Chapter 7 The strange uncle in the shared apartment.

In the hot evening, dim street lights scanned the quiet paths of the community.

There are quite a few uncles and aunties who eat after meals in the community. Many of them are familiar to Jiang Niannian, and some of them are unfamiliar to her.

Most of them suddenly realized when they saw Jiang Niannian holding Liang Chengcheng's hand: "You are the eldest daughter of the Jiang family, right? We haven't seen each other for many years, and you have grown so big?"

Just when Jiang Niannian wanted to say hello politely, a discordant voice poured into his ears.

"If you ask me, a man like Lao Jiang should die outside. Over the years, I have seen Liang Yu tired and his waist has bent. Now that he comes back, he is going to snatch away Cheng Cheng's, right?"

Jiang Niannian put away her smile, covered Liang Chengcheng's ears, and pulled him behind her.

"I heard that Lao Jiang has made a lot of money in country R. How could he still think about coming back to find his wife? Besides, Liang Yu has been sharing a house with a shady man for a thousand yuan in the past few years. Maybe she is secretly

What's the deal?"

Jiang Niannian ground his molar teeth.

Liang Chengcheng suddenly rushed out, his voice trembling like an angry little beast, and shouted at the group of bastards: "It's nonsense that will ruin your mouth, why do you say that about my mother!"

"You kid, why are you neither big nor small? It seems to me that the upper beam is crooked and the lower beam is crooked. You give birth to different babies."

Jiang Niannian had some impression of the person who spoke. She was Aunt Qi. Her family owned a fruit shop. She had a good business and was living a relatively well-off life. She was very impressive among these old men and women.

But who doesn’t know that her family is also in a mess, with her son messing around outside, and her daughter-in-law hanging on to money. If she wasn’t full of resentment, how could she have such a mean face with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks.

"Aunt Qi, long time no see, you are still as mean as ever." Jiang Niannian pressed Liang Chengcheng's trembling shoulders.

Aunt Qi was scolded mean by a junior, and her face turned red with anger. She rolled up her sleeves and was about to start a fight.

The people watching the show still had some conscience and helped to stop him.

"What? Did it get to your heart?" Jiang Niannian sneered.

"My mother is an honest person who calms down troubles, but I am not. If you mess with me, your whole family will not be able to live in peace."

"If you don't believe it, just try it."

Jiang Niannian's face was cold and her eyes were sinister, and she was approaching at a leisurely pace. She was so frightened that Aunt Qi fell down on the stone bench in the community.

"If you don't have time to worry about other people's affairs, you might as well clean up your own mess first."

The young and energetic girl led Liang Chengcheng away, followed by constant curses.

She has always believed in a saying: dogs that bark don't bite.

So when Aunt Qi scolded her more and more vigorously, Jiang Nian didn't even think about it, and led Liang Chengcheng away from the noisy crowd with a smile.

The two came to a convenience store outside the community.

The little guy looked in the freezer for a long time, and finally picked out an old popsicle worth one yuan.

Jiang Niannian frowned, threw the old popsicle in his hand back into the freezer, and then gave him a Wuyang cone.

"Chengcheng, you don't have to save money for me." Even without asking, Jiang Niannian could tell from these details that her mother's life had not been well-off in recent years.

Even her younger brother, whom she had never seen before, looked distressed.

"Mom would be unhappy if she knew it." The little guy really wanted to eat this cone. He would see Fangfang's father buying her a cone every time after school.

He thought about it for a long time, but he knew that this cone cost five yuan and could eat five popsicles.

He knew that it was not easy for his mother to make money, so he did not dare to spend more money.

Jiang Niannian looked at the little guy with his head lowered, his little fleshy hands holding the cone, and the corners of his mouth pursed.

"We squatted on the side of the road to eat and then went back, so my mother wouldn't know."

The evergreen trees cut the dim street lamps into broken stars and spread them over the figures, large and small, on the curb.

"Eat slowly, don't be in a hurry." Jiang Niannian rubbed the little guy's furry head, remembering what Aunt Qi said just now, and then thinking about the inexplicably locked guest room at home.

"Chengcheng, is there anyone else living in our house?"

"Well, a strange uncle. Sometimes he comes back after nine o'clock in the evening, and sometimes he comes back after six o'clock in the morning."

"Oh." Jiang Niannian thought about it secretly.

Strange uncle? What kind of strange method?

After returning home, Liang Yu had already cleared away some of the debris in Cheng Cheng's room and placed it on the balcony, leaving the upper floor of the double wooden bed free.

"Nian Nian, all the rooms at home are full, so you'll have to live in the same room as Cheng Cheng."

Jiang Niannian didn't ask for any information about the co-tenants. She just took a shower, wore her mother's pajamas, and sat in the living room eating apples.

Liang Chengcheng had a very good living habit. He would go to bed at eight o'clock in the evening as soon as it got dark. Liang Yu picked up the handicrafts piled in the corner of the living room and started doing handicrafts.

Occasionally, I would say a few words to Jiang Niannian.

When the clock hand reached nine o'clock, Liang Yu urged Jiang Niannian to go back to the room and sleep.

"It's getting late. Niannian should go to bed early. You didn't bring any clothes. Mom will take you to buy some clothes tomorrow."

Jiang Niannian didn't ask any more questions, but she was secretly suspicious.

After she returned to the room, she deliberately left the door ajar. After lying on the bed, she saw her mother quietly closing the ajar door from the corner of her eye.

She felt uneasy.

I always felt that my mother's strange behavior was related to that weird uncle.

9:38 pm.

When the doorbell rang, Jiang Niannian quietly stood up, stood behind the door, opened a crack, and peeked out.

A dark-skinned man, with a black peaked cap covering half of his face, came in from the door, wearing black short-sleeves.

The smell of gasoline filled the entire living room from the moment he entered the door, and even poured into the nose of Jiang Niannian who was hiding behind the door.

Opposite the door was the guest room, and Jiang Niannian saw the uncle's broad back and wrinkled short sleeves through the crack in the door.

He is opening the door.

The moment the door opened, the uncle suddenly paused, then slowly turned back, and happened to meet Jiang Niannian's eyes.

He only has one eye!

Jiang Niannian closed the door and pressed her back against the door. Her breathing was disordered. She saw that the uncle's face was pitted and had many injuries.

There were even fresh blood stains on the corners of his mouth. The most frightening thing was that he only had one eye.

In the other eye, the entire eyeball was gone, and the empty socket was like a sunken basin.

What lingered in Jiang Niannian's mind was the weird smile on the corner of the uncle's mouth when he closed the door.

She immediately understood why her mother wanted her to go to bed early.

Just as she locked the door, the doorbell rang again.

"Hello, excuse me for disturbing you, Ms. Liang. I am Mr. Huo's assistant. You can call me Xiaocan - eh!"

Before the person at the door finished speaking, Liang Yu took him as a liar and closed the door with a bang.

"It's almost ten o'clock and we haven't gotten off work yet. Is your scam company exploiting its employees too much?" Liang Yu said and locked the door.

Jiang Niannian heard the sound and came out.

"Why are you out? Go to bed quickly." Liang Yu lowered her voice, a little flustered, and kept looking at the door of the guest room.

Before Jiang Niannian could say anything, the doorbell rang again.

Liang Yu was about to open the door to chase people away, but Jiang Niannian stopped her and whispered: "I know the person outside the door."

Jiang Niannian was still a little surprised that Xiao Can showed up at ten o'clock in the night.

Huo Qi, who was about to get married, could still be distracted by looking for her?

In order not to worry her mother, she invited Xiao Can to the balcony to talk.

Xiao Can's lips curved into a kind smile: "Miss Jiang may want to go with us."

After he finished speaking, he deliberately looked downstairs.

Jiang Niannian looked along and saw five bodyguards in black with bulging chests and solemn expressions on their faces, standing at the door of the unit.
Chapter completed!