I turned my face to see that Xiu Xiaohai was half a step behind me, steady horse steps, her body arched, her eyes staring motionless ahead, the most terrifying thing was that she was actually holding a snow-bright short knife in her right hand, absolutely flawless against the enemy.

I was so stunned that I forgot to breathe for a moment, it was really scary, almost funny. This feels like an extremely smart person taking a fool to the rivers and lakes, only to find that the fool around him is a master of martial arts, and he is a fool of the world. Of course, she didn't mean to laugh at her stupidly, but her brain was too confused at the moment to think of this one metaphor.

The situation is urgent, it's too late to ask and think more, look at her state, I'm afraid I can fight and kill better than me, so I simply cooperated, and as soon as the two eyes were staggered, both cats bent down and ran to the house, the action was fast and light, and the whole building was quickly searched, and the search was more thorough than the previous time.

But I still didn't find anything, let alone a person, there really wasn't even a hair, all the doors and windows were locked, there was no trace of breakage, and there was no place to pry.

Come to think of it, there are probably only two explanations. Either it is not a person who invades at all, but a ghost, who can pass through the wall without hindrance and come and go without a trace. Or maybe my feelings are wrong, and there are no strangers in the house at all.

Both explanations are.

So, the head hurts.

I couldn't find the intruder, so I gave up, went downstairs to the living room, sat down on the couch, and rested my legs on the coffee table in a huff.

Xiaohai didn't search when he saw that I gave up, went out and brought in the dozen or so bags of things we just bought, put them next to the coffee table, and then locked the door, looked at me very calmly, and asked, "Are you really sure that outsiders have come in at home?" ”

I nodded angrily, "I'm sure, I know something is wrong when I smell it." ”

She said, "Okay, you sit, I'll check the door to your house." ”

I advised her: "Don't bother, the locks and internal and external latches on and down of this house are all high-end goods that my old man bought from experts, and they can't be pried open unless they are not afraid of movement and use brute force to smash them." ”

She didn't listen, so she asked me for a long needle and tweezers for a quilt, and then carefully checked the doors and windows.

She didn't listen to me, and I didn't bother to persuade her, seeing that she was very sure, as if she was an expert, whether it was an expert or not, she had to figure out where there were flaws, so that outsiders could use my house as a public toilet and come and go whenever they wanted.

Xiao Hai checked for nearly two hours before finally getting the result.

She called me to the balcony of the study on the second floor and told me to lock the door to the balcony inside, which I did, and took the insurance and locked her out. As a result, I don't know how she got it, but I heard a few soft clicks, and the door was opened by her.

I was dumbfounded, and screamed a little poignantly: "What's the situation?!" ”

She said, "You've met a slippery locker." ”

I asked her what she meant with a shy face like an idiot.

She patted the handle of the lock with her hand and said, "Someone slipped through this lock and entered your house from here." ”

After she finished speaking, she asked me if I had any flashlights.

I quickly got the flashlight out of my phone and gave it to her. She didn't answer, let me shine the keyhole for her, she squatted down and looked inside for a while, and then put the long needle in it and played with it for a while, then put on the right ear and listened for a while, raised her face and said to me: "It is indeed a master of slipping locks, but it is not very clever, the lock cylinder has been damaged, I can slip away so easily, and the real master will not break the lock cylinder." And ......"

At this point she paused abruptly, locked the door again, and then, with my flashlight, stuck the long pin in it again and played with it, and listened close to my ear.

I saw that she was so professional, like those peerless thieves in the movie, I couldn't help but feel itchy in my heart, and I also held my breath and got closer to listen. I could hear a slight crackling sound inside, but I didn't know what it meant, and I didn't dare to ask for fear of disturbing him.

She slipped the lock open again, then muttered, "This lock has been broken for a long time." ”

I heard my heart pound, almost jumping out of my throat, and my voice trembled a little: "What does it mean to be broken for a long time?" How long. ”

She shook her head and said, "I can only hear that it's not bad today, it's not bad this month, it's hard to say when it was bad, maybe half a year ago, maybe a year ago, or even longer." ”

I stared at the lock, my head full of mud. When exactly did it break? Why did I only find out recently that outsiders had come in? Could it be that the intruder used my lock to practice playing with my house, and left when he was bad, and didn't enter the door at all? Or was she very careful when she came in before, leaving no traces, including the special smell of herbs in the air, so I never noticed it, but she has suddenly become less careful, or less afraid of being discovered by me?

I don't understand.

Xiao Hai finished studying the lock, stood up and looked the whole door up and down, then looked left and right at the walls on both sides, and then turned back to look down at the railing of the balcony, and said: "I noticed just now, the wall of your house is very high, and there are broken glass and sharp wires stuck on it, and there is no place to settle down here from the first floor. ”

I don't need her to emphasize it so seriously, I also know that I have met a master.

This house was built by Su Mosen, and the style he designed, the materials he selected, and the workers he found were all done according to his requirements, which should be very reassuring. Usually people on the second floor to the balcony will be equipped with a glass sliding door, the kind with a crescent lock inside, but Su Mosen chose the same as the first floor of the left and right two anti-theft doors, heavy and clumsy, the keyhole of the door lock is outside, inside is the handle and insurance, I open this door from the inside to the outside on weekdays, and I have never used the key, so there is no chance to find out that there is a problem with it.

Moreover, I guess with this master's technique, even if I use the key, I may not be able to find out that it is broken. Because Xiaohai said that its function as a lock has not been lost, but it can be opened by just taking a similar type of key and turning it around.

Xiaohai asked me to go back to the house to check if I had lost anything valuable.

I shook my head and said, "No, there is nothing valuable at home, I have seen it just now, and there is nothing missing." ”

She lowered her head and thought about it, and muttered, "It's so unreasonable to go through the wall and sneak in without stealing anything." ”

I don't have a good talk.

After a while, she stared into my eyes and asked, "Have you offended anyone?" ”

I shook my head with a wry smile, shook her off, pushed her into the house, locked the door, went back to the living room downstairs, told her to carry the clothes she bought to the car, and I took her to the hotel.

She stood still on the edge of the stairs and asked me if I would like to stay in the hotel with us.

I said, "I'm coming back, this is my home, can I hide outside for the rest of my life?" Those who are going to come will always come, and they can't hide from it. ”

She still didn't move, and asked, "How can you be sure that the person who came is coming at you?" Maybe it's at your father, your mother, your grandfather, and your grandmother? Why don't you send them all to the hotel? ”

I grinned, spread my hands, and said a little indifferently and a little angrily, "I'm an orphan." ”

Xiaohai suddenly choked up, stopped talking, walked over slowly, walked to me, but didn't look at me, just walked to the front of the sofa by himself, sat down, picked up the remote control from the coffee table and turned on the TV, while staring at the advertisements on the TV, he said as if talking to himself: "I am also an orphan." ”

Her few words froze all the blood in my body.

She's also an orphan?

What do you mean that she is also an orphan?

That means, Uncle Xiu is dead?

My whole body was cold, as if my heart had stopped, and for a while my chest was so tight that I couldn't speak, I couldn't breathe, and my tears were rolling in my eyes.

Fortunately, Xiu Xiaohai only stared at the TV and didn't look at me.

She watched the TV and suddenly said to herself: "My dad left when I was ten years old, I don't know where I went, my mom had a serious illness and died." I don't know where my dad is from, so I don't have any relatives from his side. My mother's relatives are all crazy people, and they only want to take what my mother left behind. So I'm an orphan. ”

I weakly raised a hand to touch my chest, and comforted myself in my heart and said that it was okay, okay, Uncle Xiu was not dead, he was just gone, and I don't know where he went.

I held back my tears, stabilized my emotions, walked over and sat down next to Xiaohai, took a pillow and hugged it in my arms, I wanted to say something but I was afraid that my throat would be choked and she would hear that something was wrong, so I watched TV with her in silence.

She asked me, "You live alone in such a big house?" ”

I nodded.

She looked up at the chandelier on the ceiling, looked around at the furniture around her, touched the leather sofa, smiled wistfully, and said, "You are all orphans, you have such a good life, you have a big house, a big TV, a flush toilet, a refrigerator, so many delicious things in the refrigerator." ”

When I heard her say that she was desolate, my heart ached, and I reached out sideways to grab her arm, and asked her cautiously, "Don't you even have a home?" ”

She looked at the TV screen and said lightly: "Yes, there are two broken bungalows, left by my mother." Several of my mother's relatives waited with wide eyes for the wine master to die, so they snatched the two rooms and kicked me out of the house. They all said that my dad was recruited to enter the door, and he had never paid a bride price, and he was not qualified to share the house left by his ancestors. If it weren't for the wine master, they would have driven me out a long time ago. ”

I really felt pain in my heart and asked her, "Who is the wine master?" ”

She replied: "It's the old village chief of the village, he is highly respected, he takes care of whatever the family has, thanks to his care in the past few years, it is peaceful, and he also paid tuition for me to study for a few years, if it weren't for the fact that other people in his family gossip too much, and coldly pointed out that Sang scolded Huai too ugly, I really want to graduate from junior high school." ”

I felt like my heart was about to break, and I held her chubby hand and couldn't speak.