Pre-marital cohabitation

  Tan's old house is on the Xiangshan side, Tan Jiaoyan first made a phone call to let the doctor from Xihu Garden go to Tong Qiang's place, and he himself also immediately drove away, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't figure out why Guan Yao would be with Tong Qiang together, and how Tong Qiang got hurt.

  The doctor arrived in about ten minutes. Guan Yao had already helped Tong Ying stop the bleeding, so when the doctor came over, he re-examined her again. Guan Yao stood at the balcony and received a call from Xiong Hua.

  "The whole group, including the people and the car, were all brought back to the bureau. After a brief interrogation, they all confessed that they were just doing it for the money. They received the address and a photo of Tong Jiang on their phones and immediately came over to intimidate her. These thugs claimed that they didn't plan to use knives or hurt anyone, but just wanted to scare Tong Jiang into knowing what she should and shouldn't say."

  Xiong Hua reported to Guan Yao, "Boss, you said it's because the Liu family is worried that Tong Qiang will reveal something from her mouth, so they sent someone over."

  "Then you take another look, if you really can't figure out what's going on, then just deal with it as is."

  Guan Yao only wanted to make a casual inquiry at the banquet, but unexpectedly ran into Tong Jiang in the villa garden. He was afraid that the Liu family would misunderstand, so he followed her to protect her, but didn't expect to get her hurt instead. Hanging up the phone, he turned around and looked towards the living room, and when he saw Tan Jieyan, he was completely stunned. "Jieyan, how did you also come?"

  Tan Jiyen raised his head, his gaze somewhat cold as he glanced at Guan Yao, then lowered his eyes to look at Tong Qiang sitting on the sofa. Her face was pale and her expression was wooden, although the wound on the back of her hand didn't need stitches, but looking at the trash can with bloodstained gauze thrown away, Tan Jiyen's black pupils seemed even more somber, an indescribable pain swept through his entire body.

  Tong Jing was always quiet, although Tan Jieyan still didn't understand what had happened, but just now she had been cut on the back of her hand with a dagger, and she sat there quietly, silently enduring it, as if the one bearing the pain wasn't herself, which made Tan Jieyan's heart ache.

  Tan Jiyuan became more introverted after entering politics, and his emotions were no longer visible on his face. However, Guan Yao, as a good friend for many years, still sensed Tan's reproach and discontent from his cold glance. Was Tan blaming himself for involving ordinary people and causing them harm?

  Guan Yao immediately negated this inference, Tan Jieyan was the vice mayor of Beijing and his political performance was also very good, but he was absolutely not a good person, and from Xiangshan Mansion to Shichahai, it took at least thirty minutes by car. Guan Yao glanced at the clock on the wall, less than twenty minutes had passed since he hung up the phone, so Jieyan must have driven over at high speed.

  "Don't touch water until the scab is gone, change the medicine once a day, the gauze and ointment are all here, this is an anti-inflammatory drug, you can stop taking it after two days." The doctor put the necessary medicine on the coffee table, reminded them of a few things, nodded to Guan Yao and Tan Jieyan, then picked up his medical box and left.

  The living room is too quiet.

  "I'll go make some tea." Tong Jing walked into the kitchen, looked at the fruit on the counter, and saw that the oranges were still okay, but the apples were all bruised. It would be a waste to throw them away, so Tong Jing took out a glass jar from the cabinet, planning to cut off the bruised parts of the apple and make a pot of fruit tea with what was left.

  In the living room, Tan Jieyan looked at Guan Yao, while tidying up the medicine box on the tea table, and said in a low voice, "What happened tonight? How did Tong Qiang get involved?"

  He himself had never revealed his name, so Jiyuan really knew Tongjiao! Guan Yao looked apologetically in the direction of the kitchen before sitting down and starting to explain.

  "Tonight I brought two people to the banquet, and unexpectedly ran into Tong Jing in the garden. From the time Li Guo was stabbed by a thief at the train station a year ago, I felt that this case was a bit strange. Today, I was worried that Tong Jing would be targeted, so I followed him all the way here. I didn't expect those people to actually use knives."

  "You knew it was dangerous, yet you let her lead people out. Guan Yao, you're derelict in your duty!" Tan Jieyan's tone dropped a few degrees, his originally stern and sharp features, chiseled like a knife, now added a cold and arrogant majesty due to his displeasure.

  Guan Yao's investigation has nothing to do with the case, but it shouldn't involve innocent people. If Guan Yao hadn't followed him today, Tan Jieyan couldn't imagine what would have happened to Tong Qiang.