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The owner of the little thing came very quickly, which surprised her a little, and when the owner stood in front of her and called her "Miss Lu", a weirder feeling slowly crept into her heart.Lu Li held the cat in his left hand, pressed the doorknob with his right hand, looked vigilantly at the girl opposite, and asked softly, "Is it your cat?"

"It's my cat." The girl smiled nicely and kindly, but for some reason, Lu Li always felt that all the expressions on her face were all fake ones carefully drawn by her with oil paint. mask.They stared at each other in silence. Suddenly, a tall man appeared on the stairs behind the girl. Lu Li slightly turned his head and looked at him suspiciously. photo.

The photo flashed before Lu Li's eyes, but with the help of the faint skylight in the corridor, she could clearly see the picture above.The white cat in the photo was the one she held in her arms.Perhaps seeing its owner, the kitten suddenly became excited and jumped out of Lu Li's embrace.

From the looks of it, it was really its owner.

"Sister Lu." The girl standing outside the door suddenly said, "It has been running away from home for the past few days and has caused you trouble."

Lu Li was not good at communication, so when he heard her say this, he was immediately taken aback.After a while, I remembered to answer: "It's okay, no trouble. It is very obedient."

This is the truth.The kitten has only stayed at Luli's house for two days, and during these two days, it basically slept curled up on the balcony. Except for eating Luli's food and drinking Luli's water, everything else was really good. nothing.After Lu Li finished answering this sentence, the two parties fell into an awkward silence again. The girl rolled her eyes, as if she still wanted to continue talking with her, but suddenly hurried footsteps sounded downstairs, beating on the stairs like dense drumbeats.

Immediately afterwards, the boy's voice sounded, not one, but two.Hearing their voices, the expression on Lu Li's face gradually softened, and the man and girl standing in front of her became tense instead.The girl looked up and exchanged a look with the man, then smiled at Lu Li, the two walked upstairs with the kitten in their arms, Lu Li looked at their backs with complicated expressions.

If she remembers correctly, the two families upstairs have not moved out, and these two people are definitely not residents of those two houses. Why did they go upstairs?

Are you hiding from someone who is about to reach this floor?

Lu Li's gaze moved down and landed on the corner of the stairs, where Yu Qiuliang and Song Ciran happened to emerge.

"What do you want to eat tonight?" Lu Li raised his voice, interrupting the conversation between his younger brother and his classmates.The conversation between Yu Qiuliang and Song Ciran stopped suddenly, but neither of them was angry. They were very happy to have their sister cook for them.

"Eat whatever you want, if you eat meat, it will be even more—" The originally cheerful voice stopped abruptly when two shadows appeared on the wall.Yu Qiuliang stood on the stairs, staring at the shadow on the wall, and calmly pulled Song Ciran behind him.

The two shadows stood there for a while, as if they had just noticed a projection on the wall, and then gradually retreated, leaving the place where the sun could shine.Yu Qiuliang took the hand of the tablemate, and rushed up the stairs in twos and threes, Lu Li suddenly backed away to make way for them.Just a few seconds later, the door of the house was closed with a loud bang, leaving only the shaken dust on the wall shaking in the sunlight.

"Fuck/Your mother..." The girl poked her head out from the upper floor, looking in horror at the shadow of the stair railing reflected on the wall, "What are you doing standing there? He saw you!"

"Speak up if you have something to say. How is it proper for a little girl to fuck other people's mothers all day long?" The man was very worried. Anyone who faced a little girl who would "fuck/your mother" all day long, would feel worried.This girl usually looks like a good baby in school, how many people know that she often verbally has sex with other people's mother behind her back?

The girl ignored him and kicked him hard on the leg. The man's face changed suddenly, and he hurriedly supported the stairs before falling down.The stairs here are old, and the handrails are mostly made of wood. The peeling paint and hideous wooden thorns hurt the man's hand.He staggered a step and finally stood still, he didn't even care about hugging the cat, he hurriedly raised his hand to see if the wooden thorn had penetrated into the flesh.For him, his hands are more important than pets, and it is only a fool's behavior to give up a hand for a cat.

Fortunately, the hand was still intact, except for being slightly red and swollen from the handrail of the stairs, there was nothing else.The man wiped his hands on the cat, carried it down the stairs, and walked to the door of Luli's house, when he suddenly realized that there was no sound of the girl's footsteps behind him.Looking back, the windows upstairs were wide open, and the petite person had disappeared.

Not only swearing, but also climbing the window, she really went wild.

A girl in her teens is more difficult to control than a cat, and more capricious than a cat.The man's hand tightened slightly, and the kitten was hurt by his scratch, and it meowed.He let go of his hand as if waking up from a dream, the kitten jumped off the ground, circled around him twice, and rushed downstairs first.

...One or two of them are not reassuring.

When the man came down from the upper floor, his face was against the light, but no matter how many days and nights passed by, Yu Qiuliang would never forget that silhouette.It was another nightmare of his, the source of another part of his unhappiness.Chi Yu's haunted soul persisted, and he chased him to this place. God knows how much information Chi Yu still holds in his hands.His parents, his sister, none of the living can escape, let alone the dead.

However, there were two shadows cast on the wall, but only Chi Yu was seen going downstairs alone.What about the guy with him?Feeling uncomfortable, Yu Qiuliang tried his best to look up a floor through the cat's eyes, but unfortunately he couldn't see anything.The cat's eyes limited his field of vision, so that he could only see a small piece of the world.

"Sister!" Yu Qiuliang turned his head and shouted at Lu Li who was busy in the kitchen, "Who came to see you just now?"

Lu Li heard him yell in the kitchen, so he came out wiping his hands and explained to him: "I picked up a cat downstairs two days ago and posted it as a lost and found. Today, the owner of the cat came and took it away."

It sounds normal, but when you think about it carefully, everything is weird.Yu Qiuliang has seen Chi Yu raising a cat. His white cat is so beautiful that Yu Qiuliang can't forget it even if he wants to, but how could Chi Yu lose such a pampered cat owner?

If it was really lost, why did it happen to be near Luli's home?

Lu Li is not stupid. When Yu Qiuliang came over, he saw the lost and found notice on the telephone pole. There was no personal information on it, and even the phone number left was the landline of the guard in the reception room at the gate of the community.Yu Qiuliang put his hand on the doorknob, and almost wanted to run down to the gate of the community to find the doorman, to see if Chi Yu went directly into the community, or if he really asked for Lu Li's address at the gate.

If we go down now and Chi Yu waits downstairs again to arrest him, then it's over, we can't go down now.A flash of light flashed in Yu Qiuliang's mind, and he thought of Yu Xiasheng who was about to get off work.The old ghost is also idle, why not find something for him to do and let him continue saving the world.Anyway, my sister hasn't cooked the meal yet, and when Yu Xiasheng finishes her work, she might be able to catch up with her and leave here for a bite to eat.

Yu Xiasheng should like Lu Li's cooking skills. Her culinary skills can impress all straight steel men in the world. Even Yu Qiuliang would squat on the ground and hug her thighs, waiting for her to feed him.A good girl who can cook is a rare treasure. Yu Qiuliang also had a dream before, imagining that she would stay at her sister's house every day, eating and drinking.But one day my sister will get married and start a family, and one day he will grow up. His unrealistic dream will inevitably be broken in the end.

Yu Xiasheng was really idle, and quickly returned Yu Qiuliang's message. As soon as he heard that there was a free dinner, he immediately gave up the instant noodles he was holding.Who cooks instant noodles when they have serious meals?Yu Xiasheng grabbed the coat that was draped over the back of the chair, and hurried out the door without thinking about putting it on.

After running downstairs, he suddenly remembered that the door was not locked, so he went back to lock the door.The little black cat opened the small ventilation window on the door, and meowed anxiously at Yu Xiasheng, questioning the other party's motives for leaving it behind.

Yu Xiasheng couldn't understand a word of the kitten's questioning. His mind was going straight. In his mind, the meowing of the cat only meant that the cat was hungry.Obviously, he was fed cat food as soon as he got home, and water and milk are enough for him to drink. What does he call?Yu Xiasheng shook his head in disbelief, quickly put on his coat, and ran away.

Although the community where Lu Li lives is dilapidated and old, the guards are really reliable.It's not that Chi Yu learned of Lu Li's address from the guard, he never came to the reception room at all.Yu Xiasheng was squatting on the side of the road watching a group of old men playing chess, and chatting with them while watching the game. They all said that the man didn't go to the reception room, but went directly into the community.

No matter what era it is, there will always be a group of old men playing chess on the side of the road. They seem to be NPCs in this world. From time to time, they can have a few conversations with passers-by, but most of the time they are silent and just play chess.Yu Xiasheng stared at the chessboard for a while, and suddenly thought of Lu Huaiming.If Lu Huaiming hadn't died, but had lived to this day, he might have joined the team of old chess players and enjoyed his old age.

Hey, now Lu Huaiming has no chance to be an old man, but his daughter should live a long, long time, old enough to be an old woman.It's really strange to say that no one wants to grow old, but everyone wants to live, but when they realize that they are getting old, few people don't feel sad.That being the case, is it good or bad to live?

It was Yu Qiuliang, not Yu Xiasheng, who had the time to think about this kind of question.In fact, he only thought of Lu Huaiming for a few seconds.He has seen too many dead people, and he has long felt bored. Life and death are all destiny, and once it comes, it will be at ease.

He consciously completed the task assigned by Yu Qiuliang, and was about to go upstairs to eat, but suddenly thought that Yu Qiuliang said that the other party had two people.According to the words of passers-by, Chi Yu came here by himself, without any accomplices, so what could be the "shadow" that Yu Qiuliang saw?

Yu Xiasheng dug out the address saved in his phone, and followed the guide to find the building where Lu Li lived.There was no one in front of the house or behind the house, only stray animals were digging food in the garbage dumps, wild cats were chasing mice that emerged from the basement, and their squeaky, woof, woof and woof calls were all in one piece.

These animals are afraid of people, they are not really wild. Seeing Yu Xiasheng walking towards this direction, they immediately scattered and fled.Lonely creatures not only need to learn how to prey, but also learn to escape. If they can't escape, they have to wait for death obediently.Yu Xiasheng stood there for a while, turned on the flashlight, and walked up the dusty stairs. He wondered why there are young girls living here. No matter how you look at it, this place should correspond to poverty and old age.

The reason why she lives here and does not move out is probably because of nostalgia.

Lu Huaiming often stands under this building, holding a big black umbrella, looking up at a certain window upstairs.His daughter lived there, and her daughter was his only sustenance and his most precious wealth in this world.I don't know if his daughter has a feeling in the dark, knowing that her father is always by her side to protect her, so she insists on staying here and does not want to leave.But anyone who has feelings will hide something that cannot be forgotten in his heart. Perhaps for Lu Li, his father is the most important thing that she cannot forget in this life.

Others thought she had forgotten, but how could she forget?How can she forget?

Yu Qiuliang didn't say anything, but he must also know that his sister has not forgotten the past.They are all persistent children, willing to remember one thing with their whole life.

The corridors are full of dust, lost and found and missing person notices are plastered all over the walls, advertisements for unblocking the sewers, and various stamps are all crowded on the walls.When the building was first built, the walls were still white and clean like a newborn baby. As a result, people flocked in, residents moved into the building, and small vendors came to the front of the building.Where there are people, there is business. In order to get more money, they do not hesitate to destroy the original appearance of the wall.Whether this move has brought them benefits, no one knows, in short, the face of the wall has been destroyed.

There are not a few people who wreak havoc for their own selfish desires, and what they destroy may be a cold dead thing, or a living life.One life, cats and dogs, flowers, birds, insects and fish, a living person.

Yu Xiasheng stood in front of Lu Li's house, and first took a look upstairs and downstairs.The figure in Yu Qiuliang's mouth did not appear, it seems that Chi Yu and his accomplices really left.

It wasn't Lu Li or Yu Qiuliang who came to open the door for him, but Song Ciran who came here to eat like him.Cengfan people see Cengfan people, meeting is fate, the two looked at each other, and smiled tacitly.

"Did you ask what I asked you to ask? Smile, smile, why do you laugh at everyone you see all day long." Yu Qiuliang poked his head out of the room and glared at Yu Xiasheng. The habit of laughing, even to friends is not allowed.In fact, he is too lenient. Yu Xiasheng is completely free to choose whether to laugh or not, but this old ghost who has no bottom line is happy to be controlled like this. Hearing him, he immediately restrained his smile and wrote "serious" all over his body. ""serious".

Their way of getting along is not like brothers, but like other relationships.Song Ciran looked back at Yu Qiuliang and smiled again.

"What are you laughing at? You two are crazy!" Yu Qiuliang was baffled. He didn't know what happened, so he could only curse.

Lu Li knew that Yu Qiuliang had a friend who was coming to dinner, so she only regarded it as another classmate of her younger brother, and the one who suddenly appeared was not a student at all.She subconsciously remembered some rumors. It seemed that her uncle and aunt had made a mistake. The person who lived on the second floor with her younger brother should be the person in front of her.

She didn't understand why she had such a guess, but judging from the degree of acquaintance between her brother and this person, it seemed that they had lived together for a long time.What is their relationship?How did you meet?She didn't know the answers to these questions at all. Yu Qiuliang had her own small circle where she couldn't see, and most of the people in that circle had nothing to do with her.

Lu Li's gaze stayed on Yu Xiasheng for a short moment, and then she quickly moved away. She was busy serving the dishes and arranging the dishes.Song Ciran sniffed, and smelled the fragrance all over the house. Lu Li cooked a lot of delicious dishes today, waiting to eat with them.

Yu Qiuliang doesn't know how to cook, but it's okay to help out. Before Yu Xiasheng came, he had been with his sister in the kitchen for a long time.Today is Lu Li's birthday, and Yu Qiuliang refuses to let her be busy alone, if she is still exhausted on her birthday, then her birthday would be better off.

He saved money for a while and bought a birthday cake for his sister. The cake was not big, but the price was really high, but it was really delicious.The cake can be refrigerated, even if Lu Li can't finish it today, he can still put it in the refrigerator and eat it slowly in two or three days.

Song Ciran was greedy and wanted to take away the chocolate brand on the cake with a shy face. He held it in his mouth and waited for it to melt slowly, even reluctant to chew it.He hasn't eaten candy for a while, and now he gets sick when he sees sweets, Yu Qiuliang doesn't bother to talk about him.After eating a few dishes with chopsticks, seeing that he was still staring straight at the strawberries on the cake, I had no choice but to go into the room and find some pieces of fruit candy for him.

Yu Xiasheng is not picky about food, he will accept all the food that can be eaten when others bring it to him, and he will not refuse anyone who comes.He would eat whatever dish Yu Qiuliang gave him, and he would praise it without complaining.It was fine at first, but later Yu Qiuliang felt something wrong as he groped, put down the chopsticks immediately, refused to bring him any more food, and let him fend for himself.

No one fed, Yu Xiasheng suddenly didn't know what he wanted to eat.He bit the end of his chopsticks and hesitated for a long time, staring at the plate of croquettes.

Just as he was about to stretch out his chopsticks, he heard Yu Qiuliang say, "This is a carrot ball."

Yu Xiasheng paused slightly with the chopsticks he had just stretched out, then turned to the other side to pick up a piece of fried chicken.He went round and round, but in the end he would only pick that one thing to eat.

The balcony door was left open, and the night wind blew into the house from the outside, blowing off a few pieces of paper on the window sill.One of them happened to fall at Yu Xiasheng's feet. He bent down to pick up the paper and saw that it was a cute snow-white cat.This cat looks normal at first glance, but Yu Xiasheng feels that something is wrong with it, because its expression is very weird, after a long time, it looks like...

...as if they were human beings.