When Uncle Li saw his mother in the corridor, his expression suddenly became frightened. He immediately let go of Qianye's hand and went back to lock the door again without saying a word!
In the quiet corridor...
Only Chino and her mother were left looking at each other.
"Mom, what's wrong?"
Qianye asked the latter doubtfully, but his attention was focused on the content of his novel.
He felt that he could not chop down the woman in front of him with an axe.
If something unexpected happens.
It may be prudent to modify the content.
"Why are you sending a scraper as slow as buying salt? It took me a long time to get there."
Mom stared at Qianye.
Although the statement is normal.
But the voice said coldly.
Qianye could vaguely see that there seemed to be a kitchen knife placed in her apron.
Although no corners are exposed.
But with the way the apron pocket was bulged by a hard object, he felt that he must not have made a mistake in his judgment.
"I just..."
Chino was ready to explain.
But his mother interrupted him directly.
"Quickly go down and eat noodles."
The words he was about to speak were interrupted, and Qianye didn't say anything more.
At this time, stop talking too much.
It may lead to some plots that he doesn't want to see happen.
So Qianye nodded, left from the door of Uncle Li's room, and walked slowly toward the stairs.
His eyes were always on his mother...
Qianye didn't dare to take this lightly.
He raised his attention to the highest level and walked cautiously past his mother.
Faintly.
He seemed to be able to feel the anger in the woman.
"Is it angry?"
Qianye, who didn't understand why her mother was angry, felt a little confused.
This time he came as requested.
There was no action that violated the instructions...
In terms of rules.
He should have made his mother angry by not touching it.
finally.
Qianye passed by her mother's position and walked safely to the stairs.
The good thing is.
Mom's anger is not because of him...
"What's that for?"
Walking down the stairs, Qianye found that when he was about to turn the corner, his mother was still standing at the same place, not moving at all.
Qianye paused, regained his courage, tentatively raised his head and asked, "Mom, aren't you going down?"
What surprised him was.
Mom actually answered what he said...
"You go down to eat noodles first. I have something to tell Xiao Li."
Mom looked at the closed door, and her anger seemed to come from that place.
"All right."
Qianye didn't ask any more questions.
He lowered his head and obediently went downstairs and returned home.
The last corner of sight.
He saw his mother take out a kitchen knife from her apron pocket, walk straight to Uncle Li's house, and then knock on the door...
…
Return home.
The other three people had already eaten all the noodles on the table.
Only Chino's portion was left on the fire table, with only a little bit of heat left in the bowl.
As expected, the noodles had been left out for a long time and turned into lumps.
It's extremely laborious to stir.
Qianye was sitting at the table, mixing noodles, and looking at Tang Ying and Yin Fu...
Tang Ying held her chin with both hands, looked at Qianye's bowl, and took the lead in finding a topic to chat: "The noodles made by my aunt are very delicious. I feel like I'm not full."
"That's a must. Ono's cooking is amazing. I've never been tired of it after eating it for so many years. Every time I feel like I'm eating a five-star meal."
Yin Fu played the role of "dad" seriously and echoed from the side.
Both of them are people who have lived through many stories, and they are almost familiar with the daily performance of the characters.
Nothing feels unnatural.
After Qian Xixi spent one night with Tang Ying, her hostility toward her should have diminished. Listening to Tang Ying's praise of her mother's cooking skills, she couldn't help but interject: "Actually, when you want to eat it later,
You can come here to eat, mom likes to cook the most..."
"alright."
Qianye interrupted, picked up the noodles in the bowl with chopsticks, rolled them twice and put them into his mouth. He enjoyed the fragrance of the scallion noodles in his mouth and swallowed it: "You've already finished yours, so don't come here."
You are greedy for me, aren’t you just asking me to share some of it with you by saying these things?”
"Tsk, who's surprised?"
Xixi tilted her head and ignored Qianye and continued to do her homework.
After finishing the noodles.
Qianye put the bowl in the kitchen. He calculated the time it took for his mother to go up. It should be about ten minutes, but she hasn't come down yet.
I imagine the scene when my mother knocked on Uncle Li’s door with a kitchen knife...
He couldn't guarantee whether his mother was killing people upstairs, dismembering their bodies, and then taking the body parts home to cook delicious food for them.
The breakfast problem is solved.
Qian Ye also exchanged glances with Yin Fu and Tang Ying, and motioned to enter his room to discuss today's situation.
The reason for bypassing Xixi is the same as yesterday.
Under Qian Xixi's extremely confused expression, the three of them entered the small bedroom again and closed the door tightly.
In the bedroom.
Tang Ying and Yin Fu started to induce vomiting and vomited the noodles they had just eaten into the trash can...
"How's it going? Did you two discover anything after you two went out today?"
After emptying the food in her stomach, Tang Ying raised her head and asked the two of them.
"There are, a lot."
Chino answered.
Then he glanced at Yin Fu, who said that it was fine for Qianye to speak, and if there was anything missing, he would add it.
So without too much nonsense, Qianye started talking about today's discovery.
"The first one is about the residents upstairs."
As he spoke, Qianye pointed at the ceiling. He leaned against the window and said, "Everyone knows that the person above committed suicide by jumping off the building yesterday, and he looked like he could never die again."
"When Yin Fu and I went out today, we found that other people, including the neighbors in this building, seemed to have forgotten about it."
"Generally speaking, if such a big thing happened in the community last night, you can hear some rumors today, but there is no such thing. It is as if this incident is just a small episode, and everyone does not take it seriously."
"Of course, this may be because the people here are simple and not interested in this matter."
"But just when I went upstairs to deliver the scraper, I saw the dead Xiao Li standing in front of me alive, but his mental condition seemed a little bad..."
"Oops?"
Hearing this, Tang Ying raised her eyebrows and asked Qianye to explain this so-called bad situation.
In fact, the resurrection of the dead is not uncommon in this kind of world.
Tang Ying didn't feel too confused about it. The reason why she asked was just because she thought there might be a story about this world.
After all, last night's jumping incident.
It’s a bit too abrupt without any foreshadowing...
Faced with Tang Ying's questions, Qianye patiently explained the whole situation of his going upstairs, including the last time his mother knocked on the door with a kitchen knife, but he did not miss it.
"Well, he means to save him quickly..."
Tang Ying thought carefully about Uncle Li's strange reaction. She couldn't figure out why there was such a big contrast before and after opening the door twice.
"Could it be that he jumps off the building every night? He has experienced this kind of suicide too many times, similar to a nightmare cycle, so he wants someone to take his place and suspend his practice?"
Yin Fu used the most basic looping routine in horror stories to answer, but this answer obviously did not satisfy the two of them.
If that was the case, then Uncle Li's reaction when he opened the door for the first time wouldn't have been like that...
"Then the second one."
Qianye did not let the two of them continue to immerse themselves in thinking, but continued to answer the questions he had sorted out.