Memoirs of a Mortal

CHINA

"Oops! Little girl, the rent will go up by 200 yuan next month!" The landlord had the most popular wavy perm, wore a purple velvet cheongsam, chewed melon seeds, and spoke in an authentic dialect! Typical Shanghai woman.

"Auntie, why did the rent suddenly increase?" My roommate Qiqi walked to the door and asked the landlord, while I sat on the sofa in the living room and watched TV.

"Do you know about the World Expo? School is about to start next year! If you didn't think you were a student, I would have added 200 yuan for a room! Well, the building opposite is 200 yuan per person." "The landlord glanced at me and pointed points in the opposite direction.

Because of what happened to my grandmother in junior high school, I was given an ultimatum very early and was not allowed to go to an ordinary high school or ordinary university. Therefore, I transferred from junior high school to a private boarding school in Shanghai. After studying in junior high school and high school together, I could only enter an ordinary junior college. Because I liked drawing when I was in school, I chose a major in interior design. According to my parents, my uncle has a construction company in Shandong. They wanted me to go directly to my uncle's company to help after graduation.Even a modest private boarding school wiped out nearly all of my grandmother's and mother's savings. So in those years, in order to save travel expenses, they rarely came to Shanghai to visit me. After I entered high school, my father resigned from the factory and went to Xinjiang with a few friends to do some small projects.So, after many twists and turns, I was admitted to a junior college. In order to reduce the burden on my family and work part-time on weekends or during the summer, my classmates and I moved out of the dormitory and rented a room in this three-bedroom apartment.It is said to be Room 3, but it is actually Room 5, because the kitchen is divided into a room, and a couple lives in it. In fact, I don't know how they lived in that 4 square meter room. The living room is also divided into two. Half of it is where I sit now, with a loveseat and a TV. The original windows were zoned for rental use in the living room, so lighting in the living room now relies solely on an overhead 5-inch LED light.The original living room balcony has also been transformed into a separate bathroom. Residents take a shower standing on the balcony, covered with a simple shower curtain. In this way, 11 people lived in a three-bedroom house of 80 square meters. Of course, this is normal. After all, this is Shanghai, the Rakshasa Kingdom, and every inch of land is precious.According to what I learned at the time, there was also a house filled with bunk beds, men and women living together, and more than 20 people living together. privacy? It’s great to have a place in Shanghai where you can rest after working until you’re exhausted! It’s great to have a job here! Although its Oriental Pearl Tower is so dazzling and the Bund is so prosperous! But of what use are these to the many people who have struggled all their lives and cannot afford to buy a house or even a toilet here.

Because of its prosperity, it has attracted groups of young people from all over the country to come here to devote their youth. It is precisely because of its indifference that those who have spent half their lives with hope gradually leave! Because this is the Rakshasa Kingdom, a country that values interests and relationships! Relationships between people are deeply embedded in culture. This is not a place where as long as you study hard and work hard, you can truly be treated fairly and have a chance to succeed!

Some people may say that the world is very beautiful! What is indifference you speak of?

Indifference is a way for people to gradually form self-protection after experiencing disappointment after being kind again and again.

People born in Rome exchanged resources just to use each other's advantages to improve their power and status.A financial tycoon who had returned from studying abroad and was a national-level talent was studying how to obtain inside information in a high-end place with his partner and his lover, and at the same time he was thinking about how to pocket criminals - and he got something! Therefore, in the next few years, "P2P" fraud and short-selling incidents in the stock market will appear one after another in the Rakshasa Kingdom. As long as they can maintain a luxurious life, who can listen to the laments of those who were deceived and lost all their money?

Lower-class college students spend all their parents’ life savings just hoping to find a decent job after graduation. However, because they are ignorant of human nature and cannot accept the harassment from their bosses, and their families have no local connections, they work endless overtime for meager wages, or they are fired! Put on yellow work clothes, ride an electric motorcycle, shuttle through the streets and alleys of Rakshasa Kingdom, and become a delivery boy who works from dawn to dusk? The old people on the street cannot get pensions, the fields full of crops have been ruthlessly expropriated by the government, and the houses built in the countryside have been destroyed overnight! So they took to the streets and laid down in the middle of the road, hoping that if someone hit them with a car, they would get a huge compensation! However, those who had good intentions to help them became perpetrators!

At night, the lights of Rakshasa Kingdom are brightly lit, and the bustling streets of Shanghai are busy with traffic. Young face, charming makeup, sexy clothes! On the streets, in clubs, and online, people demonstrate dance moves and various talents they learned in college, becoming playthings of power and trade. Just to make the lives of people far away better and no longer be looked down upon by relatives!

Experienced doctors and nurses were running up and down the hospital corridors. The patient only needs one operation to save his life, but because the hospital requires payment in advance, the family is very poor! They can only leave this world with pain and resentment!

"Landlord! The Expo is not until next year! We live far away from the exhibition hall! Why do we need to increase the price?" I stood up from the sofa and turned to look at her: "You look really good today. Where are you going to play later?" "I smiled and flattered her.

"Oh, you don't know, although we are far away from the convention and exhibition center, we are also in the urban area! Since we are in the urban area, there must be many people coming to travel! By then, the prices of houses and goods will increase! I don't think you will stay here for a long time. Yes, the price will only increase by 200!”The landlord's face smiled like a flower.Although I am older, there is nothing to say about my figure.

"Auntie, you see we live together and I am still a student! If the rent rises by two hundred, I will skip breakfast several times a month! You are so good-looking, can it be cheaper?"? “I ran over and wanted to hug the landlord, but he was startled by me and hid aside.

"Oh, don't do this to me!" The landlord sent a message on his mobile phone, "This way, you also say that you are a student! It's not easy for everyone to come out, and I also want to go to the dance! 150, I gave you 50 cheaper! Okay, no need to say more, it will be counted as 150 from next month!" After saying that, she rubbed her hair, turned around and left.

"She left in style, but our rent is too expensive! It's summer vacation soon. Where should we go to earn enough rent and living expenses for the second half of the year?" Qiqi closed the door and murmured softly.

Yes, how should we arrange the summer vacation?