Chapter 168: Japanese Dolls, Hidden Guns
Oh, you think you're a fairy, everybody likes you, and getting a little closer is with that kind of meaning.
Therefore, Chu Jiao felt that she would pretend to be stupid tonight, and then let her brother explain to Yu Junqing afterwards. Regardless of whether he has that meaning or not, Yu Junqing will not pester himself in the future.
When they arrived at the café, the two found a seat and sat down, drinking coffee and chatting.
"The times are unstable and the concession is not safe, and my father is preparing to transfer his assets to Hong Kong to continue his business." Yu Junqing said this on the one hand to show his family background, and on the other hand, it may be a little tentative, "Previously, my father hoped that I could solve my lifelong problems in Shanghai. Because, he thinks that Hong Kong women are a little, a little inappropriate. ”
Chu Jiao blinked her eyes and said, "The concession is not safe, so Hong Kong is not much worse!" If the Japanese were to occupy the concession, what strong barrier would Hong Kong have? If you want to go outside to operate, I am in favor of it, but you might as well consider going to the country, such as the big rear. Or go a little further, like the United States. ”
Yu Junqing's original intention was not to discuss with Chu Jiao where to operate and develop, but Chu Jiao preferred to talk about this, thinking that she would be able to go home after a while.
"Miss Chu does have a point." Yu Junqing smiled and said, "But what I mean is public security, there is no peace in the Shanghai Concession, and Hong Kong is much better!" ”
Chu Jiao stirred the coffee lightly with a small spoon, pursed her lips, and said, "Do you think that Japan will always maintain peace with Britain and the United States, I don't agree with this." ”
Yu Junqing blinked and said, "How dare Japan challenge Britain and the United States?" Not long after Brother Tian returned from the United States, he should have said that the United States is strong, right? ”
Chu Jiao glanced up at Yu Junqing and said with a faint smile: "The United States is very powerful, but it is not surprising that Japan has launched a madness and has done something shocking." Hehe, I don't think Hong Kong is safe anyway. ”
Yu Junqing drank coffee slowly, and he felt that Chu Jiao might be saying hello first. I don't go to Hong Kong, it's not suitable, you can get along with others.
Thinking about it this way, Yu Junqing was also very embarrassed. Going to Hong Kong for development was my father's idea, which was related to the family's assets and decision-making. Moreover, it is almost ready. If it changes, I'm afraid I won't agree to it.
Meeting for the first time, or maybe it's a date, Yu Junqing was also greeted by Chu Tian, and hurriedly prepared a gift on the road, a small doll, thinking that this was not rude, but also a small temptation.
After thinking about it for a while, Yu Junqing felt that it was not impossible to change, but his father disagreed, so try to change Chu Jiao's attitude and ideas!
So, in order to ease the atmosphere, he took out the little doll, pushed it to Chu Jiao, and said with a smile: "I don't know what you like, I saw it on the road and thought it was very good-looking, so I bought it." ”
Chu Jiao felt that it didn't matter if she didn't accept it, anyway, when she went home, she told her brother that she didn't think it was appropriate, and let her brother add it.
She reached out and touched it, and said with a smile: "Full of cute, thank you!" ”
Yu Junqing just smiled and wanted to speak, but felt a hot gaze stay on him, and couldn't help but look sideways strangely.
Diagonally across the aisle sat two student-like girls, staring at him was a girl with dark and bright eyes, but a bad look.
"What's wrong, what's wrong?" Yu Junqing frowned, staring at others with his eyes, this is very rude, even if you are very good-looking.
"Sir, you bought a Japanese doll." The schoolgirl raised her eyebrows and criticized with displeasure: "In the current situation, don't you think it's very inappropriate to buy Japanese goods?" ”
Oh, this doll is a Chinese look. Well, the Chinese and the Japanese look no different, and he really didn't notice that this is made in Japan.
Yu Junqing was a little unreasonable, and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, I didn't pay attention to the origin when I bought something, I won't make this kind of mistake again in the future." ”
The female student said reluctantly: "I'm afraid it's not that I haven't noticed, but that your patriotism is too weak......"
Yu Junqing is unhappy, he made an unintentional mistake, can he be on the line, chattering? Don't you know that I also have a female companion? It's good now, Chu Jiao's gaze also shifted to him, making herself quite embarrassed.
Hmph, Yu Junqing sank his face, glanced at the female student, and sneered: "As far as you are patriotic, why don't you take a gun to fight?" What else would you do besides being a lip service? ”
As he spoke, Yu Junqing picked up the doll on the table and raised it demonstratively towards the female student.
"Sir, there are many forms of patriotism, I hope you can ......prove it with practical actions" The female student was a little annoyed, got up and took a step, and reached out to grab the doll in Yu Junqing's hand.
Hey, still hands-on? Yu Junqing pulled hard, and the female student stumbled, couldn't hold her feet, and crashed into his arms.
The two came to a close contact, and after pushing and quickly separating, they were a little red-faced.
But the schoolgirl was stubborn, and she still grabbed the doll and didn't let go. Her companion, a round-faced girl, also rushed over to help, staring at Yu Junqing with two pairs of big eyes.
"Alright, alright, stop arguing." Chu Jiao hurriedly got up, waved her hand and said, "I have thought of a solution, you two let go of your hands first, how about listening to my solution?" ”
Yu Junqing immediately let go and grabbed something with a girl, he felt a little blushing.
The female student was late, so she grabbed the doll in her hand and turned her eyes to Chu Jiao.
Chu Jiao smiled bitterly and said, "This is indeed an unintentional mistake by Mr. Xi, and it is by no means unpatriotic. As for this doll, I have already bought it, and it is a bit of a waste to throw it away and destroy it. In my opinion, it is better to tear off the trademark and donate it. Now there are a lot of charity bazaars, which are turned into money, whether it is to feed the refugees, clothe them, or send them to orphanages. ”
After speaking, Chu Jiao looked at Yu Junqing, then at the two girls, and asked for their opinions with her eyes.
"It can be a charity sale or a donation, but I can do my part for the refugees." Yu Junqing nodded immediately, it wasn't the same thing to throw away the things he bought. This method also saved him some face.
The female student thought about it and nodded in agreement, "This is a good solution, I agree." As she spoke, she handed the doll to Chu Jiao, "You are reasonable, and it is up to you to do this good deed!" Our Women's Club is going to hold a charity sale in the near future, how about you send it then? ”
Chu Jiao stretched out her hand to take it, tore off the trademark behind the doll vigorously, smiled at everyone, and said, "Don't fight, don't know each other, let's sit together!" You're from the Working Women's Association, and I have good friends there. He Xiaoyan, do you know? ”
"Sister He?!" Ou Yingying looked at Chu Jiao, nodded with a smile, and said, "Why don't you know, she is leading our work!" ”
Chu Jiao stretched out her hand and motioned for Yu Junqing to sit inside, the four seats were backrest, the two sat opposite, and there were two empty seats.
Yu Junqing was dazed, and he didn't know how the date came to be like this, so he sat inside.
"You sit." Chu Jiao motioned for Ou Yingying to sit next to Junqing, and beckoned the round-faced girl to sit next to her.
"Officially acquaintance, my name is Chu Jiao." Chu Jiao waited for everyone to sit down, and introduced with a smile: "This is Yu Junqing." ”
"Hello, my name is Ou Yingying, and she is Jiang Huating." Ou Yingying glanced at Yu Junqing, obviously still a little guilty.
"Actually, we only came to the working women's union to help during the holidays, and we are not official members of the working women's association." Jiang Huating was more realistic, and muttered a little embarrassedly.
"What is formal or not, just do the work and make contributions!" Chu Jiao said with a smile: "I helped out two trucks to pull things at the last music bazaar, but I didn't join the Women's Club. ”
Ou Yingying thought so, nodded happily, and said, "Sister Chu said it so well. I don't think it's important whether I can join or not, it's important to work hard and do my best. ”
Chu Jiao asked, "You just said that you were going to hold a charity sale, has the specific time been set?" ”
Ou Yingying blushed a little now, after all, this is just the plan of the Working Women's Association, and it is unknown whether it can be held.
Smiling a little wryly, Ou Yingying said: "The specific time has not been decided, but it should be soon." Last winter, we held a winter clothing campaign! ”
Chu Jiao didn't expose her, and nodded with a smile, "Yes, it's cold this day, and the refugees are guilty." Recruit winter clothes, that's for sure. ”
"Mr. Yu has always enthusiastically supported and participated in various fundraising activities." Chu Jiao turned to Yu Junqing and said, "Let's go together then?" ”
Yu Junqing didn't know that this was Chu Jiao's little trick, thinking it was an expression of invitation, so he nodded hurriedly and said, "That's a must go." Donating money and materials, it's no problem. ”
Ou Yingying glanced at Yu Junqing, her impression changed slightly, and said: "It doesn't matter how much you donate, it's mainly a heart." Gathering armpits into furs, relying on the strength of all enthusiastic people. ”
Yu Junqing nodded yes, his mind was still on Chu Jiao, but he didn't know that after tonight, he would get a disappointed answer.
He was chatting when suddenly there seemed to be a gunshot outside. Through the glass doors, you can see the chaos of men and women running around the street.
The café immediately became noisy, and it was natural that you couldn't run outside because the situation was unknown, but it was impossible to continue to sit upright.
"Squat, everybody squat." Chu Jiao also has some experience and knows that lowering her body can greatly reduce the possibility of being hit by a stray bullet.
The door of the café was slammed open, as if to avoid danger, and several people rushed in, squatting or lying on their stomachs, as if they were others.
Chu Jiao's eyes were sharp, and she saw Ma Mingyu squatting not far away.
Ma Mingyu also saw her and nodded slightly. Then, he rolled his eyes and patted himself lightly on the waist.
Chu Jiao frowned and moved slowly, avoiding the gaze of others. She held the bag in her hand, tentatively placed it on the ground, and motioned to Ma Mingyu with her eyes.
Ma Mingyu quietly took out a pistol, covered it with clothes, and pushed it against the smooth floor, and the pistol slid towards Chu Jiao's bag.
Chu Jiao quickly reached out and held down the pistol, turned the bag sideways, and stuffed the pistol in.
Ma Mingyu breathed a sigh of relief, letting Chu Jiao take the risk, it was really not what he wanted. But when things got to this point, he really had no way to think about it.
Yu Junqing's remark about the deterioration of law and order in the Shanghai Concession does have a certain degree of truth, and this is also related to the general political situation.
In the summer of 1939, after Wang Wei arrived in Shanghai, he launched the so-called "peace movement."
His activities of betraying the country and defecting to the enemy were unanimously condemned by the Shanghai public opinion circles. Chongqing also issued an order again to the military commanders lurking in Shanghai, asking them to work harder to crack down on traitors and traitors and sabotage the "peace movement" launched by Wang Rebellious.
In order to ensure the progress of the "peace movement" on Wang Pseudo No. 76, Ding Motun and Li Shijun sent people to smash the most fiercely scolded "Damei Evening News", hoping to make an example of them.
Although the "Great Beauty Evening News" was hit by this blow, it felt that it was nothing more than that, so it scolded the newspaper even more fiercely than before.
No. 76 then changed the method of dealing with the newspaper to the person. He successively sent people to assassinate Zhu Yugong, the editor of the supplementary magazine, Li Junying, the manager of the "Damei Evening News", and Zhang Yixu, the editor-in-chief.
And the anti-Japanese groups also fought-for-tat, not only cutting off the heads of two traitors in a row. In addition, bombs and flyers warning dancers were dropped outside the four dance halls at the same time.
Dancers: Some of you dance foxtrots, some waltz dances, but why don't you go to the front line to kill the enemy? You drink brandy and whiskey, but why don't you donate some money to the army and buy more arms to kill the enemy?
Fellow dancers: You exude the rotten spirit of the enslaved, and the only way to remove this rotten spirit is to give your own blood to the whole nation. You are looking for fun, and we will send you a gift bomb to add to your joy.
In addition to the pro-Japanese and anti-Japanese fights, there were also crimes committed by evil forces, such as ticket kidnapping, robbery, murder, and so on.
Gunshots and sirens sounded for a while, and the incident seemed to be under control. A patrol entered the café to look for witnesses and inquire about the situation.
Only then did Chu Jiao and the others get up and sit down again, looking at each other and smiling ugly.
"Fighting and killing all day long-" Yu Junqing smiled bitterly and shook his head again and again.
Chu Jiao deliberately changed places and sat in the inner seat against the wall, and Jiang Huating sat outside to block her.
The patrol who came in to check was very sophisticated, and directly asked the waiter to point out the guests who broke in when there was chaos outside. Then, search and ask one by one.
Maybe it's not that the patrol is sophisticated, but the peripheral patrol reacts quickly, so that they can confirm that the murderer has not escaped and is still at the scene.
When it was Ma Mingyu's turn, he naturally reported a pseudonym, and he couldn't find anything out of his identity. The most important thing was to search this level, and he had no murder weapon on him, so he was released.
Although the patrol house was infiltrated and bought by the Japanese, there were still many patrols that were biased towards the anti-Japanese forces, after all, they were all Chinese.
Therefore, if there is no evidence, it will not be investigated, even if there is suspicion, in many cases, the Chinese patrol will release people.
After the personnel who came in the middle finished the investigation, the patrol took the waiter to casually ask the guests present.
When they arrived at Chu Jiao's table, the waiter made it clear that they had come in early, drank coffee, and never went out.
The Ranger nodded, and moved on to the next table. Chu Jiao exhaled lightly, picked up the coffee and drank it, and found that it was already cold, so she reluctantly put it down.