On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, after eating New Year's Eve dinner and watching the Spring Festival Gala for a while, seeing that the clock hit eleven o'clock, Tang Xi couldn't wait to move a box of fireworks to the terrace.
"I'll let it go, I'll let it go!" Su Huang hurriedly said.
More than 20 years ago, there were not as many varieties of fireworks crafts as there are now, and she was a girl who went to work in the city, and she didn't have the spare money, so she always stood by and watched enviously when others set them off.
But for things like fireworks, the happiest thing is to set them off by yourself.
"If you like it, go play it. If it's not enough, I'll give it away." Pei Qingzhi said.
"Yes, set off fireworks!" Yueyue opened her big eyes, obediently, and rarely said a word.
"Come, come, sister will take you there!" Su Huang grabbed her hand, snatched a lit incense and ran away.
Tang Xi smiled, and gave Shaoyao a stick of incense: "Fireworks were rare a hundred years ago, don't be restrained."
As soon as he turned his head, brilliant sparks exploded in front of his eyes.
Pei Qingzhi held up two lit fairy wands and smiled at her through the jet of sparks.
"Show me a hand." Tang Xi took one in each hand, turned it around, tested the feel, and then came to the middle of the terrace and performed a set of punches.
Originally, it was just a basic boxing method for body training, but she added some jumping and spinning movements. Although the practicality was weakened, it looked very good-looking and tall in the eyes of laymen. Especially with her movements, the sparks of the fairy wand streaked across the night sky brilliantly, and the dots of sparks fell like celestial maidens scattered flowers, which was more beautiful than any stage effect.
Behind them, colorful fireworks exploded into the sky, like a meteor shower.
"It's so beautiful." Shao Yao was stunned for a while, a smile suddenly appeared on her lips, she ran over briskly, found a similar firework stick from the box, and was about to light it.
"You have to face the outside!" Yu Mingfan rushed over and quickly turned the end of the fireworks stick to the night sky, "Although we won't be bombed, the house will burn."
Shaoyao smiled embarrassedly.
"Let me help you." Yu Mingfan sighed.
It seems... I haven't let off fireworks for many years, and I miss it a little.
Tang Xi fell in love with fairy wands. After burning two of them, she went to Pei Qingzhi to take another two. When she saw the person in the corner, she rolled her eyes and poked at the person with the burning fairy wand.
"What are you doing!" Chu Li jumped back in horror.
"Play!" Tang Xi raised her eyebrows, making a gesture to burn his clothes.
"Damn girl, go play by yourself!" Chu Li's hair was black.
Fortunately, the terrace where the two houses are connected is large enough for them to jump up and down and chase them around.
Chu Li pulled the table over to block the way, and was about to rush back into the room, however, a fire suddenly appeared in front of him—
"Pei, Qing, Zhi!"
"Big ones, just play when you want, don't disappoint." Pei Qingzhi was very calm.
Chu Li touched the fairy wand he had snatched.
Warm, not hot at all.
"Cold fireworks." Pei Qingzhi explained innocently.
"Really?" Chu Li gritted his teeth and smiled strangely at him.
As a result, there was one more person chasing.
"Oh, it's nice to be young." Mr. Pei looked at him with a smile.
On the roof, Yun Qi was dressed in white. Although he was far away from the hustle and bustle below, the light in his eyes was gentle.
"Huh? Isn't the sky over there a bit too bright?" Tang Xi stopped suddenly.
The troublemakers and ghosts all stopped and gathered together to look at the past, and they really felt that the sky in the distance was a little unusually red.
"There's a fire." Chu Li said with certainty.
"Hey, I was not careful when setting off the fireworks." Tang Xi sighed, suddenly losing interest.
This kind of thing happens every New Year's Eve. Either there is a fire somewhere, or someone is injured by fireworks and firecrackers. It's the same in any world. On the eve of New Year's Eve, the busiest things are firefighting and burn emergency departments in hospitals.
"It's almost twelve o'clock. After the first cannonball of the new year is fired, it's time to rest. It's not good to stay up too late." Pei Qingzhi said, digging out a bunch of Baizi cannons from under the box.
"Let me do it." Chu Li took it over, picked up a clothes-drying pole, and after lighting the fuse, held it far away.
Amidst a loud crackling noise, several female ghosts screamed and covered their ears.
Tang Xi turned her head, just in time to see Pei Qingzhi speak.
Although I couldn't hear the sound clearly, but looking at the mouth shape, it was clearly the words "Happy New Year".
"Happy New Year." Tang Xi covered her ears and responded silently.
After the Baizi cannon was fired, the terrace suddenly fell silent.
"Let's stay tonight, there are guest rooms." Tang Xi smiled, "There are too many people setting off cannons outside right now, the road is not safe."
"Okay." Pei Qingzhi agreed.
As for the mess on the terrace and the dining room, it would not be too late to clean it up tomorrow.
Suddenly, the phone rang.
They were stunned for a moment, only to realize that it was Chu Li's cell phone.
"Didn't you say it's a holiday?" Tang Xi said angrily, "Those guys swear that there's no problem, if they run into unsolved cases on New Year's Eve, let's see if I don't deal with them!"
Chu Li patted her on the head reassuringly, and connected the phone: "It's me...huh?"
For a moment, he didn't know what he heard, and his expression became particularly strange.
"Understood, I will tell her, you follow up and see." After Chu Li finished speaking, he hung up the phone.
"What's the matter?" Tang Xi suddenly had a premonition that the call should be related to her, and she was the one Chu Li said he would tell.
"The fire just now." Chu Li pointed to the fiery red sky in the distance, with a strange expression, "It's the Tang family. The Tang family's villa is on fire."
"... Huh?" Tang Xi blinked, but didn't react for a long time.
"After the fire was dispatched, because the Tang family was not an ordinary family after all, they were afraid of the possibility of a criminal case, so they reported it to the city bureau." Chu Li said again, "Xiao Liu thought you might want to know, so he told me. "
"Then... is it man-made or an accident?" Tang Xi asked curiously.
"The firefighters are still putting out the fire, and the cause of the fire is not yet known." Chu Li shook his head, "The Tang family has escaped, and the possibility of a criminal case is relatively small. But... firefighting is destructive, and it will be difficult to find clues afterwards .”
"Speaking of which, if the Tang family's villa is so big, if it's an accident, it won't be easy to burn down so badly all at once, right?" Pei Qingzhi interjected.
"It's hard to say." Chu Li said, "The servants of the Tang family are basically absent, and even the cooks go home for the New Year after cooking the New Year's Eve dinner. Fires are also normal."
"New year and new atmosphere, it's booming." Tang Xi spread her hands.
"Pfft—" Everyone was amused.
However, it's not a big deal that the Tang family was burned. After talking and laughing, it was thrown aside.
Even when the news about the fire the next day was reported in all the newspapers in Jiangnan City, Tang Xi was indifferent. No one died, it was just a house burned down, and the Tang family did not lack a house to live in, so it was no big deal.
The new year is a seven-day holiday, but the service industry is different. On the fourth day of the new year, basically all the shops are open.
Tang Xi was sitting in a western restaurant, covering her face with the menu she held up.
"It's okay, they can't see this position." Pei Qingzhi who was opposite was very calm.
"I'm sorry, I just called you out like that. Do you have anything else to do today?" Tang Xi smiled flatteringly.
"The company only went to work on the eighth day of the eighth day, and there was nothing to do at first." Pei Qingzhi glanced over the seat not far away, and said with a low smile, "However, I was still thinking about why I suddenly invited me to dinner, what are you doing?" …”
"Curiosity." Tang Xi shrugged and said openly, "My guardian wants to go on a blind date. I always want to see what kind of person he is, whether he is suitable, and whether he can get along with him in the future."
"Then why did you drag me on?" Pei Qingzhi couldn't laugh or cry.
"This kind of couple's restaurant, it's so eye-catching for me to come alone." Tang Xi plausibly said.
While talking, the waiter came to order.
Tang Xi's goal was not to eat, so he casually ordered a steak set meal and handed the menu to Pei Qingzhi.
"Same as hers, two more." Pei Qingzhi put the menu aside and said directly.
"Okay." The waiter froze for a moment before taking his order.
After the people left, Tang Xi asked strangely, "You haven't eaten for a few days, and you actually want to order two set meals?"
"Don't worry, someone will eat it." Pei Qingzhi replied meaningfully.
Tang Xi was confused, but seeing that he didn't mean to explain, she shrugged and stopped asking.
After a while, the drinks were served first, and there was also a beautiful Rainbow Buffy.
In the glass bowl, ice cream balls are dotted with various fruits, skittles, and Oreo cones. They are colorful. Although it is winter, the heating in the restaurant is fully turned on, and the mouth is prone to dryness, which makes people feel very appetizing.
"We didn't order this." Tang Xi wondered.
"Oh, from today until Valentine's Day, all couples who come to our store will receive a Rainbow Buffy." The waiter introduced with a smile.
"Uh...we're not..." Tang Xi wanted to explain, but swallowed it in the middle of the sentence, just smiled, "Thank you."
This kind of thing, if I can't explain it clearly, it will only get darker and darker. At most, I won't come to this store in the future. What's more... this Rainbow Buffy looks delicious!
"Take it easy, both of you." The waiter gave them a look of "I know you girls are shy, but I have sharp eyes", took the menu and left.
"Do you mind?" Tang Xi asked.
Pei Qingzhi shook his head, saying it was okay.
"Then I won't be polite." Tang Xi held the glass bowl in front of her, scooped a big scoop of ice cream with crushed fruit and put it into her mouth.
The icy sweet taste melted on the tip of the tongue, and the cool air rushed straight to the forehead, but it didn't feel cold.
"Delicious!" Tang Xi's eyes lit up, and he picked up another spoon with his left hand, scooped up a spoon and handed it over, "Try this, it's really good!"
Pei Qingzhi was taken aback for a moment, although there were young men and women feeding around, but this...he shook his head with a wry smile, and reached out to take the spoon.
"Is it delicious?" Tang Xi looked at him with a smile.
"It's okay." Pei Qingzhi put down the spoon and said bravely, "I don't usually eat sweets, so I'll give you all."
"You men really don't feel the beauty of sweets." Tang Xi sighed.
"Cough cough." Pei Qingzhi couldn't help coughing twice.
He knew that Tang Xi was unintentional. This girl had no concept of men and women at all. After being assigned to the circle of "friends" by her, men and women were treated the same, but the joking sight from the side really made him a little speechless.
At this moment, the screeching sound of chairs rubbing against the floor suddenly sounded in the quiet western restaurant, and immediately, a fashionable girl ran out angrily with a handbag in her hand.
"It's over." Pei Qingzhi shrugged and subtly let out a sigh of relief.
Tang Xi hurriedly probed out, and sure enough, the girl opposite Chu Li was gone.
It took no more than fifteen minutes before and after, and I didn't even read the menu.
Chu Li threw away the menu casually, loosened the tie that he was trying to tie, and calmly pushed away the chair, walking towards them.
Tang Xi stuck out her tongue and smiled "hehe".
Chu Li pulled away the chair next to Pei Qingzhi and sat down, then glanced at Tang Xi again: "You have leisure."
"Curious." Tang Xi didn't have the embarrassment of being caught on the spot following her guardian on a date.
"Think too much." Chu Li picked up a glass of untouched lemonade on the table, gulped down half of it, and then complained, "Women are really troublesome."
"Then you still go to the appointment. Last time, didn't you say you would never go on blind dates again?" Pei Qingzhi laughed.
"What can I do?" Chu Li looked irritated, "The one introduced by Director Tan is the daughter of the leader's family, so I have to save face."
"Don't like it?" Pei Qing raised his eyebrows.
"If you don't like it, my current life is not suitable for marriage, okay?" Chu Li replied, "I don't stay at home for three days, and when there is a case, I will take charge of the serious crime team, and play with the suspect from time to time. , Just like me, don’t hurt other girls. The profession of criminal police sounds very exciting and great, but only family members know the hardship. Those who have families in our team, I don’t let them go out to work .”
Pei Qingzhi sighed, shook his head, and stopped talking.
The waiter brought up the set meal, and seeing that there was one more person, he was stunned, but Pei Qingzhi had ordered for three people, so he put down his things, turned around and left.
Two men and one woman dating? It really can see everything!
"Did you know that he would be too fast to even order food?" Tang Xi was very surprised.
Although she didn't think Chu Li's blind date would be successful, she even ordered lunch for him, which was too contemptuous.
"If he doesn't want to, he can take away his popularity with just three sentences. It took more than ten minutes. It seems that he is giving the leader a lot of face." Pei Qingzhi said indifferently.
"..." Tang Xi was speechless, and said after a while, "What did you say to the girl, she seemed very angry when she left."
Chu Li cut a piece of steak and chewed it, swallowed it before opening his mouth: "It's nothing, I just told her that I have a child who is in the third year of high school this year, and asked her if she minds."
"!!!" Tang Xi's hand holding the knife and fork froze.
"She believes in this excuse?" Pei Qingzhi asked a little strangely.
Chu Li is twenty-nine years old, normal people can't believe that he has a child who is in the third year of high school! Could it be that he had a child when he was eleven or twelve years old? That was too creepy.
"There is a household registration book, why don't you believe it." Chu Li gave him a strange look.
Pei Qingzhi was also choked.
Well, Tang Xi's household registration is now under Chu Li's name, but he can guarantee that the girl must have missed the "relationship" column written on it.
"Forget it, where are you going after dinner?" Chu Li asked.
"I don't know." Tang Xi was stunned, thought for a while, and then suddenly remembered, "By the way, Xiao Shuang said yesterday that the New Year's film is good and funny, why don't we watch it together?"
"Sure, there's nothing else to do anyway." Pei Qingzhi agreed.
Chu Li was not interested in that kind of nonsensical comedies at all, but he looked at this, then at that, and finally his eyes fell on the half-eaten bowl of Rainbow Buffy, swallowed his rejection, and responded lightly "it is good".
You have to be optimistic about your own cabbage, don't get caught by a pig if you don't pay attention.
"By the way, is Xiao Xiao making any progress?" Tang Xi asked casually.
"A little bit, but it will take time." Chu Li nodded, "The IP address is outside the country, and it is difficult to track it from China, and it must be kept secret, so it is a bit slow. But Xiao Xiao said it can be cracked."
"Yeah." Tang Xi nodded repeatedly with her mouth full of food, and said after a while, "It's good if you can crack it, take your time."
"First Tang Zhenying was admitted to the hospital, and then the Tang family was on fire. The Tang family didn't know what kind of bad luck they had." Chu Li said again, "Did you say last time... unlucky ghost?"
"Yes." Tang Xi nodded, and told the story of the Tang family's unlucky ghost with a smile.
"Speaking of expired vaccines." Chu Li frowned, his face a little unsightly, "Because Tang Zhenying has a good attitude in front of the public, Dong Liang, the manager of the pharmaceutical company, has taken all the responsibility. If we actively compensate, Tang Corporation's public opinion on this matter is already developing in a positive direction."
"Normal." Pei Qingzhi was not surprised. "After all, the Tang family has been the richest man in Jiangnan City for so long. The family has a big business. It is impossible for them to fall because of a public opinion turmoil."
"One piece won't work, two pieces and three pieces will add up, and no matter how tall the building is, it will collapse." Tang Xi disagrees.
"Unlucky ghost, can't you drive away?" Chu Li asked.
"Accordingly speaking, the situation of the Tang family..." Tang Xi thought carefully before saying, "There is something wrong with the expired vaccine. Even if Tang Zhenying is aware of this problem, generally a capable celestial master is not willing to take this kind of work." Son. It's worthless to compete with the Dao of Heaven for a little money, unless Tang Zhenying can get a reward that can make even the Heavenly Master fall in love with him."
"Can you solve it if you take action?" Chu Li asked.
"Of course it's fine, but why should I help him solve it?" Tang Xi's expression was calm, and the matter was none of his business.
"I mean, are there many celestial masters who can solve this kind of thing?" Chu Li changed his question.
"If it was two months ago, it would have been quite a lot." Tang Xi said honestly, "But now...it's not as difficult as usual."
"So the Tang family will continue to be unlucky?" Pei Qingzhi came to a conclusion.
"Who knows..." Tang Xi just opened his mouth, but he heard the wind chime at the door of the store. Following the crisp "Welcome" from the waiter, a young couple walked in arm in arm.
"..." Tang Xi's words were held back, with a gloomy expression on his face, he muttered, "It's unlucky to see you when the Chinese New Year comes... huh?"
It was Han Zhen and Tang Jing who entered the door.
"What's wrong?" Pei Qingzhi asked.
Tang Xi didn't speak, and his face was a little serious.
Over there, Tang Jing glanced around the dining room, and easily met hers, and couldn't help being taken aback.
"Jingjing, what's wrong?" Han Zhen noticed her stiffness, and at the same time looked in the direction she was looking.
"We're full, let's go." Tang Xi stood up as if nothing had happened.
Pei Qingzhi didn't say anything, but just called the waiter over to pay the bill.
Tang Xi didn't seem to want to stay any longer, so she walked out directly: "I'll wait in the parking lot."
"Sister Xixi." Tang Jingwen greeted her gently.
"I don't have a younger sister, so don't misidentify relatives." Tang Xi wanted to pass by them without squinting, "Excuse me."
Han Zhen grabbed her wrist, with a trace of anger on his handsome face, he said coldly, "Apologize!"
Tang Xi stopped, looked at her grasped wrist, raised the corners of her lips slightly, turned her head, and said loudly: "I said, this classmate, with his girlfriend, flirts with other girls in public. Shit, isn't that appropriate?"
Han Zhen froze for a moment, as if his hands were burned, he immediately threw her away.
Tang Xi rubbed his wrist, bumped directly between them, and said two words again: "Excuse me."
"Ah!" Tang Jing was originally holding Han Zhen's arm, but she had to let go and step aside after being hit by her.
"Jingjing, are you okay?" Han Zhen quickly supported her.
"I'm fine, but... Miss Xixi still misunderstood me?" Tang Jing had tears in her eyes and a sad face.
"She's unreasonable!" Han Zhen snorted coldly.
"Actually, it's all my fault. If it wasn't for me..." Tang Jing lowered her head, looking pitiful.
"Okay, people left early, don't act." Chu Li couldn't help but sneered, and strode out.
Tang Xi didn't go far, just waiting for him outside the restaurant.
"What?" Chu Li asked.
"Tang Jing is weird." Tang Xi's expression was not very good-looking, "I deliberately provoked them, and checked my suspicion with spiritual power through physical contact, and it was indeed true."
"What's right?" Chu Li said in a deep voice.
"Last time I said that there is something wrong with Tang Jing's soul. It seems that there is something more in the soul." Tang Xi touched her chin, as if organizing her words, and continued after a long time, "When I saw her today, I felt Something is wrong, the things in her soul have disappeared."
"Is there any problem with this?" Chu Li hesitated, "For Tang Jing, it should be a good thing?"
"No." Tang Xi shook her head, "Last time, I was sure that the person in that body was Tang Jing herself, but now I can't be sure."
"Not sure, what do you mean?" Chu Li was stunned, "Duoshe?"
"The time is too short, and Tang Jing's situation is a bit special. I've never seen it before, so it's a bit hard to say." Tang Xi pondered, "The key is that the blackened hapless ghost on Tang Jing's body is also Gone."
"Could it be that I met the powerful celestial master you mentioned?" Pei Qingzhi walked over and said something.
"It's hard to say." Tang Xi shook her head.
"Forget it, why do you care so much about the Tang family's affairs, let's go." Chu Li lifted her foot and pulled her away, "Leave the car here, and it will take less than ten minutes to walk to the cinema."
"I don't want to care about it either." Tang Xi sighed with a helpless expression.
I'm afraid I can't do it this time if I don't want to, because... the causal line between her and the Tang family, which was almost broken, was connected again from the moment she met Tang Jing.
The changes in the Tang family have nothing to do with her, so instead of passively waiting, it is better to take the initiative.
This time, it must be clean.
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