Chapter 13: The Abandoned Capitalist Lady in the 1950s
Everything was relatively normal in 1957, and the people's communes began with great fanfare in 1958. The big canteens, the Great Leap Forward, and the Great Steel Production Campaign all took place in that year. Then, in 1959, natural disasters struck.
It’s really not easy to expect to store more food in 571!
And we all know that there will be natural disasters in the future. So forget it if there is no chance. But since there is a chance now, we should keep all the food on the mainland so that fewer people can starve to death.
Wouldn’t it be nice to go to Hong Kong City and buy them all at once? You can also get revenge at the same time. Isn’t this a good plan?
Li Jingwei will wait until he comes back to clean up, so that nothing will be delayed.
After all the salaries were finally distributed, Ning Ning came to the section chief's office and said, "Section chief, I heard that someone who looks like my grandmother appeared in the south. I want to go look for her and see if it's her. I'd like to ask for your leave.
Then there's Li Jingwei, who's been harassing me lately. It's having a terrible impact. If this continues for a long time, I'm really worried something might happen. I'm taking this opportunity to hide away."
As Ning Ning spoke, she secretly gave the section chief a mental hint, making him feel that if Ning Ning continued to stay in the unit, Li Jingwei would do something to hurt Ning Ning.
The section chief readily approved Ning Ning's leave and issued a letter of introduction. Ning Ning took the opportunity to ask for a few blank letters of introduction, ready to act according to circumstances.
Ning Ning greeted several people in the office and told them that she would be taking a leave of absence for a while.
My colleagues expressed their understanding. Of course, when you hear the news about your only relative, you have to go and find him immediately, even if it turns out to be wrong.
After get off work, I went to Grandma Liu's house to say hello, and took the opportunity to put the chickens at their house, asking them to help raise them for a few days.
He also specifically reminded them not to keep the eggs laid by the chickens, but to eat them directly to supplement their nutrition.
The food for feeding the chickens was also brought over.
Food is very precious these days. You can't ask people to pay you for food if they help you raise chickens for a few days.
I was afraid that the old lady wouldn't see me for a few days and would think something had happened to me. If she called the police, it would be a lot of fun!
It would be better to tell her first, so as to avoid the old lady getting anxious and angry.
After returning home, Ning Ning tidied up the things in the space again. Except for the vegetables that were easy to spoil, which were left in the apartment space, all the other things were put into the cellar and various rooms.
Then they covered it with curtains taken from the Haishi Mansion, making it look like a storage room.
There are three main rooms in her courtyard, and two side rooms on each side, which is more than enough to store these things.
The next day, Ning Ning boarded a train to Guangdong Province, not caring how furious Li Jingwei was when he saw that she hadn't been to work for several days.
Although Ning Ning bought a train ticket, she didn't get a sleeper berth at all.
As soon as she got on the train, she went straight to the back of the train and then slipped into the space.
After practicing in the space for a few days, he arrived in Guangdong Province smoothly.
After another hassle, we finally arrived at the border. Unexpectedly, we were lucky enough to find that it was a day when passage was allowed.
You know, the policy of interconnection with Hong Kong and cities has been constantly changing and adjusting according to domestic conditions since the founding of the People's Republic of China. This time, it can only be said that she was lucky and happened to catch up with the opening.
Ning Ning didn't go over directly either. She had no idea what the elders of the Qi and Xu families looked like when they were young.
To be on the safe side, it would be safer to put on some makeup to cover it up before going.
She first put on the makeup of a middle-aged woman who had worked for many years and successfully reached the other side. Then she went into the space and changed into the image of a middle-aged lady wearing a cheongsam coat and jade jewelry.
Anyway, I have been dressing myself up like a middle-aged woman so that I can be more efficient when going out to do things.
She had no intention of getting an identity from Hong Kong City. She would have very few opportunities to come here in the future, so there was no need to spend this money.
Besides, she lives in the space at night, so there is no need for her to have an identity.
I called a taxi first, thinking of going to take a look at the villa that the Xu family bought in the previous life.
Although Xu Qingwan failed to obtain Ning Ning's peace locket in this life, the overall situation should not have changed.
I just don't know. They separated in 1950 in their previous life, and it's been five or six years now in this life. I wonder if they are still living here.
I have to go and take a look first. If it’s not there, I’ll look for it in the small apartment that the Xu family bought later.
Ning Ning came to the outside of the villa and looked inside with her spiritual sense. Unexpectedly, the people living in the house were Bai Lian and her son and daughter. It was the weekend and the whole family was here!
She swept her spiritual sense across the villa and found that apart from the three of them and a live-in nanny, there was no sign of anyone else living there.
Things are still a little off in this life.
In the previous life, it was the other members of the Xu family who left them behind and moved away, but in this life, they were the ones who left the others behind and moved away.
Anyway, I have found one of the main destinations for this trip to Hong Kong.
Ning Ning got out of the taxi. It was already evening, there was no need to leave. They could just take action after dark!
Ning Ning walked slowly in the villa area. Not far from Bai Lian's villa, she turned behind a bush and slipped into the space to rest.
When I came out of the space at night, I first used my spiritual sense to scan the villa to see if anyone was asleep.
Unexpectedly, there was a man inside, talking to Bai Lian in her room, and this man was not the foreign senior official she had found in her previous life.
Ning Ning quietly sneaked into the villa and walked to the doors of several occupied rooms. She used her soul power to make Xu Qingwan, Xu Yunzhou and the nanny sleep even more soundly.
Then he tiptoed towards Bai Lian's room and put his ear to the door, wanting to hear what the two were plotting.
In her spiritual consciousness, she saw the man holding Bai Lian in his arms and sighing, "His term of office is about to end, and he has to return home in another six months. Haven't you figured out where he hid the gold yet?"
Bai Lian shook his head with a worried look on his face, "I've been trying too hard, but he's too vigilant. Am I useless?"
She raised her head and looked at the man innocently, "If there's really no other way, why not give him some medicine and try to get it out while he's unconscious?"
The man gently stroked Bai Lian's back and said, "I'm afraid this idea won't work. He's very alert and has bodyguards following him at all times.
The two who always came with him were the ones who would take him away immediately if they noticed anything wrong with him.
We had no chance of getting any information from him."
The man kissed Bai Lian's forehead and said, "I'm just worried that after he leaves, you'll have a hard time following me. I'm useless."
Ning Ning felt her teeth ache after hearing this. This was a male version of a white lotus.
After listening for a while, Ning Ning finally understood that Bai Lian was the mistress of the Governor of Hong Kong.
No wonder in her previous life, in many big occasions, Xu Qingwan was able to appear there even though her status was not qualified to attend.
Presumably, they knew that the Governor would have to return to his country sooner or later, so they deliberately instigated conflicts between several families in order to accumulate connections and prepare in advance for the Governor's departure.
The man in the room should be the secretary of the Governor of Hong Kong and also Bai Lian's lover. The two are plotting the Governor's slush fund.
I don’t know if this happened in my previous life, but the two of them planned to steal from the Governor’s treasury.
At that time, Qi Tingwan's soul could only follow Xu Qingwan every day, and knew very little about Bai Lian's affairs. Even this part was not written in the novel.
However, they both made their livings under the Governor of Hong Kong, so how could they dare to steal his things? After being discovered, they felt like they had no hope of living like this.
This is obviously not right, I need to listen to it again.
Bai Lian sighed, "What a shame for missing such a good opportunity last time."
The man's eyes widened. "Last time, we sent them back to their country. Who dares to touch those things? Are they going to die?"
Bai Lian was unwilling to give up. "Do you think he might have sent his own gold back to his country as well?"
The room was quiet for a moment, and then I remembered the man's voice.
"Probably not, at least not with the gold bars. If they are all shipped back, they will be taken away by his family, and there won't be much left for him."
It seems that they have already transported a lot of things away before. Those good things are probably shipped from China. They are all national treasures and belong to China!
Look at Bai Lian's expression when she turned her back to the man, she clearly showed a bit of impatience.
Maybe Bai Lian already knew something, but just didn't want to share it with the man in front of her.
I don’t know where the Governor of Hong Kong’s secret treasury is hidden, maybe I can intercept it.
Don’t worry about anything else for now, just buy the food tomorrow and we’ll deal with the rest as the situation warrants!
Bai Lian will let her go today, as she has a feeling there will be some unexpected gains.
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