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"Man Yi, can I trouble you to tell Gong Mama for me that I have to ask for three more days off this month."

Aunt Li, who works in Fenghai's logistics, saw her coming down, and stepped forward, rubbing her hands, looking anxious.She heard that Gong's mother was not in a good mood today, so whoever went to find Gong's mother because of a trivial matter in the morning, and was scolded bloody, if someone didn't stop her, she might have packed up and left.

But her youngest son had no one to take care of him, he was sick, and calling his mother made her heart anxious.But if she loses this job, that life will be even more difficult.

After thinking about it, I can only ask others to open the mouth.

Hua Manyi found the earring from the aunt who cleaned the house. Hearing this, she pursed her lips and thought, "Ms. Li..."

She doesn't really want to see Gong's mother now, and she obviously feels that her emotions are affected by the other party, which is not a good thing.

"Manyi, can you just tell me for me, my youngest son is still sick at home, you said if I messed with Gong's mother and accidentally lost her job..." Aunt Li was about to wipe her tears as she spoke. , Hua Manyi had no choice but to agree to her.

Aunt Li thanked repeatedly.

***

In the corridor on the second floor, Hua Manyi stood in front of Gong Ma's door, hesitating, raised her hand to knock on the door but stopped.

Dong dong dong

In the end, she chose to knock on the door, and with an inaudible "come in" from inside, Hua Manyi pushed the door open and stepped in.

In the room, Mama Gong was turning on the glass lamp on the desk on the right. On the desk were several account books of Fenghai in the past few months, and a small abacus. sound.

Gong Yan raised her eyes and glanced at the person who came. Seeing that it was Hua Manyi, her face seemed to turn colder, "What's the matter?"

Hua Manyi's face was slightly pale, and emotions flowed from her heart. After a few hesitations, she raised her stiff mouth and said, "Mother Gong, Aunt Li said that she wants to take another three days off, her son—"

"Let her come to me by herself."

Before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by someone, Hua Manyi looked embarrassed, "Oh, good."

"Is there anything else?" Gong Yan didn't hear the door closing for a long time, frowned slightly and raised his head again.

Hua Manyi: "I hired an English teacher to teach me from 3:5 to 3:5 in the past few days. I may not be in Fenghai from [-]:[-] to [-]:[-]."

"It's up to you." Gong Yan continued to look at her account books, fiddling with the abacus with her left hand without raising her head.

"Then Gong Ma, I'll go back first."

The corners of Hua Manyi's mouth raised into a smileless arc, and she turned to go out.

"A man or a woman." Suddenly, Mama Gong's question came from behind her. Hua Manyi was stunned for a moment before realizing, "She is a female lawyer."

"Lawyer?" Gong Yan suddenly stopped moving the abacus, his face was not very good-looking, "Who is it?"

"Lu Nian." Hua Manyi didn't turn her head, but just replied lightly, without thinking much about her questioning.

However, not only did the abacus not move on the table, but even the sound of flipping through the account books stopped abruptly.

"Mother Gong, I'll ask Aunt Li to come up." Hua Manyi didn't want to stay any longer, she just felt tormented, even though she tried her best to maintain a calm appearance.

"Stop." Gong Yan called her to stop, staring at her slender figure outlined by her cheongsam, "Where are you teaching?"

Hua Manyi lowered her eyes and thought for a while, then put her hand on the doorknob, "It should be at Lu Nian's house, not far away."

After finishing speaking, he opened the door, "I'll go out first, Mama Gong."

"Hua Manyi!"

Just when the sound of closing the door separated the voice of the woman inside, Hua Manyi turned and went downstairs to find Aunt Li.

Gong Yan looked at the account books on the desk, her eyes turned cold, forget it, it's none of her business.

***

The next day, Hua Manyi went out as promised. She originally planned to wear a more mature cheongsam, but after thinking about it, she was going to be a student, not a singer, so she decisively changed into a plain jacket and skirt, and her hair was not in a charming wave. Instead of hair, it was loosely draped over the back, asked Xiaoxiao for a few pens, and went out with a pair of small thick heels.

The rickshaw stopped in front of a small white apartment. Before Hua Manyi got out of the car, she saw Lu Nian standing at the door. He was dressed formally, with a vest, lace shirt, trousers, and stiff boots.

Seeing Hua Manyi coming down, she stepped forward and stretched out her hand to help him down, she was considerate and graceful, "Come on, let's go into the house."

Hua Manyi hurriedly took a look at this two-story white apartment, which combined the western style of foreigners, which was foreign and exquisite.On the side of the living room is a huge floor-to-ceiling pane, from which you can see the corners of the yard.

"it is good."

Entering the room, Lu Nian brought a plate of fruit, "Do you want some fruit?"

Hua Manyi shook her head.

Lu Nian had no choice but to put it on the other side of the mahogany round table, and took a few books from the bookshelf, "This is a relatively basic English textbook, you should read it first, and this booklet is mainly for exercises."

Hua Manyi weighed the heavy weight, trying to maintain the enthusiasm for studying.

"I'll teach you some grammar first..." Lu Nian sat beside her, opened her textbook, and turned to a certain page. Hua Manyi braced herself and sat upright, listening carefully.

***

On this side, in a detached villa next to the winery, Gong Yan looked at Gong Shulan who came by boat from Nancheng early today, and looked at her legs, "What did the doctor say about your legs?"

Gong Shulan stood beside Gong Yan, "Sister, I can already walk. The doctor said that as long as I keep exercising, I will recover sooner or later."

"Then what are you doing here?" Gong Yan lit a cigarette, looking lazy, and picked up a glass of wine from the transparent glass tea table.

"I came here this time because I found out that Huo Suqiu is not dead at all." Gong Shulan stared at the woman on the sofa with burning eyes, "Sister, you said that Jiang Yin—"

"Shulan, you owe her too much in this life." Gong Yan was not very interested in what she found out, and calmly stated such a sentence.

"But I want to make it up to her." Gong Shulan recalled those days before realizing that she was inferior to a beast.

"What's the compensation? Everyone is buried in the ground. Your best compensation now is to spend the rest of your life to repent." Gong Yan sneered ruthlessly. Before, she didn't think her sister was too much. But who knew that behind the scenes, Jiang Yin was tortured so badly.

"Tomorrow, I'll have someone book a boat ticket and go back to Nancheng." Gong Yan planned to call Uncle Fu.

Gong Shulan resisted, "Why do you insist on letting me go back? If Jiang Yin is really dead, then I won't do anyone any harm by coming to Haicheng. Besides, I just came to investigate why Huo Suqiu didn't die."

"Gong Shulan, do you have hysteria instead of good legs?"

"..."

Gong Shulan was speechless for a while, "Anyway, I won't go back for the time being." At least until she finds out why Huo Suqiu didn't die.

"up to you."

Gong Shulan began to prepare for the investigation. She collected a lot of information this time, "I want to find Lawyer Lu Nianlu, sister, do you have her phone number?"

"What do you want her to call?" Gong Yan frowned unconsciously when he heard the name again. Didn't Hua Manyi just mean to go to Lu Nian's house to learn English yesterday.

Gong Shulan told all the news she got through investigation.

Huo Suqiu and Lu Nian used to be classmates and old friends. It is absolutely impossible for Lu Nian not to know about Huo Suqiu's accident. Now that the Huo family is falling apart, those relatives and servants of the Huo family have no way to trace them. Not much use.

Only Lu Nian is one of the biggest clues.

After listening, Gong Yan also roughly understood what she said to do, starting with Lu Nian might indeed be a breakthrough point.

"Ask Uncle Fu, he will tell you." Gong Yan continued to drink.

Not long after, Gong Shulan came up from downstairs and walked to the hand crank phone, holding a piece of paper in his hand, it seemed that he got Lu Nian's call.

The last number was dialed, and Gong Shulan was waiting for the caller to answer the call. Before there was a response, someone stood behind her at some point, and the handle was snatched away. She was surprised, "Sister?"

"Let me come. If Huo Suqiu's death has something to do with Lu Nian, what's the difference between making a call and scaring the snake?" Gong Yan motioned her to stand aside with his eyes, and moved his position.

Gong Shulan thought about it for the same reason, so he stood aside and listened to him.

It didn't take long for someone to pick up the phone.

"Hello, how are you?" A soft, familiar voice came into his ears. Gong Yan belatedly remembered what Hua Manyi told her about learning English yesterday, and glanced at the pendulum clock. It was 4 o'clock in the afternoon. , this timing is really a coincidence.

"Hello?" Hua Manyi stood by the phone, unable to hear the other party's voice, and was about to call Lu Nian, when Mama Gong's voice rang in the next second.

"I'm looking for Lu Nian." The cold words made Hua Manyi froze, and she clenched the copper handle with her fingertips, "Okay."

Putting down the handle, Hua Manyi was planning to go out to find someone, when Lu Nian just came back from the door with a telegram, "Lu Nian, there is a call for you."

Lu Nian came over with a telegram, "Who is calling?"

Hua Manyi just wanted to speak, but then thought of that indifferent voice, who obviously didn't recognize who she was, so why should Hua Manyi rush to put on a cold face.

"I don't know." Hua Manyi pretended not to know, "I'll go over there to study first."

"it is good."

On the side of the winery villa, Gong Shulan looked at Gong Yan with a bad face, not knowing why, "What did you hear?"

Gong Yanhong pursed her lips with a trace of coldness, "It's nothing."

Gong Shulan nodded thoughtfully.

***

Hua Manyi looked at the books on the table, a string of English letters came into view, and then disappeared from her mind, sighing heavily in her heart.

"Yiyi, that's not how you pronounce it. You can't roll your tongue." Lu Nian corrected her pronunciation with a smile.

Hua Manyi's face was red and dry, and she brought up other topics, "Who called just now, is there something urgent for you? How about learning this today?"

Lu Nian glanced at the clock on the wall, only an hour had passed, "..."

"It was Mrs. Gong who called. She asked me to send her a copy of the document about Song Shichang's slander against her."

"Slander?" Hua Manyi grabbed the word and asked, "What slander?"

Lu Nian didn't want to go into too much detail at first, but Hua Manyi broke the casserole to ask the end, so he had to tell the matter, which is not an unspoken secret.

"So that's the case. I didn't expect Lu Nian to be so powerful and eloquent."

"you flatter me."

***

The black Ford drove from one end of the street to the other. Gong Shulan was sitting beside Gong Yan. The two started from the winery, and it took half an hour on the way.

"You don't need to look at Fenghai today?" Originally, Gong Shulan planned to meet Lu Nian in person, but who knew that before leaving, Gong Yan suddenly followed.

"Are you teaching me how to do things?" Gong Yan clenched his jaw and exhaled a puff of smoke, "Since I have agreed with her to ask for information documents, it is better than you coming to the door for no reason."

"Are you in a bad mood?" Gong Shulan thought about it. From morning to now, her elder sister seemed to have ridiculed her no less than ten times. The number of times made her look sideways, so she couldn't help worrying, showing her care as a younger sister and considerate.

Gong Yan: "..."

Fu Bo was driving in front, hesitant to speak, and finally when he looked in the rearview mirror, he met Gong Yan's eyes and shut up in embarrassment.

After a while, they arrived in front of a white two-story apartment. The two got out of the car and entered the yard under the leadership of the servant.

The servant said, "This way please."

The two sisters Gong Yan and Gong Shulan passed by the courtyard with flowers and trees one after the other, and the magnificent and unique apartment gradually came into view.

In the hall, Hua Manyi couldn't read the tone in distress, "Is that so? What's going on?"

Lu Nian shook his head, "Don't roll up your tongue, use force in your throat."

"I don't know... Lu Nian, I may not be good at learning English." Hua Manyi seemed to feel that she was back in the painful middle school when she was taking English classes.

She can't learn.

"Open your mouth." Knowing her emotions, Lu Nian had no choice but to comfort her and guide her.

Hua Manyi opened her mouth obediently, before she could react, a finger stretched in and pressed on her tongue.The coolness of the fingertips came from the tongue.

She was stunned.

Lu Nian was not the same, "Try to read it again now."

Hua Manyi looked at Lu Nian's delicate face and opened her mouth, "world."

"Miss, Madam Gong is here to look for you." The servant's voice suddenly attracted the eyes of the two people on the table.

Hua Manyi still had the half of her pale finger in her mouth, and stared blankly at the figure standing in front of her under the instruction of the servant, several eyes fell on her face, playfully, indifferently. Concerning, sullen, and Lu Nian's composure revealed a little shy gaze.

Especially when he met Shang Gong's mother's gaze, it seemed that something had been hit in his heart, and panic lingered in his heart.

She quickly opened her mouth, but unexpectedly a silver thread stuck to it when she parted. Hua Manyi hastily lowered her head to wipe her lips, an embarrassment almost overwhelmed her.

How should she explain this situation.

"Did I disturb you?" Gong Shulan spoke first, looking back and forth in front of these people, "Maybe we are here at the wrong time."

Lu Nian stood up, just in this position to cover Hua Manyi's embarrassment without showing any traces, "Don't be kidding, Yiyi and I are just teaching English, she can't pronounce the syllables correctly, I just thought of this method, there is no other meaning. "

"Lu Nian, I'll go back first." Hua Manyi stood up with her head down.

"I'll take you back." Lu Nian sensed that there seemed to be something wrong with this matter, but couldn't figure it out, and subconsciously wanted to appease Hua Manyi.

"No need, I still have things to do." Hua Manyi calmly rejected her offer. When passing by Gong Yan, she paused, called "Gong Mama" in a low voice, and left.

"See you tomorrow." Lu Nian reminded behind her.

Hua Manyi nodded hastily.

The author has something to say: Gong Yan: Is it delicious?

Huamanyi: Yes!