"Mingzhu!" Mingzhu's back was slapped hard from behind. She was startled and suddenly turned around, only to see her high school classmate Liu Tingting suddenly appear in front of her like a ghost.
"It's you! Tingting!" As soon as Mingzhu saw Tingting, she cheered with joy.
"Hey! Liu Hai, help me lift the book!" Tingting ordered with a commanding tone, patting Liu Hai's shoulder with her hand.
"Man! You don't know how to carry it yourself," Liu Hai held Mingzhu's luggage in his left hand and complained reluctantly in his heart. Originally, he wanted to refuse, but he couldn't resist Tingting's aggressive eyes, so he stretched out his right hand and reluctantly took the large bag of books from Tingting's hand, and walked up the stairs with his head down. Tingting, who had only been in the store for less than two days, always liked to bully Liu Hai, so Liu Hai was disgusted with her behavior.
"Why do you come here to work? Long time no see, I miss you so much," Tingting gently patted Mingzhu's shoulder and cheered. The two hit it off immediately and reminisced about old times while climbing the stairs. After Tingting's self-report, we learned that Tingting also left her hometown three months after graduating from high school and settled in Xiamen with her parents. As lucky as Mingzhu, she was also admitted to the Star Hotel. Not only are she in the same department as Mingzhu, but she will also become roommates in the same dormitory. This is an exciting thing for the two friends who have reunited after a long separation.
The geographical location of the hotel dormitory building is relatively special, facing the lake, adjacent to the financial administrative district and the court building at the back, and next to the city government building. This area is known as the rich area of ??Xiamen City. However, the dormitory building sitting under the shade of tall trees and tall buildings is actually an old building. It is said that this building was built in the late 1970s. The outer wall was covered with moss and there were so many people that the fragile tiled ladder made a "squeak" sound begging for mercy when people stepped on it; the girls' dormitories were on the second and third floors, and Mingzhu's dormitory was arranged. On the third floor, which is the top floor of this building. The bathroom is shared. The corridor was filled with old towels and wet clothes. The ventilation opening in the corridor was covered with a worn linen cloth, which was crumbling when the wind blew. Outside the building, there are two hundred-year-old sycamore trees, rows of green trees, and winding paths. It is a good place with pleasant scenery.
Mingzhu lives in a room of about 35 square meters on the third floor. There were four beds in the room, with a total of eight beds up and down. Tingting slept in the lower bunk of bed No. 3, and Mingzhu moved to Tingting's upper bunk.
The inner wall of the dormitory is a white wall that has just been painted. There are balls of white lime with little black spots that have been washed and dyed over the years. There are four bunk beds in the 20-square-meter room, which is eight beds. The bed rails, which were so old that they glowed black and red, made a squeaking sound when touched, making people immediately think that if they slept on the upper bunk, they would be faced with the camera rolling out of bed in the middle of the night.
The bellboy Liu Hai is an honest and hard-working Shandong boy with thick eyebrows and big eyes. He has been working at the Star Hotel for more than three years. He is in and out of the hotel and helps Mingzhu make the bed. After finishing, Liu Hai grabbed the hammer by the door and found a few broken iron nails to reinforce Mingzhu's bed rails. In this way, Mingzhu climbed onto her bed and tidied her things with peace of mind.