Chapter 56 He died at noon today.
Chapter 56 He died at noon today.
After cleaning the new rental apartment and installing foam padding in the corners, it was already past 7 p.m. and dark.
Zhou Gangxun cleaned up the trash and then went to buy dinner.
Ruan Zhijuan climbed out of the bathroom and watched TV at home by herself.
He was put in the bathroom after he came back at noon, but he couldn't urinate. Later, in order to urinate and put on his pants, he drank a lot of water and spent almost the entire afternoon urinating in the bathroom.
Hmph, that scoundrel Zhou Gangxun is utterly wicked. To make him feel at ease when he urinates, I even brought the fan into the bathroom for him, but he still keeps coming in and out saying he wants to check. No amount of beating or scolding him works.
However, Zhou Gangxun believes that puppies need to be taught how to urinate. When they learn how to urinate in a fixed location, they should first gradually become familiar with the scent, and then undergo long-term training until they know where to urinate next time.
His wife should know where to urinate, just like he does when she urinates, so he needs to be there.
Ruan Zhijuan sat on the sofa and the cushions between the coffee table, angrily eating the canned grapes that Zhou Gangxun had just bought that afternoon.
He also bought hawthorn, strawberries, and peaches, and wrote on the lids when each canned fruit could be eaten next.
The TV show "The Ghost Hunter" was showing a scene where they used morning glories to find ghosts. Accompanied by suspenseful music, "thump thump thump—", the morning glories pointed to the left, right at the front door of the new house...
Engrossed in the scene, Ruan Zhijuan stopped chewing, clutching the can of food and nervously looking in that direction.
Good, no ghosts.
They've moved to a new house, so of course there will still be ghosts.
He shook his head and turned back to watch TV, only to see a disheveled, glowing green ghost face fill the screen… Hmm! Not scary… not scary at all… Ha… "Bang bang bang!"
"Ouch..." The sudden knocking startled Ruan Zhijuan, causing her to spill the canned syrup all over herself. "My canned food..."
"Brother, brother and sister-in-law, I've bought plum juice and mung bean soup." Outside the door, the real estate agent, Xiao Ma, carrying several bags, said, looking travel-worn. "Brother and sister-in-law, I added five spoonfuls of sugar for you, and I bought an extra bag of white sugar in case you didn't have enough."
Sour plum juice! Mung bean soup! With sugar!
Upon hearing this, Ruan Zhijuan ran to the door with a "tap tap tap" sound. Oh, it was Xiao Ma! Yes, it was true.
Great! Even without canned food, there's still mung bean soup and plum juice. And later, there will be roasted pig's trotters that Zhou Gangxun bought.
But wasn't this said at noon? Why is Xiao Ma so late?
As if knowing what Ruan Zhijuan was thinking, Xiao Ma outside the door immediately added, "Something came up on the way and delayed us... It's only just arrived... Brother, brother and sister-in-law, please open the door quickly... It won't taste good if it's left out for too long..."
He knocked on the door again, pressing his ear against it, and kept saying, "Brother, sister-in-law~ open the door, it's me, it's Xiao Ma, I've brought you mung bean soup and plum juice..."
Ruan Zhijuan peered through the peephole, but saw only darkness. "Xiao Ma, where are you? I can't see you..."
Why is it so dark? Are the lights in the hallway broken?
"Ah...it's brother and sister-in-law. You've been behind the door." Xiao Ma's voice came faintly through the door. He seemed equally puzzled as to why Ruan Zhijuan couldn't see him. "I'm right at the door, brother and sister-in-law, can't you see me?"
"There's a peephole here; you need to go in from here..."
"I'm just watching the door..." Before she could finish speaking, Ruan Zhijuan saw a bulging human eye suddenly appear in the previously dark peephole.
Ah, so that wasn't the stairwell, it was Little Horse's black eyeballs.
His dark eyes darted around along the peephole, as if trying to peek into the room through it. "Hehe, brother and sister-in-law, can you see me now?"
Oh! I see... Little Ma's face is green, just like the female ghost on TV!
"Brother, brother and sister-in-law, is this your lost child by the door?" Xiao Ma bent down and said considerately, "The ground was cold, so I picked it up for you."
Ruan Zhijuan: "..." Child...? ...?
The child, who had disappeared at noon, had returned sometime earlier. He was now being held in Xiao Ma's arms, his little hands outstretched, grabbing and squeezing as if he were trying to strangle someone, while he kept murmuring, "Mama, Mama..."
"Hehe...pretty cute..." Xiao Ma grinned, revealing a mouthful of blood-stained red teeth, two of which seemed to be missing. Blood was also flowing down from the top of his head. "Brother and sister-in-law, hehe, can men give birth too...?"
Ruan Zhijuan was so frightened that she took a step back. This...this must not be human, right?
"Bang, bang," a knocking sound suddenly came from the balcony.
Ruan Zhijuan was so frightened that her legs went weak and she fell to the ground. Little...Little Ma...went to the balcony to knock on the door again?
"Bang!" The glass of the balcony door rang again. A black radio tube was extended onto his balcony, covered with a roll of paper with lines drawn on it, as if something was written on it.
Ruan Zhijuan dragged her partially paralyzed body over using both hands and feet. Through the glass door of the balcony, she could barely make out a long string of large characters written on the rolled-up paper: "Don't open the door!"
"That thing in front of your house is a ghost; it died at noon today!"
Ruan Zhijuan was in tears. "Thank you, it's been so many times already, sob sob sob."
"Bang, bang, bang," the knocking started again, this time with two knocks, one loud and one soft, accompanied by a strangely melodious nursery rhyme, "Little bunny, be good... open the door... hurry, hurry, hurry... open the door..."
Outside the door, Little Ma: Hehe, brother and sister-in-law, child: Mom... Mom...
Inside the door, Ruan, the little rabbit, and her young companion: trembling and sucking her thumb, too afraid to speak...
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