Chapter 8: The Treachery of Beverly Five (4)
Leaving her aunt's house in the San Ann metropolitan area, Ms. Lin drove to the San Francisco office of the Huaguo Bank, where she rented a personal safe. She was going to take the safe and put back the jewel necklace around her neck that her mother had passed on to her.
In the United States, all the private economic business between Lin Sier and Huaguo is basically handled through the overseas outlets of Huaguo Bank.
She retrieved the keys from the bank clerk and found the location of her safe.
Only items that belong to Lin Si'er are stored here.
Lu Zhichao did not know that she had started a safe deposit box rental business at Huaguo Bank.
After the two got married, Lu Zhichao handed over Lin Si'er's household every year, which was naturally a lot of money. However, she did not deduct her own private money from it, and all the balance was deposited into a special account in the name of EstΓ©e.
The safe is only half a drawer's size.
The property inside, except for a few pieces of jewelry that Lin Si'er bought herself, is all the money she saved from working in the early years of the United States and later working as a magazine columnist - a few bank deposit certificates.
Then there are several thick paper bags, which contain photos of her and Hua Nianping when they were young, as well as letters passed to each other in private.
She first took off the jewel necklace around her neck and stuffed it into the safe. But as soon as he put it in, he took it out and put it back on his neck.
This is a lilac gemstone necklace that has been handed down for generations of generations as a gift from her mother on Lin Si'er's eighteenth birthday.
Now, Lin Si'er mainly wants to put a few bunches of withered petals of the Mandarin Duck Double Butterfly Orchid that she specially brought back from the capital of Huaguo into the safe.
A few years ago, the Mandarin Duck Double Butterfly Orchid was fostered at the home of a middle school friend of Lin Si'er. This middle school friend is Jiang Shuang, and he is now a professor at the Beijing Institute of Horticulture. She lived up to Lin Sier's trust, and had carefully cultivated the mandarin duck double butterfly orchid and tillered many pots.
When Lin Si'er was about to leave the capital after the Mid-Autumn Festival, she went to Jiang Shuang's house to say goodbye, and folded off a few bunches of petals that had bloomed in the spring of the mandarin duck double butterfly and brought them back to Sanqi City.
I don't know what year it is when I think of returning to China, the petals of the mandarin duck and the double butterfly are the cherished commemoration of Hua Nianping and her first love feelings by Lin Si'er in a foreign country.
Seeing things and thinking about things, her sad tears fell on the withered petals in her hands.
In Lin Si'er's opinion, even if it is a string of jewel necklaces handed down by her mother, even if it is worth a lot of money, it is difficult to match the position of the mandarin duck double butterfly in her heart.
Leaving Huaguo Bank, when Lin Si'er drove into the street in front of Plaza Park, a cargo truck covered with Madonna's face quickly drove past her at a fork in the other road.
Lin Si'er immediately noticed that the car in front of her was the Ford small truck that Gersfin drove to Beverly No. 5 early in the morning.
She suddenly remembered that Lu Zhichao's CM.CN company was on a street in the city park here.
Could it be that Gersfen and they ......
Lin Si'er stepped on the accelerator and followed.
In order to avoid being spotted by the people in front of her, she always kept a distance from Del's truck.
Sure enough, the Ford small truck stopped in front of a townhouse marked Tower A.
Lin Si'er knew that Lu Zhichao's CM.CN company was on this building, occupying No. 27 and No. 28.
Gersfin and Colini got out of the car, and Del got out of the cab as well.
They began to unload trucks and move items into the building one by one. It took about twenty minutes for everything on the bus to be removed.
Corini didn't show up again, and Del and Gersfinn got back into the car and continued on their way.
Lin Si'er decided to follow them again and quietly followed them.
Unraveling the mystery of Grusfene's identity and finding out the treachery in Beverly V is not only too tempting for her, but even feels an inexplicable excitement.
Half an hour later, Dell drove the car into a courtyard on Olafur Street. Although there are two gates for exits, there is only a six-story gray building in the courtyard.
Gethfen got out of the car.
Lin Si'er saw several men coming out of the building, and they all took the initiative to run to Gesfen's side and greet her, looking very respectful and courteous.
From this, she deduced that Gesfen and the people in this gray building should be very familiar with each other, and they were not low-level, so she began to know the bottom in her heart.
When Del drove away from the other gate, Lin Si'er waited for a few more minutes before getting out of the car and walking into the hall of the gray building.
She noticed that the building, though it looked old, was sturdy.
A doorman stopped Lin Si'er at the elevator entrance: "Who are you looking for, do you have an appointment?" β
"I'll look for Mr. Thomson, and he'll ask me to come at half past ten." Lin Si'er looked at her watch as if she was in a hurry, and said casually. "It's almost eleven o'clock, and I'm half an hour late."
"I'm sorry, we don't have a Thomson here, just Tom, or Mr. Toms, which one are you looking for!" The doorman was obviously a loyal and honest man, and he was a little confused.
"I'm confused by you, how many people are named Tom here, could it be that I have found the wrong person?" Lin Si'er made a somewhat impatient look. "Then tell me if Mrs. Gersphine also works here, I know she is Mr. Thomson's wife, and the two work in the same department!"
"It's Miss Gersfin, not Mrs. Gsphine. She's not married. I think you're really getting the wrong person! The doorman stretched out his voice, as if he was beginning to understand. Miss Gersphine is our senior executive here. She had just gone upstairs. If you confirm that you have come to her, I can tell Miss Gersphine to come downstairs to meet you now. β
"Wait a minute, sir, I want to find out, what kind of unit is here?" Lin Si'er stopped the doorman and took the opportunity to ask, "Could it be, I found the wrong place, right?" β
"Ma'am, which one are you looking for?" The doorman, almost in despair, was once again confused.
He may have been shocked by the dazzling lilac gemstone necklace around Lin Si'er's neck, and he expected that the Chinese lady in front of him must have a prominent identity.
Later, the doorman simply pointed to a sign with a "four-legged eagle claw" pattern on the wall, and his tone was extremely crisp, and he replied to Lin Si'er word by word: "Honorable madam, just tell you the truth." Please remember, this is the three branches of Harder, and the whole building is full of employees working for Harder! β
For this astonishing "four-legged eagle claw" pattern, Lin Si'er had seen it in Gsaffin's room this morning.
"Looks like I'm really in the wrong place!" Lin Si'er concealed the smugness in her heart and made a sudden awakening to the doorman. "I'm looking for Mr. Thomson, who works with his wife in an insurance company. I'm so sorry for you! β
She smiled and apologized to the doorman.
"There's a humble insurance company around here." The doorman finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the conversation began to increase.
"Besides, I'll tell you the truth, because of the important particularities of the Harder company, it is inconvenient to make any external identification. Still, it's not surprising to say you're in the wrong place. Last time, a couple of guys actually used this place as a mental hospital and sent a murderer in. β
"That's dangerous!" Lin Si'er was satisfied, and said goodbye to the doorman very moving: "Goodbye sir, good luck!" β
She didn't expect it to be so quick and so smooth, and she had no trouble finding out Gesfin's true identity.
It turns out that she is actually from the mysterious Harder Company, and her background is intriguing.
But what should be done next?
On the way back to Chinatown, Lin Si'er vaguely realized that she was being involved in a strange spy game.