CHAPTER IX

Memories are like a flood that bursts the embankment, surging in as the floodgates of memory are opened, and they cannot be recovered.

Rao Man sat on a glittering European-style sofa, wiping tears from his eyes with a handkerchief made of jacquard silk in his hand.

Half an hour ago, Sun Meng knocked on the door of the 27 buildings in the Runjing Water Garden villa area. Rao Man, who appeared in front of the door in milky silk pajamas, looked stunned. She didn't even realize that her delicate shoulder straps had already slipped down her white fragrant shoulders.

At this moment, Sun Meng was sitting on the chair opposite Rao Man, carefully looking at the vice chairman of the board of directors of Pujiang Industrial Group, who had changed into a decent attire.

Despite his fair skin, Rao Man's appearance is indeed not ideal. The round face has a bit of baby fat; The skin on the face is also slightly dry; sparse eyebrows, a slumped nose, and thick lips; All this matches her slightly bloated figure of less than 1.6 meters, which really makes this woman who is not yet 33 years old look older than her actual age.

Sun Meng looked at the photo of Shen Ziyi in his hand, and then raised his head to look at Rao Man in front of him. He couldn't figure out why Shen Ziyi, who was tall and handsome, fell in love with this Rao Man. However, when I think of Rao Man's net worth background, it seems that all this in front of me can be said to have passed.

Sun Meng gently twisted the fluffy stubble on his chin, thinking in his heart.

"Tell me, what did you come to my house for?"

What caught Sun Meng off guard was that Rao Man was the first to speak.

This was the first time Sun Meng heard Rao Man's voice. Half an hour ago, just after he identified himself, Rao Man only nodded slightly and let him into the house. Sister Zhang, the servant of the Shen family, poured a cup of coffee and put it in front of Sun Meng.

Sister Zhang has now gone out to buy the ingredients she will use for dinner, and only Rao Man and Sun Meng are left in the room.

At this time, Rao Man had already put away his sorrow and restored the inherent calmness and calmness of a businessman. On the contrary, it was her unhurried but low and cold voice that made Sun Meng unconsciously stop the hand that twisted her chin.

"Ms. Rao, I'll tell you directly, about your husband Shen Ziyi..."

"Ziyi, he's on a business trip." Rao Man lightly opened his lips and blocked the unfinished words in Sun Meng's mouth with an understatement.

"Oh? In that case, why didn't I see the white Bentley that should be parked in Mr. Shen's parking space in front of your house when I came over just now? ”

Sun Meng noticed that the muscles in the corners of Rao Man's eyes twitched slightly unconsciously, but soon, the woman in front of her returned to her calm and calm normal. She raised her head and looked directly into Sun Meng's eyes, and slowly spoke: "Ziyi's car broke down, and now it should have been airlifted to Huating for maintenance." ”

After Rao Man finished speaking, he reached out and picked up a glass of red wine on the coffee table in front of him and took a sip gently.

Sun Meng did not speak. The room fell into a deathly silence. Both of their eyes stared at each other deadly, and neither of them dodged their eyes.

After a while, Sun Meng stood up and bowed slightly: "I'm sorry Ms. Rao, is it convenient to use your bathroom?" ”

Rao Man nodded, stretched out her white left hand and pointed to the spiral staircase in the middle of the villa, and said softly: "You can go up to the second floor from here and turn left, and the first room at the end of the house will be." ”

Sun Meng was stunned for a moment, because he noticed that Rao Man's left hand, which was wearing three rings, did not have the wedding ring that should appear on the ring finger the most.

Rao Man also apparently caught a glimpse of the subtle changes in Sun Meng's face. She smiled, pretending not to see anything, Yun lightly picked up the red wine in front of her and drank it all, and then she poured back, and the whole person leaned comfortably on the soft sofa cushions behind her.

As a well-trained criminal investigation policeman, it is relatively easy for Sun Meng to control the and pee farts for hours on any occasion.

Sun Meng didn't really want to go to the toilet. He just wanted to make sure of a question that was hidden in his mind.

Runjing Water Garden Villa is located in Jinchang District, a suburb of Tanigawa City. The Garing River, one of the "three mountains and one river" in Tanigawa City, passes through the city from here. Although the environment of Runjing Water Garden is quiet, the traffic is extremely convenient. A bridge across the Garing River connects the area to the city centre.

There are a total of 30 single-family villas in the Runjing Water Garden villa area. Each of the five buildings is a unified design style. It is precisely because of its excellent geographical location; beautiful surroundings; A comfortable and versatile living experience, coupled with good privacy and security measures, can make Runjing Water Garden Villa the first choice in the hearts of the wealthy people in Tanigawa City. In other words, the people who can live here are either rich or expensive. It can even be said that these 30 households contribute almost 70% of Tanigawa City's GDP.

This villa by Shen Ziyi and Rao Man belongs to the sixth type, the post-modernist European design style.

The north-facing villa is divided into three floors above ground and one basement. Outside the ground floor is a private garden with two parking spaces.

Pushing open the door of the first floor of this villa, the first thing that catches your eye in this nearly 200-square-meter space is a semi-hollow spiral staircase carved from solid wood in the center. The staircase divides the space on the first floor into two separate spaces, left and right.

On the left is the owner's living room. On the north wall of the living room is a fireplace and two vintage phonographs on the left and right sides of the fireplace. On the west side, there is a European-style sofa and a transparent crystal coffee table where Rao Man is sitting at the moment. Behind Raoman, half of the wall was lined with book grids. Inside, it's filled with vinyl records.

On the right side of the staircase, the dusty floor-to-ceiling windows let in the afterglow of the setting sun. The open-plan kitchen with worktops, and the ebony dining table surrounded by four chairs all reveal the nobility of the occupants.

The second floor, where Sun Meng is now, is completely a living space. A corridor decorated with colored lights runs through the staircase in the middle of the room. On the west side, there are three suites with a strong sense of depth and two bathrooms with identical bathtubs. On the east side are a master bedroom and two secondary bedrooms, both with locked doors.

The rooms on the third floor are cluttered. There is a maid's room; a reserved children's room; There are also two study rooms that are separate from each other on the inside but share an entrance on the outside.

Although he has not yet gone to the basement floor, Sun Meng is sure that it must be a "sports field" specially prepared for himself by Shen Ziyi, who is keen on relieving stress with fitness.

A few minutes later, Sun Meng sat back in front of Rao Man. Rao Man still looked at him with a smile, as if he didn't care how long this Officer Sun had been in the bathroom.

This smile made Sun Meng puzzled. However, his question has gradually been answered in his heart. If the missing wedding ring on Rao Man's hand is not enough to explain anything, she and Shen Ziyi's entire family does not have a photo of the two of them, or even a wedding photo. It may be too strange for a couple who have been married for nine years and are in love like a sea.

"It's not too early, then I won't bother you, Mrs. Shen." Sun Meng raised his hand to look at his watch, and got up to say goodbye to Rao Man.

"If you encounter anything and need my help, please don't shy away from contacting our police."

"Thank you, Officer Sun. If I encounter a problem, I will seek help from the police as soon as possible. Rao Man picked up a beige shawl on the sofa and wrapped it around his body, got up and sent Sun Meng to the door.

"Mrs. Shen, you stay."

"Officer Sun," Rao Man smiled again, "be careful not to hit your head." ”

The light in the room dimmed, and Sun Meng noticed that the whole room was covered with infrared cameras with large and small transparent shells, each of which was flashing red.

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When Yan Yuhua returned home, it was already half past eleven in the evening.

Recently, it coincided with the high school entrance examination season in Tanigawa City. The two young female hosts in charge of the student column in the front desk were pregnant at the same time and took maternity leave not long ago, and Yan Yuhua, who has not been on the anchor desk for several years, has recently been quite a bit of a "father and mother" recently.

This veteran reporter, who will be promoted to channel director next month, not only has to go to the streets of various middle school test centers to shoot during the day, but also has to record, edit, subtitle and color grading non-stop when she returns to the station at night.

As the all-round warrior drove out of the TV station with a tired car, the last light in the office area behind him went out.

Yan Yuhua, who returned to life, also played the role of "being a father and a mother again".

Five years ago, Yan Yuhua had a happy family. Her husband, Ma Chengquan, is three years older than him and is the dean of the clinical school of Tanigawa Medical University.

If it weren't for the surprise on the wedding anniversary that suddenly turned into a fright, this woman who had just celebrated her fortieth birthday might still be married and raised children as before.

Yan Yuhua returned to Tanigawa City, where he had been absent for half a year. After finishing the documentary filming, she chose to fly back to Tanigawa a day early, just because it was her wedding anniversary with her husband Ma Chengquan. On that afternoon fourteen years ago, with a casual glimpse of the sunset, this pair of talented and beautiful women promised each other.

After 14 years of ups and downs, the couple also have a 12-year-old son, Ma Yile.

My son started living in school when he was very young.

Yan Yuhua's handbag contained a gift she had prepared for Ma Chengquan, an electric shaver with a three-ring curved knife net.

It was still early, Yan Yuhua came directly to Ma Chengquan's office at Tanigawa Medical University, wanting to surprise her husband.

The moment the door opened, Yan Yuhua still didn't think it was very real.

Ma Chengquan's eyes widened as he looked at his wife who suddenly appeared in front of the door. Yan Yuhua, who was born as a reporter, had a keen intuition that told her that what Ma Chengquan's eyes revealed was not surprise, but fright.

In fact, this is exactly what happened. Because Ma Chengquan faded to the middle of his pants at the ankles, there was a girl with a ponytail in her mouth with an indescribable object like a spicy strip spitting hard.

No woman is born to be a strong woman, if they can still have a warm embrace.

Yan Yuhua took away his son Ma Yile.

Yan Yuhua changed Ma Yile's name to Yan Cheng.

Yan Yuhua used the influence of the media to expose Ma Chengquan's actions, and in the end, Tanigawa Medical University could only expel Ma Chengquan for "academic misconduct".

Simple, fast and decisive. Yan Yuhua did not hesitate or give up.

"Mom? You're back? A stern voice came from the depths of the dark room.

17-year-old Yan Cheng has grown into a sunny and handsome beautiful boy. He also became a sincere and filial person, as Yan Yuhua once expected in the new name he once gave him. This is Yan Yuhua's greatest comfort in the past five years.

"Haven't slept yet, Chengcheng? Does your leg still hurt? Yan Yuhua turned on the light in the hall, and Yan Cheng was half-leaning and half-leaning on the sofa, with a pair of crutches next to him.

"I'm alright, Mom, have you eaten? There was also some food in the pot. ”

"Mom has eaten it. Let's go to sleep. Yan Yuhua said and stepped forward to help Yan Cheng.

Yan Cheng dodged her hand, stood up with great difficulty on one leg, put on crutches, and limped to the bedroom.

"He Shipeng!! Bah! Yan Yuhua looked at Yan Cheng's stiff back and whispered viciously.