The shopkeeper invited Xu Chengyan into the back hall, and only said: "Wait!" ”

Then he turned around and left, leaving Xu Chengyan alone, walked around the room, checked that it was correct, and then sat down in the seat.

After waiting for about twenty minutes, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and the shopkeeper walked in with a middle-aged man, then retreated and closed the door from the outside.

The man was in his forties, with a wide forehead and a large face, a somewhat fat body, an ordinary appearance, a somewhat pale complexion, and a long coat on his body, dressed as a businessman.

Xu Chengyan just glanced at it, and he overlapped the characters in Chu Guangji's description, quickly got up, bowed his head slightly, and saluted respectfully: "Stationmaster Zhou!" ”

After the outbreak of the all-out war, he was ordered to set up the Beiping Information District of the Military Command Bureau, which was fully responsible for the intelligence activities in the Pingjin area, and governed the Beiping Station, Tianjin Station, and Qingdao Station.

This time Xu Chengyan's trip to Beiping, before leaving, Chu Guangji specially explained a task to Xu Chengyan, that is, to come to connect with Zhou Shirong and hand over an important document.

Beiping Station and Taiyuan Station are respectively the heart of the Beiping Information Region and the Jinchasui Intelligence Area, and they are both major stations in North China, and they have always been in contact, usually through secret radio stations, but there is a lot of information that is not suitable for transmission in messages for various reasons, and this requires the liaison to be transmitted back and forth between the two stations.

However, the distance between Beiping and Taiyuan is really far away, and the road is controlled by the Japanese, and the security is difficult to guarantee, and the risk is too great, so there is little contact between the two stations.

Zhou Shirong saw Xu Chengyan at a glance, and he also looked at it carefully, and couldn't help but be secretly surprised, he couldn't imagine that this gentle and gentle young man in front of him turned out to be the famous "Viper"!

assassinated Masao Yoshioka, blew up Takuma Ito, and sent dozens of Japanese puppet dignitaries to the executor of the "328 Bombing Case" in the West Heaven in one fell swoop.

For this reason, the relationship between the Japanese chaebol represented by the Nikko Society and the Japanese military was tense for a time, and logistical supply problems arose, resulting in a great reduction in the pressure on the front line of the national army.

At this time, Zhou Shirong stepped forward and stretched out his hand first, Xu Chengyan was stunned, but he quickly reacted, and quickly stretched out his hand to greet him, and his two big hands were tightly clasped together.

"I have heard the name of the viper for a long time, and I received a telegram from Brother Guangji, I have been waiting for your arrival, and when I see it today, it is really worthy of the name, fortunately, fortunately!"

With Zhou Shirong's status in the Military Command Bureau, it is far higher than Xu Chengyan's, even his teacher Chu Guangji is a head worse than him, but Zhou Shirong's words are extremely polite, and his posture is also very low, which makes Xu Chengyan a little puzzled.

However, Xu Chengyan still said respectfully: "The qualifications are shallow, and you are lucky to make some achievements, but you don't dare to take credit in front of your predecessors, you are too polite!" ”

"Haha, worthy of being Brother Guangji's master, it is really better than blue, now the name of the viper is like thunder, you don't have to be too modest, come, let's sit down and talk."

The two of them sat down separately, and Xu Chengyan unfolded the newspaper he brought, revealing a thread-bound book inside, which was an important document that Chu Guangji asked Xu Chengyan to hand over.

Zhou Shirong took it over and took a closer look, and when he saw that there was nothing unusual, he nodded slightly.

Xu Chengyan has carefully checked this book, from the inside to the outside, it is an ordinary thread-bound book, the content is mediocre, but it is an old book, but after careful inspection, you will find that there are a few pages of paper slightly stretched, as if there are traces of ink writing, Xu Chengyan knows that this must be the use of invisible potion, which requires special treatment to show up.

Although Xu Chengyan also wanted to know the contents of this secret document, there were many kinds of stealth potions used in the intelligence department at present, and as far as he knew, there were several, and some of them could not be restored to their original state after processing, and Xu Chengyan was not sure about the technology.

And he is currently a kite with a broken string, a lonely goose out of a flock, and there is no need to intercept any important information, and he doesn't know where to send it after interception, so after thinking about it again, he finally didn't act rashly, but handed over the document to Zhou Shirong as it was.

Zhou Shirong carefully checked the thread-bound book, and made sure that there was no trace of leakage, and he did not suspect him, after all, Viper was Chu Guangji's student and confidant, and he was a rising star valued by the bureau, so he could not have doubted it.

Putting down the book, he asked in a deep voice: "This time I came to Beiping, do you have anything else to explain to Brother Guangji?" ”

"Don't dare, you and the teacher are close friends, since the reconstruction of Taiyuan Station, has been generous to help, the teacher is in mind, we are far away from the center in Taiyuan, the news is blocked, and we will rely on your support in the future.

By the way, this is a gift specially prepared by the teacher, let me pass it on to you personally. ”

After speaking, Xu Chengyan took out a wrapped white handkerchief from his arms, put it on the table and unfolded it, and there was a milky white crystal jade wall inside.

I saw that this piece of jade wall is half the size of a palm, a little through hole in the center, surrounded by a through hole, carved with shallow lotus patterns in turn, especially the jade is warm, delicate like mutton fat, under the sunlight shining outside the window, exudes a crystal light, it is really exquisite!

"Knowing that you like jade, the teacher spent a lot of effort to get this piece of jade, the top Hetian jade, without the slightest flaw, the finely carved lotus picture, I don't know if it suits your mind?"

Xu Chengyan came to Peking this time, in addition to delivering confidential documents, he also shouldered another mission of the teacher, which was to send this generous gift and thank Zhou Shirong.

It turns out that Chu Guangji and Zhou Shirong did have some friendship in the past, but it is not like what Xu Chengyan said, what kind of best friends and the like, between each other, at most, can be regarded as talking.

Later, Chu Guangji stayed at the headquarters, and Zhou Shirong went to North China, and they had no contact.

However, this time Chu Guangji served as the stationmaster of Taiyuan Station, at the beginning of his tenure, he was poor and white, lacking people, lacking money, especially lack of intelligence channels, and the few intelligence officers left by Xinghuai were also because of Han Zhirong's rebellion and the fact that he couldn't find the inner ghost, Chu Guangji really didn't dare to use it easily.

However, at that time, the war on the front line was tense, and in order to cope with the Japanese attack, the military urgently needed intelligence to judge the movements of the Japanese army.

So the headquarters kept urging Chu Guangji to collect military intelligence from all sides to assist in the defensive task of the Zhongtiao Mountain Front, but where did Chu Guangji have any information, he was forced to be in a hurry, so he had to be cheeky and begged Zhou Shirong's head.

Zhou Shirong is really magnificent, although he doesn't have a deep friendship with Chu Guangji, he still readily agreed to his request.

After all, Beiping was the heart of the Japanese North China Front, the seat of the central organs, and all major political and especially military measures were formulated here.

And Zhou Shirong has been operating here for a long time, and his intelligence tentacles have been able to get some insider information and information with intelligence value.

So Chu Guangji reported to the headquarters with the news of some Japanese military movements transferred from Zhou Shirong, and finally passed this hurdle without danger, so Chu Guangji has always been grateful to Zhou Shirong for being able to help him in danger.

This lotus jade was collected by him after spending a lot of time, in order to befriend Zhou Shirong, it can be regarded as a painstaking effort, after all, there are many things in the future, and it will always be wrong to ask Zhou Shirong's head to win over his feelings.

But what Xu Chengyan didn't expect was that Zhou Shirong didn't have a smile on his face when he saw this extremely rare lotus jade, but his eyelids sank, and he said coldly: "What, he Chu Guangji still has this tune with me?" ”

In a word, the address to Chu Guangji changed from "Brother Guangji" to his name, and his tone was not so affectionate, and he immediately made Xu Chengyan not know what to say.

He replied cautiously: "Stationmaster Zhou, please don't misunderstand, this is completely the teacher's heart, from the bottom of his heart, and there is no other meaning......

But before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zhou Shirong waving his hand: "I was willing to help before, because he Chu Guangji was ordered to save the crisis in Shanxi at a critical juncture. ”

Listening to Zhou Shirong's righteous words, Xu Chengyan's eyes widened, it was really a little surprising, it was common for Kuomintang officials to exchange favors and send money to each other, it was nothing at all, the so-called gifts were not to blame, and it was not strange to give away talents!

But he really didn't expect that Zhou Shirong would refuse this gift directly, and this errand would be messed up, so how could he explain to Chu Guangji when he went back?

Thinking of this, he hurriedly explained again: "Stationmaster Zhou, if you are not doing anything well and are rude, please Haihan, as you said, everyone is in the same breath, and we will work together in the future, but don't hurt the harmony." ”

At this time, Zhou Shirong also knew that his reaction was a little excessive, his tone softened, and said: "Okay, don't be too careful, in fact, these things, if they are in a peaceful and prosperous world, it would be fine, but now?" The plaything is demoralized, and if you don't do it, you will cause trouble.

Besides, since the fall of Beiping, our life in Beiping Station is not easy, when it is difficult, even the subordinates eat is a problem, I don't have those thoughts, some of the antique jade collected at the beginning, have been sold, used as funds, you treasure to my hands, can not hide for a few days, this kind of thing shot, in case there is any involvement, it is not a good thing for you, listen to me, take it back! Thank you for your kindness! ”

Xu Chengyan could hear that Zhou Shirong's words were sincere, there was no falsehood, and he couldn't help but be in awe, there are really not many people in the Kuomintang who can do self-denial and sacrifice their family for the country, even his teacher Chu Guangji can't, this Zhou Shirong stationmaster can be counted as one.

Seeing that Xu Chengyan didn't speak, Zhou Shirong thought that he still had concerns in his heart, so he said: "You go back and tell Brother Guangji that if there is a problem in the future, I Zhou can still help, and I will never refuse, you can rest assured!" ”

Now that the words have been said to this point, Xu Chengyan can no longer say more, so he can only nod and agree: "Stationmaster Zhou is high-spirited, humble and sincere, ashamed, ashamed!" ”

After speaking, he reached out and wrapped the lotus jade in a handkerchief and put it in his arms.

"However," Zhou Shirong suddenly said again, "Since you have the heart, I really have some difficulties here, if you need to make a move as a master, you don't shirk!" ”

"Definitely, as long as Stationmaster Zhou speaks, you will definitely go all out, and there will be no two words!" Xu Chengyan immediately agreed.