June 29th was a Monday, and it was also the big day when "Sasha" was pushed into the operating room for pacemaker implantation surgery.
On the same day, Wei Ran also boarded a flight to the United States alone, accompanied by Suisui and several girls.
In the past few days, Anfisa helped Liu Iwan's family do a set of paternity tests, and by the way, through Mr. Kajik, she chatted with the surgeon who was going to perform surgery on Sasha.
According to the report given by Anfisa, Ivan Liu and his wife Katyusha are indeed the biological parents of the two children, and the little boy named Sasha does have congenital heart disease.
After the investigation has reached this point, it can basically be determined that Liu Yiwan is not lying with a high probability. As for the remaining small probability situations, his neighbors will slowly dig out it later.
After a long voyage, when Wei Ran's flight finally landed at Philadelphia Airport after several transfers, Zha Xifeng and his daughter Daofeng were already waiting for him at the airport.
"Isn't Sister Suisui here?" the girl named Daofeng asked while standing on tiptoes and looking in the direction behind Wei Ran.
"Why are you here by yourself this time?" Zha Xifeng asked a little later, also in Chinese, "Where are the beautiful girls around you?"
"They've been a little busy at work recently, after all, it's almost summer vacation."
While Wei Ran expressed his apology, he did not forget to hand over the gift he was carrying, "This is the gift Suisui asked me to bring you."
"Thanks!"
Before Daofeng finished speaking, he had already accepted the small gift from Wei Ran. At the same time, Zha Xifeng also received Wei Ran's suitcase.
"Let's go home first"
Zha Xifeng greeted Wei Ran and said, "Miley is already preparing lunch. After eating, you can get rid of the jet lag."
"It's all at your discretion"
Wei Ran followed the father and daughter outside the airport and asked curiously, "So your business is all in Philadelphia?"
“The headquarters of Dongfeng Demining Company is in Philadelphia”
Cha Xifeng explained in an easy-going manner, "As for gun shops and shooting ranges, there are branches in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Harrisburg. Channing's auction company is also in Philadelphia, but unfortunately, he and his wife recently went on a business trip to France.
, I’m afraid I won’t have the chance to see it this time.”
"What about VN15?" Weiran continued to ask, following the topic, "Their headquarters is also in Philadelphia?"
"in New York"
Zha Xifeng explained with a smile, "At least they are still in New York, just one street away from the CPUSA headquarters, but the rent there is too high, so they have long been ready to change places, especially the late Zach
The gentleman is willing to give his real estate to VN15 for use, and those people are even more eager to move the headquarters to Allentown."
"What about you? You also go to school in Philadelphia?" Wei Ran turned to Knife Bee and asked.
"I'm in the far, cold land of Michigan, Northern Michigan University."
Daofeng spread his hands and explained, "I thought Sister Suisui and the others would also come, so I took leave to fly back. I also bought two sets of mahjong tiles and a large box of hot pot base ingredients in advance."
"They will come to play with you next time there is a chance." Wei Ran apologized again.
He knew that when this girl went to Kazan as a guest, she was often taken by Suisui and others to play mahjong, sing and cook hot pot. She was obviously addicted to those happy days - just like Inuma.
Same.
Chatting all the way, Wei Ran followed the father and daughter into a commercial vehicle in the parking lot, and let Dao Bee drive the car towards the city.
However, when the car drove slower and slower as the three of them chatted, and finally stopped completely due to a traffic jam, Wei Ran noticed that more and more signs with Chinese characters appeared around him.
"I forgot to tell you that my home is in Chinatown in Philadelphia."
As Knife Bee spoke, she did not forget to put on a cap, a mask and sunglasses for herself.
"Your family lives in Chinatown?"
Wei Ran asked in surprise, and then he finally understood why this girl named Daofeng was so unlucky at playing mahjong when she was a guest in Kazan.
"When I first came to the United States, I settled in Chinatown."
Zha Xifeng recalled with emotion, "I have developed feelings after living here for a long time, and I don't want to leave here."
While he was talking, the traffic started to move slowly again, and after Wei Ran turned the car several times, he saw a Chinese-style archway with "Philadelphia Chinatown" written on it.
Looking at the Chinese character signs almost side by side on both sides, Wei Ran discovered that Daofeng, who was driving, had also raised the windows.
Seemingly noticing the strange look in Wei Ran's eyes, Daofei continued to drive the car slowly while explaining, "I participated in a local talk show competition during the vacation before college, and then I became a slightly famous talk show.
As an actor, I also got into some minor troubles that didn't matter."
“She openly mocked the tougher gangs in Chinatown at the game.”
Zha Xifeng couldn't help but explain, "Especially because she is a mixed-race child with a more difficult bloodline."
"Isn't it okay to say anything on a talk show?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.
"That's true, but unless you stay on stage all the time," Knife Bee muttered, "I'm not wrong."
"I'm starting to wonder what you said on the talk show," Wei Ran asked with a smile.
"You better not know" Knife Bee grinned, obviously not wanting to become a topic of small talk.
"She joked that the Harder Gang has opened countless muzhiming trails in Chinatown, but they are only used to steal tourists' wallets and mobile phones and organize Harder girls to stand on the streets. She also reassured Americans that she ensured that the trees in Chinatown
I can’t speak the more difficult language.”
Zha Xifeng had no intention of keeping her daughter's secret secret, and said angrily, "Although she did not say anything wrong, she did offend the local Yue Di Gang."
"After all this, you still plan to live here?" Wei Ran asked, dumbfounded.
"Am I afraid of them?" Zha Xifeng snorted disdainfully, obviously having enough confidence.
Just at this time, Daofeng also pulled over the car. He glanced out the window subconsciously, and Wei Ran couldn't help but feel happy. There was a shop facing the street. The shop floor was not big, but the signboard on the door lintel was divided into three lines.
, the words "Dongfeng Gun Shop" are written in simplified Chinese characters and English respectively, and next to it is a tea shop with a Chinese character sign.
For Chinese people, the word "eastwind" has a special meaning. Similarly, for English-speaking countries, "eastwind" also carries a special "chill" of "bitter".
In other words, "Dongfeng Gun Store" written in English would be more appropriate to translate as "Linfeng Gun Store".
"That's my house, on the second floor of the gun shop." Before finishing his words, Dao Bee had already pulled on the handbrake and pushed open the car door.
"Get off the car," Zha Xifeng greeted with a smile on her face.
Following the father and daughter out of the car and walking into the small wooden door of the gun store, Wei Ran couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. Directly opposite the door of the gun store was a counter surrounded by stacked sandbags.
, in addition to the computer used for cashiering above the counter, there is also an M60 aviation machine gun installed on the shooting rack of the helicopter cabin!
The problem is, there are not only machine guns on this shooting rack, but also an ammunition box that uses a flexible ammunition chute to feed ammunition, and a canvas shell collection bag. Especially in the ammunition chute, you can still vaguely see yellow and orange.
Bullets!
"Don't worry, it's not loaded, it's locked." Zha Xifeng's kind reminder made Wei Ran grin.
What does the so-called "not loaded, already locked" mean in other words, "when necessary, the gun can be loaded by opening the lock"?
Except for this deadly door gun, the store itself is not that big. The only row of shelves hanging on both sides are hunting clothing and other non-dangerous small items. Even the surrounding
In the glass display cabinets on the wall and hanging on the wall behind the display cabinets, there are basically various types of pistols and civilian shotguns.
Glancing at the Asian female clerk at the counter who was listening to music with headphones, Wei Ran suppressed his curiosity and followed Cha Xifeng and his daughter through a locked security door and up the stairs to the second floor.
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Compared with the cramped space on the first floor, the second floor is much more spacious, and the layout is particularly warm and has a strong Chinese style.
Especially on the table by the window, in addition to various American dishes, there are also several Vietnamese dishes and specialties from China's Yunnan Province.
“Welcome to be our guest”
Mrs. Miley, whom she had met once before, greeted her warmly in broadcaster-like Chinese, and at the same time brought a piece of braised carp to the table.
It's just...
While Wei Ran responded to the other party's greeting, he glanced at the takeaway bags at the kitchen door that had not yet been thrown away. Obviously, Mrs. Miley's cooking skills were probably as unworthy of expectations as the Katenka sisters.
Pretending that he was blind and didn't see anything, Wei Ran washed his hands at Miley's warm invitation and sat at the dining table. While tasting the dishes on the table, he gave out sincere compliments.
He had to admit that although more than half of the dishes on this table were probably takeaways, they tasted really good.
During the dinner, as half a bottle of Xifeng wine entered the stomachs of Wei Ran and Zha Xifeng, Mrs. Miley also frankly admitted that her cooking skills were really not very good, and all the dishes on the table were actually ordered takeaways.
fact.
"Actually, I'm not hiding it from you."
Wei Ran thanked Daofeng for pouring a full glass of wine for him and said with a smile, "You guys were guests at my place before, and the dishes you had for dinner a few times were all bought. Suisui and I's cooking skills are not the same.
It’s as good as you think.”
"Looks like we're tied."
Miley, whose face turned red after drinking, smiled and picked up the cup, clinking it with Wei Ran and Zha Xifeng again.
“Definitely a tie”
Wei Ran drank up the white wine in the small wine cup in one gulp, covered the cup before Knife Bee was about to pour the wine for him, and said, "You can't drink any more, Mr. Cha, Mrs. Miley, while we are all still awake,
How about we talk about Mr. Zach?"
"Of course, what do you want to know?" Miley put down her wine glass, burped and asked drunkenly.
"I plan to go see the relics and house he left behind as soon as possible," Wei Ran said straightforwardly.
In the final analysis, his main purpose of coming to the United States this time was to confirm whether the headless statue of Mazu left by the late Mr. Zak was actually the one he thought he was.
If so, then he would inevitably have to wallow in the quagmire of the Vietnam War to buy a life-saving charm for himself in this world.
If not... then of course I would quickly find a reason to sell the deal, and then go visit Gorman's American son Makar and his family.
"How about tomorrow morning?"
Miley and her husband looked at each other, thought for a moment and then promised, "I will contact Mr. Zach's lawyer later to make an appointment and take you to Allentown early tomorrow morning."
"Then tomorrow"
Wei Ran agreed happily, and Dao Feng, who was sitting opposite, also took the opportunity to pour him a glass of wine.
At the end of a sumptuous lunch, the entire bottle of Xifeng wine was consumed by Wei Ran and Zha Xifeng.
Under the arrangement of Zha Xifeng, he got into the guest room that had been prepared for him in advance. Wei Ran was not polite. After taking a bath, he covered himself with a quilt and fell asleep due to the drunkenness.
When he woke up, it was already past five o'clock the next morning. The sun had just emerged outside the window, but the streets of Chinatown were already busy.
If you just look down from the window, there doesn't seem to be much difference between here and the country. In some ways, it seems to have a more clumsy feeling of time.
Shaking his head to dispel the random thoughts in his mind, Wei Ran leaned against the window and lit a cigarette, pretending to smoke and looking at everything downstairs.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Fortunately, at least he did not find any prying eyes wherever he looked. Instead, the aroma wafting from the fried dough sticks stall diagonally across the road aroused his greed.
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After patiently finishing the cigarette held between his fingertips, he also heard rustling sounds outside the door.
After stubbing out his cigarette butts and changing into clean clothes, Wei Ran opened the door and found Knife Bee busy putting on a hat and a mask in front of the full-length mirror, obviously getting ready to go out.
"Why did you wake up so early?" Wei Ran and the other party asked the same question in unison.
"I'm going to buy breakfast"
Knife Bee was the first to answer, "We'll leave for Allentown after breakfast. What about you?"
"I've slept enough." Wei Ran smiled, "How about I go with you?"
"Of course you can, but you also have to wear a hat and a mask."
Before she finished speaking, Knife Bee had already taken off a double-sided camouflage bunny hat from the coat rack, and then took out a mask from her own bag and handed it over.
"I didn't offend anyone on the talk show," Wei Ran said with a smile while taking over the hat and mask.
"But I don't want to be photographed and posted on the Internet, and then become the rumored lover of some historian who likes to collect beautiful girls." Before Dao Bee finished speaking, he had already opened the door to the downstairs room.
My good reputation has been completely ruined...
Wei Ran muttered to himself angrily, buttoned up the bunny hat that still smelled of perfume, and then followed Knife Bee downstairs while tearing open the packaging of the mask.
Although the two of them were covering their heads very tightly, the place where they bought breakfast was actually the one across the road that aroused the greedy Weiran.
Even though it was not yet half past five, the shop behind the stall was already full of diners who had gotten up early. The lively atmosphere with dialects from all over the motherland, including the east, west, north and south, also made the air full of excitement.
The aroma of the fried dough sticks is a bit more intense.
They lined up with Knife Bee and bought enough breakfast for everyone. When the two of them returned to the second floor of the gun store, Cha Xifeng and Miley had also woken up.
While Miley and the mother-daughter duo were busy loading plates and bowls of the breakfast they bought, Zha Xifeng also walked into a small room without a door. After a while, the smell of burning incense filled the air.
Unique taste.
Curiously, he went to the door and took a look, but Wei Ran found that Zha Xifeng was worshiping respectfully towards a shrine. There was a tablet between the two electronic incense candles in the shrine, which read
However, it is the words "The spiritual position of loving father Dongfeng Dao protecting the country".
After looking at Zha Xifeng who was sincerely paying homage, Wei Ran silently returned to the living room. He had no way of commenting on the Knife Bee who ridiculed the more difficult to help in the talk show competition and Cha Xifeng at this time, just like Zha Xifeng himself didn't
It’s clear which country he belongs to.
But after all, he was concerned, and maybe that was enough.
After having a very delicious breakfast with the family, this time it was Sword Bee who was still responsible for driving. The four of them left Chinatown before six o'clock in the morning.
"Mr. Zach's lawyer will take you to the house left by Mr. Zach at eight o'clock. At nine o'clock, he will take you to the bank to see some of the collections left by Mr. Zach."
Halfway through, Mrs. Miley looked at the screen of her mobile phone and introduced today's itinerary, "Wei Ran, after you finish reading those things, do you want to meet the members of VN15?"
Looking at each other with the expectant Mrs. Miley, Wei Ran thought for a moment and then said apologetically, "Mrs. Miley, it would be better to leave the matter of meeting with the members of VN15 aside from my decision to help the late Mr. Zach.
How about finding friends?"
"makes sense"
Mrs. Miley nodded and continued to expand on the topic, "If, I mean, if you decide to help Mr. Zach find his friends and are willing to sit down and chat with the members of VN15, would you mind accepting our arrangement?
Interview?”
As if she was afraid that Weiran would misunderstand, Mrs. Miley quickly added, "It's just an interview organized by VN15 internally. We really need the support of more people, especially in a country dominated by arms dealers and warmongers."
"It would be my pleasure, Mrs. Miley."
Wei Ran agreed with a smile on his face. This kind of thing had no loss for him and it would make his trip to the United States more legitimate. Naturally, he would not refuse.
"This is also our honor, Mr. Wei Ran." Mrs. Miley said happily.
The two sides exchanged necessary politeness, and the topic became more and more casual. At about 7:40 in the morning, Knife Bee also drove the car to an intersection in downtown Allentown.
"Across the road is the building left by Mr. Zak."
After Miley waited for her daughter Blade Bee to stop the car, she lowered the window and pointed at the intersection and said, "But we have to wait for Mr. Zach's lawyer to come over before we can go in."
Looking in the direction of the other person's finger, Wei Ran couldn't help but feel happy.
This shop at the corner of the intersection is indeed a good location in a prime location. At this time, they are just across the road from the three-story house.
The location where the Knife Bee parked was a parking lot of a shopping mall. Across the road in the other direction was a gallery. And diagonally opposite, there was a small park in the middle of the street.
But look at the building itself, a three-story independent building. The top of the building is filled with 200-liter oil drums of different colors, one after another.
Of course, if these oil barrels were kept during the Vietnam War, they would have had a notorious name - "Rainbow Herbicide".
Perhaps to prove the power of that nickname, these oil barrels are all filled with dry plants.
Some are unknown trees with all their leaves, some are palms with withered leaves, some are simply a few dry corn stalks, and some even have only half a flagpole, hanging a broken American flag and an American steel helmet.
, or filled with crosses of different colors and sizes.
Slightly lower, the windows on the third floor are nothing, but the closed shutters inside the glass seem to be printed with various classic photos handed down from the Vietnam War era.
On these shutters, only Wei Ran could clearly see and recognize the famous "Saigon Shooting", "The Hardcore Girl in the Fire", and several classic photos that seemed to be of the Mekong River after Agent Orange was sprayed.
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But on the shutters on the second floor that were also closed, there were printed children whose looks could only be described as "grotesque."
On the first floor, behind the window facing the street, there are sexy photos of beautiful young girls on display, but in these huge black and white photos, the girls' hands and eyes seem to be hinting or "seduce"
Look up at the "artists" who are admiring the photos.
"Can I go down and take a look?" Wei Ran looked away and asked.
"Of course" Miley replied immediately, "We will accompany..."
"No, I'll go down and see for myself."
Wei Ran waved his hand, pushed open the car door while he was talking, got out of the car alone, crossed the crosswalk, and finally stopped in front of the display window.
As he got closer, he also noticed that there was a sign in the shape of a middle finger hanging in the window. On the "middle finger" of this sign, there was also a kind reminder written in English, "The window glass is bulletproof, why not try it?"
Let’s try to pry open the store door.”
Wei Ran smiled unconsciously and walked to the other side of the shop. This was the "main entrance" of the shop. In the glass display window on the side of the door, there were also huge photos of beautiful women hanging, and there was also a
A reminder sign that looks like a middle finger.
On the door of the store next to it, there is an English sign like "Weird Kidd's Studio", as well as a black and white upper body silhouette wearing a top hat and holding a Pentax camera, who seems to be taking pictures.
Just with this name and logo, he had reason to suspect that the owner who originally ran this store was most likely a fan of a certain Death Elementary School comic and plagiarized the inspiration for the name and logo from it.
However, when he walked to the door, he couldn't help but burst out laughing again. The door of this shop looked particularly thick, and there was also an English sign on it, "Sorry, in accordance with the will, this door has been welded shut."
, and the inside has been sealed with concrete. If you don’t believe it, just look at it→”
Looking in the direction of the red arrow on the door, at chest height, there was a small window the size of a matchbox. Slightly bending down and looking in through the small window, Wei Ran couldn't help but grin.
You can indeed see a concrete wall through this window, but you can also see on this concrete wall an animated image of a man the size of a mineral water bottle with his suit pants down to his knees and masturbating, especially the one that squirts out of the tube and falls on it.
In the protein on the ground, there are also drawings of little matchstick-sized people who seem to be struggling to escape to avoid drowning.
Behind the man, it was written in red English: "Expanding the more difficult war gave President Johnson unprecedented pleasure, but it dragged the Americans into the quagmire he created."
This Mr. Zach is quite interesting...
Wei Ran straightened up and took a closer look. It was exactly as the door said. Not only did the door have a concrete wall on the inside, but the outside was completely welded shut. The interlocking eyes were also covered with a steel plate, and the two sides were covered with steel plates.
The door frame on the side was welded very strongly and was even spray-painted after welding.
But how to get in here?
Wei Ran thought about it secretly and continued to walk around to the side of the shop.
Between here and another house, there is an open space seven or eight meters wide, in which a small private basketball court has been built.
It's a pity that this basketball court is equipped with a barbed wire fence facing the street. Inside the barbed wire fence, there are also surveillance cameras with lights on the walls of the house that belongs to Mr. Zach.
What the probe was facing was the M548 crawler transport vehicle parked in the shed at the deepest part of the open space.
Looking up at the rusty barbed wire mesh on top of the barbed wire fence, Wei Ran couldn't help but become curious about how to enter the house later.
Just at this moment, the Knife Bee on the other side of the road honked the car horn.
Subconsciously turning his head to look over, Wei Ran discovered that a white pickup truck had parked behind Knife Bee's car. At this moment, a blond woman carrying a briefcase and wearing a black suit was waving to him.
