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Since it was the weekend, Zhao Xiufeng had also inquired beforehand that Zhao Jia would not go to work today, so it would not be a waste of time for them to go there today.It's not necessarily that Zhang Liu's suicide has something to do with Zhao Jia. There are no other clues right now, at least if he can find her, he can find out whether she was looking for Qin Xianyu or Zhang Liu.

According to Zhao Xiufeng, Zhao Jia's residential area is one of the most expensive in G City, surrounded by parks, schools, shopping malls, hospitals, etc., and her own company is also nearby.And Qin Xianyu also bought a flat here in the name of his son, which is upstairs from Zhao Jia.

"The three caves of the cunning rabbit, they are all like this." The Qin and Zhao families have always been at odds, and Zhao Xiufeng's statements are more or less subjective.I don't know if he really knows something or if he just has a prejudice against Qin Xianyu, he seems to have made a conclusion in his heart.

The elevator stopped on the 27th floor. Zhao Xiufeng led them all the way to Zhao Jia's door. After the doorbell rang a few times, a young man opened the door and asked, "Who are you?" , speak softly.

"Yiyang, didn't I tell you to ask who is outside before opening the door? Also, my aunt is at home." A short-haired woman in home clothes walked over while taking off her gloves, and saw three people standing at the door , the originally soft gaze suddenly became indifferent and sharp, and quickly pulled the boy aside, put his hand on the door frame as a gesture to close the door, and said, "I don't know you, you went the wrong way."

Zhao Xiufeng said: "We didn't say who to look for, how do you know we went wrong?"

There were three of them together. At first glance, it seemed that the visitor was not friendly. What's more, Zhao Xiufeng's tone was tough. A trace of panic flashed in the woman's eyes, and she asked coldly, "Excuse me, who are you looking for?"

Zhang Huai was recalling just now, and when the appearance of the person in the memory overlapped with the person in front of him, he said: "You are Zhao Jia, I have met you before, and Zhang Liu is my sister."

"Yiyang, you go to the study to do your homework first, and later my aunt will take you out for dinner." After Zhao Jia said that, the boy named Yiyang obediently walked away from her, but looked back when he walked through the living room. A few of them glanced at each other.

"You look a lot like your sister", that is to say, Zhao Jia also recognized Zhang Huai at first sight. "What do you want me to do?"

As soon as she finished speaking, the boy who had not been in the living room for a long time ran out again and shouted nervously: "Auntie, they are here again!"

Zhao Jia hurriedly comforted him: "It's okay, the windows are closed, they can't come in."

The three people at the door didn't know what "they" they meant. After hearing the sound of "bang bang bang", they saw that almost all the windows were surrounded by birds like black clouds.There are so many birds, they hit the glass with their bodies and make a dull sound. Even at such a long distance, they can feel that it is an extremely ferocious force. If the glass is not strong enough, they may be at the moment of impact Just broke through the window.

It's hard to say whether they are collectively stupid or bewitched, as if they are dying.

None of them had ever seen such a scene before, and they were all so shocked by the scene before them that they could not speak.

Fortunately, those birds did not last for a long time. Maybe they were not completely painless after all, and they were not stupid. After seeing the red on the glass, some of them withdrew, leaving only a small part hovering outside the window.

I didn't know what their purpose was, so I heard another crackling sound on the glass, like super heavy raindrops hitting it, and the glass was covered with white feces in a short while.

It's really wicked, I was so stupid that I couldn't see the glass rushing into it, and then I was so narrow-minded to retaliate.

But to put it another way, in order to make the living environment beautiful and bright, human beings use a large area of ​​glass decoration. The refraction under strong light will not only affect human life, but also many birds die every year due to impact.Maybe the birds hit the glass just now because they were frightened.

And not only Bird was frightened, but also Zhao Jia, who hugged the boy, her arms were still trembling.

Zhao Xiufeng asked: "What's the matter with those birds?" He had just experienced an unimaginable incident not long ago. It seemed unreasonable to him that so many birds hit the glass at the same time. It's amazing.

Zhao Jia glanced out the window and replied, "I don't know, I come here every two days, and it's been a month." Then she said, "Tell me if you have anything to do, I'll call someone to clean it up."

Zhang Huai asked her: "Do you know about my sister's suicide? Do you often go to her place? Have you met before her accident?"

After asking all the questions at once, Zhao Jia's face became more and more gloomy.No matter how tactful the question is, as long as there is an element of suspicion, it will be uncomfortable for others to hear, not to mention that the catastrophic and thrilling scene of birds hitting the glass has not completely dissipated from the eyes, and Zhao Jia's heart has not completely disappeared. Calm, a proud person like her immediately became excited: "Zhang Liu committed suicide, not homicide. What are you doing looking for me? What does it have to do with me if she can't live on her own?"

Zhao Xiufeng sneered: "It has nothing to do with you?"

"It's so funny! I went to find her, but what does it mean? Did I push her down to cause her to have a miscarriage? Did I force her to jump off a building? My brother even committed her to the sky and she can commit suicide, you Are you sure there is nothing wrong with your sister's mental state?"

"It has nothing to do with you?"

A resentful female voice followed Zhao Jia's voice, it sounded light and weightless, but it made everyone present look left and right to find the source of the voice.

"Who's pretending to be a ghost!" There were no other figures in the corridor except for the three people standing outside Zhao Jia's door. Zhao Jia shouted nervously towards the direction of the elevator. "come out!"

- Nothing but silence.

Jiang He, who was next to Zhang Huai, felt him tremble for a moment, and among the three of them, Zhang Huai reacted the most.Before Jiang He could ask him what was wrong, Zhao Jia suddenly pushed the three of them away, and said, "Get out of my house quickly! Otherwise, I'll call the police!"

From the calm and alienated at the beginning to the nervous trance after seeing the bird, her composure gradually collapsed, and now, she is almost on the verge of emotional collapse.

None of the three of them took any means to force her, and they didn't dare to stay any longer at this time for fear of further stimulating her.

"Don't come to me again! I don't know anything! Zhang Liu's suicide has nothing to do with me! ... You don't come here again either! The truth is clearly written in black and white!"

She slammed the door hard, and could still vaguely hear a sentence: "It has nothing to do with me!"

If it really had nothing to do with Zhao Jia, why would she react so violently?

Zhang Huai said when he got downstairs: "The voice just now is very similar to my sister's." He said it was very similar, but even he was not sure if it was.

"Your sister...isn't she still lying in the hospital?" Zhao Xiufeng looked around and felt a chill on her back, "Could it be haunted in broad daylight?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he realized that he shouldn't have said that in front of Zhang Huai. He frowned and thought for a while before saying, "Qin Yiyang is Qin Xianyu's son. His name is Aunt Zhao Jia. It seems that he doesn't know Zhao Jia She is his biological mother, and she is timid and insecure, so she must have been bullied by others. Zhao Jia is very protective of him. She may have done something because she wanted to change the status quo. At least from the current situation, I think She's not completely innocent."

Jiang He didn't have much opinion of Qin Yiyang at first, but after hearing what Zhao Xiufeng said, he felt that Qin Xianyu was too scumbag.He sighed, looked at Zhang Huai and waited for him to make a decision.

Zhang Huai said: "I want to go to the hospital to see my sister again, and we will go back to Nanxing Village in the afternoon." He really wanted to find out the truth immediately, but he didn't know how long it would take. The father at home is still waiting for news, good or bad. , he should go back and tell him himself.

Zhao Xiufengfeng kept frowning, hesitant to speak, but he couldn't tell what was going on in his heart.

In the hospital, Zhang Liu lay quietly on the hospital bed. After the nurse changed her clean clothes, Zhang Huai asked him to comb her hair.

If he hadn't known that the two of them were siblings, Jiang He might have been jealous watching this scene.

Zhang Liu's phone rang, and it was from Qin Xianyu. Seeing his perseverance, Jiang He "kindly" turned off Zhang Liu's phone.

Not long after, there was a sudden noisy sound from downstairs, and I could vaguely hear someone gloating and laughing: "Look, there are really bird people!"

Walking to the window and looking down, I saw a group of dark shadows moving slowly and with difficulty beside the green lawn of the hospital. Arms were faintly seen waving in the black shadows, but soon they were all covered in black.The nearby security guards rushed over to help, but they couldn't do anything. It took a long time to finally rescue the person wrapped in the shadow.

Those black images spread out like smoke, and they were indeed black birds one after another.

Jiang He called Zhang Huai over to have a look together: "Zhang Huai, do you think that person looks like your brother-in-law?"

Where is the image, it is clearly Qin Xianyu!

When Qin Xianyu arrived in the ward, his whole body was smelly, his clothes and hair were covered with bird feces, and there were scars on his face and arms caused by bird beaks and claws.

His face became even more stinky, but he didn't scold them immediately, but went straight to the bathroom.

A nurse came in after him, put a set of hospital gowns on the bed, and ran away in a hurry, wondering if she couldn't bear the stinky smell of bird droppings.

Jiang He held back a smile and said to Zhang Huai: "It seems that your brother-in-law's luck today is so good that heaven and others complain."

Before Qin Xianyu came out to vent their anger on them, Jiang He dragged Zhang Huai away.They walked around the parking lot and finally found Qin Xianyu's car. Affected by his "good luck", several cars nearby were "enchanted" by the birds.

"Zhang Huai, why do you think those birds have trouble with him? And Zhao Jia's, is it really a coincidence?" After Jiang He asked, he saw some birds parked in the surrounding trees, so he called out to them : "Hey, can any of you understand human speech?"

Bird Quan was startled by his cry, and uttered some human-like curses, and several family members of the patients passing by also cast strange glances at them—all regarded him as crazy.

Annoyed and embarrassed, Jiang He pushes his glasses on the bridge of his nose to cover up doing things too often.

Zhang Huai put his hands on his shoulders, took him to the outside of the hospital, and said, "My brother-in-law has a mynah, and it can imitate my sister's voice. When I was with Zhao Jia, I think the voice is even better. Like it came out. I don't know if it's still in my brother-in-law's house, so I can't be sure."

He has heard of parrots learning tongues, and he also knows that many birds, including starlings, mynahs, and some crows and magpies, can imitate the sounds of other birds, and even learn simple human languages, because their tongues and syrinx are very similar to humans. Similar, so they have innate vocalization conditions, but they are usually unconscious, a conditioned reflex formed after being guided by humans and repeatedly stimulated, that is to say, they themselves do not mean to speak human words subjectively.

To put it simply, they cannot understand human language. As birds, their daily language is of course bird language.

"Imitate your sister's voice? Can it talk to people?" During the long-term domestication and training process, it is not ruled out that some birds have cleverly mastered the skills of communicating with people. If you can confirm what you heard from Zhao Jia In fact, it was sent by mynah, which means it has already escaped. Regardless of the means used, why did it scare Zhao Jia?

"I don't know," Zhang Huai shook his head, "I've only heard it imitate my sister."

Most wild animals are not as close to humans as domesticated animals are. Even if Jiang He has some thoughts in his mind, he knows that it is too whimsical. Birds are more sensitive than other animals and are more likely to be frightened. They will fly away immediately before he gets close. far away.

"It would be great if Xiaogu was here." After sighing, Jiang He had a flash of inspiration again, "Zhang Huai! Let's go back quickly and bring Xiaogu here tomorrow! It is a bird, and it will definitely become one with birds!"

"Xiao He, how do you know that those birds must have something to do with my sister's matter?" Seeing the light in Jiang He's eyes fade away little by little, Zhang Huai said again, "Try it, there may be some connection." He said Knowing that Jiang He is too impatient, he desperately wants to help him solve the problem.In fact, he originally wanted to send Jiang He back and then come here alone, so it seems that it will definitely not work.

Jiang He tried to ask the birds on the roadside again, but none of them would let him approach.

"I'm so pissed off! Besides being unhygienic, don't the birds in the city have no manners? I feel more and more that Xiaogu is the most understanding and reasonable bird I've ever seen!"