Chu Chengmu, who had just walked into the corridor, kept answering the phone and retreated to the public garden downstairs, quietly listening to the woman on the other side of the phone crying sadly.

Due to design and planning reasons, the small building where Li Rong lives does not have a free yard for the residents on the first floor. Therefore, there is an extra large public garden downstairs compared to the small building in Chu Chengmu.

The weather in Yuzhou in mid-May has been fluctuating around 30 degrees Celsius. In addition, it has been raining heavily for several days. The clouds in the sky have been washed away by the rain, leaving only a thin layer. Today

The weather is worthy of a clear sky.

The public garden of this small building is well taken care of, perhaps because of the high quality of the residents. Not only are light pink peonies planted in the middle of the garden, but also a few gardenias are planted, and there are more on the iron fence.

There are a lot of wild roses crawling around, and among the low bushes, you can still vaguely see strings of lilies of the valley that look like little bells.

May to July is the flowering period of these plants.

Although the pink peony is known as the prime minister of flowers, just like the peony, it lacks a bit of fragrance, but it is better because of its complicated petals, which makes it more enchanting and symbolizes love.

Pink wild roses covered the metal fence on the other side of the garden. The small flowers bloomed tightly but densely, exuding their own rich fragrance in the sun. This fragrance is somewhat similar to roses, and is as sweet as apples.

But it has a slightly sour taste.

Although the white gardenia has not yet reached full bloom, its petals are tightly gathered in the middle of the garden, like small round bullets, but you can still faintly smell the intoxicating and rich floral fragrance, and the sweet fragrance.

It somewhat overwhelms the blooming wild roses.

As for the dwarf lily of the valley, its aroma seems to be a bit lighter than peony, but the clusters of white flowers like small bells, paired with its long green leaves, are a bit unique.

The sun approaching noon shone directly from a slightly easterly direction, making Chu Chengmu, who had recently fallen in love with dark shirts, feel a little hotter. But the slightly sobbing voice on the other side of the phone made his heart ache.

It was as if a cold autumn wind was blowing, a bit unbearable.

Under the angry gaze of an uncle wearing rubber shoes who was loosening the soil in the garden, Chu Chengmu looked a little embarrassed and put away his hands. He had been waiting for Qiu Jinge to stop crying, but his hands were a bit dirty.

He casually fiddled with the bunch of lilies of the valley at his feet, but he didn't pay attention, and the whole bunch of lilies of the valley was accidentally plucked out by him.

After a while, I heard Qiu Jinge on the other end of the phone stop crying. Chu Chengmu's originally accumulated emotions were also interrupted by the uncle just now and dissipated a lot. He sighed quietly and shook off

Dropping the small white bell in his hand, Chu Chengmu changed his usual tone and said softly:

"Qiu Jinge, how about we resume our previous relationship? After so many days, haven't you calmed down yet? Is this kind of life really what you want? I'm so sure, I haven't contacted you in just a week.

, If before, I didn’t contact you for a month, you wouldn’t feel aggrieved. As the person involved, you should be more aware of this change in mentality than I am.”

Hearing Chu Chengmu's tone become gentle again, Qiu Jinge, who was originally emotionally unbearable, became a little more stubborn and flexible after crying once. He reached out and picked up the table dedicated to infants and young children.

She wiped the tears on her face with a wet wipe. These days, she cried more than ever because of Chu Chengmu, and the skin under her eyes was a little stinging.

"I don't! You made a gentleman's agreement with me, and now you tell me to go back on it? I have nothing. Except for the musical instruments in this house, nothing belongs to me. Because of this, I

I just want to hold you firmly, but you are like the clouds in the sky. When the wind comes, I don’t know where to float. Besides, Chu Chengmu, how do you know that I will not feel wronged?

"

Damn it, it’s so hard to persuade. Why are people so stubborn nowadays? After Qiu Jinge finished speaking, he fell into silence. He didn’t speak for a while. Chu Chengmu pressed the button on his phone to turn the screen on.

After pressing the button to confirm that the call was still on, he sighed and continued:

"Hey, then you should be mentally prepared. This kind of life will become your normal life in the future. I just hope that you can think clearly and carefully recall every day and every night in the past week.

The suffering I have experienced. In the days to come, there will be countless weeks like this. When you need me, when you miss me, when you need my company, I may not be able to be there in the first place.

Responding to you, your life, more, or you are bearing it alone. Am I really worthy of what you have to do?"

"It's worth it!" These two words contained a decisive attitude, but they also contained Qiu Jinge's determination.

"Then hang up. I still have something to do and need to check my email." After his persuasion failed again, Chu Chengmu shook his head and said.

"Then are you coming to see me tonight?" On the other end of the phone, Qiu Jinge put down the wet wipes covering her eyes, and asked in a low voice with a bit of unconfidence and whispering.

"I have an appointment with someone tonight, so I won't come over. I've had an appointment for several days, and he only has time today." Chu Chengmu refused, adding an additional explanation at the end.

"Oh..." Qiu Jinge responded very lowly.

"Tomorrow, I'll go to your house tomorrow at noon. Can you make soup?" Hearing the voice on the other end of the phone, Chu Chengmu suddenly thought of Qiu Jinge's expression with his head lowered and his face full of disappointment.

I still can't bear it. Now that Li Rong and his wife have moved away, and Zhang Miao is an old man, he really has no place to eat at noon. As for the company canteen, it tastes the same, so he only eats it occasionally.

good.

"I can!" Qiu Jinge said in surprise.

"I know a lot, and I may not be very good at anything else, but I am very good at cooking. I can cook southern pastries and northern pasta. I will prepare the ingredients for whatever soup you want to drink in a moment."

"Can we get an old hen? Let's make a medicinal soup. I feel a little tired recently." Chu Chengmu thought for a moment and said.

"Well, I'll go to the supermarket in a minute. What else? What else do you want to eat?" Qiu Jinge asked.

"Anything else is optional. By the way, fry some bacon for me. I like to eat smoked things. Do the rest according to your taste first and see if we can eat together." Chu Chengmu responded.

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After hanging up the phone, Qiu Jinge glanced at the note he had just written down in his hand, and was stunned for a while. What do you mean, can you eat with me?

Obviously before making the call, I had accumulated a lot of grievances, thinking that instead of dying in silence, I would explode in silence. But why after making the call, all the grievances in my heart disappeared without a trace in an instant, leaving only depression.

Can't help but be excited.

Qiu Jinge, you are so mean! Chu Chengmu said those words may be just to test you. He is not a person who goes back on his word. From the moment we met to the present, which one of the things he promised has not come true?

Now that you've made it clear, don't think about whether it's worth it or whether you'll regret it later.

body

Wearing a long white shirt, her two slender snow-white thighs were bare, and she could vaguely see Qiu Jinge wearing only small underwear under the shirt. Thinking about these, she turned over and sat up from the sofa.

Now she needs to look in the refrigerator to see what other ingredients there are, and then figure out what else she needs to buy, then have a good sleep, and wait until she wakes up to go shopping in the supermarket.

There is also that white dress that I have been eyeing for a long time, worth more than 10,000 yuan, and looks a bit like a wedding dress. I couldn’t part with it before, but it seems that I can buy it today. Anyway, I won’t have a wedding in the future, so I will use this instead!

Although Chu Chengmu opened a separate account for himself, and there was a lot of money in the account, Qiu Jinge never felt that the money belonged to him. He bought a nanny car a few days ago and spent hundreds of thousands.

She would not use any other money without Chu Chengmu's permission.

Just when Qiu Jinge was recording the ingredients on the note again, Chu Chengmu had already put away his phone and walked back to Li Rong's house on the third floor.

Manman, Cheng Yi, Chu Lian, Chang Weiwei, Su Su, a total of 5 girls, are hurriedly taking out various trinkets and other things from the packages, decorating the room according to their own preferences, which looked interesting just now

The somewhat old-fashioned house suddenly became a little bit more like a young person's life.

Among the five girls, perhaps except for Su Su, who is a little bit worse, none of the other four are not thoughtful. Although they have more contact with each other except Cheng Yi and Chu Lian, the other four don't spend much time together.

Although there were many, they could tell that Chu Lian was not in a good mood, so these girls were unwilling to leave her alone, so they brought her over after cleaning up the house downstairs.

There were a group of chattering little girls in the house, and Chu Chengmu suddenly felt a little dizzy. Guan Li Rong, who was making bed with Cheng Yi in the bedroom, borrowed a laptop, and Chu Chengmu found a network socket and connected the computer

I connected to the Internet, sat on the sofa, and opened my mailbox.

Nearly half an hour has passed since I hung up the phone with Mu Qianming. Apart from a few spam emails in my mailbox, the one at the top is the one sent by Mu Qianming.

Clicking on the email, the attachment was five meters long. Chu Chengmu then realized that the information Mu Qianming had given was very detailed. It included not only the education and occupation that Da Tou had received from his birth to the present, but also his experience in the police.

All the case files left by the bureau were sent over.

What kind of information is this? It is clearly a personnel file. Putting aside the social relationships that Chu Chengmu cares about most, perhaps because he was in a hurry, he was unable to collect it. All eight generations of Datou's ancestors were investigated by Mu Qianming.

It’s clear. Not only that, it also comes with a copy of Datou’s favorite places and home address, and even the cycling routes are marked.

After carefully reading the information in his hand, he made sure that he had memorized it, and added in the email what he needed Huo Tingfeng to check. Chu Chengmu forwarded the email to Huo Tingfeng, and specifically told him not to do it himself.

As for the things to be investigated, 1. Where did the photo leak out from? Although Chu Chengmu had some guesses about this, he still couldn’t figure out the starting point of the other party. 2. It was the one in Kaijiang County.

In the warehouse, who is behind it? A private matter, a business matter, only Huo Tingfeng is suitable to do these things.

After sending the email, he called Huo Tingfeng and told him about the matter. As soon as Chu Chengmu closed his laptop and stood up to return it to Li Rong, he saw Chu Lian standing beside him handsomely, with his hand in his hand.

He also held a small white porcelain bowl with several glutinous rice balls in it.

The custom in some places in Yuzhou is to move into a new house, and the first meal after cooking is to eat glutinous rice balls, which symbolizes a happy reunion in the future life. Chu Chengmu didn't know that there was such a thing about renting a house.

"Brother, here you go!" Seeing that Chu Chengmu had finished his work, Chu Lian handed the small bowl in his hand to Chu Chengmu.

"Thank you, Sister Xiaolian." Chu Chengmu reached out to take the small bowl, sat down again, and used a spoon to stir the frozen glutinous rice balls in the bowl to prevent them from sticking together because of too long time.

Noticing that the room had become quiet at some point, Chu Chengmu turned his head and glanced at the dining table next to him. Several girls on the dining table each had a small bowl in their hands and were waving their cheeks to compete with the glutinous rice balls in the bowl.

Among them, Manman had the most difficulty eating. There seemed to be something wrong with her way of using chopsticks. When picking things, her palms were facing down. She couldn't pick them up after using chopsticks for a long time, so she simply went to the kitchen to get a fork and fork the glutinous rice balls in her hands.

On the fork, like candied haws, he held it in his hand and skewered it to eat. Seeing Chu Chengmu looking at him, the little foreigner proudly waved the glutinous rice balls in his hand to him.

"Why didn't you see Li Rong, Gou Dongci and Wang Luojing?" Looking away, Chu Chengmu saw Chu Lian taking another small bowl and sitting next to him, scooping out a glutinous rice ball and asking while eating.

"Li Rong went to deliver glutinous rice balls to the downstairs. Gou Dongci and Wang Luojing are probably still thinking about how to move those few Crane orchids here. After raising them for so long, Cheng Yi was a little reluctant to see them blooming in August. Wang Luojing

So I volunteered to move it here for her, and there happened to be some spare flower pots here."

Because Chu Lian worked at Tianlu Finance, she was a little more in awe of Chu Chengmu unintentionally. Although she still tried to keep herself natural, when Chu Chengmu asked a question, she unconsciously held the small bowl in her hand.

Put it on the coffee table and replied.

"These guys really dug 3 feet into the ground. But it's okay to dig it out. That small corner is actually very good to use as a barbecue pond, but I'm afraid it won't be easy to gather so many people in that place in the future. Xiao Lian

Sister, why are you and I being so polite, chatting while eating!" Chu Chengmu noticed Chu Lian put down the small bowl, and waved his hand towards her, indicating that she should continue eating.

As she was talking, Chu Lian shed a few tears. The tears fell on her lake blue dress, instantly soaking a small piece of the skirt. Realizing that she had lost her composure, she took advantage of the fact that no one noticed her.

, by going to the coffee table to bring the bowl, Chu Lian quickly wiped away her tears, looked at Chu Chengmu next to her with a bit of vulnerability, smiled with all her strength, and said softly: "Brother, the moon is overcast.

The sun waxes and wanes, and people have joys and sorrows. It has been unavoidable since ancient times and cannot be forced."

Not wanting to embarrass Chu Lian with his gaze, Chu Chengmu turned his head and glanced into the small bowl. He could not help but smile sarcastically because the black sesame filling had flowed out of the glutinous rice balls after he had taken a bite.

Laughter and reunion? I'm afraid that all my sincerity has been fed to the dog. But even Teemo knows who is the master and knows how to be grateful. A wife of chaff cannot be abandoned, but some people's hearts are even worse than dogs.

"I don't really care if I can gather so many people anymore. It's lively when there are many people, and lonely when there are few people. It all depends on whether I can enjoy this state of mind. What do you think, Miss Xiao Lian?"

Chu Chengmu ate the glutinous rice dumpling he took a bite from, smiled and said softly.

"Then will you still call me Sister Xiaolian from now on?" Chu Chu said pitifully as she wiped her tears.
Chapter completed!