Tianjin Railway Station.

The early summer sun was warm and pleasant, and Zhou Hexuan sat in the waiting hall with his secretary Yu Peichen and bodyguard Sun Yongzhen.

Before the train entered the station, two middle-aged men suddenly approached.

One of the men met Zhou Hexuan's eyes, and both of them were stunned for a moment. The man walked over, greeted him with a smile, and said, "Hello Mr. Zhou, remember me, right?" I'm an ancient scholar. ”

"It turned out to be Brother Gu, long time no see!" Zhou Hexuan shook hands and greeted.

The "Gu Shiwen" introduced the middle-aged man next to him and said: "This is my friend, Yang Yongqing, a reporter from "Declaration". ”

Zhou Hexuan smiled: "Hello Reporter Yang. ”

"Yang Yongqing" shook hands warmly and said, "Mr. Zhou, I have admired the name for a long time!" ”

"Gu Shiwen" is actually Ji Hongchang, and "Yang Yongqing" is the father of underground party member Xuan Xia. Both of them were dressed in disguise, and Ji Hongchang rubbed his mustache on his chin, which he really couldn't recognize if he didn't look carefully.

Zhou Hexuan asked, "Are you going to the south?" ”

Ji Hongchang smiled: "Go to Shanghai to do something." ”

"Then I wish you two a smooth journey, and we will see you in Shanghai." Zhou Hexuan didn't talk nonsense, for fear of exposing the other party's identity.

"Farewell!" After Ji Hongchang finished speaking, he walked to another corner and sat down.

In fact, things are not complicated, more than a month ago, Xuanxia's father officially introduced Ji Hongchang to join the party, and this time he was going to Shanghai to fulfill the procedures for joining the party. Xuanxia's father is even more powerful than Nan Hanchen, and this person is one of the heads of the special department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, that is, one of the national leaders of the underground party.

The anti-Chiang anti-Japanese organization that Nan Hanchen and Ji Hongchang set up in tandem in Tianjin, and its chief planner and person in charge was Xuanxia's father. It's just that with Zhou Hexuan's current identity, it is difficult to get in touch with Xuanxia's father, so he doesn't know him at all when he sees him in person.

Not to mention Zhou Hexuan, an "outsider", even Yu Peichen, who belongs to "his own people", has no chance to contact Xuanxia's father at all. Yu Peichen asked curiously: "Mr. Zhou, the friend you just now is so familiar, is he a big man?" ”

"It's just an ordinary writer, you probably admit it wrong." Zhou Hexuan said.

"Maybe I'm dazzled." Yu Peichen muttered to himself. She always felt that the chubby middle-aged man just now was very similar to General Ji Hongchang who published a photo in the newspaper.

The train arrived at the station soon, and Zhou Hexuan and the three of them boarded the special class, while Ji Hongchang and the two got into the second class. Except for the greetings when they first met, everyone deliberately stopped contacting, after all, Ji Hongchang is now a politically wanted criminal, and it is very dangerous for him to go to Shanghai to take the oath to join the party.

It was the first time for Yu Peichen to sit in the special class, and he looked curiously at the furnishings in the carriage.

The second-class carriage of the train during the Republic of China period was probably equivalent to the hard (soft) seat in later generations. The first class cabin is much more advanced, with a very comfortable single sofa and extra spacious.

The stateroom is very powerful, which can accommodate four people to sleep and rest, as well as writing desks, running water pipes, flush toilets and other equipment. Aside from the bumps and noise of the train, the conditions are simply better than most hotels.

Yu Peichen thought to herself: In the past, taking a long-distance train was a sin, but now it is a pleasure.

Zhou Hexuan looked at the retreating scenery outside the window for a while, then took out the manuscript paper and began to write, stopping from time to time to smear and revise. Sun Yongzhen, on the other hand, leaned on his seat and closed his eyes to recuperate, his right hand in his arms, ready to draw his gun to defend against the enemy at any time.

Yu Peichen stood behind Zhou Hexuan, watching beautiful pen characters appear on the manuscript paper, and the content was the follow-up plot of "Black Soil". She couldn't help but admire Zhou Hexuan's literary talent, and admired Zhou Hexuan's diligent spirit of taking the train and not forgetting to create.

There were fruits in the first-class compartment, and Yu Peichen was careful not to make a sound, and soon peeled two apples and cut them into pieces. One was placed in front of Zhou Hexuan, and the other was placed on Sun Yongzhen's side.

Sun Yongzhen seemed to be able to see it, suddenly opened his eyes and nodded to Yu Peichen in thanks, picked up a piece of apple and put it in his mouth to chew, but the right hand holding the gun was always in his arms.

This train uses the latest imported steam locomotive, and the top speed has reached 140 kilometers per hour, which is no different from the T-shaped express trains of later generations. As a joke, the railway guerrillas certainly didn't pick up this kind of train, because the speed was so fast that they couldn't pick it up at full speed.

It's a pity that the condition of the railway is a bit bad, and many times when encountering a mountain ridge is not through a tunnel, but around the mountain, and a lot of distance is in vain.

The trio sat for 20 hours before finally arriving in Nanjing, and then changing trains to Shanghai.

Although Zhou Hexuan was very disgusted with the corruption and incompetence of the Kuomintang government, the KMT's contribution to China was unquestionable. Chang Kaishen nominally unified China, from Tianjin to Nanjing to Shanghai, all the way unimpeded, and the cities and towns along the way were relatively stable and peaceful.

Before the Northern Expedition, it was really hard to explain. Taking the train from Tianjin to the south, you can see traces of war everywhere, and people fleeing to escape the war can be met everywhere.

In this comparison, at least the rule of the Nationalist government in Nanking brought a rare peace to the broad masses of the people—provided that the four northeastern provinces and the semi-occupied Chahar were forgotten.

After arriving in Shanghai, Zhou Hexuan stayed in a garden house on Haig Road that night.

Yu Peichen was already habitually numb, she was not surprised at all that Zhou Hexuan had a luxurious mansion in Shanghai, she was just thinking in her heart: "Do you want to stop by to visit your mother and uncle?" ”

Yu Peichen's grandfather, Cen Chunxuan, has been living in Shanghai all these years.

During the Second Revolution, Cen Chunxuan even competed with Sun Yat-sen for leadership, and once served as the generalissimo of the Yuan army. It was not until the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party that Sun Yat-sen went to Shanghai to visit Cen Chunxuan, and the two finally released their previous suspicions and discussed the Northern Expedition together.

Cen Chunxuan contributed a lot of money during the Northern Expedition, and in the first two years of the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, Cen Chunxuan also donated 30,000 oceans to the 19th Route Army to resist the Japanese.

It's just that at the end of April last year, Cen Chunxuan had already passed away. And Yu Peichen, the granddaughter, suffered from no travel expenses and could not go to Shanghai to see her grandfather on his last journey.

Perhaps in the eyes of many people, it is incomprehensible why Cen Chunxuan has the money to donate 30,000 oceans to the 19th Route Army to resist the Japanese, but does not contribute money to support his own granddaughter?

In fact, it is very simple, the Yu family and the Cen family have already fallen out.

The Yu family is a loser, and even his wife and children can't support him. Eight years ago, Yu Peichen's mother took several children to Shanghai to seek refuge in Cen Chunxuan, leaving only Yu Peichen and her second sister to study in the north.

Although the Cen family did not set them off, Yu Peichen's mother was very strong, trying her best to support herself for her children's education, and did not ask the Cen family for money excessively.

Yu Peichen and her second sister had a difficult life in the north, and only came to Shanghai for three years to visit relatives and enjoyed some help from the Cen family. For example, his uncle introduced Yu Peichen to progressives, starred in the drama "Dumb Wife" directed by Xiong Foxi, and was selected as a student representative to attend the Pacific Academic Conference.

"Mr. Zhou, I ...... I want to take a leave of absence tomorrow. Yu Peichen said hesitantly.

Zhou Hexuan said: "Yes, do you have something?" ”

"I want to visit my mother and uncle, who live in Shanghai." Yu Peichen obviously has not enough ideological realm, and he can't reach the level of "passing through the door three times without entering".

Zhou Hexuan said with a smile: "Let Yongzhen give you a month's salary, buy more gifts, don't look too shabby." ”

Yu Peichen said gratefully: "Thank you, Mr. Zhou!" ”

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