Tan Jingting listened to Ah Qiang's report and nodded: "This needs to be strictly monitored." “

Tan Jingting signed his name on the application form: "How many sets of equipment do we have now?" ”

"I have just asked Director Zhao of the General Affairs Office, and he said that there is only one set left, the stationmaster borrowed one set, and there is another set to be repaired." Ah Qiang told Tan what he had learned.

"The stationmaster also borrowed a set?" Tan Jingting raised his head and looked at Ah Qiang.

"Well, that's what Director Zhao said."

"Okay, I got it. Go ahead, find a few more brothers to take turns on duty, don't work too hard. Tan Jingting patted Cuong on the shoulder.

"Okay, I know, thank you, Director." Ah Qiang didn't expect Tan Jingting to be quite sympathetic to his subordinates, and he couldn't help but have a good impression of Tan Jingting.

After Ah Qiang left, Tan Jingting began to guess where the listening equipment borrowed by Zhu Hongda would be placed. If it is a business matter, it can be completely handed over to yourself to listen, then this must be a private matter, since it is a private matter, then this set of listening equipment will definitely not be placed in the small western-style building, it must be placed in No. 18 Jixiangli, Zhu Hongda's east wing, he must want to monitor the relationship between Xu Shuxian and her husband. He must have wanted to know if there was a rift between Xu Shuxian and her husband, and whether he could get what he wanted and get the beauty.

Thinking of this, Tan Jingting felt that Zhu Hongda was very dirty, but in this case, he would have an excuse to go to Jixiangli. So he walked into Zhu Hongda's office.

"Report."

"Please come in." Zhu Hongda saw Tan Jingting coming in, and hurriedly stood up: "What's the matter, Director Tan?" ”

"Oh, that's the case, our intelligence department has recently needed to monitor a lot of objects, I applied to Lao Zhao of the General Affairs Department for a few sets, he told me that his listening equipment there is out of stock, and one set still needs to be repaired, he said that you still have one set here, so I came to ask, stationmaster, if it is convenient, I want to borrow your set."

Zhu Hongda remembered that there was still a set of monitoring equipment in the east wing, and now that he lived in a small western-style building, he couldn't monitor the situation of Ouyang's family, so he simply wanted to be a good person and give Tan Jingting a face.

"Oh, I put a set in the east wing of No. 18 Jixiangli, or you can pick it up yourself, I have to go to a meeting in the afternoon, it's inconvenient to accompany you." Zhu Hongda readily agreed.

"I can get this thing back by myself." Tan Jingting was secretly happy in his heart.

"Oh, this is the key to the house, give it, Old Tan, don't let anyone see it when you move out." Zhu Hongda specially instructed Tan Jingting.

"I understand that." Tan Jingting took the key to the house.

After Tan Jingting got the key to the east wing, he went outside to equip a spare, so that in case of any emergency in the future, he can freely enter and exit the east wing, this kind of backup thinking is a habit he has developed in the army for many years, when he used to fight, some of his equipment was always double, although the weight increased, but he felt that this insurance, if one was broken, or used up, there was another one that could be replaced.

Yu Lin wrote several articles on the current livelihood problems, but he felt that the strength was not enough, so he visited some neutral financial experts, asked them for some knowledge about currency, commodities, purchasing power, etc., and wrote a current affairs commentary article titled "Magic" in response to the current situation of inflation and sharp currency depreciation, saying that before the implementation of the legal tender policy of the Republic of China, a tycoon with 30 million silver dollars, if he was a good citizen and abided by government decrees, If he kept all his cash at home, and did not take any action to make profits, nor did he pay attention to maintaining the value of the currency, then today, thirteen years later, when all his money were converted into the original silver dollar, he would have only one and a half cents! It's not enough to even buy a pancake. Although it is only an assumption, it can be seen from it that the inflation of the national government over the years is so jaw-dropping, which shows from the side that the national economy has been shaky.

Yu Lin handed the article to the editor-in-chief Han for review, and after the editor-in-chief Han read it, he took off his reading glasses: "Ouyang, this article of yours is very innovative, with a unique perspective and sharp writing, but if this article is published, it will cause an uproar in the society, which will cause social panic and make the people lose confidence in the government's economy." So, I can only tell you that this article of yours does not work. ”

"Editor-in-Chief Han, do you think the content stated in my article is true?" Yu Lin asked rhetorically.

"Even if it's true, so what? The above would not agree to publish such an article. Han Ruqiu knows that it is difficult for such articles to pass the review, so if they are discarded and put on the shelf, it will be the lightest treatment, and the serious ones will be investigated to the authors and editors, and the lighter ones will be suspended, the heavier ones will be imprisoned, and the newspaper may be seized.

"Editor-in-Chief Han, I remember the first time I met you, I said that I would abide by the duties of a journalist, and speaking with facts is what a conscientious journalist should do. Yu Lin is righteous and strict, and he is loud.

Editor-in-chief Han was speechless, he didn't want to tell the people the facts, instead of using some Yingge Yan Dance to whitewash the peace, when he was young, he also had a heart to serve the country, a body of blood, devoted to the news work, he hoped to be able to use his pen end, needle the current evils, for the people. But over the years, he has gradually become numb, many radical newspapers have been banned, suspended, and even reporters and editors have been imprisoned, and he has gradually bowed his proud head to power. Now that he is so excited by Lu Yulin, it seems that he has awakened his beating heart that has been sleeping for a long time.

"Okay, I'll try it and see if I can publish it, but, Ouyang, you'd better take another pen name, I'm afraid I'll get you in trouble then."

Han Ruqiu knew that as long as he signed the word consent on the review form, then he would have to bear all the consequences after publishing this article, he looked at Ouyang Rui, to be honest, this young man really had a shadow of his youth, but he was worried that Ouyang Rui would be implicated, so he reminded him not to sign with his real name. No matter what, we must try to protect this enthusiastic young man in front of me. He decided to take a leap and live up to his ethics as a journalist.

"Thank you, Editor-in-Chief Han." Yu Lin was overjoyed, if Editor-in-Chief Han made the decision, then there was a chance that this would be done.

At about half past five in the evening, Tan Jingting set off, he knew that Xu Shuxian and her husband should be at home at this time, so he could confirm the person in the photo.

Mrs. Du saw a stranger enter the east wing, and she was a little apprehensive, so she immediately followed and knocked on the door.

Tan Jingting opened the door and saw a woman with alert eyes looking him up and down, and quickly explained: "I am a friend of Mr. Zhu, and he asked me to pick up something." ”

"Mr. Zhu? I'm sorry, but the people who live here are not surnamed Zhu. Sir, Nong is mistaken. When Mrs. Du heard that she was looking for Mr. Zhu, she felt very puzzled, which added to her suspicion of Tan Jingting.

Tan Jingting didn't know that Zhu Hongda also had a pseudonym, he was a little embarrassed standing there, and from Mrs. Du's eyes, he could see that people clearly regarded him as a burglar.

Just as Tan Jingting and Mrs. Du were confronting, Shuyan came back, and she saw Tan Jingting at a glance, and her heart was shocked.

"Miss Xu, you're back." Tan Jingting seemed to have caught a life-saving straw, and hurriedly greeted Shuyan.

"Director Tan, why are you here?" So-yeon was surprised, mixed with a hint of fear.

"The stationmaster asked me to fetch him something." Tan Jingting hurriedly explained.

"So you know that, huh?" Mrs. Du was a little embarrassed at this time: "I'm sorry, Mr. Tan, I didn't know it was a colleague relationship." It's me who is abrupt, yes, I'm going down, that's talking, that's talking. ”

Mrs. Du hurriedly went downstairs, and not long after, Yulin came upstairs, and he saw Shuyan standing at the door of the west wing, and standing at the door of the east wing was Tan Jingting, who he wanted to see and was afraid to see.

At this time, Tan Jingting also saw Lu Yulin, and his surprise was no less than Lu Yulin.

"Xiao Linzi." Tan Jingting spoke first.

"Brother Tan." Hearing the familiar and cordial words 'Xiaolinzi', Lu Yulin's eyes were a little moist, and he hurriedly went upstairs and hugged Tan Jingting tightly. At this time, in Lu Yulin's mind, Tan Jingting was not the intelligence director of the Shanghai Station of the Secret Bureau, not his strong opponent, but his brother who he hadn't seen for more than ten years, and his eldest brother who had saved him in the war.

"Xiao Linzi, I really didn't expect that we would meet here." Tan Jingting couldn't calm the excitement in his heart.

"Brother Tan, come in and sit in the house." Lu Yulin's heart was surging, and he pulled Tan Jingting into the west wing.

Tan Jingting walked into the West Wing and turned around: "It's okay, but it's not comparable to your previous home in Guangzhou." ”

"Brother Tan, please take a seat." Shuyan poured a cup of tea for Tan Jingting: "I really didn't expect that your Director Tan is the big brother Tan that Yulin often talks about." ”

"But I heard that your name is Ouyang Rui, what's going on?" Tan Jingting took the tea from Shuyan's hand, took a sip, and looked at Yulin curiously.

"It's a long story, since the Japanese captured Guangzhou, my father's business has plummeted, bombed, robbed, confiscated, and confiscated, and he owes a lot of debts, which are pursued by other businesses, no way, I can only change my name and surname from now on, my mother's surname, so I am called Ouyang Rui. Because the Japanese also knew that I had joined the 19th Route Army before, they regarded me as an anti-Japanese element, and they did not dare to stay in Guangzhou, so they fled to Shanghai, got a job in the newspaper office, and finally did not starve to death. Yu Lin has long been familiar with this set of rhetoric, and he can come easily.

"Alas, all these years have been harmed by these Japanese devils." Tan Jingting felt sorry for what happened to Yulin.

"Then Brother Tan, how did you go to the Secret Bureau?" Yu Lin wanted to know about Tan Jingting's experience over the years.

"I was seriously wounded in the Battle of Kunlun Pass and could no longer march and fight, so I was assigned to the Chongqing Anti-Smoking Supervision Department, where I worked for a few years, and I didn't get mixed up, and I was transferred to the Shanghai Station of the Military Command as an intelligence chief. I'm also going around in circles, standing still. Tan Jingting briefly told Yulin about the changes in his position in the past few years.

"Your brother Tan is an official of a government department, much better than me, a little reporter."

Tan Jingting smiled bitterly: "Yulin, in the past ten years, it has been really fateful, you and I can meet alive, that is the great creation." Do you remember that Lin Bangzuo, Instructor Lin? ”

"Of course, I remember that if he hadn't trained me, I wouldn't have graduated at the top of my class." As soon as he heard Tan Jingting mention Lin Bangzuo and Instructor Lin, Yu Lin's eyes immediately appeared with that unsmiling and unusually stern face towards the students.

"Alas, he was martyred in the Battle of Taierzhuang." Tan Jingting sighed and lowered his head sadly.

"Instructor Lin has been martyred?" After hearing this, Yu Lin was stunned, but he didn't expect that this steely instructor was no longer alive.

Lu Yulin felt a sadness in his heart, although in the military academy, Instructor Lin trained his students like a devil, and he would be punished if he was not careful, and he himself had been taught several times, but he did not resent Instructor Lin, but he always had in his mind a famous saying that has been rooted in the hearts of Chinese for thousands of years: Strict teachers produce high apprentices. It was Instructor Lin's strictness, strictness and strictness to him that allowed him to turn the corner and turn danger into safety in the process of repeated dangers.