Eight Fresh Soup

Chapter 11 The Harvest of Afternoon Tea (2)
"I think so, my dear," he said, before adding, "Except you, of course."

It was almost 6 o'clock in the evening when Moran got home. As soon as she entered the house, Jonah followed her.

"Shepherd's purse wonton, where's my shepherd's purse wonton?" She shouted as soon as she entered the door.

"Are you still talking, did you tell Gao Jing that I made wontons today?" Moran asked angrily, throwing the newly bought shawl, shoes and her fabric bag on the sofa.

"Oh, I just said that my house made wontons, but I didn't say that I wanted to invite him to eat. My original intention was to make you starve him to death." Jonah blinked at her with a pair of golden fish eyes.

When she said this, Moran was speechless. That's right, it was her own weak will that fed the enemy.

"Hey, did you invite him to eat?" Jonah asked, pushing her.

"I can't help it. Seeing his greedy face, I had no choice but to treat him to dinner." Moran hated himself for being too soft-hearted.

"No wonder he has a bad temper this afternoon. His subordinates asked me if the boss had ecstasy soup for lunch." Jonah said as he poured himself a cup of tea and walked up to her, "Hungry to death, hungry If you're dead, pour me some ecstasy soup too."

"What ecstasy soup! Don't talk nonsense, okay? I'm not even friends with him now. I treat him to eat, but I pity him for eating dry bread at noon." Moran couldn't help but let his cousin push forward while arguing. out of the kitchen.

"Actually, since you divorced, he has been moody." Jonah looked at Moran serving wontons and said, "This is what his subordinate Xiao Wang told me. He also said that you came to the bureau to find me in the corridor that day." Talked to him a few words, and after you left, he stood like a log in the corridor for several minutes. Xiao Wang asked me about your relationship with Gao Jing."

"what do you say?"

"I said you are neither enemy nor friend."

"Then what are we?"

"Students in the lover's preparatory class." Jonah said.

Moran was really taken aback by this sentence, and she looked back at Jonah in surprise.

"Damn it, don't look at me with such virtuous eyes. It's a matter of time before you two get together! I'm going to the bathroom first." Jonah patted her on the back roughly, turned and ran into the bathroom .

lover?Moran couldn't help laughing.

Moran once also suspected that Gao Jing liked her, but he had never confessed to him over the years, but always followed her silently like a shadow, sometimes as her friend, sometimes like her bodyguard.

Many years ago, she also deeply liked him. When she was 19 years old, she hinted very clearly to him, but was rejected bluntly. Since then, she has gradually become discouraged.But their relationship was never really estranged.She has always cared for him like family, and he has opened up his life to her care and advice.

She recalled that back then, for his promotion, she even trained him on interpersonal communication. She taught him how to deal with all kinds of people in the agency.

"Gao Jing, is the chairman of the trade union in your unit male or female?" she asked him.

"It's a woman."

"That's easy."

"What can I do? I've never spoken to her except when I saw her during the Spring Festival. " He was puzzled by her words.

"Don't underestimate the chairman of the trade union. A person who can become the chairman of the trade union must have a good relationship with the leader. Her opinion should not be underestimated. With her saying a few good words next to the leader, she can solve ten cases better than you It's still useful, so you have to get close to her to increase her favor with you." She offered advice for him.

"No! That's too stupid! Besides, what can I say to her!" He was very resistant, as if telling him to talk to the union chairman was to tell him to die.

"Do you want to be promoted?!" She asked angrily.

"I want to, but I want to rely on my own strength." He said righteously.

"Throughout the ages, how many officials have been promoted based on their own strength? What's more, a person like you who has no background, no backing, and a stupid mouth, even if you get promoted by luck, you will definitely not be promoted. Slow promotion!" She educated him, thinking that you must never watch TV dramas, if you often watch TV dramas like me, you will know how complicated the officialdom is.

"Nothing is difficult in this world, as long as there is a person with a heart. To successfully accomplish anything, you must put your heart into it. Whether it is a loyal minister or a treacherous minister, those who can be promoted from a small official have put their heart into it. The higher the promotion, the more thought The more. So, don’t think that if you have strong working ability, others will value you. It is also a good job. Why do they give you? Why not give it to someone who is more obedient and caring? Even if this person’s working ability What does it matter? Anyway, I am the leader, and whether it is good or bad, is it up to me?"

He bowed his head and said nothing.So she continued to educate him: "For you, dealing with people is more difficult than doing a good job, so you don't always choose the easy one. Watch TV more when you have time, and you will know that everything has a price. Think about your sister who is still in college, she is pointing at you to pay her tuition!"

He looked up at her, and his tone softened: "But what can I say to the chairman of the trade union? I really can't think of it."

Finally convincing the stubborn donkey, she breathed a sigh of relief.

"The best way to deal with the union chairman is to ask her to help you introduce someone. This kind of person is usually very enthusiastic about this matter, and she will definitely actively help you find a suitable partner. When she finds someone, you can think Find a way to make the other party reject you, and the union chairman will feel ashamed of you. At this time, you can show generosity and tolerance, and you can send a gift to express your gratitude, so that her impression of you will rise from 0 to 80 points, because she thinks you are a nice person, she didn't do well what you told me, and you are so polite, so she should find a way to make up for you." She said vividly, only to see him frowning desperately .

"I don't want her to introduce me to a girlfriend!" He glared at her and said decisively.

He was full of displeasure, and she thought about it later, for such an honest person like him, with such a complicated plan, I'm afraid he would mess it up if he tried it, so she later came up with another way for him.

"So, how about giving them some cosmetics?"

"What cosmetics?"

"Well, I have a lot of imported cosmetics here, including small samples and genuine products, perfume lipsticks and so on. I have dry skin, and some of them can't be used at all. They are famous brands. It's a pity to lose them. You can take them and hand them over to me. The chairman of your trade union said that it was given to them as prizes during festivals and activities. Anyway, it is for them, and they decide where to use it. They must like it. Is there any woman who doesn’t like real things? If they ask You, you just say it was given by a friend." When she said this, she patted him on the shoulder and said, "You are not very good at talking, so just talk less and smile more. To make a relationship, you must use money to clear the way. You Give me something small, and when the chairman of the trade union sees you, he will have something to say to you, so you don’t need to take the initiative to speak.”

Gao Jing later followed her method, and sure enough, he established a good relationship with the chairman of the labor union.Moran didn't know if his promotion had something to do with this step, but in short, he was successfully promoted to the position of Chief of the Homicide Section. Because of this promotion, he later treated her to a decent Chinese lunch, because Mo Lan Lan was married at that time, and she preferred to have dinner with her husband Liang Yongsheng.Moran will always remember his half melancholy and half excited look at the dinner table that day.

"Congratulations, Gao Jing, I hope you will rise up every step of the way." She raised her glass and sincerely wished him well, but suddenly found that there was an unusually obvious sadness in his eyes.

"Actually, there is nothing to congratulate. To me, this has no special meaning."

"What are you talking about? Of course it's a good thing that you have been promoted. What's wrong with you, Gao Jing?" Moran didn't understand why he suddenly had a sudden change of mood.

He looked at her for a long time before finally breaking the silence.

"Thank you, Moran," he said.

Then, he drank the red wine in the glass.

It was a long time ago, and she felt something from his expression and eyes, but she didn't want to think about it, and she didn't want to guess, because she was already someone else's wife at that time.

In fact, they remained best friends until his sister intervened in Moran's life.

"Is the wonton ready?" Jonah suddenly appeared behind her again.

Moran served the wontons in a large blue and white porcelain bowl, sprinkled with chopped green onions and egg skins.

After a while, they sat down at the table together.

"Have you met Liang Yongsheng this afternoon?" Jonah asked.

"Yeah. We talked about the case and divorce compensation. He said give me 50."

"You are so soft-hearted to him. What is this money to him!" Jonah put the wonton into his mouth and smiled, "Damn, it's not bad, this wonton."

"Forget it, let's forgive him and forgive him. I don't hate him anymore." Moran sighed. For some reason, since she met Liang Yongsheng in the afternoon, she really felt that hatred was disappearing and replaced by It was a kind of vague feeling that she couldn't explain clearly. She thought it might be the so-called friendship.When she went shopping in the afternoon, she thought about it carefully, and felt that having a barrister as a friend would only have advantages and no disadvantages for her life. After thinking about it, she immediately felt a lot lighter.

Jonah looked down and ate the wontons as if he didn't hear her.

"I am most concerned about Du Xiaomei's case. You know, she is not pregnant, and the finger is fake. It's really interesting. We didn't even find out." Moran felt horrified when he thought of that wet finger.

"Hey, I'm eating!" Jonah protested.

"Sorry, I forgot." Moran smiled.

"Who do you think is the most suspicious?" Jonah asked.

"I don't think it's possible for anyone." After thinking about it carefully, Moran found it impossible.

"Hmph, I think everyone is suspicious." Jonah raised his head from the wonton soup, his face was covered with sweat.

"Tell me what you think."

"First of all, I doubt that Dai An'an."

"What's suspicious about her?" Moran asked.

"She must have something to do with Liao Yongli, because I've seen her with that Liao Yongli." Jonah said shaking his head.

"Really?" Moran suddenly became interested, "When?"

"It was last month. You were in France at that time, otherwise I would have told you earlier. The other day my friend asked me to eat western food, so I proposed to go to the restaurant opened by your friend Liao Yongli. Don’t be an outsider. I took a detour to take the bus after dinner, and saw the two of them together. They didn’t pay attention to me, and I was wearing a hat that day.”

"and after?"

"At first, the two of them seemed to be arguing, but then they hugged each other and kissed. Damn, it was still tongue kissing." Jonah tapped his feet, proud of his discovery.

"Wait a minute," Moran immediately sensed something was wrong, "How do you know that someone is kissing with tongue? They are not performing under fluorescent lights."

Jonah suddenly burst out laughing.

"I got the idea from your question. I only saw Liao Yongli at first, because it was common for him to appear there. It was the alley next to his restaurant, but I didn't recognize this woman for a while, so I went up to pat them. Ask them, is the No. 37 station going this way? In the end, their tongue kiss was interrupted, and I saw, hey, it turned out to be Dai Pingan!"

Moran laughed so hard.

"My God, you're such a spoiler," she said with a smile covering her mouth.

"Both of them were stunned when they saw me, and Dai Ping'an showed me the way impatiently." Jonah laughed gruffly, "I thanked them back as I walked. Liao Yong immediately He turned around and left, he seemed very upset, and Dai Pingan hurriedly followed him."

"It turns out that they really had such a thing. No wonder Du Xiaomei and Dai Rou were fighting each other that day." Moran guessed, "Maybe Du Xiaomei already knows about the relationship between the two of them."

"There is more, there is more." Jonah said enthusiastically.

"What else did you see?"

"I also saw Liao Yongli with that Jiang Rongxi." Jonah said.

"No way, Rongxi?" Moran was surprised.

"It was the day Liao Yongli was arrested, do you know what happened?" Jonah asked.

"I don't know. I haven't had a chance to have a good chat with Yong Li yet. What's going on?"

"I only found out later. Because his case was considered closed, the file was transferred to me today. Liao Yongli said that a customer made trouble in his restaurant at noon that day, saying that there were cockroaches in his creamy mushroom soup. Guess which one?" Who was the guest? That was Jiang Rongxi's husband. He was having lunch with another woman at the time. That woman was not a fuel-efficient lamp. The two of them made a fuss together. Sometimes they said they would go to the TV station, and the next time they said they would go to the newspaper. As a result, Liao Yong became angry I quarreled with them. After Liao Yongli was arrested at noon that day, that man also came to the police station to make a statement, and then Jiang Rongxi also came. "

"You didn't know they were a couple until you saw Rong Xi?"

"Yes, I saw them both walking together."

"What about the other woman?"

"She went back by herself." Jonah suddenly gave her a blank look, "Do you want to listen to me?"

"Okay, tell me, I don't believe they will kiss with tongue." Moran said immediately.

"The two of them didn't have that kind of thing. That's the police station. I saw them in the corridor. The two of them stood there, separated by a distance, looking at each other, and walked away for a while." Jonah After speaking, he winked at her.

Looking at each other for a long time, and then walking away silently, it is indeed intriguing.

Liao Yongli, Liao Yongli, who is your lover?And that Rong Xi's husband is too petty, he quarrels endlessly over trivial matters, why don't we just give you another soup?If it weren't for his persistence, how could the good-tempered Liao Yongli lose control of his emotions and end up in the detention center?I really don't know what Rong Xi likes about him.

However, judging from what Jonah witnessed, Dai Rou is more likely to be Liao Yongli's lover.

That night, Moran was awakened by a nightmare.Since the incident, she has often been plagued by nightmares.

In dreams, there will always be Du Xiaomei's figure, she is talking non-stop, and then her head suddenly falls off, blood splatters all over the ground, and then her body is like a sun Like the ice cream that was poured down, it began to melt slowly, and finally turned into a pool of blood, leaving only one finger with a diamond ring.The most frightening thing was that the finger suddenly became extremely swollen and still moving. Then, a pair of high-heeled shoes moved towards it, and someone picked it up...

It's Dai Rou!
She looked at the finger with an extremely greedy expression, and then put it in her mouth... Every time she dreamed of this, Moran would suddenly wake up.

She couldn't think about it anymore, she decided to ask Dai Rou tomorrow to find out.

(End of this chapter)