Min Xili took the stack of materials and saw the mortgage letter signed by Min Dajian and Qi An. After a pause, he said: "Actually, Lawyer Li came to me that day, that is, Hari Turege's land was mortgaged to someone else. It's just that I didn't expect it to be someone else......"

"It's the same as the mall at the bottom of the hill, which your dad mortgaged to him. Pei Rui took out another financial report, which was densely packed with numbers, some tables, and newspaper brochures. Pei Rui met her confused eyes, thinking that she might not be able to understand this kind of internal financial report, and said, "I've always been curious, why did your father let you go to court." In fact, judging from these alone, even if he transferred your mother's joint property, the operation of his construction company did not improve, but mortgaged three buildings and a shopping mall, as well as the land of Hari Tureg to Qi An, and came back to life. ”

"How could it be? Uncle Qi didn't have a good relationship with him. Why help him?" Min Xili remembered that when she was young, she always liked Qi An more than Min Dajian, and said to Pei Rui: "When I was young, Uncle Qi was always very gentle, not as irritable as my father. In fact, the three of them had a good relationship before, until my mother handed over part of the assets to Uncle Qi to take care of, and after a big quarrel with my father at home, she went on a business trip to Haritureg, and then disappeared...... So rumors began to circulate outside, saying that I was Qi An's child......"

"Hey......" Min Xili sighed deeply, even the Admiral didn't talk about her childhood so much, maybe because Pei Rui had helped her too much, or maybe she had held it for too long, Min Xili suddenly wanted to tell him all: "At that time, I was young, and my mother was gone, my father went to Hari Tureg to look for a long time but didn't find anyone, and he ignored me when he came back." Maybe it's to get him to pay attention to me...... I was clamoring to do a paternity test, and although it turned out that I was indeed his child, I blamed him because of my mother, thinking that if he hadn't quarreled with my mother, maybe my mother wouldn't have gone to Haritureg. ”

Pei Rui asked, "So you were angry and asked Qi An to send you out of the country?"

"I don't have a home anymore. Min Xili smiled lonely: "I have been back to China for so long and want to see him, but he doesn't want to see me." Maybe he also wished there was no daughter like me - after all, few fathers could accept that their own daughter had been reported for murder. ”

"Do you suspect that your mother was murdered?" asked Pei Rui.

Min Xili nodded, and then said: "I was really not sensible at that time, and I didn't want to admit that my mother disappeared inexplicably like that, so I called the police to arrest him." ”

Pei Rui rubbed her head distressedly, Min Xili was only thirteen or fourteen years old at that time, which was the age of sensitivity and thoughtfulness: "I was very scared at that time." ”

Min Xili had a sour nose, lowered his head and held back his tears, and said: "If I had met you when I was fourteen years old, maybe I wouldn't have been so scared and done a lot of irreparable things." ”

Pei Rui thought to herself, she didn't have the fate to meet at the age of fourteen, and she had the fate to meet at the age of nineteen but she didn't have a share.

"It may be a little late to meet me now, but it's not too late. Pei Rui then said: "Qi An went abroad this time, and it was really timely. ”

"I always felt like the two of them were hiding something from me. But what else is there to hide?" Min Xili has been thinking about this question since Lawyer Li left.

"One of them is hiding abroad, and the other is not seeing you, which may prove that you are getting closer and closer to the truth. Pei Rui was a little worried, although he hadn't seen Min Dajian, but Qi An he was very familiar with, this person was not a person who would escape, he wanted to hide from Xili, what kind of embarrassment was it?

Min Xili was so worried that he went back to his room to sleep after dinner. Although Pei Rui was worried, he knew that it would be useless to say more.

As usual before bedtime, Min Xili lit a scented candle placed at the end of the bathroom. The hand holding the match shook gently back and forth, like a conductor of a symphony orchestra, a wisp of smoke burned out, and the hot water in the bathroom rose.

Ciri lay in the bathtub with her eyes closed, she felt as if her hearing had suddenly become sensitive, in addition to the sound of water, she could even hear the sound of candle flames flickering, the sound was very soft but very regular, and it looked like some animal moving gently.

She opened her eyes and saw a large green snake hovering at the other end of the tub, its whole body was turquoise, and even its eyes glowed faintly green. Spit out the letter and try to move forward, a spirit in Min Xili jumped out of the bathtub, but the snake suddenly burrowed into the water and was never found again.

Soaking wet, Xili rushed out of the toilet wrapped in a bath towel and shouted: "Pei Rui!

Pei Rui was processing documents in the study, and when she heard Xili's voice, she immediately put down the work in her hand and rushed to her bedroom, and the moment she opened the door, she saw Xili jump up from the bed and ran directly to him without putting on his shoes, dragging his hand. Her forehead was covered with sweat, her hair was soaked and pressed against her neck, as if she had just been fished out of the water, and her body was slightly bent in fear and fear.

"Snakes, there are snakes in the house. Her voice trembled, and she clutched Pei Rui's sleeve tightly, like grasping a piece of driftwood.

Pei Rui looked around a little, understood that she was having a nightmare, and asked, "Where?"

"In the bathtub, such a big green snake. She gestured, the snake was as thick as Pei Rui's wrist.

Pei Rui saw that she was indeed frightened, touched his trouser pocket, and found that the square scarf he had been carrying on his body was put on the study with his coat, so he had to touch her forehead with his hand, and he was in a cold sweat. Gently soothing her back, watching her anxious eyes gradually crawl with doubt and nightmares.

"You're having nightmares, how can there be snakes in the bathtub. Pei Rui saw that she was wearing a white pajamas, her collarbones were already jagged, and she was so thin that she couldn't look good, so he put on her coat in distress.

"Really?" Min Xili was still reluctant to let go of Pei Rui, she suddenly couldn't tell if she was dreaming now, or if it was reality just now.

Pei Rui saw that she was a little quieter, and took the slippers for her to put on: "Do you believe it, let's go and see it together?"

Ciri took his hand, Pei Rui took her to the toilet, turned on all the lights, although the bathroom was large, but there was nothing cramped and suitable for hiding. Min Xili stood aside in a daze, staring at the empty bathtub and the undyed aromatherapy, watching Pei Rui turn on the faucet and wipe off the sweat for her after wetting the towel.

She let go of the hand that was grabbing his sleeve, because he was too his sleeve and became embarrassed, took the towel from Pei Rui's hand and held it in her hand, looked at him in a daze, as if to confirm it, and said softly: "I have a nightmare." ”

The court will be held tomorrow, and this afternoon Pei Rui told her about Qi An again, Xili has been very quiet all the time, and there has not been much change in even her emotions, but when she said that she was going to bed early, Pei Rui was still faintly worried, so she kept an eye on the movement in her room in the study.

Pei Rui put his arm around her shoulders and took her out of the bathroom, sat down on the bed, and coaxed the child: "It's okay, it's okay." ”

Ciri had completely regained her composure, the snake was actually familiar to her, but because she hadn't seen her for too long, she thought it was gone, and she thought she had shaken it off, so it was the time to meet again that made her so afraid.

Pei Rui poured her a glass of water, Min Xili held it in his hand and calmed down, regaining his former calm: "I'm sorry, I scared you." ”

Pei Rui suddenly squatted down and knelt on one knee looking as pious as a believer: "It's scared me, but don't be embarrassed." ”