brotherly innocence

When Qin Zhuangdong came to the room of his elder brother Qin Alang, Qin Alang was teasing a starling, with a black back and a white belly, smaller than the previous one, but with a shrill voice.

"A guest, a guest." The mynah was jumping on the cage and said, Qin Zhuangdong smiled when he saw it: "Brother, why did you bring such a bird again? Mommy, that cat is so powerful. It becomes cat food again in a few days."

Boss Qin picked the bird's beak with a silver stick and said: "It's not that the cat raised by my mother is brave, it's the cat I raised that has a big idea. If I dare to play tricks, I will chop off his claws." Son."

Turning around, he looked at Qin Zhuangdong and asked, "Why did you focus on the second boy this time, and don't use Nan'er? Don't you like Nan'er the most? I have asked him to go to the army several times, but the eldest brother is not willing to give it to you."

Qin Zhuangdong asked: "After Nan'er returned to Dingjiang, what does Big Brother think about Nan'er?"

"What's the difference? Don't worry, the board didn't land on you when you lifted it up, and you always feel uneasy. I raised my hand to scratch it that day, which made him tremble in fright." Boss Qin cursed, and laughed in thought.

"Brother, I heard that Yaonan has been walking with the Japanese frequently recently. He is also confused with a Japanese widow."

"This kid is always promiscuous, flirtatious, let him go, as long as he doesn't go out of his way, leave him alone." Boss Qin was still content to tease the bird.

"Flirtatious, flirtatious!" the starling kept yelling.

"Yao Nan is back, how will we divide the work with Ah Rong?"

"After I came back, my temper became much calmer, and I seemed to have grown up. I did whatever I was asked to do. I devoted myself to work every day and stopped fighting. It was just a few days ago that I got angry with the young master and beat up Pei'er. I Just remember his beatings, kid!"

"Just write down his beating, you brat!" the mynah repeated, and the teasing boss Qin pointed at mynah and scolded, "Just do it, and deliver it to the cat yourself."

Qin Zhuangdong stood behind his eldest brother, hesitating to speak.

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Chu Yaonan immersed himself in his work in the study, covering a table full of files, counting them carefully.

Qin Rong, who was next to him, opened the account book and asked, "Brother Nan, it's such a big expense that it's divided among the various offices. Everyone complains."

"Why didn't anyone complain when the dividends were distributed at the end of the year? Life in the church was hard, so we had to tighten our belts." Chu Yaonan said coldly, leaning on the back of the chair, propping his head on one hand, lazily look.

Qin Rong said, "Brother Nan, come back."

"I can get money when I come back? If I can't get money, I can only tighten my belt to live!" Chu Yaonan ignored him, lowered his head and went about his own business, and said to Qin Rong when he saw Qin Rong's embarrassment: " Go and get the roster, let them report the number of people, and distribute according to the head. There is no fairness that everyone is satisfied with, and it is probably passable. If anyone has an opinion and is not convinced, go to the old man to complain!"

Qin Rong likes Chu Yaonan's vigor and vigor. Seeing him return to Qingdaotang, his cheeks have become much thinner, and his sunny smile is also rare. Only the forearm exposed by the rolled up sleeves It looks neat and capable.Chu Yaonan threw an account in front of Qin Rong and pointed it out, "Look here, be careful, are your eyes smoldering?"

Qin Rong had never dealt with such a large amount of accounts, and he was overwhelmed by the cumbersome financial affairs, but he tried his best to concentrate on looking at it, and then said: "This money is a bit strange, why did it come out and in and out several times?"

Just when he heard the movement, he raised his head and saw his second uncle coming in.

"Your boy, go out, Second Uncle has something to say to Nan'er." Qin Zhuangdong told Qin Rong, Qin Rong retreated sensiblely, and gently closed the door.

Chu Yaonan got up, his cheeks were thin under the light, and his legs were slender and wrapped in tight pants, like praying mantises.

Qin Zhuangdong looked him up and down without saying a word, Chu Yaonan's head sank lower and lower, like a child who did something wrong.

"Say it yourself, what should I do?" the second uncle asked, his face was ashen, Chu Yaonan bowed his head and said nothing, when he was young, he lowered his head and peeked at the second uncle and said vaguely: "Damn Yaonan, second uncle forgive me, don't dare to run away again .”

Seeing that the second uncle ignored him, and stood there as if he was not satisfied with the answer, he pursed his lips and walked to the wall to face the wall, and pulled out the belt around his waist.

Qin Zhuangdong came behind him and said: "You are here, but your heart is not here. If Nan'er, who is not the second uncle, returns, the second uncle will not fight."

Chu Yaonan's hands rested on his waist, neither turned his head nor spoke.

"You have to look at things with your heart, not your eyes. If you are obsessed with obsession and don't regret it, sooner or later you will be lost forever. If you make a wrong step, you will never regret it." The second uncle said heartbrokenly, Chu Yaonan shook his head with tears Said: "Second uncle overestimated Yaonan, Yaonan has nothing now, what he has is gone, how can he dare to complain?"

The voice was hoarse, coming out of the throat.

"Your small thoughts, you still think that the second uncle can't see that you have something on your mind, and your words are not right!" Qin Zhuangdong accused bitterly, turned and left.

Chu Yaonan looked at the figure, the care and love he once had no longer existed.

Recently, Qin Rong went out early and came back late, and was mysterious. Chu Yaonan took care of the trivial matters in the gang, and Chu Yaonan didn't ask much, but his eyes were watching.

One day Chu Yaonan came back from the gang, and received a letter from the detective who had helped him find his elder brother in the past, inviting him to the blue bar under the clock tower to have a gathering, and to tell him the secrets of the Shen family in Beiping.

When Chu Yaonan came to the bar, he saw the detective, and the mustache detective said frankly: "The wife of the three entrusted me to investigate the news, but I didn't want to find out, but she went abroad without promise. I think Selling this news to the newspaper, and afraid of offending the Blue Gang and causing death, if I give up, after all I have been researching for a long time, I am unwilling. I would like to ask Young Master Chu to give me a few hard-earned money."

As he spoke, he pushed a stack of photos to Chu Yaonan's eyes.

Chu Yaonan just looked down and couldn't help being surprised, a black car with a clear license plate number, and the sneaky man in a short shirt and felt hat standing beside him was not the one who tried to kidnap his elder brother that day!

He raised his head sharply, and the detective said, "That's not all, let's see how much Mr. Chu plans to pay for it."

"What is this?" Chu Yaonan asked pretending to be confused, fiddled with the photos, and saw the photos of several people striding out from the gate of the Blue Gang sub-helm of Baita Temple, and his heart tightened even more.

"Don't talk foolishly to sensible people. Mrs. Three sympathizes with Mr. Chu's experience, and asked us to investigate. We almost lost our lives, and those who knew the truth were silenced one after another." The detective whispered, watching carefully about.

"Aren't you afraid that I'll do you too, silence?" Chu Yaonan fiddled with the cocktail in his hand, the detective giggled and said, "Master Chu, why bother? In fact, it's better not to know the truth, if Chu Da If you are willing to pay a few hard-working errands, we should be rotten in our stomachs. Boss Qin is really thinking about young master Chu, and I don't want to tell the truth to make your father and son turn against each other."

The detective lowered the brim of his cap and looked around nervously.

"On the Dingjiang site, you are safest by my side, Chu Yaonan. If I don't kill you, no one can do it. Say something quickly!" Chu Yaonan said.

The detective nodded and said, "The mastermind who killed Zhuo Mingtao was not Mr. Qin, he was a bought accomplice."

Chu Yaonan looked up at the detective in surprise, and the detective showed off a few photos and said, "This one, the think tank next to Xijing 'Boss He', the one on the left, is also a prominent figure in Xijing Central, and he came to Peking to invite Zhuo Mingtao came out of the mountain. These words were heard by your neighbor, Mrs. Li, who sent duck eggs to the kitchen next door. She said, those people said, "Mr. Shen is not going to Xijing, is he going to the northeast? If he doesn't go to Xijing, who can guarantee Shen Why don’t you go to the Northeast, sir?’”

Chu Yaonan immediately thought of the fact that his sister-in-law mentioned that several groups of people had come to look for his elder brother in the past few days. These strange guests at home were very strange.Could it be that there was a group of lobbyists from Xijing whom he had never seen, only Keiko's group of Japanese.If so, why are Xijing and the Japanese coming to talk to Big Brother?

"I don't know exactly why, but Mrs. Li said that you were driven away that night. She asked her man to take you, Mrs. Zhuo, to the hospital. On the way, there was a car parked at the entrance of the alley. It was a very modern black Buick. The one we found in the photo, look at the license plate, where is it?"

The detective said mysteriously, the blue gang's car parked at the alley of the eldest brother's house on a snowy night, and then a murder occurred at night.

"If I sell this news to anyone, I will be dead, so only Young Master Chu will be interested. The Blue Gang has recently suffered a setback in business, and money is tight. They received a huge sum of money from Xijing and acted as an assassin to kill a political opponent. I don't understand politics. I also went around to inquire, as if Mr. Zhuo had a grudge against Xijing, and he was going to the Northeast to do things for the Japanese, which caused his death."

"You are very bold." Chu Yaonan looked at the mustache detective provocatively.

"Detectives are bold, this is what we eat."

"Not every detective is as bold as you, and not everyone cares about politics."

"I was hit right and wrong, and I was scared to death, but I died for money. Young Master Chu's life is good. We rely on these things to support our family."

The detective spread the information on the table, and Chu Yaonan's face gradually turned pale, as gray as a wall.