A little girl's voice rang out: "It's the eldest sister from the unit next door. I see her often."
The people in the room opened four locks one after another, and it took about two minutes to open the door.
A middle-aged man held a girl about eight or nine years old in his arms and looked at Zuo Jing and others with some confusion. "Do you have anything to do with me?"
Behind the middle-aged man stood a boy wearing glasses, a middle-aged woman wearing an apron, and an old couple supporting each other. A family of six gathered at the door, watching these "uninvited guests" with vigilance.
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Zhang Wendong noticed that the middle-aged woman was holding a kitchen knife tightly in her wet hands, while the boy with glasses was holding a baseball bat. Except for the smiling little girl, almost everyone in the family was nervous.
Tense, with a serious expression.
Li Tingwei looked at the family and didn't think there was anything strange. He sighed and whispered to Du Yiping beside him: "Isn't this just an ordinary family? I think you misled us and let everyone run away in vain.
A trip."
Du Yiping felt that his ability was being questioned, and said with some displeasure: "I do sense that there are a few people with supernatural powers around here. I can't be wrong."
Zhang Wendong glanced at the room. The house was indeed quite small. It could hardly accommodate a family of six. Although these people were nervous and faced an enemy, they did not look like extremely evil people.
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"We bought the house upstairs and will move here in a few days. We will be neighbors from now on, please take care of us." Zhang Wendong extended his hand to the middle-aged man in a friendly manner.
The middle-aged man hesitated for a while, then slowly took Zhang Wendong's hand. He glanced at Zuo Jing, who had changed her face, and her face was somewhat familiar. "Do you know them?"
"Yes, they and I are friends." The smile on Zuo Jing's face was a little unnatural. "They have just arrived in this place and are unfamiliar with the place. I want to bring them here to meet their future neighbors."
The middle-aged man looked at Zhang Wendong and others and felt a little puzzled. Why did the three old men come here to buy a house? And judging from their tone, they should live here permanently.
He didn't remember hearing that someone in this building was selling a house. However, their family of six had always lived a cautious life and didn't like to interact with the people around them. It was normal for them to have limited information.
The hostess of this house thought that Zhang Wendong and the others would really become her neighbors, and felt that her reaction just now was a little too vigilant, which might make people feel rude. She quickly put the kitchen knife on the table and smiled sheepishly
"Why don't you come in and sit down, and I'll pour you some tea. From now on, we'll have to pay more attention to each other upstairs and downstairs."
The middle-aged man frowned and glanced at his wife, seeming to blame her for being too reckless and not being too enthusiastic towards these strangers.
Zhang Wendong was naturally not polite to them. He thanked them and walked into the house. He looked back at the four locks on the door from top to bottom and felt that this family was indeed a bit strange.
The middle-aged man quickly explained: "The security in the community has not been very good recently. I heard that several houses have been burglarized. For safety reasons, we added a few more locks."
Zhang Wendong touched the peeling paint on the door lock and realized that the male owner must be lying. These four locks were all a little old, and they looked like they were old at first glance, and they definitely could not have been added recently.
He didn't say anything more, he calmly took the water glass handed over by the hostess and said "thank you".
"You guys sit down for a while first. But I have to send my two children to cram school later, and my wife also has to send my parents to the hospital for a check-up." The middle-aged man spoke politely, but his words
I have made it clear that I don't want them to stay any longer.
Zhang Wendong did not answer his question, but asked: "How long have you lived here?"
The male host said: "I have lived here for several years." He glanced at the pair of children behind him and said: "You two go back to the house to do your homework first."
The little girl nodded obediently and bounced back to her room. But the boy clutched the baseball bat tightly, his eyes still full of defense.
Li Tingwei looked at him quietly, his expression suddenly becoming gentle. His son should be about the same age as this boy. It's just that he hasn't been home for so long that he almost forgot what his son looked like.
The hostess brought the fruit politely, and Zhang Wendong quickly thanked him. He peeled an orange with a natural expression and quietly said to Du Yiping beside him: "Is this the family of people with special abilities you are referring to?"
Du Yiping whispered: "Yes. I can sense that everyone in this family has supernatural powers, including the old couple who can't even walk safely."
The elderly couple was quietly sizing them up, but when they looked at Zhang Wendong and others, the two old men immediately looked away.
The male host looked at his son who was still standing there and said, "What are you still doing? Go back to the house and do your homework."
The young man returned to the room with his baseball bat in hand, and glanced at Li Tingwei before leaving.
Several people in the living room were sitting on the sofa, and no one spoke for a while. The hostess felt that the atmosphere was a bit awkward, and quickly asked: "Are you buying a house together? How long do you plan to live here?"
Du Yiping's eyes rolled, and he replied without any guilt: "We bought it together. We made a small fortune by investing, so we raised money to buy a house here. We think the environment here is good,
The transportation is also convenient. I will probably live here for several years.”
The male host asked doubtfully: "Don't any of you have wives and children? How come you three live together?" He was a little worried that these new neighbors were actually just a few idle gangsters.
Du Yiping continued to talk nonsense without any scruples: "We are not locals, our homes are at the border of Weihe County. It is too backward and desolate, so we come here to work and earn money. Our families have not moved yet.
Come, when the economic conditions get better in the future, we can go out and look for houses separately."
The male host originally wanted to ask them why they didn't rent a house first to reduce the cost of living, but he was afraid that he would talk too much. After all, he didn't want to have in-depth interactions with these people. He could just smile and nod when they met in the future.
Zhang Wendong is looking around this small house. The space here is too small, there is no dedicated study room, the family has a large population, and the room is crowded, so several simple bookcases are placed in the living room, which looks a bit messy.
This seems to be an ordinary family, and it doesn't seem to have anything to do with ICV.
