A moment later, Jian Bing was brought up, and she recognized Chen Zikun at a glance, but she didn't show any fear or surprise, but gave him a blank look and said, "Yo, why did you come?" ”

Chen Zikun's heart moved, and he suddenly understood, Jianbing is not an ordinary woman from a good family, she is the top brand who has seen a big scene in Shanghai, and she has been abroad for several years, she has never seen anything in the world, how can she be frightened by a few little bandits.

"Didn't I come, how about it, I'm not hungry and freezing." Chen Zikun said, looking up and down Jianbing, only to see that she was covered with a windbreaker, the corners of silk pajamas were faintly exposed, and there was a pair of slippers under her feet.

"The brothers are very polite, and they don't treat us badly when they eat and drink." Jian Bing said, with the style of the eldest sister on the road.

Seeing that Jianbing's mental state didn't seem to be abused, Chen Zikun breathed a sigh of relief, and turned to Sun Meiyao and said, "Big boss, let's talk about business." ”

Sun Meiyao was stunned: "What's the matter?" ”

Chen Zikun said: "I'm here to get the ticket, of course, I talk about the head, even if the big boss calls the ticket, I will continue." ”

Sun Meiyao stretched out her thumb and praised: "Boss Chen, you are really human!" Okay, I won't hide it from you, my sister-in-law's flower ticket, our cottage generally calls for 10,000 dollars. ”

Chen Zikun pondered for a moment and said: "It's not easy for brothers to do a big business, so let's do it, I'll add half and give you 15,000, now that the army is blockaded strictly, so much silver can't be transported in, or gold bars are convenient, fifteen big yellow croaker, and then delivered." ”

Sun Meiyao's eyes shone with golden light, and she said excitedly: "Boss, you are too open, I will obey you!" All the bandits also praised each other.

Suddenly, the old bandit behind Sun Meiyao coughed dryly, and muttered a few words in his ear, Sun Meiyao suddenly realized, and said: "Your boss is so particular, my surname Sun can't help but be righteous, so let's take it away, Mrs. Sister-in-law, you take it away, I won't take a penny." ”

Chen Zikun said: "How can this work, you don't want money, the brothers still have to eat, we can't break the rules of this industry." ”

Sun Meiyao was more resolute than him: "No, my surname Sun spit and smashed a pit, saying that if you don't want money, you don't want money, boss, I'll turn my face if you do this again!" ”

Seeing this, Jian Bing persuaded: "Don't fight, it's better to do this, my ticket will be the will of the big boss, let's get a few more meat tickets and leave, and the ransom will be paid, no." ”

Sun Meiyao slapped her thigh: "Medium!" Just do what my sister-in-law says! But now there is no shortage of gold and silver in the cottage, what is lacking is bullets. ”

Chen Zikun said: "Well, in addition to the gold bars, I will bring a few more boxes of bullets." ”

Sun Meiyao was overjoyed: "Good! Boss Chen was really righteous. ”

The old bandit stopped talking, and there was a faint look of worry in his eyes.

The next question is which meat tickets to get, Sun Meiyao very readily invited Chen Zikun to choose, the meat tickets were placed in a cave a hundred zhang away, there was an ambush at the door, and the entrance of the cave was cleverly covered with branches, if someone did not lead the way, it would be impossible to find it.

The light in the cave is very dim, adapt to a while to see the situation clearly, there is a five-zhang square flat ground in the cave, the depth of the cave is extremely low, the stone wall is wet and dripping down, there are dozens of embarrassed foreigners on the ground or squatting or sitting, disheveled, lack of shoes and socks, unkempt, it looks like they have suffered a lot, but the complexion is still good, and there are no obvious scars on the body, indicating that the bandits are still more polite to them.

Chen Zikun quickly counted the number of people, there were 35 people, including more than 10 flower tickets (female hostages), this number and the official statistics are obviously quite different, indicating that the bandits are not only in this Tibetan place.

"Boss, you pick whatever you want, whoever you pick, that's whose creation." Sun Meiyao pointed at these poor hostages and said to a short bandit: "Translate Lao Tzu's words, let them raise their faces, and let Boss Chen pick slowly." ”

The short bandit immediately said this in broken English, and the hostages immediately became agitated, scrambling to raise their heads, looking at Chen Zikun with blank eyes, they didn't know what this person was doing, and any hope was a life-saving straw at this time.

Chen Zikun didn't expect that there were English-speaking characters among the bandits, and his original plan to use English to appease everyone had to be shelved, but he still spoke with a fluent New York accent: "Ladies and gentlemen, thanks to the grace of the big boss, I can take some hostages, I hope you will make this choice yourself, please note that the old and sick are given priority, and ladies are first." ”

The hostages were in a commotion again, and it was an exciting thing in itself to be able to hear such a standard of pure English in a desperate situation, not to mention how this man promised to settle four or five people, how not to excite them, and they immediately began to discuss who should be rescued first.

Sun Meiyao lowered her head and asked his translator, "What did Boss Chen say?" ”

The dwarf translated Chen Zikun's words into Chinese one by one, and Sun Meiyao nodded when she heard it and said, "The boss really has a style when he speaks." ”

Chen Zikun listened to the conversation between him and the dwarf, but his heart was full of doubts, this dwarf did not speak Shandong dialect, but a Kanto accent!

There are many Shandong people who break into the Kanto, but in places like southern and northern Jiangsu, Kanto people are very rare, and then think of his English accent, R and L are indistinguishable, Chen Zikun suddenly realized that this person may be a Japanese!

Quietly looking at the dwarf, no matter how you look at it, he doesn't look like a Japanese, but an authentic Chinese rural peasant, and his gestures are full of rusticism, which makes Chen Zikun even more suspicious, because a person who can be proficient in English conversation, even if he has no higher education, must have served as a servant or something like a foreigner.

Chen Zikun asked casually: "Where did this brother learn foreign language?" ”

Sun Meiyao patted the dwarf man on the shoulder and said, "This is Erbao, the translator of our cottage, who went abroad during the European War." ”

"Oh, I see." Chen Zikun said this, and his doubts were deeper, the European war requisitioned a lot of Chinese laborers, but they were all working with the French, why did this Erbao learn a word of English instead.

But now is not the time to delve into this kind of thing, the key is to rescue some of the hostages first, the meat tickets are crying and crying in a mess, Chen Zikun's eyes searched back and forth among them, and suddenly noticed a pair of shining and wise eyes, the owner of these eyes is a bearded man, about forty years old.

With their eyes met, Chan seemed to sense something from his gaze, but here and now, any form of communication is unrealistic.

The hostages selected thirteen old, weak, sick and disabled girls and let them go first, Sun Meiyao was angry at the time: "My day, this is not good, let them go, what should the officers and soldiers do, at most four!" ”

Chen Zikun still wanted to fight for it again and let a few more people go, but Sun Meiyao could only put four first, seeing that he was resolute, Chen Zikun didn't want to say much.

Four places, compared to more than 30 hostages, is a drop in the bucket, usually elegant and polite foreigners are also messed up, and they all shouted to let themselves go first, Chen Zikun caught a glimpse of Sun Meiyao's displeasure, afraid that he would not even let go of the four people in a fit of anger, so he was in a hurry, and simply walked into the crowd and ordered four women directly: "You, you, you, and you, you four go with me first." ”

Unexpectedly, a girl who was chosen by Chen Zikun replied calmly: "Thank you, I stay." ”

Chan glanced at him, a girl in her twenties with flaxen-colored hair, dressed in a men's shirt and hunting suit, with big bare feet, looking like a big American girl.

"Hey, can you give me a message?" The flaxen-haired girl said, her accent a strong New York flavor.

"Willing to serve." Chan said.

"My name is Catherine. Stanley, a New Yorker, a Manhattan-native, Time reporter, please tell my father and mother that I love them. ”

"But why did you choose to stay?" Chan was both impressed and incomprehensible about the girl's fearlessness.

"Because I'm a journalist, I'm not going to pass up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." Catherine said firmly.

"Oh no, please, there's still me here." The middle-aged man with the wise eyes stood up and said, "Miss Stanley, with all due respect, your duty is to interview the presidents and ministers in the carpeted palace, rather than to do a personal issue for a bandit leader in the mountains, and it is better to leave this kind of thing to me." ”

As he spoke, he naturally stretched out his hand to Chen Zikun: "Fortunately, John. Benjamin. Powell, reporter for the Millers Review, is also American. ”

"Nice to meet you, though not in the right place." Chen Zikun shook hands with him, felt a piece of paper stuffed in his palm, and immediately hid the paper roll in his sleeve covertly.

At this time, there was a faint sound of gunfire in the distance, and the officers and soldiers attacked, Sun Meiyao's face changed greatly, and urged: "Why are you foreigners so unhappy, if you don't leave, don't go!" ”

He was so frightened that no one dared to talk more, Chen Zikun walked out of the cave with four female hostages, Sun Meiyao followed out, and said, "Boss, I'm sorry, you have to follow the rules." ”

Chen Zikun said: "That's nature, please." ”

Sun Meiyao waved her hand, and her subordinates came over to cover the eyes of Chen Zikun and the other hostages, and went back along the same road, and after stumbling away for half an hour, the bandits stopped, untied the black sermon on their faces, and said: "From here, go all the way to the south, and you can reach Lincheng." ”

"Thanks, brother." Chen Zikun thanked him, and the gang of bandits also returned the salute with their fists and turned around.

Looking at the votes again, they trembled and couldn't believe that they had regained their freedom.