In the evening, I invited Jiang Xiaobai to a coffee house near the port for dinner.

In the afternoon, Hersman received a message from the Governor's Palace, informing him that his vacation had been temporarily canceled and that he had been arrested and returned to work overtime. Therefore, there are only two people in this meal, Jiang Xiaobai and me.

But that's fine. The grade of this coffee house is relatively high, not to invite Jiang Xiaobai to dinner, I am still a little reluctant to come. If there is more strong man like Hersman, who is almost 200 pounds, I don't know how much I will eat my salary...

Jiang Xiaobai and I didn't distinguish each other, so he ignored my somewhat painful face when ordering, and drew a line on the menu in a big way: "These dishes, I want them all." ”

I took a deep breath, tried to keep smiling, and leaned forward slightly: "Your sister is going to eat me?" ”

"Please uncle Cha Fan, still have so many opinions?" Jiang Xiaobai immediately retorted.

My mouth moved a few times, but I still retracted a little unreasonably: "Okay, okay, have a good meal and win you over." ”

Seeing that I was soft, Jiang Xiaobai smiled enthusiastically again, as if he was paying for the meal. "Hey, my sister told you before that she wants to come to Taiwan to work, do you have any ideas?"

I pursed my lips, turned my face a little embarrassed, looked through the balcony on the third floor of the café at the port that was already lit up in the evening, and whispered, "Of course welcome, very welcome." ”

Jiang Xiaobai sighed, clasped his hands against his chin, rested his elbows on the table, stared at me and said, "My dear friend, it has been two and a half months since you and my sister were separated. I know you're busy fighting wars and doing things, but you're the one who has a fiancée and you have to put ... Proper energy for my sister and your own love life. ”

"I know, I know." I leaned back in my chair, looked up at the faint stars in the sky, and whispered.

Jiang Xiaobai sank his head and said sullenly: "My sister... You know. She is not married at this age, and there is a lot of social pressure. She wrote to me last month, asking me to ask her for your opinion and see if you would like her to come here. ”

I pursed my lips again, not saying a word, not daring to say a word.

The arrival of the waiter broke our silence.

I was the first to speak: "I see." I will try to correct my deficiencies in the future. Let's start with a meal. ”

Jiang Xiaobai didn't ask me what I knew. He also smiled, grabbed his chopsticks and picked up a steaming steak, put it on the plate in front of him, dipped it in a little black pepper sauce, and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Hmm... There is a reason why it is expensive, it is really fragrant. ”

I smiled and scooped a large bowl of mashed potatoes into the bowl with a wooden spoon. The mashed potatoes at this shop are some of the best in Taipei, and the ingredients are said to be special varieties brought from the central mountains, and they have a mild milky aroma when cooked by the chef. As soon as you put it in your mouth, the pureed potatoes quickly melt in your mouth, and the aroma of starch makes your mouth flutter.

"You're going to Liaodong, right?" Jiang Xiaobai's mouth took time out of his busy schedule to say.

"That's right, go fight Jiannu."

"You hate Jiannu?"

I smiled, put the spoon to my lips, and asked him, "You don't hate it?" ”

"No, I hate it too." He shrugged, looked at me and said, "I mean, I feel like you seem to hate Jiannu in particular. ”

"That's how I've felt since college. We had just met, and the counselor called our class together for a meeting. You are in the middle of the way to introduce yourself. ”

"I didn't pay much attention to you at the time, I just thought you were calmer and uncharacteristic. You know, who's on stage in front of you and behind you, hey, I forgot his name, anyway, it's jumping, and a bunch of babble. What is Cui Fuen or Zhai Fuen, and he is full of boasting that he went to the archipelago colony to conduct a summer camp in high school and teach a few natives about things. ”

"But then I was in the same dormitory as you, and Lao Tzu immediately noticed you. You are a hopeless colonialist! ”

Speaking of this, Jiang Xiaobai was a little interested. He simply put down his chopsticks and stared at me with burning eyes: "Look at the map you hung in front of the table, the map of the Chinese Governorate and the Ming Empire is about to be scratched by you, brother, I am afraid that you know more about Liaodong than you do about Qingsong Town." ”

"No, I still know a little bit about where I am at home."

"Is that the point I'm talking about?" Jiang Xiaobai's brows furrowed instantly, "I said that I don't blink when I kill people, but you ask me if my eyes are dry?" ”

"Do you have any special feelings for Jiannu?" He then asked.

"I observe you, you say that the Japanese will say the Japanese slaves, the Europeans will say the white skin, and the Jurchens will say the Jiannu, but only when you mention the Jurchens, you have a heartfelt disgust, I don't know if you feel it yourself."

He put his hands together and made a gesture of "blooming", indicating that it was "from the heart".

I smiled bitterly and waved my hand: "I have this attitude towards any barbarian who cruelties the Chinese. The reason why I hate Jiannu so much is because they are now the only ones who are directly persecuting our compatriots. If the Japanese or European colonizers had slaughtered, enslaved, and destroyed the Han Chinese, I would have hated them as much as I hated the Jiannu. ”

Jiang Xiaobai nodded and did not continue the topic.

So we continued to eat and enjoy the rare leisure and comfort of our busy lives with our friends.

I returned to the barracks at about 9 p.m. Jiang Xiaobai separated from me on the way, and he was going to the port to catch the boat at 11 o'clock tonight, so he wouldn't send me.

After completing the repatriation formalities in the Resident Affairs Hall, I sat down in the office and received the summary of last week's affairs. Here I would like to briefly talk about it with my readers and friends.

First of all, what I am most concerned about is the military situation in Liaodong. The report was sent from Lushun three days ago and was transported to Taipei by a clipper ship, presumably earlier than Beijing received the news. From the report, it can be determined that the Houjin offensive against the Liaodong Military Region has been finalized, and the scouts who landed from the Liaodong Peninsula have identified more and more Niulufan numbers, and have exchanged fire with Jiannu Baijia.

In addition, the officer corps that arrived after Elder Zhu Mingxia and rotated from Europe has arrived in Taipei. I will travel with them to Liaodong.

It is worth emphasizing that, after the arrival of the officer corps, I went from being the leading army commander of the Chinese Viceroyalty—yes, one of the commanders of the land forces of the newly established and hitherto neglected Governorate of China turned out to be a major, who had previously been in charge of the Marines stationed in Arthur—to an ordinary mid-ranking officer.

If you are familiar with the political history of our country, you should be able to remember that this year is the year when the 11th Five-Year Plan of our country has been determined. At the National Citizens' Assembly, which concluded last month, the Five-Year Plan, submitted by the Republican Strategy Committee and approved by the Senate, was adopted, which included a decision to intensify the construction of China's satrapy and continue to increase its influence and penetration in the Ming Kingdom.

In accordance with the spirit of the plan, the Ministry of Defense decided to send some high-ranking military generals who had been transferred from Europe to the Chinese Viceroyalty, and at the same time increase the supply of the Chinese Viceroyalty, with the aim of extending the sphere of influence/control of the Chinese Viceroyalty to all the coastal provinces of the Ming Kingdom, including Liaodong, over the next five years.

So, all of a sudden, I had a group of superiors above my head, including a major general and several colonels, and I went from being a Japanese conqueror who commanded the entire Japanese Dispatch Army to a lieutenant colonel.

Oh, the good news is that I didn't continue to take my previous Marine Corps, but replaced with a serious Wehrmacht and Dongjiang Army mixed regiment, and there were a lot more people under my hands.

Now, my position has officially become Lieutenant Colonel of the First Infantry Regiment of the Liaodong Regiment of the Chinese Governorate of the National Defense Force of the Republic of Australia.

The ghost blows the lamp