War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1186 Banshee Andy
In the night, the second floor of the small building illuminated by gorgeous chandeliers was still lively. Wei Ran also completed the task assigned to him by his beautiful cousin Mei Xiang at the same time as a piano piece ended.

Taking advantage of the break between dances, Wei Ran also left quietly, and went to the first floor alone to find something to eat.

However, when he saw the long western-style table with all kinds of snacks and fruits, he found that cousin Andy went downstairs one step earlier than himself.

At this time, this woman exuding a charming aura all over her body was standing on a chair with one foot, pinching two pieces of sweet-scented osmanthus cake in one hand, and holding a bottle of iced osmanthus cake loosely in the other hand. The soda, and even hooked Qiu Shi's neck affectionately, and even the cold bottle with water droplets seemed to be unintentionally pasted where it shouldn't be.

Compared with this succubus-like woman, the red face of the little girl Qiushi imprisoned in her arms was already full of reluctance, but she could only use her hands honestly like a pissed off daughter-in-law. From time to time, the small silver fork in the bag would pick up a piece of watermelon and send it to the mouth of the woman who was about to close her mouth to her face.

Looking at the big living room, besides Andy who is always teasing the little girl, there is also Jasmine who is watching the fun with a cigarette in her mouth.

And in the entrance hall, the Eight Immortals who used to play mahjong on that floor were also moved out by Cao Dumb.Sitting around the Eight Immortals table at this time, besides Cao Dumb and Yang Ma, there was also a girl whom Wei Ran had never met before, whom Qiu Shi had never introduced before, and a girl in a tunic suit who always wanted to look back at Qiu Shi from time to time, And like a young guy with a nail sitting under his ass.

Wei Ran clearly remembered that this young man was called Guan Bingwen, and he was the student and driver of the university teacher Mr. Feng Maoyun upstairs. According to Yang's mother, this young man seemed to like the little girl Qiu Shi very much.

Seeing this silly boy turning his head frequently, he didn't even notice that Yang's mother on the opposite side was brazenly changing cards with the girl in a small suit opposite, so he knew that this silly boy was probably jealous of Andy to death now.

"Cousin Andy would enjoy it"

Wei Ran, who had seen enough of the bustle, walked to the table while talking, reached out to pick up a plate of pastries, pinched a piece of meringue from the top, and brought it to his mouth for a bite.

"Do you want to try it?" Andy said, not forgetting to put the sweet-scented osmanthus cake in his hand to Qiushi's mouth, and said with a smile on his face, "Hey, take a bite."

"If you want to worry about Cousin Di, why don't you feed me?" Wei Ran moved closer to the other party with a playful smile.

Andy rolled his eyes, but happily sent the sweet-scented osmanthus cake that was about to be sent to Qiu Shi's mouth to Wei Ran's mouth, and finally let go of the little girl Qiu Shi who was molested by her.

"Why did you come down?" Wei Ran asked while eating the sweet-scented osmanthus cake fed by the other party.

"I'm tired"

While speaking, Andy, who was wearing a cheongsam, sat on the table without any image, folded his legs on the chair, put his hands on the table and said lazily, "How about rubbing my cousin's legs?"

"Are you sure?" Wei Ran asked expectantly after shaking the oily hand who still had the puff pastry residue.

"Stay away from me"

Andy rolled his pretty big eyes again, put down the half-drinked bottle of soda, and said, "Give me a cigarette."

Hearing this, Wei Ran put down the snack plate that was still in his hand, conjured up a cigarette case quite fancy, took out two Camel cigarettes from it, and handed one of them to Andy.

The latter chose to lean forward to hold the cigarette in her mouth, and at the same time reached out and pulled out her own cigarette holder from the long and narrow opening connecting her chest with the collar, and with a very suggestive gesture, put the cigarette in her mouth. A cigarette stuck in the mouthpiece.

After Wei Ran helped to light the cigarette, Andy slowly puffed out a smoke ring, and then hooked his finger towards Wei Ran.

When Wei Ran moved his upper body closer, the girl whispered into Wei Ran's ear, "I'm tired, where is your room? I'm going to take a rest."

Hearing this, Wei Ran hesitated for a while, and raised his chin towards Tao Canhua's room without psychological pressure, "Go to that room, the door is unlocked."

"Aren't you coming?" Andy asked in a low voice, putting his hands and chin on Wei Ran's shoulder.

"I'm not going"

Wei Ran raised his chin toward the stairs, "My nephew is so hungry, I have to bring him some food, and I expect him to sing for everyone later."

"Is that silly boy really Meixiang's nephew?" Andy asked lazily.

"No, my cousin went to the theater to listen to an opera a few days ago, and accidentally saw him doing odd jobs in the backstage. He was poor or something, and she brought him back because she saw how pitiful he was."

"Your cousin's wild seed from her father's family?" Andy asked rather gossip.

"You also know about my cousin's house?" Wei Ran asked back pretending to be surprised.

"what!"

Andy took a breath, "When your cousin was the most popular, the tabloids liked to write stories about her the most."

Wei Ran spread his hands, "I am also supported by my cousin now, but I have no right to speak of her, and that young man is nice."

"I think you are better." Andy said, but he had already pressed one hand on Wei Ran's chest.

"Why don't you wait in the room?" Wei Ran asked excitedly.

"You dare to come?" Andy asked with a smile.

"Why don't you dare, isn't the dance not over yet?"

"After the dance is over, there will still be a game of cards." Andy said, and finally got off the table, yawned and walked into Tao Canhua's room.

Glancing at Jasmine, who was not far away with rounded eyes, Wei Ran raised a finger in a gesture of silence, and then took a few puffs of cigarettes under the thumbs-up gesture from the girl. Only then did he hold the snack plate in one hand and two bottles of soda in the ice bucket in the other, and slowly went upstairs and sat beside Tao Canhua.

"how do you feel?"

At the same time as Wei Ran asked, he also placed the snack plate on the small table, and then used two soda bottles to pry each other to open the bottle cap.

After receiving the soda from Wei Ran, Tao Canhua replied with a bitter face, "I feel uncomfortable."

"Why don't you go downstairs and go back to your room to rest?" When Wei Ran, who was obviously suffocating in his heart, made this suggestion, his face was full of kindness.

Hearing this, Tao Canhua obviously became emotional.But soon, he shook his head, "No, my little aunt told me to wait here."

"Eat something first, lest you run out of strength later." Wei Ran said, picked up a piece of pastry that tasted pretty good and handed it to Tao Canhua.

Almost as soon as the two of them ate the plate of snacks, the dance party finally began to end. The men and women who successfully formed the CP also went downstairs one after another amidst the pleasantries, and disappeared into the night in various means of transportation. middle.

When the two white men who seemed to come here specially to play the piano and the violin and the two girls who were in charge of pouring the wine also left the second floor led by Jasmine.

Taking advantage of the time when Meixiang went downstairs to see off the guests, Andy also went upstairs like a half-hostess, first gouged out Wei Ran angrily, and then invited the people who stayed behind to move up to the second floor In the small living room on the other side, by the way, he snapped his fingers at Tao Canhua who was sitting by the screen, and said frivolously, "Nephew, play a tune for Auntie."

After finishing speaking, the girl withdrew her gaze, and beckoned the people who stayed to sit around the Eight Immortals table set in advance in the living room.

On these tables are not only a box of mahjong and two boxes of poker, but also some snacks and fruit drinks to satisfy the hunger.

While pouring drinks for these people, Wei Ran also noticed that the Someya couple and Feng Maoyun couple were among the people who stayed behind, and these two couples sat on the same card table in an especially tacit understanding.

Sitting around the other table was the unprovoked Miss Gu, and a woman who seemed to be about 30 years old and looked extravagant.Of course, there is also Andy who sits cross-legged on a chair without image.

Although one seat was vacant on their table, the other five relatively younger men and women who stayed behind occupied another table. Obviously, there was no plan to separate out one person to fill the three vacancies here.

"Light a cigarette for me, and then go downstairs to urge your cousin to hurry up."

While talking, Andy hooked his fingers towards Wei Ran, took out the cigarette holder and scolded with an undisguised smile, "You little heartless, I've waited for you in the room for half an hour in vain."

"You are progressing fast"

Miss Gu, who had never communicated with Wei Ran from the beginning to the end, said sarcastically, but whether she was mocking Wei Ran or Andy, it was really hard to define.

"Cousin Wei Ran is always more comfortable to look at than those fat old men"

After Andy finished speaking, he didn't forget to pat Wei Ran's buttocks, and praised with extra satisfaction, "It's really firm to the touch."

"Andy, or else you can take him back and raise him."

Among the three women at the table, Wei Ran was the only one who didn't know him, but the young lady who danced a dance before suggested half jokingly and half seriously, "You can do whatever you want when you bring him back, It won't stain our eyes, right? Second Sister?"

"I'm afraid that little Su's mother will offer a good price." Miss Gu joked with a smile.

"Forget it, I still need a man to support me, but I have no intention of raising a man." Andy waved his hand at Chao Wei Ran who disliked him, "Let your cousin come up quickly."

"I'll go right away." Wei Ran said, put away the lighter, turned and walked to the first floor.

However, when he went downstairs, he happened to see the young man named Guan Bingwen and the girl he didn't know, following Mute Cao through the door leading to the garage.

Then look at Mei Xiang standing at the door, who is pressing Jasmine's ear and seems to be giving some instructions.Seeing Wei Ran going downstairs, Mei Xiang patted Jasmine's shoulder lightly, and then raised her voice and asked, "Andy must have sent you to urge me, right?"

"It seems that my cousin is missing," Wei Ran replied with a normal expression.

"Thank you for your hard work today"

While walking towards the stairs, Meixiang tore off her gloves and handed them to Qiushi who was following behind, and at the same time did not forget to say, "Wait when Jasmine and Uncle Cao are going out to help me with some errands, you should stay downstairs and help me by the way." Mama Yang tidy up."

"Okay." Wei Ran nodded, and at the same time stopped wisely.

"Mother Yang, get some late-night snacks and bring them up." Mei Xiang had already stepped on the stairs while speaking, "Cook some wontons, I want to eat wontons."

"Hey! I'll do it now." Mama Yang, who was tidying up the long table, immediately responded.

Watching Meixiang take Qiushi upstairs, Wei Ran took out the cigarette case, lit the last Qianmen cigarette of the day and put it in his mouth, and then busy with sanitation work under the command of Yang Ma in the kitchen .

Contrary to his expectations, the game upstairs took far longer than the dance.But compared to the poker game, Dumb Cao and Jasmine, who drove away at the end of the dance, did not come back in the same car until around four o'clock in the morning.

At 04:30 in the morning, the card game upstairs finally ended, and Mei Xiang also sent everyone headed by Ms. Gu down.

In the warm greetings, the Someya couple got into the car that came to pick them up first. Immediately afterwards, Volker, the manager of the German foreign company, also bid farewell to everyone, and disappeared into the night alone on a motorcycle parked in the yard. .

Before the sound of the motorcycle engine died down, the young girl who had left with Guan Bingwen in Cao Dumb's car in the middle of the night also drove a car and picked up Miss Gu and the man who seemed to have a good relationship with her. young lady.

When the rest of the young people also left in various ways, Guan Bingwen, who was dragged away by Cao Dumb in the middle of the night, also drove a black car, and finally picked up Feng Maoyun and his wife.

Seeing that there was only one "visitor" like Andy left at the gate of the small courtyard, Meixiang yawned and turned around and walked back. That Andy also yawned, turned around and caught up with her. Meixiang's arm.

"Cousin, help clean up the second floor."

Mei Xiang greeted without turning her head, and then walked into the small building while whispering to Andy in a whisper that only the two of them could hear.

Wei Ran, who hadn't slept all night, and Qiu Shi, who also had dark circles under his eyes, looked at each other, and then he fastened on the iron gate of the courtyard, and followed the latter to the messy second floor.

With Tao Canhua's active help, the three of Wei Ran roughly cleaned up the garbage on the second floor, and by the way, they also collected several stacks from the mahjong table, about 500 yuan.

Just looking at Miss Qiushi's usual appearance, she knew that this kind of good thing was definitely not the first time.But when he asked about it through the silver dollars on the table, the little girl just shook her head, not sure if she didn't know, didn't want to say it, or couldn't say it.

"What is the origin of that Andy?" Wei Ran changed the question and threw it to Qiu Shi who was so sleepy that he could hardly keep his eyes open.

"What about her?"

Qiushi shivered subconsciously, and he became more energetic, "She's a nurse."

"What is it? A nurse?"

"Yeah!" Qiushi nodded, then lowered his voice and said, "She's probably Miss's best friend."

"What does she do?" Wei Ran also lowered his voice, and even Tao Canhua raised his head curiously.

"Nurse, didn't I just say that?"

"Still a nurse now?"

Wei Ran looked at Qiu Shi in surprise, who also nodded, "I was working as a nurse in that private hospital run by the Germans in the German Concession, I can't tell the name of that hospital, the sign there only reads German, no Mandarin name."

It is also a means.
Wei Ran muttered to himself, then asked, "How did she and Miss know each other?"

"do not know"

Qiu Shi shook her head, "Sister Jasmine told me what I just said, but you'd better avoid her, she's a woman. Oh! Anyway, you'd better avoid her."

Although Qiu Shi didn't say the whole thing, Wei Ran could guess that the word "hooligan" must be the word "rogue" that he couldn't say after "female".

After exchanging glances with Tao Canhua, Wei Ran finally stopped asking.Although the reception and card game this night did not seem to get any useful clues and information.But at least let Wei Ran roughly figure out the contacts and energy of his beautiful cousin.

Of course, compared to these, he is now starting to wonder whether Andy, a charming woman who has never been mentioned in all the information that can be found in later generations, is also hiding some ulterior secrets.

(End of this chapter)