Shen Yutong wasn’t home?
Zhou Wang walked into 3308 and immediately frowned.
The smell in the house... was quite mixed!
It didn’t match Zhou Wang’s impression of Shen Yutong. She seemed like the kind of girl who would be really neat and clean.
Turning his head, Zhou Wang was taken aback.
The apartment’s bathroom was right near the entrance. At that moment, the bathroom door was tightly closed, but light shone from inside, which was the source of light in the hallway.
What made Zhou Wang a bit puzzled was that he seemed to hear some faint water sounds, but they didn’t seem like the sound of showering.
Zhou Wang didn’t deliberately lighten his footsteps and walked straight over. When he got close to the poorly soundproofed bathroom door, he heard some indescribable sounds.
Like some suppressed gasps, also like a kind of painful moaning.
"Shen Yutong?"
Zhou Wang tried calling out, but there was no response from inside, and the soft moaning didn’t stop.
What was Shen Yutong doing again!
Without hearing a response, Zhou Wang directly grabbed the bathroom door handle and twisted it. The unlocked door swung open.
Facing Zhou Wang, sitting on the edge of the bathtub, was a woman with disheveled clothes. She had a Bluetooth headset in her ears, one hand holding a horizontally oriented phone, and the other hand... holding a handheld chicken.
The woman appeared to be around thirty years old. Her face and figure were both mature, with delicate features that gave Zhou Wang a sense of familiarity.
In short, this beautiful woman with her nightgown pushed up to her waist sat with her legs apart, staring blankly at Zhou Wang, who suddenly appeared at the door.
Zhou Wang was also stunned. Damn... this wasn’t Shen Yutong!
One second, two seconds, the woman finally reacted, leapt off the bathtub in a hurry, and screamed.
"Ah!"
As the woman screamed, there was a commotion from upstairs, as if someone was rushing downstairs.
Zhou Wang couldn’t figure out what was going on, but he quickly reacted, slamming the bathroom door shut.
"Sis, what’s wrong, are you okay?"
Accompanied by "thud, thud, thud" sounds, a figure ran down from upstairs.
A bewildered Zhou Wang directly pressed a row of switches on the wall, and in an instant, the entire apartment lit up brightly.
"Who are you, and how did you get in here?"
Running down the stairs, a young man with a face still somewhat tender, wearing black-rimmed glasses, looked at Zhou Wang with suspicion.
Zhou Wang frowned, not yet understanding, when he heard the sound of a door lock turning behind him. A bit of clatter followed, and several people opened the door and came in.
There was a middle-aged woman who appeared somewhat harsh, a middle-aged man about forty years old with thinning hair and dark skin wearing a gold chain, and a little boy a few years old.
"Who are you, and why are you in our house... Xiao Ming, is he your classmate?"
The middle-aged woman, speaking with a heavy dialect accent, looked at Zhou Wang in surprise, then turned to ask the boy at the stairway.
"I don’t know him. I was upstairs playing games when I suddenly heard Big Sis scream, so I ran down..."
Xiao Ming shook his head.
"Yu Rou, Yu Rou... are you in the bathroom? Come out, what’s going on!"
The woman walked to the bathroom door and started knocking. There were some rustling sounds inside, but the woman named Yu Rou didn’t respond immediately.
At this time, the middle-aged man noticed the bag in Zhou Wang’s hand and casually said, "Young man, are you the food delivery guy?"
"Oh, was it Tongtong who ordered takeout again? That child..."
When the woman’s words mentioned Shen Yutong’s name, Zhou Wang finally understood something, and he asked, "Are you Shen Yutong’s family?"
"You know our Tongtong?"
The woman scrutinized Zhou Wang, suspiciously asking, "You are..."
Zhou Wang subtly turned his head to glance at the messy floor in the living room, the piles of luggage stacked in the corner, the crumpled and abused sofa, and the scattered toys...
Zhou Wang retracted his gaze, smiling lightly as he said, "I’m the landlord... Shen Yutong didn’t seem to tell me there were other people living here!"
As soon as Zhou Wang identified himself as the "landlord," Shen Yutong’s mother, who had been studying Zhou Wang, immediately changed her expression and began to smile. She said, "Oh, you’re the landlord, hello, hello, I’m Shen Yutong’s mother..."
Just then, the bathroom door opened again, and the woman, now properly dressed, emerged with her head lowered.
"Yu Rou, what were you doing just now, I called out, and you didn’t answer. Quickly, make some tea. This is Shen Yutong’s landlord... Please, landlord, have a seat!"
When she heard Zhou Wang was the landlord, the woman named Yu Rou looked up at Zhou Wang, then quickly lowered her head again, her neck flushing a deep red.
After hearing Shen Yutong’s mother’s instructions, she hurried to the kitchen.
...
After sitting on the sofa for five minutes, Zhou Wang finally understood the relationship between these people and Shen Yutong.
Besides Shen Yutong’s mother, the woman in the bathroom was named Shen Yurou, Shen Yutong’s older sister. As for the young man who ran downstairs, about 18 or 19 years old, his name was Shen Yuming, Shen Yutong’s younger brother.
But what surprised Zhou Wang the most was the man in his forties named Liu Chao. He was actually Shen Yutong’s brother-in-law, Shen Yurou’s husband, and the little boy was their child.