[Pretender] Makoto Honya

It was already dawn when Qiao Baizhou returned home. As soon as he entered the living room, he saw Ruyuan sitting on the sofa drinking coffee, and smiled knowingly, "You came back so early?"

"Brother, you are always staying out at night, you are not a good example!"

Ruyuan curled her lips, "Forget it, maybe you haven't slept all night, right? You go to sleep first, and accompany me to the Navy Club for dinner at noon!"

"Okay, I'll listen to you."

Qiao Baizhou shook his head helplessly, and suddenly remembered something, "By the way, Wang Fuqu was assassinated last night."

"What did you say?" Ruyuan stopped drinking coffee, her eyes widened in surprise, "Wang Manchun's uncle?"

Putting down the coffee in her hand, Ruyuan frowned.

Wang Fuqu is the deputy director of the Finance Department of the new government, and her position is not very sensitive. If it was the actions of anti-Japanese elements, it would be a bit of a fuss. It seems that there must be some hidden story behind it.

Qiao Baizhou nodded, he also felt very strange.

The eight bodyguards all died cleanly and without wasting a few bullets. They must be the work of secret agents, but why did the anti-Japanese elements spend a lot of time on the New Year's Day to assassinate a deputy director who is not particularly eye-catching in the new government? How long?

"Wang Fuqu is dead, who will benefit the most?"

Ruyuan is puzzled by this. The new government is now at a stage where no one can use it, and there is no room for success, so the power struggle is ruled out. "Who can unite with the anti-Japanese elements and kill him cleanly?" ?”

Before he could come up with a result, Qiao Baizhou slapped her again neatly, then turned around and went back to the room to rest, "It's not your business, so don't think too much about it."

Ruyuan made a face at his back, and looked at Qiao Yan who came back with him with malicious intentions, "Brother Qiao Yan, why did my brother go last night?"

"Second Miss, I didn't sleep all night either, so I went back to rest first." Qiao Yan finished speaking almost non-stop, and ran back to her room with a "swish".

Ruyuan watched him run away, and smiled mischievously in satisfaction.

*****

"Bring you to dinner, what are you looking at me for?"

Qiao Baizhou looked at Ruyuan and stared at him, but silently poked the sushi in front of him with his hand, and he couldn't stop poking it full of holes, and finally couldn't help but speak.

"Brother, why didn't I find you so romantic before?"

Qiao Ruyuan, who had already figured out the whereabouts of her eldest brother last night, had a gossipy face, "Who is that little beauty? Can you, a veteran of flowers, spend a lot of money just to smile for Bo Jia?"

"I knew Qiao Yan wouldn't last a few rounds with you."

Qiao Baizhou shook his head helplessly, mourned silently for his brother, rescued the plate of sushi, and exchanged his undamaged plate for her, "If you have time, why don't you go to the embassy to see your sister and little nephew, don't keep staring at them. I."

"My sister is married and has children, and the dust has settled. You, the eldest brother, are still alone. I care about you because I am afraid that you will end up alone, okay?"

Ruyuan curled her lips, "Don't always treat me like a child, I'm already an adult."

"Then don't gossip like this all the time!"

Qiao Baizhou reached out and knocked his sister hard, "I'm your big brother anyway, so it's your turn to worry about me?"

"Woo..." Ruyuan pouted angrily, covered the place where she was just beaten with her right hand, and stared at her elder brother with an aggrieved expression, like a small animal whose tail had been stepped on.

*****

When the Sakura was blown up, the first thing Yoko Nantian thought of was Mingcheng, summoning him to the Navy Club.

Mingcheng felt that ever since he went to Suzhou to fetch the explosives, everything went wrong for him.

Meeting Qiao Ruyuan was like a beginning, revealing a series of events that caught him off guard, such as Yoko Nantian's summoning, and Aunt Gui.

He forced himself to divert Yoko Nantian's attention to No. 76 and Liang Zhongchun on the leak of the Sakura, and then he went down the stairs full of ambition and left. When he raised his eyes, he met such a lively face.

The girl is different from her usual elegance and coldness, and she pretends to be aggrieved and acts like a baby, which makes people feel pity.

But speaking of it, when he came back from Suzhou, the Second Miss of the Qiao family was the last person he wanted to see right now, not one of them.

Although she was joking with her eldest brother, Ruyuan was watching all directions and listening to all directions. Mingcheng had just come down the stairs when she had already spotted him, and naturally saw his movement of wanting to leave directly.

She glanced at Mingcheng who was running away with a half-smile, but she withdrew her gaze and didn't give him any more attention.

Mingcheng was a little guilty of being stared at by her. He was about to leave, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and walk forward to say hello.

"Mr. Qiao, Second Miss."

"It's Mr. Ah Cheng, what a coincidence, come to the Navy Club on business?" Qiao Baizhou stood up, and stretched out his hand to Mingcheng, with all the courtesy and no neglect.

"Well, Section Chief Nantian has something to do with me."

Mingcheng clasped back, with a sincere smile on his face, but the corner of his eyes glanced at the girl who was still sitting on the side. She withdrew her half-smile expression just now, but still stared at him, making his scalp numb.

Qiao Baizhou followed Mingcheng's eyes to look at his sister who was still sitting upright. There was a flash of surprise in his eyes, but he immediately reprimanded him, "Ruyuan, why don't you get up and say hello to Mr. Ah Cheng? There are no rules."

"Mr. Mingcheng." Ruyuan smiled and stood up politely, "I thought Mr. Mingcheng didn't want to see me."

Mingcheng was so choked that he couldn't speak, he glared at her, but then lowered his eyes to cover up.

"Ruyuan!" Qiao Baizhou looked serious, and was about to speak, but Mingcheng grabbed his sleeve.

"Mr. Qiao, I'm the one who interrupted you. I happen to have something to do at home, so I'll leave first. Happy New Year, both of you."

"Happy New Year, Mr. Ah Cheng, send my greetings to Chairman Ming." Qiao Baizhou nodded politely and sat down again.

After completing the task of greeting, Mingcheng felt a little relieved.When he reached the door, he looked in the direction of the two brothers and sisters again.

Ruyuan seems to be amused by her elder brother, she smiles sweetly and beautifully.An inexplicable loss filled his heart, and he paused for half a minute before lifting his foot to leave.

*****

"It seems that you are very familiar with Mingcheng." Qiao Baizhou's eyesight, coupled with how well he knew his sister, made it easy for him to make a judgment.

"I think he is quite an interesting person, not at all the same as Minglou." Ruyuan couldn't help but smile when she remembered how many times the two had met.Mingcheng was beyond her expectation, pure?

"Hey, if you don't want to stay in a female university, my little sister will soon be of the age to start a family."

Seeing her smile, Qiao Baizhou felt a little sour in his heart, and put on an expression of 'confessing, being lenient and resisting being strict'.

"Don't make trouble, brother." Ruyuan glared at him with a smile, "You are not suitable for this style of writing at all."

Qiao Baizhou shook his head and sighed, and finally returned to normal, "The two brothers of the Ming family worked for the new government, but they are not easy to save fuel. And you already know about the explosion of the Sakura, I always feel that they have something to do with them, you have to be psychological Prepare."

Ruyuan thought of what she had encountered in the Mingjia Mining Warehouse in Suzhou, but she had already speculated in her mind.

Although she was so beautiful that day, she didn't resist the temptation and went a little too far, but she was not confused at all in her heart.Even if there is no evidence to prove that Mingcheng went to fetch the explosives that day, his presence there already speaks volumes.

"Brother, I think the Ming family may have the same position as us." Ruyuan looked around slightly and lowered her voice.

Qiao Baizhou was taken aback for a moment, then nodded deeply.It seemed that his sister had discovered something.

*****

Back home, Ah Cheng was interviewed by his older brothers and sisters one after another because of Aunt Gui's affairs, which made him even more irritable in his not-so-good mood.Holding the cotton padded coat that Aunt Gui personally sewed for him, on the one hand, there is only a little desire for maternal love, and on the other hand, there are lingering painful memories, and the contradiction makes him very depressed.

Now he regrets a little why he returned home so early and didn't have to face Aunt Gui's departure, wouldn't it be so painful?

Thinking of this, Ruyuan's smile involuntarily appeared in his mind, so beautiful, so clean, did she never experience this kind of pain?

He closed his eyes, and unexpectedly recalled the memory of being tortured in his childhood.Throwing the padded coat on the bed fiercely, he felt that he was going crazy.

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This chapter is for the 'little 0829' child whose comment I accidentally deleted~