"What's wrong with you today? Are you depressed? Your mood is not very high. Are you having trouble with Bu Ping?"
Cai Lian was wearing pajamas, put on her evening makeup, and asked Zhang Ziyang, who was lying on the bed with his face up in a daze, his forehead filled with thoughts.
Zhang Ziyang always looks cheerful whenever he is with Lu Ming. We are not together today, why are you unhappy?
In Cai Lian's impression, Zhang Ziyang and Lu Ming were wearing the same pair of pants.
Once she smiled and asked Zhang Ziyang, if he had to choose between her and Ziyang, who would he choose? Zhang Ziyang said without hesitation that he would choose Lu Ming, and proudly said that he is not a person who values sex over friends. A man should
Can be picked up and put down.
Cai Lian was not angry. If Zhang Ziyang didn't answer like this, it would be hypocrisy.
However, when these two brothers meet together, they often fight and quarrel, and sometimes get angry. However, they are like shameless children who will make up after turning around. They are very forgetful.
Although the two have grown up, each has his own life, and there are differences in values, the friendship still maintains the true character of childhood and has not been contaminated or eroded by the wind and rain of life.
Zhang Ziyang shook his head and smiled, but his smile was ugly.
What Lu Ming said during the day deeply stimulated him, like a thorn piercing his flesh, unable to be pulled out.
At this moment, his mood was contradictory. He blamed Lu Ming for doing something unnecessary, but he was also grateful to Lu Ming for superfluous things.
This brother is too kind and generous, and wants to use money to help him solve all his problems. But money may not solve all problems, especially when the money is used in the wrong place, a man's self-esteem will resist.
"Lu Ming wants to give me 10,000 yuan today to redeem your life. I will confiscate it." Zhang Ziyang didn't want to talk about it at first, but he still couldn't hold it back.
"Where did he get so much money and win the lottery?" Cai Lian said with a smile.
"It's the money Mr. Sheng gave him to handle the case."
Zhang Ziyang told the story of how Sheng Youde spent 20,000 yuan to hire Lu Ming to investigate the disappearance of Sheng Muyi.
"Ten thousand yuan. Why don't you accept it? Lu Ming and you are as close as brothers."
"Brothers also have boundaries. You are my woman. Of course I have to use my own money to redeem you. What's going on with his money? Lu Ming didn't listen to me and said he would give the money directly to you tomorrow.
Come." Only then did Zhang Ziyang realize that he had created a problem for himself by confronting Lu Ming.
"Then do you think I should accept it or not?" Cai Lian said with a half-smile.
Zhang Ziyang was shocked. Sure enough, as long as Cai Lian showed such an expression, something bad was going on. He didn't dare to answer. Because no matter how he answered, it would be wrong, so he might as well pretend to be stupid.
"Are you pretending to be stupid? I'm telling you, I won't take any ransom money from anyone, including you!" Cai Lian said coldly.
"Why? My money is your money." Zhang Ziyang was confused.
"I have long said that I can never give you a clean life in this life. I must at least give you freedom. I will save my own money to redeem myself, and then marry you as a free woman." Cai Lian said resolutely.
Zhang Ziyang's heart suddenly ached. He wanted to cry but couldn't. Only then did he understand that Cai Lian also had self-respect. What she wanted was not for some man to redeem her body and buy her home like a commodity, but to break free.
Come out, get your freedom, and then marry yourself off as a real woman.
A woman's heart is the most fragile and toughest thing in the world.
It was getting late, and Lu Ming was doing homework alone in the detective agency. Sometimes he stood and meditated, and sometimes he walked around like an ant on a hot pot. Reasoning is an extremely meticulous project, and every link needs to be perfect without any mistakes, and then
Several possibilities were extracted from them, and then the possibilities were screened one by one using the elimination method. What finally emerged was the detective direction.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door. Lu Ming looked at the door and felt a little nervous. Who would come to him at night? Maybe it was the Qing Gang people who left and returned, maybe the assassin from that night came again. This is really an exciting story.
Uneasy and troubled times!
"Hey, is there anyone breathing inside? Open the door!" A woman's voice sounded outside the door.
Lu Ming smiled. There was probably only one woman with such a temperament in Shanghai, and that was Yuan Mingzhu.
He opened the door and Yuan Mingzhu stood in front of him brilliantly.
"Please, Miss, please come in." Lu Ming bent down and stretched out his hand in an inviting gesture.
"Well, that's more like it. You should give me a key. I'm also a detective in the detective agency now. I can't always call the door."
"Of course, you are the detective, and I am the detective and bodyguard." Lu Ming deliberately made a mean smile.
Lu Ming was suspicious. Although Yuan Mingzhu looked carefree on the surface, she actually paid great attention to details. She had never looked for him at night. They only met during the day, and they were usually in crowded places. There must be something to do tonight.
thing.
Just as he was about to ask, Yuan Mingzhu turned back and walked out.
"Why did you change the door? I thought I found it in the wrong place." Yuan Mingzhu stood at the door, looking at the door and asked in confusion.
Lu Ming smiled bitterly and said, "Not only has the door been replaced, haven't you seen it, all the furniture has also been replaced with new ones."
Yuan Mingzhu looked at the furniture in the room and saw that they were all new. She smiled and said, "I can't tell. You really like the new and hate the old. You are so generous. This set of furniture is of good quality."
"Where, I didn't change this, it was Liu Sanhen and his gang." Lu Ming didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"Are they so kind? What's their idea of replacing you with mahogany furniture? You should be careful." Yuan Mingzhu said suspiciously.
After a pause, Mingzhu suddenly realized it and immediately shouted: "These bastards have destroyed everything here for you, right? Then they will buy you new ones. They think it's great to be rich. No, I have to go to my elder brother."
Smash their entrances as well...replace them with new ones..." Then he started to walk out.
Lu Ming panicked and hurriedly stopped her.
"Don't stop me. You can't stop me. This happened because of me. I want to smash everyone together. We can't let them do it." With that, he pushed Lu Ming away and was about to walk out.
How could Lu Ming dare to let her go? She knew Yuan Mingzhu's violent temper. She would definitely find a group of Cao gang thugs when she returned and smashed Liu Sanren's mouth overnight. What about replacing it with new ones?
Let’s talk about it later.
Everyone hangs out on the beach in Shanghai, and all they care about is face. If this continues, when will the injustices be repaid?
Lu Ming was in a hurry and hugged Yuan Mingzhu tightly, but accidentally, his hands happened to be clasped on Yuan Mingzhu's chest, and both of them froze as if they were electrocuted.
Yuan Mingzhu was the first to react. She was so embarrassed that she tried to turn around and wanted to hit Lu Ming. Unexpectedly, she turned around and was hugged tighter. The fire in Lu Ming's heart was already burning, and his body also reacted.
Yuan Mingzhu was held tightly in his arms, unable to move. She simply closed her eyes, leaned her head tightly on Lu Ming's chest, and exhaled like a blue.
Lu Ming's feet were next to a chair and he wanted to sit down, but his body swayed and his arm hit a celadon teacup on the table. With a "clang", the teacup fell to the ground and broke. Lu Ming suddenly woke up.
Quickly let go of Yuan Mingzhu and take a step back.
"What's wrong?" Yuan Mingzhu was stunned for a moment.
"It can't be like this." Lu Ming took a breath and shook his head.
"Can't you wait?" Yuan Mingzhu said angrily.
"Since we ran away from marriage, we can't be together in this way." Lu Ming had thoughts about marriage, but he never thought about entering into marriage in this way.
If the two of them get married privately today, they are really treating public affairs as private affairs. Not to mention, if one of them gets pregnant out of wedlock, it will bring disgrace to the elders of the two families.
The most important thing for old-school people is their face. They must not let the two elderly families hold their heads high in their hometown and let others poke their fingers behind their backs.
Lu Ming's mood gradually stabilized and he asked, "Mingzhu, are you okay with coming over so late at night?"
"Of course something happened. You almost interfered with the business. I became a detective, so I encountered something." Yuan Mingzhu then remembered that she had important information to report.
"Could it be that the Qing Gang is also looking for trouble with you?" Lu Ming asked uneasily.
"No, it was the collective poisoning of the Sheng family. I found out the problem." Yuan Mingzhu regained her composure.
"Are you talking about the Sheng family collectively eating poisonous mushrooms? What problem was found?" Lu Ming asked confused.
"There have been several cases of mushroom poisoning in Shanghai. I made inquiries and checked the details, and found that the poisoning incident in the Sheng family was different from other families. I found out the problem. They did not eat poisonous mushrooms, but the mushrooms were poisonous." Yuan Mingzhu
He said with a proud smile.
"Of course poisonous mushrooms are poisonous, what's so strange about this?" Lu Ming didn't react for a moment.
"Why have you become so stupid? I'm not talking about poisonous mushrooms, but mushrooms are poisonous." Yuan Mingzhu said as she took out a balled-up cotton mask from her pocket, opened it, and inside it was a
Only mushrooms.
"Understood! Are you saying that the mushrooms were poisoned, not poisonous mushrooms?" Lu Ming finally realized it, and it was not his fault for reacting slowly, but the meaning of the words "poisonous mushrooms" and "mushrooms poisonous".
Too close.
"My dear, I have been busy with this matter this afternoon, and finally I have some clues." Yuan Mingzhu looked at the mushroom as if he were a visitor from outside.
"What kind of poison is it? Have you found out?" Lu Ming asked eagerly.
"The Sheng family still had some mushrooms left, so I asked a pharmacist to check it out. He couldn't tell exactly what kind of poison it was. Anyway, it was a very powerful poison."
"Is it arsenic?" Lu Ming pondered.
In China, the most common poison is arsenic, which is very easy to obtain and can be purchased in ordinary pharmacies.
"No, the pharmacist said this kind of poison is relatively rare." Yuan Mingzhu denied it.
"It could also be castor bean poison, that stuff is very toxic." Lu Ming whispered.
"No, it doesn't seem to be the poison that ordinary people see. Anyway, the pharmacist couldn't find it out, so I came to you to discuss it." Yuan Mingzhu said.
"It seems like it's necessary to go to Tongren Hospital and ask a skilled pharmacist to check it out," Lu Ming said.
He originally didn't pay much attention to the poisoning of the Sheng family. After all, accidental ingestion of poisonous mushrooms was too common. It happened many times every year and many people died.
Unfortunately, mushrooms are a delicacy that no one can refuse. Even though they know the potential danger of poisoning, they still pick them and eat them.
If you want to find out about this matter, the best way is to go to Tongren Hospital where the Sheng family was treated and rescued at that time. First of all, the hospital will definitely save the test sheets at that time. Secondly, bring the poisonous mushrooms and ask the hospital pharmacist to help re-examine them.