Chapter 13: The Family

Mario Pacino, the old man of the Pacino family, one of the five major mafia families in New York, has another identity, Chen Bei's godfather, although he has never seen Chen Jiao, he was still very excited, and had to temporarily take a fast-acting heart-saving pill, and after relieving, he lay on the sofa smoking a cigar and talked and laughed.

"My godson, I miss him so much and can't wait to hug him." Mario was excited.

"My brother stayed in China and couldn't come out." Chen Jiao said regretfully.

"Oh, I'm sorry." Mario hugged Chen Jiao with a sad face.

Mario told Chen Jiao that the building was sold by Chen Zikun to the Pacino family for $100,000 in exchange for arms, but Mario changed hands and gave the house to his godson Chen Bei, and in a legal sense, the house belonged to Chen Bei.

"The house of 100,000 dollars back then is now worth 5 million, hehe, my gift is very heavy." Mario triumphant.

The doorbell rang, Elizabeth went to open the door, and in came a lady of the age of flowers, dressed plainly and with a noble temperament.

"This is Emily. Mrs. Chand, Mrs. General Chand, your father's West Point classmate. Elizabeth introduced.

Emily stretched out her hand: "Child, in fact, I am also Chen's best friend, and I also manage your family's finances, let's take a look at what good things I have brought you." ”

She took out a stack of documents from her purse, opened something similar to a financial statement, put on reading glasses and said: "During the Great Depression in 1929, Chen Zikun's Spring Import and Export injected 300,000 US dollars into the Hillman Bank of Boston, accounting for 25 percent of the bank's shares, and it has been 39 years since then, after 27 dividends and allotments, and then at today's New York Stock Exchange price, the market value is about ...... Oh, let me count to zero, it's 100.8 million dollars. ”

After speaking, Emily took off her glasses and looked at Chen Jiao with a smile: "Child, are you ready to receive this money?" ”

Chen Jiao was dumbfounded, she had long been stupid, even if she was a fourth-level administrative cadre like her father in China, it was only a salary of two or three hundred yuan, or RMB, and now she suddenly had a property of hundreds of millions of dollars, and anyone had to stay for a while, but she quickly sobered up and said: "I'm sorry, but we can't talk about this now, I'm here to ask you, help us, my father was arrested by the British." ”

Mario was furious: "I will make the British look good, and I will immediately hire the best mercenaries in the world and form a commando team to rescue your father." ”

"I think the federal government should be able to put pressure on the British," Emily said. ”

Elizabeth smoked a cigarette and was silent.

Mario is an old man of the New York mafia, and Emily is an accountant, both of whom are only good at their respective fields, and can only express anger and sympathy for what is happening in the Far East, and the tricks they come up with are not reliable at all.

No matter what, being able to meet so many relatives makes Chen Jiao feel warm.

In the late sixties, it was the period when the mafia was rampant and drugs were raging in New York, and the Pacino family group occupied more than half of the cocaine market in New York.

Before the meal was finished, Chen Jiao's suitcase was delivered.

Chen Jiao was surprised: "Uncle Mario, how did you do it?" ”

Mario laughed, and the fat on his belly trembled: "It's nothing, just tell them that they robbed the luggage of the youngest daughter of the Pacino family last night, and let them take care of the rest." ”

"What if they don't find it?"

"That's going to kill a lot of people, and the Vietnamese gang will disappear from New York." Mario's smile froze and became cruel.

Chen Jiao was taken aback.

Then Mario sighed again: "It's a pity that the younger generations of the family don't want their sons to inherit their father's business, if Chen Bei is here, he can take over my class." ”

……

The next day, Catherine. Stanley, who drove back from Washington, asked in detail about Chan's arrest and said, "It's very difficult to do, because it's in their hands, and if the British intelligence agencies refuse to admit it, we don't have anything to do." ”

Chen Jiao was at a loss: "What should I do?" ”

"Son, I will find a way to contact the media in the UK and operate in public opinion."

Suddenly, the phone rang, and the operator said that it was a long distance from Hong Kong, and Chen Jiao immediately answered it, it was Lin Wenjing calling, and her voice was very excited.

"Jiao'er, your dad escaped!"

"My dad is out." Chen Jiao told everyone in English that Catherine's mother and daughter were surprised.

"But your dad can't talk to you, he's wanted now and he's hiding in a safe place......"

After a phone call across the ocean, the situation suddenly became clear, Chen Zikun successfully escaped from prison, and now he is hiding in the Kowloon Walled City, which is also a headache for the police, and the next work will be easy to do.

If Chen Zikun is willing, he can smuggle anywhere, but he will not do this, after all, he is a person with status, and if the crime is not cleared, even if he escapes to the ends of the earth, he will not be able to escape the pursuit of MI5, and he must solve the problem once and for all.

Catherine said: "I will come up with a proper solution as soon as possible, Chen Jiao, you can relax in New York, Elizabeth, you accompany her to buy some clothes." ”

Elizabeth is good at this, although she doesn't like to dress up, but she has all the necessary cultivation in high society, she walked around the Fifth Avenue and equipped Chen Jiao with all the equipment from hats to shoes, all of which are top brands, tailor-made, and cost tens of thousands of dollars, of course, this little money is drizzling for the Chen family, which is worth hundreds of millions.

When he returned to the apartment with large and small cardboard boxes and paper bags, Tan He had been waiting here for a long time, and when he saw Chen Jiao coming back, he hurriedly stepped forward to take over the things.

"Is there something wrong, Mr. Tan?" Chen Jiao asked.

"Let me ask, is there anything I can help with? My father still has some friends in the United States. Tan He's words seem to have been practiced thousands of times.

"Thank you, my father is out of danger."

"That's great......" Tan He couldn't continue, because there was no topic.

The atmosphere was a little awkward, and Elizabeth said, "Shouldn't we go for a big meal to celebrate, I know a good Chinese restaurant." ”

said and winked at Chen Jiao.

"It's not a bad idea." Tan He responded immediately.

"Let's get the stuff up first." Chen Jiao is also in a good mood.

In the restaurant, Chen Jiao told Tan He his father's true identity.

Tan He was shocked, he had studied and worked in Beijing for many years, so he naturally knew Chen Zikun's name, and he couldn't help but sigh with emotion, it turned out that General Chen was also in exile.

After eating, Tan He proposed to go to the movies, but Elizabeth refused, saying that there were still things to talk about another day, and Tan He had to send them back.

"You can't make him feel too smooth, otherwise it won't be fun." After returning home, Elizabeth explained to Chen Jiao.

Tan He returned to his home in Chinatown, just as his father had just returned from a banquet in high society, and his night dress had not yet been changed.

"Father, there's something I want to say." Tan He said.

"Say it." Mr. Tan is very worried, his family's rubber plantation in Malaya has suffered from a drought and is in urgent need of financing, and is currently in contact with the Hillman Bank in Boston, which is the matter tonight, if the financing fails, the Tan family's century-old foundation will be ruined.

Tan He said: "I know a girl, I like her very much, and I want to date her. ”

Mr. Tan untied his bow tie and said casually: "What is the other party's family background?" ”

"After the famous family, her father is Chen Zikun."

"Oh?" Mr. Tan paused, "Chen Zikun, a general during the Republic of China, the one who later defected to the Communist Party?" ”

"Yes, they have escaped from the mainland."

Mr. Tan frowned: "The down-and-out phoenix is not as good as a chicken, I advise you to consider the daughter of Uncle Huang's family, the Huang family's business in Hong Kong is very large, and it is very helpful to our family." ”

Tan He stopped talking, he is not a young man in his twenties after all, and his parents need to agree to marriage matters, but it is not a necessary condition.

Mrs. Tan didn't know when she had come over, and sneered: "I can already see that the girl of the Chen family is a ghost, she must be greedy for our Tan family's property to seduce my son, I don't want such a poor relative." ”

Tan He was speechless and left silently.

……

Hong Kong, Kowloon Walled City, Chan Tsz-kun hid in a secret room, drinking wine and eating side dishes.

Although MI5 is strong, it also depends on specific things, in a place like Hong Kong, where gangs are rampant and the government is corrupt, the actions of these gangsters all rely on the support of the Political Department.

The Kowloon Walled City is too big, with tens of thousands of people living there, all of whom are marginal people with no legal identity, and there are gambling halls, brothels, and underground drug factories in it, and murders, rapes and robberies emerge one after another, making it the largest hotbed of crime in Hong Kong.

Chen Zikun killed an MI5 agent on Mount Davis, and it happened that he was a 00-level senior agent sent by London, and MI5 strictly ordered Chen Zikun to be captured alive, so the police set up many secret posts near the Kowloon Walled City, as long as Chen Zikun came out, he was arrested immediately.

Taiwan is also trying to find Chen Zikun, and the underworld has already offered Wu Shiyuan a price of 10,000 Hong Kong dollars to buy Chen Zikun's whereabouts.

Although the price is high, this money is really hot, and the Kuomintang authorities and the Hong Kong and British authorities are not characters to be provoked, and it is not okay to offend anyone.

……

In New York, Catherine finally figured out a way to rescue Chan.

She consulted the historical materials of the West Point Military Academy and proved one thing, Chen Zikun was actually a U.S. citizen born in San Francisco, and during World War II, he served in the U.S. Army, with the rank of Brigadier General, Counselor in Military Affairs, coordinated Sino-American relations, took the lead in the Normandy landings, fought in Omaha Beach, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, the highest honor in the Army, second only to the Congressional Medal of Honor.

An innocent American, a retired Brigadier General, an anti-fascist hero, a legendary figure who resisted tyranny and escaped from the Iron Curtain, what good news material.

Elizabeth was not idle, cooperating with her mother's work, digging through the piles of old papers in the archives for several days, and turning out two Times magazines from the twenties and forties, and Chen Zikun on the cover was still heroic.

"Oh God, if I lived in those days, I would have fallen in love with him." Elizabeth couldn't help but wonder about it.

Overnight, all the mainstream media in New York published Chen Zikun's news, newspapers, magazines, radio and television, and they were overwhelming.