my neighbors

Chapter 20

Book, the light outlines his profile softly.

The sun was out, and I looked at the light shining through the gaps in the curtains, and lost any language function for a while.He noticed the movement and looked at me sideways, and neither of us had time to look away for a while.

"...Thank you." Thousands of words were stuck in my throat, and only this sentence stuck out.

He put down the book in his hand, stood up suddenly, and stared straight at me: "Lin Feng."

"Ah?" I felt guilty and shrank to the corner of the bed desperately.He grabbed my arm, half of my body was already pressed over, and I was pushed into the corner by him.His knee was right next to my thigh, and that face was even closer.

I swallowed desperately: "Are you okay..." This bad posture, this bad feeling.My heart was beating wildly, and I hurriedly put aside my surprisingly hot face, not daring to look at him.

He said word by word: "Lin Feng, do you know what you said to me when you were drunk that day?"

I thought to myself that if I knew about it, there wouldn't be so many things. I don't know when even my words became stammered, and my voice was still slightly hoarse: "Don't..."

"You said, you not only want to look at me from afar, you also want to get closer to me," Si Mu didn't stop because of my resistance, "You said I was a bastard, and all my thoughts were taken by me." Disturbed, nothing can continue, if this continues, you will go crazy—”

I was ashamed: "No... Actually... No... Don't say it..."

Si Mu's eyes softened a lot: "Listen to me. You said that you escaped danger in these incidents because of me. You thought you were only grateful to me, and you thought you didn't like men, but Because I messed it all up. In the end you said, you like me."

These are indeed words from my heart. I still can't believe that these words came out of my mouth. The only thing I can do is to cover my face deeply with my hands.God, if nothing else is said after this, maybe even friends won't be able to do it.

"Want to know how I answered?" He said to me softly.

Then he cupped my face and kissed me lightly on the forehead.I was so shocked that my whole body froze, he smiled at me and said, "I said, me too."

There is no romantic thing, fireworks, starry sky, roses, sea of ​​flowers, nothing earth-shattering, no vows of eternal love.But at this moment, there is a beauty that I will never be able to describe.I saw in his slightly bright eyes that he was not lying, and I was reluctant to wipe off the hot temperature on my forehead, which left an indelible mark in my heart forever.

At this moment, the doorbell rang untimely to break the atmosphere.Only then did I realize how bad this posture was, so I hurriedly pushed Simu away, and stumbled off the bed: "I...I'll go and open the door." Before he could say anything, he fled out of the room, blushing spreading to his neck up.I need to be calm, calm down, Lin Feng, you must be calm!

I thought it must be Zheng Shutang who knocked on the door at this time, after all, tomorrow is New Year's Eve.But it was Mrs. Hu who appeared at the door.I wasn't too surprised. There were only three of us left on the fourth floor. My other neighbors were all burdened with their own sins and had their due endings.

"Sorry...for disturbing you at this time." Mrs. Hu's expression looked a little anxious, but more emotions I couldn't figure out, "Did you see Xiao Ai, she said she was going out last night I went to play with my preschool classmates, but they haven't come back now..."

last night?That's not... When I thought of Xiao Ai's ashen expression and stiff movements, I immediately felt something was wrong.I hurriedly explained to Mrs. Hu: "Xiao Ai came to my house last night and took away her potted flower. I don't know where she went after that." Mrs. Hu's face changed suddenly when she heard that: "Flowers? Hers. Did you keep the flowers with you all the time? You said she took the flowers away, is that true?!" I found her eagerness a bit strange, why did the mother and daughter attach great importance to the potted flowers.Could it be that there is something important hidden in there?

I still replied honestly: "Yes, she took it away. I think she seems to be in a hurry. Did something happen?"

Mrs. Hu's eyes suddenly lost all brilliance, she ignored me, just muttered to herself: "This way, there will be no more... no more..."

Seeing that her expression was getting more and more uncomfortable, I hurriedly asked: "Is Xiao Ai lost? Please call the police as soon as possible, and look around more, she can't run very far with a child..." Speaking of the latter I also feel hopeless, what if I get kidnapped?To be honest, I quite like Xiao Ai, a clever little girl, unlike other children who are mischievous and noisy.

"Yes... found Xiaoai... call the police..." Aunt Hu leaned against the door frame in a daze.Obviously, she looked worried about her daughter's disappearance, but I didn't think it was normal at all. It seemed that Mrs. Hu wanted to find Xiao Ai more than her own daughter.

——Xiao Ai said: "She is not my mother."

I suddenly recalled this sentence, and my whole body trembled uncontrollably.why why?What prompted Xiao Ai to say such a thing, maybe the two of them didn't act like mother and daughter at first.Maybe it wasn't...

impossible!I quickly expelled this thought from my mind and comforted Mrs. Hu.But my consolation seemed so feeble. Mrs. Hu cried bitterly in front of my house, and finally listened to my suggestion and called Captain Zuo.

As a result, I breathed a sigh of relief, and when I closed the door and turned around, I found Si Mu sitting on the sofa at my house, as if he had been listening for a long time, and I immediately lost my language function.

"Where did you start listening?" I looked at him for two seconds and walked over helplessly.

Si Mu didn't answer my question directly, but his words made me understand immediately: "Lin Feng, do you think that's a potted flower? Did you see anything in that potted flower that didn't conform to common sense or shouldn't appear? "

Gardening ([-])

Something that shouldn't be there?

I thought of the maggot, and I felt sick immediately, and even dizzy when the cold was not over.I pressed my temples and told Si Mu exactly what happened yesterday afternoon.After hearing this, Si Mu frowned and said, "You said you doubt that flowers can produce maggots? This is a common sense question, and this kind of thing can only appear in rotten things." Rotten things... I almost blurted out: "Could it be Do you suspect that there are corpses in the flowerpot?" After speaking, both of us were taken aback, and I was even more shocked by my own thought and had nothing to say.

"That flowerpot is heavy, isn't it." Si Mu continued.

Yes...it's like this...a heavy flowerpot, a flowerpot that shouldn't be so heavy.Xiaoai said it was her father, and she was still crying at the flower pot at night, and there might be more——

What if that potted flower is really Dad?

My voice was a little trembling: "Impossible... Although that flower pot is quite big, it is impossible to hold a corpse in it..." But my subconscious mind told me that this was the truth, but I couldn't tell what was wrong.Si Mu pondered for a while, then threw the bombshell again: "What if it's just one head?"

just a head?I imagined the size of that flower pot, and suddenly shuddered.The size of the flower pot is so appropriate and suitable!But such a conclusion is too general, there is nothing to prove... definitely...

some.That detail made my heart sink completely.

——"But it's okay if the potted flower is my father. I still want a complete father who I can hug."

A complete father, this description seems so scary and dark now.What Xiao Ai can hold in his arms is only his father's head.

It's just that no matter how we think about it, it's just speculation. What if there is no human head in the potted flower?What if Xiao Ai escaped because of this?I kept hypnotizing myself, that is, I kept escaping.What can I do about this?What can I do about the abnormality of my neighbors?I'm just an ordinary person.

Wait... the neighbors' anomalies? !neighbors?I completely ignored Si Mu, and my heart sank.First Lao Wang, then Zhou Huai, Bai Bing, and now it is Mrs. Hu and Xiao Ai who are abnormal again... Why did these things happen around me, on the fourth floor of this apartment? !Is it a coincidence?Is it really a coincidence?No, there is absolutely no such coincidence in the world.That is what "person" is causing these events to happen——

No way... Really no way... I think of the newspaper clipping that Si Mu tore up, and Si Mu's resume, the 13-year-old mentally ill boy stabbed someone with a knife, and Si Mu was suspended from school for a year at the age of 13, could it be ——

The way I look at Si Mu can definitely be described as horror, impossible, it is absolutely impossible, Si Mu and these neighbors are just acquainted, and he also saved me in these incidents, he has no reason—— — for no reason!

...Yes, there is no reason and no time to hurt or manipulate my neighbors, I shouldn't suspect Si Mu.Besides, we're in the middle of... My face is burning up, and I can't be honest with him.Such a gentle person, I can't believe he would do such a thing.

So I was relieved quickly again, and I needed to have basic trust in him.

After dinner, I think the snow outside has melted a bit, and the weather is gradually getting warmer.I propped my hands on the stone railing of the balcony and fiddled with the bamboo pole to remove the ice chips from it.At this time, the sky was almost dark, and the sun was about to sink into the horizon, leaving only a faint light embracing the world.