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date="2020-10-01"

title="Chapter 52 Breaking Ground 09┃ Lady in Red."

weight="95765"

series = ["Paintings of Terror"]

mode = "manual"

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When Mu Yiran personally put the pair of red slippers back under the bed as they were, Ke Xun looked at him with his hands on the side: "Are you also worried about Qiu Lu like Sha Liu, for fear that I will be blinded by surprise? Noisy, I plan to hide the haunted episode last night."

Mu Yiran put the slippers back, looked at Ke Xun with a cold expression, and was about to say something, but saw that the other party picked up his cold soap box from the table: "Wash your hands."

"..."

After Mu Yiran left, Ke Xun squatted down and looked at the red slippers under the bed. A closer look was also quite homely, and even a little kind.

Ke Xun remembered that when he was young, his mother had a pair of red slippers, his father's pair was warm brown, and his own was sky blue. Each pair of shoes had a bear pattern on them. Together they were "Three Bears"...

Thinking of this, the previous strange atmosphere seemed to disappear. Ke Xun got up and went to the writing desk, stroking the deep "gui" engraved on the table with his hand. I wonder if the owner of this red slippers is there. Waiting for someone to come back.

In the afternoon, everyone used to find the seal.

Because there is no clear clue, everyone can only use the clumsy way of sweeping the building to find it. Other neighbors’ houses are definitely not allowed to enter casually, and the seal is unlikely to be hidden in other people’s houses. So currently it is mainly around corridors, stairs and Carpet search in public toilets.

As night fell, everyone obviously got nothing.

The expressions of several newcomers were particularly disappointed. Only Shou Zhu said: "There are many poems written on the wall of the public toilet on the fourth floor, most of which are original."

People were too lazy to talk to him, only Qiu Lu said, "Did you mean the public toilet next to 409 in the west?"

Shou Zhu shook the folding fan in his hand: "Yes, that's right."

"The women's toilet there is also full of poems on the wall!" Qiu Lu subconsciously looked at Sha Liu, because this toilet is the closest to 410, so both of them are used to going to that toilet.

Sha Liu frowned, and he had seen those dirty poems, but Sha Liu didn't think the poetry had anything to do with the seal, and from the heart felt that these poets were particularly useless.

But Shou Zhu chanted indifferently: "Invisible as spring water, sharp as a blade, vast, crystal clear..."

"The ladies' toilet has the same poem!" Qiu Lu interrupted Shou Zhu, "Could it be the same person wrote it?"

It seems that Shouzhu is seriously thinking about business for the first time, and combined the folding fan in his hand: "No wonder I think the font and style are biased towards women."

"Even if it was written by the same person, what can it mean? A woman sneaked into the men's room to write poetry?" Sha Liu thought this behavior was disgusting-but it happened to satisfy the fantasies of a cultural hooligan like Shou Zhu .

"I think it's weird." Xin Miao's voice was very small.

But Sha Liu didn't want to waste time on this kind of thing: "What we are looking for is the seal."

Everyone gathered at the restaurant entrance, some were listening carefully, some were thinking, only Zhu Haowen leaned against the wall and played mobile games.

Ke Xun helped the fifth sister who was carrying the vegetable basket open the bamboo curtain of the restaurant: "Go in, eat and talk."

The small restaurant is a bit sultry, and Wumei plans to move the folding table to the yard: "eat outside, cool!"

"Good idea!" Ke Xun went in and helped Wumei raise the table, "I'll come, I'll come! Don't you guys, don't idle, take your own stools and sit out! Hao Wener, stop playing, move the stools!"

Zhu Haowen raised his eyes, looked at Ke Xun, and went into the restaurant to move a stool.

Qiu Lu and Xin Miao are still entangled with poetry in the toilet, and they are very dissatisfied with Sha Liu's contemptuous attitude just now. Xin Miao walked directly to Mu Yiran, "Mu Yiran, don't you think writing poetry is strange? This person can go to the men’s and women’s toilets, is this person a man or a woman? And he (she) lives on our fourth floor!"

Mu Yiran: "We will go back to check after the meal. If we are sure that it is the same font, we will go back to our respective rooms to find out if there is the same handwriting. Maybe there will be some clues."

Sha Liu looked at Mu Yiran, took off his glasses and wiped the corners of his clothes.

Wumei turned on the light in front of the restaurant, and the courtyard lit up. Everyone didn't talk much, and many people couldn't eat. ——After all, night is coming again.

"Eat as much as you need to eat." Old man Li Taiyong advised everyone.

"Master, you are right," Ke Xun took a chopsticks mixed with vinegar and shredded radish, chewing crisply, "You have to save your energy to escape vigorously!"

When everyone heard this, they all made sense, and then they ate their heads.

Mu Yiran looked at Ke Xun’s familiar energy, and couldn’t help but look at each other a few more times-Ke Xun’s innate things, such as the kindness of the market, in his own life It is very rare in the environment.

The old man Li Taiyong laughed and liked the kid Ke Xun in his heart: "You just went upstairs to look for something. I played a few chess games with Lao Zhang."

"Lao Zhang? You mean the concierge master?" Ke Xun then knew that the master's name was Zhang.

"Yes, by the way, I inquired about this dormitory." The old man Li Taiyong said slowly.

Sha Liu was a little excited when he heard this: "Have you heard about the murders in this building?"

The old man Li Taiyong smiled and shook his head: "You can't talk like that, you have to be gradual."

Sha Liu bowed her head and shook the Hanamaki in her hand: "Then, what are you asking about?"

Everyone chewed the food slowly and listened carefully to the old man Li Taiyong.

"This building is an old house. It was built in the early 1980s. It belongs to the factory's assets. To put it bluntly, it is the factory dormitory." Although Li Taiyong is older, he speaks slowly and clearly. "The factory was in the last two years. Under the joint-stock system, Director Liao took the majority of the shares, and discussed with several shareholders to sell the land of Chunsun dormitory."

"Sold it? Then don't all these neighbors live well now?" Wei Dong couldn't help asking.

"It is said that before selling the dormitories, the factory started to push people out. Those who had houses or those who were particularly honest moved out, and most of them remained untouched. The director directly put up the Chunsun apartment sign. It was first publicly leased for a year or two, and then a Hong Kong developer was negotiated, and the land was sold directly by signing a contract."

Qin Ci couldn't help but said: "If these residents are still factory people, then the factory should solve the accommodation problem for everyone."

"The factory has also given a solution. If you buy a new house built in the factory, you can buy it yourself, but the location is good and the price is expensive. The whole set is 100,000 yuan. The factory has been in a recession for many years. Many people can't afford this. money."

Indeed, in that era, there was no such concept of down payment and installment payment. If you want to buy a house, you need to pay in full.

"Later, the factory manager cooperated with the developer and started to bombard people. It was an offence to enter the house directly to kill people. So these people thought of a bad trick and built a high-rise concrete wall outside the tube building. A four-story building is so high, a big iron gate was pulled outside the concrete wall, and the first floor was completely blocked. They could only come out regularly."

Everyone frowned upon hearing this, and these people were really hurt.

Ke Xun suddenly understood who wrote the "ghost" scary red letters on the outer wall. It must have been done by the manufacturers and developers.

"In this way, Chunsun Apartment has become what it is today." The old man Li Taiyong finished speaking and took a sip of rice porridge.

"I think this matter is the background of Chunsun Apartment, maybe it has something to do with the theme of the whole painting." Qin Ci said.

In the barber shop next to the restaurant, the beautiful boss in the red dress walked out again. At this time, smiled slightly and walked over to the dining table, and placed a box of Marlboro in front of Shouzhu: "The cigarette you want."

Shou Zhu has always been unable to fight against beautiful women. At this time, his whole face was full of smiles: "I have worked and I have worked! Have you eaten Xiao Sang? I will order two dishes. Let's drink together?"

Chihuan touched his companion with an elbow, thinking that it was not the time to pick up girls.

When everyone heard Shou Zhu greet outsiders to join, they were all a little disgusted.

Xiao Sang is very eye-sighted. Googou said to Shou Zhu, "Go to my place. The house next door has just moved out. It has been empty for many days. We are going to have a party there!"

Qiu Lu's face was very ugly, his chin was slightly raised, and he wiped his mouth with his handkerchief.

"Good, good!" Shouzhu hurriedly followed Xiao Sang wherever he could withstand the temptation.

Chihuan yelled uneasyly: "You must go back to your house before ten o'clock! Don't wait until the lights are turned off!"

Shou Zhu waved his hand, shook the folding fan in his hand and just talked and laughed with Xiao Sang...

After eating, everyone went to the toilet on the west side of the fourth floor to check. Most people walked into this toilet for the first time, so their faces were delicate.

Wei Dong opened his mouth and looked stupid: "These rascals... poems are too explicit!"

Ke Xun directly concluded: "This is written by a woman."

"Kerr will also study female poetry?"

"Take a look." Ke Xun pointed to one of the sentences-it was written in red chalk: My cave is waiting to drown you...

After comparing the handwritings of the men’s and women’s toilets, it was determined that they were from the same person, but they were not the same as the handwritings found in their respective rooms.

Qiu Lu was a little panicked: "I think it might be related to our house. Although no handwriting was found in the house,...the explicit passages in the romance novels were all highlighted with red pen."

Everyone: "..."

Sha Liu also felt that things were strange: "Let’s pay more attention tonight, sleep next to the door, and run to the corridor to call for help if there is any movement."

"Okay." Qiu Lu nodded nervously.

It was already ten o'clock at this time, and Zhitiao personally went to the disco downstairs to pull the thin bamboo out, and everyone went back to the house to rest.

Soon the lights were turned off, and the whole building was darkened. Only the public toilets in the four corners were faintly bright yellow.

"You said, is she still looking for shoes tonight?" Ke Xun was lying on the bed, staring at the black ceiling.

The shoes have come back, so I definitely don’t have to look for them again. The question is, what else would this person do when he put on slippers?

"Go to bed early, see the trick." Mu Yiran was already a little sleepy and didn't sleep for most of the night last night.

Ke Xun suddenly turned over, one arm was about to come over, Mu Yiran pinched Ke Xun's wrist with one hand, just like this he put the opponent's arm in the air.

"Oh, I pinched the hemp!" Ke Xun struggled for a long time, "I'll go get a fan from your side! The big pu fan is next to your pillow!"

With a loose finger, Mu Yiran turned over and threw the fan to Ke Xun with his backhand.

Ke Xun took it dexterously, slammed it up, and the cool breeze blew through the two people, and Mu Yiran felt very comfortable.

Unexpectedly, the voice of the other party was sent along with the cool breeze, and the words were rounded: "The cool breeze is cool in midsummer night~"

Mu Yiran fell asleep directly.

Ke Xun slammed the fan for a while. After thinking about the daytime things for a while, he also felt a little sleepy. Just closing his eyelids, he heard the sound of slow footsteps coming from the corridor outside.

This is the sound of high-heeled shoes, the pace is very slow, and even forms a rhythm-take a few steps and stop, then continue.

There is no girl in the team wearing high heels, so who is this woman in the hallway? Is it a neighbor?

Mu Yiran was also awake, with a soft voice: "On the fourth floor."

Both of them kept their breaths down as much as possible until the string of high heels got farther and farther away.

"Go and see?" Ke Xun pointed to the small window connected to the corridor.

Mu Yiran nodded, and the two men got out of the bed lightly, occupying both sides of the small window, looking out from the gap in the curtain.

There was indeed a person walking in the corridor on the fourth floor. It was a woman in a red dress. Looking at her hairstyle, it was clearly Xiao Sang from the barber shop.

Xiao Sang paced leisurely, pausing briefly every time he passed a door, and then walked forward.

A red dress was very dazzling in the dark night.

Finally she stopped in front of a door and knocked on it.