In the Forbidden City late at night, there was no one visible in the Qianqing Palace, only the faint sound of even breathing could be heard from the bed. Suddenly——
Indistinct murmurs, then a scream.
Several palace maids rushed in, turned on the lights, and looked towards the bed.
Zhu Yourong sat on the bed, his face pale, holding the quilt tightly with his arms, breathing heavily, cold sweat dripping from his forehead.
"No...it's okay. Please step back. I...I had a dream..."
…
"Oh, it's all about this book." In the morning, Zhu Yourong asked the palace maid to comb her hair and threw a novel on the desk, laughing. "The dog in it is so scary that it will give you nightmares..."
It was an English novel, "the hound of the baskervilles".
So, on this day, the little girls and old ladies in the palace who were doing laundry and sweeping the floor were all whispering that Your Majesty dreamed of a big tengu last night...
…
The next day, when Qiu Qiu distributed the newspaper to Xiang Xiaoqiang, he smiled and said:
"By the way, you know, there were several tabloids today saying that His Majesty dreamed of Tengu and that something might happen this year."
Xiang Xiaoqiang stuffed a burger in his mouth and muttered something vaguely. Qiu Qiu didn't understand and frowned while waiting for him to finish.
Xiang Xiaoqiang swallowed it with difficulty and said:
"Isn't something happened already? There's a war. Is there anything bigger than this? Those tabloids..."
"No," Qiu Qiu also looked mysterious and whispered, "They also said that both Jiming Temple and Qixia Temple have statues of the master's night stargazing. They said that this year and next year there will be tengu attacks... Maybe the Yangtze River Defense Line will be ...Yes...Xiaoqiang, you know, Tengu is a very bad omen."
Xiang Xiaoqiang looked at Qiu Qiu with a serious face and was a little dumbfounded. This girl was really superstitious. He slapped the table half-seriously and shouted:
"Okay! Don't talk nonsense. The Yangtze River Defense Line can be related to the Tengu! If you spread panic, I will arrest you first."
Qiu Qiu looked at the door, boldly leaned his upper body on the desk, cupped his chin and said with a smile:
"Then, you catch me..."
Xiang Xiaoqiang stared at the shape of Qiu Qiu's chest pressed against the table and muttered:
"Tengu...bad omen...bra..."
So he stretched out his hand. Qiu Qiu said "Oh", opened his hand, jumped up shyly, straightened his clothes, and looked at the door with a guilty conscience.
Ever since the last time she saw the sexy scene with a stomach ache, Qiu Qiu has refused to let Xiang Xiaoqiang have any intimacy with her in the office.
Xiang Xiaoqiang flipped through a few pages of the desk calendar and turned to January 22nd. Then he stared at Qiu Qiu and said with a smile:
"There are still a few days left, oh, don't be in a hurry, pinch hehe, I'm in no rush."
Of course Qiu Qiu knew what he was referring to, so she spat shyly, opened the document bag again, and handed him a document.
Xiang Xiaoqiang took it with a playful smile, looked at it for a few times, and the smile gradually disappeared. He raised his head and asked:
"Tell me, what master said that there will be trouble this year because of the Tengu?"
"yes."
This is an emergency order from the headquarters. The Chief Meteorologist of the Army Aviation Corps warned that heavy fog is likely to occur in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the next few days, especially in the Nanjing section. The fog is estimated to be thicker than ever before. The Supreme Headquarters Therefore, all military units were ordered to be on the highest level of alert and stick to the Yangtze River defense line. The People's Guard was specially ordered to prepare for the Qing raids.
Xiang Xiaoqiang held his forehead and murmured:
"It seems that those two masters are really capable..."
He raised his head and said:
"We can't wait any longer. The thing I told you yesterday, let them do it as soon as possible. Don't delay it."
…
There is a duck blood vermicelli soup shop in front of the Naval Hospital. This shop is very famous. Although it is not luxurious and has wooden tables and stools, it is packed with diners every noon and evening. People who do not know each other often share the same table.
Eat. Because it is close to the embassy district, many blond and blue-eyed foreigners often come here to eat, not only because the food is delicious, but also to experience the atmosphere. During the war, the business of those big restaurants was bleak, but this kind of small restaurant is still very popular.
Okay. After all, it’s not easy to have a big banquet when there’s a war, but we still have to eat.
Today at noon, it was packed again as usual. In the most inconspicuous corner, there was a table crowded with two people, one of whom was a junior clerk in the navy. He put his big-brimmed hat aside and slurped soup.
Opposite him is an elegant foreign gentleman, wearing a suit and leather shoes, a bow tie and a top hat. He seems to be waiting for food. He glances at the junior clerk opposite him from time to time, as if he despises the way he eats.
Suddenly, the naval clerk looked around and saw that no one was paying attention, so he slowly pulled out a document bag from under his buttocks and handed it from under the table to the opposite side while taking advantage of the confusion. The foreign gentleman opposite also looked at both sides and said calmly.
He took it, took a look at it, and stuffed it under the coat he took off next to him.
Then, he took out a thick envelope from his arms and handed it over from under the table. The naval clerk took it, secretly opened the seal, took a look at the thick banknotes inside, showed a trace of satisfaction, stuffed it into his arms, and still
Eating food in a sporadic manner.
After a while, the navy clerk finished eating, wiped his mouth and left. A new customer sat at his seat. The waiter also brought food to the foreign gentleman opposite, who also started eating.
However, this scene did not escape the eyes of the person at the back table.
He was also a foreigner, with short light blond hair, very young, and sharp eyes. Looking at the naked transaction in front of him, his mouth could not help but form an O shape.
pflaume.eisern-mann is the one who always goes to the hospital to pursue Xiuxiu, that "Atie".
Suddenly, the foreign gentleman at the front desk looked at the door of the store and became frightened. He wanted to lift his butt and leave, but hesitated and looked left and right, with an earthy face. Ah Tie followed his gaze and saw several people in windbreakers appeared at the door of the store.
They surrounded the navy clerk who had just left. Two escorted him to the car, and two stood guard at the door, looking into the store.
The foreign gentleman saw Atie behind him, turned his head and asked softly in German:
"Are you a German?"
Ah Tie was shocked and said:
"yes."
The foreign gentleman stood up holding his coat. When passing him, the document bag fell to the ground and said softly:
"Please send it to the German Embassy... Long live Hitler."
Patting him on the back, he walked to the door without looking back. Ah Tie's blood boiled and he quickly picked up the document bag. Before hiding it in his arms, he only saw the Chinese characters written on it: "Top Secret - Ming Navy 1937"
Annual Shipbuilding Plan.
The gentleman arrived at the door and was taken away calmly by two men in trench coats.
He looked at his back and replied silently:
"Heil Hitler."
Ah Tie finished his meal in an excited mood, holding the document bag on his chest. He was about to return to his residence quickly, but he was stunned as soon as he went out. Several people in windbreakers and top hats blocked him.
The leader asked politely in English:
"Sir, may I ask what you have in your arms?"
Seeing that he didn't understand, he asked again in French. Finally, he asked in German. The German boy's face turned pale quickly.
One person pulled out the document bag from his arms, took a look at it, and handed it to the leader. The leader smiled slightly and said:
"People's Guard Security Team... It seems you have to come with us to explain."
…
At the People's Guard headquarters, Xiang Xiaoqiang praised his stomachache with satisfaction:
"Yes, Zi Teng has set up this game quite beautifully."
"Hey, hey," said Stomachache with a smile, "this is what we do."
Xiang Xiaoqiang picked up the document bag on the table, took it out and flipped through it:
"Hey, why is this really a shipbuilding plan?"
Qiu Qiu chuckled and said:
"Then you can't put a stack of newspapers in it. What if he read it at that time? Hey, I went to our Yangtze River Fleet archives to borrow this. I was exhausted. This is just the construction of submarines and torpedo boats.
The plan isn’t for the battleship. It’s from a few years ago, and it’s useless for him to look at it. Look, there’s also the Grasshopper up there!”
In other words, the poor German guy was so tricked that even if he really sent the document bag to the German Embassy, at best it would only contain expired documents from a few years ago. In fact, this trick was often used in the Cold War in later generations, and the United States
When the diplomat expulsion war between the two countries took place, they set up a trap and then expelled the other party's diplomats. This was mostly in retaliation for the other party's expulsion of their own diplomats.
Now they are not expelling German diplomats, but are just using this opportunity to investigate the "Condor Legion". Although these Germans are not diplomats, they still have legal status. As long as one of them is involved in the "espionage case"
"The People's Guard has an excuse to investigate as they please. They are not diplomats and do not have diplomatic immunity. They can arrest, detain, and even sentence people. Under coercion and inducement, they are not afraid of these people not telling the truth.
Xiang Xiaoqiang was very satisfied, patted the document bag and asked about his stomachache:
"How is it? How is that guy's reaction now?"
"It seemed that he was quite loyal and wanted to protect the 'German diplomat'. He insisted that the document bag was found on the stool. He guessed that someone had forgotten it there. He only picked it up out of curiosity. He said
He is innocent."
"Humph, he is innocent when he says he is innocent?" Xiang Xiaoqiang sneered, "He has the shipbuilding plan of our Ming Navy in his arms, so how can we say that this matter is not ours to say? Continue to interrogate, interrogate hard.
, It doesn’t matter if he doesn’t talk about the file bag, we don’t ask about the file bag, we only ask about what we really care about. This guy is focused on the file bag now, and everything else is definitely just pouring beans out of bamboo tubes.”
Xiang Xiaoqiang thought evilly: ...I call you ignorant, and I will bother Xiuxiu all the time...otherwise there are so many people in your group, you won’t necessarily have surgery on you. Just go to Xiuxiu and kill you first.
I'll wait for a few days to discuss it.
As expected, the German young man with the Chinese name "A Tie", except for insisting that the document bag was picked up, was very cooperative with other questions, especially when they said that if they didn't tell the truth, everyone in their Nazi Party branch would be killed.
When he was arrested for interrogation, he simply broke down and revealed the real purpose of coming to Ming Dynasty.
Atie said that they were a group of veterans of the German Wehrmacht. Because they felt that there was little development in Germany and saw the war between the Ming and Qing Dynasties, they felt that they would be of great use in the East, so they formed a volunteer corps and wanted to come to the Ming Dynasty to serve and earn some money.
Now I don’t know what Daming means, so I’ll let a few of them find out first.
"As for me," Ah Tie also felt that he was too young and said he was too old to be a veteran, so he said nonchalantly, "I am a military student who was expelled for violating school discipline. Because I am good at Chinese, I work as a translator for everyone.
"
The National Defense Force? Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled and listened, not trying to expose him, but just clicked:
"By the way, ss in German is the Wehrmacht or the SS?"
A Tie's face changed color slightly, he lowered his head and murmured:
"It's...the SS."
At first glance, Atie's statement sounds like a group of veterans "volunteer" to come to Ming Dynasty. I really can't tell that there is any official background. But if you think about it carefully, you will understand that Germany is now actively expanding its military. As a soldier
How can there be "no future" in Germany? It seems that it is probably Hitler's "Condor Legion".
The German young man looked at Xiang Xiaoqiang and felt that he looked familiar. He suddenly said "ah" and remembered that this was the person who asked him to "stand at attention" in German in the ward that day. He asked carefully:
"Excuse me, your Excellency..."
stomachache said:
"This is our commander."
Atie's mouth suddenly opened wide, then he shook his hands and said:
"Please don't get me wrong, I'm not looking for Miss Shang today. Please believe me, I already like someone else."
There was a brief silence in the office, and then several people burst out laughing. They had a stomachache and coughed again and again, and then the room became quiet. But he himself pinched his cheeks with his hands to hold back his laughter.
Xiang Xiaoqiang couldn't laugh or cry, what a mouth this foreigner has! He even said "I already like someone else", damn, I didn't confess to you!
But when he said this, others might really think that he was doing this to avenge his love rival. He waved his hand to Xiaoqiang and said with a smile:
"Okay, I don't care who you like or what you came to Ming for. Now this is a spy case. Our naval shipbuilding plan has been found out from your arms. You can't just say whatever you say. I certainly hope that in the end
The result of the verification is that you have no malicious intent, and what you did today was just an unintentional act. Although you are not an official, this matter involves the friendship between Ming Dynasty and Germany, so you must be cautious. Therefore, everything in your group
Members, including the person in charge, must be investigated. Let me remind you, if you have any problems, speak up first, and we will consider lenient punishment. If you don't speak up and someone else does, then someone else will be lenient.
You won’t be able to eat and walk away.”
Ah Tie said blankly:
"Ah...what do you mean...can't eat...walking around?"
"Okay," waved his hand to Xiaoqiang, "take him down first."
As soon as Atie left, everyone in the room burst into laughter. This German boy was so funny. After laughing for a while, Xiang Xiaoqiang ordered people to go to the Nazi Party branch and collect these batches according to the list written by Atie.
The person "asked" to return to the People's Guard Security Team to be investigated.
Having a stomachache, I immediately took orders to make arrangements. To be honest, if it were the British, they would definitely not do this. These are the Germans. Firstly, Germany has little power in the Far East and does not have much interest entanglement with the Ming Dynasty. Secondly, after Germany was defeated, it has already
The prestige has been lost, and it has been stepped on by ten thousand feet. Even a country like Poland can bully it, let alone the Ming Dynasty? Besides, these people are not diplomats, they have no immunity, and they can't do whatever they want.
Now it is clear that it is an espionage case, and the Germans also know that the espionage case is no joke, and they may end up in Ming Dynasty and go to jail. In order to clear themselves up, they will definitely tell everything they know.
…
Everyone else had gone out, and only Xiang Xiaoqiang and Qiu Qiu were left. Qiu Qiang followed Xiang Xiaoqiang with a pulled face and pouted lips, packing up documents. Xiang Xiaoqiang saw that she had something to say on her mind.
, went over and closed the door.
Qiu Qiu glanced at the door, gritted her teeth, and suddenly hugged Xiang Xiaoqiang from behind, hugged his waist, pressed her face against his back, and pressed her chest tightly, letting her heartbeat pass through her.
Xiang Xiaoqiang felt the heartbeat coming from behind and the two elastic soft balls. For the first time, he didn't think anything wrong and just smiled and said:
"My Qiu Qiu, what's wrong?...What do you want to say to me?"
Qiu Qiu clung to his back, blushing and muttering:
"Xiaoqiang..."
"Um?"
"Do you like Xiuxiu?"
"ah?"
"When that person said... that he already liked someone else, I saw you breathed a sigh of relief. You... must like her very much."
ah?!
Xiang Xiaoqiang has always liked Xiu Xiu. How much does he like Xiu Xiu? Xiang Xiaoqiang himself can't measure it. Anyway, if it was not Qiu Qiu who was captured by the stick, but Xiu Xiu, he would still risk his life to save her.
. To say that he loves Qiu Qiu more, it is mainly because they have experienced life and death hardships together, and during this time Xiu Xiu was lying in the hospital, he mainly got along with Qiu Qiu. Now to Qiu Qiu, to a large extent, he has
I have a family relationship and treat her as my little wife. As for Xiuxiu, at this moment I still have unrequited love for an outstanding girl. No, it is no longer unrequited love. Xiuxiu has accepted this feeling.
, now it should be said that I admire you.
Xiang Xiaoqiang likes Xiuxiu, and there is nothing to hide. Just because he didn’t hide it on purpose, he didn’t explain it on purpose either. It’s not like Qiu Qiu is such a big girl, and she just noticed it, right?
He simply turned around, hugged her and said with a smile:
"You like Xiu Xiu... This is normal. Don't you like Xiu Xiu?"
"Gah?!"
…
Qiu Qiu was stunned for a moment, and her pretty face slowly turned red. She told Xiao Qiang that she was in trouble, and teased her casually. Didn't this girl really have any "Lily" thoughts?
...The submarine sailed on the vast sea, a long and lonely voyage, a small space with only girls...
No, no! Xiang Xiaoqiang shook his head quickly: My Qiu Qiu leads only river submarines, which are only for short-term reconnaissance on the Yangtze River. The voyage never exceeds one day... ahem...
Xiang Xiaoqiang quickly corrected:
"Haha, I mean, aren't you and Xiu Xiu good friends, so... ahem... sisters?"
Qiu Qiu lowered his head and murmured:
"yes."
Xiang Xiaoqiang said solemnly:
"Qiu Qiu, let me tell you, I really like Xiu Xiu."
"ah."
"To be honest, I've been in Daming for so long and I've met a lot of people. But right now I only like you two...probably almost at the same time. I still remember the first time I saw her, she was lying on the bed
When she was on the stretcher, she said pitifully that she wanted to repay me, Mr. Luo, for rescuing me, and when she endured the pain and played the role of the Fourteenth Princess, I fell in love with her..."
Qiu Qiu lowered his head and didn't say a word. He tried his best to pretend not to be jealous, but he couldn't pretend to be jealous and big tears fell down.
Xiang Xiaoqiang's heart trembled: A girl, on the eve of her marriage, listens to her beloved talking about how to love other women, but she still has to try hard to pretend not to care... Although she knows that this is what Ming Dynasty is like at this time, every girl
To go through this, as a man, there is no need to blame oneself, but Xiang Xiaoqiang still felt a faint pain in his heart, because his most beloved Qiu Qiu was sad.
Xiang Xiaoqiang secretly sighed in his heart: Oh, stallion, harem...how many men can think of these things when they are enjoying them, that their happiness is based on the pain of their lovers?
But Xiang Xiaoqiang knows that the purpose of coming to Ming Dynasty is to enjoy it. Alas, as the saying goes, don’t pretend to be cool, otherwise you will be struck by lightning... This kind of thing, just sigh...
Xiang Xiaoqiang hugged Qiu Qiu tightly, thinking: Just because I don't show off doesn't stop me from loving her wholeheartedly and giving her happiness.
He lowered his head and smiled quietly at Qiu Qiu:
"You, it was earlier... At that time, I was holding the periscope and knowing that there was someone below who would rather put himself in danger to save me, I had a feeling... When I was in the office at the sticky pole
I fell in love with you the first time I saw you, and when you coyly said to me, "My family's surname is Qiu, and my last name is Qiu"..."
Qiu Qiu burst into laughter and said angrily:
"Really, do you still remember it?"
Then she put her face against Xiang Xiaoqiang's chest, sniffed slightly, and murmured:
"Xiaoqiang...don't you think I'm a petty person? I...when I heard you say that you like Xiuxiu, I cried for some reason. Really...then, does Xiuxiu like you too? Yes.
How about I go and tell you...it will be great to marry you."
Xiang Xiaoqiang was moved and ashamed, and didn't know what to say for a moment. Qiu Qiu smiled again:
"Don't worry, I'm very happy that you like Xiuxiu. Haha, you will marry some other women anyway, well, I hope one of them is Xiuxiu."
Xiang Xiaoqiang's blood boiled and he was almost in tears. He hugged Qiu Qiu tightly, looked up, and thanked God for giving him this precious gift of Qiu Qiu.