Who paid the rent? (1)

  The following days passed very quietly.

  Gu Xue Lin sends me messages every day, telling me some things at home.

  And I, every day apart from replying to her short messages, is playing online games. Other times, are all spent on eating and sleeping.

  Ouyang Xiao has never contacted me, naturally, I haven't contacted her either.

  Although I think of her every day, after thinking of her, there is an impulse to call her, but when the phone dials her number, I hold back again.

  I don't know what to say anymore.

  That afternoon, I was playing games online at home.

  Suddenly, someone knocked on the door.

  I opened the door and saw the landlady standing outside with an account book in her hand.

  "Little Su——" The landlady smiled when she saw me.

  "Oh, it's time to pay rent, huh?" I dryly laughed.

  The landlady was taken aback for a moment, then quickly shook her head, "I'm here to give you the receipt."

  "What receipt?" I was stunned.

  "This morning, didn't you pay two months' rent, 1,500 yuan? I'll give you the receipt now." The landlady opened her notebook and handed over a receipt.

  I took it over and saw that on the top was written in bold letters: "Received five floors Su Mu Xian house rent and utilities deposit of 1,500 yuan, a total of two months."

  I was stunned.

  "Landlady, aren't you mistaken? I haven't paid next month's rent yet," I looked at the landlady in confusion.

  "That's right, a friend of yours helped you pay, saying that you were a bit short on cash for the past two days, so they lent it to you first," said the landlady.

  Ouyang Xiao? I was taken aback for a moment.

  "Is it a tall and slender girl with brown hair?" I asked.

  "No," said the landlady, shaking her head. "It's a young man about your age, with a flat head, and he says his surname is Deng."

  "Is your surname Deng?" I was stunned, "I don't have any friends with the surname Deng, could it be a mistake?"

  "How could they get it wrong? They said you lived on the fifth floor and that your name was Su Muxian, how could they get it wrong? Hmm, okay, I won't talk to you anymore, I have to go downstairs now, later I still need to go pick up my kid from kindergarten." With that, the landlady waved goodbye to me.

  I glanced at the landlord who was going downstairs and then looked at the receipt in my hand.

  "How come there's a friend with the surname Deng? And also, he knows that I'm about to pay rent in these two days. He even said that my finances are tight," I thought hard.

  That's right, it must be Ouyang Xiaoxiao who helped me pay the rent. That person just happens to have the surname Deng. Yes, that's definitely what happened, and only she and Shen Hui know that I'm about to pay the rent now. I don't have any other friends here except for her, so it can't be anyone else.

  Thinking of this, I quickly took out my mobile phone and called Ouyang Xiaoxiao.

  After a cheerful ring, the phone was answered.