Listening to Chu Xiaoxiao's faint snoring, Li Qin slowly lifted her head from his lap. Picked up the pillow next to him and replaced his numb legs. He wanted to pick up Chu Xiaoxiao and carry her back to the bedroom, but he was afraid of waking her up. Li Qin sat on the chair next to Chu Xiaoxiao for a while, the numbness in his legs almost disappeared, Li Qin got up and planned to go to the bedroom to get the quilt and come back to cover Chu Xiaoxiao.

But Li Qin had just gotten together, and suddenly felt that something was hooked on the back of his clothes. Li Qin turned his head to look, and it turned out that Chu Xiaoxiao stretched out his hand and grabbed Li Qin.

"Old man Li, don't go. I'm scared... I'm afraid I'll get that call again tonight. I, I don't really know what my grandmother sent me. I..."

Chu Xiaoxiao's drunken words with a big tongue don't know if he was really drunk or pretending to be drunk. Li Qin gently touched Chu Xiaoxiao's head and said gently, "Don't go." I'm going to get the quilt, I'm afraid you'll catch a cold. ”

Chu Xiaoxiao let go of his hand, Li Qin squatted down and looked at Chu Xiaoxiao's pretty face, he was really a little unsure if Chu Xiaoxiao was really asleep. Li Qin gently brushed back the messy hair on Chu Xiaoxiao's forehead, slowly got up and walked into Chu Xiaoxiao's room to get the quilt.

When Li Qin walked into Chu Xiaoxiao's bedroom, he suddenly felt that the room was extremely familiar and friendly. It's like going back to your bedroom. Li Qin turned on the light and sat on the edge of the bed, the wallpaper with golden patterns on the wall was still there, but Li Qin deduced that it should be a new one when Lin Xiaojing was still there. But the style is exactly the same as before. The huge wardrobe emitted a faint woody fragrance, Li Qin looked at the cabinet, he still remembered that at the beginning of last year, he and Uncle Lin wasted a lot of effort to lift this wardrobe up.

In the early hours of the night, there was no more noisy noise outside the house, only the last chirping of the autumn cicadas. The quiet atmosphere and this familiar bedroom made Li Qin fall into memories again.

"Duh... Honk... Toot"

The sound of an old-fashioned phone woke up Li Qin, who was caught in a memory. Li Qin was so frightened by the sudden sound of the phone call that he shuddered. I looked and saw a machine next to the dresser. Li Qin frowned and thought: It's so late, who is calling?

A minute passed, and the phone didn't hang up. Two minutes have passed, and the phone is still ringing! A trace of cold sweat oozed from Li Qin's forehead. He returned to the living room and found that there was no sound from the mother machine. Only Chu Xiaoxiao's bedroom had been ringing for almost three minutes.

Li Qin returned to Chu Xiaoxiao's bedroom, picked up the phone with a trembling right hand, and connected the phone.

"Hello?"

There was no response from the other side, and beads of sweat the size of soybeans on Li Qin's forehead began to slowly slide down his head.

"Hello?"

Li Qin shouted again, but there was still no one on the other side. Just as Li Qin was about to hang up the phone, a plain old voice with no tone floated out from the other end of the phone.

"Xiaoxiao, did Zhiyuan send you the book?"

Li Qin could hear Sun Lianfang's voice at that time, and Li Qin's right hand had begun to tremble unobediently. Li Qin took a deep breath, calmed down and said into the phone: "Sister Sun, I'm Li Qin." Laughing and falling asleep. ”

"Xiao Qin... Oops, I, I remembered. ”

Sun Lianfang's voice was very slow, without the slightest emotion. Li Qin remembers that some film and television works described this sound as if it came from the mouth of a dead man. And at this moment, the voice Li Qin heard was really from someone who had passed away. Although it is not as hoarse and gloomy as the demons of hell as described in the work. But the mechanical, flat voice was surprisingly frightening.

Before Li Qin could speak, there was another beep on the other side of the phone. The phone was hung up, and Li Qin put the phone back in its original place. At this time, the water on Li Qin's back had already soaked through his clothes, and there were also a large sweat stains on his chest. Li Qin only felt that his limbs were cold and his head was blank. Li Qin picked up the quilt on the bed, slowly walked into the living room and covered Chu Xiaoxiao's body, and then walked into the bathroom to take a shower. After taking a shower and changing his clothes, he returned to the living room and looked at Chu Xiaoxiao lying on the sofa. He suddenly understood the way Chu smiled during the day. Receiving a call from a dead man, anyone who touches it will be scared and nervous. Li Qin picked up the half-tube of beer that Chu Xiaoxiao drank on the coffee table and poured it violently. The bubbles in the beer exploded in his throat and then into his stomach. Li Qin quietly looked at the red landline next to the TV, afraid that the hurried sound of the phone would break the silence of the night again.

Early the next morning, the dizziness in his brain and the remnants of last night tumbling in his stomach forced Chu Xiaoxiao to open his eyes. When Chu Xiaoxiao found herself asleep on the sofa with a quilt on her body. Without thinking about it, she closed her eyes again and hummed, "Li Qin... Old man Li. ”

No one responded. Chu Xiaoxiao turned around and sat up slowly, only to see a cup of tea and a bowl of eggs and tomato noodles on the table. There was also a note next to it that said, "I'm going to work first." Breakfast was on the table. You don't go to work today, come to the store at noon, and I'll cook for you.

Chu Xiaoxiao smiled slightly, got up and stretched. After a brief wash, he sat down in front of the coffee table and slowly ate the noodle soup made by Li Qin. Because of yesterday's incident, Chu Xiaoxiao asked the company for three days off after returning home yesterday. Chu Xiaoxiao's boss is also a reasonable person, and approved Chu Xiaoxiao's leave slip and comforted her not to be too sad.

In the morning, Chu Xiaoxiao simply cleaned up the house. Since Li Qin moved in, Chu Xiaoxiao remembered that he had basically never done housework. Thinking that Li Qin would clean up the house when he was not at home, it turned out that the house was basically clean. Only last night's garbage was not emptied.

Chu Xiaoxiao picked up the garbage bag and went out and threw it into the trash can. Standing in front of the unit building bathed in the morning sun, Chu Xiaoxiao stretched his waist for a long time. Thinking that most of the people living in this community are elderly, the house is too old, and the young people are not happy to live here. The house was designated as a dilapidated building two or three years ago. ZF wanted to demolish and rebuild, but the residents still refused to let ZF demolish it. Because there are so many memories mixed in. The neighborhood has long since become one with the community.

Sometimes Chu Xiaoxiao feels that the neighbors here are kinder than the family, except for her grandmother, she is kinder than anyone else in the family.

"Laugh and laugh"

Chu Xiaoxiao turned around, and a middle-aged man with gray hair stood at the door of the community and smiled at him.

Chu Xiaoxiao recognized the person, it was Grandma Sun's eldest son Zhang Zhiyuan. Thinking of Grandma Sun, Chu Xiaoxiao remembered the phone call the night before yesterday. Chu Xiaoxiao took a step back, looked at Zhang Zhiyuan, and asked cautiously, "Uncle Zhang, why are you here?"

Zhang Zhiyuan walked up to Chu Xiaoxiao, took out a small notebook from his arms, and handed it to Chu Xiaoxiao: "The old lady asked me to give this to you before she died." Say it's all memories of her and your grandmother. Let you save it. ”

It was a notebook with a palm-sized leather cover. There is a small buckle on the side of the notebook, and there is a small lock on it, Chu Xiaoxiao pointed to the small lock, "Uncle Zhang, this..."

"Ah, the old lady said that the password is your grandmother's birthday. And..."Zhang Zhiyuan paused, and continued with a slight tremor in his tone: "The old lady asked you to go to the Gutou grocery store on Nanhua Street. Say there's your courier there. ”

"Huh?"

"Smile, it's time for Yuanyuan to go to kindergarten. Uncle went back to see him off first. Zhang Zhiyuan didn't give Chu Xiaoxiao a chance to ask questions, turned his head and trotted away from Chu Xiaoxiao's sight.

Hearing the word express again, Chu Xiaoxiao became more and more sensitive, and became more and more curious about what the express delivery that Grandma Sun had been talking about. And the vague note left by my grandmother and the notebook in my hand... What exactly are these things hiding?

Chu Xiaoxiao returned home and began to study the notebook in his hand. Chu Xiaoxiao began to turn the password ring on the combination lock. When it came time to turn out his grandmother's birthday, Chu Xiaoxiao found that the lock had not been opened. Chu Xiaoxiao tried the birthday date of the lunar calendar again, but the combination lock still did not open.

Chu Xiaoxiao scratched her head, and when she looked at the time again, it was already half past eleven. Chu Xiaoxiao hurriedly stood up and cleaned up, put the notebook into her small bag, and ran out of the house briskly, towards Liu Sangu's small fried restaurant.

When Chu Xiaoxiao ran out of the gate of the community, by the tree next to the road on the opposite side of the community, Zhang Zhiyuan took out his mobile phone from his pocket, put the mobile phone in front of his ear without dialing the number, and said tremblingly: "Hey, Mom... Mother... Something, give, give, give her..."

A cold voice suddenly came out of the phone with a black screen: "Hmm..."