Chapter 166 Weird Neighbor
Not long after Xingxing left the bed, Tan Zhaozhao, who had lost his plush pillow, also woke up.
She first reached out and touched the urine pad next to her; it was dry.
Leaning over again and looking at the cat litter box beside the bed, I understood.
"Good morning, Xingxing~"
The human shit shoveler who got up early had sleepy eyes, with a half-brushed toothbrush in his mouth. He mumbled "good morning" with foam in his mouth, then walked to the kitchen like a sleepwalker, opened the refrigerator, took out the can of goat milk, opened it and put it on the steaming lid of the electric cooker to heat it up.
While waiting for the can of goat milk to heat up, I took out the kitten rice that I had prepared and refrigerated yesterday at noon, scooped a large spoonful of it into a small bowl and heated it in water.
Once these are done, put two frozen steamed buns, a sweet potato and an egg on the steamer lid.
After pressing the switch of the small electric rice cooker, Tan Zhaozhao yawned and continued to sleepwalk back to the bathroom to brush his teeth and wash his face.
She was walking in front in her slippers, and the little orange kitten was following her diligently.
When humans are too big and walk too fast to keep up, the stars don't cry, but continue to try to catch up with them with their messy, slightly crooked cat steps.
After arriving at the toilet, Xingxing raised its paws and carefully patted the human's trouser legs, then tilted its little round head and gave a soft howl to the tall human as a reminder.
Man, I'm here.
When Tan Zhaozhao heard the cat's meow, she spat out the mouthwash and lowered her head, and found that the kitten was trying to straighten its body and opened its two little front paws towards her.
This is a difficult posture for the kitten. Even if it is about to fall down, it will not use its paws to hook its pants and pull them onto her legs. Instead, it is more like a good kid asking for a hug.
Watching this scene, her heart, which had just woken up, felt as if it was really scratched by a kitten's claws from a distance. It felt numb and itchy, and she felt incredibly soft in an instant.
"Good boy, you want mommy to hug you, right?" Tan Zhaozhao asked as he squatted down and picked up Xingxing, who was still trying to open his little front paws, and held him in his arms.
After rubbing the kitten's round head and small ears lovingly, Tan Zhaozhao picked up the kitten that was staring at the mirror and moved closer. He poked the kitten's forehead in the mirror with his hand and said with a smile, "Look, this is it, you know? This is mom, and this is Xingxing. From the moment Xingxing was born, she was destined to be mom's kitten."
The human's hands were wet, and he poked some round water marks on the kitten's head in the mirror.
Xingxing tilted her head, and the little orange cat in the mirror also tilted its head.
It seemed to have returned to the first time it saw the little zombie in the mirror.
Xingxing fluttered gently, quickly looked around the human's washbasin, and finally, while the human was not paying attention, it quickly stretched out its claws, and the tip of its claws accurately hooked out a white face towel that was wider than itself.
After the human mother quickly reached out and pressed its paw, Xingxing still tried hard to hook the face towel and turned its head to open its round kitten eyes and meowed softly at the human.
I just learned the cat language this morning, and Xingxing is not very proficient in it yet.
Tan Zhaozhao suddenly burst into laughter.
"I heard that when kittens do something bad, they will use soft meows to soften the hearts of humans. It turns out that our stars can also meow. They are indeed the smartest kittens in the world!"
In the eyes of human mothers, whatever their kittens do is good.
After all, Xingxing Cat is not even a month old yet, and is now at the age where every meow will be praised crazily.
Tan Zhaozhao was like a doting parent. While praising the baby, he picked up the face towel drawn by the stars, wet it with hot water and squeezed it dry. Then he actually held the stars and carefully wiped the little guy's face, ears and paws, and even the butt was not spared in the end.
Star:"……"
The little orange cat stared expressionlessly at its equally expressionless self in the mirror. Its whole body was tense and its fur stood up. After a moment, it silently closed its eyes and pretended to be dead, unwilling to face the scene in the mirror where its human mother was holding its tailbone to wipe its butt.
Five minutes later, the kitten squatted in front of a plate that was bigger than both of its heads, and ate hard, trying to use its appetite to cover up its despair from five minutes ago.
Tan Zhaozhao was sitting at the coffee table peeling sweet potatoes when she suddenly heard footsteps in the corridor outside the door.
She paused while peeling the sweet potatoes, subconsciously held her breath, walked lightly, and listened attentively.
Unfortunately, apart from the sound of footsteps and the elevator arriving and closing its door, I heard nothing.
Tan Zhaozhao thought about it, put down the sweet potato, wiped his hands, and clicked on the tablet connected to the surveillance camera at the door.
After turning down the volume, he walked towards the window with his phone.
She waited patiently for a while, and soon saw her neighbor girl carrying a bag of garbage and throwing it into the trash can downstairs.
Tan Zhaozhao opened the camera on his phone and zoomed in continuously. In his heart, he felt like a pervert who was following and spying on others, but at the same time, he calmly observed the other person's every move through the screen.
The girl was dressed simply, but she wore a hat and a mask, which covered her recognizable face to a great extent.
Tan Zhaozhao, who was already a little suspicious of her, couldn't help but increase his suspicion even more after seeing her outfit.
She watched the girl throw away the garbage and walk out of the community gate until she completely disappeared from the camera.
Tan Zhaozhao placed his phone on the window, covered it with green plants, then came back, sat down at the table, and clicked on the playback on the tablet monitor.
She put on her headphones.
I turned up the volume and looked through the footage of the girl first appearing in the corridor four days ago.
It was the first time that the agent brought her here.
The two men entered from the corridor and did not close the door when viewing the house, so their conversation was clearly recorded in the surveillance video.
The agent told the rental price of the house. The girl's voice was a little distorted, but very calm. There was not even too much bargaining. The two decided on the spot to notify the landlord and draw up a rental contract.
Tan Zhaozhao heard the girl say that she would move in in the afternoon and got the key from the landlord.
She dragged the progress bar, and in the afternoon, the girl appeared again, took the key, opened the door, and moved in.
but……
Tan Zhaozhao scrolled the video progress bar in confusion and found that the girl indeed showed no signs of "moving".
He didn't even have a suitcase, he just moved in empty-handed.
Tan Zhaozhao continued to watch the surveillance video of the next day with a strange sense of confusion.
The moment the girl's figure appeared on the surveillance camera, Tan Zhaozhao suddenly clicked pause.
She stared blankly at the girl in the screen who was also wearing a baseball cap and a mask, but had changed her clothes. For a moment, she wondered if her surveillance video had been affected and changed by some mysterious force.
Or maybe I saw a ghost?
Otherwise, how could a girl who just moved in yesterday with nothing change her clothes today?
You know, it's spring now and winter has just ended. People would at least wear a coat to keep warm when going out. But this girl moved in empty-handed yesterday. Was she wearing clothes left by the landlord?
Tan Zhaozhao rationally crossed out this speculation.
That's impossible, because before this girl moved in, the house next door had been vacant for half a month. After the previous tenant left, the landlord would definitely send someone to clean the house, so there couldn't be any extra seasonal clothing in the house that didn't belong to this girl.
Then... where did this sudden change of clothes come from?
Tan Zhaozhao pursed her lips, suppressed the many absurd and outrageous guesses in her mind, and continued to scroll down the progress bar with her brows lowered.
She carefully watched each frame of the footage of all the girls appearing in the corridor.
Then she discovered countless strange loopholes.
For example, the girl went home empty-handed the day before yesterday, but ten minutes later, she went out with a bunch of packaging waste.
For example, she ordered more than 30 different takeouts at the same time more than once, but every time she went out, she only carried a bag with a takeout box in her hand.
In just a few days, she called many workers to come to her house, not just the two workers who installed the iron door yesterday.
Enduring the stinging pain in his ears, Tan Zhaozhao listened attentively to the conversation between the other party and the maintenance workers.
She vaguely heard that the other party had installed solar panels and wind power generators, and reinforced the doors and windows. She also asked the workers if there were any channels to buy generators and diesel, etc.
Tan Zhaozhao was not at home much in the past few days. Although she was a freelancer, she sometimes needed to go out, so she often went out early and came home very late in the past few days. Therefore, she did not notice that the neighbors were doing so many strange and incredible things noisily and quietly.
After re-watching all the scenes in which the girl next door appeared, she skillfully exported, edited and spliced them into a complete video, and finally sent it to her bestie.
The life of an editor is also a life: Baby, look at this video. I suspect there may be something wrong with my mental world. I may have lost some of my judgment.
After the video was sent, the other party quickly showed that it was received.
But after a long time, there was no response from the other side.
Tan Zhaozhao hugged Xingxing with her chin resting on the kitten's furry little round head, guessing that her best friend was probably madly doubting her own eyes at this moment.
Sure enough, a video ringtone suddenly rang on her account.
Tan Zhaozhao reached out and poked the tablet, clicking to answer the call.
"Are you sure this video has not been artistically processed in any way?" the girl in the video asked this question very seriously as soon as she appeared.
Tan Zhaozhao looked at her, then nodded firmly: "I am sure and certain, so it's not that there is something wrong with my spiritual world. It's that she really has a problem, right?"
The two looked at each other again.
They all saw the solemnity in each other's eyes.
"Don't go out today. I'll take a taxi here right now." The girl gave the instructions very straightforwardly and hung up the phone.
Tan Zhaozhao was not surprised. Instead, she couldn't help but hold the star and rub it happily.
Being cared for by friends and having kittens to cuddle with are the happiest things in the world.
Tan Zhaozhao did not go out, but he was not idle either.
Thinking that her best friend was coming over, she ordered delivery from a nearby supermarket.
I bought a lot of meat, eggs, vegetables, drinks, fruits and seasonings.
She decided to cook herself and have hotpot for lunch today.
The world is big, but eating is the most important thing.
Although he knew that there was a very magical and strange person living next door, no matter who the other person was or what he was going to do, Tan Zhaozhao felt that for the time being it was not as important as filling his stomach and eating and drinking well.
Of course, it’s not that she deliberately ignored those weird and unreasonable things, but she temporarily left her brain with her best friend. When her best friend came over, she would have more confidence to do more things that she thought she should do.
For example, call the police.
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