Chapter 7 Chapter 7 Strange noise on the balcony (Part 3)

"Cock, cluck!" Unexpectedly, the rooster suddenly yelled, flapped its wings and flew towards Fang Hui, then began to peck at his head.

"Damn you, you dead chicken!" Fang Hui raised his hands to defend himself, but although the rooster looked thin and droopy, it was quite strong in fighting and pecked Fang Hui so hard that he had no chance to defend himself.

"Oh my... little Taoist priest, what happened to your chicken?" Aunt Zhang couldn't see Fang Hui. She had just praised it for being obedient, but now she saw it suddenly go crazy and peck at her sofa.

Ning Helan also felt strange. He saw the rooster constantly attacking the air: "Brother Rooster? What's wrong with you?"

The rooster ignored him and pecked at Fang Hui's head at high speed.

Fang Hui scolded it stubbornly at first, but later begged for mercy: "I was wrong, I was wrong... Stop pecking... I'm wrong, is that okay?"

Aunt Zhang was frightened by the rooster's madness, left her seat, and stepped back several steps.

Ning Helan had to put down her phone, stood up, and reached out to grab the rooster's wings: "Brother Rooster, calm down."

The rooster clucked, and because its wings were caught, it fluttered twice and stopped moving.

"Brother Ji, what's wrong?" Ning Helan hugged Brother Ji to her chest and glanced in Fang Hui's direction.

Fang Hui couldn't tell whether he was looking at her or not.

Aunt Zhang sat back, patted her chest and said, "Hey, don't say it, this chicken is really aggressive. The chickens we raised when we were young could guard the house."

"It is said that roosters can see things that human eyes cannot see." Ning Helan stroked the rooster's feathers and said faintly.

Aunt Zhang was startled when she heard this. She was a little scared to begin with. When Ning Helan said this, she couldn't help but look around and then put on an ugly smile: "Little Taoist priest, don't scare me. Are you saying that there is something in this room... something we can't see?"

Ning Helan curled her lips: "But it has had chicken plague before, so I think it should be sick."

"Puff..." Fang Hui almost couldn't hold it back, but he had experienced the fighting power of this rooster and was afraid of being pecked again, so he covered his mouth.

"Kuuu!" The rooster was obviously unhappy to hear Ning Helan say this. He yelled angrily and then struggled out of Ning Helan's arms and walked aside angrily.

"Brother Ji, it's just a joke, are you angry?" Ning Helan shouted, and when she saw that Gongji ignored her, she couldn't help but laugh.

At this moment, Aunt Zhang suddenly shouted, "It's eleven o'clock!"

The clock hanging on the wall pointed to eleven o'clock, and the room suddenly became quiet.

Aunt Zhang sat on the sofa with her back straight, her hands clenched tightly on her knees.

She looked at Ning Helan, and then stole a glance at the master bedroom. She was so nervous that her breathing was a little rapid.

Ning Helan also put away his smile. He stood in place and looked over there, watching quietly.

Fang Hui also stood up. This inexplicable and weird atmosphere made him feel uncomfortable.

The whole room was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

Fang Hui, who was fearless in his previous life, now felt a little scared. He stared at the bedroom over there.

The light was off in the bedroom, the door was ajar, dark and looked a little creepy.

Suddenly.

"Knock, knock."

There was a crisp knock on the door, and Fang Hui felt his hair stand on end.

Aunt Zhang immediately stood up from the sofa: "Come... come..."

Ning Helan narrowed her eyes and slowly walked towards the second bedroom.

"Knock, knock."

The strange knock on the door did not stop.

Aunt Zhang saw Ning Helan push open the door and followed behind to turn on the light, but Ning Helan waved her hand.

The room was pitch black, but the balcony was brightly lit by the moonlight.

The closer to the balcony door, the clearer the knocking sound.

Ning Helan walked to the door and stopped, then slowly opened it.

The moment he opened the door, the knocking sound stopped.

Aunt Zhang didn't dare to enter the room, and stood at the door and whispered: "Little Taoist priest... look at this..."

Ning Helan raised her hand to signal her to be quiet, and Aunt Zhang immediately covered her mouth.

Fang Hui sighed, and although he was a little scared in his heart, he couldn't help but feel a little impatient when he saw Ning Helan's slow look, so he strode towards the balcony. After leaving

the balcony door, Fang Hui looked around and muttered to himself that there was no one here.

Not to mention people, there were not even ghosts.

He looked back and saw Ning Helan staring at the water pipe above. He also looked up, but he really couldn't figure out what was going on: "What are you looking at? What's that?"

Although he knew Ning Helan couldn't hear him, he still subconsciously wanted to ask.

Ning Helan held her hands and looked for a while, then closed the balcony door from the outside.

Strangely, when the door was closed, the "dong dong, dong dong" knocking sound rang again.

"!" Fang Hui looked at it in surprise. He clearly didn't see anything knocking on the door.

"So that's it." Ning Helan suddenly said, "I know."

"What do you know?" Fang Hui was full of question marks.

Ning Helan knocked on the bottom of the water pipe. It turned out that there was a small piece of wood hanging there. When water flowed through the water pipe, the vibration of the water pipe would cause the small piece of wood to swing.

"Dongdong, Dongdong."

Then the rhythmic knocking sound rang out.

"Ah? Ah? That's it?" Fang Hui thought it was something else, but it turned out to be just that. His face was full of disappointment.

Ning Helan clapped his hands: "I'll go upstairs and take a look."

Fang Hui was too lazy to follow him, so he leaned against the door and waited for him to come back.

After about five minutes, Ning Helan came back, and Aunt Zhang hurried over to greet him: "Little Taoist priest, yes, what happened?"

Ning Helan told Aunt Zhang what he had discovered, and then added: "The residents upstairs get off work at around 10 pm, and then take a shower at around 11 pm every day. The hot water flows through the water pipes, which expand and contract, and will pull on the small piece of wood, so you hear knocks every day."

Ning Helan showed Aunt Zhang how to remove the small piece of wood. Aunt Zhang looked incredulous.

She stared at the little culprit straightly, and after a long time, she whispered: "...So that's how it is."

Fang Hui rolled his eyes. He didn't believe this result: "Then why does my grandson cry at night? It can't be the problem of this piece of wood, right?"

Aunt Zhang obviously thought the same thing as Fang Hui: "Then Haohao cries every night..."

"Is he crying tonight?" Ning Helan asked.

Aunt Zhang thought about it, oh, it's true, Haohao slept peacefully tonight and didn't cry.

"There are not so many ghosts in this world. These things can be explained, so you don't have to be afraid, auntie, you still have to believe in science." Ning Helan said with a smile.

Zhang's mother: ...

Fang Hui: ...

good fellow, the commotion has gone to the back and the science has been learned.

"Brother Rooster, we're leaving!" Ning Helan felt that the matter was settled, so she turned around and called the rooster, only to see the rooster standing at the door of the master bedroom, seemingly looking inside.

"Brother Rooster?" Ning Helan walked over, and the rooster poked its head into the room, looking like it wanted to go in.

"Brother Rooster, what are you looking at?" Ning Helan squatted down, and the rooster walked in tentatively.

Aunt Zhang was still staring at the small piece of wood in her hand when she suddenly heard the rooster clucking in the bedroom. She was startled: "Haohao!"

She ran to the door and saw the rooster flapping its wings and trying to get under the bed, as if it wanted to peck at something.

"Haohao!" Aunt Zhang ran over and picked up the sleeping child.

Fang Hui saw the faint black shadow again. The black shadow seemed to be disturbed by the rooster. It quickly got out from under the bed and rushed to the corner of the wall.

The rooster clucked and rushed towards the thing. The black shadow dodged in the corner of the wall, and the rooster missed several of its attacks.

"Brother Rooster?" Ning Helan wanted to go over and catch it, but saw the rooster flutter to the other side and then peck at the wall.

Aunt Zhang began to suspect that the chicken really had chicken plague, seeing it flying back and forth, pecking its beak full of wall dust, and chicken feathers falling all over the floor.

She stepped aside with her grandson in her arms, fearing that he would be hurt by the rooster.

Fang Hui saw the black shadow constantly dodging the rooster, and finally slipped out of the bedroom along the wall as quickly as a snake.

The black shadow seemed to pause when passing by Fang Hui's feet, and then quickly slipped away.