A foreign city, dear you

After the two walked for a while, Zhu Lijun stopped walking along Mingtian Road a few hundred meters away from Xi Yayuan. Instead, she turned right at an iron gate on the street and entered through the iron gate. Go into an alleyway.

This is the time to enter a village in the city.

The houses here are densely packed and scattered; the lanes are narrow and crisscrossed. Although the fiery red sun still hangs in the western sky, there is no sun in the lane.

Cheng Dianfei followed Zhu Lijun to the gate of Tianqin Pavilion.

"Which floor do you live on?" Cheng Dianfei asked.

"Fourteenth floor." Zhu Lijun replied.

The two people entered the elevator and arrived at the fourteenth floor.

Zhu Lijun opened the door and introduced Cheng Dianfei into the house.

Cheng Dianfei looked at Zhu Lijun's rental house, and his first feeling was that it was dark.

"Isn't this your new house?" Cheng Dianfei asked doubtfully while looking at it.

"Yes." Zhu Lijun closed the door and took out the slippers for Cheng Dianfei.

"Then why is it so dark?" Cheng Dianfei was puzzled.

"It's too close to the building next to it." Zhu Lijun said and turned on the light in the living room.

Cheng Dianfei said "Oh?" and walked to the balcony curiously.

Sure enough, there was no view across the way, just the balcony of another house.

Are the two balconies too close together? We can all shake hands and chat from across the floor.

Is this the so-called "handshake building"?

Looking over, the house opposite was also dark.

It's not good for this building to be too intimate. Balcony to balcony, it’s really a mutual harm.

Cheng Dianfei stood on the balcony for a while and then went in. She was worried that someone would suddenly appear on the opposite balcony and look at her with unfamiliar eyes. How embarrassing would that be?

"Do you have two bedrooms? How much is the rent?" Cheng Dianfei asked.

Zhu Lijun was cutting a small watermelon: "One thousand."

"No way," Cheng Dianfei shouted: "It's so dark and so expensive?"

"This is already considered cheap. If the lighting is good, it will be at least one thousand and fifty." Zhu Lijun seemed calm.

"Renting a house is also a big expense." Cheng Dianfei sighed.

Zhu Lijun nodded: "No, unlike you, you can live in the company dormitory, which saves a lot of expenses."

"A brighter house is more comfortable," Cheng Dianfei said.

"Who doesn't know this? But I still want to save some money. If I rent a house, I'll just live there. Anyway, I work most of the time. For a thousand yuan, I want a bright house, two bedrooms, and... How can there be such a beautiful thing in an elevator room?"

"Isn't one room enough for you two to live in?" Cheng Dianfei asked.

"I want to be more lenient." Zhu Lijun said: "And your cousin-in-law's sister will often come to live. When renting a house, the most important thing is to have enough room. Don't think so leniently. Maybe in a year and a half, You have to change places again.”

"Then I would rather spend a few hundred more every month." Cheng Dianfei said, "A brighter house will make me feel better."

Zhu Lijun placed the cut watermelon in front of Cheng Dianfei: "Your salary is high. If you have money, you can do whatever you want. How about you sponsor me and let me buy a better house?"

"Sponsor you big-headed idiot," Cheng Dianfei didn't fall for the trick: "You have people helping you to make money on a voluntary basis, but I'm still alone."

Zhu Lijun smiled: "Haha, are you envious? There are so many outstanding gold-collar handsome guys in Lijin Company, why don't you catch one of them?"

When Cheng Dianfei heard this, she stopped smiling when she was joking with her cousin, and felt a burst of bitterness in her heart.

Cousin, which pot is this?

There are many outstanding men in the company, but none of them belong to me.

Other men haven't caught my eye yet, but the man who can catch my eye is already someone else's husband.

Cheng Dianfei was afraid that her cousin would see what she was thinking, so she lowered her head and picked up a piece of watermelon and changed the subject: "Where is my cousin's husband?"

Zhu Lijun had just gotten married, and Cheng Dianfei had not met her cousin-in-law a few times.

"I'm on a business trip," Zhu Lijun said, "I won't be back until next week."

"Really?" Cheng Dianfei shouted happily: "Then I can occupy you all night tonight?"

Zhu Lijun was amused by Cheng Dianfei: "Look how happy you are. Not only can you occupy me for one night, but you can also occupy me for the whole day tomorrow."

"Haha," Cheng Dianfei laughed: "Happy. Eat melon, eat melon."

"Eat melon, eat melon." Zhu Lijun agreed.

Cheng Dianfei and Zhu Lijun are about the same age, and the two sisters have loved spending time together since they were little.

The watermelon was cool and sweet, and the two sisters ate slice after slice.

"I'll take you for a walk when it gets cooler and show you what the suburbs along the city are like." Zhu Lijun suggested to Cheng Dianfei while eating.

"Suburbs? Is it far away?" Cheng Dianfei asked.

Zhu Lijun smiled: "Haha, we call the city the city and the outside the city the suburbs. Do you think I will really take you to the wilderness?"

Cheng Dianfei also smiled: "I would like to go to the real countryside to relax."

Zhu Lijun immediately took over the conversation: "Isn't this easy? There is a mountain nearby. Let's climb the mountain tomorrow."

……

As night falls slowly, lights gradually light up on the streets and in the buildings.

Cheng Dianfei followed Zhu Lijun, playing and shopping on the street. When the two of them were tired from shopping, they had dinner at a roadside restaurant.

It was nearly nine o'clock when the two of them walked back. On the road, they saw a cooked food seller with an enticing aroma. Although the two of them had just finished eating, they were still greedy, so they bought a box of braised chicken feet and took them home to eat.

I returned to the rental house and turned on the fluorescent lamp.

At night, it doesn't matter whether the house is lit or not. As long as there are electric lights, there is the same light everywhere.

"I'm still a little tired from shopping." Cheng Dianfei said, sitting down on the chair.

"Sit down for a while, and I'll get you some water." Zhu Lijun put her bag away and went to pour some water.

"Yes." Cheng Dianfei was not polite at all: "Drink some water, moisten your throat, and then you can eat the chicken feet."

Zhu Lijun smiled: "He is a greedy cat."

"Aren't you hungry? Then don't eat it later." Cheng Dianfei said, taking the water handed over by Zhu Lijun.

Zhu Lijun smiled: "If you don't want to eat, don't eat. I'll watch you eat."

"Forget it," Cheng Dianfei drank half a glass of water and said, "It's boring to eat alone, let's eat together."

"I knew you would be soft-hearted." Zhu Lijun said, "I'll get the dishes and chopsticks."

Cheng Dianfei didn't want to bother and said, "What bowls and chopsticks do you want? Just use your hands to do it."

Zhu Lijun obeyed Cheng Dianfei, placed the lunch box containing braised chicken feet on the dining table, opened the lid, and the alluring aroma made people drool.

The braised chicken feet are fragrant, crispy and spicy.

The two sisters gnawed one piece after another, their mouths full of fragrance.

While he was happily chewing, Cheng Dianfei suddenly felt that his eyesight went dark and he couldn't see anything.