The last meal in the rented house

Alai is finally moving out of this rental house.

to ensure that he can move out early the next morning, he spent this Saturday cleaning up the house.

just like every day I used to stay here, Alai didn't bother to brush his teeth and wash his face and didn't plan to eat breakfast. He walked around the room disheveled, planning to start in the kitchen.

half an hour later, the oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, pots, and pans are ready. Alai looked around the kitchen and saw the cupboard that he had not touched for a long time, so he leaned up and took down a cardboard box inside. When I opened the carton, I remembered that it was dry food sent to my family half a year ago. Lentinus edodes fungus, red jujube barley seed, dried Douchi. It was full as if he would cook with it when he received it.

after looking through it for a long time, most of the ingredients are out of date. But fortunately, I caught up with the last day of the shelf life of dried incense, and it was not wasted on the afternoon my parents packed and mailed in sweat half a year ago.

dried incense is still the taste of childhood. It hasn't changed, but it's not Alai's favorite special food. He loved none of the other mountain treasures, practical information, and specialty products. But A Lai understood that his mother wanted to give him a home in his rented house in Beijing when he sent these things. In a home where there are dumplings in the freezer, drinks in the freezer, and rice noodles in the kitchen, you don't have to go out to make a light meal. So although each parcel was shelved after it arrived, Alai always replied that he was already eating when his mother asked about it on the phone.

the next thing to clean up is the small living room and dining room. Alai found a pile of snacks in a large storage basket, which he remembered from the warm-up party left by several coworkers who came to their home last weekend. The so-called exit warm-up party is just a couple of people getting together to have another chat, another snack, and another beer with the idea of leaving each other. These people, who were strangers three years ago and came to Beijing to report their entry, can no longer remember how many nights they spent together in brightly-lit offices and bickering conference rooms. Or spent at the street barbecue stand on Zhichun Road and in the board game shop at Wudaokou.

it was unprecedented that the party ended with tipsy tears in everyone's eyes. In a group of people, Chicken Mihua plans to go back to Qingdao to inherit the family business, and the director wants to go back to Changsha to marry her childhood sweetheart. Sophie and her boyfriend have both bought air tickets and settled down south. All of a sudden, everyone planned their next stop, just like they came to Beijing a few years ago, and the birds and animals scattered again.

Alai spread the rest of the snacks on the floor and ate them as he did at the party last weekend. He opened a bag of Dongjiang fish, which must have been bought by Hunan Meituo Jingjing. He remembered what she said in tears at the end of the party: we get together in a fire, scattered is full of stars …...

Alai ate several bags of Dongjiang fish angrily, washed his hands, and began to clean up the bedroom. He found a bottle of Coke in the bedding box under the bed and a piece of chocolate at the bottom of the litter box at the head of the bed, followed by a bag of QQ candy in the depths of the wardrobe and a few slices of seaweed on the top shelf. Oh, these must have been left by Xiaoqing when she lived here two months ago.

if there is such a thing as time and space overlap, Alai's movements such as squatting, bending, and foot padding when packing his bags today should be completely overlapped with those of Xiaoqing when she hid these foods and turned into the same figure.

received a little surprise from time and space, but Alai was not as sentimental as he was in the movie. He and Xiaoqing are just the most common kind of story in Beijing. They are not heartbroken or deep into the bone marrow at all. They met at a friend's party, and soon Xiaoqing moved into Alai's rental house. After a few months of getting along with each other day and night, they developed a lot of two-phase boredom and parted ways.

Xiaoqing returned the keys to the rental house to Alai when the movers took out her last bag of luggage, and the two said goodbye as if nothing had happened.

Alai guessed that at that moment when she might meet for the last time in this life, Xiaoqing did not mention to herself these warm and sweet surprises she had hidden, probably from the bottom of her heart. I feel that the things related to the person in front of me are no longer important, and the trivial days and nights spent together do not need to be remembered, even if I remember them.

as the size of the food in the rental house was eaten up, Alai finally finished packing. It was night, and he didn't leave the rental house. On this day, he did not start a party or order takeout, but he was not hungry at all, because he ate the dried bean curds sent by his parents who only met a few times a year and the last batch of snacks left by his friends who were about to return to all over the world. ate the surprise left by his strange ex-girlfriend. A Lai was surprised to find that at the end of the day, he had stroked his stomach and intestines all over his life in Beijing over the past few years.

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early the next morning, Alai looked around the rental house for the last time. It is the same as when Alai first saw it, a few pieces of furniture and electrical appliances, with the smell of fireworks from the previous tenant, stayed there quietly to welcome the next tenant.

the next tenant will probably be here, too, open the parcels sent by his parents in his hometown, eat and chat with colleagues and friends. He will probably have a girlfriend who will move in at some point, share his daily diet, eat soy milk Youtiao, watch American TV series and order takeout together, and cook bowls of noodles in the middle of the night when he can't sleep.

Alai wondered if the next tenant could finish the mushroom fungus sent at home in time, could never have any farewell meal with friends and had better have a girlfriend who was really in love with each other, at least one year longer than the lease.