Nie Jiajun, along with Nie Jiayu, and through Liang Lisheng's introduction, actually found a Taoist priest to secretly perform a ritual for Nie Rong. Strangely enough, after the ritual, Nie Rong suddenly became much more energetic.
He was suddenly able to sit up, eat, and have food.
The advance team is about to arrive, and as a war correspondent, Nie Yao might also be there.
Of course, although it wouldn't be broadcast live, it would be shown on TV. Nie Rong was naturally interested, so he kept begging Jia Yu and Jia Jun to call Nie Yao to confirm whether he would come.
The Nie brothers also wanted to know, but they knew even better that Nie Yao was too lazy to answer their calls and simply brushed it off.
Nie Jiayu still needs to go back to school and take the degree exam, while Nie Jiajun focuses on finding the number one agent of the British Military Intelligence Bureau hiding in Hong Kong. Of course, another two months have passed in the blink of an eye. After preliminary investigation, he and Huo Qi have already identified several target individuals. At the party on June 3, Chen Rou will install listening devices for them, and after another round of investigation, they will be able to basically lock down the agent.
Chen Rou chose the dress she was wearing for the banquet herself.
Unlike Nie Zhao, who prefers to choose fitted, silk long dresses or androgynous suits for her when selecting formal wear, Nie Han likes to recommend bubble skirts. This time, Chen Rou chose a style of clothing that she had almost never tried before: a cheongsam.
In traditional aesthetics, cheongsams are best worn by girls with small frames and sloping shoulders, as they are considered graceful and charming.
But Chen Rou's figure is the opposite of the traditional one. She is tall with straight and broad shoulders. She is not the kind of plump, fleshy figure. Instead, she has a very flat figure. She herself doesn't know how she will look in a cheongsam.
Today the cheongsam shop finally delivered the first draft, and she will try it on to see how it looks.
She was trying on a cheongsam when Nie Jiajun, who had gone to retrieve the listening device, returned.
He knocked on Chen Rou's bedroom door, but no one answered. Just as he was about to go upstairs to the gym to look for her, he saw a graceful woman in a cheongsam walk out of the dressing room. Nie Jiajun couldn't help but exclaim, "WOW!"
It was a dark green cheongsam that made Chen Rou's skin, which wasn't particularly fair, look like warm jade.
Moreover, she always likes to wear loose-fitting clothes, and coupled with her relatively large frame, she gives the illusion that she is quite strong.
But that's not actually the case. When she wears a cheongsam, a tight-fitting garment that accentuates her waist, you can see that her back is thin and straight, and although her waist isn't extremely thin, her abdomen is remarkably flat.
How can I describe it? He's practically a walking clothes rack.
But this isn't a derogatory term; it's a compliment. The cheongsam made Chen Rou look exceptionally graceful and even a bit mysterious. If she wore heavier makeup, she could easily have gone straight to the film studio to shoot a movie or TV series.
Before Chen Rou could even finish her sentence, Nie Jiajun couldn't help but say, "Xi Niang, you look so beautiful today."
Chen Rou smiled and asked, "Even if we didn't know each other, I'd like to chat with you for a while. Would you like to stop and listen to what I have to say?"
Nie Jiajun understood what she meant.
She was going to a banquet at the governor's mansion, where she would plant a listening device on the person he and Huo Qi had arranged.
If it were an ordinary person, with her skills, she could easily plant a bugging device.
However, one of those people was an agent of the British Military Intelligence Service, and a very outstanding ace agent at that.
That person must have exceptional counter-surveillance skills. If she's not careful, Chen Rou will expose her weakness and all her efforts will be in vain. But if that agent is male, the simplest way to distract him is to dress up nicely.
Chen Rou not only has a cheerful personality and a slightly masculine appearance, but also exudes a natural righteousness. Most men don't dare to talk to her. Back when she went to Victoria Harbour to browse bars, many men watched but didn't dare to take a step forward.
The only way she could think of to temper her domineering aura was to wear a cheongsam.
But she couldn't feel it herself, so she wanted to ask Nie Jiajun how he felt.
Nie Jiajun looked up and down, left and right, and stared at Xi Niang for a long time before raising his arm and saying, "If I were to be there at the party and you were to hold my hand, I would be the proudest man there."
Chen Rou looked back at the tailor making the cheongsam and asked with a smile, "What do you think?"
The tailor said, "Mrs. Nie, I am sincere. Although a thousand women look a thousand different in a cheongsam, you have a unique charm that others can hardly match. You are one of the most beautiful ladies I have ever seen in a cheongsam."
Since he said that, Chen Rou believed him.
But this was only the first version; there were still some parts that needed to be cut or adjusted. He took off the clothes, handed them to the tailor, and then left.
Ah Yuan was still taking a nap, so Chen Rou didn't go to the basement and stayed on the second floor to check the bugging device.
As for listening devices, they have evolved to a level that even Nie Jiajun finds unbelievable.
He pulled a bunch of boxes out of his bag, opened one and said, “Xi Niang, can you believe it? This looks like an ordinary brooch, but it’s actually a bugging device.”
He opened another one, took out a button, and said, "This looks like a button, but it's also a bugging device."
Chen Rou had seen and even played with more sophisticated listening devices than this.
However, in her previous life, by the time she became a special police officer, the British elite agents had already declined in reality, while the James Bond movies were becoming more and more popular. Unfortunately, she never actually fought against the British agents in real life.
Unexpectedly, she found herself in the midst of the empire's final days before its decline, and was about to face off against a top agent.
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