With a "bang", Lei Lanting slammed the door on the first floor, locked the iron lock, turned around and walked down the steps. As he walked, he shouted to Dong Qiangqiang and Tong Lele at the bottom of the steps: "Let's go, let's come back tomorrow. ~Come again tomorrow~!”
There was silence all around, not even the chirping of birds, just the soft whine of the breeze blowing through the forest and caressing the branches. His voice floated in the forest for a while and gradually dispersed.
In the woods at night, only the shadows of the trees can be seen vaguely, and the thick branches and leaves block the remaining light. Although it's not so dark that you can't see your fingers, it's still frighteningly dark. Even though she was walking between the two boys, Tong Lele still felt scared.
Next to the window where Dong Qiangqiang and Tong Lele were admiring the sunset, a white man with glasses looked down indifferently, watching the three friends walk through knee-deep weeds with tree sticks, and finally disappeared into the woods.
It was pitch dark in the villa, with no light at all. Suddenly, a burst of intertwined music of violin, oboe and viola came from the building. It was the "Brandenburg Concerto".
Hearing the sound of music, a dark figure slowly walked down the three-story staircase. His steps were very light, as if he was afraid of disturbing anything.
He stood outside the door of the music room on the second floor and gently pushed the door open a crack. The door creaked open, and the room was dark. To his surprise, the soft and soothing classical music did not come from here. He stood in the corridor and listened carefully again, only to realize that the music was coming from the first floor.
He followed the stairs to another floor, and the corridor on the first floor was also dark. He stood in the corridor and listened for a while, and then slowly walked towards a room at the end of the corridor with the help of a hazy light that shone through the window on the floor of the corridor.
He stood motionless outside the house and clearly heard the elegant music coming from the crack of the ajar door.
He pushed the door lightly with his hand, and it opened suddenly. He reached out and flipped the switch on the wall, but the light did not come on. He flipped it back and forth several times before he was sure that the light was really broken.
The heavy curtains were drawn inside the room and nothing could be seen clearly. He took two quick steps, opened the curtains, turned around, and saw a working record player in a corner of the room.
He walked quickly towards the record player. At this moment, his foot suddenly slipped and his body suddenly lost his balance and fell heavily to the floor.
He put his hands on the ground and tried to stand up, but found that the floor was sticky and slippery. He just barely stood up when the lights in the room suddenly turned on. Although the light was not good, he still saw a hand standing at the door. Oriental girl holding a knife and looking frightened.
He was startled, and just as he was about to walk towards her, a person suddenly hugged him from behind and fell to the ground with him.
Before the white man with glasses could react, a tall oriental man suddenly appeared in his field of vision. Just as he was about to shout, his mouth suddenly seemed to be enchanted and he couldn't make any sound.
A cold boning knife was like a snake, wrapped around his neck at some point.
He was so frightened that he fainted.
The fire in the fireplace was crackling and burning brightly, and the room was warm.
Tong Lele found several sets of old pajamas in other rooms. After everyone changed into them, they put the wet clothes on the chairs and dried them by the fire.
"You are the one who is cunning!" Lei Lanting leaned against the window and sighed, "I definitely wouldn't have thought of it."
Tong Lele tilted her head and wiped her wet hair with a towel: "Yeah, how did you think he would go find the record player?"
Dong Qiangqiang was wearing a set of wrinkled pajamas, swinging his long legs towards the fireplace. The pajamas only reached his calves, like cropped pants.
He squatted down, held two cigarettes with three fingers, and stretched them out to a piece of red-hot wood. As soon as the front end of the cigarette touched the wood, two small yellow flames immediately shot up. The flames immediately extinguished and turned into two wisps of green smoke. .
Dong Qiangqiang handed a cigarette to Lei Lanting, walked to another window, took a deep breath, opened the window at the same time, and slowly blew out the cigarette in his mouth out the window.
"Did you two play hide and seek when you were kids?" he asked suddenly.
"I must have played it before." Lei Lanting said curiously, "But does this have anything to do with today's incident?"
"Generally when playing hide-and-seek, once the person is hiding well, he won't change places easily. If he doesn't hide well, the chance of being found will increase. But if the person hiding knows how to make trouble, then the safety factor of hiding will be reduced. Improved a lot.”
"Sound in the east and attack in the west?" Tong Lele said thoughtfully, "What do you mean..."
"It is to deliberately provide some wrong hints to the person looking for someone, such as putting a toy under the tree and clipping a square towel on the cabinet door. If you are playing hide and seek at night, throw an open flashlight in the opposite direction of the hiding place. Everything like that is misleading. And then..." He chuckled and took another puff of cigarette.
"So you deliberately asked me to shout loudly at the door, deliberately let him see the three of us leaving the house, and deliberately turned on the record player in the room to play records, all to mislead him." Lei Lanting suddenly realized.
"If you saw three people leaving the house with your own eyes, and then there was music playing downstairs, you would definitely be curious." Dong Qiangqiang looked at the night outside the window and said quietly, "Normal people will be curious."
"So the record player is just a flashlight placed on the ground when playing hide and seek at night?" Tong Lele asked.
"You can draw inferences from one example. Even if you put a flashlight on, he won't be able to see." Dong Qiangqiang smiled bitterly.
"So you didn't let Lei Lanting spill the oil on the ground until he found the record player and turned it off, right?" Tong Lele asked.
Dong Qiangqiang nodded: "I'm also taking a gamble."
"But how do you know that the window of that room is open?" Lei Lanting asked suspiciously, "If the window is closed, how can we come in and ambush him?"
"That window was specially opened before I left." Dong Qiangqiang smiled and winked.
"You're so cunning." Lei Lanting sighed, "Lele, this is the kind of boy I've been telling you: loyal and honest on the outside, but sinister and cunning on the inside. You must stay away from this kind of person."
Before he finished speaking, the man with glasses gradually came to his senses. Seeing the two men and one woman beside him, he excitedly wanted to stand up, but suddenly found that he was tied to a chair and could not move at all.
"Stop struggling, I..." Lei Lanting suddenly turned around and asked Tong Lele, "How do you say bundle in German?"
Tong Lele whispered a word to him, and Lei Lanting proudly snapped his fingers at the bespectacled man: "Tell me, how many things have you stolen?"
"Stealing something?" The man with glasses was stunned. "How could I steal something? You are the thieves. Let me go quickly. You barbarians." He twisted violently as he spoke, and the chair legs kept hitting the floor. It makes a "duh" sound like a woodpecker.
"Are we thieves? Hum... We were hired by a German company to clean. What about you? Who hired you?" Lei Lanting glanced at Dong Qiangqiang, turned around and continued to question, "If you are not a thief? Then we Where did your roast duck go?”
When he heard the roast duck, the man with glasses was stunned. He slowly lowered his head and became silent.
"Are you guilty?" Seeing that the other man was speechless, Lei Lanting became more confident. He stood in front of the man with glasses and said fiercely, "Tell me, what else have you stolen? Is it because you are so messy on the third floor? What did you do?”
Hearing this, the bespectacled man suddenly raised his head, turned to look at the three people, and shouted excitedly: "No, no, I'm not a thief! Let me go! I'm the owner of this house!"
"Master?" The three of them were stunned and looked at each other.
"Why is the master so sneaky and sneaky? Why are you fucking stealing our roast duck?" Lei Lanting became more and more angry as he spoke, "Are all Germans like you?"
"I, I have proof!" The man with glasses became more and more excited as he spoke, his body kept shaking, the chair with him shook violently, and his glasses fell to the ground.
"Sir, you little one..." Lei Lanting also became excited and punched him.
"Dalei, listen to him first." Dong Qiangqiang quickly stopped him.
The man with glasses gasped and said to Dong Qiangqiang: "My ID card is in my inner pocket. You will know it when you take it out."
"Old Dong, be careful of fraud." Lei Lanting reminded from the side.
Dong Qiangqiang carefully put his hand into his inner pocket, and the bespectacled man watched expectantly as his hand took out a black wallet from his inner pocket.
Dong Qiangqiang opened his wallet, and the other two people came to his side. They saw that there was indeed a German ID card in the wallet. The photo on the ID card was of a man with glasses, but the man in the photo looked more middle-aged and more mature. kindly.
Seeing the name on the ID card, Dong Qiangqiang was stunned for a moment: "So what's your name?"
"Andreas Muller." The man with glasses finally regained his composure.
