Volume 3 Winter Solstice Chapter 7: Dizzy Garbage
Breakfast was delivered promptly.
Jiang You walked back to the store carrying the breakfast bag. He placed the bag on the long table, took out the tofu pudding, steamed buns, and egg pancakes one by one, divided them up, and then handed the chopsticks to Tang Butian, "Let's eat first."
"What does that pattern mean?"
"How would I know? I'm not an occultist or a semiotician. Are there any other photos?"
Tang Butian lowered her head and tapped a few times on the screen of her phone. "I've sent them all to you."
Jiang You didn't look at his phone. He opened the lid of the bowl and scooped a spoonful of tofu pudding to eat. "Not bad. It won't taste good if it gets cold."
Tang Butian took a bite of the pancake and chewed it slowly.
The skin is soft and chewy, with the aroma of green onions and eggs mixed together, and half a fried dough stick rolled inside, mixed with hot sauce.
Jiang You finished the egg pancake in just a few bites. Then he picked up a steamed bun and stuffed the whole thing into his mouth. After chewing it, his expression suddenly became a little distorted.
Tang Butian noticed his expression and asked, "What's wrong?"
Jiang You tried hard to swallow the food in his mouth. He took a breath and said, "There was soup in the skin. It burned me."
"oh."
Tang Butian lowered his head and ate the tofu pudding seriously.
"Healed?"
“Soon.”
"Have you been into that room?"
"Yes. I did a psychic test."
"Is it because students from your school are missing, or is it something else?"
"Some bad rumors were circulating among students, and there were pictures of the living room floor. I saw them in the class group, so I asked about it."
"You are really responsible."
Tang Butian took a small bite of the steamed dumpling skin and sucked up the soup . "I saw too little."
"Tangjiang University is in Ning'an District, right? Just send me a message or give me a call and I'll come find you. It's so cold here so early, right?"
“You don’t answer the phone.”
"I'll pick it up when I wake up." Jiang You crumpled up the plastic bag of the egg pancake and put it into the tofu pudding box. After covering it, he put the box into the takeaway bag, and then he said, "The remaining ones are all yours."
Tang Butian looked at the three remaining dumplings in the bowl and picked up one.
Jiang Min drank up the milk.
Jiang You picked up the cup, stood up, walked into the kitchen and washed the cup.
He walked back to the long table, sat down and began to look at the photos Tang Butian sent him.
Instead, there were many photos showing that, except for the floor of the living room, every other place was very messy, with piles of clothes and other sundries.
Jiang You magnified the pattern on the ground. "It's very detailed. The floor of the living room seems to be covered with floor stickers. It must be difficult to paint on it."
Jiang You put the phone in front of Jiang Mo, "Jiang Mo, come and take a look."
Tang Butian watched Jiang Mo's actions.
After taking a look, Jiang Mo jumped off the chair and walked out.
"What does he mean?" Tang Butian asked.
"You think it's ugly? He likes colorful paintings." Jiang You took back his phone, stood up, walked to the counter, picked up the thick black down jacket on the chair and put it on. He took the bag, thought for a moment, and took two Ferrero Rochers from the sugar bowl, "Let's go, the sooner we go, the sooner we'll be back."
Jiang You walked into the yard and saw Jiang Mo standing in front of the snowman.
Jiang You squatted down beside Jiang Mo. He tore open the wrapper of Ferrero Rocher and placed the round chocolate balls on each side where the eyes should be. "Look, there are eyes now."
He touched Jiang Mo's hair, stood up, and walked out of the yard with Tang Butian one after another.
Jiang You and Tang Butian took a taxi to the residential area where the missing student lived.
The community is very close to Tangjiang University. It only takes about seven or eight minutes to walk from the community gate to the school.
Jiang You and Tang Butian walked into the community from the main gate. The security guard in the guard room glanced at them, then lowered his head and continued to look at his phone.
Two or three warmly dressed men and women gathered by the flower bed not far from the gate, seemingly chatting and basking in the sun.
As they walked by, one of the middle-aged women with short hair and brown face whispered, "Want to rent a room?"
"How to rent?" Jiang You stopped.
"Daily or monthly rent is fine." The woman's eyes swept across Jiang You and Tang Butian's faces.
“Is it being rectified now?”
"What are you going to deal with?" A vigilant expression appeared on the woman's face.
"It's the kind that is rented in groups."
“This is not a group rental.”
"Then I don't know. I'm here to see a friend." Jiang You took a step forward and Tang Butian followed.
The middle-aged woman watched them leave and then walked back to the flower bed.
After finding Building 53 and going upstairs, Tang Butian took out a key and opened the door.
As soon as the door opened, Jiang You smelled an indescribable smell.
The smell of rotting food mixed with dust and seemingly some perfume.
He walked through the entrance hall and into the living room, squatted down and looked at the pattern on the ground. After looking at it for a while, he licked his finger on his tongue, then touched the pattern, then put his finger under his nose and smelled it.
"What did you find?" Tang Butian asked.
"Is the Special Operations Department in charge of this case now?"
"Not yet. The Ning'an District Police Station is in charge, and the Special Operations Department is just assisting and providing advice."
"I'm not good at finding people." Jiang You stood up and pushed his glasses.
He walked around the house, shaking his head as he walked. "It's too messy. I can't imagine it's where two girls live." He walked to the bathroom and looked at the overflowing trash can next to the toilet. "Fortunately, it's winter now. If it were summer, this house would probably be infested with insects. I'm going to emphasize the hygiene issue with my two female tenants when I get back."
Covering his nose, he turned around and glanced into the kitchen. Various takeout boxes and instant noodle bags were scattered on the counter.
"Tang is not sweet, I think I'm a little dizzy."
He walked through the living room and onto the balcony. He opened the window and took a deep breath. "I think they just felt that it was too dirty and messy to live here anymore..."
" There is no record of them leaving the community in the surveillance video, and the landlord still has one month's deposit."
"This neighborhood is so big, maybe he moved to a new place. Look at the few people just now, they are probably soliciting customers to live in the daily rental house, so they don't need to sign a contract..."
"What about the remaining spiritual power?"
"The final exams are coming up soon. Maybe there will be some useful ones among the koi pictures I spun, and there will be spiritual power fluctuations." Jiang You turned around and closed the window. "This is a more optimistic guess."
“What about the pessimistic ones?”
Jiang You walked back to the living room. He stretched his legs and tapped the pattern on the floor with the tip of his shoe. "I wonder what they summoned."
"call?"
He sighed, "Be prepared for the Special Operations Department to take over, check this place thoroughly, and send me the information of these two female college students."
"good."
