At around six o'clock in the evening, Xu Siqi returned home. A full day of high-intensity training made him somewhat exhausted.
The training subjects in the Concession Patrol Room completely copied the training methods of European and American police. Compared with the Communist Party's agent training, there are actually many things worth learning from.
"Why did you come back?" he asked solemnly.
Xu Siqi took off the holster of his gun, put it on the coffee table, and said, "Didn't I tell you that the patrol room will be conducting training soon."
"How does it feel?"
"It's okay."
"How many days of training are there in total?"
"Ten days."
"What can you learn in ten days? In my opinion, the foreign devils are just going through the motions."
"People pay attention to efficiency. It starts at seven o'clock in the morning and ends at six o'clock in the evening. Except for the half-hour lunch break, the training subjects are fully arranged."
He smiled solemnly and said: "The rice bowl will be served to whomever you are serving. This sentence is true at all... By the way, have you had dinner? There is rice and vegetables in the pot, and they are still hot."
Xu Siqi looked around and asked: "Seriously, have you bought the newspaper?"
"I bought it." Zheng Zheng bowed slightly and took out a crumpled "Declaration" from under his buttocks.
"A good new newspaper will make it look like toilet paper..." Xu Siqi took the newspaper and pretended to read it for a while.
He smiled solemnly and said: "You are really right. There is no toilet paper at home. I am going to use newspapers to deal with the emergency."
Xu Siqi shook his head helplessly: "Seriously, I'm convinced, you can really deal with it. There is no toilet paper at home, why don't you buy it?"
He said solemnly and pretending to be serious: "The main reason is that the grocery store is too far away. I'm worried that if I can't bear it on the way, I'll make a mess and the situation will be uncontrollable..."
"Stop it, stop describing the details, this kind of thing sounds too scary." Xu Siqi stood up, put on his coat and walked to the door.
"Why are you going?"
"Go to the grocery store and buy toilet paper."
"Buy me a pack of cigarettes, oh, and matches."
"knew."
After coming out of home, Xu Siqi stood on the street and looked around. It was probably too late, but there was not even a newspaper seller.
After training all day, he had no time to go out and buy newspapers. On his way back just now, he met one or two newspaper sellers, but he happened to run out of "Le Monde".
After walking more than fifty meters, Xu Siqi entered a grocery store on the roadside. On the glass of the grocery store, the shape of a telephone was drawn, with a special note next to it: public phone.
When a customer arrived, the landlady greeted her enthusiastically: "Sir, what do you need?"
Xu Siqi said: "A large pack of toilet paper, two packs of Hero cigarettes, and a pack of matches."
The landlady promised, and quickly moved a stool. She stepped on the stool and moved a large package of toilet paper from the high shelf.
Xu Siqi glanced at it and saw a copy of Le Monde on the counter, and quickly asked: "Madam boss, is the newspaper from today?"
"It's today." The landlady replied.
Seeing Xu Siqi pick up the newspaper and read it, the landlady continued: "You can just take it. No one in my family reads the newspaper. A customer just threw it here."
"Thank you." Xu Siqi said casually, browsing the advertising page carefully.
Soon, a missing item notice came into view: I lost a Midu pocket watch on the main road at noon yesterday, with a silver-plated case (actually made of brass). If anyone finds it, please be sure to send it to Sichuan.
Mr. Liu, Room 5, Sakura Hotel, North Road, will definitely be rewarded.
Xu Siqi secretly breathed a sigh of relief: The wait is finally here!
This missing object notice was the secret code for his connection with Fang Yongyan.
Xu Siqi knew that according to the pre-plan, Fang Yongyan could only wait in the hotel for two days at most for safety reasons.
It was too late when I saw the newspaper. If I couldn't meet Fang Yongyan today, and there would be a whole day of training tomorrow, there would be no way to leave the patrol room.
However, I was worried about arousing serious suspicion when I went to Sichuan North Road alone at night.
He thought for a moment, reached for the phone book on the counter, and found a Russian restaurant named "Lucia" according to the catering and entertainment industry index.
Then he picked up the phone and dialed Gu Gongguan's number. After the call was connected, he said, "Hey, is this Gu Gongguan?"
"Yes." On the other end of the phone was the servant Xiaocui.
"Excuse me, is Miss Gu at home?"
"The eldest lady is at home..."
At this moment, Gu Qingcheng's voice came from the phone: "Xiao Cui, hang up the phone. I answered it upstairs."
The telephone in Gu Mansion was installed with a parallel connection, mainly to facilitate the two ladies to answer the phone.
Xiaocui hung up the phone in the living room.
Mrs. Gu on the side asked: "Xiao Cui, who called?"
Xiaocui said: "I don't know, the eldest lady picked me up upstairs."
"Male or female?"
"male."
"oh……"
Mrs. Gu didn't ask any more questions, picked up the tea bowl at hand and took a sip.
The phrase "the eldest lady is at home" did not make Xu Siqi think too much. In fact, in the Gu Mansion, the eldest lady was of course referring to Gu Qingcheng.
"Linglong, what are you doing?"
"Reading a book."
"Have you got a meal yet?"
"not yet."
"Great, I was just worried that I called too late... If it's convenient, I'd like to invite the beautiful Miss Gu to dinner, is that okay?"
"Okay." Gu Qingcheng blurted out without even thinking.
Xu Siqi glanced at his watch. It was now 6:20, so he said: "At 7:40, Lucia Restaurant on Sichuan North Road, see you there."
"OK."
"see you later."
"Um."
After hanging up the phone, Gu Qingcheng sat on the bed in a daze for a while, then jumped barefoot on the floor and started rummaging through the cabinets to find clothes.
After a while, Xiaocui said through the door: "Miss, dinner is ready."
"Tell my wife, I don't want to eat... Oh, let the driver prepare the car, I'm going out soon." Gu Qingcheng changed into a white dress and looked left and right in the full-length mirror.
Ten minutes later, Gu Qingcheng hurried downstairs.
Looking at her radiant daughter, Mrs. Gu sighed inwardly, with a smile still on her face, and said: "Qingcheng, you don't want to eat dinner, where are you going?"
"I made an appointment with a friend to eat out..." Facing his mother's gaze that seemed to see through everything, Gu Qingcheng felt somewhat guilty.
"Go ahead and come back early, don't let me worry about you." Mrs. Gu said warmly.
Gu Qingcheng agreed and walked towards the door.
Mrs. Gu said from behind: "Qingcheng, let everything take its course. Don't have too many worries and thoughts. Others can't take away things that belong to you. It's useless for you to take things that don't belong to you. Presumably, Linglong also
You will understand this."
After listening to his mother's words, Gu Qingcheng suddenly felt enlightened. Yes, why should he be entangled? Let fate decide everything!