Chapter 1 The people are really together
Autumn in Jiangnan is not suitable for the saying that autumn is cool.
The autumn rains are incessant and as annoying as the rainy season. On this kind of day, Zhou Erya is reluctant to go out, preferring to be at home, turn on all the lights, and quietly read in the light and shadow.
"The electricity bill must be particularly high this month."
Han Yu was always helpless.
Now the expenses of the detective agency are basically borne by Zhou Erya, theoretically they are a partnership system, and they should be half of one person, but obviously the income of the detective agency is not enough for Han Yu to have enough confidence to fight for this expenditure.
In the past few months, a lot of large and small cases have been solved, but because Zhou Erya does not care about the cost, they don't seem to have made much progress in making money.
Han Yu always felt embarrassed, but he couldn't refuse Zhou Erya.
- He can't stop Zhou Erya's consumption.
"I haven't had any cases lately."
Zhou Erya was bored and flipped through the newspaper.
He didn't take the initiative to find the detective of the case, and most of the time, he stayed at home lazily, waiting for someone to come to him.
However, most of the people who came to the door were still looking for cats, dogs, lost items, etc., Zhou Erya was not interested at all, and would throw all these trivial tasks to Han Yu.
Han Yu worked hard, and he also had a Gu Xueli to help, and these boring cases were completed quite efficiently.
"It can't be a case of the dead every day, right?"
He saw that Zhou Erya was not interested, so he complained.
People say that the owner of the coffin shop is looking forward to dying every day for the sake of business, and the detective agency seems to be in such a rhythm.
Zhou Erya disagreed: "Shanghai Beach is a death every day, but the dead also have to see if the death is interesting, and the case is not interesting, and there is no difference between finding a cat and a dog." ”
The situation is becoming more and more chaotic, although Shanghai is still stable, but the struggle at the bottom is endless, there are often gangsters, and there are many corpses on the banks of the Huangpu River every day. In most cases, not to mention tracking down the murderer, even the identity of the deceased may not be known to anyone.
The city department in charge of handling the body wrapped a straw mat and sent it out of the city to be thrown to a mass grave and pulled down.
- Human life is worthless in troubled times.
Han Yu wanted to refute, but in the end he only sighed deeply.
Now that's the case, it can't be said that Zhou Erya is wrong.
Gu Xueli came to the detective agency in the morning, and asked Han Yu excitedly: "Is there a case today?" ”
You're also investigating addiction.
Han Yu smiled bitterly: "How can there be so many dignitaries and nobles who lose cats every day?" Not today! ”
Those who are willing to spend money to find dogs and cats must have both money and leisure, there are many rich people on the beach, and there are more idle people, but the two conditions are added together, it is much less.
Add to that the fact that you still have to love your pet and lose your pet, it can't happen every day.
- In the current situation, there may be fewer murders than murders.
Gu Xueli sat on the sofa: "Since there is no case, let's go to the Bund to buy things today, right?" ”
She has two hobbies in her life, one is shopping, and the other is to play with Han Yu.
If you can take Han Yu shopping together, it will be considered a complete merit.
Han Yu was not sensitive, he also tried to accompany Gu Sydney once, this woman's madness in buying things made him really feel unbearable. It's a lot of time, and he really doesn't want to waste it.
"Although there is no case for the time being, we also have to be on standby at any time, in case something big happens?"
He looked serious and refused under the pretext.
"Cut!" Gu Xueli shook her head: "You are not a patrol house, even if something big happens to Shanghai Beach, it is impossible to find you in the first place." ”
Under normal circumstances, if there is a fatal case, of course, you have to report to the patrol room, not to find a private detective agency.
In the past few months, the murder case cracked by the Eryu Detective Agency is either the patrol room does not pay attention to it and thinks it is an accident; Otherwise, it was too weird, and the patrol room had no clue, and the bitter master found them to help.
They didn't have much chance to participate in other big cases that were a sensation in Shanghai.
Of course, Han Yu knew this truth, so he could only force his mouth: "That was before, now we have repeatedly solved big cases, and Inspector Huang of the patrol room also attaches great importance to us, and if there are any difficult cases to solve in the future, they will definitely come to us." ”
People are polite, and what they pay attention to is not their detective agency, but Zhou Erya's identity - but of course, Han Yu will not say these to Gu Xueli.
"Okay......"
Gu Xueli sat in the living room: "Then I'll wait with you to see if there are any important cases coming to the door!" ”
The important case didn't come to the door, but Murong did.
Since Zhou Erya solved the truth about the women's university staircase case, Murong's attitude towards him has changed greatly, and he occasionally comes to the detective agency to sit, and he seems to be quite interested in their work.
Han Yu thought that this was a good thing for Zhou Erya—after all, Murong was still in the name of a fiancée—but Zhou Erya was the same as usual, and didn't seem to care very much.
"Miss Gu, you're here too."
After Murong and Gu Xueli met, the two were quite speculative, but when they met at this time, they chattered and talked, anti-guest, leaving Zhou Erya and Han Yu aside.
Zhou Erya didn't have any requirements for the outside world, and she was still able to read quietly, but Han Yu was a little bored, and she was wandering around in the living room.
At this time, the doorbell rang, he thought that the case had come to the door, and he happily opened the door to take a look, but it was Yin Xiuxiu who came over with a snack.
"I went to Fanghuazhai on Xiafei Road to buy dim sum, and remembered that Erya likes to eat osmanthus cakes, so I brought a box over, don't bother, right?"
She doesn't come much, basically she stops by when she goes to the nursery outside the city, because she knows that Zhou Erya likes to eat sweets, and she always brings a box of pastries, which is also very much in line with Zhou Erya's heart.
"People are really here today......"
Han Yu muttered.
Although he is a bystander, he can also feel the ambiguous atmosphere between Yin Xiuxiu and Zhou Erya.
Now that the fiancée is here, the two bumped into each other - Han Yu suddenly felt a little embarrassed.
- Zhou Erya didn't think so.
When he heard that there was osmanthus cake, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Xiuxiu still understands me."
He actually put down the book in his hand for the first time, got up from the armchair, took the snack box in Yin Xiuxiu's hand, and couldn't wait to open it, smelling the aroma and praising it.
Murong had never seen Yin Xiuxiu, seeing her face, generous temperament, and Zhou Erya's affectionate demeanor, she felt a little uncomfortable in her heart, and got up and asked, "Who is this sister?" Don't you tell us about it? ”
She didn't even realize that her tone was a little rushed.
Gu Xueli happily watched the joke on the side.