"Who told you?" Zhu Hongda looked at Shuxian vigilantly.

"It's Mrs. Du downstairs." Shuxian did not hide the source: "How did she know your true identity?" ”

"I only blame myself for being too careless, once when I put on makeup and went out on a mission, I forgot my ID card in my clothes, Mrs. Xue in the pavilion came in and took the clothes to wash, and when I touched this document, I didn't know what it was, so I handed it over to the landlord Mrs. Du for safekeeping, so that Mrs. Du knew my identity, and she pretended not to know, in fact, I felt it from the way she looked at me that day, she clearly wanted to tell me, she pinched my handle."

"I see."

Facing Shuxian, Zhu Hongda felt that he didn't need to hide anything, after all, she saved herself, and after all, she was the love she had buried deep in her heart for many years.

"This woman is a long-tongued woman, but it's okay that she didn't denounce me, otherwise the Japanese would have arrested me a long time ago. Okay, Shuxian, I won't hide it from you, and I can't hide it from you, you must have guessed today's situation, yes, I am indeed a member of the military command, and in the early hours of this morning, my action team and I were on a mission to assassinate Taro Hashimoto, the head of the special high section of the Japanese gendarmerie, and several of my teammates were martyred, and I was the only one who escaped death. Zhu Hongda remembered the scene just now, and he still couldn't suppress his pounding heart, both sad and excited.

"You assassinated Hashimoto, the head of Japan's special high school?" Shuxian was surprised.

Zhu Hongda showed a smug smile on his face: "Yes, I have already killed him." This Taro Hashimoto has killed many of our brothers, and we must not let him go. We have been planning this operation for more than a month. ”

"Hongda, I really didn't expect that you can kill people with a gun now, I remember that you used to be a famous old master in our history department." Shuxian couldn't believe that the old master who was holding a book all day in college was the assassin with a gun in front of him all day long, which really made Shuxian look at Zhu Hongda in front of her.

"The prosperous times produce talents, and the troubled times produce reckless heroes, now in this world, how can you do learning?" Zhu Hongda smiled indifferently: "Since I graduated from Aurora University, I participated in the Three Youth League, and after that, I entered the Qingpu special training class of the military commander, and received some reconnaissance, blasting, translation and other training, after the establishment of the Shanghai station of the military command, I joined it, over the years, we have also done a lot of earth-shattering things, such as providing intelligence to the Korean revolutionary Yoon Bong-gil, he was able to assassinate the Japanese general Shirakawa Yoshinori and Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Aoi, I also participated in the assassination of the traitor Zhang Xiaolin, Assassinate Wang Yaqiao, the leader of the Axe Gang, and collect information about the activities of the Japanese army in Shanghai. ”

Shuxian listened to Zhu Hongda's words, her eyes were full of surprise.

"Shuxian, now I am no longer the Zhu Hongda you knew at the beginning. Now I'm the captain of the action team of the Shanghai Station of the Military Command. Zhu Hongda was blunt, thinking about his identity and revealing it.

"Time passes, things are not people. We will never go back to our school days. Shuxian sighed that time was gone.

"Yes, the vicissitudes of life, the world has changed in time, but, Shuxian, to be honest, my feelings for you are still the same." Zhu Hongda couldn't help but confess to Shuxian, which was the voice of his heart that he had hidden in his heart for more than ten years.

Shuxian lowered her head: "Hongda, I have just said that we will never go back to our original student days." ”

"Shuxian, you're married, aren't you?" Zhu Hongda finally said the question that he had been holding in his heart for a long time.

Shuxian nodded.

"Look at what I'm asking, we're all past the age of our establishment, and you're such an outstanding girl, how can you not marry a woman? Is it the soldier you had in mind? ”

Shuxian nodded.

"Alas, if you keep the clouds open and see the moon, you will finally get the beauty back." Zhu Hongda raised his head and sighed.

Shuxian raised her head and looked at Zhu Hongda suspiciously.

"You forgot?" Zhu Hongda looked at Shuxian's eyes full of doubts, and smiled: "Back then, your father dragged the sick body to write a leaflet, but then he couldn't support it, I carried him back to the professor's building, he said, if you didn't have a favorite person, he would be willing to let me be his son-in-law." Later, I met the boy you liked on the Aurora campus. ”

"Have you seen him?" Shuxian never thought that Zhu Hongda would actually see Lu Yulin.

"Yes, he was wearing a suit and leather shoes, holding a large bouquet of roses, probably to propose to you, but unfortunately you had already left Aurora with your father at that time, I saw that he looked annoyed, and there was some schadenfreude in his heart." Zhu Hongda recalled that scene back then, and he still remembers it vividly and unforgettable.

"Hongda, this is not you, you have always been very open-minded and accommodating in my heart." Shuxian didn't expect to hear the words "schadenfreude" from Zhu Hongda's mouth.

Zhu Hongda saw that Shuxian was a little displeased, and smiled: "Shuxian, then you really think highly of me, do you know that in the animal world, two male lions will fight for the right to mates, and I just have a crush on you, and I am just a little jealous of your sweetheart." ”

"Look at your analogy, it's really insulting." Shuxian counted Zhu Hongda with disgust.

"By the way, Shuxian, I've always had doubts, why did you drop out of school without even getting a diploma, and Professor Xu also resigned, this happened too suddenly." Zhu Hongda has always been suspicious of Shuxian's farewell without saying goodbye.

"You know, my father has been suffering from lung disease, and when I was about to graduate, he suddenly coughed up blood again, and a relative in my family in Hong Kong heard that a Western doctor was very effective in treating lung disease, so I accompanied my father to leave Shanghai for treatment in Hong Kong." Regarding her father's whereabouts, Shuxian's statement is quite credible.

"Oh, I see, you are really a filial daughter. So how is Professor Xu doing now? Zhu Hongda asked with concern.

"He's been staying in the south, where the climate is milder and more suitable for recuperation." Shuxian told Zhu Hongda this grandiose reason.

"Then why did you come to Shanghai?" I don't know if it's out of professional habits, Zhu Hongda likes to break the casserole and ask the end.

Shuxian smiled: "Do you still need to ask, marry a chicken with a chicken, marry a dog with a dog, where my husband goes, I will naturally go with him." ”

Zhu Hongda himself was dumbfounded, feeling that the question just now was redundant: "That's natural, then where are you looking for a job now?" ”

"Since I got married, I've been living at home, and my husband is an old-fashioned man, and he wants me to be at home with a husband and children." Shuxian didn't want to tell Zhu Hongda about her job in Aurora, afraid that Zhu Hongda would go to Aurora to investigate.

Zhu Hongda felt sorry for Shuxian: "Alas, in fact, you are so knowledgeable, you shouldn't stay at home and be wasted, so do you have children?" ”

"Not yet, I haven't been able to conceive. Alas, it seems that I still have to go to the temple often to burn incense, and pray that Guanyin Niangniang can pity me and give me a son and a half daughter. Hey, Hongda, don't keep asking me, have you started a family yourself? Shuxian saw that Zhu Hongda was always asking questions, and she was afraid that she would lose too many words, so she immediately changed her conversation.

"My wife is a country woman, after you left, I also gave up, went back to Yuyao's hometown to marry a wife and have children, now, she has been living in the countryside with her son, my nature of work is impossible to tie my wife and children to my side, I haven't been back for three years." Zhu Hongda thought of his wife and children, and couldn't help but feel a little melancholy.

"Alas, it's not easy for you, and when the child grows up, he won't recognize you." Shuxian felt that Zhu Hongda's situation was somewhat similar to her own, and she felt a little more sympathetic to him.

"I can't take care of this, a manly man, do something and don't do something. The hot kang head of the wife and children is not the work of those who have made great things. Hey, Shuxian, what is your husband doing now? ”

"He's now working as a reporter for The Declaration."

"Oh? He took off his military uniform and picked up pen and ink? Zhu Hongda felt that his experience was exactly the same as Shuxian's husband: "I didn't expect that I would abandon the pen and follow the pen, but the one of yours would abandon the pen and follow the pen." Alas, fate can really play tricks on people, and I always thought you were a tough guy who likes to be iron-clad, so I inadvertently emulated your one. ”

"Hongda, did you give up your pen for me?" Shuxian didn't expect Zhu Hongda to choose this difficult and dangerous path for her.

"Not exactly, but it is not excluded that there is an element. Forget it, the past is unbearable, let's talk about you, when did he retire from the army? ”

"Since the Battle of Songhu, he has been discharged from the army. The family was also bombed by devils, so I came to Shanghai, and this year, it is not easy to eat. ”

"yes, it's not easy." Zhu Hongda is deeply touched that no matter what he does, he has to pay a price, and what he does may be the price of his life.

Shuxian heard that the alley was starting to be lively, so she hurriedly got up and walked to the window, and saw that many people in the alley had already started their day's life, brushing their teeth and washing their faces, making coal stoves, emptying toilets, carrying burdens and setting up stalls, pulling rickshaws, buying vegetables, going to work, and going to school; The sound of shouting, washing, car bells, and greetings came and went.

The morning light is like a baton, waking up every household, rotating around firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea.

Shuxian looked at the clock, it was already half past seven: "I see that the time is almost up, Hongda, I'll take you to the hospital." ”

Shuxian took out Yu Lin's shirt and suit from the closet: "You can change it." ”

Shuxian helped Zhu Hongda put on Yulin's shirt, feeling a little tight, a little long, and barely able to button the buttons.

"You unbutton your shirt and put this winter suit on the outside, it should be fine."

The suit is relatively loose, and after Zhu Hongda wears it, although it doesn't fit well, he basically can't see the gauze bulging at the shoulder blades.

"Put your top hat on." Shuxian was afraid that Zhu Hongda would be recognized, so she tried to dress up as tightly as possible.

Shuxian handed the top hat to Zhu Hongda, and after Zhu Hongda put it on, he pulled the brim down and covered his face a little.

Shuxian changed into a pale cyan checkered cheongsam, held a cloth bag, and pulled Zhu Hongda out of the west wing.

When the two of them went downstairs and walked through the pavilion, Mrs. Xue happened to open the door, saw Shuxian walking down the stairs, and hurriedly said hello: "Mrs. Ouyang, Nong morning, go to work?" ”

Shuxian nodded: "Yes, Xiao Baomu's mother, Nong Zao." ”

Zhu Hongda pulled his top hat and walked downstairs.

Mrs. Xue looked surprised and looked at Zhu Hongda's back, as if she was frozen.

"Mom, what are Nong doing, how can you stand still like a wooden man?" Little Paul pulled the corner of Mrs. Xue's clothes.

"Oh, knowing people and knowing faces but not hearts, who knows that a Sven person like Mrs. Ouyang will also steal men." Mrs. Xue stood there, muttering alone.

"Mom, what are you talking about?" Xiaobao saw that Mrs. Xue was muttering alone, and she didn't hear clearly, so she asked.

"Don't be nosy, little ghost, hurry up and carry your shoe box and go to work." Mrs. Xue yelled at Xiaobao.