Chapter 135: Being Tricked (Catching Bugs) Yan Jiuru laughed at himself...
Chapter 135: Being Tricked (Catching Bugs)
The Southern Building has twelve floors!
Known as the industry benchmark for South China department stores!
The most significant feature is that it was the first to implement standing service by sales staff, whereas previously all sales staff across the country had to sit on a small stool.
When Yan Jiuru and Chen Yin were shopping with their children inside, they even accidentally heard off-duty sales clerks from other department stores running over to see what was happening, and complaining that the Southern Building's behavior was putting a lot of pressure on other department stores.
In Chen Yin's opinion, this place is truly a benchmark. The fabric counters inside are on two floors. In particular, the "Dacron" fabric, which is in short supply in Yancheng, does not require tickets and is not limited in quantity.
Chen Yin just looked at the various brightly colored fabrics with admiration but did nothing.
Yan Jiuru glanced at her and reminded her, "If you like it, buy it. Why are you just looking at it?" He also patted his pocket secretly, indicating that he had plenty of money.
Chen Yin glanced at him and whispered, "It does look nice, but it's not breathable and doesn't absorb sweat. A thick one would be fine for a coat, but otherwise it's not as good as a cotton one.
Besides, we've already closed down several booths for other people at the exhibition, so we won't be short of fabrics at home for several years."
Yan Jiuru had a different opinion: "Those silk and blended materials don't have many opportunities to wear daily. I think we should buy some. It's a rare opportunity."
Chen Yin was mainly "fed" by those exported fabrics and was somewhat "intolerant" to these chemical fiber products.
After Yan Jiuru said this, she also admitted that his consideration was right.
Moreover, following his train of thought, she slapped her forehead and said, "Oh, I forgot if you hadn't mentioned it. I might as well tear off a few pieces to use as curtains at home."
In the past, I would never have been willing to buy several meters of cloth to make curtains, and there weren’t that many cloth coupons anyway.
It just so happened that Dacron didn't want tickets, and they weren't short of money.
Yan Jiuru...
Well, maybe this is because men and women have different focuses.
Because their house had curtains, Yan Jiuru never took it seriously.
In the early years in the countryside, even the oil lamps didn't provide much light, and most people's windows had straw curtains. When they got married, Chen Yin included a few curtains with red embroidery of "joyful eyebrows" and "happiness" characters on a white background in her dowry.
By the time they arrived in Yancheng, their conditions had improved a lot, and at least there was a pair of curtains in the house.
***
There are more than a dozen suitable Dacron patterns here, including pandas eating bamboo, cranes on pine trees, blue swallows flying through bamboo forests on a white background, green coconut trees, and cute kittens fishing.
The three cubs started arguing. One liked the giant panda, the other liked the kitten fishing, and her daughter was even more unique, she liked the old man’s painting with cranes and pine trees...
Her father also praised her: "It is indeed my daughter, her vision is unique."
Chen Yin laughed.
Anyway, her daughter's poop always smells good. If it smells bad, it must be because the food her mother gave her is not right.
In short, it's all shit, and has nothing to do with his daughter.
***
Chen Yin also picked out curtain fabrics for her younger brother and sister's rooms.
The curtains in Kuihua Hutong, like the rest of the crowd, are made of recycled fabric. They're neither pretty nor durable, and they fall apart after a few washes. They're now patched up in patches. Now that the people in the alley are better off, their new curtains aren't so eye-catching.
She decided to choose coconut trees and pandas eating bamboo, and also selected pine trees, cranes and two other patterns for the old man's house.
Dacron cloth is light and thin, and even if several pieces are folded together, they don't weigh much.
***
Chen Yin picked out patterns and bought fabric for tops for her family and relatives in her hometown, but she didn't buy anything for herself.
Before they had finished touring the first four floors, several children couldn't hold on any longer. Not only did they have to go to the bathroom three times, but the two younger ones also felt sleepy.
Yan Jiuru said disdainfully, "What a burden! Next time, I won't bring them out. Let's just go for a stroll on our own."
What a waste of such a good opportunity!
The two persuaded the three little ones to hold on for a while, and then rushed to the food counter to buy some coconut candies, salted dates and other local specialties to share with their neighbors, friends and classmates.
Yan Jiuru said regretfully, "We're still late. If we had come two or three months earlier, we would have been able to catch up with the lychees on the market."
Yesterday afternoon, in order to coax a few children to play in the hotel room, Chen Yin bought a few bottles of canned lychees from inside the hotel. The small bottles of half a pound each cost 1 yuan.
Not to mention the children, she also thought it was good, and the four of them finished two small bottles.
If I wasn't afraid of getting a sore throat, I would have opened another bottle.
"What's the big deal? Since you like it, I'll talk to the restaurant manager and find a way to get a box to take back."
Men are so domineering when they pamper their wives and children.
***
After returning to the hotel, the whole family took a shower and changed into dry clothes, and the children were tucked into bed and went to sleep.
Yan Jiuru couldn't sit still, so he looked at the time, said hello to Chen Yin, and went out to do something.
After leaving the hotel, Yan Jiuru's spiritual consciousness moved and he turned and walked towards the other side of the Suicheng Hotel.
As he walked, he compared the route features with what Guo Jianjun had described last night. The same things looked quite different at night and during the day.
However, the road had a name, which made it easy to identify. Combined with his spiritual sense, he was able to find a needle in a haystack. In less than twenty minutes, he found a relatively old house.
It looked like it was once part of a wealthy family's house, which was divided out to form a large courtyard. What he noticed should be the back house.
Yan Jiuru used the phantom talisman, and now others see him as a different person, and there is no way to connect him with Director Yan.
Yan Jiuru pretended to pass by, but his spiritual sense scanned the small courtyard carefully.
It must be something extraordinary that it attracted the attention of Guo Jianjun, who came from the reconnaissance company. He also keenly noticed that the foreign elderly man who was being helped should be carrying a gun!
Due to safety concerns and the need to consult the factory director on the next steps, Guo Jianjun withdrew after tracking to this place.
Of course Yan Jiuru didn't let him continue. After all, this was not Yancheng, not their base camp, so they had to act with caution.
The same goes for him.
After all, my wife and children are around.
***
The strange thing was that in his consciousness, there was no one in this small courtyard, and there was not much traffic.
Yan Jiuru couldn't help but frown, thinking back to what Guo Jianjun said last night.
He followed Wang Yanan to a Western restaurant. An elderly man with gray hair, who looked a little frail, very gentlemanly invited Wang Yanan to a Western buffet and ordered red wine. Regardless of his health, he repeatedly raised his glass to thank Wang Yanan for helping him in the afternoon.
Judging from the person's mouth shape, the other party should be saying, "Old people are most afraid of falling. At the very least, they may sprain their bones, but more likely they may break bones."
Judging from his gray hair, he is at least seventy years old, so it is not wrong to say so.
It’s just a bit strange to visit an exhibition alone at this age.
Guo Jianjun estimated that the man was not that 'weak' in fact, and he paid special attention to him since he had not taken off his suit jacket. Sure enough, when the man raised his arm again, he observed that there was a bulge under the jacket that looked like a gun.
Guo Jianjun couldn't help but secretly feel happy for Wang Yanan.
Fortunately, after she finished her Western buffet, even though she was reluctant to leave, she did not dare to violate the time to go back to bed at night. She declined the other party's further invitation and left, looking back every few steps.
The man personally sent Wang Yanan to the door of the western restaurant, watched her disappear, looked around, and then returned to the buffet restaurant. He sat there alone, ordered a better glass of wine, and sipped it slowly.
. . . . . .
Just when Guo Jianjun was about to fall asleep, the other party finally paid the bill and stood up.
That person did go to a certain floor of the Oriental Hotel, but he came out in less than half an hour!
Fortunately, he waited a little longer, otherwise he would not have thought of this move.
The man secretly observed the way as he walked around and around until he arrived at this small courtyard.
Seeing that the other party had not come out for half an hour, Guo Jianjun had no choice but to go back.
***
Yan Jiuru looked at the back house in the slum and felt that it didn't look like what he was looking for.
He decided to look around to see if there was anything similar.
After all, he was unfamiliar with the place, and there might be some discrepancies between what Guo Jianjun said and the place he found.
Regardless of whether that person intentionally "bumped into" Wang Yanan, he always approached her for a purpose.
Although he doesn't know the purpose yet, it doesn't stop him from finding out the other party's background first.
Yan Jiuru took a look around and to be honest, many of the houses here have similar layouts. Locals may be able to tell the difference at a glance, but to outsiders, they all look the same.
Yan Jiuru couldn't help but laugh and call him a fool.
Guo Jianjun even specifically told him that he had memorized the surrounding landmarks, saying that there were three fruit trees outside the small courtyard, and there seemed to be some longan trees or something like that.
But when he looked around, he saw that almost half of the houses in the streets and alleys had fruit trees in front of and behind their houses. Although lychees and longans were basically out of season, some trees still had a few fallen late-ripening fruits.
This isn't a feature at all; it's just universal.
Yan Jiuru wandered around for more than half an hour but couldn't find the place. If he continued to wander around, the old men and women in the alley would become suspicious of him.
He immediately turned back to the hotel. Instead of wandering around on his own, he might as well take Guo Jianjun with him to look for it while there was still some time.
***
When he returned, Guo Jianjun was not out either.
He went to the Oriental Hotel to find the waiter on that floor to find out the information about the man who had been there last night.
He smiled bitterly and shook his head.
The result is self-evident.
Yan Jiuru patted his shoulder and said, "It's okay. The main reason is that we have no evidence and no procedures. Everything is just our suspicion. No one will believe anything we say at this stage."
"I just made a wasted trip. Maybe I didn't find the right place."
"Come on, let's do it again!"
***
As a result, the old revolutionaries encountered new problems.
Guo Jianjun, a field scout, was a little out of his element under the bright lights of the city. Standing in a row of alleys that looked similar, he felt dazed for the first time.
"No, this..."
I didn't think it was all the same when I was following them last night, but now I see it's the same everywhere during the day.
Yan Jiuru: "Let's go back first."
After the two of them left for a distance, Yan Jiuru said seriously, "The other party might be anti-reconnaissance and deliberately taking a detour. That small courtyard may not be their final destination."
“￥%@#%.…”
Guo Jianjun cursed loudly, then said, "That's very likely."
"I was wondering why he hadn't come out for half an hour. Maybe he had slipped away somewhere else."
Now that I think about it, maybe the other person's appearance was just a disguise.
***
It was the first time for them to be swayed by someone, and the experience was quite new for both of them.
There is a little frustration, but not much.
This wasn't originally planned, so I just let it go as it happened at the last minute.
At least, now they know that someone is trying to get close to Wang Yanan or do something further by getting close to her.
So, they just need to be more vigilant.
Guo Jianjun felt a little embarrassed.
After all, he was a professional scout. After reviewing the situation, he felt that the other party might have discovered something as early as when they were in the restaurant, otherwise they would not have been able to send Wang Yanan away and would have sat there for another half an hour.
He was still waiting foolishly, and then the other party slipped away for a long time and finally left him behind...
Damn! Guo Jianjun wanted to bite that person.
Yan Jiuru patted the other person and said, "Forget it, don't think too much. Keep an eye on her on the way back."
"If someone happens to meet you by chance or tries to scam you, no matter what the situation is, you can't leave the group, and everyone else can just treat it as a show and dance however they want.
However, since the other party has noticed someone has noticed him, he should not continue the action. Of course, except for the crazy ones, there may be some people who do it even though they know it is wrong. "
"Don't worry, I'll discuss it with Weiguo and we'll take turns watching her. By the way, when we get back, how are we going to tell the school about her?"
Yan Jiuru smiled and said, "Report this matter to the deputy director and listen to him."
***
When they returned to the hotel, the children were still asleep. Chen Yin sat on the soft chair in front of the window and read quietly.
Yan Jiuru poured himself a glass of water and drank a large one in a row. After taking a break, he said to Chen Yin, "Let's give some of the local specialties we bought to Lao Guo. He's too busy keeping an eye on Wang Yanan to have time. It wouldn't be nice to go back empty-handed."
Chen Yin naturally didn't say anything and gave her one third of it.
Yan Jiuru delivered the things to Lao Guo, who insisted on paying for them. After the two of them declined, Yan Jiuru only accepted half of the money.
After he came back, Chen Yin asked him, "What's wrong? I think you look a little weird."
Yan Jiuru laughed at himself, "Old Guo and I were fooled."
"This is really new! Tell me about it." Chen Yinzhen felt quite curious.
“He failed in his stalking last night.
At first, I followed the route he said to look for it but found nothing. I came back and asked him to look for it again, only to find that the other party must have noticed it a long time ago and had slipped away after taking a walk with him.
It's ridiculous that we're still crawling through alleys in the scorching sun."
Chen Yin knew that Yan Jiuru had been doing well in recent years, and it was rare for him to be teased by others.
I really want to comfort him, but it doesn't seem necessary.
After thinking about it, she said, "A temporary failure is nothing. As the old saying goes, there are always people better than you. We should always remain humble and cautious.
However, I think it might not be a bad idea to alert the enemy."
"You're right." Yan Jiuru admitted that he was a little careless about this matter.
However, their focus is not on tracking down the other party, but on ensuring a safe return to Yancheng.
Wait until he has his hands free! Humph!
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