Seeing Cheng Qianfan's playful smile, Gu Xinrui was thin-skinned and said angrily, "Vice President Cheng, I have to say something ugly beforehand. You have to help me with this, or you can help me if you don't."
"I'm very curious now." Cheng Qianfan blinked, "This female classmate is so outstanding that she actually fascinated Mr. Gu."
"What do you want to do?" Gu Xinrui immediately looked alert, "I'm warning you, you are not allowed to have any evil intentions."
"What's that look in your eyes?" Cheng Qianfan was unhappy, "As the saying goes, a friend's wife should not be bullied, am I that kind of person?"
Gu Xinrui looked Cheng Qianfan up and down, then nodded, "You haven't answered me yet, can you help me with this?"
"Help, help." Cheng Qianfan said with a smile. He picked up the briefcase on the iron side table and took out a gold-gilded business card. "Take this paisley to Chen Hu and he will arrange everything properly."
.”
"I have something to say first." Gu Xinrui took Pais and glanced at it, "We need to have peace on this journey. Your name as 'Mr. Xiao Cheng' is very useful to the Japanese."
"You want to transport prohibited items?" Cheng Qianfan's smile faded and he looked deeply at Gu Xinrui.
"Don't talk nonsense." Gu Xinrui was startled, looked around, and lowered his voice and said, "It's just some groceries and household necessities, including a few barrels of kerosene."
"What are you afraid of with a few barrels of kerosene?" Cheng Qianfan sneered, and he couldn't help but said sarcastically, "It seems that Mr. Gu really fell in love with this female classmate at first sight."
"My fair lady, gentlemen are so arrogant." Gu Xinrui did not avoid Cheng Qianfan's sarcasm this time, but said with a pinched neck, "When men are married when they are young, women are married when they are young. What's so funny?"
Cheng Qianfan's eyes widened and he looked at Gu Xinrui up and down as if he didn't know him, "It seems you really like this woman?"
"Why do you care so much?" Gu Xinrui pretended to be annoyed and picked up the tennis racket, "Let's go, let's play another round, and we will definitely beat you this time."
…
"Promise." Gu Xinrui said with a proud look on his face as he held the tennis racket between his hands and clasped his fists.
"This game doesn't count." Cheng Qianfan said angrily, "I didn't perform well in this game."
Gu Xinrui showed a look of contempt.
"One more game?" he asked.
"I'm not coming, let's play next time." Cheng Qianfan handed the tennis racket to Ying Huaizhen, took the towel handed by Ying Huaizhen, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and took it from Ying Huaizhen's hand.
He took the cocoa lotion and took a sip.
He burped and let out a sound of comfort, then looked sideways at Gu Xinrui, "I haven't seen you for half a year, but your tennis skills have improved by leaps and bounds?"
Gu Xinrui said proudly, "I am a disciple of a famous teacher."
"Lin Bei?" Cheng Qianfan thought for a moment and asked.
"How did you know?" Gu Xinrui was shocked.
"Is this difficult to guess?" Cheng Qianfan said proudly, lighting up a cigarette and taking a puff, "You have been to Tianjin for most of the year. You can guess which tennis masters there are in Tianjin."
"Mr. Lin Bei is not the only tennis expert in Tianjin." Gu Xinrui said angrily, obviously a little annoyed that Cheng Qianfan had guessed right.
Tianjin once had "four famous tennis masters" - the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty and the current one in Manchuria, the other one is Li Yuanheng, the former president of the Republic of China, Zhang Hansheng, the marshal, and Liang Guoqing, the comprador of Jardine Matheson.
Of course, their skills are not superb, but with their extremely high social prestige, they can be said to have promoted the popularity and development of tennis in Tianjin.
Of course, the real tennis master in Tianjin is Lin Bei.
This person was the tennis coach of Mr. Pu and Zhang Hansheng respectively, and trained Liang Guoqing’s two daughters, Liang Jingyun and Liang Peiqi, to become national champions, and even married Liang Jingyun.
Lin Bei was born in Sydney, Australia. He is a tennis prodigy and became a famous tennis player in Australia at the age of nineteen.
Twenty years ago, the 8th Far Eastern Games was held in Shanghai. 21-year-old Lin Bei partnered with Malaysian Chinese tennis player Qiu Feihai and won the men's doubles championship.
At that time, Zhang Hansheng lived in Tianjin. Lin Bei was invited by Zhang Hansheng to come to Tianjin and attended a party and dance at the home of comprador Liang Guoqing, and also played tennis together.
Liang Guoqing has five sons and ten daughters, including daughters Peiqi and Jingyun, and two young masters who have been fond of playing tennis since childhood.
Lin Bei came to Liang's house to attend a party and accepted these disciples.
In particular, Peggy and Jingyun grew rapidly under his guidance.
Not long after, Peggy Leung participated in the North China Tennis Open held in Tianjin and won first place in the mixed doubles.
A few years ago, Hangzhou held the National Games at the same time as the West Lake Expo.
Tianjin athletes won four championships in the high jump, 4×200 meter relay, men’s basketball and tennis.
Among them, sisters Liang Jingyun and Liang Peiqi won the women's tennis doubles championship. The Liang sisters were known as the "Two Female Elites of Tianjin Tennis".
Therefore, Tianjin is also considered to be the place with the most tennis masters in China nowadays.
"You are a man." Cheng Qianfan glanced at Gu Xinrui, "The only one who can teach you is Mr. Lin Bei."
It was impossible for the puppet Manchukuo emperor to travel from Changchun to Tianjin to teach Gu Xinrui, and Gu Xinrui didn't like him either.
Zhang Hansheng was sent abroad for inspection at this time.
It is impossible for Mr. Liang to play with a junior like Gu Xinrui.
Lin Bei's wife and sister-in-law are of the same age, but Gu Xinrui attaches great importance to the defense of men and women, and it is impossible for him to appoint a woman as his tennis teacher.
Then, only Lin Bei is the most likely candidate.
"It's not necessarily Mr. Lin Bei, right?" Gu Xinrui said.
"The most important thing is that you, Gu Xinrui, are very proud today. You obviously have a famous teacher, and the most likely person who can make you Gu Xinrui admire him so much is Mr. Lin Bei." Cheng Qianfan said.
After hearing Cheng Qianfan's lucid analysis, Gu Xinrui had no choice but to shake his head and give Cheng Qianfan a reluctant thumbs up.
"He is indeed the famous 'Mr. Xiao Cheng'." Gu Xinrui said.
"Don't think I didn't hear it. What you said was sarcastic." Cheng Qianfan said with a sneer.
Gu Xinrui laughed.
Although the two were good friends, Gu Xinrui could not stand the various behaviors of the well-known "Mr. Xiao Cheng".
However, even though they couldn't stand it, the two never broke off their friendship and could instead continue to play together.
Cheng Qianfan sneered, glanced at Gu Xinrui, and felt something in his heart.
…
"What are you thinking about?" Ying Huaizhen handed the peeled orange to Cheng Qianfan and asked.
"I remember seeing tennis for the first time when I was a kid." Cheng Qianfan reached out to take the orange and said with a smile, as if there were memories in his eyes.
Ying Huaizhen took the orange back, broke off a segment of the orange with her slender hands, and brought it to Cheng Qianfan's mouth, "Ah——"
Cheng Qianfan opened his mouth directly, not only took the orange into his mouth, but also held Ying Huaizhen's green-white fingers.
"Oops." Ying Huaizhen glared at Cheng Qianfan.
Cheng Qianfan pointed his finger, then let go, and then received an angry small punch from Ying Huaizhen.
"My friend and I were passing by a place, and suddenly something flew over. It was hard, heavy, round, and furry. It hit my friend on the head with a 'snap'."
Cheng Qianfan caught Ying Huaizhen's catkin, gently stroked it, smiled, and continued, "My friend yelled in anger, and I followed suit."
"Then what?" Ying Huaizhen grabbed Cheng Qianfan's mischievous hand and asked with a blushing face.
"I picked up the fluffy ball and wanted to throw it away. My friend took one look at it and quickly grabbed it and said don't throw it away." Cheng Qianfan squinted his eyes and fell into some kind of memory, "My friend said it was a ball played by foreigners.
, that’s called tennis!”
"Then." Cheng Qianfan grabbed Ying Huaizhen's catkins and pretended to read his palm. When Ying Huaizhen took out her hand in shame and was about to hit him, he glanced at the passenger seat in front of him from the corner of his eye:
Student Lu seemed to be lethargic and sleepy, leaning on his seat.
However, from the way the upper body of this classmate Lu was swaying while he was sleeping, Cheng Qianfan judged that this woman was listening carefully.
When leaving the tennis court, Gu Xinrui had something to deal with, so he begged Cheng Qianfan to send his tennis partner and classmate Lu home.
Cheng Qianfan had no choice but to agree.
He grabbed Ying Huaizhen's little fist, raised a smug smile at the corner of his mouth, and continued, "The two of us looked up and saw a blond-haired foreigner on a green grass not far away.
, there is also a bald woman, there is something like a fishing net between the two of them, each of them is holding a short-handled racquet, and they are shouting towards us..."
"What happened next?" Ying Huaizhen asked.
"The two of us were so frightened that we ran away," Cheng Qianfan said. "Later we realized that the two foreign women were asking for the tennis balls from us."
"Hey, Youyou, you made me laugh so hard. I dare say you must have taken the tennis ball away on purpose." Ying Huaizhen giggled, "It turns out that you have been so evil since you were a child."
"The conscience of heaven and earth." Cheng Qianfan raised his hand, "I was only looking at the bald foreign woman, watching her shouting at us, and I was frightened. I just wished I had two more legs to run."
"What are you shouting for?" Ying Huaizhen was stunned for a moment, and then she understood. She patted Cheng Qianfan's hand angrily, "Oh my, you..."
As she said that, she gave Cheng Qianfan an angry look and said, "I was fooled again. You just made up this story. There is no such thing as a bald foreigner."
Cheng Qianfan winked and laughed, "I just realized it."
He grabbed Ying Huaizhen, took the woman into his arms, and patted her gently. This blocked Ying Huaizhen's sight. Cheng Qianfan glanced at the front row. He saw Classmate Lu's head moving little by little.
Seems to be dozing off.
"Haozi." Cheng Qianfan shouted.
"Brother Fan."
"Send Mr. Lu home first," he said.
"I understand." Li Hao agreed.
…
About two hours later.
Cheng Qianfan came out of Ying Huaizhen's home. He stood next to the car, took out the cigarette case, took out a cigarette, flicked the lighter, lit the cigarette, and took a deep breath.
Li Hao sat in the passenger seat and was about to come out and open the door for Brother Fan. Seeing that Brother Fan seemed to be thinking about something, he gently got out of the car and walked away, looking at the surrounding situation alertly.
Cheng Qianfan held a cigarette between his index and middle fingers on his right hand, and scratched the scalp behind his ear with his little finger. He was thinking about Gu Xinrui.
Gu Xinrui is Mr. Zhang’s nephew.
Two years ago, I returned from studying abroad in Nanyang and returned to Shanghai.
This Fourth Master Zhang introduced Gu Xinrui to Cheng Qianfan, hoping that the two could become friends.
Thanks to the deliberate friendship between the two parties, the two quickly became acquainted and became true friends.
Gu Xinrui is a rather interesting young man.
He advocates Chinese studies and is proficient in English, French and Japanese.
He likes Western-style sports, but rejects imported food and etiquette. He believes that Chinese etiquette and food are handed down from his ancestors and are the best in the world.
All in all, he is a very interesting person.
However, it was not these habits of Gu Xinrui that aroused Cheng Qianfan's secret concern today, but Gu Xinrui's request for his help in arranging a transportation line for Jiujiu Trading to the home of the female classmate he was pursuing.
This kind of behavior of silently helping the woman solve her family difficulties in order to pursue the woman he likes is indeed in line with Gu Xinrui's temperament and is not suspicious.
What really aroused Cheng Qianfan's interest was what Gu Xinrui said. This woman's family had a batch of goods that needed to be urgently transported to Wuxi and Changzhou.
This is interesting.
This route is very consistent with the route that Jiujiu Trading took to cooperate with the Japanese army to conduct "reconnaissance" at Plum Village.
Cheng Qianfan is thinking:
Is this a coincidence?
still……
If it is indeed just a coincidence, then of course there is nothing to ponder.
If it's not a coincidence, then what does Gu Xinrui mean?
In other words, Gu Xinrui didn't know it. He really just wanted to help the female classmate's family get out of trouble, but he didn't expect that he would fall into the trap and be taken advantage of——
The relationship between Gu Xinrui and him is not a secret.
According to the plan he reached with Yuichi Ohta, Jiujiu Trading is about to ship a batch of goods to Wuxi and Changzhou. This has been rumored for a long time.
Therefore, if the female classmate's family had planned carefully, they could have facilitated the plan to use Gu Xinrui to get on the transportation line of "Mr. Xiao Cheng".
So the question is, what is the background of this female classmate or her family?
What is the intention?
Zhongtong?
Juntong Shanghai Station?
Or is it a shady friend who wants to use Cheng Qianfan's transportation line to cross the sea?
Or is it our party?
kindness?
Cheng Qianfan took a deep breath of cigarette and thought of a possibility:
Could it be that this batch of goods was arranged by the organization to cover the batch of materials he prepared for the New Fourth Army and to attract the attention of the enemy?
This possibility exists.
Cheng Qianfan thought carefully and came to this conclusion.
That batch of materials was stored in a warehouse, and apparently it had passed through several hands and ended up in the hands of Shanghai's underground party organizations.
The underground party organizations in Shanghai will also spend money to buy routes with familiarity, and mix this batch of goods into the batch of materials shipped by Jiujiu Trading to Wuxi and Changzhou.
This won't be noticeable:
Jiujiu Trading has been secretly selling transportation lines to some friends in need. Of course, the asking price has always been very high.
In order to protect this batch of materials, another group of people will be arranged on the open line to also take the Jiujiu trade line.
This is the plan for transporting supplies jointly formulated by Cheng Qianfan and the ‘charterer’.
Cheng Qianfan flicked the ashes of his cigarette and watched the ashes drift in the wind, and his heart suddenly moved.
He recalled a detail from his conversation with Gu Xinrui.
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