Zhou Wenli couldn't believe what she saw, but she couldn't deny the boy she had just seen in her heart. She could only hurriedly withdraw her gaze, as if evasively, and focused her attention on the neighbors who were still chatting around her.

However, her heart was beating violently at the moment, and her pounding heart couldn't take her attention away, and her mind was still thinking about the boy she had just glimpsed.

At some point, the music downstairs stopped, and there was a sound of talking from below.

The time for square dancing is over, which also means that the gossip time upstairs is over.

Someone got up and said, "It's not early," and everyone tacitly stopped communicating.

It's not that I'm completely silent.

Everyone goes out in twos and threes, and when they go downstairs, they always have to say a few words on the way.

Zhou Wenli moved her body and came to Aunt Liu's side.

Aunt Liu not only has an ugly face today, but her spirit is also very poor.

A neighbor who knew each other walked forward and persuaded, "Aunt Liu, don't think so much. If the family wants to make trouble again, they will go to the neighborhood committee. You call us, and we will go with you to Director Wang. ”

The people around responded again and again, and some people shouted Zhou Wenli, telling her not to worry either.

Zhou Wenli reluctantly responded, still unable to feel at ease.

When she got downstairs, she didn't go to find Xiao Fang, but pulled Aunt Liu.

Aunt Liu looked at her suspiciously, tried to make a calm expression, and comforted her, "Xiaoli, don't be so afraid. We were scared before, but we have a way to solve everything, and we are not afraid. ”

Zhou Wenli opened her mouth, lowered her voice, and asked tremblingly, "Aunt Liu, is that footstep you heard really the sound of high heels?" ”

Aunt Liu didn't expect to hear such a question, and looked at Zhou Wenli stupidly.

Zhou Wenli couldn't describe the scene she had just seen, so she had to ask further: "Will that footsteps be ...... Could it be a child's voice? The kind of ...... kids bouncing around the house"

Aunt Liu thought for a while, "You say that...... It's also kind of like. Oh, maybe it's a child's voice. As soon as I heard that voice, I thought of the crazy woman on the fourth floor, and when she was picked up. Hey, the kids in the building...... Could it be the little grandson of Aunt Qin's family on the fifth floor? ”

Aunt Liu followed this train of thought and pondered.

Zhou Wenli's body was a little weak.

"Sister Zhou, aren't you going back?" Xiao Fang finally found Zhou Wenli, and when she saw that she was talking to Aunt Liu, she greeted her and said hello to Aunt Liu.

Aunt Liu smiled and nodded, no longer flustered.

She didn't discuss the footsteps with Zhou Wenli again, nodded to Xiao Fang, and said goodbye to Zhou Wenli.

Zhou Wenli couldn't hold Aunt Liu, so she had to watch her walk towards Building No. 7.

Zhou Wenli glanced at Building No. 7, which was close at hand.

In the lit windows of Building 7, there was not a single one behind a child in the back.

"What's wrong with you?" Xiao Fang asked strangely, "It can't be a quarrel with my son, right?" ”

Although he is a member of the square dancer, rather than a frequent visitor to the gossip circle on the second floor, Xiao Fang is still full of curiosity about other people's lives.

She smiled and said, "Hey, don't be angry when I say that." I used to quarrel with that kid in my house. Some time ago, at the end of the year, he said that he was going to go to the New Year's Eve countdown with his friends, and it was really ......"

Zhou Wenli didn't listen carefully to what Xiao Fang said.

She thought it would be better if she just quarreled with Shakai.

What she is experiencing now, she simply doesn't know where to start.

Accompanied by Xiao Fang's self-talking jokes all the way, the two of them walked to the downstairs of the resident.

Zhou Wenli thought of something, cautiously raised her eyelids, and looked at the glass window above the door.

It was dark behind the glass window, and there was no human figure in sight.

Xiao Fang took out the key to open the door and was about to go in, but was stopped by Zhou Wenli.

Xiao Fang leaned back on the steps and said in shock: "Surprise me!" ”

As soon as she turned around, she saw Zhou Wenli's pale face.

Xiao Fang followed Zhou Wenli's line of sight, only to see that in the corridor that had been lit up, there was a courier box stuffed with a bag of garbage.

At this time, it was already past the time to take out the garbage in their community, some people missed the time, and some people were used to throwing out the garbage the next morning, and it was not surprising that there were some express boxes and garbage bags on the aisle.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Fang didn't know why, asked again, and turned his head to look at Zhou Wenli.

Zhou Wenli let go of her hand and shook her head, "I read it wrong." I thought it was ...... over there."

Xiao Fang smiled: "Look at it as a dog?" We don't have any dogs in the building. Do you know the fat man on the third floor next door? The fat man who works at the wholesale farmer's market. When he came home one night, when the voice-activated lights were turned on, he saw a shadow squatting at the door of his house, and he thought he had squatted someone, so he was so frightened that he fell down the stairs. It turned out to be a dog that his daughter had brought home, a very large one, black and white, I forgot what breed it was......"

Xiao Fang said and entered the building.

Zhou Wenli also followed behind her.

Xiao Fang didn't see it, when she said "I thought I was squatting", Zhou Wenli's body trembled for a moment.

After walking through the stairs on the first floor, Zhou Wenli stopped trembling and couldn't help but look down at the corridor on the first floor.

The empty boxes and garbage bags were still there.

Along the gap in the railing of the stairs, Zhou Wenli saw a hand stretched out from the side.

Zhou Wenli stepped on the air, her body was crooked, and she grabbed the handrail of the stairs with both hands, so that she didn't roll down the stairs like the fat man in the next building.

A pair of children's hands touched the garbage bag, and with some difficulty it untied the mouth of the bag, rummaging inside.

The owner of the hands seemed to have noticed Zhou Wenli's gaze, and his movements stopped.

Zhou Wenli heard the sound of rustling downstairs, as well as the irritating footsteps and talking of Xiao Fang above her head.

Zhou Wenli didn't dare to look at it again, hurriedly walked a few steps quickly, and caught up with Xiao Fang.

"I'm going back. See you tomorrow. Xiao Fang didn't notice the abnormality just now, and just arrived at the floor where Zhou Wenli's house was, so he said goodbye as usual and continued to walk up.

The footsteps kept going up, unhurried, and Xiao Fang's humming could be heard, singing the soundtrack of her square dance. On the other hand, there was the sound of footsteps coming from downstairs. The small sound is like a person deliberately lightening his steps, and it is like the sound of sneakers that are different from leather shoes, which are naturally lighter, or the person who came upstairs is very light, and he can't make a huge footstep sound without stomping his feet.

Obviously there were footsteps coming from below, but the voice-activated lights below were extinguished layer by layer.

Zhou Wenli trembled her hands and took out the house key in a panic, but when she clicked it for the first time, she couldn't insert the key into the lock hole. She panicked even more, and scrambled a few times before she inserted the key and unlocked the door.

Not daring to see what was coming up from downstairs, Zhou Wenli opened the door, entered the room with an arrow step, and slammed the door shut.

The loud sound of the door slamming shook the room.

Zhou Wenli gasped and pressed her vibrating chest.

She heard footsteps again.

Footsteps came from the room.

Fear made Zhou Wenli's eyes widen.

Her appearance startled Sha Kai.

"What are you doing...... Shakai asked in surprise as he came out of the bedroom, "why was it so loud when you first closed the door?" You...... Not feeling well? ”

Zhou Wenli's heart was a little relieved, her body trembled slightly, and she couldn't speak, so she could only point to the door behind her.

Sha Kai stepped forward, pulled Zhou Wenli away, and glanced at the cat's eye.

"There's no one out there." As he spoke, he opened the door.

Zhou Wenli was about to exclaim, but she only saw Sha Kai looking out left and right as if she was fine, and then stepped out of the room, to the edge of the stairs, and looked up and down.

Shakai returned to the house with a question mark on his face and closed the door, "There is no one outside." Someone just chased you? The kid you talked about at dinner? His eyebrows furrowed.

Zhou Wenli wanted to nod, but the stiff muscles in her neck did not move at all.

"What the hell is going on?" Shakai grew impatient.

"Nothing. It's nothing...... You go to bed early. I also went to bed early. Zhou Wenli still didn't dare to say what she saw.

She still doesn't quite believe the boy she saw.

Is there really such a thing?

Zhou Wenli was shocked in her heart.

Seeing this, Shakai didn't ask, muttered something, and went back to his room.

Zhou Wenli had palpitations, and she couldn't fall asleep after lying in bed early tonight.

She wanted to let go of this matter and let her brain stop remembering, but every picture she had seen before was looping in her brain without being called.

Zhou Wenli couldn't help but think of what happened many years ago, when she was pregnant with Shakai.

At that time, she didn't live in this community, she lived in a marriage house, which was also the house that her ex-husband bought. At that time, she was very uncomfortable because of the pregnancy reaction. One day at work, she asked for leave to go home early, and as soon as she lay down in bed, she fell asleep in a daze. She remembers the day she heard a knock on the window. Someone outside knocked tirelessly on the bedroom window, and one after another, finally woke her up.

She woke up distraught when a bird was pecking at the glass outside. Lying on her side on the bed and looking back, she saw half a human face.

What that face looked like, Zhou Wenli doesn't remember it now. I only remember that the other party has a pointed nose, like the villain in an illustration in a foreign fairy tale book that her ex-husband bought for Shakai. It was the guy's pointed nose that was tapping on the glass.

Zhou Wenli was frozen in an instant.

When she came back to her senses, the faces outside the window were gone, and her ex-husband had come home from work.

She mentioned it to her ex-husband, who smiled and asked her if she was sleepy. She thought so at the time.

It's just that, after so many years, Shakai has worked as an adult, and she still remembers the "chattering" percussion.

The voice......

Talkative......

Talkative......

After many years, Zhou Wenli's body froze again.

She thought she was hearing her own memory, but the clear voice was close to her ears.

Zhou Wenlishi lay on the bed, turning her head slowly, slowly, as she had done many years ago.

She didn't see the window, she saw the large wardrobe in the back.

Talkative......

Talkative......

The voice came from the large closet next to the bed.

Zhou Wenli could even imagine that the face with a pointed nose slammed into the full-length mirror on the inside of the wardrobe door.

Talkative......

Talkative......

The blood in Zhou Wenli's body is about to stop flowing.

Fear reached a tipping point, and she was about to scream, only to find that the voice had changed tone.

The tapping continued, but it became a little crisper, and the position shifted somewhat.

The face moved from the mirror to the wooden door panel, from left to right.

However, next to the door with a full-length mirror, and between the other door, there was a partition that left no gap.

The face went through a wooden partition......

Zhou Wenli suddenly remembered the boy she saw in the activity center at night.

The boy walked through the wall, from one glass to the other.

Zhou Wenli looked at the large closet again and found that the voice had moved to the edge of the cabinet at some point.

Further aside, out of the cabinet, is the wall.

The sound of bones pounding against solid walls sounded.

It's like an invisible person walking to the wall, tapping on the wall in boredom.

Then I got to the door.

Out of the door, there is the living room, and around the corner is Shakai's room.

Thinking of the son next door, the blood in Zhou Wenli's body seemed to flow again.

She climbed out of bed and stumbled barefoot towards the door.

She didn't know what she was going to do, she just held out her hand in the direction where the knocking sound came from.

"You stand ......" As soon as the weak voice squeezed out of her throat, Zhou Wenli felt her hand grasp a thin shoulder.

The shoulder that could pinch the bone stopped at the position of her chest, and there was a sense of pulling forward, but if she took a step further, Zhou Wenli would crash into the bedroom door.

Zhou Wenli saw a little boy gradually showing his original form in the night, his thin body sandwiched between herself and the door panel.

The little boy raised his head, revealing his big black eyes, and there was no emotion in them, just like all children of this age, when they look at people, adults can only see watery eyes on their faces.

The boy suddenly grinned, showed a smile, naughtily broke free from Zhou Wenli's hands, jumped, threw himself on Zhou Wenli's bed, rolled twice, hid his body under the quilt, and showed his big eyes from the quilt, peeking at Zhou Wenli, as if waiting for Zhou Wenli to catch him again.

Zhou Wenli was stunned.

※※※※※

When Ma Jiayi was lying in the hospital bed, she still couldn't believe what had happened in the past few days.

Her eyes widened, because she hadn't touched up her makeup for a long time, and her facial features looked slightly incongruous.

Shi Juan, who was glared at by her, persuaded good-naturedly: "Miss Ma, I think Mr. Wu is very good, and he cares about you very much." He came to me and asked me a lot of questions, and told me that he wanted me to take good care of you. He asked for the originals of my certificates and checked them very carefully. ”

Ma Jiayi's cheeks were flushed, and her chest rose and fell in anger.

"You have a baby in your belly now, and you can't breathe. Even if you don't think about your own body, you have to think about the baby in your belly, right? Shi Juan said, and repeated the doctor's instructions just now, without missing a word, and especially explained some things that the doctor did not say in detail, "...... When I took the confinement certificate, I also learned how to take care of pregnant women. I used to take care of my daughter-in-law and granddaughter, and I also took care of two employers' pregnant women. I'm very experienced. ”

Ma Jiayi was about to crush her teeth, "How did you lie to Jingwei?" You don't have to pretend to me! I know it all! You were sent by that woman! You can fool Jingwei, don't try to fool me! ”

Shi Juan sighed, pulled a chair and sat down, and said sincerely: "Miss Ma, I really didn't know about you before. I have always treated you as a rich second generation......" She said this, looking at Ma Jiayi's eyes that wanted to eat people, she wanted to shut up, and then thought that she was now receiving Wu Jingweikai's salary, so she continued: "When Mr. Wu found me, I thought he was your father. ”

Ma Jiayi grabbed the quilt with both hands, and the crystal manicure easily poked a hole in the quilt cover.

"I told him about that night." Shi Juan said this, and saw that Ma Jiayi's face turned from red to blue, and it was slightly pale.

She froze.

Shi Juan has been cleaning and preparing three meals for Ma Jiayi for a while, and she has seen Ma Jiayi angry or smiling, the most common thing is that she raised her chin slightly, relying on her tall stature, and looked at herself proudly, but she had never seen her change her face like this.

Speaking of which, Ma Jiayi has been in a state of heavy makeup before, and it is not easy to see her face under layers of makeup.

Ma Jiayi trembled and asked, "Did you tell him about the surveillance?" ”

When she asked, she immediately pursed her lips.

Shi Juan didn't hide her sudden realization, and confessed: "Well, I told you." ”

Ma Jiayi's fingers went through the small hole poked out by her fingernails.

"I only said the surveillance of the living room." Shi Juan said again.

Ma Jiayi was flustered, grabbed her mobile phone, and lowered her head to operate.

Shi Juan didn't seem to see her movements, and continued: "I also told him that you may be pregnant, and if you have a pregnancy reaction, you will suddenly sleepwalk." ”

Ma Jiayi paused and asked, "What is his reaction?" ”

Shi Juan replied: "He was quite surprised and asked me why I thought so." I told him you had some symptoms that you probably didn't even know about. Then he was gone. Then, a few days later, he came back to me and asked me to bring my certificate to him, told me about taking care of you, and took me to the hospital to see you the next day - it was yesterday. ”

Ma Jiayi's expression was cloudy, and she operated on the phone for a while before exiting the monitoring software and putting the phone down.

Wu Jingwei shouldn't have checked the surveillance in the room, nor did she find out that she installed surveillance in the bedroom. Regarding her pregnancy, Wu Jingwei didn't seem particularly happy, nor did she seem to be troublesome.

He should have wanted her to give birth to the child.

Aren't all men like that?

arranged for her to be treated in this private hospital, and invited Shi Juan to take care of her, also for her body and the child in her belly.

Wu Jingwei probably thought that Shi Juan carefully discovered her pregnancy and was a good nanny, and then looked at Shi Juan's various certificates and resumes, so she hired Shi Juan with satisfaction.

Thinking of this, Ma Jiayi was depressed.

"Miss Ma, I'm really not what you think." Shi Juan said, "The doctor also said it, you may be overstressed and sleepwalking." I didn't do those things. I'm just a nanny, doing cleaning, cooking, taking care of the elderly and children, it's not that complicated. ”

Ma Jiayi looked at Shi Juan for a while, as if to gauge whether she was lying.

"Okay. You just do what Jingwei says. Ma Jiayi thought that she was now living in the hospital, so she relaxed a little, and then thought about it, the child in her belly was gone, and it didn't matter, so she nodded and agreed to Shi Juan's care.

She leaned back on the bed, and was about to tell Shi Juan to cut an orange for herself, when she felt a small hand pressed on her lower abdomen.

Ma Jiayi was surprised and reached out to cover her lower abdomen, revealing a confused expression.

"Are you uncomfortable? Upset stomach? Shi Juan saw the traces of the back of Ma Jiayi's hand protruding under the quilt.

Ma Jiayi hesitated for a moment and asked, "Can I feel the child moving this month?" ”

"It takes four or five months to feel the movement. However, at two months, the baby will move a little in your belly. Now at this time, he moves, and you shouldn't feel it. Is it an upset stomach? Or do you want to go to the toilet? When you have a first-time child, you may not be able to distinguish between fetal movements and bowel movements. Shi Juan said softly. Her tone was the same as before, and the gentleness was that she added the last sentence.

Shi Juan felt that a big girl like Ma Jiayi, who had eyes above the top, might not be able to distinguish the existence of the fetus during pregnancy at all. If it weren't for that, she wouldn't have been pregnant for almost three months, and she didn't know anything about it.

Ma Jiayi felt it quietly for a while, recalled the touch just now, and relaxed her body uncertainly.

"Peel me an orange." She instructed Shi Juan again.

Shi Juan nodded in agreement.