Chapter Twenty-Three: The White Cat in the House
Xiao Ji is a sophomore male student, he publishes part-time resumes everywhere, he doesn't pick a job, he only cares about the amount of money, it doesn't matter if he's tired or hard, sometimes he works as a waiter in a restaurant at night, sometimes he goes out to distribute flyers, sometimes he goes to a banquet to help, part-time work can be done, basically he has done it if it's not illegal, one day an old man called and claimed to introduce him to a job, the work content is very simple, the grandmother is going to live at her children's house for a few days, and she wants Xiao Ji to help take care of her cat, and be a housekeeper in her own home, Eat whatever you want in the refrigerator, use whatever you want at home, just sleep at home at night, 150 yuan a day, Xiao Ji happily accepted this job, in his opinion, it is much more comfortable than working as a waiter in a restaurant and going out to distribute flyers, etc., and it is also relaxed.
Xiao Ji came to this house according to what he said on the phone, it is in a remote place in the suburbs like the university, although the house is a bungalow, but it is still two-story, Xiao Ji knocked on the door and no one responded, so he took out his mobile phone and dialed the phone, and soon the phone was answered.
"Hey, hello, I'm here to see the house, how do I open the door?" Xiao Ji said with a little excitement.
"Oh, you open the door as soon as you push it, there is no lock, after you come in, you will take care of Mengmeng on the first floor, Mengmeng is my cat, you take care of him, the refrigerator and the table, you can eat and drink whatever you want on the first floor, and you can sleep here at night, thank you, young man." An old grandmother said in a very kind voice, and hung up the phone after speaking.
Xiao Ji pushed open the door, and after coming in, he took a look, this room has two floors, and the upper second floor has to go up from the outside stairs, and the inside doesn't seem to be able to go up, Xiao Ji walked to the door on the first floor, pressed the handle with his hand, and opened the door easily, and then entered the living room, a white cat in the living room was lying quietly on the sofa, and someone came motionless, Xiao Ji put down his backpack, walked over, touched the cat and said, "Mengmeng, I will take care of you from today on." ”
Mengmeng didn't seem to appreciate it, he ignored him, as if he wasn't calling himself, Xiao Ji turned around on the first floor, sat down on the sofa, turned on the TV and started watching, I didn't know how long I felt a little hungry, so I went to the kitchen to get something to eat, and by the way, I fed Mengmeng some cat food, and then I lay on the sofa and played with my mobile phone, and I felt a little sleepy after playing for a while, so I fell asleep.
I don't know how long I woke up after I slept and woke up again, when I woke up, the TV turned on by itself, Mengmeng was looking at the TV directly, Xiao Ji also opened his eyes and rubbed his eyes and watched TV, there was a white cat in the arms of an old grandmother in the TV, the old grandmother was touching down the white cat's hair, stroking the top of the white cat's head and around the neck, the old grandmother said to the white cat Beibei ~ Beibei ~ This should be the name of this white cat, why is this white cat so similar to Mengmeng? Xiao Ji began to follow the grandmother on TV, first began to stroke Mengmeng's head, then stroked the area around his neck, and said to Mengmeng ~ Mengmeng~ But Mengmeng still couldn't take care of him.
The next day, Xiao Ji went to school during the day, and there was no class in the afternoon, so he came back here, watched TV, played with his mobile phone, ate and drank at will, and played with Mengmeng by the way, but Mengmeng didn't care about him at all, which made Xiao Ji very depressed, and said that this cat didn't need to be taken care of, and he didn't care about people at all, what did he do to take care of him.
At about 5.20 p.m. on the third day, Xiao Ji was lying on the sofa in the living room eating and drinking, when he suddenly heard the sound of the door opening on the other side of the door, the long sound of the old wooden door, accompanied by a woman's voice: "Mom~ I'm back, have you eaten?" I bought pork ribs and your favorite food, why do you call you and keep busy? "There is also the sound of high heels while talking.
Xiao Ji panicked, a little overwhelmed, knowing that this was the employer's daughter coming back, eating and drinking, isn't it too unusual, although the employer asked him to do this, Xiao Ji panicked, quickly sat down and put on his shoes, held Mengmeng in his arms and stroked, at this time the woman opened the door and came in, looked at Xiao Ji, Xiao Ji looked at her, neither of them spoke, the woman looked at each other, thought that the other party was not a thief, and asked, "Who are you?" Where's my mom? ”
Xiao Ji said: "I was hired by your mother to take care of Mengmeng, I am a second-year student at a nearby university, and I came to work part-time." The woman put down the things in her hand, took out her mobile phone to call the police, and said while taking out her mobile phone: "What a dream, that's Beibei!" It's my mother's cat, what did you do to my mother? Mother!!? Mother!!? Mother!!! The woman shouted loudly, but no one responded, Xiao Ji took out her mobile phone to show her, and said, "Look, this is my grandmother's call to me, and she asked me to come." The woman cautiously glanced at the caller number, which was really her own home phone number.
Although she got married, she kept this number in mind, but the woman's vigilance did not relax too much, and she asked, "Where did my mother go?" Xiao Ji said: "I don't know, grandma called and asked me to come, give me 150 a day, she said that she was going to live at her children's house for a few days, let me come to see the house, to take care of Mengmeng." ”
The woman said, "Whose house did I go to live without telling you?" I called and asked my eldest brother. After speaking, he walked out of the room and went to the courtyard, saying in his heart that there was something wrong with this person, and I wouldn't know that my mother was going out? And the cat's name is Beibei, not Mengmeng. I called my eldest brother and found that his mother didn't go, so he immediately called the police, and before the police came, the woman returned to the living room, Xiao Ji was honestly sitting on the sofa at this time, with his hands on his lap as honest as a schoolboy.
Seeing Xiao Ji's appearance, the woman began to let go of her suspicions, came out of the living room and went up the stairs from the outside to the second floor, knocked on the door a few times, called her mother a few times, and after no one responded, she returned to the living room, and worried, where did her mother go? It didn't take long for the police to come, Xiao Ji's whole body stiffened after seeing the police, although he didn't do anything bad, but he was also scared to death, the woman told the police that she was home, her mother was not there, and she saw this person eating and drinking in her own house, and making such a mess of the house, and there was a smell in the house, I don't know what he was doing.
Xiao Ji felt that he was very wronged, and told the police 1510 the ins and outs, and he called to find his grandmother to confirm the matter, the phone has not been answered, no one has answered after three or four calls, and the line has always been busy, the woman said impatiently: "You have a fart to call, this phone number is my family flight, and my mother usually uses it." Xiao Ji said emotionally: "Impossible! When I first arrived, I called to ask how I could get in, and my grandmother told me that I came in. Xiao Ji's excited eyes had tears, and at this time the phone rang, Xiao Ji saw the caller number and picked it up excitedly, pressed the speakerphone and said loudly: "Grandma!" You're going to save me! ”
The other end of the phone said very calmly: "Good boy, thank you for taking care of Beibei, I lied to you, he is not called Mengmeng, he is called Beibei, my daughter will take care of him in the future, and she will give you the money in a while, comrade police, you go, don't wronged the good people." The police comrade said curiously: "Grandma, where are you?" Why don't you tell your child about something so big? Where have you been now? There was a beep on the other end of the phone, and the phone hung up.
The daughter grabbed the phone and dialed it over, but it was still busy, took out her own phone and called, and it was connected, but the voice was always sneering, just like the sound of snowflakes on TV. The woman glared at Xiao Ji angrily, Xiao Ji felt that she was very wronged, and said to the police comrade: "You all heard it, comrade police, I just came to work part-time." ”
The police comrade asked the woman to give him money, and then closed the case, and the woman said excitedly: "No, he made a mess of my house and smelled, so he wanted to leave?" Why do you want me to give him money? The police comrade looked around and said, "Except for a little mess on the table, there is nothing else here, and there is no smell as you said." The woman said, "Not here, I smelled it in the yard just now." ”
Xiao Ji said emotionally: "I have never stayed in the yard for a long time, what does this have to do with me?" A few people came out of the living room and went to the courtyard, and the policeman looked upstairs and said, "Have you been upstairs?" What is it for? The woman said, "That's the bedroom, I lived in it with my mother when I was a child, and then I couldn't." The police took two steps up, and also smelled a strange smell, and suddenly became alert, because this smell is the smell of corpses, several policemen cooperated, forced the door open, and there was an old lady lying inside, holding a piece of paper in her left hand, on which was Xiao Ji's part-time job application resume and phone number posted everywhere, and in her right hand there was also a landline microphone, according to the current winter weather, and judging from the decaying green spots and vascular nets on the corpse, she had been dead for a week, and the police called a forensic doctor, and finally determined that it was a natural death.
After investigation, this matter has nothing to do with Xiao Ji, the daughter basically comes back once a month, the last time I came back, the old man didn't have any problems, I didn't expect everything to be so sudden, as for the eldest son, the last time I came back to visit the old man was in the summer.
Several people recalled all this, they were scared and sad, afraid because the person who had died could still call, and in front of everyone, sad because when she died, there was no one around to accompany her, even her own cat, even if she was so lonely to go, but still couldn't rest assured of her cat, so she found Xiao Ji to take care of her cat.
The daughter cried for a long time, and when she asked for the money to Xiao Ji, Xiao Ji never dared to ask for it, he just didn't want to think about this incident anymore, he was scared to death when he thought about it, and the person who had passed away called him, and he still ate, drank and slept downstairs for two or three days, but in the end the money was given to him.
Xiao Ji left here the year he graduated from college, and on the way back, Xiao Ji recalled this incident, he thought that grandma was just worried that he couldn't let go of his cat, after all, his children usually don't go home, and only Bei Bei can accompany him, as for why he lied to himself and said that it was called Mengmeng? Maybe it's because I want to make this a dream.