In 2009, I went to Wanjiang, Dongguan alone to make a living and joined a company focusing on motor drive processing. The company is small and has no more than 100 employees.
Due to the limited size of the factory and the correspondingly small number of dormitories, five or six of us were crammed into a small room. I used to sleep relatively lightly, but after a few days, I found it difficult to sleep, so I decided to rent a house. After some inquiry, I found that going out to rent a house also provides some housing subsidies, although the amount is not high, but it is better than nothing.
There are not many rental options, and those with higher cost performance have long been snatched up by others, leaving houses with their own problems, such as smallness, lack of light, and expensive rent.
Out of many options, I ended up on a house. While a solution was found in a short period of time, each option was accompanied by some inconveniences. Whether it is the small space or the high rent, it has become my daily problem when I work in a foreign country.
In 2009, I went to Wanjiang, Dongguan alone to work and found a company that focused on motor drive processing. The company is not large, less than 100 people.
Due to the shortage of dormitories, I was crammed into a small room with five or six other people. My sleep was already lighter, but the lack of light in this room adapted to my needs and allowed me to sleep better. Despite this, the inadequacy of the room remained, and if I wanted to rest at home, I had to turn on the lights, increasing the expenditure on the electricity bill.
The landlord is a woman from Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province named Wang Xiumei, she is very beautiful, a few years older than me, and she has a lovely little daughter by her side.
The rent was $180, which wasn't expensive, but I decided to do some haggling and hope to get a deal for $160. In this way, I can also save a lot of money over the course of the year.
I presented my thoughts to Wang Xiumei, but she stared at me and did not respond. When I was considering raising the rent to 170 yuan, Wang Xiumei suddenly asked me if I would like to rent for a long time.
I assured her, "I'm definitely going to rent for a long time, but I'm just starting to work and I'm spending about the same amount of money, so I don't have that much money." ”
Wang Xiumei agreed to give me some grace time to pay the full rent after I received my salary.
As the saying goes, a buyer is not as smart as a seller, and in the same way, a tenant does not necessarily lose to a landlord.
Although Wang Xiumei gave me some face, she did not reduce any amount. In order to get more discounts, I had to use a trick to take out the lollipops I had prepared in advance and hand them to Wang Xiumei's daughter. I laughed and joked to Wang Xiumei's daughter that my uncle didn't have that much money in his pocket, so he could pay less rent.
Wang Xiumei's daughter ate a lollipop and stared at her mother, but did not say a word.
Oops, it seems like I'm overestimating my plan. A child is a child after all, and it is indeed difficult for a mother to deceive.
Just when I was about to die down, Wang Xiumei suddenly said: "Okay, just as you said, 160 yuan." ”
In accordance with the regulations, I paid a month's rent and the corresponding deposit to Wang Xiumei, and she issued a receipt for me, which was considered an official transaction.
After paying the formalities, Wang Xiumei reminded me by the way that the balcony is relatively small, and if there are many clothes, you can take it to the roof to dry. After getting the keys, I went upstairs.
Although Wang Xiumei had already cleaned up the room, I decided to clean it again to make sure everything was in order.
After work the next day, I moved my luggage from my dorm and moved into my new home.
Seeing me moving in, Wang Xiumei smiled and said hello. I was sweating profusely while Wang Xiumei's daughter welcomed me with a piece of watermelon. After saying her thanks, the little girl went downstairs cheerfully.
Due to the small windows in the room, it was very hot inside. Luckily, I bought a small fan, and even though it was blowing on my body, it still felt a little stuffy. In desperation, I decided to take a shower and take a break.
After living there for a while, Wang Xiumei and I gradually became acquainted, and her daughter became affectionately called my uncle. Sometimes I come back from outside and bring some snacks and generously share some with them.
One day I was resting at home, and Wang Xiumei was cleaning in the corridor. I lay leisurely on the bed, and she stopped as she passed by my door, and we had a casual chat.
I casually asked about her husband, Wang Xiumei hesitated slightly, and then, with a hint of sadness, frankly shared some of the past.
In the early years, Wang Xiumei and her husband worked hard in this place, and her husband was hardworking and willing to work, and his life gradually became better and better. When they welcomed their daughter, in order to take care of the children more conveniently, Wang Xiumei decided to change careers and become a second-hand landlord.
Fate is impermanent, and one night, Wang Xiumei's husband unfortunately suffered an accident and died young.
After handling the aftermath in his hometown in Jiangxi, her husband's brother was jealous of Wang Xiumei's excellent appearance, so he framed her relationship with her husband for no reason, which led to an unfortunate result. The elder brother took the opportunity to seize the property, and the husband's parents did not dare to resist him because they only had this one son.
Wang Xiumei, who was kicked out of the house, had to return to her parents' home with her daughter. 's mother felt that Wang Xiumei was still young, so she decided to arrange a remarriage for her and found a matchmaker to introduce her to her.
However, Wang Xiumei thought of her late husband and couldn't bear to let her daughter suffer again, so she decided to return to Dongguan again.
As a single mother, her life is full of hardships, and I feel sorry for her.
That day, the light bulb in the toilet broke. When I left for work, I told Wang Xiumei. When I came back from work that night, Wang Xiumei took the initiative to bring a new light bulb to help me replace it. Looking at her appearance, you can feel that she has experienced a lot of hardships ......
As the weather cooled down, I had to pull out my only denim top and drape it over my body.
Living in a different place, the problem of shopping too much made me have to leave some items behind when I left. So, I bought only one denim top and wore it for several years.
Since I don't use it very often, I only wash it once a week. One day, I had just put on this shirt and was about to go to work, and Wang Xiumei was stunned for a moment when she saw me. I greeted her with a smile, and before she could react, I made a joke and asked her if she thought I was handsome
Wang Xiumei smiled and responded that she was indeed handsome.
On the weekend, I was resting at home and decided to wash that denim jacket and take it to the roof to dry.
When I came back from a walk in the evening and was about to go to the roof to collect my clothes, I was surprised to find that the denim jacket was missing.
I searched around, but I couldn't find it. I began to wonder if the wind had blown downstairs, so I searched around the rental house, but there was still no trace.
At work, colleagues mentioned in small talk that some **like to steal women's underwear**. However, it was my coat that was stolen and it is hard to imagine that it aroused the interest of **.
After thinking about it, I thought it was more likely that someone would take it wrong when it was dark, so I hoped that I would be able to find it the next day.
When I got home from work the next day, I found that my denim jacket had miraculously appeared.
Thinking that it might be a momentary coincidence, I didn't pay much attention to it. However, in the second and third weeks, the situation remained the same, and each time it was not found at night, and the next day it magically returned to the same place.
I wondered if this was really going to happen over and over againI decided to take a squatting approach and see who was playing tricks on me.
Finally, during a waiting, I saw with my own eyes the person who took my clothes, and to my surprise, it was Wang Xiumei.
I watched as she quietly brought my clothes back to the room and decided to tiptoe after her. After some mental preparation, I knocked on Wang Xiumei's door.
The door opened, and before I could speak, I saw Wang Xiumei's tearful appearance in the corners of her eyes, and my denim jacket was sitting next to her.
Following my gaze, Wang Xiumei also noticed the denim jacket on the seat.
Silently, she opened the drawer next to her, took out a **, and handed it to me.
*Above is a family photo with Wang Xiumei, a little girl and a man. The man was wearing almost exactly the same dress as my denim top, and to my surprise, the man's face was somewhat similar to mine.
Wang Xiumei explained to me that the little girl was her daughter and the man was her husband.
After her husband died, she began to suffer from insomnia. When she saw me one day, she seemed to go back in time for a moment, thinking that her husband had come back to life. When I went to the roof that night to collect my clothes, she saw my denim top, and on impulse, she took it home.
Clutching that denim top, she couldn't help but recall the moments with her husband. Surprisingly, that night, she slept unusually peacefully. Since then, this peculiar situation has been out of control.
Wang Xiumei apologized to me, and then confessed another truth.
Here, there has always been no bargaining for house prices. That day, the act of handing her daughter a lollipop and the crouching gesture while chatting with her daughter gave her the illusion that I was like her husband'......
Wang Xiumei apologized to me again and promised that such a thing would not happen again.
Since then, my clothes have never been missing. However, I developed a new habit. Originally, because the rent was low, she occasionally brought some snacks to Wang Xiumei's daughter, but now she brings some almost every day.
When Wang Xiumei saw it, she would invite me to dinner on weekends when I was resting, and our relationship was as close as that of a brother and sister.
At the end of that year, when I went back to my hometown for a blind date, I decided to give the denim top to Wang Xiumei. She accepted it with tears in her eyes, saying that if she came back here next year, tell her in advance that she would keep a good room for me, and the rent would not rise.
I readily agreed.
After returning home, the blind date was successful, and I got married. After the Chinese New Year, my wife was reluctant to go to Dongguan and liked Zhejiang, so I followed her and started a new life ......100 help plan