Chapter 246: Rescuing the Negotiation Representative

Seeing his mother about to go mad, Jia Dongxu hurriedly stepped forward to stop her: "Mother! I hate the He Family too, but if you go to report them now, you are seeking your own death! Do you think they are stupid? They dare to come back because they have nothing to fear!"

"I don't believe they can cover the sky with one hand; I am going to report them!" Jia Zhangshi put on her shoes and walked out.

"Mother, is the lesson from last time when your leg was broken not enough? My Siqiang told me that He Daqing is with the Communist Party!" Jia Dongxu said.

Jia Zhangshi was so angry she pounded the edge of the kang: "So what if they are the Communist Party? Haven't they not entered the city yet? Anyway, I am just an old woman, what is there to fear? I will have those lackeys go deal with them!"

"Mother!" Jia Dongxu stomped his feet in anxiety, "If you keep making such a scene, I will really send you back to our hometown!"

"You ungrateful wretch!" Jia Zhangshi immediately wailed and beat her chest, "Lao Jia! Come up quickly and look at this unfilial son! I raised him with my own sweat and blood, and now he actually wants to drive me away..."

Jia Dongxu was helpless and had to run to the west wing to find Yi Zhonghai.

Yi Zhonghai was eating dinner; after hearing the reason, he put down his chopsticks and followed him over.

Seeing Jia Zhangshi still wailing on the kang, he said in a deep voice: "Sister-in-law, if you keep acting like this, not only will you ruin Dongxu's future, but I don't think anyone will dare to marry Dongxu either!"

Jia Zhangshi abruptly stopped crying, pointed at Yi Zhonghai, and cursed: "Yi Zhonghai! The reason my Dongxu is so unfilial now is all because you are instigating it behind his back!"

Yi Zhonghai's face immediately turned dark: "Zhang Xiaohua! If you think I can't teach Dongxu well, I will go talk to Lou Laoban tomorrow and have him find another master!" After saying this, he flicked his sleeves and left.

Jia Dongxu stood frozen in place, looking at his mother's flushed face, and finally gritted his teeth: "If you make a scene again, I really won't care about you anymore!"

The next morning, He Yuzhu went to see Liu Rusi. Seeing her poor complexion, he asked with concern: "Sister, your state hasn't been good lately. Is it because you've been missing me?"

"Get lost!" Liu Rusi cursed.

He Yuzhu chuckled.

Liu Rusi smiled bitterly: "It's my father acting up again. He can't settle his own affairs, and now he wants me to take you to help him handle things!"

"Mr. Shen is beyond saving; does he really have to go down this dark path to the end? The overall situation is settled; within a year, it is inevitable that the Bald Party will lose the entire Mainland."

Liu Rusi said: "Your predictions back then were really accurate; I didn't believe it two years ago!"

He Yuzhu pondered for a moment and said seriously: "The Bicycle Factory in Hong Kong has already been set up, and the shipping company is also taking shape. Sister, you should leave this place of trouble as soon as possible."

Liu Rusi was silent for a long time, then asked softly: "In your opinion, will this place really have no room for me in the future?"

"It certainly won't be difficult for you; I have already paved a way out for you." As he spoke, he pushed a stack of IOUs toward her.

Liu Rusi took them and looked; there were over 20 IOUs, signed by various levels of Communist Party leaders. The highest-ranking officials included Mr. Zhou and General Chen, there were also signatures from Lao Zhou, and even more from Regimental Commander Yang. The total amounted to tens of millions of Big Ocean.

Liu Rusi's eyes suddenly turned red: "Zhuzi, it's hard on you to have considered things so thoroughly for your sister..."

"Don't say that, Sister." He Yuzhu waved his hand, "These were never my assets to begin with; they were all seized from bad people. The information on these bad people was mostly provided by you. If we are talking about merit, at least half of it is yours."

"Zhuzi, tell me, what will society be like in the future?" Liu Rusi asked.

"That society will be very equal—men and women will be equal, husbands and wives will be equal, officials and commoners will be equal... Poor people will have high status, and rich people will have low status... Officials will be very honest..."

He Yuzhu continued, and the more Liu Rusi listened, the more novel it felt.

Early the next morning, Lao Zhou sent someone to call He Yuzhu away.

"Lao Yang and I have reached an agreement to transfer you to Si Jiu Cheng to work under me." Lao Zhou said happily as soon as he saw He Yuzhu.

He Yuzhu exploded upon hearing this: "Lao Yang is too unreasonable. I helped him get so many scarce supplies, and now he's playing this 'discard the millstone after the grain is ground' trick? He didn't even mention it when I met him."

"Your status hasn't changed, haven't you still been helping your father get supplies?"

He Yuzhu nodded.

Lao Zhou's expression suddenly turned serious: "There is an urgent matter at hand that requires you to step in. We have had two batches of peace negotiation representatives run into trouble on the road. The next batch is arriving soon, and this time I want you to be responsible for the security work."

He Yuzhu asked: "You mean you want me to go to the train station to pick people up, right?"

Lao Zhou nodded.

He Yuzhu pressed: "Do you know the names of the next batch of negotiation representatives?"

"Tian Huaizhong."

"It seems this world hasn't changed, that's good." He Yuzhu thought to himself.

"What are you thinking about? Do you know this negotiation representative?" Lao Zhou asked curiously.

He Yuzhu shook his head: "I don't. However, I want to get on the train early to protect them; I'm afraid someone might make a move on the train."

"Where do you plan to board the train?" Lao Zhou asked.

"If they pass through Tianjin, I will board there."

"They will definitely pass through Tianjin!" Lao Zhou said.

Three days later, He Yuzhu boarded the train Tian Huaizhong was on in Tianjin.

To avoid attracting attention, he carefully disguised himself—wearing a crisp Western suit, with a thick beard pasted on his face, his eyebrows thickened with a charcoal pencil, and his gaze behind gold-rimmed glasses appearing steady and mature.

He wore a fedora, held a walking stick, and carried a leather briefcase in his other hand, looking every bit like a "fake foreign devil."

The carriage was mostly filled with ordinary passengers; seeing his attire, they stepped aside one after another, fearing that if they accidentally bumped into something valuable, they would have to pay for it.

He Yuzhu was unhurried, starting from the front of the train, searching carefully carriage by carriage.

Finding Tian Huaizhong among the many people was quite difficult.

He walked very slowly, his gaze sweeping over the face of every passenger.

Such careful scrutiny inevitably invited suspicion. Halfway through, He Yuzhu had a flash of inspiration; he deliberately pretended to limp forward, acting as if his legs were inconvenient.

Sure enough, a train attendant stepped forward with concern: "Sir, where is your seat? Do you need my help?"

He Yuzhu casually handed over a Big Ocean and said indifferently: "No need."

The attendant took the tip, beamed with joy, bowed, and backed away.

At the end of the carriage, He Yuzhu saw a woman of about twenty-five or twenty-six, with an oval face and delicate features, wearing a long gray wool coat, a flat-topped hat, and a red scarf, holding a red hot water bottle while getting water in the water room.

He Yuzhu recognized her at a glance. This must be Tian Huaizhong's daughter, Tian Dan; she looked almost exactly like the one in the "New World" TV series he had watched.

He Yuzhu walked up, not knowing how to strike up a conversation with her for a moment.

In the plot, she and Feng Qingbo hadn't seen each other for four years and didn't know Feng Qingbo was a double agent. If he rashly brought up Feng Qingbo's affairs, she certainly wouldn't believe him.

So what to do? He Yuzhu thought quickly; seeing Tian Dan turn around, he deliberately tripped and fell right in front of her feet.