"Lele shouldn't be late," Dong Qiangqiang said in a deep voice, staring in the direction of the station, "She has always had a good sense of time."
"Hey, Old Dong, you have good eyesight. Look over there..." Lei Lanting pointed in one direction and murmured, "Is it her?"
Looking in the direction of Lei Lanting's finger, Dong Qiangqiang saw a person slowly walking towards them at a street corner. Judging from the height, she seemed to be a girl, but the person was wearing a pair of black oversized pants that covered half of her face. Sunglasses, can't see face clearly.
"Lele!" Lei Lanting didn't see clearly, but he shouted and ran over. Dong Qiangqiang also hurriedly greeted him.
When the man heard the shout, he looked towards Lei Lanting and waved his arms slightly, as if in response.
It was indeed Tong Lele.
Lei Lanting ran to Tong Lele panting: "Beauty, I thought you wouldn't come today."
Tong Lele smiled awkwardly, but did not take off her sunglasses. She said in a weak voice: "I'm sorry that I felt a little uncomfortable this morning and got up late. I kept you waiting for so long."
Just when Lei Lanting was about to say a few more words of concern, Dong Qiangqiang pulled his clothes behind him. Lei Lanting subconsciously turned around and asked, "Why are you pulling my clothes?"
"Lele, it's getting late, let's go in quickly." Dong Qiangqiang ignored Lei Lanting and directly suggested to Tong Lele, "Get the money as soon as possible."
"Okay." Tong Lele agreed, lowered her head and walked quickly towards the court gate.
Lei Lanting, who was following her, asked Dong Qiangqiang in a low voice: "Why did you grab me just now?"
"Can you be a little discerning? Don't ask me anything." Dong Qiangqiang lowered his voice and said, "Don't you notice that there seems to be something wrong with Lele's cheek?"
"Ah? What's wrong?" Lei Lanting was stunned for a second when he heard this.
Dong Qiangqiang tapped the top of his cheekbone with his right index finger, indicating to Lei Lanting.
Lei Lanting took a sneak peek at Tong Lele while helping Tong Lele push open the iron door of the court, and found that what Dong Qiangqiang said was indeed right.
The three of them climbed up the steps. Lei Lanting whispered, "Do you also feel that her cheekbones are blue?"
Dong Qiangqiang nodded heavily.
Lei Lanting made a move to pull Tong Lele's arm, but Dong Qiangqiang quickly grabbed him and shook his head.
"Aren't you curious?" Lei Lanting couldn't help but ask.
"If she wanted to say it, she would definitely tell us. She didn't say that we'd better not ask."
After the three people and the guard at the door each showed their passports, they filed into the court hall.
Mueller was not present, and his attorney was solely responsible for all subsequent matters.
Müller's brother-in-law Sergei Ivanovich also came and sat alone in a corner of the hall.
After waiting for more than 20 minutes, a staff member led the five people into an office. Everyone saw the female judge on the day of the trial again and greeted each other politely.
The judge confirmed the new distribution plan with everyone again, and everyone had no objections. The staff took out the legal documents prepared in advance and everyone signed their names solemnly.
Everyone showed their IDs to the judge in turn. When it was Tong Lele's turn, the judge took Tong Lele's passport and signaled: "Ms. Tong, please take off your sunglasses."
Tong Lele hesitated for a moment, then raised her hand and slowly took off her sunglasses. A bruise under the corner of her eye and above her cheekbone was immediately revealed.
Lei Lanting glanced at Dong Qiangqiang in surprise, and Dong Qiangqiang nodded knowingly.
"What's going on?" The judge handed her passport to the staff aside and asked, pointing to her bruises.
"I accidentally...knocked it." Tong Lele lowered her eyes.
The judge nodded to the staff, who walked out of the office with the legal documents and certificates filled out by everyone.
"Please wait outside the door. The staff will notify you after the processing is completed soon," the judge ordered.
Everyone filed out, and Mueller's lawyer strolled away to make a phone call, apparently to report the latest developments to Mueller. Sergey returned to his previous seat and sat alone without saying a word.
Lei Lanting couldn't restrain his curiosity and asked with concern: "Lele, how did you get hurt?"
"When I was going down the stairs, I accidentally stepped on the air and hit my face on the wall." Tong Lele said softly.
"I have domestic safflower oil and Yunnan Baiyao, which is effective in treating bruises. I can give it to you in the afternoon." Dong Qiangqiang's concern was more pragmatic.
Seeing that Dong Qiangqiang was doing something good, Lei Lanting glared at him dissatisfied, and added unwillingly: "I have an external medicine for treating bumps made by Bayer in Germany. I can give it to you at noon."
Bayer of Germany is the leader in the German pharmaceutical industry and is also a Fortune 500 company in the world. Everyone knows it. Lei Lanting deliberately emphasized the word "Germany's Bayer" very hard. After saying this, he glanced at Dong Qiangqiang proudly, which meant that you have to sit in the back row to show your courtesy.
Dong Qiangqiang smiled bitterly and shook his head. Tong Lele bowed slightly and forced out a smile: "Thank you."
Seeing Tong Lele's skin injury, Lei Lanting felt that most of the joy of getting the money was washed away. The court staff had not completed all the procedures, so he walked in circles in the hall gloomily.
Taking advantage of Lei Lanting's absence, Dong Qiangqiang approached Tong Lele: "Your injury..."
"Huh?" Tong Lele didn't expect Dong Qiangqiang to ask about her injury, and couldn't help but be stunned.
"You can deceive Lei Lanting, but you can't deceive me." Dong Qiangqiang tilted his head wisely and looked at the trace of cyan exposed on the edge of his sunglasses, "Isn't your injury caused by a knock?"
"What do you mean?" Although Tong Lele was wearing sunglasses, she still unconsciously avoided Dong Qiangqiang's gaze.
"Based on my experience, you should have been injured."
Hearing Dong Qiangqiang's guess, Tong Lele suddenly fell silent.
"Who did this?" Seeing Tong Lele's acquiescence, Dong Qiangqiang took a step closer, "Do I know him?"
"Last night at around nine o'clock, I went downstairs to throw out the trash. When I turned around to go upstairs, someone suddenly pushed me behind me and I hit the wall. When I looked back, a piece of clothing was covered It reached my head, and when I tried to take off (the clothes), I was kicked several times." Tong Lele looked embarrassed, "But I didn't see who hit me in the end."
"Then did you call the police?"
Tong Lele nodded: "But there are no surveillance cameras on the street where I live, and there are no witnesses at night. The police came and took the confession and left."
"Can you guess who might have done it?"
"I can't think of it." Tong Lele shook her head. She suddenly remembered something and said hurriedly, "Just know this and don't tell Lei Lanting."
"Then you should be more careful." Dong Qiangqiang warned uneasily, "Although Germany is relatively safe, you still have to pay attention to safety."
It's always a pleasure to be cared about, and Tong Lele feels much better. The two were talking quietly when a staff member walked out of an office and shouted: "Come in No. 003, No. 004, No. 005, No. 006 and No. 007."
Everyone hurriedly entered the room, and the staff returned the certificates and documents to everyone, and said at the same time: "The money should be transferred to your bank account before 18:00 this afternoon, please check carefully. In addition, No. 005, 006 and 007 The money will be remitted to 007's bank account. If anyone has any questions, please contact us as soon as possible. I would like to remind you that this money belongs to the inheritance, so you must go to the city's tax bureau to complete the inheritance within one month. Personal tax declaration work. If you fail to declare in time, you will be treated as tax evasion. Please keep this in mind."
Mueller's lawyer and Sergey packed up the documents and left immediately. Dong Qiangqiang and the other two took a pile of documents to a deserted part of the hall.
"How much money did we get in total?" Lei Lanting asked Dong Qiangqiang impatiently while flipping through the documents.
"Before tax, it should be 60,000 marks, 12,270 Swedish kronor, 20,240 Danish kroner and 540 Norwegian kronor." Dong Qiangqiang quickly mentally calculated, "and transfer it to Lele's account. The average per person is 20,000 marks, 4,090 Swedish kronor, 6,746 Danish kroner and 180 Norwegian kroner.”
"Hey, this is much less than before." Lei Lanting let out a long sigh gloomily.
(Special thanks for this chapter: Yunya Qi, Little Ostrich, Zhao Clan, Jin Wanliang 2019, p618’s recommendation vote)
