"In our past, there were many classmates in the military academy, as well as some brothers of the 19th Route Army, who were martyred." Tan Jingting sighed: "Do you remember Laifu?" Your former guard? ”

"What's wrong with Rifle?" Yu Lin looked at Tan Jingting with wide eyes.

"Laifu also died in the Battle of Taierzhuang, he took the initiative to sign up for the death squad in Chifeng City, but was stabbed to death by the Japanese army, he was only nineteen years old." When Tan Jingting thought of seeing Laifu's body back then, the heart-wrenching sadness came to his heart again.

When Yu Lin heard it, he chuckled in his heart, and the naughty and cute Laifu shook in front of his eyes. Yulin's eyes couldn't help but moisten.

"I am fateful and escaped in the Battle of Kunlun Pass." Tan Jingting picked up the teacup and took a sip.

"Brother Tan, you have also experienced several life and death, and several ups and downs." Yu Lin sighed for Tan Jingting's situation.

"yes, looking back now, it really feels like a dream." Tan Jingting's eyes flashed with tears, for those comrades-in-arms and for himself.

"Okay, don't be too sad, Brother Tan, you have a family, right?" Yu Lin saw that Tan Jingting was depressed, so he hurriedly changed the topic.

"Well, in fact, before I went to the Whampoa Military Academy, my family set me a marriage, but I was against arranged marriages at the time, so I slipped away from home and went to the Whampoa Military Academy"

"Really? Brother Tan, I don't know about this, you have done a good job of keeping it secret. Lu Yulin teased Tan Jingting.

Tan Jingting smiled bitterly: "How could it be possible to accept married students in the military academy at that time, of course I can't tell you the truth." “

"And what about later? Did you get married? “

"Later, I was injured and met my future wife in the field hospital, but unfortunately, she had a difficult birth when she gave birth, and both mother and son were gone." Although five or six years have passed since this incident, Tan Jingting still felt a faint pain in his heart when he said this, and he buried his head in his hands.

"Brother Tan." Yu Lin felt sorry for Tan Jingting's misfortune, he stretched out his hand and patted Tan Jingting's hand: "Don't be too sad. ”

"Don't think about it, then my original osmanthus came to me, and now we live together." Tan Jingting raised his head and smiled reluctantly.

"That's good, Brother Tan, you have to have a woman by your side to take care of you." Shuyan comforted Tan Jingting.

"The next time you come to my house, we will live at No. 28 Haig Road, I will let our osmanthus entertain you, she, nothing else, is to take care of housework, can cook, especially Cantonese cuisine." Tan Jingting still admires the cooking skills of osmanthus.

"Okay, we'll come. Speaking of food, it's almost seven o'clock now, Brother Tan, let's go out to eat together, I invite you. ”

"You don't need to ask, I'll do Dong, Shuxian, let's go, let's go outside and rub it together." Tan Jingting stood up and greeted Shuyan.

Shuyan was picking vegetables, and when she heard Tan Jingting say that she wanted to invite guests to dinner, she hurriedly responded: "Brother Tan, you go with Yulin, you two brothers haven't seen each other for so many years, there must be endless words, I'm very tired today, so I won't go." ”

"That's fine, Brother Tan, let's go."

Yu Lin knew that Shuyan was reluctant to go because she was afraid that she would show her feet in front of Tan Jingting, after all, Tan Jingting was the intelligence director of the Shanghai Station of the Secret Bureau, and it was difficult to deal with.

Lu Yulin found a restaurant nearby, ordered a few dishes, two bottles of liquor, and then the two of them staggered in the private room.

"Come, Brother Tan, this first glass of wine, a toast to our reunion." Yu Lin raised his glass to Tan Jingting.

"." Tan Jingting drank it all.

Yu Lin poured wine for Tan Jingting and himself again: "This second glass of wine is a toast to you and me who have not died in the past ten years." ”

"Yes, if you don't die in a great disaster, you will have a blessing in the future. Dry. Tan Jingting craned his neck and drank all the wine in the cup.

Yu Lin poured a third glass of wine for Tan Jingting and himself: "This third glass of wine is a toast to the love between us." ”

"The brotherhood between you and me, that's not to say, do it." Tan Jingting drank the wine again and pressed the wine glass on the table.

After three glasses of wine, Tan Jingting looked at Lu Yulin and sighed with emotion: "Xiao Linzi, today, I still feel like a dream, we have been separated for more than ten years, and there has been no news, this time it will actually be in Shanghai, and it will be in the alley of Shanghai, or in the Shikumen of the same house number, you say, is this providence?" ”

"It must be providence. And what's even more coincidental is that you actually work in the same unit as Shuxian. You're still colleagues! Yu Lin also replied casually.

"Yes, I never thought that Shuxian was actually your wife. Yulin, how long have you been married to Shuxian? ”

"It's been ten years."

"So your kids are quite old, aren't they?"

"Shuxian has never been able to conceive before, I thought that our Lu family was going to break its roots when it came to me. However, God finally had mercy on me and gave me a daughter. ”

Yu Lin naturally couldn't tell Tan Jingting that he still had a son, because Shuxian's pregnancy and Yu'er was a household name in the Shanghai Station of the Secret Bureau, and Tan Jingting naturally knew about it, but no one knew about Ming'er in Shanghai.

"You're blessed, but I didn't see a child just now?" Tan Jingting couldn't help but have some doubts in his heart.

"Shuxian has no milk, and the child is fostered in someone else's home." Yu Lin replied without thinking.

"Oh, no wonder, I wonder how Shuxian came to work so soon after giving birth."

"Brother Tan, why did you come to Jixiangli today?" Yu Lin wanted to know the purpose of Tan Jingting's visit to the East Wing today.

"I'm here to pick up something at Stationmaster Zhu's house." Tan Jingting was blunt.

"What's that?" Yu Lin asked curiously and casually.

"A listening device." Tan Jingting blurted out.

When the words "listening device" came out of Tan Jingting's mouth, Yu Lin didn't know if Tan Jingting drank too much and inadvertently leaked it, or if he was deliberately testing him, or Tan Jingting didn't guard against him at all, treating him like a brother, intimate, and talking about everything?

"Listening devices?" Yu Lin pretended to be surprised: "What is the use of Zhu Hongda leaving this thing at home?" Who does he want to listen to? ”

"I don't know, maybe Stationmaster Zhu has some other use." At the critical time, Tan Jingting's mouth still closed the door and did not tell Yulin the truth.

Although Tan Jingting did not know in advance that Zhu Hongda had enabled the listening equipment at home, it was obvious that it was easy to deduce what Zhu Hongda was using this set of listening equipment for, and the most worthy of monitoring at No. 18 Jixiangli was naturally Shuxian and Yulin, Zhu Hongda must have installed a bugging device in a corner of the west wing to facilitate listening to their every move on weekdays.

But judging from Zhu Hongda's attitude towards Shuxian, he did not suspect that Shuxian was a communist, but wanted to know whether the relationship between Shuxian and his husband was harmonious, and whether he had the opportunity to intervene between Shuxian and Yulin. Tan Jingting was very unimpressed, and even despised Zhu Hongda's tricks, and the monitoring equipment in the station was limited, so it was not used to monitor the activities of the Communist Party, but it was used in the private affairs of men and women, which was simply a crime.

Tan Jingting believes that people like Zhu Hongda are not worthy of being the head of the Shanghai Station of the Secret Bureau, and instead of thinking about how to crack the Communist Party organization every day, he spends his energy on the relationship between men and women, and now he has actually developed to the extent of using the equipment in the bureau to achieve his own dirty goals.

However, he couldn't tell Yu Lin about his speculations and inferences, for fear that Shuxian would know and quarrel with Zhu Hongda, then Zhu Hongda would definitely hate himself to death; Second, if Zhu Hongda said that this set of equipment was used to monitor Yu Lin, what reason did he have to object, he didn't want to tell Zhu Hongda about his relationship with Yu Lin now, because after all, Zhu Hongda and Yu Lin are now rivals, and if he gets involved, it will be harmful to him.

So the best attitude towards this matter is to treat it as if you don't know.

"So now this set of equipment is going to be taken away? Zhu Hongda doesn't need it anymore? Yu Lin sandwiched a piece of braised pork and put it in Tan Jingting's bowl.

Tan Jingting picked up the braised pork and put it in his mouth, chewing it, and answered Yu Lin's question: "Now the listening equipment in the station is very limited, I have several places to monitor, and today there is another set to be used in Aurora University, I am almost out of stock, so I came to the stationmaster to borrow a set, and when I run out, I have to return it." ”

"In this way, Brother Tan, you are very busy now." Yu Lin took another piece of braised pork and put it in Tan Jingting's bowl.

"There is no way, the communist activities are too rampant, and we are also tired of coping." Tan Jingting sandwiched the braised pork back into Yulin's bowl: "Don't keep giving me braised pork, you can eat more yourself, see how thin you are." ”

Yu Lin smiled: "As soon as I saw the braised pork, I remembered that when I was in the military academy, I was punished by Instructor Lin, I couldn't eat meat for a week, I could only eat green vegetables and tofu soup, and you left me the braised pork you saved." So I'm going to pay you back twice as much now. ”

"You remember it so clearly." Tan Jingting smiled, immersed in that beautiful memory.

"Some people, some things will never be forgotten for the rest of their lives." Yu Lin said affectionately, indeed, Tan Jingting is one of the most unforgettable people in Lu Yulin's life.

"If it weren't for the fact that I'm busy with official duties now, I really want to talk to my brother for three days and three nights." When Tan Jingting saw Lu Yulin, he was really a confidant with a thousand glasses of wine.

"Yes, now the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are incompatible, Brother Tan is really a good opportunity, come, little brother will toast you again." Yu Lin raised his glass and greeted Tan Jingting.

Tan Jingting and Lu Yulin touched their wine glasses and smiled: "There are no opportunities to talk about the day, many times we are doing useless work, the Communist Party is very cunning, and we often return in vain." ”

"After that, Brother Tan needs the help of the younger brother, just say, I hope I can help you."

"It's the best, and hopefully we'll have a chance to work together."

After the two were full of wine and food, Yulin broke up with Tan Jingting. Halfway down the road, Tan Jingting stopped, he remembered that he hadn't taken the monitoring equipment yet, shook his head with a smile, and said to himself: I'm really dizzy, just thinking about drinking with Xiao Linzi to catch up with the old days, and forgetting the business of coming here.

So, he quickly turned around and walked back. When he came to the east wing, he wrapped the equipment in a blanket, and walked out of the room, he wanted to say hello to Yulin and Shuxian, and just wanted to knock on the door, he heard Lu Yulin say inside: "You go to Aurora University tomorrow." ”

Tan Jingting hesitated, he seemed to have mentioned to Lu Yulin at the dinner table just now that there was a set of listening equipment to be put in Aurora University, and now Lu Yulin asked Shuxian to go to Aurora University again, is this a coincidence, or did Lu Yulin ask Shuxian to report to Aurora University?

Tan Jingting hopes that his latter inference is wrong, he has never doubted Lu Yulin, from the first time he saw him today, he regarded Lu Yulin as the hot-blooded and simple-minded little brother back then. But after so many years, is the current little brother still the little brother he knows?