The entire corridor was silent, and the atmosphere was very awkward.
Xu Xinghe looked at the two heads sticking out from behind the door of his room, and then at Ling Changfeng's holographic projection in the video, for a moment he didn't know how to explain the chaotic scene in front of him.
And Marshal Ling didn't react further.
He didn't say anything, didn't ask anything, just stood there with his hands behind his back, looking at his little spouse expressionlessly, as if he was waiting for Xu Xinghe to speak first and take the initiative to explain the ins and outs of the matter.
Although he didn't suspect at all that his little spouse would cheat on him during the trip, Marshal Ling, who was hung up on the phone, was still very unhappy at the moment, and it was inevitable that he would think of many bad possibilities.
His unhappiness is hidden, hidden behind his usual icy face, hidden in his usual non-fluctuating tone, neither will he throw a tantrum to avenge himself, nor implicate the innocent because of it.
However, Xu Xinghe, who had been his spouse for nearly three months, still read this unhappiness, and decided to explain and comfort him.
Just when Xu Xinghe was about to bite the bullet and say something, there were voices coming from behind the door one after another——
"Ethan, we're done for this round, how about you guys?"
"As you can see, we are now one short of three."
"Where did the three of them go?"
"I don't know either. Team leader Xu put down his cards and left in a panic after answering the phone call. The other two went to find him and didn't come back..."
"It can't be that there is a problem at work. Mr. Liang asked us to go back and work overtime urgently?"
"In the middle of the night, don't tell such unlucky ghost stories."
"Have you called yet?"
"Called, but not..."
The voices came from behind the door one after another, from far to near, probably because a few people came to the small living room to rest and drink water after playing a round of cards, so the conversation gradually became clearer.
Fortunately, everyone didn't come out to find someone together, but quickly returned to the bedroom, their voices gradually drifting away, avoiding pushing the scene in the corridor to an even more embarrassing situation.
However, Team Leader Xu, who was standing blankly in the corridor, still had a big head.
He lowered his head and drew circles on the ground with his toes, thinking to himself, forget it, just tell the truth.
Ling Changfeng heard the strange voices coming from the room one after another, and the expression on his face became more and more calm.
From the conversation of the people, he easily guessed what they were doing, and couldn't help turning his eyes to his little spouse angrily and amusedly.
Yitong swept Xu Xinghe with his head down, and asked calmly, "How many people are in your room now?"
Xu Xinghe drooped his head, and decided to confess leniently: "Seven, add me to eight."
"..." Marshal Ling took a deep breath, thinking blankly, it's really nothing, it's just that seven people squeezed into Xu Xinghe's room in the middle of the night to play cards with his well-washed little friend.
Xu Xinghe also "just" hung up his phone because of this.
Ling Changfeng continued to ask blankly: "What are you fighting for?"
Xu Xinghe replied: "Playing cards, a popular card when I was in school, the rules are a bit similar to Doudizhu, except that four people play in groups of two. We now have two groups, and we are playing against each other in my room... "
He spoke clearly and logically, but when he inadvertently raised his eyes, he saw Ling Changfeng's indifferent and indifferent expression.
Team leader Xu suddenly realized that it is not a wise choice to make a detailed introduction right now, so he stopped and said dryly: "Next time..."
He originally wanted to say "I won't play next time", but after thinking about it, he and his colleagues seemed to have no problem playing cards. The only thing that could be called a problem was that he hung up Ling Changfeng's phone, so he changed his words: "I won't hang up on you next time."
Since he brought up the old matter himself, Marshal Ling naturally took his words and asked with a straight face, "So, why did you hang up on me just now?"
Xu Xinghe: "..."
He found that once Ling Changfeng straightened his face, his eyes would indeed become as sharp and sharp as in the legend, and they were extremely lethal, making people almost afraid to look directly at them.
He silently moved his eyes to other places, avoiding the other party's gaze, and his voice couldn't help but weakened a little: "I accidentally pressed it to hang up, and I didn't see who was calling at the time..."
After finishing speaking, he added another sentence: "At that time, my colleagues were urging me to play my cards."
After Ling Changfeng listened, his eyes swept behind Xu Xinghe again.
The two heads behind the door trembled at the same time, and immediately showed a mournful expression, feeling that a catastrophe was imminent.
Ruian wanted to cry without tears, and wanted to say "I'm wronged", but under Marshal Ling's cold eyes, he couldn't say a word.
Another member of the third group was also about to cry. Especially when Marshal Ling's terrifying and decisive pair of eyes swept towards him, he just felt that someone poured a basin of ice water on his head, and his limbs became cold instantly.
Following Ling Changfeng's line of sight, Xu Xinghe finally remembered that there were two poor fellows behind him.
So he put his hands behind his back and made a gesture to the two of them, signaling them to go back to the room and stay there, and don't block Marshal Ling's eyes here.
However, the two unlucky ones were already stupefied by Marshal Ling's eyes, and they didn't see Team Leader Xu's hand gesture.
Xu Xinghe had no choice but to turn his head, and while waving his hands at them, he said with his mouth, "Hurry up and go back to the house."
Only then did the two come back to their senses as if they had just woken up from a dream. After receiving the amnesty from the marshal's wife, they finally had the courage to run away.
However, the direction of slipping was not right, Xu Xinghe originally meant to let them go back to their respective houses, but the two of them probably hadn't fully recovered their souls, and most of their bodies were still hidden behind the door, so they simply shrank their heads in at this moment , Shuangshuang hid back in Xu Xinghe's house, and closed the door lightly.
Xu Xinghe: "..."
Ling Changfeng watched them making small moves under his nose, and didn't say anything, until those two heads retracted into the room again, he asked Xu Xinghe calmly: "Are you going to continue beating?"
Xu Xinghe immediately shook his head: "Stop hitting... They were probably scared by you, and they turned in the wrong direction."
In fact, seeing that these two are Xu Xinghe's colleagues, Marshal Ling felt that his eyes had already restrained. It's just that his eyes are not polite to the person who is playing cards with his wife in the middle of the night.
But then again, with his identity and qualifications, he would never vent his dissatisfaction on a group of young citizens.
He just looked at Xu Xinghe and said: "You are not a soldier, and you don't need to be on call 24 hours a day, so I don't need your phone to be on at all times, but there is still a difference between no one answering and hanging up, you don't want it next time." …”
In the middle of Ling Changfeng's speech, he suddenly realized that he was in a bad mood, and his tone became a bit more commanding and indifferent, as if he had returned to the tone when the two first got along.
Qin Yuan reminded him a long time ago that it is not allowed to speak in this way when dealing with his little spouse.
Marshal Ling's voice froze, a little regretful.
So after a short pause, he said as if to make up for it: "If you hang up directly, I will be worried and wonder if something happened to you."
He didn't tell Xu Xinghe that one minute after his first video call application was hung up, people from the Security Section, Security Bureau, and Intelligence Section would all start working. For the safety, Qin Yuan even had to directly call the person in charge of the local military region to ask him to take someone to search and rescue.
"I see." Xu Xinghe nodded obediently, and some not-so-distant memories suddenly appeared in his mind.
He vaguely remembered that once, Mi Lu seemed to hang up Mu Qingyun's phone call and disappeared because of anger, but Mu Qingyun found him in a mess, and even called him.
A nondescript analogy that came from nowhere flashed in Xu Xinghe's mind - if he suddenly disappeared, would Ling Changfeng also frantically look for him
The two of Ryan returned to the house, still in shock. Like two marionettes, they walked into the bedroom silently with empty eyes.
Seeing this, the other five people in the house quickly surrounded him.
"Hey, you guys are back? Where did you go just now?"
"Where's Team Leader Xiao Xu? Why didn't you come back together?"
"What's wrong? Why don't you talk?"
"Are we still playing this card?"
"Stop playing!" Ryan was the first to come back to his senses. After hearing the word "playing cards", he involuntarily shuddered and said tremblingly, "Do you know... Team Leader Xu, who called that phone call just now?"
Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay: "Who is it? It can't really be Boss Liang?"
"No..." Another member of the third group swallowed, and said slowly: "It's a person who is many times more terrifying than Boss Liang, a big shot."
"Who? It can't be Director Wang, right? I heard that when Team Leader Xu asked for sick leave before, the secretary in the director's office called Mr. Liang directly!"
"It's not." Ryan said with a pale face, "Big man, you can just guess too big."
Everyone, look at me, and I look at you. He has talked about this, and people who understand will naturally understand.
"It can't be... Marshal Ling?"
After a moment of silence, someone finally asked what everyone was thinking directly.
Ryan nodded with a serious expression, with a look of grief greater than heartbreak: "Marshal Ling came to investigate the post, and the team leader was arrested. Lucas and I also bumped into Marshal Ling in the video as soon as we went out... "
"Wow, then you two can be regarded as people who have met the marshal now, this wave of blood!"
"Bloody hell! Go out and try if you have the ability! If you see Marshal Ling's eyes, you will definitely have nightmares tonight!"
"Then what should we do now? Let's run away quickly?"
"Wait a minute! They should still be videoing in the hallway now... If they hear something that shouldn't be heard, they will be silenced!"