Chapter 322 (1/2)
Zhang Chenghe contacted Wu Qingshan. He said that Wu Qingshan seemed a little surprised that our party came to redeem people. He only asked us to wait for them at a Ruiguang pagoda outside the eastern suburb of Mandalay.
The setting sun has fallen to the west, and the setting sun in the sky is like blood, which has stained the mountains and forests with a layer of golden glow. The Buddhist pagoda looks more sacred and ethereal in the afterglow of the setting sun.
After we waited for two hours, the road in front of the valley suddenly sounded a heavy roar of cars. Zhang Chenghe and I looked forward. A large military truck spewed black smoke and sped all the way. The military truck is like a reckless beast. The rugged mountain road can't hinder it. It drives past the bumpy ground without fear. The body shakes violently and makes a shaking sound
Seeing the military truck, Zhang Chenghe whispered to us, ”brothers, they're coming. Be careful.”
The military truck sped over. After seeing us, it made a sudden brake. The distance between the car body shook several times and made a huge vibration. It was like a war horse holding the reins on a cliff and forcibly stopped. With a ”hiss”, a large mass of steam spewed out of the truck gate.
A man about 30 years old in the co driver's seat of the truck put his head out, glanced at us like a hyena, then pushed open the door and jumped directly from the nearly two meter high cab. Behind the military truck, a group of tribal armed men came down like dumplings. These guys were wearing different cloth uniforms. Strictly speaking, they could not be regarded as uniforms. They were a bit like militia clothes, but they were carrying rifles and had sharp eyes.
”Are you guys here to see our leader?”
The man with hyena eyes could speak Chinese, which surprised us a little. Zhang Chenghe nodded: ”yes, we're here for Li Mengting of qianfei company.”
A trace of irony flashed in the man's eyes. Looking at us was like looking at several dead bodies, but he covered it up very well. He immediately smiled, opened a big mouth full of yellow teeth, and said, ”my name is Ge man. I'm responsible for taking you to the leader. Have you brought the money?”
Burmese people have names and no surnames, but they prefix their names. For example, in front of this brother man, his name is man, and brother is the prefix; Another example is Wu Qingshan. Qingshan is a first name and Wu is a prefix rather than a last name. The first word of all Burmese names depends on their age. For example, when a man was a child, the first word of his name was Mao. When he was young, he changed to brother, and when he was over 40, he changed to Wu.
Zhang Chenghe turned his head and looked at me. I walked up with a suitcase dressed in 1.5 million US dollars, opened the suitcase with my backhand, and then let Gorman watch.
Brother man stretched out his hand and looked through it twice. He directly stretched out his hand to grab the suitcase. As soon as I tried, the guy couldn't pull the suitcase from my hand. Suddenly, he became angry. His whole face was dissatisfied and angry. He scolded me in Burmese. The tone should be dirty. Then he saw that all the more than a dozen men behind him picked up their rifles and pointed at us.
The glasses in charge of translation quickly raised their hands and came up to say misunderstandings and misunderstandings in Burmese. Don't be impulsive. Then they kept talking to ge man. Zhang Chenghe also whispered to me: ”Chen Yu, we can't help us when we come here. Give him the money and we'll act on the occasion.”
Li Mengting didn't see anyone, so we handed over the money. It's a little unreasonable. But in this case, we don't have much initiative. I took a look at the group of men behind him and slowly released my hand.
Brother man grabbed the suitcase, handed it back to an attendant next to him, and then said coldly in Chinese: ”the compensation we asked for is US $15 million, but you have only 1.5 million here, which is not sincere. So we took this money first. There are three days before the deadline. You can get another US $13.5 million and contact us again.”
”Wait!”
Zhang Chenghe was in a hurry first. US $13.5 million is equivalent to about 90 million yuan, and it is still three days. Even if we rob banks every day, we can't get such a large sum of money.
However, when Zhang Chenghe went up to stop Ge man, he only heard a click. More than a dozen of Ge man's men have opened all the safety bolts of their rifles and can pull the trigger and shoot at any time.
We stopped quickly to avoid misunderstanding. Otherwise, we would be worse if more than a dozen rifles fired at the same time.