Strange Story: Please Stop Telling

Chapter 27 The Voice Next Door

"The salary is pitifully low, less than [-] yuan. If you add five social insurances and one housing fund, it will be even more difficult."

"So, I chose to rent a civilian building on the outskirts of the city."

"It's a very old nine-story tube building with four households on the first floor, only one old and broken elevator, and the security environment is ridiculously poor."

"Fortunately, the rent is cheap, only 300 yuan a month, which is within my ability to bear."

"I paid the rent for one year at a time, just because I was afraid that the landlord would raise the price halfway."

"But soon, within a few days of living in, I began to regret it."

"Because the sound insulation effect of the house is really poor."

"I live next door to a young couple. Every day at eight or nine o'clock in the evening, the wonderful sound starts to ring, and it lasts for an hour or two every day."

"For a bachelor like me, it can be said to be unbearable."

"I wanted to negotiate with him several times, but in the end I thought about it, everything has to be patient when I'm away from home. Based on the principle that one thing more is worse than one thing less, I still didn't make such a move."

"After all, others can bear it, so why can't I bear it?"

"But soon, this peace was broken."

"On this day, some of my classmates called and said they were going to visit my house."

"They are all my few friends in school."

"In addition, I haven't seen them for half a year, and I miss them very much, so I agreed immediately."

"I specially asked for an afternoon off, went to the vegetable market to buy some seafood, and started cooking when I got home."

"It's past six o'clock in the evening."

"They're here. There are five of them in total. They all lived in the same dormitory when they were in college. They all have strong relationships."

"Although my house is dilapidated and has one bedroom and one living room, fortunately they didn't say anything. After all, everyone knows everything."

"Let me explain here, my cooking skills are quite good. I used to be in charge of all the outings in college."

"After drinking for three rounds, everyone opened their mouths one after another, talking about some interesting things they encountered at work and complaining about their various dissatisfaction with their superiors."

"Time, every minute and every second passed."

"Suddenly, the voice next door that made it difficult to calm down sounded again."

"I clearly remember that it was five past nine at that time, because my classmate Xiaopang took a special look at his watch."

"Little Fatty smiled: Damn, brother Xiao, you can do it, it's very exciting, you are a bit aggressive with your neighbors, and it's only five minutes past nine and you started fighting?"

"Hearing this sentence, I feel a little embarrassed."

"It's not a good thing after all."

"Fortunately, it's less than half a minute."

"The ecstatic female voice next door stopped abruptly."

"Houzi had a smug look on his face: Hey, the man over there is not doing well. He surrendered his gun in less than half a minute."

"I feel a little more embarrassed."

"However, I didn't take it seriously at this time. I picked up the wine glass and quickly changed the topic."

"But just 2 minutes later, the voice sounded again."

"Little Fatty and Monkey are chatting with great interest."

"Their unintentional words, to me, are a kind of irony!"

"A ball of anger surged into my heart in an instant."

"I stood up, ignored Xiaopang's obstruction, opened the door, and walked towards the next door."

"Look at the closed wooden door in front of you."

"Listen to the gasps that keep ringing in your ears."

"I suddenly hesitated."

"In the final analysis, at that time, I was still inexperienced in the world. I was afraid that the person living in the room would be a strong man, and I might suffer a disadvantage."

"But in the end, I knocked on the door and said: Brother, please keep your voice down!"

"Soon, my words worked."

"It instantly became quiet inside."

"I let out a long breath."

"Back to the rental house again, the few of us started talking and drinking again."

"Next, there was no sound from the next door."

"About 10:30 or so."

"Little Fatty and the others also drank about the same, and they all got up and said goodbye."

"When I cleaned up the dishes and mopped the floor, it was already early eleven o'clock, and I took a simple shower, and then I lay on the bed and went to sleep."

"I don't know if the alcohol was playing a role. I tossed and turned and couldn't sleep."

"Finally, I feel drowsy and sleepy."

"A dark wind suddenly blew in the back of my head."

"Yin wind, without warning."

"My body trembled suddenly, and my whole body became cold. I sat up straight away with a jerk."

"The feeling of having an ice cube on my neck made my hair stand on end."

"Actually, I am a firm atheist, but the feeling just now was too real."

"I have to think about it."

"Just as I lay down again and was about to go to sleep, a figure suddenly appeared at the window!"

"I live on the third floor."

"The moment I saw the figure, the word thief popped into my mind!"

"Who!"

"I rolled over and got up and yelled."

"The figure disappeared in an instant."

"Now, I'm really scared."

"If there is a thief, to be honest, I definitely can't deal with it alone."

"I hurried to the window and locked the open window."

"Lying on the bed anxiously, I have long since lost any sleepiness."

"I didn't sleep much all night."

"Time, just a few days passed like this."

"After nine o'clock every night, there will still be screams from the next door."

"But the strange thing is that only I will go to that family, and the other two tenants seem to have been immune to this voice for a long time."

"this day."

"I specifically knocked on the house opposite my door."

"It was a middle-aged man who opened the door, reeking of alcohol."

"The man looked at me, swearing and cursing: boy, why are you arguing all day long?!"

"When I heard this sentence, I was immediately fooled."

"Am I noisy?"

"Isn't that nonsense?"

"I immediately smiled wryly: Brother, I'm not arguing."

"The man has a straight face: Don't you knock on the door every night?"

"Huh."

"I can't laugh or cry."

"How can this be my fault? Isn't it because the little lover next door to me is too much."

"Thinking of this, I quickly apologized and said: Big brother, I don't want to do this either, but the problem is, the couple next door to me keep barking every night, I can't stand it."

"When the man heard my words, his face immediately changed."

"His two eyes stared straight at me, as if looking at a monster."

"Being stared at by him like this, my heart is more or less hairy, and I feel uncomfortable all over my body."

"Then, the man said something that surprised me..."

(End of this chapter)