Men and women eating in the courtyard

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Momotani Erika opened her eyes with difficulty, and what came into her sight was a blurry back.

As far as she could see, the light was dim, and the white curtains floated with the breeze, like a ghost.

She was somewhat familiar with the furnishings in the room. Although her head and abdomen still hurt, she had remembered that this was the International Hotel and she was safe.

"Excuse me--hello, why am I here? Did you help me?"

Momotani Erika's throat was hoarse, but after waking up from the chaos, with the pain in her body, she also remembered what happened before she lost consciousness.

At that time, she should have been on Zhushikou East Street, and had an appointment with a close friend to meet at the Temple of Heaven Park. The meeting failed and she returned, and the result was...

"If you are awake, then please cooperate with us to answer a few questions."

The person sitting on the chair by the window with his back to her spoke, and Momotani Erika was sure that he heard the two words he said, "we".

She slowly turned her head and observed the situation in the room, but she found a faint light outside the half-open door of the bedroom.

This is a suite, a high-end suite, with a separate bedroom and bathroom, a small living room and a study, which is considered the best type of the International Hotel.

Of course, people from the Foreign Affairs Office also book rooms here for a long time, but they rarely come to stay, only for communication and rest, because they have discipline.

Foreign businessmen or media people are much more relaxed and can choose the dormitory of the Foreign Affairs Office or a high-end hotel like the International Hotel.

Of course, they prefer to enjoy high-level treatment. As long as it is safe enough, they don’t have to worry about accommodation expenses and food and drink consumption.

These are all paid by the unit.

Momotani Erika also has such a high-end suite in the International Hotel. As the fixed residence of the head of the Beijing Office of Sanhe Co., Ltd., it is also used for domestic communication and office use.

She lives here, socializes here, works here, and even...

The light at the door should be the desk lamp on the desk. Someone must be taking notes.

"So, please tell me, who are you?"

Momoya Erika suppressed her inner shock and asked softly, "Who is asking me questions, and who am I answering?"

——

The lights of the International Hotel never go out.

This is a saying among foreign affairs personnel and foreign affairs groups working or traveling in the mainland. They have just landed and asked where to eat and stay to ensure sufficient safety. Someone will definitely suggest them to try the International Hotel.

This place only receives internal guests and is not open to the public, so safety is fully guaranteed.

The so-called internal personnel refers to the guests that Red Star Factory is responsible for entertaining in the city.

Or, as a designated reception hotel for foreign affairs embassies, guests are responsible for entertaining.

So, here you can see not only senior cadres who come to Red Star Factory for business, but also staff of various foreign affairs embassies, foreign businessmen and media people.

Momoya Erika is a typical representative of foreign businessmen, mature and intellectual, full of charm.

And James is a typical foreign affairs embassy staff, a first-class secretary of the sun never sets. The work pressure is very high. Just after the age of 40, he has already found himself lonely.

Working in a foreign country for many years, and being highly vigilant and careful about discipline, inevitably makes them tired and always fantasize about a chance meeting.

Flies don't bite seamless eggs, so...

The two people's communication started with Li Xuewu's cruel rejection of Momotani Erika.

Coincidentally, I met Li Xuewu in the billiard room downstairs. I thought I could develop a private friendship further, but I didn't expect that the girls of the Red Star Factory Dance Troupe were wronged.

Li Xuewu was busy dealing with this matter, so he didn't show any yearning or intention to Momotani Erika's invitation to him to play billiards upstairs.

Not long after, the Red Star Factory organized a negotiation meeting and arranged a lunch meeting at the International Hotel.

Momotani Erika took the initiative again, but she was faced with Li Xuewu's neither soft nor hard nail. Even when discussing the relationship between the two sides, Li Xuewu used a clear attitude to express that he would not and was not qualified to forgive their despicable and sinful nation on behalf of the dead Chinese people.

This attitude is not harsh or hostile, but for her, Li Xuewu is a target that she can never get.

It's a pity. Young, humorous, witty, and powerful, both Sanhe United Co., Ltd. and the people behind her have shown enough interest in Li Xuewu.

As long as she can get close to Li Xuewu, she is willing to do this job for a lifetime. She has enough confidence in her looks and skills.

But she never expected that Li Xuewu, who is elegant and shows the most open attitude in business activities, is actually a tribe leader.

——

Lonely hearts always come together inexplicably, as if it is a coincidence, but it doesn't seem to be a coincidence. In the restaurant downstairs, James, who came to taste delicious food alone, met Momotani Erika, who came to drink alone.

Coincidentally, both of them learned Chinese, and even more coincidentally, Momotani Erika also knows English, so they sat together.

You treat me to a meal, and I treat you to a drink.

There is a Chinese proverb that goes, "When you are full, you don't miss home, let alone your child's mother."

James' homesickness was fully relieved and released in front of the gentle Erika Momotani, and the two of them expressed their distress to each other.

Erika Momotani describes herself as a person who works out of town all year round and endures her boyfriend cheating on her in China. However, today she received a breakup letter from the other party and is left alone, drunk and lonely.

Out of a gentleman's instinct, James comforted Momotani Erika, and they had endless topics to talk about. Even after the meal was finished and the wine drained, Erika Momotani said she still had a bottle of good wine in the room upstairs and she wanted to continue the conversation.

All this was a coincidence, he just met a girl who was lovelorn, drunk, and in need of comfort. James said to himself that he couldn't just walk away coldly, that would be too ungentlemanly.

So, they went upstairs, and in Momotani Erika's room, they talked frankly to each other, comforted each other, and treated each other like wine in a foreign country.

After waking up, everything was as before, as if nothing had happened.

James is also a foreign affairs elite who never sets, and is the first secretary in the foreign affairs embassy.

Erika Momotani is still a business elite, a working woman, mature and charming.

It's just that James has one more foreign friend, and Erika Momotani has one more target.

——

"He is responsible for collecting and investigating the development of industrial science and technology in the mainland, and will conduct more special and targeted investigations on individual projects."

Erika Momotani was lying on the bed, talking about the James she knew, or the results of her investigation after targeting James.

"He is the person in charge of this work and has dedicated staff to cooperate with him. I know of no less than three people serving him."

Looking at the dim ceiling, trying to recall the experience some time ago, she paused for a long time, and then continued: "I don't know who exactly there are. He confided very little, and he also warned me that these It’s not within the scope of the transaction, so I shouldn’t inquire too much.”

"Deal? Are you saying the deal is right?"

The person sitting on the chair asked firmly in a slightly surprised but calm tone: "Does he define the relationship between you as a transaction, or is it between intelligence?"

"I think they should all be there. He doesn't really care who I am."

Erika Momotani turned her head away and looked at the lamp on the ground in the corner of the room. It was weak and powerless, just like her now, a lamb to be slaughtered.

"He said that these contents can be easily collected through newspapers or some superficial relationships, but it will take more time."

She breathed a sigh of relief and said: "The breakthrough that made progress was that she showed up at the International Hotel from Chantal and did not leave with the trade tour group. James is very interested in her."

"So, he asked you to get close to Chantal, or to find out some information?"

After the man asked this question, he paused and asked again: "Why does he think you can serve him, or that he has the information or value you need?"

"I don't know, I can't figure it out." Erika Momotani shook her head slightly, looked at the back of the chair and said, "Maybe this is the pride that the sun never sets?"

This answer made the man on the chair pause, and he didn't ask any more questions for a long time.

Erika Momotani also felt ridiculous, and the wound on her stomach ached from laughing.

"Are you Li Xuewu's person? Or are you the person he arranged to monitor me all the time?"

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After the laughter, there was a long silence. After the silence, there was Erika Momotani's desperate request: "Can I see him?"

——

"Haha - are you British so funny?"

Erika Momotani took James' arm and got out of the car. She glanced at the sign of the Friendship Store and was still complimenting the cruel joke that the other party had just told in the car.

James pursed his lips, consciously regaining his youth and feeling proud.

The British gentleman once again conquered the exotic Yamato style with gunfire. Seeing the charming mature business woman favored by him, every man will feel a little proud.

Therefore, to show your manly demeanor, you must use a more traditional and powerful method, that is, take your woman to the mall, spend a lot of money, and use your visible strength to knock her out.

When she is addicted to the psychedelic world of spending money and extravagant money that you created, if you ask her to lie down, she will lie down, if you ask her to kneel, she will kneel, if you ask her to hurry up, she can make you...

Of course, what James wants this girl to do is not just lie down. That would be a waste of talent. Professional things should be left to professionals. What kind of professional talent is Miss Taogu?

Advanced hunters often appear in the form of prey.

Antique collections, jewelry and jade, white jade national stone and wood carvings, agarwood, men's and women's clothing...

Erika Momotani likes to order cheongsam at Youyi Store. She feels that this traditional silk fabric can bring out the beauty of her figure.

James also likes her wearing a cheongsam, especially an oriental beauty. Wearing a cheongsam is a unique beauty that the female colleagues in the foreign embassy who imitate can't compare no matter how much they imitate.

Therefore, at the counter, he not only patiently accompanied Momotani Erika to select fabrics and discuss styles, but also asked the salesperson in the store what jewelry should be paired with a cheongsam.

The salespersons in the Friendship Store all have a pair of discerning eyes, and of course they can tell that the couple in front of them are not good people.

But if you open the door to do business, especially the business of foreigners, no one can take care of it if they are willing.

Therefore, in line with the principle of making more money and minding less, the salesperson introduced the history and culture of cheongsam in detail, and also talked about the trend of matching cheongsam with jewelry in the last century and between the 1930s and 1950s of this century.

Gold, silver, jade, gemstones, beads, strings, chains, bracelets, etc., are nothing more than these precious materials and styles.

Coincidentally, Momotani Erika has long hair, so jade hairpins, jade bracelets, gold earrings, jade beads.

In the room of Momotani Erika in the International Hotel, when James saw her put on cheongsam and put on the gold and silver jewelry he bought for her, he felt that there was only one sentence that was right, that there is really no money in this world.

Looking in the mirror, Momotani Erika looked at herself as if she had returned to thirty years ago, the world's pearl, the Magic City, and she was like a fashionable girl of the era.

James was also very excited and pressed her roughly on the chair, like a child, full of sin and desire for destruction.

After the storm, he looked at his masterpiece, took out a document from his briefcase with satisfaction, threw it in front of Erika Momotani, whose eyes were still empty and whose mouth was closed like a dehydrated fish, and said, "Happy cooperation, Miss Momotani."

After waiting for the British gentleman to put on his clothes and leave, Erika Momotani, who had calmed down, frowned and opened the document. Suddenly, she felt as if the sky was about to fall down, as if she fell into an ice cave, and the cold was piercing her bones.

The document was the original confidential document she secretly photographed from James. There were several photos on the cover of the original document. She was smiling like a flower, sitting opposite Max, a German travel reporter, and laughing about something.

She flipped through the document in her hand in horror, comparing the data and key information on it, and finally jumped off the bed.

She didn't care about the torn cheongsam on the ground, the scattered jewelry and jade, she hurriedly found a few clothes from the closet to change, put the document in her handbag and ran out, she was in a hurry.

Downstairs, she asked the waiter to help call a friend and said she would meet at the Temple of Heaven.

The International Hotel has a car rental service, so a Shanghai sedan took her to the Temple of Heaven.

At the Temple of Heaven, she met the person she wanted to see, but the person just stared at her and looked like he was going to rush up and attack her at any time.

She didn't dare to take the initiative to contact him again, so she could only run back to where there were many people.

Momotani Erika knew very well that this was the safest city, and any gunshot might attract the attention of special departments.

So she was sure that the person didn't dare to shoot.

However, she miscalculated after all. She ran all the way from the Temple of Heaven to Zhushikou East Street, and the person couldn't help but attack her.

"No! No! It's not me!"

"Help!"

"Ah!"

The person hurriedly stabbed her three times while she was shouting and struggling, and every knife wanted to kill her.

——

“Sorry, I don’t know him well.”

The man sitting on the chair with his back to her finally spoke: “If you want to, you can call him.”

“Perhaps, he has also received the news of your accident. After all, you are friends.”

“Friends? Haha—I don’t deserve it.”

Momoya Erika shook her head with a wry smile, looked at the man who stood up from the chair and still had his back to her, and asked: “How will I be treated, expelled or…”

“Save this question for the person you want to see, our conversation ends here.”

The man walked out and left a last sentence to Momotani Erika: “I hope you can forget what we talked about today.”

“Good luck, ma’am.”