Dong Qiangqiang's Story of Leaving Germany

Chapter 7 7. Wrongly entering the red light district

The streets are clean and there is little rubbish on the ground, but the buildings look old.

Dong Qiangqiang did not know that many cities in Germany are like this: they have been repairing old buildings for many years, but they are not keen on building new ones.Although it is an old building, most of it was rebuilt after World War II.After all, during World War II, except for Heidelberg, most of the German cities were almost bombed by the Allies.

As Dong Qiangqiang walked, he paid attention to the house numbers on both sides of the street. Various styles of graffiti appeared on the walls from time to time. There were also tall scaffoldings next to some buildings in the distance.

On the advertising tubes on both sides of the street and on the glass of the bus station, there are posters of girls with all kinds of skin tones and gorgeous branches everywhere.There are also some shops on the street that are also lit with pink lamps during the day. The wide white gauze curtains hang in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, making the shops extraordinarily mysterious.

But as an adult male, Dong Qiangqiang could also guess what was inside.

After walking for about half an hour, a tired Dong Qiangqiang finally reached No. 54, Hippo Street.

This is a three-story, typical German-style building: a very small house stands out from the pitched roof covered with blue tiles, and there is still a small window on the house.The outer walls were originally beige, but the years have passed, and since it has not been painted for a long time, the beige is close to the light gray of the outer frame of the window of the small building.A poster related to a special service was also pasted between the two windows next to the building door, covering a black graffiti on the wall.

Dong Qiangqiang carefully looked at the name column at the doorbell, and accidentally found the pinyin of the name "Jin Yuan". He pressed the doorbell, but waited for a few minutes and no one answered.

He was hesitating whether to find a place to eat first, and then called Jin Yuan to ask about the situation. The door suddenly opened, and a foreign woman with heavy makeup was standing at the door of the building with a garbage bag.

She looked to be in her 40s, with a lock of blond hair falling across her forehead, and brown hair that had probably not been done for a while and looked disheveled and greasy.The smoky makeup with black eye circles like a panda is a bit scary, the long eyelashes that are constantly trembling seem to fall off at any time, the wrinkles at the corners of the eyes are like fishing lines tightly entangled in the skin, and a nail on the mouth sticks out of the exaggerated red on the lips.The heavy makeup couldn't conceal the traces left by the years on her face.

She was slender and casually dressed in a black camisole, revealing a patch of bronzed skin on her shoulders and front.She pulled her slippers and stepped out.

Dong Qiangqiang only felt a strong sense of dust blowing towards his face, he quickly lowered his head subconsciously and let go of his body, and inadvertently saw the tattoo on the woman's arm: a colorful long snake wrapped around the vine of a blooming rose. superior.

The woman did not rush into the building after throwing out the garbage, but stood at the door of the building to smoke.She took two in a row, looking up and down at Dong Qiangqiang and his luggage.

Dong Qiangqiang made her look very uncomfortable.I wanted to open my mouth to ask, but I was embarrassed. After hesitating for a few seconds, I turned around and prepared to leave.

As soon as he turned around, the woman asked in a strong Eastern European accent behind him, "Are you looking for someone?"

"I'm looking for Jin Yuan." Dong Qiangqiang quickly turned around to respond when he heard the other party's question.

"Are you looking for ZHEN? I know him, he was my tenant before," she pronounced "Jin" as "ZHEN" in a non-standard pronunciation.

"Is he your tenant?" Dong Qiangqiang couldn't believe it. "He lived here before?"

"Of course. But that was a few months ago." The Eastern European woman blew out a smoke ring, and the smoke ring slowly enlarged. After a few seconds, the smoke ring disappeared into the air.

"Jin Yuan introduced me." Dong Qiangqiang said in a low voice as he watched the smoke ring slowly disappear.

Hearing that it was the person introduced by Jin Yuan, the woman looked him up and down again, threw the cigarette butt on the ground, crushed it a few times with her feet, turned and walked towards the building door.

Dong Qiangqiang didn't know what the other party meant, so he stood there and didn't move. The Eastern European woman walked to the door and saw that he was not following, and tilted her head in the direction of the door: "Come in."

Dong Qiangqiang felt a little drum in his heart. Seeing that the sky was getting darker, there were more and more people on the street. Some half-sized boys came up to touch and drag his luggage. .

As soon as he entered the building, Dong Qiangqiang smelled a smell mixed with moldy objects and rotting fruits. He couldn't help covering his nose with his hands.

By the dim light from the wall lamp, he saw the layout of the corridor: to his left was a newspaper box and a wooden staircase, and to his right was a room with a hidden door, and further down the corridor was a desk clock that looked like Like an old antique.The wooden floor under my feet has been raised in some places due to the long-term carelessness, and the planks in some places are missing a few pieces.

He took a few more steps forward, and found that the red paint on the wooden stair handrail had fallen off a lot, the surface looked mottled, and the railings under the stair handrail were also missing a few.

Just as he was watching carefully, a woman's voice came from behind the closed door: "Come here."

Dong Qiangqiang walked into the room slowly, only to see the woman with her back to him, topless, while tying her hair, she pointed to a room next to her and said, "There is a bathroom, you can..."

Dong Qiangqiang blushed, turned around immediately, and said loudly, "You...what are you doing?"

The Eastern European woman turned around suspiciously: "Didn't you introduce it to 'ZHEN'? The price remains the same."

Dong Qiangqiang hurriedly said loudly, "But I'm here to rent a house, not here... Hurry up and put on your clothes..."

The Eastern European woman suddenly realized: "Well, renting a house? Ok, ok, but you sure don't need to..."

Dong Qiangqiang strode out of the room, stood in the corridor and said loudly, "No need!"

After a few minutes, the woman put on her previous clothes, walked out with a bunch of keys, and said angrily, "If you want to rent a house, you should have told me earlier."

Dong Qiangqiang said: I didn't know you were doing this.

The woman walked up the stairs slowly: "'ZHEN''s room is on the third floor."

Dong Qiangqiang thought for a while, and left all three suitcases beside the stairs on the first floor.

The two stepped up the stairs one after the other, and the stairs creaked suddenly, as if they would collapse at any time.

The woman lit a cigarette in front of a room, then leaned against the door and took a sharp puff. She waved at Dong Qiangqiang, who had just walked upstairs, with her hand holding the cigarette, and motioned him to come in and take a look.

Dong Qiangqiang walked into the room and saw that it was dark inside. The woman was smoking a cigarette. She walked to the window with a few steps, stretched out her hand and opened the heavy curtains. Back to the door again.

Dong Qiangqiang took a look: the house is about 15 square meters, the roof is half flat and half sloped, there is a small window on the slope, and there is a larger window on the side wall.A wooden table is placed under the slope, and the surface of the wooden table looks pitted.A double mattress was thrown on the floor next to the wooden table. One corner of the mattress was torn, revealing the steel wire and torn batting inside.There was a wardrobe standing at the end of the bed. Dong Qiangqiang walked over to open the wardrobe and wanted to take a look inside. Unexpectedly, all the rubbish in the wardrobe rolled out immediately.There is a word on the wall with four words written in a twisted manner: Heaven rewards hard work, but there is no sign.

Jin Yuan went abroad half a year earlier than Dong Qiangqiang. He had seen this word in Jin Yuan's cyberspace.It seems that this is indeed the house where Jin Yuan once lived.

"How is it?" The woman looked at Dong Qiangqiang coldly, and suddenly asked, "Can't you stay?"

Dong Qiangqiang thought about it and asked tentatively, "How much is a month?"

The Eastern European woman put out the cigarette butt expressionlessly: "500 marks a month, not including water, electricity, heating and TV."

Dong Qiangqiang took a deep breath: This number doesn't match what Jin Yuan said.

"Where are the bathroom and kitchen?" he asked patiently.

The woman stretched her finger outside and muttered, "The kitchen is over there, and the bathroom is next door."

Dong Qiangqiang walked to the door and was about to see the environment of the bathroom when he saw a door on the opposite side suddenly opened, and a strong man with a bald head and flower arms nearly 1.9 meters in height walked out with his head bowed.Since the other party was not wearing a shirt, Dong Qiangqiang immediately saw a dark golden long hair on his chest.He swayed towards the bathroom in the corridor, and the floor made a dull "dong dong" sound. Dong Qiangqiang turned his head quickly, and did not turn his head again until he heard the "bang" of the door closing.

"There are other people living here?" Dong Qiangqiang looked surprised.

The woman shrugged, with an expression of "Dong Qiangqiang makes a fuss and has little knowledge".

Dong Qiangqiang made up his mind, instead of going to the kitchen again, he took out a square-folded note from his pocket, unfolded it and handed it to the Eastern European woman: "I will live for four months first, and I won't be able to live in the club after four months. I'll tell you one month in advance. Besides, I have given Jin Yuan four months' rent for me before, and this is the receipt you wrote to him. "

The woman took the note, read it carefully for a while, and then threw it back to Dong Qiangqiang: "This is not the receipt I wrote."

Dong Qiangqiang was startled, and the receipt gently fell from his hand.

(End of this chapter)