Rent Affair

Chapter 1 Yellow Paper
My hometown is Luxi Village, which is close to the south and relatively close to Jiangxi. When I was 25 years old, I went to work alone in the city. Because I had no money, I could only live in a cheap house. Later, after an old classmate introduced me, I spent 200 yuan to rent a building in a community outside the Fourth Ring Road. It is very far away from where I work. It takes four hours to go back and forth by bicycle every day, but it is much better than shared housing in urban areas, at least you can sleep soundly.

However, the landlord who rented my room has been telling me one thing, that is, when I go to bed at night, I put a roll of paper in the crack of the door. I asked him why, and he said that this building has been around for a while, and now all the old people live there. People leave every now and then, and the door is jammed with paper to leave gaps, so that the strangers can escape, and the old people who have left will not enter the wrong door.

I smiled bitterly and said that I am not afraid of auntie, and I don’t live in a ghost building. Besides, I grew up in the countryside and heard all kinds of strange things. When I was young, I slept in an old cemetery.

The landlady said with a pale face, all right, the rent will be paid in three deposits, and you can just remit the money to me when the time comes.

Because I often get up early and stay late, and I get home after get off work almost after eleven o’clock in the evening, so I seldom have contact with people in the community. Except for occasionally seeing a group of old men and women sitting at the door chatting at the door when I come back from get off work, I hardly have any contact with them. People have had trouble with each other.

It was the weekend, and I was falling asleep when I heard a sound of beating and scolding. Our unit is always relatively quiet. Although it looks old and the environment is poor, there is no noise pollution at one end.

Just when I was wondering what was going on at night downstairs, there was a sudden sound of 'I'll kill you stinky bitch', I shivered, and then there was a hysterical scream, I quickly turned on the light Then I put on my pants, thinking that my mother would kill me.Although I'm not a nosy person, I do care about the importance of things, let alone the downstairs where I live.

I pushed open the door and turned on the corridor light. When I looked up, I suddenly found a young woman standing at the door. She was wearing cool pajamas and had a limpid figure. At first glance, I knew that there was a vacuum inside. , that is, the face is very pale, pale and pale.There was a woman standing at the door of Leng Buding. I was so scared that I sat down on the ground. I said, what are you doing?What are you doing standing at the door in the middle of the night?

The woman didn't say a word, she hugged her shoulders and sat in the corridor crying. Her pajamas were so long that they just reached the bottom of her feet, and she couldn't see whether she was wearing shoes or not.After a while, a man rushed up with a kitchen knife. When he saw me, he was stunned for a moment, then he glared at the woman and said: "Stinky bitch, you came out to seduce a man again. I will chop it up now. Do you believe it or not?"
I saw that he didn't look like he was joking, so I hurried over to stop him and said, "Brother, if you have something to talk about, don't do anything, okay?"
The man looked at me strangely and said, why, you also want to fuck my wife, 100 yuan, can you do it?
When I heard it, I said angrily, you are fucking sick, if you make such a fuss again, I will call the police!

That man doesn't look like a bird. I think that the people who live in this broken building are either poor like me, or a bastard in society, and this guy looks about thirty, obviously not a good person.I was afraid that his head would get hot and he would stab me, so I was always on guard.

The woman remained silent all the time, I suspected that she was frightened, seeing that the man didn't intend to make a big deal out of it, I also took advantage of the situation and said: "Don't bother, who doesn't have scriptures that are hard to recite, and the noise at night It's not good to go to the neighbors, brother, what do you think?

The man snorted, grabbed the woman's arm, and suddenly gave me a wicked look and said, "You really don't want it?"

I felt nauseated in my stomach, so I ignored him, and the two of them went downstairs, and soon there was another quarrel.

I shook my head, thinking that there is such a strange person in this old building. After entering the house, the voices of the quarrel downstairs have not stopped. Some disgusting words.I lay on the bed tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep, and was tortured for nearly an hour. When it was past one o'clock in the morning, I couldn't bear it anymore, put on my clothes and prepared to go downstairs.

As soon as the door was opened, the door opposite me was pushed open a crack, an old lady squinted her eyes and looked at me, and a hoarse voice came over: If you don't want to die, don't come out.

I was so angry at the time, I smiled wryly and said, if they make a fuss all night, we don't have to sleep!

I went downstairs wearing slippers. As soon as I got to the second floor, I smelled a smell of burnt paper, and then felt the corridor was cold and cold. I turned on the voice-activated light on the second floor. Under the dim light, I noticed the couple There was a pile of burnt shredded papers in front of the couple's house.No, I suddenly realized that this is fucking yellow paper for the dead!
Although I had some palpitations, I still calmed myself down. At this time, the sound of the couple arguing disappeared. I wondered if I could not make this trip in vain. When I went upstairs, the two of them would fight again. After thinking about it , I started knocking on the door.After knocking for a long time, no one answered me. I thought to myself that this couple must be playing dead with me. I kicked the door twice and went back upstairs angrily.

When I picked up the key to open the door, I seemed to kick something inadvertently. I pressed the light and turned on the light, and suddenly found a pile of yellow paper in front of the door, and it was rubbed by someone. .I kicked the pile of yellow paper away in response, thinking that someone must be deliberately punishing me. Anyone who burnt the anniversary of the deceased relatives should know that the yellow paper must be placed carefully. Arranged evenly, the emphasis on our rural side means that it is convenient for relatives to pick it up.

I only have one day off in a month, and it’s fine if I don’t sleep well, and there are people burning yellow paper outside my door. Isn’t this a curse on me?I immediately became furious, thinking that I didn't have a long time to go up and down the stairs, and those who could put a pile of yellow paper in such a short time were either upstairs or the door opposite me.

I walked over and knocked on the door opposite, and after a while, a crack in the door was exposed, and the person inside snorted angrily and asked me what I was doing?
I suppressed my anger and said, Ma'am, I want to ask if you saw someone throw a pile of yellow paper at my door just now?

The old lady said in a hoarse voice: Get out of here.

She was about to close the door, and I grabbed her doorknob, and I said, aunt, we are neighbors, can't we talk properly if we have something to say?

The door slammed open, I staggered back two steps, and then I saw a hunched old lady with her back facing me, I was shocked, not because of the old lady's appearance, but because of the old lady's appearance. It was the unspeakable weirdness in her room. Although the lights in the room were dim, I could still see a mahogany carved coffin in her main room.I shivered, and suddenly thought something was wrong, and hurriedly said I was sorry to bother you.

Who in a good family would put a big coffin in his own room?When I thought of this, I felt chills all over my body. After entering the room, I immediately got into bed, and I always felt that the temperature in the room suddenly became much colder.

After falling asleep in a daze, I vaguely heard the quarrel downstairs, and even heard someone knocking on my door, crying, it seemed to be that woman, I tried to turn over, but felt that I was so tired that I couldn't breathe, fainted Dizzy and fell asleep again.

It was already twelve o'clock when I woke up the next day, and I always felt that my hands and feet were so sore, and the back of my head seemed to be hit by a stick, and I was sore and dizzy. My classmate Mao Zi sent it, asking if I was free at night, and went to the city with him to play, and he also called a few beautiful girls from the same factory to introduce me.I hurriedly replied hello to him, but immediately felt something was wrong, from the same factory?Maozi has been working in the funeral factory all the time, how could he know beautiful girls, if there are girls who go to work in that ghostly place, I wouldn't believe it if they were killed.

When I was going out, I suddenly found that the pile of yellow paper that was placed last night had been set on fire by someone. It was completely black, and a pile of black paste was lying in front of my door. I was so angry that I almost lost my mind. In the past, after kicking that pile of black paste downstairs, it almost collapsed.

Damn, don't let me catch who did it, I have to kill him.

When I left the community, I had the illusion that this dilapidated building was terribly deserted, as if no one lived there. I remember seeing a group of old men and women chatting at the door every night after get off work. Why is there no one in broad daylight?

I didn't think too much about it, I locked my bicycle next to the bus stop, and then went to the city by car. After a day of rest, I had to relax no matter what.

Maozi called me at five o'clock and asked if I had arrived. When I said yes, he asked me to wait at the appointed place, and he would come over after get off work.It was already [-] o'clock in the evening when we met, this guy came over in a hurry, I didn't even say sorry, I didn't say anything, this day was already enough to memorize, so I asked him if he wanted to introduce me to a beautiful girl, man Where did it go?
Maozi smiled and said he would take me there. I asked him how he met him. He said he met him online. He was fair, beautiful and temperamental. I asked him why he didn’t keep it for himself. He said that people looked down on me. If the fat and water don't flow into the field of outsiders, it's better to let your own brothers go than to take advantage of others.

I said that you are loyal enough, Maozi suddenly asked me, how is living there, is there anything wrong?I froze for a moment, and said what could be the matter, but I met two idiots yesterday, and I was so angry.

Just halfway through the road, I suddenly received a call from the landlord, asking me where I was, and I said I was outside with my friends, what's the matter.The landlord hurriedly told me not to go back tonight. I asked her what happened, and she said that the old lady who lived opposite me had hanged herself.I said, auntie, are you kidding me? I saw her coming last night. She didn't speak for a long time, and she said after a long silence. I heard people say that she left three days ago.

(End of this chapter)