Chapter 18: The Strange Cat Corpse
"Ah!!!!h
Zheng Qianqian's cloak howled in the center of the room, which frightened the lobby manager of the hotel to the scene.
Shen Lang looked at Zheng Qianqian, who was shouting hysterically, and frowned at the bloody cat corpse on the big bed room.
That's right, it's a cat corpse, and a blood-stained cat corpse.
The lobby manager's face turned pale, and he kept apologizing, and shouted angrily at the waiter in charge of this floor.
Lu Yu hugged Li Mengqi to comfort her, and Zhang Longfei, who saw Huairou, stopped her and shook her head and said, "Xiaorou, don't look at it, you will be scared." ”
Pushing away Zhang Longfei, who looked worried, she walked into the room and saw the picture of Zheng Qianqian rushing into Shen Lang's arms, the crying and low sobbing sound was upsetting, and then looking inside, it was a bloody picture.
The yellow and white cat was in the center of the bed, its small head drooping and its throat had been cut, the blood stained the surrounding sheets red, and the cat's paws were unsheathed and clutched at the sheets, apparently struggling before he died.
"Guest, I'm really sorry for frightening you, we will clean up immediately, please move to the restaurant to rest first."
The handkerchief wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead, and the lobby manager, who was a little thin, looked at Zheng Qianqian who was lying in Shen Lang's arms.
Shen Lang, who was hugged by Zheng Qianqian, had an ugly face and wanted to push it away, but as soon as he moved, he was grabbed by Zheng Qianqian more and more, and cried louder.
"You'd better have an explanation." Shen Lang's voice in reply automatically lowered the temperature, and the lobby manager nodded and trembled when he heard it.
"Don't worry, we'll find out as soon as possible."
Huairou's eyes looked at the clean and tidy room, approached the bed and squatted down to see the cat with round eyes as if it was dead, blood flowed from its severed neck, looking at the color and coagulation state should have been a few hours ago, when everyone was still sleeping.
Could it be that someone broke into Zheng Qianqian's room and killed the cat in her room? However, there was no splattering blood around the area, and it seemed that someone had killed the cat and put the body here.
Besides, if someone really breaks into the room to kill the cat, there will be a sound, then Zheng Qianqian will inevitably be alert, Huairou looked back at Zheng Qianqian, who was lying in Shen Lang's arms with her back to her, and thought.
All this seems to be more like a prank, but who would be so cruel as to kill an innocent cat and throw the corpse to play a prank?
The group followed the lobby manager to the restaurant, Zheng Qianqian's mood seemed to be stable, and she sat next to Shen Lang with hot tea in her hand.
"Qianqian, what the hell happened?"
Li Mengqi couldn't help but ask curiously, but his hand grabbed Lu Yu's hand at the same time, and the scene just now really made Li Mengqi feel palpitations.
"This hotel is too scary, I knew it was like this, you should have shared a room with Xiaorou."
Zhang Longfei sighed with some emotion, although Zheng Qianqian has a strong personality, she is also a beautiful woman with a gorgeous appearance, so Zhang Longfei can't help but feel sorry for the jade.
"I live with her? If I had stayed with her, maybe the corpse you saw would have been mine......"
Zheng Qianqian looked at Huairou timidly, with a strongly frightened attitude, which was very different from her previous look.
Hearing Zheng Qianqian's words, several people were a little surprised, Zheng Qianqian seemed to have something to imply in her words.
"What nonsense are you talking about!" Li Mengqi couldn't look at it, and just now she was thinking about comforting and comforting Zheng Qianqian, but at this moment she felt that she really deserved it.
"I'm not talking nonsense, her room is right in front of mine, and if she wants to do something to get into my room, it's going to be easy."
Zheng Qianqian grabbed the cup with an excited face, her eyes dodged left and right, but she didn't dare to look at Huairou, and her body trembled a little and hid beside Shen Lang.
"I don't think Xiaorou would do that." Zhang Longfei looked at Huairou, who had no expression, and defended her in a low tone.
"I think you're scared, wait for the hotel people to find out."
Shen Lang raised his hand to stop Lu Yu and Li Mengqi, who also wanted to speak, and the conjecture before the matter was conclusive was useless.
Looking at the appearance of several people maintaining Huairou, Zheng Qianqian clenched the cup and suddenly burst into tears, with a crying voice that was unbearable.
"I know, you all hate me, so don't believe me. But I have evidence, she had already threatened me when I went to the bathroom for dinner yesterday, saying that if I was close to Brother Shen, she would ...... She was just kind to me. Then, as soon as I opened my eyes this morning, I saw the cat on the bed......"
Several people looked at each other for Zheng Qianqian's words, Zheng Qianqian was indeed very abnormal after going to the bathroom yesterday, and Huairou seemed to be a little different.
Everyone's eyes were on Huairou, and this time no one spoke to defend Huairou, and no one spoke again.
Huairou looked coldly at Zheng Qianqian, who seemed to be strongly frightened, only she knew that Zheng Qianqian lied, but there was no evidence to prove it, so she could only be silent.
At the same time, the hotel manager came to apologize, saying that the hotel's monitoring was broken, and the monitoring from last night to this morning was all blank, which seemed to be suspicious.
Li Mengqi asked to call the police, but Zheng Qianqian shook her head and said forget it, saying that she didn't want to make a big deal about it, otherwise everyone would be ugly and so on.
When Zheng Qianqian said this, her eyes kept looking at Huairou, as if she was alluding to Huairou's doing.
Because of this incident, the hotel waived the room fee and promised them half the price of the hotel in the future as compensation.
There are no clues to prove that Huairou did it, but there are no other clues, and the hotel can only define this incident as a prank.
On the same day, under Zheng Qianqian's strong suggestion, the group did not make any further stops, and in the afternoon they left the hotel to continue the journey, and the RV went in the predetermined direction, Jiangsu.
However, some things have changed subtly, such as Li Mengqi, who originally didn't like Zheng Qianqian very much, and began to care about Zheng Qianqian.
Zhang Longfei no longer pestered to talk to Huairou, Shen Lang and Lu Yu didn't change much, but Huairou was even more silent.
"Eat."
The steaming simple lunch box was put in front of him, and Shen Lang sat down next to him and ate by himself.
Huairou raised her eyes to see that Zheng Qianqian and the four of them were sitting together and talking about something, and Zhang Longfei retracted it with some embarrassment after seeing her gaze.
"Why don't you go over there?"
People can't get along with themselves, Huairou didn't refuse, opened the lunch box and stuffed shredded potatoes into her mouth.
"It's boring."
I don't know if Shen Lang said that the question she asked was boring, or that it was boring to go to Zheng Qianqian and they had dinner together, in short, only Shen Lang's attitude did not change after the cat corpse case happened.
Along the way, Huairou was happy to be quiet, except for the occasional book and magazine, the rest of the time she closed her eyes and fell asleep, completely forgetting the lively conversation.
The journey was very smooth to Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, the time was already five o'clock in the evening, and the winter weather was short and the night was long.
So Shen Lang decided to stay for one night before leaving, and Zheng Qianqian strongly suggested that they stay, but this time Li Mengqi and they did not strongly object.
In Shen Lang's silence, the RV drove slowly among the beautiful forest roads, Huairou knew that even if she disagreed, it would be useless, so she simply looked at the scenery outside the window and continued to be silent.
A unique and quaint inn-style three-storey inn comes into view, the plaque on the head reads Meilaiju Inn, the wooden pillars on both sides are carved with plum blossoms vividly, the tables, chairs and benches in the entrance hall are all wood-colored, and the bar counter on the left hand side is full of dazzling wine bottles, and the waiter wearing Hanfu greets him.
"Hello, how many people are staying at the hotel?"
"I'm looking for Sister Mei." Shen Lang nodded at the waiter, and walked up the stairs familiarly.
Huairou and the others hadn't walked a few steps before they heard a female voice with surprise and enthusiasm.
"Xiao Shen?"
Everyone followed the sound and saw a woman wearing a gilded peony cheongsam standing at the staircase on the second floor.
The slender arms are wrapped around the chest and hold the snow-white Persian cat, the snow-white fur wrapped around the shoulders is like a Persian cat to be integrated, the cheongsam with a stand-up collar sets off her slender neck, the figure is graceful and enchanting, and she is painted with classical makeup, her lips are vermilion, her hair is coiled in a bun, and her temples are scattered with two strands of curls, and the whole person looks like Maggie Cheung in the mood for love at first glance.
The moment they saw this woman, several people were stunned, as if they had traveled back to the Republic of China to see a rich lady at that time.
Huairou subconsciously looked at Shen Lang, only to see Shen Lang walking upstairs with a look she had never seen before, and at the same time, the woman also walked downstairs slowly, showing her charm in her gestures.
"Xiao Shen, is it really you? I thought I was wrong. ”
Sister Mei's eyes smiled like a crooked crescent, with the joy of reunion after a long absence.
"Sister Mei, it's been a long time."
Shen Lang's expression was also surprisingly gentle, and the two stood together without any sense of disobedience.
For some reason, Huairou felt that her heart was stuffy, and she looked away from the two of them.