White mountains and black water, snow white and blood red.

Geng Chaozhong once read Zhang Zhenglong's reportage, which was once listed as a banned book, in which the flesh mill of a million people fought fiercely and suffered 100,000 casualties, but now it is just a quiet and harmonious small city with only tens of thousands of people.

Bidding farewell to Zhou Bing and Xiao Yi, after a short period of recuperation in Siping, Geng Chaozhong led the sea to Siping, crossed Gongzhuling, took the Fengchang Line of the North Manchurian Railway, and soon arrived at Changchun, the capital of Jilin.

As soon as he got off the train, Geng Chaozhong handed Haisheng a note, asking Haisheng to follow the map and go to explore the way, while Geng Chaozhong waited at the train station until half an hour later, Haisheng appeared at the station with a bald head.

"Brother, you're finally here! I'm still thinking, after not coming for so long, you've already returned to Mukden! ”

A bald man wearing a silk jacket, stepping on the bottom of a thousand layers, leading several family members, and looking like a local tyrant and bully appeared on the platform, it was Wang Tianmu, the captain of the flat shoulder team - in fact, Wang Tianmu himself was from Changchun, and his family still had little wealth, otherwise, the Northeast Army Martial Arts Hall at that time was not a penniless rural poor man.

Since the separation of Geng Chaozhong in Fengtian, Wang Tianmu rushed to Changchun in advance, and the members of his flat shoulder team were broken into pieces and lurked in Mukden. He planned to stay in Changchun for a long time, and by the way, he would visit his wife who he hadn't met for a long time.

In Changchun in October, the temperature has occasionally approached freezing, but Wang Tianmu is still open, looking not afraid of the cold wind, he ordered a few people to pick up Geng Chaozhong's umbrella and suitcase, Geng Chaozhong smiled and politely declined.

"Let's go, go to my house and sit down, and take a look at my wife by the way."

While speaking, Wang Tianmu took the lead in leading the way, stopped a few rickshaws, and soon came to his own house, only to see that this house was the size of seven or eight acres of land, spacious and bright, and there were even maids and servants walking around.

Geng Chaozhong was a little surprised, he really didn't expect that Wang Tianmu's family would be so rich!

"Well, my house is not bad!"

Wang Tianmu couldn't help but be proud when he saw Geng Chaozhong's expression.

In fact, when this Wang Tianmu is not working, he is really a wonderful person, and he speaks and does things with a strong smell of Peking University, what do you say, it looks no different from the local Northeast masters.

However, Geng Chaozhong knew that this guy's stomach was twisted and turned, and when he left before, he repeatedly invited himself to come to Changchun as a guest, and he didn't know what his idea was.

Entering the hall, an old lady in her fifties, with a rich face, who looked a little similar to Wang Tianmu, was on crutches, jumped out with a bounce, hugged Wang Tianmu as soon as they met, and couldn't stop complaining:

"My son, I thought you didn't want an old lady again, last time you sneaked out, and it was more than ten years to run, and if you run again this time, I will tie a rope to the beam of that house and hang myself there!"

Wang Tianmu picked up the old lady with little feet, put it back on the chair in the hall like a daughter-in-law, and said with a smile:

"Oh, don't do that, your feet are hard to get on the chair, don't fall your ass before the rope is set, I'll have to find you Lang Zhong when the time comes!"

Geng Chaozhong stood aside with a smile, looking at the two mothers and sons, and couldn't help but feel a little emotional. No matter how fierce and sophisticated he is outside, he is spicy and cunning, and when he returns home, he is just a child in the mouth of his parents.

The two chatted for a while, Wang Tianmu introduced Geng Chaozhong to his mother, the old lady saw that Geng Chaozhong was young, and always thought that it was Wang Tianmu who brought back the entourage, but now she reacted, and asked Nuan what her surname was, where she lived, and she kept nagging for half an hour, Wang Tianmu got rid of the old mother's entanglement, and led Geng Chaozhong to run out.

"Let's go, Brother Geng, I've been wandering for so many years, and it's the first time I've brought someone to my house, and a few of my brothers know that I'm from the Northeast, but they never know where my hometown is, Brother Geng, you're the first!"

"Brother Wang values it so much, Geng deserves it!" Geng Chaozhong was humble.

"No need, we who came out to make a revolution have no home for a long time. After so many years, it was the first time I went home, and if I hadn't sent something back every once in a while, I'm afraid my mother would have thought I was gone. By the way, I just heard Brother Geng say, are you from Hebei? ”

Wang Tianmu glanced at Geng Chaozhong casually and asked.

"That's right, my home is not far from Cangzhou, I have been a little boxed since elementary school, I caught a strong man in the first two years, and I went to the island city to be a patrol officer, and then I inexplicably joined the party investigation team, and now I haven't figured out what's going on!"

Geng Chaozhong replied cautiously, he didn't know what Wang Tianmu meant by asking him to come over and behaving so heartily.

Seeing Geng Chaozhong introducing his origin without a trace, Wang Tianmu smiled and said:

"Brother Geng, you don't have to be careful, I'm not asking about your resume, nor am I looking for your origin for the Fuxing Society. I'm here to ask you for a favor. ”

"Help?" Geng Chaozhong was stunned.

"That's right."

Wang Tianmu smiled to himself, his face showed a little desolation, and he said:

"Brother Geng, do you know, I have been making a revolution in the Northeast for 12 years, and I am the earliest group of revolutionaries in the Northeast.

So I ask you one thing, if you are free, help me take care of my wife, I Wang Tianmu is grateful! ”

Wang Tianmu spoke very happily, but Geng Chaozhong was a little unacceptable for a while, this Wang Tianmu obviously wanted to entrust the orphan, but why didn't he entrust it to his own people within the Fuxing Society, but entrusted it to himself as an outsider?

Wang Tianmu seemed to have seen through Geng Chaozhong's thoughts, he stretched out his hand, patted Geng Chaozhong's shoulder, and said in a heavy tone:

"Don't blame the old brother, I have a deep talk, this time I came to the Northeast, the task I performed can be described as nine deaths, the brothers I brought over, I don't know how many I can go back alive in the end, if it is not really no one to trust, I will not look for you Brother Geng."

Besides, since I met you that day and saw you burn down a huge watch shop, I have been thinking about it for the past few days, people like you should not be easy to see profit and forgetfulness, and it is not easy to be bought, I thought about it for a long time, and I couldn't find a more suitable person than you! ”

Geng Chaozhong just shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said:

"Brother Wang, you think highly of me, the so-called loyalty, just because the bargaining chips for betrayal are not enough, in case the Japanese coerce and lure me at that time, I may not be tempted!"

Wang Tianmu laughed, patted Geng Chaozhong's shoulder a few times, and saw Geng Chaozhong's grinning appearance, only then did he think that Geng Chaozhong's shoulder injury had not healed, smiled apologetically, and said:

"Brother Geng laughed! If someone can prescribe something that can make your brother Geng feel tempted, then my trust is worth it! ”

Geng Chaozhong rubbed his shoulder, people in these years don't know what the habit is, they always like to pat their shoulders, this Wang Tianmu has a lot of strength, and he almost patted his old injury to recur.

But now that I think about it, Wang Tianmu's thoughts are also understandable, after all, the people around him are all performing special tasks, and they are all living precarious days, he has been away from home for so long, and he has no relatives and friends, so it is better to entrust it to a colleague who doesn't seem to love money very much, and acts decisively.

Wang Tianmu looked at Geng Chaozhong silently, knowing that he had agreed to his request, a little smile appeared on his face, and then he took out a dozen Japanese coins, handed them to Geng Chaozhong, and said:

"This is what I grabbed from the Japanese, it's hard to sell now, you can help me exchange it when you have a chance in the future, and exchange it for the ocean to give it to my mother, and I will go back to Mukden tomorrow."

Geng Chaozhong was not humble and took the banknote.

It seems that Wang Tianmu's mission to Fengtian this time must be very dangerous, otherwise, he would not have moved his mind and wanted to entrust his mother to himself.

Thinking of this, Geng Chaozhong looked at Wang Tianmu and said:

"Brother Wang, look at it like this, there is already a task above. I'm still a little bit related to Mukden, if you need to, you can go to the Manchurian Railway attached to find a watch shop called: Beichuan Watch Company, and someone will pick you up at that time. ”

"Okay."

Wang Tianmu didn't shirk, he agreed, it's always good to have more hope to save his life, he can live, no one wants to die in vain.

After discussing everything, Wang Tianmu took Geng Chaozhong's hand and instructed:

"I'm leaving, you just live in my yard, recognize my mother as a godmother, the maid or something, if you want whichever you want, you have to come over and be a small, stay for a few more days, spend the winter, heal the injury and then leave, how about it?"

Geng Chaozhong was speechless.

Today he really didn't expect this Wang Tianmu to come over for this matter, originally just planned to come to Changchun by the way, to meet the righteous army contacted by Zhu Fatzi, and saw Wang Tianmu just by the way.

It's good now, but there is one more godmother!

However, Wang Tianmu's departure also made Geng Chaozhong feel a lot more comfortable, this person seems to be rude, but in fact he is very shrewd, as soon as he leaves, his activities have a lot less worries.

After all, what he is bringing now is Zhu Fatzi's mission, and the people he sees are directly armed by the remote command of our party, if Wang Tianmu knows about it, he will definitely be suspicious.

On October 15, on the day when Zhang Shaoshuai announced his appointment as deputy commander-in-chief of the army, navy and air force of the Republic of China, Geng Chaozhong led Xiao Yi to a tavern in Changchun to connect with the agreed connector.

"Hello, comrade, my name is Jin Chengzhu, welcome to Jilin!"

The person who connected with Geng Chaozhong was a young man in his early twenties, who was the same age as Geng Chaozhong, and he was quite handsome, but by the name, he should be a North Korean.

"My name is Huo Yunfeng, and I can't afford to be a comrade. I was also introduced, listen to your name, you are a North Korean? ”

Geng Chaozhong used a pseudonym, and this time he came to Beiman, according to Zhu Fatzi's instructions, his identity was just an arms dealer, only doing business and not standing in line.

"That's right, I'm a native of Guping Nanli, Datong County, South Ping'an Province, five years ago in China, and I was just released from prison a few days ago. We have a North Korean anti-Japanese group, about 20 people, but there is a serious shortage of guns right now, and we need your help. ”

This North Korean named Kim Sung-ju is very polite, and he also speaks Mandarin in the Northeast very well, obviously living in the Northeast for a long time, if he does not name him, Geng Chaozhong will not be able to tell that he is a North Korean at all.

At this time, Japan had occupied Korea for nearly 20 years, and the enslavement education in Korea was also quite successful, especially the Koreans who came to Northeast China in recent years, all of them regarded themselves as Japanese, and the Japanese also used the excuse of protecting overseas Chinese to encroach on the land of Northeast China.

However, compared to these two devil Koreans, there are also some Koreans who were exiled to China when Japan invaded Korea in 1910, and they have a bitter hatred for the Japanese, and this Kim Sung-ju is the descendant of anti-Japanese elements who fled from Korea to China in 1910.

Strictly speaking, he is a typical anti-Japanese second generation.

Geng Chaozhong looked at the young North Korean in front of him, and secretly calculated in his heart.

Arms can be sold, especially to anti-Japanese elements, but how to sell them is particular, and these current Korean students are more than enthusiastic and incompetent, and if they are caught by the Japanese military police, it is easy to expose their identities, so they must be extremely careful.

"How many guns are you going to have?"

After pondering for a while, Geng Chaozhong asked the Jin Chengzhu in front of him.

"We want 12 short guns, Wang Ba box, Mauser can do, and we also want eight long guns, preferably water beads, bullets are easy to buy."

The young people had apparently surveyed, and the number and variety of requests were clear.

"How do I pay?" Geng Chaozhong asked.

"My friend Zhang Changcheng will bring money over, you can tell me the number first." Kim Sung-joo replied.

"Short gun Mauser 1908, twenty-five yuan a piece, long gun cheap, water beads, 10 yuan a piece." Geng Chaozhong replied.

At this time, the end of the Central Plains War, Chairman Chiang ruled the rivers and lakes, the Nanjing Nationalist Government has abolished the two yuan, the ocean is replaced by the paper money of Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek, and the gold bar has replaced the silver as a hard currency.

"Okay, I agree."

There was not much bargaining, this was something that Geng Chaozhong had agreed upon before he came, and the task given to him by Zhu Muyun was to make effective contact with these anti-Japanese organizations, discover the useful talents among them, and strive to transform them, especially the Koreans in the northeast, which was a force to be reckoned with.

They have lost their homeland, most of them have a deep blood feud with the Japanese government, and many of them are fluent in Japanese, so it is very convenient for them to sneak back to Korea and Japan to carry out activities, and they are also the force that our party attaches the most importance to at the present stage.

"By the way, how to deliver?" Kim Sung-joo asked.

"I will decide the time and place of delivery, you just need to send someone to pick up the goods. You give me an address, and as soon as the goods arrive, I will send someone to notify them.

Be careful not to be watched, but also to keep it confidential, if this transaction is not successful, I will refuse to cooperate with you again. Can you understand? ”

The muscles on Kim Sung-joo's face were a little unnatural, and it was obvious that the other party's words were a vote of no confidence in their abilities. However, Jin Chengzhu quickly controlled his emotions and nodded and discussed the location with Geng Chaozhong.