Cao Lijun was in a low mood: "Yue Ping and I are both civil servants, and in the eyes of others, we are very enviable. I am a senior engineer, she is a lecturer, and the associate professor has already applied and will be approved by the end of the year at the latest. But in fact

, the house is empty...many times I feel like an empty nester, very lonely."

Hu Pingtao came over and asked: "There seems to be an age gap between you and Teacher Bai... Well, how old is your child?"

"We have no children." Cao Lijun replied calmly: "This may seem unbelievable to outsiders, but it is the truth."

There was a trace of pity in Wang Xiongjie's eyes. He took out cigarettes from his pocket and handed one to Cao Lijun: "Want one?"

Cao Lijun took the cigarette, took out his lighter, and lit it for Wang Xiongjie first, and then for himself.

"Yue Ping and I were introduced to each other by others." He slowly smoked a cigarette and fell into memories: "I am much older than her... fifteen years old, which is three years more. When I got married, my colleagues and friends all

Compliment me on my beauty and finding a young and beautiful wife. Of course this is a positive statement, but a jealous and negative comment is that I married a wife who is the same age as my daughter."

Wang Xiongjie smiled and said: "It's normal. I would think so too. After all, the age gap between you is really too big."

"Yue Ping is very utilitarian. She actually came to me for a purpose." Cao Lijun said with a cold expression: "She studied dance, and when she graduated, the country no longer guaranteed distribution. Art requires talent.

Although Yueping has graduated with a bachelor's degree, the provincial and municipal song and dance troupes have long been full, and it is impossible to get in through the formal way. And dancing is a youth meal. After thirty, if you haven't made a name for yourself, you will basically be

That’s it.”

Hu Pingtao rubbed his hands and agreed: "Let's not talk about Yunnan Province, let's talk about the whole country. It has been many years before a Peacock Princess Yang Liping was born."

"Yes!" Cao Lijun sighed: "Yue Ping's idol is Yang Liping, but she can only be regarded as average in dancing. When she was admitted to the art school, it was mainly because the score of the art school was low, and she graduated with a bachelor's degree.

Later I found out that it was very difficult to find a job, and many companies would directly reject me as soon as they heard that I was an art student or a dance major."

Hu Pingtao replayed Bai Yueping's appearance in his mind, and asked doubtfully: "Teacher Bai has a very good image, should there be no problem in recruiting him to the company?"

"She looks down on enterprises and wants to join the system." Cao Lijun explained: "I am engaged in research. When I met her, I was already a deputy high-ranking official and received a special allowance from the State Council."

Wang Xiongjie suddenly interjected: "You must have been very old at that time! Why have you never gotten married?"

Cao Lijun shook his head: "You don't understand the plant subject. There are many issues involved. Especially plant genes and seeds. We have contacts with many botanical research institutes at home and abroad and share information. Let's just talk about Mr. Yuan's team.

It also provides technical support, which is ranked among the best in China. It just rarely appears in the news, so it is not enough for outsiders to understand."

"I fell in love once when I was in college. I was inexperienced at that time and was rejected by the woman, so I lost my mind. Once this person changes his interest and focuses on a certain aspect, he will sleep and forget about food and get into it. There is a little story.

, have you ever heard of Newton inviting people to dinner? When the guests came, he was still in the laboratory and said he had not done anything.

After the experiment, the guest was asked to wait. As a result, the wait lasted for a long time. The guest was so hungry that he couldn't stand it anymore, so he simply ate first, then said hello to the butler and left. When Newton came out of the laboratory, he saw the food on the table.

I was so disturbed that I thought I had already eaten, so I turned around and went back to the laboratory to continue working."

"We don't care whether this story is true or not, but when you concentrate on your work, things like this do happen. You can even forget to eat, let alone fall in love and get married."

"In today's terms, I am a standard homebody. If it were not for the urging of the elderly at home, I would not go out on a blind date... When I first met Yue Ping, I felt very good. She is young and beautiful, has a lively personality, and is very kind.

Generous. She was in great spirits that day and invited me to have dinner with the introducer. We ordered some food and drank some wine at a nearby small restaurant. I took a taxi to take her home. On the way she said she liked me and asked me if I would like to

Don’t want to be her boyfriend?”

The surrounding atmosphere suddenly seemed strange.

Gu Dewei and Tang Yuan looked at each other.

Zhang Yixuan listened very attentively, with an expression of endless aftertaste on his face.

Ding Jian lowered his head and put his chubby, stubby fingers on each other, like a child playing a boring game.

Cao Lijun continued: "Don't think too much. Yue Ping is a very traditional woman. I just sent her home that night and had no more contact with her."

Wang Xiongjie deeply agrees with this: "How long did it take you to get married?"

"Half a year." The man from science and engineering is particularly sensitive to numbers: "To be precise, it's six months and four days."

Wang Xiongjie took a deep drag on his cigarette: "So she got on your big boat?"

The cigarette in Cao Lijun's hand had burned to the end. He loosened his fingers and watched the cigarette butt fall to the ground. He raised his foot and stamped it out: "I really liked her at that time. Men, love sex when they are young, and when they are old,

I just love money. I have just passed middle age and I feel very confident about marrying a woman who is fifteen years younger than me.

Hao, very proud, but also accompanied by a strong sense of crisis. This feeling is very complicated, like holding a treasure, for fear of accidentally breaking it. I am afraid that she will cheat, I am afraid that she will be seduced by other men, and I am afraid that she will get married after marriage.

She was not satisfied with me, so I tried my best to meet all the conditions she put forward."

Hu Pingtao asked tentatively: "Did you introduce Mr. Bai's job?"

Cao Lijun nodded: "I will introduce her to the City Arts Center first. After all, she is a dance major, and she is also in the system there. Yueping is beautiful and good at learning. At that time, there was far less emphasis on party history education.

Now, I am not a member of the Communist Party of China, I am a member of the 1993 branch. When the branch held activities, I took Yueping with me to participate. When we discussed at the gathering, we

She was sitting next to us during the conversation. Some old people in the branch had a thorough understanding of the country and history, and many of their views had been proven correct. Especially regarding party history education, they believed at that time that the country would gradually strengthen its efforts in party building.

.In the past, it was because the economy was not improving and activities could not be carried out without money. But now it is different, and party building efforts are getting stronger and stronger."

"After that branch activity, Yue Ping asked me if I could help her change her unit. She said she wanted to go to the party school, even if she started from scratch. I was an expert in the province and had some connections, so I helped her get in touch.

, I didn’t expect that she passed the exam and got in.”

"Next, she went smoothly and took temporary positions at the grassroots level. After she came back, she was promoted one after another."

Wang Xiongjie took a puff of cigarette and said meaningfully: "This is a good thing!"

"It's like this for her..." Cao Lijun's words were a little helpless, but more contemptuous, even mixed with a hint of anger: "We had a good relationship at that time, and she ate out almost every night. From the district to the province

Here, there were high-ranking officials, big and small, as well as various business owners. Yueping’s identity at that time was very subtle. She had no administrative level and was just an ordinary party school teacher. I never understood why she gave up her job at the Art Museum.

, are you obsessed with entering the party school?"

Wang Xiongjie smiled, flicked the ashes of his cigarette, and said calmly: "These are two units with completely different work characteristics. The Art Museum is very leisurely and focuses on literary and artistic creation. The Party School is different. It pays attention to political correctness and also requires

It depends on whether you have the corresponding professional abilities. The fact that Teacher Bai can take up the position shows that she has excellent conditions, and you can at most play a matchmaking role."

Cao Lijun did not deny: "I only understood this truth later. And when I became a teacher, the situation was different. Chinese people pay attention to the teacher's rules and filial piety. Once a teacher, a lifelong teacher. In places like the Party School, people who are trained every year come

There are a lot of outstanding talents coming and going. Especially those young people, if their abilities are recognized, they can be promoted. Yueping met many such people during her coaching period and built her own network of relationships."

Hu Pingtao understands this quite well: "There are so many students all over the world, even if the teachers don't take the initiative to ask, students will take the initiative to help with many things."

Cao Lijun looked stiff: "This is how she comes to dinner every day. After teaching at the party school for half a year, she got to know more and more people, and there were dinners and wine bureaus one after another. At the beginning, she asked me to accompany her. We ate several times.

The rice doesn't taste very good.

I don’t like drinking, but I can’t avoid that kind of situation. When someone holds a glass to you, you can’t help but drink. It’s not that I’m in poor health, but I really don’t want to drink. I don’t have a good drinking capacity, and I get drunk as soon as I drink.

, if you can’t wake up the next day, it will be a waste of time.”

Wang Xiongjie asked: "Did you quarrel because of this?"

"Can we stop arguing?" Cao Lijun said with a wry smile: "Getting married and having a wife is to start a family. I am a very traditional person, but not old-fashioned. I am usually busy working in the laboratory, and when I get home from work, I just want to eat hot food.

Hot food and rice. When Yueping got married

She looked a bit like a housewife, but then I went to the party school and cooked less and less. When there were more dinner parties later, I didn’t want to go with her. When I came home from get off work every day, the house was really empty. He is a loner."

Hu Pingtao asked: "How old is your child?"

"I don't have children." The sadness on Cao Lijun's face deepened: "The issue of having children is also one of the main reasons for our quarrel. I think it is good to have a child. It should be able to bring Yueping's heart back and reduce her need to go out.

times. But she has always been unwilling to give birth, saying she wanted to

Take the time to study while you are young, and the higher authorities are very strict in selecting and appointing young cadres. It takes at least a year and a half to recover from pregnancy to the time after giving birth. What’s more, the body is out of shape, and it is difficult to recover in a short time... like this

First, it is not conducive to her work and career."

Wang Xiongjie gently clapped his hands a few times: "That makes sense, it really makes sense."

Cao Lijun looked at him with confusion on his face.

Wang Xiongjie smiled and explained: "Don't get me wrong, from a man's perspective, you must be right. From a woman's perspective, your wife's actions are not wrong. So I can only stand in the middle, and I am a policeman.

Investigate the case of your wife’s poisoning.”

Cao Lijun was silent for a moment and continued to make a low-spirited voice: "After so many years of bumping into each other, I am even more unwilling to go out with her. It is not a good thing to marry a young wife, especially in front of outsiders, she looks very weird. Weekends

when

When we were young, Yueping and I occasionally went out to buy groceries. People we knew well knew we were husband and wife, but strangers thought we were father and daughter... Once in a fruit shop, Yueping picked some mangoes, and I went to the checkout counter to pay.

I said: Your daughter is so beautiful..."

Hu Pingtao felt a chill all over his body and felt like he was hearing a bad joke.

"She and I are like people from two different worlds, growing further and further apart." Cao Lijun sighed: "I am no longer what I was in my early years. My hair is falling out badly, and I look older. I dare not wear brightly colored clothes.

It’s not appropriate either. Yueping is just the opposite, she likes to wear short skirts and high heels.

Shoes, people who practice dance are all in good shape. Over the years in the party school, she has not relaxed her overall quality training. She is very proficient in English and has also learned piano and accordion. She also became famous in practicing Wei Bei and entered the city's calligraphy

The association was elected as a director during last year’s reelection.”

"When we first got married, I learned how to drive with her, and later I bought a Nissan. I hardly drove that car, she was the one who used it. I didn't use it, and gradually I lost interest and even stopped using it.

Dare to drive on the road. Yue Ping's driving skills are becoming more and more proficient. A group of students came to the party school the year before last, all from the racing association. Yue Ping followed them to the training base several times and became obsessed with racing. She became more and more interested in racing with me.

Alienated.”

"I'm not short of money. My monthly salary plus subsidy is nearly 20,000 yuan. I also have three houses and a car in my name. Yueping also bought one herself, and with the money her parents gave her, the total is not worth a fortune.

Decimal."

"It was my own idea to find a nanny. I am not good at housework, so by leaving the chores to the nanny, I can also free up time to do research. But Yueping didn't understand this. She thought there was an outsider in the family.

I wanted to fire the nanny several times. Because of this

We quarreled again. After more than two months of back and forth, we had a good talk and agreed to take a step back: I fired the nanny I was using at the time, and Yue Ping helped me choose one she thought was suitable, which is the current ward.

Yang Fang is accompanying her."

Wang Xiongjie threw away the cigarette butt in his hand and asked, "You seem to know very well the process of our police handling cases. What you said is very detailed, and many of them are questions we must ask."

Cao Lijun said seriously: "I am a researcher. Although there are conflicts between Yue Ping and I, she is my wife after all. I hope you can catch the murderer as soon as possible."

Wang Xiongjie smiled: "This is our responsibility."

Cao Lijun asked: "Is there anything else you need my help with?"
Chapter completed!