Sun Yumin breathed a sigh of relief and lay back on the bamboo chair, the fire in his eyes gradually flattened.

Chen Bui tightened his cotton coat, it was already late at night, and the three young people felt a little cold, not to mention him, a young man of nearly half a hundred.

Lu Man saw that his father and Sun Yumin had no intention of resting, so he pulled Xiao Yuying and walked out, and it didn't take long for the two girls to bring a brazier, and put a piece of burning coal from the stove where the tea was boiled, and put it into the brazier, and then added some charcoal to the brazier, and fanned it for a while, and suddenly a raging charcoal fire ignited in the basin, illuminating the entire living room red, and the room immediately warmed up.

Chen Bui had been watching Lu Man's every move in burning the brazier until the two girls had washed their hands and sat down again.

Sun Yumin has been excited after the narration just now, although he didn't show it on his face, but Chen Bui on the other side still noticed his subtle fluctuations, and he didn't speak again, and no one spoke in the living room during the two girls lighting the brazier.

Looking at the slightly dull atmosphere, Lu Man opened his mouth and said, "Dad, go and rest." After holding a meeting for so long, and going to help me and Yumin find the surname Dai, can your body withstand it? ”

Chen Bui smiled, waved his hand again, and said, "Your father is not so useless, when it comes to meetings, I want to ask you." He looked at Sun Yumin, and the latter sentence was obviously asking him.

"Speak, please." Sun Yumin sat up straight and spoke respectfully.

"What do you think of the frontal battlefield after the fall of Nanjing? At today's meeting, the chairman summoned the commanders of various theaters to study the strategy for the next step. Chen Bui looked at Sun Yumin meaningfully, wanting to see how this young man was in the military, after all, he was promoted to a colonel at such a young age, and he had a lot of military achievements, but those were hearsay, and he had not seen it with his own eyes.

"This is not very good, my official position is low, and I dare not comment on military affairs." Sun Yumin said.

"It's okay, just think I'm asking for the opinions and opinions of the junior officers." After Chen Bui finished speaking, he said to Lu Man: "Lian'er, you go to my study and get the map and magnifying glass on the table." He said to Xiao Yuying again: "Little girl, quickly clean up the coffee table and wipe it clean." ”

The two daughters all agreed to move, and Sun Yumin sorted out his thoughts and thought carefully about how to tell the upcoming battle of Xuzhou to this powerful government in front of Jiang Guangtou.

Lu Man spread an ordinary civilian map on the coffee table, Sun Yumin frowned, and asked Lu Man, who was pressing the map with small objects: "Are there any red and blue pencils?" ”

When Chen Bui heard Sun Yumin's question, he couldn't help but be stunned, and thought to himself: What does this kid want to do?

Lu Man almost never asked for a reason for his words, and she had long been accustomed to his orders along the way.

Lu Man took the red and blue pencils from Chen Bui's study and handed them to Sun Yumin, who was waiting.

The three of them sat quietly in front of the brazier, looking at Sun Yumin, who kept marking and drawing on the map, and they didn't say a word. The two girls couldn't understand the meaning of his marks on the map at all, but in the eyes of a great expert like Chen Bui, this was undoubtedly a very detailed military map.

When Sun Yumin marked all the defenses of the national army in Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan and Anhui with a blue pencil, Chen Bui's eyes were straight in shock, and he had a completely unbelievable look.

After Sun Yumin finished marking the national army, he marked several Japanese offensive arrows with a red pencil, and clearly wrote the number of the attacking Japanese army in each arrow, which blinded Chen Bui's eyes.

After all the signs were made, Sun Yumin began to speak: "These are all military secrets, you two girls can't listen to them, you have to go to sleep, I will talk to my uncle for a while." ”

Xiao Yuying couldn't lift her spirits for a long time, and when she heard this, she immediately stood up, pulled Lu Man, who didn't want to leave, and said, "Sister, where are we sleeping?" ”

Lu Man had no choice but to take the little girl to his bedroom.

Sun Yumin just wanted to speak, but Chen Bui motioned for him to wait, and he took a magnifying glass to look at the red and blue logos.

After a long while, he spoke: "I don't know where you got this information to make this map of the situation of the enemy and our side, but I want to tell you plainly that the details of this map go beyond any military map of the camp. ”

Sun Yumin saw Chen Bui staring at him like a monster, and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, he said: "Chief Chen, I believe you have also seen some clues from the map, do you still need me to explain now?" ”

Hearing this, Chen Bui put down the magnifying glass, stretched out his hand to bake the fire, warmed his already cold hands, and said, "You say, you say!" Little grandson, you really impressed me tonight. Hurry up and don't call me sir, I'm not a sir, just call me uncle. ”

Sun Yumin showed a shy smile on his face and said, "Okay, Uncle Chen, then I'll start!" ”

Sun Yumin picked up the teacup beside him, took a sip of the already cold tea, and began to speak: "After the Japanese army entered and occupied Nanjing, they sent the 13th Division across the Yangtze River early and occupied the Lotus Pond and Mingguang Line on the east bank of the Chihe River in Anhui. Sun Yumin's hand pointed to Fengyang and Bengbu.

"On the surface, the Japanese army wants to take the whole territory of Anhui, but in fact, their purpose is here." Sun Yumin's hand pointed to another place, and Chen Bui Dingqing saw that the place he pointed to was an important town in East China: Xuzhou.

"On what basis do you judge that?" Chen Bui asked.

Sun Yumin drew two circles on the map with his hand, pointed to a railway, and said: "They want to control the entire Jinpu line, as long as they send an elite army from this side to attack all the way, uncle, I believe you can also see their wolf ambitions!" ”

Chen Bui looked at Sun Yumin's prompt, and was immediately startled, and hurriedly asked: "They want to open up the Jinpu Road, and then connect the Central China Battlefield and the North China Battlefield?" ”

Sun Yumin nodded and said, "Yes, but their ambitions are more than that!" With that, he pointed to one place, drew a line on another railroad line, and pointed to another place on the map.

Chen Bui was pointed back and forth by him like this, and he was so shocked that cold sweat flowed out, and he stammered when he spoke: "You say more details." ”

"If my prediction is not wrong, the Japanese army will attack from the north to the south and capture Xuzhou, an important town in East China, and once it succeeds, the Japanese army will take Zhengzhou west along the Longhai line, and then take Wuhan south along the Pinghan line." Sun Yumin told the Japanese army's intentions in one breath.

According to Sun Yumin's statement, Chen Bui stared at the map and calculated all the way, and found that this possibility was very large, so he couldn't help but sit on the bamboo chair and asked, "Do you have any good countermeasures?" ”。

Sun Yumin naturally would not express his views on such militaristic affairs, and when he told Chen Bui about the strategic direction of the Japanese army just now, he had already made a lot of determination to say it, so naturally he would not go into further details.

Chen Bui saw that this Sun Yumin was young, but he was so enviable in doing things, and he grasped the proportions quite appropriately, and said in his heart: No wonder this girl refuses to let go, it turns out that she has picked up a treasure.

Thinking of his daughter's vision being so good, Chen Bui's heart blossomed, and a smile appeared on his face. He carefully put away the map marked by Sun Yumin on the coffee table, and asked casually, "What are your plans for the future?" Could it be that the old fox who has been following Gui Yongqing all the time? ”

Sun Yumin shook his head, said twice, and said, "If you hadn't come out tonight, would he have come to Dai Li's search for me?" Obviously impossible, you say that such a person can borrow my life? ”

"Then what are you and Lian'er going to do?" Chen Bui asked again, he added Lu Man's name, which made Sun Yumin very embarrassed and didn't know how to answer.

He thought for a moment and said, "I think I'd better go back to the 46th Division first, and I'll talk about the road later, and take some steps." ”

"How can this work? I think so, I'll go to He Yingqin and ask him to arrange for you to be a staff officer in the Ministry of Military Affairs or stay in the subordinate room directly, with your own body, it shouldn't be difficult to get ahead. Chen Bui said. Without waiting for Sun Yumin to express his position, he said again: "I also arranged Lian'er to be admitted to the military hospital in Wuhan, so that you two can be together, and it will save me from worrying about this girl." ”

Chen Bui's little words made Sun Yumin's face full of embarrassment, and he wanted to explain that the two people were not the kind of relationship he imagined, but he suddenly found that Lu Man was only wearing cotton pajamas, standing at the door of the living room and looking at them, and hurriedly swallowed back the words that had come to his lips. He stood up, dragged her to the brazier, and said, "It's so cold, you don't sleep but stand by the door, don't you worry about getting sick?" ”

Lu Man sat down obediently in Sun Yumin's place like a child who had done something wrong, and said, "I'll come and see when you guys are going to talk." Her words were a bit against her will, in fact, she was afraid that her father would talk about herself, as soon as Xiao Yuying fell asleep, she sneaked over, and as soon as she arrived at the door, she heard her father's words, she quickly stood up and let Sun Yumin dare not tell the truth in front of herself.

Seeing that Sun Yumin was considerate of his daughter, Chen Bui also smiled knowingly and said, "Do you two have any opinions on what I just said?" ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, and shook their heads quite tacitly, and then Lu Man said: "Dad, it's good for us to go our own way, when we can't walk, you can pull us again, now we are all very good, so don't worry so much, besides, we are all adults." ”

Chen Bui shook his head helplessly and said, "Okay, whatever you want." "He has never restrained his children, but because Lu Man is the eldest and his wife's widow, and Sun Yumin is indeed a rare talent, he specially cared about it, but he didn't expect to eat his daughter's closed door, so they had to let them make their own decisions.

"Are you all right? If it's okay, go and rest, I'll clean up and get ready to rest. Chen Bui said.

"Uncle, there is something I may have to trouble you." Sun Yumin was afraid that Chen Bui would drive him and Lu Man into a room, so he hurriedly made an excuse, he continued: "Originally, today I was going to contact the wagon to transport the weapons, equipment and materials replenished to the 46th Division to Zhengzhou, but now I have been delayed by this matter, these things waiting for me over there in Kaifeng, and I can't find a way here, can you help me dredge it?" ”

Chen Bui slowly folded the map, thought about it for a while, and said: "In this way, you go to rest first, I will go to the station with you after dawn, and let them transfer a few wagons for you to use first, as for Zhengzhou, some of your new 46th Division have capable people to find a way." ”

Sun Yumin just wanted him to help make a phone call, but he didn't expect that people would personally help him run the station, so he naturally couldn't ask for it, so he nodded hurriedly and said yes.

Chen Bui waved his hand and motioned for the two of them to rest, and Lu Man had to lead Sun Yumin to the guest room, help him make the bed, prepare quilts, pillows and other bedding and then go back to his boudoir.

Sun Yumin lay on the bed, tossing and turning for a while before falling asleep.

When he woke up the next day, he found that he had already sunset, and he thought that he still had a lot of things to do, and immediately annoyed how he could be so sleepy, and when he was dressing, he hurriedly knocked over a small porcelain on the head of the bed, but fortunately his second reaction was very fast, and when the porcelain was about to fall to the ground, he reached out to catch it. He carefully put the gadget away and continued to get dressed.

The sound in the room had already been heard by Lu Man, who was waiting for him in the study next door, and pushed open the door and walked in.

Sun Yumin was very embarrassed and said, "I got up too late and never slept until this time." ”

Lu Man smiled and said: "The pillow you slept on was full of lavender, which helps you sleep, and I usually sleep on it until I wake up naturally, I see that you don't seem to have a good rest during this time, so I gave it to you, and it really worked." ”

No wonder I smelled a fragrance last night, it turned out to be the smell on your body, Sun Yumin said in his heart. He also smiled at Lu Man and said, "Okay, it's just that I messed up all the plans I made in bed last night, and I still have a lot of things to do today." ”

"You can put 10,000 hearts at heart, the things you have to do have been arranged for you, and you must be no worse than what you do." Lu Man helped fold the quilt while talking to him.

Scheduled? The second monk Sun Yumin was confused, he buttoned the last button on his coat, picked up his hat and was about to go out.

Lu Man hurriedly stopped him and asked, "Where are you going?" ”

"Of course, it's back to the city defense garrison, I have to hurry up and bring those equipment and materials out and transport them to Zhengzhou." Sun Yumin said.

"Don't be in such a hurry, my dad said you don't leave at noon today, wait for him to come back and have a drink with you." Lu Man stood in front of him, making it impossible for him to pass. Looking at Sun Yumin's anxious appearance, she said again: "You don't have to worry that no one will do your things, my father took Xiao Yuying to your temporary station, and he will come forward and arrange it to ensure that your affairs will not be delayed." ”

Hearing these words, Sun Yumin calmed down, he put the hat in his hand back on the hanger, then lay on the bed again, and said lazily: "If there is such a comfortable bed to sleep in every day, I would rather die here immediately." ”

Lu Man's face turned red, and he said softly: "You can choose to sleep in such a bed every day." The voice was as soft as a mosquito, but it still reached Sun Yumin's ears, and suddenly a wave of blood surged up in his mind, and he reached out to hold Lu Man's hand, which was standing in front of the bed, and pulled her down into his arms, hugging her tightly.

Lu Man didn't struggle, letting the man hold him tightly, closing his eyes and waiting for his next move. But the man just hugged himself, without other superfluous movements, and before pushing himself away, he whispered in his ear: "Thank you." You're so beautiful! ”