Cheng Qianfan got out of the car. He was wearing a brand new and decent suit without a tie. He also wore a windbreaker outside the suit.
In early April, the temperature in Shanghai suddenly dropped. A gust of wind blew, and Cheng Qianfan couldn't help but shiver.
…
Cheng Qianfan handed the briefcase to the little maid Li Zi who came up to greet him. He looked up and saw Bai Ruolan coming out to greet him with his son Xiao Zhizhi in his arms.
He smiled at his wife and said, "Aren't you angry with me anymore?"
"Virtue." Bai Ruolan gave her husband a charming look.
Entering the living room, the maid helped Cheng Qianfan take off his windbreaker. He picked up his son from Bai Ruolan's hands, but saw his wife folding her arms and looking at him.
"What's wrong?" Cheng Qianfan asked.
"You're not injured..." Bai Ruolan asked.
"How can you ask like that? When I get home..." Cheng Qianfan muttered, then he saw his wife's serious expression and then shut up, and then said, "No, no, not even a scratch on the skin.
"
"There's no need to encounter anything dangerous on the way back and forth, right?" Bai Ruolan asked again.
"No, nothing happened." Cheng Qianfan glanced at his wife.
"Amitabha, Amitabha." Bai Ruolan patted her chest, and then Amitabha stood up, "Allah knows it is useful."
"What's useful?" Cheng Qianfan asked in confusion.
"Sir, you don't know something." The little maid Lizi said with a smile at the side, "You have been away on business for the past few days. My wife is eating fast at home and praying to Buddha. She wishes your husband to be safe."
"I'm on a business trip, not fighting." Cheng Qianfan shook his head and said.
"You still have the nerve to say that in the past few business trips, there was nothing wrong with you. Either you were injured or someone wanted to assassinate you." Bai Ruolan complained, "Thankfully, you have me praying for you this time."
"Ah - yes, yes." Cheng Qianfan smiled and nodded repeatedly, "I can come back safely, and it's all thanks to my wife."
"Bah, bah, bah." Bai Ruolan spat, "It's a lucky sign."
…
"Okay, I understand, keep staring." My grandson Shentai put down the phone, with a look of thought on his face.
Kentaro Miyazaki got off the train and went directly back to Cheng Mansion on Lafayette Road, and did not go out after that.
My grandson Shen Tai is quite satisfied with this.
Miyazaki Kentaro and Araki Harima, the captain of the Shanghai Special High School Action Team, are good friends. Naturally, this matter has already been grasped by my grandson Shinta.
This time, he came to Shanghai secretly to take up his post.
He originally thought that Miyazaki Kentaro would meet with Araki Harima urgently to inform him of the matter.
Kentaro Miyazaki returned home directly, which surprised my grandson Shinta. Of course, this also made my grandson Shinta quite satisfied.
but--
After thinking about it, my grandson Shentai clapped his hands.
…
Immediately, a subordinate pushed open the screen door and came in, "Chief."
"Try to find out the addresses of the incoming and outgoing calls made by Raphael from Qianfan's house from when he returned home today to now." My grandson Shen Tai said.
"Chief, I'm afraid we need to contact the intelligence room." The subordinate said with a look of embarrassment, "We are new here..."
"Try your best to check." My grandson Shentai frowned and said.
"Hai."
After his men left, my grandson Shentai shook his head. It was convenient to work in Nanjing. If he wanted to check the phone number, he would give an order and the telegraph office would obediently submit the investigation results.
Now that I have arrived in Shanghai, everything is inconvenient.
My grandson Shen Tai's face was solemn. For him, from the position of the head of the first section of the Information Office of the Nanjing Special High School to the current director of the Information Office of the Shanghai Special High School, this was a promotion, and it was a great promotion.
However, my grandson Shen Tai knows very well that it is not easy for him, a foreigner from the Nanjing Special Higher Education School, to gain a foothold in Shanghai or even seize more rights.
This is especially true when Jiro Sanbon was killed and the Shanghai Super High School was leaderless.
Being leaderless means that the internal struggle for power will become more intense.
…
That night, Bai Ruolan asked the little cook Zhou Ru to prepare a table of delicious food for her husband who had returned from Nanjing.
"Miss Zhou." Bai Ruolan called to Zhou Ru who was going to the kitchen to eat, "Sit down and let's eat together."
"Madam." Zhou Ru looked at Bai Ruolan.
"Sit down." Cheng Qianfan said, and then he glared at the dumbfounded Li Hao, "What are you doing standing there? Just talk."
"Brother Fan asks you to sit down, so you sit down." Li Hao glanced at Zhou Ru and said.
Cheng Qianfan stroked his forehead and glared at Li Hao. This boy couldn't even speak a word of love.
"Xiaoru." Bai Ruolan said with a smile, "I will call you that from now on."
"Yes, madam." Zhou Ru understood a little bit and said shyly.
"That's right." Bai Ruolan said happily, "Today's meal is not only a blessing for my husband, but also a family banquet."
As she said that, she looked at Li Hao and said, "Haozi, your Brother Fan told me that you and Xiaoru's marriage will be left to me."
"Listen to sister-in-law." Li Hao said.
"I asked someone to check the date. The second day of March is a good day to get married." Bai Ruolan said with a smile, "If you two have no objection, then decide on this good day."
"Listen to your wife," Zhou Ru said.
"Call me madam?" Bai Ruolan gave Zhou Ru an angry look.
"Listen to sister-in-law." Zhou Ru said shyly.
…
"That's right." Bai Ruolan said happily. As she spoke, she took off the bracelet from her green-white arm and put it in Zhou Ru's hand, "You don't call me sister-in-law for nothing."
Zhou Ru looked at the bracelet in her hand, hesitated, and looked at Li Hao.
"Sister-in-law gives it to you, just take it." Li Hao said carelessly.
"Thank you, sister-in-law." Zhou Ru then put on the bracelet.
"Haozi."
"Eh."
"Although you and Qianfan are not biological brothers, they are better than brothers. He often told me that his biggest wish is that you can get married and have children and live a good life, then he will be relieved." Bai Ruolan said.
"What are you talking about?" Cheng Qianfan frowned and said.
"I told you what I said, and Haozi likes to hear it. Do you care?" Bai Ruolan glared at her husband.
"Say, you say." Cheng Qianfan said helplessly.
"Okay, I won't say any more." Bai Ruolan gave up and looked at Li Hao and Zhou Ru with a smile, "Our family is having a good time today."
Zhou Ru and Li Hao looked at each other, stood up at the same time, raised their glasses of wine, "Brother Fan, sister-in-law, we respect you."
"Okay, okay, okay." Cheng Qianfan nodded happily and said happily, "Okay!"
…
After dinner, Bai Ruolan and Zhou Ru were taking care of their children downstairs and talking about women's intimate words.
Cheng Qianfan, who was slightly drunk, took Haozi upstairs to the study.
"What happened these days?" Cheng Qianfan asked.
"Everything is fine," Li Hao said, "The brothers are all disciplined and there is nothing wrong with them."
"That's good." Cheng Qianfan nodded slightly.
"However, Brother Fan, I have something to report to you." Li Hao said.
"Um?"
"There is a new situation over at He Mansion." Li Hao said.
"What house?" Cheng Qianfan was slightly surprised, "You mean Aguan's house?"
"Yes, there are two strangers in Master Guan's home." Li Hao said.
…
"Two strangers?" Cheng Qianfan asked, "Tell me specifically what the situation is."
"It's a little girl of fifteen or sixteen years old, and a little girl of one or two years old." Li Hao said, "I asked about it and said that the little girl took her younger sister to flee to Shanghai and begged at the gate of He Mansion.
Mrs. He saw how pitiful the two sisters were, so she took them into the house and became maids."
"But found something unusual?" Cheng Qianfan asked.
"That's not true." Li Hao shook his head, "It's just that Brother Fan said that Master Guan will report to you any situation at home at any time."
"Mrs. He is a kind person who eats fast and chants Buddha's name. She felt pity for the sisters who fled. It's possible." Cheng Qianfan said thoughtfully, "It's just taking in two girls who fled. Okay, there's no need.
Too much attention.”
"yes."
"Are there any other situations?" Cheng Qianfan asked.
"The day before yesterday, there was a gun battle on Daxi Road. The Secret Service Headquarters was arresting people from the Shanghai District. Both sides suffered casualties. It is said that some people from the Shanghai District were arrested." Li Hao said, "It's not just the Secret Service Headquarters. The Japanese side recently
We are also intensifying our efforts to arrest people in Shanghai area."
"That person Chen Gongshu is so proud of his success that he widely publicized that they were responsible for the assassination of Gangcun in Qimin Hospital." Cheng Qianfan snorted coldly, "The Japanese are getting angry after so many things have happened. The Shanghai District crashed into it themselves.
At gunpoint."
As he said that, Cheng Qianfan sneered, looking like he was gloating about his misfortune.
When Li Hao saw it, he smiled bitterly in his heart, but he didn't say anything about "shaking the scenery" of sincere unity. Brother Fan and Chen Gongshu disliked each other, and the conflict between the Special Situation Office and the Shanghai District had long been entrenched.
Speaking of which, Li Hao has always kept in mind the old score that the gunmen at the Shanghai Railway Station almost killed Brother Fan.
…
After Li Hao and Zhou Ru left the Cheng Mansion, Cheng Qianfan stayed alone in the study.
He told Li Hao that there was nothing strange about the two maids in He Guan's home and there was no need to pay attention to them.
In fact, Cheng Qianfan was suspicious.
He Guan's brother died for his country during the 128th Anti-Japanese War, and He Guan even defected to the Red Party and joined the New Fourth Army.
In this case, even if Mrs. He was ignorant, how could Jin Kemu not be cautious?
From Jin Kemu's point of view, he would definitely pay special attention to his sister's taking in strangers, and would even express opposition.
But now, these two people are happily staying in He Mansion.
There are two possibilities for this.
One is that Mr. Jin arranged for people to investigate the details of the sisters, and they were indeed refugees, so they were relieved.
As for another possibility...
Cheng Qianfan frowned slightly. He couldn't figure it out for the moment, but this matter might not be as simple as it seems.
He told Li Hao not to pay attention, but because He Guan was a member of the Red Party, it was not appropriate to pay too much attention.
…
Erling.
The second detachment of the New Fourth Army and the temporary residence of the third regiment.
This is a simple temporary field hospital.
Huang Xiaolan had just helped Dr. Pan finish the operation and sat down to rest with her tired body.
When she was busy, she couldn't care about anything. Now that she was free, the worry and longing for her daughter surged into her heart uncontrollably.
Especially when she thought that her daughter might have met with something unexpected, Huang Xiaolan's eyes turned red and she cried secretly.
"Think about Little Victory again?" Sister Zheng handed a wild vegetable steamed bun to Huang Xiaolan and said softly, "Little Victory will be fine."
"Really?" Huang Xiaolan took the wild vegetable steamed bun and held it in her hand without eating it. Instead, she raised her head and looked at Sister Zheng with bright eyes.
Sister Zheng's heart ached. She knew how could Huang Xiaolan not know that these were just words of comfort. However, for a mother who was worried about her infant daughter, even empty words of comfort were a kind of hope.
"Of course." Sister Zheng nodded, "It's a small victory. Our small victory is not only the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, but also the victory of the revolution and living happily in the victorious New China."
"Yes, victory!" Huang Xiaolan's eyes shone with hope, and she took a bite of the wild vegetable steamed bun, "Victory, victory!"
Sister Zheng nodded and sighed in her heart. The team also sent people to look for the young nurse Tong Wenshu and Xiao Shengli, but there was no news.
And bad news came. After the team broke through, the Japanese army searched everywhere and caused many murders along the way. Many ordinary people and anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians were brutally killed by the enemy.
Two young soldiers in the field hospital protected two wounded people from breaking out, but they encountered the Japanese army and were brutally killed by the enemy.
The child of Sister Hu from the Logistics Department was captured by a fellow villager who was hiding from the enemy. She was betrayed by a traitor. The inhumane Japanese army stabbed the fellow villager to death with a bayonet and even threw the child alive into a boiling cauldron. Sister Hu
After hearing this bad news, I almost went crazy.
Tong Wenshu is just a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl with an infant child. Faced with the enemy's search, the possibility of successfully escaping is very low.
Everyone talked about this matter privately, worried that something might have happened to Tong Wenshu and Xiao Shengli, but no one mentioned it in front of Huang Xiaolan.
For a mother, as long as she does not receive bad news, she still has hope and hope.
…
"Xiao Li, call me grandma." Mrs. He was teasing her granddaughter with a rattle in her hand.
Little Shengli blinked his big, flickering eyes and reached out to grab the rattle.
"Xiao Li, call me grandma."
Little Shengli blinked his eyes and looked at the kind woman in front of him. After these few days of care, little Nannan's complexion finally became a little more rosy.
The little girl, who had been suffering from lack of food, clothing and malnutrition since she was born, finally lived a good life without going hungry for a few days.
"Milk, grandma." Xiao Shengli grabbed the rattle and shouted in a milky voice.
"Eh, eh, eh." Mrs. He's eyes were red, and her tears could no longer stop flowing, "Eh, eh, eh."
She hugged her granddaughter, tears falling on little Shengli's cheek, "My dear girl."
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