There is a saying circulating abroad that wherever there are Chinese people there must be Chinatowns and Chinese restaurants.
This sentence is of course not 100% correct, but it is still quite realistic. The history of Chinese people migrating to Western countries can be traced back to thousands of years ago. Five or six hundred years ago, there was a large-scale immigration phenomenon due to war and famine.
In modern times, for various reasons, many Chinese people have chosen to live and develop abroad. The national characteristics have led them to choose to live in groups, and Chinatowns have appeared all over the world.
What you can see most in Chinatown are all kinds of Chinese restaurants.
The place where Zhang Yaoming asked Zuo Yi to meet was the Dragon and Phoenix Tea House, a large Cantonese restaurant in Chinatown, St. George's West District.
The Lamborghini parked steadily at the door of the teahouse. Zuo Yi got out of the car and threw the car keys to the parking boy. He walked into this teahouse with Chinese characteristics while carrying a backpack containing Tek.
Although it was afternoon, the business in the tea house was still very good. There were many customers sitting in the lobby on the first floor, most of them were foreign tourists enjoying afternoon tea.
St. George's is a well-known tourist destination, receiving tens of millions of foreign tourists every year. Chinatown in the West End, which has a history of hundreds of years, is also one of the tourist attractions here.
It is worth mentioning that adjacent to Chinatown is Paparo, the largest slum in the world!
"Hello, who are there?"
A teahouse waiter came up to him and asked Zuo Yi with a wide smile, still using standard Mandarin.
He just saw Zuo Yi getting off the supercar, so his attitude was very polite.
"I've made an appointment."
Zuo Yi said: "Zhang Yaoming."
Zhang Yaoming had previously said on the phone that he should give his name when he arrived at the place.
"Master Zhang is on the third floor."
The waiter at the teahouse was even more respectful: "Please come with me."
Under the guidance of the waiter, Zuo Yi came to a private room on the third floor of the teahouse.
There were four people sitting in the private room, an old man with white hair and red face, a square-faced man in a suit and leather shoes, a beautiful woman in a long skirt, and a middle-aged man with a haggard look.
Zuo Yi's eyes first fell on the middle-aged man: "Mr. Zhang?"
"ah."
The dazed middle-aged man woke up, stood up and asked, "Mr. Zuo?"
"I am Zuo Yi."
Zuo Yi stretched out his hand to him: "Hello."
"Hello."
Zhang Yaoming shook hands with Zuo Yi: "Please take a seat."
After Zuo Yi sat down, he introduced Zuo Yi: "This is Chairman Chen of our Chinatown Self-Management Committee, this is Detective Tang from the Western District Police Station, and this is Miss Sun from Huaixia Hall.
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"Hello."
Zuo Yi nodded in greeting, and then asked: "How is the situation now?"
"It's very troublesome."
Zhang Yaoming sighed: "Yun Xi's parents were kidnapped. The kidnappers called me in the morning. I was afraid that Yun Xi would be worried, so I didn't tell her the news yet."
Kidnapping?
Zuo Yi breathed a sigh of relief instead.
Because if you were kidnapped, there is a high probability that the person is still alive, otherwise there would be no call from the kidnapper.
He asked: "What does the other party want?"
"other side…"
As soon as Zhang Yaoming said two words, he was interrupted by the square-faced man, Inspector Tang: "This case is of great importance, Mr. Zuo, I'm afraid there are some things that are inconvenient to reveal to you. Please forgive me."
He looked at Zuo Yi with alert eyes.
Detective Tang's vigilance was justified. Zuo Yi was a complete stranger to them, and suddenly he came to participate in the kidnapping incident, which made him have to doubt Zuo Yi's purpose.
Although Zhang Yaoming had just introduced Zuo Yi's identity, Gu Yunxi's friends were obviously not trustworthy enough.
"I just came from China."
Zuo Yi knew exactly what the other party was thinking, so he took out his ID from his pocket and handed it to him.
"Just came from China?"
Zhang Yaoming showed an expression of disbelief: "How is that possible!"
It's a long way from China to St. George's, and it takes more than a day to take a commercial airliner. And it's less than 24 hours since the kidnapping happened. Did Zuo Yi come here by rocket?
Detective Tang calmly opened Zuo Yi's ID and was stunned for a moment: "Chief Advisor of the Jiangnan Supernatural Affairs Administration?"
The beautiful woman sitting next to him flashed her eyes when she heard this, stared at Zuo Yi and asked: "Are you a transcendent?"
Zuo Yi glanced at her, raised his right hand and stretched out his index finger to lightly tap the tea cup in front of him.
The porcelain cup instantly turned into powder, but the steaming tea in the cup remained motionless. It was restrained by an invisible force and did not spill even a drop!
Zuo Yi opened his palms to hold the cup-shaped hot tea, raised it and poured it into his mouth.
Zhang Yaoming and Inspector Tang were stunned, and the beautiful woman, Miss Sun from Huaixia Hall, was also wide-eyed.
She could also smash a tea cup, but what Zuo Yi had just done was more than just breaking a cup. The ability he had displayed was beyond her imagination.
But what is certain is that Zuo Yi is definitely a hidden extraordinary person!
"Disrespectful."
Detective Tang's attitude immediately became much more polite and he returned the certificate to Zuo Yi.
He was scared, so Zhang Yaoming stopped worrying about how Zuo Yi came here, and told Zuo Yi everything he knew about the situation so far.
A few years ago, Gu Yunxi's parents, Gu Kai and Zhang Yun, came to St. George's to join Zhang Yaoming. With his help, they opened a small supermarket and settled in Chinatown.
The business of the supermarket was pretty good, and the two of them lived a very stable life. Apart from missing Gu Yunxi, they had no other problems.
A few days ago, Gu Kai and Zhang Yun received a call from Gu Yunxi. They happily discussed with Zhang Yaoming and decided to sell off the supermarket and house and return to live in China.
Zhang Yaoming was also happy for them and helped contact the buyers.
But I never expected that just yesterday afternoon, the house where Gu Kai and Zhang Yun lived caught fire and burned down, and the two lost contact.
Zhang Yaoming quickly called the police and reported it to the Chinatown Self-Regulation Committee.
The current investigation results of the Western District Police Station and the Self-Regulation Committee show that Gu Kai and Zhang Yun were kidnapped in their own store, and the whole process was recorded by the supermarket's surveillance camera.
The kidnappers were very arrogant and did not hide their identities.
The kidnappers belonged to the Hellfire, a local gang.
The St. George slum adjacent to Chinatown covers an area of more than ten square kilometers and is home to nearly two million poor people in the city. It has always been St. George's biggest cancer.
There are hundreds of gangs, large and small, in the St. George slum, and criminal activities are extremely rampant. The powerful gangs possess fierce force and dare to confront the police and even the army.
Hellfire is one of the most powerful gangs in the St. George slum!