Facing the old man's indignant look, Xu Shilin could only whisper to comfort the other party not to be angry.
To her, as long as it doesn't affect her and her children's lives, it doesn't matter what the other party does.
Chen Shan apparently also knew that the opposite of her was a single mother, and the two met in the corridor several times when they went out. Yes, not even a shadow can be seen.
She hadn't seen what the other's child looked like, but she had heard from the dead old woman downstairs when she was chatting with others, that it was six months old and she was very cute.
It's not cute, Chen Shan said that she is not interested at all. For her, the child is a burden and will only drag herself down.
Of course, women occasionally think of the child they left behind, but only occasionally.
From late autumn to severe winter, the relationship between the two female tenants maintained a delicate balance, neither disturbing each other nor communicating with each other.
On the day before New Year's Eve, Chen Shan saw her nine-month-old baby opposite her, at the cost of her left hand.
She went downstairs to pick up a courier, and when she came back, she bumped into the opposite door and went out.
The white and clean baby is sitting in the stroller obediently, with a pair of big black grape eyes rolling around, as if it is interesting to see everything, with a mouthful of powder, tender gums, as cute as the year on the New Year's picture baby.
Xu Shilin pressed one foot against the wheelchair of the stroller, and turned her body to lock the door behind her. The bag containing the baby's milk powder and diapers suddenly fell to the ground. She subconsciously stepped forward and bent over to pick it up. , but the stroller suddenly moved and slid straight toward the stairs.
The raised hand grabbed an empty space, and Xu Shilin's face turned pale with fright.
Chen Shan, who was wearing slippers, just stepped on the stairs and was about to turn around and continue walking up. When she looked up, she saw the car with the baby coming straight towards her.
Facing those pure eyes, the woman stepped forward and stretched out her hand.
The baby slammed into her arms with the heavy stroller attached.
The frail body was hit by the huge force and took two steps back and hit the wall. Chen Shan raised her hand to protect the head of the child in her arms, only to feel a piercing pain in her elbow.
"Su Li!!!"
The woman screamed in horror across the floor.
Chen Shan raised her head and looked at the pale woman on the stairs, her eyebrows were twisted together because of the pain, and she growled angrily: "How do you look at the child?!"
The little Su Li in her arms seemed to feel scared, and burst into tears.
Listening to the cry of the child, Xu Shilin stumbled downstairs, snatched the child from Chen Shan's hand, and held it tightly in her arms, crying like the rest of her life.
The cries of the mother and son came one after another, which made Chen Shan, who saved someone, look like a wicked person.
In the end, the woman's face was cold, her right hand was crippled, and her left hand clumsily carried the stroller with its wheels crooked. She followed Xu Shilin, who was still in fear, and kept crying, and entered the other's house.
With a fractured right hand, Chen Shan came out of the hospital with her arms dangling and returned home with an ugly face.
Xu Shilin hugged Su Li and waited there early. When she saw the woman's gloomy face that was about to drip, she hesitated for a moment and then chose to go forward.
"Miss Chen..."
"Is something wrong?" Chen Shan was in a bad mood because of the injured hand. After seeing the culprit in front of her, she lost her face.
"Thank you for what happened yesterday..."
"Don't thank me, I'm unlucky." Chen Shan gave the woman in front of her a white look, and her eyes stopped when she glanced at Xiao Su Li, who was sipping a pacifier in her arms.
"Be careful in the future. You are so careless with your children. Do you think you can have good luck at any time?"
The other party's tone was very aggressive, Xu Shilin just lowered her head: "I'm sorry, I will pay attention in the future..."
Before she could finish her words, the woman entered the door with the medicine and shut her out.
Chen Shan's hand was injured because she was saving her own child. Xu Shilin couldn't just sit back and ignore her. On New Year's Eve, she packed up the extra New Year's Eve dinner she had deliberately made, and then knocked on the door opposite.
Firecrackers sounded one after another at night, and the door in front of him was slow to open.
When the crackling sound paused, Xu Shilin heard the high moans in the room, accompanied by the creaking sound of the bed board shaking, and it came out through the soundproof door.
The New Year's Eve dinner, which was not a sumptuous but delicious, was not delivered after all.
When Xu Shilin saw Chen Shan again, it was already the third day of the new year.
It seems that the other party has never been out of the house. When she came back from the cake shop wrapped in a cotton jacket, the woman was wearing coral velvet pajamas, with plastered hands hanging on her chest, leaning against her door and looking down at the rabbit cotton mop on her feet. .
After hearing the voice, the other party looked up at her, with an abnormal paleness on his face.
"Is there anything to eat?" the woman asked.
Xu Shilin didn't say anything, just stepped forward to open the door, and then let people in.
After putting down the sleeping child on her back, she made a bowl of tomato and egg noodles.
Chen Shan squatted in front of the short coffee table, clumsily holding the chopsticks in her left hand and devoured it, without any image at all.
Xu Shilin looked at her quietly, and waited until the other party drank the last bit of soup at the bottom of the bowl before she said, "How long has it been since you have eaten?"
Chen Shan hiccupped: "I can't remember, but it's been three days."
Xu Shilin looked pale as if she would faint in the next second, and frowned: "The body is the most important thing."
"I don't know the truth? Do you need to tell me?"
The woman yawned lazily, then stood up: "The noodles are well cooked, thank you, I'll invite you to eat lobster another day."
After Chen Shan said this, she turned around and left, and the person behind her suddenly stopped her: "Your hands are not ready yet, it's better... don't work for now."
The hand holding the doorknob paused, and Chen Shan looked back at the woman under the energy-saving lamp. After a moment of silence, she suddenly laughed: "What am I going to do if I don't work? You support me?"
After she finished speaking, she didn't wait for Xu Shilin to answer, she closed the door and left.
At that time, Xu Shilin didn't know why Chen Shan needed money so much. Even if she was injured and sick, she would still take different men home until she broke through the other's drug addiction.
The woman's gorgeous face became hideous from the torture of drug addiction, curled up on the ground with constant convulsions and trembling, tears, snot and saliva flowing uncontrollably all over her face, disgusting and terrifying.
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After the drug addiction, Chen Shan seemed to be pulled out of the water.
The woman lay on the ground like a dead dog, her scattered eyes fell on Xu Shilin, and a chuckle came out of her nose.
"What, do you want to call the police?"
Xu Shilin suppressed the shock and fear in her heart, pursed her lips and put the phone back in her bag, then stepped forward and helped her to the bed with difficulty.