broken dust

Chapter 8Dive out

At night, the sky is full of stars.

Less than 1000 meters away from Shidu International Hotel, there is a street winding like a river, hidden in the shadow of lush trees.

A black SVU is parked in a hidden part of the street.

The man sitting in the back seat of the car quickly took off his security uniform. The sleeves of the white shirt inside were a little wrinkled, and he stretched out his fingers to gently smooth them out.

Sitting in front of him was a man in a black dark-striped suit with meticulously combed hair.From the central rearview mirror, he caught a glimpse of the innocent man behind him, and was inexplicably angry.Quickly took off the suit jacket on his body, and without thinking whether he would hit the person behind him, he threw the clothes he had just taken off to the back seat.

The action is very powerful.

Seeing that the clothes were about to hit his face, the person in the back seat quickly caught them and threw them on the seat next to him.

He didn't know that the person in front had an angry look on his face, so he took off the belt around his waist and took off the black trousers that matched the security uniform, revealing the straight-leg slim black dark pattern trousers inside.

The trousers and the black dark pattern suit beside him seemed to be a set of materials.

He looked relaxed and sighed, "It's a good thing these security pants are wide and big, otherwise I don't know how to get them out!"

The person in the driver's seat glanced at him again from the central rearview mirror, and snorted coldly: "Where's the thing?"

The people behind were surprised: "What?"

The person in front turned his head angrily and asked, "What did you say?"

The people behind spread their hands: "How do I know what Mr. Shen said?"

His eyes were round and his face was innocent.

The person in front shouted his name angrily: "Shen Gu! Stop pretending!"

Shen Gu finally understood what he was talking about, and immediately raised his hands to express his innocence: "Hey, hey, hey? There is no proof, no proof, don't spit blood! I didn't steal anything from you!"

The people in front obviously didn't believe it: "Really?"

"I swear!" He immediately raised his right hand and stretched out the middle three fingers to make an oath.

But then he realized that his behavior at the moment was really funny—when would it be his younger brother's turn to "bump his nose and face" at him.

He bent his body, took advantage of his long legs, got up from the back seat and jumped to the co-pilot, stretched out his arms and hooked Shen Jihe's neck, and said with feigned anger, "Oh, boy, you ruined me to solve the case, I haven't done it yet. I want to question you, but you are the first to accuse the villain!"

"Let go!" Shen Jihe felt that his neck was being strangled, so he quickly stretched out his left hand to grab Shen Gu's hand hooked around his neck, turned his backhand, and took the opportunity to "escape". Unkind and sudden attack, he slapped Shen Jihe's neat hair that was fixed with hairspray, and a few short hairs sprang out of his hair in the air, looking a little embarrassed.

"Despicable!" Shen Jihe gritted his teeth.

Shen Gupi smiled: "I didn't say I was a gentleman."

As soon as he finished speaking, the smile on his face didn't stay for two seconds, and he suddenly remembered something and said in surprise: "It's broken!"

While speaking, he hurriedly put his hand into the left suit pocket that was just pressed by Shen Jihe.

"Looking for what?"

As soon as Shen Jihe finished speaking, he saw a pair of gold-rimmed glasses lying on Shen Gu's left hand.

The lights in the car were dim, and the rims of the gold-rimmed glasses shone with a luxurious and delicate luster. However, in the "battle" just now, it survived and honorably broke a "leg".

The more Shen Jihe looked at it, the more familiar it became. Just as he was about to pick it up for a closer look, Shen Gu immediately clenched his fist, and quickly put the "Broken Leg" glasses into his pocket with a "swish".

The two eye to eye.

Shen Jihe asked suspiciously: "Why do I feel that this pair of glasses looks so familiar?"

Shen Gu showed a smile that was uglier than crying: "Hey, you think too much, don't the glasses have two circles, they all look similar..."

"you sure?"

"I'm sure!"

The tone is affirmative, and the eyes are wide open.

Shen Jihe didn't believe it, and turned his head to ignore him.

"Okay, okay." Shen Gu leaned forward, with a coaxing tone, "Brother was wrong, dad stopped my card, can I save a little bit! If I'm not taller than you, I don't even need to buy this suit!"

Shen Jihe wasn't really angry, he just always liked to tease him on purpose, seeing his coaxing look, he thought it was funny, so he had to suppress his smile and say that he didn't care about him.

"Hey, that's right!"

Shen Gu straightened his clothes and slumped on the chair feeling a little tired.

"Tell me, why did you appear there? Why are you buying that jewelry box?"

"Now, is Detective Shen Da interrogating me?"

Shen Gu stared sideways at Shen Jihe's eyes and said fiercely: "Qiao Qiao loved that jewelry box the most when he was alive..."

Shen Jihe was suspicious for a moment, then suddenly smiled and said: "It seems that the case is not going very smoothly..."

Shen Gu didn't smile, but had a serious face: "Answer me."

Shen Jihe looked into his deep and firm eyes, knowing that he was not joking, and slowly explained:

"It's really a coincidence... Fu Yumian likes that box, and the Chamber of Commerce has a project that needs Fu's support, so..."

Seeing his serious explanation, Shen Gu couldn't help but pursed his lips and smiled.

Shen Jihe asked him, "What do you mean?"

Shen Gu coughed twice, and pretended to explain seriously: "You're kidding! I was at the scene, and I know a little about the messy process in the middle. Judging from the current situation, the most suspected one should be the thief who stole the box."

On the contrary, Shen Jihe disagreed: "Maybe that thief really came to steal money."

"What if that thief is really one of the people invited to attend today?" Shen Gu said something else, "What if the person invited to attend happens to be related to Qiao Qiao's case?"

Shen Jihe nodded, and said for a long time: "There is indeed a problem in that."

"I also found out about this banquet by accident. I wanted to attend it in a dignified way, but later..." Shen Gu paused in embarrassment, "It was only later that I found out that there was no invitation letter..."

"Wait, what did you say?" Shen Jihe grasped the point, couldn't help laughing, and then mocked after laughing enough, "Unexpectedly, Mr. Shen didn't even know basic common sense in his [-]s."

Shen Gu ignored him and said to himself: "I stared outside and found that the person who made me suspicious before also appeared outside this banquet, so I figured out a way to get in."

"So you knocked out a security guard and changed his clothes and got in?"

"Well, it's on the 78th floor on a sunny day. There are four elevators on the first floor of Shidu International Hotel, two are public elevators, and one is a special VIP elevator. These three only reach the 77th floor, and there is one The elevator is an exclusive elevator that goes directly to the 78th floor on sunny days. The invited guests who went to the hotel today took the elevator directly to the 78th floor from the main entrance of the hotel. There are three doors in the hotel, and one of the side doors has an elevator that goes directly to the 77th floor. It is an elevator for the back kitchen of the hotel restaurant on the 77th floor to transport ingredients and garbage."

"It seems that you have done a lot of homework."

Shen Gu ignored him and continued: "I took this elevator to the 77th floor and then turned over the terrace on the north side of the restaurant to reach the stairwell. I didn't go up directly. Instead, I kidnapped a security guard on the 77th floor and changed my clothes before going there. Floor 78."

"Because there are too many people on the 78th floor?"

"Um"

"Then why don't your clothes..."

"You can't keep the clothes," Shen Gu interjected with a smile, "This clothes are a luxury brand, and it's easy to find out who bought them if you go to the counter to check."

Shen Jihe remembered the credit card he swiped when he paid for this suit, and couldn't help laughing: "Are you asking me to take the blame?"

Shen Gu asked back: "Didn't you cheat me?"

Shen Jihe was silent for a while, remembering that when he gave the Yumian box, he lied that it was given by Shen Gu, and felt a little guilty: "Oh, courtesy is reciprocated!"

Shen Gu was complacent: "Fortunately, you also happened to be there, and the clothes were brought out by you, but there is no flaw at all."

Shen Jihe suddenly realized: "So it was you who caused me to bump into the table and spill red wine all over my body?"

"Hehe, the clothes were hidden in the dining car under the table at that time... You see, this is just the right time to bring the clothes out for me, and it can also save me by the way."

Shen Jihe blurted out: "That's because I thought you stole the things, so I covered you up!"

Then he said: "Anyway, I saved you, and now you owe me a favor."

"Mr. Shen, I don't owe you anything." Shen Gu smiled wickedly, "You saved me, but you came out halfway to buy that broken box and cut off my clues... and I didn't steal your box. Yes, so the merits and demerits balance out."

Shen Jihe: ...

Seeing Shen Jihe seldom speechless, Shen Gu was overjoyed: "How about it, your brother is your brother after all, I always let you in the past!"

As he spoke, he hooked his fingers to Shen Jihe: "Come on, call Brother Sheng to listen!"

Shen Jihe slapped his hooked fingers down: "Childish!"

There was a bit of helplessness on his face.

Shen Gu smiled and straightened his sitting posture, and slumped on the chair.

He felt a little tired after being cautious all night.

"Send me back." Shen Gu narrowed his eyes and hummed.

"Okay." Shen Jihe started the car.

Suddenly remembered something and asked again: "Aren't you going to stay and have a look?"

"Look at what?"

"Since you think the two cases may be related, why don't you stay and take a look, maybe there will be some clues, and if necessary, they can be investigated together?"

Shen Gu lay on the chair with his eyes closed and did not answer him. For a long time, when the car passed by the entrance of Shidu International Hotel, he squinted his eyes and saw the police from the urban detachment at the entrance of the hotel checking the invited visitors one by one. With a smile.Then he slowly uttered a sentence: "The praying mantis catches the cicada, and the oriole follows..."

His voice was low and firm.

Shen Gu invited Shen Jihe to visit his new home.

Suburban garden area, only half an hour's drive from the city center.

When you go downstairs, you can see rows of crape myrtle blooming in the distance, purple and white, full of vitality and beauty.

There are also two crape myrtle trees at the entrance of the apartment, the trunk of which is as thick as a teacup and carmine.

Shen Jihe parked the car and sighed: "No wonder you look down on your own villa, it turns out that you have hidden a paradise."

Shen Gu pushed him upstairs: "This flower blooms red for a hundred days, just after the Qixi Festival, it is the flower that blooms brilliantly."

This is a wonderful remark, taken from Hu Wengong's Notes on Ziwei's Poems: The flowers are still numerous until the Qixi Festival.

Shen Jihe looked at him with admiration, "Unexpectedly, you also know this."

After climbing the fifth floor, we finally arrived.

Shen Gu stuffed the security suit he took off from the car into his arms, and opened the door with the key: "Mr. Shen, who has a lot of foreign ink, knows it. How can I, who loves the motherland and the people and has been nourished by Chinese culture, not know?"

Pushing the door was dark, Shen Gu said again: "However, Mr. Shen will be disappointed if he yearns for a paradise."

Turn on the lights, there are two bedrooms and one living room. There are not many furniture, but the layout is still warm.

Nordic style decoration, dusk color wallpaper, warm and simple.

"Sit anywhere."

"I'm welcome."

The blue leather sofa is delicate to the touch and extremely soft to sit on.

After sitting for a while without seeing Shen Gu, Shen Jihe got up and saw movement in the kitchen, and opened the door to watch. It turned out that he just threw the security uniform on the shoe cabinet, and Shen Gu took it into the kitchen and burned it.

"I thought your kitchen was a decoration."

"I'm not like Mr. Shen. I have rich clothes and good food... I don't have enough money and I have to rely on myself."

When he said this, he was squatting with one leg aggrieved, and the other half was kneeling on the ground. Because the legs were too long, a large part of his ankle was exposed when he squatted.He doesn't like to wear socks, but he usually puts thick skin care lotion on his feet, so the skin on his feet is white and smooth.He did not know where to bring an iron basin, and the security uniform was burning hot in the basin.The air conditioner was not turned on in the room, and after a while, his back was covered with sweat.

Shen Jihe looked at his back, his white shirt was soaked in sweat, his firm back line was looming

Somehow, he blurted out, "What's mine is yours."

The clear and crisp voice rushed into Shen Gu's ears with a bit of softness, his back began to tingle and his hairs stood on end.

He took a rag and wiped his hands clean.Then turned around, and the wind pushed Shen Jihe against the door.

The faces of the two were no more than ten centimeters, which Shen Jihe didn't expect.

Shen Gu shaved his beard, clean and fresh, his hair parted in the middle was stained with sweat, his bushy eyebrows were half covered, his eyes half-closed were still shining like stars: "What did you just say?"

There is a special fragrance about him.

"Shen Gu!" Shen Jihe's ears were flushed.

"Hmph!" Shen Gupi smiled and let him go, "Boy, play with me, you are still a little tender."

"It seems that he really let me go before." He spread his hands and smiled, and coughed awkwardly, "It seems that I can't just make fun of you!"

Shen Gu bypassed him, took some vegetables from the refrigerator, went back to the kitchen, and said faintly: "I'm going crazy, I'm not as good as a beast."

He said the last four words one by one, and his voice was already deep, which made him even more bewildered.

"madman!"

Shen Jihe stood at the door, slightly absent-minded.

He can't see through him a little bit, it's him who talks nonsense, it's him who is dumb, it's him who speaks out loud, it's him who can speak eloquently, it's him who is reckless, it's him who is as careful as dust, it's him who is ruffian, it's him who is irritable Rulei is him, and by the way, there is also the self-proclaimed "beast is inferior".

"I said..." Shen Gu looked at him with a pot of vegetables.

"what?"

"If you don't help, can you stop standing there, my house is already crowded!" Shen Gu complained.

"okay."

He was at a loss and returned to the sofa just now, watching Shen Gu go about his business.

"Let me tell you, you are only in your early twenties," Shen Gu's nagging from the kitchen can still be heard in the living room, "Don't look at how capable you are in the mall, you have no emotional experience at all, if you are not talented, you will go abroad at the age of 16 Studying, now you are the age of just graduating from university, you are just a child to me, so you usually pay attention, don't look like a child, I am afraid that ghosts and ghosts will eat you!"

"Take that Qiao Qiao as an example. She is a pretty girl, and everyone likes it, especially a young guy like you, who is easy to be deceived. The water in the entertainment industry is deep."

The more he talked, the more energetic he was, with the tone of "an elder brother is like a father".

Shen Jihe didn't want to talk to him, he didn't like Shen Gu treating him like a child, and the more he thought about it, the more he panicked, and it was the first time he was preached at this age: "The dead are the greatest, don't make fun of her anymore, I have nothing to do with her. "

"Oh! Really?" Shen Gu stood in front of the refrigerator with a bag of frozen ribs in one hand and an egg in the other, flailing his teeth, "I saw it last time, why are you still arguing?"

"It's not what you think"

"What's that like?" Shen Gu stared at him, "I have a deep memory of that miserable smile last time!"

Shen Jihe felt bitter in his heart. He thought he liked Qiao Qiao, but he didn't know that he just felt sorry for the unrequited love.

Emotionally, he is indeed miserable.

He looked at Shen Gu, who still had an expression of listening attentively.

He had no choice but to tell the reason: "Did I tell you that Qiao Qiao once spoke for the jewelry brand at home for a year?"

"Yes what's the matter?"

"Actually, she signed a two-year endorsement contract with our company. I just took over the company at the time, and it was already full of enthusiasm. She seemed to have a drama to be officially announced at that time, so her agent suggested to her that She bundles the hype."

"The newly promoted Xiao Hua and the newly appointed wealthy young master Kuo Shao? Oh, they are indeed eye-catching!" Shen Gu walked into the kitchen.

"But at that time, Qiao Qiao was very disapproving of the agent's approach. It is said that there was a quarrel at the time. Later, his father found out, and compensated Qiao Qiao's company for a sum of money, and changed the contract to one year. The endorsement for the next year will be messed up."

"I'd rather break the contract than let you drench the dirty water, I can't tolerate sand in my eyes," Shen Gu poured oil into the pot, "it's indeed the style of the old man."

"Well, after I knew the ins and outs of the matter, I always felt guilty. After all, Qiao Qiao is indeed a good person. She opposed the manager's actions throughout the whole process, but she couldn't beat the company."

The more Shen Jihe said, the lower his voice became, and Shen Gu comforted him:

"You don't have to worry about it. When you first took over the company, it was three years ago. You were only young at that time, and it's been so long..."

The sound of working in the kitchen was extremely loud, and Shen Jihe couldn't hear what Shen Gu said behind him. Just as he was about to ask, he poked his head out of the kitchen door with a spatula in his hand, "I won't talk to you anymore, just sit down for a while." After a while, we can eat later."

Shen Jihe nodded: "Well, good."

After speaking, he picked up the magazines on the table and flipped through them. Unexpectedly, they turned out to be some gourmet magazines, which taught cooking, with rich pictures and texts, which were easy to understand.Among them, the teaching part of the dish "sauce ribs" is also circled with a red pen, which should be preparation for practice.

He looked into the kitchen, and he couldn't imagine that such a "rough guy" would be so interested in cooking. The more he thought about it, the more he found it unexpected, and the more he read it, the more interesting he found it, and unconsciously flipped through the food journals in his hand. Mostly.

After another 10 minutes, the kitchen finally turned off, and Shen Gu took two dishes to the living room and put them in front of Shen Jihe.

Shen Jihe looked at the clock on the wall, it was almost ten o'clock.

"I originally wanted to sneak into that charity party and have a good meal, but I didn't know that I was tired and hungry." Shen Gu handed him a pair of chopsticks, "Just let it go, eat whatever you want."

There is a plate of chili scrambled eggs on the coffee table, and the other dish is the sauced pork ribs circled in red pen in the gourmet journal.

It seems to be not bad, the most important thing is that the person who cooks is considerate, even the food is served and delivered to him.

Shen Jihe picked up a piece of pork ribs, which was red in color and fragrant.Put it in your mouth, the meat is crispy, salty and sweet.

He suddenly remembered Shen Gu's favorite crab roe shell biscuits. Sure enough, he hadn't changed a bit since he was a child, and he liked to eat sweet and salty things.

"How is it?" Shen Gu looked at him expectantly.

Shen Jihe smiled and said to him, "It's delicious."

"Really? It's my first time making this dish!"

Shen Gu was very excited to get his approval, picked up his chopsticks and put two ribs into his bowl: "Eat more if it tastes good!"

"Um"

This was the first time for Shen Jihe to eat the food cooked by Shen Gu, and he suddenly felt that the person in front of him was both familiar and unfamiliar, as if there were many aspects that he had never understood.

Mr. Shen, who has always been self-disciplined in eating, ate an extra bowl of rice tonight for an unprecedented time.