Sun Qifan was holding a camera in the room, feeling very anxious.
"Then will the murderer come over? Will he come directly to my house?"
After lowering the curtains, there was silence in Ping An Community. Because of his panic, Sun Qifan did not notice the car with the police observation post in the community. He only took a cursory glance around the community and then hurriedly closed the window.
good.
"No, I have to check the door!"
In a hurry, Sun Qifan put down the camera, which was hung directly on his chest. He picked up a kitchen knife. At this time, he could find something in the room that could barely defend himself. He didn't know what the damn leader was.
How did you think that you would have already contacted the tenant of this house and arranged for him to move here?
He still remembers what his boss said on the phone: "If you don't go there today, you won't come to work in the future!"
Because of this sentence, Sun Qifan had no other choice. He struggled in society for a long time. His job kept changing and became worse and worse. His current salary could only barely support his family's expenses.
Children have to go to school, and they also need to keep up with their monthly nutrition, book fees, tuition fees, school uniforms, and various school activities. Raising children now is much more difficult and expensive than before.
In the past, as long as the tuition fee was paid, other expenses were basically not used. Books could be picked up from brothers and sisters and used. As for the tuition fee, how could there be so many tutoring classes in the past?
If you don’t understand what you’re learning in class, you still have to spend money to learn it in extra classes?
This kind of thing was impossible in the past, but there is no way. Now it has become a mainstream. I hope my children are good, I hope my children are better than other people's children. In this competitive society
, Sun Qifan is considered a loser.
He failed. Compared to his former classmates and former friends, he was a failure. Now he didn't even want to go to the academy, let alone any high-level activities.
Why?
Because of poor social life, the pace of society has accelerated, and people just need a simple and intuitive understanding of many things and many people.
Who is doing well and who is capable depends on their clothes, what kind of car they drive, what kind of wine they drink, and what kind of watch they wear.
External things have become a label for a person's status. Of course, these can all be faked. Cars can be rented, watches can be rented, and even if you want to have a high-end lifestyle, you can create some falsehoods by buying together.
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But Sun Qifan has no money, no good clothes, no high-end cars, and no luxury watches. If he were in this situation younger, he might still be able to be cool and unrestrained.
But with a family, everything becomes different. Those external things cannot bring much to Sun Qifan.
Of course, he is not happy now. He is constantly making careful calculations about money every day, but he still has to face the burden of the family.
He regretted getting married, but he had no choice. Things had come to this point and there was no choice.
Start over?
That was just a dream talk. Having lived to the point where Sun Qifan has lived, he has already recognized a certain reality. He has no special abilities and no special strengths. What he can do is these marginal jobs.
Let him go out and have another adventure?
After that age, he no longer has the mental energy. There are several mouths waiting for food at home, and he has no chance to start over again after failure.
Once a person is involved, tied up, or has someone he can't let go of, his courage will become very small. He will be afraid of this and that, and his arrogant energy will disappear. He should be careful when speaking and doing things.
Sometimes I even have to be careful when walking, for fear of bumping into some big shot.
As for work?
Something is better than nothing. Although the salary is not high, it has become an important source of income that Sun Qifan cannot give up.
Otherwise, he would not have come here in fear today. For life, for his wife, and for his children, when he was young, it was difficult to imagine what it would be like to be in middle age and achieve nothing, but maybe he would understand.
When you become cautious, when you become picky, when when you look at the meager salary and still long for it, then you have reached middle age without achieving anything.
At this time, any choice will be extremely difficult for you.
He walked to the door cautiously with a knife. Sun Qifan's hands were shaking constantly. In his mind, he saw the scene of various doors being suddenly opened. A man with a ferocious face suddenly opened the security door with a fire ax.
?
Or did the door suddenly explode and a guy in a mask burst in?
Or something else. That door really wanted to be a source of danger. Sun Qifan actually didn't want to get close to that door, but he still had to check it again for safety.
Swallowing his saliva and his throat rolling, Sun Qifan finally managed to reach the door. He reached out to grab the door handle and pushed it. The door was not pushed open and was locked securely.
He checked the door lock and made sure it was locked. He was lucky that the style of the security door in this house was the same as his.
After checking the anti-theft chain and the bolts on it, Sun Qifan let out a long breath after everything was checked.
"Fortunately, everything is fine."
Yes, everything is good. The only bad thing is Sun Qifan himself. His head is covered with sweat and his clothes are wet. It is hard to imagine what Sun Qifan endured during such a short journey.
What kind of psychological struggle.
"Jingle Bell
!”
Suddenly, a bell rang in the room, and Sun Qifan's body stiffened suddenly, and he jumped up from the ground, waving the kitchen knife in his hand continuously.
"Who, who is it? Who is in the room! Come out!"
His voice was fierce, concealing the fear and panic in his heart, his shoulders were shaking constantly, and his calves were shaking.
With him like this, let alone a kitchen knife in his hand, even if he holds a forty-meter-long machete, it probably won't have any protective effect. As for threatening others, haha...
Sun Qifan's voice did not receive a response from anyone. The room was very quiet, with only the ringtone of his cell phone echoing continuously. Sun Qifan had beads of sweat on his forehead, and he glanced around nervously, looking for the source of the sound.
Then...
He was stunned. He found that the sound seemed to come from his pocket. When he felt carefully, there seemed to be something really vibrating in his pocket.
Subconsciously, he reached into his pocket and felt a little embarrassed. It turned out that the call came from his own mobile phone. The atmosphere relaxed a lot instantly. Although it was a little embarrassing, fortunately, no one saw this embarrassing scene.
He breathed a long sigh of relief again, put the kitchen knife aside, and wiped the sweat that had just appeared on his forehead.
"Who's calling me at this time?"
While muttering, he picked up his cell phone to check who was calling. When he saw it, the word "wife" was written on it. In an instant, all the resentments disappeared. All the complaints disappeared. It was his wife.
He was able to persist in this kind of life precisely because of such a woman.
Perhaps all his luck in this life was spent when he met his wife, so he had a woman who, even though life was hard, still didn't complain or give up, and would continue to encourage him.
"Hello, wife? Have you and your children had dinner?" Sun Qifan smiled. This was the first time he smiled since he came here, a sincere smile.
"Well, okay, don't keep thinking about saving money. It's time for you to buy yourself some clothes. My salary for this month will be paid in two days. You can choose one carefully then. I'm on a business trip these two days. Maybe
I won’t go home. Don’t be too tired at home.”
The hoarse voice became gentle, and Sun Qifan explained with concern. He knew that even if he said this, his wife would still ignore it and save the money.
But what his wife didn't know was that he had secretly used his monthly allowance to save enough money to buy a new dress, which was a birthday gift he was going to give to his wife.
Sun Qifan felt very warm as he listened to the chattering words on the phone, and the smile on his face was bright. However, he was enjoying the light happiness and did not notice that a group of people had gathered behind him.
A human-shaped mist was walking towards him step by step...