Dear Officer Zhuang

Chapter 23

"I used to rent together, and the girl I shared with me came back very late every day. Every time she came back, she made a lot of noise, doors slamming, slippers rattling on the floor, and sometimes she Playing music very loudly made my nerves almost exhausted, so I made up my mind to move to a quieter place." Wen Mi looked devastated.

"Some people are like this, they have no quality at all. Don't talk about your tenants, even our tenants will be annoyed to death if there is such a person living upstairs and downstairs." The middle-aged woman sympathized.

"The house where the fire broke out was a tenant. We often heard the male owner living above her complain that the tenant was very noisy." The middle-aged woman pressed her chin and nudged the uncle who was arguing with the property owner.

"That tenant seems to be in sales, selling second-hand cars, and sometimes he comes back very late. The sound insulation in our place is not very good. At night, the sound of doors slamming and walking, if you don't lighten it, you can hear it upstairs and downstairs. It’s very clear. The people who lived above her complained several times, saying that the tenant often made a lot of noise at night, waking them up who were already asleep.”

There was a light in Wen Mi's eyes: "I just heard that uncle told the property owner that the tenant also often plays music very loudly?"

"Yes!" The middle-aged woman's attention was completely attracted by the fact that the sound insulation was not good, and she was deeply disturbed by it. She didn't wonder why Wen Mi cared about the tenants playing music loudly.

"It's okay for her to play music during the day, and everyone can bear with it. But sometimes she plays music very loudly after ten or eleven at night. Don't you think this kind of person is very annoying!" a middle-aged woman asked. The fire in her stomach completely forgot that she was complaining about a dead person.

"Did the uncle who lives upstairs from her communicate with her about this?" Wen Mi asked.

"We have communicated. Every time she admits her mistakes with a good attitude, she will be really quiet for a while, and she will pay more attention when she comes back late at night. It is not as noisy as before. But she often plays music very loudly at night. Nothing has changed!"

Wen Mi felt a little strange: "Why does she play music very loudly at night?"

"Who knows!" The middle-aged woman rolled her eyes: "One time she played music at night, which made my baby fall asleep. I knocked on her door to make her keep her voice down, but she didn't even open the door. Pretend no one is home!"

Wen Mi understands why middle-aged women are so willing to share with her that Wei Yunjiao is noisy.

It is very likely that the middle-aged woman who dared to love lived downstairs from Wei Yunjiao and was deeply troubled by Wei Yunjiao's noise.

"What kind of music does she usually play? Is it loud?" Wen Mi asked again.

"It's that kind of love song. Wouldn't it be annoying to play this kind of song?" The middle-aged woman was very angry.

Wen Mi laughed along with her: "As long as everyone is noisy, you can't play any songs."

"Exactly!" The middle-aged woman calmed down a little.

Wen Mi thought: "Did she sing on the night of the fire?"

"Yes!" The middle-aged woman was very sure: "I remember it very clearly! The fire broke out at 11 o'clock in the evening, and she was still singing at 10 o'clock! I really wanted to go upstairs to have a fight with her, but my husband stopped me. He said how many times he had told the people upstairs, and the people upstairs were still like this, and it was clear that he didn't want to keep his voice down, and it was useless to talk about it.

"Although she also died because of the fire, I shouldn't have said this. But she, as a neighbor, really makes people feel unsympathetic."

"Hmm..." Wen Mi echoed thoughtfully.

Everyone said that Wei Yunjiao was noisy, she would admit her mistake, and she would pay more attention when she came back late, but she didn't change the matter of playing music very loudly at night.

Logically speaking, she changed everything else, so why didn't she change the matter of playing music loudly?

It's not like she particularly likes music, is this her last stubbornness?
"Does she play music very loudly every night?" Wen Mi asked.

"That's not true. If she played music loudly every night and ignored our complaints, we would have called the police a long time ago! It's because she comes here suddenly every once in a while, and we are annoyed." Middle-aged Women said.

"How often does she play it?" Wen Mi asked.

The middle-aged woman glanced at her suspiciously: "Why are you so interested in her affairs? Aren't you here to rent a house? Why do you keep asking about her affairs?"

The middle-aged woman's face became a little more vigilant: "Are you a reporter, pretending to be a renter, to write a manuscript that caught fire?"

Wen Mi: "..."

Careless, was seen through.

"No, I really came here to rent a house. But the whole country knows about the fire here. I am worried whether the fire is man-made or an accident. If it is an accident, is it caused by the aging of electrical appliances or circuits? I am worried about this. I don’t want to have a fire even if I move in, so I asked you more.” Wen Mi decided to lie to the end.

"Oh." The middle-aged woman nodded: "You are right to worry. We don't know what caused the fire, and the police didn't say anything."

Wen Mi nodded, thinking: the police will definitely not announce the cause of the fire without finding out what happened before Wei Yunjiao's death, whether the fire was man-made or an accident.

"After listening to what you said, she is too similar to my roommate." Wen Mi tried to ease the middle-aged woman's defenses.

"En." The middle-aged woman responded.

The owners and the property are still arguing.

Although the property owner seemed to have a good attitude on the surface, facing the anger of the owners, they were not angry and started scolding each other with the owners.

But if you listen carefully to the words of the property management company, you will know that the property management company is negotiating and shirking responsibility.

It is no wonder that the owners have been arguing for a long time, and their anger is getting bigger and bigger.

Property management: "For those private cars parked indiscriminately, we also issued a notice saying that they should not park indiscriminately. We also posted notices under each building and in the elevators, but those car owners didn't listen."

Property management: "Every time you complained to us that the girl was noisy, we reminded her, and she said she would change with a good attitude every time, so what else can we say?"

Property management: "You once complained that the girl was very noisy. When we went there, it turned out that the girl was arguing with her boyfriend. The couple's matter did not rise to domestic violence. What can we outsiders say?"

Wen Mi's eyes flickered, and she asked the middle-aged woman: "The property owner said, what happened to her quarreling with her boyfriend?"

The middle-aged woman glanced at Wen Mi: "You are quite gossip."

Wen Mi pretended to be embarrassed and giggled.

"Don't listen to the property management nonsense, they just take money and do nothing. What kind of boyfriend, it's not her boyfriend at all. I heard it clearly downstairs. That's her blind date." The middle-aged woman said.

(End of this chapter)