Eight Fresh Soup

Chapter 10 The Harvest of Afternoon Tea (1)
Moran thinks the biggest advantage of dating Liang Yongsheng is that he always arrives 10 minutes earlier than you, and can always grab the best seat for you before you arrive. After you sit down, you will find that he is already one step ahead of you Very considerate to order your favorite drink for you.Looking at the cappuccino coffee in front of her, Moran was full of emotions. She had to admit that her ex-husband Liang Yongsheng was indeed a master in courting. Although she had every reason to hate him under the current situation, she didn't know why she couldn't hate him. .

"My dear, you are so beautiful." He sat across from her tenderly and looked at her.

"You're handsome too." She said after looking at him.Liang Yongsheng is very concerned about appearance. He always wears well-tailored suits, shiny leather shoes, high-end Swiss watches and platinum rings. He exudes a faint smell of men's perfume. But I feel that this is just the external equipment he needs to give his lawyer status.

"Your hair seems to be a little longer." He reached out to touch her hair, but she flexibly moved away.

"Come on, it's only been a few days." Knowing that he just wanted to touch her on purpose, she decided to get to the point as soon as possible, "You said you want to pay me compensation, don't you?"

"Of course, I keep my word. How about giving you 5000 yuan a month?" He asked her softly.

"You'd better give it to me all at once. Not every month." Moran thought it was too entangled.

"How much do you want?"

"Not much, 50." Moran said.

"I'll give you 5000 yuan a month, and pay for a hundred months, won't that be enough?"

"Forget it, forget it if you don't want to." Moran hated doing this kind of bargaining the most, she didn't want to talk to Liang Yongsheng at all now, so she said, "I don't want a penny anymore."

After speaking, she stood up.

Liang Yongsheng looked up at her in surprise.

"Is that all you want to break with me? Moran?" He asked her calmly, with a bit of sadness in his voice.

"We've already made a clean break, Liang Yongsheng." She replied coldly.

The expression on his face froze.

"But we can still be friends, can't we?" He stood up, approached her, and begged softly, "Sit down for a while, sit down for a while, and we can talk."

She glared at him impatiently.

"What's there to talk about?" She sat down again.

"Okay, I'll give you 50," he said.

She stared at him blankly.

"Please wire the money to my account as soon as possible," she said. "You know the number."

He didn't respond, and suddenly covered hers with his hand. She was startled and wanted to withdraw her hand, but he pressed it really tightly.

"Let go!" She glared at him.

He didn't speak, but looked up into her eyes, then slowly put her hand to his mouth and kissed her.

She felt a shock all over her body, and suddenly withdrew her hand, but in an instant, the urge to cry swept over again, and she told herself that she couldn't cry, and she couldn't shed a single tear in front of this heartless person.

Seeing her bowing her head and not speaking, he said, "Actually, I still love you very much, Moran, you can tell. Let's be good friends. Don't break up with me, please?"

She finds it annoying.

"You're shameless. Why should we be friends?" she said.

"That's why I want to give you 5000 yuan a month."

"Forget it, don't give it to me. I'd rather not have a penny than be friends with you." She said resolutely, and suddenly realized that it was a mistake to come to see him today.

"But you need me." He said confidently.

"Don't talk nonsense, I don't need you at all." Moran laughed at his inexplicable confidence.

He winked mysteriously at her.

"Don't you want to inquire about Du Xiaomei?" He asked.

Du Xiaomei?This really hit her heart right away.She really wanted to know about Du Xiaomei. By the way, she suddenly remembered that when she was making a mask the night before yesterday, she was in a daze? ?I heard Du Xiaomei mention Liang Yongsheng, saying that he was her father's lawyer.As expected, the ex-husband of the lawyer still has value.

"I heard you were her father's lawyer?" she asked.

"It doesn't count, but I know her father very well. He once asked me for help." His expression of relish was like that of a fisherman setting bait.

"You don't necessarily know your daughter well if you know your father well," Moran said intentionally.

"You're wrong, I know a lot of things," he said with a smile, "I'll tell you everything, as long as you promise to remain my friend, really."

"That depends on what kind of friends you have. You and I can only be the most ordinary kind of friends, that is, friends who have no distinction between male and female." She said quietly.

He weighed the weight of her words a little bit, and observed the expression on her face, knowing that she was serious and had made up her mind, so he nodded with some regret. "Okay, as long as you are willing to keep in touch with me, I am willing to be your asexual friend." He said straightforwardly.

"Did her father tell you about Du Xiaomei's accident?" She asked immediately.

"Yes." Liang Yongsheng nodded and sighed, "The old man is very sad, Du Xiaomei is his only daughter."

"You said you know a lot about Du Xiaomei, what is it?" Mo Lan was afraid that Liang Yongsheng was playing tricks.

Liang Yongsheng tilted his head, took a sip of hot tea slowly, and said, "I know that Du Xiaomei married Liao Yongli, and Du Xiaomei's father has always been very dissatisfied."

"Really?" Moran had never heard Liao Yongli mention this matter, but after thinking about it carefully, he was not surprised.The gap between the rich and the poor is indeed very large.Moran knew Liao Yongli's family background very well. Liao Yongli's parents died when he was young, and he was brought up by his grandparents with meager income. Therefore, he went to the chef exam as soon as he graduated from middle school and started working very early.From the perspective of experience and family background, Liao Yongli did admire Du Xiaomei, but who told Du Xiaomei to love him?

"Du Xiaomei's father said that his daughter came to him crying more than two months ago and told him that Liao Yongli asked her for a divorce when she was pregnant." Liang Yongsheng said.

"More than two months ago, she was pregnant?" Moran thought that the first time she received Du Xiaomei's invitation was just over two months ago, in October, and she asked, "Then what happened afterwards?"

"She suspected that Liao Yongli was having an affair, but Liao Yongli refused to admit it, so the two had a fight at home, resulting in a miscarriage of the child. Maybe it was because of guilt. After this incident, Liao Yongli stopped talking about divorce."

"Why does she say that Liao Yongli is having an affair?"

"I don't know." Liang Yongsheng shook his head, "Women probably feel a little bit about this kind of thing."

Damn it!This seems to be calling her stupid. Liang Yongsheng was with Gao Jie at the time, but she didn't feel it at all. It wasn't until they stood in front of her hand in hand and confessed that she woke up like a dream. Now thinking about it, she feels like a god. Number one idiot.Forget it, not thinking about myself anymore, Moran quickly pulled his thoughts back to Du Xiaomei.

"Her father will definitely ask her the same question. Why do you think Liao Yongli is having an affair? I think she must have some evidence. What do you think?"

"She said she saw someone texting Liao Yongli to ask him to go out at night, but one night, Liao Yongli didn't come back, but when she asked him later, he said he was drunk and fell asleep in a restaurant."

Yongli can really drink recently, Moran thought, he hurt people after drinking, and slept all night in the hotel after drinking again, what happened to him?
"Any more?"

"Du Xiaomei learned later that Liao Yongli didn't sleep in the hotel at all."

"anything else?"

"She said that she suspected that a girlfriend she knew was Liao Yongli's lover, and she also said that that girlfriend would go to his western restaurant for dinner almost every two weeks..." He looked at her meaningfully.

She looked at him with bated breath and immediately understood what he meant.

"Could it be that Du Xiaomei suspects that I am that secret lover?" Moran was stunned.

"I think so, otherwise why would her father tell me so much?"

"Did he want to ask you that we divorced because you found out about my affair with Liao Yongli?" Moran felt that the whole storyline was simply too ridiculous.

"Almost. Later I admitted that my affair caused our marriage to break down. You see, I proved your innocence by destroying my reputation. My dear, look at how kind I am to you." Liang Yongsheng laughed .

"I'm innocent, and I don't need you to prove it." Moran argued, "What Du Xiaomei sees is completely superficial. I often go to Liao Yongli's restaurant to eat, and that's because he wants me to write a recommendation article for his restaurant. .Besides, we are good friends in the first place, so what is a few meals?"

"You think so, but Du Xiaomei doesn't think so."

"Then if Du Xiaomei dies, who will be the biggest beneficiary?"

"If there is no will left, of course it should be her husband." Liang Yongsheng said calmly.

"Does she have much property? Has she left a will?" Moran asked.

"Let's talk privately that she has no property at all, and all the property is in the hands of her father. The two restaurants run by Liao Yongli were funded by Du Xiaomei's father, so the owner of the restaurant is Du Xiaomei's father." Liang Yongsheng whispered.

"If they divorce, how much benefit will Liao Yongli get?"

"Nothing." Seeing Moran's surprised face, Liang Yongsheng explained, "The house they live in and the two stores are under the name of Du Xiaomei's father. Through litigation, if he is lucky, he may be able to get some, but if it is proved that he If it was the wrong party in the marriage, not only would he have nothing, but he would have to compensate the other party instead. So..." Liang Yongsheng spread his hands, expressing his helplessness towards Liao Yongli's fate.

It sounds like Du Xiaomei's death or divorce will not do Liao Yongli any good.

"Are you and Du Xiaomei on good terms? Why do I feel that you don't seem to have any contact at all?" Liang Yongsheng asked.

"I don't have anything to do with her. I was surprised that she invited me to dinner." Moran hesitated before saying, "Actually, she sent me an invitation two months ago, asking us to have dinner, but I declined. , because I'm going to France. I thought they had already eaten their meal, but the invitations will arrive as soon as they come back."

"Is she waiting for you to come back?" Liang Yongsheng's expression suddenly became serious.

"I thought so too at first, but then I didn't feel like it. She was very polite to me that day." Moran recalled what happened that night, and she found that Du Xiaomei's attitude towards her was pretty good. Through the bathroom on the ground floor.

At that time, she had just finished using the toilet and was looking at her face in front of the mirror when Du Xiaomei squeezed in.

"Mo Lan, I have to go to the toilet too." Du Xiaomei said.Moran thought she was a little strange at the time, there was a toilet upstairs, why did she insist on squeezing in before she came out?But think about it again, maybe pregnant women are lazy.Besides, maybe Du Xiaomei has something to tell her?But Du Xiaomei just chatted with her casually, neither talking about Liao Yongli, nor talking about her own doubts, not even hinting.

She first sat on the toilet and urinated unscrupulously. At this time, Du Xiaomei didn't look like a delicate princess at all, but like a yellow-faced woman who had no taboos.

"Molan, you're so thin and your waist is so thin. I really envy you." She sat on the toilet and touched Moran's waist.

"I lost 15 catties. I had a bad stomach a while ago, and I couldn't eat anything. Now I have nothing to wear." Moran felt that Du Xiaomei was pulling on her pants, as if she was measuring the size of the pants.

"I also want to lose 15 catties at once." Du Xiaomei said enviously.

"Gastroenteritis is not uncomfortable at all," Moran said with a smile, "Xiaomei, why are you still thinking about being fat or thin? You should take good care of your body and have a healthy baby by then."

"Well, what you said is reasonable." Du Xiaomei stood up after going to the toilet, pressed the flush button of the toilet, and there was a loud "wow" sound of pumping water.

"What are you doing?" She suddenly noticed that Moran was putting on lip balm.

"My lips are particularly prone to dryness in winter. I have dry skin." Moran was troubled by this.

"Oh, yes, mine too." Du Xiaomei pointed her lips in front of the mirror, and then stretched out her hand to Moran, "Let me use it."

"Don't you have one yourself?" Moran didn't like other people using her things.

"I've run out of mine, and my friend will send it to me from Japan tomorrow. I only use Japanese products now, and these joint-venture items can only be wiped occasionally." She said with a noble expression.

Moran glanced at her, ignored her, and continued to paint his lips.

"My skin is also very dry recently, do you have moisturizer there?" Du Xiaomei asked.

"Don't you have it yourself?" Moran has a bottle of moisturizer in her bag, and every winter, she always takes a small bottle with her when she goes out.

"Mine is upstairs. I don't usually put on makeup here. Take it out and use it for me." Du Xiaomei said, looking at herself in the mirror.

"Okay then, but my skin texture is different from yours, can you use it?"

"It's okay," she said.

Moran took out the moisturizer from the bag and handed it to her, watching her apply a thin layer on her face, then Du Xiaomei snatched the lip balm from Moran's hand and applied a thick layer on her mouth. thick layer.Facing the mirror, she pursed her lips hard, and her chapped and dull lips immediately became shiny. She patted her face lightly with the palm of her hand and finally said with satisfaction: "It's ready now."

"Well, it's not bad." Moran said perfunctorily, she put her moisturizer back in the bag, and decided to leave the lip balm to Du Xiaomei. At that time, she felt that Du Xiaomei had unknowingly turned it into a A part of her body, if she uses it again, it's like kissing Du Xiaomei, it's disgusting to think about it.This is also one of the reasons why she doesn't like Du Xiaomei: Du Xiaomei doesn't treat herself as an outsider too much, and always likes to get too close to others.Du Xiaomei doesn't know that people who are willing to talk to her may not be willing to share a cup with her to drink water. In this regard, she is not like a princess at all.

Thinking about it now, she felt that Du Xiaomei didn't seem to have any grudges against her at that time.Perhaps, during those two months, she had discovered a new purpose?She was guessing like this when a word came from her ear.

"Maybe two months ago, she thought that Liao Yongli's lover was you, but during the two months you were away, she had a new object of suspicion." Liang Yongsheng said.

Thinking of going with me, Moran nodded, and then he continued: "There is only one possibility, that is, Liao Yongli's abnormal behavior did not stop because I went to France, so she may later judge her rival not me."

"So, if Liao Yongli is not the murderer, then the murderer is probably his lover."

"The police seem to think one of us is the killer," Moran said gloomily, hoping that assumption would turn out to be wrong.

Liang Yongsheng smiled at her.

(End of this chapter)