Chapter 15 The Darkness Under the Sun
Green tropical broad-leaved plants conceal this row of wooden houses, with streams flowing by, and wooden houses built on ancient trees with lush branches that require several people to embrace, which is really like coming to a fairy tale world.
After Deputy Commander Liu sent Lu Zheng and others to this vacation house, he said goodbye. The one who took over the hospitality of the Republic was a beautiful young woman named Yu Bu, called Yu Ke, a Shan tribe, and she took over. It was supposed that it was because the girl Yu Bu was in a resting place to take care of her.
Lu Zheng knew that the names and naming habits of Shan people were different in different regions. Some areas had no surnames, and some areas had been influenced by the Chinese for many years, and their names were the same as those of the Han people. As for the Shan people in Guobang, they were deeply influenced by the Han people and were also Yubu, who once made a revolution with the Burmese Communist Party. I think the name might have been changed by himself later.
After hearing Deputy Commander Liu's introduction, Yu Ke was the head of the special department of the Guobang Autonomous Alliance Army, Lu Zheng immediately felt awe. The special department of the Allied Army should have come with the special department of the Communist Party of Burma. He just signed a peace agreement with the government because it was still not possible to adapt. The special department, generally speaking, is naturally an elite armed force that assassinated the enemy's main character and his own traitors in the enemy-occupied area. Comrade Yu Ke looked at the face of an ordinary beautiful minority girl, but he was not a simple person.
When Deputy Commander Liu left, he whispered beside Lu Zheng, "Don't think Comrade Yu Ke is just twenty-five years old, but in fact he has been in the army for ten years. When she first joined the army, she joined the Red Guard, the predecessor of the special department. She was young and brave and fierce. She married Commander Zhang, the second person in charge of the Guobang armed forces at that time. After a government army encirclement and suppression, Commander Zhang died, so Captain Yu Ke's position in the Guobang army has always been very special.
A ten-year old revolution? Lu Zheng couldn't help but look at Yu Ke again. No, his short brows were similar to the short hair of a female student in the Republic of China era, beautiful eyebrows and eyes, gray cloth clothes with delicate figures, white socks and black cloth shoes, and simplicity also had an indescribable taste. Perhaps, it was the pursuit of ideals and the beauty of truth.
After Deputy Commander Liu left, Yu Ke led Lu Zheng and the other two to visit this small cabin, introducing the environment here, the hot spring house and the location of the mud and sand bath.
Yu Ke's voice was a little sandy, but it was a different sound.
When he followed the path covered by green banana leaves to the fairy tale tree hut, Lu Zheng smiled and said, "You must spend the night on the tree today." Then, he glanced at the corner of his eyes at Junko Kagawa, looking at the tree house with curiosity and envy. Lu Zheng said, "Forget it, Junko, you are sleeping on the tree tonight."
Junko Kagawa shook her head quickly and said, "No, no, brother should go to bed."
Yu Ke said, "The wooden house looks small, but it is very spacious inside, with three bedrooms. It's okay for you three to sleep on it."
Somehow, Lu Zheng heard Comrade Yu Ke’s tone and felt a little cold. He had been like this since he first met. I don’t know why he had an objection to him when he first met. Maybe she had this personality? Maybe she was thinking too much.
Du Xiaohu shook his head and said, "I can't get used to sleeping, I'm afraid of falling off." He pointed to a nearby wooden house and said, "I'll sleep here tonight." Of course, it's because sleeping in this hut, you can guard the surroundings of the tree house at night. Although it seems, there are no safety issues that need to be paid attention to.
Accompanied by Yu Ke, Lu Zheng and others had dinner in the restaurant. Lu Zheng said that he would go to the hot springs by himself. Although Yu Ke had introduced hot spring water to the tree house, he could soak in a wooden barrel, but Lu Zheng felt that it was still comfortable to soak in the hot spring house.
Yu Ke said yes lightly, but Lu Zheng clearly felt that there was something indescribable in her eyes when she looked at her, as if it was a look of disgust.
Sitting in the hot spring pool, the steaming hot and the entire wooden house was covered with white steam. Lu Zheng thought about why Comrade Yu Ke had an objection to him? He did not do anything rude. He also knew the customs and habits of the Shan people. He did not violate the taboos. Moreover, she lived and fought with the Han people and the Burmese Communist Party all year round. She should not care too much about national customs, right?
Just as I was thinking about it, there were tiny footsteps outside the wooden house. Then, the wooden door without a latch was pushed open, as if someone had walked in.
Lu Zheng was leaning against the edge of the pond, his head leaning against the cork. The white towel covered his eyes and closed his eyes to rest. He didn't get up when he heard the footsteps, and asked, "Hu Zi?"
Lu Zheng knew that Hu Zi was standing guard for him outside the hot spring house.
No one responded, and then there was a rumbling sound. Someone went into the water. Lu Zheng was stunned and lifted up the white towel and looked up. He was stunned. He saw a pair of beautiful girls approaching him in the mist. He could vaguely see that they were not wearing a thread, revealing their snow-white bodies. The two beautiful girls looked very similar, and they could not even tell each other. They should be twins. Depending on their age, they were only thirteen or fourteen years old, or even twelve or twelve or twelve or twelve.
When Lu Zheng was surprised, the two beautiful girls had already arrived beside him and snuggled up to him. Only then did Lu Zheng realize that he quickly jumped out of the pool, grabbed the bath towel and wrapped it around his waist, but he also wanted to get a glimpse, afraid that he had already left in front of these two beauties.
He was angry and embarrassed, and Lu Zheng's face also sank, saying, "What are you doing?" He turned around and wanted to walk out.
Who knew that he heard a tender voice: "Sir, don't leave." His tone was very miserable, as if he was about to cry.
Lu Zheng turned around and saw two little beauties swimming to the edge of the pool, showing a pair of timid heads. The little beauties who called him stopped her big eyes soaked in tears, and looked at him with tears in tears. The other little beauties seemed not good at speaking Mandarin, and in a dialect he could not understand, he hurriedly asked the girl who could speak Mandarin. The girl turned around and communicated with her a few words, and the little beauties who could not speak Mandarin began to wipe their tears.
Seeing their pitiful appearance, Lu Zheng slowly stopped and said, "It's okay, I will work with Deng Sankun, you Commander Deng, you two are very good, but I'm not used to it."
The little beauty who could speak Mandarin burst into tears and wiped her tears and said, "My father will be beaten to death. He owes a lot of gambling debts."
Lu Zheng was dazed, but the thing in the old society in China was staged before his eyes.
Lu Zheng thought for a while and said, "It's okay, I'll tell Deng Sankun that your father will be fine."
The little beauty who could speak Mandarin shook her head with tears in her eyes and said, "It won't be okay to pay back the debt. The commander's adjutant said, if we can please you, he will help my father pay off the debt, and will also share the land to us, asking us to live in a big house. My mother will not have to be beaten every day."
Lu Zheng was stunned again. It turned out that their father did not owed Deng Sankun the money, so he could not solve it himself. After all, Deng Sankun was not a creditor. He helped others pay off their debts for no reason. Even if he had to do it due to his own face, he would find the value of the two girls to compensate afterwards.
After thinking about it, Lu Zheng asked: "How old are you? Are you Guobang tribe? Deng Sankun often looks like this? He often asks girls to accompany customers?"
The little beauty who could speak Mandarin shook her head and said, "I don't know, I don't know anything. It was the commander who sent someone to pick us up. My sister and I will be twelve in the New Year. We are Shan people."
The Chinese New Year is only twelve years? Lu Zheng shook his head helplessly. In the deserted war-torn place, the poor people who encounter such tragic encounters are probably not just this. However, the two girls naturally don’t understand anything, and probably don’t understand what a man or a woman means. They have been living in the lower class and will not have any thoughts like equality.
After thinking about it, Lu Zheng said, "Then it happens. After I went out, I said I like you two very much, so we pretended that something happened." Seeing the two little beauties in a daze, I sighed in my heart. I really didn't understand it. I said, "Anyway, I'll sit for a while and think you two are with me. If someone asks you what we do, you will say I'm very happy to accompany you." In fact, as long as I help you make up for the lie, how could anyone ask them all the things?
As he spoke, Lu Zheng threw two small bath towels by the pond to them and said, "Put it on, but don't come out." These two small bath towels were supposed to be wrapped in them.
Both little beauties were very obedient. They wrapped their bath towels in the pool and looked at Lu Zheng foolishly.
Lu Zheng sat on the bamboo chair next to him for more than twenty minutes before he got up and said, "You can change your clothes and come out after I go out."
Lu Zheng didn't say anything, and the two little beauties kept silent, and they nodded obediently at this time.
Lu Zheng came to the outside room and changed into his clothes. When he saw the small colorful ethnic costumes hanging on the clothes hanger next to him and two pairs of cute shoes and socks on the ground, Lu Zheng sighed in his heart. He was also a normal man. If he wanted to say that this temptation was quite great, in this wasteland, it seemed that there was no moral constraints and he could do whatever he wanted.
After leaving the hot spring house, Hu Zi came up to meet him, scratching his head and giggling foolishly.
Lu Zheng said helplessly: "I'm not that kind of person." But he stayed in it for a long time, and this was not convincing.
"Where is Comrade Yu Ke?" Lu Zheng added accent when he said the word "comrade". Now he finally knew why Yu Ke was a little hostile to him. He thought that what was happening now was what he asked for.
Du Xiaohu pointed to a wooden house not far away and said, "She is there."
Lu Zheng nodded and guessed that she would definitely monitor her side, so she sat in the hot spring room until now.
The wooden house covered by banana leaves should be able to observe the situation outside well. When Lu Zheng came to the wooden house, Yu Ke was already ready to welcome him.
"They are very good." Lu Zheng nodded as if very satisfied, turned a blind eye to the dissatisfaction hidden in Yu Ke's eyes, and said, "Tell Deng Sankun, don't ask them to accompany others, I will come to see them in the future." I think after this sentence was passed, the two little girls could live a normal life, and maybe they still live in a big house.
As for Yu Ke, he should think that he was the same as the officials of the Shangben of the Celestial Kingdom who were so shameless that he was like a feudal society. Then she could do it.
Yu Ke nodded silently and said, "Don't worry, I will take good care of them." From her expression, she should be very sympathetic to the two little girls' experiences.
Only then did Lu Zheng remember that he didn't know their names, but it didn't matter.
He didn't want to talk to Comrade Yu Ke anymore, nodded to her and said, "Let's do it, I'm back."
Yu Ke hesitated for a moment, chased after two steps, and said, "Sir, can you send them to the mainland to school."
Lu Zheng knew that in the upper class families of Guobang, many children were studying in southern Yunnan, but the two of them should forget it. Isn’t the family messy enough? Wave your hand and said, “There is no need for this?”
When she turned around and left, she saw a faint anger at the corner of Yu Ke's eyes. It was thought that she felt that she had already done this. If she could take two girls to study in the mainland, it would be a kind of compensation. Who knew that she was not a thing and had no sympathy for the two girls, but was just venting her desire for the beast.
Back at the wooden house on the tree and stepping on the creaking wooden boards, Lu Zheng thought about the blame and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Junko Kagawa, who was wearing a pink kimono, was kneeling at the low table to make tea. Lu Zheng walked over and sat cross-legged opposite her. There was a window in this room and you could see the lush forest outside.
"Chunzi, don't go back to China, go to Beidouxing to take up a job." Lu Zheng took the small teacup handed over by Junzi Kagawa and drank it all in one go.
Junko Kagawa was stunned for a moment, hesitated for a while, and finally nodded, saying, "Okay, when Beidouxing acquired the port company, he talked to me, but I rejected it. Then I will talk about it again."
Lu Zheng had no choice but to be a sister who was really blindly following her own company. She refused to go back and went back to the company, but she didn't ask why, and asked her to go there, and she agreed.
Lu Zheng said: "Don't you ask me why I asked you to go?"
Junko Kagawa smiled calmly and said, "You won't harm me. Do you want me to help you check things?"
Lu Zheng drank the second small cup handed over by Junko Kagawa, and thought for a while and said, "Beidouxing Group is actually my company. I am the largest shareholder and owns more than 90% of the shares."
Junko Kagawa was obviously surprised and said, "I heard that the total value of Beidou Star Group is several hundred million?"
Lu Zheng smiled and said, "Why, I don't look like a billionaire?"
Junko Kagawa shook her head and said, "I just didn't expect it." She smiled playfully when she said this, "I didn't expect that my Onisan is a big chaebol."
Lu Zheng also laughed and thought, "You are very good at finance. After that, you will be the deputy director of finance first and be familiar with the company's situation. In short, remember that this company belongs to your brother, so you have yours. Please help me watch it." In fact, this is a bit of a joke. With Kagawa Junko's professional ethics, even if she doesn't have this relationship, she will work diligently.
Junko Kagawa nodded slightly and said seriously: "Kunko will work hard."
Lu Zheng smiled and stood up. When he walked out to pass by Junko Kagawa, he pressed her shoulder to show encouragement.
Chapter completed!