Chapter 72.2
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Ji Mingxia said: “I wouldn’t need to rush upstairs to find the household registration book while you are cooking. Foreign same-sex marriages are registered with passports. Our household registration books and ID cards cannot be used abroad.”
Thanks to the danmei novels he used to read, Ji Mingxia had a little understanding of same-sex marriages.
Grandma Ji had begun to waver after hearing Ji Mingxia’s words.
After all, Ji Mingxia’s explanation made sense logically speaking.
However, her long-standing impression of Ji Mingxia still made her not quite at ease, and she looked at Ji Mingxia with suspicion, “Is what you say true?”
“Of course it is true. Even if you don’t believe me, you have to trust your phone. The check-in situation in the hotel is recorded on the app, not only me, but also many of my classmates were with me. How could I care about love with so many friends with me.” Ji Mingxia said the last sentence with guilt as he thought of his couple’s room with Yu Ning.
But the app records showed he stayed in an ordinary double room with Yu Ning, and not the one surnamed Ke.
In order to make Grandma Ji believe what he said, Ji Mingxia immediately put the phone in front of Grandma Ji.
Grandma Ji looked at the phone, and then down at the phone. At this moment, the screen showed a record of Ji Mingxia’s stay at Quanzhuang hotel.
Seeing Ji Mingxia obediently sitting before her and waiting for her answer, Grandma Ji couldn’t help but reach out her hand and scroll down a bit even though she didn’t want to invade Ji Mingxia’s privacy.
The names of Zhao Zhouye, Chen Zhen and others, indeed, appeared one by one.
Grandma Ji looked at Ji Mingxia’s roommates’ names that were recorded side by side with Ji Mingxia and she was stunned. Her hand accidentally shook, and somehow, she jumped out of the app and went back to the last opened app on the phone.
The last app on Ji Mingxia’s phone was the call app and the call log was on display.
Grandma Ji had read the hotel check-in records and didn’t intend to read more, but the call log page suddenly popped up. The black characters on a white background were particularly eye-catching and Grandma Ji unconsciously glanced at it.
Ji Mingxia had called a lot of people, there was her number, there was Zhao Zhouye, Chen Zhen, Bao Guangyuan, and so on. There were all kinds of names but she did not see the boy surnamed Ke.
The time on the call page was clear, so there was no possibility of forgery.
Ji Mingxia was telling the truth and she had misunderstood him.
Grandma Ji breathed a sigh of relief but she was extraordinarily surprised.
If Ji Mingxia was telling the truth, then the situation was filled with circumstances that she could not understand.
Because of her objection to Ji Mingxia and that Ke, the relationship between the two of them was very bad over the years. Now her grandson, who had always been disobedient, suddenly changed his nature.
As soon as he came home, he helped her carry dishes, did housework, and almost cooked……
When eating, he obediently sat across from her; when questioned, not only did he not shout and quarrel, but patiently explained everything…
If it were not for the fact that it was daytime and this teenager in front of her looked and sounded just like her grandson, Grandma Ji would simply have suspected that this Ji Mingxia was a fake.
Thinking like this, Grandma Ji suddenly noticed the top of the call page.
In the list of call records, Ji Mingxia’s most recent call was to a person named “Yu Ning”.
Yu Ning (9)
Ji Mingxia called Yu Ning nine times, and Yu Ning didn’t answer any of them?
Grandma Ji noticed this detail, and raised her head and found that Ji Mingxia was still looking at her expectantly. Grandma Ji looked embarrassed and she handed the phone back to Ji Mingxia.
“I’m sorry, it’s me who misunderstood you.” Grandma Ji said.
Her face was pale and her voice had the hoarseness of an old woman. Her expression was sharp when questioning him and when she apologized, she also looked serious and very earnest.
Ji Mingxia did not expect Grandma Ji to apologize so solemnly. He hurriedly waved his hand and said, “It’s also my fault, you made so many calls and I did not receive any of them ……I will definitely pay attention next time.”
Grandma Ji listened to Ji Mingxia’s assurance, took a deeper look at Ji Mingxia with a belly full of doubts but l finally nodded her head.
Ji Mingxia naturally saw that Grandma Ji was looking at him with suspicion but the matter had come to this and he could only go with the flow.
Grandma Ji was a character outside the original book and a relative of his, so he was very apprehensive that she’d see through him. But now that he had met her, he found that things were a little better off than he thought.
Even if he knew that Grandma Ji was suspicious of him, he pretended not to see it.
There wasn’t a second Ji Mingxia in this world anyway.
Thinking like this, Ji Mingxia’s eyes finally stopped on Grandma Ji’s gray hair.
What he wanted to understand now was the issue of Grandma Ji’s age.
Grandma Ji was suspicious of the current Ji Mingxia, and Ji Mingxia didn’t know how to get along with Grandma Ji, so the two spent the day with this weird atmosphere.
At night, Ji Mingxia lay in his bed and could not help but open his address book once again, hesitating on whether to call Yu Ning or not.
Just when Ji Mingxia was hesitating, the loud ring of a doorbell came from the courtyard.
Because the house covered a large area, Grandma Ji installed a doorbell on the iron gate of the courtyard, so that when someone visits and rings the doorbell, the person inside the house would know.
Ji Mingxia often lived with his grandmother, so he was naturally very familiar with the doorbell.
But at this moment, the ringing of the bell made Ji Mingxia uncomfortable.
Although the sound was the same as he remembered, it sounded extraordinarily loud and harsh to his ears.
Ji Mingxia looked at the time. It was already past 10 p.m.
For people in the city, 10 pm was the start of nightlife, but for people in the village, this was time for people to go to bed.
For example, his grandmother had already gone to her room at 8 p.m to lie down and sleep.
The doorbell was still ringing and the person ringing it seemed anxious. He pressed the button repeatedly, causing the bell to ring so rapidly that it could not be ignored.
Ji Mingxia hurriedly got up from the bed, pulled open the curtains and peeked out.
The dark sky enveloped the entire village. Except for the street lights, there were no residential buildings lit up.
Looking around, whether it was the street outside, or the residential buildings, everywhere was quiet and not disturbed by the slightest sound.
Except for the ringing doorbell at Ji Mingxia’s house.
Ji Mingxia looked in the direction of the door. The courtyard was designed not only for safety, but also for the convenience of daily life, so the courtyard wall and the gate were roofed.
At the moment, the location outside the gate was blocked by the roof, and from Ji Mingxia’s point of view, it was impossible to see what the person ringing the bell looked like.
Ji Mingxia had no choice but to ask: “Who is ringing the bell?”
There was a pause for a moment, and then, immediately after, the bell rang again mechanically, with no one answering the whole time.
Perhaps it was his illusion, but Ji Mingxia felt as if the whole village became even quieter after his shout.
The bell was so loud that Ji Mingxia had to come out of his room and quickly walk downstairs in order to prevent Grandma Ji and the neighbors from being woken up,
Ji Mingxia hurriedly turned on all the lights as he walked through the corridor.
The lights were all switched on and the whole house was bright, immediately dispersing the gloom of darkness.
Hearing the doorbell still ringing, Ji Mingxia wore his slippers and walked outside while saying, “Coming, coming.”
He hoped that the person ringing the bell would hear his voice and not continue to ring.
But the person outside the courtyard turned a deaf ear. Not only did they not stop, but they pressed even more urgently.
The gate to Grandma Ji’s house was a half-hollowed iron gate. It had an impermeable iron plate in the middle and hollowed out at the top and bottom in a very common country gate style.
Ji Mingxia got out of the house and walked towards the gate. The street lights were still on outside and everything in the yard was clear.
Ji Mingxia could only see a dark shadow through the hollow part below the iron gate, and could not see the feet of the person.
‘It should be the shadow cast on the ground after the street lamp shines on the person.’
The doorbell was still ringing wildly. Ji Mingxia was affected by the noise and he was a little impatient, only wishing for the ringing to stop quickly.
He hurriedly put his hand on the gate but just when he was about to turn the lock to open the gate, he suddenly noticed that the blood red ring on his ring finger was glowing faintly.
Ji Mingxia froze for a moment and instinctively retracted his hand, not touching the lock again.
He looked at the iron gate in front of him, and then looked at the black shadow on the ground.
At this moment, Ji Mingxia and the person outside the gate were only a gate apart.
The street light was shining down from the top left, and his shadow fell to his right. Every detail of his body was clear in the shadow.
But the person’s shadow outside the gate was a blur. It was just a dark mass and it was completely indistinguishable.
The doorbell was still ringing, and the person outside the gate seemed very anxious when he saw that Ji Minxia was not opening the door.
Not only did he frantically press the doorbell, but even the lock was constantly shaking.
The sound of the bell became more frantic. Ji Mingxia looked back at the black shadow and he unconsciously took a step back.
At this point, he suddenly saw the doorbell screen hanging on the wall.
Grandma Ji’s house was installed with a smart doorbell with two monitoring devices. One was in Grandma Ji’s bedroom as it made it more convenient for her to receive guests as she rested. After all, Grandma Ji was old, her hands and feet were not nimble so she could just open the gabe from her room; the other one was by the gate and was for daily use.
Ji Mingxia was so disturbed by the doorbell that he was about to open the gate out of habit. It was only now, after seeing the screen, that he remembered the intercom also had a monitoring function.
Ji Mingxia stretched out his hand and gently pressed the “camera on” button under the monitor.
The screen lit up, and the camera outside the gate was immediately activated. It aimed at the courtyard gate to take a clear shot.
The doorbell was still ringing, the knocking on the gate was still so noisy, and the black shadow was still outside the gate.
However, on the monitor screen, the gate to Grandma Ji’s house was empty. There was nothing.
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Ji Mingxia said: “I wouldn’t need to rush upstairs to find the household registration book while you are cooking. Foreign same-sex marriages are registered with passports. Our household registration books and ID cards cannot be used abroad.”
Thanks to the danmei novels he used to read, Ji Mingxia had a little understanding of same-sex marriages.
Grandma Ji had begun to waver after hearing Ji Mingxia’s words.
After all, Ji Mingxia’s explanation made sense logically speaking.
However, her long-standing impression of Ji Mingxia still made her not quite at ease, and she looked at Ji Mingxia with suspicion, “Is what you say true?”
“Of course it is true. Even if you don’t believe me, you have to trust your phone. The check-in situation in the hotel is recorded on the app, not only me, but also many of my classmates were with me. How could I care about love with so many friends with me.” Ji Mingxia said the last sentence with guilt as he thought of his couple’s room with Yu Ning.
But the app records showed he stayed in an ordinary double room with Yu Ning, and not the one surnamed Ke.
In order to make Grandma Ji believe what he said, Ji Mingxia immediately put the phone in front of Grandma Ji.
Grandma Ji looked at the phone, and then down at the phone. At this moment, the screen showed a record of Ji Mingxia’s stay at Quanzhuang hotel.
Seeing Ji Mingxia obediently sitting before her and waiting for her answer, Grandma Ji couldn’t help but reach out her hand and scroll down a bit even though she didn’t want to invade Ji Mingxia’s privacy.
The names of Zhao Zhouye, Chen Zhen and others, indeed, appeared one by one.
Grandma Ji looked at Ji Mingxia’s roommates’ names that were recorded side by side with Ji Mingxia and she was stunned. Her hand accidentally shook, and somehow, she jumped out of the app and went back to the last opened app on the phone.
The last app on Ji Mingxia’s phone was the call app and the call log was on display.
Grandma Ji had read the hotel check-in records and didn’t intend to read more, but the call log page suddenly popped up. The black characters on a white background were particularly eye-catching and Grandma Ji unconsciously glanced at it.
Ji Mingxia had called a lot of people, there was her number, there was Zhao Zhouye, Chen Zhen, Bao Guangyuan, and so on. There were all kinds of names but she did not see the boy surnamed Ke.
The time on the call page was clear, so there was no possibility of forgery.
Ji Mingxia was telling the truth and she had misunderstood him.
Grandma Ji breathed a sigh of relief but she was extraordinarily surprised.
If Ji Mingxia was telling the truth, then the situation was filled with circumstances that she could not understand.
Because of her objection to Ji Mingxia and that Ke, the relationship between the two of them was very bad over the years. Now her grandson, who had always been disobedient, suddenly changed his nature.
As soon as he came home, he helped her carry dishes, did housework, and almost cooked……
When eating, he obediently sat across from her; when questioned, not only did he not shout and quarrel, but patiently explained everything…
If it were not for the fact that it was daytime and this teenager in front of her looked and sounded just like her grandson, Grandma Ji would simply have suspected that this Ji Mingxia was a fake.
Thinking like this, Grandma Ji suddenly noticed the top of the call page.
In the list of call records, Ji Mingxia’s most recent call was to a person named “Yu Ning”.
Yu Ning (9)
Ji Mingxia called Yu Ning nine times, and Yu Ning didn’t answer any of them?
Grandma Ji noticed this detail, and raised her head and found that Ji Mingxia was still looking at her expectantly. Grandma Ji looked embarrassed and she handed the phone back to Ji Mingxia.
“I’m sorry, it’s me who misunderstood you.” Grandma Ji said.
Her face was pale and her voice had the hoarseness of an old woman. Her expression was sharp when questioning him and when she apologized, she also looked serious and very earnest.
Ji Mingxia did not expect Grandma Ji to apologize so solemnly. He hurriedly waved his hand and said, “It’s also my fault, you made so many calls and I did not receive any of them ……I will definitely pay attention next time.”
Grandma Ji listened to Ji Mingxia’s assurance, took a deeper look at Ji Mingxia with a belly full of doubts but l finally nodded her head.
Ji Mingxia naturally saw that Grandma Ji was looking at him with suspicion but the matter had come to this and he could only go with the flow.
Grandma Ji was a character outside the original book and a relative of his, so he was very apprehensive that she’d see through him. But now that he had met her, he found that things were a little better off than he thought.
Even if he knew that Grandma Ji was suspicious of him, he pretended not to see it.
There wasn’t a second Ji Mingxia in this world anyway.
Thinking like this, Ji Mingxia’s eyes finally stopped on Grandma Ji’s gray hair.
What he wanted to understand now was the issue of Grandma Ji’s age.
Grandma Ji was suspicious of the current Ji Mingxia, and Ji Mingxia didn’t know how to get along with Grandma Ji, so the two spent the day with this weird atmosphere.
At night, Ji Mingxia lay in his bed and could not help but open his address book once again, hesitating on whether to call Yu Ning or not.
Just when Ji Mingxia was hesitating, the loud ring of a doorbell came from the courtyard.
Because the house covered a large area, Grandma Ji installed a doorbell on the iron gate of the courtyard, so that when someone visits and rings the doorbell, the person inside the house would know.
Ji Mingxia often lived with his grandmother, so he was naturally very familiar with the doorbell.
But at this moment, the ringing of the bell made Ji Mingxia uncomfortable.
Although the sound was the same as he remembered, it sounded extraordinarily loud and harsh to his ears.
Ji Mingxia looked at the time. It was already past 10 p.m.
For people in the city, 10 pm was the start of nightlife, but for people in the village, this was time for people to go to bed.
For example, his grandmother had already gone to her room at 8 p.m to lie down and sleep.
The doorbell was still ringing and the person ringing it seemed anxious. He pressed the button repeatedly, causing the bell to ring so rapidly that it could not be ignored.
Ji Mingxia hurriedly got up from the bed, pulled open the curtains and peeked out.
The dark sky enveloped the entire village. Except for the street lights, there were no residential buildings lit up.
Looking around, whether it was the street outside, or the residential buildings, everywhere was quiet and not disturbed by the slightest sound.
Except for the ringing doorbell at Ji Mingxia’s house.
Ji Mingxia looked in the direction of the door. The courtyard was designed not only for safety, but also for the convenience of daily life, so the courtyard wall and the gate were roofed.
At the moment, the location outside the gate was blocked by the roof, and from Ji Mingxia’s point of view, it was impossible to see what the person ringing the bell looked like.
Ji Mingxia had no choice but to ask: “Who is ringing the bell?”
There was a pause for a moment, and then, immediately after, the bell rang again mechanically, with no one answering the whole time.
Perhaps it was his illusion, but Ji Mingxia felt as if the whole village became even quieter after his shout.
The bell was so loud that Ji Mingxia had to come out of his room and quickly walk downstairs in order to prevent Grandma Ji and the neighbors from being woken up,
Ji Mingxia hurriedly turned on all the lights as he walked through the corridor.
The lights were all switched on and the whole house was bright, immediately dispersing the gloom of darkness.
Hearing the doorbell still ringing, Ji Mingxia wore his slippers and walked outside while saying, “Coming, coming.”
He hoped that the person ringing the bell would hear his voice and not continue to ring.
But the person outside the courtyard turned a deaf ear. Not only did they not stop, but they pressed even more urgently.
The gate to Grandma Ji’s house was a half-hollowed iron gate. It had an impermeable iron plate in the middle and hollowed out at the top and bottom in a very common country gate style.
Ji Mingxia got out of the house and walked towards the gate. The street lights were still on outside and everything in the yard was clear.
Ji Mingxia could only see a dark shadow through the hollow part below the iron gate, and could not see the feet of the person.
‘It should be the shadow cast on the ground after the street lamp shines on the person.’
The doorbell was still ringing wildly. Ji Mingxia was affected by the noise and he was a little impatient, only wishing for the ringing to stop quickly.
He hurriedly put his hand on the gate but just when he was about to turn the lock to open the gate, he suddenly noticed that the blood red ring on his ring finger was glowing faintly.
Ji Mingxia froze for a moment and instinctively retracted his hand, not touching the lock again.
He looked at the iron gate in front of him, and then looked at the black shadow on the ground.
At this moment, Ji Mingxia and the person outside the gate were only a gate apart.
The street light was shining down from the top left, and his shadow fell to his right. Every detail of his body was clear in the shadow.
But the person’s shadow outside the gate was a blur. It was just a dark mass and it was completely indistinguishable.
The doorbell was still ringing, and the person outside the gate seemed very anxious when he saw that Ji Minxia was not opening the door.
Not only did he frantically press the doorbell, but even the lock was constantly shaking.
The sound of the bell became more frantic. Ji Mingxia looked back at the black shadow and he unconsciously took a step back.
At this point, he suddenly saw the doorbell screen hanging on the wall.
Grandma Ji’s house was installed with a smart doorbell with two monitoring devices. One was in Grandma Ji’s bedroom as it made it more convenient for her to receive guests as she rested. After all, Grandma Ji was old, her hands and feet were not nimble so she could just open the gabe from her room; the other one was by the gate and was for daily use.
Ji Mingxia was so disturbed by the doorbell that he was about to open the gate out of habit. It was only now, after seeing the screen, that he remembered the intercom also had a monitoring function.
Ji Mingxia stretched out his hand and gently pressed the “camera on” button under the monitor.
The screen lit up, and the camera outside the gate was immediately activated. It aimed at the courtyard gate to take a clear shot.
The doorbell was still ringing, the knocking on the gate was still so noisy, and the black shadow was still outside the gate.
However, on the monitor screen, the gate to Grandma Ji’s house was empty. There was nothing.
Ji Mingxia said: I wouldn't need to rush upstairs to find the household registration book while you are cooking. Foreign same-sex marriages are registered with passports. Our household registration books and ID cards cannot be used abroad.Thanks to the danmei novels he used to read, Ji Mingxia had a little understanding of same-sex marriages.Grandma Ji had begun to waver after hearing Ji Mingxia's words.After all, Ji Mingxia's explanation made sense logically speaking.However, her long-standing impression of Ji Mingxia still made her not quite at ease, and she looked at Ji Mingxia with suspicion, Is what you say true?Of course it is true. Even if you don't believe me, you have to trust your phone. The check-in situation in the hotel is recorded on the app, not only me, but also many of my classmates were with me. How could I care about love with so many friends with me. Ji Mingxia said the last sentence with guilt as he thought of his couple's room with Yu Ning.But the app records showed he stayed in an ordinary double room with Yu Ning, and not the one surnamed Ke.In order to make Grandma Ji believe what he said, Ji Mingxia immediately put the phone in front of Grandma Ji.Grandma Ji looked at the phone, and then down at the phone. At this moment, the screen showed a record of Ji Mingxia's stay at Quanzhuang hotel.Seeing Ji Mingxia obediently sitting before her and waiting for her answer, Grandma Ji couldn't help but reach out her hand and scroll down a bit even though she didn't want to invade Ji Mingxia's privacy.The names of Zhao Zhouye, Chen Zhen and others, indeed, appeared one by one.Grandma Ji looked at Ji Mingxia's roommates' names that were recorded side by side with Ji Mingxia and she was stunned. Her hand accidentally shook, and somehow, she jumped out of the app and went back to the last opened app on the phone.The last app on Ji Mingxia's phone was the call app and the call log was on display.Grandma Ji had read the hotel check-in records and didn't intend to read more, but the call log page suddenly popped up. The black characters on a white background were particularly eye-catching and Grandma Ji unconsciously glanced at it.Ji Mingxia had called a lot of people, there was her number, there was Zhao Zhouye, Chen Zhen, Bao Guangyuan, and so on. There were all kinds of names but she did not see the boy surnamed Ke.The time on the call page was clear, so there was no possibility of forgery.Ji Mingxia was telling the truth and she had misunderstood him.Grandma Ji breathed a sigh of relief but she was extraordinarily surprised.If Ji Mingxia was telling the truth, then the situation was filled with circumstances that she could not understand.Because of her objection to Ji Mingxia and that Ke, the relationship between the two of them was very bad over the years. Now her grandson, who had always been disobedient, suddenly changed his nature.As soon as he came home, he helped her carry dishes, did housework, and almost cookedWhen eating, he obediently sat across from her; when questioned, not only did he not shout and quarrel, but patiently explained everythingIf it were not for the fact that it was daytime and this teenager in front of her looked and sounded just like her grandson, Grandma Ji would simply have suspected that this Ji Mingxia was a fake.Thinking like this, Grandma Ji suddenly noticed the top of the call page.In the list of call records, Ji Mingxia's most recent call was to a person named Yu Ning.Yu Ning 9Ji Mingxia called Yu Ning nine times, and Yu Ning didn't answer any of them?Grandma Ji noticed this detail, and raised her head and found that Ji Mingxia was still looking at her expectantly. Grandma Ji looked embarrassed and she handed the phone back to Ji Mingxia.I'm sorry, it's me who misunderstood you. Grandma Ji said.Her face was pale and her voice had the hoarseness of an old woman. Her expression was sharp when questioning him and when she apologized, she also looked serious and very earnest.Ji Mingxia did not expect Grandma Ji to apologize so solemnly. He hurriedly waved his hand and said, It's also my fault, you made so many calls and I did not receive any of them I will definitely pay attention next time.Grandma Ji listened to Ji Mingxia's assurance, took a deeper look at Ji Mingxia with a belly full of doubts but l finally nodded her head.Ji Mingxia naturally saw that Grandma Ji was looking at him with suspicion but the matter had come to this and he could only go with the flow.Grandma Ji was a character outside the original book and a relative of his, so he was very apprehensive that she'd see through him. But now that he had met her, he found that things were a little better off than he thought.Even if he knew that Grandma Ji was suspicious of him, he pretended not to see it.There wasn't a second Ji Mingxia in this world anyway.Thinking like this, Ji Mingxia's eyes finally stopped on Grandma Ji's gray hair.What he wanted to understand now was the issue of Grandma Ji's age.Grandma Ji was suspicious of the current Ji Mingxia, and Ji Mingxia didn't know how to get along with Grandma Ji, so the two spent the day with this weird atmosphere.At night, Ji Mingxia lay in his bed and could not help but open his address book once again, hesitating on whether to call Yu Ning or not.Just when Ji Mingxia was hesitating, the loud ring of a doorbell came from the courtyard.Because the house covered a large area, Grandma Ji installed a doorbell on the iron gate of the courtyard, so that when someone visits and rings the doorbell, the person inside the house would know.Ji Mingxia often lived with his grandmother, so he was naturally very familiar with the doorbell.But at this moment, the ringing of the bell made Ji Mingxia uncomfortable.Although the sound was the same as he remembered, it sounded extraordinarily loud and harsh to his ears.Ji Mingxia looked at the time. It was already past 10 p.m.For people in the city, 10 pm was the start of nightlife, but for people in the village, this was time for people to go to bed.For example, his grandmother had already gone to her room at 8 p.m to lie down and sleep.The doorbell was still ringing and the person ringing it seemed anxious. He pressed the button repeatedly, causing the bell to ring so rapidly that it could not be ignored.Ji Mingxia hurriedly got up from the bed, pulled open the curtains and peeked out.The dark sky enveloped the entire village. Except for the street lights, there were no residential buildings lit up.Looking around, whether it was the street outside, or the residential buildings, everywhere was quiet and not disturbed by the slightest sound.Except for the ringing doorbell at Ji Mingxia's house.Ji Mingxia looked in the direction of the door. The courtyard was designed not only for safety, but also for the convenience of daily life, so the courtyard wall and the gate were roofed.At the moment, the location outside the gate was blocked by the roof, and from Ji Mingxia's point of view, it was impossible to see what the person ringing the bell looked like.Ji Mingxia had no choice but to ask: Who is ringing the bell?There was a pause for a moment, and then, immediately after, the bell rang again mechanically, with no one answering the whole time.Perhaps it was his illusion, but Ji Mingxia felt as if the whole village became even quieter after his shout.The bell was so loud that Ji Mingxia had to come out of his room and quickly walk downstairs in order to prevent Grandma Ji and the neighbors from being woken up,Ji Mingxia hurriedly turned on all the lights as he walked through the corridor.The lights were all switched on and the whole house was bright, immediately dispersing the gloom of darkness.Hearing the doorbell still ringing, Ji Mingxia wore his slippers and walked outside while saying, Coming, coming.He hoped that the person ringing the bell would hear his voice and not continue to ring.But the person outside the courtyard turned a deaf ear. Not only did they not stop, but they pressed even more urgently.The gate to Grandma Ji's house was a half-hollowed iron gate. It had an impermeable iron plate in the middle and hollowed out at the top and bottom in a very common country gate style.Ji Mingxia got out of the house and walked towards the gate. The street lights were still on outside and everything in the yard was clear.Ji Mingxia could only see a dark shadow through the hollow part below the iron gate, and could not see the feet of the person.It should be the shadow cast on the ground after the street lamp shines on the person.'The doorbell was still ringing wildly. Ji Mingxia was affected by the noise and he was a little impatient, only wishing for the ringing to stop quickly.He hurriedly put his hand on the gate but just when he was about to turn the lock to open the gate, he suddenly noticed that the blood red ring on his ring finger was glowing faintly.Ji Mingxia froze for a moment and instinctively retracted his hand, not touching the lock again.He looked at the iron gate in front of him, and then looked at the black shadow on the ground.At this moment, Ji Mingxia and the person outside the gate were only a gate apart.The street light was shining down from the top left, and his shadow fell to his right. Every detail of his body was clear in the shadow.But the person's shadow outside the gate was a blur. It was just a dark mass and it was completely indistinguishable.The doorbell was still ringing, and the person outside the gate seemed very anxious when he saw that Ji Minxia was not opening the door.Not only did he frantically press the doorbell, but even the lock was constantly shaking.The sound of the bell became more frantic. Ji Mingxia looked back at the black shadow and he unconsciously took a step back.At this point, he suddenly saw the doorbell screen hanging on the wall.Grandma Ji's house was installed with a smart doorbell with two monitoring devices. One was in Grandma Ji's bedroom as it made it more convenient for her to receive guests as she rested. After all, Grandma Ji was old, her hands and feet were not nimble so she could just open the gabe from her room; the other one was by the gate and was for daily use.Ji Mingxia was so disturbed by the doorbell that he was about to open the gate out of habit. It was only now, after seeing the screen, that he remembered the intercom also had a monitoring function.Ji Mingxia stretched out his hand and gently pressed the camera on button under the monitor.The screen lit up, and the camera outside the gate was immediately activated. It aimed at the courtyard gate to take a clear shot.The doorbell was still ringing, the knocking on the gate was still so noisy, and the black shadow was still outside the gate.However, on the monitor screen, the gate to Grandma Ji's house was empty. There was nothing.
