December 16, 1938, Shanghai Tang, Grand Shanghai Hotel.

Today's Shanghai Tang Public Concession is particularly lively, with American and German cars of various brands parked outside the Grand Shanghai Hotel, and even military police standing guard outside the door.

The spies of the Investigation Department were observing back and forth at the corner of the street in groups of three or five, while Gu Hongliang and Tang Chaoyuan were greeting various dignitaries in Shanghai at the door of the hotel.

In the lobby of the hotel, there are two flags, namely the flag of the rising sun of Japan and the flag of the peaceful founding of the new government, and there are more than a dozen tables in the hall, each of which is occupied by important figures from the political and business circles of Shanghai.

The waiters went back and forth, or carried the gifts from the hall into the warehouse, or were busy serving the dishes on each table, and finally after a commotion outside the gate, Tanaka Osa walked into the hall with Matsushita and Liang Hongzhi.

I don't know who took the lead first, and everyone gave a standing ovation.

Gu Hongliang followed behind Tanaka Dazuo and said with a smile: "Dazuo can come to the engagement banquet of the little girl, it is really a great honor to be contemptible. ”

Tang Chaoyuan also echoed and said: "Thank you so much for Dazuo and President Liang for coming." ”

Tanaka smiled and said, "The two are polite, the two are the pillars of the new government, plus Tang Gongzi and Miss Gu are outstanding Chinese who have contributed to the common prosperity of Greater East Asia, how can I not participate?" ”

Liang Hongzhi obviously followed the flattery: "What Tanaka Dazuo said is that the engagement banquet of such an outstanding person as Tang Gongzi and Miss Gu, how can I, Liang, be absent." ”

Under the leadership of Gu Hongliang and Tang Chaoyuan, the two entered the chairmanship, and the people who applauded in the living room did not sit down, and they all looked like they were waiting for the leader to give instructions.

Gu Hongliang even teased Tanaka to say a few words on the side, and the people with sharp ears echoed loudly after hearing it.

After pretending to be polite to Liang Hongzhi, Tanaka said with a smile: "Since everyone is gracious, I will tell you a few words." ”

In a burst of warm applause, Tanaka stretched out his hands and pressed down, and everyone also stopped applauding and waited for instructions.

"All of you here are people who have contributed to the co-prosperity of Greater East Asia, and I don't need to say much, but I just tell you that as long as you work hard for the co-prosperity of Greater East Asia wholeheartedly, the Great Japanese Empire will naturally not forget you!" Tanaka said loudly.

"Good!" Liang Hongzhi on the side shouted loudly and applauded.

Under the leadership of Gu Hongliang, everyone applauded again, and after another burst of false politeness, the master of ceremonies finally stood on the stage to preside over the ceremony.

After a period of cumbersome routines by the master of ceremonies, Tang Yi and Gu Junqiao finally came to the stage, Gu Junqiao was wearing a gorgeous white wedding dress, because she was engaged, the skirt was not long, and it was not as formal as the flower girl scattering flowers along the way, but there were already pieces of petals scattered on the steps.

Tang Yi was wearing a straight black suit, walking to the stage from the other end, and for a moment, Tang Yi looked up at the beautiful Gu Junqiao, and his heart couldn't help but sway.

Tang Yi couldn't help but think in his heart, if the people sitting in the audience were not traitors and lackeys and Japanese, and the country was also stable and peaceful, it would be such a beautiful thing to walk through this life hand in hand with Gu Junqiao.

"Next, please ask Tang Gongzi to wear an engagement ring for Miss Gu with his own hands!"

The master of ceremonies' words pulled Tang Yi back to the display, he turned his head to look at the people who were coaxing in the audience, suppressed the chaotic thoughts, took out the ring from his arms, took two steps forward and walked in front of Gu Junqiao, held her delicate palm, and looked at Gu Junqiao's face.

Gu Junqiao and Tang Yi looked at each other, both of them seemed to have something to say, but they still held back, Tang Yi smiled freely, and steadily put the engagement ring on Gu Junqiao's slender ring finger.

"Good!" Zhou Mingrui was the first to stand up and applaud.

After a lively uproar, the master of ceremonies said: "Next, please go down and toast the guests, and then invite Master Tang and Master Gu to come to the stage to drink the wine together!" ”

I don't know how many tables he drank, Tang Yi felt that he was already a little dizzy, and although Gu Junqiao on the side had only drunk one or two glasses, a charming flush appeared on his cheeks.

Gu Junqiao felt that Tang Yi was already a little drunk, and the hands holding Tang Yi's arms added some strength, Tang Yi felt the softness coming from his arms, and walked to the last table with some emotion.

At this table sat Tanaka, Liang Hongzhi, Zhou Mingrui, and Zu Guangping, who had been promoted to the chief of the Shanghai Tang Police Department.

Panasonic stood behind Tanaka and did not take a seat, but he squeezed his eyebrows and glared at Tang Yi with an expression, the first glass of wine was naturally to be given to Tanaka, Tanaka stood up and held the wine glass and said: "Tang Yijun, make persistent efforts in the future!" You are the Chinese I value most in China! ”

Tang Yi hurriedly said that he didn't dare, and touched the wine glass with Tanaka and drank it all.

Seeing that after the two of them finished drinking, Liang Hongzhi didn't dare to stand up and said, "Come on, come on, Tang Gongzi, I've admired the name for a long time!"

"President Liang said that, it's really a tormenting boy." Tang Yi replied.

Immediately after the same few people had just finished drinking, they were about to go to the backstage to rest with Gu Junqiao's support, when a waiter walked forward quickly and said softly: "Tang Gongzi, you have an outside phone coming in." ”

"Who's?"

"The person who claims to be at the Seongnam checkpoint." The waiter replied.

Hearing this, Tang Yi was reluctant to pull his arm out of Gu Junqiao's arms and motioned for the waiter to lead the way.

"You walk carefully." Gu Junqiao explained behind him.

"Don't worry, I didn't drink much." Tang Yi looked back and said with a smile.

......

At the front desk of the hotel, Tang Yi took the phone and said, "Hey, I'm Tang Yi." ”

"Hello Deputy Director Tang, I am from the Chengnan Checkpoint, someone transported a batch of goods claiming to have been arranged by you, and there are no formalities, we dare not release it." A voice came from the other side of the phone.

"That's indeed what I arranged, what formalities do you want? I'll make it up for you tomorrow! Tang Yi said confidently.

There was obvious hesitation on the other side of the phone, "That's the case, Deputy Director Tang, the gendarmerie command has issued a death order, all goods entering and leaving Shanghai Beach before the 25th must have the procedures of the gendarmerie headquarters, it's not a small one not to buy your face, there are Japanese gendarmes here ......"

When Tang Yi heard this, he said angrily: "You mean, my Tang Yi's words don't work, and I can't go through the formalities of coming to the gendarmerie headquarters, right?!" ”

There was silence and no reply.

Tang Yi stretched out his hand to summon a waiter and said, "Go and ask the Panasonic staff to come over!" ”

After a while, Panasonic came over with a smile and said, "Tang Yijun, what makes you so angry on such a happy day today?" ”

"Humph! A batch of my family's goods was detained at the south checkpoint in the south of the city, and the phone calls were all made to my engagement banquet! Tang Yi said loudly pretending to be drunk with the strength of the wine.

Hearing this, Matsushita hurriedly waved his hand and said, "These people are really blind, but the level is also ordered by our headquarters to do this, and I can't blame them." ”

"Humph!" Tang Yi snorted heavily and didn't say anything.

Seeing this, Panasonic smiled bitterly and waved his hand, "Okay, okay, Tang Yijun, I'll help you say." ”

After speaking, Matsushita took the phone in Tang Yi's hand: "Hey, I'm Matsushita Shinnosuke!" ”

The other end of the phone was obviously stunned for a moment, and then a flattering voice said, "Taijun, wait a minute." ”

After a while, another voice came from the other side, in Japanese: "Hey! I'm Goro Sakai. ”

"Goro Sakai, I'm Shinnosuke Matsushita, this batch of goods is Tang Yijun's goods, let it go!" Panasonic ordered.

"Hey!"

Panasonic hung up the phone and looked at Tang Yi with a smile and said, "Tang Yijun, you owe me a favor now." ”