jdhmnovel Chapter 128: Busy raising a family in a foreign land 128
Chapter 128: Busy raising a family in a foreign land 128
When Sister Xu Lan heard Teacher Li speaking Japanese to the reporter, huge waves of emotion rose in her heart.
This reporter once joined the parade and distributed anti-Japanese leaflets to her. At that time, his young expression was full of anger.
When Li Xiaoya was at her aunt's house, she told them about the September 18th Incident and the January 28th Incident with righteous indignation.
At that time, the expression on her beautiful face was so sad.
All this overturned Sister Xu Lan's cognition.
For some unknown reason, she slowed down the pace of clearing the table and listened with effort to the two people's hushed conversation.
She learned Japanese because she saw Mr. Lu chatting with the Japanese woman when she first came to the coffee shop, and she felt envious.
Now it comes in handy.
Matsumoto said: "The higher-ups are very unhappy about the sulfamethoxazole incident. The empire has paid a huge amount of money for this. How can these despicable people deserve to own the empire's wealth?"
There was a bad expression on Li Xiaoya's pale face.
She had previously persuaded Wu Ziyang to agree to sell sulfa to the Empire at double the price, but she was suddenly shot and had to be hospitalized.
By the time she got better, everything was settled.
"Don't worry. We can't get the gold back from the Qing Gang, but as for Wu Ziyang and Lu Pingsheng, I will try my best to prevent the empire from suffering any loss." Li Xiaoya said in a cold tone.
Matsumoto Shi chuckled and said, "Masako, that young chief inspector loves you deeply, how could you bear to let him go?"
Li Xiaoya's expression did not change, and she said calmly, "If he loved me deeply, he would not have hidden these things from me in the beginning."
Matsumoto studied her expression for a long time before saying, "I don't care about anything else, but you'd better get rid of that Lu Pingsheng."
Li Xiaoya didn't say anything.
Sister Xu Lan’s Japanese is average, and she could understand most of it sporadically, but she could understand the last sentence.
The young girl covered her mouth, tears welling up in her eyes, trying hard not to make any sound.
It was not until the two people next to her left one after another that she observed her colleagues around her.
Because of the cholera incident, the cafe's business was slow. In addition, the manager was on leave, the supervisor Hu Na was not there, and the staff were all slacking off in the back, so no one noticed her.
Sister Xu Lan breathed a sigh of relief.
She went to the bathroom in the back when no one was paying attention and tried to calm herself down.
"Nana, I told you that if you follow me, I will buy you a house and you can just be my wife."
Hu Na's giggling voice came from outside, "I don't want to be a caged bird, I want to be the boss's wife."
Sister Xu Lan paused as she wiped the sweat from her forehead. She had already experienced too much stimulation today.
The man teased, "I pursued you so hard, just to let you show yourself?"
"Well, what else? Don't you just like a tough and self-reliant new woman like me? You don't lack canaries."
The man was obviously pleased and laughed loudly.
"Very good, you are worthy of being the woman that I, Zhang Er, fell in love with at first sight. Okay, I'll let you be the boss lady."
When the noise outside disappeared, Sister Xu Lan was stunned for a long time and didn't come back to her senses.
Her worldview collapsed in an instant.
The gentle and amiable Li Xiaoya is a Japanese spy, and the considerate Nana wants to be someone's lover.
They were once the role models she wanted to emulate and the people she wanted to become.
Sister Xu Lan doesn't care what is true or false.
She waited for a while, and when she felt that there was no one outside, she covered her stomach and went out.
"Sister Lan, what's wrong with you?" As soon as she walked out of the bathroom, she met Hu Na. Looking at Sister Xu Lan's painful expression, Hu Na asked with concern.
Sister Xu Lan frowned, "Sister Nana, my stomach suddenly hurts a lot, I want to go to the clinic."
"I'll go with you." said Hu Na.
Sister Xu Lan didn't dare to look up at Hu Na, and quickly shook her head and whispered:
"It's an old problem for girls. Just take some painkillers and sleep on the bed."
Hu Na understood what she heard and introduced her to a clinic, telling her to go there quickly.
Sister Xu Lan left the coffee shop and trotted quickly. She walked through three alleys, walked into a public telephone booth on the side of the road, inserted a coin and dialed the number.
When Lu Pingsheng answered the phone, she was holding the extra-large scallion pancake made by Grandma Cui for her.
"Sister Lan, don't be impatient, speak slowly."
Sister Xu Lan became surprisingly quiet after hearing this and told Lu Pingsheng what happened today.
Lu Pingsheng obviously heard the girl's fear and nervousness, and said softly:
"Sister Lan, you have done a great job. These things are very important to me. Brother Lu is very grateful to you. Now listen to me..."
Sister Xu Lan originally wanted to ask about the situation at home, but after hearing what Lu Pingsheng said, she quickly hung up the phone, her mind full of Lu Pingsheng's instructions.
She quickly ran back to the street where the cafe was, bought some painkillers at a clinic, and had an argument with the nurse over the change.
When I returned to the dormitory apartment, I gave the half bottle of ice soda I bought to the old lady who was guarding the door.
Finally I returned to the dormitory and lay on the bed in a daze.
After Lu Pingsheng hung up the phone, his face looked gloomy.
"Sister Lan, are you okay?" Wei Miao's eyes were filled with worry.
In her eyes, Sister Xu Lan is a girl who appears gentle on the surface but is actually a thoughtful and timid person.
The only thing she did out of the ordinary was probably to bribe Wei Ling with food to get her to pay attention to Lu Pingsheng.
After realizing that what he did was inappropriate, he never seemed to cross the line again.
Lu Pingsheng did not tell Wei Miao what Sister Xu Lan said, but just said:
"Ah Miao, we need to increase the production of sulfanilamide. Here comes the opportunity to make money."
When Wei Miao heard about making money, he was naturally interested.
Thanks to Bai Xingzhou's help, a large amount of medicine was used to treat cholera, and the situation was greatly curbed.
The most important thing is the chain reaction brought about by the Bai family. Other big families will not let the Bai family monopolize the hearts of the people, and even several big bosses of the Qing Gang have taken action.
The wealthy contributed money, the poor contributed their labor, and for a moment there seemed to be a sense of unity. All the newspapers in Shen City, big and small, were very busy.
Amid such prosperity, this infectious disease has been better controlled than in the past.
The news that the Japanese army had contracted cholera was kept secret, and they also secretly purchased a large amount of Coptis chinensis. It seems that the situation is not optimistic.
Thinking of this, Lu Pingsheng made a phone call.
Wei Miao could see with his own eyes that the man who had been stern just a moment ago had become hunched over and was speaking only honorifics.
After he hung up the phone, Wei Miao understood.
"You told the Japanese in advance that sulfa can treat cholera, so that they can consume the sulfa they bought with high gold, and then release the sulfa in our hands?"
Lu Pingsheng looked at the little brat with approval.
Wei Miao said, "The order that the Japanese placed with Charles earlier should arrive next month if nothing goes wrong."
"What if something unexpected happens?" Lu Pingsheng looked at Wei Miao with a smile.
Wei Miao rarely saw him so happy, so he said in agreement, "That's great."
One big and one small, they smiled very similarly, both with a cunning look.