After covering the dummy's body with two layers, Xia Hongyu no longer worried about the golden retriever biting the dummy's skin.
With just such a covering, Xia Hongyu would pay attention to the things lying on the ground from time to time, and there was always a permeating feeling in her heart.
For the next time, she couldn't concentrate while sitting in the living room watching TV. Her eyes would always glance at the covered dummy unconsciously. She simply turned off the TV and went directly to the bedroom on the second floor.
There was also a TV in the bedroom, but Xia Hongyu was no longer in the mood to watch it. She leaned on the bed and read a book on medical equipment for a while, then picked up a book of prose on life philosophy and read it for a while. Then she went to the bathroom in the bedroom to wash up, and then returned. Go to bed and turn off the lights.
When she first lived alone, because she had just divorced and was still recovering from the pain, she would put cats and dogs in the bedroom when she slept, and let the two guys lie on the bed. She felt that she had company, and her heart also I finally found solace.
But later Xia Hongyu discovered that these two people really couldn't be indulged. The big girl would use her sharp cat claws to scratch the bedding, and forget about the scratches. Sometimes she would get into it and pee out.
The golden retriever is more honest. At most, he will tear the bedding and quilt cover without leaving any marks on the bed. However, this guy sheds his hair too fast. Although he bathes frequently, his yellow hair sheds faster, which makes Xia Hongyu From time to time, a few hairs appear in the mouth.
Later, she kicked these two guys out and closed the bedroom door in advance before going to bed.
It's just that Golden Retriever and Big Niu were not used to not being treated like emperors at first. Golden Retriever kept whimpering outside the bedroom door every night, while Big Niu scratched the door with her claws.
It took Xia Hongyu two weeks to finally teach these two guys to sleep in her own home under the stairs.
But her bedroom is basically closed, because there is no guarantee that if she accidentally opens it one day, the cat and dog will immediately run to the bed they have longed for.
After all, in terms of softness, how can a cat or dog house be as comfortable as a big bed like this?
When she woke up, Xia Hongyu was awakened by the barking of a dog. She opened her eyes in a daze and remembered that the golden retriever barked several times just now. However, because she woke up from her sleep, she could not tell for the moment whether the golden retriever was barking outside the door. , still calling from the first floor.
Xia Hongyu's first reaction was that the golden retriever and the big girl were having trouble again, and they definitely wanted to go into the bedroom to sleep, but they were barking outside the bedroom door again.
She sat up from the bed angrily, put on her slippers and walked to the door. Because the Golden Retriever stood as tall as a person, and usually used her dog's paw to press down to open the lock, Xia Hongyu usually locked it after closing the door.
She first turned on the light in the bedroom, then unscrewed the lock, opened the door, and looked down.
It was quiet outside, and nothing was seen.
Xia Hongyu poked her head out of the corridor and looked around. There was a sensor light in the corridor. As long as someone or an animal passed by, it would light up automatically, rather than being controlled by voice.
But at this moment, the light in the corridor turned on after she poked her head out, indicating that it had been turned off before.
There was no sound of the golden retriever running. It was impossible for this guy to run from the second floor to the first floor in such a short time.
Xia Hongyu came to the corridor, subconsciously walked to the stairs leading to the first floor and stood there, lowering her head to look at the spacious living room on the first floor. Because there was a light in the corridor, it illuminated part of the living room downstairs, which made her probably You can see the middle of the living room.
Next to the luxurious coffee table in front of the sofa, there was originally a dummy for anatomy teaching. The quilt covering it had fallen aside, and the dummy was not seen.
Xia Hongyu felt surprised. She moved her standing position slightly and looked to the other side of the living room. She found that not far from the quilt, the thin blanket that was originally placed on the innermost layer of the dummy had also fallen to the floor.
Xia Hongyu's first reaction was that the dummy must have been dragged away by the golden retriever!
She was shocked, fearing that the golden retriever would bite this expensive dummy. In fact, the price was not the most important thing. The key was that this thing was not sold publicly in the market, and she had to work hard to get it through the connections.
If it is damaged, you may not be able to buy another one.
Thinking of this, Xia Hongyu immediately ran downstairs and turned on the light in the living room at the bottom of the stairs. The ample light instantly brightened the room.
She immediately turned her head and looked around, and at the same time shouted: "Maomao, where did you drag the dummy? Come out quickly!"
But no golden retriever was seen, and no dog barking was heard.
"Maomao!"
Xia Hongyu was furious. She yelled and ran to the kennel to take a look. Indeed, she did not see the golden retriever.
When he walked out and looked up, he saw the big girl squatting on the back of the sofa next to the floor-to-ceiling window, with the cat hair all over her body blowing up slightly, staring at him intently without any expression.
Xia Hongyu knew that Da Niu was always independent and ignored everyone, so she couldn't expect her to be of any help to her.
She immediately went to the living room door and took a look, but found nothing. She turned around and walked around the kitchen again, but still saw nothing.
Then she walked towards the small corridor leading to the storage room. The sensor light in the corridor immediately turned on. The moment it turned on, Xia Hongyu immediately saw a pair of naked feet at the door of the storage room, and then suddenly As soon as he moved, the feet obviously moved a little parallel inward.
She was suddenly startled and shouted: "Maomao, stop dragging me! Let go! Otherwise I won't give you anything to eat!"
After saying that, she saw the feet moving further into the storage room again. Xia Hongyu was furious and walked over quickly. She lowered her head and looked into the dark storage room. There seemed to be nothing in the darkness. I saw the dummy's body lying on the ground, but I couldn't see the golden retriever.
She immediately reached for the door and turned on the light in the storage room.
The moment the lights came on, Xia Hongyu was slightly startled. She saw that the dummy was indeed lying on the ground. At this time, the whole person had been completely dragged into the storage room, but there was no golden retriever around the dummy.
He raised his head and took a closer look at the scene in the storage room. The storage room was not big, about fifteen square meters. You could see all the corners at a glance, and there was no golden retriever in sight.
Xia Hongyu thought that this guy might have heard her coming, so she hid behind a certain suitcase. When she was about to step into the room to search, there was a sudden rustling sound from the corridor not far behind her.
Turning around, he saw the golden retriever standing there, his tail swaying slightly, his head tilted and staring at him.
Xia Hongyu was surprised at first and just stared at the golden retriever.
Then I saw this guy suddenly open his mouth and bark three times, but he didn't come over and just kept wagging his tail.
At this moment, an idea popped up in Xia Hongyu's mind.
"If the golden retriever is at the entrance of the corridor, then who dragged the dummy into the storage room just now?!"
She had just witnessed the dummy's body moving inward.
As soon as this idea appeared, Xia Hongyu didn't think much about it. She immediately grabbed the door handle and slammed the door of the storage room. In her haste, she even turned on the lights in the storage room.
She immediately said to Jin Mao, who was still standing at the entrance of the corridor: "Maomao, go...go...get the key. It's on the coffee table...in the drawer."
The golden retriever seemed to be able to understand most of her words. He turned around and ran to the coffee table. He first sniffed in front of one of the drawers, then stretched out his paws to dig at the front of the drawer several times, but could not open it.
"Woo-"
After whimpering a few times, Golden Retriever ran back to the entrance of the corridor and barked "woof" at Xia Hongyu twice in a row.
Xia Hongyu realized that it could not open the drawer. She was anxious and did not dare to let go of the door handle.
She took two deep breaths, forced herself to calm down, put her ear to the door of the storage room, and listened carefully.
Not hearing any noise inside, Xia Hongyu immediately bent her legs and made a running posture. She quickly released the door handle and rushed to the living room. She came to the coffee table and opened the drawer containing the keys. He took out the key and held it in his hand, then quickly turned around and rushed to the storage room.
When he arrived at the door of the storage room, he first grabbed the door handle to prevent someone inside from opening the door. Then he inserted the key with the label on the storage room into the keyhole, quickly twisted it twice in the opposite direction, and made two clicks. There was a loud sound, and the door was finally locked.
A series of movements were completed in one go. After completing these, Xia Hongyu came back to her senses in fear. She felt that her legs were a little weak and her whole body began to tremble slightly.
At this time, the golden retriever came over wagging his tail, lowered his head and sniffed around the door of the storage room.
Xia Hongyu was about to get her cell phone to call the sheriff, but she leaned against the door and listened for a moment. Just like before, there was no sound coming out.
But just now, she clearly saw the dummy moving into the storage room. At first, she thought it was Maomao pulling at it, but she found that Maomao was actually standing behind her, which made Xia Hongyu suddenly feel a creepy feeling.
She now intuitively believed that there might be a thief or someone else hiding in the storage room, and for some reason he dragged the dummy she just bought into it.
After thinking about it for a while, I had no choice but to report the arrival of the Sheriff first.
Leaving Golden Retriever to guard the door of the storage room, Xia Hongyu quickly ran upstairs, first grabbed her mobile phone, and then took out an anti-wolf electric shock device from the bedside table. She pressed the switch and made a crackling electric shock sound. Then she went to Go downstairs.
As he went downstairs, he made a call.
About ten minutes later, two male peace officers arrived.
However, after Xia Hongyu opened the door of the storage room, the sheriff did not find anyone else inside, except for the dummy that had been lying there on the ground.
For this dummy, Xia Hongyu gave a good explanation, saying that she was in the medical device business, and this dummy was used to show customers how to use medical devices.
The two police officers did not ask too many questions after the inspection, and also checked all other rooms in Xia Hongyu's house. Except for the golden retriever who followed them all the way, the big girl was still lying on the back of the sofa, staring quietly. Everyone's actions, but at this time it no longer exploded.
For about half an hour, the two police officers ruled out the possibility of someone illegally intruding into the house, responded to the report center, and explained to Xia Hongyu some precautions for living alone before leaving.
After they left, Xia Hongyu locked the storage room and the dummy inside and did not touch it for the time being.
I was going to wait until the wooden bed I booked arrived the next day before opening this door.
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the next day.
Shen Xing chose to close the wood carving shop early and returned home with Feifei.
After opening the store in the past two days, business began to boom again, which was not affected by the intermittent time he opened the store.
In addition, he just sold the wall-faced man woodcarving for 20,000 yuan yesterday. Shen Xing is not the kind of person whose primary goal is to make money. After having some extra money in his pocket, he returned to his usual appearance.
Unless you are making wood carvings in the shop and you lose track of time when you get into it, or you take Feifei home to cook, then the two of you go out for a walk after dinner, come back and choose to continue making wood carvings, and fall asleep when the time comes. This is Shen Xing The good life currently imagined.
But there is another reason why I chose to go home early today, and that is because the gift I bought for Feifei, that is, the big doll has finally arrived in the mail.
The arrival time was two days later than Shen Xing expected.
Feifei was so happy that she dragged down the big doll that Shen Xing was holding without even putting down her schoolbag.
The doll was a little heavy, but Feifei could barely hold it. She placed the doll on the floor in the living room, took a pair of small scissors and carefully cut off the outer packaging, for fear of hurting the doll inside.
Seeing her careful look, Shen Xing couldn't help but smile. He went back to his bedroom, placed the finished Zhen Po IV wood carving on the workbench, then went to the bathroom to wash his hands, and prepared to go to the kitchen to wash and cut the vegetables. good.
I'll eat and take a walk later, then come back and absorb the Wallfacer's characteristics to see if I can improve my abilities a little bit more.
But when he just walked out of the bathroom, Shen Xing suddenly saw Feifei's face looking a little ugly.
The schoolbag on the little girl's back had been put down at this time, and she stood there, looking at herself with a sad little look.
"What happened?" Shen Xing smiled.
Feifei moved a step to the side, stepped aside, pointed at the doll behind and said, "Didn't you say it was a beautiful young lady? Why is it like this?"
Shen Xing looked around and was stunned. He saw that the doll sitting on the ground in front of him was not the one he had purchased before, but a male doll with short black hair and a lavender suit.
This man has delicate features and looks very young, probably under twenty years old, and has a slight smile on his face.
But this is indeed not the beautiful girl doll in ancient costume that I bought - Chang Ge.
Usually there is a tag on a doll's clothes, which says the name of the doll and some parameters, but this man's doll does not have a tag on it, and I don't know what his name is.
Shen Xing took a few steps closer and carefully stood in front of the puppet, looking at his facial lines and clothes.
The workmanship of this man's doll is also very fine, and the technique must have come from the fine carving master named Motu. As an expert in this field, Shen Xing can roughly identify it at a glance.
It’s just that I clearly saw the other person taking the girl doll named Chang Ge into the back room of the store, and he should have gone to pack it, but why is this man the one I received now?
Could it be that the store mailed it by mistake? Or do you deceive yourself and deliberately use another doll that is of much lower quality and will produce the uncanny valley effect?
Looking at the boy doll in front of him, the workmanship is also very fine, and the fabric of his suit is not bad. With this quality, Shen Xing intuitively thinks that it is no worse than the girl Chang Ge.
"Maybe the store sent it by mistake. Let me ask him."
He comforted Feifei and went back to the bedroom to find the business card he took home from the doll shop.
