I am your black forever

This is on a street in Wucheng, Fang Jie's hometown.This street is in the development zone. The so-called development zone does not mean how developed it is, but just that it is being developed.However, compared with the old town, it is indeed filled with a fresh atmosphere - the streets, houses, shopping malls, etc. are all newly built, of course it looks fresh.There are many foreigners in this area.

This area is closer to the towns around Wucheng, and some houses in the area are much cheaper than those in the old city.Fang Jie is a native of Wucheng. He used to have a very old and dilapidated house in an alley in the old city, the kind of old house where he lived with several families in a small courtyard.In my memory, that place was black, as if it had been covered with a layer of wet mud-like coal ash, the black was shiny with oil.His house is on the second floor, and the first floor is occupied by other people. The stairs to the second floor of his house are extremely narrow, unbelievably narrow, only the width of a person's body, and even a fatter person may not be able to go up.

Fang Jie used to invite his classmates to play at his house. Many of his classmates lived in old houses that had not yet been demolished, so even if they went to play at his house, they would not feel much disgust.He invited many people to his house, but he just didn't invite Gu Xiaocheng.He heard from other people in the class that Gu Xiaocheng lived in a small private garden, and he would not invite someone who is used to living in a private garden to his house, which looks like the walls are painted into a shiny black shell sitting in the house.

Back in high school, Gu Xiaocheng sat behind him.He always felt that Gu Xiaocheng thought he had a good relationship with him, so he would sometimes mention it to him, saying that he could go to his house to play.And he never agreed, and always rejected the proposal for one reason or another.He even felt that it was an insult to Gu Xiaocheng to mention such a thing.It's like a man insisting on seeing a woman when she has no makeup at all, is lazy at home without washing her face for two days, and has greasy hair. This is a kind of heartless insult.

So Fang Jie never agreed.

But now, the old house of his family has been demolished long ago, and his family has been allocated a new house, which is in this area of ​​Wucheng Development Zone.The geographical environment is not good, and most of the demolition households still want to get apartments in the newly built residential buildings in the old city, because the area is well-connected and located in the center of Wucheng, and people who walk in it are full of local accents. .Unlike the development zone, there are too many foreigners in it. Although it is a little newer, the "birdsong" can be heard everywhere.As a native of the city, being driven to the fringes all the time is really unacceptable.

But in order to get a larger area, his family chose this more marginal place.

Fang Jie's father was born with polio, delayed treatment, and crippled one leg.Has been limping.It was just him and his father in their family. His mother seemed to have run away with others when he was a teenager. His father used to make a living by helping people repair motorcycles in the alley.Later, when more people drove cars, his father was almost in a state of semi-unemployment.

Later, they moved to a place where birdsong could be heard everywhere in Wucheng—because there were so many foreigners, people often heard people speaking foreign languages ​​on the street, so his father was basically unemployed.In order to have income for the family, his father rented out the auspicious house.The family has three bedrooms and one living room. His father rented out two rooms, both of which were rented to single men from other places working in the development zone. The large single room was rented for [-] yuan, and the small single room was rented for [-] yuan.He also asked Fang Jie to live in his room.

Later, Fang Jie felt that living in a room with his father was too cramped and not free, so he moved out.At that time, there happened to be an opportunity. A person he knew originally set up a storefront on Jiang Street in the development zone. Liquidated damages, and when he learned that Fang Jie wanted to start a small business by himself, he asked Fang Jie if he wanted to rent it.There are pros and cons.

The advantage is that people can live on the second floor, and the first floor can be used as a storefront.The disadvantage is that the one on the right is a "chicken shop", and it has to do business at night.It's not noisy, but I don't know if he would mind having this kind of shop as a neighbor.

Fang Jie has registered an online store there to sell stationery.He doesn't want to open a shop with a reputation. If he opens a shop with a reputation, if the shop next to it is full of ladies, and when the lights come on, they sit in rows of chairs in the shop, it will definitely affect him. business, because he sells stationery to students.But he is an online shop, so it doesn't matter what kind of neighbor is next to him, as long as it doesn't affect his sleep at night.

This season is the middle of winter.This year's winter, even Wucheng, a gentle Jiangnan water town, has its own personality. There was a heavy snow a year ago, and the sky was chaotic. , most of the customers are migrant workers who are in charge of developing this development zone that is almost occupied by foreigners.Fang Jie knew that they usually cost 250 yuan at a time. He really didn't want to find out the price so that he could solve the needs nearby in the future, but sometimes at 07:30 in the evening, when the courier brother came to pick up the packages he wanted to deliver, he stood at the door I heard it when the girls next to me were negotiating with the migrant workers who came to the door.Every time when a girl stood on the steps of their door and bargained with a migrant worker who passed by and asked the price, he handed boxes of cardboard boxes he used to send the parcel to the courier boy, and at the same time he talked to that girl who looked very raw. The courier brother looked at each other, feeling relatively speechless.

On the morning of December 21st, after Fang Jie woke up, he lay down in the warm blanket for a while.He didn't sleep well last night, because the neighbor next door didn't know what went crazy last night, and he didn't close the back window of the second floor of their house that was used for "business". The noise disturbed him for three quarters of an hour , Change one after one is called.He was wondering why the windows had to be closed on such a cold day. Obviously, it is said that the interior walls of their house are all decorated with sound insulation panels, so usually the windows at the back of the second floor cannot be heard. I don't want to hear it, it happens every night, and there are some screaming X sounds one after another.But last night, I don't know which girl forgot to close the window, or which girl intentionally opened a gap in the window to let in the cold air, so she quarreled with him for three quarters of an hour.He couldn't get excited, he was just tired, he just wanted to sleep peacefully.

He usually goes to the computer at nine in the morning to take orders or answer questions.So now it's only seven past five, and he has plenty of time to just lie down like this.At around [-]:[-], he received a voice message on his mobile phone, it was from his father, and his father asked him: "Xiaojie, the second floor over there is quite big, why don't I move in and live with you?" , you are renting anyway, and you have to pay, and if I live with you, the big room here can still be rented out, and there will be another rent to collect."

Fang Jie's head hurt a little after reading it. He didn't mind his father coming to live with him, but the situation here was really inconvenient. If it was called like last night, his father, an elderly man, would How to live in it?So without thinking about it, he replied to his dad: "Dad, you just live at home. If you move out, the tenant will get along with you normally, but it will definitely not be like when you were at home. Those who cherish the house, don’t lose a piece of the wall here, scratch a line there, or the toilet is clogged within two days, and the faucet can’t be tightened again. Wouldn’t it cost a lot more to repair it in the end? The second floor is also pushing goods. Is the money I give you every month not as good as the rent for a room?"

After the voice was sent out, his father sent it back after a while, as if he was still unwilling, but he stopped pestering him, compromised, and said, "Okay. Then I will live at home."

After Fang Jie looked at the phone, he squeezed the phone in his hand and put it to his side. He lay down like this very lazily, with his arms flat on his side, but the phone was still in his hand.After a while, the mobile phone in his hand vibrated again. He thought his father had repented, and wanted to persuade him to let him move in and live with him.Because his dad has mentioned it to him three or four times, and this morning is not the first time.He was thinking about how his father has the habit of a menopausal woman, who likes to say one thing repeatedly, even if it is the kind of thing that has been rejected, he obviously agreed to it, but after a few days, he said it again Put it on the table to mention it again.

Fang Jie couldn't stand this a little bit, with a bit of displeasure on his face, he raised the phone to his eyes again, wanting to see what his father had to say this time.How do I know it wasn't sent by his father at all.

It was sent by Gu Xiaocheng who sat behind him in high school.

In fact, he has never broken contact with this person in the years since high school.From only using Q^Q for one or two years at the beginning, to using WeChat for more than a year after graduating from university and now opening an online store for more than a year, their contact has never been broken.Not to a very frequent level, but when it comes to contact, there are always.Fang Jie has rarely kept in touch with his former high school classmates. He still got together every year when he was in college. People are already people from a long time ago, why don't you just "forget each other in the rivers and lakes" like this.

Only with this Gu Xiaocheng did not "forget each other in the rivers and lakes", because Gu Xiaocheng would occasionally come to ask about his recent situation.He also just thinks that Gu Xiaocheng's family environment is too good, he is usually too free, and he has too many people, so what does he do when other people are working?Isn't he doing nothing?So he might have to say hello one by one, otherwise he might be out of order.

Anyway, Fang Jie thought so.

Gu Xiaocheng's family is rich.The rich kind.

Sitting with this person often gave Fang Jie a sense of a different life experience.In high school, he and Gu Xiaocheng were classmates with the biggest gap between rich and poor.Gu Xiaocheng's family is so rich, and his family runs an accountant's office, but all the external audits of well-known property companies in Wucheng are done by their family; Fang Jie's family has only one father, and because he is half-employed He received the subsistence allowance, and during the three years that Fang Jie entered the school, he applied to the school for tuition fee reduction because his family was extremely poor.

Gu Xiaocheng went abroad before graduating from high school. I heard that after staying there for two years, because he likes the environment there, his family directly let him invest and immigrate, saving him from having to study a valuable major like those foreign students there. The trouble of skilled immigrants comes from the gold-rich technology.

Fang Jie didn't talk about investment immigration, he couldn't even give one hundred millionth of the money for investment immigration.After graduating from high school, I went to a local college in Wucheng that can issue full-time undergraduate diplomas, and I got it as if the local low-income households received government relief and half tuition fees.It's not a good school, and naturally the future is bleak after coming out.When he held his graduation certificate and degree certificate, it seemed that what appeared in his mind was the dark and shiny old house in the alley of his house. The uncomfortable, dirty and trembling feeling of that house Weiwei's feeling of instability is the same as his future.

However, he is not that pessimistic. If they are all so pessimistic, then there are so many graduates who graduated in the same period in the college, and it is difficult for each of them to die?

In order to make more money, he didn't join any company, but instead set up a small shop selling stationery.

He could not deny that he himself had a thirst for money.Of course, it's just a desire, not to the point of hunger.

Whenever he faces rich people, he doesn't say anything to them in person, but behind the scenes or in his heart, he must be extremely sarcastic.He can't control himself.Of course, it's just sarcasm, not to the extent of hating the rich.