Shakai rolled over in distraught, fished the phone back into his hand, and played two games.

Outside the door there was the sound of water and the clattering of chopsticks, and after the sound stopped for a while, there was the sound of the door opening and closing.

Sha Kai knew that it was Zhou Wenli who went out to take out the garbage.

He thought of Zhou Wenli's proposal just now, and couldn't help pouting.

On a cold day, walking 100 steps after eating, the body may not be healthy, and you may freeze to death directly. Zhou Wenli said this proposal.

Thinking about it carefully, Zhou Wenli cleans up after dinner every day, goes downstairs to take out the garbage, and it always takes a long time to come back.

Sha Kai's mind just turned this thought, and he didn't care what Zhou Wenli had done or whether she would get sick.

He rolled over again and continued to play the game.

Zhou Wenli went downstairs and threw away the garbage, and walked straight to the northwest corner of the community.

In the northwest corner of the community stands a small three-story building, which is said to have been built as an office building for the neighborhood committee and the property, but later changed its use several times and was leased to a company as an office space four years ago. When the street community was carrying out the renovation of the community property work, it received complaints from residents, and it took a lot of effort to take back the right to use this small building and transform it into a community activity center.

In the hall on the first floor, there are residents of the community who set up a stage to play cards during the day, and it has become a practice room for square dancing at night. This allows residents to dance to their heart's content on cold winter nights.

On the second floor, there is the residents' gym, with a row of four treadmills, which is not enough for young people, but enough for middle-aged and elderly people to take turns to move. The other half of the gym is home to several strength machines, but they are now locked and will only be opened when a rehabilitation doctor from a nearby tertiary hospital is on duty. Although the four treadmills can be used casually, they are all specially programmed and very slow. So there are only some elderly people who come here to exercise.

Similarly, there is a reading room on the third floor. Because of the limited resources of books and periodicals, young people do not come here to read. During the day, the seats are full, and they are all retired old people? Drinking tea while sipping? While reading the newspaper, it is very pleasant.

What time is this dinner? The door to the reading room on the third floor is closed? The lights are all off. Only the first and second floors are still brightly lit and full of people.

Locked instruments? It became a seat.

When Zhou Wenli arrived, there were people on the four treadmills? Even the equipment next to it is sitting down? There is no place for Zhou Wenli to rest.

But when a gray-haired old aunt saw Zhou Wenli, she waved directly and stood up to give up her seat.

"Aunt Liu, you sit, you sit." Zhou Wenli hurriedly refused.

"I've been sitting for a while? Just walked another kilometer. Have an early meal at our house? You all know that. Aunt Liu waved her hand.

The situation that Aunt Liu said is well known here, and Zhou Wenli is just polite.

She sat down and listened to the small talk around her. The square dance downstairs has started, and there is music coming? This made the people around him raise the volume a bit.

"Xiao Zhou, why are you so late these days?" Someone next to him asked.

"You don't know? Xiao Zhou's son moved in with her. ”

"Ahh The person who asked the question screamed in surprise, and seemed to want to say something. But she stopped again.

Zhou Wenli smiled, "He graduated from college?" Looking for a job found this side, just this side of the subway station? Easy to get to work? I moved in. ”

That sounds weird.

The woman who asked was permed? He wears a pair of glasses, and a curious light flashes behind them.

"Hey, Xiao Zhou, you go for a walk. Vacant out. Aunt Liu stood aside and twisted her waist, and when she saw someone coming down from the treadmill, she asked Zhou Wenli to go up.

Zhou Wenli walked over, and Aunt Liu also followed, twisting her waist on the side of the treadmill while talking to Zhou Wenli.

The woman with glasses saw Zhou Wenli walking away, so she lowered her voice and asked, "What about Xiao Zhou's son?" ”

"Yes. I followed my husband and moved to other places very early. Again, the same person replied.

"Oh. I've never heard of it, and I haven't seen it. ”

"I never came back and forth before. The first time I saw it, I was shocked. ”

"Are you going to start back together?"

"Who knows. When I heard about the divorce, it was very stiff. I've been in court and fought a lawsuit. Hey, don't you usually award children to their mothers? ”

"When they fight lawsuits, they fight houses, not children. The child and the man, both sides agree. Someone next to him interjected.

"Really?"

"Her brother used to live across the street, aren't we on the same street? You know it. At that time, she was looking for money to see her brother for a doctor, and she wanted to sell the house, but the man didn't agree, so she divorced and sued and took the money. ”

"I remember her brother was lame, right?"

"Yes. I heard that she didn't take good care of her younger brother when she was a child, and she made her brother's leg lame, and then she got sick. At that time, their family quarreled, and her man came to the door to scold, saying that her son didn't care about it, and he clung to his younger brother first. The streets are still being mediated. ”

"Did I hear that her brother and daughter-in-law died?"

"yes. It's also miserable. Not long after I bought a new house, my daughter just went to school, and my wife was gone. Just last month......"

"It's been months."

The whispering gossip was muffled by the sound of music downstairs, and Zhou Wenli didn't hear it.

However, even if she didn't hear the discussion behind the back, she knew that her family's story must have spread throughout the community. Just like what happens in other people's homes will reach her ears. This community center is a huge gossip center, and every day a household becomes the focus of conversation.

Aunt Liu stopped halfway through her words.

Zhou Wenli turned her head to look over, "Aunt Liu?" I'm sorry, I just got distracted. What did you just say? ”

Aunt Liu didn't look at Zhou Wenli, but just looked at the glass window, through the window, and looked at the residential building opposite.

Zhou Wenli followed her line of sight, "What's wrong?" Look at your old man? ”

Aunt Liu lives in the opposite building, and she comes over to exercise after eating early every day. Her wife has been watching the news at this point in time for decades. After watching the news, I watched the TV series broadcast by the local station, what the TV station broadcasts, what he watches, and not a single episode is lost. During the day, Aunt Liu was busy with housework, and the old man went to the activity center to play cards, and a dozen was an afternoon.

The two elders are also interesting, one looks out of his window from time to time when he plays cards to see what his wife is doing; The other is to look at the window of his house when he is exercising, and he is also watching what his wife is doing. When I look at it, I will pull over and point at my wife.

Zhou Wenli remembered that Aunt Liu had pointed out the window to her in the past, but she had forgotten which window Aunt Liu was pointing to at that time, and she could only vaguely remember that Aunt Liu's house was on the second floor.

Second floor...... Second floor......

Zhou Wenli casually counted the floors and found the row of windows on the second floor.

When she looked at it, she saw that in one of the bright windows, there was a child running around, jumping up and down, very lively and active.

The child's figure flashed in front of the window, and then retreated indoors, not knowing which room it had strayed to.

Zhou Wenli has paid attention to the children in the community. Her own children, she has never experienced his growth, and her younger brother's little niece has been protected by her younger daughter-in-law since she was a child, and she doesn't need her help, so she cares a little about other children. After Shakai moved in, she also fantasized about Shakai getting married and having children, and she helped bring her grandchildren.

But the leather monkey on the opposite floor, Zhou Wenli has never seen it.

It was a strange child.

I don't know whose house came to the guest.

Zhou Wenli looked at Aunt Liu again, and saw that Aunt Liu had withdrawn her gaze.

"I didn't see my old man. I just seem to be dazzled. Bad eyes, old. Aunt Liu sighed, glanced at the opposite building again, and said, "Oh", "The old man came out." I just went to the toilet. He always goes to the toilet and has a bad prostate. He asked him to see a doctor, but he did not listen, and insisted that his son take him there. I'm old and squeamish. ”

Aunt Liu thought in pieces.

Zhou Wenli was stunned.

Just inside the window where the monkey jumped up and down, there was an old man. The old man sat on the couch and seemed to be watching TV.

The lighting is the same, and the color of the walls in the room is the same. There are no more windows like that on the left and right.

She didn't make the wrong window.

Zhou Wenli was a little confused. She remembered that Aunt Liu's house was where she and her wife lived, and the house her son bought was in the suburbs, and she would only come to visit the old couple on holidays. And Aunt Liu's son has been married for many years and has never had children.

She didn't take this matter to heart, but she was slightly puzzled for a while, and she was attracted by Aunt Liu's topic.

During the Chinese New Year, the community should carry out activities, recruit volunteers, and accompany the lonely and widowed elderly to celebrate the New Year.

Zhou Wenli eats Chinese New Year's Eve dinner with her brother's family every year, but after a few days to visit relatives and friends, her brother has a few days to go to the relatives at her brother's daughter-in-law's house to pay New Year's greetings, naturally it is impossible to take Zhou Wenli, Zhou Wenli has to live alone. Since the year before last, she has been pulled into the team of community volunteers by Aunt Liu to send warmth to the lonely and widowed elderly.

Aunt Liu, like Zhou Wenli, spent Chinese New Year's Eve with her family, visited relatives and friends on the first and second days of junior high school, and was idle in the third year of junior high school.

The two said that this year is also the third year of junior high school, and they will go to the neighborhood committee to help together.

When Aunt Liu said this, she turned around and greeted the people who were chatting behind her and asked about their New Year arrangements.

Zhou Wenli glanced at the kilometers on the treadmill and felt that it was almost there, so she got off the machine.

She casually glanced at the opposite building, and saw that the child she had just seen was lying on another window, staring, as if looking at her.

The window was a warm yellow and appeared to be a bedroom, with a view of the large white closet behind the little boy.

The little boy grinned and smiled at Zhou Wenli.

Zhou Wenli also subconsciously showed a smile.

Someone quickly came into the room, a young woman. She went to the window, and without looking, drew the curtains.

The little boy was sandwiched between the curtain and the window, still laughing. He suddenly shrank and slipped out of the curtain.

Zhou Wenli felt that the little boys were probably so naughty. Shakai may have been like that when he was a child.

Zhou Wenli thought of this and sighed secretly in her heart.

She didn't go home right away, chatting with her neighbors as usual, until the gym clock pointed to eight o'clock, the music of the square dance below stopped, and the group dispersed.

Upstairs and downstairs, many people walked out, gathered in twos and threes, and scattered at each fork in the road.

The residential building where Zhou Wenli's house is located is the farthest away. The resident of the same building as her was a woman surnamed Fang, a year younger than Zhou Wenli. Xiao Fang is not fitness, he is a member of the square dance on the first floor, and he is not a group of people with those small groups on the second floor who are nominally fitness but are actually gossipy. She and Zhou Wenli walked side by side, saying polite words that were not nutritious.

"Are you a guest from your house?" Xiao Fang asked suddenly.

"It's my son. He moved in. Zhou Wenli said.

Xiao Fang let out an "oh" and didn't ask, "I still want to." I thought your house was being lent out. ”

"No, no, no. I'm just lending this house, where do I live? Zhou Wenli said this, thinking of the past.

When her brother fell ill more than ten years ago, she didn't think about where she lived with her husband and son, and only thought about raising money for her brother's medical treatment.

The ex-husband said that she was crazy, regardless of her son, she clinged to her brother first; She also said that it was her business to repay her brother's debts, so don't drag him and her son down.

Those words were not wrong.

Zhou Wenli lowered her head.

"It's good to have someone to live with. It's too uncomfortable to live alone. My husband went on a trip with his old classmate last week, and I was alone, alas...... I feel uneasy every day, as if something is extra in my house. Xiao Fang said.

Zhou Wenli smiled: "Isn't there one less person?" ”

Xiao Fang shook his head, "It's not good, it's just suspicious." I've never lived alone in my life. I lived with my parents before I got married, and I lived with my husband after I got married. When I was young, a little girl who lived alone in my unit was broken into the house and killed. It's scary. I've been thinking about this for a long time last week. ”

"It used to be chaotic, but now it's rarely like this."

"yes, yes. Now monitor so much. Xiao Fang smiled, and when he arrived at the door of the building, he pointed to the surveillance camera installed on the security door.

The camera was mounted on the iron door, and beyond that, there was the window of the hallway.

In the summer, the windows are open, but in the winter, they are closed, leaving no gaps.

Zhou Wenli looked up at the surveillance, and was smiling to retract her gaze, when she saw a human face behind the closed glass window.

The little boy was lying on the window, his face pressed against the glass, so hard that he was deformed. He smiled and grimaced at Zhou Wenli.

Zhou Wenli was stunned.

Xiao Fang opened the door, and when he saw that Zhou Wenli didn't follow, he turned around and shouted.

Zhou Wenli lowered her head, and when she raised her eyes again, the little boy in the window disappeared.

Zhou Wenli was full of doubts.

That boy is not ......

"Our building...... There are people in our building and Building Seven, well, are there houses on both sides? Zhou Wenli asked a little confused.

Xiao Fang thought for a moment, "Building Seven? The building across the street from the activity room? I don't think so......"

Zhou Wenli had many strange feelings in her heart.

"Oh," Xiao Fang said suddenly, "the small money of the neighborhood committee lives in our building. The newcomer rented a house here, which seems to be a house on the third floor. ”

The office of the neighborhood committee is on the first floor of Building 7. Originally, after the building that was supposed to be the activity center was taken back, the neighborhood committee office was going to move there, but after coming and going, I don't know why, it didn't move in the end.

Zhou Wenli just wanted to relax, but felt that something was wrong.

Even if a small amount of money has the keys to the security doors of two buildings, it is impossible to have the keys to the residents' homes.

The first time she saw the child, it was in the living room of the second-floor resident, the second time she saw it in the bedroom, and now in the hallway of their building......

A goosebump appeared on Zhou Wenli's back.

Xiao Fang didn't know what Zhou Wenli saw and thought. She stepped up the stairs, and the voice-activated lights in the hallway were sensitively lit up.

Zhou Wenli's heart lifted up and looked at Xiao Fang upstairs.

Xiao Fang can already see the corridor window on the second floor. If the boy is still there......

Xiao Fang stopped.

Zhou Wenli's brain went blank.

Xiao Fang's face appeared in the gap between the railings of the staircase, and he was looking down at her, "Sister Zhou?" What happened to you? Foot pain? ”

It's business as usual.

Zhou Wenli let out a breath.

"No, nothing." Zhou Wenli grabbed the handrail and went upstairs.

On the second floor, she looked at the window.

There are no marks on the windows. If someone had pressed their face against the glass before, there should have been some traces on the glass after the winter haze.

Zhou Wenli watched carefully, and walked slowly in front of the window. As she moved, the light from the overhead sensor lights reflected off the windows at different angles. No matter how you look at it, there is no mark on that window.

It's her who looks away.

Zhou Wenli put her mind at ease.

Thinking about the fact that there was only a small light bulb at the top of the security door outside, and the sensor lights in the building were not lit, so dark, she might have looked away, thinking that the light reflection on the window was a human face.

Zhou Wenli arrived home first, and Xiao Fang lived on the top floor.

The two said goodbye.

Zhou Wenli took out the key to open the door.

As soon as the door was closed, Zhou Wenli heard the sound of water in the house.

Shakai taking a shower.

Zhou Wenli bent down to change her shoes.

Wow Oo......oo

There was a rush of footsteps outside the door, as if someone had run by.

Zhou Wenli didn't care, and stepped on slippers to enter the house.

She paused, and the ghost turned around and approached the cat's eye.

The sensor lights in the hallway had been turned off, and it was pitch black outside.

Zhou Wenli felt that she might be too nervous, as Xiao Fang said, suspicious.

She turned and walked back into the house.

Little did she know that in the darkness outside, there was a figure leaning on the door, eyes on the cat's eye, just staring at her for two seconds.