I struggled, I screamed, stomped wildly.

When I opened my eyes suddenly, the little maid at home asked anxiously next to me, "Miss! Miss! What's wrong with you?! ”

I gasped and sat in the bathtub with my head in my hands, my eyes staring at the bathroom a little unfocused, and there was no one but the concerned face of the maid.

It turned out to be a dream.

As if I had lost all my strength, I sank into the water of the bathtub, and my ears, eyes, and nose were filled with layers of water.

When I came out of the bathroom, I sent the maid out, and the room was quiet, and my eyes subconsciously moved to a photograph hanging on the wall, in which was a woman, a woman who was eight points similar to me, with beautiful eyebrows and eyes facing me, and a shallow smile on the corner of her mouth, so kind.

I walked slowly towards her, took the picture off the wall, stroked her face with my fingers, and called, "Sister." ”

She didn't respond to me, her beautiful smiling face still staring at me.

I held the picture in my arms, my face gently pressed against hers.

The next morning, when Mu Jingchi and I were having dinner, he asked me about some things abroad, such as the customs and customs of foreign countries, such as what friends I made, and whether I often went to parties with my classmates, and he was quite interested in my life abroad.

Of course, when he asked me anything, I replied honestly and told him a few interesting things, and he always smiled faintly and listened very carefully.

When Zhou's wife, Zhou's mother, added food for me on the side, she also joked: "When Miss comes back, Mr. can even eat a few more bowls of rice." ”

I subconsciously asked Zhou's mother: "Isn't it true that he can't eat well when I haven't been at home for a few years?" ”

Mother Zhou was quick for a while, and she didn't notice Mu Jingchi on the side, and complained to me: "Mr. has been going back and forth in the past few years, and he naturally doesn't eat much, and he's busy——"

Before he finished speaking, Mu Jingchi had already put down the chopsticks in his hand and called in a low voice: "Mother Zhou." ”

Although the voice was not without reproach or harshness, it obviously startled Zhou's mother, and she hurriedly stepped aside.

Seeing Zhou's mother's appearance, I said to Mu Jingchi: "You must be only caring about work every day, and you can't eat well." ”

Mu Jingchi saw that I was so angry, he put my favorite shrimp in my bowl, and said with a light smile: "Do you listen to what people are talking nonsense, don't I know my own body?" ”

I looked at Mu Jingchi carefully and saw that his face was as pale as usual, but he was not thin.

But I still got angry and said, "Anyway, no matter what you did before, from today onwards, I must supervise you!" ”

After I finished speaking, I sandwiched a lot of dishes in his bowl, and specially sandwiched some things that Mu Jingchi didn't like to eat, Zhou's mother stood aside and saw Mu Jingchi wrinkled slightly, with a helpless look, so she covered her lips and snickered on the side and said: "This family, Miss can cure Mr." ”

I turned at him: "Humph! A snort, as a sign of threat.

He chuckled, but agreed.

After that, he changed the topic and spot-checked a few of my poems and business scriptures, and saw that I couldn't memorize one of them, so he smiled and said: "I sent you abroad to stay in the foreign country for nothing, and when I came back, I even forgot my old things." ”

I said, "I didn't ask you to send me there." ”

I had a daily stiff mouth with him, and not long after Steward Zhou hurriedly came over, and said to Mu Jingchi that the battle had reached Shengzhou, and the situation outside the city was not very good, and said that the second and fourth masters called this morning and asked to see him.

Mu Jingchi didn't speak at that time, but put down the carved ebony chopsticks in his hand, glanced at me and said: "Domestic is not as good as abroad, and now there are years of war, so don't go out for the time being." ”

Although I have been abroad for two years, I have heard some news in China, and I heard that the war has reached Shengzhou.

And Shengzhou is just one step away from Jinling.

Naturally, I agreed to his words.

About the urgency of the situation, he didn't think much about it, and went upstairs with Steward Zhou.

As soon as he left, I sat there and ate a little casually, feeling that I had no appetite, so I also got up and went back to the building to change clothes, and when I came out, Mu Jingchi had not come out of the study, and there were few servants in the hall, so I took the opportunity to slip out through the back door.

I had an appointment with someone, took a rickshaw and went directly to a café, after arriving at the café, Song Yu saw me coming, so he got up from the booth, walked over and pulled the door for me, I handed the coat to the waiter on the side, and followed him into the box.

As soon as the two of them sat down, Song Yu lit a cigarette for me and handed it to me and said: "Hey, the Mu family is a big business, you go and calculate how many banks in the country are opened by your Mu family, Shengzhou has just come to start a war, your Mu family's bank in Jinling moved out yesterday morning, Mu Jingchi is really fast." ”

I didn't bother to listen to him, so in order to save time, I handed him something directly, which was a brown paper bag.

He glanced at me.

I said: "This is the transfer route of Jinling Bank, now the melee for several years, Yuan Jiuye and the Huo family's army are fighting to the death, I heard that yesterday the Huo family's army has retreated to Shengzhou, the Huo family was originally a bandit, and now they have lost one after another, presumably it is the time when they have a headache for the silver, let your father put some news out, if they can rob it, I believe they can make a windfall." ”

Song Yu's face froze, and he asked, "How did you get it?" ”

I took a puff of my cigarette, smiled at him and said, "You don't care how I got it, just do it." ”

Song Ol took the document from my hand, he glanced at the contents and quickly put it in his pocket.

After a while, he collected the emotions on his face and asked, "The wedding is also scheduled for that day?" ”

I stared at the smoke rising from my fingertips and said, "I know Mu Jingchi very well, and it is impossible to rely on the people of the Huo family to rob this money from him. ”

Song Yu immediately understood my intentions, he took a sip of the coffee cup on the table, smiled mysteriously and said: "Mu Jingchi hurts you the most, since your sister died for so many years, he has almost held you in the palm of his hand and spoiled you, just the fact that you are getting married behind his back is enough for him to be angry, and when there is such a thing over there, their Mu family is afraid that it will become a mess, right?" ”

He sneered and said, "Rao is no matter how cunning and shrewd he Mu Jingchi is, it is estimated that that day will be enough for him to be busy." ”

We didn't talk for long, when Song got up to leave.

I called out behind him, "Cousin! ”

He pushed the door but didn't look back at me.

He seemed to understand what I was going to say, and I spoke up first, "Kiyono, you can't be soft-hearted. As if a warning, he looked back at me again: "Don't forget how your sister died." ”

His words were like a sharp sword shot at me, more like a reminder than a warning.