Chapter 9 Chapter 9 The troubles of social animals (overhaul, construction...
It was almost nine o'clock when Shen Run got on the company's last bus. As soon as the bus drove out of the park, she felt a vague gaze falling on her.
Chen Run glanced back and saw a few researchers sitting scattered in the back row, all with their heads down, browsing their phones, but the vague feeling of being watched lingered.
She felt a little uneasy for a rare time, and hurried back to her old and shabby rental house as soon as she got off the bus.
Her roommate had not returned yet and the room was pitch black. She struggled to fasten the old iron door when the cell phone in her pocket suddenly vibrated.
Shen Run was startled, but when he saw the word "Mom" on the caller ID, his heart slowly fell back into his stomach.
She grinned unconsciously: "Mom?"
She groped in the dark, walking towards the bedroom while answering the phone.
A female voice with a slight rural accent came from the other end of the phone: "Xiao Run, have you eaten yet?"
After asking, she didn't care about Shen Run's answer and complained to herself: "...your cousin came to your father to borrow money again. I just said a few words that there was no money at home, and your father was so angry that he almost hit me. He only knew how to save face in front of relatives, without even looking at the few coins in his pocket. He turned around and transferred another 30,000 yuan to your cousin...Your brother's girlfriend is also a worry. Her family said that raising a college student is not easy, and they need at least 200,000 yuan for the betrothal gift. Where can our family get so much money? But your brother is old enough, he can't not get married..."
In the past, when she had complained so much, Chen Run should have taken the initiative to pay.
But...Chen Run glanced at the double-digit balance on the card, paused, and didn't speak for a moment.
Mother Shen didn't wait for Shen Run's timely reply and continued to sigh: "The little money we have at home has been borrowed by your cousins, and your father is keeping a tight rein on the remaining money. Mom doesn't even have money to buy steamed buns now..."
At the end of the month, when Chen Run was the poorest, she ate steamed buns and fermented bean curd every day. She didn't feel anything when she ate steamed buns for half a month. When she heard her mother was doing the same, she immediately felt bad: "I still have some here. Wait for me to transfer it to you. You should eat something good too. Don't always save money here and there."
She never told her family about her resignation and debt. Her previous customer service position involved some sales work, and she was willing to work hard and overtime, so her income was decent, and she could help her mother from time to time.
Yesterday, Director Lu noticed that she was not well off financially, so he transferred three thousand yuan to her privately, saying it was an advance payment of her salary. She thought about it and transferred half of it to her mother.
——Fortunately, her food, drink and transportation are now all taken care of by the company, and there is even a special place for washing and resting in the base, so she basically doesn't spend any money.
Mother Shen's voice finally had a hint of laughter: "A daughter still knows how to feel sorry for her mother." She said with a hint of tentativeness: "Did your salary increase again recently? How much can you earn?"
Her current internship salary is 32,000 yuan, and it will be 40,000 yuan after she becomes a regular employee. I heard that her salary will increase after working for a full year, but she has not yet completed the internship period and does not want to let her family know.
She changed the subject and said vaguely, "It's still the same. If you work hard, you can earn money."
"That's good. If you find a good job, remember to help your brother find one. You are siblings, so you have to help each other. Besides, your brother is a man, so he must be better than you at work."
Mother Shen warned, and then said: "You too, don't just be busy with work, you have to pay attention to marriage. Isn't it better to find a good man to marry while you are young than to work hard outside? If you have a man to support you, you won't be so tired, and Mom can enjoy the happiness with you."
Chen Run said she was honest, but in fact she was very strong-willed and didn't want to hear this. She always said what she wanted to say: "My brother is very capable, why don't you ask him for money? You got married while you were young, but I don't see my father supporting you! You can't even enjoy the happiness of your husband, and you expect to enjoy the happiness of your son-in-law?"
She always spoke in this deadly style. Mother Shen was choked to death and said angrily: "I'm not doing this for your own good, you damn child..."
Shen Run was unhappy and hung up the phone directly.
She sat on the bed in the dark, her chin in her hand, lost in thought.
——She knew from a young age that she was not welcome in this family.
Every year on her brother's birthday, he can always set up a table outside, but she has never celebrated her own birthday. Her brother likes to eat rice, so the family cooks rice at least once a day. Her brother likes to eat chicken legs, but she can only eat chicken ribs that no one wants. She is obviously better than her brother in study and sports, but the whole family can only see her brother. Even if her brother pees on the roost, the whole family will gather around to praise him for a long time.
No one knew that she liked to eat noodles, no one knew that she didn’t like chicken ribs, just like no one cared that what she wanted to study in college was not the nursing major with easy employment opportunities, but the medical major that could cure diseases and save lives.
When the first KFC opened in the city, her father happily rode his electric scooter to take her brother into the city to eat fried chicken. The first time she ate KFC was after she graduated from college. She took her first month's salary and mustered up the courage to push open the glass door with the icon of a kind old grandfather on it.
——In that family, the one who was in the same situation as her was her mother.
From childhood to adulthood, her deepest impression of her mother was her mother working everywhere at home and outside. Because they had the same experience and the same life of being disliked and misunderstood, she firmly believed that her mother was the only one who loved her.
When she was a child, it was her mother who secretly saved a few pieces of braised pork for her. After she graduated from college, it was also her mother who secretly gave her a thousand yuan without her father's knowledge, even though she herself had not saved much money. More than a year after graduation, only her mother remembered that she liked to eat the smoked pork, a specialty of her hometown. No matter how tired or busy she was every month, she would not forget to make some smoked pork for Chen Run and send it to him.
Chen Run rejected the blind date her father forced her to go on, left her hometown and came to the big city. She wanted to prove that she was better than her brother. No matter how hard or tired she was, she never compromised with her father. She wanted her parents to divorce, she wanted to buy a big house, make a lot of money, and take her mother, who had no job and no savings, out of that house so that she would not be exploited by her father and brother in the future.
Let mom enjoy herself and live a good life.
When she was most tired, she had to work part-time for 18 hours a day. It was this idea that helped her get through the period of unemployment.
While she was lost in thought, her stomach suddenly growled. Shen Run remembered that there was still half a pack of noodles in the cupboard, so she groped her way out again, and didn't turn on the light until she reached the kitchen.
It didn't matter that she turned on the light, but when she saw the situation in the kitchen, her eyes widened.
There were several bulging garbage bags piled up in the corner, one of which had a big hole in it, and the soup inside was spilling everywhere. There were seven or eight dirty bowls in the sink, and some debris was blocking the drain. There were two pots that had not been cleaned and were filled with greasy vegetable soup.
——It was obvious that it was done by her roommate Fang Yi.
Even with a good temper like Shen Run, his blood pressure tends to rise at this moment.
She was so angry that she called Fang Yi, but the other party hung up before the third ring. She couldn't not eat, so she had to suppress her anger and clean up the kitchen. After cleaning the pots and pans, she finally had a hot meal.
It is said that breast hyperplasia can be tolerated for a while. The more Chen Run thought about it, the angrier he became. He took out his cell phone and continued to call Fang Yi.
After dialing the seventh or eighth number, the call finally connected. Fang Yi said with a smile, "Xiao Run, you're still awake? I'm hanging out at the bar right now. I'll bring you some midnight snacks later... Oh, what's up?"
Fang Yi said something coquettishly, and soon a drunken boy came from the other end of the phone: "Don't call Fang Yi, we are busy."
Then there were a few more laughs, and the phone was hung up with a "click".
Chen Run's anger value reached its peak.
In fact, when Fang Yi and I first started sharing a house, our relationship was pretty good. We often bought groceries and cooked together, and went out together on holidays - but since she started dating, all this has changed completely.
It doesn't matter if he stays up all night and affects her rest. At most, she can just buy some noise-canceling earplugs. She also accepts that she is too busy with her love life to clean up the public areas. After all, cleaning is not a big deal and the effort is not worth much.
But isn't it a bit too much to leave the public areas in such a mess and not clean them up?!
Chen Run was so angry that she made several more voice calls, but the other party did not answer. It was already past eleven o'clock. She was so angry that she covered herself with a towel and fell asleep on the sofa in the living room.
I don’t know how long I slept, but suddenly there was a crisp sound of keychain at the door, and Chen Run startled and woke up.
She thought it was Fang Yi who came back. She propped herself up and was about to speak when the living room light turned on with a click. A man with dyed yellow hair walked in, smelling strongly of alcohol.
Her face paled slightly. "Chen Chao? Why is it you? Where's Fang Yi?" Her anger completely exploded. "We agreed before we moved in together that only girls were allowed in. How could Fang Yi give the key to a man?"
This man was Fang Yi's boyfriend. He shrugged and said nonchalantly, "Fang Yi is staying at my place for the past two days and asked me to pick up some clothes and daily necessities for her."
Shen Run's expression remained grim: "Why didn't she come back to get it herself?"
Chen Chao paused and smiled somewhat ambiguously: "After we finished our business, she was tired and fell asleep, so she asked me to get her something."
After he finished speaking, he glanced at Chen Run and smiled in a frivolous manner: "You have never been in love, you don't understand the relationship between lovers. Do you know what we did just now?"
As soon as Chen Run entered the room, she changed into a loose nightgown. She was not wearing any underwear at the moment and was covered with a thin towel blanket. He glanced at her white neck and bare feet and couldn't help swallowing.
There was something wrong with his eyes, as if a disgusting and slippery insect was crawling over her body. Shen Run cautiously put on a towel to cover his chest and frowned: "I'm not interested."
"Of course it's what lovers love to do." When he said the word 'do', he drew out the words smoothly, not minding her cold and gloomy face, and his eyes deliberately stayed on her chest.
He approached the sofa tentatively: "Xiaoyi said you are still single, do you want me to introduce you to someone..."
Chen Run stood up directly with a towel wrapped around him and pushed him rudely: "Try to get closer?"
Chen Chao is only 170cm tall with shoes on, but Chen Run was already 172cm tall when she graduated from college, and she has grown a bit taller in the past six months. Not to mention that she has been strong since she was a child. She was invincible among her peers since she was five years old. She had already pinned her brother to the ground and beat him when she was eight. When she was twelve, even her father who was over 1.8 meters tall was afraid of her. She even joined a Sanda club in college and won an award.
Who the hell is Chen Chao? She would be rich if she beat up five of them.
Chen Chao staggered when he was pushed, and his body shrank instinctively, but he still kept talking dirty: "Why are you pretending? Fang Yi said that you have been going out early and coming back late recently. Who knows, you might be having a lot of fun behind my back..." He hurriedly packed a few clothes, turned around and ran away.
Although Chen Chao had left, the nausea he felt after being stared at by him still lingered on him. The first thing Shen Run did was to put on his underwear and carefully lock the door, his anger level rising.
Although she was not afraid of Chen Chao, who wouldn't be angry if a man broke into her house in the middle of the night and harassed her?
And Fang Yi, why would she give the key to her rental house to someone else?!
Chen Run was angry at the couple's strange behavior, and also angry at himself for being a migrant worker from outside the city and not having the ability to make others pay the price.
Before going to sleep, she even thought with a hint of malice, wishing that something bad would happen to them someday.
The moonlight gradually gathered, and an illusory figure descended silently.
Her eyebrows were tightly furrowed, and the corners of her lips were turned down, with an expression of anger and a little grievance.
Chi Shuangliu admired it with interest for a moment: "You want revenge so much, how pitiful..." He lightly tapped her slightly frowned brow with his finger: "Satisfy you."
At around five in the morning, Shen Run's phone vibrated several times. She opened it in a daze and saw that an unfamiliar account had sent her several videos and chat screenshots.
The screenshots of the article revealed that Chen Chao had been in an relationship with Fang Yi when he still had a girlfriend, and those videos were videos of Fang Yi and Chen Chao in bed. The scale of the videos was extremely large, and the words they said were extremely explicit, which was simply disgusting to watch.
Judging from the camera position, it should be Chen Chao who took the initiative to take the photo, but I don’t know whether Fang Yi knew about it.
——Chen Run and Fang Yi are roommates, and the overlap rate of their Moments is quite high. It can be said that as long as she posts these contents on Moments, it will be enough to ruin the reputation of this couple.
Shen Run was confused.
......
Chi Shuangliu looked at her silently.
When he sensed the slight malice in Chen Run, he was like a shark smelling blood, and pounced on his prey impatiently.
He even used a little power of cause and effect to hand the sharp knife to Shen Run.
This is just a small matter, but he believes that if a person's desires and malice are constantly satisfied, then the desires and malice will continue to grow, and eventually her malice will continue to expand to the point where she can be enslaved by him.
He looked forward to her choice, he looked forward to her fall.
......
Chen Run was confused for a moment, and subconsciously dialed the number, but the phone came with a prompt tone saying "The number you dialed is not in service."
How coincidental! She had endured so much indignation, and just yesterday she was thinking about how to vent her anger, and now a ready-made handle was handed to her.
Shen Run stared at the photo for a long time with a serious expression, and finally took out his cell phone and called... the police.
"Hello, is this the police? I want to report someone secretly filming pornographic videos and illegally distributing them. I don't know how they ended up on my phone, and it's having a huge impact on me both physically and mentally!"
Chi Shuangliu: “?”
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