Ten minutes later, the car slowly stopped on the side of the road.
Tong Tong looked around and asked, "What's wrong?"
"I'm going to make a call." Jiang Xinyu said.
After getting off the car, Jiang Xinyu walked into a restaurant on the street, went straight to the counter, and said: "Boss, use the phone."
"Please do as you please." The boss said without raising his head as he was making calculations.
Jiang Xinyu dialed a few numbers. After a while, the call was connected and he said, "Is Hang Laokan here?"
"That's me, who are you?" said Hang Laokan on the other end of the phone.
"I can't even hear my voice."
"Hey, Captain Jiang, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I just took a nap and my mind is a little unclear... Are you okay?"
“Are there any fresh prawns?”
"If others don't have it, you have your say and you can have as much as you want!"
"Then I'll pick it up in a minute."
"Are you giving it away or something?"
"Giving it away."
"That's right. It's guaranteed to be good and fresh. You don't have to come. I'll send someone to take you home."
"No need to worry. I'm just on my way. It's not far from the pier. Just wait at the gate of the pier. I'll be there in about...a quarter of an hour." Jiang Xinyu raised his wrist and glanced at his watch.
"Okay, I'll get ready right now!" Hanglaokan naturally covets this rare opportunity to curry favor.
After hanging up the phone, Jiang Xinyu took out two bills and put them on the counter, then returned to the car, turned around and drove towards Baihe Pier.
Tong Tong looked out the car window and said, "Aren't you going home?"
"Go to the dock." Jiang Xinyu said.
"What are you doing at the dock?"
"Something's wrong."
"What's the matter?"
"I want some prawns..." Before Tong Tong could continue asking, Jiang Xinyu immediately said: "Oh, Deputy Commander Tao is leaving soon, I asked him for it."
If the explanation is not clear, with Tongtong's character, he can keep asking endless questions until he understands the whole story.
Tongtong curled his lips and said with a look that had seen through the world: "No wonder everyone wants to be an official. Just make a phone call and you will have prawns to eat..."
Jiang Xinyu smiled and said: "You want to say that, being an official is just for food?"
Tong Tong said: "I'm just making an analogy...if you were just an ordinary citizen, who would give you prawns?"
"It's good to draw inferences from one instance. There is progress!" Jiang Xinyu praised sincerely.
After receiving the compliment, Tong Tong felt very happy and said proudly: "Sometimes, I'm just too lazy to think about it. Otherwise, nothing can be hidden from me!"
Jiang Xinyu's heart moved slightly, feeling that Tong Tong seemed to have something on his mind, and said with a smile: "I can't hide anything from you? Lao Wang, just sell melons!"
Intrigued by Jiang Xinyu's words, Tong Tong couldn't help but said: "Then let me ask you, where were you at the East Station just now?"
Jiang Xinyu was secretly frightened, but remained calm on the surface and said: "Of course it's at the East Station, where else can we go?"
"Hmph, saying I was going to the bathroom is a lie!"
"Why did you lie?"
"I went to the bathroom to look for you, but there was no one in there!"
"Did you go into the men's room?"
Tong Tong rolled his eyes at him and said, "I'm not crazy. Why are you going to the men's room?"
"Then how do you know the toilet is empty?"
"A little boy went to the toilet and I asked him to help me take a look."
"oh……"
"Where have you been? I can't find you anywhere."
"When I came out of the toilet, I happened to meet an acquaintance. I hadn't seen him for a long time, so I chatted a little more."
"Then I didn't see you either?"
"Sit in his car for a while."
"If I don't ask, you won't tell me, it's so mysterious..."
"You don't know me, so there's no need to tell you."
Jiang Xinyu suddenly discovered that he had been neglecting Tong Tong too much. He always felt that she was not a threat and did not need to take special precautions!
Judging from this matter, this is not the case. The slightest negligence may lead to a big mistake!
Fortunately, I was facing Tong Tong. If he were an agent of the Secrecy Bureau, could he easily pass the test? The answer is obvious!
Let's talk, the car arrived at Baihe Pier.
Hang Laokan had been waiting at the door early, with a square bamboo basket placed at his feet. Seeing Jiang Xinyu's car stopped, he hurried to the car window and said: "Captain Jiang, you are here."
"Are your things ready?" Jiang Xinyu opened the door and got out of the car.
"Ready, authentic Yangjiabo giant prawns, I'll let people carefully select them to make sure they're all alive and kicking!" Hanglaokan said with excitement.
Jiang Xinyu walked around to the back of the car, took out the key and opened the trunk. Hang Laokan waved his hand, and the men who followed him put the bamboo basket in.
"Lao Kan, how are you doing lately?" Jiang Xinyu said.
"Let's make do...Captain Jiang, I heard that the pier is under military control. Is it true?"
"The higher authorities are currently studying whether it will be martial law or maintaining the status quo. It is not yet certain..."
"I don't understand. What does military control mean? Drive all of us out and the dock belongs to the army?"
"Martial control means giving priority to military materials, and everything else remains the same."
"Oh, then I'm relieved."
"Lao Kan, I haven't told you anything about this, so don't go around telling people about it."
"Don't worry, I understand."
Jiang Xinyu got into the car, and under Hang Laokan's attention, the car turned around and sped away.
The subordinate Hang Laokan brought was a newcomer and did not know Jiang Xinyu. He came over and said, "Boss, did you forget to ask for money?"
"What money did you forget to ask for?"
"Prawn money?"
"do you know who he is?"
"I don't know." The subordinate shook his head.
"Do you know how senior a lieutenant colonel is?" Hang Laokan was in a happy mood and said one sentence at a time.
The subordinate scratched his head and said: "What school... More than 20 kilograms of large prawns, you should be polite wherever you go..."
Hang Laokan said proudly: "The more this happens, the more it shows that we are close to each other. If you give money in a fake way, you just don't regard me as one of your own!"
"Oh, I get it."
"You know nothing! Go to work!"
…………
When I got home, it was already evening.
Little Button was busy in the kitchen. Hearing the sound of the door opening, he hurriedly came out and said, "Miss, you came back just in time. Dinner is about to begin."
Tong Tong did not treat him as an outsider at all. He took off his coat and handed it to Xiao Button, saying: "Additional dishes for dinner, braised prawns!"
"Do you have any prawns at home?" Little Button turned around and asked Xiaolan.
Xiaolan said: "It's gone a long time ago..."
"A pair of idiots are in the car!" Tong Tong quickly went upstairs. She was anxious to see Rongrong.
Jiang Xinyu went directly to the living room. Without wasting a minute, he picked up the phone and dialed a few numbers, and said: "Get me the military line, the headquarters of the 4th Regiment of the 86th Army Military Police."
After a while, the phone was connected, and Jiang Xinyu said, "Excuse me, is Deputy Commander Tao here?"
"Please wait a moment."
More than a minute later, Tao Jianming's voice came from the receiver, saying: "Hello, who's there?"
"Brother Jianming, I am Jiang Xinyu."
"Oh, Captain Jiang, is something wrong?"
"Someone just gave me some prawns, authentic Yangjiabo large prawns. I will send someone to deliver them to you tomorrow."
Tao Jianming said: "What a coincidence. The troops will leave early tomorrow morning."
Jiang Xinyu pretended to be surprised and said: "So fast?"
"Yes, I just received the order. I planned to get together again if there is a chance, but it seems that it is impossible."
Jiang Xinyu thought for a while and said, "Let's do it. I'll send it to you early tomorrow morning."
"It's too troublesome. We have to leave before dawn. In terms of time..."
"What are you talking about? Now that you're gone, I don't know when we'll see each other again, so it's only right that I see you off."
Tao Jianming hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll set off from the East Station at five o'clock tomorrow morning!"