In the lively farmyard, Mr. Chen Qi finally failed to rely on the English he remembered to communicate directly with the Carlos lawyer on the other end of the phone. The translator between the two of them was Zhao Shengli’s youngest grandson, the one who
A naval soldier named Guowei.
While the old man was talking on the phone, Wei Ran also entered the house at the suggestion of Mr. Zhao Shengli.
"Old man, what you did in this class is amazing." Wei Ran gave a thumbs up gesture again.
"Hi!" Zhao Shengli waved his hand and sighed with emotion, "Old Chen, he has too many worries in his life."
Hearing this, Wei Ran also fell silent. For him, the war only lasted four or five months, but for these veterans, sixty or seventy years had passed.
Such a long period of time may not be a relief for some of them, but more than half a century of suffering. How many of those people can think of Mr. Zhao Shengli as such?
"It's your boy"
Zhao Shengli looked at Wei Ran curiously, "You haven't been investigating these things in the past few months, have you?"
"No," Wei Ranhan replied with a smile, "It's just a coincidence, just a coincidence."
"By coincidence?" Mr. Zhao Shengli smiled, but did not ask in detail. He just sighed and said very seriously, "You kid, you have your heart."
"You have worked hard too," Wei Ran responded equally seriously.
The old man and the young man looked at each other and smiled, and they tacitly agreed not to talk about the topic related to the cap badge. On the contrary, it was Zhao Shengli's daughter-in-law, a middle-aged woman who also seemed to be a soldier, who looked at Wei thoughtfully.
Ran seems to have seen something.
Less than ten minutes later, the young man named Guowei helped Chen Qi into the house.
"I'll leave this for you to think about." Mr. Chen Qi waited for Wei Ran to put away the satellite phone and put the cap badge back into Wei Ran's palm.
"Then I'll accept it."
Wei Ran smiled and tightened his grip on the cap badge, but did not ask what the other party had talked about with the American lawyer named Carlos. And it was obvious that Mr. Chen Qi also had no intention of explaining, even this
The topic was not brought up.
In the following time, under the help of these two old men, everyone sat down around two large round tables, and Wei Ran was forced to sit next to him by Mr. Chen Qi.
The guests and hosts enjoyed the meal thoroughly. Wei Ran also drank tea instead of wine and had several drinks with the two old men. In the afternoon, when the cars that came to pick up Mr. Zhao Shengli were preparing to leave, he also said goodbye.
Standing at the entrance of the alley to say goodbye, Chen Qi's family drove their newly purchased car and followed the cars in front of them to leave this quiet and peaceful little village.
After rushing all the way back to the capital, Wei Ran found an intersection to say goodbye to Mr. Zhao Shengli and others, and then parked his car in a parking space on the roadside.
After opening the car door, Wei Ran looked above his head, then took out his satellite phone and dialed the American lawyer Carlos again.
After waiting for less than ten seconds, the call was successfully connected. Immediately afterwards, a young man said politely in Chinese with a strong Hong Kong and Taiwan accent, "Mr. Victor, I am the brother of Monk Carolisi."
Translation, Monk Carosi has been waiting for your call."
"Let Mr. Carlos talk to me directly. I have a translator here. You just need to translate my words for him." Wei Ran made a special request.
"You are waiting"
"I'm coquettish..." Wei Ran's brows twitched, but he finally swallowed back the "your uncle" that followed.
Just a few seconds later, Carlos's enthusiastic voice also appeared in the receiver, "Mr. Victor, thank you for this surprise!"
After Wei Ran deliberately waited for a moment, he responded in Chinese, "I hope my surprise did not disturb your rest."
"Although Mr. Chen's call did wake me up from my sleep, I happened to be having a nightmare at the time, so it was a good thing."
Carlo paused for a moment after speaking here, kindly leaving some time for Weiran's non-existent translator, and then continued excitedly, "Victor, Mr. Chen gave me the address, so in the near future
I will go to China, and then I would like to thank you in person."
"Mr. Carlos, forget about thanking you." Wei Ran asked with a smile, "Although we rarely communicate because of the language barrier, we are friends, aren't we?"
"You are right, Victor, we are indeed friends." Carlos laughed heartily and said, "Anyway, I will go to China soon, and you must meet my friend."
"Of course, if there is a chance, of course I want to meet."
Wei Ranhun replied nonchalantly, anyway, this year the family has already raised a flock of sheep. This one sheep is being driven, and a group of sheep is being herded. It doesn't make much difference.
After some small talk, Wei Ran used the excuses he had thought up in advance to make up a random process of finding Mr. Chen Qi, and then hung up the phone.
"Go and see Mr. Xia Chuan again when you have time."
Wei Ran muttered to himself, put away the phone and stepped on the accelerator again, followed the address Suisui sent, and drove to a building next to the school she once attended.
"Did you really buy a car?" Suisui asked in surprise after Weiran opened the door and got out of the car.
"It will be more convenient when you go home this way," Wei Ran said with a smile, "and when we leave, this car can still be used by your partners. It is much more spacious than your toy car."
"Boss dad is mighty!"
A girl with long hair who impressed Wei Ran shouted in a funny voice, "Suisui, if this car can really be driven by us, I can contribute a license plate. I just got it last month."
"Boss dad?"
"A woman can be called a boss lady, but a man can't be called a boss daddy?" The long-haired girl explained her theory proudly.
"I took advantage of this..." Wei Ran looked at Suisui with a half-smile.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The latter rolled his eyes and said unceremoniously to the girl, "I leave the matter of hanging the sign to you. Come on, come on, stand still, let me
introduce."
Under Suisui's help, Wei Ran also said hello to these people. Speaking of her partners, most of them seemed to be the girls who followed her to Inta for the first time.
There are a few young men who have never met before. Judging from the names they call each other, they are probably either someone's boyfriend or classmates from the same school or even the same major.
Not only that, after Suisui's introduction, Wei Ran was surprised to find that this group of people actually roped in their university advisors into this entrepreneurial team.
And the purpose of doing this is simple and straightforward enough. After all, their alma mater is right next to them. With such a big sheepfold, they naturally have to hold it tightly in their hands.
Enough with the pleasantries, Wei Ran followed Suisui as he walked upstairs and asked, "Where are your three little followers?"
"We are trying to decipher the secret recipe," Suisui said helplessly, "The three of them don't know what they think, but they want to decipher the milk tea formula."
"Then what?" Wei Ran looked at each other in confusion, and then looked at the weird-looking girls or boys around him.
"You'll find out later when you see for yourself"
Before Suisui finished speaking, everyone had arrived on the second floor. Far away, he saw that inside the glass door, the Katenka sisters and Lola were huddled on a sofa. In front of them,
There are no less than forty or fifty cups of milk tea on the table.
However, looking at the three girls clutching their stomachs and obviously drinking too much, you can tell that although the process of cracking the secret recipe is delicious, the result does not seem to be so satisfactory.
Selectively ignoring these three foodies, Wei Ran, accompanied by Suisui and her partners, briefly visited this small company, which was not a large one. Then, under the leadership of the long-haired girl, everyone went directly to
I walked to a nearby barbecue restaurant.
While Wei Ran came all the way to treat the girls and boys who were helping Suisui kill the sheep to a barbecue, Xia Shushi also arrived in a drizzle in a tourist city in Yunnan Province.
When he followed the address and arrived at the door of a rather beautiful B&B, a young man with a Rudraksha string in his hand and a porcelain star-and-moon Bodhi hanging around his neck had been waiting at the door for a long time.
"You're finally here"
The young man who came out to greet him helped Xia Shushi open the car door and said with a bored expression, "That boss has raised the price."
"Has the price increased?" Xia Shushi raised his eyebrows, "By how much?"
"It's gone up to 100,000."
The young man helped Xia Shushi move his luggage out of the trunk, but he did not push it into the inn. Instead, he put it directly into the trunk of an imported off-road vehicle at the door, and then greeted him and got into the cab.
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"Now he's asking for one hundred and eighty-eight thousand dollars."
While the young man was talking, he took out a pack of cheap Baita cigarettes from his pocket that did not match the temperament of this car. He skillfully popped one out and held it in his mouth.
"No, beast, are you a dick? How did you negotiate the special code? How come the price has gone up?" Xia Shushi stretched out his hand to take the cigarette offered by the other party.
"What did you call me?" The young man flicked away the cigarette he was about to hand to the former, and asked in a threatening tone.
"Second, is the second president ready?"
Xia Shushi had no choice but to deal with it, and after he was sure that the other party had no intention of handing him another cigarette, he bent down to pick up the cigarette that had fallen on the floor, blew it into his mouth, lit it, and asked again, "What are you special about?"
What exactly is the code talking about?”
"What the hell are you talking about?"
The young man known as the Second took a long puff of cigarette and said, "I will follow what you said. If there is nothing else that can prove the origin of the helmet and the meaning of the correct characters, it is not worth anything at all."
"Then he raised the price?" Xia Shushi asked, lowering the car window halfway.
"No!"
The second son also lowered the window and let the cold wind mixed with drizzle blow into the off-road vehicle, taking away the lingering smoke. "But the boss took out a lot of things and said he found them with the helmet.
of."
"Wouldn't it be enough if you take pictures for me?" Xia Shushi asked in confusion, "My grandfather's memory has been bad these past two days, and I still have to accompany him."
"I just want to take pictures."
The second generation spat out the car window, "That damn boss didn't let me take pictures at all, saying he was afraid that I would post it online and bully him online. And those things later, except for the first time I took them out, he let me look at them.
Besides, even if you want to take a look at that steel helmet now, it costs 500 yuan, and 500 yuan only allows you to look at it for half an hour, which is more expensive than having your feet pinched."
"You are so damn good at doing business, aren't you?" Xia Shushi asked dumbfounded.
"The old boy is convinced that I'm interested in that thing," the second generation said helplessly.
"Speaking of this, why do you have to focus on that helmet?" Xia Shushi asked puzzledly.
"Don't ask about this"
The Second waved his hand, "I want to buy it as a gift to one of my elders. By the way, where is your friend Hala? Didn't you say he is quite powerful? Why didn't you bring him over?"
"You think everyone is like you? Are you just like the old man at the door of the shampoo room every day?"
"Wait"
The Second took two puffs of cigarette, reached into the glove box and took out a tattered wallet, pulled out a wad of cash and said, "That boss is too cautious and only accepts cash."
"Where did this boss come from?" Xia Shushi, who was about to get out of the car, heard this and slammed the car door again.
"My little daughter-in-law ran away with someone else. She has a green head. She is inevitably a little too nervous for fear of being deceived again."
The second generation grinned with a wicked smile, "Let's find a girl from northern Myanmar to drink and stimulate him later."
"Hurry up and stop eating. After drinking, the boss can't double the price again?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "When will your friend come over to help?" II put the cash in his pocket, got off the car, and asked the former while walking inside.
"Why do you doubt my professional ability?" Xia Shushi asked dissatisfied.
"You have terrible professional abilities"
The second generation said with a look of disgust, "We've known each other since we were wearing crotchless pants. I don't know your two brushes anymore."
"My two brushes are enough for you to check thoroughly," Xia Shushi boasted confidently.
“Just like a pig eating awesome food”
The second generation complimented him perfunctorily, and then was too lazy to talk nonsense. He walked into the B&B with Xia Shushi, who was cursing, and directly counted out a thousand yuan and slapped it in front of the boss, "Let this friend of mine take a look.
A thousand dollars."
"You can't bring your cell phone, you can't bring your camera, you can't bring your bag, and you can take off your jacket."
While the balding middle-aged boss was speaking, he had already taken the cash and stuffed it into the banknote detector on the bar, checking it twice.
"Cha Zhu Shi" II shouted Xia Shushi's nickname and snapped his fingers.
"Beast whip, can you please speak properly?" Xia Shushi cursed and threw the phone to the other party, and then took off his rain-wet coat.
"I want to search you"
The B&B owner interrupted the two crazy bickerings and pulled out a security metal detector from the bar.
"Boss, is this necessary?" Xia Shushi asked dumbfounded.
"Do you want to see it?" the boss asked simply.
"look"
Xia Shushi nodded helplessly and let the boss scan his body with the handheld metal detector. Then he changed into a pair of disposable slippers provided by the B&B, and then he took him into the bar.
A room in the back.
The area of this room is not small. The shelves placed against the wall are also filled with various guest room linens. There is also a surveillance camera installed on the wall facing the door, and in the center, a bamboo wooden
There is also a camphor wood box that is not too big on the table.
However, what made Xia Shushi want to laugh was that beside the table, there were several wedding photos that were as big as the refrigerator door.
In this photo, the B&B owner wearing a white suit has a particularly bright and greasy smile, but the bride who was originally held in his arms in the photo has been covered with black markers from her neck upwards.
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“Everything is in the box”
While the B&B owner was talking, he took out a rope from his neck and used the key on it to open the padlock of the wooden box. Then he called for Xia Shushi's help and moved the box to the floor and opened it.
That's not all. The boss also took out his mobile phone and set an alarm for one hour in front of Xia Shushi. Then he turned off the screen and put it in his pocket.
Watching the boss open the door and leave, Xia Shushi opened the lid of the wooden box and took out everything inside.
However, contrary to his expectation, although there were a lot of things in this wooden box, except for the British steel helmet wrapped in newspapers, there was nothing at all that he thought was the information and documents.
Most of what I took out were things that seemed to have no clue.
"How the hell are you checking this?" Xia Shushi was completely dumbfounded when he saw an American double-headed oil can finally taken out from the wooden box.
Subconsciously, he wanted to take out his mobile phone and take a few photos. Xia Shushi patted the back of his neck without realizing it, then put all these things back into the camphor wood box, opened the door and walked out.
"It took 38 minutes," Sissi, who was sitting on the sofa, asked gloatingly, "Did you find anything?"
"There's no way to check this"
Xia Shushi sat down on the sofa, grabbed his mobile phone, and edited the names of the things he just saw while saying, "And those rags can't prove anything at all."
"That's because you are not capable enough"
The shopkeeper said with undisguised contempt in his tone, "Anyway, the things are all there. I brought them all myself. You can't find out that it's your business. But if you want to buy them, there are 108,000
, not even a dollar less.”
"Boss, business matters are not urgent. Please open a room for me first."
Xia Shushi kicked the second's heels in a subtle way, and a gentle smile appeared on his face that was so delicate that it looked a bit feminine, "We will stay here for a few days, and there may be another person."
My friend is coming over to see me, so there is no rush."
"Can your friend come over?" II couldn't help but ask.
"Just ask"
Xia Shushi said nonchalantly, "When you invite someone over, don't you help them buy a plane ticket or something? Don't you arrange for them to go out for fun? If they help you look at these things, don't you prepare some hard-earned money?"
"No problem, I'll make the arrangements." The second agreed, patting his chest and not noticing the subtle expression on Xia Shushi's face that his plot had succeeded.
