When Song Lingling opened her eyes, it was already dark, she stretched out her arms lazily, rubbed her sleepy eyes with her hands, and went to get the mobile phone next to the pillow, the time showed 9:10. Open WeChat, the store manager posted in the group all kinds of funny expressions of the employees in the store last night in KTV, and a short video of a little girl blowing out birthday candles, and several clerks praised it on the side, it turned out that yesterday was his 6-year-old daughter's birthday.

No wonder a colleague mysteriously asked her last night if she wanted to celebrate after work, it turned out to be because of this. Song Lingling suddenly realized. Recently, everyone else has been talking about the relationship between the store manager and the boss behind their backs. In the next step, the other two new stores may have to be taken care of by him. "Anyway, I don't expect a promotion or a raise. "Song Lingling has always been such an ostrich mentality.

Song Lingling, 21 years old, works in a large mobile phone store in the city, and only got off the night shift at 11 o'clock last night, according to the company's regulations, she can rest for half a day. I went back at 1 p.m. to pick up the shift.

"The circle of friends is a show all day long, showing affection, children, sports cars, and travel. Song Lingling thought, but she didn't want anything. Song Lingling's father worked in the factory in his early years, and he was laid off because of the poor efficiency, and he opened a grocery store in the alley behind the family courtyard to barely make a living. But he thinks that girls are better at reading than they look good, and they are better at mixing than they are good at marrying. It's better to come out to work earlier, and you can also help relieve the financial pressure on your family.

Therefore, after graduating from secondary school, she came out to explore the rivers and lakes, and over the years, she can be regarded as seeing some of the so-called "world". Although her grades are not good, she looks good, and she has a big personality, straightforward and generous, and is friendly to people, and her colleagues still like to get along with her.

There was a "squeak" and the door opened.

Song Lingling's mother showed half of her head from the outside, "Son, the sun is drying your butt." ”

Song Lingling pretended to be coquettish and covered her head with the cold quilt, and turned over to continue sleeping. Who knows, my mother has already slapped me twice on my buttocks. "Don't pretend, get up, other people's children are all making money, only you, and you are still a leper dog. Song Lingling giggled under the quilt.

"My grandmother came back from morning practice and brought you porridge and fritters, you little kid, the treatment is much better than mine. Mom lifted her quilt and pinched her ass twice.

Because of her grandfather's early death, Song Lingling's grandmother has been living with them for many years, and the hardships of life make her father not speak much, and she is not good at expressing her emotions, but what Song Lingling wants, her father will basically be satisfied.

In addition to helping my father take care of the grocery store, my mother took care of my grandmother's diet and daily life. She often said to Song Lingling in private, for so many years, my lonely old woman has dragged down your family, if your father and your mother didn't have me, you would be more financially comfortable. Whenever she heard this, she always had a sour nose and a very blocked heart.

Song Lingling got up to wash, and her grandmother was watching TV in the living room at this time, and the old man's ears were not very good, so his voice couldn't help but be louder. Song Lingling deliberately stuck her face covered in facial cleanser foam out of the bathroom, stuck out her tongue and grimaced at her grandmother.

"It's noisy!" she exclaimed, feigning anger.

"Ouch, little ancestor, what are you doing?" Grandma was obviously a little confused by her granddaughter's nonsensical appearance, and she quickly grabbed the remote control beside her and prepared to turn off the TV.

"Hahahaha. Song Lingling laughed proudly, and some of the foam on her face fell to the ground.

"Why are you scaring grandma?" said her mother as she passed by the bathroom after tidying up her room. "Hurry up and get a good breakfast. ”

Song Lingling returned to the bathroom and turned on the water pipe, the mobile phone in her pajama pocket suddenly rang, she didn't care about washing her face, she took out the phone after flushing the foam on her hand at will.

The call was from a girlfriend, who said that she had quarreled with her boyfriend again, and she was depressed and wanted to talk to someone.

How can Song Lingling have such idle time, because she has a good personality, sensible, and empathetic, many colleagues and friends treat her as an emotional trash can.

But after a long time, it's annoying, and it feels like life is always changing tricks to tease you, so that you haven't experienced anything, but it seems that you have seen the lives of countless people, she sighed helplessly.

Hung up the phone in a hurry and was washing her face, but Song Lingling always felt that the tap water had become a little strange today, and she heard a loud air pressure sound in the water pipe, but a small amount of water came out. She immediately turned off the hose and turned it on again, but the water pressure suddenly increased again, and the faucet became heavier. Out of curiosity, she repeated it several times, only to find that the result was the same each time. No matter how much time is in between, it is always big and small, and there are some "bang" sounds in the pipe that have never been heard before.

Song Lingling's heart was full of doubts. This ordinary family of four lives in a brick and concrete unit in the downtown area of the old city, this three-bedroom house is less than 80 square meters, it is the dormitory in the original father's factory, Song's father was the chief of the enterprise management section, responsible for the division of the room, and he divided a 9th floor, that is, the top floor, which means a long time. This room is a few months older than Song Lingling. Although the community is old and the facilities are aging, one thing that is particularly good over the years is that there are almost no water and electricity outages.

Curious, she turned off the water pipe again, but she heard a "whining" sound under the pool, and the lid of the drain kept blistering up, as if something was pushing out, she had never seen such a scene.

Suddenly, she heard a similar sound coming from the shower's drain hole. Song Lingling became more and more confused, she guessed, it couldn't be who was working on the water pipes in the unit building, right?

The drain of the shower was easy to check, and Song Lingling lay on the ground and stuck her head over to hear what the noise was.

There was movement in the gutter, and the wind whirred out of the pipe, and it sounded strange and scary, like a monster locked in it trying to break out.

Song Lingling leaned sideways next to the drain, the more she thought about it, the more uncomfortable she felt, but suddenly her ears seemed to be tickled by something like a feather.

She quickly turned around and scratched her ears with her hand.

In this moment.

She saw a large cockroach with long whiskers struggling to squeeze out of the drain, but the drain was too small and failed several times. But two long whiskers came out of the hole. Moreover, he also scratched Song Lingling's ears by the way.

Song Lingling's pupils suddenly dilated.

"Ahhh......h

"Mi'er, what's wrong, what's wrong?" The old mother rushed in in a hurry first, still holding a rag in her hand, Song Lingling squatted in the corner of the wall, her face terrified. Grandma also trotted to the toilet.

Song Lingling has never been a very bold person, don't look at her personality like a boy, big grin, informal, but when I was a child, I saw a male classmate playing with a bean dog (scientific name Douqing worm) on the desk, and I would feel numb on my scalp, not to mention rats, cockroaches and other insects.

After understanding the situation, my mother and grandmother breathed a sigh of relief and expressed "protest" against her behavior.

"A broken thing can scare you like this, that's all. The old mother took the rag and said angrily, her eyes full of ridicule.

"Hahaha," my grandmother said with a smile as she stood at the door of the bathroom. "Cockroaches? In the past, your grandfather and I ran long distances to transport goods, and it was stuffy and breathable on hot days, and cockroaches crawled full of cargo boxes, and I was quite afraid at first, but then I thought about it, how big are the cockroaches? ”

Song Lingling squatted in the corner, she also felt that she was very cowardly, but she couldn't help it, she was just afraid.

"Hey, why is this wall seeping water?" asked my mother when she was about to rub the rag and accidentally looked up at the bathroom wall.

"No, it's tiled. Grandma muttered to herself in the back.

"It's been hot for the past few days, and it's not raining, so the roof won't leak. My mother said to my grandmother.

"Otherwise, I'll make a call and ask Lao Song to come up and take a look. Mom said and went to the living room to get her phone.

Song Lingling, who was squatting in the corner, came back to her senses now, and she suddenly remembered that she was frightened by cockroaches just now because she felt the water in the water pipe fluctuated and heard a strange sound in the drain. Moreover, the cockroach couldn't wait to crawl out.

"Hey, hey, the cracks in the toilet wall at home are seeping, yes, you can take the time to come back and take a look. ”

Song Lingling heard her mother calling her father.

She stood up and glanced at the seeping walls, where water was constantly dripping, not like the vaporized water in the sauna, and on closer inspection, water was squeezing out of the cracks in the tiles.

Song Lingling wanted her mother to go into the bathroom to take a look, after all, these phenomena were too strange for her, and she was just about to turn around and go out.

"Ping-pong, ping-pong, bang" There were a few loud noises, and Song Lingling heard that someone downstairs seemed to be throwing pots and pans, and the sound was very loud.

"No, it's not a pot or bowl, it seems to be something else," Song Lingling thought to herself, and hurriedly went to the window of the bathroom to observe.

The bathroom is a single-sided window, in disrepair, not very open, but it is in this small gap. Song Lingling suddenly saw the eighth floor of the same unit, and I don't know whose window fell down with a "squeak", and there were some bricks. Before she could react, she suddenly felt as if her house had been hit by something and began to shake involuntarily. At the same time, sand spilled down on the ceiling, on her head and face. In an instant, she felt a little dizzy, and the scenery in the gap suddenly became unreal.

Song Lingling was completely stunned.

It's too late, it's too soon. She reacted quickly and ran towards the bathroom door, shouting:

"Mom......"

Song Lingling felt weightless.