In mid-August, the temperature in Hangzhou had reached 38 degrees, and it was not cool at all even in the evening.
Lu Xiaoqiao was busy in the kitchen. The space, which had been cool before, was now as hot and stuffy as a steamer. She washed the dishes, cleaned the bathroom, closed the kitchen door and walked into the living room. As expected, the air conditioner outside was turned off.
Her aunt's family went to the hospital to accompany her mother-in-law to get saline drip, and now only she and Zheng Yan were left at home.
Zheng Yan is my cousin's girlfriend, one year older than him. Not long after they started dating, she moved into my aunt's house. At first, she pretended to be reserved and lived in the small room downstairs with Lu Xiaoqiao. But within a week, she began to sneak upstairs and sneak into her cousin's room every night, and then return quietly in the early morning.
Tonight is Lu Xiaoqiao's last night staying here. Tomorrow she will move to a house rented with a colleague and good friend. Although the conditions there cannot be compared with here, it will definitely be comfortable to live in.
Thinking about helping my aunt clean the living room again, I went to the bathroom on the second floor to get the mop. When I passed by my cousin's room, the door was not closed tightly, and a slight cool breeze came out from the gap in the door, along with the sound of talking.
"Liu Ye and his parents went with his grandmother to get an injection. She is downstairs washing dishes. I don't want to let her go. If she leaves, there will be no one to do the work. But it's also annoying to have an outsider at home, living here for free."
"She relies on her good looks to seduce people. The last blind date I introduced to Sister Na was seduced by her..."
Lu Xiaoqiao didn't have the habit of eavesdropping on other people's conversations. It was just that the voices were too loud and she happened to overhear. The topic was herself, and the content of the conversation was getting more and more outrageous.
She wanted to raise her hand to open the door, but when she thought about the dilemma her aunt would face if she went in, she slowly withdrew her hand that was about to open the door.
Take a deep breath, forget it! Anyway, it's the last night. Even if I run into her during the day, we are not in the same department after all. I will stay away from her and I won't be bothered by her.
With my mind made up, I turned around and walked downstairs.
When she arrived at the living room and just restarted the air conditioner, she heard a sobbing sound coming from the direction of the balcony. Thinking of the dumplings that were temporarily placed outside the balcony, Lu Xiaoqiao quickly put down the broom in her hand, turned the door handle, and pushed open the balcony door.
The door of the cage used to store Tuanzi was open. The cooling ice pad that Lu Xiaoqiao bought for it was still inside, but Tuanzi's little figure was nowhere to be seen.
"Woo woo"
Looking up in the direction of the voice, Lu Xiaoqiao's heart almost jumped out of her throat.
There was a tiny puppy standing on the air conditioner's external unit. It was frightened by the sound of the machine and was spinning around in circles, wanting to jump away. However, the seven-story height of the machine was like a bottomless abyss for its tiny body.
Lu Xiaoqiao slowly moved towards it, carefully stretched out her hand, and called softly, "Don't be afraid, Tuanzi, come here."
Even though they had only been together for a few days, the little guy knew who was good to him. He walked closer and licked Lu Xiaoqiao's hand.
I took Tuanzi down, double-checked that he was not injured, and gently placed him in the cage.
It was impossible for such a small puppy to run to such a high external machine by itself. It was obvious who did it. Lu Xiaoqiao originally thought that she could just endure it for the last night.
But at this moment, she couldn't bear it anymore!
She untied the rubber band from her wrist and tied her hair tightly into a high ponytail.
My aunt always says that girls look gentler without their hair tied up, and that she looks better with her hair down. She usually lets her hair down.
But at this time, she was afraid that it would affect her performance.
Lu Xiaoqiao came to the second floor. The door of the room was still unclosed as before. Zheng Yan was still on the phone, but her posture had changed from sitting to lying lazily on the bed, and the content of the conversation was still her.
"Bang!"
Lu Xiaoqiao kicked the door open.
Zheng Yan, who was still on the phone, was startled by the sudden voice: "Are you sick? You scared me."
"Why didn't I scare you to death?"
Adhering to the principle of not wrongly accusing good people, Lu Xiaoqiao still asked politely: "Did you put the dumplings there? Why did you do that?"
Zheng Yan sat up from the bed, hung up the phone which showed it was still on the line, and looked up with contempt and arrogance in her eyes.
"I put it there, so what? I was just teasing it for fun."
"It's so high, you know the consequences of it falling."
"So what? It's just a dog. If it falls, it falls. I didn't put you there...ah!"
There was no apology or guilt, and Lu Xiaoqiao couldn't understand where her self-righteousness came from.
Without waiting for her to finish, Lu Xiaoqiao took a few steps forward, grabbed Zheng Yan's hair, and with her other hand grabbed her arm and dragged her out of the room.
"Tease it? Okay, I'm in a good mood today, so I'll tease you too."
The two of them pulled to the door. Zheng Yan's free hand held on to the door frame tightly and she screamed and said threatening words to Lu Xiaoqiao.
"Ah! Ah Lu Xiaoqiao, let me go. If you dare to do this to me, I will let Liu Ye fire you. I will not let you off easily."
Zheng Yan struggled to get Lu Xiaoqiao to let go, but because her hair was being pulled by Lu Xiaoqiao, she couldn't pull her hair and her attention was only focused on the hands that were pulling her.
The sudden pain made Lu Xiaoqiao relax the strength of her hands for a moment. She quickly glanced at the back of her hands and forearms, then turned around and tightly grabbed Zheng Yan who was trying to run. Then she lifted her legs to trip her, sat on her, and held her hands with her hands.
"Oh! Fire me? Fine! Just go ahead and tell him. It'll be a good chance for that blind man Liu Ye to see the true face of the woman he likes. Isn't it hard for you to wear the 'mask' every day? I feel tired for you."
Sometimes, Lu Xiaoqiao had to admit that Zheng Yan was very good at acting one way in front of people and another behind their backs.
For example, in front of her aunt's family, she would sweetly follow Liu Ye and call herself "Sister Qiao", and when there was no one around she would just call her by her name.
Every time they competed to do the housework, after my aunt and the others went back to their room, they would throw the rag and throw all the housework to Lu Xiaoqiao, and command her to do it faster in an imperative tone.
The reason why Lu Xiaoqiao kept silent was that she was afraid of causing trouble for her aunt. It was okay for her to do more housework, but if what she said affected the two people who were in love, she would be the one who was wrong no matter how right she was, after all, this was not her home.
I wanted to drag her to the balcony to scare her, but I thought about the trouble that would happen if the neighbors heard the noise. In serious cases, they might call the police and take her to the police station. She was not crazy enough to hurt the enemy and herself just to teach a little villain a lesson.
Finally, they dragged her into the bathroom, held Zheng Yan down to prevent her from moving, and used the shower to wet her whole body from head to toe using alternating hot and cold water. She struggled a few times at first, but then she just sat there, hugged her legs tightly with her arms, buried her head between her knees, and sobbed.
Lu Xiaoqiao closed the valve, breathing a little quickly and panting slightly, then she put down the shower and drained the water from her slippers that had gotten soaked when she was showering Zheng Yan.
He glanced at Zheng Yan who was still crying and snorted, "Why are you crying? I was just teasing you."
After hearing what she said, Zheng Yan cried even louder!
Lu Xiaoqiao frowned and warned, "Sometimes you can't go too far. I don't cause trouble, but that doesn't mean I'm afraid of it. You can ask Liu Ye why I came to Hangzhou to study when I was a child."
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