I handed the cup to my secretary and got up to leave.

I saw the ancient elephant leaning back on the chair, taking out a cigar from the drawer and stuffing it into his mouth, without lighting it, putting his hands on his big belly, which was accentuated by his sitting posture, and looking at me with a smile.

I looked at the playful smile on his face and squeezed out a smile, not knowing what else he had to say.

"I know Baron Zhang Ping very well." He said.

I watched as he took out a box of matches from his pocket and looked like he was about to see a flower, and the uneasiness in my heart became more and more apparent. "Ah, Jiang, Mr. Jiang...... I haven't seen him for a long time, and I miss him in my heart......"

He continued to stare at the match, repeatedly taking an inexplicable interest in it. "Coincidentally, your teacher Jiang came to Chang'an last month to do business, drank with me, and mentioned that if I have the opportunity to meet you kid, you must go to him."

"Ah, haha, haha, I actually want to visit Mr. Jiang too... You know, Mr. Jiang cares about me very much, and used to work overtime to answer my questions... It's just that the military affairs are busy, I don't have to report in a hurry, or I will see if I can come back during the Spring Festival? ”

The ancient elephant finally raised his head, and the smile on the corner of his mouth began to grow hideous. "Really? I remember that the reinstatement letter you signed only asked you to report to North Bay City within a week, and you didn't rush over 100,000 in a hurry! ”

He smiled again and nodded his chin at me, "Look, your good brother has come to squat you." ”

I turned my head stiffly with an even stiffer smile.

Jiang Xiaobai stood in front of the office with the door open, smiling and waving to me.

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"So you're going to China again?" He said that the word "again" was emphasized.

I lowered my head, uneasily avoiding his burning gaze, and pretended to pick out the ginger from the chili stir-fried beef. "The glorious task given to me by the organization is not something I can choose...... "My voice revealed a strong sense of emptiness.

He put down his chopsticks and leaned forward, his slender body revealing a strong sense of oppression: "So, you don't plan to go to my house to see... Look at my dad? He spat out the words almost word for word, full of cold breath.

I cautiously raised my head, looked at the faint killing machine in his eyes that seemed to be a tiger trying to choose someone, and squeezed out a smile: "Since you're here, I'd better go and see the teacher......"

He nodded slightly, and continued to ask without any fluctuation, "Have you eaten well?" ”

He said that he did not wait for me to answer, or maybe this sentence was just to inform me, and he did not intend to ask my opinion. He slapped the table, shaking my bowl slightly: "Waiter, check out!" ”

Jiang Xiaobai is a good friend of mine. How good is it, our three-and-a-half-year classmates in college, except for a few months when I interned in the Sri Lanka Squadron of the Indian Ocean Fleet in the second semester of my senior year, we stayed together almost every day.

At that time, we were in the same class and dormitory, and he slept on my top bunk, and I brought him food for three years, and he fetched me boiling water for three years. At that time, we were exactly the same as my good friends in college in my previous life, and according to rumors, some people suspected that we were. Of course this is fucking impossible, Jiang Xiaobai is not a virgin in his sophomore year... Ahem, it's far away.

In fact, Jiang Xiaobai is two years older than me, because I skipped a grade a few times, so he was fortunate to be my classmate. He also has a younger sister named Jiang Xiaoan, who is one year older than me, but she is my younger sister in school, majoring in management, and she doesn't need to go to the ship for internship.

Ahem, old readers who have read my first two editions of my memoirs know that Jiang Xiaobai's relationship with me is, on the one hand, his father, Baron Zhang Ping, Jiang Yu is my professor of marine climatology, and on the other hand, he is still my eldest brother. That is, I married his sister.

But at the beginning of 1629, I was a pure single dog, and I didn't have such a complicated intersection with him.

We were sitting in a carriage heading to the train station. When we left the Ministry of Defense for lunch, he entrusted the butler to buy train tickets, and he looked like he was racing against time to cook raw rice, and kept staring at me like a spy, as if he was worried that I would find an opportunity to escape.

To be honest, I did have plans to run away......

"Let's take car B 414 from Chang'an to Zhangping, you stay for three or four days, so that you can talk to my father about academic matters." He squinted at me with his beautiful Danfeng eyes and said slowly, "Then we'll send you to Beiwan City to report for duty." ”

I nodded, stared out the window without saying a word, and pretended to be watching the scenery.

Chang'an Railway Station is located in the North District, which is very beautifully repaired, designed by Mr. Liu Da, the dean of the Imperial School of Architecture, with a semi-classical and semi-modern atmosphere, and is considered to be the number one art building in the world.

It's just that I don't have any mood to appreciate it, and my mind is full of thoughts about what Zhang Ping is going to do, and I have a feeling that I spent the whole summer vacation when I was in middle school, and then stayed up late on the night of August 31 to meditate on how to convince the teacher tomorrow that I had actually finished my homework, but the homework was eaten by the family dog.

Jiang Xiaobai looked calm. He looked at me and asked, "Hey, Li Ruchu." Why did you go to China? Just for... Avoid Xiao'an? ”

I was silent for a moment, didn't look at him, just looked at the crowd and said, "That's a little bit of a reason." ”

Seeing that I didn't continue, Jiang Xiaobai didn't continue to ask. He just put his arm around my shoulder with some regret: "The chief of the previous term went to the Sri Lanka detachment, and now he is the captain of the lieutenant colonel cruiser, and he is one term later than you. ”

I smiled, waved my hand, and said, "I believe there will be a better future in China." ”

"I hope so." He said.

I saw that he had been flipping through a magazine about China, so I asked him, "Hey, do you want to come to the Chinese Governor's District to do things?" ”

"But didn't you study port management, I can't arrange you on this ship and the Marine Corps, which port you want to go to, I will find someone to arrange it for you clearly."

He smiled, put the magazine away in his satchel, and bared a mouthful of neat white teeth at me. "I'm going to work in the Intelligence Department, and I'm going to go to China with you and work in Beijing."

I was stunned for a moment, and quickly recalled the changes in my memory, and made sure that Beijing had not been breached, and Jiang Xiaobai's life would not be in danger if he stayed in Beijing, so I put my mind at ease and spent this thrilling crisis there, and I could add a lot of qualifications to him.

"When the time comes, just remind him not to go out of the city." I think.