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When the lights came on, the rain began to tick, tock, and rain. Li Zhen was knocking sunflower seeds at the front desk. Every time it rained, the number of guests who came to Fenghai to listen to the music would suddenly decrease.

Now there are only a few guests drinking in the hall in twos and threes.

"Li Zhen, come here and help me."

Ah Qiang brought a box of red wine from the wine cellar and was doing accounting statistics. When he saw Li Zhen cracking melon seeds, he unceremoniously called him over.

"Here we come." It took Li Zhen and Ah Qiang a lot of effort to move out a box of red wine. It might take a lot of trouble for a girl with less strength, so Li Zhen is the one with the most strength. , easy to use.

"Brother Qiang, I can't do it anymore, my back hurts, and you know that my back hurts when it rains." Just after complimenting Li Zhen in her heart, Li Zhen shouted tired the next second, Ah Qiang felt that the compliment was useless, "Okay Okay, you help me watch these wines at the bar."

After being lazy, Li Zhen felt elated, "Brother Qiang, I'll help you look after it now, be careful, don't knock or fall."

A Qiang: "..."

Li Zhen returned to the bar and took out a handful of melon seeds from her pocket. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a beautiful figure coming down the stairs, "Sister Manyi, why did you come down?"

Hua Manyi's face was pale, her nose was flushed, and she coughed a few times, "I'm going out to buy some medicine."

"Hey, if it wasn't for Brother Qiang asking me to watch the bar for him, otherwise I would accompany you to buy medicine, Sister Manyi." Li Zhen said regretfully.

Hua Manyi smiled, "It's okay, the road is not far away, I can do it by myself."

"Sister Manyi, bring an umbrella, here you have it, come on, be careful on the road." Sometimes Li Zhen is quite caring, but occasionally she is too lazy.

"Thank you."

Hua Manyi took it, and glanced at the rain falling on the street. The cool wind blew from the street, blowing her ankle-length cheongsam, stepped on the wet floor with her small high heels, and walked to the left.

……

At seven o'clock in the evening, in the courtyard of Luhe Winery Villa, Gong Yan saw that the time was almost up, so he got up and prepared to leave. A man stood outside the corridor of the courtyard and handed something to Gong Shulan.

"Shulan?" Gong Yan glanced at the man who turned and left, feeling a little puzzled.

"Sister, this is a gift for Jiang Yin, I'll leave it to you tonight." Gong Shulan handed over the document bag in his hand.

"What's inside?" Gong Yan weighed it, but it wasn't light.

Gong Shulan was helpless, "Sister, there will be no surprises if you say it."

Gong Yan: "Okay, then I'm leaving, you take good care of yourself at home."

After finishing speaking, she turned around and got into the car. Gong Shulan put her hands on her lap, looked at the buttocks of the car going away, and smiled deeply, "Go and prepare the car, I want to see a good show."

At eight o'clock, Gong Yan was sitting in the back seat of the car. At this moment, it was completely dark outside, and the streets of Haicheng were lit up, illuminating the bustling road.

"Ma'am, Miss Jiang Yin said that she is already waiting at the coffee shop." Uncle Fu drove ahead.

"Then go straight to the coffee shop."

Just as Gong Yan was about to smoke, when she took it out of her bag, she accidentally bumped into the document bag, and the corners inside hit her little finger. Think more.

It was rainy and foggy outside, and the rain became a little bit rainy.

"Madam is here." Uncle Fu hurriedly got out of the car and took an umbrella, and followed Gong Yan into a coffee shop.

"You go back to the car and wait." Gong Yan saw the back figure sitting in the corner, stirring the hot coffee, and walked over.

"Jiang Yin."

Hearing the voice, Jiang Yin raised his head, "Ayan, you are here, sit down, and I ordered a cup of coffee for you."

They didn't sit in booths, but sat on a simple woven rattan chair by the window, and there were a few fresh floral decorations on the small and delicate low table.

"By the way, this is a gift from Shulan." Gong Yan handed over the document bag as soon as he sat down.

Jiang Yin's hands trembled when he heard the name, and he waited for a few seconds before he spoke nonchalantly, "Shu Lan gave me a gift? How could she give me a good gift?"

"She said that she will eat and live at your house these few days, so she prepared a gift for you because she felt sorry." Gong Yan stirred the coffee, picked it up and drank it gracefully.

Eat what you live and live what you...

Jiang Yin couldn't imagine that woman would have such a sophisticated side, she hated herself so much when she left that day,

Thinking of this, he opened the file bag, and saw a black and white bloody photo, with two bloody fingers lying on the cutting board, and a knife next to it.

Jiang Yin's pupils widened suddenly, and he quickly opened the second one. The scene of Huo Suqiu being blindfolded and tied to the chair, and his right hand being pulled forcibly onto the cutting board jumped into her eyes without any warning. Jiang Yin quickly covered her mouth, she was afraid that she would screamed.

"What's the matter?" Gong Yan had just closed his eyes and drank his coffee, but didn't see her expression, put down his coffee and looked up, and saw Jiang Yin covering his mouth with tears in his eyes.

Jiang Yin broke out in cold sweat and wanted to scream, but the next moment there was a line on the photo warning her - if you tell my sister the contents of the letter, you will receive Huo Suqiu's body tomorrow.

A chill rushed from his heels to his mind, and Gong Shulan, a lunatic, kept echoing in his heart.

"Jiang Yin?" Gong Yan leaned over, and Jiang Yin hurriedly stuffed the photo back into the file bag, "No..."

Gong Yan noticed her flustered, and later realized that there was something wrong with Gong Shulan and Jiang Yin, and asked in a deep voice, "Jiang Yin, what's inside?"

As he spoke, he reached out to take it.

The warning sentence on the photo was still in Jiang Yin's mind, like a cold gun pointed at her back, as long as Gong Yan saw the content, the gun would pull the trigger without hesitation.

"do not want!"

Seeing that the document bag was in Gong Yan's hands, Jiang Yin got up in a panic, and leaned over to grab it, but unexpectedly, she threw herself on Gong Yan, her legs intertwined.

The file bag fell to the ground, and Gong Yan felt a pain in his chest, but he kept caring about the woman on his body, afraid of being scalded by the hot coffee, so he hugged Jiang Yin's waist with both hands, "Jiang Yin, are you okay?"

Before the words were finished, the woman on the chest raised her head with tears in her eyes. Out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of a car hidden in the darkness at the alley opposite the street. A car drove across the street with its headlights on. It was bright, and Gong Shulan's face jumped into the eyes through the mist and rain, staring at her with a gloomy and sick face.

"What's in it?" Gong Yan realized that the things in the file bag might not be gifts in the ordinary sense, what happened to Gong Shulan and Jiang Yin.

Jiang Yin remained silent, looked back at Gong Yan for a few seconds, the last trace of madness flashed, closed his eyes, held the woman's cheeks with eagerness and panic, and kissed her.

At the entrance of the alley, the rain slapped on the car windows like a ghost whistling.

The smile on the corner of Gong Shulan's mouth could no longer be raised.

……

"Miss, you take it well. Add one and a half bowls of water to boil this medicine until it reaches half a bowl. Drinking it once in the morning and evening after meals will drive away the wind and cold in your body." The old Chinese doctor handed the packed medicine package to Hua. Manyi.

"Thank you doctor, cough, cough—" Hua Manyi coughed a few times, handed over 20 copper coins, and then picked up the medicine bag and left Herentang. The wind rushing into her skin made her goosebumps rise.

Holding an umbrella, she returned along the original road along the street. The rain gradually became heavier, and there was no driver pulling a rickshaw on the road, so she could only walk back alone.

"Let Rang, Rang Rang..." Someone behind him was stepping on a bicycle in the rain and slammed the bell. It was probably raining too much and the other party was driving staggeringly. When he saw someone in front of him, he didn't have time to brake, so he turned the front of the bike to the other side in a hurry. She dodged and walked away, but even so, Hua Manyi was knocked down, and the medicine bag fell to the ground, and was soon drenched by the rain.

The umbrella fell to the ground, and the wind blew it far away.

The cold rain quickly soaked the cheongsam on the back, penetrated into the skin, scratched the skin on the wrist, and Hua Manyi coughed non-stop. She felt her forehead was getting hotter and hotter, and she had to go back as soon as possible.

He picked up the half-wet medicine bag and stood up, raised his eyes and walked forward, but the next moment his whole body stiffened.

In the coffee shop not far away, the two snuggling and kissing made her heart drop suddenly, the raindrops dripped down her fingertips, and the damp and cold temperature began to spread to her limbs from there.

In the Fenghai Song and Dance Hall, Li Zhen had just finished eating the last melon seed and was about to touch it again when she saw a figure walking in from the door.

Drenched all over, the wavy hairstyle on her head was sticky with rainwater sticking to her forehead, her charming and beautiful face was bloodless at the moment, and she was carrying three packs of medicine bags stacked together in her hand, which was also soaked by the rain. It was no longer edible, and with the other hand holding a small heel, he stood barefoot at the door, dripping water all over his body.

Li Zhen was frightened by this scene, this... is this Sister Manyi before going out?How did he become such a ghost in the blink of an eye?

"Sister Manyi?" Li Zhen hurriedly walked over, worried, "You, you..."

"I'm fine, I just fell down." Hua Manyi didn't lift her eyes, missed her, went upstairs in a daze, and locked herself in the room.

……

At exactly eleven o'clock in the evening, a black Ford drove through Zhengyuan Street.

Gong Yan sat on the back seat and rubbed the center of her brows, constantly recalling the scene in the coffee shop just now. Compared with Jiang Yin's kiss, she wanted to know what was in that file bag. She didn't believe Jiang Yin did it out of liking. She kissed herself, but it was more like trying to cover up something.

But when she asked to know what was in the file bag, Jiang Yin trembled all over, crying and told her not to look at it, saying that she would give her an explanation tomorrow, and finally she had to compromise, watching Jiang Yin pick up the file bag and hurry Leaving the cafe in a hurry.

It has been more than an hour since we left the coffee shop, Gong Yan lit a cigarette to relieve his emotions, and his red lips pressed a trace of coldness, "Go back to the winery first."

She wanted to ask Gong Shulan what that woman did to Jiang Yin to make her so scared.

Uncle Forbe was about to respond, but suddenly many people looked out and whispered to each other. A newspaper reporter wearing a flat beret passed by, carefully protecting the camera hanging on his chest, and cursed, " Damn the rain! Delay me in filming the Huo family fire!"

The Huo family...

"What did Xiaoqi do to help Shulan?" Gong Yan felt faintly uneasy.

Xiaoqi was borrowed by Gong Shulan the day before yesterday, saying that she was asked to translate Morse code.

"This..." Uncle Uncle couldn't answer, since it involved Miss Shulan, how could he dare to ask so many questions.

"Go and call Xiao Qi."

"Eh!"

Uncle Fu hurriedly got out of the car and found the nearest phone booth. As soon as he dialed the number, Gong Yan took the phone in his hand, "I'll ask."

Forbe: "Okay..."

"Xiaoqi, it's me, Gong Yan, what did Gong Shulan ask you to do these two days?" Gong Yan hung the cigarette aside, his eyes became more serious.

"Ma'am, Miss Shulan just asked me to sit in front of the telegraph and translate the Morse code telegram sent from the other side." Xiaoqi said in front of the phone.

"What's up there."

"It seems to be a recipe for dyeing cloth..." Xiaoqi recalled the scene at that time, and clearly mentioned the proportion of dyes.

The woman Shulan is good at buying people's hearts. If it is the formula for dyeing cloth, then it is estimated that the Huo family's confidant on the other side of the telegram was bribed by her, risking her life to leak the Huo family's formula.

Gong Yan frowned, "Did you find anything abnormal during the translation?"

Xiao Qi was silent for a while, "Madam, I don't know if it was my illusion. I went to the telegraph according to Ms. Shulan, and I seemed to smell blood."

The telegraphs are all fixed, but that location is special and secretive, as if it is specially used to send secret messages to people.

"Anymore?"

"What's more, the speed at which the other party typed the Morse code varies from time to time, as if..." Xiao Qi thought for a while, "It's as if that person's hand was injured."

The rain dripped on the phone booth, ticking.

"I see." Gong Yan hung up the phone, frowned, and called again after a few seconds of silence, "Liu Ma, is Shulan at home?"

"Ma'am, Miss Shulan went out not long after you went out, and she hasn't come back yet."

Gong Yan closed her eyes, walked out of the phone booth, and got into the car, "Go to Huo's house right away!"

Uncle Fu was about to turn around, when he suddenly heard an imperceptible trembling sound from the rear seat, "No...go to Jiang Yinna first."

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It's my fault, but it's time to reverse the main line

There will be no update tomorrow, and it will be updated after the exam on Wednesday, which will be around [-]:[-] o'clock on Wednesday night