Heroes of the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 388
Joffre Road is the most fashionable and stylish street in the French Concession and even in the entire Shanghai Bund.

Qian Xiaobao was carrying a suitcase and watching the taxis and pedestrians coming and going as he walked towards the French Concession Board of Directors.

He is now carrying the ID card of the big flower dog, and Qian Xiaobao wants to go to the French Concession Public Directorate to inquire about the replacement of the house.

France surrendered, and the French Concession and the French Consulate in Shanghai remained open as usual after the new French government was established.

Qian Xiaobao walked through the square in front of the French Concession and walked towards the Public Directorate Building.

When he was about to walk up the steps, a person walked out of the building quickly.

The man stood on the steps, looked down at Qian Xiaobao and said in surprise, "I saw you coming from behind the dormer window just now, and when I came out, it turned out to be you!"

Qian Xiaobao raised his head and looked up when he heard the familiar voice with a northeast accent.

Zhang Lixing in a suit stood on the steps and looked at him with a smile on his face.

A few months ago Zhang Lixing bid farewell to Shanghai in Harbin, and now the two met again at the board of directors in the French Concession in Shanghai.

"Why are you here?" Qian Xiaobao asked in surprise.

"Mr. Renet spoke for me, and now I am earning a salary in the board of directors." Zhang Lixing replied.

"What are you doing here?" Zhang Lixing asked.

Compared with Zhang Lixing, it is even more strange for Qian Xiaobao to appear in the public board of directors in the French Concession in Shanghai.

"I'm here to inquire about something." Qian Xiaobao replied.

"Just ask me if you have anything to say, just wait a minute, I'll come out after I go in and say something," Zhang Lixing said.Then he walked quickly into the building.

Qian Xiaobao waited outside for 2 minutes before Zhang Lixing came out again.

"Let's go, find a place and I'll treat you to dinner. It is said that it is not allowed during working hours, but everyone in the board of directors is absent-minded." Zhang Lixing said.

The France of today is not at all the same as the France of six months ago.All the people who work in the French board of directors are not in the mood to do things.

Zhang Lixing took Qian Xiaobao to a western restaurant on Xiafei Road.

After ordering two six-inch pizzas and a bottle of white wine, Zhang Lixing began to ask Qian Xiaobao's intentions.

"I want to buy a house in Shanghai." Qian Xiaobao whispered.

"Do you want to be in the French Concession?" Zhang Lixing asked.

"Since you can help me, of course I bought it here." Qian Xiaobao said.

"I didn't know until I was in Shanghai that whether it was the Small Knife Society or Hong Yang's rebel team that attacked Shanghai in the past 100 years, the only thing that has remained unchanged is that the housing prices in Shanghai have been rising continuously. Do you have that much money?" Zhang Lixing asked.

Qian Xiaobao patted the suitcase next to his leg and said, "Yes!"

"Why did you buy a house here in the Northeast?" Zhang Lixing asked.

"Who knows what will happen in the future? A rabbit with a lot of thought will build two more nests for itself." Qian Xiaobao replied.

"Yes, Shanghai is also in China after all. It's also because I think so that I don't want to leave here with Mr. Genet. Otherwise, I will go to Guyana in South America with him." Zhang Lixing said.

"You mean South America? What did you say about turtles?" Qian Xiaobao asked.

Qian Xiaobao's knowledge of South America was obtained from Xiao Linxun.There are yellow bananas everywhere, and the smoke is as thick as a child's arm!

"It's Guyana, which is also a French colony. When you get there, you will be far away from the war." Zhang Zhangxing explained.

Only now did Qian Xiaobao understand that Guisha was a place name.

Qian Xiaobao took out an ID card, put it on the table and pushed it in front of Zhang Lixing.

Zhang Lixing picked up his ID card and looked at the photo on it and asked, "Who is this person? It looks much older than you."

"This man is my friend, and he is dying. I'm going to buy a house in his name." Qian Xiaobao replied.

What Qian Xiaobao took out was the ID card of the big flower dog. The days of the big flower dog in this world are numbered, and Qian Xiaobao is going to secretly use his identity to buy a house.

Zhang Lixing shook his head slowly: "The hundreds of thousands of people who have flocked to Shanghai in the past few years, how many of them have ID cards? Even if they do, there is no way to verify them."

Qian Xiaobao asked very quickly: "So you can help me get a certificate?"

"Of course it can, but you need to spend a little money to accommodate it." Zhang Lixing replied.

"Money is not a problem, but I need to apply for two identity documents, one for me and the other for a woman." Qian Xiaobao said.

When Zhang Lixing was planning to leave Harbin, he went to Qian Xiaobao's home for help, and Qian Xiaobao gave him 500 yuan.Xiao Linxun was at home at that time, and it was obvious that Qian Xiaobao went in to ask Xiao Linxun for money.

Hearing that Qian Xiaobao said to apply for a woman's identity, Zhang Lixing immediately thought of Xiao Linxun whom he saw at Qian Xiaobao's house that night.

The waitress puts two plates of pizza and a bottle of white wine on the table.

Zhang Lixing poured wine into the two wine glasses and said: "I understand what you mean, but I guess you didn't bring the picture of that woman with you this time, right? So, this time, I can only do it for you. Next time you come When the time comes, bring the photos and I'll help her do it."

Qian Xiaobao raised his glass to gesture to Zhang Lixing and said, "I'll rely on you, Brother Zhang!"

Zhang Lihang cut a piece of pizza and put it in his mouth and said: "I will show you the house after dinner, and the house can be settled within two or three days. Of course, you must have enough money first, preferably with gold bars Or silver dollars. Fiat currency is worthless."

The Wang government has been established in Nanjing for half a year. It has re-issued banknotes, but the value has been greatly depreciated since the first issuance.

Qian Xiaobao leaned his head over and asked in a low voice, "Is thirteen large yellow croakers enough?"

Zhang Lixing's eyes straightened.

"You have so much money?" Zhang Lixing asked in surprise.

"I've been saving money all these years." Qian Xiaobao said against his will.

"In Harbin these years, I also lived frugally, why didn't I save a penny?" Zhang Lixing said with a smile.

He knew that Qian Xiaobao was working for the Japanese, and he must have gotten so much money from this.

Zhang Lixing suddenly remembered something and said: "I know you are a person who works for the Japanese, if not, now that you have produced so many gold bars, I suspect that you were responsible for the big gold robbery a year ago!"

Zhang Lixing said this as a joke, and Qian Xiaobao laughed when he heard it, until tears came out.

"There's too much pepper on this pizza!" Qian Xiaobao said, wiping away tears.

An hour later, two guests came to the famous Wang Kai photo studio in Shanghai.

"Take a correct photo for him, it will be useful for the certificate. The time should be quicker, the photo will be used tomorrow." Zhang Lixing instructed the master who took the photo.

Sitting in front of the camera, Qian Xiaobao took out a small comb and brushed it quickly on his hair a few times as if by magic, and then remained motionless with a solemn expression.

With a bang, the spotlight flashed and a puff of smoke came out, and Qian Xiaobao's impression was frozen on the film.

(End of this chapter)