The spread of international news has always been subject to a certain delay.
Wang Ping found the domestic news reports about this incident on a tablet computer that someone used for live broadcasting. It was not yet time to board the plane, and the badger was hiding in the airline box, not afraid of being seen.
This time, Gu Laosan finally remembered to get him an extra boarding pass in advance so that he could take him into the cabin. He was lucky enough to get one of the only two available places. Although he still had to stay in the airline box, the conditions were much better than in the luggage compartment.
After all, it was not a big scene like a war. In media pushes like Penguin News and Sanshi News, it was only mentioned briefly in an inconspicuous position on the sub-page. It said that a vicious incident of gangsters holding hostages occurred in the small Saudi city of Jizan. In the end, with the joint efforts of the police and Interpol, all the hostages were rescued and the gangsters were shot dead.
As for why the criminals inexplicably went to Jizan to take hostages, and why Interpol came to join in the fun, the news did not mention a word, not even a photo of the scene. There was no follow-up report, which was so perfunctory that it made people... Badger angry.
Shalu, a detached villa near East City.
A helicopter was hovering in the air, and a large number of special police had surrounded the villa. Gangsters in various clothes were kneeling on the ground, looking up at a naked man who was escorted out of the villa, their faces as if they had lost their parents.
In the Interpol branch office building in Riyadh, a man in a white shirt was handcuffed with a grim look on his face, but he didn't say a word in defense.
"Do you need me to cover you with clothes?" Hero Han pointed at his handcuffed hands, with an expression on his face that was hard to tell whether it was regret or mockery.
The man was silent for a while, but replied: "Sau Rui, Han, I really didn't mean to hurt you!"
"Then we don't need it?" Old man Han waved his hand, "Take it away!" But he was cursing in his heart, Gu Laosan, you are such a bad mouth!
In the Magic City, at Wangjiang Pavilion, which Han avoided as much as possible, Gu Ma looked at the little girl who was staring at a plate of foie gras in a daze. She called out to her several times and asked with surprise on her face, "Xiao An, what's wrong with you? You've been in a daze since you got here."
I don't know why, but ever since Wang An knocked down her husband in front of her and sent him to the police station, Gu's mother has been particularly fond of her. Whenever she has time these days, she goes to Shanghai and asks Wang An out for dinner or shopping.
The more they talked, the more they got along. In particular, Wang An's temper, personality, and way of doing things were very much to Gu Ma's liking. If she hadn't been concerned about her son's lifelong event, Gu Ma would have insisted that Wang An be recognized as her goddaughter.
According to Gu's father, Gu's mother saw her younger self, and Wang An was even better than Gu's mother in some ways. At least Gu's mother didn't have the strength to knock down a strong man in an instant.
Gu's mother just pretended not to hear someone's extremely shameless comparison of herself to a "strong man". You know, when she went back to the police station to pick up Gu's father the next day, the "strong man" was crying like a 180-pound child.
Because his mother abandoned him at the police station and he had to stay in the small room for a night, his father decided to punish her by making her stay alone in the empty room, so he moved from the big bed in the bedroom to the sofa in the living room.
As a result, Gu's mother was now completely interested in Wang An. After picking up Gu's father, she never came home and spent most of her time in Shanghai. Gu's father's temper was all vented to the air.
Being called back to his senses by Gu Ma, Wang An smiled and shook his head, sighed and said: "It's nothing, maybe I'm overthinking it!"
"What's going on? Tell your aunt." It was a rare occasion for Wang An to reveal his true feelings, so Aunt Gu was immediately aroused.
Don't be fooled by Wang An's carefree appearance and masculine personality. But after two days of contact, Gu Ma could see that this little girl had a thick heart. No one could get her to tell the truth about what she really kept in her heart.
Wang An thought about it and felt that there was nothing to hide about his relationship with Gu Lao San, so he told Gu Ma: "It's just that a friend of mine went to Saudi Arabia. At first, he sent me messages every day, including photos of his travels and diving. But since the day before yesterday, there has been no news."
"Friends who went to Saudi Arabia? Are you talking about my stupid son? The little girl said she didn't like it, but she was honest in her heart! Humph, woman!"
Mother Gu smiled secretly, but on the surface she advised with the tone of an experienced person: "Hey, men are all careless ghosts. Maybe something delayed him."
"Emm..." Wang An narrowed his eyes and tilted his head to look at Gu Ma with a smile: "Aunt Sheng, I didn't say he is a man!"
Mama Gu: …
After a moment of silence, Gu Ma smiled and said, "It must be a man. How could a woman make you so worried? I just don't know which boy is so lucky to be able to pursue a girl as great as Xiao An."
She hurriedly threw a sweet date out to divert Wang An's attention. Sure enough, when Wang An heard Gu Ma's praise, he curled his lips, but he couldn't stop smiling on his face.
Waving his hands, Wang An shook his head and said with a smile: "It's not what you think. We haven't confirmed our relationship yet... Ugh! With his idiot, I'm destined to be the stewed goose he can't eat!"
"Pfft~" Gu Ma almost spit out the drink she just drank, wiped her mouth with a napkin, and rolled her eyes at Wang An, "Come on, you looked like you lost your soul just now, and you are still shy with me!"
"I was thinking about something else just now..."
Wang An sighed again, pointed at the phone on the side and said, "When my brother first went abroad, I was always worried and read the foreign news every day. Later, I developed a habit and would read it twice even if there was nothing to do. I just accidentally saw in the news that a hotel in Saudi Arabia was attacked by militants. It seems that this is where my friend went. It happened that he lost contact again. How can I not be worried..."
Wang An was so busy talking to himself that he didn't notice Gu Ma's open mouth and suddenly pale face.
"Aunt Sheng? Aunt Sheng!"
Wang An's voice seemed to come from far away. Although it was close to her ears, she couldn't hear it clearly. Gu Ma felt dizzy and couldn't sit still. She subconsciously held her forehead.
Her shoulders suddenly felt tight, and Wang An had already stood up and supported her.
"Aunt Sheng, what's wrong with you? I'll take you to the hospital right away!"
While Wang An was supporting Gu Ma, he called the waiter to come and pay the bill.
However, Gu's mother handed over a card before her, then stood up, grabbed Wang An's hand, leaned on her shoulder and smiled bitterly: "I'm fine, maybe I didn't get enough rest, I'll be fine after going back to sleep."
"Well...then I'll take you back!"
With Gu Ma holding his hand, Wang An did not dare to struggle. He let the waiter use the card handed over by Gu Ma to pay the bill, and then left the restaurant surrounded by several waiters.
The sun had already set. Across the river, the lights of Pudong were brilliant and dazzling, but the two had no interest in appreciating them at the moment.
Gu Ma called the driver to pick her up, and as she was talking, Wang An's phone rang with a notification tone. As he clicked on a WeChat voice message, an excited voice of a salted fish came from it.
"An An, I'm going back to China! Hehehe, you can pick me up..."
"Emm..."
When the phone speaker started to ring, Wang An thought to himself that it was bad, and he quickly turned off the call without waiting for the end of the call. However, when he turned around, he saw that Gu Ma, who was originally pale and looked like she was about to faint at any time, had hung up the phone without knowing when, and was stretching her neck to eavesdrop on the call with a gossipy look on her face. Her face was delicate, rosy and shiny, how could she look weak at all
"Whose handsome guy is this?" Gu Ma smiled and hugged Wang An, looking like a hooligan who flirts with his own assistant in the club.
"Oh my god! Aunt Sheng, you don't look like you're feeling unwell. Can gossip cure diseases?" Wang An rolled his eyes and complained.
"Who knows? It got better suddenly! How strange!" Gu Ma smiled and looked quite rogue, which made Wang An laugh.
"Then are you going home?" Wang An asked.
"No! Let's leave that old man alone in his empty room!" Aunt Gu hugged Wang An and walked to the street, saying with a heroic look: "I haven't been shopping for a long time. Today, Aunt Sheng will take you to massacre Xujiahui! Kill them all without leaving a single piece of armor!"
On the plane, seeing the stewardess reminding him to turn off his phone, a salted fish put his phone away in a daze, but he never received a reply from Wang An. A badger squatting in the airline box mocked him: Humph, you deserve it! A toad wants to eat stewed goose!