Before he could say anything, there was a laugh, Tang Shubai was still sitting like that, his eyes were on the empty futon across the table, which was quite unfathomable: "Not only did the Oriental Consulate systematically smear General Ma Shouhua's reputation, but also put the blame on your newspaper, and his ability is indeed not small." ”

Listening to his tentative tone, he had already locked the object of suspicion on Li Fengzhu.

Between guessing and telling, there is only a thin piece of paper, but it will reverse the superiority and disadvantage of the two sides in the confrontation.

Li Fengzhu knew this, gritted his teeth and never showed half of his feet: "Why can't I understand your words?"

"You just need to understand one thing-" Tang Shubai's gaze slowly moved upward, looking at her with a smile, "I am a very talented person." I really found it, I won't be angry with her, I will only be emotional. ”

Li Fengzhu laughed, pursed his lips, and twisted his eyebrows to make a puzzled expression: "Don't you plan to understand the reason?" Hmm-I almost forgot, Editor-in-Chief Tang has everything and is unreasonable. ”

After receiving this kind of sarcasm, Tang Shubai was not annoyed, and laughed even more, watching her out of sight.

Walking on the road, Li Fengzhu's thinking became clearer and clearer. The blows in the past few days were too great, causing her to be so flustered that she almost forgot that Tang Shubai had already started the idea of rebellion on her. It wasn't until he talked to Tang Shubai that Li Fengzhu remembered that he had pushed Guan Maocai to the forefront, one was to find a scapegoat, and the other was to show people a good show, rendering that he had made substantial progress in plotting against Li Fengzhu.

That is to say, even if there is no cooperation request from Johnson, even if there is no storm of the Iron Fist Troupe's kidnapping of Xiao Rufu, Li Fengzhu is still destined to lean on Tang Shubai's side. In the dark, Li Fengzhu is destined to be unable to escape, and he must be entangled with Tang Shubai to find a victory.

While thinking, he looked down at the time. Just after one o'clock, according to Xu Xinqi's habit, if there is no attendance or guest arrangement at this time, he will review the manuscript in the office. When he was reviewing a manuscript, he didn't like it to be bothered by a trivial matter. After four o'clock, he would try to find time to browse today's new newspapers and keep abreast of the trends of his friends. If you want to talk to him, you should choose after four o'clock.

Naturally, another reason is that Li Fengzhu is afraid that he will not be able to give a reasonable excuse for yesterday's faux pas, so he wants to extend it for a while outside Russia. The first thing that came to her mind was to find Johnson.

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In the suite of Li Shunde Hotel, Li Fengzhu said as soon as they met that he had just had lunch with Tang Shubai.

Johnson, who was eating, swallowed the food in his mouth, put his knife and fork on either side of the plate, and quickly wiped the corners of his mouth. It can be seen that he attaches great importance to this matter. When questioned, there was a deep expectation in his eyes: "Did you have a good chat?"

"Unpleasant. Li Fengzhu stood at the table and shook his head, "Because I found that his strong interest in me is always based on unpleasantness." ”

The initial disappointment and dissatisfaction on Johnson's face slowly dissipated as her explanation slowly dissipated.

"Is there any news about me?" No matter how Li Fengzhu kept her face calm, her voice always trembled uncontrollably.

"Yes. Johnson casually replied, picked up his knife and fork, and continued to eat.

"Where's the person?" Li Fengzhu swallowed nervously and expectantly, and took a small step forward, bending his neck slightly, eager to get more information on Johnson's face.

"Man, um......" Johnson bit the cow's tendon and chewed it vigorously and repeatedly, muttering, "Man, the man is still in their hands." ”

Li Fengzhu's upper and lower teeth were biting his mouth to avoid making inappropriate movements. The tone became cold with the eyes: "That...... Where are they?"

Johnson grunted two sips of fruit wine before replying, "Still investigating." On his face, there was no regret or shame, and there was even a mocking sneer.

Li Fengzhu looked away, raised his hand and pinched his reddened ears, exhaled helplessly, and continued: "Can we be more open and honest? I mean if you have any ideas, let's just say it." ”

"Good. Johnson's attitude towards her today is nothing more than gold.

If you are controlled by others, you will inevitably have to bear cold eyes. Li Fengzhu endured it again and again, and tried to discuss it with a gentle attitude: "The person was lost on the boat from Haizhou to Jinmen, so the large area is the middle provinces. Around Haizhou, I have a way. Can you please put more strength in the Shandong area?"

There's still a small piece of steak on the plate that hasn't been used up, but apparently Johnson has run out of interest. He threw away his knife and fork, got up with his hands in his pockets and stepped forward, and said with a smile: "Around Haizhou, I also have a lot of methods." ”

"You're too busy, aren't you? Li Fengzhu tried to keep the fake smile as long as possible, and then for a little longer.

"You don't trust me!" said Rao, still unable to stop Johnson's face from gradually becoming angry.

"No ......"

"I'm telling you, there's a big personnel change in your newspaper. Tang devised various methods to deal with the anti-Japanese reporters one by one. He also found a pro-newspaper reporter who wanted to be installed in your newspaper. ”

Before Li Fengzhu's defense could be said, Johnson had already used the attitude of skipping the matter and not mentioning it, and ruthlessly cut off the possibility of discussion. Her ideas are always insignificant in Johnson's eyes. If you say you can say it, you will never really listen to it in your ears.

In terms of mentality, Li Fengzhu's anxiety only aggravated, but not alleviated in the slightest. But she is gradually and deeply analyzing the various forces around her, especially their desired demands and the weaknesses that are easy to exploit. Knowing herself and knowing her opponent gave her a lot of confidence, and she could try to stabilize her position calmly. Because he also replied with a short word: "Who?"

A mysterious smile appeared in the corner of Johnson's eyes, still expressing in an unanswerable attitude that her curiosity was not qualified to be satisfied. Then, in a condescending tone, he ordered the next task: "I have high expectations for you, and I hope that you will continue to maintain a relationship with him on the one hand, and stop his plans on the other. He hates Xu, so you have to help Xu. I think it's also helping yourself. As he spoke, he walked to the chest of drawers, took a copy of the drawer, and handed it to Li Fengzhu to read, "This is the latest news from Liangguang, and it will be disclosed tomorrow morning." But your editor-in-chief is already ready to make a letter of appointment, and it will probably be announced in two days. So you have to go back to the newspaper office and make it public first, to prove that Xu is very innocent and has never concealed the secret and never reported it. In this way, provoke the resentment of your colleagues about parachuting an associate editor-in-chief. ”

Li Fengzhu browsed attentively, this is a newly completed editorial, the full text is written in English, and it reports in detail the real situation in the southwest.

The key point that Johnson wanted her to see was that, according to insiders, representatives from the southwest had already contacted Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou provinces in order to reach a consensus position as soon as possible.

According to the basic logic of the collection, the more efforts are made, the more important the region must be in the front row, and Sichuan ranks fourth. Then, the so-called southwest warlords focused on pulling over Sichuan is very absurd.

However, what she has read many times over and over again shows that it is the author who takes a third-party middle ground and deeply analyzes the true intentions of the local warlords. The editorial believes that in today's China, local powerhouses are skillfully using the art of balancing. In the face of the invasion of the East, between resistance and non-resistance, we explored an appropriate position, and finally achieved the result of balancing Chiang Kai-shek. As for the future of the country and the nation, it is not at the top of the list.

"I've never liked this kind of ...... on your face," Johnson said, stretching out his right palm, and gestured twice to Li Fengzhu's face, "This thoughtful expression. This makes me feel uncomfortable! Don't bother too much, don't let me know that Shi Chu has a lot of connections in Haizhou that can be mobilized. I hate it when people force me to kill people, and I'm still an acquaintance!"

Li Fengzhu was gritted his teeth after his abrupt change of face, and his head was full of cold sweat.

The real situation is actually that Li Fengzhu was hesitating whether to continue to make trouble for Shi Chu. Until he deduced that the place where his son disappeared was about the direction of Shandong, which was beyond Shi Chu's reach, he made up his mind to find a way to rescue him. The reason why I mentioned that I had friends who could ask for help was because the cooperation with Johnson was not long-term and reliable, and it was impossible to be honest about the process of determining the missing area. She also paid attention to protecting Shi Chu, so she just expressed this meaning very vaguely, but she didn't want to step on the empty foot and plant a heel.

"I, in fact, I ......" Li Fengzhu couldn't hold back and started to mess up.

Johnson looked at her hazy teary eyes full of confusion, pitiful as a fawn surrounded by hungry wolves, and felt a sense of accomplishment.

"Actually...... I, I forgot to tell you something. Li Fengzhu bit his lower lip so much that he was about to drip blood, "Tang Shubai has long intended to turn against me." As soon as these words came out, the situation changed with her face, "I almost forgot my unique advantage." You say, should I go past you and negotiate terms with him directly?"

When the tears crossed his cheeks, Li Fengzhu actually had the kind of concentration to squeeze out a smile of victory, although it was very short-lived.

Johnson's first reaction was obviously frightened by her absurd adventure idea. But after a while, I realized that such cruel words would never come true. Because he looked up to the sky and laughed at her words, there were too many flaws: "But, returning to the East, is it worthy of your dead husband, dead father, and dead mother?"

He read everyone's identities with an accent, dragging the tail note to leave Li Fengzhu enough time to recall their tragic deaths. This way of provoking people is clearly successful.