Chapter 13 13. Two men and one woman

The big sample has been proofread, and those who run around the street are sent to the printing factory. The day's work is considered done.Yu Changchun was leaning on a broken rattan chair, smoking, his thinning hair was tangled up in big hands, his eyes were dark circles, and his face was full of smoke. On the table was a half-bottle of shochu and a pack of overcooked five-spice broad beans.When he saw Yunong enter the door, he was overjoyed; when he saw Ding Shaomei behind her, his heart was inexplicably shocked. It is best to take the anger from old classmates on someone who has nothing to do with it.He teased himself from the bottom of his heart, but he stretched out his hand, the nails were full of mud, and there was a scrape on his forehead. "I'm Yu Changchun, the editor-in-chief of this newspaper, and a literati ear." The imposing manner must be like a big hero, so as not to lose face in front of the man brought by Yu Nong.

"I'm Ding Shaomei, an idler with depression in my heart, just looking for something to distract me." Ding Shaomei slightly shrugged his shoulders, with a bitter face, an avenger shouldn't look like a good son, even though it's against his heart. The two hands were clasped together, the palms were hot and powerful, and their eyes met, and they couldn't help but fell in love with the iron-like enthusiasm in the other's eyes. "Please take a seat." Yu Changchun found that the other party's expression clearly contained a sense of self-satisfaction, self-satisfaction, and unstoppable energy. This is the expression of a person who has money, leisure, and knowledge.He has never been good at dealing with rich people, so he might as well change his ways today.He'd always thought that when a man had so much money that he didn't need anybody, he must be a jerk.

An old tea bowl was placed in front of Ding Shaomei, a glass was full, and the wine flowed to the table along the opening in the side of the bowl, bubbling like a stream, soaking the manuscript paper underneath. "Fortunately, I know you, please let me know." Yu Changchun also filled a glass for himself, and arched his hands together. The glass of wine in front of me is 150 milliliters according to the British calculation. Using the local 16 taels scale, it is also a full 5 taels. As long as the quality of the wine is not bad, there is nothing to drink. Drank 350ml of straight whiskey.Ding Shaomei thought about it in her heart, and said: "The ancients served wine with "Han Shu", if there is a reason for this glass of wine, it will be interesting to drink."

Yunong looked at the two men. Although they were very different in appearance and personality, she had a sudden inspiration and felt that the two men had something in common—no fear.How could such a word pop up?She couldn't figure it out.Unafraid?People who don't know the danger are either stupid or stupid, and the man in front of him is neither. "At this time of year, what will most impress a man?" Yu Changchun had already had that glass of wine in his hand. "Japanese!" Ding Shaomei was observing the changes in the eyes of the other party. As soon as the two cups touched, they did it separately.Ding Shaomei grinned, the taste of the wine was frighteningly bad.

Both of them had heard about each other's situation from Yu Nong's mouth, and they had already become interested in each other. When they met today, it was quite suitable for each other.The anti-Japanese war is not afraid of a large number of people, and a large number is also good. The two thoughts turned to one place. Oops!What are you afraid of?The thing Yunong didn't want to see happened. Ding Shaomei's partnership with the old Ziggs was enough for her. If he got another Yu Changchun, it would not only be a simple trouble, it would be fatal. Most of the anti-Japanese groups that have sprung up in the local area in the past two years, Old Giggs has files on most of them, and he does not hide it from his cronies. Yu Nong learned that those people Yu Changchun came into contact with were all bold and almost crazy organizations. After several operations, my losses were as great as the Japanese, and even more people died, but I didn't care.

But, she cared, these two men, she didn't want any of them to die for no reason, even if they wanted to fight against Japan, the most important thing was to cherish their own lives first.It's not worth it to exchange your own life for the lives of the Japanese.It wasn't narrow-mindedness or weakness, she defended herself from the bottom of her heart.This is a question of values. The value of the anti-Japanese warriors is far higher than that of the Japanese soldiers. Besides, she still has some thoughts about Ding Shaomei that a woman should have.In order to keep an eye on this man, she will never act like a little girl, shyness cannot be exchanged for a good man.

Most of the bottle of shochu ignited a hot fire in the stomachs of the two men. It was warm and sweaty on their foreheads.Yu Changchun took out another bottle from under the table, with a corncob stuck in its mouth as a cork. "There are a lot of wineries in Dazhigu, but this one's products are delicious and the prices are cheap. Even if I'm short on cash, they still send me ten or twenty catties every month." Yu Changchun noticed. He doesn't feel any discomfort now, and he doesn't know where his restraint and resentment in front of the rich have gone. This person in front of him is clearly an equal friend.Maybe, from now on, when dealing with rich people, he can act like a real man.His eyes turned to Yunong, as if he was asking to prove his point of view, but he forgot what he just said.

"Brother Changchun is not rich?" Ding Shaomei asked Yunong. "A gentleman is always poor. If he has nothing to eat and is not rich, he can fight against the Japanese if he is not hungry." Yu Changchun drank half a catty of shochu tonight, but he was unexpectedly sober. "It's just that this anti-Japanese war is a costly affair, which is a headache." Ding Shaomei knew what to do, the money matter was the simplest, he just dug a "foreign gold mine", but he didn't speak up in a hurry, helping someone in a difficult situation, you have to ask the other party to see you.He drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, it was too bad to drink.

The three were silent for a while. Yunong went downstairs to boil water and make tea for them. What he thought was that he would drink two cups of strong tea to hangover, and then he took Ding Shaomei home.She regretted bringing Ding Shaomei here, and let him hang out with old Ziggs, it would be less dangerous, just be careful of Fan Xiaoqing. Ding Shaomei decided to take a risky move. Revenge can't be done comfortably, let alone help, and said: "Brother Changchun, you and I are best friends. Logically speaking, there are some things I shouldn't ask. However, during the Occupation, I can’t take care of the taboo of exchanging shallow words and deep words, so let me ask: What kind of anti-Japanese elements are you?”

"The kind that kills people." The words of the great hero should be as succinct as a child's language.Yu Changchun sat up straight and put the pipe in his mouth. "Knife? Gun? Or poison? Or 'I have a pen like a knife'?" Different characters, different talents, choose different means.Ding Shaomei had to figure out the temperament of potential collaborators. "Dynamite." The smoke emitted by Yu Changchun was thick, like a running locomotive. There were too many stalks in the fuel, which made the eyes hot. Ding Shaomei hurriedly lit her own three-battery, to relieve the thick smoke like burning wet wood in front of her eyes.Most of the people who choose explosives as weapons are crazy, and he is quite satisfied.

"But, the money in my pocket is only enough to buy five hundred firecrackers." Yu Changchun was a little frustrated. "Ground explosives don't have much power." "I have a way. A decent TNT. The detonator and lead wire are all high-quality products. I can make timers myself. Four years of college are not in vain." "Is it chemical detonation or electric detonation?" You have to test him and show yourself.Ding Shaomei has studied blasting courses, but in his spare time espionage training, he has never actually detonated anything. "Electric detonators can only be bought in Germany, and they are too expensive. I use nitric acid. That is the most reliable thing, and it will never be fooled." Yu Changchun looks like a hero, completely like an expert, confident, even arrogant. "How to sell TNT?" "French currency is one yuan per gram. No matter the transportation, go to the seaside to pick up the goods. The smugglers are all vampires, but if they are caught by the Japanese, they will be shot." Before Yunong entered the door, the certificate of deposit that Fan Xiaoqing sent over was transferred to Yu Changchun's pocket.Ding Shaomei didn't know why he did this without telling Yunong, but he did it, and he was very proud.Their eyes met again, and both of them understood that this was their little secret, the secret of two men, and women should not participate in it. "The money you gave him may not be a good thing for him." On the way back, Yunong spoke casually, like chatting. "If it's a good thing, I could have given it to him." Ding Shaomei was very embarrassed and felt like a fool who pretended to be smart.Yunong should be treated as his closest friend, she is his only "relative". Yu Nong is also very satisfied. Interacting with a man, showing that he is a lot smarter than the other person, or a lot of stupid, will produce excellent results, and the worst performance is tepid. Lao Guan, Izko, and Lao Ding were the earliest team members of Lao Ziggs when he started his business, and they were also his most important confidantes. They formed a small group before the Russo-Japanese War.Old Giggs likes the loyalty of the Chinese, and this kind of enthusiasm that has nothing to do with value has benefited him a lot; he also likes the shrewdness of the Jews, for a simple business like one plus one equals two, they can still deduct a few cents . "This little guy is very handsome. He has quick hands and feet and good eyesight. He is qualified for this job." The old owner of the abalone restaurant, Izko, a Polish Jew, still had pain in his occiput, but he still expressed his appreciation to Ding Shaomei.This is business, not personal grudges. Old Ziggs called Laoguan and Iziko in the middle of the night to talk about Ding Shaomei. No matter how great a leader is, he cannot do without capable ministers. What's more, he already clearly felt that the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War made him The intelligence market in the country has been threatened. Although the income of the committee members has not decreased, they have lost a little bit of respect for him. He felt that it was necessary to set the tone for this discussion, and said: "Although the committee does not have a charter for sons to follow fathers, Lao Ding is a hero. It is not bad for Xiao Ding to take his place. The Japanese surrounded the concession, and we The movement of most people has been restricted, and the sources of intelligence have decreased a lot. If we don’t use new people at this time, especially the Chinese, our decades of hard work may be in vain.” "However, the difficulty lies not with us, but with the other committee members." Lao Guan leaned on the armchair, with a cigarette between his fingers, and talked eloquently, without the wretchedness of a servant. "Old Ding is dead, the Russians left Chicago with their wealth, and there are only seven members left in the nine-member committee. Now the comparison is three against four, and we do not have the majority. Although you have a veto right, Alan, this is the election committee , we are confident that there are only three votes left.” "What activities does Kenji Miyaguchi have these two days?" Old Ziggs asked Izko. Miyaguchi Kenji was the only Japanese in the committee. Giggs had long suspected that he was the spokesperson of Tokugawa Nobuo, but there was no evidence.However, judging from his personal ambitions, his fight for the seat of the chairman of the committee often fits perfectly with Tokugawa Nobuo's conspiracy, which has to make the old Giggs suspicious. Izko took out a small book full of passwords, flipped through it with saliva on it. "Three days ago, he just arrived with a large batch of munitions, all of which were German-made light weapons and explosives. The boat stopped at the Hangu Fishing Wharf and was stolen once. I don't know what was lost." "Where is the other person?" "I've been in Hangu all the time, and I just came back this morning with a lot of samples, and the Japanese army didn't stop me." Izko closed his notebook and breathed a sigh of relief like a student answering a question. "Who came from the city to meet him?" Old Giggs still did not relax. "There are a lot of people coming and going, and most of them are brokers from various countries. He didn't show up on the ship, and he couldn't tell whether it was private goods or official goods." "It's official stuff. The guards on the pier are all Japanese soldiers in plain clothes." Old Ziggs has always had two lines of monitoring his subordinates. He has his own sources of intelligence, which were managed by Lao Ding in the past. After Lao Ding died, he felt extremely inconvenient. This kind of indirect criticism is common, and the old Ziggs is too delicate, so Izko has no illusions about perfectionism. "It's normal for Gonggu to object to our people joining the committee, especially Lao Ding's son, he will object even more. If the shoemaker is still there, maybe it will be different." Izko was beating around the bush to old Ziggs. Criticism, the Japanese shoemaker who died 8 years ago was also a committee member, under the hands of Lao Ding and instructed by the old Giggs.Kenji Miyaguchi, who came off the bench, was even more difficult than the shoemaker.Japanese spies were such a force in the marketplace that one of their own had to be placed on the committee to represent their interests. "Think about who else can win over? Don't talk about it. It's useless." The death of the shoemaker was an obvious mistake of the old Giggs, but he would never admit it. Even if Lao Guan died, he didn't want a rift between these thirty years old friends. He said: "Mr. Earl's debts have already flooded his neck. It is a lot of money. It is not easy to save people from the well." , It is difficult to pull him over." Old Giggs had long lost confidence in the irrational Italian gamblers like Earl Panavino, but it was inconvenient for him to be kicked out of the committee because of the committee's charter and the Japanese support for him.But it was a matter of time before he was driven away, notwithstanding his extensive connections in Europe. Lao Guan mentioned that the earl was just "in a mood" and started the conversation, and then said: "Brother Pierre took a pair of Japanese twin sisters as concubines, and they had fun at home every day. almost." Izko interjected: "These sisters graduated from Kyoto Women's University. Even if they are not spies of the Japanese General Staff, they must be ordered by the Japanese army now." His codebook fluttered like a bird's wings. "Combining Kenji Miyaguchi, exactly four votes to three votes?" The loss caused by Lao Ding's death has just become apparent.However, the old Giggs had a good idea in his heart. He happened to hold the handle of Big Pierre in his hand, but he hadn't figured out when to use this handle. "So, it's better to postpone the meeting of the committee." The two said in unison. "I have already informed them that we will hold a meeting here at 9:30 tomorrow morning." Old Giggs knew that Ding Shaomei's matter had to be relied on by himself, and the two old buddies did not fully agree with his idea.Having experienced too many dangers, even the strongest nerves will be frayed.They have become weak.