Chapter 19: Letters
After eating a complicated French meal, the two of them ate until eight o'clock in the evening, when Tang Yi and Li Changyu walked out of the private room, Luo Zhuangshi, who had been waiting for a while, hurriedly greeted him.
"Oh, my young master, this meal is over." Luo Zhuangshi rubbed his eyes a little worriedly and said.
Tang Yi smiled when he heard the words: "What do you know, that's how French food is eaten." ”
"Obediently, this is eating, it's torture! If you want me to say that this cold day is still hot pot to eat. Luo Zhuang pouted as he spoke.
Tang Yi listened to Luo Zhuangshi's words and thought about it, it was indeed a good thing to say, eating hot pot on this snowy day was indeed a great pleasure.
"Go and tell someone to drive the car to the door." Tang Yi shook off the hot pot in his mind and ordered.
Tang Yi and Li Changyu came to the door of the hotel while chatting, and as soon as they went out, the cold wind mixed with snowflakes hit their faces, so they almost didn't catch their breath.
After hurriedly getting into the car, Luo Zhuangshi, who was sitting in the co-pilot, asked, "Young Master, where are we going now?" ”
"The Grand Shanghai Hotel."
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The Grand Shanghai Hotel has Gu Hongliang's shares, and after Tang Yi brought someone to the front desk, he asked the manager who came to hear the wind and said, "Open two suites and give me a call to Tang Mansion." ”
The manager nodded hurriedly, and after explaining a few words to the waiter at the front desk, he took out two keys and looked like he was going to send the three of them upstairs in person.
Seeing this, Tang Yi tilted his head at Luo Zhuangshi, Luo Zhuangshi immediately understood, stepped forward and took the key from the manager.
Tang Yi saw that Luo Zhuangshi got the key and said, "Send Inspector Li back to the room first, and then wait for me at the door of Inspector Li's room, I'll go up with a phone call." ”
"Yes." After Luo Zhuangshi took the key and nodded to Li Changyu, the two walked towards the elevator together.
At this time, the manager of the spirit was not discouraged after being taken away from the key and losing the opportunity to offer affection, but instead went to connect the phone with the Tang Mansion, and hurriedly pulled the microphone and handed it to Tang Yi after seeing Tang Yi's order.
Tang Yi nodded and then took the microphone and said, "I'm Tang Yi, is my eldest brother at home today?" ”
Uncle Huang's voice came from the other end of the phone, "Third young master, the eldest young master is in the room, I'll answer the phone for you." ”
"Trouble Uncle Huang."
There was no sound on the other end of the phone, and after a short silence, Tang Zeng's voice came.
"Hey, what's the matter, third, where are you fooling around this big night? Running out of money to spend? Tang Zeng's three sentences are inseparable from money.
"Big brother, do we have a ship to the United States tomorrow?" Tang Yi asked dryly.
"Wait a minute, I'll see." Immediately after that, there was a squirming sound on the other end of the phone, followed by a reactionary sound of paper, and Tang Zeng's voice came again.
"There's a ship to San Francisco tomorrow morning, what's the matter, what are your arrangements?"
"Tomorrow I will send two people to the boat, my eldest brother will help me arrange it, and after I arrive in San Francisco, I will arrange reliable manpower to help me send people to the farm that Gu Hongliang bought for me and Jun Qiao in Canada." Tang Yi thought for a while and said.
"Who? It's a lot of work. Tang Zeng asked.
"Ordinary people, a woman and a little boy." After Tang Yi finished speaking, he stroked his forehead with some regret, according to Tang Zeng's gossip temperament......
Sure enough, Tang Zeng's surprised voice soon came from the other end of the phone.
"I'll go, the third child, you can do it, and you got an illegitimate child out quietly? Then I still advise you not to send it to Canada, our family also has a small business in the United States, you can simply leave my nephew in the United States. ”
"Big brother... To be serious, this is my family, and they begged me to send his wife and children abroad for fear that something would cause trouble to my family. Tang Yi said helplessly.
"Okay, okay, don't explain, I understand, leave it to me to arrange." Tang Zeng obviously wanted to tease Tang Yi on purpose.
Tang Yi was too lazy to entangle with Tang Zeng in this matter, and said, "I'll give you the address, and you can send someone to pick it up tomorrow." ”
"Okay, you can talk about it."
"French Concession, No. 64 Pushi Road."
"I see."
After getting Tang Zeng's reply, Tang Yi immediately hung up the phone, his eldest brother's long-winded mouth was really unbearable.
After putting down the phone and nodding his head to the manager, Tang Yi lit a cigarette and walked leisurely to the elevator where the waiter was waiting and went upstairs.
Outside Li Changyu's room, the door was not closed, and Luo Zhuangshi was standing at the door waiting for Tang Yi at this time.
Seeing Tang Yi walking out of the elevator, he immediately stepped forward and welcomed Tang Yi into the room.
In the room, Li Changyu was sitting on a large leather sofa smoking a cigarette, and saw Tang Yi come in and hurriedly extinguish the cigarette butt.
After Tang Yi waved his hand to Luo Zhuangshi, Luo Zhuangshi immediately understood what Tang Yi meant, turned around and went out to guard the door.
"I've already arranged the ship to send your wife and children to Canada tomorrow, now you go and write a letter to say goodbye to your wife, and I'll have someone send it immediately." Tang Yi said at this time.
After Li Changyu pursed his dry lips when he heard this, he nodded with some difficulty and said, "I'll write it now." ”
After speaking, Li Changyu got up and came to the desk in the suite, he pulled out a chair and sat down, and turned on the slightly dim desk lamp.
Picking up the pen in his right hand and rubbing the stubble on his chin with his left hand repeatedly, he pondered carefully and repeatedly.
Listening to the cold wind howling outside the window, the hand holding the pen couldn't move the pen for a long time, "How do you say goodbye?" How do you write this letter that might be a farewell? He thought.
Although Li Changyu has always been looking forward to this moment after he made the idea of sending his wife and children abroad, he has already thought about the scene when he sent his wife and children away countless times in his mind.
Is it at the ferry? Or at the pier. He should have taken off his hat in his old Inspector's uniform, held it in his hand, and waved his hat at his wife and children, who were already on the deck, by the fence.
However, he never imagined that it would be in his current form, with a hurried letter to say goodbye, and he looked at the letter in front of him for a long time and could not put pen to paper.
His wife's flower-like voice and his son's immature face alternated back and forth in his mind like a slide.
Finally, after a long time, he closed his eyes as if he saw his grown son waving to him on the other side of the ocean, and the tip of the pen finally began to slide on the paper.
Tang Yi was not in a hurry, he knew that Li Changyu should be given enough time at this time to write his strong feelings on thin stationery.
So he sat down by the window, lit a cigarette, and looked through the glass and the howling snow at the brilliant neon lights around the Waibaidu Bridge.
After a long time, Li Changyu finally stopped writing, he folded the letter paper preciously, picked up the envelope on the hotel desk and stuffed it.
After receiving the envelope handed by Li Changyu, Tang Yi was not chatting much with Li Changyu, and it could be seen that his mood was not very high now.
After turning around and going out of the door, Tang Yi handed the envelope to Luo Zhuangshi, "Send someone to deliver the letter to Inspector Li's house overnight, and arrange some people to guard his room at night, and notify me immediately if there is any abnormality." Tang Yi commanded.
Luo Zhuangshi nodded when he heard this, and after receiving the order, he turned around and went downstairs to arrange for people.
Tang Yi returned to his room, took off his coat tiredly, and exhaled a thick breath of turbidity, "There is still one last step left...... he said silently.