Chapter 191 The cunning Koji (1st update, please subscribe)
Cheng Qianfan’s home.
Li Hao closed the door and bolted it after Amao came in.
The two of them ran upstairs quietly, and saw Ah Dai standing there with sweat on his face, saying, "Haozi, if the cat disobeys again, I'll beat him."
At first glance, the voice sounded the same as that of Cheng Qianfan.
In the corner next to him, there was a huge Western portrait as tall as Brother Fan. The portrait was stuck on a flat wooden board with thumbtacks.
Cheng Qianfan, wearing a long gown and a slightly sad look on his face, stood there lifelike.
Li Hao walked to the window, took a look, and breathed a sigh of relief. He would come up and adjust the window every ten minutes so that the reflection from the window would hit the position downstairs that Brother Fan had arranged in advance—
Brother Fan said that was the ‘best’ observation point left for the other party:
Yes, only that area is clean, the other areas are filled with water and some feces.
“Good job.” Li Hao patted the shoulders of the two young men and whispered happily.
Amao was on guard duty in the alley, adapting to circumstances.
When Ah-Dai was working for a living, he learned ventriloquism from a troupe and was responsible for pretending to be Brother Fan.
Li Hao dispatches in the middle.
And Li Hao’s face has been put on makeup. At first glance, he looks very similar to Cheng Qianfan.
Of course, this is only at first glance, and people who are familiar with it can still easily distinguish it.
…
At this time, Hao Er, who came out of the alley, did not leave.
He waved, and one of his men came over immediately.
Hao Er took out a photo of Cheng Qianfan from his hand.
“Xiao Ye, go ahead.” Hao Er said, “Also, try to find out more about the old woman in the cheongsam and the boy named Amao.”
"yes!"
Hao Er knew Cheng Qianfan, so he chose to investigate on his own.
At the same time, he took the initiative to ask the neighbors whether Cheng Qianfan was at home, which was also a way to paralyze the other party.
It is now basically confirmed that Cheng Qianfan is at home.
There are two situations:
First, Cheng Qianfan is indeed at home.
Secondly, the other party was prepared to pretend. After all, he just heard Cheng Qianfan's voice and saw Cheng Qianfan's face.
At this time, arrange for this subordinate to quietly investigate again, so as to catch the opponent off guard and confirm again.
As for Aunt Ma and that Amao, there is nothing suspicious. However, Hao Er is very cautious. He must carefully investigate anyone who comes into contact with him.
"Sir, please give me something to eat." Xiaoye just took two steps when he was pestered by a little beggar asking for food.
“Go, go, go.” Ono pushed the little beggar away, pretending to continue beating him.
The little beggar was afraid and ran away.
Neither Ono nor Koji noticed that in the corner, there was a little beggar who had quietly left.
…
“Sir, please give me something to eat.” Pidan ran to the door of the little tailor in the alley and shouted loudly.
“Get away!” said the little tailor fiercely.
Pidan continued to beg for something, and saw the little tailor coming out with a feather duster to beat him.
Pidan was hit twice, and he screamed in pain and cursed loudly.
The little tailor chased him with a feather duster.
There was a flurry of excitement.
“Here he comes again, get ready.” Li Hao whispered when he heard the movement outside.
The little tailor is the most unfriendly to beggars in this alley. He once deliberately poured the leftover food into the toilet in front of the little beggar. He would rather throw it away than give it to the beggar to eat.
So, Pidan would choose to beg from a little tailor to make some noise.
Ono wandered into the alley and saw a little tailor with a tape measure wrapped around his neck and chasing a beggar with a feather duster.
He ignored it and continued walking until he reached the door of Cheng Qianfan's house.
The door opened a small gap.
Ono glanced over and could vaguely see Cheng Qianfan in a long gown busy with something.
A cat rubbed against his feet.
“What are you looking at? Do you want to steal something?” A young man stuck his head out, cursed, and closed the door with a bang.
Then a voice came, "Haozi, where is today's newspaper."
“It’s upstairs, Brother Fan, I’ll get it.”
“I’ll get it myself.”
Then there was the sound of thumping upstairs.
…
With a little ambition, keep moving forward.
Looking at the muddy and stinky ground in front of him, Ono cursed in his heart, ‘Dirty Chinese people’.
He walked to the only clean piece of ground and looked up at the second floor window.
Koji picked up the photo in his hand and looked at it.
That’s right, it’s Cheng Qianfan himself.
At this time, the little beggar who was being chased ran over and splashed feces and urine all over him.
The little tailor carrying a feather duster came after him, and the little beggar used his broken bowl to scoop up the smelly water on the ground and splash it around.
Inadvertently, half the bowl of water was thrown on Xiaoye's face and went into his mouth.
Xiao Zhi suddenly felt extremely nauseous and sighed repeatedly.
The little tailor also had dirty water splashed on his body, and he cursed angrily.
In a moment of ambition, he and the little tailor chased the little beggar with the same hatred.
Pidan was frightened, rushed to the end of the alley, and cleverly climbed over the wall to escape, not even caring about the begging bowl that fell on the ground.
Ono and the little tailor cursed at the wall.
Ono took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed one to the little tailor.
Under Ono's deliberate acquaintance, the two breathless and "comrade-in-arms" people quickly started chatting.
About ten minutes later, Ono, who was dirty and smelly, came out of the alley cursing.
"What's going on?" Koji covered his nose and asked in a low voice, "What did you find out?"
"Cheng Qianfan is indeed at home. I first saw him busy downstairs, and then I saw him going upstairs to get a newspaper. I could see clearly from the window that it was Cheng Qianfan himself."
“That Aunt Ma is not suspicious at all, she is just a unruly old Shanghai woman.”
“Amao is a fool and is beaten by his father every day.”
At this moment, on the second floor, a 'huge' portrait of Cheng Qianfan holding a newspaper and reading it was lying in the corner. Next to it was a portrait of Cheng Qianfan looking out the window with a sad face.
Beside it, there are two portraits.
At the entrance of the alley, another silly little beggar came, hiding in the corner, timidly watching the pedestrians coming and going.
…
Fang Muheng secretly skipped work and returned home under the pretext of going out to collect news.
As soon as he arrived home, he was quietly pulled aside by his younger sister Tang Xiaoye.
“Brother, my dear sister is hiding something again.” As he said that, Tang Xiaoye took out a moldy steamed bun and handed it to his brother.
Fang Muheng took the moldy steamed buns and his eyes were moist.
Ximei has been at Fang's house for several days.
At first, they were like frightened, skinny little beasts. They didn’t dare to touch this one, and they didn’t dare to touch that one. They hid in the corner and shivered.
He cried out, "Don't eat her, she has no flesh on her."
This makes the Fang family very distressed.
Finally, Yang Ximei's fear became less severe. Although she did not dare to go to the table to eat and only dared to eat in a corner, she was still making progress.
However, when the family's maid, Mrs. Chen, helped Yang Ximei tidy up the room, she dug out several moldy steamed buns from under the pillow and bed.
The moldy steamed buns were hard and had teeth marks on them.
Fang Muheng tried his best to be gentle and said to Yang Ximei with a smile, "There is no need to hide food, there are endless buns at home."
Yang Ximei timidly agreed, but it remained the same.
Fang Muheng was in a daze holding the moldy and hard buns handed over by his sister.
…
At this time, Yang Ximei poked her head out from the corner and saw the moldy buns in Fang Muheng's hand. The little girl was frightened.
She was distressed that the food she had hidden was taken away, worried about being scolded, and even more worried about being kicked out of the house. The life in the Fang family these days was a good life that she had never dreamed of in her life.
“Ximei.” When Fang Muheng saw Ximei, he walked over and picked up the little girl.
“Steamed buns, steamed buns.” Ximei pointed to the steamed buns in Fang Muheng’s hand.
Fang Muheng smiled and handed the steamed bun to Yang Ximei.
The younger sister held the steamed bun tightly in her arms. After a while, she raised her head and looked at Fang Muheng. The little girl showed an expression of great struggle. Finally, she seemed to have made a great determination. She raised her hand timidly, " Uncle, you eat."
Fang Muheng looked at the steamed buns handed over by Yang Ximei and saw the bright and expectant eyes of the little person.
He lowered his head and took a bite.
Steamed buns that have lost water are hard and tooth-piercing.
Fang Muheng took a hard bite, chewed it up, and swallowed it into his stomach.
“Brother! You can’t eat it!” Tang Xiaoye exclaimed.
"Sister." Fang Muheng said to his sister, "You know, my younger sister couldn't even eat steamed buns like this before. She could only find steamed buns from the mud pits to eat, and she had to hide them for fear of being snatched away. .”
Looking at his sister who seemed to understand, Fang Muheng held Yang Ximei with one hand and put his other hand on his sister's shoulder:
"Ximei has endured hardships since she was a child, which you and I will never understand."
“Let countless compatriots like me have enough to eat, wear warm clothes, and not suffer.” Fang Muheng looked at his sister with an extremely serious expression, “This is the goal that our generation should strive for.”
Yang Ximei didn't understand. When she saw that Fang Muheng was willing to eat her steamed buns, she felt sorry for the steamed buns but also felt very happy. She opened her mouth and smiled timidly.
At this moment, Koji returned to the press conference of the ‘Japan-China Friendship Seminar’ and Asian Peace Promotion Seminar on Hankou Road.
He did not report to Yingzuo Yingyi immediately, but waited for the other two groups to return from investigating the news. After he compiled the information, he went to report to Yingzuo Yingyi.
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