Chapter 1 Living Upstairs and Raising Dogs Downstairs
As night fell, the lights on both sides of the narrow streets were lit one by one. With the dim street lights, the quiet roads gradually began to make noise. As more and more pedestrians rushed in from the corners of both sides, the streets began to show the prosperous side of the night. The shouts of food stalls on the streets were endless, and the sound of guests at the entrance of the snack bar began to fill the entire waiting road.
The small streets are very ordinary and look no different from the small streets in any city. The only difference is that this small street belongs to the Magic City. Whether it is mottled and old communities or narrow streets, they all have a unique temperament of the Magic City. Most of the people living here also work in the Magic City. All of them have a common characteristic, that is, they are in a hurry. Even when sitting on the side of the road, they all have a fast pace that most of them have become unique, as if someone is holding a whip and driving them out behind them.
The small streets are not stained with the prosperity and brilliance of the night demon city. It seems that it has been forgotten by the great demon city, just like the people living here, covered in fatigue. On both sides of the small street, snack stalls and snack shops are filled with young faces. These young people returned here just to have a simple rest overnight, waiting for tomorrow morning to face the first ray of sunshine of the demon city, and like countless mornings, they devoted themselves to their dreams of the demon city.
On this small street, two relatively strange pairs of people sat in a small restaurant near the small table on the roadside window. A young man dressed up very ordinary on the street, with a dark suit, a light gray chicken-collar sweater, a light gray shirt inside, and a dark red tie.
A woman in her fifties sat opposite the young man. The woman looked good in temperament. Even though the years left traces on her face, she could still see her youthful charm on her face.
The woman wore a gold-edged glasses, a turtleneck sweater on her upper body, and an emerald hanging around her neck. Although the water head was not very good, it was not something that could be used for three to five thousand. She wore a brand-name women's watch on her slightly thick wrist. No matter how you look at the price, it would have to be 30,000 or 40,000 yuan.
There was a hot mutton pot in front of the two of them. Pieces of mutton were combined with the sound of rumbling soup in the pot, exuding an attractive aroma.
Unfortunately, neither of the two at the table seemed to be interested in having a meal, and they sat so seriously when they were so embarrassed.
The woman took out a card from the bag in her hand, placed it gently on the table, and pushed it to the young man with her maintained fingers that were as white as the green onion.
Retracting his hand, the woman opened her mouth and said, "Xiao Cang, Huihui has received a lot of care from you over the years. This is the little intention of the aunt and your uncle. If you accept it, it will not cost more than 80,000 yuan!"
The young man looked at the bank card on the table, glanced at it just on it, and then reached out and pushed the bank card back in front of the woman.
"Auntie, I don't know what kind of custom you are, but there is no reason why women spend money when they fall in love in my hometown. I am a man of seven feet. What's the point if I take this money from you?!"
The woman's face was a little embarrassed. Looking at the bank card that had returned to her, she did not reach out and push it back, but paused for a moment, as if she had reorganized her language.
After about five or six seconds of silence, he continued to say: "Xiao Cang, don't blame the aunt for being cruel. Auntie knows that you are a good child and are sincere to Huihui. But in the Demon City, you are both outsiders, so it is not easy to take root here! Not to mention anything else, just the current housing prices in the Demon City, when will you have a nest based on your salary? Let's take a step back, even if you have a house of 40 or 50 square meters, your aunt and your uncle will not stop you from being together, but now you and Huihui don't have this condition. You are alone and have no one at home, so you can't help. Your uncle and I are also a small civil servant in the county town. Even if we take out our old capital, it's only 200,000 to 300,000. I want to buy a house for you in Demon City, not to mention buying a down payment, there is not enough house here. There are still four or five million houses here..."
The woman frowned slightly while speaking, and sighed from time to time.
There was no expression on the young man's face, but his eyes were filled with a sense of loss, unwillingness, and a hint of sadness.
Seeing that the woman had to continue speaking, the young man reached out and interrupted the woman: "Auntie, I know what you said. In fact, what you said is not as complicated as you think. It is just a matter of Xinhui's words. She said that we are not suitable to be together again, and I will respect her ideas."
"I know, I know, isn't Huihui not opening her mouth? She always feels sorry for you. Alas! You are still young and don't know what it means to be a parent. I want to ask who doesn't want her daughter to live comfortably with others? Your uncle and I don't have much request, nor do we have the intention of getting into a wealthy family. We just want to take root in this demon city. You have to have a small nest for both of you, otherwise you will be driven here by the landlord today and will be driven there by the landlord tomorrow. What's the life this is!" the woman said naggingly.
The young man nodded and nodded softly: "Auntie, I understand!"
"I have said everything I should say. This matter has nothing to do with our Huihui. If you blame me, blame my aunt and your uncle..." the woman said.
The young man raised his hand gently: "I don't blame you and uncle!"
The young man thought to himself: You blame me? Is it meaningful?
After saying that, the young man stood up, turned to the counter and settled the account. He turned around and returned to the table and said to the woman: "Auntie, eat slowly. I just came back, go home to sort out the things."
"Auntie has no appetite, either." The woman looked at the pot on the table, smiled and reached out to put the bank card back in her bag, picked up the coat hanging on the back of the chair, and put it on.
The young man saw the woman waiting for the woman to put on her clothes, and they walked out of the door of the small restaurant together. They turned silently into the community gate of more than 100 meters, and then turned a corner, and walked side by side into an old corridor that didn't even have a light.
After climbing the fifth floor, he arrived at the door, the young man took out the key and twisted it gently. He heard a click and pushed open the door.
The lights in the living room were on. On the sofa in the living room was a beautiful young girl in her twenties, with a bearded face with a curved willow-leaf eyebrows, a beautiful pair of big almond eyes, a high nose bridge, a moderately sized lips, and a black shawl-long hair. With this look, a 70-80-year-old stop on the street can turn around at least.
When the young man saw him, the girl seemed a little cramped and at a loss. She seemed to have made some big mistakes and lowered her head and did not dare to look directly at the young man entering the house.
The young man's eyes fell on the girl, and his eyes were mixed. I'm afraid that the young man himself would not know how to face this woman who had been vowed for seven years under such circumstances.
The woman who came in then gently brought her to the door of the room: "Huihui, I have told Xiao Cang everything, he can understand!"
After saying that, he seemed to want to calm his daughter's heart, and asked the young man again: "Xiao Cang, right?"
The young man did not answer and looked directly at the girl and asked softly: "Xinhui, is this your decision?"
"I..." The girl's head lowered, and she just said the word "I", and seemed to have used up her strength, and she lowered her head and said nothing more.
The young man waited for about a minute, then replied softly with a loss in his eyes: "I understand!"
After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the door: "I forgot to buy things, I'll go down!"
After saying that, he pushed open the door and went straight out. The moment the young man closed the door, his body was stunned and almost swallowed it up with a huge feeling of loss.
Standing at the door and holding the railing for about ten seconds, the young man came back to his senses, gently raised his feet and went downstairs in a daze, carried a bunch of beer in the convenience store, and hurriedly called a car, and headed straight to the Pu River in the Magic City.
When we arrived at the Pu River, because it was already winter, there was nothing to sit on the stone bench by the river. So it was easy for the young man to find a stone bench and sit down. He picked up a bottle of beer, and after unscrewing it, he started to pour it. Drinking beer at night almost zero was not a good enjoyment, but at this time, the young man no longer felt that the beer and the cold weather, and helplessness and unwillingness were the portrayal of his heart.
Gudong! Gudong!
After drinking three bottles of beer, the young man looked up and saw the dazzling prosperity of the vast night in the demon city. The Pearl Tower opposite, countless towering skyscrapers, and Western-style buildings across the river, all of them no longer looked like before. In the eyes of the young man, it was so eye-catching, not only eye-catching, but also heart-wrenching!
Evil arises from courage! Violence arises from the heart!
After picking up the beer bottle at hand, the young man used all his strength to throw the bottle in his hand towards the Pearl Tower, hoping to smash the tower at once.
While throwing it, he shouted at the Pearl Tower: "Don't let me be rich if you have sex. When I have money, I will buy two houses upstairs and downstairs, and live on top and raise dogs underneath!"
The young man's roar scared the people nearby. Everyone glanced at the young man and hid away, as if afraid of being unlucky for the young man.
Just when the young man wanted to sit down, a sudden scream rang in his ear: Someone jumped into the river! Someone jumped into the river!
Jumping the river?!
Cang Hai was stunned in his heart, and immediately ran towards the direction of shouting, stood on the shore, and saw the cold river surface along the direction of the crowd's fingers. A vague figure was rising and falling!
At this moment, the right battle between heaven and man in Canghai's heart: Can you save people? Save people? My swimming skills are not very good?
Another thought jumped up: You are so fucking like this, and you are still afraid of a bird! At worst, you will die, save people!
In normal times, Canghai never dared to jump down to save people, but at this moment, holding a broken can and giving up, Canghai stripped himself of only one short jump and jumped into the cold river water of Pujiang in winter.
The water is very cold, and it is easy to save people! When Canghai swam over, the person who jumped into the river did not resist much. After struggling for three or four minutes, Canghai was caught by Canghai. He turned around and swam without a two-step walk. Another enthusiastic person who jumped down reached out to take it. Canghai then found that he was about two hundred meters away from the shore.
When the Canghai swam back, he felt that the river water seemed to have frozen his body, and his upper and lower teeth kept making clattering sounds, and the strength in his body began to flow away rapidly!
"That guy is in danger!"
Canghai heard a human voice and felt that his body was sinking into the river without any power. At this time, Canghai was not afraid or panic. His whole mind was blank. He felt that the cold river water seemed to be frozen, and at the same time he kept pulling himself under the water.
I opened my eyes and watched through the river water as the endless prosperity on both sides of the river bank became increasingly fading, gradually turning into a darkness. A thought emerged from the Canghai's mind: I'll go, I'm going to hang here today!
Just when Canghai felt that he was going to play mahjong with the ancestors of the Cang family, his whole body felt unforgettable warmth, and a warm air suddenly poured into his lungs, which seemed to be pure oxygen, and Canghai was a little dizzy when he sucked!
Suddenly a sound came out in my mind: Dog thing, save your life!
Cang Hai used his hands and feet together. Under the control of this voice, he swam out of the water quickly. As soon as his head came out of the water, he saw a honest middle-aged face appearing in front of him.
"Little brother, is it okay?"
Chapter completed!