Swindler

Before the bus stopped, I got off the bus impatiently. I looked around and waited for a taxi. However, it did not go as I wished. All the taxis passing by were already carrying passengers.

I was more and more convinced that my encounter with Mi Cai was not a wonderful arrangement, but a torture that I could not avoid.

Finally, a taxi arrived. I drove straight to the farmer's market. I remembered that there were small vendors selling some pesticide powder, and the pesticide sold in the supermarket usually couldn't kill cockroaches, so I could only hope the vendors hadn't closed their stalls at this time.

Arriving at the farmer's market, it's dark, don't say that the small vendors, even the shops inside have all closed down, I'm a little melancholy, although I've tried very hard, but this night, I am destined to be unable to buy any pesticide powder.

Helplessly, I could only settle for the next best thing. I went to the supermarket to buy a bottle of pesticide in an attempt to muddle through.

...

Arriving at that old house, it's already nighttime. It is already 10 o'clock, and the past hour of going back and forth is enough to torture me, I just hope Mi Cai doesn't find out that the pesticide I bought could only kill small bugs instead of the original good pesticide powder.

I knocked on the door. After a while, Mi Cai opened the door for me in her pajamas. She seemed to be eating something.

I asked curiously, "What did you eat"

"Cherry."

"What's a cherry?"

Mi Cai seemed to be very satisfied with my compliance today. She patiently explained to me, "Cherries are cherries. Go wash your hands first. There's still a lot of them!"

"Are you treating me to a meal?"

Mi Cai nodded and I immediately walked to the bathroom. I was a little happy. Mi Cai's attitude toward me was much better than before, so there was no harm in being a reliable person.

When I came out of the bathroom, Mi Cai had already placed the box of cherries on the sofa in the living room. She was holding a book and eating while reading. She ate elegantly and leisurely.

I sat down next to Mi Cai and looked at the box. The box was very exquisite. Only then did I realize that it was authentic cherries imported from Chile. It was not the kind of imported goods in the supermarket. This box cost at least a thousand.

I picked up two cherries and stuffed them into my mouth, "We all have one nose and two eyes. Why are you living so extravagantly?"

"What?" Mi Cai looked at me and asked.

"I say you live extravagantly. Since my mother gave birth to me, I've never eaten such expensive fruit!" I picked up two more and threw them into my mouth.

"Friends send them to me." Mi Cai replied and turned her attention back to the book she was reading.

"Then tell me, why don't my friends give me such expensive fruits? In the end, your class is corrupt and extravagant! A big parasite of the socialists." After I finished speaking, I picked up a few more and threw them into my mouth.

Mi Cai seemed to be in a good mood and didn't argue with me. She just said, "If you like it, you can take it back and eat it."

"I have to take it back." I stood up from the sofa and found a toilet bag to put the box in.

At this moment, Mi Cai finally put down her book and asked me, "Have you bought your pesticide powder?"

"If I didn't buy the pesticide powder, wouldn't I be embarrassed to come?"

Mi Cai nodded in agreement and said, "If you didn't buy it and still dare to come to me, that's harassment!"

"I bought it, I bought it. What harassment?" I said impatiently as I took out the pesticide I bought from my briefcase and prepared to hide it.

Mi Cai stared at the pesticide and frowned, "Didn't you say that it was the pesticide powder? This doesn't look like it!"

I panicked and immediately said, "Of course not. This is the latest pesticide developed. It has a miraculous effect on cockroaches."

Mi Cai looked at me suspiciously and said, "I've read about it in books. Cockroaches are highly resistant to drugs, and normal pesticides won't have much effect."

"Don't be dogmatic. Is this an ordinary pesticide? I'm not going to brag with you. Just this can in my hand can kill all the cockroaches in this house. It's simply inhumane!" I said nonsense.

Mi Cai still had a look of disbelief as she said, "Why do I feel that you're like a swindler?"

I felt a little guilty but still said angrily, "I'm doing this for your own good. Insect powder is very toxic. If you're not careful, you might poison a mouse or something. Aren't you too evil?"

Mi Cai was frightened by me and hurriedly said to me, "Then don't just stand there. Do what you should do."

"Do you want to come in and observe?"

Mi Cai shook her head repeatedly. I turned around without batting an eyelid and walked toward the bathroom in a smug manner. At this moment, I felt the pleasure of conquering the city, "Silly girl, expose me again. Come on…"

...

I held the cherry Mi Cai gave me in my hand as I bid farewell to her. It was already 11 o'clock. It would be at least 12 o'clock before I returned to Robben's place. I couldn't help but sigh at how torturous this night was.

Before I left, I told Mi Cai, "Don't use that bathroom tonight. After spraying the pesticide, there are too many toxic substances."

"Got it."

I asked in boredom, "Can you hold it in for the night? I feel like it's too much. I usually have to go to the toilet several times a night."

As expected, Mi Cai frowned and said, "Why are you so talkative?"

"I'm just worried about you, okay!"

"I won't be staying here tonight."

Mi Cai's words once again aroused my curiosity. From her words, I was almost certain that she had other houses in this city, but why did she have to buy this place and live there?

In the end, I didn't ask my doubts because Mi Cai wouldn't tell me. I asked her last time. Besides, knowing the answer was meaningless to me other than satisfying my curiosity. I was already used to doing meaningful things, so I didn't ask.

I took out another cherry from my pocket and threw it into my mouth. I said to Mi Cai, "Then I'll be leaving. In the future, if you can't handle anything in this house or the neighborhood, call me."

"Yes."

I coughed and the sensor light in the corridor lit up. Then I turned around and left.

"Zhao Yang, wait."

I turned around and looked at Mi Cai in surprise, "You're not planning to let me stay, are you? I can't even use the bathroom here. I can't hold it in!"

"Take your guitar." Mi Cai said as she turned around and returned to the room I used to live in. She took out her guitar from inside.

I didn't want to take the guitar from Mi Cai. After a long silence, I said, "I told you to find someone who knows the ropes. This guitar can definitely be sold for a good price. I don't have the money to pay you back now!"

"I asked you to return the money that day because I was angry with you. Take the guitar away. It doesn't belong to anyone. It only belongs to you and Jian Wei."

"How do you know this guitar is related to Jian Wei?" I asked in surprise.

"Your and her names are engraved on the guitar." Mi Cai's tone was very calm.

After a long silence, I didn't look at the guitar that Mi Cai had placed in the corner and whispered, "I don't want it anymore."

Mi Cai smiled, "You can lose a guitar, but you can't lose that memory in your heart. Why deceive yourself?"

I didn't say anything.

"Take it." Mi Cai placed the guitar box outside the door and closed the door.

...

With this lost guitar, I returned to Robben's place with a heavy heart. I happened to bump into Robben at the entrance of the corridor and a woman dressed seductively with him.

The woman took off her helmet and stepped off Robben's modified motorcycle. Robben also took off his helmet.

I immediately understood that this was a 'friend' who had been brought back by Robben.

Robben hugged the enchanting woman and introduced her to me, "Zhao Yang, this is my friend Lili."

I smiled and said, "I don't disturb you two, right? How about I go to a hotel?"

"It's fine, she won't stay. It'll be done in a while." Robben said.

"Alright, I'll sit downstairs for a while… Help me bring the guitar up first."

Robben took the guitar from me and patted me on the shoulder, indicating that it would be done soon. Then, he hugged the woman and walked upstairs. I sat at the entrance of the corridor and opened the cherries I brought back from Mi Cai's place to eat again.