The next morning, after waking up, Brother Chao was depressed and thinking about whether to go to work.

The two of us thought about it for a few seconds, and finally he decided to go to the unit to have a look first, after all, Zhu Bajie didn't know about it when we were together yesterday, he was at most a little excluded from Brother Chao, and he wouldn't do anything too much.

After Brother Chao left, I continued to clean up the house, thinking about when to go to the furniture market to pull the bed back, as a normal old boy who lives alone, how can I do without a big bed?

Suddenly, there was another rapid knock on the door, and I looked out from the cat's eye, and it was still Lao Wang, and his face in the cat's eye was a little deformed, and he couldn't see the expression clearly.

I can't tell why, after last night's episode, I seem to have a little more disgust with him, maybe it's because his face-changing skills are too similar to my former colleagues with yin and yang faces, right?

I took a deep breath and opened the door, feeling a little awkward before I could speak, because Lao Wang showed the overly polite and hypocritical smile of the previous two meetings.

I asked, "Brother Wang, is there something wrong?" Lao Wang smiled: "Oh, Brother Xiao Zhao is early, Brother Wang has something to ask you for help." ”

I said in my heart, no wonder I was so polite, thinking that after all, I would be neighbors in the future, and I would not see anyone who looked up and looked down, so I tried my best to say politely: "Oh, Brother Wang, you said, they are all neighbors, if there is anything you can help, you are welcome." ”

The smile on Lao Wang's face instantly increased a little, and he hurriedly said to me: "Oh, the little brother is sensible, then I'm welcome, that's right, isn't it your sister-in-law who is pregnant now, the doctor said that the fetus is very important, so I want to ask you for a favor... It's not a big deal, you see, can you not cook with the fire on lately? ”

I'm a little stunned, this requires... Lao Wang seemed to see the puzzlement on my face, and he added: "That's the case, because yes, the oil smoke is harmful to the human body, we live so close, if you start the fire, this oil smoke will float to my house, smoke to your sister-in-law... This... Not really, right? ”

I don't think Lao Wang is asking me for help, I think he is challenging my patience.

I tried my best to squeeze out a bright smile and said, "Brother Wang, what do you mean... I haven't eaten lately? ”

Lao Wang hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, no, it's definitely not that meaning, you won't starve to death if you don't eat?" That's it, you see, can you not eat at home during this time? Or just like you did on the day you first came, buy ready-made food from outside, and eat it the same? ”

In fact, when I lived in the collective dormitory rented by Zhu Bajie before, I couldn't cook at all because of the conditions, so for a long time, my colleagues and I really bought ready-made food outside, and almost all of them were used to it.

And the kitchen in the rough house I rented was not cleaned at all, so I didn't plan to cook by myself anytime soon.

But whether I cook or not is my business, and it is not the turn of the neighbors to command, not to mention that the words spoken by Lao Wang just now are really unpleasant, what is 'starving' and 'disturbing the people', why does it sound so piercing?

I restrained my smile and changed the subject and asked, "Brother Wang, did you quarrel with your sister-in-law last night?" Lao Wang was stunned, obviously he didn't expect me to ask about this, he shook his head lightly and nodded and said, "No, it's just that I have a little disagreement with your sister-in-law on some things, we chatted, did you hear?" ”

I said, "You didn't look very good last night." Lao Wang touched his face and asked suspiciously: "Is there one?" ”

I don't know if Lao Wang is pretending to be stupid or really doesn't understand, his virtue last night and the contrast at this moment really made me sick for a while.

Looking at his appearance, I sent him in line with the principle of looking less at him and being less disgusted for a while: "Brother Wang, my kitchen here has not been cleaned up, and I won't cook on the fire for the time being, don't worry, if I cook on the fire, I will definitely notify you in advance, okay?" Come, you take a step back. ”

Lao Wang took a step back inexplicably, I saw that he was standing in the right position, and pulled the door suddenly, and locked him out with a "bang".

Returned to the bedroom and continued to clean up, the knock on the door sounded again, I ignored it, this time only a few rings Lao Wang stopped knocking, probably he also knew ashamed, right?

Suddenly, WeChat rang, I picked it up and saw that it was a text message from Li Xiaomeng: Do you know where Mr. Zhu is?

Until the mobile phone screen automatically went black, I didn't understand the intention of Li Xiaomeng's WeChat.

Test me? Or do you want to join forces with Zhu Bajie to make a new set of tricks for me?

After thinking about it for a long time, I couldn't figure it out, so I simply called Brother Chao directly and asked him about the situation in the unit.

dialed Brother Chao's phone, and it took him a long time before he picked up and asked, "Hey?" Brother Qian, what's wrong? ”

I asked him, "Are you in the unit?" Brother Chao said, "Yes." I asked again: "Is Zhu Bajie in the unit?" Brother Chao said, "What's wrong?" Do you miss him? I asked, "Is there anyone around you?" Brother Chao said: "No, I will come out directly when I see that it is your phone, otherwise why do you think it took me so long to answer?" What the hell is going on? ”

I told Brother Chao the content of the message Li Xiaomeng sent me, and Brother Chao said: "Zhu Bajie really didn't come today, I thought he went to the hospital to recuperate and recheck his injuries again, what do you mean, Zhu Bajie is gone?" ”

I said, "I don't know, can you think of an inquiry?" Brother Chao thought for a while and said, "Okay, you wait for my call, bye-bye." ”

It took nearly half an hour for Brother Chao to call me, and as soon as I connected, I heard Brother Chao say, "Hey, Brother Qian, Zhu Bajie may really have something to do." ”

His tone seemed to be gloating, and I asked, "What's the situation?" Brother Chao continued: "That's the case, I said that there is something that urgently needs Zhu Bajie to sign with his own paws, and then asked the financial girl to help find him, and guess what?" Zhu Bajie's three mobile phone numbers and his landline phone are all unreachable. ”

I said, "What does that mean?" Is he in the hospital? And then just when the phone is out of battery? ”

Brother Chao said: "Why don't you remember when you left your job for a few days?" When did Zhu Bajie's three mobile phones turn off at the same time? And don't forget, his wife is a full-time wife, and it's convenient for Zhu Bajie to do something outside for himself, and he's afraid that his wife will mess around like him, so he usually doesn't let his wife go out at all, so there's no reason why no one answers the phone at home, right? ”

I thought about it and said: "Is it possible that Zhu Bajie went back to the hospital for a recheck, and his wife went to the hospital to accompany him, and it happened that his three mobile phones were out of power..."

Brother Chao directly interrupted me and said, "I can't! Just now Liu Zhengguang came back with a basket of fruits, Li Xiaomeng went to talk to him, he said that he couldn't contact Zhu Bajie in the morning and suspected that he was going to the hospital again, so he bought fruit and wanted to be courteous, but he didn't find him in the hospital where Zhu Bajie treated his injuries last time, and there was a hospital of a little scale near Zhu Bajie's house, and it was impossible for him to go to a small clinic, so he wouldn't go to another district hospital across half the city for a recheck, right? ”

I said, "Brother Chao, calm down first, I'm embarrassed that you're so excited." ”

Brother Chao laughed and said: "To be serious, it's noon, Zhu Bajie has been missing for at least half a day, do you guess it has something to do with him going to look for us last night?" I said, ", he didn't even find us, and besides, it's only been half a day, and he doesn't use the word 'lost contact', not to mention what did we do to him?" ”

After Brother Chao finished telling me about the situation, the excitement in his tone seemed to have finally decreased, and he took two breaths and said to me: "No matter what you say, Zhu Bajie's matter is not normal, he is a thief, and if there are no special circumstances, he will not do such a thing that affects his work." ”

I said, "Yes, such a 'trivial matter' as the death of his relatives last time didn't delay him from making money, yes, let's talk about it tomorrow, this disappearance is less than a day, and you call the police and people don't file a case." ”

After chatting with Brother Chao, I hung up the phone with some wandering thoughts, the three numbers displayed at the top of the mobile phone communication record interface, one is the one that Brother Chao just called, one is the bombing call of Li Xiaomeng that I never answered, and the other is the number that Zhu Bajie talked to me last night.

This number is the number of the helper called by Zhu Bajie, right? Will the owner of this number know the whereabouts of Zhu Bajie?

I used to like the purity of Li Xiaomeng, and I didn't deliberately express it, nor did I deliberately hide it.

Brother Chao knows what I'm thinking best, and he also knows that I have a good impression of Li Xiaomeng, so he will make some ambiguous jokes about us from time to time.

Li Xiaomeng has never refuted this, which once made me mistakenly think that Li Xiaomeng also has the same good impression of me.

It wasn't until after that incident that I realized that Li Xiaomeng was just more proficient in acting.

Looking at my phone for a long time, I decided to give her a call.

Li Xiaomeng picked up quickly, I think she was also waiting for me... Or Zhu Bajie's phone call, right?

After connecting, I asked her directly: "Xiaomeng?" What did you mean by that message you just sent me? Mr. Zhu is gone? Li Xiaomeng seemed to have already thought of the wording, and she replied: "Well, Brother Qian... You okay? ”

For a moment, an indescribable taste suddenly appeared in my heart, but before I had time to taste it carefully, I heard Li Xiaomeng say: "That's the case, Mr. Zhu handed me a document when I went to work yesterday, so I had to sort it out..."

I interrupted her and said, "Get down to business." ”

Li Xiaomeng paused slightly, and then said: "I contacted Mr. Zhu once last night because of work, he said that he went to talk to you about some work matters, and then he told me that everyone went to work normally today, but since he called me last night, I haven't been able to contact him again, and he didn't come to the unit today, according to the meaning of that call, he ended up with you..."

I said, "He ended up with me and then he lost contact, so you think I'll know where he is?" ”

Li Xiaomeng didn't deny it, and said "um" softly.

I suddenly had a strange feeling, Li Xiaomeng is so concerned about Zhu Bajie, she can't really like Zhu Bajie, right?

I still didn't expose her betrayal of my address, but said into the phone: "I didn't see Zhu Bajie yesterday, I don't know if he came to me, really, I only talked to him once, he didn't use his own mobile phone, other than that, I didn't have any contact with him last night." ”

Li Xiaomeng was definitely not satisfied with this answer, but she didn't seem surprised, she just said to me: "Oh, I know, I'm sorry to bother you." With that, he hung up.

Ending the conversation with Li Xiaomeng, the doubts in my heart are even heavier, if it is only Zhu Bajie who has lost contact, and her wife can still be contacted, then there is a chance that Zhu Bajie went out to fool around.

But now... According to Li Xiaomeng's meaning, it is difficult to say when Zhu Bajie lost contact with him.

Could it be something that happened in the middle of the night last night? led to the loss of Zhu Bajie's family?

Could it really be that a Tang monk came out and went to take the Western Scriptures with the Eight Precepts?

I can't figure it out, staring at the number that Zhu Bajie contacted me last night, do you want to call?

Forget it, it's good that he's missing, what the hell am I doing here?

I put away my phone and cleaned up briefly, and went out to pull my bed.

Standing outside the elevator door and waiting for a long time, two elevators, one has been stopped on the first floor, and the other has been descending from the 20th floor, the strange thing is that the number of the floor where the elevator is located stops every time the number drops, as if there are people entering and leaving each floor.

Are there so many people in this building?

It wasn't until the elevator finally reached my floor, when the elevator door opened, that it dawned on me that this was the case.