Chapter 19 Chapter Nineteen

Pan Yulong went to the small restaurant across from the hotel to buy some porridge and soup in an earthen jar and brought them back to the room, and put them on Jin Zhiai's small table, but Jin Zhiai said, "I want to take a bath. I am very dirty. I can't eat without taking a bath." Pan Yulong filled the porridge and soup for Jin Zhiai, and Jin Zhiai sat down reluctantly, her hand holding the chopsticks seemed to be struggling, Pan Yulong found some wounds on the back of her hand, and her wrist was swollen. Pan Yulong painted Jin Zhiai with panacea oil, which somehow made Jin Zhiai twitch her hand in pain.

Pan Yulong smiled, and he put the wristband Tang Doudou gave him on Jin Zhiai's injured hand. "This is to fix the wrist. Usually, don't use force with this hand, you know?" Jin Zhiai nodded obediently: "Understood." Pan Yulong applied some red lotion on Jin Zhiai's arm to disinfect the wound, and Jin Zhiai carefully looked at the wristband on his left hand and exclaimed, "Ah, it's so beautiful!" The orchid on the wristband is tender and fresh, lifelike. The "public bathroom" of the hotel is actually a shower head surrounded by wooden boards in the backyard downstairs. The wooden boards are less than five feet high and barely cover Jin Zhiai's neck. While waiting for her, Pan Yulong ate hurriedly with a bowl in his hand.

Jin Zhiai washed very slowly. It was bedtime. People came to take a bath one after another, but Pan Yulong stopped them outside: "Ah, I'm sorry, there is someone. I'm sorry, there is someone!" Jin Zhiai soon heard a voice complaining: "How long does she have to wash alone? Tell her to hurry up!" "I'm sorry, she is a woman, and women wash slowly." Outsiders complained: "Women can't wash so slowly!" Another person answered: "I am also a woman! How can I wash so slowly!" "Sorry, her hand was hurt, so she was slow to wash."

Jin Zhiai took a bath with her back on her back, feeling endless gratitude to this personal butler who has always protected her. Jin Zhiai had finished taking a shower and was sitting on the bed arranging her hair.Sitting under the lamp in front of the table, Pan Yulong concentrated on piercing the small hole in the snow jade with a red string, and handed it to Jin Zhiai after tying it.Watching her hang the snow jade around her neck, she said: "It's getting late, you should sleep well, the light cord is here, and the water is here. I'm in the room next to you, call me immediately if you have anything to do."

Jin Zhiai was stunned for a moment, and asked, "Are you going?" "Yes, it's time to rest." Pan Yulong said softly. "I, I'm alone... I'm very scared." Jin Zhiai looked pitiful. "What are you afraid of? It's fine here." "Can you not leave?" Pan Yulong pointed to the side and said, "I live next door to you. If you have something to knock on the wall, I'll come over right away." "This is the country, I live here alone... I'm scared!" "It's okay, the countryside is safe. Just lock the door. I'll lock the door for you and have a good rest."

"You ask the housekeeper of the hotel to add an extra bed here, and I won't be able to sleep well if you leave." Pan Yulong smiled and said, "This kind of hotel doesn't have this kind of extra bed service." Jin Zhiai begged: "Then you can sleep on the bed, and I will sleep on this chair. Is that okay?" Pan Yulong looked at the bamboo bench in the room, and immediately shook his head and responded: "It's so uncomfortable to sleep on this chair, you will have cramps the next day after sleeping here. You should sleep on the bed, and call me immediately if there is any movement." .Call me if you want to go to the bathroom, and I will accompany you."

Jin Zhiai stopped talking, and Pan Yulong said, "Good night." "……Good night." Pan Yulong took the earthen pot on the table, said goodbye and went out.Jin Zhiai watched the door close, stared at the door leaf, and did not move away for a long time. She expected Pan Yulong to open the door and come back, but there was no movement at the door. "Pan, Pan..." The lights were turned on again, and Pan Yulong spread his bedding on the bench in Jin Zhiai's room. Yang Yue and Tang Doudou came to Yucheng Baohua Law Firm, found Attorney Liang, and asked to see Mr. Du Shengyuan's will.

Lawyer Liang's face was calm: "Mr. Du's will has been read in full in front of all beneficiaries. Ms. Tang has also heard it with her own ears. She should already know the content of the will." "Since the will is open to all beneficiaries, it should be okay for my client, as one of the beneficiaries of the will, to ask to see the original copy of the will again with his own eyes?" Lawyer Liang thought for a while: "The original copy of the will is kept with Mr. Du's son, Du Yaojie. If you want to see it, you can go to Mr. Du Yaojie." "You are the solicitor who drafted the will, and you should keep a copy here. Can we see a copy?"

Lawyer Liang was stunned for a long time: "Oh, the copy has been archived. We have such documents here every day. There are too many. If you must read it, I need to look for it." "Okay, please look for it, when can we come and see it?" "If I find it, I'll call you." Yang Yue asked again: "Excuse me, when was this will established and where was it established?" Lawyer Liang showed dissatisfaction: "Why, do you think the time and place of making a will have anything to do with the validity of the will?" "Generally speaking, it's irrelevant. I'm just asking. Are the time and place also a secret?"

Lawyer Liang was silent for a while, and replied in a straight voice: "Mr. Du Shengyuan made the order on ×××××month××day, and the place is in the intensive care unit of Yucheng Hospital." Yang Yue followed up: "Mr. Du Shengyuan was very ill at that time?" Lawyer Liang said coldly: "Mr. Du Shengyuan is very ill, but he is sane. He signed the will in a sane state, and his signature is valid." "Who was there when he signed?" "I'm the only one present." "Is there any assistant of yours, was your assistant present?" "No, this will is made according to the will of the testator and signed by the testator himself. Whether it is valid has nothing to do with whether my assistant is present."

Seeing Lawyer Liang's strict tone, Yang Yue smiled faintly, and got up to leave with Tang Doudou.After the office door was closed, lawyer Liang immediately picked up the phone and told Du Yaojie the news. Coming out of the office, Tang Doudou and Yang Yue visited all the way and came to an alley in the old city. Tang Doudou and Yang Yue walked into a messy and crowded courtyard and climbed up a narrow and steep staircase.They groped into the dimly lit corridor, and looked up to see an old woman lifting a freshly boiled kettle from the small coal stove at the end of the corridor, which was still steaming from nothingness. The old woman raised her head when she heard the sound of the floor, and Tang Doudou called out, "Aunt Li." Aunt Li's head was shaking and her lips and teeth were half-parted. It could be seen that she had recognized Tang Doudou. Yang Yue and Tang Doudou looked at each other, were silent for a while, and then asked: "Then... when the will was signed, who else was there besides you? When you saw him sign..." "When he signed it, he let us all out." Yang Yue obviously refused to give up, and then asked: "Everyone is out, there must be someone in the room." Aunt Li said: "Lawyer Liang is here, and the two friends of Lawyer Liang are here." Yang Yue hurriedly asked: "Two friends of Lawyer Liang? So, when he signed, there were three people in his room? Do you know those two people?" "I don't know, I've never seen it before." Yang Yue and Tang Doudou walked out of the alley where Aunt Li lived, hailed a taxi, and drove towards the front of the street.Behind them, a car drove out from a lane near the alley, and followed the direction of the taxi. Yang Yue and Tang Doudou came to the hospital to ask for something from the doctor who treated Du Shengyuan at that time. They found a doctor who was on duty when Du Shengyuan died. Facing the inquiries of two strange girls, the doctor asked them to go to the hospital. Ask the office. Yang Yue explained: "She is the daughter of Mr. Du Shengyuan, and she wants to know about her father's situation before his death." The doctor stopped suddenly and glanced at Tang Doudou: "Daughter, does Du Shengyuan have a daughter?" Inquiry was fruitless, so Tang Doudou and Yang Yue walked out of the hospital in disappointment, and first found a place to stay. After several inquiries, they found a "Taiping Street Hotel" in an alley. The two girls didn't notice that the black car had been following them quietly. The stalker's car weaved awkwardly through a narrow alley and climbed a steep slope with difficulty.There are probably very few cars in the town, which attracts many young and old to watch and follow.The car stopped again at a cross street to ask, someone pointed the direction of the hotel, and the car immediately drove towards the hotel. The stalker's car finally arrived at the door of the small hotel, and the four stalkers got out of the car and walked quickly into the door. When the hotel gatekeeper saw the four men, she quickly stepped forward to greet them: "Do you want to stay at the hotel? How many of you are there?" The stalker walked straight into the courtyard. "Hey, are you staying in a hotel or are you looking for someone?" The janitor stopped them. "We're looking for someone. Are there two young men living here, a man and a woman?" the stalker said. "What are you doing? What do you want from them?" A stalker stepped forward, slipped some money into the hands of the janitor woman, and said, "We are with them, and we drove to pick them up." The janitor took the key and led the stalker up the stairs.Came outside Jin Zhiai's room, knocked on the door: "Is anyone there?" Then he opened the door. The stalkers closed the door and suddenly realized that the place was empty, and the leftovers on the table seemed to still have some residual warmth. At this time, Pan Yulong and Jin Zhiai had already got on an agricultural tricycle, and the tractor was moving forward along a small road beside the field ridge. The two sat side by side in the trailer behind, admiring the picturesque scenery on both sides. The rural scenery, smiles from the eyes. The four stalkers rushed out from the door of the small hotel and hurried into the car.The car sped along the country road towards the outskirts of the town. Half an hour later, Pan Yulong and Jin Zhiai boarded a passing train at a very simple station.The train slowly left this unknown station, carrying them away from here.