This unique piece of gold-sprayed red paper is just a treat. When the car was parked at the entrance of Yue Mansion, the pointer of the pocket watch was parked at midnight.

The driver trotted forward and opened the car door.

Suddenly, a little cold on his right cheek. Yue Dingtang stretched out his hand and said it was snow water.

Under the headlights, the fine snow was clearly divided, and sometimes there was a little wind, squirting the snow into the neck. The driver subconsciously shrank and muttered quietly.

"Why is it still snowing?"

But it became warmer when you entered the door.

The warm wind came towards us, mixed with a faint fragrance, and the heat and cold instantly made my nose itch. The driver couldn't help but lower his head and sneeze.

"My brother!"

A beautiful figure walked down from the second floor, and it was hard for her to wear stilettos and cheongsams, and she could still roll over like a whirlwind.

Yue Dingtang could blurt out without looking at the other party’s face: “Sister Three, why are you back?”

Yue Chunxiao smiled and said, "Why, don't you want to see me? Your brother-in-law returned to China with the minister. I don't want to go to Nanjing, so I just go home and take a look."

Yue Dingtang: "Mrs. Jiang is here in Nanjing, and there are dance banquets every day. Isn't that your favorite thing?"

Yue Chunxiao curled her lips: "I like to show off. I don't like to be humble and suffer. I didn't know that the officials were young even before I arrived in Nanjing. I had a lot of royal relatives. I was not interested in serving and dealing with each other. Isn't it that I feel comfortable going home? Besides, those people think that going abroad is a good match, and they will definitely ask questions, thinking that your brother-in-law has made a lot of money!"

Yue Dingtang nodded: "It's still the same bad temper."

Yue Chunxiao made a gesture to hit him, but the latter was clear-headed and his hands were about to go away. Yue Chunxiao's hand was halfway through, turning his palm into fingers, and pinching his ears.

Yue Ding Tang hissed, "Be gentle!"

Yue Chunxiao: "Are you convinced?"

Yue Dingtang: "The five bodies protrude."

Yue Chunxiao was satisfied and let go: "I made some dumplings and rolled noodles. What do you want to eat? Dumpling soup? Mix noodles with scallion oil?"

Yue Dingtang: "Stain oil mixed with noodles."

Yue Chunxiao said angrily: "It's still the same mouthful, I haven't changed since I was a child."

After saying that, he happily went to prepare.

Mix the noodles with scallion oil very quickly. Heat the scallion oil in the pan until the scallion changes color. Then cook the noodles and remove them, and then drizzle the hot scallion oil.

A bowl of noodles has thus become the thought of most people in this city, from high-ranking officials to peddlers and barracks.

Yue Chunxiao made more than just scallion oil noodles.

There were also fragrant wine and soup buns on the table.

These two things cannot be done in a short while.

Yue Dingtang twitched the corner of his mouth: "You are not afraid that I will die of a midnight snack."

Yue Chunxiao did not lie in the hand of a servant, and personally served the noodles mixed with scallion oil and placed them in front of him.

"I thought your second brother would come back to eat, but who knew he had something to do and went to Peking for a while." Yue Chunxiao sat down opposite him and sighed, "It's better to be at home. I like it wherever I see it. Even the missing cabinet in the room looks better than outside."

Yue Dingtang lowered his head and ate several bites of noodles before laughing, "What kind of crime did he suffer to sigh? Didn't you always think that Western countries are much better than the places of their ancestors, they are both advanced and beautiful, with tall buildings and civilized etiquette, are you talking about it?"

Yue Chunxiao glanced at him: "I used to study abroad. Can I study abroad be the same as studying abroad? You only know how to talk sarcastic here. You should really let you go and see it with your own eyes. If you know, you say it was an embassy, ​​you don't know, and you think it was a haunted house that was disrepaired in disrepair!"

Yue Dingtang was surprised: "After all, you represent the decent state of a country. Didn't the Nanjing government allocate funds?"

Yue Chunxiao smiled bitterly: "Decent? Nanjing should have allocated your brother-in-law and his salary. It has not been paid since the first half of the year. People like us who are still in arrears can still operate in turnover. Some of them are poorer and cannot even afford winter clothes! There is also the renovation of the embassy. Whenever it rains, the ceiling will leak, not to mention your brother-in-law's office. The windows are broken and cannot be closed. When it rains, it will always be poured into it, making the floor beside the wall wet. Over time, it will become moldy. I want to change the place, and even if the salary is still incurred, where will the funds come from?"

At first, my hands on the side of the wall didn't stop, but gradually, my movements slowed down.

Silence flows between the two.

"What do you mean in Nanjing? Minister Chen sent a telegram?"

"I've paid it, and I'll pay it for a few days, urging wages and funding. Nanjing always says it's difficult and difficult, so they can find ways to raise it themselves. I'm asking me to say, it's better to be a bullshit diplomat!"

"Decent is earned by oneself, not given by others. Even your country does not take the dignity of this country seriously. Why should your brother-in-law and others go abroad to suffer!"

"Don't you know that before we returned to China, the British Embassy had a dance party, and your brother-in-law took me there. At that time, the French counselor actually asked your brother-in-law in front of the counselors and secretaries of several other countries. He heard that the rain stopped outside, but the rain in the Chinese Embassy was a scene. Is it true?"

She was full of complaints and was not as full of confidence as before going abroad.

Yue Dingtang: "How did my brother-in-law get back?"

Yue Chunxiao: "Your brother-in-law said that the world is not yet peaceful. We Chinese like to be prepared for danger in times of peace and remind ourselves that we should not forget our suffering, so that we can do more practical things for our people."

Yue Dingtang smiled and said, "This answer is not bad."

Yue Chunxiao said angrily: "You are still laughing! If your brother-in-law was a staff member of the American or British embassy, ​​would the other party dare to joke like this?!"

Yue Dingtang: "This is a joke in an informal occasion. It is both internal and external troubles and cannot be underestimated by others."

Yue Chunxiao: "So I will never go to Nanjing. Your brother-in-law and others are out of the wind and rain, and they are not full or warm in food. The people in Nanjing are full of luxury. I am afraid that after I go, I will not be able to help but slap the table and scold people, which will make your brother-in-law's career unhappy. It is better to stay at home and go out shopping and meet old friends."

She complained a lot, and Yue Dingtang was very patient to listen. After all, if the couple had to go abroad again in the future, the whole family would not know which year or month they would meet.

"By the way," Yue Chunxiao poked the soup bag with chopsticks, and the juice flowed out, and the fragrance was everywhere. "I went to have afternoon tea today and met Ling Yao. Do you remember? The sister of your old classmate Ling Shu."

Yue Dingtang held a bowl of soup and drank the soup.

"What's wrong with her?"

Yue Chunxiao: "It's nothing. I only realized this time when I returned to China that she married a small clerk from the municipal government. She has not changed much. It's just this situation. Tsk tsk, I think the Ling family was so glorious and grand, but now it's gone. She still wants to maintain the rich wife's profile in front of me, but I have exposed it mercilessly."

Yue Dingtang: "I remember you didn't have a good relationship before?"

Yue Chunxiao laughed: "You don't understand women too much. She wants to suppress me. I want to suppress her. Do you understand?"

Yue Dingtang concluded: "Hypocritical superficial friendship."

After saying that, he turned his head quickly and flashed through the third sister's grasping hand in time.

Yue Chunxiao continued to sigh: "I still remember when I was in school, Ling Yao saw Tianer changing clothes, and she had a set of handbags and perfumes that were not available in China. Someone had brought her back from the West. But now, the plaid cheongsam she wore was clearly worn on the edges and she was still wearing them. You can imagine what life Ling Yao is living now! Then again, how are your old classmate Ling Shu? Have you not contacted him?"

Yue Dingtang: "It's rare."

Yue Chunxiao: "As the saying goes, the friendship between old classmates is the most precious. If you have time, call him to come and sit at home, talk about friendship, and talk about the past. The child I liked since I was a child, and he was beautiful and clever. If it weren't for the family's deterioration, he might have been better than you now!"

Yue Dingtang: "What's wrong with you? While you hate his sister, you also called me to invite someone to come to your house."

Yue Chunxiao laughed and said, "Is this very contradictory? I hate his sister, not him."

Yue Dingtang put down the soup bowl.

"I'm afraid I'm going to let you down."

Yue Chunxiao was puzzled.

Yue Dingtang: "Ling Shu was involved in a murder case, and he was the biggest suspect."

Yue Chunxiao looked shocked: "That Ling Yao..."

Yue Dingtang: "She probably doesn't know about this. The news is being suppressed by us. Newspapers are not allowed to publish news for the time being, otherwise she may have a big fuss as the deceased."

Yue Chunxiao: "Impossible. I still remember how well-behaved Ling Shu was when he was in school..."

Yue Dingtang: "The deceased is Du Yunning. You know the third sister, and I are old classmates of Ling Shu."

Yue Chunxiao stopped talking.

"I've finished eating."

Yue Dingtang stood up and prepared to go upstairs to return to the room.

"My little brother."

Yue Chunxiao called him.

"Ling Yao, although I don't like her, I don't have any deep hatred. Speaking of which, we are still old classmates. The Ling family is like this now, and Ling Shu is the only male member of the Ling family. Could this be wrong?"

Yue Dingtang: "The eucalyptus happened in the public concession. I will help Smith follow up. It is still in the evidence collection stage."

Yue Chunxiao was stunned and sighed again.

"You said, what's this all about? It's almost the Chinese New Year. If Ling Yao knew about it, the sky above his head would probably collapse."

The last look that Yue Dingtang walked up the stairs and glanced back was the table full of home-cooked dishes, and Yue Chunxiao was frowning by the table.

After returning to the room, he finished washing up and was supposed to go to bed to rest, but tomorrow he had to go to school to correct the paper, but Yue Dingtang tossed and turned and was not sleepy at all.

All my mind was filled with the saying "Ling Shu is the only male member of the Ling family."

He copied the pocket watch on the bedside table, which was already shown at three o'clock in the middle of the night.

Yue Dingtang rubbed his nose, sat up again, took off his wrinkled satin nightgown, slowly changed into a suit, and called a servant again.

"Fourth Master, what are your instructions?"

"Go and call the driver, I'll go out."

"So late?"

"Yeah, go."

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To be continued...