Chapter 23 twenty

I made an appointment with Wu Min, and I will wait for him in the room.I'm at 215 on the second floor, and he's at 344 on the third floor.Instructor Yang told Wu Min and me to go to Jinghua Hotel on Zhongshan North Road, and only told us the number of the hotel room.When the man was about to leave the room, he did not turn on the light, left the room key on the bedside chest of drawers, and whispered in the dark: The rent has already been paid.I didn't see his face clearly, and I didn't ask his name.When he opened the door to cover himself and went out, I only felt that his back was very high, about six feet.The Qiqi restaurant next door is open all night. It was one o'clock in the morning, and there was still a faint sound of music. I lay on the bed and finished smoking a cigarette before Wu Min came to knock on the door.

Wu Min and I went downstairs quietly without going to the counter to return the room key, and slipped out of the Jinghua Hotel while the clerk at the counter was not paying attention.As soon as we went out, the two of us started running at the same time, and ran towards the direction of Yuanshan. After running for a while, the lights gradually dimmed, and we stopped and breathed a sigh of relief.There were no pedestrians on the road, and both ends of the road were empty. I put one arm on Wu Min's shoulder, and our two footsteps, at the same pace, continued to rattle on the sidewalk. Xiao Min, is your hand ready?I saw that the gauze bandage on Wu Min's left wrist had been removed.

Scarred.Wu Min put his left hand into his trouser pocket. You guy, if Xiaoyu and I hadn't arrived in time that day, your little life would have been lost long ago!Really worthless, a person surnamed Zhang is worth cutting your hands for him!No wonder Xiaoyu scolded you, he said the day before yesterday that he wanted you to return his blood to him! Wu Min lowered his head while kicking his feet. That's not the case, Wu Min said in a low voice, I have lived with Mr. Zhang for so long, and I have regarded him as my home without knowing it.Mr. Zhang suddenly kicked him out that day. He was flustered for a while and felt that he had nowhere to go, so he did that kind of thing.You know Mr. Zhang's place, it's clean and comfortable, why don't you make people miss it?

I remember that every time I went to Mr. Zhang's apartment in Guangwu New Village to find Wu Min, he was cleaning the floor or cleaning the kitchen, keeping Mr. Zhang's house in order.I also joked with him that Mr. Zhang invited the best little housekeeper. Ah Qing, I remember that the first night I moved to Mr. Zhang's house, I spent more than an hour in his bathroom.Wu Min shook his head and smiled. What are you doing in the bathroom for so long? You don't know how wonderful the bathroom in Mr. Zhang's house is. It's all made of sky blue tiles, even the bathtub is blue. I've never seen such a beautiful bathtub. There is a gas stove on top of the bathtub. Turn on the faucet, and hot water comes out with a splash.I filled a tub full of hot water and soaked it in it. I was reluctant to get up, and my body was flushed red. It was the first time in my life that I took such a comfortable bath!

You are so virtuous!Call Mr. Zhang's bathroom a paradise!I can't help but laugh. How do you know?Wu Min sighed, I told you, I have been wandering around with my father since I was a child, and the house we rented has never had a bathroom.In summer, you can also take a shower in the patio, and in winter you only go to the bathhouse once every two or three weeks.The body smells so bad that even if I smell it, I will vomit.I am the person who loves cleanliness the most. Mr. Zhang’s bathroom, what is it if it’s not heaven? Wu Min's father has been in prison for more than two years in Taipei Prison.He was arrested for selling drugs and white noodles in the Wanhua area.His father is from Meixian, Guangdong. Wu Min said that when he first arrived in Taiwan, his father still carried a few gold bars with him, but he was fond of gambling. He liked to gamble with Taiwanese four-color cards. Get involved in drug trafficking.The first time he was sent to prison, Wu Min's mother had just conceived him, and he hadn't seen his father for several years after he was born. He grew up with his uncle in Hsinchu.His father picked him up when he was released from prison, wandered here and there for a few years, and was arrested and sent to prison again.

It's not a good feeling to sweep people out of the house.Wu Min said quietly. I know.I hugged his shoulder hard. That day my father kicked me out. I didn’t bring any money with me. I walked around Ximending for an afternoon. I usually walked past the old man’s house, cheese Lin, and the pastries in the glass window cabinet. Pay attention, but that day, the piles of red bean sesame cakes made people swallow their mouths, their stomachs gurgled non-stop, and their stomachs were so empty that they panicked. I wandered with my father, and changed places to live in seven or eight places in two or three years, always being evicted by the landlord because of rent arrears.Once we lived in an alley on Yanping North Road, and the landlady was a dominatrix.We were in arrears of rent and had been late for two days. She and her fellows threw all our things into the alley.Basins, mouthwash cups, rolling around.My dad's two favorite four-color cards were also scattered all over the floor.My dad slipped away first, leaving me alone to pick up things all over the floor, and the neighbors were watching.At that moment, I wish I could get into the ground!After moving into Mr. Zhang's house, I thought I finally had a place to stay, so I was very careful and didn't dare to make the slightest mistake. Unexpectedly, I let Mr. Zhang go out in the end.Wu Min complained about Ai Ai again.

We walked to the entrance of Yuanshan Children's Paradise, stopped, and sat on the stone steps outside the entrance. We all took off our shoes, went barefoot, and leaned side by side.This area is so lively during the day, and the Children's Paradise is full of children's shrill laughter, but the surroundings are quiet at this moment, only Wu Min's voice of complaining, floating and sinking in the darkness. That evening, I carried a broken suitcase and walked out of Mr. Zhang's house. The more I walked, the more confused I was, and I didn't know where I went.Passing by a small river, probably on the side of Shulan Street, I threw the broken box into the river, thinking to myself: People don’t want to live anymore, so what do you need the box for?I am not angry, I have done nothing wrong, and Mr. Zhang is so merciless

Mr. Zhang is a scarred king five, what's the matter? Scar King Five?Wu Min said in astonishment. He laughed, as if a knife had been drawn on the corner of his mouth, didn't he look like a scarred king? You are so wicked, you will harm others!Wu Min was a little disapproving. Yo, your little life was almost in the hands of that surname Zhang, and you still protect him like that! Wu Min hugged her knees with both hands, squatted up, and after a while, said slowly: Mr. Zhang has a weird temper, a little hot and cold, unpredictable.But I don't think he is completely heartless, it's just that he is not easy to get close to.On the first day he kicked me out, he was very kind to me. He even gave me a small Sampo radio to play, and praised my Douban carp, which was delicious. It was rare that he was so excited that night. After drinking a bottle of Baigan, he said to me: Amin, you know, you have been with me for the longest time, do you think you can stay with me forever?Of course I said yes, but Mr. Zhang sneered and said: You are here to coax me again!You bastards are all carved out of the same mold. Give you some color, and you will climb on top of people's heads!Mr. Zhang told me that once upon a time there was a child who lived with him, and he doted on that little guy, but who knew that the little guy not only didn't appreciate it, but kicked him backwards, and stole all his things away.Mr. Zhang hates it when he mentions it.I half-jokingly swore to Mr. Zhang: Mr. Zhang, if you don’t believe me, I’ll show you to death!He sighed, with drunkenness on his face, patted my head and said: Amin, how do you know?Forty-year-olds can't be sad, and they can't afford to be hurt!Ah Qing, don't laugh, I'd rather wash the kitchen and wash the toilet at Mr. Zhang's house every day than be like a nomad wandering here and there.Ah Qing, where is your home?do you have a home

My home is on Longjiang Street, I said, Lane 28, Longjiang Street. Don't you miss home? My house is leaking, leaking badly.Ding ding dong dong, ding ding dong dong I laughed.Typhoon Daisy passed through the country the year before last and tore away a large corner of our house! I remember the next day, after the typhoon, our house was full of water, and the muddy rain came over the foot of the bed, always a foot deep. My father led me and my younger brother, all three of us were shirtless and wearing shorts. , my father held a large lead bucket in his hand, and my younger brother and I used washbasins. The three of us, father and son, scooped up water desperately and splashed it outside the house.The father kept humming and cursing, but the younger brother bit his lip and snickered, as if scooping water was a pleasure.After the water receded, our small, dark and damp house smelled of mud, which couldn't be removed.Later, my father got some wormwood and burned it. He said that it could remove the poison, because my baby's skin was sensitive, and he got a red rash all over his body after being exposed to moisture.

What about your family, don't you miss them? I miss my brother.I said. where is he? He sleeps under this.I pointed to the ground. Oh Wu Min turned his head and looked at me. Under the street lamp, his delicate face was full of childishness. Does he look like you? I hugged him and kissed him on the cheek. He looks a bit like you, baby. Don't be kidding me.Wu Min giggled and struggled to laugh. I stood up with my shoes on, and Wu Min also stood up. The two of us ran barefoot to the middle of Zhongshan North Road. I ran in front, and Wu Min followed me. Even the cars were gone.

Xiao Min, are we the Huns or the Xianbei?While running, I panted and turned around to ask Wu Min. Um? Didn't you say we are nomads? Is it the Huns?Wu Min laughed. What was the name of the King of the Huns? Call Shan Yu. Then I am the first danyu and you are the second danyu. Wu Min caught up and asked out of breath: Nomads live by water and grass, what about us, Ah Qing?What are we chasing? We chase rabbits!I cried. We all laughed, and our laughter rolled down in the night sky, on the undefended main road.