Looking at the pile of empty porcelain plates on the dining table, Du Ruoying wiped her mouth contentedly, and William beckoned to pay the bill.

"Hello, sir, the total is 7898. You will be charged 5528 yuan after the VIP discount. Here is the receipt. Please check it." It was the consul who came to settle the settlement. She squatted beside him holding a POS machine , with an impeccable professional smile on his face, looking very humble.It seemed that she really valued the experience of customers and the reputation of the restaurant, for fear that they would mind the previous little farce.

Aware of the other party's concerns, William returned the same polite smile to her. While handing her the card, he leaned slightly and whispered to her, "Please don't blame them for the matter just now. There is something wrong with me who moves too much at times."

"How could it be your fault? It's because they are too rude..."

"Please don't think that way, it will make me feel uneasy." His voice was slow, low, and gentle, with a certain irresistible force.She tried to squeeze out a few more decent words to respond to him, but her lips trembled involuntarily, like two red leaves struggling in the autumn wind, completely deprived of their autonomous consciousness.So she responded with a nod instead, but even the nod seemed involuntary.

Seeing that the other party finally agreed to his request, William sat up straight again in satisfaction.

"What did you whisper to her just now?" Du Ruoying asked anxiously.

"Student Xiaoying, why are you panicking?" He laughed, "I just asked her not to blame the three new employees."

"Will you be so kind?"

"Yeah, I'm a little bit kinder than you." As he spoke, he made a gesture, making this counterattack hit her guilt more accurately and forcefully, and cut off her desire to continue interrogating.

It wasn't until he watched the two of them leave the restaurant completely that the consul's brain resumed operation.Over the years, she has seen no matter how unruly and difficult customers are, but this is the first time she has seen such customers who are concerned about the safety of the waiters.

"What a gentle and considerate person..." She couldn't help thinking to herself.

In front of the elevator hall, Du Ruoying and William stopped. They pressed the up button and waited for the elevator to come.When she was bored, she decided to find something to talk about: "Your checkout action just now was quite decent, Will, you can't tell that it is an old antique from the last century."

"Because I observed the checkout method of other tables a little while you were engrossed in eating." William smiled lightly, "I think Xiaoying is also very smart, how dare you call me by such an overly intimate name? Did you agree to this plan of pretending to be a lover?"

"Yeah, in order to better monitor you, there is no way I can sacrifice my appearance a little bit." She spread her hands and sighed.

"Do you have such a thing as hue?" He sized her up and then sneered.

"You!" She glared at him angrily, and then showed an expression of indifference, "I know, you are a high-ranking aristocrat, and in the past, there were only top beauties like Miss Irene Adler in your social circle. Yes, I may indeed be inferior. If you don’t want to make it up, forget it.”

"No, I am very grateful that you are willing to cooperate with my proposal." He bowed to her and said.

This guy is not forgiving in his mouth, but he really likes to be polite...

The elevator came, and the two walked in one after the other.Du Ruoying looked at the advertising introduction board hanging on the wall in the compartment, and then pressed the button on the fifth floor: "Go to the mall? You should have a lot of things to buy, right? Just right, you can buy almost everything here."

"Yeah—that's right," William mused, resting his chin on one hand, "I want to buy a new tea set. The teacups that are used in school are too vertical and the ears are too slender, which makes me a little uncomfortable. The suits and dresses are still to be made... Ah, I also need to buy a pocket watch and walking stick... As for the mobile phone, although I can't afford it yet, I want to have a look, can I?"

Du Ruoying raised her hand and glanced at her watch. It was now 45:10, and Yuta's shopping mall closed at 30:[-], so she said, "I'm afraid I won't be able to visit so many places."

"Then let's take a look around." He said happily.

After getting out of the elevator, the two first passed a living hall.Staring at the English tea set priced at thousands of dollars in the store, William couldn't help laughing bitterly: "Is the teacher's salary so low?"

No... Actually, the place I brought you to is too luxurious...

But she still pretended to be reasonable and gave him a white look: "Yes, I said a long time ago that your money is not enough, and you still don't believe me, and you still want to buy a mobile phone."

"Well, it seems that it is still necessary to start a sideline—"

...? ! !

"I don't allow any side business!"

She doesn't know what kind of side job he can have - it's all listed in the criminal law!If you really want him to develop, wouldn't Beiyu City be turned upside down?

"Is there any use for you not to allow it?" He looked at her with some amusement and asked.

...is very angry, but completely unable to refute.

To him, she was still too weak after all, so weak that he didn't need to pay attention to her at all.Just as the night never looks at the threat of the stars, so the night fears - only the sun.

In the end, the two came out with only a small can of Lapsang Souchong black tea which was extremely expensive.The moment they stepped out of the entrance of the living hall, a huge complex atrium full of free curves caught their eyes.William stopped in his tracks and looked up. The intricate white air bridges were like the bone beams in the body cavity of a huge creature, full of terrifying and exquisite beauty. The towering spatial scale formed a strong upward gravitational force, making the One can't help but feel a momentary imbalance in the soles of the feet.

"I—may I know the name of this designer...Student Xiaoying must have known it, right?" His eyes still stayed on the deeper and farther part of the atrium, as if he had already been deeply attracted.

"Zaha Hadid," she replied.

"What kind of person is she?"

"She..." Du Ruoying paused, wondering what information he wanted to hear, "She is one of the greatest contemporary architects and the winner of the world's highest architectural award, the Pritzker Prize. She finished her mathematics studies in Lebanon Afterwards, I went to the AA in London, England to study architecture, and the buildings I designed were very unique in the use of curves.”

Seeing his absent-minded appearance, she suddenly realized that a certain mathematical law contained in this atrium space is constantly exuding a certain sacred beauty at this moment, and this beauty has been noticed by him who is keen— — No, it’s not just about noticing, this kind of aesthetic feeling makes him enjoy it, not only brings him into an unprecedented relaxed state, relaxed to the point where he completely loses his guard, but also makes him fall into it willingly, not hesitating to drown Get rid of all distracting thoughts.

"Did you study mathematics and architecture as well... sure enough." He slowly withdrew his attention, then looked back at her and asked, "Which place should we go shopping next?"

"This way." She deliberately pointed to a road that perfectly avoided the direction of electronic products.

Following the direction she pointed, William saw a clothing store called Salomé.The background color of the snow-white billboard has a plaster-like smooth texture. The store name is connected in one stroke with slender and smooth black handwriting, and is softly outlined with a warm-colored backlight, so that the entire font has a subtle sense of suspension.

Directly below the billboard is the entrance on one side and a glass window on the other, displaying two white male mannequins, one in a brown suit and the other in a black tuxedo.A bright and transparent interior can be seen through the glass. A man with tied hair is leaning on the sofa, drawing something intently, and a woman walking around seems to be doing inspection work.

"Salome...?" He narrowed his eyes slightly looking at the name of the store, "It seems to be a very good custom-made clothing store, come with me to have a look?"

"Am I not allowed to be useful?" As an awkward answer, she hit back at him by borrowing his previous words.

He didn't intend to quarrel with her, and instead chatted about the name of the shop: "Speaking of which, in "Crime and Punishment", there is also a tailor shop that serves nobles called Salome—although it should be just a coincidence. Do you know the story behind the name? ?”

"I don't know..." Here it is again, the mathematics professor's literature class.

"That's a pity," he said, "I've always found the plot of the play Salome very interesting. Beautiful Salome, loved by almost everyone, makes the mistake of choosing John, the only A man who didn't love her suffered from the torment of not being able to love her. Driven by despair and pain, she agreed to present her most magnificent seven-fold veil dance to the lustful king, on condition that John's head be given to him. She was rewarded. The king who was greedy for sex really killed the innocent John and gave his head to Salome. Finally, Salome who got the head kissed her lover's already cold lips with great sadness. down." [1]

"...The things you find interesting are really heavy." Du Ruoying suppressed the feeling of nausea and sighed, covering her mouth.

"Love has its cruel side, sometimes even more cruel than hate," he smiled, "Even so, people still want to love and be loved. Isn't this interesting?". Seven

"It's a word that warms people's hearts, but you say it so that I feel hairy in my heart. You are really beautiful..." She said speechlessly.

While talking, the two had already walked into the store.The woman walking around seemed disturbed, she stopped, turned around and said to them, "Sorry, we're going to close soon—" But the moment she met William, she changed her words, " Is there anything I can help you with?"

Du Ruoying looked the woman in front of her up and down.The age of the other party seems to be about 40 years old, with high hair, wearing a French-style black V-neck dress, and two rows of delicate pearl necklaces around his neck.Even through the heavy makeup, it can be seen that her facial skin is very well maintained, which makes her look young, but her sophisticated and sophisticated temperament can be clearly felt from her sharp downturned mouth .

Du Ruoying realized that the extravagantly dressed woman in front of her had a shrewd and ruthless character, and she could exude a daunting coercion just by her eyebrows and eyes, so much that the little girl in the corner of the cash register dared not move at the moment.It seems that she has a high probability of being the proprietress of Salomé.

The store was obviously about to close, but the proprietress seemed to have changed her mind temporarily.Could it be said that William is really a "walking female killer", and he can take care of all ages, even a strong woman of this level can handle it?Du Ruoying felt a little unbelievable.

"Sorry, it seems that you are going to close, so we won't bother you any more." William also noticed the change in the atmosphere in the store.

"No, wait." The proprietress still stared at William intently, seeing that he had the idea of ​​leaving, she unconsciously stepped forward and said something that surprised him, "You—I seem to know you ..."

At the same time, on the other side, in the Beiyu City Police Station, Du Ruoxian, who was busy working overtime and writing a report, was suddenly patted on the shoulder by Officer Lu behind him: "I just read the news that there was a fire at Beiyu University, just you In the academy where my sister is."

The hands typing on the keyboard suddenly hovered in the air, and Du Ruoxian calmly raised his head and asked, "There were no casualties, right?"

Officer Lu deliberately stopped talking, trying to catch Du Ruoxian's appetite.His gaze accidentally swept across Du Ruoxian's workstation, and he found a 5-inch photo above a pile of slightly skewed documents. In the photo was an old man in rags, his eyes were slack, and he seemed in a trance.The background of the shooting was at the edge of a big tree between the Jian Faculty Building of Beiyu University and Qinxue Lake.

He picked up the photo in astonishment and looked at it for a while, then asked, "This person, do you know this person?"

"Oh, I chatted with him for a while during the investigation during the day, and his testimony made me realize that there might be a few doubts that need to be clarified. What's wrong?" Du Ruoxian asked.

"This person... this person is the only one who died in the entire fire..." Police Officer Lu said, "All the others have been evacuated."

Du Ruoxian suddenly stood up from his seat: "What did you say?"

"He... I heard from the news that he seemed to be a little mentally ill. Maybe he was resting on the edge of the building and didn't notice the fire. He was dead when he was found." Officer Lu said, "Wait, what doubts do you have about the serial murder case in the cafeteria?"

Du Ruoxian took a deep breath, recalling the afternoon when he met that crazy old man.At that time, he was on his way to find Gu Yue's mother, but he found an old man sleeping in a hollow tree by the side of Qinxue Lake near the building of the Jian Institute.Judging from the dirty appearance of the inner bark of the hollow tree, he has been here for more than a day, and the angle of view of this position is exactly the angle of view where William fell into the water.

So Du Ruoxian interrupted him expectantly, hoping to collect useful testimony through him. Unexpectedly, the crazy old man couldn't communicate normally at all, and just sang a strange sentence repeatedly: "The red-eyed devil climbed ashore and killed himself. The golden hair was rewarded to her, ahaha was rewarded to her..."

"I know what you're thinking," Officer Lu nodded, "But, you must know that the testimony of a mentally abnormal person will not be accepted."

"What's worse, there are no people left now." Du Ruoxian said in frustration.

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