The girl in the blue sweater took the elevator back to the fifth floor. When the elevator door opened, the man in the baseball cap came out of 501.
"Hi." He raised his hand and greeted the girl living in 502.
He didn't expect much response to the greeting. Most of the time, the girl always has red eyes, as if she just cried. When the man in the baseball cap saw the girl in the blue sweater for the first time, she was holding her mobile phone and crying outside the door of 502. She smelled of tears when the man in the baseball cap walked past her, and, among other things, laundry detergent.
Perhaps because he smelled washing powder, he carried the courier and raised his left hand to greet her.
The man in the baseball cap knows she has a compound boyfriend. Her boyfriend didn't treat her very well, and whenever they quarreled, they called her dirty. Whenever a girl is said to be dirty, she will desperately wash her clothes and take a bath, and secretly wipe her tears.
The man in the baseball cap didn't really like seeing her cry, maybe because he liked the smell of her laundry detergent but not the smell of her tears.
However, even though the two lived under the same roof, they were still strangers who met by chance in this city. The man in the baseball cap never thought he could tell her what was in his heart.
What is there to say? The other party already has a boyfriend, and as a neighbor, he can't interfere with her love life,
He had passed his melancholy neighbor a hundred and thirty-four times in the past. Today was the 135th time I passed by, but the man in the baseball cap stopped.
His neighbor still kept his head down all the way, with bangs hanging down. Long bangs covered her face, which was always crying.
He found what he had to say.
"Hey... you," the man in the baseball cap said hesitantly, "I saw a psychiatrist recently, and it worked pretty well. I'll give you his WeChat account, do you want to chat with him?"
The sun was setting, shining obliquely into the corridor. The girl's short hair showed a light golden color in the sun.
"... From a horror movie to a Wong Kar Wai movie in a second, is this your strength?"
Before the surveillance video, Lin Huaixu commented with a focus.
When exchanging bodies before, Chu Tianshu installed surveillance cameras in front of every door.
At that moment, Lin Huai, who was a cat, squatted beside him and said, "Why are you so skilled in your movements?"
Chu Tianshu stepped on the ladder, biting the screwdriver and making a sound: "Huh? Can I see it as you complimenting my maintenance ability?"
Lin Huai looked at his back: "Tsk, you look like a pervert who is good at peeping. Do you do this in every dungeon?"
Chu Tianshu tightened the last screw, clapped his hands and said, "Why do you slander people innocently out of thin air, am I such a person? I only put it on occasionally, for example, in the dungeons of grams, I never put the camera on, so as to avoid unhappiness. Be careful looking directly at things you cannot look directly at."
Lin Huai: "Which dungeon did you get this bunch of cameras from?"
"..." Chu Tianshu protested, "I obviously bought this in the system store! Do I look so poor and wretched?!"
Lin Huai touched his nose, Chu Tianshu stopped for a while, and on the way to carry him back to the property management room, he said again: "You said..."
Lin Huai:
Chu Tianshu: "Let's go back to the fifth floor before leaving the dungeon? There are so many ghosts, it would be a pity not to take them away and stay here."
Lin Huai: "... why don't you take the fourth floor away?"
Chu Tianshu: "Before blocking 401, I asked the system if I could take room 401 away. The system said that the package couldn't be put in."
Lin Huai: "... So when you were irritated to the extreme, you still bargained with the system about the utilization value of room 401?!"
Chu Tianshu rubbed his head and didn't speak.
"As expected of you... It's so terrifying..." Lin Huai complained.
He felt more and more that Chu Tianshu was really...
magic.
The biggest scar in life was uncovered in public. However, when the palm of the hand is already pressed on the door panel, it is still possible to consider "whether 401 can be taken away" from a rational point of view.
Lin Huai could almost imagine what Chu Tianshu was thinking at that time.
If it can be taken away, pack it up and take it away. If you can't take it with you, destroy it.
His behavior, even in this emotionally charged situation, was not driven by emotion. On the contrary, his first consideration is always "whether he can get benefits".
Cold and rational interests.
At noon that day, Lin Huai squatted on the dining table and watched Chu Tianshu for a long time. Chu Tianshu slapped a fish head with a knife, and turned to look at him: "Why are you looking at me so vigilantly?"
Lin Huai: "I've been thinking about it for a long time."
"Still thinking about that?"
Chu Tianshu slashed down, and the whole piece of fish was easily shaved off from the bone. His eyes are focused, and his technique is neat. This kind of technique must be used to kill people and remove bones very quickly.
However, what he killed was a fat-headed fish, and this scene seemed a little funny.
Lin Huai nodded: "I have to say, I have some ideas. You have indeed exceeded my expectations in some respects."
"what?"
Chu Tianshu opened the fish slices, and said in his mouth: "When we met Du Chongshan for the first time, we downloaded a copy of the cold weapon battle royale, and the only tool we could use was a knife. We killed a dignitary, and he His body was too big to handle, so I reluctantly dealt with it at that time. He looked at me with a blank expression and agile movements, and asked me how I was so proficient, and I was just... "
He turned back expressionlessly, his eyes indifferent: "I have been playing with knives since I was very young."
Lin Huai: ...
Chu Tianshu: "Then he called me Brother Chu for half a year, hahahahahaha, until I told him."
He lightly put the fish slices in the bowl: "Playing with a knife == chopping vegetables."
Lin Huai: ...
Chu Tianshu: "When I said that, I almost cramped because I couldn't hold back my smile, so I could only keep my face blank. He actually thought I was like a cold-blooded killer, hahahaha."
He said such words, but no one who heard such words would think that he was simple.
After all, for any ordinary person, dealing with the corpse of an npc is not something that can be simply explained verbally by saying "it's almost like a piece of fish".
In a sense, people who can say such things with a smile may be more ruthless than those who recall these things with a cold face.
Lin Huai looked at him.
"and then?"
"Then what?" Chu Tianshu poured oil into the pot, "I just want to say..."
"—You, don't think of me too scary." He made a 45° turning around, with a smile on his face, but there were thin ice crystals hidden in his eyes, "OK?"
The oil sizzled in the pot, and Chu Tianshu put the fish fillets into the pot. Lin Huai looked at him in silence for a long time.
Chu Tianshu was also quiet for a long time.
After a long time, Lin Huai said, "Wrong."
"what?"
"The order of cooking is wrong. You should put the ingredients in and sauté first. Fish should not be eaten at this time."
Chu Tianshu:?
He frantically fished out the fish. Lin Huai said behind him: "Since we met, you have cooked similar dishes seventy-four times, and not once did you miss even one process."
Chu Tianshu's hand paused.
"So there is a possibility of the mistake just now—you cook the dishes calmly on the surface, but you are very flustered in your heart. You are afraid that I will be afraid of you and alienate you, so inadvertently, you are distracted and make mistakes. Order."
Chu Tianshu: "Seventy-four times... have you counted them?"
Lin Huai didn't even bat an eyelid: "I made it up."
Chu Tianshu: ...
He was busy saving the fish, and after a while, Lin Huai suddenly said:
"There is a second possibility, you did it on purpose."
"You deliberately got the dishes in the wrong order, you know I'm going to find out and point it out... that's something we do know about each other. You're waiting for me to make a 'you're freaking out' judgment. Just like you All the time, all kinds of behaviors that seem like crazy, people can't help but lower your opinion of you, these behaviors seem to be gimmicky, but they never affect what you essentially need to do...”
"Hey, hey," Chu Tianshu protested, "Why do you think of people so badly? I'm angry. Can people trust and love more? People laugh when they think about God. You Are you just thinking about it here before you’re full?”
Lin Huai: ...
"It's not a bad thing to think a little more once in a while." He sat on the dining table calmly. He was clearly a cat, but his posture was graceful to the tip of his tail.
Chu Tianshu: "You hurt your boyfriend's feelings."
He turned his head and looked directly at Lin Huai.
Lin Huai: ...
Chu Tianshu: "Touch your head and forgive you."
After the two looked at each other for a moment, Lin Huai lowered his head. He flicked the other person's forehead with his fingers, and said again: "You said just now that you had some ideas... In what respect did I exceed your expectations?"
Lin Huai covered her head, looked at him inscrutablely, and finally said:
"poor."
... A series of incidents caused by surveillance cameras has temporarily come to an end. The two of them were looking at the scene in the camera, Chu Tianshu yawned.
"Like a boring romance movie." He commented.
At the same time, the girl in the blue sweater in the camera also raised her head.
The moment he saw the face of the girl in the blue sweater, the man in the baseball cap froze.
"... You, haven't you cried today?" He was a little dazed.
The girl in the blue sweater had a smooth face, with a sweet smile on her lips. This is completely different from the girl in the baseball cap man who always cries because of her boyfriend.
The girl in the blue sweater smiled a little embarrassedly.
Her voice was soft, like fluffy cotton candy on the street in an amusement park: "I won't cry anymore."
"And, boyfriend reconciled?"
For some reason, the man in the baseball cap felt a little lost in his heart.
"Well," the girl nodded, her pale face flushed, "he will never leave me because he thinks I'm dirty, because..."
"I'm finally clean."
"clean?"
The man in the baseball cap didn't know, so in the end, he could only say: "Were you dirty before? Do you have body odor? Why have I never smelled it..."
... This straight man speaks. Lin Huaixu rolled his eyes.
The girl in the blue sweater smiled. She opened the door and returned to her room.
There was a strong smell of formalin in the room. The girl took off her coat and hung it on a hanger.
She seems to be a bit of a clean freak, and even all the wrinkles on the coat have to be smoothed out one by one.
"Before... you kept calling me dirty..."
As she spoke, her eyes began to straighten.
"I've used many brands of laundry detergent and soap. I rubbed hard and hard, but it couldn't be cleaned. But, now..."
She opened the bathroom door and looked at the body soaked in formalin in the bathtub.
The eyes of the corpse were wide open, and there was a bruise on the neck.
"Now, don't you think it's clean?" she said softly.
She smiled as if in a daze, and put her arms around the man in formalin.