Lin Huai buried her head in the husky's fur and spent a warm and peaceful night.
For reasoning, he didn't sleep until three o'clock in the morning. At seven in the morning, Lin Huai opened her eyes on time.
Although Lin Huai is a ghost, he needs very little sleep. However, being forced to get up at seven o'clock in the morning still made him blush.
The small refrigerator in the property management room stores fresh edible materials, including bright red tomatoes, juicy green vegetables, green cucumbers, and even meat in the frozen layer.
Lin Huai stared at the dishes in the refrigerator, lost in thought.
Chu Tianshu stood beside him and wagged his tail: "What are you going to do?"
"Well, the system has given me so many dishes, if I don't make good use of them, it's a waste of money..." Lin Huai said.
Chu Tianshu: "? Are you going to show off your cooking skills?"
He looked at Lin Huai gearing up and rummaging through boxes and cabinets, and suddenly his back turned cold: "Can you...can you do it?"
Lin Huai turned her head.
"can."
ten minutes later.
There are two large pots on the stove. Both pots contained boiling water.
"As expected of me." Lin Huai held the spatula, "Such perfect cooking skills..."
Chu Tianshu: ...
He lay prone on the stove, staring at the white noodles churning in the first pot with an expression of "==". At this moment, Lin Huai was stirring the pot with a spatula.
Chu Tianshu: "Why are you holding a spatula?"
Lin Huai: "Well, turn it over? I think you always turn everything in the pot when you cook?"
Chu Tianshu: "This kind of mastery is not necessary at all—"
He turned to look at the other pot. In the boiling water, two whole tomatoes, a cucumber, half a cabbage, and two eggs were floating and sinking in the pot.
Before he could ask, Lin Huai had already given a reply: "In the case of boiling at high temperature, the virus in it will be killed."
Chu Tianshu: "Is this the reason why you don't cut?"
Lin Huai demonstrated the principle of cooking that taste is not important, as long as it is not poisonous, it can be eaten.
Happily, the system was kind enough to put a pack of dog food next to the refrigerator, avoiding Chu Tianshu's fate of being poisoned by Lin Huai's "boiled meat in white water". Lin Huai put the noodles and vegetables into a bowl, and began to eat them firmly.
After gnawing a Baishui tomato expressionlessly, Lin Huai turned his eyes to Chu Tianshu's bowl, and began to seriously consider exchanging food.
"I think," Lin Huai said calmly while sitting at the property management table after the meal, "there is something imminent."
As usual, Chu Tianshu was stuffed under the table by him: "What's the matter?"
Lin Huai: "Look for a way to make you temporarily human."
He thought for a while, and then said, "Especially at meal time."
Although Chu Tianshu was treated as a cooking tool, he was not sad. Instead, he opened his mouth to Lin Huai and made a husky voice: "Hahahahahaha."
Lin Huai: ...
It was eight o'clock, and the residents of Chunyu Apartment left the apartment one by one.
The first thing that came to the two was the phalanx on the seventh floor. The 701 first love woman who was walking in the front was pale and was still rubbing her face uncomfortably. She seemed to be puzzled that her skin was so dry.
After the first love girl left, the lover man also walked out. He seemed to be preoccupied and didn't know what he was thinking.
After the 7th floor, there are white-collar workers on the 6th floor. After seeing the female white-collar worker, Lin Huai nodded at her and smiled kindly to show his determination to deal with the water leakage problem.
"This is my key." The female white-collar worker put her room key on Lin Huai's desk, "I will trouble you today."
Lin Huai said, "It's okay, you're welcome."
After the white-collar woman, the woman in the blue sweater and the man in the baseball cap also left the apartment.
The blue sweater woman's face was still stained with tears, and she nervously wiped her arm with a wet tissue, as if there was something dirty on it.
Compared with this group of colorful neighbors, the man in the baseball cap looks like a normal person. When he passed by Lin Huai, he even said hello to him: "I may have several couriers today, please help me collect them."
The word "express" reminded Lin Huai of certain memories. He memorized the answer.
After the people on the fifth floor left, it was the single mothers on the third floor. She walked very fast, followed by the little girl in the ragged padded jacket.
The little girl was wearing a pair of worn cloth shoes covered with mud. Every time she took a step, there were more muddy footprints on the ground.
Considering the point of "maintaining public health" in the property management duties, Lin Huai knocked on the window and stopped the woman.
The woman in pink looked up from the phone in a daze, she didn't seem to understand the reason for Lin Huai's obstruction at all.
"What's the matter?" she asked impatiently.
"Although it's strange to say these things to you in my capacity, I still want to trouble you with something." Lin Huai tried to speak in the tone of a service staff, "Can I trouble you to take care of your children?"
After Lin Huai said this, the woman showed a puzzled look: "Child? What child?"
The action of force is mutual, and the force of confusion is also mutual. After the woman fell into doubt, Lin Huai also fell into doubt.
'She didn't know she had a baby? Or is she pretending to be stupid...'
While Lin Huai was thinking about adding fuel to the flames, the woman in pink put the phone close to her ear, as if she was listening to a voice.
Soon, she uttered a soft voice like water: "I'll be right there..."
The woman in pink seemed to have lost the mood to reply to Lin Huai's words. Holding the phone, she hurried away.
The little girl in the red cotton padded jacket had a runny nose, signed the corners of her clothes, and followed her all the time.
"It seems that she is the only one who can't see this little girl." Chu Tianshu commented from behind the door, "This little girl has a strange aura."
Lin Huai lowered her head, closed her eyes and sniffed vigorously.
"It's the breath of the red dress," he said firmly. "It should be the red dress, but it's very weak and strange... It seems to be stuck together with something..."
He looked down at the string of sticky brown footprints, and unexpectedly saw many small silver things in it.
"what is this?"
He lowered his head, trying to pick up the things in the footprints with his hands. Chu Tianshu ran over from the room with a tissue box in his mouth.
"Use this as a pad for your hands." He bit the tissue box and said vaguely, "So as not to get your hands dirty."
Lin Huai: "Tsk, do you think I'm dirty?"
Chu Tianshu: "Don't open the strange set of scumbags and cheap shou casually, hey!"
Amidst Chu Tianshu's complaints, Lin Huai pulled a tissue, put it in his hand and picked up the shiny thing.
—It turned out to be a needle.
Needle
This discovery puzzled him a little. He was picking up the needle, and just as he was thinking about it, a cry of surprise came from his ear.
"Wow!"
Chu Tianshu uttered a cry and quickly moved away. Only the woman in 201 was left behind, looking at his back in astonishment.
"dog… "
"Gou Quan's life is in troubled times, and he doesn't want to be known to the princes."
Facing the resident, Lin Huai answered fluently. He stood up and looked at the woman in 201 who was shocked when she found a dog in the apartment.
"dog… "
"If you are persistent, why bother to go to bed at the third watch and sleep at the fifth watch; the most useless thing is a day of extreme cold and ten days of cold."
"dog… "
"If there are plum blossoms, it will become wild interest, and if there are not many pine trees, it will also become the sound of the river."
woman:…
Lin Huai answered fluently, but he couldn't read that poem. This stopped all her questioning.
"So this is the source of the dog barking I heard in the middle of the night?" the woman murmured.
"A dog barking in the middle of the night?"
Lin Huai didn't remember Chu Tianshu calling in the middle of the night. In the copy, he has always been a light sleeper. If Chu Tianshu called out yesterday, he would be the first to wake up.
"Yes." The woman nodded.
"Every morning at three or four o'clock, I wake up at night. In the past two nights, I have always heard the sound of creatures walking next door, like someone walking a dog. Faintly, I also heard a few dogs barking .It’s just that those barks are very strange, not like a dog, but like a person pretending to be a dog.” The woman replied, “I felt strange last night, and I looked at the corridor through the cat’s eyes. Although the corridor is dark It was painted, but there was still a faint light. But all I saw was a emptiness, and nothing else."
"Oh..." Lin Huai was thoughtful, "It may be because of the limitation of the viewing angle."
Woman: "What?"
"The 'people' walking the dog are too short, and the 'dogs' are too short lying on the ground." Lin Huai said sincerely, "When you look at the cat's eyes, they are also clinging to the bottom of your door, look up The position of the cat's eye. So, you didn't see anything."
Woman: ... ... ... ...
She showed a "you are so scary" expression: "What, what?"
Lin Huai continued: "However, as long as you open the door, you will see someone looking up at you."
Woman: ... ... ... ...
Lin Huai looked at the woman's crazily trembling lips, and said kindly, "I'm sorry for scaring you, I was joking, haha."
As he said that, remembering the countermeasures he made yesterday, he added: "Actually, I raised this dog myself and used it to guard the apartment. In case dark groups invade the apartment building in the middle of the night. I have it every night. I'm sorry that the habit of walking the dog scared you."
Woman: "Huh? Walking the dog in the early morning?"
Lin Huai nodded: "Yes, I like walking the dog in my dream."
After making Cao Cao's voice, the woman looked at him with indescribable eyes.
In order to fix the bug, Lin Huai added: "While walking the dog, I will also exercise myself, squatting down and walking the duck while walking the dog."
Woman: "...you're kidding."
Lin Huai laughed twice: "Hehe, of course I'm not joking. If I didn't do this, how could I describe the behavior of squatting under the door so vividly?"
In order to take the blame, Lin Huai made a great sacrifice. He made a voice that was infinitely close to perverted, and the woman took two steps back when she heard the words: "So why are you..."
Lin Huai: "I was so shy when I was found walking ducks. When I heard footsteps coming to check the door, I couldn't help but hide."
Woman: ... ... ... ...
The woman didn't know what to reply, but Lin Huai replied with a gentle and kind expression: "Actually, I am a very shy person, so if you hear this voice again in the future, can you..."
Woman: "... I'll pretend I didn't hear it."
The working hours were tight, and since Lin Huai found a good reason for the existence of the dog, the woman no longer pursued it. She took her bag and left the apartment in a hurry.
Lin Huai didn't care at all what kind of pervert he had become in the woman's heart. He looked at the elevator thoughtfully.
It seems that the cause of the woman's death in 201 is closely related to the little girl in Room 202.
Perhaps, in the original story, after the woman in 201 got up at night for several consecutive days and heard the sound of rubbing in the corridor but could not see anyone from the cat's eyes, this curious woman must have pushed her own door .
After opening the door, she may have seen the little girl and the "dog" under the door, or maybe she saw Room 202, and thus entered that room by mistake and became the new "dog".
Or, after seeing the little girl and the "dog", she boarded the elevator the next day, but accidentally used the key to open the room "202"—a room that should not have existed—without noticing.
In any case, Lin Huai has successfully used his nonsense to stop the woman's curiosity. Although he was regarded as a pervert because of this, saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda, and the woman showed a very wonderful expression because of this. Lin Huai felt that his efforts were worthwhile.
"I'm such a good man," he thought, "and I'll stick to this policy in the future."
He waited in the property management room until ten o'clock in the morning, but none of the other residents went downstairs.
It seems that the painter should be working at home, the fat man is a dead house who doesn't like to go out, and the lover of 702 may be watching TV at home. After all, she looks like a very laid-back rich woman.
Lin Huai thought for a while, he probably started working too.
The first to bear the brunt is the wall of the woman's house in 601.
Afterwards, he would overcome all difficulties and go see the little girl as agreed.
After instructing Chu Tianshu to watch the door downstairs, Lin Huai boarded the elevator to the sixth floor.