The Lawyer

Locke's apartment is very close to Southern Cross, but the residential area is a bit old. The outside of the building looks mostly gray and unremarkable, living like a patch of baldness in a large building. The most embarrassing thing is that the newly-built suspended driveway and elevated structure have perfectly crossed the top of its head over the past few years, and there is nowhere to go, even the commercial street opposite it is not popular, and the original commercial value whizzes down.

As everyone knows, this place will be taken over sooner or later for re-planning, so the homeowners are hoarding their hands and do not intend to sell them easily.

But the younger generation of homeowners do not like to live here, so there are only old people and tenants who do not like Nowo.

"It just looks a bit old here, and everything else is good." Before entering the residential area gate, Locke glanced at Yan Suizhi's face, explaining a little embarrassedly: "I looked around and bought Things are convenient, but the traffic is a bit ... but here you can walk to the Southern Cross, you do n’t need to drive. In short, except for traffic, there is really nothing to say. Between the three large areas here, students from several schools like to rent a house here. , People are not mixed, so the security is not bad. "

"You look at my expression makes me feel like I am an explosive." Yan Suizhi didn't have a good air.

Locke smiled and scratched his head: "No, I'm just afraid you think it's too old here."

Although Yan Suizhi told him, as long as the rent is appropriate, the house is neat and tidy. But he always feels that Yan Sui is like the Jinyiyu food for the kind of people who grew up, and may not be able to bear this kind of gray area.

"How come." Yan Suizhi didn't care much. "I don't sleep on the bench in the community. It doesn't matter if I am outside or not."

In fact, when he pays attention, he really has requirements on the environment outside the house, but Locke has been struggling for him for a long time, he will not go to sweep the interest of this little intern.

The apartment is on the 9th floor. The landlord is tall and thin, with pale skin and blue eyes. It can be seen that when he was young, he should be a slightly thin handsome guy, but at this time, he had deep wrinkles on the corners of his eyes and lips.

"I'm actually ready to wait until night." The landlord said, reaching out and shaking with them. "Mervin White, a poor landlord who has been waiting for you for a century."

Yan Suizhi: "Sorry, I'm almost going to go on a business trip again today, so you can wait for the second century."

"Then I will engrave the rental contract on my epitaph, and rest in peace when you sign me."

Locke: "..." You two are really interesting.

Mervyn White seems to be familiar, and the first time he meets, he is slurred, but it does make people feel a lot of closeness and no restrictions.

"Come on, take a look at the layout first." He beckoned to Yan Suizhi, "Come with me, the shoe rack on the side of the porch is equipped with disinfection and sterilization function. It can be taken off and placed without any smell , But I just smelled it, and think that this function is not useful to you, but it will be very useful if guests come. "

Yan Suizhi: "... Do I have to thank you for the compliment?"

"No need to thank you," Mervyn White said again. "The password for the door is set here. After you sign the contract, I will allow you to press your thumb up. Of course, it still doesn't work."

He walked through the entrance and the porch facing him, and pushed open a door on the left hand side, "This is the living room, two sets of sofas lie freely, each of them can be very comfortable. Through this glass partition door, yes Although the kitchen and dining room and pots and pans are not newly bought, they are not much different from the new ones. There may be some milk and frozen meat in the refrigerator, and it ’s all yours. Then here ... the toilet and utility room , To give you a suggestion, close the sliding door on the bathtub when you take a shower to avoid water splashing out. This is a bit slippery, and it may be ruined if you drop your beautiful face. And here is the bedroom— "

He spoke quickly, and his reaction might be a bit slower than he could keep up with.

However, the room is indeed very clean and has plenty of light. It is indeed a comfortable-looking place, and it is also very artistic. The paintings hanging on the wall are very particular, and the color of the lines matches each space just right.

When Yan Suizhi waited for the landlord to open the bedroom door, he raised his hand and touched a nearby painting.

It was a character outline drawn with charcoal and minimal lines. It was a bit like a sketch of a character with no facial features that a fashion designer loves to draw, except that this focus is not on expressing clothing or coloring.

It can be seen that there is a man and a woman in the painting, the woman is sitting gracefully, reaching for a cup of tea, and the man puts a rose into her tea cup like a tease.

Murvin Bai saw his movements and immediately raised his eyebrows and asked, "How is it? Is this painting good?"

Yan Suizhi nodded, "Very good, you can see that the painter is a smart person."

When Murvin Bai heard this, the interest became stronger, "Is it? Can this be seen? What else can be seen?"

"It can also be seen that the painter should be a million-year-old bachelor." Yan Suizhi said.

Murvin White: "..."

Yan Suizhi appreciated it for another moment, and then noticed the silence of the landlord of the broken mouth, "How?"

Murvin Bai looked at him numbly for a long time, and then poked himself with his thumb, "Thank you for your evaluation, the painter is here."

Yan Suizhi nodded, "I seem to be very accurate."

"..."

For a moment, Locke regretted introducing them, and always felt that the landlord was stabbed with two more painful feet and would sweep them out at any time. But then he found out that he thought too much, when Yan Sui was not pleased, oh, except when he met the old Hobbes lawyer.

In short, with the two sentences, the landlord is already smiling and going to shoulder the shoulder with Yan Suizhi, "You know the painting quite well."

Professor Yan Da, who doesn't love being too close to others, silently avoided his claws, "Have you painted these paintings in the house?"

"Yeah." Murvin Baekdo, "I have been eating rent and painting since I resigned. It's been more than two decades."

Yan Suizhi nodded.

But Locke was a little curious, "Resign? What did you do before?"

Mervyn Bai Zhou exudes the temperament of "unrestricted enjoyment of life", a bit of a mixed taste, the clothes are the most loose, and I have been barefoot and hair with the warmth and temperature control A braid was casually tied behind his head.

From his current state alone, it is difficult to imagine what he did before.

Speaking of his previous work, Mervyn White seemed a little unhappy.

"Uh? Sorry, did I ask what I shouldn't ask?" Locke noticed his expression sensitively. It can be seen that during this period of internship, he still grew a little.

"Ah--" Mervyn White dragged his tone, "Not against you, I just remembered my previous work and I was a little bit uninterested. My donkey face is for work, not for you."

He didn't evade Locke's problem. He even dragged the dead fisheye and took the initiative to face Locke, "What do you think I did before?"

"I don't know, it's hard to guess." Locke said, "It feels like a painter, an artist, an art exhibition, a book exhibition, or a designer?"

Every time he said one, Mervyn White shook his index finger, and in the end he actually got a little more proud, "It's a pity, it's all wrong. It seems that I have been very good all these years, and I have cleaned the original temperament. Very successful, gratifying. "

He sold a pass, so he said: "I work in the hospital."

He knocked on the picture of a man and a woman on the wall again, "These two are the ones I have seen in the hospital, in a sense they are one of my patients. When the expert doctor met them in the back garden of the hospital, I happened to pass by, and I was a little bit impressed by the scene. Later, I remembered it occasionally, and I drew it. "

Locke was stupefied for a while, "I honestly can't see it at all, is it a doctor?"

"Not really." Murvin Baekdo, "I'm in the research room, not clinical, but there is still an indirect connection with the patient."

This time even Yan Suizhi was a little surprised.

Locke asked: "Research room? What to study?"

Murvin White waved his hand, "Forget it, it's all a thing of the past, I don't want to mention it. And for more than 20 years, I have forgotten what I did."

After visiting the bedroom, Locke couldn't help but look at him for a while, and then he couldn't help looking at him again.

"Although this version of the temperature control device has been installed for ten years, the effect is not bad." Mervyn White said, "If there is a malfunction, you can call this phone. This classmate, you have already targeted me forty Seven times, and two more times, I will doubt that you want to start a grandson relationship with me. "

"..."

Locke looked horrified. "No wait, what grandson? How old are you?"

Murvin Bai rewarded him with a startling glance, "Is your focus a bit of a problem? I've pinched it, it's not too old, maybe 70 years older than you."

According to this calculation, he is now in his 90s. In fact, at the age of 90, the tail root is still in its prime, and it will take another 20 years to reach the tip of the tail. In this way, the folds in the corners of his eyes and the decree lines on his mouth are a little too deep, especially the two lines on the eyebrows. If it is not that the eyebrows have been tightly locked for years, there will rarely be such deep lines.

Combined with the words just now, it seems that his previous work really caused him a lot of trouble.

Mervyn White did not run against Rock, but took them to the last door, "This is also a bedroom, but it is not within the scope of the rent, I put my own things. In fact, this is my occasional I do n’t intend to make room for the room I will live in. "

He said so, and still opened the door. "Although it is not rented, I don't mind letting you visit it. Cherish the opportunity. It will be locked later and you will never open it again." Right. "

Compared to the clean up spaces before, this bedroom really has traces of occupants. There is even an antique notebook at the head of the bed with a pen in it.

There are several rows of art-style bookshelf nailed on the wall, which are staggered. There are two collections of collector's edition albums, two sketchbooks spread out on a certain page, and the other rows are filled with various photos, with occasionally a few pots of fresh-colored cacti.

"Look, for the convenience of renting a house, I specifically replaced the flower vine with a cactus, you don't have to worry about it." Mervyn White Road.

Yan Suizhi is very sincere: "I can't control it, rest assured. The flowers and plants that I have managed in the past are dead."

Mervyn White: "... it's better to raise your hand."

Yan Suizhi's gaze swept away from those photos, most of which were Murvin · White paintings or exhibitions, with two exceptions.

Those two are a bit old at a glance, and you can see from the style of dressing to the style of scenery, that should have been more than twenty years ago. In the photo is a cemetery. Murvin Bai is holding a white rest flower and walking slowly among the pine and cypress trees. Behind his back and farther away is a row of silent tombstones.

The other one is still the cemetery. At another angle, this time even Murvin Bai himself did not leave the country, so he only took countless tombstones spread in the distance between the dark green trees.

When Locke saw these two photos, he was silent, and said that the landlord really didn't know a little bit of refuge. The two photos were very artistic and good, but it was a bit too much in the bedroom directly opposite the bed It's strange, don't you feel awkward when you glance at night coldly?

Looking at these two photos, Yan Suizhi thinks something completely different from him.

Although the photo did not capture the gate of the cemetery, there was no place to reveal the name of the cemetery. But Yan Suizhi recognized it at a glance, "This is the Juniper Cemetery in the 13th district of Helansing?"

Murvin White nodded, a little surprised: "Yes, can this be seen?"

"It happens to be familiar." Yan Sui said.

Of course, I can recognize it, because for a long time, Yan Suizhi would go there every day, and stay for one afternoon, where the tombstones are placed, what kind of trees have grown, which terrain is higher, on the steps He was a little tired. Which part of the terrain is a little lower, and when it rains, the current easily accumulates into pieces, he knows it.

Because his parents were buried there.

Yan Suizhi looked at the two photos for a while. There were hundreds of tombstones in it, and two of them were underneath, lying with the person he missed most.

"What's wrong?" Asked Mervyn White.

After a moment, Yan Suizhi turned away and apologized. "Nothing, a little distracted."

"Oh, it doesn't matter," Murvin Baekdo said. "Every time I look at these two photos, it's easy to be fascinated. I just passed by in a daze and afternoon."

He took the two out of the room and re-locked the door. He said: "My hometown was in Helansing. When I was working, I mostly stayed in Decama. Later, when I resigned, I went back half a year. Recently, there was a joint painting exhibition in Decama. I was supposed to gather wind here, but suddenly received a communication last night, my mother was ill and had to rush back to Heran to take care of it for a while, otherwise you might not want to enter. Home now. "

"What's sick? Is it serious?" Lock asked with concern.

Mervyn White smiled and said, "You're really like a little blonde angel at this time. It's more like a little fatter. It's nothing serious. It may be infected with flu. It's a little fever. It's already in the hospital. But even if she is It ’s better to be alive in the evening, and I have to go back again. I always have to take a look before I can rest assured. "

"Then--" Mervyn White and the two returned to the living room. The rent contract he had prepared was transferred from his brain, and the simulated paper was spread on the glass coffee table. "If you have no other problems, let's come Signed the contract? "

In fact, before entering the house, Yan Suizhi tended not to rent, because the environment of this residential area is really not very good. But this time he changed his mind a bit.

Maybe it was because the layout in the house was really good, even beyond his expectations. Or because of the two photos of the cemetery ...

Yan Suizhi thought for a while and said: "I honestly am very satisfied with this place, but due to certain reasons, I may not be able to determine the lease period for the time being-"

Mervyn Bai Chaoluo glanced, and waved his hand to Yan Suizhi, his face was chic: "It doesn't matter! I know, I heard from Luo Locke, you can get a limited salary during internship and live independently Under the premise, no matter which one may not be able to take out the rent for half a year at a stretch. It is normal. I have met the children of the Southern Cross before, so I understand it. "

He mistakenly thought that the reason Yan Suizhi said was "shyness in the bag", of course, this understanding is also correct to a certain extent. Of course, what Yan Suizhi is actually considering is that he may not be able to live long before the sheepskin will be finished.

But I ca n’t tell the landlord that since the landlord has found a good reason for him, he is of course willing to nod his head and say, “That ’s it, I ’m embarrassed, but I ’m a poor ghost.”

This poor ghost does not have the consciousness of the poor ghost at all. His temperament and temperament are all one-of-a-kind, and he is quite calm.

Locke glanced aside, then silently turned his head to cover his face.

Who knows that Mervyn White laughed, "Oh, I like your character! To be honest, it's not easy to meet such an interesting tenant, so let's talk with you while I am in a good mood now. Sign a one-week trial stay agreement. I ’m going to stay in Heranxing for about a week anyway. It ’s not bad if someone can help me look at the house. And you can also move your luggage first and stay for a few days to buffer. If I really like it here. I can renew my contract month after month. How about it? "

Locke glanced at it secretly, and said that most people could not agree with the agreement. Under normal circumstances, when you see the landlord being so good at speaking and so considerate, you should say, "No, how do you do this, sign for one month" or "sign for three months", which is equivalent to taking a step back, and both parties are happy.

Who knows Yan Suizhi really nodded his head and said, "Is it? If it really works like this, then it would be better, thank you very much."

Locke: "..." You mean?

Professor Yan Da is really embarrassed.

He said, sweeping his head down and sweeping the contents of the agreement, and then filled in the lease term for 7 days, filled in several other places, and finally signed the name at the end.

When signing, he stuck his shell again, and when he turned it around, he still made a slap in his heart. He didn't cough in time when Gu Gu was beside him. It was really easy to make mistakes.

Murvin Bai didn't care. He accepted the agreement, checked the information filled in a few places, and then signed his name without hesitation.

Except for Locke, they are very happy.

With these two people in place, a renting process that should have been prudent was surprisingly fast, and it took less than half an hour from viewing the house to signing the agreement.

Until Yan Sui's resignation, when preparing to leave, Locke did not respond a little bit, "Is this all right?"

"if not?"

When he walked to the door, Mervyn White suddenly remembered something, patted his head, and said: "Hi-I was so excited to forget that, you can do whatever you want when you live here, with two exceptions."

"Which two?"

"You can't keep animals." Murvin Baekdo said, "No animals are allowed. Don't let me see a trace of animals. I'm very sensitive to this matter, and I'll suffocate when I see it. Right, no kidding, this is Very serious thing. I have a little bit of this ... psychological shadow. So be sure! Be sure! Do n’t violate. "

Yan Suizhi nodded, "Relax, the salary of the intern can support me, it is extremely difficult, there is no extra money to raise pets."

Murvin Baekdo: "That's good."

"..."

"Er, no, I wish you a higher salary early." Mervyn White said, "The other thing is not to bring my girlfriend over. This is also very serious, and it is also my psychological shadow. Previously, there was only the previous rule. Without this, the three tenants in a row are the same as the humanoid motor. The only thing you can do in life is grief, and regardless of the location and the location, ah ... it is a nightmare, in short, you should be this It ’s a sensitive point of a ten thousand years old bachelor, you ca n’t touch it, so promise me, do n’t take it. ”

Yan Suizhi couldn't help crying, "I don't have a girlfriend, I don't know if this can comfort you."

Mervyn White categorically added, "No boyfriend."

Yan Suizhi: "..."

"Why are you silent?" Murvin Bai's eyes brought a suspicious suspicion.

Yan Suizhi didn't have a good air, "No, not at all. Looking at it this way, I might have to delete the agreement."

Mervyn White nodded with confidence, "Okay, I gave you seven days of access to your fingerprints, and you can move in tonight to enjoy the new life."

...

Yan Suizhi said to Gu Yan when he was going back to the Southern Cross Law Firm.

In fact, at the moment of signing the agreement, he once had the idea of ​​sending Gu Yan a newsletter to ask, but the moment when the idea flashed, he was struck by himself. As for why, he didn't think about it.

In other words, he actually knows why, but some kind of consciousness does not make him think much.

However, when he returned to Southern Cross, he found that there was no one in the office on the second floor.

After thinking for a while, he sent Gu Yan a message with a smart phone: "Have you already gone to the port?"

After a while, the other party's message came back: "Already on the shuttle."

"So fast?"

"Expedited."

After another moment, Gu Yan's news came again: "It's time to leave Hong Kong, and you will go back to yourself at night."

Yan Suizhi thought about it and returned to him: "Yes, Locke helped me find a new apartment. I just signed a short-term agreement and I will move in the next two days."

After all, if he lived there, it would cause trouble for Gu Yan. Although Gu Yan didn't care, Yan Suizhi couldn't joke about his future.

Only this time, after waiting for a long time, Gu Yan's news did not reply.