A plate of braised pork ribs, a plate of peas and shrimps, and a pot of assorted hibiscus soup were placed on the dining table. Sister Cai was still busy in the kitchen, chopping a beef front leg with a bone chopping knife, which made the living table clang.
There was a sound at the door. Sister Cai looked at the door and said loudly: "Mr. Zhou, you are back."
Zhou Song changed into slippers and walked into the living room. When he saw her chopping meat, he asked, "Are you making dumplings today?"
Sister Cai said: "No. This beef is so good. I asked my neighbor who owns a butcher shop to save it for me. Marinate it overnight tonight and cook the beef with soy sauce for you tomorrow."
The large kitchen is open, and is separated from the living room by a two-meter-long bench. Zhou Song unbuttoned his shirt collar and walked over, looked at the large pieces of red meat across the bench, and said: "Too
If there's too much, just marinate half of it. You can take the rest home."
Sister Cai: "How can that be done? This leg is so valuable."
Zhou Song waved his hand, indicating that she didn't need to refuse, and then went to the bathroom to take a shower.
Sister Cai happily said: "Thank you, Mr. Zhou."
Zhou Song came out of the shower, changed into a set of pajamas, and spread his damp hair. Sister Cai had already marinated the meat and was scrubbing the kitchen counter. "Mr. Zhou, you hurry up and eat. The food will be cold soon. Finish eating."
Put the bowl on the table and I'll come over to clean it up tomorrow morning."
Sister Cai is the nanny he hired and has been working there for more than two months. She comes there every morning and evening, cleaning in the morning and cooking dinner in the evening. Her salary is higher than that of a live-in nanny. Sister Cai has such a generous salary
, she is particularly dedicated to her work. Zhou Song is also very satisfied with her, and they get along very happily.
Zhou Song sat down in the restaurant and saw the two dishes and one soup on the table. He couldn't finish it by himself, so he invited Sister Cai to eat with him. Sister Cai said, "No, no, I have to go home and cook."
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She walked out of the kitchen carrying a bag of shaved beef bones and said happily: "My daughter is taking the postgraduate entrance examination and has lost weight in the past few days. I just made bone soup to replenish her body."
Zhou Song: "Take some meat back too."
Sister Cai: "No, no, no, she likes to drink soup. By the way, the light in the guest room is broken. I'll find someone to come and fix it tomorrow morning."
When Zhou Song heard this, he couldn't help but look at the guest guard. The door of the guest guard was not closed tightly, and dark air came out along the crack of the door. "You pay the money in advance, and I will reimburse you when I come back in the evening."
Sister Cai left, and Zhou Song was the only one left in the huge house. He sat in the dining room to eat, but his eyes always drifted to the guest room. He was very concerned about the door that was not closed tightly. It seemed that there was a famous man behind the door.
Called the dark beast, the beast's claws quietly stretched out from the crack of the door...
He put down his chopsticks, stood up and walked towards the guest guard. He suddenly stopped in front of the door. He wanted to close the door tightly, but he couldn't move his feet. It seemed that two vines came out of the floor and wrapped tightly around his ankles.
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The floor-to-ceiling windows were not closed, and the night wind blew in. The ajar door of the guest room was blown open by the wind, revealing the black hole hidden behind the door. The moment the door opened, Zhou Song wanted to escape, but his feet dug into the floor like roots.
In the middle, I could only let the fear in my heart drown me - there was a fire behind the door, and the layers of flames were like rolled up waves, licking the floor and walls and creating vortexes. A blurry figure appeared in the raging fire.
Figure. The man was very short, like a child. His body was scorched black by the fire. He stumbled towards Zhou Song and stretched out his hand, but not to ask for help from Zhou Song, but to drag him into the fire...
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The mobile phone placed on the dining table rang. The ringtone sounded near and far away, strong and weak. Zhou Song finally broke free from the vines wrapped around his ankle, and closed the guest bathroom door with a loud roar. He returned to the dining room and picked up the mobile phone.
I wanted to answer the phone, but the cold sweat on my hands made my skin slippery. I pressed the phone several times before I answered: "Hello?"
His breathing was unstable and rapid. Pan Shaojie heard it and thought wrongly: "Do you know what I hated most about you before? What I hated the most was that you always looked like a believer who had just been baptized by holy water, and you acted so condescending.
You look like you are eating the fireworks of the world. But now I don’t hate you, because you are also an ordinary person with food and sex, hahahahahahaha!”
Zhou Song wanted to drink water, but his wrist shook and he knocked over the water glass. He hurriedly tried to pick up the water glass, forgetting that the water bottle was still in his hand. When he let go, the glass bottle fell to the ground and broke. The water splashed out and wet him.
He looked down at the remains of the kettle on the floor and his wet slippers and trouser legs, and suddenly felt extremely irritated: "Hurry up and say something."
Pan Shaojie: "Wow, wow, are you impatient? Didn't you ask me to help you find out about Hong Ye? I found out some secret gossip, do you want to hear it?"
Pan Shaojie's family is in the real estate business, and Hong Ye's father started out as a machine tool maker. The two families have little business dealings with each other, but they are both wealthy people from the upper class and have extensive networks of contacts. Naturally, Hong Ye is not a stranger.
Ye was a frequent visitor to "Heaven and Earth" and was a fair-weather friend with Pan Shaojie. None of the ridiculous things Hong Ye did in "Heaven and Earth" could escape Pan Shaojie's ears.
Zhou Song opened the drawer in the dining room, took out a creamy yellow medicine bottle, poured out two tablets of medicine and swallowed it with water. He was now flustered, anxious, and his hands and feet were trembling. If he didn't take medicine as soon as possible, his symptoms would become more and more serious.
He will become more and more irritable, hurt himself and others, until he completely loses his mind and then falls into a nervous coma.
Zhou Song: "Say quickly."
Pan Shaojie stopped pretending: "There is a girl who has been following him for a long time. She told me just now that Hong Ye never wears a condom. You know we are very cautious. Wouldn't it be troublesome if we gave birth to a child? This
Niu'er was very careful and took medicine afterward, but one time Hong Ye drank too much and told her that she didn't need to take medicine. They couldn't have a baby without wearing a condom or taking medicine. What do you mean by this? Make it clear.
Just say you can't do it! Hahahaha, if Hong Ye is infertile, how can his wife give birth to a child for him? He must find someone to do it for him. He clearly knows that the child is not his, but he still raises the child for his wife and lover. This is not a cuckold.
Addiction, this is a cuckold!"
Zhou Song hung up the phone, feeling a little surprised; Hong Ye was infertile? What was going on? Could it be that not only the child in Yu Jiao's belly was Jin Tao's child, but also Hong Yibai was Jin Tao's child? Did Hong Ye know about it? What if?
If he is really infertile, then he must know that the two children are not his. But why is he willing to raise children for Jin Tao? And is he willing to exchange diamonds for Yu Jiao? Is it because he loves Yu Jiao?
No, he doesn’t believe in love, let alone a playboy like Hong Ye, whose love for Yu Jiao can be so great. If he wants to find a reason for Hong Ye’s various behaviors, he would rather believe that Hong Ye doesn’t want to expose Yu Jiao
The reason for having an affair is that you don’t want to expose your inability to have children. After all, this kind of thing is a more serious humiliation for a man than his wife cheating. This is a man’s dignity.
The medicine took effect, and Zhou Song's mood gradually calmed down. He returned to the bedroom, and the moment he opened the door, the bedside table lamp automatically turned on. He turned on the aromatherapy lamp, added a few drops of calming lavender essential oil, and got into bed.
He leaned on the bedside and opened his laptop to check his mailbox. There were several unread emails in his mailbox, some from his classmates who were studying abroad, and some from professors. He had been out of school for nearly three months because of his poor mental state.
Stable. It was not his decision to suspend school. It was a punishment imposed by the school management. If he wanted to go back to complete his studies, he needed to pass a psychological evaluation. They had to make sure that his mental illness was under effective control and that he would not harm other teachers and students in the school.
It caused a safety threat. The cause of all this was that he failed to take medicine in time, and eventually became emotionally unbalanced and broke the nose of a classmate. The other party made an injury assessment and it was enough to sentence him. But he
He did not go to jail because the Zhou family settled everything with money and reached a court settlement with the other party.
Zhou Song had no choice but to suspend his studies for half a year and was ordered to return to China. He lived alone in the big house prepared for him by the Zhou family, wandering around all day long and doing nothing. He didn't care whether he could successfully obtain his diploma. He logged in to his email and only replied a few times.
My friend’s email ignored the subject materials sent by the professor.
He was replying to an email when his cell phone rang. It was ‘Liang Xie’. He freed his hand to answer the phone: “Brother A Xie.”
Liang Xie smiled and said, "Did I disturb your rest?"
Zhou Song: "No, is something wrong?"
Liang Xie: "How do you think about what I told you yesterday?"
After Zhou Song heard this, he closed his notebook and asked, "Go to work in the company?"
Liang Xie: "Since you are back, why not take this opportunity to join the company to gain some experience? You will come back to work after graduation anyway."
Zhou Song: "Is it Zhou Lingjun's idea?"
Liang Xie was still smiling, but his tone was already a little serious: "Yes, it was your elder brother's idea."
Zhou Lingjun is his uncle's son and the current general manager of the Zhou Group. He holds most of the Zhou family's business. If nothing else, he will be the ultimate successor. From the time he returned to China to now, his eldest brother
He didn't show his face and only asked his secretary Liang Xie to deliver some household things. Liang Xie was Zhou Lingjun's secretary, not just his secretary. Liang Xie was also his most loyal and capable assistant. If Zhou Lingjun was the prince of the East Palace,
Liang Xie is his personal bodyguard.
Liang Xie's life experience is quite dramatic. He grew up in a welfare institution. Zhou Lingjun funded his studies, and he went to the best prestigious schools in the country. Liang Xie was very talented and skipped grades repeatedly. He completed college at the age of 20. He graduated from college.
Later, he naturally entered the Wanheng Group and worked for Zhou Lingjun. It has been almost ten years now.
I don’t know if it was Zhou Lingjun’s instruction. During the two years when Zhou Song went to study abroad, Liang Xie often called him and cared about his life and studies. He also occasionally sent him some Chinese specialties that could be bought in the Chinese Super League abroad. So it was better than
rise
Zhou Lingjun, Zhou Song and Liang Xie became more familiar with each other and respected Liang Xie more.
Zhou Song smiled and said: "Brother Ah Xie, you know that I studied art, not the business management job you arranged for me. What can I do in the company?"
Liang Xie: "If you don't know anything, you can learn it from scratch. If you don't come to work in the company, will you hang out with Pan Shaojie and his gang all day long?"
Zhou Song indeed planned to do so, but he couldn't say that. He could only find another excuse. He couldn't think of it for a while, so he deliberately delayed, "Let me think about it and I will reply to you in two days."
Liang Xie: "Okay, I'll give you two more days."
He didn't realize that this was the ultimatum given to him by Liang Xie on behalf of Zhou Lingjun. He said goodbye and hung up the phone. Just as he was about to put down the phone, a missed message popped up on the screen. It was Han Feilu who called while he was talking to Liang Xie.
. He called back, but no one answered the first time, and he didn’t get through until the second time when he automatically hung up.
Han Feilu: "Zhou Song, right?"
Maybe it was the essential oil that had its effect. Zhou Song suddenly felt soothed and relaxed all over his body. He leaned on the bed and let out a breath before saying, "Who are you looking for? I can choose yes or no."
Han Feilu smiled: "I'm looking for you. I just finished a meeting, where are you? I'll treat you to a supper."
Zhou Song: "Save the step of treating guests to dinner. Just say what you have to say, and you and I won't be tired."
Han Feilu: "Okay, let me tell you straight away. I want to ask you for a favor tomorrow."
Zhou Song: "What are you busy with?"
Han Feilu: "Help find Hong Yibai. We will have an operation tomorrow. The details will not be told to you. They will be kept confidential. Tomorrow's operation will drain the police force of our branch, but I don't want to delay Hong Yibai's case. You also know a lot of inside information.
, so I want to ask you to help me."
Zhou Song's mind changed and he started to make fun of Qiao: "Should I go find it alone? Then I won't do it. I have no reputation and no credentials. How can I investigate the case on behalf of the police?"
Han Feilu: "I won't let you act alone. I will send someone to follow you. He will run errands for you and show your ID if something happens. Just say whether you agree or not. If not, I will think of other ways."
He didn't say a few nice words, but the guy became anxious again. Zhou Song deliberately rubbed him, and the word "um" got stuck in his nose, and he lingered for a long time before saying "um" simply.
Han Feilu breathed a sigh of relief and said sincerely: "Thank you, I will ask her to call you tomorrow morning. That's it, I won't disturb you anymore, goodbye."
Zhou Song put down his phone, stretched, slid down on the bed, and gradually fell asleep surrounded by the soft light and the scent of lavender essential oil.