Chapter 123
Joyson solemnly declared that no matter what kind of house interior he saw, he would not be surprised.
But the reality is:
When the door of the house opposite Building 78 was pushed open, Joyson was shocked at first that it was not locked.
"You didn't lock the door??"
The red-haired boy asked in a startled voice.
Qiao Daisi also asked with concern: "Did you forget it when you went out before, or did you sneak back recently?"
Jiang Yunu laughed awkwardly: "I said it has never been locked. Do you believe it?"
The Qiao family mother and son all disagreed.
But Aunt Daisy was more knowledgeable. While she looked disbelieving, she felt a nerve in her forehead twitch suddenly.
Something seemed to be wrong.
Jiang Yunu pushed the unlocked door open with force. The moment the crack in the door opened, Joyson opened his eyes wide, ready to take a closer look at the situation in Jiang Yunu's secret base - and then he was hit in the face by the dust that came out through the crack in the door.
“——cough cough cough cough!!”
Joyson burst into a violent coughing fit, accompanied by an itchy nose and watering eyes.
He almost burst into tears standing at the door of Jiang Yunu's "secret base".
"...Should I remind you to wear masks and goggles first?" Jiang Yunu felt a little guilty, and she rubbed the tip of her nose ashamedly.
"What is this?" Joeysen, his eyes and nose red, closed his eyes and covered his nose. He tried hard and stubbornly to see the inside of Jiang Yunu's house through his fingers, and then asked a soul-searching question, "What is this?!"
Jiang Yunu: "It's... the house I live in."
The red-haired boy almost broke his voice: "Does this look like a house people can live in??!"
Jiang Yunu was speechless.
After a moment, she said sincerely, "You're right. You finally discovered that I'm a ghost."
Jiang Yunu, who was talking nonsense, was quickly hit on the head. Although Qiao Daisi was also shocked by what she saw, she still knocked the little girl on the head to tell her to stop talking nonsense.
After the knock to remind her not to talk nonsense, Qiao Daisi was also shocked by the interior of the house. She was silent for a while, standing at the door with her son, staring at Jiang Yunu's "nest".
Then, the red-haired lady finally asked, "Is this really the house you live in?"
Jiang Yunu nodded obediently: "Yes, yes."
Jodie added, "You've been living in this kind of environment ever since you moved to the down-home strip, until you came to sleep on the second floor of our house."
Jiang Yunu: "...Yeah, that's right."
The red-haired lady took a deep breath, her chest rising and falling noticeably.
According to the Internet slang in Jiang Yunu's previous world, Jiang Yunu felt that Aunt Daisy seemed to be restraining herself from "getting too red and warm".
But maybe I couldn't control it.
Because Jiang Yunu's head was hit again soon, Qiao Daisi slapped her on the head with suppressed anger: "Take auntie in and take a look. I want to see how you lived in this environment before!"
Jiang Yunu: "..."
Jiang Yunu decided not to speak for the time being. She obediently acted as a guide, leading Aunt Daisy and Joyson into her "home", which seemed a bit out of place to them.
To be honest, when Jiang Yunu still lived in this small house, its appearance was not so...unsightly.
At that time, she at least cleaned up the large garbage in the lobby on the first floor, and flushed the space on the second floor with a pipe so that it was relatively clean. She also used the daily necessities that she picked up from the recycling bins later to clean the bathroom, wiped the few pieces of furniture on the second floor, and covered them with tablecloths and sheets that were also recycled.
From Jiang Yunu's perspective at the time, she could barely be considered to have a little nest with a "post-apocalyptic wasteland style".
But after a semester away at school, I could only count the days I returned to Chat City. The number of times I took care of my little home during that time was less than three fingers long. During the winter break, I didn't come back for almost a month...
Jiang Yunu checked her conscience and found that her little nest could only be described as "apocalyptic refugee style".
It still looks like a refugee site.
“…”
Joyson and Jodaith walked around Jiang Yunuo's house in silence. Even though Joyson felt that his family was not rich and that they were a typical poor family living in a run-down street, when he walked into the house that was said to be Jiang Yunuo's nest, he felt that his family was surprisingly wealthy.
The red-haired boy's eyes were still red. He had cried because of the dust before. Now he was really sentimental and wanted to cry when he saw Jiang Yunu's previous living environment.
Jodie discovered the blind spot. She looked around the empty and dusty first-floor hall and asked the little girl, "Where do you sleep?"
As far as the eye could see, there was not even a chair to sit on, let alone a bed.
Even if Jiang Yunu had a bit of wildness in him, he couldn't just act like a stray cat, sneaking into an empty house, coiling on the concrete floor and sleeping, right?
"There is a second floor!" Jiang Yunu answered immediately from the side, "I live upstairs, and the conditions are a little better than downstairs!"
Speaking of "the conditions are better than downstairs", Jiang Yunu straightened her back a little, feeling that talking about the second floor would make her feel less guilty.
Jodaisy looked around again and said, "So, how do you get up to the second floor?"
Jiang Yunu pointed to the wall and said, "There are stairs there."
Joyson and his mother looked at the broken steel staircase that ran along the wall.
He asked in a nasal, shocked voice, "—is this a staircase a person can climb?"
"Yes," Jiang Yunu hastily assured them, and planned to demonstrate it on the spot. "At least I have no problem getting up and down. I'll go up and show you!"
Before Jodie could stop her, she saw a little girl demonstrating her ability to walk on walls. She trotted in front of her and Joyson, and came to the broken stairs. She jumped on the spot, like a cat or a bird, her body floating and landing on a step that was at least one person's height from the ground.
Joyson: “…”
Qiao Daisi: "..."
Jiang Yunu turned around on the steps and said, as if to show off: "Look, it's easy to get up here!"
Joyson found his voice and murmured to himself, "I think you might be the only one in the world who feels relieved."
When Jiang Yunu floated up the stairs, the red-haired boy noticed that she hardly caused any vibration in the steel frame of the stairs.
Is this reasonable? This is totally unreasonable!
But because she was Jiang Yunu, Joyson felt that it was beyond common sense, but also strangely reasonable.
"Do you really have some beast genes?" the red-haired boy asked sincerely, standing at the foot of the steel steps. "Like cat genes, raptor genes, or something like that. Is that why you can do things so easily that ordinary humans can't?"
Jodie felt that her son had also started talking nonsense, but it was also possible that her two children had the same goal and were close because their brain circuits were similar.
Jodie also walked to the bottom of the stairs.
The red-haired adult woman asked pragmatically, "Do Joyson and I have the honor of visiting your second floor?"
She actually wanted to ask how ordinary people could get up there.
Joyson felt that the following scene was a little too beautiful and he didn't dare to look at it, but anyway, it took him a few minutes and he and his mother stood on the half-finished stairs of Jiang Yunu's cottage.
Joyson took two tentative steps up the stairs. The old steel connecting shaft made a metallic friction sound, creaking, which made his hair stand on end.
"I-I think we should hurry up and go up," Joyson said tremblingly. "I'm so scared that this is an endangered building and the stairs will collapse in the next second."
Jiang Yunu assured that nothing would happen with her around, just as her presence had enabled her to successfully bring two people up from downstairs.
However, the white-haired girl still supported Aunt Daisy, whose body was also a little stiff and tense, and used her other free hand to hold Joyson's arm, and continued to take them both to the second floor.
"Look." Jiang Yunu's voice echoed in the space on the second floor, "This is where I slept before."
In Jiang Yunu's eyes, this place was better than the downstairs, and it could be considered a home. In the eyes of the red-haired mother and son, Joyson and Qiao Daisi looked at the second floor in silence for a while. Joyson suddenly sobbed: "Woo——"
Jiang Yunu: “?”
Jiang Yunu was in a panic and turned around on the second floor of her hut, only to find that she had no tissues at all.
"Why are you crying?" the white-haired girl asked in shock. She remembered she had a storage box, peeled off the dustproof oilcloth, opened the box, which was not covered in dust, and pulled out a... napkin.
Jiang Yunu used the napkin to give to Qiao Yisen to wipe his face: "It's for now."
"Why do you live in a place like this?" Qiao Yisen was still wiping his face, as if Jiang Yunu had suffered a great injustice. He wiped his face pitifully and finally remembered to ask, "What did you give me?"
"These are the napkins that are regularly discarded by the restaurant that distributes relief meals," Jiang Yunu said calmly. "After disinfection and cleaning, they are put into the recycling bin in batches. I quickly picked up a box."
“…”
Given how familiar the Qiao mother and son were with Jiang Yunu, it wasn't hard to tell that she was quite pleased with herself for picking up the discarded napkin.
Qiao Daisi carefully turned around on the second floor, which was not much better than the first floor. As far as the eye could see, there were only "ruins"-like walls, floors and scattered furniture.
She tentatively walked to the compartment deep in the second floor, leaned in to look into the doorway, and recognized that it was a cold, simple bathroom.
When Joyson finally stopped crying, Qiao Daisi walked out from the other end of the bathroom. She restrained herself and put her hand on Jiang Yunu's hair.
"Is there anything else here you need to take away?" Jodaith said, "Pack it up and move it across the street. I think you can use this room as a warehouse, but don't live here anymore."
Jiang Yunu always felt that the word Aunt Daisy originally wanted to say was not "stuff", but "garbage", which was changed by the other party.
The red-haired lady took a deep breath and exhaled. She felt a little guilty, thinking that she should have put away her indifferent sense of boundaries earlier and forced herself to come over to see what the situation was in Jiang Yunu's house.
But regrets won't turn back time, and internal friction is the most useless thing. Qiao Daisi wasn't sure whether Jiang Yunu was willing to move across the street completely. She stroked the little girl's hair and said carefully, "...When you become successful and famous in the future, and others visit the former residences of celebrities and find you living in a house like this, I'm afraid your aunt will be wanted as a caregiver and her relationship with you will be forcibly revoked."
This won’t do!
Jiang Yunu originally thought that her cottage was not completely useless and should not be completely banned from residential use.
But after hearing what Jodais said, she felt that preserving her family relationships was more important.
"Then I will move today and pack it up now!" Jiang Yunu said decisively.
Originally, the three of them came here to check out the "little base" that Jiang Yunu had been hiding like a secret, and to do some cleaning for her.
However, after an on-site inspection, it is clear that this small garbage house is not worth cleaning out at all!
Cleaning and tidying up was changed to helping Jiang Yunu move the personal belongings that were placed here.
The moving process was as follows: the three of them first cleaned up together on the second floor, sorted and packed Jiang Yunu's personal belongings, and then Jiang Yunu moved the packed items to the first floor first. Then she moved Aunt Daisy and Qiao Yisen to the first floor as well. Finally, the mother and son of the Qiao family helped her carry the packed items and crossed the narrow street to deliver them to the Qiao family's small building opposite.
Jiang Yunu played the role of a super porter.
Before walking out of the small garbage house where she had been staying for some time, Jiang Yunu accidentally looked down and found the corner of a leaflet buried in the dust, because the dust on the first floor had been trampled thinly by the three people coming in and out.
"This is?"
She bent down, not caring about the dirt, picked up the flyer from the ground and shook off the dust.
"Want to experience the feeling of breaking through your supernatural talent level? Want to create the miracle of a significant improvement in supernatural power? We have been professionally researching supernatural power level breakthroughs for xx years, with secret formulas and technology, and the price is fair!"
There was a colorful flyer with a crudely written advertisement on it. Jiang Yunu felt that it looked familiar, and then she remembered that on the first night she came to the dilapidated street, she seemed to have seen a similar flyer on the ground at the street corner.
"What are you doing?" Aunt Dai Si poked her head into the room and saw a dirty piece of paper in Jiang Yunu's hand. She immediately frowned and said, "What is that? Throw it away. Don't forget to wash your hands when you get home."
Qiao Yisen had already moved Jiang Yunu's personal belongings to the second floor of the Qiao family's house and was waiting for Jiang Yunu to go back and put them in his room.
Jiang Yunu threw the paper aside and said, "Here I come."
The dusty flyers fell back to the ground.
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