"What's the matter?"

Sister Hong asked curiously, and as she spoke, she untied the coarse braid that had been bound at the back of her head for a day, and loosely draped the ginger hair that had been coiled before behind her.

The two had already walked along the central street to the gate of Canglanju, but Hugo didn't seem to have any intention of going in. He stopped in front of the door of Canglan Residence, squatted down with his feet half-stepped on the steps of the black wattle wood, rested his elbows casually in front of his knees, and bowed his head in silence. Sister Hong saw Hugo squatting on the steps at the door of the store, and naturally squatted down with him.

Neither of them spoke, just quietly looked at the crooked streets and alleys of Tongjia Town in front of them, and watched the warm lamps of every household in the gray walls and mud tiles fall asleep one by one.

After a short silence, Sister Hong sighed softly and said: "My sister is from a bitter background, and she has followed my father and the elders of the clan since she was very young, and she is always with those rough men, so this character has become as big as them. I think it's better to say what is on your mind, so as not to worry the people around you. “

Hugo didn't look up, buried his face in the middle of his knees, and said in a muffled voice: "Saying it won't solve the problem, it will only make you more worried." ”

"I'm even more worried about you." Sister Hong turned her face sideways to look at Hugo who was buried in her head, her clear eyes were full of love.

"My sister may not be able to help you solve the problem, but it's better to say it than to keep it in your heart all the time."

Hugo slowly raised his head when he heard this.

He looked behind him, and it was pitch black in the shop, and the guys were already asleep.

"There's something wrong with going to Lake Miral to host a fish feast." Hugo moved his butt and leaned towards Sister Hong, turned his head and whispered.

"What's the problem? Isn't that a good thing? Sister Hong was very puzzled by Hugo's words, but she knew that Hugo was usually thoughtful, and she must have noticed something to say so.

From the time Sister Hong met Yuqiu and Hugo, she found that the relationship between the two was a little strange. Hugo had the final say in everything between the two of them. What Hugo said, although Yuqiu was extremely reluctant and always put on a lazy look, he would still do it.

You must know that Yuqiu was only a teenager at that time. The first time she saw a teenage boy teach another uncle in his thirties sweeping and mopping the floor, her eyes were about to pop out.

At first, she thought that Yuqiu was deliberately exercising Hugo, but after a long time, she found that this was not the case.

Yuqiu is really lazy and likes to get by, and Hugo is really this family.

She couldn't help but ask the two fathers and sons separately with curiosity, but they were both the same as they should be, and she was used to it until now, but sometimes she thought: it is really a strange father who can raise an eccentric son.

Eccentric is eccentric, but after living together for a long time, Sister Hong is more and more convinced of Hugo. This little guy doesn't do things like a teenager and thinks about all kinds of experience. When Canglanju was first opened, all the matters including site selection, decoration, food prices, etc., were actually set by Hugo to be implemented by her, which is why Canglanju is now in full swing in Tongjia Town.

"You mean to say that the fat man is cheating?" Sister Hong still hasn't turned the corner.

"No, I mean there's something wrong with this whole thing." Hugo frowned, and his fingers drew a circle on the steps, then another circle on the side. "From my father's loan at the gambling house to the chef of the Zun Fish Banquet, there are many things that don't make sense."

"First, why did my father owe such a large loan? Judging from his usual credit in the gambling house, the gambling house knew that his reputation for integrity in Tongjia Town was not very good, and he was unable to repay it based on his income level, why did he continue to borrow money from him throughout the year, and finally piled up a huge debt that he could not repay? Hugo tapped lightly in the first circle.

"Second, why did you ask me to preside over the Zunyu Feast? Just believe that an outsider can go to the chef's fish banquet? Sister, although no one in the town knows your identity, it is not difficult to find out if you really want to. Is this such a coincidence? Hugo dotted his finger in the second circle.

"I think there are still a lot of things that the colonel's staff officer in Shangdu hasn't told us, and this matter is not as simple as it seems." Hugo sighed softly, looked at Sister Hong a little helplessly and said, "But we don't have any choice, even if we know that there is a problem here, we can only follow this colonel to Lake Miral."

Sister Hong'er opened her mouth wide in surprise: "He is a colonel and a big officer, so he won't get along with us little civilians, right?" What is he trying to do? ”

Hugo shook his head: "I don't know, so I don't know anything in my heart." Hugo looked at the growing worry in Sister Hong'er's eyes, and hurriedly said: "But this is the worst situation, maybe it's a good thing, no matter how bad it is, you can go home and take a look, right?" ”

Sister Hong dotingly stretched out her right hand and rubbed it on the top of Hugo's head, saying, "I don't want to go back to see the old man's stinky face." Although she said this, Sister Hong'er's eyes were quite happy.

The two of them squatted on the steps and talked for a while, and they were a little unbearable from the night wind that crossed them, and they were about to go back to rest. But he saw a person walking not far from the central street, and he could only see this person wearing a black coat from too far away, until he walked closer, and the person took off the hood on his clothes, only to find that it was Lao Yang from the security station.

"Lao Yang, what's the matter, didn't you go back to rest a long time ago?" The two asked strangely together.

"I can't sleep at home, I want to come and talk to the little boss." Lao Yang stood in front of the steps and wrapped his coat again: "This ghost weather is really cold at night, why are you two squatting here?" ”

Listening to the sound of gongs and drums, Sister Hong heard that Lao Yang was probably something, so she hurriedly got up and beckoned him into the store and said, but she wanted to squat for a long time, and her legs were numb and she couldn't stand up for a long time. Hugo quickly stood up and helped Sister Hong, who almost fell, and the three of them picked a table at random in the front hall and sat down.

Sister Hong rubbed her sour thighs to ease her strength, and said to Lao Yang: "Guys are asleep, I'll make you a cup of tea to warm up." After that, he picked up the kettle on the table and went to the back kitchen.

Lao Yang took off his fur coat and put it on the chair on the side, felt that it was still a little cold, took the clothes and put them on his lap again, and said, "Why are you colder than my house?" Didn't turn on the air conditioner? ”

"When it is closed at night, the front hall is closed, and only the houses where the guys in the back kitchen sleep are open, which can be saved." Hugo glanced at the back kitchen, paused, and said, "Is something wrong?" Director Yang, you came here in person so late. ”

Lao Yang shook his head and said, "It's not that something happened, it's just that I went back to lie on the bed today and had something to do in my heart, and I couldn't fall asleep over and over..."

"Just say something, it's no one else." Sister Hong brought two cups of hot tea from the back kitchen and put them in front of the two, sat on Hugo's side and said.

"Then I'll be blunt." Lao Yang exhaled lightly, it was not too hot, he raised the teacup in front of him and took a big sip: "The little boss went to host the fish banquet, it stands to reason that it is a good thing, I shouldn't talk too much...... But after thinking about it at home, I still have to say a word to the little boss. Your father owes Tongshengfang a loan, I'm afraid it's not that simple. ”

"What do you mean by that?" Hugo's eyes widened, he didn't expect that Lao Yang usually looked like a big man, but he could see the problem.

"Tongshengfang is a regular gambling house that has been reported under the name of Lianjia, and the federal government has strict gambling amount restrictions, so every month the section manager of Tongshengfang must report the accounts of the month to the public security office and the Finance Bureau, including the loan and exit of Tongshengfang. There is no finance bureau in our town, so the town's property insurance affairs have always been in charge of the financial calculations of the office. Lao Yang continued.

"What do you mean...... My father's loan is not included in the monthly report to the police office? Hugo reacted quickly and understood the meaning of Lao Yang's words.

"Yes, your father's name is not on the loan bill for this whole year, otherwise I would have come to tell the little boss before he owes so much." Lao Yang nodded at Hugo and continued: "It wasn't until yesterday morning that the Duan manager of Tongshengfang suddenly came to me and took out the details of the loan account of your father's arrears, saying that it was omission and negligence before and did not report. I hurried to find the financial accounting of the office, and guess what? As a result, the accounts are actually correct, and this year's accounts have been corrected one stroke at a time, do you say this thing is a bit strange? ”

"It's strange enough...... "Sister Hong glanced at Hugo.

"So at noon today, I said that I would let Zuo Minglei go to Lake Miral with you, at least there is a town person to take care of it, so that you don't have to be alone, I'm afraid that something will happen......" Lao Yang said to Hugo with some worry.

"I'm a rough person, and I can't figure out what's going on here, so I'll tell the little boss that it's better to be careful, after all, I'm going to go outside the sky...... But even the staff officer is from the Federal Security Service, so I don't think there will be any major problems. Lao Yang saw that Hugo and Sister Hong had been frowning when they heard this, and comforted.

"Thank you, Director Yang." Hugo heard the worry in Lao Yang's tone, and was very moved, in the past few years in the town, Lao Yang has taken a lot of care of him and Sister Hong, and he has always kept it in his heart.

"I'll be careful."

"That's good...... In the few years you have been in town, everyone can see that you are a kind-hearted person. Maybe there will be some benefit to dealing with the people of Shangdu, but you should also be careful, the people in the town will not want you to have any accidents. ”

Lao Yang said and stood up, picked up the coat on the side, shook it off and wrapped it, and said, "I'll go back first, little boss, you and Sister Hong should rest quickly, it's not early." ”

The two sent Lao Yang out of the door and closed the door of Canglanju again. Sister Hong saw Hugo frowning and sat down at the table again, comforting: "I'm the same as Lao Yang thought, maybe nothing big will happen." Sister will go with you then, as long as you find my father at Lake Miral, there should be no problem. Stop thinking and sleep. ”

As she spoke, Sister Hong rubbed Hugo's head again, yawned and went to the back.

Hugo frowned, and glanced at the back kitchen with his spare eyes, where half of the window was not closed, revealing a black slit.