Eight Fresh Soup

Chapter 16 New Discovery (1)
At noon the next day, Moran invited Jiang Rongxi to his house for dinner.She knew that Jiang Rongxi was currently receiving drug treatment, so she checked the information on the Internet in advance and knew that patients with chronic nephritis should try to avoid eating high-protein and high-salt foods, so she decided that today's banquet menu is light and salt-less. Thin porridge, fried vegetables, quail in sesame oil and a steamed mandarin fish.

Taking Moran's standards for entertaining guests, this lunch was too simple, but as soon as Jiang Rongxi entered the door, he let out a heartfelt admiration: "It's so rich! Moran."

"It's just a few side dishes. If you weren't sick, we could eat better." Moran affectionately pulled her to sit down at the table.She found that Jiang Rongxi looked less energetic than a few days ago, and her face was a little swollen.

"The man who will be with you in the future will die of happiness." Jiang Rongxi looked at the dining table and said to Moran with a smile.

Moran was very grateful to Jiang Rongxi for saying "later".

However, she herself doesn't know if there is a "later", she doesn't trust men much anymore.

"You have a bad complexion. How have you been these two days?" She asked with concern.

"I can't eat it. Especially when I see soup, I feel sick." Jiang Rongxi frowned, with a tired smile on his pale face, "What about you? Didn't you have a nightmare?"

"Why not? I just forgot it as soon as I woke up." Moran pretended to be relaxed. In fact, she remembered the content of the nightmare very clearly because it was so realistic.

"That was really terrible." Jiang Rongxi sighed.

"Who do you think might be the murderer?" Moran asked, she wanted to hear what the rational Jiang Rongxi had to say about Du Xiaomei's death.

Jiang Rongxi pursed his lips and smiled.

"I'm afraid it's not that simple for you to invite me to dinner today?" Jiang Rongxi showed a playful look.

"You know I've always been very curious." She said, Moran felt a little embarrassed, but he still had to ask, "I want to know what happened after I went to bed." Then she He enthusiastically put a quail into Jiang Rongxi's bowl and said, "I checked the information, you can eat quail, don't worry, my friends won't hurt you."

"Thank you, Moran." She took a bite, immediately showed surprise, and asked, "Did you add salt?"

"Oh, just a little," thought Moran. Was she blaming me for adding salt?So he argued, "How can I eat it without salt at all, it's too unpalatable."

"It's been a long time since I've eaten something so delicious. It's so delicious." Jiang Rongxi smiled at her.

Moran was relieved.

"After I went to bed that day, you didn't go back to the room right away, did you?" Moran also picked up a sesame oil quail for himself, took a bite, and it was indeed delicious.

"Yeah, Yan Shu sent you upstairs to sleep, and Xiaomei and I cleaned up the table together. As for Dai Rou, you know, she didn't know where she went when this happened. Later, I saw her from a I didn't know she was there until I came out of the bathroom upstairs." Jiang Rongxi said as he began to cut the quail's legs with a knife.

"I heard that Dai Rou and Du Xiaomei had a fight?" Moran asked tentatively.

"Yeah, but I can't blame her entirely. Du Xiaomei's attitude is not good. When she saw Dai Rou walking out of the bathroom, she stopped her and said, 'Hey, let's talk'. It sounded very aggressive." Jiang Rongxi paused After a pause, she continued, "I don't know what's going on. Dai Rou came over after hearing it. She seemed to be very angry. You know her temper. She has always been unforgiving. Besides that night, Don't you think she's been acting weird all the time, as if she's been angry with Xiaomei all the time."

It turned out that Rong Xi didn't know about the relationship between Dai Rou and Liao Yongli, so Moran decided to keep it secret.

"Did you hear what they were talking about?"

Jiang Rongxi smiled and gave her a blank look: "You really are, why should I listen to what people say? I cleared the table in the living room and went upstairs."

"Didn't hear anything? Impossible, they are talking next to you." Moran reminded.

"They went to the yard to talk. Of course, it's not far from the living room." Jiang Rongxi took a bite of the green vegetables and said, "The green vegetables are also delicious. Moran, your craftsmanship is really good."

"But I heard that Dai Rou's voice is very loud."

Jiang Rongxi stared at her, and burst out laughing with a "puchi".

"I really can't do anything about you, yes, I heard a few words, but it involves people's privacy, I can't just talk nonsense, what if I got it wrong?" Jiang Rongxi said.

"What did you hear?" Moran's curiosity was completely aroused.

Jiang Rongxi didn't speak, just ate vegetables.

"Rongxi, Du Xiaomei is dead, every word you hear may be very important." Moran reminded.

These words seemed to convince Jiang Rongxi, she looked up at Moran.

"Okay. Let me say." She paused and said, "Dai Rou said to Du Xiaomei, 'Don't think that pretending to be pregnant and having a few bad money can hold a man back. That person doesn't love you at all. He was I married you for money'." At this point, Jiang Rongxi frowned slightly, as if he was also hurt by this harsh sentence.

Dai Rou really could say everything, Moran thought, how angry and sad a wife would be when she heard a third party brazenly say these words to herself, and Moran began to sympathize with Du Xiaomei.But how does Dai Rou know that Du Xiaomei is a fake pregnancy?Could it be that Liao Yongli told her?
"What else?"

"Du Xiaomei said that Liao Yongli would not leave her, because she had some, but Dai Rou did not. She said to Dai Rou, 'I know Liao Yongli too well, he would not divorce me for a woman like you, you are not him The type you would like, he just treats you like a blow-up doll." Jiang Rongxi frowned and smiled when he said this, "They are all good at talking, and they are all very mean."

"and after?"

"Afterwards, I left. I felt that I couldn't bear to listen to them there. I went to the second floor. Then I took a shower and then went back to my room to sleep."

"Did you see Dai Rou later?"

"I've seen it. When they finished talking, I happened to come out of the bathroom. Du Xiaomei followed her."

"Is that the last time you saw Du Xiaomei?" Moran asked.

Jiang Rongxi shook his head.

"No, the last time I saw her was 10 minutes later. I saw her walk into your room." Jiang Rongxi stared at Moran and said with a mysterious expression.

"My room? You said she entered my room?" This surprised Moran.

"Yes, I can see clearly, you must not have locked the door."

"Well, yes, I didn't lock it, and I found it when I woke up. I was so sleepy that day, I couldn't care about anything, I just wanted to sleep." Moran recalled.

"I seemed to see something in her hand, but I didn't see it clearly, she passed by in a flash, but don't worry, she didn't stay long, I was a little worried, so I pulled the door to look, she blinked I came out, then went to the bathroom on the second floor to close the window, and then went downstairs again."

Moran felt terrible. She imagined that when she was sleeping, someone had sneaked into her room and did something ulterior, and this person was murdered shortly afterwards. Moran Thinking of this gives me goosebumps all over my body.I really don't know why Du Xiaomei came to her room. Could it be that she wanted to have a heart-to-heart talk with her, but found that she was already asleep, so she had to give up?Yes, this is the greatest possibility.

"She might want to talk to me. It's the same as talking to you." Moran thought for a while, and asked what he wanted to know the most, "After making the mask, what did you say to Du Xiaomei in the living room?"

Jiang Rongxi glanced at her and smiled, she seemed to be saying, you finally spoke, I know you went around and wanted to ask this from the beginning.

"Actually, it's okay to tell you. She was asking me if I met Liao Yongli alone more than a month ago." Jiang Rongxi raised her two thin eyebrows, "Yes, I met him Later, we met at a cafe on Haihe Road in District B."

"Haihe Road?" It's more than 20 kilometers away from the restaurant where Liao Yongli works.Did they meet by chance?Is it still an appointment?

"Don't look at me like that, it's totally a coincidence." Noticing Moran's suspicious gaze, Jiang Rongxi explained with a smile, "I happened to pass by that cafe that day, and thought that I hadn't had coffee for a long time, so I I went in, not to drink coffee, just to smell the coffee. At this time he suddenly appeared. You also know him, even if you don’t invite him, he will sit with you with a thick skin , and since he sat down, I was embarrassed to drive him away. He said he was waiting for someone, so we sat there and chatted casually. He sat there for nearly 10 minutes and then left. When he left He paid the bill very generously for me, and I thank him."

"How could Du Xiaomei know about this?" Moran thought, Liao Yongli would definitely not tell her.

"I also find it incredible. At first I thought she might have hired a private investigator, but then I suddenly thought of something and thought there might be another explanation."

"You think someone told her?"

"Yes." Jiang Rongxi said with certainty.

"Who?" Moran's nerves tensed.

"When Liao Yongli went to pay my bill that day, guess who I saw?" Jiang Rongxi's eyes lit up.

"Who?"

"I saw Zhao Yanshu looking at me from the glass window of the cafe."

"Yan Shu? Do you doubt Yan Shu?" Mo Lan was quite surprised.

"I happened to see her when I turned my head away, and she happened to be looking at me. I greeted her, but she didn't respond, just stood there looking at me in a daze. It felt weird. She just kept going like that. She looked at me for a full minute, then she suddenly turned around and left, I really don't know what happened to her." Jiang Rongxi frowned, as if chewing a strange food, "When she left, Liao Yongli was paying Come back after finishing the bill. So only she saw me and Liao Yongli together."

Yan Shu like this is indeed a bit suspicious, Moran thought.

"But why did she tell Du Xiaomei? What good is it for her?" Moran couldn't help asking.

"What do you think?" Jiang Rongxi stared straight at her, which made Moran very uncomfortable.

"Unless..." Moran knew what Jiang Rongxi meant.

"Why don't you dare to guess down?"

"It's not that I don't dare to guess, but I think it's too unbelievable." Moran said.

"Liao Yongli said he was waiting for someone, and she appeared when he was about to leave. The probability of them appearing in such a small area at the same time is very small, and I know that there are less than 100 people in front of this cafe. There is an economical chain hotel in Mi, and long-term customers can get a [-]% discount. She went in that direction, and then Liao Yongli followed. I don’t believe there is such a coincidence in the world. Let’s talk Said that she looked at me, no doubt she was hit hard, because she thought that I was dating Liao Yong, so she passed on her own thoughts to Du Xiaomei, if it were you, you would definitely not tell this Right and wrong. You'll call me and ask me what's going on."

"Yes, I will do that. This is the sister." Moran said, "But even so, she shouldn't tell Du Xiaomei."

"There is only one possibility, in order to divert attention. Maybe she thought that Du Xiaomei had something to do with her. She was afraid that Du Xiaomei would trouble her, so she used me as a shield to show her innocence. Otherwise, no one would have such troubles You should still remember her strange behavior at dinner that day." Jiang Rongxi emphasized his tone when he said the last sentence.

Zhao Yanshu's crying and swollen eyes immediately appeared in Moran's mind. At that time, Du Xiaomei had just triumphantly announced the good news of her pregnancy.My God, could it be said that Liao Yongli had an affair with Zhao Yanshu?If it is said that Yan Shu, who has always been innocent and honest, would cheat, the world would be too crazy.Moran could imagine that if she asked Liao Yongli, he would definitely say, besides the main meal, what's so great about having two snacks?
Jiang Rongxi put a piece of quail meat in his mouth and began to chew.

"Mo Lan, I'm sure it was Zhao Yanshu who told Du Xiaomei about this." She said coldly.

Could it be that Zhao Yanshu really spoke ill of Rong Xi in front of Du Xiaomei?It can be seen that Rong Xi has already confirmed this fact. Her tone is full of contempt and dislike for Zhao Yanshu. Mo Lan really doesn't want friends to suspect and attack each other like this. I heard Jiang Rongxi's voice.

"At that time, I felt weird when I received the invitation. What kind of eight fresh soup is really scary. I thought she was just joking. Du Xiaomei has always been a person who has no sense of propriety or self-knowledge. But when she asked me those questions I suddenly understood what she meant. She suspected that one of us was Liao Yongli's lover."

Yes, otherwise Du Xiaomei wouldn't have made up so many lies, Moran thought.

"I've always thought that there are so many women in the world, why would she suspect that one of us is her rival in love?" Moran asked, this question has always troubled her.

"I thought about this too, and then I thought maybe she saw something. For example, she accidentally saw a text message or email sent by someone to Liao Yongli, in which the name of one of us was mentioned." Jiang Rongxi's eyes There was a shrewd gleam, "Like, 'Don't tell Moran about us.'"

Moran was surprised. Indeed, just this one sentence is enough to make Du Xiaomei suspicious of them.

"Do you think Du Xiaomei accidentally saw Yan Shu's text message?"

"That's my guess."

"However, if she deliberately told Du Xiaomei about your meeting with Liao Yongli, wouldn't it be equivalent to 300 taels of silver here? And when did she say it? It seemed that she had no chance to meet Du Xiaomei alone that day. Logically speaking, their The conversation should be before the mask."

Jiang Rongxi pondered for a moment.

"She was the first to arrive at the villa that day, and I was the second. They had already chatted for a while when I came. I guess Du Xiaomei must have said something to her when there were only the two of them, and maybe threatened her , so Yan Shu hastily confessed me in order to protect herself."

After Jiang Rongxi finished speaking, the two fell into silence at the same time.

"Did you talk to Yan Shu about it later? That time in the cafe?" After a while, Moran asked.

Jiang Rongxi shook his head.

"I think she must say she doesn't remember, or didn't see me at all, otherwise she couldn't explain it."

"The police believe that the murderer is Liao Yongli's lover." Moran said.

Jiang Rongxi didn't respond.

"To be honest, I don't want to believe this argument. I would rather believe that it was done by outsiders." Moran sighed deeply.

"I don't want to believe it either." Jiang Rongxi also sighed, she obviously didn't know that Dai Rou was involved, "But ever since I saw Yan Shu outside the glass window in the cafe, I found that I don't understand she."

When Jiang Rongxi was talking, she habitually touched her ring finger. Moran suddenly noticed that she didn't wear a wedding ring, but only put a wide-brimmed silver ring on her middle finger. She focused on the topic Du Xiaomei raised, so she didn't care about it, but now she felt something was wrong, because she knew that Jiang Rongxi cherished her marriage very much, and if it wasn't for her unavoidable circumstances, she would never give up this ring. Pointed down.Is something wrong with their marriage?
"By the way, Rongxi, I almost forgot, just wait a moment." Moran thought of a way to test Jiang Rongxi.She went to her room and took a belt from France from the cabinet, stepped forward and handed it to Jiang Rongxi.

"What is this?" Jiang Rongxi asked with a puzzled smile, "A gift?"

"That's right, I should have brought it with me when I went to Du Xiaomei's house last time, but I forgot it. This is for your husband. By the way, why didn't I see you wearing a wedding ring? Did you drop it?" Moran asked nonchalantly.

"I'm not Du Xiaomei, I wear it even to sleep!" Jiang Rongxi said and returned the belt to her.

"What's wrong?" Moran looked at her suspiciously, feeling a little uneasy.

"I have separated from him." Jiang Rongxi whispered.

"Separate? You mean divorce?!" Moran was startled.

"It's just separation now, but divorce will happen sooner or later." Jiang Rongxi said calmly.

Moran was speechless.

"Why, why is this happening? Don't you have a good relationship?" After a long time, she finally spoke.

"The main reason was that I was not in good health and didn't want to have a baby, but he wanted a baby very badly."

"Just because of this?"

"His parents are also supportive of him, and they want a grandchild too, so there's nothing wrong with the idea."

(End of this chapter)