After the summer solstice, the temperature gradually rises.
The quiet community is not like the noisy city, there is no annoying noise pollution, only the short whistle sound of the train coming from the fixed point when crossing the distant bridge.
Jiang Chijing didn't like summer very much at first. The dazzling light and sticky sweat made him disgusted. He hardly did outdoor activities under the hot sun. Even the prisoners in the prison made fun of him for his white skin. Not at all like a prison guard.
But just this summer, Jiang Chijing suddenly changed his outlook on the season.
It's not an unforgettable reason, just because the hotter the weather, the more generous the neighbors on the opposite side.
Usually, when this neighbor comes home from get off work, he will immediately change into uncharacteristic home clothes. The loose white short sleeves blocked his proud figure and made Jiang Chijing, who was secretly peeping, feel dull.
However, recently, due to the hot weather, the neighbors on the opposite side began to walk around the house without a shirt on.
Once Jiang Chijing actually witnessed him frying steak with his upper body topless and wearing an apron. If Jiang Chijing hadn't considered himself a voyeur with a bottom line, he almost didn't take out his mobile phone to take a candid photo of this visually stimulating scene.
If nothing else, this bland voyeuristic routine will continue forever, but one day, when Jiang Chijing was driving home from get off work, he found that the neighbor on the opposite side was a little unusual.
The Southern Prison is located in the suburbs, only a ten-minute drive from the community where Jiang Chijing lives.
Jiang Chijing gets off work on time at five o'clock every day, while the elite opposite won't return home until nine or ten o'clock in the evening.
Today, Jiang Chijing, as usual, parked the car in the private garage in the yard, and as soon as he got out of the car, he heard the sound of punching more intensely than ever coming from the opposite side.
He thought he had heard it wrong, so he deliberately went to the bedroom on the second floor to take a sneak peek, and saw that the man opposite was indeed punching.
This is an anomaly because today is a weekday.
What's even more unusual is that the man's hands were not wrapped with white bandages, and he punched the shaking sandbag with punch after punch, not like practicing boxing, but like venting.
His expression was also different from usual. His eyebrows were full of sullenness. His eyes were not focused on the sandbag, but at a certain point in front of him, as if he was punching and thinking about something.
This shouldn't be a good thing, Jiang Chijing thought.
The man's irritability was obvious, and Jiang Chijing couldn't help but guess what happened.
Maybe he lost his job and that's why he punches at home on weekday afternoons. And the reason why he lost his job may be sexual harassment of colleagues...
Wait, why is it sexual harassment
You can't give someone a dirty hat just because they look sexy.
Jiang Chijing took a step back and re-guessed the reason why the social elite would lose their jobs. At this moment, the man opposite suddenly stopped, put his fists on his chest, and looked at his fists.
There seemed to be something on the fist, Jiang Chijing couldn't see it clearly, so he could only take out his monocular.
Aiming at the target and zooming in on the screen, Jiang Chijing could see clearly now that the man's knuckles were stained with sporadic bloodstains.
It's not surprising, who told this man not to wear a bandage, punching so hard would definitely hurt his skin.
But then, a scene that surprised Jiang Chijing appeared.
The man stared at the bloodstain for a while, then suddenly stuck out his tongue and licked the injured joint.
The strange picture made Jiang Chijing's heart jump, and he put down the telescope subconsciously, but within a second, he couldn't help but pick it up again and continued to observe the man's actions.
The ruthless expression just now disappeared, replaced by a calm and peaceful mind. The man's anger seemed to be vented in the boxing, and his face was expressionless now, but Jiang Chijing could still see that he was thinking about things.
This time it was more calm thinking.
Jiang Chijing has always been very accurate in seeing people, but at this moment, he has an inexplicable feeling that he can't see through.
He thought of the most dangerous prisoners in the prison, and the man's expression of licking blood was exactly the same as those of those prisoners. He couldn't help but wonder, how many faces does this man have
That night, Jiang Chijing didn't touch the binoculars again. He felt that he needed to slow down, otherwise he would be so curious about the neighbors across from him.
The night was spent watching TV. The news of each station took turns to broadcast the major economic case that caused a sensation in the country recently. A short-selling agency was suspected of maliciously shorting dozens of stocks, obtaining improper benefits of nearly 100 million yuan.
The case is currently under investigation, and the preliminary investigation is the personal behavior of the agency's employees.
Cases happen every day, and there is never a shortage of newcomers in prison. Jiang Chijing turned off the TV with little interest, read a book for a while, and went to bed on time when he arrived at eleven o'clock.
The watch on the bedside table is two minutes slower than the standard time, which is a common problem of old mechanical watches, and it will be inaccurate when walking.
It's not that Jiang Chijing has no money to buy a new watch. On the contrary, the treatment in prison is much better than that of ordinary office workers. He was just reluctant to replace the things left by the elders in the family. After all, this watch is already half a family heirloom.
Winding the clockwork is a task that requires patience. Jiang Chijing twisted it for a long time, and when he was about to finish, the dial suddenly sounded the sound of the spring being misaligned. The next moment, the clockwork in his hand came loose.
Well, he broke the clockwork.
After hesitating for a moment, Jiang Chijing thought that it shouldn't be a big problem, so he thought about solving it by himself.
two hours later.
Jiang Chijing threw aside the mobile phone that was playing the teaching video, and looked at the scattered clock parts on the table with a headache.
Sure enough, professional people still have to do professional things, so he shouldn't overestimate himself and want to fix his watch on a whim.
It was past one o'clock in the middle of the night, and the neighborhood streets outside were eerily silent.
Although Jiang Chijing is only twenty-seven years old, he is a young man, but he usually lives a healthy life, and rarely sleeps in the middle of the night like now.
Turning off the overhead light, lying on the bed, before falling asleep, Jiang Chijing habitually opened the curtains and glanced at the situation opposite.
The goose-yellow building blends perfectly into the dark night, and only the solitary street lamps emit a quiet light.
Jiang Chijing lowered the curtains for nothing, but for some reason, he always felt a strange sense of incongruity with the pictures in his mind.
He lifted the curtains and glanced again, and sure enough, he saw a sneaky black figure lingering outside the courtyard on the opposite side.
The figure looked around for a while, and then turned lightly into the iron fence, which was neither high nor short.
Jiang Chijing immediately thought of the crime of "unlawfully trespassing a house". He sat up straight and stared at the figure's every move in the dark.
The man in black first circled the house, then came to the side of the building, and climbed to the second floor along the pipeline.
That person should be a thief.
Jiang Chijing quickly made a judgment, but after a while, he overturned this conclusion, because the man in black didn't know what tools he used, so he pried open the window and turned into the bedroom.
It is impossible for a thief to enter the owner's bedroom so blatantly. After all, it is the most dangerous place. No matter what, he should go to the living room downstairs to search for a circle.
The surrounding air was so silent as if nothing had happened, Jiang Chijing could only hear his own heartbeat that was infinitely amplified.
He held the mobile phone in his hand and was ready to call the police at any time, but before he actually acted, he left a buffer time. If the neighbor on the opposite side could detect the invasion of the man in black in time, he would not have to reveal his existence.
No voyeur is willing to show his presence in front of those being peeped, and Jiang Chijing is no exception.
But his situation is a little more special. Before he was transferred to prison, he worked as a recorder in the court. He was used to seeing various trials on weekdays, and he formed a unique set of moral standards in his heart.
- If you do something bad, you must make up for it.
Just like now, he has taken advantage of the other side for so long, and he should help the other side when they need help.
A few seconds of buffer time passed, and the bedroom opposite was still dark. Jiang Chijing quickly called the police, but his nerves still did not relax.
If the man in black wasn't a thief, who would be
Having contacted many murderers in prison, the word "killer" inevitably appeared in Jiang Chijing's mind.
Maybe he thought too much, but it's not completely impossible.
Even though the nearest police station is one kilometer away, just one minute is enough to hurt a person's life.
It was too dangerous to go on like this, and he had to find a way to warn his neighbors.
Jiang Chijing didn't shout loudly. After all, he couldn't figure out the identity of the man in black, and he didn't want to bring danger to him. He looked around, grabbed the signature pen on the desk, and threw it at the opposite bedroom window.
However, the signature pen was still too light and fell into the opposite yard.
Jiang Chijing had to look for something important again. He opened the desk drawer and saw the ink bottle inside.
The ink bottle was smashed to the outer wall next to the window, and the bottle body shattered with a "pop", leaving a blooming ink flower on the light-colored wall.
Regardless of whether he woke the neighbors or not, Jiang Chijing knew that this must have attracted the attention of the man in black. Before he could hesitate, he took out a bottle of perfume that his ex-boyfriend gave him from the drawer.
This time, the perfume bottle smashed into the opposite bedroom with precision, and within a second, the lights came on, and the thin curtains showed two figures - one was half-bent, and her body was a little stiff, the other rolled over and got out of bed, Without hesitation, he swiped a whip leg in the past.
Jiang Chijing put his hands on the window frame and kept his eyes on the movement on the opposite side.
In the dark night, the picture in front of you is like an open-air movie, the lights are on the rectangular curtain, and the two people in the movie present a wonderful fighting scene.
But if I had to say it, Jiang Chijing's neighbors had the upper hand.
His punches were not sloppy at all, punching to the flesh and hitting the key points. Jiang Chijing knows some martial arts, like his neighbor's style of play, in international fighting competitions, they will be sentenced to violations because they are too fierce.
The outcome was soon decided, and at the same time, a police car drove not far away.
Jiang Chijing breathed a sigh of relief and pulled back the curtains, but at this moment, he suddenly heard a loud bang.
Curiosity caused him to open the corner of the curtain again, only to see that the window of the bedroom opposite was broken. The man in black was lying in pain on the cement floor on the first floor, with a floor of broken glass slag beside him, while his neighbor was holding the window with his hands. Frame, staring coldly at the screen downstairs.
Jiang Chijing couldn't help but feel a little strange, the man in black had been beaten too weak to fight back, if he fell from the second floor, it would only be a situation where he wanted to escape.
But this way the window should not shatter.
Jiang Chijing thought of another possibility. His neighbor beat the man in black who invaded his house from upstairs. Judging from his indifferent expression, it was very likely that he did it on purpose.
In other words, he didn't care about the life and death of the man in black.
Recalling the picture of him licking the wound, Jiang Chijing suddenly felt a feeling that this man seemed to be more dangerous than he thought.
At this moment, the man opposite seemed to suddenly realize that someone had reminded him just now, standing by the window, raising his eyes without warning.
The falcon-like gaze was directed in this direction, with a strong sense of vigilance in the meaning of exploration.
Jiang Chijing was startled, and quickly lowered the curtains and hid in the darkness.