20 years of the Republic of China

Chapter 402 Luda·Moving forward together
AM: 08:32
As the saying goes, when the sky is yellow, it rains, and when people are yellow, they are sick.

The light rain last night was a bit of a wake-up call.

This morning, although the rain has stopped, the sky is still dim, gloomy and cool, indicating that strong winds are coming and heavy rain is coming - the matter is not over yet!

Xinshi Street, the southern end of Zhenyuan Town, the scenery is all dark yellow without exception.

Wearing a pair of shiny pointed leather shoes, he carefully walked around the puddles on the roadside and walked towards the Nantetsu Yamato Hotel.

The hotel is located at the corner of the street. The building shape is like an arrowhead in a formation of wild geese, extending along the road at the intersection towards the northwest sides.

The store door opened, and a young man in a suit and tie, wearing a top hat and carrying a black suitcase, walked in with a cheerful expression.

"Honey, wow!" the front desk lady greeted enthusiastically.

"Oh!" The young man put his hat on the counter, looked at the girl a little frivolously, and asked with a smile, "Is there any room available?"

"Yes! Please register first!"

Leng grinned and complained: "Brother, there are too many slopes in Luda, and it will suddenly fall off!"

After finishing all this, Xiao Gu straightened his shirt in the mirror. When he left the hotel's main entrance, he didn't forget to say hello to the front desk lady. Then he came to the breakfast shop across the street and sat down, putting the bag in his hand. The draft was handed to Bramu, the leader pretending to be a driver.

An ordinary and boring day, isn't it?
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"Gu...Chuan, Mr. Gu, right?"

Zhao Guoyan was queuing up for a haircut at the barber shop diagonally opposite, and Sai Donggua next to him was looking through illustrated magazines boredly.

Of course the front desk lady didn't take this joke seriously, but money can work wonders, not to mention that introducing the hotel was within her scope of responsibilities, so she hurriedly put away the military tickets, called another colleague to keep an eye on the shift, and then walked around. At the front desk, he led Xiao Gu up the wooden stairs and introduced him to the general situation of the hotel.

As they talked, the two came to the second floor of the hotel. The corridor on one side was the guest room, and at the end of the corridor on the other side of the corner was a slightly modified medium-sized banquet hall. The tables and chairs were gathered against the wall, obviously for the purpose. Preparations for tonight's Sectarian Party reception.

"Bah! The crow's mouth!" Li Leng turned around and scolded, "Just be content! Fortunately, there is a sanatorium behind this mountain, so the little devil built the asphalt road and replaced it with a dirt road, and the wheels have already been scrapped!"

He opened his suitcase, took out pen and paper, and drew a rough sketch of the hotel, marking several key points.

"Why?" Xiao Gu asked knowingly, "Isn't it because I'm Chinese?"

"Is this the only staircase you have here?" Xiao Gu asked nonchalantly.

In the northern section of Xinshi Street, near Mopan Mountain in the northern suburbs, a crisp and pleasant metallic ringing sound suddenly came.

"Ours is the earliest Yamato Hotel in Nantetsu. Many famous people have stayed here. There is a great writer in Japan named Natsume Soseki. In 1909, he——"

"Yeah! This doesn't work, at least not today."

"Ah? No, there are small stairs in the corridors on both sides, but they are not often used."

"No, I'm Chinese too." The receptionist explained quickly, "We are having a cocktail party on the second floor tonight, and the guest rooms have already been booked."

At the end, Xiao Gu followed the girl back to the first floor and thanked him repeatedly: "It's hard work. This place is really good. I'll think about it later."

As he walked, he silently counted the window lattice, stopped near the corner on the north side of the hotel and took a look, then returned to the guest room and marked a few more marks on the floor plan.

"Jingle Bell--"

The two parted ways, and Xiao Gu immediately went to Room 112. When he walked in, he saw that the window faced north, facing the small open space at the back of the hotel. If it had been anyone else, he would probably have curled his lips and been displeased, but it suited him exactly what he wanted.

Xiao Gu quickly waved his hand and said with a smile: "It's just a joke, don't mind." As he said that, he suddenly took out two Dongyang military tickets from his pocket, put them into the girl's hand and asked, "Isn't the reception in the evening? You can take me up there for a visit now, I want to choose a place for our wedding."

Then, Xiao Gu locked the door again, pushed open the back window, stuck his head out and looked around, suddenly turned over and jumped out, to the open space behind the hotel alternated with other western-style buildings, and looked up at the red building. White and white Russian-style buildings.

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The front desk lady quickly took out the cardboard, then turned around to get the room key. When she came back, the guest had already registered the check-in information and took out the deposit and rent.

"Okay! If anything happens to Mr. Gu, come to the front desk to see me at any time."

The young man smiled and said, "Call me Xiao Gu. I'm familiar with you."

Tou Daozi took the drawings, finished his breakfast in a short time, and drove the carriage towards the old market.

"There are not many people here, so it should be fine!"

"Can you change me to a room on the second floor?"

From the roof down, the walls were outfitted with several wrist-thick drainage pipes.

The front desk lady received extra money, so she did her duty and introduced the hotel's facilities, decoration, and layout in great detail.

"Huh?" The lady at the front desk immediately blushed.

"Then trouble you."

AM: 10:27
Dark clouds are gradually approaching in the distance.

"Are you talking about the wedding, or you?"

"We're almost there. Not far downhill is the bridge across the river."

The two brothers' movements were uniform, their posture, breathing, and even the frequency of their blinks were almost the same.

Two brothers, Leng Leng and Leng Lengli, each rode a bicycle, holding their chests and waists, panting heavily, and struggled to climb a gentle slope.

"Can you still hold a cocktail party?"

The front desk lady was a little shy, so she still called him Mr. Gu and said, "This is your key. Room No. 112. Turn left in front."

The lady at the front desk nodded and said, "We can handle receptions, banquets, and new-style weddings. Are you interested, sir?"

PM: 01:36
Dark clouds were gathering more and more, and the air was damp and dull. Although it was cool, it was a bit breathless.

"Thank you for your hard work, shopkeeper! Rent a car!"

Li Zheng carried a black suitcase and took two brothers to the horse and carriage shop on Old Market Street.

The boss's surname is Chu. He is in his forties. He is broad-shouldered and round-waisted. His face is covered with stubble. He does not look like a businessman at all. Instead, he looks like a practitioner.

It's hard work to meet each other, it must be Jianghu.

When Shopkeeper Chu heard this, he immediately clasped his fists and said with a smile: "Hey! It turns out that we are working side by side online. It's hard work. Come! I want to rent a car and come to the backyard with me!"

As he spoke, he led the three of them to the backyard where the livestock was kept. Donkeys, horses, and mules were all available, and a strong smell of livestock immediately hit them. Shopkeeper Xue first took San to the car hood and asked, "Are you bringing people or goods? What kind of car do you want to rent?"

"Bringing people and goods, it's a small thing, it doesn't require much ostentation." Li Zheng walked around the stables and said carefully, "The car doesn't matter, but the horse must be good!"

Shopkeeper Chu hurriedly said: "Don't worry, the horse must be a good horse, and the carriage must be a good carriage, but there is one thing. If my carriage does not go a long way, it can go as far as Dalian Port at most, no further, and the driver How about we match him?"

"What did you say?" Li Zheng turned around and asked with a frown, "Can't I just give you a little more deposit?"

Shopkeeper Chu smiled and waved his hand: "Man, this is not a matter of money. The north of this boundary is Dalian Port and the south is Lushunkou. What I lack is not business, but livestock. Do you understand what I mean? Again? The reporter said, since we are all working online, I won’t pay extra for the driver. You see if it works, and if it works, we will discuss the price.”

Li Zheng and the others looked at each other and smiled, then said: "Shopkeeper, if you insist on saying this, then that's fine, I'll just do as you say!"

"Thank you for your consideration!" Shopkeeper Chu asked, "Then you want to pick up the car now? How long will it be rented for, and where will it come from?"

"Rent it for two days and one night, and pick up the car at about five o'clock later. From your Oshima Town to Dalian Port, a round trip, you calculate the money!"

"Okay, okay! Come on, let's talk about the price at the counter!" Shopkeeper Chu laughed repeatedly, then turned around and shouted, "Old six! Old six! Help these guys put the car on later!"

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PM: 04:47
Swallows flew low, the strong wind made the window lattice rattle, and there was a strong earthy smell in the air.

Jiang Lianheng and Xue Yingqing were the only two people left in the hotel on Jiushi Street.

Jiang Lian crossed his legs and smoked while looking at the floor plan of the Yamato Hotel sent by Tou Daozi. The main reason why he did not move to the Yamato Hotel in advance was that since the Zongshe Party was going to hold a cocktail party there, Eigo I naturally have many eyes and ears, so the later I go, the better I can ensure my identity is not exposed.

However, it is unclear how effective this approach will be.

Xue Yingqing sat in front of the dressing table, combing her hair over and over again, but it seemed that she couldn't always get what she wanted. After working for a long time, she finally managed to pin it up with a hairpin. She turned her head left and right in the mirror and still felt it was a bit low.

After putting on her earrings and pearl necklace, applying makeup and powder, and busying herself for a while, she asked calmly: "Hey, doesn't it look good?"

Jiang Lian fell into trance and without even raising his eyelids, he said, "What's so good about a broken picture?"

Xue Yingqing couldn't help but rolled his eyes and cursed in a low voice: "You are just a fool!"

"Eh? Why are you scolding people?" Jiang Lianheng raised his head and then came back to his senses and said, "Oh, you mean you? You must be good-looking! Do you need to say this? You have to listen to me praise you?"

Xue Yingqing did not retort, but started playing with her hair again.

Jiang Lianheng looked her over, then stood up immediately, walked up and asked: "Shopkeeper Xue, are you scared? If you are scared, just say, in fact, it doesn't matter if you don't go today, it's already that time anyway, so No more acting.”

Xue Yingqing ignored it and continued to put his hair back on his own.

"You said the night before yesterday that Mr. Rong Wu might have known that you were no longer in Fengtian?" she asked, "then would he have guessed that you came to Lushun?"

"Then even if Lao Deng had guessed it, he wouldn't have guessed that it was me pretending to be Cai Yunsheng, right?" Jiang Lian asked rhetorically, "Before I came to Dalian, weren't you and Cai Yunsheng already talking to Mr. Rong Wu?" Is the business done? It’s not like this person just popped up after I came.”

"Then you'd better be careful. Mr. Rong Wu has a little devil behind him."

"Pull him down! Isn't he just a traitor?" Jiang Lianheng snorted coldly, "It's not like I've never had sex with such people."

With that said, he walked to the window, and the carriage with the knife in his head was waiting downstairs at any time - the Congshe Party's cocktail party was about to begin.

"Boom boom boom!"

There was a sudden knock on the door, and Saidonggua's voice came from outside the door: "Brother Dao, it's me!"

"What's going on?" Jiang Lianheng opened the door and asked in a deep voice.

"Brother Yan asked me to come over and deliver a message to you two. Su Tai has arrived at Yamato Hotel."

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PM: 05:50
The sky was dark and the earth was dark, and thunder began to roll deep in the clouds.

On Xinshi Street, in the northern section of Tsukimi Town, the lights of Laoshanren’s Fengwai Residence were already lit. In the backyard of the reception room, a rustling sound suddenly came from the bushes. The wind was so strong that it did not attract anyone. doubt.

The graph paper sliding doors on the north and south sides are tightly closed.

Lao Shanren and Rong Wuye sat opposite each other at a low table, with a hollow floor under the tatami.

There was a pot of boiling water hanging between the two of them, which was boiling quietly at the moment.

"Isn't the Zongshe Party's reception about to begin?" Lao Shanren said with a hint of reproach and dissatisfaction in his tone, "You should go to the reception now to help the prince and me raise funds for the establishment of Manchukuo."

Rong Wuye said helplessly: "Laoshanren, I want to wait a little longer to see the news from Su Tai."

"You are too cautious. This will never lead to a big deal! Don't delay the empire's plans because of those little people!"

"However, there is an old saying in our country - be careful in sailing the ship of ten thousand years."

"Ten thousand years?" Lao Shanren said with a look of displeasure, "How many times have I told you? The plan to help the Qing government to restore the country can no longer be delayed! The imperial cabinet has begun to put pressure on me. If this continues, all our previous efforts will be in vain! The prince has already decided to defeat him, so what right do you have to hesitate here? "

Rong Wuye was confused: "Laoshanren, it's not that I'm hesitant, it's that I haven't determined the situation yet—"

"The situation is that Zhang Yuting had already severely damaged the Clan Society Party four years ago!" Lao Shanren interrupted sharply, "Now that he has great power, it is impossible for the prince to stand on his head. We must race against time. If If you are not qualified, I will discuss with the prince to replace you with another person!"

Rong Wuye frowned, hesitated for a moment, and had no choice but to agree.

"Yes! I'll go over and handle the contact right away!"

"Wait!" Lao Shanren suddenly stopped him, "After the reception, remember to invite the prince to my place. Black Dragon will have important decisions to inform him."

"Yes, I understand!"

Fifth Master Rong stood up reluctantly, opened the paper door, and walked along the corridor towards the gate of the house.

The two gangsters in the yard immediately came up to them and asked, "Fifth Master, shall we go there?"

"How prepared are you?"

"Don't worry, Fifth Master, our people are everywhere there, there will definitely be no problem!"

Even so, Master Kerong was still worried. Before leaving, he decided to go to the cashier's office to call the Yamato Hotel and confirm the situation there with Su Tai.

Unexpectedly, when I was about to lift the receiver, the phone suddenly rang...

(End of this chapter)