Bitter cold current hovers in the night sky of Shanghai. It was an ordinary night in early December 1931.At this time in Shanghai, most people who care about politics are paying attention to the disputes among the various factions of the Kuomintang after the "September 18th Incident".Whether the Central Party Headquarters of the Kuomintang established by Hu Hanmin in Guangzhou is recognized by various factions in the party; whether Hu Hanmin and Wang Jingwei will unite to deal with Chiang Kai-shek; Make all kinds of guesses.However, they would not know that another incident happened in Shanghai at this time, whose political impact far exceeded the few incidents they paid attention to.

On the upper floor of a small shop at the corner of Haining Road and Shanxi Road, a man dressed as a middle-aged man stood in front of the half-closed window, scanning the street downstairs with few street lights and few pedestrians.This person is Zhou Enlai, who is 33 years old. Six months ago, he was a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, secretary of the Central Military Commission, and chief of the Special Section (in charge of the security work of the Party Central Committee). , he has been hiding for several months.At this time, his position was the secretary of the Central Bureau of the Soviet Area of ​​the Communist Party of China.

Zhou Enlai's wise, sharp, and vigilant eyes watched every figure passing by on the road.When he found one or two suspicious figures cruising under the dim streetlights like ghosts, his bushy eyebrows could not help but wrinkle tightly.Six months ago, on June 22, Xiang Zhongfa, one of the central figures and nominal leader of the party who had worked with him for many years, was arrested after leaving his secret apartment overnight without authorization.Upon hearing the news, he immediately organized a rescue.When he learned that Xiang Zhongfa had defected, he personally went to observe the codes near his residence. After checking the facts, he immediately hid himself and was forced to stop contact with other central leaders and prepare to go to the Jiangxi Central Soviet Area.

He closed the window gently, turned back to the mirror, and carefully checked the effect of makeup.He has a full beard, a peaked cap, a navy blue serge top and new dark gray foreign cloth trousers. This is the attire of a Guangzhou businessman.He looked ten years older than his actual age, in his forties.While looking at himself in the mirror, he asked his wife, Deng Yingchao, how the makeup effect was.Deng Yingchao was busy packing his luggage, and looked up at him with an uneasy expression on her face. She said that there was nothing wrong with him from the outside, but his accent made it obvious that he was not from Guangzhou. Just tell him to keep his mouth shut on the boat.He said, "I can play dumb!" The couple looked at each other and smiled.

Deng Yingchao packed her luggage and checked it carefully to see if she had forgotten anything.After thinking about it, she walked to the head of the bed and brought over the gray woolen vest.Seeing this, Zhou Enlai quickly took the woolen vest away and said, "You are not in good health, so you can keep this woolen vest!" "No." Deng Yingchao snatched the woolen vest from her husband and stuffed it into his luggage without any explanation. "When you come to the Soviet area, you need it even more." "Xiao Chao! You..." "Bring it on, and treat it as if I'm always by your side!"

Zhou Enlai was grateful and didn't know what to say.He stared silently at his wife, his eyes full of melancholy.The parting was imminent, and he didn't know how many words he wanted to say to his wife, but he didn't know how to confide to his wife the thousands of words burning with passionate emotion in his heart at this time.It was time to part again, and every parting was a possible farewell for the two of them!What kind of words can express this kind of reluctance to say goodbye? There is a knock on the door.The two were startled.The knock on the door rang a second time.With a relaxed expression on his face, Zhou Enlai nodded to Deng Yingchao.She walked over to open the door, Deng's mother, Yang Zhende, stood at the door, looked back, and told them that Huang Ping, the traffic officer who came to escort them, had already arrived downstairs.Zhou Enlai motioned Deng's mother to ask Huang Ping to go upstairs.Mother Deng turned and went downstairs.She's been keeping watch downstairs.Huang Ping was dressed as a businessman, and before going upstairs, he turned his head to see what was going on around him. Seeing that there was nothing unusual, he went upstairs with Deng's mother.When he came to the door, he greeted Deng Yingchao, took his luggage from Zhou Enlai, and went downstairs first.Deng Yingchao wanted to go downstairs to see him off, but was stopped by Zhou Enlai.With tears in her eyes, she stared at him reluctantly, trying to say something, but couldn't say it.

The two pairs of affectionate eyes looked at each other again, he let go of his hand, turned and went downstairs.She followed him down two flights of stairs, when she suddenly remembered something, she turned back to the house, and stood in front of the window with her mother.She saw two rickshaws parked downstairs.Huang Ping boarded a rickshaw ahead.Zhou Enlai walked to the rickshaw, quietly turned his head and glanced upstairs, and saw his wife and mother-in-law standing in front of the window.But he just glanced at the mother and daughter, turned around and jumped onto the rickshaw.The coachman pulled the cart and ran forward.

Shiliupu Wharf is bustling with people. When Zhou Enlai and Huang Ping got out of the car, a short young man hurried over to greet them.His nickname is "Little Guangdong", and people call him Xiaoguang.He was responsible for escorting Zhou Enlai from Shanghai to Shantou, Guangdong.Huang Ping looked around vigilantly, and after confirming that there was nothing unusual, he handed over the task to Xiao Guang.After Zhou Enlai bid farewell to Huang Ping, he joined the queue moving towards the small steamer.Xiao Guang followed behind him with his luggage.The people boarding the boat lined up in a long queue, flanked by policemen with live ammunition and spies from the Kuomintang secret service, as if they were guarding prisoners.The eyes of those spies were like dogs looking for prey, and they kept a close eye on every passenger.Each of them held a stack of photos in their hands, and stared at the passengers while looking at the photos.

When Zhou Enlai passed by a spy, he glanced at the man's hand, and it was his photo!He trembled involuntarily.At this moment, the man cast his eyes on him, and then opened his eyes, staring at him.Seeing this, Xiao Guang stepped forward and touched Zhou Enlai in a signal way.The spy yelled, and ran over to call Zhou Enlai out of the queue.Xiao Guang strode forward and was about to say something to the spy when Zhou Enlai put one hand on Xiao Guang's shoulder.He stood in front of the spy calmly, his piercing eyes looked straight at the spy, and he made a questioning expression on his face.

This was a fat man, who kept his small eyes wide open, scanned Zhou Enlai's face for a long time at the photo, and then questioned Zhou Enlai in a vicious voice.Zhou Enlai calmly answered the fat spy's questions one by one.The fat spy didn't believe that Zhou Enlai was a businessman, so he asked him several times, and the more he asked, the louder he got.He even yelled at Zhou Enlai: "Your business is too big! If your business is successful, China will be yours!" The spies and the police all around suddenly surrounded him, staring at each other, like a hungry wolf seeing a sheep.Immediately there was a commotion in the crowd.Zhou Enlai remained calm, and tried to appear puzzled in the face of the tense situation put on by the spies and the police.The fat spy showed a photo of Zhou Enlai in his hand to Zhou Enlai.Zhou En took a look at the photo, shook his head, and said, "I don't know it."

"Let's see if it's you!" Fatty said proudly. "I've already told you that I don't know this person." Zhou Enlai said calmly. The fat spy had a sinister smile on his face, staring at Zhou Enlai with flickering eyes.Several accomplices nearby were also watching Zhou Enlai.Two or three people had already pulled out their pistols and pointed their guns at Zhou Enlai, looking at their posture and waiting for the order from the fat spy.Xiao Guang lost his composure, and stepped forward to block the pistols aimed at Zhou Enlai.Zhou Enlai pulled Xiaoguang back with one hand, and gave him a wink. In fact, at this time Zhou Enlai's heart was beating violently, and cold sweat was breaking out on his back.Could it be that they recognized it!How did they recognize it like this?In Shanghai, he survived the "April 12" massacre four years ago; Gu Shunzhang's rebellion eight months ago, he escaped danger; Xiang Zhongfa's rebellion six months ago, he escaped disaster again ...he always had a lucky star.Because the Chinese revolution is still in danger, the revolution needs him, and the revolution cannot do without him!But when he overcame many difficulties and obstacles and was about to go to the Soviet area to lead the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army to fight against Jiang's army, how did he fall into the enemy's death net? He is not afraid of death.When was he afraid of death?In these years, he was born and died, and spent every moment with his head in his head. Is that something that people who are afraid of death can do?However, he died before leaving the army, and the revolutionary ideal he and his comrades fought for - how many comrades sacrificed their precious lives for this - is far from being realized!He gritted his teeth, tried his best to straighten his waist, and looked at Fatty and the others calmly, with a look of contempt.If you want to die, you must die like a hero, and you must not show the slightest fear in front of the enemy! The fat spy looked at Zhou Enlai again for a long time. Seeing that Zhou Enlai didn't change his face, his arrogance disappeared, and it seemed that the pigeon he got flew away again.With his head lowered, he asked his accomplices to go aside and whisper for a while, then he turned around and yelled at Zhou Enlai and Xiaoguang angrily, "Get out of here!" Zhou Enlai and Xiao Guang were taken aback for a moment, but they immediately reacted and turned around to leave.Only then did they realize that they were the last passengers to board the ship!The two looked at each other with happy smiles on their faces. The siren blared, piercing the tranquility of the seaside night sky.The little steamer left the shore slowly. Standing in front of the railing of the ship, Zhou Enlai looked at the lights of thousands of families in Shanghai at night, and felt an indescribable feeling in his heart.He left Shanghai, and bid farewell to his four-year struggle in the White Areas. In the past four years, as a core figure of the CPC Central Committee, he worked in the extremely dangerous and cruel white areas. On the one hand, he was in danger of being captured by Chiang Kai-shek at any time, and on the other hand, he had to bear the pressure from the fierce struggle within the party.Two years ago, from September 24th to 28th, under the chairmanship of him and Qu Qiubai, the Third Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China criticized Li Lisan's miscalculation of the situation and corrected Li Lisan's "leftist" tendency.After the meeting, he and Qu Qiubai actually presided over the work of the central government.In December of the same year, Mi Fu, the deputy director of the Eastern Department of the Comintern, came to Shanghai secretly as a representative of the Comintern, accusing him and Qu Qiubai of protecting the Lisan line, and held the Fourth Plenary Session of the Sixth CPC Central Committee on January 7 of the following year to criticize him and Qu Qiubai. Miff sarcastically said in his speech: "Comrade Enlai should be spanked naturally, but it is not to tell him to get out, but to correct him at work, to see if he corrects his mistakes at work." Because Wang Ming and Bogu, who were valued by Mifu and brought into the central government, lacked practical work experience, and the Communist International had long been dissatisfied with Qu Qiubai during his work in Moscow, so he decided to exclude Qu Qiubai and retain Zhou Enlai.Still, things were tough for him.After Qu Qiubai withdrew from the Politburo, someone suggested that he should also withdraw from the Politburo and put it up for a separate vote, but it was not approved because only six of the twenty-four people present at the meeting raised their hands. Now, all this is over.He finally embarked on a new journey to start a new battle. "Shanghai, I'm coming back!" He said passionately.