Himemoto's interpretation

Chapter 18 Suspicion

Abandoning responsibility, Xia Libai looked at Xingqi with interest, she stepped back half a step, and knelt down to pick up the shelled screen fragments and the battery back cover.

Shang Xingqi, who was kicked out by the landlord without any complaints, lived on the street and chatted half the night with two private trainers in the gym without any grievances, and didn't care if her luggage was rained all day.

But at this moment, the mobile phone was hit hard by the blue cat and crashed, and there was a little bit of blame in her eyes, as if she was saying——

What the hell are you doing.

Teach people to care.

The murderous blue cat still wanted to wave its paws, but Lu Mengning caught it in his arms, still growling in his throat, and bared his teeth at Xingqi in a demonstrative way.

"I'm really sorry." Lu Mengning knocked on the blue cat's head, "What's the matter with you every day, so fierce?"

"It's okay." Xingqi put the body of the phone in her pocket, and made excuses for Blue Cat instead, "It's also afraid of life."

She unconsciously looked at the detective, apologizing for the unreasonable suspicion just now.

You are a detective with superpowers, and you ordered the blue cat to do this——for a moment, such a thought flashed through Xingqi's mind.

It is very whimsical and has the heart of a villain, but it also unintentionally regards the detective as an omnipotent person.

"Accidental losses are included in the investigation expenses."

Xia Libai looked at Lu Mengning who said "should, should", stretched out his hand to rub the back of Xingqi's head, and brushed his little finger across her scar, "I'm going to borrow the bathroom."

The words were directed towards Lu Mengning, and she turned sideways to make way for Xingqi.

Only then did the latter realize that his hand was on his lower abdomen, blushed immediately, and fled into the bathroom at the end of the corridor.

Hearing the bathroom door click and lock, Xia Libai turned back and asked the client who was holding the cat: "What happened to the landlord's house?"

The topic was changed too quickly, Lu Mengning was stunned for a moment, with a perplexed face, "It's not a good thing..."

"Dead?"

Lu Mengning took a deep look at her and shook her head, "I don't know too well. It's a private matter."

People can instinctively conceal facts or lie, but they cannot hide their attitudes and emotions about this matter well.

When Lu Mengning spoke, the movement of stroking the cat slowed down, and her eyes couldn't help but cast her eyes on the desktop bookshelf in the master bedroom.There were several framed pictures of her with a young girl.In one of them, Lu Mengning is wearing a birthday crown, cutting the cake hand in hand with the girl, and there are two cats squatting on the table. The background is the living room here.

"Is she your former landlord?"

The question was abrupt, but it connected the focus, Lu Mengning said without hesitation: "No, they are relatives of the landlord."

"What's her name? Where is she now?"

"Is this related to my family?" Lu Mengning said in a blunt tone, put down the cat, walked back to her bedroom, and swept all the photo frames into the living room, "I invite you to find out about the people entering the house, it has nothing to do with private matters, okay? ?”

Her nose flared, her hair was disheveled, and her neck was bulging. After she finished speaking a few words, bloodshot eyes burst out from the branches, and the tenderness she had when facing Xingqi and the cat was gone.

Let the rabbit see this appearance, maybe it will give up the idea of ​​asking for rent.

With irrelevant associations popping up in his mind, Xia Libai knocked on the bathroom door, "Xingqi, get ready to go."

"Ah, I'll be fine soon."

"This is the end?" Lu Mengning still hadn't calmed down, and the sound of rushing water could be heard inside, and she couldn't help raising the volume, "I'm very busy with work, and it's not easy to find time to entertain you today."

"My service period is one week, and today is only the first day." Xia Libai had already reached the kitchen door, and suddenly remembered something, turned in and opened the refrigerator, "But I know the general situation, and you don't need to spare time later. "

"What's the matter?" Xingqi came out of the bathroom, and asked in bewilderment, "Let's go now, don't you need to find the neighbor next door?"

Seeing her, Lu Mengning's face immediately softened, and said softly: "There is a shopping mall nearby, let's go have dinner together and buy a new mobile phone for Xingqi."

"No need." The detective rebuffed.

Lu Mengning chased to the door in a few steps, "I was the one who got off the hook just now, I'm sorry. It's a rainy day, and it's hard work for you to come here."

"We have other things to do. Xingqi, you go down first." The detective raised his chin towards the assistant, and then raised the small carton of milk he took out from the refrigerator, "Be careful with other things besides bento, The date of manufacture is printed on the bottle."

"What are you talking about?" Lu Mengning straightened her waist and straightened her chest, trying her best to stretch herself into an incomprehensible Bodhisattva Zhang Er.

Xia Libai was stingy with explaining, holding a small box of milk and going out after Xingqi, "See you on Sunday."

"Hey!" Lu Mengning went straight to the corridor without changing his shoes, "Please explain clearly, what do you mean?"

The figure of the assistant disappeared into the stairwell. Xia Libai looked away from the opposite door, pointed at the fire hydrant with a single stick, "I suggest you don't leave the spare key here, Ms. Lu."

When the car drove to the business district, Xingqi had already recounted to the detective verbatim all the abnormalities that Lu Mengning had said to her.

When the monitor returned to normal at 15:32, Xingqi asked a digression: "When did we get downstairs to Sister Lu?"

The detective rested his left elbow on the window frame and waited for the red light. Hearing this, he rubbed his forehead and replied absent-mindedly, "I didn't pay attention."

Xingqi held the phone and thought about it for a while, and found that she didn't pay attention to the time when she woke up.

The detective probably wouldn't have arrived early and waited for her to wake up. Thinking of this, Xingqi roughly estimated that it would be around 15:40 when Lu Mengning arrived home.

Not far ahead is the sign for the entrance to the garage of the shopping mall. Xia Libai turned on the turn signal, "What are those six books of yours?"

""Shan Hai Jing", "Ci Hai", "Sou Shen Ji", "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Milky Way"..." Xing Qi announced a series of titles.

"Well, let's go buy a book."

Wait, this is not the right direction.

Since I have time to go to the bookstore, how about letting me go to an intermediary to find a rental house?

Xingqi was full of confusion, hesitant to speak and looked at the detective who was concentrating on backing into the garage several times.

Xia Libai could see what she was thinking from her twisted expression, parked the car, and asked: "The attic of the studio is empty, do you want to consider living there first?"

She is asking, not ordering.

Xingqi thought for a while, then shook her head decisively, "No."

"Ok?"

"Work and life have to be separated." Xingqi pointed her finger and said, "I'm in the probationary period now. When the probationary period is over, you will find that I'm useless and useless. At that time, I didn't have a job or a place to live. No OK."

"Didn't you say that you get a headache when you think about things?" Xia Libai leaned towards her, "I think a lot."

Xingqi chuckled, "Prepare for a rainy day."

"Then use your brain again and think about the Lu family's affairs. If you can give us some useful clues, how about treating your probationary period as over?"

Xingqi made a bitter face, "You might as well fire me now."

During the conversation, the two had arrived at the third floor bookstore.

"Think about it, the owner is not here, the house is clean and tidy, the cat is well maintained, and the food is updated in time—" Xia Libai pulled out a copy of "Sou Shen Ji", which is one of the six books that Xing Qi reported before, "Can you What do you think of?"

Xingqi's eyes fell on the book she had pulled out, and her chaotic mind reflexively slid across a long row of titles.

"Don't worry, we still have six days." Xia Libai handed her the book, gave her a card, reported the password, and said, "I'm going to buy something, you wait for me here. I'm hungry You can have some dessert first, the cheesecake here is barely edible. You don’t have a mobile phone, don’t wander around, I’ll be back in about an hour.”

The day was so confusing, Xingqi watched the detective leave the bookstore, she was flattered at first, and then wondered: What happened in the short few minutes to the bathroom, she clearly heard sister Lu yelling at the detective, and the detective seemed They didn't pay attention to each other at all.

It is agreed to give the client a trustworthy first impression!

While flipping through "Sou Shen Ji", Xing Qi used her limited thinking ability to ponder her first commission after joining the company.After flipping through the catalog, not only did she not come up with any clues, but she fell asleep. She read a book in the booth for a while, and finally fell asleep unconsciously.

The sound of people, music, and machines in the shopping mall was noisy, but Xingqi had a dream.

The dream was short and messy, everything in the dream was vague, as if she had returned to Sister Su's villa again.

Smelling citrus aromas mixed with mint, a clear face emerges.

It's detective.

"Is that you?" she asked.

Xingqi shivered, woke up profusely sweating, opened her eyes and was startled, it was really a detective on the other side.But unlike in the dream, her face was hidden by a table full of shopping bags, appearing and disappearing among the dazzling signs.

Detectives are also women.

The ability to scan goods is really terrible.

"Want Ms. Lu's contact information?" Pushing a brand new mobile phone in front of her, the detective said casually, "I seem to have heard her say that she is looking for a roommate, you can communicate with her first."

These words really touched Xingqi's heart, she nodded and said "yes" without hesitation, and unilaterally reconciled with the two shy cats, reaching out her hand to find a handful of wreckage from her pocket.

Seeing Xingqi disregarding the new mobile phone and lowering her head to fiddle with her torn old mobile phone, Xia Libai pressed the twitching forehead, and hung the lanyards of the shopping bags on the assistant's wrists in pairs, Xindao Rabbit really lived up to the name of "stupid brain". ".

In the end, Xia Libai stuffed the phone into her hand, without any emotion in his voice, "Here's for you, go back first."

Xingqi inexplicably realized that she stepped on the detective mine, and did not dare to vent her breath. It was not until she put everything in the trunk that she dullly noticed the heavy metal texture in her hand, "Is this for me?"

"Yes." Xia Libai said calmly, "The ones in the trunk are the same, I will pay you."

"what?"

"You didn't choose a good place to put your luggage. The cleaning usually uses it to pile up waste." Xia Libai cleared his throat, "I received a text message in the afternoon, and the cleaning thought they didn't want it anymore, so they sent it to the garbage station. "

Xingqi, who is good at making excuses for others, recalled that the trunk was full of shopping bags, and it was empty for several minutes.She is not uninformed, and there are several logos in the shopping bag that are the kind of brands that feel luxurious even passing by to breathe the air in the store.

"I shouldn't have brought things there casually, and I didn't tell you, you don't have to..."

"Don't talk." Xia Libai interrupted her, and changed the topic roughly, "I don't know how to communicate with animals, and I don't have any special abilities. It's not me who makes cats attack you."

Words are words and sentences are sentences, as if explaining something, but Xingqi didn't understand half of it.

"Attack? Not you?" She chewed the words four or five times, "Wait, is there someone else? Who is going in and out of Sister Lu's house?"

"maybe……"

A man who "resurrected from the dead".

Before she could say anything, Xingqi's eyes lit up, "I thought of it!"

She raised her arms excitedly, "Bai Shui Su girl! Snail girl!"

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