"Who's at the door?"
Cen Sui narrowed his eyes and looked out through the cat's eyes. At first glance, there was no one outside the door. Just as she was about to turn her eyes away, a human head appeared in the cat's eyes, which shocked her greatly.
"It's me, living downstairs in your house."
"downstairs?"
The person who appeared in the cat's eyes, whose face was distorted by the convex lens, was indeed the woman who lived downstairs from Cen Sui, that is, 201. Cen Sui and her had met each other several times in the elevator.
Cen Sui is very unfamiliar with other residents in the apartment building. As a single woman and pregnant, she naturally knows better than anyone how these people will chew her tongue behind her back. But fortunately, people in big cities are cold, and everyone is busy with their own business. No matter how many speculations these people have about her, at least they won't express it in front of her.
Although she also heard a few comments about herself when she left the elevator, most of them carried the key word "child". However, considering that he will be moving out of here in at most two months, Cen Sui has the right to ignore these rumors.
Of course, it's not that she didn't realize that the other residents' attitude towards her was becoming more and more cold and contemptuous. She thought it had something to do with her unmarried pregnancy, so she didn't care much.
As for the woman who lives in 201... Cen Sui still has some impressions of her, the two of them can be said to be extremely unfamiliar, at least, not to the level of familiarity of "being able to knock on her door in the middle of the night".
"Is there a problem?"
Cen Sui didn't open the door, and the woman outside seemed to be even angrier: "It's midnight, please be quiet, okay?"
"what?"
"I can hear the sound of children bouncing around in your room from across the floor. I said, you are a mother after all, aren't you? You should have a sense of responsibility as a mother, right?!" The woman said angrily, "It's already ten years old. It's two o'clock, everyone is going to sleep! Can you be a little more public-minded?"
As soon as he came up, he was scolded head and face, and Cen Sui was furious and confused: "I still want to ask you, why are you crazy in the middle of the night?"
"I'm crazy?!" The 201 girl laughed angrily, "Is it reasonable for you to disturb the people in the middle of the night?"
The two were arguing heatedly through the door panel. Fortunately, they were both thin-skinned women, and they knew how to lower their voices, so they didn't affect the people living on the fifth floor. After arguing for a long time, Cen Sui became angrier as he thought about it, and cursed through the door: "If I have neurasthenia and paranoia, go to the doctor!"
"Is it reasonable for you to disturb the people?"
Cen Sui sneered: "Who is disturbing the people? You said you were disturbed by my child, who was bouncing upstairs, it's so funny! You can hear the bouncing and bouncing through your belly? She really has sharp eyes and ears, has Erwa Hulu changed? Crazy!"
After saying this, she ignored the reaction of girl 201 and returned to the living room alone.
There was another piece of white snowflakes on the living room, Cen Sui frowned and changed the station.
The recently popular Xianxia idol drama is playing on TV. Although the hero and heroine have no acting skills, they have unique hypnotic abilities. Cen Sui was so quarreled by Girl 201 that his head ached, but under the influence of their performance, he became dizzy again.
Cen Sui, whose eyelids started to twitch, didn't realize that when her vision was blurred, another snowflake appeared on the TV screen.
After the snowflake, the weird animation channel still appeared on the channel.
What appears to be drawn on the screen is a living room. In the living room, a huge rag doll sat on the sofa. In front of it, a little girl with a ponytail was standing in the living room, jumping happily.
If Cen Sui could open her eyes and watch this scene carefully, then she would definitely find out...
What appeared on the TV was actually her living room!
This time she didn't sleep for long, and there was another loud knock on the door.
This knock on the door was louder than last time, Cen Sui woke up from sleep and rubbed his temples irritably.
"Neuropathy!"
She cursed in her heart. Standing up unsteadily from the sofa, he was about to open the door.
She glanced at the TV when she passed by it. At some point, the TV seemed to jump to the cartoon channel again. There was something on her, so she just glanced at it, but didn't take a closer look.
As expected, it was the woman from 201 who stood outside Maoyan, and this time she was furious. Cen Sui put on the anti-theft chain, opened the door a crack, and said to the outside: "What are you doing?"
"I told you to stop arguing before, don't you understand people's language?!" The woman in 201 blushed angrily, "Jumping, dancing, jumping at night, you don't want to sleep, but others want to sleep!"
Cen Sui was annoyed: "I told you that no one in my house is dancing!"
"Why is no one dancing? The voice from my ceiling, and the voice of the child, didn't come from your house, could it be someone else's house? Who doesn't know that you have a child in this building?! "Ms. 201 continued, "Sister, I beg you, please don't make it happen in the middle of the night? If you don't go to work, I have to go to work tomorrow!"
Cen Sui took a deep breath: "I don't understand what you are talking about at all, there is no child in my family who can run and jump."
As she said that, she pointed to her stomach: "This is the only child in my family, and it's still in my stomach."
After she finished saying this, the expression of the originally angry woman outside the door froze instantly, and she frowned, as if in disbelief: "Huh?"
"I think you probably got it wrong." Cen Sui was a little more patient, "I really don't have any other children at home, let alone children jumping around in the middle of the night, so you..."
"What do you mean?" The woman outside the door looked at her very strangely, "You said you have no children?"
Cen Sui nodded, the woman outside the door looked at her for a long time, her expression was extremely strange, she bit her lip, and did not speak for a long time.
Since then, the third floor has fallen into a strange silence. Cen Sui waited for a while, then said, "I don't have anything to do, so I'll close the door first."
As she spoke, she took a step to the side and was about to close the door, revealing the living room through the gap. But at this moment, girl 201 spoke: "You said... you don't have any other children?"
Her tone made Cen Sui feel a hair on his back, so Cen Sui looked at her: "What exactly do you want to say?"
The woman in 201 raised her finger and pointed towards the living room behind Cen Sui, and said woodenly, "But she's just standing there looking at you."
…
The woman in 201 who behaved strangely went downstairs after saying that sentence. Only Cen Sui was left standing alone in the living room, holding the doorknob, the chill in his body rose from his tailbone to his fingertips.
Are you... are you kidding me
After that sentence, she turned her head following the fingers of the 201 woman, but only saw the empty and clean living room. Faced with her categorical denial, the woman in 201 seemed to no longer refute, but showed a terrified look in her eyes that could not be avoided.
It's not like looking at your annoying neighbor who disturbs the people, it's more like looking at...
A lunatic with a disturbing mental state.
"What little girl, how could there be a little girl..."
Cen Sui went back to the living room while talking to himself. As she said so, her eyes couldn't help but look around nervously, looking for every little black shadow that didn't belong to her.
She didn't see anything.
Snowflakes were still flickering on the TV screen, but Cen Sui couldn't fall asleep no matter what. She sat in front of the TV for a long time, and finally stood up from the sofa when sleepiness struck again!
"I must find out what's going on!"
She put on her coat and hurried downstairs.
It took her a little effort to knock on the door of 201. The woman in 201 was wearing pajamas and looked at her through the crack of the door with a panicked expression: "What are you going to do?"
"Let me in!"
Cen Sui spoke hastily, regardless of the resistance of the woman in 201, she forcibly opened the door of 201.
Room 201 appeared in front of Cen Sui. Cen Sui rushed into Room 201 while the woman in 201 shouted "You're crazy!" She walked around in the living room, looked around, and walked quickly, as if she had lost her mind. The woman in 201 rushed towards her, but she put her finger to her lips and said "shh" to her.
The woman in 201 was originally full of anger, but the moment she saw her, she seemed to see something, her lips trembled and stopped.
Cen Sui listened intently, she waited for a long time, the 201 woman's lips were also pale, and she didn't speak for a long time. After a long time, Cen Sui turned around and said angrily, "Where is the sound of children running and jumping! I am standing here now, and there is no sound of children running and jumping at all!"
"I… "
"It's you, it's you who are mentally weak and want to scare me..." Cen Sui became more and more annoyed as he thought about it, the fear he had felt before turned into the anger of being played by someone at this moment. She pointed to the woman in 201 and said: "What little girl... Where is there any little girl? I didn't hear any sound at all. How could there be any little girl jumping upstairs that I couldn't see..."
She spoke passionately, but her voice gradually stopped. Woman 201 looked at her, her pupils constricted, her hands and feet trembled, and she looked extremely frightened.
"You..." She wriggled her lips, "You are here now, of course you can't hear the sound of running and jumping, because..."
"Now, the little girl is not upstairs..."
"what?"
Female 201 raised a finger.
"She's on your back." She said in a twisted voice that was almost crying, "Can't you see?"
The cold hairs all over Cen Sui's body exploded at that moment.
She stretched out her hand tremblingly, and grabbed it back with all her strength—her hand unexpectedly came to nothing.
"Where is the little girl..."
The next moment, her smile froze on her face.
Her finger touched something!
The doll fell to the ground the moment her fingers touched it. Cen Sui turned his head intermittently, and let out a scream when he saw the doll's appearance clearly.
Memories that had been sleeping for a long time flooded into her heart, even if she turned into ashes, she would never forget this doll!
That is... the rag doll she once abandoned!
"what-"
Cen Sui, still in shock, ran back upstairs screaming, ignoring the voice of the 201 woman. She slammed the door and locked it, fearing that she would be chased by that doll.
"...What, what the hell..." She leaned her back against the door and panted, "Why did it appear here?"
At this time, there was a knock on the door she was leaning on.
"Mom, don't leave me." A delicate, weird child's voice sounded outside, "I want to go home."
"Uh...uh!!" Cen Sui screamed, "What are you!"
"Mom, mom, I want to go home, let me go home."
"Mom, don't leave me, okay, I want to go home."
Childish voices kept ringing outside the door, Cen Sui hugged his head and screamed: "Don't come to me! Get out! Don't come to me!"
Gradually, there were thin cries outside the door. The cry was bitter and resentful, tearing at Cen Sui's heartstrings.
Cen Sui waited for a long time, and the voice outside the door finally disappeared. She hugged her head and looked in the direction of the door warily.
Suddenly, there was another knock on the door.
"Miss Cen, are you home?"
It's the sound of the property management.
"Someone said that your side is too noisy, let me come up and take a look." The property manager said politely, "Can I trouble you to open the door?"
Cen Sui got up from under the door, put on the anti-theft buckle, and the moment she unscrewed the doorknob, she suddenly realized—
Are the people outside the door really property management
Or... is there something impersonating his voice
This terrible thought dissipated when Wu Guan's young and handsome face appeared in the gap. Cen Sui breathed a sigh of relief: "You..."
The next moment, she let out a scream.
The hand of the property manager... was actually holding that doll!
"Your child fell into someone else's house." The property manager smiled at her, "I'll help you bring her back."
"no no… "
"You're welcome, property management duty, it should be done."