my neighbors

Chapter 8

This invitation is purely out of courtesy.But my skin is already thicker than the city wall when it comes to Cengfan. I wanted to go home, at least catch that night owl Si Mu and chat with me for a while. Since he said so, I just agreed down.

"Ah, that's right!" I waited until Zhou Huai inserted the key into the keyhole before I remembered, "There was a girl this evening, ah no, a lady was looking for you, will I disturb you if I go to your house now? "Anyway, I'm in 405, and I'm not very worried about Xiao Ai. She is very mature and well-behaved, so she shouldn't make any surprising moves.I'm afraid... the one in front of me is inconvenient.

The neighbor's gaze dimmed for a moment: "She has already left." The iron door made a loud noise and was opened, but the wooden door was always concealed.Just as Zhou Huai pushed open the wooden door of his house, an extremely strong air-conditioning hit, and I sneezed hard for a moment, as if I had come to the Arctic Circle.I felt that Zhou Huai's house was surprisingly cold, like a big ice bank, colder than the snow downstairs. I couldn't help but tremble a little, as if I understood why Zhou Huai's face was pale, it was because of freezing ah!

A burst of strange fragrance came immediately, which will definitely make people salivate.I swallowed my saliva, and rubbed my hands together desperately, the white breath I exhaled was almost frozen: "This chicken soup is too fragrant... It's even more fragrant than my mother's. Really."

Zhou Huai turned on the light in the living room, and his incomparably stiff smile was particularly dazzling under the white light source, even a little out of shape: "Thank you for the compliment, I have my own secret recipes for cooking, especially meat, and I am best at cooking all kinds of livestock. You just happened to have fresh chicken soup in a while, so I'll wash it up first." After that, he went straight to the bathroom.I touched my half-empty stomach and smiled embarrassedly. I was secretly glad that I chose the right person. That boy Si Mu would not be merciful and make me a late-night snack. Maybe there are instant noodles, and even the water has to be brought by myself. burn.

After a while Zhou Huai returned to the living room, he cleaned up all the blood stains, and his face became less weird.We started talking about cooking, and I learned a lot about cooking.Zhou Huai is really unfathomable, why didn't he discover his specialty before?

In my heart, Si Mu's position at the top of the Cengfan list has begun to waver. After all, in terms of the possibility of cooking, Zhou Huai is much more reliable than him. Si Mu's cooking only depends on his mood. He is in a bad mood. Sometimes there are no instant noodles.

Finally, the chicken soup I was looking forward to was cooked before my saliva overflowed.Zhou Huai scooped up a bowl for me, and the soup was full of fragrance: the meat was chopped into pieces and rotten, served with red wolfberry and translucent longan, it was so fragrant that it didn't taste like chicken soup.

Zhou Huai stared at my face, and there was a longing that I could not fathom in his eyes, a deep longing.I don't know what it is, under the temptation of the fragrance, my lips touched the edge of the bowl, and when the soup was about to touch my mouth, Xiao Ai's cry suddenly came from 403, it could be used Hoarse to describe.Since the door was ajar, I could hear it clearly, and my heart ached immediately.

"Sorry, I have to come to taste it next time!" I hurriedly put down the soup bowl, thanked in a hurry, and ran out the door.I think if it was a little later, I would be caught in Zhou Huai's yearning and even despairing eyes.

Cooking Expert ([-])

"What is this...?" I looked at the big and small on the sofa speechlessly, and Xiaoai looked at me with dry eyes, no trace of crying, and even a smile on the corner of her mouth.As for who the big one is, there is really no value in guessing.

Si Mu is different from Xiao Ai. He looks angry, with a faint anger between his brows and eyes: "What's the matter with you? You ran to Zhou Huai's house alone?!" Angry, I couldn't help raising my voice: "Why, can't you?! Are you my mother or my father? Is it necessary to mobilize people like this when I go to grab a meal?!"

The visitor upstairs obviously didn't want to pay attention to me, so he coaxed Xiao Ai to sleep with a curious face, then forced me to sit down, and turned my face to meet his gaze.My face was a little hot: "What are you doing?" Si Mu lowered his voice, and even put his hand on my lips: "Have you eaten Zhou Huai's food?" When I mentioned this, I became angry: "I just thought Eat, damn it, how can you teach Xiaoai like this!"

Si Mu withdrew his hand, and his eyes suddenly became cold: "Do you think it's as simple as having a supper? If Xiaoai hadn't called and told me that she saw you went to Zhou Huai's house through the cat's eyes, you would be dead now." No more corpses!"

I was even more confused: "What do you mean by that?" Si Mu leaned closer and whispered directly in my ear: "Zhou Huai has a problem, so I can't go to his house alone! Team Zuo and I are investigating him. No, investigate He has been around for a long time. I heard from the left team that in the past two years, 86 single women, six single men, and ten policemen who went to his house have all disappeared. His house is like a bottomless pit, if not I think If you use Xiao Ai's method of pretending to cry, you probably won't have a chance to step out of his house."

This explosive news made me speechless, what's going on!I could only falter and ask: "One hundred and two people... all of them are missing?" It might be one hundred and three, and I thought of that beautiful woman with a sweet voice this evening.

"Only one policeman narrowly escaped death." Si Mu's eyes stared at me, so close that I felt it was difficult to breathe, "I jumped from the fourth floor and fell into a vegetable state. One leg was cut off by a knife. I don't know. So, when he was unconscious, he said some fragmentary words, such as 'ice cellar', 'hot pot', 'dream', and he never spoke again."

The ice cellar... Zhou Huai's home is like an ice cellar... I trembled when I heard this: "The police can already arrest him! But why..." Why is this horrible guy still at large? !

Si Mu clenched the hem of his clothes, and continued to say to me: "As I said just now, ten policemen disappeared. Did you know? Once they entered his house, everyone who approached him disappeared! He is A black hole swallows everything without distinguishing anything. As soon as I heard that you entered, I had no choice but to make a bad move. This has always been a police secret. I dare to tell you that you have been involved in such a danger. Since Zhou Huai has been watching If he falls for you, he won't let it go."

This seemed to be the first time Si Mu had said so many words, so one could imagine the seriousness of the matter.

I suddenly felt at a loss, and I grabbed his arm reflexively, which was a bit of a forced question, but more of an escape: "What should we do now? If Zhou Huai is that kind of person... I will... ..." Missing?Were those people really just missing? !Thinking of the bad temperature in Zhou Huai's house, I felt chills all over my body.

Si Mu caught a glimpse of my hand and didn't push it away. He just reminded: "Sister Hu will change shift tomorrow, I heard what she said this afternoon." Shift?Doesn't that mean... I looked at the bedroom, no, Xiao Ai is going back too, even though she is only a little girl, I don't think Zhou Huai would blatantly attack two people, he only operates on one person. "Isn't it over now?!" I yelled directly, and the new news blew me apart again.

"So—" Si Mu sighed, "From tonight, from now on, don't leave me. Let's go upstairs and get some of my daily necessities together tomorrow morning, before the police officially intervene in this matter , I will always live in your house, okay?"

"Okay, okay, no problem! Absolutely!!" I smiled, and half of my fear dissipated immediately, and my heart was filled with unknown sweetness.Si Mu looked at me, and slowly added: "...you have to go to the bathroom together when you sleep, take a shower, and go to the toilet."

Me: "..." The smiling face immediately turned into a bitter face.

It was bound to be a sleepless night.Si Mu and I sat on the sofa all night.

So we sent it back to Xiao Ai early the next morning, and we went upstairs to 503 to get Si Mu's things.I don't know if it's because of yesterday's experience or what Si Mu said yesterday was too scary, I always stare at 405 like a spy, for fear that the door will suddenly open and Zhou Huai's face will appear in the darkness.

Life is different from novels, which are always full of dramatic coincidences and continuous ups and downs.In fact, Zhou Huai's house was still as quiet as usual, like a pool of stagnant water without ripples, not even the sound of a CD.I suddenly desperately hoped that something would happen, and it was much better than the current stalemate.

"Don't be nervous." Si Mu looked at me, feeling a little helpless against me, "Things are indeed a little weird. But why did you go to Zhou Huai's house last night?" The meaning in his tone was unclear.

I was stunned by the question.yeah, why?I went to eat supper, but what is the opportunity to eat supper?Why am I standing in a dark hallway like a madman?Is it because of the strange allure of that song?Or that inexplicable anxiety?I can't describe that strange feeling, and naturally I have nothing to say.

Seeing that I didn't answer, Si Mu's eyes darkened a little, which made me a little scared.

In order to break this deadlock, I tapped on the side and asked, "Zhou Huai woke me up last night by playing a CD. The sound was relatively loud... Uh, did you hear that song "Yesterday Once More"?"

Unexpectedly, Si Mu's answer was completely opposite: "I heard it, but it was played once in the afternoon.