"I resign."
When Xu Wen said this, his superior's voice stopped abruptly.
Xu Wen stood up, bowed to him, and began to quietly clean up the things on the table.
"Hey, hey, what do you mean? Young people are so vulnerable? Am I wrong?" The boss is anxious.
Xu Wen pursed his lips and didn't say anything. He took out a letter of resignation from his drawer and handed it to him.
"On the tenth of next month, I'll pay the rest of my salary." After saying this, he carried his miscellaneous items and walked out silently.
He acted so resolutely that his boss opened his mouth and closed it.
Xu Wen walked out of the company's door. The cold air was blocked behind him. The rolling heat wave surged from all directions and wrapped him inside.
Xu Wen swept a shared bike from the street under the scorching sun and rode back.
He calculated as he rode.
The deposit in the bank is enough to live on for two months. If you are looking for a new job, not only will the salary during the probation period be relatively low, but you will have to wait until payday next month to get the money. This up and down, must find a job within a month, the sooner the better.
He lived not too far from the company, and he wanted to be close when he rented the house. After riding for half an hour, they finally arrived. Xu Wen was sweating profusely and his head was dizzy from the sun. However, he was still used to this feeling. He returned the car to the car formation and walked into a four-story building.
The small building was very dilapidated. It was a sunny afternoon, and the corridor was still dark and narrow. The air was filled with the smell of rotten fruits and other things, which was extremely unpleasant. The corridor was blocked with a lot of sundries, so he could only walk sideways. Sometimes things fell down and he had to ask himself to put them back.
Xu Wen rented a place on the top floor of the fourth floor. He didn't go back to his room immediately. Instead, he turned to a house at the end of the corridor on the third floor. Without knocking, he pushed open the door and walked in.
As soon as the door opened, Xu Wen heard a soft meow, followed by the old man's nagging voice: "Don't tell your father, let's just eat a little." Come, ah-"
The old man was so absorbed that he did not notice him coming in.
"Grandma, I told you, you can't feed cats anything." Xu Wen reluctantly walked over and said.
Sitting by the window was an old lady. Her hair was completely white and a little messy, but it was still tidy. She was eating, holding a rice bowl in her hand. There were some dishes on top of the white rice. She picked up a piece of fish and fed it to a black cat on the table in front of her. The black cat opened its mouth and was about to eat it. When it saw Xu Wen come in, it jumped off the table with a whoosh and surrounded his feet to rub against him.
Xu Wen rubbed it with his leg, walked to the old lady and sat down. He took the rice bowl and wiped the rice grains from her mouth with a tissue before starting to feed her.
The old lady smiled until her eyes narrowed. She opened her mouth obediently and ate. As she chewed, she complained softly," What can't be fed? In the past, when we raised cats, it didn't eat what humans ate. Why are we so particular about it?"
"I didn't know before, but now that I know, I have to be careful." Xu asked patiently.
The black cat followed Xu Wen and sat down beside him. Its eyes widened as it looked at his chopsticks. The old man looked at it lovingly and said,"Ball wants to eat too, doesn't it?"
"I can't feed it even if I want to eat it. It's so fat!"
"How fat…"
"Black makes you thin!"
The old man did not speak and ate honestly.
Xu Wen shook his head helplessly and started talking about other things.
The old man, surnamed Liu, lived downstairs with his divorced daughter. The daughter has a job and children, and has done her best to take care of her mother's life, but after all, it is impossible to do everything. The old man often sits alone by the window and is very lonely.
At first, Xu Wen's cat ran to her house. Xu Wen came downstairs to look for her. Gradually, he would come down to talk to the old man when he was free and help him do something. The relationship between the two became closer and closer.
After dinner, Xu Wen cleaned up the dishes. The room was small and narrow, and it was not easy to turn around. The kitchen was located directly in the corner of the room. The old man talked about raising cats when he was young. Xu Wen listened through the sound of water.
The old man was from the old capital. When he was young, he lived in an alley, one of the four families in the courtyard. She missed the small courtyard, the old pagoda tree in the alley outside the courtyard, the people chatting under the tree and the shouts of visiting families to help repair pots and pans.
As she spoke, her voice gradually became distant, and she was completely immersed in her old thoughts.
Finally, she said softly,"I really want to go back to the courtyard to live..."
"Is it really that good?" After Xu Wen finished washing the dishes, he couldn't help but ask," Our company…The former company engaged in construction. I've been to many of those old courtyard houses. It's cold in winter and hot in summer. If there's a little noise, I'll hear it in the streets. Not even a public toilet? I have to go to the toilet to pour it out. How troublesome."
Xu Wen recalled the situation he investigated back then and didn't feel much better than where they lived now.
"That's different. What's wrong with emptying the toilet? What trouble?" The old man retorted.
"I think the elevator room in the residential area is better. It's clean and convenient. It's much more comfortable to live in." Xu Wen said.
"What's so good about elevator rooms? There isn't even a place to walk!" The old man complained.
Xu Wen shook his head and did not argue with her. He estimated that it was almost time. After serving the old man this meal of medicine, he packed up his things and picked up the cat to go back.
While he was doing this, the old man lay in his rocking chair by the window, looking out at the swaying shadows of the trees, and suddenly asked,"Xiao Xu, why do you say that people live for a lifetime?"
Xu Wen stopped and looked back at her.
The old man had already turned his head and was looking at him with a faint smile on his lips. His eyes were as clear as water.
Xu Wen finally did not answer her question.
Xu Wen returned to his room.
The pattern is the same as that of Grandma Liu's house. The single room of twelve or thirteen square meters is separated by the landlord. Sometimes it is difficult to take something and turn around.
The fourth floor was the top floor. The roof had no insulation layer. After being exposed to the sun for a day, Xu Wen felt like he was going to be baked as soon as he entered the room. Qiuqiu meowed and jumped to the ground, walking directly to the fan. Xu Wen helplessly turned on the fan, blowing out is still hot air.
It's tough.
For a small room like this, the rent was 3,200 yuan. It was really not easy to live in the Imperial Capital.
There was a pool in the corner of the house. Washing hands and dishes was all integrated. Xu Wen put down his things and walked over to cool his face. As a result, he opened the water pipe and found that there was no water.
Downstairs, they were using water again…This old house was like this. The water pressure was not enough. Once the tap downstairs was turned on, the water upstairs would be cut off.
Xu Wen raked his hair and poured it on the sofa beside him.
What is life for?
Granny Liu's question floated faintly in his mind again.
For what, not to live?
He closed his eyes, took out his phone, opened the job application APP, and began to enter the screening criteria, ready to browse for suitable jobs.
He had just finished typing when the bell suddenly rang. An unfamiliar phone was beating on the screen. Fixed telephone, area code below "Gangnam Province, Wan Yuan City" prompt.
Wanyuan's client?
Xu Wen picked up the phone while recalling.
"Hello, is this Mr. Xu Wenxu?" The male opposite him spoke clearly and his Mandarin was very standard.
"I am, may I ask who you are…"
" Hello, my name is Wu. I'm a lawyer from Dingsheng Law Firm."
Lawyer? What do I have to do with lawyers?
"Are you currently living at 80 Cabinet Alley, East Second Ring Road, Beijing?"
"Yes, but how do you know?"
"Next, I have something to confirm with you. It concerns the inheritance of an inheritance. If it's convenient, please answer truthfully."
"Legacy?" Xu Wen raised his voice slightly.
"Yes, it's a property in Wanyuan City." The opposite party replied.
Xu Wen hung up the phone without a word and blacklisted the number with the word " fraud " on it.
For the next two days, Xu Wen was busy looking for a job, and during the day he kept the ball in Grandma Zhang's house.
Grandma Zhang was extremely happy and waved her hand to say that he didn't have to come back. The ball was enough. Although he knew that Grandma wanted him to go out at ease, Xu Wen was still helpless.
Jobs weren't easy to find, especially when compared to Xu Wen, he wasn't a freshman, he didn't have any qualifications, and he wasn't famous at university. He really didn't have any advantages to show off. The commendable diligence can be reflected in the actual work, but it cannot be reflected in the resume. Two days later, Xu Wen left his resume in several companies, and none of them responded.
It's really tiring at the end of the day, especially when it's so hot. Xu Wen went back to take a shower, just put the shampoo on his head foam, and then stopped water.
Xu Wen ran to the window wrapped in a towel and shouted at the bottom: " Please turn off the water. I'm taking a shower. It'll be fine in a while!"
They were good neighbors, and usually when they shouted like this, everyone would help.
But this time, Aunt Xu called back with a louder voice: "Xu Wen, express delivery!" Shunfeng arrived and paid, he came from Wanyuan City!"