It was almost noon when Chen Hui came to pick them up. Because sister Zhang's side is not over yet, the three of them plan to have lunch first.
Picking up Xu Huaisong and Ruan Yu, he turned around in the driver's seat and joked: "I've come to Suzhou, Brother Song won't go home? Last time I sent my aunt here and had a meal at your house. Grandma's skills are really good. Absolutely, and told me to pack and take a piece of Dongpo meat away!"
After Grandma Xu's old house was demolished, she lived in the urban area with Tao Rong and Xu Huaishi. Chen Hui had spotted the place for lunch.
Xu Huaisong smiled, turned his head to look at Ruan Yu: "Ask her if she wants to go."
Ruan Yu was taken aback by the sudden roll call.
This look seemed to blame her for refusing to go home with him, making Chen Hui unable to eat Dongpo meat.
Receiving her innocent gaze, Xu Huaisong blinked: "Then?"
Ruan Yu hesitated.
The first visit should be formal, but this time she was unprepared, and even because she didn't bring a change of clothes, she was still wearing the crumpled T-shirt she slept in last night.
It's not good to cram now and go to the mall to buy new clothes and door-to-door gifts. Moreover, it is not appropriate to visit with Chen Hui.
She thought about this secretly in her heart, frowned, and just opened her mouth to answer, when Xu Huaisong picked it up: "Drive, find a place to eat."
Hearing his calm tone, she pinched his cuff and whispered, "I'm not going back with you, next time I'll prepare in advance..."
Xu Huaisong nodded, rubbed her hair and said, "I'll sleep for a while." He straightened his back and closed his eyes against the leather cushion of the back seat.
"Is it tiring to sit like this?" Ruan Yu raised his hand and pressed his head on his shoulder, "Come on."
Xu Huaisong smiled, and put his pillow on her shoulder, but didn't tell her that according to their height difference, it would be more tiring.
The three of them found a roadside restaurant for dinner, returned to the car after eating, and were about to divert to pick up Sister Zhang when Xu Huaisong suddenly received a call.
It was Xu Huaishi who called: "Brother, I just finished my cram school. I ran into a familiar aunt at the gate of the community. She kept asking the security guard which building the Xu family lived in. She was full of 'that beast, that beast', and she looked very excited. Could this be…”
Xu Huaisong sat up straight and asked seriously, "Have you met her face to face?"
"No, when I passed by, she was entangled with the security guard, so she probably didn't notice me."
"Where's mom and grandma?"
"They went to the supermarket and haven't come home yet."
Xu Huaisong was silent, and said, "Go upstairs and lock the door, don't open it unless mom and grandma come back."
Xu Huaishi on the other end obviously quickened his pace, trotting and said: "Brother, don't scare me, is it true that the family is making trouble again? It has been quiet for many years, why suddenly..."
Xu Huaisong squeezed the space between his eyebrows: "I'm not sure about the situation right now, you go home first and I'll come right over." After hanging up the phone, he told Chen Hui to change his way to his house.
Ruan Yu didn't quite hear what Xu Huaishi said, he frowned and asked, "What happened?"
"The fact that we met Jiang Yi yesterday may have been embellished and spread to the victim's family."
When Chen Hui heard something bad, he stepped on the accelerator and drove all the way, approaching the residential area, but encountered a traffic jam on the main road.
Only three or four hundred meters away from the main entrance of the community, Xu Huaisong opened the car door and said, "I'll go first."
Ruan Yu hesitated, jumped out of the car, and trotted to follow.
Before reaching the door, I heard sharp arguments: "I'm here to block you today, don't be hypocritical, I will visit my daughter's grave every Qingming! Look at the faces of your son and that beast. What are you planning!"
"Ms. Wang, Huaisong is not in Su City. There must be some misunderstanding."
"Misunderstood? The old money from the vegetable market said that your son has returned to China in a prosperous manner. Just like his father back then, he also started to help murderers get away with crimes! I see who your Xu family is going to harm now!"
Ruan Yu couldn't keep up with Xu Huaisong's pace, and ran behind panting, and saw a woman in her fifties scolding Tao Rong and Grandma Xu at the gate of the community from a distance, and pushed forward when she was in a hurry. a handful.
Tao Rong was shaken unsteadily, the supermarket shopping bag in her hand was thrown out, she staggered back a step, and bumped into Grandma Xu again.
Seeing that the old man was about to fall to the ground, fortunately the community security stepped forward to help him in time and persuaded the people on both sides to leave.
Xu Huaisong also arrived, blocking his mother and grandmother: "Ms. Wang, please watch your words and deeds."
When Wang Qin saw him, his eyes were bloodshot, and he asked Tao Rong, "Isn't this your good son? Why don't you say he's not in Suzhou City?"
Tao Rong really didn't know that Xu Huaisong was in Suzhou City, so she was surprised, and stepped forward and said, "Huaisong, go back, don't..." Then she bowed and apologized to Wang Qin one after another, "Ms. Wang, I'm really sorry, I..."
"Mom, what are you doing?" Xu Huaisong frowned and pulled Tao Rong back behind him. Seeing Ruan Yu arriving out of breath, he gave her a wink.
Ruan Yu understood, bent down to pick up the shopping bags on the ground, and dragged Tao Rong and Grandma Xu into the community: "Auntie, grandma, let's go home first."
Tao Rong was dragged by her for a few steps, then stopped and turned around: "Huai Song will be blamed..."
Ruan Yu followed her gaze and saw that Xu Huaisong was negotiating with Wang Qin, and patted her on the back to reassure her: "He will take care of this matter, don't worry."
After trying hard to persuade, Ruan Yu finally brought Tao Rong and Grandma Xu back home.
Seeing them from the cat's eyes, Xu Huaishi opened the door and said in mourning, "Mom and grandma, you are finally back, you almost scared me to death!" Then she looked at Ruan Yu, "Sister, why are you and my brother in Suzhou City?"
"I'll tell you later." Ruan Yu closed the door and helped Grandma Xu in, "Grandma, where are you hurt?"
Grandma Xu shook her head and said "no", and now she came to her senses from the chaos and asked, "Hey, who is this little girl?"
The meeting with the parents came as soon as it was said, but the man was not there yet, Ruan Yu was thin-skinned, and pondered for a while: "Grandma, I am..."
Tao Rong, who was absent-minded all the way, came to her senses when she heard this, and answered for her: "Mom, I told you that this is Huai Song's girlfriend."
Granny Xu suddenly realized, and patted the back of her hand: "You see, it's your first time here, and I'm causing you trouble."
Ruan Yu smiled "hehe", and brushed the bangs stuck to his forehead from sweating profusely from running: "It's okay, grandma."
Seeing her restraint, Xu Huaishi hurriedly greeted: "Sister, come in and sit down, where is my brother?"
Ruan Yu helped Grandma Xu to the sofa while explaining, "He's dealing with something at the gate of the community."
Tao Rong went to the kitchen and poured her a glass of water, then took a clean towel and asked her to wipe off her sweat.
Xu Huaisong didn't return for a long time, the four of them were worried, and the atmosphere in the living room was a little frozen.
After a while, Tao Rong asked Ruan Yu hesitantly, "When did you and Huai Song arrive? Are you here for business?"
She nodded: "We came yesterday."
Grandma Xu tilted her head and asked, "Then you lived outside on purpose last night, why didn't you go home?"
Tao Rong tugged at Grandma Xu's sleeve: "Mom, Huai Song hasn't come back for a long time, he's used to staying outside."
Seeing that she was feeling uncomfortable that her son was estranged from herself again, Ruan Yu quickly took the pot over: "No, he said he wanted to go home and sleep, but I was afraid of disturbing you..."
As soon as she finished speaking, the doorbell rang, and Xu Huaisong came back.
Tao Rong went up to meet her: "How about it, did the Wang family make things difficult for you?"
Xu Huaisong shook his head: "Mom, I can handle this trivial matter, but you really don't need it..." He stopped here, sighed, and glanced at Ruan Yu on the sofa.
He walked over, picked up the glass in front of her, and drank the half-filled water in one gulp.
Tao Rong hurriedly went to the kitchen to pour water again, and called Xu Huaishi to help cut the fruit together.
"Mom, don't be busy," Xu Huaisong said, turning his head, "I have a colleague waiting downstairs, and I'll go back to Hangzhou after a while."
Tao Rong still brought the fruit, and said apologetically to Ruan Yu, "I'm in a hurry, and I haven't prepared anything. You can eat some fruit."
Ruan Yu thought to himself, who is not in a hurry, who is not empty-handed and unprepared, smiled and thanked, and took the fruit plate.
Because of the accident at the gate of the community, the atmosphere at home was still rather dull. Xu Huaisong saw that today was really not the time, so he didn't mention anything about himself and Ruan Yu. After sitting for a while, he got up and explained to Tao Rong: "I and The Wang family explained it and greeted the community security, she won't make trouble in the future, if something like this happens again, you should call the police directly."
Tao Rong was silent and did not speak, and asked after a while: "Are you here to handle the case this time? I heard from her that you are helping..."
Xu Huaisong was silent: "There is a criminal case, and I am helping the client to collect evidence."
Tao Rong said "hmm", and her smile seemed a bit forced: "You pay attention to your health, and you have to eat three meals a day on time."
He nodded and glanced at Ruan Yu: "Don't worry, she's in charge of me."
Tao Rong said "trouble" to Ruan Yu again, and took a few boxes of food back and told her to take them back.
Ruan Yu couldn't shirk it, so he had to accept it, saying that he would visit again next time.
After leaving, she looked at Xu Huaisong with a bitter face: "Why are you so caught off guard..."
Xu Huaisong took her hand: "What's the matter, anyway, my mother likes you very much."
Ruan Yu suddenly became interested: "Did she tell you?"
He shook his head.
"Then how do you know?"
"If you think about it, you will know. If it weren't for you, would I be able to go back to China?"
He took it for granted, but Ruan Yu froze, his eyes flickering.
The two got into Chen Hui's car downstairs, didn't mention anything about the Wang family, and went to pick up Sister Zhang who had finished the work together.
Zhang Ling was also sweating profusely, and got into the car to report to Xu Huaisong: "I still haven't persuaded the victim's two friends to speak up, but judging from their attitude, I guess Ms. Ruan's guess is probably true. It should be that the victim's family members are eager to entrust People have been convicted, so I told them not to reveal the inside story."
Chen Hui sighed: "Although I can understand the mood of the victim's family, but if you go around like this and cover up the truth, if it leads to a wrong judgment..." He remembered that Xu Huaisong had just been quarreled with, and he probably wasn't in a good mood. Immediately changed the subject, "hehe" smiled, "But sister Ruan is really smart, do you want to consider changing careers to become a policeman or a lawyer?"
"Ah?" Ruan Yu, who was used to adjust the atmosphere, was taken aback.
Xu Huaisong smiled, and pulled her closer: "Forget it, she has a big brain and a timid heart."