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The mother's eyes became serious and she seemed a little hesitant: "Are you saying that there is something wrong with that neighbor?"

Li nodded. "Yes, his behavior makes me feel more and more that something is wrong. I'm not sure what he is doing, but I feel that he is not an ordinary neighbor."

The mother frowned, thought for a while, and finally spoke slowly: "You make this sound serious, but it is not necessarily true. He Yuzhu is your neighbor after all, and you all get along well. I know you are a little uneasy, but you can't doubt him out of thin air. You need evidence and can't just jump to conclusions."

"I know," Li lowered his head, his tone becoming a little tired, "but there is always a lingering feeling of uneasiness. I need to find some evidence to find out what he is hiding."

The mother sighed and said, "You have to be careful. He is your neighbor after all. Don't make any extreme decisions. You have to provide evidence. You can't just go by your feelings."

Li Xiangqian's heart was in turmoil. He felt the air become more solemn, and everyone's eyes seemed to be fixed on him. He poured out all the doubts, fears and anxieties of the past few days, as if he could finally speak out the heavy burdens that had troubled him for a long time. However, he knew that this decision was not easy. In front of his family, he had to confess those uncertain speculations and those intuitions that he was not completely sure of.

"Everyone listen to me." He spoke in a low and firm voice. Li looked around and saw the worry on his wife Lin Xue's face and the doubt in the eyes of his children. He felt his heart sink, but he did not back down. There was no turning back.

"He Yuzhu has been getting more and more strange recently." He paused, his eyes flickering, but he was already beginning to feel troubled. "I've always felt that he was hiding something. Today, I went to his house and saw something that made me feel wrong."

Lin Xue frowned and clenched the cup in her hand, as if trying to digest this sudden news. Her face did not show much surprise, but rather a calm concern, as if she was expecting Li Xiangqian to continue explaining. Her eyes did not leave Li Xiangqian, as if his words could determine the next direction.

"How do you know there's something wrong with him?" Lin Xue's voice remained calm, but the anxiety in it was subtly concealed.

Li Xiangqian took a deep breath, rubbed his hands on his pants unconsciously, and avoided looking. "When I went to his house, he behaved very strangely. When I asked him some questions, he always hesitated and didn't answer directly. Moreover, his house was a mess, and some things I saw made me feel wrong." He was silent for a moment, and the scene in his mind emerged again, "Especially the chicken, its eyes gave me chills, it was completely lifeless, like a corpse."

Lin Xue's expression became serious. She frowned slightly, obviously thinking about Li Xiangqian's words. She knew that Li Xiangqian was not a person who would easily trust others or make random judgments. However, he was so persistent in suspecting He Yuzhu today, and there was obviously a reason for it. Although she herself had not experienced that scene, she knew the uneasiness in her husband's heart that could not be ignored.

"Is that chicken really that scary?" Lin Xue couldn't help but ask, with a hint of doubt in her eyes. She didn't think that a chicken could cause any big problem, but her husband's expression and tone made her feel that the matter was not that simple.

Li Xiangqian nodded, his eyes were complicated. "Yes, its eyes were too weird, as if it was not an ordinary chicken, but some kind of... ominous omen." When he said this, he couldn't help but feel a little absurd. Are chickens really that scary? But the intuition that made him shudder could not be shaken off. "Moreover, He Yuzhu didn't want me to get close to the chicken. Whenever I got close, there was a kind of defensiveness in his eyes, even with an inexplicable fear."

"Then what do you want to do?" Lin Xue lowered her head, as if she was making some kind of trade-off.

Li Xiangqian did not answer immediately. He lowered his head, feeling extremely heavy. "I don't know what to do. I always feel that he is hiding something. It may be related to us, or it may have nothing to do with us, but I have to be on guard."

"Go forward, you have to stay calm." Lin Xue's tone finally became firm, "You can't make any radical decisions just because of the look in a chicken's eyes. You have to find out the truth, not just rely on a hunch."

Li Xiangqian raised his head and saw the concerned look in his wife's eyes. He couldn't help but feel warm in his heart, but his anxiety didn't decrease at all. He knew that his wife was right and he couldn't be completely controlled by fear and anxiety. However, this feeling of being trapped in invisible fear was really hard to get rid of. He began to doubt whether he was too sensitive to He Yuzhu. After all, he and He Yuzhu had been neighbors for many years and had many friendships. Did he really decide to doubt him because of his intuition?

However, Li Xiangqian's heart could not calm down. He thought of He Yuzhu avoiding his sight that day and the strange chicken. He dared not ignore this feeling of uneasiness, because in his heart, there was a voice telling him that if he was not alert at this time, he might miss some important clues.

"I know, but I have to find out." Li Xiangqian finally said slowly, "I can't wait until something really happens and then regret it."

Lin Xue sighed, looking at her husband's determined expression, feeling somewhat helpless. She knew that Li Xiangqian was always like this, and once he made up his mind, he would not change it easily. "So what are you going to do?"

"I decided to go to his house again." Li Xiangqian said softly, his eyes showing a hint of determination, "This time, I want to find some evidence and can't just rely on intuition anymore."

Lin Xue was silent for a moment, then sighed and nodded, "Okay, since you've decided, go ahead. But remember, don't go too far. In case he's really innocent, we don't want to create unnecessary conflicts."

Li Xiangqian nodded, and began to think about the next steps. He couldn't let himself fall into too many doubts, but he couldn't bury all the doubts deep in his heart like before.

At this moment, there was a sudden knock at the door, breaking the silence. Li Xiangqian looked up, and a glimmer of unknown light flashed in his eyes. Who came at this time? He was a little confused, stood up and walked to the door, holding the door handle.

"Who?" he asked.