Chapter 205: Not the Taste of Pig Intestine Rice Noodles
Chapter 205: Not the Taste of Pig Intestine Rice Noodles
“Lao Ma is not so easy to fool.
"Besides, he's going to Hong Kong Island, so I still can't get the money."
Liu Yuzhu frowned.
"Ma Hansan can't leave Peking!
"Wealth and honor are achieved through risk. How can you know if you don't try?"
You can’t get out of Peking either... Hong Zhiyou smiled and persuaded.
This world has always been ruled by the law of the jungle.
He likes making friends.
But such enormous wealth was right before his eyes, and it was the people's hard-earned money. He would feel guilty if he did not take it.
“Okay, I’ll try.
"But if this succeeds, I will depend on you in the future." Liu Yuzhu kissed him tenderly.
"Of course." Hong Zhi nodded.
"Remember, after you come back from your investigation in Xiangdao, tell the people sent by Ma Hansan to say this..."
Hong Zhiyou leaned over and taught her everything.
"Is this possible?
"Old Ma is a shrewd man. If I tell him about the red ticket, won't he be scared to death?"
Liu Yuzhu frowned.
"Won't.
“Compared with Xie Ligong and Xiangjia, he would rather choose red tickets and the governor.
“Only by saying this will he feel at ease to transfer a batch of people over.
"Just trust me."
Hong Zhiyou raised his eyebrows and smiled.
“Okay, let me try.
"I'm going back to Peking now."
Liu Yuzhu said.
"no.
“I haven’t gotten enough of my sister yet.
"Stay here tonight and leave tomorrow morning."
Hong Zhiyou hugged her waist, buried his head in her hair and murmured with a look of intoxication on his face.
He planted a hook in Li Ya's place.
If Liu Yuzhu leaves now, many things will become difficult to handle.
“You men don’t have enough.
"We women have such a hard life. We have to work hard to make a living, and we have to find ways to please you stinky men."
Liu Yuzhu curled her lips and snorted.
“Is it bitter?
"Who just said that he finally understood life...
"You're not going to admit it once you lift the quilt?
"Look at you, you are like a lotus emerging from the water. I am the one who is suffering, okay? My hands and feet are weak, and I am still dizzy."
Hong Zhiyou stood up, opened his hands, and smiled lazily.
"You can't do it anymore."
Liu Yuzhu winked at him playfully while helping him put on his shirt and tie.
"I'll come and take care of you little slut tonight."
Hong Zhiyou raised his hand and slapped her on the butt.
"Fine.
"Then I'll stay overnight."
Liu Yuzhu smiled charmingly.
She wanted to kiss Hong Zhiyou goodbye, but Hong Zhiyou raised his hand to stop her:
"brush teeth.
"Be careful about what you eat."
"you!
"There's no one worse than you in the whole world. You take advantage of others and yet you look down on them." Liu Yuzhu's pretty face turned red and she punched him in anger.
“Let’s go, you can ask the waiter for anything you need.
"I'll dine with you tonight."
Hong Zhiyou put his left hand in his pocket and walked away in a casual manner.
After watching the little bastard go down the stairs, Liu Yuzhu went back to the house and dialed a number:
“Hello, it’s me.
“Can you help check on a person named Hong Zhiyou, the secretary of Jinhai Station?
"Well, investigate his connections and assets in Hong Kong, especially his relationship with the red tickets, gangs, and Xie Ligong of the Secret Service.
"Yes, especially in terms of assets and connections."
“Give me your answer by seven tonight.
“Thank you, I’ll have dinner with you next time I come to Yuezhou.
"Hate.
“Let’s talk about it when we meet.
"Okay, hang up."
……
Five p.m.
Li Ya returned to the room.
After thinking for a few seconds, he dialed the landline of the Mei family villa:
"Yingxue, are you home?
"Okay, I came over to talk to you about something."
soon.
Li Ya drove to the villa on Changde Road.
Mei Shaozheng and Mei Yingxue are drinking tea in the garden.
“Mr. Mei.
"Yingxue."
Li Ya greeted him with a smile.
"Li Ya is here, you guys chat, I'll go tell the kitchen to prepare dinner." Mei Shao nodded slightly, got up and left.
"How did you come?"
Mei Yingxue took his hand and sat down in the pavilion.
"Something went wrong last night." Li Ya said.
“Something wrong?
"Is the information wrong?" Mei Yingxue asked with a frown.
"no.
“The intelligence provided by uncle was very accurate. It was my men who failed to execute the information effectively and it was intercepted by Ma Hansan.
"The trouble now is that Ma Hansan insisted that the supplies were military supplies for Sun Lianzhong, and accused me of deliberately sabotaging the war zone strategic plan and sued me in a military court.
"And called your uncle and asked me to compensate him $10,000.
"I...just bought a house, you know."
Li Ya said with some embarrassment.
"Is Ma Hansan so desperate for money that he even blackmailed the people in the Bureau of Secrets.
"No, I have to go find my uncle."
Mei Yingxue said angrily.
She was really angry and wanted to use Li Ya to get Yu Zecheng.
Unexpectedly, Ma Hansan suddenly appeared and not only ruined the business, but also had to pay a huge sum of money. Who could tolerate this?
"it's useless.
“Ma Hansan and the stationmaster have never gotten along.
“Yingxue, can you and uncle lend me some?
“Ma Hansan gave the deadline tonight.
"If we don't solve it, I'll be in a lot of trouble if this gets out of hand."
Li Ya held her hand and begged.
"Brother Ya, don't worry, I'll talk to my dad and I'll definitely lend it to you if I can.
"We are a family."
Mei Yingxue smiled gently, turned around and walked into the house with a frosty face.
"Um!
"She looks a bit like my future daughter-in-law." A happy smile appeared on Li Ya's lips.
Mei Yingxue returned to the room with a gloomy face.
"Xue'er, what's wrong?" Mei Shao asked hurriedly when he saw that she looked strange.
"Li Ya is a useless person who is always causing trouble instead of doing anything good.
“The goods were not brought back and Yu Zecheng did not get any bites.
"He was blackmailed by Ma Hansan. Now Ma Hansan suspects that he stole the ticket and disrupted the transportation of strategic materials in the war zone. He wants him to pay 10,000 US dollars in compensation before 12 o'clock tonight, otherwise he will go to Jingling to sue him tomorrow.
“Dad, seriously, this guy is a piece of shit.
"I feel like throwing up if I stay with him for one more minute."
Mei Yingxue complained with disgust.
"Okay, Yingxue, don't say anything angry.
“Man proposes, God disposes.
"Li Ya is capable, and he has Jianfeng behind him. If it weren't for his bad luck, he would have been the deputy station chief by now.
“You still have to give him a chance.
"Without him, it would be difficult to get rid of Hong Zhi."
Mei Shao smiled and comforted him.
“He wants $10,000, will you give it to him?
"I don't have any."
Mei Yingxue sat down on the sofa, hugged her chest and grumbled.
“Ten thousand dollars.
“I can take it out casually, but it’s really not cost-effective.
"How about this.
“Didn’t he just sell his house?
"You ask him to redeem it, and I'll give him some more."
Mei Shao said maturely.
"Will he agree?" Mei Yingxue asked.
"It depends on how you say it. With your ability, you don't need me to teach you this." Mei Shao said with a smile.
"understood."
Mei Yingxue curled her lips and walked out.
Arriving at the courtyard, she took a deep breath and a bright smile appeared on her face again, as if bathed in the spring breeze.
"Brother Ya."
She leaned against Li Ya, resting her head on his shoulder and said softly:
“Father is also short of money recently.
"All his money was invested in U.S. bonds and stocks, and he couldn't cash it out for a while.
“I was able to scrape together over a thousand dollars.
“But this is not enough.
"Why don't you return the wedding house? That way we can get together and it will be enough, right?"
"But I prepared that room for you..." Li Ya was about to speak when Mei Yingxue's jade finger gently touched his lips:
"Brother Ya.
"I like you, not the house.
"As long as I can be with you, I will be happy and blessed even if I live in a cowshed or on the streets, right?
“Besides, isn’t your current house nice?
"When you recover, you can move Yu Zecheng away and take the position of deputy station chief. Then we can live in the best villa like your uncle, right?
"I'm optimistic about you and I can wait."
Mei Yingxue's eyes were full of stars and admiration.
"With a wife like this, what more could a husband ask for?
“Yingxue.
“I feel relieved when you say this.
“I’m going to check out now.
"But there may be a gap of about three thousand US dollars. It all depends on you."
Li Ya kissed her, then stood up and walked away quickly.
“Three thousand!
"hateful!"
Mei Yingxue took out a silk scarf and wiped her face, then stood up and returned to the house, proudly extending her hand:
"Your uncle wants three thousand dollars. Pay it."
“Three thousand.
"That's fine. I'll get it back from him sooner or later anyway."
Mei Shao opened the drawer with a painful feeling, took out three thousand US dollars and handed it to his daughter.
Mei Yingxue put it into her bag without even looking at it.
……
eight pm.
Mei Yingxue took a nice shower, changed into beautiful and fashionable clothes, and sat in front of the dressing table to put on powder and lipstick.
Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday night, she would go to the British Club to date James and enjoy a passionate time together.
Thanks to James's arrival.
Otherwise, she would be depressed to death every day.
When she thought of James' romance, she couldn't wait.
"Go find that foreigner again?" Mei Shao snorted in dissatisfaction.
"dad.
"What do you know? Foreigners are popular.
“Even the chairman has to cling to them.
"I will find you a foreign son-in-law later. I will drive you around the streets in a jeep with a cigar in my mouth. Who in Jinhaicheng will not envy you?"
Mei Yingxue smiled as bright as a peach blossom.
"It's more like embarrassing."
Mei Shao couldn't argue with her, so he went upstairs cursing.
"Don't go and give money to Li Ya."
"knew."……
Half past eight in the evening.
Hong Zhiyou was standing in a telephone booth at the corner of the street.
Soon the phone rang.
He took it: "Okay, I understand."
Then he quickly hung up, looked at his watch, turned the corner quickly with a cigarette in his mouth, came to Li Ya's residence and rang the doorbell.
"Secretary Hong." Li Ya greeted.
"Have you collected all the money?" Hong Zhiyou asked.
"I'm still short of more than two thousand US dollars. How about you plead for me?" Li Ya took out a box, which contained more than seven thousand US dollars that he had scraped together.
"Row.
“Liu Yuzhu hasn’t left yet, she’s at the England Hotel.
"Why don't you come with me.
"See if we can talk about it."
Hong Zhi has the Tao.
"it is good."
In order to save money, Li Ya agreed readily.
The two got in the car and drove straight to the England Hotel.
Hong Zhiyou secretly glanced at his watch.
Lin Tian was just following her, and Mei Yingxue had just gone out not long ago.
Arrived at the club.
He said to Li Ya, "Captain Li, please wait in the lobby. I will go upstairs and say hello to Liu Yuzhu first."
"it is good."
Li Ya nodded.
He picked up a newspaper and started reading it while crossing his legs.
From time to time, tall foreigners came in and out.
Li Ya knew that Britain and France had recently sent an international observation group to Jinhai, one to visit the American Marines, and the other to inspect the defense of Jinhai Port and the 94th Army.
The observation group may even visit Yancheng.
The purpose is to understand the real situation of the war in the country in order to make
Of course, there are many such observation groups.
There are ones in Shanghai, Jingling and Beiping.
While reading the newspaper, the bright headlights of a car outside the door shone on the glass wall. Li Ya narrowed his eyes slightly and his sight suddenly fixed on the car.
Studebaker.
This type of car that Chennault rode in is in great demand on the market and is rare even in Tianjin.
The license plate...is Yingxue’s car.
How did she get here?
Soon, Li Ya saw Mei Yingxue, who was dressed beautifully, walking in with a bag in hand.
Even though she was wearing a hat, the collar of her windbreaker stood up very high.
But the snow remains white.
And the familiar round earrings.
Even the smell of perfume that came with the north wind seemed so familiar.
It’s Yingxue.
Li Ya quickly raised the newspaper to cover his face.
Tick tock.
Mei Yingxue lifted her collar, looked around quietly, and went straight into the hotel's stairs.
Why is Yingxue here?
Li Ya was curious but also a little panicked.
He didn't call out to her.
The concepts that Yingxue has instilled in him the most these days are freedom and private space.
This is also the point where he feels most comfortable.
I am busy with tasks every day and don’t have much time to spend with you.
Furthermore, Yingxue is a devout Catholic.
There are strict religious requirements regarding matters between men and women.
She hasn't crossed the line yet.
How could he do such a dirty thing behind my back?
Despite his thoughts, Li Ya stood up honestly.
He followed quietly into the third floor.
Just reached the stairs.
Then I saw Mei Yingxue enter one of the rooms.
Li Ya wanted to go inside.
A foreign bodyguard in a suit immediately appeared in the corridor, pulled out his pistol from his waist and aimed at him with both hands.
"What do you do?"
Among these people, a local young man with a middle-parted traitor's hair asked.
"You've walked into the wrong hallway." Li Ya raised his hand to indicate that he posed no threat.
"Didn't you see the sign at the entrance to the building?
“No outsiders are allowed to enter the third floor.
"This is where the British and French international observation missions are staying. Can you just barge in?"
The young man with middle-parted hair said with disdain.
"Sorry, sorry!" Li Ya was not a reckless person. He smiled and nodded to apologize.
"Get out of here now." The man with the middle-parted hair cursed.
Li Ya turned around and walked quickly downstairs.
As a Chinese citizen, I was driven around and drunk by foreign dogs in my own territory.
His usually proud self-esteem seemed to be trampled into a pile of dog shit at this moment, which was extremely humiliating.
The thought of those superiors in Jingling who were revered as gods also made me feel servile.
He couldn't help but tremble with anger and clenched his fists secretly.
Son of a bitch.
When will this day of depending on others and looking at the faces of foreigners come to an end?
This is also the moment.
He suddenly felt that he and Yingxue had become estranged.
Li Ya didn't stay in the hall.
He stood outside, letting the biting north wind blow on him, his heart in turmoil.
Yingxue went to the third floor late at night.
What is she going to do?
Is she an international student and is she meeting friends?
still is……
Li Ya didn't dare to think about it anymore.
"Captain Li, why are you standing outside? Be careful not to catch a cold." Just as he was feeling depressed, Hong Zhiyou came over and patted him on the shoulder.
As soon as Hong Zhiyou saw Li Ya's grief-stricken look, he knew that his plan had succeeded.
Li Ya must have seen Mei Yingxue.
Well, this is just an introduction. It is not enough to make Li Ya take the risk of killing someone. He needs to think about it more.
"fine.
"How did the discussion with Secretary Liu go?" Li Ya asked with a smile.
“Unfortunately, we didn’t discuss it.
"Ma Hansan won't give you a cent, so you have to find a way to get the remaining three thousand dollars.
"But I have extended the deadline for you a little bit, before 12 noon tomorrow."
Hong Zhi has the Tao.
"Thank you." Li Ya said with a smile.
"Hey, I'm a little hungry. I want to have dinner with Secretary Liu. How about together?" Hong Zhiyou said.
“Brother.
"Can you stay with me? I want to talk.
"I know there's a good pig intestine noodle restaurant nearby, I'll treat you."
Li Ya thought about it and suddenly said.
"also.
"I'll go to the front desk and call Secretary Liu."
Hong Zhiyou returned to the lobby, made a phone call and got in the car.
really.
Li Ya found the pig intestine noodle shop on the road that Mei Yingxue mentioned.
"Boss, give me two bowls of pig intestine rice noodles." Li Ya shouted.
"Captain Li, do you like to eat this too?" Hong Zhiyou asked with a smile.
"without.
“To be honest, this is my first time eating it.
“I always thought this thing was dirty, but I couldn’t help but hear people say it tasted good.
“You know, I can never resist delicious food.
"It just so happens that you are here too. It gives me some courage."
Li Ya smiled.
Wait until the noodles are served.
Li Ya couldn't wait to pick up a piece with chopsticks and started eating it, including the vermicelli and pork intestines.
Just took a bite.
He chewed it slowly, savoring it.
His expression changed instantly, his eyes became fierce, and his whole face became tense.
"Captain Li, what's wrong?
"Does it taste bad or..."
Hong Zhiyou noticed that he looked strange.
Before he finished speaking, Li Ya turned around and rushed out, squatted on the side of the road, and then vomited violently with a "wow" sound.
"no……
"My pig intestines are very clean and freshly braised. They are from a time-honored brand and have no smell."
The boss stood aside and explained.
"fine."
Hong Zhiyou smiled and walked quickly to Li Ya's side: "Captain Li, what's wrong with you?"
"The taste, the taste is wrong." Li Ya said gritting his teeth.
"What smells wrong?" Hong Zhiyou asked.
“It tastes wrong…”
Li Ya shook his head and muttered something hatefully.
Wow!
He started vomiting again.
He didn't stand up until he had vomited out all the jaundice water. He said, "Brother, can you give me a cigarette?"
Hong Zhi picked one up and handed it to him.
Li Ya coughed and choked at the same time.
"Captain Li, let me take you home." Hong Zhiyou said.
“Why go home?
“The pork intestine rice noodle tastes good.
"Boss, give me another bowl."
Li Ya flicked away the cigarette butt and returned to the store.
Poured a lot of chili.
I was sweating profusely while eating, and many things became clear to me all of a sudden. I felt extremely comfortable.
"Secretary Hong, I'll give you the money tomorrow morning. I'm leaving now."
Li Ya saw that there was not much food left in Hong Zhiyou's bowl, so he finished a few mouthfuls and quickly stood up.
"Okay, see you tomorrow."
Hong Zhiyou smiled.
Li Ya got into the car and rubbed his cheeks.
He was sure.
The taste in Yingxue's mouth last night was not that of pig intestines.
It's more like the smell when you develop your own photos.
Having a secret meeting with a foreigner late at night.
Ha ha.
This smell of being alone, do you think you are a fool?
and.
Thinking back on it, Mei Yingxue doesn't seem like an ordinary woman.
She and Mei Shao were able to obtain secret information about Ma Hansan's men.
If that road is really the channel for Yu Zecheng or Hongpiao to smuggle, the level of confidentiality must be very high.
Where did Mei Shao and his daughter get the information?
In addition, these days Mei Yingxue frequently went in and out of high-end places such as business clubs, military families' associations, and clubs in the name of her girlfriend.
Most of the people I came into contact with were municipal officials, military officers, etc.
At first Li Ya thought she wanted to become the lieutenant colonel's wife and become familiar with him.
Now think about it carefully.
This is not something a normal woman would do.
What does she want to do?
Right now he has something urgent to verify.
Thinking of this, he drove quickly to No. 1 Changde Road.
He had to see the stationmaster and ask for clarification.
As long as he solves this point, Li Ya will be able to figure out what the father and daughter are trying to do!
……
(End of this chapter)