In the middle of summer, even at night, it is scorching hot.

The residual warmth of the earth is still roasting.

Gu Qingzhou's sideburns were already wet with sweat, and her hair was smoothed to the left.

She and Si Xingpei sat in an ice cream shop with ice, and she scooped up ice cream with a silver spoon to eat: "In the summer, I envy your short hair." ”

"Didn't you say you wouldn't cut it?" Si Xingpei smiled, then dug a big spoonful and swallowed it in one gulp.

Gu Qingzhou said: "You eat slowly, your stomach will be uncomfortable for a while." ”

"Even if I eat shi, my stomach will not be uncomfortable." Si Xingpei doesn't care.

Gu Qingzhou: ""

She looked at the mango ice cream in her bowl and immediately couldn't eat it.

I want to beat Si Xingpei to death with a stick.

"What's wrong?" Si Xingpei was unconscious, "If you don't want to eat, you won't eat." This kind of ice, who knows if it is hidden in an ice cellar or made of saltpeter. ”

For a long time, the big clans had the habit of building ice cellars in the middle of summer.

There is a kind of saltpeter, which cools down as long as it encounters water and eventually turns into ice.

However, saltpeter itself is harmful.

Si Xingpei does not advocate eating ice in midsummer, and always feels that the solar terms should be in line with the solar terms all year round, drink more hot water in midsummer, and taste ice cubes in winter.

However, Gu Qingzhou occasionally looks like a gluttonous little girl.

In front of his wife, all of Si Xingpei's assertiveness will retreat without a bottom line and retreat to an unimaginable bottom.

"I'm disgusted." Gu Qingzhou said helplessly.

Si Xingpei disagreed: "It's not the first time you've been disgusted by me, haven't you gotten used to it?" ”

Gu Qingzhou: ""

What kind of person can be so shameless? Gu Qingzhou can settle this person in this life and take him for herself, thinking that she is really very capable.

She put down the small bowl and drank half a cup of sour plum soup, and her whole body was slightly cool.

She's cooler, and she's refreshed.

"I'm hungry, can I eat something?" Si Xingpei said again, "There is a restaurant in front of you. ”

Gu Qingzhou said: "It's okay to eat, don't talk nonsense at the dinner table." ”

Si Xingpei said: "Everything is up to my wife." ”

They had eaten, and the time was half past nine in the evening, and the heat in the air finally died down, and they could feel a faint chill as they walked on the road.

The adjutant's car was driven from Beiping. They ate first and were already waiting at the door.

Gu Qingzhou and Si Xingpei got into the car.

"Are you still going to the hospital?" The adjutant asked.

"Go to the docks." Gu Qingzhou said.

There are many wharves in Tianjin, but there is only one that goes to Europe overnight.

Gu Qingzhou said the address of the pier.

The adjutant drove out.

Gu Qingzhou didn't speak, and kept rubbing this jade pendant in his hand.

She took it in her hand and weighed it, and found that there was nothing unusual about the amount.

"If she hid something in Jade Perry, where is the switch? If she didn't hide it, and I broke it directly, wouldn't it be equivalent to destroying the relic? Gu Qingzhou couldn't make up his mind.

Even to the last side, she didn't see whether Mrs. Hirano was kind or malicious to her.

"There is no Western medicine that can treat tuberculosis today." Si Xingpei said to Gu Qingzhou, "Looking at her appearance, she probably doesn't have a chance, right?" ”

"Hmm." Gu Qingzhou said.

She sounded a little cold.

However, this is the case, for terminal diseases, miracle doctors are not immortals.

If Mrs. Hirano cooperates, Gu Qingzhou can do her best to save her.

From the current situation, she is unwilling.

The car stopped at the seawall, Gu Qingzhou and Si Xingpei got out of the car, and the two of them walked along the seawall to the dock.

Although it was the height of summer, the sea breeze was still sticky and cold, and Si Xingpei and Gu Qingzhou were both thin clothes, so he turned around and went back and took the shawl that Gu Qingzhou had put in the car.

There were still about fifty meters away from the pier, and Gu Qingzhou stopped.

There was a stone platform next to it, Si Xingpei casually wiped the mud and sand on it, and let Gu Qingzhou sit on it.

He stood next to him, silently took out a cigarette and lit it.

In the darkness, when the fireworks are extinguished, his face can be vaguely seen.

The cruise ship is docked, not far from the pier, bustling.

The people who rushed to the boat, and the people who saw them off, made the docks noisy like a bazaar late at night.

Gu Qingzhou and Si Xingpei kept watching.

Until four people walked into their sight.

Two men, carrying luggage. The luggage is heavy and numerous, and it seems to be moving; A young woman, wearing a mask, is holding another woman wearing a mask.

The woman couldn't see her face clearly, but her waist couldn't stand upright, as if she were old.

"She's sick like this, and she's going to infect a boatload of people." Si Xingpei suddenly opened her mouth in the dark, "She has always been quite lacking in morality, and she will not change until she dies." ”

Gu Qingzhou heard Mrs. Hirano's words and guessed that she might want to leave far away.

At that time, Gu Qingzhou didn't know the truth of her words.

Listen to her, if she is cured, no matter where she goes in the future, she will still not be able to avoid the royalists, and there will always be people who will not give up.

Even if she wanted to give up, no one else would allow it.

Moreover, this matter will also implicate Gu Qingzhou, making it difficult for Gu Qingzhou to be at peace.

Gu Qingzhou's original plan was to get rid of the royalists, including those who killed Mrs. Hirano.

Mrs. Hirano understands that just getting along, even if there is no emotion, it is impossible to ignore blood and family. Cai Changting's sacrifice eliminated Gu Qingzhou's hatred for the royalists.

She wants to save Lady Hirano.

And Mrs. Hirano, if there is anything left in this life, it is probably Gu Qingzhou's bloodline.

She didn't want to ruin Gu Qingzhou and her future life with her own hands.

So, she had her own opinion.

Gu Qingzhou thought that that moment was his own random speculation, but it was true.

Si Xingpei stepped on the cigarette butt and looked at the dock in the distance: "If she really obediently gets on the boat, then I won't ask about Fang Fei." ”

Whether Fang Fei killed him or committed suicide, Si Xingpei also wanted to be sure.

But Fangfei killed Simu, this is a certainty.

His killing or suicide is just the retribution of Fang Fei's sins, and Si Xingpei can turn a blind eye.

Gu Qingzhou told Si Xingpei that Mrs. Hirano might want a way out: to make the royalists think that she had gone to Europe, and that she had died of illness.

She can die, but she can't be found, otherwise Gu Qingzhou will be her substitute.

She disappeared without a trace, no one could find her, she didn't have to hide herself, death was her relief.

Buried in the sea, with no bones left.

"Should I stop her?" Gu Qingzhou asked Si Xingpei.

Si Xingpei said: "Can you cure her?" ”

"There is a thirty percent hope."

"Even if these three percent are successful, can you treat her as a mother for the rest of your life, be filial to her, and support her?" Si Xingpei asked again.

Gu Qingzhou was silent.

It turns out that being cured does not mean that the problem is solved.

Under the gaze of Gu Qingzhou and Si Xingpei, Mrs. Hirano got on the cruise.

The people who escorted her, two men quickly disembarked and did not accompany them. When they disembarked, one of them carried a small suitcase in his hand, which was the severance pay given to them by Mrs. Hirano, right?