Chapter 1: Kid, do you have a boyfriend?
In July, the fiery red sun is radiating its charm, baking the earth like a sauna with burning charcoal.
The trees on the roadside looked like they had suffered a great blow, with their leaves drooping.
In this kind of weather, even if you stay indoors, you will sweat all over.
In a dilapidated small building, Su Yan stood in front of the window, frowning as she looked at a construction site outside the window.
Half a month ago, workers on a construction site broke her air conditioner. They agreed to compensate her with a new one, but there has been no explanation until now.
No one knows who contracted this construction site, but the people working there are all middle-aged men, all of them with dark skin and stronger bodies than bulls.
She plucked up the courage to go and ask twice, but the people got annoyed and stared at her with their big eyes, so she never dared to go again.
She was really short of money and couldn't afford to spend a few thousand dollars to buy another air conditioner.
She had not graduated from high school the year her parents died. Her grades were average, and after barely finishing high school, she did not continue her studies and just lived in this house.
The house is a self-built house with three floors and ten rooms. In the past two years, she has rented out the eight rooms on the bottom two floors.
A room costs three hundred yuan, which means she can have more than two thousand yuan a month, which is more than enough for her to spend by herself.
The third floor is different from the two floors below. It only has two suites. She lives in one, and the other one has been left empty because the tenant thought it was too expensive.
She had saved several thousand yuan before, but she had already used it to buy a computer. Now it was only the middle of the month, and she only had a little over three hundred yuan left in her pocket.
It's noon now and the wind from the electric fan is hot. She has already eaten three ice creams, and if she eats more, they will be gone.
There were people selling watermelons outside, but they were two yuan per pound. She calculated that a small watermelon was equivalent to her daily meal expenses, so she didn't dare to buy one.
"Dongdong"
Just as she was thinking about what to eat for lunch, the door, which had not rung for half a year, was suddenly knocked. She was startled and tiptoed over to look out through the peephole.
The man outside was too tall, and through the cat's eye I could only see a dark chest, bulging and with muscles as big as two inverted large bowls. He was covered in sweat, as if he had been caught in the rain.
She hesitated and didn't dare to open the door.
"Is anyone there? I broke your air conditioner last time, and I'm here to fix it!"
He Ji knocked on the door again, but heard nothing. He leaned against the door frame and lit a cigarette.
He had just come down from the construction site and had been exposed to the sun for a long time. The heat had not yet dissipated and he was sweating profusely. He couldn't wipe it off and he simply didn't bother to wipe it off.
He had seen the little girl inside from the steel frame. She had red lips and white teeth and looked like a delicate girl.
She is also small, more than a head shorter than him. People eat well these days, so I don’t know how she grew so small.
After finishing a cigarette, the person inside still didn't open the door and there was no sound at all. If he hadn't just seen her looking at him from the window, he would have thought that no one was home.
There was no time to waste with her any longer, so he raised his hand, ready to knock on the door again.
Before his hand fell, the person inside moved. The doorknob turned, and the door was opened a gap the size of a palm. A pair of vigilant eyes were half hidden behind the door.
He Ji gritted his teeth and sneered. He was familiar with this look. His neighbor had a kitten, and every time he saw him, he looked at him with the same look.
"Air conditioner repairman, where is your air conditioner?"
He lifted the toolbox and waited for the other party to have a good look before letting him in.
Su Yan pursed her lips tightly, thinking that this man looked really fierce, with big features and very sharp facial lines, just like a villain in a movie.
She didn't dare let such a person in, but the room without air conditioning was too unbearable.
After hesitating for two minutes, she finally moved away because she couldn't stand the heat anymore, raised her slender white hand and pointed towards the window.
As soon as He Ji entered, he felt extremely stuffy and hot, even hotter than outside, and there was hot air every time he breathed.
In a few breaths, the sweat on his body began to flow even more vigorously.
Beads of sweat kept pouring out of his body, and as he walked, they fell to the ground and bloomed into transparent flowers.
Su Yan followed behind, looking at the sweat beads on the ground, feeling very uncomfortable.
She has a slight obsession with cleanliness, and when she sees the sweat beads, she always wants to use a mop to clean them.
But she couldn't do that in front of others and could only endure the discomfort.
He Ji climbed out of the window to take a look, and came back sweating in a few minutes. This time even his pants were soaked.
He went to pour a few glasses of water and drank them, looking so natural, as if he was at home.
After drinking a bellyful of water, He Ji looked at Su Yan, who looked at a loss, and chuckled.
"Your air conditioner is quite old and wasn't very useful to begin with. What we did to it only shortened its life by a few months."
"How about this, I'll compensate you with one thousand dollars!"
It was because she was pretty that they paid so much compensation. If she was a rough guy, two or three hundred would have been enough.
Su Yan lowered her eyes, thinking that a thousand yuan was not enough to buy an air conditioner. If she wanted to buy one, she would have to wait until the end of the month to collect the rent.
Half a month is not a long time, but for her who is afraid of heat, it feels very long.
"I don't want money, just fix it."
He Ji licked his lips and thought, the little girl's voice is quite soft.
He was so dirty that even though he was thick-skinned, he didn't feel comfortable sitting on the sofa, so he just sat cross-legged on the floor.
"You've been using this air conditioner for quite a few years, right?"
"Even if it's repaired, it'll break down again in a few days. You might as well buy a new one and I'll install it for you."
Su Yan remained unmoved and continued to shake her head.
Looking at the beads of sweat on her head and her hands clutching her pants tightly, He Ji licked his lips and asked with a smile, "No money in your pocket?"
Su Yan didn't respond, but her hands gripping her pants tightened.
He Ji understood, stood up and clapped his hands, "Okay, you wait here, I'll get you a new one."
He works on construction sites and also manages interior decoration. He has familiar suppliers and can buy air conditioners much cheaper than others.
Before leaving, he turned back, looked Su Yan up and down, and asked in a deep voice: "Little girl, do you have a boyfriend?"
Su Yan was stunned for a moment and shook her head subconsciously.
After getting a satisfactory answer, He Ji walked away with his long legs.
He came back quickly, carrying a big box on his shoulder, and walked as if with the wind.
Su Yan didn't expect him to move so quickly, and she was too embarrassed to move after eating half of the noodles.
"I'm helping you install the air conditioner, but I won't even give you a bowl of noodles, right?" He Ji asked, pointing at the bowl of noodles she was holding.
"I'd have to eat five bowls of that kind of bowl you use!"
After standing there for two minutes, Su Yan finally understood what he meant. After thinking about it, she went to cook noodles.
She boiled a large pot, cracked the two remaining eggs into it, and then took the pot out.
"alright!"
Standing by the window, watching the man dismantling the old air conditioner outdoor unit, she called out weakly.
Seeing that He Ji was covered in sweat, she hesitated for a moment, but still took a bottle of water from the refrigerator, and went into the room to get an unused towel for him.
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