Chapter 9: Theft
Li Miao arrived at the residence with a trace of remorse, as soon as he entered the door, he saw the landlady talking to a black-robed Taoist priest in the courtyard, Li Miao's first reaction was that this guy was definitely a liar, but the landlady was an extremely superstitious person, and he was convinced of ghosts and gods.
It turned out that this black-robed Taoist priest was invited by the landlord and aunt from afar and abroad, why did the aunt invite this guy, because the cold clothes in the courtyard have always disappeared recently, and it was some women's underwear that was lost.
So that several female residents began to panic, and since then, the aunt has been paying attention every night, as long as the door is opened, the aunt is secretly looking to see who it is, but every time it is nothing more than a late resident, not a thief.
And the big yellow dog, don't look at the joy he called during the day, at night it is the same as dead, unless you see the living person or some reaction to bark twice, if it is an acquaintance, the big yellow dog is called an honest, just like Li Miao almost scared the dog to death when he first came, and the next day, the dog obediently revolved around Li Miao, it was really a pure dog who would bluff.
Originally, the landlord and aunt wanted to lock the door tightly and completely put an end to this thing, but several residents could only come back in the middle of the night, sometimes working a night shift, and when they came back, it was one or two o'clock in the morning, so the gate had to be kept by them.
Therefore, in order to attract the thief, just the night before yesterday, the aunt not only did not put away the clothes, but instead got some of her favorite underwear to hang up, although the number is a little bigger, and the style is also very old, but in the eyes of the aunt, if you don't enter the tiger's den, you will get the tiger, so this move also made the aunt ruthless.
Moreover, Aunt also learned to be smart this time, deliberately around the drying area, sprinkled with a thin layer of lime powder, in the big night, basically no one cares, Aunt learned this from TV, as long as you follow the footprints on the lime powder, trace along the traces, or look at the shape of the soles of the feet, I believe that it will be much easier to find out who is next.
Just say it, it is said that that night the aunt deliberately in the night when the night was hazy, quietly sprinkled lime powder in the courtyard, just like that, the aunt guarded in her own room from the crack in the door to look out, time passed minute by minute, the aunt was sleepy and napped, to more than 3 o'clock in the morning, the aunt was really sleepy, directly fell asleep, and when she woke up, it was already more than 5 o'clock, some days were bright, then the aunt panicked to open the door to look at the drying rack.
This time the aunt miscalculated, the clothes were all gone, as usual, even the aunt's long-cherished old version of the pants, still confiscated, looking at the lime powder on the ground, not to mention the footprints, there was no trace of touching, at that time the aunt was frightened and hit a spirit, this, is it haunted?
She hurriedly told her wife about her guess, that is, the landlord's uncle, although the uncle has not been to school for a few years, but he also advocates science, seeing the aunt so superstitious, sue him, lime powder is not good, people can steal things can put a plastic bag on their feet, after stealing, sprinkle some more on you, you can see what you can see. Although there has been no strong wind in the middle of the night recently, it has changed a little bit, you are not Sun Wukong, you can see it.
When the aunt heard that it really made sense, she hurriedly asked the uncle for advice, and the uncle told the aunt that she wanted to get some thin mud, and it was exactly the same color as the ground, so that the thief would definitely step on it, and it would make the yard full of mud, and more importantly, this thing was not easy to deal with, and there was no time to clean up the mess after making your feet full of mud.
Aunt woke up like a dream, hurriedly went to find some loose soil, and into the mud, at night, taking advantage of the night, quietly sprinkled the mud all over, from a distance, there is nothing on the ground clearly, unlike yesterday's lime powder, more or less there is some abnormality on the ground around, as soon as I see the fruits of my labor, my aunt will be excited, and I will see that the thief is caught, do not kill him.
Also today, the aunt found some of her own underwear, when she was young, the aunt was also a flower in the alley, and the uncle often sarcastically mocked him for lacking everything, so the aunt found some more this time, and hung them on the clothesline early, just to attract the attention of that person.
The night is dark, today is also the sixteenth day of the lunar calendar, the moon is full, and there is occasionally the sound of dogs barking in the alleys, of course, it is not the yellow dog at the gate, how can that guy bark when he sleeps.
Aunt is also waiting at the door, this time in order to prevent herself from falling asleep, the aunt actually bought a can of Red Bull at a cost, it seems that she is really a romantic person.
In this way, the aunt guarded every minute and second, for fear of missing a single thing.
Crunch ~ Crunch ~ ~ The door opened.
Auntie's heart rose to her throat.
But he was soon disappointed, this is Xiao Zhang on the second floor came back from the night shift, Xiao Zhang is a wage earner, he has been in Yunlu City for some years, and now he is working on a construction site, there is a temporary expansion of the project in the past few days, Xiao Zhang in order to make money, he even disregarded his physical exhaustion, and worked overtime day and night.
Could it be Xiao Zhang?
But then, Xiao Zhang went straight up to the south room on the second floor, and after cleaning up for a few minutes, there was a thunderous version of snoring.
Alas, Aunt seems to be disappointed, the sound insulation effect of the bungalow is not very good, and the night is relatively quiet, so Xiao Zhang's snoring Aunt is also clear to hear.
Then at about 2 o'clock in the morning, the door opened again, although the aunt was a little tired, but the red bull was not drunk for nothing, it still had some effect, and the stood up at once, and looked through the crack in the door with wide eyes.
But it's Xiao Zhou who came back.,Xiao Zhou is a software engineer.,With thick lenses.,Usually always work overtime in order to design software.,This time in order to solve a problem of a number of jΓΉ library conflicts.,Today I got it straight to the early hours of the morning to come back.γ
However, Xiao Zhou carried his crossbody bag and went directly to the east room on the second floor, and then there was no movement.