Himemoto's interpretation

"Xingqi is my assistant, you can tell her the details."

After leaving this sentence, the detective put on his own shoe covers and walked into the living room and walked to the balcony.

It seems that what the client said just now is "You two should change your slippers or use shoe covers" instead of "My house is haunted".

Xingqi and the client looked at each other for a few seconds, those who should enter the door bent over to change shoes, and those who should do their best to serve tea and water as a landlord.

When she lowered her head, the blood poured into her brain doubled, and Xingqi was suddenly enlightened: the client even said haunted words, which showed that she was frightened enough. As a detective who solves the problem...and an assistant, of course, you must maintain a normal mind.

After all, there are no ghosts in the world, and there are too many people who do bad things, so they can only talk about ghosts and gods to comfort themselves.

So Xingqi pretended not to hear it very naturally, went out of the entrance, and grinned at the client who came out of the kitchen with a tea tray.

The other party was still tense, barely holding up the heavy eyelashes, "I got off the plane at noon, and I just got home not long ago, so I'm too tired."

Up close, the dullness around her eye sockets is clearly visible, and the concealer can cover the spots and loose crow's feet, but it can't cover the tiredness and restlessness from the inside out.

Client Lu Mengning, female, about 30 years old, sales representative of a pharmaceutical company.

Lu Mengning made a cup of white tea for Xingqi, and the bottled purified water given to the detective was ignored by the latter.

The detective was very interested in the lilies on the balcony. Three white lilies were kept in the glass window and they bloomed very well. The branches and leaves were green and the petals were white and flawless.

She looked at it for a while, and fiddled with it a few times through her white gloves.Xingqi followed her movements and sniffed her nose, smelling the lily's fragrance slowly.

"It's been two or three months." Xingqi held up the cup, and Lu Mengning said, "The first thing I thought was wrong was that the house was cleaner than before."

Lu Mengning lives alone and shares the south master bedroom and the north second bedroom with her two cats.

"I have a lot of business trips for this job, two or three times a month, maybe one or two days at a time, and I will definitely come back once in the middle of a week. Before I leave home, I will pack the cat food and prepare the cat litter."

"That time I was delayed for an extra day and a half. I was on a business trip for five days, and I was released for four days. I was so anxious that I felt so sorry for the two babies. I rushed back from the airport and quickly changed their cat litter. I found that the cat litter was very clean, the cat food machine was full, and there was no hair on the ground."

Lu Mengning pushed open the door of Beimao House.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, the two cats turned their heads at the same time. The blue cat tilted its head to look at Xingqi, and the other white cat trotted briskly towards its owner.

Lu Mengning half-kneeled and half-squatted to pick up the white cat, and wiped the floor with one hand, "I went to Yangcheng on Friday afternoon, today is Monday. Look, it's clean."

The floors are well maintained and shine bright.Xingqi saw that there were actually a few broken hairs near the hanging basket where the white cat was lying down just now, but they didn't stick to the floor and flew away with the air current.

The excrement shoveler was on a business trip for three or four days. The room where the cat lived had no peculiar smell. The litter was clearly granulated. The fur of the white and blue cats was smooth and smooth, and there was no hidden disease of poor excretion.

"Just my two good babies, I can still think that they have become smart, but this—"

Lu Mengning went to the kitchen with the cat in her arms, and came back with a bag with a convenience store logo on it, "I'm alone, many things are so-so, I don't like to cook by myself, and the takeaway is not clean. The taste is also quite good, so when I go to the convenience store, I will bring back a box or two. Later, I developed a habit of putting the receipt and the convenience bag together in the refrigerator, so that it is more convenient to check that it has not expired when eating.”

She opened the bag, took out two boxes of fish-flavored shredded pork rice, and turned the bag inside out, "There is no receipt, so I definitely didn't buy it myself."

"Uh……"

"I must have eaten it when I didn't pay attention before, but fortunately, I don't remember having a stomachache." Lu Mengning said "噫" for a long time, "It's scary, isn't it? It's the same as when you eat half of a peach and find half a worm. "

Xingqi replied dumbly: "I am allergic to peach hair, so I don't eat peaches."

Lu Mengning laughed out loud, and only then did she relax. She took a tissue and wiped the sides of her nose, and continued: "That's all. This time it's more troublesome. There is a small bottle of drink in the suitcase."

The white cat broke away from her suddenly, grabbed the bag restlessly, put its nose close to the shredded fish-flavored pork, and sniffed it back and forth.

"Snow Flower, don't move!" Lu Mengning called to stop the cat, and threw all the things into the trash can, and then tied the trash bag and threw it outside the door. After doing this, she returned to the cat house and smiled apologetically at Xing Qi, "Just now Where did it go?"

Xingqi reminded: "Suitcase, drinks."

"Oh yes." Lu Mengning took out her phone and showed it to Xingqi. In the photo was a bottle of Yakult in the shape of a small gourd. "I don't know how to get in. It's too small. I didn't get it through the security check. It exploded on the plane. I'm going to see customers." Clothes are ruined by this vial."

She patted the table irritably, and the white cat jumped from the top to the end of the table in shock, "It's a good thing I found out early, there is a shopping mall near the hotel, otherwise, alas."

The white cat Xuehua opened two blue round eyes, beautiful and cute, Xingqi couldn't help but want to touch it, but before touching a cat's hair, the kitten seemed to be threatened by an attack, and suddenly stretched out its paws to scratch. come up.

"Oh, Snow Flower!" Lu Mengning hugged the white cat, and asked Xingqi with concern, "Are your hands okay?"

The cat's nails were trimmed, and the back of Xingqi's hand made two red marks from the cat's scratching, but there was no bleeding.

"It's okay." She put her hands in her pockets, "You continue."

"Let me see." Lu Mengning was quite worried, put the cat on his lap, and pulled Xingqi's wrist involuntarily.

She looked very carefully, rubbing her knuckles and palm back and forth with her fingertips.

At this time, the detective turned from the living room to the master bedroom opposite the cat house, and glanced at them intentionally or unintentionally. Seeing the two of them arguing, she frowned, and Xingqi quickly pulled her hands back, "It's all right, let's talk about business."

"It's fine, ah, I'll show you," Lu Mengning swiped her phone twice on the small table, and pushed it over to her, "Didn't I just wait for you to come, so I flipped through the monitor."

The time displayed in the lower right corner of the screen is 02:30 this afternoon. The entrance, cat house, and master bedroom were normally displayed in the first ten seconds, but at 14:31:07, the screen flickered a few times and suddenly turned black.

Lu Mengning dragged the progress bar to 15:32:33, and the monitoring screen returned to normal, except that the posture of the two cats changed, everything was as usual.

"I walked in at [-]:[-], I remember it very clearly, because I was about to ask you when you would arrive at that time, so I said hell."

Lu Mengning looked at the master bedroom, and asked Xingqi with some embarrassment, "Should I call her a detective?"

Xingqi nodded, faithfully playing the role of assistant.

The two looked at the detective together, who was looking through the framed photos on the desk shelf.

Lu Mengning was not at ease, she carried the cat to the door and called "Detective".

The detective didn't look up, and raised his hand in a silent gesture.

It may be difficult to detect at first, but after Xingqi learned the ins and outs from Lu Mengning, and then looked at the detective who carefully searched the scene, her every move has a specific meaning and a necessary purpose.

With confidence.

Xingqi thought.

That kind of indifferent but determined temperament seemed to know the truth as soon as she entered the door, so she stayed alone in the living room for more than ten minutes. Neither the assistant nor the client thought of disturbing her, and even unconsciously lowered her voice.

Seeing that the detective quickly put the photo frame back in place, Lu Mengning breathed a sigh of relief, rubbed the white cat's neck, turned around and asked Xingqi in a low voice, "Are you surprised to say that it is haunted?"

"Fortunately..." Xingqi looked at her hand stroking the cat, and the back of her neck was also a little itchy. She scratched it, "It shouldn't be a ghost."

It is indeed weird to hear all kinds of abnormalities in the house from the client, but it is not to the extent of being haunted. I always feel——

People can do these things too.

"It's even more terrifying if it's done by a human. If I don't have two cats, I'll just go to the hotel by myself." Lu Mengning expressed her fear frankly, "So I think, if I figure out what's going on, I'll clean up the north bedroom , find a roommate."

Xingqi's eyes lit up, "You're looking for a roommate."

With two bedrooms and one living room, the north bedroom currently used as a cat house is a little smaller than the master bedroom, but it is much larger than the cubicle she used to live in.

"I think so." Lu Mengning said, "It's okay to help me take care of the two cats, and the rent is easy to negotiate. Of course, the premise is that my house is not haunted or haunted."

Just as Xingqi was about to raise her hand and say how do you think of me, the detective suddenly interjected, "Your accent is not local, when did you buy the house?"

"No, I'm from another place, and I'm from Xinhaicheng." Lu Mengning thought about it, "I signed the contract the year before last, and the social security didn't expire when I bought it, and I'm an account holder in the middle of this year."

"Where did you live before?"

"It used to be here before. This is the second house I rented in Haicheng. Later, something happened to the landlord's house, so he transferred the house to me at a low price. I am very lucky." Lu Mengning said, "I lived for six or seven years. It's been a year, and everything goes well, just these few months..."

Taking advantage of the opportunity for the detective to talk with the client, Xingqi leaned against the wall, quietly took out her mobile phone, and checked the distance between her location and the detective's studio.

2.4 kilometers.

It's so close!

Xingqi couldn't help jumping up and down, looking around along the cat shelf, knelt on the ground and whispered hello to the lazy blue cat.

Lu Mengning is very kind and will definitely be a good landlord.

It's okay for the white cat to be afraid of life, as time goes by, love slowly.

"Do you have any contact with your neighbors?" Xia Li, Bai Yuguang and Nie Xingqi, the silly rabbit was so full of joy that he hit the pillow when he fell asleep.

"There used to be two old neighbors upstairs who met and greeted each other, and occasionally asked the old aunt to help take care of the cat. Later, taking advantage of the rising housing prices, they were sold and replaced by elevator rooms." Lu Mengning replied, "Most of the new neighbors are now tenants. From time to time, the commuting time is not fixed, and those who leave early and return late will meet new faces."

"Xingqi." Seeing that the rabbit turned the phone screen to the QR code and approached Lu Mengning secretly, Xia Libai called, "Go and see if anyone is home next door."

Xingqi responded, "Okay", and took the opportunity to hand Lu Mengning the mobile phone displaying the QR code, "Sister Lu, please add a WeChat account."

Before Lu Mengning received the mobile phone, the lazy blue cat jumped up suddenly as if someone had stepped on its tail, and it just happened to land on the quaint mobile phone.

"Bang clang" sounded a few times, pits were smashed on the floor, flowers were scattered by mobile phone goddesses, and peacocks opened their screens.

Xingqi never expected that the mobile phone would die suddenly on such an occasion, and her first reaction was to look up at the detective.

The detective met her gaze, the corners of his lips curled slightly, and he spread his hands, expressing both regret and "it has nothing to do with me".