It was raining and the weather was cold, and outside a country house in the suburbs, the old butler of the Paton family was quietly waiting in front of the car alone. Inside the house, two elderly men were talking to each other.

"How long have you been here, Michael?" said Old Parton as he took a soft sip of old Mulden's fallen whiskey, chatting casually.

"It's been almost twenty years. Old Mulden said with feeling: "Aina is fed up with the city and doesn't want to stay any longer." ”

"The city has become different from when we were kids. Old Parton shook his head and sighed, "It's always changing." ”

Old Mulden asked with some curiosity: "You have made so much money, haven't you ever thought of buying a country house?"

"I'm scared that if I'm away for fifteen minutes, those greedy guys will take the block out of my hands, and I haven't even taken the vacation. "In the face of old Mulden, there are some things that Old Parton has been saving in his heart for many years, and he can only talk to small talk.

"Can you spend the vacation with Ruth too?" said Old Mulden with some surprise as he looked at Old Paton, if so, this guy was too pitiful.

"Nope. Speaking of his deceased wife, the elder Parton said with a little reminiscence: "She was desperate to return to her hometown to see, and I did not fulfill her wish in the end, may God forgive me." ”

In their homeland of Ireland, many Irish people have left and never been able to return. When these things are mentioned, there is some sadness.

"You're not dead yet, big boss!" said Old Mulden with a slight smile, dispelling the somewhat gloomy atmosphere, and said with a smile: "You know, before the end of your life, you should treat yourself. ”

"Have you ever wondered what life would be like today if you had made a completely different choice back then?" said Old Paton, whose mood was not high.

"No, I've always loved my job. "Old Mulden was in a much better mood than Old Paton, and many of his views were different.

"Do you know what I really want to do?" said Old Parton closer, clinking glasses with Old Mulden and casually, "I want to be an actor." ”

"Actor?!" Old Mulden couldn't help laughing, and said in disbelief: "The famous Joey Parton secretly wants to be an actor, this, this...... Huh!"

"Yes!" said Old Patton, laughing, "So I asked my second son, Gary, to remember Gary, right?"

Seeing the elder Mulden nod, the elder Parton continued: "He wants to go to California to chase his dream, and I encouraged him." I don't want to be like my dad and blow my dreams to the end. Speaking of Daddy, Old Parton suddenly bit his lip, shook his head, and said, "Oh my God, listen to what I'm talking about? It's like an old woman lamenting her life with a rosary, oh my God!"

"At our age, we're all sentimental. Old Mulden sighed softly, anyway, they were all older.

"Now that you've heard my feelings about the past, why did you come to me?"

Old Mulden looked at Old Paton, his face slowly became serious, and he said in a deep voice: "I need to find the murderer of my brother-in-law John!"

"Why do you think I can help you?" said Old Parton softly, he didn't believe that Old Mulden, who had been a policeman for decades, couldn't see it, and he didn't know why the other party would make such a request.

"We just had such a good conversation, don't lie to me now. Old Mulden said directly: "I know that family is the most important thing to you, and it is the same for me. I also know that if someone hurts your family, you will do justice with your own hands! And I do the same! Now, I want to know who the murderer is. ”

"I can help you with this. Old Parton nodded, and said in a deep voice: "First of all, I guarantee with the dignity of a man that I have nothing to do with this matter. And as far as I know, no one in my organization has anything to do with these. I'll make a statement, and then I'll tell my people and let them find me the answer, a name. And I know, if I knew, I'd be the first to tell you. How's that?"

"Sounds like a perfunctory. Although the elder Mulden has been retired for a long time, some of his connections are still there, and some things can't be hidden from his ears at all, so the elder Mulden sneered and said: "But I don't know whether I should expect you to say anything else." ”

"Mike, you're doing well right now. Old Parton approached Old Mulden and said in a deep voice, "You are old, and you are already retired. Why don't you enjoy your life and ignore all the in the city?"

A conversation broke up unhappily, and old Mulden looked at the back of old Paton leaving, his eyes gloomy.

At Terry Mulden's house in the city, Christine was cooking dinner for a pair of children, when the phone rang suddenly, Christine answered the phone without saying a word, and her face changed instantly.

Today's shooting didn't just affect Mulden's home, as Charlie Booman was asked to rest by doctors after being examined and bandaged in the hospital. Soon, his family received news that his mother and daughter had rushed over.

"Daddy!" looked at her father lying on the bed, Charlie Boomman's daughter Agnes, and asked worriedly, "How are you?" ”

"He's fine, just a little in a trance. The nurse who was standing by saw Buman's family arrive, explained his condition, and left.

Agnes held her father's hand and said worriedly, "I'll come here as soon as I get off work, if you have three long and two short, what should we do!"

"It's okay, I'm ...... I'm fine!" Before the effect of the anesthetic had passed, Charlie Booman said weakly, "But I have been thinking about you." ”

Seeing her father's appearance, Agnes glanced back at her grandmother, and the old German lady who didn't know how to speak English had been standing at the door of the room and didn't dare to come in. Agnes, don't worry, he'll be fine. ”

Charlie Booman looked at his mother and daughter with worried and sad faces, and sighed helplessly.

When Liang Dong got home, it was not early, but he found that Christine had been standing downstairs waiting for him, and the cold evening breeze blew the worried woman's face red. Liang Dong walked over, hugged her and said, "What are you doing here?"

"Oh my God, are you alright?" said Christine, crying. After receiving the call that her husband had been shot, she kept hiding in the toilet, crying silently, taking on all this alone, without alarming a pair of children in the slightest!

Liang Dong let Christine grope around in a daze, and whispered comfortingly: "I'm fine." ”

It wasn't until she confirmed that her husband was okay that Christine was completely relieved, and only then did she think of Liang Dong's partner: "What about Charlie?"

"Charlie is fine!" Liang Dong held Christine's hands and whispered, "He's in the hospital, it's fine, how are the children?"

"I sent them to Gilroy's house, and they were fine, they didn't know anything!" Christine handled properly.

(End of chapter)