Going up to the third floor, Zhang Peng took out the key and opened the door. The house was dark, and he fumbled for the switch next to the door, and with a "snap", he turned on the fluorescent lamp.

It is a twenty square meter two-bedroom apartment with a kitchen at the entrance, opposite the door, and is very small. The living room is about 20 square meters, connected to a small balcony, and there is a passage in the middle, which is connected to the toilet and two rooms in turn.

The big room is opposite the toilet, which used to be the bedroom of Zhang Peng's parents, and now Zhang Peng lives. The innermost room is a small room, only a few square meters, long and narrow, with a bed, a bookcase, and a desk, which occupies all the space. Originally, this was Zhang Peng's room, but now it is rarely used.

In the living room, there is an L-shaped sofa, a marble-faced coffee table, and a chest of drawers, cabinets, and shoe racks on the wall. Diagonally opposite the sofa is a TV cabinet and a refrigerator.

This is the whole picture of Zhang Peng's family, his parents' house, no need to pay rent, live alone, comfortable.

On the coffee table was a glass kettle containing boiling water boiled in the morning, and a small plastic basket next to it was a cleaned glass covered with a white cloth.

He poured a glass of water and drank it "clattering".

As he drank, he suddenly felt a wind in the back of his head, as if something was shaking. He turned his head suddenly, and saw a light green doll on the refrigerator, with a strange expression and bulging eyes, which was the one he saw at Lao Wang's house.

He couldn't help but rub his eyes, maybe what he had experienced today was too bizarre, as for his restlessness, he hallucinated.

When he looked again, he was shivering, goosebumps from head to toe. Although he was terrified to the extreme, the expression on his face did not change in the slightest. I saw him take a deep breath, slowly put down the glass, and walked towards the door without squinting. When he was about to touch the doorknob, he suddenly said "wow", opened the door, and rushed straight out.

From the third floor to the first floor, there are only two flights of stairs. He took three steps and rushed downstairs in a few seconds. When I looked up, the lights in the house were still on. The miserable white fluorescent lamp is more and more terrifying.

He gasped for air, his heart contracting rapidly, and he looked terrified. It wasn't until he saw the warm light in the store and half of Aunt Ma's figure that he calmed down. Walked over to the stone table and sat down.

What the hell, I actually followed him to the house.

Okay, since you dare to play tail with my brother, my brother will let you go and have no return!

Thinking of this, he reached out for his phone and lit up the screen. In this compound, he is a living ground snake, and there are still a few iron brothers.

He quickly called up Ding Dahui's phone and dialed it. There were a few rings, and it was answered over there.

"Hello?" There was a deep, powerful voice, similar to the bark of a cow.

"Old Niu, what are you doing?" Zhang Peng asked.

"Overtime." "When do you leave work?" "I don't know." "How could you not know!" Zhang Peng shouted.

"The big leaders above are going to come to inspect, and they are overhauling the boilers, and they are eating and living in the factory." Ding Dahui explained.

"Can't I take a leave of absence?" Zhang Peng's face drooped, extremely depressed.

"It's an extraordinary time, and I need the factory director to approve the slip when I ask for leave." Ding Dahui said in a rough voice, "Your dad is quitting again, who should I go to approve the slips?" ”

"Looking for Lao Zou." Zhang Peng said. Every time he mentions something related to the factory director, Lao Niu has to say, "Your dad won't do it again", which is like a conditioned reflex.

"What's the matter with you, can't you wait a few days?" Ding Dahui asked.

"This ......" Zhang Peng thought about it, but forgot it. Lao Niu is a tenacious person, and when he told him ghost stories, he was afraid that he would not believe it, so he said, "Forget it, I'll go find Haruko." ”

"Okay, I'm busy, I'll talk back." After speaking, Lao Niu hung up the phone.

Then, Zhang Peng called out Li Chunsheng's number and called. Li Chunsheng, like Ding Dahui, is his playmate since childhood, one meter eight tall, fat and strong, nicknamed "Fat Cat".

"Haruko, where's it?" After connecting, Zhang Peng asked.

"In the country." A warm voice came from there.

"What?" Hearing this news, Zhang Peng's whole person was not good.

"I have a cousin at home who is getting married, and I'm helping, and I'll be back next week." Li Chunsheng first explained the reason, and then asked, "What's the matter, is there something wrong?" Compared with Lao Niu, Li Chunsheng's mind was more active, and he immediately sensed the problem from Zhang Peng's tone. Without waiting for Zhang Peng to answer, he added, "It's really something, I'll just come back by car overnight." ”

"Actually, it's nothing, you can get busy first." Zhang Peng said. Haruko's hometown is 5,000 kilometers away in the mountains, and when she gets off the plane, she has to take a train, when she gets off the train, she has to take a bus, and when she gets off the bus, she has to take an ox cart. Even if you rush back overnight, it will take three days.

"Really?" Li Chunsheng didn't believe it.

"What else can I do, you can help at home with peace of mind." Zhang Peng said.

"That's right, you have Changshan Zhao Zilong and Yanren Zhang Yide, who are much more powerful than me, Cai Mao." Li Chunsheng quipped.

"Wo Depend, if you were Cai Mao, wouldn't I be Lu Bu." Zhang Peng came to the spirit, their group of people have loved watching the Three Kingdoms since they were children, and they talked endlessly. They also like to call the little friends in the compound according to their own characteristics, and call them the Three Kingdoms Martial Arts. For example, Ding Dahui is "Huang Gai", which is recognized by everyone, with a tough body, a thick person, willing to suffer, and full of honesty.

"Come on, you are a Liu Bei at best, holding a double-strand sword and doing a show." Li Chunsheng said disdainfully.

"I think you're a Wang Yun." Zhang Peng said.

"If I were Wang Yun, you would be Dong Zhuo." "Hahaha, Dong Zhuo is good, I like to be Dong Zhuo the most." "Okay, okay, long-distance calls are expensive, let's talk later." Li Chunsheng said.

"Okay, let's get back to it." Zhang Peng hung up the phone.

I didn't even make two phone calls and found no one, and the rest of the friends were more timid than him, so I had to find another way. Seeing that it was almost eight o'clock, Zhang Peng looked at the commissary, hesitated slightly, and walked in. Ma Jinglei is a proper female man, it is said that when she was young, she rode the grassland, hunted wolves and shot eagles, and learned sanda from her father for a few years, which is very powerful.

The head of the security section of the factory, a retired "hidden dragon" special soldier, said that Ma Jinglei could make a draw with him. Of course, there must be a humble part in this, but compared to ordinary people, Ma Jinglei must be much more powerful. At least for so many years, Zhang Peng has not seen Ma Jinglei suffer any losses.

When she entered the store, Ma Jinglei was holding her cheeks, looking out the window in a daze. Ma Jinglei is like this, sometimes she looks like a stupid big sister, she spends her days in a daze and doesn't watch TV.

"Aunt Ma......" Zhang Peng called in a low voice.

Ma Jinglei turned her head and saw that it was Zhang Peng, so she got up and asked, "Xiaopeng, what's wrong?" ”

"That ......" Zhang Peng grabbed his hair, looking a little hesitant. For a while, he couldn't think of any reason to let Ma Jinglei accompany him.

"Huh?" Ma Jinglei held her hands and put them in front of her lower abdomen, looking concerned.

When she got closer, there was a faint fragrance on her body, and it smelled very pleasant.

"Hmm......," Zhang Peng said with difficulty, "my family...... There is a ...... There's a little thing...... Little things ......"

Looking at Zhang Peng's cramped face and the appearance of wanting to speak and stopping, the corners of Ma Jinglei's mouth curled, revealing a hint of a smile, which had the meaning of "I understand".

Zhang Peng was still hesitating to tell her the truth, when he heard her say gently, "Is there a cockroach, I want my aunt to help you fight it." ”

"Uh......" Zhang Peng was choked for a moment, then pushed the boat down the river and nodded in response, "Hmm." Although he was very reluctant to admit that it was already an old thing about Chen Sesame and rotten grain, he didn't expect Ma Jinglei to remember it.

"Really, they're all so big, and they're afraid of cockroaches." Ma Jinglei scolded with a smile, three points of feigned anger and seven points of pity. But in Zhang Peng's eyes, he just wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into. But now the situation is critical, and I am forced to go to Liangshan, so I really can't help it.

Subsequently, Ma Jinglei closed the door of the store and went upstairs with Zhang Peng.

Zhang Peng took out ......the key to open the door, but his hand was a little shaky, and he didn't align the lock hole several times.

Ma Jinglei saw it in her eyes, stepped forward to take the key, opened the door and walked in.

"Hehe~" Ma Jinglei couldn't help laughing, pursed her lips, and let out a chuckle.

Zhang Peng listened to it in his ears, and his face was a little unbearable. But I was very scared in my heart, and the two complex emotions were intertwined, which was very painful.

Ma Jinglei turned on the light, stood in the living room, glanced around, didn't see cockroaches, and beckoned Zhang Peng to come in.

"Ice ...... ...... on the refrigerator," Zhang Peng said, standing at the door, pointing in the direction of the refrigerator through the oblique corner of the wall.

Ma Jinglei walked to the refrigerator as he requested, and fiddled with it carefully.

"There are no cockroaches~" After a while, Ma Jinglei's voice came.

"Is there a doll on top of the refrigerator, light green?" Zhang Peng asked.

"No~" Ma Jinglei said.

"No?" Zhang Peng frowned and walked into the living room. Looking towards the refrigerator, it was empty, nothing.

"If you look for it again, it must be hiding somewhere else." Zhang Peng said.

"Then let's do a big search." Ma Jinglei rolled up her sleeves and said.

For the next two hours, Zhang Peng followed behind Ma Jinglei and watched her rummage and clean up, from the living room to the kitchen, to the bathroom, the big room, the small room, and the balcony. Zhang Peng's house is only 60 square meters, and after two hours, he searched for it more than three times, but found nothing, and the doll disappeared as if out of thin air.

Zhang Peng can be sure that the search is all-round and has no dead ends. Because his house is so big, and there aren't many things.

"Okay, there must be no cockroaches." Ma Jinglei took out a tissue, wiped the sweat on her forehead, and said.

Zhang Peng frowned, always feeling that something was wrong.

Ma Jinglei looked at the wall clock on the wall, it was already past ten o'clock, and said to Zhang Peng, "Xiaopeng, I'll go down." "The widow has a lot of right and wrong in front of the door, and she doesn't want to chew on her tongue.

"Hmm." Zhang Peng nodded sluggishly, and when he came back to his senses, Ma Jinglei had already gone out and closed the door by the way.

"Click."

With the soft sound of the door lock, the whole room was quiet, and Ma Jinglei's footsteps in the corridor could be clearly heard.

The sound grew farther and farther away, and finally disappeared.

"Knock knock knock......" Zhang Peng's heart beat violently.

Then subconsciously, look at the refrigerator......

It was empty, he closed his eyes, let out a long exhale, walked into the kitchen, and washed his face with cold water.

When he left the kitchen, he was about to turn off the light, but he hesitated and didn't turn it off. At this time, he suddenly remembered that this afternoon, Lao Wang said that the meat cleaver was missing, so he subconsciously looked at the place where the kitchen utensils were hung.

Groov!

In an instant, his heart almost jumped out of his throat.

His fruit knife is gone!