afterglow

Chapter 196: Not Knowing People Well!

In the early summer, Jinling is already a bit hot, but not to the point where you need to turn on electric fans or air conditioners.

"Tamo, go to the edge."

Zhu Lingjing was flipping through today's newspaper, and a lion cat with white hair and black claws was lying on the table, just pressing another newspaper.

Lion cats are produced in Linqing, Shandong Province, and originated in the early Ming Dynasty. They are a hybrid of Persian cats brought by Arab businessmen and local civet cats. They have a lot of hair and stand like a lion cub.

Pure-color lion cats are more precious. Some lion cats have yellow eyes and blue eyes, which are called "mandarin duck eyes". The hair is black.

At this time, Su Yiyi, who was holding a teapot, walked in slowly, put it down and said, "Your Highness, there is news that a certain Zhou suffers from tuberculosis, and asked for leave to go to France to recuperate nearby."

Zhu Lingjing was considering the Jinling Morning Post's wording and attitude on the parade in Taiyuan, and thought she had heard it wrong.

Someone Zhou?tuberculosis?France?
She asked in surprise: "There are quite a few people surnamed Zhou, which one?"

"Zhou Changfeng."

"Um???"

Because this situation was too outrageous, Zhu Lingjing immediately frowned.

This is unreasonable, right?That guy is not a frail nerd, the healthy Qiu Ba has such a strong resistance, how did he get tuberculosis out of nowhere?

"Severe enough to need to be recuperated alone?"

"We didn't study it carefully. The news from the embassy only said that his condition is not serious. After being diagnosed by the hospital in Paris, he will have to take medicine and recuperate for half a year."

Zhu Lingjing with a doubtful face put the newspaper back on the table, then stared at the floating tea leaves in the teacup and began to ponder.

It's unreasonable. Tuberculosis is a chronic disease. It's only been a month. How could it be so serious?
She recalled Zhou Changfeng's appearance the last time they met, how could he look like a tuberculosis ghost?
"You ask someone to go again to find out the cause and effect of this incident."

"Yes."

On the one hand, because Zhu Lingjing does have medical knowledge, although her degree certificate in pathology is not lacking, at least her common sense and sensitivity in this area are far superior to most officials and ordinary people.

On the other hand... it may be the sixth sense unique to women.

At noon, the sun was shining brightly, and the temperature gradually rose.

Holding a folding fan, she was about to get up to have lunch when she heard footsteps approaching from far away.

"Come in."

Su Yiyi with a strange face walked into the room, and then reported to Zhu Lingjing.

This is the information obtained by combining the reports of the left-behind members of the Ming military expedition team in Barcelona and the records of the embassy in Paris, from the first arrival in Spain until Zhou Changfeng went to Paris.

"...they were ambushed by the Italian army on their way from Guacheng to the front line. The other side escorted them to a nearby village in an attempt to interrogate the military situation and threatened the local people, but they refused to inform them, and the other party slaughtered all the people face to face... "

"Wait a minute." Zhu Lingjing blinked, and pondered: "Is there any other details for such an encounter?"

"Hmm..." Su Yiyi thought for a while, and replied: "The other party claims that our country is just a shameless warmonger, and this trip to Frangji is also for profit. There are also some similar verbal humiliation."

"Oh, go ahead."

"...The battle situation has changed drastically. They encountered rebel air strikes on the way out of Guacheng, so they opened fire in self-defense..."

"Is the rebel plane heading towards them?"

"I didn't say it clearly, but only said that 'the road was full of refugees, and the rebel fighter planes strafed and bombed the military vehicles, causing a large number of casualties and threatening the safety of several of them'."

"Then... when was he diagnosed with tuberculosis?"

Su Yiyi shook her head, "I didn't say it clearly, but two days after that, he crossed the border to France by car."

At this point, Zhu Lingjing's complexion suddenly changed.

Grass!I'm afraid this guy pretended to be ill because he was angry, and then went to France to claim that he would recuperate nearby, and then returned to Spain to vent his anger, right?

"I'm afraid he lied about being sick, and then secretly went back to Spain to join the war."

"Your Highness, this..." Su Yiyi was very surprised when she heard the words, then suddenly thought of something, and said with some doubts: "Britain and France have always demanded to abide by the principle of non-interference, and the Spanish government has also publicly announced that it will no longer call foreigners to join the army." .”

Therefore, even if he returned to Spain, he was not wanted, which is very strange.

Facts have proved that Su Yiyi's imagination is limited, she didn't think about it at all, because it was too outrageous.

But Zhu Lingjing was different. Hearing this, her hand, which was holding a folding fan to fan the wind, froze all of a sudden.

The Spanish regular army no longer accepts foreigners, but there is a unit that participates in the war that is basically composed of foreign volunteers.

It's over, it's over, isn't it?

Zhu Lingjing kept telling herself that she must have thought too much, because normal people would definitely not lie about being ill and then secretly join such a special army, and the motive was just to vent their anger?

This is equivalent to being scolded by someone while walking on the street, and in the end, you have to spend the rest of your life in a cage to kill others in the street.

But if he hadn't gone to either the Spanish regular army or the International Brigade, where else could he have gone?Could it be that after hitting a wall, he returned to the recuperation place and continued to pretend?

"Have any of us been around Paris recently?"

"Not sure, you'll have to ask. But the Toulouse Consulate must have them."

"He went to recuperate, did the legation send anyone to follow him?"

"You know, they're all a bunch of people who go to dawdle, and their jobs are neglected, so they naturally don't bother to care about them."

"Send a letter to the people at the Toulouse Consulate to look for it in the so-called sanatorium. Whether you find it or not, don't say anything."

Zhou Changfeng reported that the sanatorium he went to was in Carbonne, which is only fifty kilometers away from Toulouse.

After an overseas telegram was sent to Toulouse, at dawn, two figures hurriedly left the consulate and drove straight to the outskirts of the city.

The next night, the telegram came back from the consulate.

The local nursing home did register Zhou Changfeng, and it also showed that he was admitted, but the other patients had never seen him in the past month!
After learning of this situation, those who knew were all dumbfounded. Did this thing really happen?
"If you don't check it, you won't know. If you check it, you will be shocked." A middle-aged man pondered: "There is still room for maneuver in this matter. Just let him return to the recuperation place before other people find out."

"But we don't know where he is now. The whole area of ​​Flangji is in a mess. How can we find a needle in a haystack?" Someone beside him said helplessly.

"Those volunteer troops are only a few brigades in total. From big to small, let's try to find them one by one." Although Zhu Lingjing looked calm, she gritted her teeth and said, "Tell his fiancée about this, and plan to She's taking it to France!"

No one proposed to make a clean break and give up directly. On the one hand, it was because too many resources were invested in Zhou Changfeng, and on the other hand, it was because of Zhu Lingjing's face. After all, she chose the person herself.

"It's not good to know people." She couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

I thought I picked up a big leak, but I didn't expect to pick up a troublemaker!
(End of this chapter)