Chapter 0022 – Weird Smell (2 / 2)

After a long time, Jiang Xia looked at Ran Yi’s despondent back going down the elevator and muttered in a small voice.

“Inexplicable.”

Admittedly, she as a stand-in was sitting in the seat of the studio’s chief designer in a blur, and the confusion in Jiang Xia’s mind was uncountable, but in any case, the first single business was advancing steadily and well, and whether it was Tang Ei, the builder, the client or Cheng Yu, they were all very cooperative, and there was no reason or need for Jiang Xia to be skeptical of this or that.

She briefly reported Ran Yi’s matter to Cheng Yu, without mentioning the mess, just saying that this guy can’t do anything, purely to make trouble.

“Good thing you came.” Cheng Yu on the other end of the phone sighed.

“Otherwise, according to the previous state of the studio’s development, we’d have to recruit such uneducated people.”

Indeed, Jiang Xia also had to thank the previous recruitment mechanism that was so lax as to be almost non-existent, otherwise she wouldn’t have been able to come in.

What followed happened as naturally as could be expected.

In the afternoon the company got all three together on a rare occasion, had a small meeting, and decided that for the three days of construction, the three men would take turns going to watch the shifts.

When Jiang Xia went home at night, Liang Shaoruo has already taken Li Chunxia’s two children over, Xu Yin said that this side of the home’s bedrooms are mostly decorated with expensive antiques and paintings, as well as his collection of game consoles, said what not to let those two live in, Jiang Xia had no choice but to vacate the study to the older brother to live, the younger brother is still small, can not take up much space, so Liang Shaoruo arranged to live in their own house, and in the process, to take care of his daily life.

As for Auntie Li Chunxia, Jiang Xia had invited her a hundred times to come and stay at her house as well, but she still refused.

“It’s already spring, it’s not that cold, if I can’t close the door for a few days during construction I’ll just put on a few extra layers of blankets, I’ll just live over there, and I’ll be able to see how the house is changing.”

Seeing that he really couldn’t argue with Li Chunxia, Jiang Xia had no choice but to give up.

The first day is the Mediterranean staring class, Jiang Xia sighed this kid chicken thief, construction of the first day is basically in accordance with the drawings designed to demolish, as long as the workers did not make mistakes, basically do not need to supervise, this guy more than six o’clock in the afternoon to report work early, the task completed, well, he is still a bit conscientious, in the home to accompany Auntie Li had a night.

The next morning Cheng Yu and Jiang Xia to know the real situation, it turned out that yesterday the workers dismantled the furniture when the dust is too much, the Mediterranean Sea even people with the computer shrunk to the bathroom, coincidentally he found that due to the problem of the previous line design, the toilet actually has a socket, so he held the computer has been playing until ten o’clock in the evening until Auntie Li came to use the toilet to find that he had not yet gone.

“Then I thought that there was no bus to go back so late, so I asked him if he wanted to stay.”

Mediterranean was so busy playing the game that he unintentionally agreed to stay, and when he finally came back from the game, he found him sitting between the bunks in the living room clutter.

Mediterranean this guy do not see the appearance of old, inside or a child, he is not bold, playing small afraid of the dark and afraid of ghosts, Aunt Li Chunxia cheap rental housing and far away in the suburbs, downstairs, even a street lamp are not, he hesitated again and again, here and there is a network cable and electricity, and now go back to toss and bother Auntie, or decided to stay up all night it.

“I’ll talk to you guys.” Mediterranean waited for Auntie Li Chunxia to hang up the phone and grumbled in a bad mood.

“I graduated, never live in that kind of shitty place, the hallway what smells like, I sat in the living room did not close the door, the hallway floated over the stench ah … really absolute, than our group home environment is worse. And the sound insulation is also poor, there is no light, the sound of footsteps in the hallway back and forth scared me enough.”

“That’s because you’re timid, I’d still be able to fall asleep if I were you.” Jiang Xia couldn’t help but tease him.

“No way!” The Mediterranean whining doubled.

“She was also talking in her sleep in the middle of the night, which startled me! I thought it was a hallucination at first, and I asked several times with no response…”

“It’s normal for people to talk in their sleep when they’re tired after working part-time for a day and being busy.” Cheng Yu also stood out to help Li Chunxia.

“Let’s put it this way, fairness prevails between us men, since you stayed over there for a day, I’ll stay over there tonight as well, and if I make it through, you’ll have to admit that it’s you who’s pampered, and you’ll also have to apologize to Auntie Li in person.”

“Okay, it’s a deal.” The two were about to pull the hook when Jiang Xia stopped them both.

“Hey, hey, hey, what about me? Treating me like air? Just because I’m a female? I want in on your game too!”

Cheng Yu: “This isn’t a game, it’s in the suburbs after all, it’s still dangerous for you to be a girl…”

Jiang Xia crossed her arms in dissatisfaction, “What’s wrong? Isn’t other people’s Aunt Li Chunxia fine as usual? I don’t care, I’m going to stay over tomorrow night too.” ,

Luckily, the decoration was almost done by the third night, and Cheng Yu reluctantly agreed.

This night Cheng Yu live in Auntie Li’s house, although he is usually dangling, really to the construction site but very responsible, each installation should he personally take the drawings and then check again, toss to eight o’clock in the evening, the construction team are withdrawn, he repeatedly checked a few times to make sure that there is no problem at all, only to hand over in the company’s group.

“Look at people.” Jiang Xia did not forget to seize the opportunity to stimulate the Mediterranean Sea.

Not to be outdone, Mediterranean backhandedly threatened Jangha.

“If a drunk knocks on your door tomorrow night, don’t be so scared you beg for help.”

The next morning when Cheng Yu came back, he said on his lips that it was nothing, but it was still hard to hide his tired look.

“Why, you’ve been tossed around by that dream talk, too.” Mediterranean sneered.

“Tang E, you’re not being understanding, don’t complain when the time comes.”

“No.” Cheng Yu dragged his tired body paralyzed to the sofa and drank a cup of hot water before easing up and saying slowly.

“Auntie Li simply do not talk in your sleep, your son is estimated to be misheard, after all, the door to the building is open, what sound can be transmitted, I was tortured by the smell can not sleep, my nose was originally Ling, so just in case, I daytime, I specifically let the construction team carefully check once again, the house did not have anything to rot. Afterward, I was still uneasy, and bought air freshener and sprayed it around the house. But as soon as it was early in the morning, I was still woken up by the disgusting smell, and I couldn’t help it, I went to the toilet and threw up.”

“Auntie Lee didn’t reflect on it?” Mediterranean also felt strange and stopped flirting.

“She said she had a perennial sinus infection and couldn’t smell anything.”

“So has there been any investigation?” Jangha asked worriedly at the thought that she might have to go through this awful situation tonight as well.

“Don’t worry, I’ve sniffed the construction team, or they have experience, they said that the ventilation of the toilets in low-cost housing relies on the ventilation shafts in the building, which can easily hide dirt and grime, and they estimated that there are dead rats on the ceiling or something, and when the construction is over to free up the manpower, they’ll just refurbish the toilet’s ceiling as well.”

“Then why can’t you smell it during the day.” Jiang Xia pursued.

“It’s…they’re not really sure, the construction team said it’s possible that the air in the ventilation shaft doesn’t circulate very well during the daytime when it’s been hot lately, and you can smell it at night when it’s cold.”

When Jiang Xia moved to Auntie Li’s home, the place was pretty much cleaned up, and the program on Tang’s drawing paper was quite successful, so Auntie Li was very happy, and invited Jiang Xia to eat the buns that she had wrapped with her own hands.

At night Jiang Xia and Auntie Li didn’t need to avoid suspicion, lying together on the bed in the bedroom, since she left home, Tang Ei concerned about the news has not stopped.

Jiang Xia knew that Tang Ei was ostensibly concerned about herself, but in reality, she was afraid of leaving her alone at home.

“Eh, still sleeping after a night on the phone!”

“I don’t care, you put on the headphones and don’t disturb the others, I have to make sure I hear your voice every now and then anyway.” Tang Ei on the other side of the phone had a tough attitude.

“In that case, it’s good that you came to me in person~”

“You…you’re deliberately bullying me aren’t you.”

“Not at all…” just as Jiang Xia wanted to speak, she suddenly felt a wave of drowsiness come over her, she opened her mouth to tell Tang Ei, but she could no longer make a sound.

Before her consciousness disappeared, she seemed to have smelled what Cheng Yu had described, a bizarre stench.