At half past nine in the morning, Xiao Zhenlei came to the vicinity of the Xinyuan Cafe to investigate the situation, before he was a little worried that Pan Sunna, the old guy, would lose his mind in a hurry, and would send someone to set up an ambush in the café, and arrest him as soon as he arrived, but he still miscalculated Pan Sunna, this old guy was not as stupid as he thought, and he arrested people before he got the evidence, which only a pig can do. In fact, before Xiao Zhenlei came, he also thought about not coming forward and letting others come to meet Pan Sunna, but he was worried that others would not be able to deal with Pan Sunna, so he only came in person.

Walking into the café, a waiter standing at the door greets: "Welcome, sir!" Are you one? ”

Xiao Zhenlei turned his head to observe in the café, and saw Pan Suna sitting anxiously by the window looking at the pocket watch, in addition, a middle-aged woman standing at the counter came out of the café, and then this waiter, he smiled: "Yes, I'm looking for someone, you see, he's there!" Please bring me a cup of coffee! ”

The waiter bent down and said, "Yes, sir! ”

Xiao Zhenlei smiled and walked towards Pan Sunna to greet him: "Hi, Mr. Pan Sunna, what a coincidence, I didn't expect to meet you here!" ”

Last time in Feige's villa, the two were introduced to each other, but they didn't talk deeply, Pan Suna still had a little impression of Xiao Zhenlei, and when he saw that it was Xiao Zhenlei, he also felt a little surprised, he got up and shook hands with Xiao Zhenlei and barely squeezed out one? Smile: "Oh, Mr. Xiao, are you here for coffee too?" ”

"Oh, I just passed by here, and when I saw you here, I came over to say hello to you. You don't mind if I sit down for a cup of coffee, do you? ”

Xiao Zhenlei had a smiling face, which made Pan Sunna really reluctant to refuse. However, in his heart, he scolded Xiao Zhenlei for being uninteresting, he must be waiting for someone here alone. And he was worried that it might arouse Xiao Zhenlei's suspicions, anyway, the time was not yet ten o'clock, so he stretched out his hand and made a gesture of please: "Of course, please sit!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei said thank you and sat opposite Pan Sunna, the waiter quickly brought the coffee, he took a sip of the coffee, and nodded: "Well, the coffee is good, right." Mr. Pansuna, I have heard that successive consuls like you in Shanghai have had very tense relations with the Board of Directors, is that true? ”

Pan Sunna looked at Xiao Zhenlei in surprise when he heard this, and he smiled helplessly: "Oh, it seems that Mr. Xiao has also heard about this matter, and it is true, this is a problem left over from history, and it cannot be solved in a short time." I heard that Mr. Xiao has recently opened several shops in the county seat and the concession, and has also opened a garment factory in the northern area of the public concession. Another bank in the pipeline? ”

Xiao Zhenlei smiled: "Yes, I didn't expect Mr. Pansuna to be so clear about such a trivial matter, you really care about me too much, I will be embarrassed!" ”

"Hahaha??????"

The two chatted like this. From the big and small news in the concession to the international situation, Pan Suna's interest was quite high at first, but as the time went closer and closer to ten o'clock. His mood was getting worse and worse, and he was getting more and more anxious. He didn't curse in his heart why the guy who wrote a letter to meet him at ten o'clock didn't come, but cursed Xiao Zhenlei in his heart that this guy was too good to talk. And it's too uninteresting, you said you have a cup of coffee and get out of here, what's the matter if he doesn't leave here?

Seeing that the clock hanging on the wall of the café was about to reach ten o'clock, Pan Sunna was already so anxious that he burned his buttocks, but Xiao Zhenlei was still the same as before, talking about the shape of Europe, and his eyebrows were dancing, Pan Sunna said in his heart It was a pity why didn't he become a speaker with this good eloquence, maybe he could still mix in the political circles, and it was a bit of a waste of talent to engage in business.

Xiao Zhenlei said while observing Pan Sunna's expression, and took a sip of coffee when his mouth was dry, Pan Sunna's extremely anxious heart, and pretending to be okay on his face really made him so happy.

"Oh, Mr. Pansuna, I noticed that you have been looking at the clock all this time, you have looked at it ten times in total, are you waiting for someone or something to do?"

Hearing this, Pan Suna immediately showed an apologetic expression and said, "Oh, please forgive me, I am indeed waiting for someone, if you ??????"

Of course, Xiao Zhenlei knew what Pan Suna meant, which meant that you have nothing to do and get out of here, don't delay my business, he turned his head and looked at the clock on the wall and asked, "Mr. Pan Sunna, is the time you and the other party have made an appointment at ten o'clock?" You see the time has passed."

Pan Suna turned his head when he heard this, and sure enough, it was already ten o'clock and one o'clock, after the appointed time, in the eyes of Westerners, it was very impolite to be late, if the time did not come, it means that the other party may not come, he sighed: "Yes, the time has passed, he probably won't come!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei saw Pan Sunna's expression, smiled secretly in his heart, and said with a playful expression: "Mr. Pan Sunna, how do you know that you won't come?" Maybe he's already there! ”

"Huh?" Pan Sunna listened to what Xiao Zhenlei said, her body shook suddenly, and she immediately looked left and right in a panic, and asked repeatedly, "Where is it?" Where is it? There are just two of us here! ”

Ignoring Pan Sunna's panic, Xiao Zhenlei took a sip of coffee, took out a pack of old knife brand cigarettes, took out one and put it in his mouth, lit Meimei with a match and smoked a few puffs, then spit out the smoke, looked at Pan Suna and said with a smile: "I know that he has arrived, and in the half hour just now, he also discussed the international situation with you for more than 20 minutes!" ”

"Mr. Xiao, stop kidding, you, wait???????" Pan Suna paused abruptly as she spoke, as if she had thought of something, raised her hand and stretched out a trembling finger to point at Xiao Zhenlei: "You, you are the one who asked me to meet here?" ”

Xiao Zhenlei took a puff of his cigarette, shrugged his shoulders and said, "There is no one else but me!" ”

Pan Sunna looked at Xiao Zhenlei, her face suddenly became flushed, and in an instant she turned purple pork liver color, from pig liver color to white, from white to white.

This constant change of face was too interesting in Xiao Zhenlei's observation, but he soon found that Pan Sunna was estimated to have the possibility of burping if he continued to change like this, so he picked up his coffee and sent it over: "Mr. Pan Sunna." I think you'd better have a cup of coffee first, and you'll be in trouble if you die here. It's not just hurting me, because I haven't talked about anything I'm going to talk to you about yet. And it hurt this café, you see how difficult it is for people to open a café, don't you say? Come on, come on, drink coffee, keep your peace of mind and you'll be fine soon! ”

Pansuna snatched the cup and drank the coffee in the cup a few sips, put down the cup with a "snap", gasping for breath, and it took four or five minutes to recover.

I took a cigar out of my pocket and put it in my mouth, and was about to pull out the lighter. Xiao Zhenlei had already lit a match and handed it over, Pan Sunna glanced at Xiao Zhenlei, but still put the cigar up and took several sips in a row to light the cigar.

After taking a few puffs of cigar, Pan Sunna's spirit improved a little, and his face looked much better, he exhaled a long mellow white smoke and looked at Xiao Zhenlei and said, "It turns out that you are the one who wrote to me and asked me to meet here, say, Mr. Xiao, how do you want to solve this matter." Or what conditions do you have? ”

Xiao Zhenlei stroked his palm and smiled: "Okay, Consul Pansuna is really a smart and cheerful person, I like a French gentleman like you, so I won't go around in circles." I've recently heard that the Arrest Room has been investigating me lately, and that the instigator is the damn Chief McLan, who secretly assigned a Chinese Inspector and two Chinese Inspectors to follow my ass all day. Mr. Pansuna, if you are stared at like this all day long. How will you feel? ”

"I think I'm going to go crazy, uh??????" Pansuna couldn't help but say what she really thought. But he quickly reacted that this matter seemed to be done by his patrol room.

"Good!" Xiao Zhenlei snapped his fingers with a smile when he heard this, looked at Pan Suna and said with a smile: "Mr. Pan Sunna knows that it will be very annoying and angry to be followed and investigated like this all day long, so you should imagine what kind of mood I will be, so my request is very simple, I hate that old ghost of Mai Lan very much, I don't want to see him sitting in the position of the chief inspector of the law capture room tomorrow, and the three Chinese patrols, they are as annoying as flies, I know that Your Excellency the Consul is a good hand at swatting flies, and this glorious and arduous task will be handed over to you, I would like you to give me a lot of pages of all the files they have done on me, and I will tell if what you have brought is the original, and you had better not play any tricks, or I will drag you to hell before I die! ”

Pan Sunna listened to Xiao Zhenlei's words, his originally good-looking face suddenly turned blue again, and he stretched out his trembling finger and pointed at Xiao Zhenlei: "You, you are a madman and a villain, no, no, no, both madmen and villains are more refined than you!" ”

"Hahaha" Xiao Zhenlei laughed when he heard this, laughed, he took a few puffs of cigarette, and shrugged his shoulders as a Westerner: "If you have to choose between a madman and a villain, a sanctimonious hypocrite and a so-called gentleman, I would rather be a madman and a villain!" Okay, Mr. Pansuna, let's get down to business, in addition to what I just said, one last point, about the selection of the new chief inspector of the law capture house, I think I need to think about it and then inform you! ”

"Impossible! Mr. Xiao, I advise you not to go too far" Pan Suna heard Xiao Zhenlei's condition, and immediately exploded, you must know that the patrol room is a strong arm of the French consul in Shanghai to maintain his authority in the French Concession, if he does not even listen to this arm, the consul in Shanghai will lose more than half of the right to speak in the French Concession, which Pan Suna is absolutely unwilling to lose.

"Huh!" Xiao Zhenlei smiled, smoking a cigarette and looking at Pan Sunna, his eyes not blinking.

Pansuna was also staring at him deadly, and neither side was outdone, and the two stared at each other like this, to see who could not hold on to defeat first.

After a few minutes, Pan Sunna was still old and weak after all, and his momentum fell, and he couldn't sit up straight, and his whole body leaned on his back, "Mr. Xiao, it's impossible for you to appoint a candidate for the chief inspector of the law capture room, I advise you to give up this unrealistic idea!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei extinguished the cigarette butt and put his hands crossed on the table, leaned forward to stare at Pan Suna and said: "Mr. Consul, I want to remind you that the control of the situation is in my hands, I can let you go to hell without much effort, and it is not so easy for you to kill me, before you kill me, the order issued by the French government to arrest you will come down, do you want to gamble?" If you have the guts, I wouldn't mind playing with you! ”

"You, you, you're a devil, a demon!"

Pan Suna's face turned pale, he knew very well that half of the eight members of the board of directors of the public board of directors had irreconcilable contradictions with him, which was in politics, and had nothing to do with personal feelings, and these board members had a backstage in the French government, if Xiao Zhenlei handed over that evidence to these people, as political enemies, they would definitely use this evidence to put him to death, and seize the financial power and police power of the French Concession Board of Directors, he is still only a temporary chargé d'affaires and an acting, Since January last year, he has been acting minister, and a full year and a half have passed, and he has not been regularized, which is not without reason, on the one hand, his own qualifications are relatively low, on the other hand, the masters behind the directors of the board of directors who are not on the same line as him are obstructing them, if this matter is stabbed out during the period of becoming a regular, those who not only his position is not guaranteed, but also the domestic bigwigs behind him will be thrown into face, and those bigwigs will definitely sprinkle their anger on him after losing face. He is not just removed from office, he is likely to die, and Pansuna knows all about the methods of those vicious politicians.

After Xiao Zhenlei took a puff of cigarette, he spread out his hands and looked indifferent: "Whatever you say, isn't it the devil's behavior that your French invaders invaded our China and killed so many of us Chinese, and collected countless money every year?" Do you still think you French are angels? Is it full of justice? Don't be funny, no one will believe this, it's just your self-deception! ”

"You, you, okay, I won't quarrel with you, it's absolutely impossible for you to dominate the question of the chief inspector of the law capture room!"

"Then there is nothing to talk about between us, Mr. Pansuna, thank you for your coffee, farewell!" After Xiao Zhenlei finished speaking, he got up and walked out.

"Wait, wait!" Pansuna hurriedly stopped.

Xiao Zhenlei stopped and turned around and smiled: "Is there anything else?" ”

"Come and sit down first, and we'll talk!"

Xiao Zhenlei smiled in his heart, walked over and sat down again.

Pan Sunna's brain was running at high speed, and he quickly thought of a way not to let himself lose the right to control the law arrest house, but also to let Xiao Zhenlei get his wish, he said: "Mr. Xiao, I know that you are worried that the law arrest room will investigate you again, so you want to see a person who is friendly to you to sit in the position of chief inspector, but it is impossible for me to hand over the right to appoint the chief inspector, so I thought of a way to satisfy both of us, that is, the person who is the chief inspector must be a candidate that you and I both agree on, what do you think?" ”

Xiao Zhenlei turned his mind and thought that this was indeed the best way to break the current negotiation deadlock, he nodded: "Okay, we will discuss the specific candidates in a few days, but before tomorrow evening, you must fulfill all the conditions I have prerequisite, after we reach an agreement, I will keep this secret for you forever, but you don't want to get back that evidence, without it, I dare not guarantee that you will be as polite to me as you are now!" ”

"You ???????". (To be continued......) R1292