Chapter 1697: Problem Girl

A long time ago, when Cai Meiwen was still in junior high school, there was a puppy at home. She didn’t want to raise it, but one day when she came home from school, she saw a puppy in the house. The parents explained It was her aunt's dog. Because they moved to the sixth floor, climbing the stairs and walking the dog every day was too tiring, so I didn't want to keep it anymore. I came to ask them if they wanted to keep it. If they didn't want to keep it, they would send it to the countryside.

The parents saw that the puppy was very clever, and in the spirit of not wanting to buy it for nothing, they kept it. Anyway, her aunt said that the dog was easy to raise, and it could be fed with leftovers. I can help with housekeeping.

At that time, the real pet industry did not exist in China. Everyone kept pets blindly, lacking relevant knowledge, and even less channels to understand relevant knowledge. Most people's economy is not well-off, and even cats are fed with leftovers, let alone dogs.

At that time, Cai Meiwen... probably was in adolescence and rebellious period. She had a strong sense of rebellion. She felt that her parents and teachers were not pleasing to her eyes. Wearing earrings, skipping classes, swearing... She's a girl with problems.

Whether it is Xiao Celery or Zhang Zian, including everyone who knows Cai Meiwen now, it is absolutely impossible to imagine what she looked like at that time. Even she herself sometimes dreams of herself at that time, and when she wakes up, she will doubt that stranger. Who is the girl in the house? Have you been possessed by a vixen or Huang Daxian?

In fact, this is also very normal. People’s personalities will change, or people have multiple personalities, but they only focus on expressing one of them at different times. Aren’t many people’s personalities in reality and on the Internet very different? ?

In short, Cai Meiwen didn't even like her parents at that time, and of course she didn't like this uninvited dog. As for the reason...do rebellious teenagers need a reason?

If you insist on finding a reason, it may be that her living space has been invaded. After all, her house is not big. It was a very common two-bedroom and one living room at that time. The dog's legs were pinched, the walls and door panels were as thin as paper, and some voices that shouldn't be heard were often heard at night-of course, it was the voices of parents moaning and sighing for her troubled girl, not other easily thought-provoking voices sound.

When Cai Meiwen came in and saw this puppy, she was so angry that she immediately lost her temper, saying why didn't you discuss with me about raising a dog? Am I not a member of this family? I don't agree with keeping a dog, you send it back, where it came from and where it goes!

The parents are in a difficult situation. Her aunt has been away for a long time, and besides, she has promised her, so why go back on her word? So they didn't agree, and instead told her, look at how cute this puppy is, let's stay for you to relieve boredom.

She didn't want to keep pets at all, and she didn't like this dog at all. Although she didn't know the breed of dogs at the time, she saw that it was a mixed-haired dog, and it didn't look expensive at all—that's true, according to Auntie With a poor family, how could it be possible to raise a precious dog, and how could it be possible to give away the precious dog for nothing?

The dog was also frightened by her furious voice, and hid under the coffee table, not daring to come out, and this made her snort even more... Of course, if the dog is not afraid of her voice, and bravely barks at her a few times, Then she has even more reason to send it away. Anyway, as long as it doesn't look pleasing to the eye, there will always be a reason.

She went back to her bedroom angrily, slammed the door heavily, and slammed her schoolbag on her bed, expressing her dissatisfaction.

Her parents were already used to her like this, and they sighed repeatedly outside. She was such a cute and well-behaved girl when she was a child, how did she grow up like this? Who did you learn this from? What can I do after this?

Cai Meiwen pressed her head with a pillow, not wanting those commonplace nonsense to pour into her ears, she didn't even hear them calling her to eat.

What should I do next? In the future, of course, I will live happily in the rivers and lakes, so I don't want to live my life like them!

She was deeply influenced by the newsstands selling pirated Hong Kong and Taiwan books at the gate of the school.

Immersed in unrealistic fantasies about the future, I sketched in my mind the illusory image of myself wanting the wind and the rain, and slowly fell asleep.

I don't know how long it took, but she woke up hungry.

When I got up from the bed, it was dark outside, and it was also dark inside.

She turned on the light and walked out of the bedroom sleepily.

"Mom, I'm hungry!"

No one responded.

The living room and the master bedroom were also dark, with only moonlight coming in from the balcony.

She turned on the light in the living room and saw a note on the dining table.

Both her parents went to work the night shift, so they left a message telling her to leave the dinner in the pot and let her heat it up before eating. Don’t eat cold food, it will spoil her stomach. Go to bed early after dinner—it's all cliché, nothing new.

Her father is a factory worker who works in three shifts, and her mother is a hospital nurse who often has to work night shifts. It is not uncommon to go out to work night shifts on the same day like this.

At that time, incandescent lamps consumed a lot of electricity, and life was not well-off. Unlike now, no one at home has a small night light on, and they always turn off the lights when they go out.

She threw the note away, yawned and walked into the kitchen, ready to eat.

The lights in the kitchen were not turned on, but there was moonlight, and after all, it was a home I was very familiar with. I couldn't go wrong with my eyes closed, and I could feel where things were in the dark.

She opened the lid of the pressure cooker, and there was a steaming tray inside, with rice on one layer and vegetables on the other, but it was already cold because it had been left for too long.

Relying on her youth and her good health, she ignored her parents' warnings, and felt that hot food was troublesome, so she brought out the food directly, intending to eat it cold.

Compared with this, she has been thinking about what to play tonight in her mind. Of course, it is impossible to do homework. It is embarrassing to do homework. Why don't you talk on the phone with your best friend?

At that time, telephone bills were relatively expensive, and her family only had one landline phone, because she always talked on the phone, resulting in high monthly phone bills. Her parents had solemnly warned her that if she continued to talk on the phone, they would remove the phone .

While thinking about other things, she absently took out the bowls and chopsticks from the cupboard. As soon as she turned around and took a step, her ankle rubbed against a furry thing.

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

With a scream, she threw all the bowls and chopsticks in her hand, and they smashed to the ground with a bang.

That thing was also startled, and ran out of the kitchen quickly, only then did she see that it was the puppy, and she forgot about it after sleeping.

"Damn dog! Why are you scaring me!" she roared angrily.

The puppy retracted under the coffee table again, only showing its head and looking at her tremblingly.

The bowl shattered on the floor. It was not an empty bowl. It contained rice and vegetables. She had planned to watch TV while eating, but now it was all on the floor.

Fortunately, today her parents left more food than usual, and there is still food in the pot, so she won't be hungry.

"I'll clean you up later when I'm full!" She glared at it fiercely.

She filled another bowl of food, brought it to the living room and turned on the TV, and ate while watching TV. After eating, she threw the empty bowl on the dining table and cleaned it up when her parents came back from get off work.

As for the broken bowls on the ground and the dropped meals, of course she didn't care.

Soon, she was immersed in the world of martial arts and variety shows, fascinated by watching them, giggling while watching, or becoming nympho towards handsome male stars.

At about ten o'clock in the evening, the TV series and variety shows were all over. She was thirsty, so she got up from the sofa and wanted to get a glass of water.

At this time, she suddenly saw that the leftovers on the ground were gone, almost completely gone.

The puppy licked his lips and looked at her contentedly.

"Tch! It's cheaper than this dog!"

She curled her lips, which is good, at least it can make her parents complain less when they go home tomorrow.

She went to the kitchen to pour water, and it followed the kitchen, staring at the cup in her hand, as if it was also thirsty.

She gulped down a glass of cold water in one gulp, completely ignoring its mournful gaze.

Woo~

At this time, it let out a whimper in its throat, and turned its head to stare in the direction of the door.

The TV was still on, and the sound was quite loud. Cai Meiwen didn't notice anything unusual, and ignored the dog. After drinking the water, she sat back on the sofa and changed channels bored.

After ten thirty in the night, there were no more interesting programs. She changed all the TV stations she could receive, and she was sleepy watching boring programs.

Forget it, let's call your best friend, it should be fine if you don't call for a while.

The phone is also placed in the living room, not far from the TV. If you make a call, you must turn off the TV or turn down the volume, otherwise you will not be able to hear clearly.

She turned off the TV, picked up the phone receiver, and was about to dial a number when she suddenly noticed that the puppy was still staring intently at the door, occasionally wagging its tail to look at her, and then continued to stare at the door.

"Is this dog stupid?" She sneered, "Don't want to stay in this house anymore? Want to run back to your original home? Okay, then I'll let you out!"

She slapped her forehead, really confused, how did she come up with such a great idea?

Open the door and let it go, tell her parents that it escaped through the crack of the door when she opened the door to go to school, wouldn't it be easy to get rid of it?

She did what she said, and immediately walked to the door, intending to open the door to drive him away.

When her parents went out to work, they locked the door, but the locks at that time were relatively simple, and they were useless in the eyes of people who could pick the locks, unlike the super B-level lock cylinders that are popular now, so they told her to plug it in after waking up. Latch, as a double insurance.

woo woo~

The puppy seemed restless and kept turning in circles.

Her hand had reached the lock and was about to unscrew it.

Wang!

It hadn't barked since entering the house, and it barked suddenly, facing the door.

There is a corridor outside the door, and they live in the family complex of the factory.

The voice-activated light outside the door turned on, and a black shadow seemed to flicker in the door mirror, and then a series of footsteps stepped on the stairs and disappeared in a hurry.

Cai Meiwen didn't put her eyes on the door mirror at that time, so she couldn't see what the black shadow was, but her heart trembled instinctively, cold sweat oozes from the palm of her hand, and her palm unconsciously moved to the latch. Insert the plug lightly.

She's rebellious, but she's not stupid, and she's also scared.

Judging by the height of the door mirror from the ground, the black shadow could only be a person.

Who walked by?

Her family lives on the fourth floor, and there are two floors upstairs. The factory workers and their families live upstairs and downstairs. Due to the three-shift work system, it is common for people to go out or go home in the middle of the night when they are on or off night shifts.

So the black shadow just now was probably just a neighbor who went out to work the night shift and happened to pass by her door.

The problem is that when people go up and down the stairs at night, they will stomp or cough to wake up the voice-activated lights so as not to step on the empty stairs, but she didn't hear that person coughing or stomping.

Of course, it is also possible that she did not hear the person stomping when she turned on the TV before, and it happened that the voice-activated light went off when the person passed by her door, and the sound of the dog barking woke up the voice-activated light again. This seems to be a reasonable explanation.

But what if not?

She shivered suddenly. While she was laughing and laughing while watching TV, did that person stay quietly at the door, standing in the dark, listening to the movement in the room?

Excluding temporary replacements, the factory’s shift schedule is public, and anyone can see it. The nurse’s night shift also has certain rules, so people who are interested can actually know when her parents go out, when they come home, and where I will work night shifts at the same time every day, including the commuting time of the neighbors upstairs and downstairs, so I can know the approximate time.

Speaking of that era, people now often miss how sweet the fruit was and how simple life was at that time, but it was not at all. The blockade is also very serious, so even if a major murder occurs, few ordinary people know about it. Everyone thinks that they are living in a peaceful world of singing and dancing, and they don't know to be vigilant.

The same is true for Cai Meiwen, who has never been exposed to any danger since she was a child. In her impression, this family courtyard is full of workers who she despises, and this night is the first time she feels afraid of the silent night , fear of being alone.

She usually wished her parents could go to work 24 hours a day, as long as she could prepare meals for her, and not need to stay at home to block her eyes, but now she was extremely eager for them to go home temporarily.

She stared at the door, the door mirror was dark again, the voice-activated light went out, and the corridor was dark.

If she coughed loudly at this time and woke up the voice-activated light, would she see... a hideous face in the door mirror?

She stepped back step by step, for fear of making a sound.

crunch.

Her slipper hit a broken bowl with a soft thud.

The sound is too small, and the sound detector is not so sensitive.

Woo~

Her ankle brushed against another furry thing. It was the puppy.

It seems to have relaxed, licking its lips and staring at her eagerly, turning its head to look at the kitchen from time to time.

"..."

She tiptoed into the kitchen and filled it with a dish of water.

It licked the water and kept wagging its tail.

She wasn't going to let it out, at least tonight.