At 11:30 a.m. on February 17, 1938, "Black Coffee" in Pearl City.

Zhou Lin was sitting in a swivel chair playing with a lighter.

"Harrow, Mr. Zhou." A forty-year-old foreign man with a big nose, blue eyes, and yellow hair came to Zhou Lin.

"Old history is here! Have a seat. Zhou Lin put the lighter on the table.

"My name is Smith, not Old History." Smith rolled his cloudy eyes.

"Calling Lao Shi seems kind and natural. It's better to call it Lao Shi. Zhou Lin: "Coffee?" ”

Smith sat down: "What do you drink without coffee when you come to 'Black Coffee'?" Drinking Chinese tea? ”

"Where is the tea? I remember the first time I went to 'Black Coffee', I ordered a cup of Longjing and was kicked out. ”

Smith laughed, "They must have thought you were the one who came looking for trouble." ”

Smith ordered a cup of coffee: "You're on the throne for nothing." Can I help you? ”

Zhou Lin corrected: "It's nothing to go to the Three Treasures Palace." You didn't talk about the Two Treasures Palace. ”

"It's not all the same thing! Say, you saved me last time, and I always want to repay you well. Smith took a sip of his coffee.

Zhou Lin looked around, Smith understood, and immediately approached Zhou Lin and sat down.

Zhou Lin whispered in English: "Smith, I want to ask you to help my parents and the other three go to the United States." ”

"If it's an immigrant, you can do it right away." Smith said.

"What are the conditions for immigration?" Zhou Lin's heart moved, this is a good idea.

As long as the parents immigrated to become U.S. citizens, they will have a way out in the future.

"A family of three people, a deposit of 100,000 dollars, and a request to buy property in the United States."

"How long will it take?" Zhou Lin asked.

"Just open an account at the Bank of America in Pearl City and deposit $100,000. You can apply to immigrate to the United States. And the certificate of deposit can be withdrawn from a bank in the United States. ”

"I have the money. You can do it! Zhou Lin handed over a check, and there were three names on note, and the money was the check for $100,000 given by Zhou Chang.

"No problem! I went to the consulate to handle it, and it was okay in three days. When are you going to send them away? Smith put away the check and note.

"The sooner the better! Do you know what happened in my house yesterday? ”

"Know! You're in the right place! Going to the U.S. is the safest. ”

"There are two other things, first, to help hire two bodyguards, a man and a woman, in the United States to protect them, and second, to help buy a farm in the United States."

"I promise it. And thirdly, on the 23rd of this month, our company's freighter will return to the United States, and let your parents take them on the freighter. No one dared to stop it. ”

"Good! You've done this for me, and I'll promise to match you up. Now I have someone to ask for the goods. Zhou Lin said softly.

Smith was overjoyed, he knew that Zhou Lin was the head snake of Mingzhu City, and he had done a lot of business that could not be put on the surface. And he wanted Zhou Lin to smuggle goods several times, but Zhou Lin always refused.

Unexpectedly, this time Zhou Lin finally relented.

"What's that? You say first, I'll stock up. Smith said excitedly.

"Anti-inflammatory! A friend asked for a relatively large amount, worth half a million dollars. ”

Smith stood up in astonishment, 500,000 US dollars of goods, he can make 250,000 US dollars, is there really a pie in the sky.

"Give you an 8 percent commission on the total purchase price." Smith held out one hand, and then three more fingers.

"Okay! When will it arrive? Say it in advance, and I'll ask them to prepare the payment. ”

"If you don't have dollars, you can use gold. But you have to trade in cash, and you can't go through the account. ”

"When did I transfer all this amount of business, didn't that leave the tail to someone to catch? Gold trading, one hand of money and one hand of goods. Zhou Lin pretended to be mysterious.

"Okay! I'm not going to sit down, I'm going to the consulate right away to help with your parents' business. Smith drank all the coffee in one gulp, said goodbye to Zhou Lin, and left in a hurry.

After coming out of the "black coffee", Zhou Lin came to a bungalow in the slum.

"Brother!" A twenty-one-twelve-year-old girl ran out of the house.

Her name is Zhou Huaxun, and she used to be a one-sided Jiangyang thief with strong martial arts.

Before the age of nineteen, he followed his master (a woman) to walk the rivers and lakes.

When she was twenty years old, her master fell ill and died, and she ran away alone.

Half a year ago, she was surrounded by a mistake while doing something. It was Zhou Lin who brought out the reputation of the Zhou family, oppressed those people, and let her go.

Because she is also surnamed Zhou, she recognizes Zhou Lin as her brother.

For half a year, the two are not brothers and sisters, but better than brothers and sisters.

"Hua Xun, brother has something I want to ask you for help." Zhou Lin said.

"What is so serious?" Zhou Huaxun said with a smile.

Zhou Lin told Zhou Hua what happened last night. and proposed to let Zhou Huaxun accompany his parents to live in the United States.

"I'm fine, the key is whether your parents agree or not?" Zhou Huaxun is tired of life under Japanese rule, and she is still very willing to go to the United States.

Zhou Lin pulled Zhou Huaxun and left, and asked her to follow her parents now.

Seeing Zhou Lin bring a girl, Zhou Lin's parents widened their eyes.

"This is the sister I recognize, called Zhou Huaxun." Zhou Lin glared at the two of them.

The mother was the first to come back to her senses and stepped forward to take Zhou Huaxun's hand: "Don't say it, it really looks a little similar to Lin Er." I've always wanted to have a daughter, but I'm not blessed to get it. Now, as I wished, my daughter is here. ”

Mother's words made Zhou Huaxun, who had lost her mother's love since childhood, shed tears.

She knelt down and kowtowed to Fang Qiuqiu three times, officially becoming Zhou Lin's sister.

After the family sat down, Zhou Lin carefully checked the inside and outside of the house, and found that there were no "ears", so he called the family together with confidence.

Zhou Lin told his parents what he had said to Smith.

"I'm leaving so soon!" Father sighed.

"Aren't you clamoring to leave? Why don't you want to leave? "Mother choked on father.

"It's not that I don't want to go, but I feel like I go. Uprooted, uprooted! As he spoke, his eyes were wet.

Zhou Lin grabbed his father's hand: "Father! Go out and relax. After three years and five years, I will bring you back. ”

"Am I still Chinese after joining the United States?" Father muttered to himself.

"For the time being, when the Japanese are gone, after we come back, we can go back to China." Mother took her father's hand and said.

"Yes! Isn't there still Hua Xun who will accompany you, I'm not by your side, Hua Xun will do filial piety on my behalf. Zhou Lin was afraid of being sad again.

"Yes! Father, mother, we will come back together when the time comes. Zhou Huaxun hurriedly comforted.

finally stabilized his mood, and Zhou Lin explained the matter.

After going to the United States, as long as the immigration is approved, let Smith help buy a small farm for $10,000 and officially become a U.S. citizen.

Then, three months later, he secretly bought another farm, where his parents lived in seclusion.

"Why waste money?" Mother asked.

"Because the farm that Smith bought first, the Japanese, Zhongtong, and will find out, and it is not safe." Zhou Lin said directly.

"Aren't you doing something for the Japanese now?" The mother was confused.

The father glared at the mother: "Or a college student?" Don't you understand the truth that people are good for a thousand days and flowers are not red for a hundred days? ”

"You can't have the heart to hurt others, and you can't have the heart to prevent people. If you fall out one day, something will definitely happen. Zhou Lin recounted.

"I know! No one can talk about the hermitage. Even your grandparents don't say it. By the way, Lin'er, what if your grandparents want to see us? Fang Qiuqiu was worried again.

"Isn't that the farm with the bright side? Stay there with them. When my grandparents left, I moved to a secluded place. If I send you a red flag, that is, your grandparents are gone, you can't come forward. The Japanese don't do anything to their grandparents, because many of the generals and adjutants are students of their grandparents. ”

"That's true, your grandparents are still highly respected in Japan." Fang Qiuqiu said.

"What are the red flags you're talking about?" Father asked.

Zhou Lin lit a cigarette: "Telegraph is dangerous, usually I may send a telegram to the farm on the surface, and my sister will go and get it after disguise." ”

Zhou Huaxun said proudly: "My makeup skills are not obvious to ordinary people. ”

"We're now going to establish a way to connect. If I deposit a whole number of 1 money into your Bank of America account, such as 100, 1000, 10000, it means it's fine. If you deposit a loose number, such as $1,356, it means that the situation is critical and you must hide. If it is 500, 5000 with 5 words, it means that the danger has passed. ”

My mother took the small notebook and was about to write it down, but my father stopped her: "I can't take notes, I can only write them in my head." ”

Zhou Lin said it again, and all three of them remembered it.

Zhou Lin told his father not to save money, he would deposit a sum of money into the account every month, in fact, to hint at his situation to them.

In addition, Zhou Lin also gave his parents the address of a pearl.

It was a house that Zhou Lin bought in someone else's name, and no one knows about it so far.

If there is a letter from the parents, send it to the mailbox in this place, and Zhou Lin will pick it up.

Fang Qiuqiu memorized it seven or eight times before she remembered, and for fear of forgetting, she found a map of the pearl and drilled an inconspicuous hole in that street.

Leave your hometown and go to the United States, take a map of your hometown, no one doubts. Zhou Lin took out $10,000 in cash and gave it to his mother to spend on the road.

As for the $100,000 deposit certificate, I will give it to my parents together when Smith has completed the formalities.

Coming out of his parents' residence, Zhou Lin took the sushi made by his mother to the Japanese military police headquarters.

"Captain!" Zhou Lin was taken to Yamada's office.

"Went to your parents?" Yamada had long known that Zhou Lin was going to visit his parents.

"Yes. Today I went to Smith, and he promised to help my parents with immigration, and he took a check for $100,000. He also said that my parents could go to the United States on the 23rd on the return freighter from the United States. Zhou Lin didn't hide it at all.

In front of the spy leader Yamada, don't do anything in an ambush, he will see it.

"Why did he say yes to you so quickly?" Yamada looked at Zhou Lin with two eyes.

"I promised to help him match up for a deal." Zhou Lin said unfazedly.

"What business?"

"Help him sell a batch of anti-inflammatory drugs." Zhou Lin poured beans into a bamboo tube.

"Smack!" Yamada slapped the pen in his hand on the table: "Your courage is getting bigger!" actually started a head-killing business. ”

Zhou Lin said flatteringly: "Uncle Yamada, don't be angry, listen to me." ”

"Say!" Yamada thought that since Zhou Lin dared to do and speak, it was estimated that there was nothing to do.

"That's the case, Chang Liang, the commander of the First Division of the Security Army, asked me for help and wanted to buy a batch of anti-inflammatory drugs, they fought against the New Fourth Army, there were many wounded, and there was a shortage of anti-inflammatory drugs." Zhou Lin confessed.

"Didn't you give them a batch of medicine?"

"That medicine is gone after two trips. The anti-inflammatory drugs on the market are very tight, especially the price is extremely high. He knew that I had saved the Americans, so he asked me to pull the strings. ”

Yamada narrowed his eyes: "Will you get up early?" ”

"Lao Shi promised me a six-percent commission." Zhou Lin hid two percent.

"Which old history?" Yamada was curious, why did another person pop up.

"It's Smith. I didn't like to trouble Smith, so I called him Old History. ”

Yamada pointed at Zhou Lin and laughed, you changed all the Americans' surnames.

Zhou Lin laughed with him, it seemed that his actions were being monitored.

However, the thought that this was a regular method of the Japanese made me relax.

"You are allowed to do this business, but half of your commission must be paid to the gendarmerie command." Yamada handed over the warrant he had just written.

"Yes!" Zhou Lin took the warrant and carefully put it in his pocket.

Although part of the money was deducted by the Japanese, there was a warrant, and no one dared to check him.

"Soon, under the Economic Commission, an Economic Inspectorate will be established. Since you like to deal with money, I would like to send you to the Economic Inspectorate. Would you like to? Yamada brought Zhou Lin a cup of tea.

Zhou Lin Yileng, changed seats? Is it good or bad?

The organization does not give itself a task, only asks for its own lurking.

After Mr. Fang left, there was no letter, and he did not know what his job was.

But now Yamada's arrangement, Zhou Lin can't refuse: "Willing!" But I'm too young to be a director? ”

Yamada smiled: "You have a big heart. The director of the Economic Supervision Department is half a level higher than Zhou Chang, can you take it? ”

"With the imperial army as a backer, there is nothing that can't be taken." Zhou Lin raised his chest and raised his head.

"To be the head of the first section of the Economic Supervision Department, half a level higher than your current position." Yamada was very satisfied with Zhou Lin's performance.

"Yes!"

"As far as I know, now the checkpoint is not effective, and a lot of illegal goods have flowed out of a lot. If there is any situation, report it directly to me. Yamada stated the purpose of sending Zhou Lin to the Economic Supervision Office.

"Guaranteed to get the job done."