Gypsies live together in Shanghai (3) Magic Capital.

On Saturday afternoon, I was awakened by a knock at the door during my nap. The two sisters stood at the door, with bookkeeping books in their hands, and said confidently, the property fee has been collected!

Sleepy-eyed, I heard the two of them arguing about the charging standard. I went back to get my glasses, called my boyfriend's lawyer Liu halfway to confirm that I had not paid the property fee before, and then transferred the money to the corresponding account according to their instructions.

In a blink of an eye, I have rented a house in Shanghai for a year and a half, which is almost the length of my graduation. When I just graduated, I rented a three-bedroom and two-bedroom house with my school roommate near our company. When I settled my luggage on the way out of school, I turned around and got on the train to Xi 'an, where I stayed for nearly five days. After lawyer Liu came to pick me up, they took the train all the way from An to Xining to Qinghai Lake and Golmud, stopping and stopping all the way, and finally took the train to Lhasa.

For me, this feeling of "on the road" is like eating ice cream. The first bite is very sweet, the second bite is very sweet, and you will be very tired after eating it. I used to feel that I was a wanderer in my bones. I could be home anywhere and take pleasure in it. However, on the first17th day of the journey, when I finally lost my curiosity about the local customs and unique scenery along the way, I came out of Potala Palace that day and sat on the sofa where I could bask in the sun. I really enjoy the headache caused by altitude sickness. When I looked up and saw the more delicate peach blossoms against the blue sky and white clouds, I began to miss Shanghai at the end of March. This yearning is not necessarily because I love Shanghai, but because Shanghai has a fixed place where I can rest.

However, I was wrong. The rest place in Shanghai is not fixed.

After returning to Shanghai, Lawyer Liu also started to work here, so he also needed a place to live. This falls into a paradox: if you want to buy a house, you have to get married, and lawyer Liu and I were not ready to get married at that time. Later, it proved that our children's posturing was so inappropriate and unrealistic. Shanghai's housing prices experienced the skyrocketing in the spring of 2065438+2006, and now we ordinary young people dare not think about it in the short term.

After reading it several times, I finally got a generally satisfactory house. Then I moved out of the house I shared with my roommate and began to live with lawyer Liu.

As a fresh graduate, I rented a house at home and outside the school dormitory for the first time and lived with lawyer Liu. You know, we have been in different places since we were together, and the time spent together in different places does not necessarily add up to one month. We are all very excited, as if we were the host and hostess of this house.

This is not our house, but we love it from the bottom of our hearts.

There was no sofa at home, so I bought a second-hand sofa, milky white, with two seats. When we came back, we dismantled all the sofa cover and put enough laundry detergent in the washing machine. Hey, it's brand-new. The second-hand sofa has become a Greek goddess in a long white dress.

I have always had a carpet complex. I dragged lawyer Liu to IKEA and came out again. I like it so much. One night, I walked with lawyer Liu and found a small shop selling furniture on the roadside. Lawyer Liu walked into the shop and asked the clerk to cut out a blanket on the spot with a ruler and scissors. Although it is not so pure carpet, when I spread it on the floor and stepped on it, my heart was full of joy.

Walking on the road, I found abandoned building materials on the roadside. I turned my eyes around and found a rectangular wooden frame, and directed Lawyer Liu to pick it up and put it on the balcony, just to make a fence. Originally natural and simple, later more and more flowerpots were put in, which became a unique landscape.

At that time, I knew that for people like me, the motivation for cooking is definitely love. I got off work early at first, so I went home to cook for myself every day. Lawyer Liu usually tries to finish the day's work as soon as possible, go home early, and then go into the kitchen to help me. After that, I will definitely take photos to satisfy my vanity as a "chef". I will cook soup at home on weekends and occasionally invite friends to cook together.

This is not our house, but it can't stop those happy moments in it.

At the end of summer, the typhoon came to Shanghai again, and it rained all day over the weekend. In the evening, lawyer Liu turned on the electric fan to blow dry. I said to him, "Can you turn off the electric fan? I want to hear the wind and rain outside. " Lawyer Liu went to turn off the electric fan and fell asleep. I cook rice porridge in the pot. Lawyer Liu said that he was sleepy and was about to fall asleep. I said go to sleep. Remember to wake up when you are hungry.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, and the pomegranate is ripe. We bought three from the fruit shop. Eating and eating, I suddenly thought of doing something, so when I passed by Mr. Liu, I stuffed 90% pomegranate into his hand and said, I'll finish it for you. He said helplessly in situ, you are "eating for you"!

Near the end of the year, lawyer Liu will perform cross talk again, so he began to write jokes again. I was reading a book on the sofa, and he came to tell me what new jokes he had written in the cross talk draft. Hearing this, I looked up and said, you are fooling around again. He quickly sniffed under his arm and said, Really? I asked, what did you hear? He said, didn't you say I have "body odor"? I rolled my eyes: I said your cross talk was "nonsense" again! Lawyer Liu has been making fun of my Fujian accent, which is similar to H and F. I didn't expect to add another case this time.

When I was a child, I saw the story of Sanmao living in the Sahara desert. At that time, I always yearned for it, fantasizing about going to a strange place, preferably a foreign country, where the language was unreasonable and the conditions were difficult. It's best to meet my prince charming there, and then two people will wander around the world.

When I really plunged into the world of mortals now, I realized how precious it was for Sanmao to keep beating with a warm heart in that environment, and how young he was when he had that idea. Fortunately, however, I can still be as curious about life as I was then.

Prince charming didn't wait, but at least, he waited for lawyer Liu; In the end, there is no sword wandering sideways, but who says that every day now, this steaming real life is not the biggest adventure for everyone who is restless?

Colleagues and friends around me have encountered the landlord's starting price to increase the rent, and also encountered the situation that the landlord did not settle the deposit after moving out. After renting a house and moving has become a common topic between us, I can't help but feel that we "proletarians" who are struggling in Shanghai are really like gypsies. Gypsies move from one town to another and from one river to another. They live without a fixed place. Aren't we gypsies who moved from one house to another in Shanghai?

Whether in Beijing, Shanghai or Shenzhen, it is a common social phenomenon to be unable to afford a house. The point is, are you the gypsy who can dance happily in the rented caravan?