Chapter 614
Words:1911Update:22/06/20 04:52:41
Tan Guiren brought Huo Shaoheng to the dining room to sit down.
Because they were using a household diesel generator to generate electricity, they couldn't be as carefree as before when they had public electricity.
Only a small light was turned on in the living room, and only the ceiling light was on in the dining room.
On the long dining table were four appetizing dishes and one soup. They were all authentic Yangzhou cuisine.
In the middle was a lotus shaped soup bowl with a round, fist-sized lion's head and two green vegetables inside. The soup was very fragrant, and one could smell it when they were close.
On each side was a plate of stir-fried shredded vegetables, a plate of fried shrimp, a plate of mushroom and vegetable hearts, and a bowl of Mirror Box Tofu. Vegetables took up more than half of the dishes.
Without hesitation, Tan Guiren scooped the only lion's head into Huo Shaoheng's bowl. "Try this. It's Mrs. Fen's specialty."
Mrs. Fen retreated after serving the dishes. She hadn't expected Huo Shaoheng to stay for dinner, so she didn't make much, just enough for Tan Guiren.
Yangzhou cuisine was about small portions and many plates, so a table full of dishes could be eaten in one bite.
Huo Shaoheng was no stranger to Yangzhou cuisine. His grandmother was from the south, and when she was alive, they had a chef who specialized in Huaiyang cuisine.
And Yangzhou cuisine was only one branch of Huaiyang cuisine.
He picked up some lion's head with his chopsticks and tasted it. It was okay, but not amazing. It was far worse than the Huaiyang chef he used to have at home.
However, Huo Shaoheng didn't say it out loud. He nodded lightly. "Not bad."
It was rare for Huo Shaoheng to be complimented like this, and it was because he wanted to use Tan Guiren, so he couldn't bear to do it.
Tan Guiren didn't mind. She smiled brightly and kept putting food into his bowl.
Mrs. Fen saw that Huo Shaoheng only gave her a slight compliment and was a bit annoyed that he didn't know what was good, but she didn't show it. She brought out their food baskets and went down to eat.
Huo Shaoheng and Tan Guiren chatted casually. Dinner took almost an hour, and it was almost 9 o 'clock.
Mrs. Fen put down their chopsticks and served them tea. Tan Guiren looked out the window to see that the rain hadn't stopped.
It looked like Huo Shaoheng wouldn't be leaving tonight.
Tan Guiren suppressed her happiness and left the dining room to help Huo Shaoheng decorate his room.
Huo Shaoheng chose a guest room on the first floor.
Tan Guiren and Sister Fen both lived on the second floor, which was more convenient.
Although Tan Guiren would have preferred Huo Shaoheng to stay in the guest room on the second floor, Huo Shaoheng had chosen the first floor.
She did not want to go against his words at all.
He had such an imposing manner.
After ten o 'clock, the electricity still did not come. The diesel generator at home was not very functional. It lasted for two hours and was about to run out of gas. They had to save some oil for tomorrow.
Thus, the three of them said goodnight and went back to their rooms to sleep.
At midnight, Huo Shaoheng opened his eyes and quietly got up.
He slipped out of his room in a black T-shirt, a pair of black trousers, and a pair of socks.
First, he went to the living room to look for the bugs and pinhole cameras installed there.
There was a picture frame above the fireplace in the living room. On the back of the picture frame were four black button-like buttons. They were originally used to prevent the picture from falling out, but one of the black buttons had been replaced with a bug.
Huo Shaoheng reached out to touch it and pulled the bug button off.
Coming out of the living room, he followed the pitch-black hallway to the dining room he had just stayed in. A paper lotus chandelier hung from the ceiling of the dining room. The threads above the lampshade were very thick, and there were also some small threads hanging from the lampshade.
And among those small threads, there was a tiny protrusion. That was the CIA's most advanced pinhole camera.
Huo Shaoheng was very tall. Standing under the dining table, he raised his hand to touch the top of the lotus chandelier and pulled the pinhole camera off.
Then he went to the hallway on the second floor.
The CIA had actually installed four or five bugs and pinhole cameras here.
If Tan Dongbang really became the Prime Minister in the future and came to stay here for a short time, it would be really bad. The Prime Minister of a nation would be completely under someone else's surveillance.
Huo Shaoheng patiently removed all the bugs and pinhole cameras in the villa.
He was not restricted by the information James had given him. Instead, he searched the entire villa from top to bottom again.
He worked from dawn until dawn before packing up and returning to his room to sleep.
He put all the bugs and pinhole cameras into a bag and smashed them into powder with a hammer.
When he left tomorrow, he would throw the powder into the ocean.
The CIA agents wouldn't make a fuss if they couldn't find the bugs and pinhole cameras. This wasn't something honorable or legal to begin with.
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Tan Guiren woke up in the morning to find that the rain had already stopped. She was a little annoyed.
She slowly got up, dressed, and went to the bathroom to wash up. It took her almost an hour before she came out of her room.
However, when she arrived at Huo Shaoheng's guest room, she saw that it was Mrs. Fen who opened the door.
Tan Guiren's eyes widened. "Where's that gentleman?"
"He left a long time ago." Mrs. Fen had gone in to clean up. She said with a smile, "This gentleman is really clean. The room is so neat and tidy, as if no one has ever lived here. He's a good person."
Tan Guiren pushed the door open and found that Huo Shaoheng was indeed gone.
She was disappointed for a while before quietly leaving alone.
However, she wasn't disappointed for long. Three days later, when James came to visit her, Huo Shaoheng actually came as well.
The two of them seemed to have arranged to sit and talk in the gazebo in Tan Guiren's backyard.
The backyard of the Tan's villa was very large, and the gazebo was in the middle of it. It was surrounded by flat, green grass that was at least an acre in size.
It was impossible for anyone to hear them sitting in the gazebo with such a wide field of grass between them.
Of course, there were no bugs in the gazebo. Huo Shaoheng and James were both experts and had already checked.
Tan Guiren sat in the living room on the first floor of the villa. She was preparing a fruit platter as she smiled at the two familiar figures in the gazebo in the distance through the bright floor-to-ceiling windows.
She was very happy and excited to be able to provide convenience for these two people. She even felt a sense of holiness.
In the gazebo, James and Huo Shaoheng chatted for a while before getting to the main topic.
"Gu, are you satisfied with my gift?" James asked with a smile. He held a pipe in his hand and put it in his mouth.
The two of them had tacitly agreed to call each other "Mr. J."
"J, I think you're taking advantage of me." Huo Shaoheng crossed his legs and leaned against the chair in the gazebo. He also had a cigarette in his hand, but he didn't smoke it. White smoke slowly rose from between his fingers and obscured his face.
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