Be in low spirits

Yaoer looked at the thing in the bag and asked, "Is this... okay? This is somewhat similar to the fish foam my mother used to wash, but... how do you have this thing?"

Gu Jinluo took out three or four and gave them to her, saying, "The school gave them to me when I was studying abroad. They are not like in China where some people use them during their student years. My family is very strict, so I have never used them. This is called a wishful bag. If you want to use it, I will ask my classmates to send it back."

Yao Er looked shy, "I don't need it! You... and General Ye have already..."

"Ah, do you really think he can endure what ordinary people can't?" Compared to coffee, Gu Jinluo still prefers Chinese snacks.

"No wonder General Ye smiled like that before leaving today. It's really like a spring breeze at Yumen Pass!"

"Ha! Now you are getting bolder and bolder, and you even dare to make fun of me!" The two men ran around the dean.

At the garrison, Li Jiaji could not withstand the torture in the army and confessed everything. It was indeed Yi Datan who asked him to find someone to set the fire, and he did not intend to hurt anyone, but the old soldiers in the warehouse were too loyal and could not be persuaded to leave, so they had to stay there.

With his confession in hand, Ye Fan directly ordered a raid on Yi Datan's house, and used the cash seized from the mansion to compensate the families of several injured veterans.

Yi Datan's shirt was torn, his abdomen had several wounds, and his face was scratched with several scars. He knelt in front of him and shouted, "Kill me if you dare. Humph, Pei Dezhong is a coward who dares not do anything. We brothers are trying to make money by ourselves, but he still wants to interfere. What? Now you're all right if you hide?"

Ye Fan ordered his men to take him to the training base, hang him outside, and said to everyone in the army: "This is the fate of rebels!"

Yang Lin looked at the deputy generals who had been detained in the garrison for more than ten days, comforted them a little, and said: "We also have our own difficulties. Whether Commander Pei can come back depends on your sincerity. Give you two days to consider. Those who should surrender should surrender, those who should pay should pay, and those who should take off their clothes and go back to the countryside to farm should go back to the countryside!"

The next day, Deputy Inspector Ou of the police station sent a list of names of people who had any connection with the deputy general in the army to the general's mansion.

After arranging these things, the two of them gave themselves two days off, thinking that they could accompany their wives to have a good look around Shuangxi.

At night, Ye Fan was looking through the roster in the study. It turned out that every deputy general in the army had someone in an important position in the police station. Li Jiaji was the one with the lowest position. It seemed that Yi Datan was the weakest one among the deputy generals.

Gu Lang called Gu Jinluo and asked her to meet the wife of the diplomat from the French Embassy in China who was on vacation in Shuangxi. After answering the phone, she ran to the study, sat on Ye Fan's lap, and complained aggrievedly: "The wife of the diplomat from the French Embassy in China is also in Shuangxi. My brother asked me to meet her tomorrow. You finally have a vacation, but I can't accompany you."

Ye Fan sighed, hugged her and said, "Why can't you remember? You agreed to call me cousin. I guess I have to make sure you remember it tonight." As he said that, he carried her into the room.

"Hey, I'm talking to you seriously, stop making trouble." She looked out the window. It was still early, and she originally wanted to chat with him.

"No, I can't accompany you tomorrow, but I can tonight."

She laughed so hard in his arms, "You idiot, you really don't have any business sense at all."

"Do you need business acumen for this kind of thing?" It was the first time he heard of this. What does business acumen have to do with it?

"You want to accompany me tonight, but you don't have to accompany me tomorrow? You can ask for repayment later." She sat in his arms and rubbed the material of his pajamas. She used to hate physical contact with people the most, but after meeting him, she couldn't help but get close to him and touch him.

"Ah, my wife is very smart. Do you plan to work during the day or at night from now on? Hmm?" He glanced at the clock on the study. It was still early, so it was time to chat.

"Haha, you rascal. Have you finished dealing with the military affairs? Are you going back to Jinghua?"

"Not yet. Since you can't accompany me tomorrow, I'll finish those things and we'll go directly from Shuangxi to Xiazhou. After we finish the things in Xiazhou, I'll write a letter home and ask Uncle San to agree to our marriage. How about that?"

"You come again. It's still early. What if something happens in Xiazhou..."

Ye Fan blocked her mouth, "Pah, pah, pah, there is no such thing as a single accident. You always say unlucky things."

"Xingzhi, look at those deputy generals who have so many concubines. Will you be like that in the future?"

Ye Fan picked her up, stood up and put her on the chair, took out two glasses of red wine from the wine cabinet, handed her one, and said, "Mrs. Ye, you're already jealous of this unfounded thing before we even get married?"

The list was still on the desk, and there were many documents sent by Shengze troops waiting for his review.

"Hmph, you're fooling me before we even get married. If you really like someone else in the future, I'll never see you again." She saw that there were still many things to deal with and didn't want to delay too long, so she planned to finish the glass of red wine and go back to the room to wait for him.

He put the wine glass on the table and pulled her up from her seat. "It's unfounded. What do you want me to say?"

She put down the wine glass in her hand and turned on the phonograph.

"What are you doing?" Gu Jinluo was confused by his series of actions.

"Didn't you say you wanted to try my dancing? I'm free tonight, I wonder if Madam would be so kind as to do me the honor of dancing?" He stretched out his hand, bowed slightly, and made an invitation gesture.

It turned out that he remembered all these things. She took off her shoes, ran to him and said, "Husband, I am not good at dancing. I am afraid I have to step on you to show you my favor."

"Then your husband can only teach you well." He put his arm around her waist, held her hand, and danced to the music on the gramophone.

He was really good at dancing. He kept the rhythm with every step and immersed her in the world of music.

Gu Jinluo went to see the diplomat's wife. He also returned to the garrison. Looking at Yi Datian hanging in the training ground, he ordered the adjutant behind him: "Kill him."

Several deputy generals of the garrison received the news and resigned one after another. Ye Fan looked at the resignation letters, laughed, and asked: "Since you want to resign, I will not try to persuade you to stay. Since you don't have military positions, let's discuss what you have done."

"General Ye, Mr. Pei must have his reasons for sparing our lives. I hope General Ye will think twice." One of the deputy generals said while kneeling on the ground.

"Mr. Pei has his reasons for sparing your lives, and I have my reasons for killing you. Adjutant Zhang, don't you understand why the president sent me to Shuangxi?" Ye Fan has always been ruthless when dealing with scum in the army.

"It was wrong of us to burn the military rations, but we also wanted Master Pei to come back. General Ye is young and promising, so why not give us a way out? If we need any help in the future, we will be there at your call." Several deputy generals began to plead.

"Don't worry, everyone. The chairman already knows all of your crimes. Your deaths are not unjust." He made up his mind and killed several deputy generals one by one, and used the confiscated property to make up for the burned military rations.

In the evening, Gu Jinluo returned very late. Ye Fan wrote a letter to inform his third uncle that the matter in Shuangxi had been completed and the next stop would be Xiazhou. He also ordered someone to send the account books confiscated by several deputy generals back to Beijing.

Holding a bowl of bird's nest, she quietly pushed open the door of the study, saw that he was busy, put the bird's nest in front of the desk, and prepared to go back to her room.

He pulled the person into his arms and said, "We haven't seen each other for a whole day, so you're just going to let go and leave?"

"Career is more important, I don't want to get in your way." She hadn't had time to change, and was still wearing the wide-sleeved cheongsam she wore when she went out, and her high heels were still on her feet.

"Will you find it hard to catch the train to Xiazhou the day after tomorrow?"

"Professor Ding called and said that he couldn't find Zhong Yulan. Did you take her away?"

"I only take care of military affairs. Ordinary people are the responsibility of the police station." He neither denied nor admitted it.

"Zhong Yulan is Professor Ding's student and a journalist. It's normal for her to spend some money to buy news. Why did the police arrest her?" She brought the bird's nest and drank it herself.

"Okay, let's not talk about others. You wore such beautiful clothes when you met the diplomat's wife today, but why did you only wear a plain cheongsam when you met me?" He leaned close to her neck and smelled her scent.

"You mean I don't look good in a plain cheongsam? I have to be polite when meeting a diplomat's wife, so do I have to be polite when meeting you, too?" She put down the bowl and waited to see how he would explain it.

"If my wife is not pretty, then where are there pretty people in this world?" He realized that he had said the wrong thing, so he had to carry her back to the room to rest.

Sensing his intention, she quickly said, "Don't you still have a lot of military duties? I can go back to my room and wash up by myself."

Looking at the pile of documents on the desk, he had no choice but to let the person go.