Editor’s note: Xiaoye, or Cai’er, what she is looking for is only the love she once had. Even though he has died, the soul is still attached and finally found love. However, leaving is also inevitable, so only “I” stayed in the wasteland to pay homage to the love that died.
There are many primitive factors in this city of Shanghai, especially the Changning Wanhangdu Road where I live. Maybe the gentle and lingering Suzhou River makes the place where I live is romantic on the surface. I can see flowers, plants, wild cats and wild dogs when I go out. Although dilapidated, there will be a different style after living for a long time.
I live with a pair of old people who rarely speak, but I can occasionally hear Aboy Yiyaya singing Peking Opera-it’s the kind of Shanghai style, which is profound and profound. , At first it sounds like a little ghost whispering, muttering, not very comfortable, but it means infinitely over time.
A-nai likes to paint. She starts at 8 o’clock every day and paints until the evening. She packs her things and goes home only when Aber’s call to “eat me”.
They are my landlord, and the place I live in has been a long time since no one has been here. This building area is a rotten building, which should have been within the scope of demolition, but it has not been demolished for some reason. I know that there was still a family here before, and they came to rent an old man’s house, but I don’t know when they suddenly disappeared, and disappeared without a trace, as if the world had evaporated.
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Not even their belongings were taken away. But Aber has always been very responsible, helping them clean, and I heard that he is waiting for them to come back.
I once asked Uncle, Uncle, where is the family living here?
Arbor said dullly, leaving for a long time.
I asked, where did you go? When are you coming back?
Uncle stopped cleaning and raised his head to look at me. At the moment he raised his head, I was shocked in a cold sweat! Arbor is bleeding nose!
I hurriedly fetched paper for Arbor and asked him to block his nostrils.
Uncle shook his head and said, “I am old and useless.” After speaking, he walked out of the room.
To be honest, sometimes I really want to move out of this ghost place, but I have always been conflicted. Two lonely old people live alone, no one will accompany them when I leave. The family doesn’t know when they can return, so they still live temporarily and wait until the family returns.
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My daily life is to go to get off work and leave work, to write and write, to play photography and so on. My life is plain but I feel very satisfied.
That night, the one next to meSuddenly there was a light in that house. I thought about Abel only cleaning during the day. Could it be that they came back?
I want to say hello to them. As soon as I walked out the door, I heard Arbor’s voice from that room: “Xiaoye, you must keep quiet when you live here. Bian’s brother doesn’t like noise.”
“Okay, grandpa.” A very sweet voice.
Oh, it turned out to be the granddaughter of the old man, I thought it was the family who came back. However, don’t look at Abel who is usually indifferent, but he cares about me. I was secretly happy.
Suddenly, I “cocked” in my heart, no! Arbor’s son’s family died in a car accident three years ago, where’s the granddaughter? !
Why does the room that Abo usually cleans lives for his granddaughter? Does the old man know that the person who rents this room is not coming back? !
“Xiao Li, are you there?” Arbor’s voice.
I was in a cold sweat, and said tremblingly: “Uncle, you haven’t slept yet. My room is stuffy. I will come out to breathe, and I will go back to the house immediately.” I just wanted to turn around and walk. Uncle said, “My granddaughter came to see me. Come over and say hello to her.”
My whole heart is deformed. Uncle’s voice is dull and powerful. , Cannot be resisted.