In midsummer, even at night, it is hot everywhere.

The residual temperature of the earth is still roasting people.

Gu Qingzhou's temples were already wet with sweat, and her hair was pulled to the left by her.

She and Si Xingpei were sitting in an ice cream shop with ice. She used a silver spoon to dig out the ice cream to eat: "In summer, I will envy you guys with short hair."

"Didn't you say not to cut it?" Si Xingpei laughed, then took a large spoonful and swallowed it.

Gu Qingzhou said: "eat slowly, your stomach will be uncomfortable for a while."

"Even if I eat shi, my stomach won't feel uncomfortable." Si Xingpei said indifferently.

Gu Qingzhou: "..."

She looked at the mango ice cream in her bowl and couldn't eat it anymore.

And want to kill Si Xingpei with a stick.

"What's the matter?" Si Xingpei didn't realize it, "If you don't want to eat it, don't eat it. Who knows if this ice is hidden in the ice cellar or made of saltpeter."

A long time ago, the Han family had the habit of building ice cellars in midsummer.

There is a kind of saltpeter, as long as it encounters water, it will cool down and eventually become ice.

However, saltpeter itself is harmful.

Si Xingpei does not advocate eating ice in midsummer. He always feels that we should follow the solar terms all year round, drink more hot water in midsummer, and try ice cubes in winter.

However, Gu Qingzhou occasionally looks like a gluttonous little girl.

In front of his wife, all of Si Xingpei's opinions will retreat without bottom line, retreating to the bottom that is unimaginable.

"I'm disgusted." Gu Qingzhou said helplessly.

Si Xingpei didn't take it seriously: "It's not the first time you've been disgusted by me, aren't you used to it?"

Gu Qingzhou: "..."

What kind of person can be so shameless? Gu Qingzhou can settle this person in this life and take him as his own. I think she is very capable.

She put down the small bowl and drank another half cup of sour plum soup, and she felt a little cooler all over.

She is cooler and more energetic.

"I'm hungry, would you like something to eat?" Si Xingpei said again, "There is a restaurant in front of you."

Gu Qingzhou said: "It's okay to eat, but don't talk nonsense at the dinner table."

Si Xingpei said, "Everything is up to the wife."

They ate, and it was nine thirty in the evening. The heat in the air finally died down. Walking on the road, you could feel a faint coolness.

The adjutant's car came from Beiping. They ate first and were already waiting at the door.

Gu Qingzhou and Si Xingpei got into the car.

"Are you still going to the hospital?" the adjutant asked.

"Go to the pier." Gu Qingzhou said.

There are many docks in Tianjin, but there is only one that goes to Europe overnight.

Gu Qingzhou said the address of the wharf.

The lieutenant drove out.

Gu Qingzhou didn't speak, and kept rubbing the jade pendant in his hand.

She weighed it in her hand and found that there was nothing unusual about the weight.

"If she hides something in Jade Pei, where is the switch? If she doesn't hide it, I just break it, does it mean that the relic is destroyed?" Gu Qingzhou couldn't make up his mind.

Even for the last time, she didn't see whether Mrs. Hirano was kind or malicious to her.

"Western medicine has not been able to treat tuberculosis yet." Si Xingpei said to Gu Qingzhou, "Looking at her appearance, she probably has no chance, right?"

"Well." Gu Qingzhou said.

She sounded a little grim.

However, this is the truth. For terminal illnesses, genius doctors are not immortals.

If Mrs. Hirano cooperates, Gu Qingzhou can do his best to save her.

From the current situation, she is unwilling.

The car stopped at the seawall, Gu Qingzhou and Si Xingpei got out of the car, and the two walked along the seawall to the pier.

Although it was midsummer, the sea breeze was still wet and cold. Both Si Xingpei and Gu Qingzhou were wearing thin clothes, so he turned back and took Gu Qingzhou's shawl in the car.

About fifty meters away from the pier, Gu Qingzhou stopped.

There was a stone platform next to it, Si Xingpei wiped the sand on it casually, and let Gu Qingzhou sit on it.

He stood by, silently drawing out a cigarette and lighting it.

In the darkness, when the fireworks were extinguished, he could vaguely see his face.

The cruise ship docked at the pier not far away, bustling.

The people catching the boat, as well as those who saw them off, made the pier in the middle of the night as noisy as a market.

Gu Qingzhou and Si Xingpei kept watching.

Until four people walked into their sight.

Two men with luggage. The luggage was heavy and heavy, and seemed to be moving; a young woman, wearing a mask, supported another woman wearing a mask.

The woman couldn't see her face clearly, but her waist couldn't stand upright, as if she was old.

"She is so ill that it will infect a whole boat of people." Si Xingpei suddenly spoke in the dark, "She has always been wicked, and she will not change until she dies."

Gu Qingzhou heard Mrs. Hirano's words and guessed that she might want to leave far away.

At that time, Gu Qingzhou didn't know the truth of her words.

Listen to what she means, if she is cured, no matter where she goes in the future, she will still be unable to avoid the royalists, and there will always be people who will not give up.

Even if she wanted to give up, others wouldn't allow it.

Moreover, this matter will also implicate Gu Qingzhou, making it difficult for Gu Qingzhou to be at peace.

Gu Qingzhou's original expectation was to get rid of the royalists, including killing Mrs. Hirano.

Mrs. Hirano understands that it is impossible to ignore blood and family even if they get along with each other, even if they have no feelings. Cai Changting's sacrifice eliminated Gu Qingzhou's hatred of the royalists.

She wants to save Mrs. Hirano.

And Mrs. Hirano, if there is anything left in this life, it is probably the bloodline of Gu Qingzhou.

She didn't want to destroy Gu Qingzhou and her future life with her own hands.

So, she has her own opinion.

Gu Qingzhou thought that at that moment, it was his random guess, and it was not true.

Si Xingpei stamped out the cigarette **** and looked at the pier in the distance: "If she really obediently gets on the boat, then I won't ask about Fangfei."

Whether Fangfei killed or committed suicide, Si Xingpei also wanted to determine.

Ke Fangfei killed Sim, which was a foregone conclusion.

Killing him or committing suicide is just the retribution of Fangfei's sins, and Si Xingpei can turn a blind eye.

Gu Qingzhou told Si Xingpei that Mrs. Hirano might want a way out: let the royalists think that she went to Europe, and the real her died of illness.

She can die, but her body cannot be found, otherwise Gu Qingzhou will be her substitute.

She disappeared without a trace, no one could find her, she didn't have to hide herself, death was her release.

Buried in the sea, no bones left.

"Should I stop her?" Gu Qingzhou asked Si Xingpei.

Si Xingpei said, "Can you cure her?"

"There is a 30% hope."

"Even if this 30% is successful, can you treat her as a mother for the rest of your life, be filial to her and support her?" Si Xingpei asked again.

Gu Qingzhou was silent.

It turns out that being cured does not mean the problem is solved.

Under the watchful eyes of Gu Qingzhou and Si Xingpei, Mrs. Hirano boarded the cruise.

The people who escorted her, two men disembarked soon, and did not accompany her. When they disembarked, each of them carried a small suitcase in their hands. Is that the severance payment that Mrs. Hirano gave them?