At 10:42 pm on December 5th, Wei Ran and Tao Canhua finally cleaned the second floor of the study apartment to meet Meixiang's standards.

After checking the time, Meixiang switched to Japanese and said apologetically to Yumi beside her, "Yumi, I made you laugh."

"It doesn't matter." Yumei shook her head gently but didn't say much.

"How about coming downstairs with me?" Mei Xiang continued to ask, but did not tell the reason.

Hearing this, Youmei nodded obediently without asking the reason.

"You two go back to your room and change your clothes," Mei Xiang told Wei Ran and Tao Canhua with a cold face, "and then go to the basement to reflect."

After saying that, Meixiang stood up, took Youmi and Jasmine downstairs and walked into the storage room.

Soon after, Wei Ran and Tao Canhua, who had changed into clean clothes, also walked in.

"go in"

Mei Xiang still said with a cold face, "Since you two want to fight, you can have a good fight inside. It's best to kill one of them. If both of them are dead, I will be quiet. Jasmine, cut off the electricity in the basement, and then turn off the electricity in the basement."

The entrance is locked."

"yes"

Jasmine responded expressionlessly, bent down and pulled out a wooden board from under a table that was large enough to cover the entrance, then opened the drawer and took out a padlock as big as a mooncake.

Wei Ran and Tao Canhua looked at each other, and then walked obediently along the steps into the dark basement.

Without waiting for the two of them to reach the end, Jasmine, at Mei Xiang's signal, covered the entrance and exit with a wooden board that was half the size of a door panel, and then used the door bolts that came with the board and the surrounding bolts.

The holes were pinned together and locked with the big lock.

"Miss Yumei"

Meixiang took the key from Jasmine and handed it directly to Yumi. At the same time, she said in Japanese, "You will keep the key. It is up to you to decide when to let them out. Please forgive their recklessness."

After a moment of hesitation, Yumi finally took the copper key. She finally realized that whether she was cleaning the second floor just now or closing the small dark room now, to be honest, they were all done for her to see. As for the purpose,

, it’s just that I’m worried that I’ll get angry with the two unlucky guys below, or rather, I’m worried that I’ll get angry with Wei Ran.

Thinking of this, Yumei actually envied Wei Ran in the basement. But at the same time, she secretly shook her head helplessly.

Originally, she planned to go to the basement to take a look tonight, but under the current situation, it was obviously impossible.

After a brief period of disappointment, Youmei felt that this was not bad. Although she was a little regretful that she could not go to the basement tonight, she happened to take this rare opportunity to go to Wei Ran and Tao Canhua's room.

"Sister Meixiang, I can keep the key, but when to let them out, it's up to..."

"Lock them up for at least one night."

Meixiang said with a bit of hatred, "As for when they will be released, it depends on when sister Youmei will forgive them for their rudeness."

"I have forgiven them." Yumei gently held Meixiang's hand, "Then just lock her up for one night and let her out early tomorrow morning."

"Then... then just listen to sister Youmei." Meixiang sighed, "Let's go upstairs and rest."

"Okay" Yumi nodded obediently.

"Turn off the power downstairs," Meixiang deliberately told Jasmine in Japanese, obviously expressing her attitude.

Jasmine glanced helplessly at the locked entrance to the basement, hesitated for a moment, and finally opened the electrical box on the wall and disconnected the electric switch inside.

"Lock the door to the storage room to prevent someone from secretly turning on the switch for them." Mei Xiang continued to instruct in Japanese quite seriously.

Jasmine gritted her teeth, finally locked the door and handed the key to Meixiang.

He handed the key to Yumi, who hesitated for a moment and finally took the second key.

After Meixiang continued to apologize, she arrived on the third floor. After returning to her room, Yumi threw away the two keys in her hand, with a contemptuous sneer in her mouth, and silently cursed an idiot.

After finishing the washing work leisurely, Youmei lay on the bed and waited patiently for the time to pass. However, she had no idea that in the basement, Wei Ran and Tao Canhua were already lying on the sofa next to the stage.

, fell asleep one step earlier than her.

She didn't even know that in the middle of the night, two large packages of leaflets had already left the apartment in Walker's car along with Tang Juechen's body.

At this time, in the dark streets of the Japanese Concession, there were some vendors, coolies, and even middle school students who were busy working during the day. They were holding the distributed leaflets and paste in groups of two in the cold winter night.

Tong skillfully used those articles about resisting Japan and saving the country to stick them firmly on those sun-loving big-character posters on the streets, as well as in some alleys, on street light poles, in front of movie theaters, and even on the gates of Zhongyuan Company.

At half past one in the night, Youmei left her room again, walked quietly to the first floor, and first pried open Tao Canhua's door.

Using the beam of a flashlight, Yumei searched the room carefully. Unfortunately, although there were many things in this room, most of them were various traditional Chinese musical instruments and books that she could not understand at all.

Calligraphy.

Unwilling to give up, she took some photos of the reduced calligraphy scores. After Yumei left the room, she pried open the door of Wei Ran's room.

However, when she saw the bottle of aphrodisiac and kidney-tonifying medicine and the romance-themed newspaper on the bedside table, she could not help but subconsciously feel a slight pain in her fingers.

After a moment's hesitation, she finally took out her gloves from her pocket, put them on, and rummaged through every cabinet and drawer.

Unfortunately, after rummaging around, the only thing she found was a small PPK pistol pressed under the pillow, and the rest were more astringent information stuffed all over the room.

Leaving Wei Ran's room with a gloomy look on her face, Yumei carefully opened the door of the storage room, and then carefully lay down on the locked wooden board.

Although she couldn't hear it very clearly, she could still barely hear the snoring one after another. After a moment of hesitation, she got up and walked to the door, opened the electrical box and closed the switch.

When she lay down on the wooden board again, which had already let out light, she also heard the bewildered conversation between Wei Ran and Tao Canhua.

After getting up and leaving the storage room, Yumi returned to her room on the third floor without even locking the door.

In the blink of an eye, the next morning, it was already after seven o'clock when Yumi got up. This was definitely an early rise in the past, but for the members of the Chunhua Opera Troupe in the study apartment, they had already had breakfast.

They were all in the banquet hall on the second floor, starting to practice dancing to the piano music played by Qiushi.

After washing up slowly and changing her clothes, Yumei then went downstairs and handed the key to the basement to Jasmine with a reserved look. She opened the wooden board leading to the basement. Immediately afterwards, she saw Wei Ran and

Tao Canhua ran out in no particular order and each got into the bathroom.

Suppressing her smile, Yumi turned around and went up to the second floor. At the same time, she secretly thought about how to go to the basement and check Jasmine and Qiushi's room on the second floor.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the young people who had just met at the dance yesterday also arrived at the study apartment on time. Under the guidance of Mei Xiang and Jasmine, they began to learn the foxtrot in earnest to the piano music played by Qiushi.

Yumi, who was watching in the living room on the second floor, was also secretly remembering the identities of these dancing students. From what she knew, these young students seemed to be the children of businessmen, and a considerable number of them were even the children of Japanese expatriates.

Not only that, even Meixiang’s teachings are repeated in Japanese from time to time in order to facilitate understanding.

It was from these details that Yumi couldn't help but start to wonder if they were looking in the wrong direction.

Just when she was secretly shaken, Second Sister You also sent someone to bring Mei Xiang's car back, and also sent a cake said to be brought back by her man from Peking as a thank you gift.

Before Wei Ran, who still had palm prints on his face, could send the driver away, a motorcycle drove into the yard.

Immediately afterwards, Yumei, who was at the window on the second floor, saw Wei Ran running into the building. Then she heard the messy footsteps and saw Wei Ran running upstairs.

Perhaps the lesson learned last night was profound enough, but Wei Ran didn't dare to look in her direction this time. He just walked quickly to the edge of the banquet hall and waved to Mei Xiang, who was instructing the students on their movements.

.

"What's wrong?" Meixiang asked in a low voice as Wei Ran took two steps toward the living room. Not far away, Yumei, who was holding a tea cup, also secretly pricked up her ears.

"Mr. Volker's men came and asked if Volker was here. He said he hadn't gone back since last night."

Wei Ran paused and continued to ask, "It was Walker who sent the geisha back last night. I was wondering if the two of them were busy. Do we need to cover for Mr. Walker?"

"What kind of cover are you using?" Mei Xiang waved her hand impatiently, "Let him go to the Golden Boat Dance Hall to ask, unless there is really something important."

"Okay," Wei Ran responded happily, turned around and ran downstairs again.

Soon, the man on the motorcycle of the German trading company downstairs was also sent away by Wei Ran, and Mei Xiang continued to teach the students how to dance seriously with Jasmine.

Yumei, on the other hand, felt a little bad premonition. Meixiang and others didn't know about Walker, but she knew clearly what the Jew had done.

Thinking of this, she couldn't sit still anymore, so she simply got up and returned to the third floor. After locking the door, she emptied the suitcase. Then she shook the generator with one hand, pressed the button of the radio station with the other, and quickly sent a message.

Short telegram.

Before she could get a reply, the roar of the motorcycle engine came from downstairs again. When she opened the window and walked to the balcony, she immediately saw the German who had been here half an hour ago driving again.

The motorcycle drove into the yard and then ran into the building.

When she hurriedly closed her suitcase and left the room, the piano music on the second floor had stopped. Then, she heard Mei Xiang ask in surprise, "Missing? Why is she missing?"

"My meal..."

"Cousin, you ask in German, his Chinese sounds too hard to listen to," Mei Xiang said.

"Why is Volker missing?" Wei Ran immediately asked in slightly anxious German.

"I went to the Golden Boat Dance Hall and found the geisha he sent back yesterday."

The German guy who smelled of body odor said anxiously, "But she said that Walker went back after sending her to her yesterday and gave her his business card."

"So he didn't go back to the foreign bank?" Wei Ran asked, "Did he go somewhere to have fun?"

"impossible"

The German guy said firmly, "We have a very important business to discuss with... a business partner today. Mr. Volker has been working hard on this matter for a long time. Even if he goes to find a woman, he will arrive on time."

Came back."

"But he hasn't been to our place since he left yesterday," Wei Ran said, and translated the conversation to Mei Xiang.

"Someya, yes, Mr. Someya."
To be continued...