27. A dead man-like gaze
I put the belt to Xiu Xiaohai, she didn't shirk, took it and tied it to the pants, the red cotton jacket, the dark blue pants, the black cloth shoes, and the blue cloth bag were tightly clamped, and the tie was tied with a beige belt, and the sentence that Bai Yafeng shouted at the door just now sounded in my head, alas, I'll go, I haven't seen such authentic local goods for a long time.
She refused to let go of the burden under her armpits, so it was very difficult to tie the belt, I looked uncomfortable, so I approached to help, peeked in the mirror, two girls, so close, looked like very close best friends.
She was obviously a little repulsed by such close contact with strangers, and her body became stiff, but she didn't show it in her movements, and she cooperated with my help.
I somehow felt a little moved.
After tying the belt, she suddenly reached out and touched the sleeve of my cotton jacket and said, "The material is so good, slippery, and expensive, right?" ”
I said, "It's okay, it's not expensive, if you like it, I'll give you one." ”
She raised her head, looked at me indifferently for a few seconds, and then asked in a tone as indifferent as her gaze, "Are you sick?" ”
I was speechless for a moment, then I laughed and sighed again, and when I saw that it was past dinner, I asked her if she had eaten, and she said no. I said I'll go upstairs to say hello to Vice Captain Tan and take her out to dinner.
She didn't say anything, just silently followed me.
Tan Zhongxia fell asleep in the chair, I saw that he was sleeping soundly, so I didn't quarrel with him, and wrote a note on the table, and wrote my mobile phone number on it. He's a smart guy, and he can definitely understand at a glance that he is calling me for something.
When I turned around and walked out of the conference room, I suddenly felt an illusory wet and sticky feeling on my back, and I turned around suddenly, and I saw Tan Zhongxia looking at me with his neck crooked and his eyes half-open, still that kind of fixed gaze.
I don't like his gaze.
That gaze ...... How to say, it's not cold, it's not hot, it's just that there is no god, it's not luster, it's like ...... It's like a dead man with his eyes open. By the way, this is the feeling, the gaze of a dead man, hollow, without temperature.
Thinking like this, I secretly gasped for cold air, goosebumps appeared on the back of my neck, and the cool air was running around, and the whole person was not good. I am not afraid of the dead, but I am afraid of a dead man who stands in front of him alive like him, pretending to be a living person.
How scary, those eyes.
So I didn't want to say anything to him for a while.
I took Xiaohai downstairs and walked to the corner of the second floor, when I suddenly heard a chaotic noise behind me, and then someone screamed.
Seeing that the man was about to collide, my subconscious reaction was to push Xiaohai away first, but when I turned my face sideways, she didn't stand next to me at all, so I didn't care about her, I leaned sideways against the wall, waited for the crazy man to get close, and quickly kicked him and tripped him.
He deserved to be unlucky, I tripped and threw himself two meters away, hit his head on the wall at the corner of the stairs, and fainted in an instant without moving.
I leaned forward to take a closer look, recognized it as the murderer in the "Sand Pile Case", and felt that it didn't matter much, so I didn't care.
turned around to find Xiaohai, afraid that she was a little girl from the countryside, who had never seen anything in the world, and was frightened by this sudden situation. When she found it, she found that she was purely careless, and she hid in the corner of the staircase, not at all in a sense of proportion, and her face did not change and looked down at everything that was happening below.
I was really surprised, just now it was only a few seconds to see the wrong eye, she had already run to the top to avoid the accident, her expression was very calm, not at all alarmed, as if this kind of thing was commonplace for her.
When I raised my face to look at her, her gaze was looking behind me over my body, I turned my head to look behind her gaze, and saw that the cleaner Aunt Luo was two meters away from me, with one leg in front and one leg behind, with a mop in her hand, and her eyes were staring at the strong man who tripped over me and fell to the ground, for fear that he would jump up and hurt people again.
I didn't care about Aunt Luo, and went to see Xiaohai again, thinking that she might not be as simple as it seemed on the surface, but when I thought that she was Uncle Xiu's daughter, I felt normal.
Later, the police rushed up and lifted the big man who fell to the ground and escorted him away, saying that he was deceived by his previous honest and wooden state, and did not pay attention to precautions.
I shrugged my shoulders and said it didn't matter, and beckoned Xiaohai to go downstairs.
After walking downstairs to the hall, I called Fu Yuxin and asked him not to worry about Xiaohai's affairs, and I would take care of food, housing and play.
There was a lot of noise on his side, as if it was a meeting, and he was anxious, and when he heard me say this, he shouted thank God, and then said two words, and hung up the phone.
Then I took Xiaohai out for dinner, and then took her to find a suitable women's clothing store and pick out a few clothes, and buy them from head to toe from the inside out. She didn't take the initiative to pick, but I picked it and handed it to her to try, and she didn't refuse, and when I finished paying the bill and walked to the road with seven or eight bags per person, she suddenly threw me a sentence: "I'm poor, I don't have money to pay you back." ”
I went out in the morning to take Liu Yimin's car, so I had to take a taxi home, and I turned my face to her while stopping the car and said, "I didn't plan to ask you to return it at all." ”
She froze, looked at me and said, "You're really sick." ”
Sitting in the car, she asked me how much it cost me to buy so many things.
I gave her a blank look and said, "You don't plan to pay it back, why do you ask so clearly?" ”
She said, "Nothing, just ask." ”
I just felt uncomfortable holding my breath, and I wondered how this person could be so embarrassed. But I really couldn't find the words to go back, so I had to be silent, turned my face sideways to look at the neon lights of thousands of homes outside the car window, and was angry in my heart for my clumsy tongue, but I was still moved in my heart, I always wanted to cry, and I had to endure it desperately to hold back.
I asked the taxi to stop at the entrance of the nearest village, and then walked three kilometers home with Xiaohai. Fortunately, she didn't ask me why I didn't call a taxi and drove directly to the door, otherwise I would have to explain to her that this was the rule left by Su Mosen, and then she might ask who Su Mosen was, and I would have to tell her that it was my grandfather, and then she might ask me what my grandfather was doing or something, then I probably wouldn't really know how to tell her.
Fortunately, she is an extremely taciturn girl here, who just follows and doesn't ask anything.
There are fields on both sides of the road, the wind is blowing, and we two girls with a strange fate who suddenly met by coincidence walk quietly in the dark field, each with their own thoughts, without saying a word.
When I arrived at the door of the house, I opened the iron gate and told Xiaohai to wait, and I walked in first to turn on all the high-wattage energy-saving lamps in the yard and along the corridor, and the whole yard was almost as bright as in the daytime.
Looking back at Xiu Xiaohai, she stood by the iron gate and looked into the courtyard, her face was stabbed back by the light, and she put her hand in front of her forehead to adapt to this sudden brightness, looking a bit like a little polar bear, stupid and cute.
I beckoned her in, then turned around and opened the door to the living room, and stepped in with one foot, and the whole person suddenly froze.
I held my breath and slowly withdrew the foot that I had just stepped in, tiptoed back to the bright place outside, and looked at the depths of the dark living room with a cold face, when suddenly a cool breeze swept the ground, and the atmosphere became more and more gloomy, and I felt more and more like a ghost movie.
If this is really a movie, and the close-up is on my pale, slightly angry face, but I can't see the scene inside the door, the audience will play an infinite reverie, imagining that on the sofa in my living room is sitting a woman in black clothes, black pants, long hair and a cloak, as soon as the door opens, she slowly and slowly lifts her face, slowly turns her face around, her pale face and white lips, and a red eye shoots a cool, sinister cold light from the crack in her hair.
This is a picture that many people who are used to watching ghost movies might imagine in the environment I am in now.
Fortunately, it was just an imagination, and there was no one in the living room.
Although I had a strong sense that there were living people in the living room, there were none, no people, no ghosts, nothing but the sweet smell of herbs in the air that I had smelled yesterday. The living room is what the living room looks like, the courtyard lights go in, illuminating the outline of some of the furniture and electrical appliances, and the windows on the north-facing wall are closed tightly, and the curtains are also drawn airtightly, like a stage set that has been dispersed at the end of the song, desolate and a little decadent.
Even so, I was 100% sure that someone had broken in again, and the smell of an intruder in the air was so close and so strong that I had to suspect that the person was still in my house, and it was a terrible feeling, and I would lose my temper every minute.
I slowly, slowly, slowly stepped back, one step, two steps, three steps, four steps...... With every step back, I tilt my face up a little to see if there's anything wrong upstairs, like which door or window is open there. Or which room has a light of unknown origin. Or, if you're lucky, can you see a pitch-black figure, looking down at us in the yard against which side of glass, will you come to make a look and then chase after life.
Fortunately, I thought too much about it, at least from the outside, it was not a big problem, but if I think about it carefully, it is even worse if I can't see it, we are in the light, and the silent intruder may be hiding in the shadows, in case I really play with my life, I will suffer a lot, and now there is an oil bottle by my side.
Therefore, the top priority is to take care of Xiu Xiaohai first, and not let her be involved in this inexplicable danger.
I wanted her to go to the corner of the yard and find a random gadget to use as a weapon just in case, and then retreat outside and wait for me to check the house and make sure it was safe before coming in.
But when I turned my face to look, I was so shocked that I almost sat on the ground.