When the car stopped at the entrance of Yue Mansion, the pointer of the pocket watch stopped at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night.
The driver trotted forward and opened the door.
The right cheek suddenly became a little cold, Yue Dingtang reached out and wiped it, it was snow water.
Under the illumination of the headlights, the finely broken snow particles were distinct, and there was sometimes a little wind, which swept the snow particles into the neck, and the driver shrank subconsciously and muttered softly.
"Why is it still snowing?"
But it's warm when you walk in the door.
The warm air came oncoming, mixed with a dark fragrance, and the alternating hot and cold instantly made the nose itchy, and the driver couldn't help but lowered his head and sneezed.
"Little brother!"
A beautiful figure walked down from the second floor. She was wearing stilettos and a cheongsam, and she was still able to roll over like a whirlwind.
Yue Dingtang can blurt out without even looking at each other's face: "Third sister, why are you back?"
Yue Chunxiao smiled and said, "Why, don't you want to see me? Your brother-in-law has returned to China with the minister. I don't want to go to Nanjing, so I'll just go home and have a look."
Yue Dingtang: "With Mrs. Jiang in Nanjing, there are dance banquets every day. Isn't that your favorite?"
Yue Chunxiao pouted: "I like to be in the limelight, I don't like to be humiliated and suffer. I didn't know the officials and juniors before I arrived in Nanjing. There are a lot of royal relatives and relatives. Thinking that going abroad is a beautiful business, you will definitely ask questions about how much oil and water your brother-in-law has made!"
Yue Dingtang nodded: "It's still that violent temper."
Yue Chunxiao made a gesture to hit him, but the latter quickly moved his hands away. Yue Chunxiao turned his palms into fingers and pinched his ears when he reached the halfway point.
Yue Ding Tang hissed, "Take it easy!"
Yue Chunxiao: "Are you convinced?"
Yue Dingtang: "Five bodies cast on the ground."
Yue Chunxiao let go with satisfaction: "I made some dumplings and rolled the noodles. What do you want to eat, dumpling soup? Scallion oil noodles?"
Yue Dingtang: "Scallion oil noodles."
Yue Chunxiao said angrily: "It's still the same, it hasn't changed since I was a child."
Having said that, he happily went to prepare.
Stirring noodles with scallion oil is very fast. Heat the scallion oil in a pan until the scallions change color, then cook the noodles and pick them up, you can pour the hot scallion oil down.
A bowl of noodles has thus become the thinking of most people in this city, from the dignitaries to the merchants and pawns, no exception.
Yue Chunxiao not only made noodles with scallion oil.
There are also stuffed mushrooms and small soup dumplings on the table.
These two things can't be done in a while.
Yue Dingtang twitched the corners of his mouth: "You're not afraid that I will die if you agree on a late night snack."
Yue Chunxiao did not fake the servant's hand, and personally brought the noodles with scallion oil and put it in front of him.
"I thought your second brother would come back to eat, but who knew that he went to Peiping temporarily." Yue Chunxiao sat down opposite him and sighed, "It's better to be at home, which is pleasing to the eye, even the one in the room with a gap. The cabinets look better than the outside."
Yue Dingtang lowered his head and ate a few mouthfuls of noodles before laughing: "What crime did you suffer to make this sigh? You didn't always think that the Western countries were so much better than the places of the ancestors, advanced, beautiful, with tall buildings. Building, civilized etiquette, is that what you said?"
Yue Chunxiao glanced at him: "I used to go to study abroad. Studying abroad is the same as studying abroad. You are just talking slander here. You should really see it with your own eyes. You know, it's the embassy, you don't know. , think it's a haunted house in disrepair!"
Yue Dingtang was surprised: "Anyway, you also represent a decent country. Didn't the Nanjing government provide funding?"
Yue Chunxiao smiled bitterly: "Decent? Nanjing should have given your brother-in-law their wages, but they haven't been paid since the first half of the year. People like us still have some family background, and they can still run their business. Some people from poor families don't even have winter clothes. I can't afford it! There are also embassy renovations. Whenever it rains, the ceiling will leak, not to mention your brother-in-law's office. The floor is wet, and it will become moldy after a long time. If you want to change the place, even the salary is still in arrears, where will the funds come from?”
At first, the gripping hand didn't stop, but gradually, the movement slowed down.
Silence flowed between the two.
"What did Nanjing say, Minister Chen sent a telegram?"
"I sent it, and sent it every few days, urging salary and funds. Nanjing always said that it was difficult and difficult, and let them find their own way to raise it. If you want me to say, this bullshit diplomat is inappropriate!"
"Dignity is earned by yourself, not given by others. Even your own country doesn't take the country's decency seriously. Why should your brother-in-law and the others go abroad to suffer and suffer!"
"You don't know, before we returned to China, there was a dance in the British Embassy, and your brother-in-law took me there. The French counselor at that time asked your brother-in-law in front of the secretaries of the counselors of several other countries. He heard that the rain had stopped outside. Only the rain in the Chinese embassy is a scene, is it true?"
She was full of complaints, and she didn't have the complacency before she went abroad.
Yue Dingtang: "What happened to my brother-in-law?"
Yue Chunxiao: "Your brother-in-law said that the world is not at peace yet. We Chinese like to be prepared for danger in times of peace, and always remind ourselves not to forget the suffering, so that we can do more practical things for the people."
Yue Dingtang smiled and said, "This answer is not bad."
Yue Chunxiao said angrily, "You're still laughing! If your brother-in-law is an American or British embassy officer, would the other party dare to make such a joke?!"
Yue Dingtang: "This was originally a joke in an informal setting, and I can't blame others for taking it lightly."
Yue Chunxiao: "That's why I never go to Nanjing. Your brother-in-law and the others are in the wind and rain outside. They don't have enough to eat and don't wear warm clothes. The people in Nanjing are all drunk and crazy. I'm afraid that after I go, I can't help but take pictures. Cursing at the table will make your brother-in-law's career go bad, so you might as well stay at home and go out for shopping and meet old friends."
She complained a lot, and Yue Dingtang listened patiently. After all, if the couple were to go abroad in the future, the family would not know what year or month they would be able to meet.
"By the way," Yue Chunxiao pierced the soup bag with chopsticks, the juice flowed out and the aroma was overflowing. "Today, I went to have afternoon tea, and I also met Ling Yao, do you remember? The sister of your old classmate Ling Shu."
Yue Ding Tang held a bowl and drank the soup.
"What's up with her?"
Yue Chunxiao: "It's nothing, I only found out when I returned to China this time that she married a small staff member of the municipal government, but the person hasn't changed much. It's just this chance, tsk tsk, thinking that the Ling family was so beautiful back then, and now it's not too bad, she She still wanted to maintain her reputation as a rich wife in front of me, but I was mercilessly pierced by me."
Yue Dingtang: "I remember you didn't have a good relationship before?"
Yue Chunxiao laughed: "You don't know women too well. She wants to crush me, and I want to crush her friendship. Do you understand?"
Yue Dingtang concluded: "Hypocritical superficial friendship."
After saying that, Agile turned to the beginning, and promptly passed the third sister's grappling hand.
Yue Chunxiao continued to sigh: "I still remember when I was in school, when Ling Yao saw Tian'er changing her clothes, every day she did not carry a set of handbags and perfumes that were not available in China. She had already brought them back from the West, but now, she The checkered cheongsam on her body is clearly frayed at the corners. She is still wearing it, so you can imagine how Ling Yao is living now! By the way, how is your old classmate Ling Shu? You have no contact with him. ?"
Yue Dingtang: "Very few."
Yue Chunxiao: "As the saying goes, the friendship of an old classmate is the most precious. If you have time, ask him to come to sit at home, talk about friendship, and talk about the past years. I liked that child since he was a child, and he was beautiful. And clever, if it weren't for the fall of the family, I might be better off than you now!"
Yue Dingtang: "What's wrong with you, while you hate his sister, you call me to invite others to come to sit at home."
Yue Chunxiao laughed and said, "Is this a contradiction? I hate his sister, but it's not that I hate him."
Yue Dingtang put down the soup bowl.
"I'm afraid, I will disappoint you."
Yue Chunxiao was puzzled.
Yue Dingtang: "Ling Shu was involved in a murder case, and he is the biggest suspect."
Yue Chunxiao looked shocked: "That Ling Yao..."
Yue Dingtang: "She probably doesn't know about it yet. The news is currently being suppressed by us, and the newspapers are not allowed to publish news for the time being. Otherwise, as the deceased, I'm afraid there will be chaos."
Yue Chunxiao: "Impossible, Ling Shu was such a well-behaved child when he was in school, I still remember..."
Yue Dingtang: "The deceased is Du Yunning. You also know the third sister. I am an old classmate of Ling Shu and I."
Yue Chunxiao stopped talking.
"I'm done eating."
Yue Dingtang got up, ready to go upstairs and go back to his room.
"Little brother."
Yue Chunxiao stopped him.
"Ling Yao, although I don't like her, I don't have much hatred for her. Speaking of which, everyone is still an old classmate. The Ling family is like this now, and Ling Shu is the only male in the Ling family. Could it be wrong? "
Yue Dingtang: "The case happened in a public concession. I will help Smith follow up. It is still in the stage of evidence collection."
Yue Chunxiao was startled and sighed again.
"Tell me, what is this all about? Seeing that the Chinese New Year is almost here, if Ling Yao knew about it, the sky above his head would probably collapse."
Yue Dingtang walked up the stairs and glanced back at the last glance at the table full of steaming home-cooked dishes, and Yue Chunxiao who frowned at the table.
Back in the room, after washing up, he should have gone to bed. Tomorrow he has to go to school to revise his thesis, but Yue Dingtang didn't sleep well after tossing and turning.
The words "Ling Shu is the only male in the Ling family" were all in his mind.
He copied the pocket watch on the bedside table, which showed three midnight.
Yue Dingtang rubbed his nose, sat up again, took off the crumpled satin nightgown, slowly changed into a suit, and called the servant again.
"Fourth Young Master, what are your orders?"
"Go and call the driver, I'll go out."
"so late?"
"Well, let's go."
…
As soon as he entered the arresting room, Shen Renjie hurriedly greeted him.
Yue Dingtang already had an impression of this slightly fat Hua Chau.
"Mr. Yue, it's so late, why are you still here?"
Shen Renjie's face did not have the joy he had flattered last time, and the corners of his mouth twitched reluctantly.
Yue Ding Tang was suspicious.
"Du Yuning's case, I have thought of some details, and I want to ask the suspect, you help me bring Ling Shu up."
"This..." Shen Renjie looked embarrassed.
Yue Dingtang: "Why, no?"
Shen Renjie: "No, no, you see, it's already so late, most of the night, how about tomorrow? At least let the suspect get a good night's sleep, and it will be clearer tomorrow, right?"
Yue Dingtang has heard a lot about the way the patrol room treats suspects.
Although he had never seen it with his own eyes, Yue Dingtang knew that most of it was true.
If you want to make a person submit, there are countless means—
What makes people want to die, what makes people want to live, and what makes people want to live but cannot die.
"I don't know when the patrol room became so lenient with the suspects, and the questioning is still divided into day and night."
Under his sharp eagle-like gaze, in the cold winter and twelfth lunar month, the tip of Shen Renjie's nose was sweating.
"Then, wait a moment, I'll go get them to bring people over!"
"no need."
He passed over Shen Renjie and strode towards the prison behind him.
"I'll pick it up myself!"