and a miracle appeared on the night they moved.

Zhang Yong and his family used to go to bed early. After a tiring day moving, the family turned off the lights and went to bed early, but in the middle of the night, there were faint voices of abuse, crying, breaking cups and slapping in the face in their sleep. There are big and small voices, sometimes not. As a newcomer, I didn't have a good rest all night.

After dawn, after their analysis, judgment and reasoning, there was another quarrel at home.

When there is no bowl touching the basin, every family has its own problems. A good neighbour is better than a brother in the next village. The young couple discussed whether they should make up. Later, they considered that people might wash their dirty linen in public, and the husband and wife quarreled at the end of the bed, shouting that they had never seen the world.

They think peace is the most important thing, but quarreling is a family privacy, so it is better to pretend not to know.

The next night, something happened again. While Zhang Yong and his family were still watching TV, they began to make noise in the hall. There was a lot of noise and abuse from time to time, and they beat again and again. Once and for all, Zhang Yong and his family just moved here. They are not familiar with the door, so they dare not stop fighting. Another problem is that the neighbors upstairs and downstairs also obviously heard the noise. Why didn't anyone come out to make peace?

Zhang Yong and Li Gang were thrown to the other side of the hall in fear, and the family didn't start sleeping until midnight.

When I get up in the morning, the whole family is very big. At breakfast, Zhang Yong and his wife decided to discuss it. Today, they and their lovers went to see the man and woman across the hall and were persuaded to eat enough. On the one hand, they persuade their families to live in harmony, and a happy little family needs to run together. On the other hand, they live across the hall and quarrel and fight every day, which will still affect their mood and family rest.

At dinner, Zhang Yong and Li Gang were depressed. They all saw from each other's disappointed eyes that the plan had failed. The couple across the hall both go out normally. What should people do? They didn't see any signs of fighting, and they didn't even say hello. When they met nearby, it was a wonderful pair of flowers.

Li Gang also found that the couple across the street were not only for Zhang Yong and Li Gang, but also for other neighbors in the whole building. At first, neighbors came to stop the fight, but they didn't appreciate it at all. Even neighbors who stop fighting will suffer. Uncle Li got his head broken by their mop when he went to Indiana. If people don't ask, they can only admit that they are unlucky.

The family should still be noisy. Over time, no one came to the door, so they let it go upstairs and downstairs. According to Aunt Li on the first floor, when they quarrel on the fourth floor, they can call the neighborhood committee and the police station, but not the neighbors.

This family area is the former dormitory of the city chemical fiber factory. Her husband's house was built in the early 1990s. After the commercialization of the house, all the rich people bought new commercial houses and moved out, and some people bought houses and moved in. Fortunately, there are two big schools near this dormitory family area, a junior high school and a senior high school. The enrollment rate has always been among the best in the city, so this is also a school district.

It's only been half a year since my family moved to the West Lake on the fourth floor. I heard that the man still works in the government and the woman works in the environmental protection department. They started fighting soon after they moved here. Husband and wife are virtuous and ignore others.

Zhang Yong and Li Gang finally concluded that this action was a wrong start. They thought they had found the treasure and held it in their arms before they knew it was a hot potato.

Zhang Yong later found out that the landlord who rented their house was also annoyed. After meeting such neighbors, they bought commercial houses in the new district in the shortest time and moved decisively. At first, they were going to sell the house. But people who come to buy a house must inquire about the background of the house. No one will live across the street from such a neighbor. So the house hung for half a year, and it couldn't be sold, so the landlord had to rent it temporarily, and the Zhang Yong family inadvertently took over.

Zhang Yong rented a house to accompany his son, so that he could be admitted to a good university. The couple thought of the story of Meng Mu's three moves.

Li Gang said gloomily, "Hurry to find a house and move tomorrow. No one can stand it."

Zhang Yong expected Li Gang to talk about moving and gave it to him easily: "That's easy to say, it's less than a week before Zhang Shu starts school. Can you find a house? "

"500 yuan a month, you can't live here." It seems that Li Gang is also determined to win.

Zhang Yong and the pie mouth, staring at li gang, just slow said:

"What is the salary for both of us to add a piece? Usually, you won't be reluctant to buy more clothes than 200 yuan. You didn't promise to buy a better racket for your child. "

"Shh" Li Gang put his index finger to his mouth, which meant that his son who was studying in the study should not hear it, but he still stubbornly said, "Then move!"

"Well, well, what about the deposit for renting a house?" Zhang Yong sighed again and said, "We have moved and paid three months' rent in advance. No matter how many days we stay, I'm afraid we can't get it back this month. "

Let's discuss it. The children will start school soon, so it is difficult to find a house to move at once. In addition, the deposit will also be lost if the contract is unilaterally terminated. At least two months' rent will be wasted, and we will have to find a house to pay a deposit. Inside and outside, the couple's salary for a month is not enough.

Without any clue to find a house to move here, new fighting broke out between neighbors across the street on time, and Zhang Yong and Li Gang became more and more impatient.

"I just want my children to live on campus and move immediately!" Li gang like to make a decision, put down his sweater, looked up and stared at Zhang Yong, bite a tooth and said:

"I will tell the children tomorrow that you should look for a house first."

"Don't let my dad find a house again. I don't agree to move. " Zhang Yong and Li Gang were so absorbed in talking about the house that no one noticed that their son cutie suddenly appeared beside them.

My son seems to have his own ideas. He goes on to tell the reason why he doesn't act like an adult:

"Noisy across the hall is an outsider's business. Let's live our lives well, and I promise I won't be affected. "

Zhang Yong and Li Gang were shocked. They carefully read the children's words and found that their thinking just solved their family's current predicament. They were surprised and happy. Li Gang said cautiously, "Does all this noise across the street really not affect your study?"

Zhang Shu looked relaxed and said, "Go to my room and listen. The noise is very small. I feel that I have slept well these two nights. "

Zhang Yong didn't speak, got up from the sofa and went to Zhang Shu's room.

Li Gang knew that the house they rented was close to the school. This is a three-bedroom house, which is more spacious than their present house. After moving, Mr. and Mrs. Zhang Yong worked hard to tidy up the bedroom and study for their children, so that the children's dream study was available and the children's bedroom was more comfortable. The children fell in love with their new home immediately after they moved.

"Your father and I are busy these days, creating a good family environment, but you are studying here, and we are just accompanying you, in case ..." Li Gang wanted to go ahead and the child interrupted him.

"Mom, I know, I won't let you and dad down. If he falls out of the door, I will definitely enter the university gate from here, and it is a key university. "

Zhang Yong and his wife are a little secretly pleased. Shure's self-control has always been strong. In primary school, their family lived near "Hong Kong Street", which was notoriously chaotic, and their children's studies were never greatly affected. This family doesn't seem to have to move.

Zhang Yong and Li Gang finally gave up their ideas. They decided to adopt their children's opinions. Li Gang said that we should wait and see, and Zhang Yong might put it in another way. Their families should also change accordingly.

The final decision of their family is: you come and live, let you rain or shine, I won't move.

On September 1 day, the children started school as scheduled, and the accompanying reading day officially kicked off. The children's study life began step by step. Every day, Zhang Yong and Li Gang promise to cook for their children alone in the escort room, and all three of them live here on weekends. As usual, the neighbors across the street are noisy. After a long time, they gradually got some information from their neighbors.

The man in the neighbor's house across the street is called Guo Gang. He grew up in a good family, his father worked well, and he was a big cadre in the office. The man later took over his father's class and worked in a government department. According to the current words, he is the second generation of officials.

But this Guo Gang is not only unlearned, but also has a poor life ability, a bad temper and a stubborn temper. He has some savings at home and his lifestyle is not very orderly.

Now the daughter-in-law who quarrels with Guo Gang every day is Shen Xia, whom Guo Gang met in a karaoke bar. Because Guo Gang promised to find a job for her, she stuck to Guo Gang, got pregnant in the long run, and they got married in a flash. The father is still eager to love his son and found a job in the environmental protection bureau for his daughter-in-law.

Guo Gang didn't want to make progress, Shen Xia was idle again, and soon after she got married, she began to make trouble. The old man has a bad temper and is in poor health. He couldn't stand the torment of his son and daughter-in-law, and died before he had a grandson.

Guo Gang took over his father's class and didn't do such a good job. He is also eager to do business and stock trading, tossing his parents' savings early.

Because this is an only child, my mother spoiled Guo Gang when I was a child, but I couldn't help it when I grew up. Daughter-in-law is not a fuel-efficient lamp. The old lady can only let nature take its course and only take care of the children every day.

After their father left, neither of them had much ability to live. Guo Gang continued to speculate in stocks, while Shen Xia continued her extravagance and comparison. Living conditions are becoming more and more unsatisfactory. With the death of my mother, the situation at home became more and more unbearable. Not only did she not get rich, but she also owed a lot of debts.

Guo Gang's laziness and nagging are incompatible with Shen Xia's comparison and enjoyment. During their quarrel, their daughter reached the age of junior high school every month, and they sold their parents' big house. After paying off their debts, they can only come to the old community near the dormitory of the chemical fiber factory and buy a second-hand house, ready to live a "good" life.

This is the good neighbor that Zhang Yong and Li Gang met in their home. Their "good days" upset the whole corridor and made the neighbors restless. They fought another protracted war. Zhang Yong from curiosity to worry, from noisy to gradually adapt, from persuasion and comfort at the beginning to indifference later.

No wonder half a year has passed, neighbors have become accustomed to it, and fighting on the fourth floor has become a habit. In the first year, they were a little curious, and in the second year, they got used to it. In the third year, they didn't hear the sound of quarreling and fighting for three days, and their neighbors even lost their appetite for eating. Slowly, I feel a little bored when I stop playing.

They developed from quarreling to fighting and from fighting to war. In the past three years alone, according to incomplete statistics in Zhang Yong, they called the neighbors 126 times, their two different relatives went to the hospital 88 times, and they went to the hospital 39 times for being brave and wounded, including 120 when the ambulance came to the door 13 times, and called the police10 to call the police 5 times.

Fortunately, the fire that worried the neighbors the most never happened. Every time I think about it, Zhang Yong will say a few words silently: "Amitabha! Good! "

Zhang Yong's family bravely stood their ground. During the three years they accompanied her, there was a big fight every day. The fixed procedure is to start work every Monday, not to perish in the battle, but to grow in the battle. Shen Xia, who was originally a thin woman, gradually became more and more stout, from passive beating at the beginning to closing the door one year later, and defensive counterattack two years later. In the third year, she has begun to unite her daughter to win every battle.

The destructive power of their fighting is really amazing. In three years, they smashed 2 1 locks and changed 17 doors. It's not surprising, sometimes broken doors often rot there, and nobody cares for ten and a half months. The room seen through the hole seems to be a scene after looting, which makes Zhang Yong, a neighbor renting a house, feel very helpless.

There is also a destructive power reflected in their children.

Their daughter Yue Yue was brought up by her grandmother. When she first moved, she was very polite and greeted the old people in the same corridor. With the continuous outbreak of war at home, she felt that her face was bleak and she gradually stopped caring about people. To Zhang Yong's surprise, there are many quarrels and fights at home every day. Gradually, I never seem to hear the little girl crying again. Survival of the fittest, the environment changes my mood. It seems that the little girl has developed a heart of stone.

During the three years when Zhang Yong's son was in high school, Yueyue happened to be a junior high school student. From grade one to grade three, there are eighteen years' changes in a month, from weariness to truancy, from staying out at night to running away from home. With the growth of the month, the mode of their quarrel is more and more complicated, from husband and wife quarrel to father-daughter quarrel, sometimes mother-daughter quarrel, and more often father-daughter quarrel together.

As the saying goes, shine on you is better than blue, and the monthly quarrel is louder than Guo Gang and Shen Xia combined.

Sometimes, a family fight is staged. Every time her parents quarrel, Yue Yue starts to help. She should be with her mother. Once they were fighting at home, Li Gang saw Yue Yue driving her father out of the house with a big stick. Guo Gang also awkwardly rolled down the stairs.

In less than three years, Yue Yue not only practiced superb martial arts, but also dressed in strange clothes and became a young lady.

After three years of "struggle", their mother and daughter seem to have absolute right to speak. They can turn over serfs and sing, but Guo Gang in the eyes of neighbors is getting more and more decadent. Is this the result of their noisy, is this the life they want?

Mr. and Mrs. Zhang Yong and Li Gang saw clearly on the sidelines. They are always thinking that birds of a feather flock together and must create a good family environment for their children. Let you face the wind and rain, our house is full of spring and happiness, and the saying that they were not disturbed by external factors at the beginning of their move has gradually been implemented and tested in practice.

Three years can change many things. In the noise of the neighbor's house across the street, Zhang Yong learned to restrain himself from getting angry at Li Gang's nagging. Li Gang also restrained his pursuit of material things. In the three years since they moved, they have never quarreled or been angry with their son. When the couple have nothing to say, they can't help praising themselves.

Uncle Zhang has another trick to deal with quarreling with his neighbors. As long as there is war across the street, he will recite ancient poems, read his composition aloud, practice oral English translation loudly, or wear headphones for listening training. In this way, cutie, a standard science student who is good at mathematics, physics and chemistry, has also seen a sharp rise in his liberal arts scores. This ordinary student, with a score of 100 at the time of admission, ranked first in the class with the comprehensive score of Grade Two and entered the top ten of the whole grade.

In senior three, cutie's performance was overwhelming, ranking first in the whole grade. Every time a parent-teacher meeting is held, the teacher asks Zhang Yong and Li Gang to introduce their experiences in raising children. They have a headache. The reason why neighbors quarrel every day is absolutely unreasonable. Zhang Yong joked with other parents:

"Our children have special functions and will be quiet."

Three years later, Zhang Shushunli was admitted to a national key university, which is also an ideal university for his family. In the past three years, they have not only gradually adapted to the noise of their neighbors, on the contrary, they have learned about their quarrels every time according to what they have seen and heard, analyzed the reasons for their quarrels, and objectively and fairly interpreted right and wrong, thus drawing lessons and using them as negative materials to make their lives more rational and smooth.

It's time to move again Zhang Yong and Li Gang decided to take their son to a neighbor's house for one last look before moving. In the past three years, Zhang Yong's position has been greatly improved through hard work, and Li Gang has also been promoted and promoted. They sold their old house and replaced it with a large commercial house in the new area. They just hope that their neighbors can learn from themselves, wake up and change their bad lives.

Looking at the lights outside the window, they hope that the neighbors across the street can know that the world was originally beautiful.

Zhiyu

202 1 Mid-Autumn Festival was written in Jinsha, Guizhou.