ebookland Chapter 343 Old Friend
Chapter 343 Old Friend
Perhaps it was Yu Yu's mixed-race Western face and fluent Italian that made him look like a local, so when he, Su Xing and Dalin arrived at the police station, the auxiliary police officer in charge of reception and registration in the lobby had a much better attitude than the police officer who had hardly paid any attention to anyone when he went to collect evidence and take statements this morning.
But even so, he still made Yu Yu and the other two sit on the chairs in the hall and wait for a long time. His original words were that he needed to contact the police officer in charge of their case to understand the situation and verify the problem before giving a reply.
The hall was bustling with people, and occasionally one or two hooligans who had committed crimes were escorted in and sent to another door. That was the police station's office area, where the interrogation room, temporary cells, and other facilities were located.
Some of the offenders were timid and said nothing when they were taken away, but some were "regulars" here, cursing and even teasing Su Xing and Dalin when they saw their oriental faces, and were then dragged away by the police officers who were escorting them.
These scenes are not common, and the two people who come from a safe country are not worried about what the gangsters can do in the police station.
They looked at each other for a long time, and after the novelty wore off, Su Xing took out his selfie stick and mobile phone since he had nothing to do anyway, intending to help the program crew record their adventures on their first day in a foreign country.
The staff at the window saw Su Xing taking out his cell phone to take pictures, and immediately stopped him sternly. They said this was a police station, not a tourist attraction, and that they were not allowed to take pictures without permission, otherwise they had the right to detain them for three days.
Although Su Xing was a bit stubborn, he was stubborn within the rules. Besides, this was someone else's territory, the local police station. He didn't want to cause trouble, so he apologized politely and was about to put his phone away when Yu Yu stopped him again.
"But selfies are allowed, aren't they? As long as they're in this lobby area and don't infringe on other people's portrait rights, we can also record them ourselves to preserve evidence."
Yu Yu looked at the auxiliary police officer with a gentle smile on his face, and his voice was slow and leisurely without any aggressive or oppressive feeling, but it made the other party speechless.
He didn't expect that Yu Yu, who came with two Orientals, was actually an expert. Not wanting to lose face completely, he could only warn them in a stern manner not to try to take pictures of the office area behind the door, and then returned to his seat and ignored them.
"Oh, in a place like this, it's actually possible." Su Xing understood what this scene meant. He just didn't expect that in a place like the police station, there would be people who bully the weak and fear the strong, and are xenophobic.
"It's normal. This place is also run by people."
Yu Yu shrugged. Not all places are as friendly and welcoming as China, where foreigners are considered guests. Especially people with oriental faces abroad may occasionally encounter invisible discrimination. Su Xing has had personal experience of this.
Yu Yu decided to bring the Chinese people to the police station to put pressure on them because he was worried that their report to the police would not be taken seriously, but he would not say this explicitly.
Su Xing understood what Yu Yu said, but he didn't say anything else. He changed the subject in front of the camera: "Hello everyone, this is 'The Daily Life of an Old Singer'. No, this is 'The Daily Life of a Fast-Faster Old Man', named after Chen Chu. After our unfortunate production crew's equipment truck was stolen, we received a call from the Free Country, Yu Shao."
"With Yu Shao here, our car theft is a sure thing. Friends, even though Yu Shao is the youngest among us and usually a bit naughty and unruly, he's really reliable. Look, he took me and the producer to the police station right away."
Su Xing swept the camera across Yu Yu and then Dalin. After Dalin waved and said hello, he suddenly leaned in close to the camera and gave a wicked smile: "I suspect all this is actually Yu Shao's conspiracy. He's trying to send the director team in, so that the rest of us can take his place. Hiahiahiahia."
Dalin: "Can I hear you?"
"Ah? Really? Then just pretend you didn't hear anything." Su Xing laughed awkwardly.
"Since you have already guessed that I was planning to set up a trap to send the director team in jail, why didn't you think that I was also planning to set up a trap to send all of you in jail, so that all your labor fees would be mine?" Yu Yu touched his chin with a sinister look on his face.
Su Xing: "I can hear it too?"
"So what if I heard them? I spoke Italian to them instead of English. Can you understand?"
"Sure enough, all of this is your doing!" Su Xing narrowed his eyes slightly. "Now that I've seen through your evil plan, I won't let you succeed, unless... we join forces to deal with the others and then split their labor fees equally."
Dalin also had an idea: "Then you can't send me in. I was paid by the producer as your labor fee. You can't send me away even if you send Zhao Hao away."
The three of them sat on chairs by the wall in the hall, killing time by taking selfies. More than an hour had passed, and the auxiliary police officer who had said at the beginning that he would go to verify had not replied yet, so Yu Yu came to the window again and asked about the progress.
The auxiliary police officer, who was good at judging people's behavior, saw Yu Yu, the good-looking "translator", interrupting his and his colleagues' small talk again. On the surface, he did not show any impatience, but he did not give him any solution:
"Please don't worry. We have a lot of tourists here every day, and our officers have a lot of cases to deal with. We have confirmed that Officer Lazo, who helped you collect evidence this morning, has a preliminary understanding of the suspect's whereabouts. However, he has more urgent matters to deal with now, and he will give you a reply after that."
"You've been waiting for so long, why don't you have a cup of coffee first? Then you can wait slowly. There's no rush."
"Okay." Yu Yu nodded.
The auxiliary police officer didn't react yet: "What did you say?"
"I mean, okay, we do need three cups of coffee. Could you please make them and bring them to us? Thank you."
Sometimes, when the reporter is so anxious that he is incoherent, the police station in Pizza Country will slowly make a cup of coffee and ask the other party to calm down and talk slowly.
Many times, due to cultural differences, foreign tourists cannot understand why the other party has the time to ask them to drink coffee when they are so anxious, and most of them will feel offended.
But the auxiliary police officer didn't expect that Yu Yu was not angry at all, and actually asked him to pour three cups of coffee. After being rejected again, he had no choice but to deliver coffee to the three people.
In fact, according to the rules, he should have given something to drink to the reporter who was waiting in the hall.
Nearly half an hour later, when Dalin was about to give up, the door that divided the police station into two areas, the external hall and the internal case handling area, was suddenly pushed open by someone inside.
The person who came out was not their Officer Lazo, but a gangster who had been sent in not long ago. However, he was not wearing handcuffs when he came out, so he was probably released on bail or acquitted.
The reason why Yu Yu was impressed by him was that before he went in, he saw Su Xing and Dalin and said some unpleasant words to them.
At this moment, Su Xing and Dalin looked up when they heard the noise, but lowered their heads again when they found that it was not the police officer who came out. Su Xing was using his mobile phone to edit the morning's airport pick-up, while Dalin was synchronizing the situation and arranging work in the mobile phone group. At this efficiency, they had to be prepared for the possibility that they might not be able to find the equipment vehicle for a week, and had to think of other ways.
The two people who were busy with their work did not notice the approach of the gangster. Yu Yu was playing with the paper cup in his hand, but his eyes never left him.
"You two are still here? Are you Orientals particularly obedient? They're playing with you, and you're still waiting like idiots."
He spoke in Italian, which Su Xing and Dalin could not understand, but that did not mean they could not hear the joking tone in his voice. They raised their heads and looked at him with slightly frowned, not understanding what he was going to do.
Yu Yu glanced at the auxiliary police officer, who seemed to be unaware of the situation here. This was a kind of silent connivance.
He looked at the gangster again, or to be more precise, at the necklace on his neck. It was a "dog tag" similar to what soldiers have, a form of identification.
"Do you have a friend who's in jail for something? Give me some money and I'll help you get out."
Doesn't it seem like this little thug is quite simple? Yu Yu raised an eyebrow.
Su Xing knew he was talking to them, but he couldn't understand what he was saying, so he asked in English.
Coincidentally, the gangster also doesn't understand English.
He and Dalin could only look at Yu Yu. It was then that the gangster realized that the "European" whom he had just ignored was actually in the same group with the two Chinese people.
"Are you their guide or translator? Damn, you heard everything just now, why don't you translate for these two idiots? 500 euros, and I'll get you out of here safely. What are you still looking at? Don't you understand?"
The gangster was full of swear words and spoke in a vicious tone, just like a bandit blocking the road on the street, and he actually dared to extort money in the police station.
At this moment, even Su Xing and Dalin, who didn't understand what he was saying, knew that he had bad intentions. They looked at the auxiliary police, but the other party still turned a blind eye.
"You're not thinking you're so great when you say you can buy safety for 500 euros? Don't you think it's a bit, um, low-class and embarrassing?" Yu Yu chuckled calmly without any fear.
"Boy, what do you mean?"
"I thought I was speaking Italian, didn't you understand?"
The gangster clenched his fists in anger and said, "You little white face, do you want to die?"
Seeing that the other party seemed to be preparing to attack Yu Yu, Su Xing stood up immediately. Seeing this, Dalin was worried about their safety and quickly stood up as well. The punk had come to pick a fight. Seeing that someone had taken the bait, he was about to talk some trash to Su Xing when a figure quietly stood between him and Su Xing.
"It's okay, I'll take care of it." Yu Yu said to Su Xing and Dalin, sounding quite relaxed.
"This kind of person is deliberately provoking you. You'd better not get involved with him too much." Su Xing said. He knew Yu Yu was not an impulsive person, but being provoked or even attacked in a foreign country was not good for public figures like them.
"Don't worry." Yu Yu comforted him, turned around and used his height advantage to look down at the gangster.
"I haven't thought about death yet, so, sir, what do you want to do now?"
Yu Yu's nonchalant look, as if he didn't take him seriously at all, successfully angered the gangster, but before he could swing his fist, he was kicked to the ground by others.
The person who came was a middle-aged man who had just walked out of the inner area. As soon as he went out, he found the gangster causing trouble and immediately kicked him hard in the butt.
"I'm just catching up with an old friend, and you dare to cause trouble for me?" The middle-aged man in a suit cursed.
From the outside, this middle-aged man looks like an old-fashioned gentleman, wearing a four-piece suit and a long scarf. His wrinkled face with white stubble still vaguely shows his former charm, elegance and grace.
The thug who was kicked down by the middle-aged man no longer had the arrogant look he had just had. He could only cower on the ground and apologize: "I'm sorry, Mr. Esposito."
"Why apologize to me? I taught you that if you do something wrong, you should apologize to the person you offended."
The thug quickly got up and bowed 90 degrees to Yu Yu, Su Xing, and Dalin. "Excuse me, gentlemen. I just wanted to borrow some money. Porcelain tourists are very wealthy..."
"Use English. Will people understand you when you speak Italian? In English, a simple apology is always possible, right?" The middle-aged gentleman slapped him on the back of the head again.
After being slapped, the thug didn't even look up and immediately switched to halting English and said, "I, I'm sorry."
"I'm sorry to bother you. Please don't blame me for not disciplining you properly. After we go back..." After the gangster finished speaking, the middle-aged gentleman said a few more polite words to the three of them, but as he spoke, he gradually fell silent.
He looked at Yu Yu, then at Su Xing, and the elegant fake smile on his face flickered before turning into a bright laugh.
"Oh, I was wondering why you looked so familiar. Are you the kid named Allen or Ellen from Australia twenty years ago?" When Su Xing looked confused, he patted his shoulder in a familiar manner.
"And you," the middle-aged gentleman looked at Yu Yu, placed his right hand on his chest and bowed slightly, "Master Cyrus, why didn't you tell me earlier that you were coming to Italy? Mama would be very happy if she knew."
"Oh, so grandma didn't know? Then how was our equipment truck stolen?"