Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Tuesday, August 3rd.
Jiang Lan got up early in the morning, dressed himself, and prepared to go out to work at the street office.
Jiang Lan was supposed to attend the reception on this day, as the delegation was supposed to arrive in Jiangcheng. However, Long Bing arrived in Jiangcheng three days earlier with ill intentions and joined forces with Long Yi and the Qian faction in Nancheng to stir up trouble, allowing the Monster Management Bureau to capture hostages and handles. As a result, the grand reception ceremony and the visit exchange meeting were cancelled.
One reason was that Long Bing and others were arrogant and disregarded Chinese laws and the Monster Management Bureau. The Monster Management Bureau must express its attitude and put pressure on them at the same time; the other was that Hai An strongly opposed the boring welcome ceremony and exchange meeting, and Ed was also indifferent to it.
So the Monster Management Bureau took the opportunity to cancel the original plan.
Now Long Bing and others were controlled in the hotel, with a guard every five steps and another guard every ten steps, making it almost impossible to move, like house arrest; while Hai An, accompanied by the guide of the Monster Management Bureau, ate, drank and had fun in the streets and alleys of Jiangcheng, forgetting to return. As a neutral party, Ed did not want to offend either side, and occasionally went out with Hai An, but most of the time he stayed in the hotel obediently, waiting to return to the United States after the visit.
As a member of the reception team, Jiang Lan naturally had nothing to do and began to return to his normal life – going to work.
Because their fourth brother was at home, Jiang Lan did not take Suan Ni and Jiao Tu to work. Although Suan Ni strongly protested and wanted to go see his good friend Ku Ge, Jiang Lan considered that it was too desolate for the fourth brother who had broken up to stay at home alone. He coldly rejected Suan Ni’s protest and left the three little cubs at home.
The angry Suan Ni pulled his tail out of the fourth brother’s hand and hugged it, glared at him fiercely, then dragged the tablet to the rattan chair on the balcony to play.
Bi’an let out a click of the tongue and slumped back on the sofa, twirling his phone with his fingers. His eyes swept over the pile of books on the coffee table whose names looked like they were just asking for money. He was wondering whether he should passively wait for Ying Qiao to come find him or take the initiative and go to Chen Hua to test the waters and see if this senior brother who suddenly showed up was really a good person.
He actually suspected that Ying Gou wanted to blow him up.
After all, if Chen Hua really had any senior brothers and junior brothers, why didn’t Ying Gou mention them earlier?
But without confirming it personally, Bi’an couldn’t feel at ease.
When he heard it, they sounded closer than the brother of your immediate boss’ boyfriend.
It’s worth having a sense of crisis.
Bi’an stood up and paced a few steps in annoyance, his eyes swept over the books on the coffee table several times. After hesitating for a moment, he temporarily suppressed his anxiety, sat down again, picked up the top book and began to read.
He wanted to see what was written in these books.
If it doesn’t work, it won’t be too late to go find Chen Hua.
….
Jiang Lan was warmly welcomed as he entered the office, carrying soy milk and fried dough sticks.
Even Zhang Tianxing, who was concentrating on his phone, looked over sharply, glancing at Jiang Lan and the backpack on his back: “Where’s Ni Ni?”
“My fourth brother is here, and he is at home with him.” Jiang Lan said casually.
“…”
Zhang Tianxing’s eyes suddenly turned disappointed, and he said “Oh” uninterestedly, then looked away and said no more.
“You didn’t come to work yesterday, and you didn’t reply to the group message. Ku Ge even went to ask the director if you had asked for leave.”
Xue Meng laughed at him and exposed his past without mercy: “The director said that when you came to work today, he arrived at the office at 8 o’clock today to wait for the cat.”
There was no cat.
The cat lover sighed.
Zhang Tianxing raised his head and glanced at Xue Meng without refutation.
Jiang Lan looked at Zhang Tianxing in surprise, and Ku Ge looked at him expressionlessly.
Jiang Lan: …
He sipped the soy milk and thought, you can’t tell.
Suan Ni is also a little cat with loyal fans.
Maybe he can start a live broadcast and become an internet celebrity kitten in the future.
After all, even cool guys feel like Zhang Tianxing miss it so much if they don’t smoke for a day, so wouldn’t it be easy to deal with other humans?
He thought wildly for a while, ate his breakfast in a few bites, turned on his computer, and asked others if they had any work for him to do – he left early last Friday afternoon, and the work for the past day and a half was handled by others.
“Yes, yes, yes!” Xiao Xiaoyu sent a compressed file to Jiang Lan and said, “On Monday, the higher-ups issued a notice requiring all districts and streets to hold “Enhancing Safety Awareness” publicity lectures. I have prepared the materials and lecture plans. You just need to make a summary PPT of the lecture. The materials and plans are in the file package.”
Jiang Lan received the file package, clicked on it one by one and took a quick look, and found that this safety lecture was actually aimed at young women. There were also several recent news cases in the document, all of which were news about young women missing in Jiangcheng.
Jiang Lan finished reading the news and frowned, “So many young women have disappeared recently? Have they been found?”
Xiao Xiaoyu shook her head. Seeing Jiang Lan’s confused face, she thought that he hadn’t heard the news yet, so she lowered her voice and said to him, “This is just what was reported. In fact, many elderly people have reported to the police recently that their children have lost contact.”
The police station received many reports of this kind.
Most of the missing people were young women, and there were a few young men, who were generally in their twenties. They went to school or work in Jiangcheng, lived alone, and had little contact with their families or friends. When their relatives and friends found that they couldn’t contact them and went to look for them, then only they found out that they were missing.
There were only three or four cases reported in the news, but according to internal information Xiao Xiaoyu heard, the police stations in Jiangcheng had received at least a dozen reports of missing persons.
Because the number of missing persons cases increased suddenly within a short period of time, and the missing young people had very similar characteristics, the authorities suspected that the same gang might be responsible, and a special task force was quickly set up to investigate. However, in order not to alert the suspects and cause panic among the public, the news was suppressed and not announced immediately.
But everyone who had some connections with the public security system had heard about this matter, and everyone was spreading it privately. During this period, young people who met the requirements or those who had young people who met the requirements in their families must increase their awareness and strengthen safety precautions.
In order to remind ordinary people to pay attention to safety, the city issued a special task on Monday, and now all districts were holding safety publicity lectures.
Jiang Lan looked at Xiao Xiaoyu after listening to him and said with concern: “You also meet the requirements, right? Pay attention to safety recently. When you get home from get off work and have nothing to do, just send a message in the group.”
Xiao Xiaoyu responded with a smile: “I know.”
Xue Meng, who was standing by, heard this and came over to say, “Xiao Xiaoyu’s cousin is a member of the armed police. He taught her self-defense. I also brought her a mace this morning. If any criminal who doesn’t have any eyes sees her, he might get hit in the head.”
“…”
Xiao Xiaoyu stared at him sinisterly: “I can blow your head off right now, do you want to try?”
Xue Meng retracted his head and immediately admitted his mistake: “Miss Xiao is the best martial artist in the world, so there’s no need to practice on me.”
Xiao Xiaoyu rolled her eyes and then turned back to work.
….
Jiang Lan spent the whole morning working on the PPT until it was already lunch time.
Several people in the office were going to have lunch together. When Jiang Lan took out his phone, he remembered that he had three tickets for Bai You’s concert in his bag. He took out the tickets and asked Xiao Xiaoyu and the others if they wanted any.
“What the hell? You can even get tickets for Bai You’s concert?”
Xue Meng leaned over and stretched his head to look, his eyes full of “$￥$￥”. His eyes were filled with yearning for money, and he said with emotion: “They are VIP seats. These three tickets can be sold for tens of thousands at the scalper, right?”
Jiang Lan was surprised: “So expensive?”
He thought it was just a regular ticket.
“Bai You is on the rise now. He’s considered a top star in the entertainment industry, right?” As a typical beauty lover, Xiao Xiaoyu knew a lot about the entertainment industry.
“The tickets for his concert were sold out in seconds after they were released. Five minutes later, the scalpers were bidding up the tickets to sky-high prices.” Xiao Xiaoyu shrugged. “He has a lot of crazy fans. I remember that there was even a fight over a concert ticket that made the local news.”
“…”
Jiang Lan was a little at a loss holding the ticket. Is it so fierce?
This concert sounded like it might be dangerous.
He handed the ticket to Xiao Xiaoyu: “Do you want one?”
Who knew that Xiao Xiaoyu waved her hand and refused: “I’m not a fan of him. Although he is indeed good-looking, I don’t like him very much for some reason. I feel that he is a bit evil. I always feel uncomfortable after looking at him for a long time.”
“I know that!” Xue Meng, who had been unable to get a word in, answered quickly: “I’ve seen it on Weibo before. Bai You’s reviews are very polarized. Those who like him like him very much, and those who don’t like him hate him very much. Some people even call him Siren, saying that he has a kind of charm that can drive people crazy. Just like his fans, their fanaticism is beyond the circle.”
“I’m just the one who doesn’t like him.” Xiao Xiaoyu shrugged and said with a sad face, “I have a few sisters who like him like crazy. They cried to me for two days because they didn’t get tickets for his concert.”
“They cried so hard that their eyes were swollen.” Xiao Xiaoyu’s expression was hard to describe: “I didn’t dare to say that I didn’t like him at all. I had to patiently comfort my little sisters. It was so damn painful.”
Jiang Lan was fully enlightened and felt that the Bai You he had seen was not the same person they were talking about.
Isn’t this gap too big?
Bai You is good-looking, but not to the extent that people would go crazy about him?
It’s both evil and a siren. I always feel that they are not talking about Bai You, but a demon.
But the Bai You that Jiang Lan met that day was indeed just an ordinary man with exceptionally good looks.
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