Chapter 183 Abandoned Women in the Republic of China (17)
"Thank you, thank you, comrade. On behalf of our suffering compatriots, I would like to express my highest respect to you."
After Ling Shiqing came to his senses, he stood upright and saluted Shi Jiang with a standard military salute. Uncle Lin followed behind him, also with a solemn look on his face, feeling ashamed of his previous suspicion.
After all, most Chinese people are patriotic.
"I'm afraid it will be more difficult to go to Zhejiang Province by land. I suggest that after you transport it out, you can change to a larger ship and go directly around the Eastern Province and then go ashore. It will be safer."
When Shi Jiang reached this point, Ling Shiqing and Uncle Lin looked at each other.
"Don't you know your comrade's last name?"
Shi Jiang smiled slightly and replied: "My surname is Hua, from Hua Xia. I'm here to say goodbye. The mountains are high and the water is far away. Please take care of yourself."
After saying that, he turned around and left.
Ling Shiqing wanted to step forward and ask, but he opened his eyes wide and looked at Shi Jiang's every step as he walked out, as if he was separated by a long distance.
But in the blink of an eye, Shi Jiang disappeared.
He and Uncle Lin looked at each other, and a thought flashed through their minds at the same time. There are masters among the people. It would be great if there were such masters who could guide them.
However, when they thought of the medicine and large yellow croaker in the boat, the two of them put this idea behind them. As humans, you can't be so greedy!
After returning home, Shi Jiang slept until dawn.
By the next day, before nine o'clock, the entire Magic City was under martial law.
There were so many people coming and going to patrol, it was scary.
Especially in slum areas, door-to-door searches have even begun.
"I don't believe that these thieves can become invisible and fly. It's absolutely impossible to transport so many things out of the city."
When the head of the Fang family heard the news with a livid face, he angrily grabbed the teacup at hand and threw it to the ground with a bang. The teacup broke into several pieces with a "bang" sound.
The heads of several other aristocratic families were sitting on chairs on both sides, looking at the broken teacups on the ground, their faces looking very ugly.
Although their losses were not as serious as those of the Fang family, their financial resources were not as rich as those of the Fang family.
Those things, but they kept the life-saving money just in case, and now someone actually stole them all quietly without saying anything, and they didn't even know who did it.
This left everyone confused and unable to investigate.
"Could it be a mole who did it?"
One of them couldn't help but speak.
After all, only your confidants and closest people will know about the secret warehouse of your home.
Now they have moved all the things without causing any alarm. Is there a mole or a real ghost?
Upon hearing this, everyone immediately looked at each other with surprised faces, then lowered their heads in thought.
"If there is an insider, then why something like this happened to our families on the same night is because it happened to every family?"
Another head of the Du family felt that it was impossible for all the family members to have a mole at the same time, right?
"What the Du family leader said is funny. If there isn't a ghost inside, is there really a ghost?"
The head of the Li family responded with some dissatisfaction, and then said bitterly: "Maybe this was a premeditated incident. I don't believe it. I can't find the real culprits even if I peel off the cocoons."
The head of the Du family felt very uncomfortable because of the rebuke, but he didn't show it on his face.
"Since you said it was premeditated, let's talk about how to peel it off."
"It's simple. If you find the people who have contact with each of our families, you can roughly identify the few people who can collude. If the torture continues, I won't believe that they won't recruit."
The head of the Li family said fiercely.
Patriarch Fang nodded, feeling that what Patriarch Li said made sense.
Moreover, he thinks more than the head of the Li family.
After all, his family suffered the greatest loss.
That batch of medicines was waiting to be delivered to the concession. Now that the medicines were stolen, how could he explain to the concession then?
Without the support of the concession, the Fang family is like a toothless tiger in the devil's capital. Others can gnaw a piece of flesh from him anytime and anywhere.
Compared to the large yellow croaker and grain that were stolen, it was nothing worth mentioning.
Although the head of the Fang family couldn't help but feel sad when he thought of those big yellow croakers.
The property that the Fang family had accumulated over several lifetimes was lost inexplicably.
If he caught the traitor, he would definitely let him taste the feeling of being quartered.
The searches in the city continued, and the cries of interrogation from various houses continued.
But no matter how tortured they were, no one could tell the reason.
Fang Yongyuan has been very depressed these past two days and has no time to come see Shi Jiang.
For no other reason than he was taken by his own father to see the consul of the concession.
They invited me to dinner, presented women, and even sent several boxes of ocean and large yellow croakers from the trading company.
This calmed down the angry concession consul, but the matter did not end just like that.
It just extended the time and limited the Fang family to take care of the medicine matter within one month.
Otherwise, not even the consul can do anything to help them.
After walking out of the consulate, Fang Yongyuan turned his head and said "poof", and then said dissatisfied: "Dad, we begged dad to sue grandma and gave him so much money, but we only exchanged such a one-month period. Where will we go from then?"
Conjure so many medicines for him?"
The head of the Fang family looked cold. Could it be that he didn't understand what his son said?
But, what else can be done?
Now, the land they are standing on is clearly their own land, but it has been occupied by these foreigners, saying that this is a concession and a territory that belongs to them, the foreigners.
Just one month, he didn't believe it. He couldn't handle the medicine issue within one month.
The Fang family here was in dire straits, and over there Xie's father and Xie's mother took the original owner's parents and took a car to the Magic City together.
"Father, mother, are you here?"
Xie Yuntian waited anxiously at the train station. As soon as he saw Xie's father and mother getting off the train, he rushed forward.
Following Xie’s father and Xie’s mother were the parents of the original owner.
When he heard Xie Yuntian's shouting, he thought he was calling them and nodded to Xie Yuntian.
Shi's father was extremely satisfied with Xie Yuntian.
The most important point is naturally the support provided by the Xie family to the Shi family.
Ever since he started smoking, he could no longer hold anything else in his mind except cigarettes.
This time, Xie's father and mother were able to persuade him to come, and they also promised that as long as they called their daughter back, they would get him a cart full of cigarettes so that he could smoke as much as he wanted.
Shi's mother was still very sane, but she had been taught since she was a child that she should obey her father and her husband at home. Even if she knew that what Shi's father was doing was wrong, it was hard for her to speak out.
She looked behind Xie Yuntian and said with some disappointment: "Yuntian, didn't Jiang Er come with you?"
When Xie Yuntian heard Shi Mu's question, he frowned, feeling angry and speaking rudely.
"I sent you a telegram this time to ask you to persuade Shi Jiang to go back. Now that she is lawless here and doesn't listen to me at all, how could she come with me to pick you up?"