Late at night, Xiao Shan returned home and walked into the living room, only to see Xie Tian, A Gui, Wang Yaqiao, Lin Kexin and others waiting for Xiao Shan in the living room with their heads down, the living room was filled with dignified air, Xiao Shan breathed the dignified air, his eyes flashed helplessly and heavyly, looking at everyone.

"It seems that it is still a step too late! Alas! It's all my fault, I was too careless, I didn't expect it to be a masterpiece of the Japanese, and I didn't expect Li Shiqun to move so fast and take action against their family! ”

Lin Kexin listened to Xiao Shan's words of self-blame, hurriedly came to Xiao Shan's side, and looked at Xiao Shan with worried eyes and comforted.

"Xiao Shan, don't blame yourself too much, after all, you just knew that the Japanese did it, and we have already passed, but ......"

"Yes, Xiaoshan, don't blame yourself, I didn't expect that the group of traitors on No. 76 really did something to attack their family, but it's a pity that we knew it too late, and when we went, the building was already empty!"

Wang Yaqiao also got up and patted Xiao Shan's shoulder, lit a cigarette, looked at the long dark night outside the window, and comforted Xiao Shan, Xiao Shan sat down with self-blame, Ah Gui looked at everyone's dejected appearance, his eyes flashed brightly.

"Xiao Shan, now is not the time to blame yourself, since the incident has happened, I think the top priority now is how to rescue these people who were arrested by No. 76!"

Wang Yaqiao agreed with Agui's meaning, turned around, and looked at Xiao Shandao, who was very self-reproachful.

"Xiao Shan, Agui is right, don't blame yourself too much, after all, everything is irreparable, and rescuing the arrested people is the top priority!"

Xiao Shan listened to the words of the two, shook his head helplessly, looked at the eyes of the two, and sighed.

"Alas! The Japanese arrested them just to control public opinion, not to let them publish news about the victory of the war, and to damage the face of the Japanese, so only if they agree to sign an agreement, they will be released unharmed, but we did not have time to protect their families, so they succumbed to the threat of their families on the road of faith, which is really worthy of our mission! ”

After listening to Xiao Shan's words, Ah Gui nodded thoughtfully, Xiao Shan's words are indeed reasonable, after all, they are all well-known figures in the press industry, and they will not really be executed, after all, this time they were secretly arrested, and after thinking about this, Ah Gui looked at Xiao Shan Dao.

"Young master, then is there any way, you can hurry up and urge them to release these editors-in-chief!"

Xiao Shan glanced at Ah Gui deeply, and then his eyes flashed with wisdom.

"It's not difficult to let them out, today is the second day of the disappearance of the editors-in-chief, tomorrow we can only let the eight newspapers unite with each other, and then invite the ambassadors of those foreign newspapers to China to unite to put pressure on the Shanghai Municipal Government, so that they can quickly solve the case and arrest the murderer, in this way, Fu Jianzhi feels the pressure, and will naturally put this pressure on No. 76, and finally let them out unharmed!"

After listening to it, Ah Gui understood what Xiao Shan meant, it was to use public opinion to protect the arrested person, and push Fu Jianzhi back to the cusp, so naturally the arrested person would be foolproof, so everyone discussed it until late before dispersing, Xiao Shan looked at the night outside the window, and the self-blame in his eyes was more dignified, the wind and clouds were like the weather, always unpredictable, making people unable to grasp, it seems that he lost this battle!

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Five days later, at the Hongkou Wharf on the Huangpu River, there was a sea of people, members of eight newspapers, and media from Shanghai's press circles all came, accompanied by eight middle-aged men in black suits, accompanied by their families, and a group of Japanese soldiers in dark green military uniforms, who stepped off the boat, and a group of reporters rushed up.

Summer came to Li Ming's side through the crowd, his eyes flashed worried and looked at Li Ming, Li Ming handed Xia a reassuring look, and then a reporter from the China Daily Daily looked at Li Mingdao.

"Editor-in-Chief Li, you are missing this time, and the city government has brought the culprit Hong Gang, the culprit who arrested you, to justice, I don't know if you want to say anything about returning to Shanghai safely this time!"

Li Ming looked at the reporter's inquiry in front of him, but his heart was full of anger and grievance, but recalling the prison sentence a few days ago, as well as the persecution of his family, and the behavior of No. 76 Demon Cave, Li Ming still vividly remembers it, looking at the family members who are still a little trembling beside him, helplessness and fear drowned out the anger in Li Ming's heart, Li Ming's eyes returned to his usual clarity, and looked at the reporter.

"I, Li Ming, sincerely thank the Shanghai government and the Japanese Empire for saving the lives of my family, not only saving my life, but also saving my family.

Li Ming said the words that he hated in his heart, and after speaking, he took his family and left Shanghai Hongkou Wharf accompanied by Summer, who sat in the car in Summer, and could see Li Ming's eyes frustrated and lonely and decadent through the rearview mirror.

Back at home, Li Ming settled his family, looking at the summer who was still waiting for him in the living room, with firm faith in his eyes, Li Ming looked at Xia apologetically, his eyes were full of loneliness, sat down next to Xia, and handed a silver ticket to Xia Dao.

"Summer, I know that our declaration agency has not been dissolved under your maintenance during this time, this is a silver ticket of 20,000 silver dollars, you go back and exchange the silver ticket, and distribute it to the members, it is also a wish of me as the president, the Shanghai declaration agency will be disbanded from today, I am also old, I still want my family and wife and children, I don't want to take care of Shanghai affairs in the future!"

Listening to Li Ming's disheartened words, he looked at Li Ming with stunned eyes, he couldn't have imagined that the president who had once brought his own high spirits would come back so decadent and disheartened this time, and he was going to dissolve the newspaper, this was the president's hard work in the first half of his life, he couldn't have imagined that this dissolution was actually said from Li Ming's mouth, and looked at Li Mingdao in shock.

"President, what's wrong with you, you are the news person I respect the most, what have you experienced, what has you been through, you are like this, you want to dissolve the newspaper, what is wrong with you, I don't understand, what unfair treatment you have received, we can speak out, we can say it, why did you abandon your hard work like this, are you worthy of the members, worthy of your former beliefs?"

Li Ming listened to Summer's words, looked at Summer's firm light in her eyes, and her questioning eyes, Li Ming stood up angrily and said to Summer excitedly.

"Faith, membership, hard work, summer, I made this decision, my heart is also dripping blood, but what can I do? We are just a group of unarmed ordinary people, the other party is an executioner with foreign guns and cannons, just fight with them with our blood, how we fight, the country is losing and retreating, not to mention I still have a family, you know, summer, I am also a person of faith, I am also Chinese, I don't want to give in to the Japanese, but you have tried to watch your relatives, tortured in front of you, but you can't do anything, you know, watching, what kind of torture this is, summer, I still have family, My son and daughter are not yet adults, I am a father, I want to think about them, you go in the summer, don't come back in the future, the newspaper will be disbanded! ”

After Li Ming finished speaking, he turned around excitedly, two lines of tears flowed down his cheeks, his back was full of loneliness and ashes, and he no longer had the vigor of the former president, and he looked old in the cold winter sun.

Summer looked at Li Ming's old back, the loneliness and death deeply infected the summer, a sense of powerlessness filled the summer's heart, Li Ming said that although it was very demoralizing, but in the long river of war, in the face of cruel fate, the reality is so cruel and iron-blooded, Summer helplessly picked up the silver ticket on the table, turned around and left.