"Look, how good it is now. The area of this floor alone is already equal to the area of the previous two floors combined."
"Hey, Dad, if you invite friends from the Chamber of Commerce to your home to discuss things in the future, you no longer have to worry about running into my mother's tea party."
"Look at the flower room outside. The European-style teahouse in the glass room must have been tidied up by my mother."
"That's right. It's a great place."
Mai Fan's wantonness made Mai's parents feel helpless. After two years of schooling, he still acted like a child.
They first asked the servants to take Hua Yingying to the suite on the second floor, leaving Mai Fan in the hall, and chatted very seriously with their son about his two years of life in Xiangcheng.
In an attitude of reporting good things but not bad things, Mai Fan downplayed the suffering he suffered.
He also showed off the skills and achievements he had learned in front of his parents.
But he still had to tell his family about his real purpose of returning to Shanghai this time.
"Father, I may have to live up to your expectations."
"With my current status, it is no longer possible for me to simply be a young master from a businessman's family."
"Our Mai family's property may require my father to work on it for a few more years."
"When the situation stabilizes and the country's people's livelihood and economy can get back on track, I can resign from my current position in the Intelligence Department and come back to inherit the family business."
"During my time in Xiangcheng, can I manage the Lao Mai family's business in my hands? I think I'm pretty good at doing business."
Hearing this, Mai Fan's parents looked at each other and smiled.
Therefore, Mai Fan's request was complied with.
Mai Fan didn't know whether his parents really believed what he said, or whether they just... didn't want him to worry and cooperated.
But it doesn't matter, the dark clouds have already dispersed, and no matter how long the night is, dawn will always come.
…
After talking with the family, it was time to eat.
The servant at home went to the second floor to ask Miss Yingying to come down and have dinner with her, but found that only a card was left in the room. The servant took it out and handed it into the hands of Master Mai.
The content on the message card was very brief, just the address of an offshore market.
This is the single dormitory prepared by the Intelligence Agency for their field personnel.
The dormitory is located opposite the work building. If there is any trouble, the staff living in the dormitory will quickly rush to the intelligence office building.
Been here?
Mai Fan chuckled and threw the card into the ashtray.
Nothing, whether it was Hua Yingying before or Hua Yingying now, she was not a woman who needed him to worry too much.
When he needs to see her, she will definitely stand behind him.
…
Mai Fan's judgment was correct. After Hua Yingying packed Mai Fan's luggage, she carried her small suitcase, went downstairs from the outer corridor of the bungalow, and left Mai's house alone.
She found the staff dormitory arranged in advance according to the address Mr. Lu gave her.
Under the bed that had been unoccupied for a long time in the room, I found a hidden compartment.
In this room that was full of dust, there was not much dust except under the bed board.
Hua Yingying took out a small toy-like Browning from the hidden compartment, and a box of matching bullets.
She took a bullet out of the magazine and loaded it into the chamber.
Then she put the pistol into the bag she carried with her, took the bag and walked out of the dormitory again, heading towards the place where she once lived.
…
Compared with the coldness near the staff dormitory.
The streets where Changsan Tangzi like to build their buildings most, at night, can be said to be one of the most prosperous areas in the sea.
There are all kinds of people walking on this street.
In order not to attract the attention of others, Hua Yingying specially called a rickshaw with a shed for herself and asked the driver to pull her directly to the back door of Qing Qianzhai.
The rickshaw driver did not find anything strange about the special request of this single female guest.
These days, there are too many men who have families but spend money in brothels.
Many women like Hua Yingying come to this place alone, either to catch an adulterer... or to give unpaid prostitution money to their husbands.
These shameless women also know how to be ashamed, so when doing things, they always do it secretly.
The coachman put the person down without asking or telling him anything, collected the money, and left quickly.
Hua Yingying stood in the backyard of Qing Qianzhai and gently knocked on the courtyard door. Bang... bang bang, one long and two short.
Not long after, a lame old servant opened the door.
When he saw a strange woman standing at the door, he didn't react at all. He waited for Hua Yingying to walk in, then closed the door and led her straight to the direction Hua Yingying pointed.
This place is Bai Qianqian's room.
Two years ago, she came here late at night to ask for something for Mai Fan.
But now, Mr. Gu has revealed Bai Qianqian's secrets to him and put this line into her hands.
"Sister Qianqian."
He knocked on the door and entered the room. The old servant behind him closed the door from the outside.
Hua Yingying could clearly see the people in the room, and Bai Qianqian could also clearly see the identity of the new contact person.
"It's you?"
This woman, who had gone through the cruelest baptism for two years, now had a weathered look on her face, full of surprise.
Her face was as beautiful as two years ago, but she no longer had the arrogance in Hua Yingying's impression.
After meeting Hua Yingying again, Bai Qianqian's first sentence was to ask: "Did you really run away because of that man two years ago?"
"Now that I see you again, is it true... that stupid people are blessed with stupid things?"
"We heard that the newly appointed top intelligence officer in Haishang City, also named Mai Fan, must be the little lover you had to follow that day."
"You really made a pretty right choice."
After hearing this, Hua Yingying no longer felt timid at the beginning.
She sat down in front of Bai Qianqian and announced her first mission after taking over the intelligence line to this downline contact.
"Is Mother Feng still there? Have her living habits changed?"
Bai Qianqian was stunned and then smiled: "No, she is still alive and well."
"That's good." Hua Yingying stood up and walked to the door. When she opened the door, she seemed to have remembered something and said to Bai Qianqian: "Wait for me for a while."
"After tonight, you can leave here."
"From now on, you can live with me. The two of us have been assigned to a dormitory together."