Chapter 22: The Landlord's Family

When Du Juan and Tang Hongye came to the door, it was exactly six or seven o'clock in the evening, Bai Xiaoyu's landlord and his wife were watching TV and eating dinner in the living room, and saw two policemen coming to the door, and thought it was a routine visit and registration by the police, but they didn't take it seriously, until they heard that the two of them were from the criminal police team of the city bureau, they were startled, and hurriedly let people into the house, and their expressions were a little uncalm.

"What's wrong? Is there something wrong with our daughter? The landlady was about to cry, "A student had an accident at their school a while ago, so I told her dad not to let the child study at night at school, but both of them said that it was okay!" If this is really my daughter, I won't be able to live! ”

"It's not your daughter's business, it's your tenant's." The cuckoo shook his head at them, seeing that the landlady was visibly relieved, and then asked more sensitively, "What school is your daughter studying in?" ”

The landlady said the name of a high school, and Du Juan and Tang Hongye heard that it was not the one that Zhu Binbin attended, so they didn't ask anything more about this issue, and sat down to talk to the two of them about Bai Xiaoyu.

Bai Xiaoyu's landlord is a middle-aged couple in their forties, the man's name is Wu Zhi, the woman's name is Wang Xia, both of them are ordinary workers, and there is a daughter named Wu Mengtong, who is now in her second year of high school. Because the income of the husband and wife is not particularly high, and the daughter's expenses on weekdays are not small, the two of them rent out the flat-roofed attic for 15,000 a month to supplement the family.

"What's wrong with that little girl? She hasn't been back in a long time! After Wang Xia briefly introduced the situation in the house, she asked with some concern, "Something didn't happen to her, did she?" It didn't happen in our house, did it? ”

Wu Zhi turned his wife with his elbow on the side, glanced at her, signaled that she couldn't talk like this, it seemed too utilitarian, and he said to Du Juan and Tang Hongye: "That little girl usually goes in and out or something, sometimes she will walk through this door connected to our house, and sometimes she will go through the door outside, so our whereabouts are not particularly clear, I have the impression that she should not have been back for a long time, usually if she comes back, our family can hear the movement upstairs, but in the last week or two, There was no sound at all. ”

"Yes, yes, I'll take you over to take a look, you see that our family is really paying attention to this aspect," Wang Xia was more concerned about whether their expressions sounded decent enough, but how to try not to bring trouble to herself, "When we rented the house, in order to avoid suspicion, we installed an anti-theft door on the stairs on the second floor, after all, it is unrealistic to seal it, in case our family conditions are better in the future, I don't want to rent it, it is still a leap pattern, it is too troublesome to seal it." When we rented to that Bai Xiaoyu, we asked her to call a locksmith to change the locks on both doors, and she had the keys in her own hands, but we didn't, whether it was the door in the house or the door outside, she could open it at any time from the inside, we couldn't open it from the outside and couldn't get in, absolutely protect her personal space, and the well water would not interfere with the river water! ”

Under the leadership of Wang Xia, Du Juan and Tang Hongye went over to look at the anti-theft door on the stairs, and it was really as Wang Xia said, it was a sturdy and serious anti-theft door, which divided the upstairs and downstairs into two completely independent spaces in the middle of the stairs.

"How long has Bai Xiaoyu lived with you?" After sitting down in the living room again, Cuckoo asked.

"Yo, it's been a while!" Wang Xia counted with her fingers, "She has paid the rent three times before and after, and we all pay it every six months, so she has lived in our house for more than a year, and this time there are more than three months of rent due. ”

"Has she ever been without coming back for so many days?" Tang Hongye asked.

"There should be, this little girl has no other problems, just one point, that is, when she is at home, she may have a little weak sense of public morality, and she doesn't pay much attention to the severity of her movements. There are also times when I don't know what to be excited about upstairs at night, jumping and jumping, and playing music is a bit loud. Wu Zhi replied.

"That's a pretty worry-free tenant, isn't it?" After listening to Wu Zhi's words, Tang Hongye felt that Wang Xia's previous evaluation of Bai Xiaoyu as a tenant did not seem to be particularly objective.

"Alas, you look young, and you must not have the experience of renting a house for someone else!" Wu Zhi waved his hand, with a helpless face, "This Bai Xiaoyu can be regarded as our third tenant, the first one, a very good person, originally said that he would live for a long time, but he lived for less than three months, what is the problem with the work, people are going to leave City A and go to other places, so they will definitely not live!" We are looking for new tenants, the new tenants are two little girls, it looks very refreshing, at the beginning we told some precautions, they all agreed to be happy, the attitude is very good! As a result, after moving in, you can't imagine what our house will look like! ”

"Those two are so inhuman!" Wang Xia said, "At first, it was not convenient for us to go up, I don't know what the inside of the house has become, I know that the two of them always bring friends back, and then they sing and dance and roar and shout upstairs, sometimes one is not good, and they quarrel and fight, the key is that these are all things that happen in the middle of the night, who can stand it, you say this is changed!" The two of us are not young, in our forties, and it is easy to sleep well, and we will have a nervous breakdown when we are troubled by them! Later, we couldn't bear it, so we went up to find them, and found that we had a good house, which was not made out of shape, and then there was really no way, so we had to drive them away, and the house was almost redecorated again, and then we could rent it again, after Bai Xiaoyu moved in, we felt so happy, compared with the previous one, she was too worry-free! We also went up and knocked on the door when we collected the rent, and saw that the inside of the house was kept clean, which was very good! ”

This is also true, with a worse comparison in front, Bai Xiaoyu's small noises have become harmless, after all, for the landlord, a tenant who pays rent stably and does not destroy the house itself can indeed be regarded as a good tenant who is worry-free.

It's a pity that there is no way for this good tenant to continue living here.

"Does Bai Xiaoyu usually bring anyone back? Friends and the like. Cuckoo asked.

As soon as she finished asking her question, the two landlords didn't have time to answer it, when suddenly the sound of a key inserting into the lock hole came from outside the door, and the eyes of the four people turned to the door.

The door opened, and from the outside walked in a little girl of seventeen or eighteen, with shoulder-length hair, bangs, big eyes, and a small face, which looked a little doll-like cartoonish. This girl is wearing a wide and ill-fitting school uniform top on her upper body, and a pleated skirt that reaches her thighs on her lower body, revealing two thin legs, which looks like she is wearing a school uniform with a bit of fashion, which is like a more fashionable oversize match nowadays, making her look slim and petite.

"Tongtong, why did you come back at this time? Haven't you studied at night yet? Wang Xia saw the girl enter the door, and stood up with some surprise to greet her, "What's wrong?" Not feeling well? Is it a fever? I see why your face is a little red? Let mom touch her head if it's hot! ”

As she spoke, she hurriedly stepped forward and reached out to touch her daughter's forehead.

"Oh, mom, what are you doing!" The girl was a little impatient and avoided her mother's hand, for fear that she would mess up her hairstyle, "Our school has a power outage, so let us go in advance!" Don't always move your hands and feet! ”

After saying that, she realized that there were two people in the living room besides her parents.

"We're having a guest?" Wu Mengtong was a little surprised, especially when he saw that this pair of men and women were not very old, and they had never seen each other before, so they couldn't figure out the identity and intention of the other party.

"It's nothing to do with you, have you eaten or not? Let's go back to your room and do your homework, and I'll give you the takeout you usually like to eat later. Wu Zhi didn't want his daughter to know what happened to the tenant upstairs, probably because he was worried that he would scare the child, so he was anxious to let Wu Mengtong hurry to his room to avoid it.

"I'm halfway through my homework at school, you can't let me rest for a while just when I get home, I'm still not your own!" Wu Mengtong glared at her father, and it could be seen that her parents didn't seem to have much sense of authority in her eyes, so she didn't pay attention to it at all, and walked straight to the sofa and sat down, "Didn't you say that our family wants democracy and equality?" Am I part of the family? What the hell are you hiding from me? No, I have to know today, and the more you hide it from me, the more I want to know! ”

When she spoke, her cheeks bulged, and she looked angry, but the tone was more like she was coquettish with her parents, and at first glance, she knew that she was a girl who was pampered by her parents on weekdays.

Sure enough, Wu Zhi and Wang Xia had no way to take their daughter, Wang Xia went to get a bottle of soda for her daughter, and brought her a wet towel to wipe her face.

Hearing that Du Juan and Tang Hongye were criminal policemen, and came to learn about the tenant Bai Xiaoyu upstairs, Wu Mengtong suddenly came to the spirit: "You investigate her!" What's wrong with her? Did she defraud someone out of their money? ”

Although Wu Zhi and Wang Xia were still a little dissatisfied with their daughter's interference in these things, they also wanted to know what happened to Bai Xiaoyu, so they didn't open their mouths to reprimand anything, but like their daughter, they looked at Du Juan and them with a curious face, waiting for them to answer their questions.

"We found out that Bai Xiaoyu was killed outside." Tang Hongye told the truth.

Wu Zhi and Wang Xia's faces changed suddenly, and they gasped, obviously taken aback, but Wu Mengtong just raised her eyebrows and pursed her lips, not surprised, but as if she was a little expected, her face was undisguised disdain, obviously her impression of Bai Xiaoyu was not very good.

"What do you think about this?" The cuckoo noticed it and asked Wu Mengtong.

When Wang Xia heard Du Juan ask, she hurriedly waved her hand to the side: "Oh, aren't you kidding!" Our daughter is only in her second year of high school, she is a child, what can she know! She can listen to this matter, don't ask her, she doesn't understand anything, don't delay your work......"

It's good that she didn't say that, but after saying this, Wu Mengtong was a little unhappy, she pulled out the arm that was held by her mother, moved it to the side, and said with an unhappy face: "I'm a little fart!" I'm all a person with an ID card, okay? And I'm going to be an adult soon! Why don't you understand anything! ”

She said to Du Juan and Tang Hongye: "That Bai Xiaoyu is not a good thing at all, don't listen to my parents praise her, the two of them don't understand anything, they can't understand what Bai Xiaoyu is!" That Bai Xiaoyu, use it again and again to describe her, as soon as you say it, you will understand what kind of person she is! She's a veritable fishing girl! Fake one pays ten! ”

Du Juan and Tang Hongye laughed, how can this kind of thing be fake and pay ten!

Wu Zhi and Wang Xia didn't know much about the term "fishing girl", so they couldn't figure out what kind of definition their daughter gave Bai Xiaoyu, and they looked at each other on the side, vaguely feeling that this word should not be a compliment.

"Tongtong, there are some things that can't be said nonsense, the dead are great!" Wu Zhi reminded his daughter.

Wu Mengtong glanced at him and was very disdainful: "When did you two become so superstitious!" I am not afraid of the dead, and I am not afraid of the dead, but I am told that the living are much more terrible than the dead! ”

There is still some truth in what he said, but Du Juan deliberately didn't believe it, and asked her with some doubts: "Are you very familiar with Bai Xiaoyu?" Do you know so much about her? ”

"I don't know her well, we're not the same kind of people!" Wu Mengtong pursed her lips, "But you can see it too, she is the kind of woman who relies on the bloodsuckers on the man's body, gets it for nothing, and has empty gloves and white wolves!" During the period when our family rented a house, she saved a few boyfriends! My parents don't pay attention to anything all day long, so they don't necessarily know what's going on! ”