If it weren't for the fact that he was going to come to Liu Ming today, Liu Jin wouldn't dare to imagine that the city hall would one day become such a scattered scene in front of him. The document said that the marshal had been sick at home for a long time, and the usual government affairs were taken care of by his wife, and then the important ones were selected to be taken back to the house for instructions. There was no one in the town hall for a long time, and over time, there were no restraints and rules.

It was supposed to be the administrative center of Yizhou, but now it is like this, Liu Jin couldn't help but feel sad when he looked at it, but he also knew that this was not his duty, so he had to pretend not to see it and hurriedly went to the Marshal's Mansion.

Since Liu Daolin's death, Liu Jin has not returned to the Liu family mansion in Sogo Road, although there are many new faces, but the old servants of the house are still there, and when they see him come back, they are all respectful, but those who cast their eyes on him, in addition to the joy of reunion after a long absence, are always mixed with some indescribable feelings, as if there are a thousand words to say, but I don't know why I want to say and stop.

This feeling became more and more certain after he met the old manager.

Seeing him come back, the old man with gray temples walked down the stairs quickly, greeted him, looked at him, his eyes were red, and he smurmured for a long time before he choked up and shouted: "Young Master."

He still calls him like this, as he did when he was a child, as if in his world, the three young masters of the Liu Mansion have never grown up, they are all just his young masters, carefree, and they don't have to carry the heavy burden of their family and country, and worry about so many trivial things.

Sighing, the old housekeeper raised his sleeves to hide his tears, and said:

"You're here to find the second young master, right? He's here, upstairs, you go up and see him, our second young master, it's too hard......"

Liu Jin couldn't help but be surprised when he heard this-now Liu Ming has moved the office back to his home, the door is not out, and the second door is not stepping, even if there are indeed many government affairs, where can he work hard?

The door of the study was open, and as soon as Liu Jin stepped on the steps of the second floor, he heard the sound of a quarrel, occasionally accompanied by a violent cough, so rapid that it seemed to cough out all the internal organs.

This heart-wrenching coughing sound woke up the scene of Liu Daolin when he was about to die one by one in his memory, and his heart became more and more uneasy, and he took a few steps closer to the study at the end of the corridor.

But when he was close enough to hear the argument in the study, the worry in his heart became a little more annoyed.

He heard Liu Minggang calm down his cough, wheezing, and argued with Ye Qiuluo:

"The case of Jinjiutang Public Hospital has been closed, and it was said that it was an accident, and we have paid the compensation that should be paid, so why do we want to talk about this matter now?"

"How do I know! People say that this matter is full of suspicions, and it is understandable that the investigation should be restarted and the initiator be punished. ”

"But you've seen the scene of the fire, it was burned beyond recognition, and now another month has passed, what evidence do you expect to find there? Reopening the investigation is simple, how much manpower and material resources will be wasted on this matter, have you calculated? ”

"I didn't say I really wanted to check! Hand over the people they want, so why bother so much! ”

"People are dead, there are no bones, how do you ask me to hand over people......"

"Isn't that right? Let her be a dead person and bear all the charges, and no one will lose, why not? Besides, if she was really dead, it would be fine, but I know she wasn't dead at all! ”

After Ye Qiuluo finished speaking, there was a long silence in the room, and after a long time, I heard Liu Ming sigh:

"Luoluo, I really don't understand, Wanjing is the wife of the eldest brother, and she is a family with us. Now that she has nothing, why are you still persistent and persecutive, and you can't leave her a peace. ”

"Who forced her! This matter is already strange, stormy, she doesn't go to so many hospitals, and she has to go to that one because she is far away! ”

"Wan Jing had a sudden miscarriage while fighting the wind in the fishing port, and she was sent to the nearest hospital in critical condition, and the officers and men of the Xunlong ship can testify to this incident."

"As we all know, the Luzhou fleet is simply the family soldiers of Yu Kuntai, what Liu Jin says, they will say, such testimony is not credible at all! Besides, almost no one survived the fire in Jinjiutang Public Hospital, but she Lin Wanjing was the only one who escaped death, I don't think it was a fluke at all, it was premeditated! ”

"Nonsense!"

The sudden shouting interrupted the quarrel between the two, and when they looked at the sound, they saw Liu Jin angrily entering the room, and looked at Ye Qiuluo angrily:

"I don't know where you heard the news, but whether Wanjing lives or dies, it is not your turn to detain her for these trumped-up charges!"

"Yo, distressed?" Ye Qiuluo turned a blind eye to his anger, and said coldly: "I gave you a chance, if you signed the obituary at the beginning, there would be no chance for people to take advantage of these loopholes and give birth to these incidents today." ”

"You think I don't know what you're up to? If I signed it at the beginning, it would be an admission that Wanjing was indeed dead, and even if someone really found her, she would just be a common person in the market, without any protection, and you could harm her unscrupulously! ”

The plan was broken by Liu Jin's words, but Ye Qiuluo did not feel the slightest uneasiness, let alone the slightest guilt, but laughed out loud:

"Yun Shuai is discerning, what do you say, then what it is. But even if you don't sign it, I have a way to torture her and make her worse than dead. ”

When Liu Ming heard this, he knew that Ye Qiuluo had disdained to hide his ambitions, so he hurriedly stopped her: "Enough, you must know how to stop talking nonsense!" ”

Although Ye Qiuluo is arrogant, she also knows what to do, she understands that if she really provokes Liu Jin, and then touches Liu Ming's bottom line, the two brothers will join forces, and she really has no way to deal with it now. So he was silent and sat down on the couch to watch coldly.

There was a stalemate here, but a small guy happened to hurriedly enter the door, and saw that the clothes were Ye Mansion's family soldiers. Seeing the two Liu brothers standing in the room, they didn't have any scruples, so they went straight to Ye Qiuluo's side and whispered to her: "Miss, the informant came to report that Miss Xi was meeting with an unknown woman in the Shili Tea Pavilion outside the city, and her figure looked very much like that person." ”

Liu Jin couldn't hear what Xiao Si said, but when he saw Ye Qiuluo's joy, he picked up his handbag and was about to leave. But when he stood up, he thought of something, walked arrogantly to Liu Ming's desk, deliberately picked up the top document, and slammed it on the table:

"I'll put the things here for you, sign or not, you can do it yourself."

She should have deliberately embarrassed Liu Ming, and the embarrassment was written all over Liu Ming's haggard face, but before he could speak, she said:

"By the way, let me remind you, you are no better than others, there is a lady with a big family, who can sell her wealth and save you again and again. Your wife doesn't need to be around, there is such a group of blue-faced confidants who are rich and rival the country, willing to do whatever it takes, and the daughter of the beautiful woman smiles. ”

Putting down this sentence, Ye Qiuluo turned around and left, Liu Ming knew that Liu Jin was angry, and then looked at him with a gloomy expression, for fear that he would be unfavorable to Ye Qiuluo, and just wanted to open his mouth to excuse her, but before the words came out, he coughed first. Although Liu Jin was annoyed, he also felt sorry for his younger brother, so he turned around and went to the coffee table to get water.

He only took a closer look at Liu Ming's appearance now - his body was thin, his face was withered, his two eye sockets were dark and deeply sunken, and his skin was glowing with a sickly yellow, where did he look like a man in his twenties!

"What's wrong with you? At a young age, how to toss your body like this. ”

Hearing Liu Jin ask, his eyes suddenly dodged, and he whispered:

"Just... I'm sick..."

"Have you seen a doctor?"

"Look, it's useless."

It was clearly from the eldest brother's concern, but Liu Ming didn't have the slightest sense of intimacy, but seemed to be being questioned, cramped and uneasy, and he had to catch something to play with in order to calm down a little.

Coincidentally, he reached for the papers on the table.

Liu Jin couldn't help but look awkward:

"You don't really want to sign this document, do you?"

"Actually...... If you think about it, what Luo Luo said is not unreasonable. ”

"Are you sick and confused? You should know what happens if you sign it! ”

"I know, so I'm not going to sign it now. Big brother, you can find her, if you find it, send her away, I will find a way to drag her until she leaves safely. By then, since she had escaped, even the Japanese could not reach her, what could they do to her? ”

"If I find her, I'll send her away. But no matter whether he is alive or dead, or where he is born, he should not be burdened with trumped-up charges! ”

"But someone has to be held accountable for this......"

"Even if there is, it shouldn't be her!"

"Who else could there be?!"

This sentence, Liu Ming almost shouted out.

In Liu Jin's memory, since he was a child, he has never seen his younger brother speak loudly, these four words seem to vent his emotions on the verge of collapse - he has no right to speak in internal affairs, diplomacy has been kidnapped by the Japanese Chamber of Commerce, and even to see an old friend, he has to get Ye Qiuluo's approval, he is like a canary imprisoned in a cage, the invisible big hand holding his throat is clenched tighter and tighter, and he is about to break his neck until he dies.

"Who is to blame for this, do you really not know?"

Liu Jin asked him rhetorically, he had already found out about this matter, it was a bitter ploy directed and acted by the Japanese Chamber of Commerce, the Japanese dignitaries and doctors in the Jinjiutang Hospital had already been transferred, and there were not many corpses buried in the ruins, not burned by the fire, but when the fire broke out, there were not many people in the hospital. In conjunction with the performance of this scene, the people who hijacked the Nanpingshan Fort were all the soldiers of the Ye Mansion, and the place where Li Chengtai was taken as his "own person" was the backyard of the Ye Mansion, and if you want to say that the person who is most familiar with Liu Jin's behavior, Ye Qiuluo is one.

All this, Liu Jin didn't believe that Liu Ming didn't know anything, he just didn't want to face this fact, so he chose to deceive himself.

"Big brother, I know that you are like fire and water with the Japanese, and I know even more that you feel sorry for Wanjing and are reluctant to let her suffer a little grievance. But can you really bear to see the war raging in Luzhou and the lives of people in misery? ”

"But how innocent is Wanjing......"

"If there is a war, how innocent will the hundreds of thousands of people in Luzhou be?"

"Do you still naively think that if you meet their unreasonable demands, you will be able to make peace in the world?!" Liu Ming was silent when he heard this, this was a tacit acquiescence.

"If you really want to get to the bottom of this, you can, and I'll do everything I can to help you. But if you're just looking for a substitute to get away with the real mastermind, I'm not going to sit idly by. ”

"Big brother, it's not a question of whether you can't find it out now, the Japanese ......"

"The wolf ambition of the Japanese is obvious, you should really go and see for yourself, what is the situation under this Sogo Road now!"

As a former and current Luzhou elite residential area, most of the real estate has now been bought and occupied by the Japanese Chamber of Commerce, and the streets are full of sun flags on a white background, which is shocking.

"If you don't sign this notice, then you still have a bit of backbone. If you sign it, don't blame me for not remembering brotherhood! ”

After saying this, Liu Jin left angrily, Li Chengtai completed the task and came to look for him, just stepped up the stairs, raised his eyes and saw Liu Jin coming downstairs with a black face, so he didn't dare to ask more, and followed him to the outside of the house. It wasn't until he left the house that he stopped, and his fist hung the bluestone lampstand on the side of the road, and he hit it several times in a row, until the joint rubbed out blood. Li Chengtai knew that he had no way to vent his anger, so he carefully handed over the handkerchief and said:

"Madame's side has been arranged, don't worry. The fake news was released, and the brother arranged for the lady to answer her day and night, and once someone was unfavorable to her, she would be taken back to the military port immediately. ”

Sure enough, hearing Lin Wanjing's news, Liu Jin's eyebrows were dyed with a touch of tenderness, and after a while, he listened to him:

"Chengtai, you immediately take my seal and letter to Ganzhou to meet Xu Chuanxi. Tell him that if he wishes to go south, I am willing to join him. I'd rather be Shen Baogong and have the same enmity with his son than be a puppet of the Japanese and kill my compatriots! ”