On the surface, the old lady is just an ordinary person and has nothing extraordinary. But if you ask about her in the village, someone will kindly remind you not to look for her. This man is not to be taunted.
The landlady is the head of the family, ranging from weddings and funerals to daily necessities. At home, she never cooks, but her wife can. She will praise the food that suits her taste, but it is not. It is common to break plates and bowls.
What's more, sometimes she is in a bad mood, or is blocked by troubles, and if she can't be solved, she will be very upset. She will either kick the rice table, grab something that can be dropped around her, or beat and scold her family to vent her anger.
The landlady's wife Lao Yang is the same age as her. Modest, honest and taciturn.
Outside, the landlady must be the most advantageous and reasonable party to talk to people, otherwise, she will never feel anything wrong with swearing.
The family can't object to what she wants to decide. Opposition is opposition, which is her most taboo and intolerable.
On Saturday morning, around 8 o'clock, the landlady's loud and high shouts can be heard in the rental houses and aisles of the whole building from the first floor to the fifth floor.
Panting, she knocked on the door from door to door and said, "It's time to pay the rent. If you don't pay it today, you owe five dollars a day. It's up to you! "
She was carrying a paper bag with two strings of keys in it, a peeled and rolled notebook and a ballpoint pen with adhesive tape and barely able to write.
She reminded the responding room to pay the rent, and did not forget to ask the tenant when to pay the rent, whether it is credit card or cash, WeChat or Alipay. Then take out a ballpoint pen and notebook, and write down the room number and tenant name that didn't respond.
The landlady is really a thrifty and extravagant person. Her family lives on the second floor. The light is better than that on the first floor, and it is not wet. Compared with the third to fifth floors on the first floor, she decorated the second floor exquisitely. Whether it's the leather sofa in the living room, or the new Chinese carpet under the coffee table, three-dimensional air conditioning, large wall-mounted TV, automatic heating water dispenser, large glass crystal chandelier and so on. , have chosen big brands. Of course, it also includes everything in the kitchen and bathroom.
0 1
I have long heard my colleague Xiaoli say the name of the landlady, thinking that I want to rent a house, but I can't meet such a landlord.
Because of the job transfer, and the girl who rented a house with me before did not intend to renew it, I planned to rent a cheap and clean house near the company, and Xiaoli just recommended my landlady's house to me.
I wanted to use the landlady's house as a substitute, but I really couldn't find a suitable one. However, after seeing the houses in several villages in the city, either the sanitary conditions are poor or the safety measures are worrying. Some houses are slightly better and the prices are higher. Finally, I went to see the landlady's house.
My landlady's house is in a village downtown. If I have to walk to work, it's only less than ten minutes from our company.
When I first met my landlady, we greeted her politely. She asked me about my basic situation and showed me two houses facing the sun on the third and fourth floors.
Compared with the house I have seen before, the landlady's house is clean and tidy, with a simple wardrobe and bed board. Every floor has a bathroom, but the bathroom is public. Near the balcony, there is a public kitchen with a partition every 1 m, which is marked with the room number, corresponding to the renter's kitchen.
Regardless of the geographical location or sanitary conditions, the landlady's house is my best choice. So I didn't hesitate, I rented the house immediately and paid the deposit and a whole month's rent. When I left, the landlady stopped me and whispered in my ear, "Girl, you should remember the price I rented your room. Don't tell anyone. I didn't rent anyone else for 500 yuan. "
I thought to myself that the old lady probably wanted to rent out the house, so she deliberately said it and made me feel profitable. Later, when I moved in and inquired with other renters, I realized that the landlady really didn't charge me 100 yuan a month.
But I don't know what my landlady's low rent and special treatment are all about.
After moving here, with the increasing number of meetings, I have different views on Xiaoli's evaluation of the landlady. On the surface, the landlady looks very strong and difficult to get along with, but when you get to know her, you will find that she is a sharp-tongued and cruel woman and a kind woman who takes special care of the weak.
On the south side of the first floor of the landlady's house, there lived a young man who loved to drink. This man is about twenty-three or four years old. He often invites a group of male and female friends to his room for drinks.
After drinking, there was a pile of beer bottles and garbage at the door. The most important thing is that several young people have been drinking until midnight, yelling all the time, and the laughter and slapstick from the room are endless.
The tenants are very dissatisfied with the young man. The landlady also reminded the young man that drinking is beyond her control, but it affects others' rest. She also piled a lot of rubbish and beer bottles at the door.
The young man promised that he would never do it again. But in action, I still go my own way and drink whenever I should. The garbage that is often piled up at the door of the room makes everyone who goes upstairs and downstairs accidentally mix it up.
Seeing that young people are always so perfunctory, the landlady gave the young people an ultimatum, either moving out within a week or changing houses with a resident on the fifth floor. If it affects others' rest again, just pack up and leave.
As soon as the young man heard what the landlady said, he agreed to change houses. So, the residents on the fifth floor moved to the first floor, and the young people on the first floor moved to the fifth floor.
The resident who moved to the first floor is an old lady with inflexible legs and feet. It seems that she is about seventy years old. The old lady is kind-hearted and amiable, and often takes the initiative to greet the residents who go upstairs and downstairs. One day when I went upstairs, I overheard a conversation between the landlady and the old lady.
"Thanks to you, I saved a lot of things, moved down from upstairs, and it was much more convenient to go out! Or let me go upstairs and downstairs every day. My old arms and legs really can't stand it! "
"It's okay that's okay, aunt, you are old, just moved here, I just want to rent the first floor to you, but at that time, the first floor was full of residents, so we had to let you live on the top floor temporarily. Actually, I also asked you about other tenants' houses on the street. Some people either rent out warehouses or make shops. There are other houses, but they are damp and dark, and no one is there. "
"That's really thank you very much! Let you bother! "
I listened to their conversation, and then I thought of those harsh words of Xiaoli's landlady. This contrast always feels that all appearances are not gold, and everything is still empty. Seeing is believing.
02
I'm sick. Even after two days off, I always feel feverish, sore muscles and dizzy. I simply took some cold medicine and antipyretic and fell asleep. Hearing someone knocking at the door, I opened the door in a daze and took a look. It seems to be the landlady, but it seems not. I have a terrible headache and can't take care of it. I fell on the bed.
When I woke up again, I found an infusion bottle hanging from my head and a needle stuck in my hand. Just wondering who gave me the needle, the landlady knocked at the door gently and came in.
"Yo, you wake up! You said that you really don't know how to take care of yourself, and you don't even know how to see a doctor when you are sick? If I hadn't held the floor of the corridor for the past two days and found that the curtains in your house were not opened, I would like to see the situation in your house. You said something would happen to you, who can afford it? " She sat on the stool beside my bed and said while putting the medicine in her hand on my bed.
"Aunt, I'm sorry to trouble you! I thought it was just a minor illness. It is good to take a medicine and sleep ... "
"You young people always think that youth is capital. You don't know how to take care of your health You know, health is a person's capital! "
"Aunt, thanks to you, otherwise my fever won't go away. But I feel much better now, auntie. How much did it cost me to see a doctor? I'll transfer it to you now. " I said as I picked up my cell phone from the pillow.
"Don't worry, don't worry, just wait until you pay the rent on the fifteenth of next month and then transfer it to me together."
Then she told me the usage and dosage of the medicine, and we also started a family conversation. I told you about my parents and my brother. She told me that she had a daughter who studied abroad and rarely came back for a year, and now she has a foreign boyfriend. As she spoke, she took out her mobile phone and turned out the photo album to show me her daughter's photos.
Looking at the photo of her daughter in the mobile phone, I always feel deja vu. Suddenly I found that I looked like her daughter, but her daughter was slightly fat and I was thinner.
After talking about her daughter, she went on to tell me about her youth. When she was young, she married someone before she was twenty. Before she got married, her husband's mother-in-law was a vegetable, and her father-in-law usually loved to drink. In the third year after her marriage, her father-in-law died of alcoholism and alcoholism.
Her husband is a lazy man. He usually likes playing mahjong, but nine times out of ten he loses. Face-saving, boastful and glib. She had a son who quarreled with her husband when she was six months pregnant and was kicked out by him. When my daughter was nine years old, her husband was directly killed by a cart when he crossed the road after drinking alcohol at one time.
Later, in the case of constant consultations and complaints, the perpetrators lost hundreds of thousands. With these hundreds of thousands of dollars, she built three more floors on the basis of the original two floors and simply decorated them. Her house is located in a small street in the center of the city, with a lot of passengers and a large flow of people, so it is easy to rent a natural house.
After her husband's death, she has to take care of her vegetative mother-in-law and raise her underage daughter, which is hard to avoid. She doesn't want to remarry, but sometimes she gets sick, and no one around her asks for tea. She thought, if she falls, who will take care of her grandmother in a vegetative state? Who will sympathize with her underage daughter?
Just when she was planning to recruit a professional, the neighbors spread the word that she had not fulfilled her responsibility and was not good for her mother-in-law with male tenants, regardless of her daughter's gossip.
She could stand such slander, and the more she explained it to others, the more unclear she became. She simply stopped explaining it, and quickly found someone to introduce her to several men who were similar in age and willing to come to the door. Finally, she chose her present wife, Lao Yang.
Lao Yang is honest and honest, and he doesn't talk much. He is kind to her and her daughter's mother-in-law, but she is very rigid and doesn't come to work. Lao Yang came to this home, although it relieved her a lot of burdens, but anything important at home and outside was decided by her.
If life is so smooth, there is nothing wrong with it. The winter after he remarried with Lao Yang, a male tenant came to the fourth floor. This man is tall and burly and rude to others. I often bring some social idlers to my house to play cards and drink, and sometimes I bring different women to my house for the night.
As the landlord, the private affairs of the male tenant are not her business. The only thing that matters to her is the rent. The male tenant paid one-on-one rent symbolically when he first arrived, and never got the rent again. After half a year's delay, the male tenant still doesn't want to pay the rent.
The landlady said that she had called the police and coordinated through the village Committee. The male tenant has a good attitude and promises to pay the rent in one lump sum, but she will do whatever she wants afterwards. Nearly a year has passed, and the male tenant still refuses to pay the rent or move out. In desperation, while the male tenant was not in the house, she packed all the men's things and threw them outside the door, and changed the big lock on the door.
Unexpectedly, this move completely angered the man. One night, the man sneaked into her house while she and Lao Yang were not looking. He also took a knife more than a foot long and put it directly around her neck. He asked her why she changed the big lock and quietly threw his luggage out of the door. If she is smart, she will continue to live, not to mention the rent. If she raises the rent again, she will die!
The landlady said that her legs were weak with fear at that time, and Lao Yang didn't know how to coax the man. Fortunately, her daughter was witty and slipped out of the house quietly, asking other tenants to help the police, and also asking several able-bodied tenants to help subdue the man.
However, in the process of their conflict, two male tenants were injured to varying degrees, and three fingers of her left hand were directly cut off by the man. Later, the man was taken away by the police station, but a few days later, the man escaped from the police station.
After that, the male tenant never appeared in her house, but the tenant who helped her subdue the male tenant was exempted from the rent for half a year, and the two injured tenants were also exempted from the rent for half a year, including all medical expenses.
Affected by this incident, a dozen tenants checked out, but it didn't take long for new tenants to move in. It was from this time that the landlady said that she was often irritable and wanted to lose her temper. To people and things, no longer compromise, no compromise.
Not long after this incident, my mother-in-law died and the neighbors spread it again. She and Lao Yang conspired to kill her mother-in-law. This time, she is no longer as before, submit to humiliation, ignored. But as long as someone is found to be broken, they will go directly to this family to make trouble, and sometimes even fight.
Over the years, she has really been at odds with some neighbors. She said she never cared. She also said to me more than once: "Girl, you should remember that people are good at being bullied and horses are good at being ridden." This is not empty talk, but a fact. "
That night, we talked late and the landlady left. Since then, I have been close to my landlady. Sometimes I buy some fruit from time to time to chat at her house, and sometimes I even go to her house for dinner.
03
I told Xiaoli about me and my landlady. Xiaoli stared at me in disbelief and said, "The sun won't come out in the west, will it?" ! Did the landlady Bodhisattva show mercy? You know, I used to live above her. She often runs up from the second floor angrily. As soon as I opened the door, I saw her lost face accusing me. Opening and closing the door is too loud, and walking in high heels is too loud. I smell of smoke, and there are too many garbage dumps at the door! In short, even if I sneeze, I may be scolded by her for a long time. "
"The somebody else say you, you are really wrong, you want to open and close the door louder, how can people not pile so much garbage at the door ..."
"Yo yo yo, you live for a few days, just talk to somebody else, such as time is long, she can show her true colors, at that time, and you cry. This landlady is even scarier than the chartered woman in Stephen Chow's Kung Fu. Anyway, I learned! "
"Xiao Li, everyone has an unknown side. When you understand, you won't feel how unreasonable her practice is, and ... "
"Stop it! I don't want to talk about this landlady anymore. Let's change the topic! "
After that, I chatted with Xiaoli, not a word. I didn't expect so many people to be prejudiced against the landlady, never reflecting on their own behavior. They denied the landlady only once and falsely accused her of being "cruel".
If I hadn't come to rent the landlady's house and didn't know the facts, I would probably think that so many people said she was mean, just like Xiaoli. Then she is a mean person, and she must be right!
It is said that people gather firewood and the flame is high. They thought that by giving the landlady a "bad name", the landlady admitted it? I am very glad that the landlady has become her own "hero" under all the gossip.
In fact, there are many people with thorns in this world, not to hurt others, but to wrap themselves up and protect themselves. I think the landlady is probably such a person.