boyutpedia Chapter 178: Busy supporting the family in the foreign land
Chapter 178: Busy supporting the family in the foreign land
For the next half month, Wei Miao went to the church to see Sister Mary twice and prayed with her.
I didn't go anywhere else.
I spend all day at home eating and sleeping, sleeping and eating.
By the way, I acted as a supervisor and watched the workers dig a 20-square-meter cellar near the kitchen side room.
In my spare time, I would chat with Xu Ayu to relieve my boredom.
Lu Pingsheng sat in the office, listening to his subordinates chatting there.
"Have you heard? Something happened to the garrison." The speaker was a Japanese man with a fairly handsome appearance.
"What could happen?" The woman who asked the question was wearing a dress and lazily lying on the desk.
"The garrison has been poisoned."
"What? Who dares to poison the garrison?" The woman's voice became a little shrill, with a hint of gloating.
The garrison troops, relying on their guns and cannons, acted tyrannically and did not take them seriously at all.
Lu Pingsheng was also somewhat curious, "Did someone poison it?"
Because Lu Pingsheng was handsome, kind, and generous, the two Japanese people were quite respectful to this Chinese leader.
Ito Kentaro, who had a handsome appearance, looked out of the office and whispered:
"I heard it was opium!"
Lu Pingsheng didn't hold the cup firmly in his hand and it hit the table with a crackling sound, and the listless Suzuki Haruko also straightened up.
"If you smoke opium in the army, you will be shot." Haruko covered her mouth.
Kentaro glared at the startled woman and continued:
"I heard that they first shot ten people, and then arrested a group of people one after another. Later, they found that the superiors were also yawning in the daytime, so they started to invite experts to do other examinations."
Lu Pingsheng asked: "Have you found out anything?"
Kentaro nodded, "The results of the inspection came out yesterday, and there is something wrong with the water in the reservoir."
Kentaro has an elder brother who is a captain in the garrison, so he is naturally well-informed. This is why Lu Pingsheng is so nice to these two idle good-for-nothings.
"White powder is worth gold, who would be so foolish as to put it in the water?"
Haruko's pretty face was full of confusion.
Lu Pingsheng's mind skipped a beat, and then he felt it was impossible.
For safety reasons, he didn't pay any attention to the news that A Miao told him at Wu Ziyang's wedding last time.
It’s not that I don’t hate drugs, nor that I don’t have any thoughts about gold.
He has a special identity and A Miao is precious. If he is exposed for such a small profit, it will be a waste of time.
Today, he suddenly heard two of his subordinates talking, and for some reason he thought of A Miao first.
"Have you determined the poisoning point?" Lu Pingsheng asked casually.
Kentaro looked strange, as if he was considering whether to speak or not.
Seeing his behavior, Qingzi rolled her eyes and said, "If you have something to say, you should speak up. It's not like a man to be so hesitant."
Kentaro glared at Haruko again, then stood up and walked to the door. Seeing that there was no one in the corridor, he came in and sat on the chair facing the door and whispered:
"Did you know that half a month ago, the Black Dragon Society lost a batch of white and pink pills, and the one who took over threw a ton of gold at the people?"
Lu Pingsheng didn't show it on his face, but his heart was in turmoil.
"It's lost so it's lost. We won't get a penny from the gold anyway. We gave it all to Inoue Mansion." Haruko didn't feel anything after hearing that.
Kentaro clicked his tongue and said, "This is what makes things so weird. The lost boat filled with white and pink pills turned up in a heavily guarded garrison reservoir!"
Haruko and Lu Pingsheng both looked surprised.
"You said, a ton of gold powder is soaked in the reservoir. The soldiers use that water to eat and brush their teeth every day. If it accumulates, it will make them lose their spirit."
Lu Pingsheng calculated in his mind that at that time, the country's opium consumption accounted for 17% of the world's total population. Almost half of the people were smoking opium.
Rich people smoke high-grade white powder, poor people smoke inferior soil, men smoke red pills, and women also smoke opium paste...
Opium is not as expensive as gold as imagined. In the foreign concessions, its price is almost the same as that of cigarettes.
One ton of gold worth of opium is indeed a huge amount.
It is not uncommon for people to develop a mild drug addiction if the drug is placed in a reservoir.
What's more, the Japanese were guilty and checked the things at the entrance very strictly. After the reservoir was enclosed, there were special people guarding it. The area was not very large and was only for military use.
"When the garrison encountered problems, the first thing they thought of was the recent investigation at the Inoue Mansion. After the two sides met, they identified the ship that was carrying the white, pink and red pills..."
Kentaro told everything he knew, including what happened when the ronin were trading at the dock.
Haruko was curious, "What about the ship carrying the gold?"
Kentaro was mysterious, "The person who made the deal said that only two people survived, a woman from Chaoguo and a ronin from our native land."
Lu Pingsheng lowered his head to drink water, thinking through countless possibilities in his mind, but he felt that none of them were good enough.
"What did they say?" Haruko asked.
Kentaro stared at the door without blinking and said:
"It was pitch dark and a lawless area, what could be said? But they all said that the one who shouted on the boat that rushed out and fired was a local, with an accent that sounded like Osaka..."
Haruko exclaimed in a low voice, "Were we being targeted?"
Kentaro said: "This is natural, and it was targeted by local people. This matter itself cannot be made public, so it can only be investigated privately."
Haruko supported her chin with both hands, blinked her eyes and looked at Lu Pingsheng who remained silent and asked:
"Section Chief, how much is a ton of gold?"
Lu Pingsheng said: "One million US dollars."
Kentaro and Haruko didn't say anything. Their wages were in Japanese yen, 30 yen a month, and they would never be able to earn one million US dollars in several lifetimes.
"I don't know where the gold went?" Haruko sighed.
Lu Pingsheng drank the tea in the cup with his head tilted back. "Even living people can't explain it?"
Kentaro said, "This is the most bizarre thing. The surviving ronin said that the ship carrying the gold sank to the bottom, but now it has been salvaged for three days, and there is nothing left except the corpses that were gnawed by fish."
Lu Pingsheng looked at Kentaro, who was talking with excitement and foam at the corners of his mouth, and threw him a pack of cigarettes and said:
"We can just talk about this, don't tell anyone outside, or you'll get into trouble."
Kentaro took the cigarette and saw that it was a high-quality cigarette. He smiled happily and said:
"Chief, don't worry, I'll talk to you in the office."
After he finished speaking, he gave the section chief a warning look at Haruko who was in a daze, with disdain in his heart.
Although the section chief is Chinese, he comes from a prominent family, is handsome, knows several foreign languages, has made great contributions, and has a bright future. How could he fall for a broken jar that doesn't even have good looks?
He lit a cigarette and said to the crazy Haruko:
"If the news leaks out, I will settle the score with you."
Suzuki Haruko would roll her eyes at him, thinking he was a bastard and only dared to show off to her.