Chapter Seventy-Eight: Junior
When Shen Yigong helped Huo Zuo change the gauze on all the bleeding sites, the other party had already fallen asleep again due to the effect of morphine. He put the medical kit back in the drawer and stood at the head of the bed for a moment before leaving, looking down at the man's sleeping face. His hand subconsciously reached forward, but retracted his fingertips the moment it was about to touch.
He turned to leave, but saw someone standing by the door. Song Qi looked at him with his hands folded, raised his eyebrows and said, "This is your 'the one', right." β
Shen Yigong closed the door and came out, smiling helplessly when he heard this: "Don't you have to be busy with other things?" β
"Mr. Liang talked to the young lady again, Xiaoqiang played with the little sister named Yaya, and Zhao's mother cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and I couldn't intervene. I don't have much more to help with. β
"Stay with the kids?"
"You're digressing."
Shen Yigong walked downstairs, and Song Qi followed behind him and listened to him answer: "We haven't seen each other for a long time, and we broke up several years ago." β
"That doesn't mean he's not your 'one.'"
Shen Yigong held on to the handle of the stairs and stopped, turned his head to look at him: "Do you have to ask this kind of thing at this juncture?" β
The other party lowered his head, sighed, and then said, "Otherwise, what else can I ask, what happened to those two little girls today?" Why did Mr. Huo appear here with a gunshot wound? What are the Japanese planning now, and who are they going to attack next? β
Song Qi folded his fingers and counted the same as him.
"It's nothing more than sacrifice, death, plotting, betrayal. Shall I continue to ask you this? After he finished speaking, he shook his head with Shen Yigong and patted him on the shoulder, "You're sad enough this night, it's too late for me to ask you again at another time." β
Shen Yi bowed back and grabbed his palm and shook it lightly as a token of gratitude. Then he said, "Where are Qingwen and that little girl, I want to listen to their conversation." β
"Your study." Song Qi retracted his hand and put it in his pocket, "I'll go downstairs to see the other two children." There you go. β
The two parted at the top of the stairs, and Shen Yigong didn't notice that Song Qi was still looking at his back thoughtfully after he left. When he arrived at the door of the study, Liang Qingwen took out the documents in the suitcase in the same way, put them in front of Cheng Xinyi and asked her to sign. Shen Yigong knocked lightly on the door, and two people in the room, one big and one small, looked up at him.
The girl was still very restrained, and her mood had not fully recovered, so she just nodded to him. Liang Qingwen asked her to take a closer look at the documents, and she stood up and walked towards Shen Yigong.
They had already communicated with each other before the meal, Huo Zuo's situation, what happened today, You Yiman's decision-makingβand those documents. Liang Qingwen pulled Shen Yigong out of the study and closed the door. Shen Yigong handed him a cigarette, lit the fire himself, and asked him, "Are you sure you want to do this?" β
"This is Yiman's decision, and I respect her."
"Respect or obedience?"
"If you think it's 'obedience,' it's okay." Liang Qingwen took a puff of cigarette and exhaled, he lifted his glasses and looked up and told him, "These are all Yiman's, she can deal with them as she wants." β
"But have you considered the girl's feelings? How old is she? Once others know that she is sitting on all this and is the common heir of You Yiman and Huo Zuo, do you know how much disaster this will bring her? β
Liang Qingwen smoked a cigarette and did not speak.
Shen Yigong looked at the forbearant and strong little girl inside through the crack in the door, lowered his voice and said to Liang Qingwen: "This will kill her." β
However, Liang Qingwen didn't borrow this, he took the cigarette out of his mouth and looked up at him: "Shen Yigong, you tell me the truth - when do you think this battle will start at the latest." β
"The Japanese attacked?"
"They have never dampened their ambition to completely devour China. In the past few years, we have fought many wars with Japan, the three eastern provinces in 1931, Shanghai in 1932, one after another, the artillery fire stopped on one side and the other side started again, and Shanghai was going to war sooner or later. Right here, it's useless how many shops and buildings you have in a war. The plane bomb was thrown and gone. Liang Qingwen pinched the cigarette in his hand and said in a deep voice, "Yiman and Huo Zuo left these things to the two little girls not so that they could inherit to be the 'prince' here, this money ...... They were sent away. β
"Let's go?"
"In the United States, there are planes to San Francisco the day after tomorrow. Yiman's old friend, Mrs. Fang, lives with her daughter in San Francisco, and she takes care of Xinyi and Yaya. β
"Let them just go to the United States? As for Hong Kong, it's not impossible. β
"Hong Kong? Wait until their father finds them? β
"What if I can't go?"
Liang Qingwen's tone was resolute: "You must go, you can't stay." β
Shen Yigong took a hard sip, and then raised his head: "Okay, I'll help you." The day after tomorrow, I will definitely promise to send these two children on the plane. β
Liang Qingwen nodded, turned his head into the study and took out a small ashtray and handed it to him, and the two of them snuffed out the cigarettes and threw them inside. At this point, Liang Qingwen casually asked, "Then how do you sleep at night?" β
"Mother Zhao has made all the beds, you still sleep in your original room, and the two children sleep in the original Xiao Dong's room. The rest of the rooms remain the same. My words ......"
"Well, you sleep with Lao Huo?"
"He's got wounds." Shen Yigong replied, "Fortunately, it's hot, just put a mat in my room." β
As the two of them were saying this, they heard a knock on the door, and Zhao's mother poked her head out downstairs and asked, "Which one?" β
She raised her head and looked upstairs, and Shen Yigong waved her hand and motioned for her to go to the door to have a look. He also walked downstairs, and reminded Song Qi when he passed by the living room: "Take the children upstairs." β
The other party nodded, picked up Yaya and stepped up the stairs with Xiaoqiang.
Mother Zhao wiped the water on her apron and walked to the door. I heard a woman's voice outside: "The Political Bureau of the Central Committee investigated, and someone reported that you are suspected of harboring suspects here." β
Shen Yigong was standing in the hallway, and he was stunned for a while when he heard this voice. Mother Zhao turned her head and asked if she wanted to open the door with her eyes, and it was not until she saw Mr. Shen nodding that she lifted the latch on the door and opened the door. There were two people standing on the steps outside the doorβone was Shen Yigong's old acquaintance, and Lieutenant Colonel Qin, a Kuomintang officer dressed in formal attire. The other face student, I have never seen it, wearing a suit and leather shoes, wearing a pair of gold wire glasses, and a clerk's dress.
"Harbouring a suspect?" Shen Yigong took a step out of the door, his hands behind his back and looked at the two outside the door, "Minister Qin, your hat is too big on my head." β
Qin Mingyue walked in with someone, quite polite, and first took off her hat to the master: "Routine inspection, Mr. Shen." Bloodshed broke out in Hongkou District this afternoon, and the suspect fled with injuries. β
"If it's a prisoner, shouldn't you let the patrol house do this, so that it can alarm you?"
Qin Mingyue smiled slightly: "It can be seen that he is an unusual prisoner." Mr. Shen, since someone has reported it, we can only come and take a look. And I think you should also know the rules of the case I am responsible for, once you find out that you are indeed related to this matter, you and all your friends around you are inseparable. β
Shen Yigong spread his hands frankly: "I have a clear conscience, and I will never harbor the 'suspect' you said." β
The person standing behind Qin Mingyue moved his nose, grinned gloomily and said to Shen Yigong: "If not, Mr. Shen, can I ask you, why is there such a strong smell of blood in your home?" β
Mother Zhao's face changed and she lowered her head. Shen Yigong replied unhurriedly to the man, "Oh, you mean this. I called the doctor over today, and something not very good happened at home......"
"Doctor, please?" The man's face showed suspicion and excitement at the same time, "Why do you call a doctor?" β
Shen Yigong took a step back, and sighed with a dejected look on his face: "I don't really want to talk about this...... But since you asked, I can only confess. β
Qin Mingyue's gaze fell on his sincere and frustrated face.
He sighed, shook his head lightly, and said, "My wife slipped in the bath today and had a miscarriage. Bleeding heavily, Zhao's mother couldn't help it. I wanted to take her to the hospital, but she was in such a bad condition that I had to bring her back again......"
Shen Yigong pointed to the faint traces of blood that remained from outside the door to the front of the hall, and said with a bitter face: "You should be able to see it, right?" If you don't believe me, I can show you the garment stained with the blood of my wife and child. β
Mother Zhao didn't expect Mr. Shen to come up with such an idea, and when she saw Shen Yigong's gaze, she quickly nodded and agreed: "Yes, it really scared me to death." I...... I thought my wife couldn't resist this time, but fortunately, fortunately, the doctor arrived later. β
Qin Mingyue swept the faces of the pair of masters and servants, and she didn't seem to believe Shen Yigong's words: "When did you have a wife?" Shen Yigong, don't make it up. β
"I have a son, have you forgotten?"
"Your son is obviously ......"
"What is my son? Do you want to see his birth certificate? Since I have a son, it means that I have a wife, but I have always paid attention to privacy, and I hate that those newspapers have not been exposed. Have you seen any other women around me over the years? Didn't you? β
Qin Mingyue swept his hands: "Since you are married, what about your wedding ring?" β
"You are the practice of Westerners, and the token of love between me and my wife is a jade pendant." Saying this, Shen Yigong really took out a single piece of jade pisces from his neck and showed it to her, "If you still don't believe me, I can only take you upstairs to meet her." β
Mother Zhao was stunned when she heard this, and asked a little stammeringly: "This, is this good?" Mr. Shen, the ...... It's not good for a woman who has a miscarriage to see the wind, so it's not good for the body, so don't you want it? β
Shen Yigong shook his head sadly: "Now people say that we harbor prisoners, and they use this bloody house as evidence, I can't help but say it." Mother Zhao, you go up first, see if your wife is awake, and I'll bring them up in a while. β
"Then ......" Zhao's mother looked at the two "investigators", hesitated for a moment, and nodded, "Then I'll go up and see if my wife is awake." β