After hearing Jiang Xinyu's reply, Guo Shisheng said with great relief: "Fortunately, Captain Jiang made peace with me. This time I came to Yanjin, I finally lived up to Brother Wen Yuan's trust."
As he spoke, he opened his briefcase, took out a bulging envelope from it, gently pushed it towards Jiang Xinyu, and said, "This is a piece of advice from Chief of Staff Lu, please ask me to pass it on to you."
Jiang Xinyu accepted it after being polite. This kind of money can be taken with peace of mind. Whether he accepts it or not, it will not have any impact on the matter itself.
While Guo Shisheng was talking, he zipped up his briefcase. His hand slipped and the briefcase fell to the ground. A document bag also fell out and landed right at Jiang Xinyu's feet.
There is a neat line written on the document bag: Description of the situation of the 22nd Column of the Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi Appeasement Office.
"The Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi Appeasement Office? What department is this?" Jiang Xinyu glanced at the cover and then handed the document bag back to Guo Shisheng.
Guo Shisheng put the document bag into his briefcase and said casually: "Mainly responsible for the aftermath of the bandit area. The affiliation is with the Second Office of the Guofang Department."
He didn't explain much, and Jiang Xinyu couldn't ask further questions.
When he got home, he took out the envelope from his briefcase, which contained a thick stack of U.S. dollars. Jiang Xinyu thought to himself, Lu Wenyuan seemed to have made a lot of money, and he had all kinds of hard currencies such as gold dollars.
At this time, the door suddenly rang, and Rong Rong ran in happily. She was wearing a milky white cashmere cloak and a pair of white half-high leather boots. She said repeatedly: "Dad, Dad,
Look, my aunt bought me new clothes and shoes."
"Rongrong, run slower, be careful not to fall." Tongtong yelled and chased after her. Behind her was Little Button, who was carrying large and small packages.
Seeing Jiang Xinyu at home, Tong Tong looked up at the clock on the wall and said, "You came back so early today?"
Jiang Xinyu said: "I went out to do some errands, came back to the station and got off work, and came back directly...Why did you buy so many things?"
Tong Tong sat on the sofa, took a big sip from Jiang Xinyu's teacup, and said: "The Chinese New Year is coming soon. I have added a few new clothes, Rongrong's, yours, mine, and small buttons, none of them."
pull."
She picked up Rongrong and put it on her lap, and said to Jiang Xinyu as if she was offering a treasure: "Let's see how it looks. Does our dear Rongrong look beautiful in this outfit?"
"Beautiful." Jiang Xinyu reached out and touched his daughter's hair.
Rongrong immediately stretched out her little hand, pointed to the hairpin on her head and said, "Dad, my aunt also bought me a butterfly hairpin."
"Ring ring ring ring!"
The phone on the table rang. Jiang Xinyu reached out and picked up the phone: "Hello, who is this?"
"Captain Jiang, it's me." Shen Zhifeng's voice was on the other end of the phone.
"Oh, it's Deputy Director Shen, is there something wrong?"
"I told you last time that I would like to invite you and Miss Tong to have a casual meal. It's just that the Intelligence Department had a lot of things to do some time ago and I never took the time to come. I feel very sorry."
"It doesn't matter. If you ask me, I won't have to eat. If you are busy, I will be busy too. After the Spring Festival..."
"Captain Jiang, this is not just a simple meal, but also the thoughts of Wenxiu and I. When we go to Yinglou tomorrow at noon, you and Miss Tong must come. Oh, by the way, there is also a fellow Zhejiang fellow, who is also you.
Old friends, it’s settled, we’ll see each other again.”
"Deputy Director Shen..."
Before Jiang Xinyu could say anything else, Shen Zhifeng had already hung up the phone.
Tong Tong asked: "A call from Shen Zhifeng?"
Jiang Xinyu nodded.
"Is it a matter of inviting me to dinner?"
"right."
"Then shall we go?"
"Let's go there..."
Tong Tong turned to Little Button and said, "Take Rongrong upstairs to change your clothes. We'll have dinner soon. It won't be good if it gets dirty."
When Little Button and Rongrong went upstairs, Tong Tong said in confusion: "Xinyu, didn't you say you weren't going?"
Jiang Xinyu said: "It's hard to refuse such hospitality. It wouldn't be a good idea not to go."
Tong Tong looked at him suspiciously for a while, then muttered: "The devil knows what you are thinking, you always talk half and hide half."
Jiang Xinyu took a paper bag, looked at the English letters on it, and said: "They are all imported goods, how much does it cost?"
As soon as this was mentioned, Tong Tong immediately became interested. He took out a dark gray thin woolen jacket and said, "I bought this for you. Come and try it on to see if it fits."
Jiang Xinyu stood up and passively allowed himself to be manipulated by Tong Tong. His mind was not on his clothes at all, he was still thinking about the phone call just now.
Could the Zhejiang fellow mentioned by Shen Zhifeng be referring to Xu Li?
If it is indeed Xu Li, what does Shen Zhifeng mean by doing this? Is it simply because of the relationship between fellow villagers that he brought everyone together?
I had the intention to call Xu Li for verification, but I felt it was unnecessary. This was too obvious and deliberate and would make Shen Zhifeng even more suspicious.
"I think it's pretty good. How do you feel about it?" Tong Tong took a few steps back and looked at Jiang Xinyu who had put on new clothes.
Jiang Xinyu lowered his head and looked down: "I think it's pretty good... How much does this dress cost?"
Tong Tong said nonchalantly: "Forgot, I don't have much money anyway."
Jiang Xinyu took the paper bag containing the clothes and found the receipt from it. The amount on it shocked him: "You said it's not much money? It's almost half a month's salary of mine."
"It's a new style, and the material and workmanship are good, but of course it's a little more expensive. The salesperson said that this dress is an authentic British product."
"Tongtong, money for clothes..."
"Wear it if you want to, throw it away if you don't want to wear it!" Tong Tong walked out with a straight face.
…………
Noon the next day.
Jiang Xinyu drove his car and took Tong Tong to Dengyinglou Restaurant.
Before getting off the bus, Jiang Xin warned: "Tongtong, don't talk nonsense when eating..."
"I know, you've said it three times!" Tong Tong rolled his eyes at him, pushed the door open and got out of the car.
After entering the restaurant, the waiter came over quickly and said hello enthusiastically: "Please come inside, it's clean and warm inside."
Jiang Xinyu said: "What private room number did Mr. Shen book?"
The shopkeeper flipped through the list at hand and said to the waiter: "Take the two of you to the third floor, private room No. 4."
Following the stairs to the third floor, the waiter led Jiang Xinyu and Tong Tong to the door of private room No. 4. Before Jiang Xinyu could reach out to knock on the door, Tong Tong had already pushed the door open and entered.
As expected, in addition to Shen Zhifeng and Xu Wenxiu, there were also Xu Li and his wife in the private room.
Shen Zhifeng stood up and said: "Captain Jiang, Miss Tong, please take a seat. Everyone is here and we are waiting for you."
Jiang Xinyu looked at Xu Li, then at Shen Zhifeng, pretending to be surprised and said: "Teacher Xu? Why...you and Deputy Director Shen also know each other?"
Shen Zhifeng said: "Oh, I met Teacher Xu through a friend. I didn't expect that there are quite a few of us from Zhejiang in Yanjin, thousands of miles away."