Xiao Zi's bedroom door was unscrewed, the fat man walked in, the dark clouds in the sky after the rain dissipated, and a large piece of bright sunlight sprinkled on the bed through the window, he was a little unaccustomed to this sudden light, and immediately closed the curtains. He walked around the bedroom, trying to hide under the bed, but the bed was not even able to reach his thighs a short distance from the ground, so he got behind the curtains again, and looked down to see that his big beer belly was the first to show flaws.

Seeing that time was wasting every minute and second, not only because he was too fat and prone to sweating, but also nervous, fine beads of sweat oozed from his forehead unconsciously, if he was like just now, he would have to scare him into a heart attack.

At this time, he noticed the closet in the corner, he opened the cabinet door, pushed the clothes on the clothes pole to the side with a thud, squeezed in with his shoulders bent, he took a deep breath, retracted his belly, closed the cabinet door tightly, and then put the beer belly down.

He could see the bedroom door through the slit between the counters, but a red dress next to his head always blocked his view, so he ripped off the skirt and threw it at his feet, and pressed his fat face against the slit to observe the movement outside, and at the same time pricked up his ears vigilantly, but he could only hear the sound of his own rapid heartbeat.

Just as he was tossing in the bedroom, the door of Xiao Zi's rental house slowly opened, and a little boy who had been hiding behind the door walked out, he carefully took her key, gently turned it to lock the door, and then put the key into his pocket.

The little boy's name is Xiao Hai, he and his parents have lived here for eight years, Xiao Hai burned his vocal cords due to a high fever when he was very young, so he couldn't speak, but he didn't have any hearing problems, but his parents sent him to a deaf school in order to prevent him from being bullied in a normal school.

He is now in the fourth grade at the school for the deaf. He has almost no friends, and since Xiaozi and Lu Wanting moved here a year ago, he has become the person he has most contact with besides his parents. The two kind-hearted girls are very sympathetic to Xiaohai's plight, and will take him to parks and playgrounds when he is fine.

Because today is the weekend, he doesn't have to go to school, his parents don't have to go to work, and all three of them are at home and haven't left home. Because of his withdrawn personality, he doesn't like to communicate with his family, and his parents can't do anything about him. He often carried a small bench to the back of the door when he was fine, stepped on it and stared at the small space in front of the door through the cat's eye.

In fact, he saw a lot of things through that little cat's eye that no one else had seen.

On the day Lu Wanting met Chen Bowen in the elevator for the first time, she was in a particularly bad mood, she met Xiaohai in the corridor playing alone at the door, and she didn't greet him with a smile as usual, but just walked over and touched his head.

In the next few days, she often saw Xiaohai squatting alone in front of the house, and it was usually almost lunch or dinner time. She knocked on his door, but there was no reaction in the house, and he looked up at her pitifully and shook his head, indicating that there was no one in the house.

He wore the key to the gate around his neck, threaded with blue silk thread, and dangled it on his chest. It seems that he did not open the door without a key, but was afraid that he would be alone in the empty room.

Later, she heard from other residents upstairs that his grandfather had recently been sick and hospitalized, and his father was so busy with work that he could hardly take care of him, only his mother rushed home from work to make some sick meals for his grandfather and take them to the hospital, which happened to conflict with the time when he came home from school, but there was no choice but to let him wait at home for his mother to cook for him after returning from the hospital.

After that, he was led into the house several times by her to eat with her.

She didn't know how to communicate with him, and sometimes she would use gestures, and when she couldn't make gestures, she would write down what she wanted to say in a notebook and show it to him, but after all, he only had the level of Chinese characters in the fourth grade of elementary school, and he couldn't understand many words. And she is not angry, she becomes extra patient in front of the child, and tries to make a few delicious dishes every time to make him happy.

After his grandfather recovered and was discharged from the hospital, he stopped coming to her house for dinner, and his mother, in order to express her gratitude, sent her some pickles brought by the old family, which were fermented and pickled with ancestral secret recipes, and the taste was sweeter and more delicious than ordinary pickles, and the extra small teacup with patterns in the family came in handy at this time.

Since then, Xiaohai's affection for her has not only stopped at taking him to the children's paradise, he has felt from her that those things that adults have never given him, and their kindness to him seems to come and go quickly, but she is different.

It is for this reason that he likes to hide behind the cat's eye and wait for the moment when she comes home, but sometimes he can also see interesting things, such as Aunt Fang upstairs going up the stairs while blaming her daughter Qiaoqiao for failing the math exam again, and when she heard the reproach, Qiaoqiao's ponytail became cowardly, not as warped as usual.

One day, during the school holiday, after getting up in the morning, he stared at the cat's eye while brushing his teeth, and he didn't see Lu Wanting go out for a long time. He ran to his room, took his bag to the corner of the door, pulled the storybook out of it, and sat on the bench with his back to the door.

Before lunch, he heard the sound of the door lock turning on the opposite side, and she walked out of the door with a dead face, and then quickly returned home with a few bags of instant noodles, slamming the door closer than usual. Later, he heard the sound of her throwing things, and the indistinct cursing voice, she shouted, "What a broken company, as long as you are a graduate of a prestigious university, you have the ability to open the company to the United States!" ”

He had never seen her so angry, and when his mother called him to eat, he was also sullen, and a lot of rice grains and vegetable leaves were scattered on the table in front of him, and his mother was a little unhappy, and punished him to go downstairs to throw garbage after eating.

He was carrying a garbage bag that was not heavy in both hands, and as soon as he stepped out of the staircase, he met a kind old woman.

"Children, do you know if Lu Wanting lives in this building?"

He shrunk his shoulders back and nodded.

"Do you know what floor she lives on?" The old woman continued.

He stretched out his free hand, stretched out his index finger, and the old woman smiled and pinched his face, and walked into the hallway.

Instead of going to the garbage station around the corner of the neighborhood to throw garbage, he turned around and ran back, running home in one go before his grandmother, and almost hit the grandmother in front of the stairs. Then he lay behind the cat's eye, and saw the old woman with her back to him, straightening up and knocking on the door.

What made him strange was that the grandmother was looking for Sister Tingting who was on the opposite door, but after she opened the door, she said that she was looking for relatives, but this building is now basically rented by outsiders, and the original owner cannot be found, and then she said that she was tired and wanted to ask for a glass of water.

In this way, she welcomed the old woman warmly.

He scratched at the back of his head, unable to understand why adults were always speaking inconsistently.

After a while, she came and knocked on her door, and when he opened the door, she asked him with a smile that his mother was not at home, and she was like the unhappy face he had seen before, and after her mother came out of the kitchen when she heard the sound, the two of them stood outside the house and exchanged a few words, and she asked her mother for advice on which method was most effective when making fish. Anyway, he didn't understand well, and then he remembered that he was still carrying a garbage bag in his hand, so he took advantage of the gap between the two of them to talk and slipped out and threw it away before his mother found out.

When she returned, he could always hear her laughing with her grandmother in the house, and the old building they lived in had been built for decades, and the soundproofing was not very good, so the voices of the residents on the opposite side could be heard a little louder.

Later, he also saw a handsome big brother come to her, he held a small box in his hand, and lingered outside the door for a while before knocking. Later, he hadn't seen her for several days, and when he saw her again, she had left with a big suitcase from home, and no one else had come to the door except Sister Xiaozi.

Until one day, he saw a fat uncle knocking on the door, and today, this fat uncle came here again and stole the key to the opposite sister, he suspected that the fat uncle was a bad person, so he kept observing silently.

He likes to see the outside world with cat's eyes, but he is a meaningless pastime in the eyes of adults, but it plays a huge role today, he quietly witnesses a conspiracy of the adult world, and in the depths of his young heart, there is a faint force pushing him to pull out the set of keys.

When he had done this quietly, he went home and closed the door again. Dad was watching TV in the living room, Mom was cooking in the kitchen, and no one noticed that he had just gone out. He thought a little sadly, even if he was captured by the bad guys, his parents wouldn't know.

The sister on the other side hadn't played with him for days, and he had to wait for his sister to come back and give them back the key today. His little hand reached into his pocket and tightened his grip on the key.

"Xiaohai, have you finished all the homework assigned by the school?" Dad turned off the TV and came over to him and asked.

He jumped off the bench, didn't look at his father, and carried the bench to his room.

"Alas, you kid, pretend you can't hear, come over to me!" Dad grabbed his thin arm, and the key in his hand was thrown out without holding it.

The recent unhappiness at work has made Xiaohai's father irritable, and today he happened to meet an opportunity to vent, he shouted at Xiaohai with raised eyebrows: "Whose key is this?" When did you learn to be a thief? Dare to steal the key to someone else's house! ”

Xiao Hai opened his mouth wide and sat on the ground, his limbs bouncing constantly, and a whimpering cry came out of his throat. The two sisters on the other side of the door walked up the stairs at this moment, and Lu Wanting heard the crying of the child, but she never thought that it would be Xiaohai, so she opened the door without knowing it.