"Our leader asked me to ask you, does the Jinling Hotel have any underground passages? Because you are an old man in Nanjing, what might you have heard when you were building this hotel?"
Lin Changan was a little puzzled:
"Why are you asking about the secret passage? How did you become interested in this hotel?"
"Because the Jinling Hotel has now become the main activity place for the Japanese and a place where big Japanese figures often hang out. Because we want to eliminate the little Japanese in Nanjing, we want to know all the situations in the Jinling Hotel."
Lin Changan thought for a moment and happily told Liu Haisheng and Lin Xiaoqiang:
"There seems to be a secret passage in the Jinling Hotel. I don't know where this secret passage leads to the outside. If you want to inquire about this matter, you can only go to Mr. Ma Sanye from the Shanxi Guild Hall. Because when the Jinling Hotel was being built,
Shanxi Guild Hall is a shareholder.
I was drinking tea with Mr. Ma once, and Mr. Ma accidentally said it. It turns out that all the officials who built the Jinling Hotel had already disappeared after the little devils came. So you have to ask about this.
The only thing I have to do is go to Mr. Ma."
Lin Xiaoqiang was a little impatient:
"Is Mr. Ma still in Nanjing now? If we go find him, will he tell us?"
"Ma Sanye did not leave Nanjing after the fall of Nanjing. He just hid for a while. When the Japanese stopped killing people in large numbers, he came back. But when he came back this time, his family did not follow him. I heard that
It is said that he moved to Chongqing with the government
Qing has gone. As for whether you want to ask him about the secret channel, I don’t know whether he will tell you. If you say it is for fighting the Japanese, maybe he will tell you. If you say it is for something else, you are just telling you.
Even if he kills him, he won’t say anything.”
"Where is the Shanxi Guild Hall?" Liu Haisheng asked again.
"The Shanxi Guild Hall is right next to the Jinling Hotel. It's on the same street as the Jinling Hotel. It's less than half a street south of the Jinling Hotel."
After Liu Haisheng and Lin Xiaoqiang came out of Lin's Rice Shop, they followed them to the Shanxi Western Guild Hall.
The gate of the Shanxi Guild Hall is a large terraced building with triple cornices. In the center above the gate, the four Chinese characters Shanxi Guild Hall are particularly eye-catching. Looking at the gate from the street, it is a bracket with cornices and arrogant corners that pierce the sky. On the right side of the gate is an ancient theater building.
, directly opposite the theater is the nave, and behind the nave is the back hall. Along both sides of the front and back halls are side rooms. There are side doors on both sides of the nave, and there are cloisters in front of the side rooms on both sides.
Lin Xiaoqiang and Liu Haisheng walked into the door together, and they were greeted by a man in his 50s who looked like a butler. He held up his hands and said with a smile:
"Who are you two gentlemen looking for? I would like to inform you two."
Liu Haisheng also cupped his hands and said:
"I am a staff member of the Nanjing Chamber of Commerce. We would like to find Mr. Ma from your chamber of commerce. Please send us a message."
The butler said with a smile:
"Gentlemen, wait here for a moment. I'll be back as soon as I can."
After the butler finished speaking, he entered the back hall through the side door of the middle hall.
After the housekeeper came to the backyard, he said to a man in a Chinese gown who looked to be in his 50s:
"Sir, there are two young people from the Nanjing Chamber of Commerce looking for you, can you see them?"
After hearing this, Ma Tianli thought for a while:
"How do these two people look? Do they look like businessmen?"
The housekeeper thought for a moment:
"It's a bit like doing business, but they didn't say what they were looking for."
"Well, you lead them into the living room, I'll be right away."
The housekeeper came to the front yard and said to Liu Haisheng and Lin Xiaoqiang:
"Please, sir, Mr. Ma will be here in a minute."
After the butler finished speaking, he took Liu Haisheng and Lin Xiaoqiang to the reception room in the front hall and sat there waiting for Mr. Ma.
As soon as Lin Xiaoqiang and Liu Haisheng sat down, a maid came in with a tea tray and a kettle. She made a bowl of tea for each of them.