stories that happened on a specific occasion

Chapter 25 The smell from the soul

Lao Deng is indeed a senior social reporter, no matter how small the information is, he can't escape his eyes.

"Are you and Zuo Zhenzhen on a good terms?" As soon as we met, he threw this question to me without hesitation.

I was caught off guard for a while, but fortunately Zuo Zhenzhen appeared in a hurry and answered for me.

"Master, don't bully him, he is a famous woman now." Zuo Zhenzhen said while holding my arm.

"It's good for you. You have solved both the accommodation and the boyfriend. You are still a good girl. You can kill two birds with one stone." Lao Deng teased Zuo Zhenzhen, then patted me on the shoulder and said, "I never thought that you would fall in love with this Under the pomegranate skirt of the little girl Pianzi."

I smiled and didn't speak.

After saying goodbye to Lao Deng, I took Zuo Zhenzhen to the small park.

Drizzle produces cold without frost, and the tree leaves in front of the court are half green and yellow.

There was a scene of Xiao Su in front of him.

"Lidong today," Zuo Zhenzhen leaned on my shoulder and said, "Let's have dumplings for dinner."

"Can you still make dumplings?" I asked in surprise.

"No," Zuo Zhenzhen looked at me and said, "But I can eat."

I knew that I must have made dinner.

Since Zuo Zhenzhen became my girlfriend, she never cooks again.

But I don't mind because when it comes to cooking, it's actually a hobby of mine.In the past, when I was not busy at work and did not need to travel, I would basically cook at home.The taste cannot be said to be excellent, but as a self-learned person, I am quite satisfied with my current cooking skills.

After my father passed away more than a decade ago, the job of caring for my mother fell pretty much on my shoulders.It was at that time that I learned how to cook in the midst of countless cuts and tastes of failure.I didn't stop cooking every day until my mother was admitted to a nursing home.Come to think of it, maybe if you don't practice often, your cooking skills will regress.

Today's dumplings were not as good as expected.The main reason is that I forgot to put salt when mixing the stuffing.

"Well, it's a little light." Zuo Zhenzhen said.

Although Zuo Zhenzhen is not good at cooking, she is very good at being picky about food.In her own words, she is a foodie.

"But it's still delicious." Zuo Zhenzhen added.

I smiled and said, "No need to comfort me."

"Anyway, it must be better than mine."

After speaking, Zuo Zhenzhen picked up a dumpling and ate it with relish.

Watching her eat the dumplings I made, I suddenly felt an unreal sense of happiness.

A very comfortable, but mixed with uneasy feeling.

After dinner, Zuo Zhenzhen cleaned up in the kitchen, and I made a pot of hot tea to start working.

"If you drink tea, you will definitely not be able to sleep well at night." Zuo Zhenzhen reminded me.

I smiled and assured her that I would only drink one pot and never refill.

She pushed back the hair on my forehead, kissed me, and then said: "You are not allowed to renege on your debt."Then, he took a book and sat beside me.

Under an orange light, I sat side by side.I flipped through the submitted articles, and she quietly read the book beside her.

The fragrance of tea was overflowing, I reached for the teacup, she reached out and took my hand first.

No words were spoken, but I laughed and she laughed too.

In this way, we held hands and each did our own thing.

"Shall we get a cat?"

Suddenly, Zuo Zhenzhen said.

"Cat?"

I have never considered this question, and I fell into thinking for a while.

"Don't you like cats?" Zuo Zhenzhen asked.

I can't say whether I like it or not, but I have never gotten along with this kind of animal.

"Then do you want to try it?" Zuo Zhenzhen continued to ask.

I hesitated, but I didn't know how to express it.

"Okay." Zuo Zhenzhen finally put down the topic.

When it comes to animals like cats, in the inherent concept, it seems to be a kind of creature with more yin.As for the cats I have come into contact with, one is a novel by Natsume Suishi, and the other is a strange animal that has appeared in horror movies for a long time and can smell the breath of death.

But even so, I don't hate cats.On the contrary, I am full of curiosity about their life and behavior.

However, if it is just to satisfy your own curiosity, you will bring a life home.Such sloppy things are definitely not my style.

Just after Zuo Zhenzhen put forward the suggestion of raising a cat, I would often think about it.For this reason, I also read a lot of articles about raising cats, and how to adopt cats.While flipping through these contents, some cute photos of cats will also appear, even X, who occasionally comes to take a look, exclaims how cute it is.

Looking at these animals with fan-colored paws and innocent eyes, my heart is indeed moved.

Just when I was about to fall, the contribution of a young man named G made me fall into thinking again.

Little G is a clerk in a pet shop. Their shop not only provides medical and grooming services for pets, but also rescues stray animals all year round.Especially in winter, more than a dozen cages are often not enough.Writing here, Xiao G said that he usually buys some food and feeds stray animals in the neighborhood around the pet store.Those animals that cannot be rescued often disappear after a severe winter.

Therefore, Little G will occasionally bring some stray animals home when there are not enough cages in the store.Therefore, when renting a house, Little G will definitely look for rental houses that can raise animals.Although this increases the difficulty of renting a house, it also avoids future troubles, and the animals can spend the winter with themselves at ease.

Even if it is difficult, it is not impossible.

Before the apartment expired, Little G finally found a single room online that allowed pets.

It's not too far from a pet store, and the rent is reasonable.The only thing that annoys little G is that the landlord never responds to messages, and they haven't met each other since the short message chat.The cause of this situation is all from the unilateral side of the landlord.

Little G understands this situation as a means to prevent tenants from lowering prices.

Before waiting for the landlord's final affirmative answer, Xiao G was ruthless, gritted his teeth, and decided not to bargain for a penny, and rented it directly.

Sure enough, the landlord replied that night, ready to sign the contract at any time.

Little G was ecstatic, he felt that this winter could finally be spent steadily.

But he never thought that before the arrival of winter, something happened that completely interrupted all his plans.

Little G's story

The day you move in is also the day you sign the contract.

Excitedly, Little G parked the moving van first, and then trotted all the way to the rental house.

Waiting at the door was a middle-aged woman who was the landlord.

That woman has the charm of a young lady, with red nail polish, and she speaks boldly and in a high-pitched voice. She is a straightforward person.

Little G confirmed with her again about keeping pets in the house, and the landlord still readily agreed.

"I will try to keep them from disturbing the neighbors, and I will not let them scratch the furniture and walls." Xiao G solemnly promised.

Unexpectedly, the landlady didn't care about this, and instead said, "It doesn't matter."

The first time Xiao G met such a talkative landlord, he asked for a deposit.And said that if the house is damaged when you check out, the deposit will be used as compensation.

In the end, the landlord still waved his hand and said, "It's okay, it's not easy for you young people to make money. Let's talk about it later."

To be on the safe side, the landlord also took the initiative to give Xiao G a copy of his ID card and real estate certificate.Little G signed the lease contract with the landlord almost in tears of gratitude.

When the weather was not yet cold, Little G arranged the rental house.Just waiting for the arrival of the cold winter to welcome the cute little animals.

But what little G didn't expect was that in the second week after he moved into this rental house, an epidemic suddenly broke out in the pet shop.In order to better isolate the pathogens, the store manager decided to keep the infected animals in the store for treatment, and he and the store staff took the healthy ones home to take care of them for a period of time.

Little G brought home a two-year-old milk cat.

Since this milk cat was a stray cat from birth, he seldom interacted with people after being rescued.Even if they are in the same room with Little G, they respect each other as guests and do not disturb each other.

Everything seems to be normal, but little G did not expect to find that this milk cat has a habit of scratching the floor.

Because the rental house is a second-hand house in the 90s, the wooden floor that was laid before has become a little loose, and traces of termites can still be seen between some floor gaps.

At first, Little G just scolded twice, and it ran away.However, as long as Little G is not watching, the milk cat will start scratching the floor.Soon, obvious scratches appeared on the wooden floor.

Little G was a little helpless, so he had to ask other shop assistants for help.

So after discussion, Xiao G sent the milk cat to his colleague's house and took over an orange cat from his house.

This orange cat has a completely different personality from the milk cat, and is very clingy. As long as Little G is in the room, he will come over to ask for petting and hugging.

On the day when the orange cat was picked up, Xiao G was taking a bath when he suddenly heard a sound outside the bathroom.

It was a little familiar, but for a while I couldn't remember what it was.

When Little G came out of the shower, he saw the orange cat facing the wooden floor of the house, scratching it with great joy.

There were a few more scratches on the already scarred floor.

Little G hugged the orange cat and preached, but when he saw the orange cat's big innocent eyes, his heart softened instantly, and the matter passed like this.

However, in the middle of the night, something like this happened again.

Little G was woken up by the sound of scratching the wooden board, and then raised his hand to touch it. The orange cat that was sleeping next to him just now had disappeared.Little G turned on the bedside lamp, and in the dim light, the orange cat shook its fat body and tried hard to plan the floor.

Little G is completely helpless, why do the two cats he brought home have the habit of digging?

With the mentality of trying, Little G brought the third cat back to his rental house.

This time, it was a gray-blue British shorthair.Personality is very gentle, and timid, very quiet.

Little G thought, this time it should be foolproof.

However, just as Little G turned around and went to the kitchen to wash the dishes, the familiar voice appeared again.

Little G ran to the room and saw that the blue cat was doing exactly the same movements as the first two cats, scratching the floor hard, completely ignoring the movement around it.

Little G hugged the blue cat away, looked down at the scratched floor, and suddenly realized something.

Little G walked around the house with the blue cat in his arms, carefully observing the floor and walls of the house.

There were basically no scratches on all the floors and walls, except for the place facing my bed and close to the TV cabinet. Three cats came and got scratched three times, each time in the same position.

Little G, who discovered this, felt very curious, what is under the floor that attracts cats so much?

Little G brought a chopstick, carefully inserted it through the broken part, poked it and took it out to smell it.There is no special smell, just the smell of decayed wood.

If this is the case, it stands to reason that the entire floor of this room should be like this.Why is it the only place that attracts the attention of cats so much?

Little G went around the room again, but didn't find anything special, so he gave up.

The epidemic in the pet store was quickly brought under control, but it was still half a month later.Fortunately, due to the original decision of the store manager, all the animals were lucky enough to survive this difficult time.

On the morning when little G sent the blue cat back to the store, the blue cat would still run there to scratch a few times while little G was not paying attention.

When I got home at night, the house without cats was much cleaner, and it also made Xiao G feel a lot more lonely.

After taking a shower, Little G drank beer while watching TV.

From time to time, involuntarily, his eyes would fall to the floor beside him.

What on earth is there, which has been attracting the cat before, but now it is also attracting the attention of little G.

Little G put down the beer in his hand and came to the scratched floor.

He got down on his stomach and looked in through the cracks in the broken wood, but it was too dark to see anything.

Little G took the mobile phone, turned on the flashlight function, and shone into the gap.

Little G looked carefully, but it was still very dark, and the gap was not big, so he couldn't see why.However, it does seem that there is something reflective in it.

Little G propped himself on the floor with one hand, and held the phone in the other. He lay all his weight on the floor and looked at it.

Suddenly, the floor cracked.

Due to years of dry weather and erosion by termites, the old floor finally overwhelmed and began to simply fall off, and the gaps gradually became larger.

Little G broke the floor with one hand and sank.Blood flowed from the skin pierced by the sharp floor.

Little G yelled, pulled his hand back, and ran into the bathroom.While removing the sawdust that had penetrated into the skin, the wound was cleaned with iodine.

After bandaging, Little G looked at the extra hole in the floor and felt guilty.I didn't pay a deposit because of the trust of the landlord before, but I damaged the floor less than a month after moving in, which is really embarrassing.So, little G thought about buying a floor mat tomorrow, and then he must ask for compensation when he checks out.

Now that he was powerless, Little G brought a cutting board from the kitchen, and wanted to cover the hole with it first, lest any snakes, rats and ants would come out.

At the moment when Little G covered the sticky board, the mobile phone that Little G forgot on the floor was still shining on the floor.

Little G moved closer to the light source and looked down. Suddenly, he saw a human face looking at him!

Little G was so frightened that he dropped the sticky board in his hand and took a few steps back.

It is said to be looking, but it is not, because that face has no eyeballs.

Not only that, it seems that there is no hair, and it looks haggard, and its skin color is almost the same as the dark brown floor.

Although Xiao G was scared, he decided to check it again and took back the phone.

Carefully, Little G kicked away the sticky board that had been dropped earlier.Then from a distance, poked his head and looked under the wooden board.

Sure enough.

It was a withered face.The empty two dark eye sockets are looking at little G.

Little G quickly picked up the phone, and then dialed 110.

Soon, the police arrived at Little G's rental house.They removed the TV cabinet and knocked out the entire floor below.A complete mummy appeared below.

Little G was taken to record a statement, telling everything that happened during this period.From the cat scratching the floor to the fact that he accidentally damaged the floor, he explained everything clearly.

That night, Xiao G went to a friend's house to spend the night.

When finally lying on the warm bed, Little G breathed a sigh of relief.

However, the scene of staring at the mummy in my mind, and the scene of the mummy being carried away, kept replaying in my mind, and I couldn't forget it for a long time.

Suddenly, Little G had a clever move and jumped up from the bed.

There is one thing that looks familiar.

But for a while, Little G was not completely sure.

A few days later, Xiao G, accompanied by his friends, returned to the rental house to pack his luggage.

The news of the discovery of the mummified body in the rental house immediately attracted attention on the Internet, and many media rushed to report it, and even many reporters were stationed downstairs.Little G was also sneaky and managed to escape.

Just when this story was coming to an end, I thought it was just a simple murder case.Xiao G wrote that the man had been dead for nearly three months.Because of the special environment for hiding the corpse, it didn't turn into bones, but became a mummy.The whole body of the mummy was naked. Although Xiao G didn't dare to look directly at it, after just a few glances, Xiao G guessed that the victim should be a woman.

The most notable feature is that the nails on the corpse's hands are painted with bright red nail polish.

Not long after Little G moved out of the rental house, the case was solved.

This female mummy was one of the missing persons a few months ago.After an autopsy, the police announced the cause of death was a severe blow to the head.The murderer was also arrested and brought to justice. She was also a woman who was from the same village as the victim.The motive for committing the crime was that the murderer was addicted to gambling all the year round, and in order to steal the victim's finances, he killed him by mistake.

The major media released the murderer's name and photo.

Little G looked at the photo of the murderer, but he was very unfamiliar.

Little G continued to watch the news, and suddenly the victim's photo also appeared.

Little G looked at this face, which was exactly the same as the photo on the certificate left by the landlord and her.

Animals may really have some functions that we humans do not have, especially cats, maybe they can really smell the breath of death and soul.

"Let's not keep cats for now."

During dinner, I said to Zuo Zhenzhen.

Zuo Zhenzhen nodded in agreement.

But the reasons for her consent were quite different from what I thought.

"After all, we've only just started together. Maybe it's too early to adopt a cat or something."

After Zuo Zhenzhen finished speaking, I realized that there is a deeper meaning behind adopting pets.

I quickly explained, but Zuo Zhenzhen laughed out loud.

"Teacher Duochuan," Zuo Zhenzhen said to me with a smile, "the future will be long."

There is ample time.

At that time, we really thought that the future would be long.

But I never thought that such a happy day has been much more miserable in the past.

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