sea ​​situation

"Excuse me, is this Master Lu?" asked the man who was riding a green bicycle and wearing a postman's uniform.

"Well, you know me?" Lu Ming laughed.

"Yes, I have delivered letters to you before, but I never handed them to you personally, but today this letter has to be handed to you." The postman came here by speeding car. Beads of sweat broke out.

"Oh, where did you send the letter?" Lu Ming was a little surprised.

"You can tell by looking at it, it's very valuable." The postman wiped his sweat and handed him three letters with a smile.

Lu Ming looked at the three envelopes, there were no stamps on them, obviously they had not passed the post office, and they were local mail from Shanghai.

The three inscribed addresses on the envelope are well-known, namely the US Consulate General, the British Consulate General and the Japanese Consulate.

Lu Ming was full of doubts. He didn't know why the three consulates suddenly sent him a letter, and it had to be a special letter signed by the recipient himself.

During the period of the Republic of China, everything was fashionable in Shanghai, and there was already a city-wide express delivery service similar to today's.Time is money. Since the opening of Shanghai, it has been deeply buried in the hearts of Shanghainese.

Lu Ming opened a letter, revealing a gold-plated invitation card, and immediately understood that it was an invitation letter for the Christmas Eve party.

He opened the other two, which turned out to be invitations to the Christmas party.

He gave the postman a generous tip and went upstairs with the invitation.

In the blink of an eye, it is another year of Christmas, and the time flies so fast, as if we have just stepped into this year's Christmas party just after the end of last year's Christmas party.

After returning to China, he returned to his old habits, using the new year names of the Republic of China and the lunar calendar, so he often forgot the date in the Gregorian calendar. Today is December 12 in the Gregorian calendar.

After several winter rains in a row, the weather is getting colder.

Lu Ming thought he was quite frost-resistant, but he had to put on a thick snowflake coat, a top hat, thick wool socks on his feet, and a wool scarf around his neck. armed.

A fire has already been lit in the apartment, and the firewood is crackling in the fireplace, and the annual firewood consumption is not a small sum.

Yuan Mingzhu was warming up in front of the fireplace, her beautiful face was flushed red, as if she had drunk wine.

When she saw Lu Ming coming in, she asked about Du Juan, and she was completely relieved when she heard that Du Juan had been assigned to be an apprentice in the workshop.

"Then will she come back to live at night?" Yuan Mingzhu asked.

"Probably not coming back, the factory will arrange a dormitory for her. It's too far away from the factory, and commuting to get off work every day is too troublesome. She will come back to pick up her own things in two days." Lu Ming said more carefully in order to reassure Mingzhu .

"You won't be reluctant to leave this little girl?" Yuan Mingzhu asked with a half-smile.

"Can you think of her better? If she hadn't been forced to the point where she couldn't survive, I wouldn't worry about it." Lu Ming said a little annoyed.

"Look, look, I haven't said anything yet, so I'm in a hurry, obviously I don't want to part with it." Mingzhu stomped her feet and said.

Lu Ming smiled wryly. Once a woman becomes jealous, he can't reason with her, so he can only say nothing.

"By the way, where do you want to go to the Christmas party?" He took out three invitation cards and handed them to Mingzhu.

"This invitation is so beautiful, where did you invite you?" Yuan Mingzhu asked casually, and immediately became interested.

Seeing that it was an invitation from three consulates, Yuan Mingzhu pouted immediately, showing no interest.

"It's boring. I'm most annoyed to see these foreign devils. They all speak bird language, and I can't understand them at all. They look like monkeys, and it's uncomfortable to watch."

"But I have to go to one at night. Which one do you think I should go to?" Lu Ming also had a headache.

In fact, he also bothered about these entertainments, but sometimes it was unavoidable. Private detectives needed a lot of information sources, interpersonal relationships were very important, and social interactions were indispensable.

Ordinarily, his first choice must be to go to the American consulate. After all, he still holds an American passport, but there are his college classmates in the British consulate, so it is reasonable to go to see him.

But his eyes stayed on the invitation card from the Japanese consulate. He took Zheng Chunyue away from the Shanghai Police Station, which was equivalent to publicly insulting the Japanese. Why did he send him an invitation card?

Could it be what Hideyoshi Kenda meant?

"Then you go, I'm not going anywhere, go home and find Sister Xin'er for a drink." Yuan Mingzhu laughed.

"Are you going to live back?" Lu Ming asked in surprise.

"Yeah, Du Juan doesn't live here anymore, and I don't have to look at you anymore, so you won't have to sleep on the sofa every day." Yuan Mingzhu blushed suddenly as she said that.

"You haven't been back for a few days, is your elder brother worried?" Lu Ming asked.

"No, no, don't ask so many questions if it's okay, you just want to go back." Yuan Mingzhu said coquettishly.

Lu Ming saw that her words were a little awkward, so he wanted to ask what happened.

Yuan Mingzhu had no choice but to tell Lu Ming in a low voice that Ning Xiner and the others thought Mingzhu had slept with Lu Ming these days.

They already had a marriage contract, even if they lived together, it was no big deal, Ning Xiner just asked her if she was used to it.

Women all over the world have a special sensitivity to the matter of "being a woman", which is equivalent to a different life.

"Who do you think they are? How could they be so bloody?" Yuan Mingzhu said angrily.

Lu Ming thought to himself, this is also normal, why is it called blood spitting?It's weird how women think.

But having said that, another man might not be able to handle it, he would have already climbed into Mingzhu's bed, and Mingzhu might not refuse.

"I repeatedly said that we are innocent, but they went too far, saying that if you are innocent, you may have something wrong with you, you are not a real man, and asked me to take you to the hospital for a good checkup." Yuan Mingzhu said, blushing Yes, half angry, half ashamed.

Lu Ming laughed, this kind of speculation is not unique now, he often hangs out in romantic places, that is, drinking, dancing and so on, but never sleeps with any woman.Therefore, some people suspect that he may have physical problems, and some rumors have spread.

"Then have you ever thought about it, what will you do if I am like what they said?" Lu Ming asked with a smile.

"Ah, how come, can't it?" Yuan Mingzhu looked at Lu Ming suspiciously, showing a confused expression like a melon.

What is a real man and what is not a real man, in fact, Mingzhu also half understands, but she can vaguely guess one or two.

Then she calmly said: "Whether you are like they said or not, if I recognize you, I will live with you for the rest of my life. No matter what, I will recognize you."

"Wouldn't that be wronged Missy, why don't we try tonight? You'd better not go back." Lu Ming said with a smirk.

"Bah! Shameless." Yuan Mingzhu couldn't bear it any longer, she cursed with a smile, and ran to the bed to cover her face with a quilt.

They still asked the restaurant to bring food and drinks at noon, Lu Ming didn't know how to cook, and Yuan Mingzhu was not much better.It is said that young masters and ladies like them live in Shanghai, and cooks, maids, and long-term attendants are standard equipment.

But these two people don't like to be followed by others, and they think that the penis is in the way, and they are the ones who are full and the whole family is not hungry.

Yuan Mingzhu followed Ning Xiner in the Cao Gang to enjoy the service of maids and servants, but she never took the initiative to order her servants.Lu Ming, on the other hand, was alone. He ate at a nearby restaurant. There was a laundry room for washing clothes, and he could hire someone for cleaning. Everything was very convenient.

The two were chatting while eating, Yuan Mingzhu suddenly sighed while drinking, "Last Christmas Eve was spent with my sister and sister Mu Yi. Unexpectedly, just a year later, sister Mu Yi disappeared, and now Ziyuan doesn't know Where did you go? Why didn't Zi Yuan write to me? Did I say something wrong and offend her?"

"Don't think about it, how could you offend her, you are sisters, you grew up together, even if there is a little conflict, she can't be angry with you." Lu Ming smiled and comforted.

"Yeah, then tell me why she didn't send me a letter, she sent a letter to her family, she also sent a letter to Sheng Di, she even sent a letter to Old Sheng Sheng, but she didn't send a letter to me. What?" Yuan Mingzhu said a little aggrieved.

To be honest, Lu Ming doesn't know why, but Ziyuan must have her reasons for doing so.