Under the cover of night, Su Ran once again came to the community where he had lived for more than two years. Downstairs in the community, Xu Tianna's purple-red Q7 was parked quietly. She had arrived before Su Ran.
Su Ran whistled and climbed the stairs. The sensor lights lit up one by one along the way. Under the light, the corridor looked more and more dilapidated. This old appearance made Su Ran full of doubts. He really couldn't understand why Xu Tianna wanted to live here, leaving him with nowhere to stay and having to temporarily live in Robben's slightly messy residence.
Su Ran knocked on the door, and Xu Tianna came to open the door neatly dressed. Su Ran immediately complained: "I'm so tired."
"Then go and deal with it quickly, and go back to rest after you're done." Xu Tianna said with concern.
Su Ran glanced at her dissatisfiedly: "You are beautiful, but your emotional intelligence is really not high. I said I was tired because I wanted you to help me get a cup of hot water."
"I haven't lived here for a few days, where can I get hot water." Xu Tianna responded.
"There is an electric kettle and a gas stove at home. If there is no hot water, go and boil it. By the way, I like wolfberry lemon tea. Last time I moved, I didn't take the wolfberries and lemons with me. Go and make some for me now." Su Ran said as he sat down on the sofa, crossed his legs, picked up the tangerines in the fruit bowl and started eating.
Xu Tianna's face was slightly gloomy, but she still turned and went to the kitchen to get water, plugged in the electric kettle and started to boil water, then stood opposite the sofa and looked at Su Ran with a little resentment.
Su Ran was secretly proud of himself, thinking that if he didn't take advantage of her at this time, she might choke him with sharp words after she used him up.
"This tangerine is really good. Where did you buy it?" Su Ran said as he peeled another tangerine.
"If you like it, take it home and eat it, but can you please do your business first?" Xu Tianna said.
Su Ran replied calmly: "Last time I thought your cherries were good, so you asked me to take them back. This time I thought the tangerines were good, so you asked me to take them back too. Can I take anything I like from this room?"
"In principle, I can't argue with people like you, because you are so shameless." Xu Tianna said patiently.
Su Ran smiled and continued: "Then I like you very much. Come with me tonight."
Xu Tianna's face suddenly darkened, and she glared at Su Ran: "Please don't say things that you can say to every woman in front of me, I will think you are shameless."
Su Ran remained calm: "I am just following your logic, how can I be shameless? If you don't want to, then I don't like you."
Xu Tianna looked at the boiling water, and her expression seemed to want to stuff Su Ran into the electric kettle.
Su Ran was so happy. In the many verbal battles with Xu Tianna, he finally got the upper hand this time. The feeling of victory was wonderful. He even sang Faye Wong's "New Tenant" proudly.
"Waiting for the night, welcoming the day, cleaning during the day, praying at night, leaving the hustle and bustle, looking for troubles, the ends of the earth, a sudden impulse, is anyone there, who is looking for me, I say hello, you say disturbing, not too late, not too early, thousands of miles away..."
Xu Tianna stared at Su Ran and listened to him finish singing, but she was helpless. After all, she was not as thick-skinned as Su Ran.
Su Ran asked Xu Tianna again: "Do you know what song I just sang?"
Before Xu Tianna answered, he asked himself: "It's Faye Wong's "New Tenant". Do you feel that the lyrics are talking about our relationship? I wait for the night in this room every day, welcome the day, clean during the day, and pray at night. One day you move in on a whim, and I, the landlord, say 'hello' to you, but you reply 'disturb' to me, and then drive me out."
Xu Tianna sighed for a long time: "You are really good at association."
"This is not an association, it is a tragic story that happened not long ago." Su Ran pretended to be wronged and stood up from the sofa, glaring at Xu Tianna.
Xu Tianna ignored his words, glanced at the boiling water and said: "I'll go pour the water, where are your lemon slices and wolfberries?"
"Next to the toilet in the bathroom." Su Ran answered unhappily, still feeling wronged for the "analysis" just now, deliberately trying to disgust Xu Tianna.
Xu Tianna showed a disgusted expression, but she also knew that Su Ran did it on purpose, so she said with a gloomy face: "If you don't tell me, forget it, just make it yourself."
"You are so principled, you promised to make tea for me, and you will definitely make it." Su Ran took the opportunity to ridicule Xu Tianna's principles.
Xu Tianna finally couldn't help but get angry: "But did you really put the lemon and wolfberry next to the toilet in the bathroom?"
"Go ask the cockroaches in the bathroom, they live there, they must know whether it is put there or not." Su Ran said.
Xu Tianna was furious and said, "If you don't want to drink it, forget it." Then she walked into her room and stopped talking to Su Ran.
Su Ran, like a victorious villain, sang "New Tenant" to Xu Tianna's room again.
After singing, Su Ran remembered to go to the room where he used to live to find lemon and wolfberry, and made a cup of tea with boiling water. He sat comfortably on the sofa and drank it, and felt that life was instantly beautiful.
After a cup of tea, Su Ran was about to go to the bathroom to help Xu Tianna clean up the cockroach corpses, when his cell phone suddenly rang. It was Robben calling.
Su Ran answered the phone and heard a woman's voice: "Are you Su Ran?"
"Who are you? Why are you using Robben's phone?" Su Ran asked in confusion.
"Lily, the Lily from last time."
"Oh, is there something wrong?"
Lily said in a negotiating tone: "Robben went downstairs to buy cigarettes. I called to ask you not to come back tonight. I want to spend the night with Robben."
Su Ran was a little embarrassed. He had already messed up someone's good thing last time. It would be a bit unreasonable to refuse again this time. After hesitating for a moment, he said to Lily: "Okay, I won't go back tonight."
Lily was immediately happy and reminded: "Then call Robben later and tell him you won't come back."
"No problem."
"Remember, don't tell Robben that I asked you not to come back." Lily reminded again.
"Well, I said I had something to do and I won't go back tonight."
"Su Ran, you are so nice. I will treat you to dinner some other day when I am free." Lily hung up the phone happily after saying that, but Su Ran forgot to remind her to return the 100 yuan she took last time.
After the call ended, Su Ran was worried. If she didn't go back to Robben's place tonight, where could she spend the night?
With the worry of having nowhere to stay, Su Ran walked into the bathroom to help Xu Tianna clean up the dead cockroaches. In fact, there were not many. The insecticide last time was not effective. After searching for a long time, she found a cockroach that was not dead behind the toilet. But this one was enough to report to Xu Tianna.
Su Ran wrapped the cockroaches with toilet paper and stuffed some cigarette butts in them to pretend they were dead cockroaches. Then he came to Xu Tianna's door, knocked on the door and said, "The dead cockroaches have been cleaned up. I wrapped them with toilet paper. Do you want to come out and check? The insecticide is really effective." Xu Tianna opened the door and looked at the so-called "dead cockroaches" in Su Ran's hand with suspicion. Su Ran looked at her innocently, but he was thinking about the accommodation problem tonight. He didn't know whether Xu Tianna would let him stay overnight for helping him clean up the cockroaches, or would she ruthlessly kick him out of the house. And how would this delicate relationship between him and Xu Tianna develop in the next relationship? Would they become closer or still full of contradictions and frictions? Everything was full of unknowns.