Seeing Liu Zezhi, Kong Wenqing turned a blind eye and was expressionless. Liu Zezhi didn't know whether to say hello or pretend not to see it. I had to smile reluctantly at Li Shiqun: "Director, please." As he spoke, he took off his coat for Li Shiqun and hung it on the hanger.

Li Shiqun smiled: "Why are old classmates so unfamiliar and embarrassed to meet? Do you want me to introduce each other? Please be seated, everybody. Tanaka-kun, come, sit here. ”

Everyone sat down on tatami mats. Li Shiqun pointed to the strange man and introduced it to everyone: "Tanaka Katsuei, you may not have heard of this name, Nanji Star, you have always heard of it, right?" Tanaka-kun will be the head of the Intelligence Division No. 76 from tomorrow. It has been more than a year since the establishment of No. 76, and the most important intelligence department has changed its chief for two consecutive years. I haven't been regular, and I'm going to borrow Tanaka-kun in the future. ”

Tanaka Katsuei bowed slightly: "When we meet for the first time, please take care of me." ”

Li Shiqun said to Kong Wenqing again: "Kong Wenqing, I have had a teacher-student relationship. This rescue of Tanaka-kun, according to the first merit, originally wanted to stay by my side, who knew that Major General Kage Sazhen Zhao and I robbed people, so I had to cut my love. So today's light meal, the others are all our No. 76 people, only Wen Qing, who is considered a guest. Zezhi, a toast to you, an old classmate, for us. "Everyone here is a scheming professional agent, and they just laugh and don't say anything. Only Liu Zezhi breathed a sigh of relief, and seemed to be very reluctant to get along with Kong Wenqing Qingqing.

Liu Zezhi poured a full glass of sake and handed it over, Kong Wenqing did not speak, and reached out to take it silently. Liu Zezhiqiang said with a smile: "Lao Kong, I am ordered by the director to give you a drink, if you don't fight, you don't know each other, what happened in the past...... I don't know what to say. Come, I'll do it first. ”

Yamaki Ryuzo also raised his glass: "Mr. Kong, when it comes to the phrase if you don't fight, you don't know each other, let's count ...... I'll toast you too. ”

Ni Xin interjected: "Then I'll join in the fun." I used to be in two camps, and I had to do it. Later, Mr. Kong joined the construction of the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Circle, and he became a family. ”

Kong Wenqing looked at Liu Zezhi, who revealed his identity in one sentence, Ni Xin, who took the lead in arresting him, tortured and interrogated him, and reluctantly smiled: "Secretary Ni's words make sense. I would also like to thank Secretary Ni for taking care of my mother and brother after I left Shanghai. With that, he drank the wine in one gulp.

Ni Xin smiled and replied with something in his words: "When Mr. Kong arrives in Shanghai, he can take care of Ling Tang and Ling Di nearby, and from today on, I can be regarded as letting go of this burden." ”

Ryuzo Yamaki also said: "In the past, we were enemies with Mr. Kong, but in the future, we will work together to build the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Circle, we are comrades-in-arms, and I will also give you a drink." I wish the Imperial Japanese Army a long military fortune. ”

The crowd had another toast. Katsuei Tanaka, who had not spoken, said: "Director Li, everyone, Tanaka is a newcomer, so he shouldn't have said much. However, Director Li did not abandon his foolishness and entrusted him with important tasks, and some words were not spit out or unhappy. The war between Japan and China lasted more than four years. Japan is an island country, and although it is of an excellent race and a far ahead of Asia in terms of civilization, it lacks resources and limited manpower. Once Europe and the United States directly enter the war and fall into a war of attrition, the consequences will be unimaginable. Before that, it was necessary to stabilize the occupied areas in Chinese mainland and provide a steady supply for the holy war of the Great Japanese Empire. ”

Li Shiqun asked with great interest: "What is Tanaka-kun's high opinion, I would like to hear about it." How likely is it that the United States and Britain will enter the war? ”

"In order to compete for the rubber, oil and other resources of Southeast Asia, and the British colonies in Asia, especially Hong Kong and Singapore, the small country contained the Strait of Malacca. I am afraid that sooner or later the United States and Britain will be directly involved in the war. Therefore, people of insight have long put forward the idea of special warfare, bacteriological warfare, intelligence warfare, and, of course, atomic weapons, which I don't know very well, and have been put on the agenda, but unfortunately there are too few talents in this area. I finally found a William Smith, and I lost it again. The rest has little to do with us, and intelligence warfare is our business. In the past year, a mere military command of the Shanghai station has stirred up the people of Shanghai. Director Li, my subordinates ask for help, we should concentrate our efforts and wipe out the Shanghai Station in one fell swoop. ”

Li Shiqun did not take Tanaka Shengei's words as resentful, but asked with great interest: "The military command Shanghai station has always been my biggest heart problem. In Tanaka-kun's opinion, how strong do they really have? Where are the weak points? ”

"According to my observations from many aspects, a comprehensive analysis can lead to the conclusion that the number of people in Shanghai will not exceed 50. The most likely is that there are only thirty or forty people. But Zhou Chengbin is a terrible person, he has a quick mind, a clear path, and almost never makes mistakes. Of course, the last-for-tat bounty for the arrest of General Ono and Director Li was the only impulse. This impulse almost made him die at the hands of Director Li. It's a pity that he let him run away again. As for the vigor of the color change that everyone is talking about, I don't think it matters. Because Zhou Chengbin is not a simple killer, but the soul of the military command Shanghai Station. The master has made a move, and the wits are not the strength. ”

Li Shiqun nodded and said, "This is reasonable. In particular, the non-subordinate action system he engaged in gave me a headache. There is a man named Duan Wentao in the No. 76 Action Team, who used to be the leader of an action group at the Shanghai Station. And then it was never caught again. Let's not talk about this today, you have been very hard along the way, right? ”

Kong Wenqing sighed: "It can be described as nine deaths, and I was almost arrested several times." Later, Tanaka-kun sobered up, and he didn't have to worry about Tanaka-kun's injuries when he acted, and he was much more experienced than us when he was hunted down by the military commanders, so he was a little better. ”

Everyone sighed together, Guo Xuan should not be allowed to slip away again, Li Shiqun said: "That's it, don't mention this person again." Stop eating a meal and shock Tanaka-kun and Wen to clean the dust. ”

Everyone nodded yes, staggered their glasses, and stopped talking about work.

Liu Zezhi secretly said: This Antarctic star really lives up to its reputation, and he can accurately deduce the number of people in the Shanghai Station of the Military Command, maybe he really has the ability to end the Shanghai Station? So wouldn't it be a big mistake to let the tiger return to the mountain? Several successful actions of the military commanders in Shanghai have caused the citizens of Shanghai, who had become slaves of the country, to grow a breath of resentment that was suffocated in their hearts. Zhou Chengbin has become a legendary figure in the minds of many citizens. The number of people in Shanghai is getting bigger and bigger, and the most conservative version has more than 1,000 people. I didn't expect Nanjixing, who had just arrived in Shanghai, to be so calm. He secretly made up his mind to compete with Katsuei Tanaka! What kind of bullshit superior nation, civilization Cheng dù is far ahead? You little devils kill people and set fires, you beasts are not as good!

Two days later, on Sunday, Liu Zezhi met Zhou Chengbin, dressed in coarse blue cloth shorts and wearing cotton shoes with a thousand layers of soles and two faces, at the flower market on the Bund, who was setting up a stall selling peach blossoms, daffodils, plum blossoms and other Tang flowers. While selecting Narcissus, he whispered: "Tang Shengrong, that is, Tanaka Shengei, is the director of the No. 76 Intelligence Division. After he took office, he declared in a high-profile manner that you were his only opponent, and he wanted to destroy the Shanghai station in one fell swoop before the Lunar New Year. ”

Zhou Chengbin handed over a few carved daffodils: "Sir, you are right to listen to me, you take these few home and raise them until the Spring Festival, just in time to bloom." Let's pick a few more flower pots, they are all fine porcelain in Jingdezhen, and they are still good things handed down by the elders. It's not an antique, but it's a good object. He does his, we do ours. Don't be affected by his nose, if your mood is chaotic, you will be easy to make mistakes, and maybe it will give your opponent a chance to take advantage of. Chongqing ordered us to assassinate a Japanese bacteriological warfare expert, Hideo Fukuda. While conducting bacteriological warfare research, the man had an accident and fell ill with plague himself, and after first aid, he was able to control his condition, but he was left with complications from Yanzhòng. Neurasthenia, brain dysfunction, had to come to Shanghai for treatment. This is the first time that Zhou Chengbin has mentioned the evil consequences caused by an agent's indulgence after Liu Zezhi's impulsive killing, and it is also mentioned from the side. Liu Zezhi has been taught and is secretly convinced.

Liu Zezhi picked up a porcelain basin for raising narcissus, looked at it over and over, and replied, "What do you need me to do?" Then he raised his voice and asked, "This basin is good, I bought it, but you have to give me a few daffodils." And these two plum blossoms, you give a real price. ”

"Sir, are you still scheming with us poor people? One look at your face, you know that you are from a large family. I'll calculate, as long as I don't lose money, I'll sell it to you. Hideo Fukuda only stayed in Shanghai for a few days, and he came in secret. Our people in the Northeast only know that he left the Northeast three days ago, set off for Shanghai, when he arrived, and where he lived, and they don't know anything. ”

Liu Ze's heart moved, and he had an idea, and replied, "I'll figure it out." As soon as there is news, I will immediately call Xu Jianxue's contact station to inform you. ”

The two bargained again, and in the end, Liu Zezhi bought four pots of daffodils, two peach blossoms planted in large pots, and the only two small red plums and white plums planted in imitation Yuan blue and white pots on the stall. He called his younger brother Liu Wu to pick him up by car.

Liu Zezhi asked Liu Wu to drive the car to Li Shiqun's mansion and said to Ye Jiqing: "Madam, today I went to visit the flower market, and I happened to meet a flower farmer with two pots of plum blossoms, although they are not big, there are a lot of flower bones, and the Spring Festival is in full bloom more than half a month later, so I bought them back." A pot of white plums or a pot of red plums, which one do you like? I'll move you to the living room. ”

Ye Jiqing was very happy: "I was just saying that I wanted to buy two pots of flowers, but I didn't care about it, and it was rare to meet a good one." Red plum bar, big New Year's Day, auspicious. I'm going to check it out...... Oh, and the peach blossoms, it's not bad, such two big trees. It's a pity that there are no peonies. ”

Liu Zezhi said with a smile: "These two peach blossoms were also bought for the mansion, and we can't put them in our small dormitory, so we can put two pots of daffodils for a scene." Peony flowers are even harder to find, so take your time. As he spoke, he instructed Liu Wu to help him transport two pots of daffodils, two peach blossoms, and a red plum into them and put them in and place them.

Just wanted to drive away, Ni Xin happened to walk into the door, saw it at a glance, and came over and praised: "What a beautiful white plum blossom, why don't you move in together?" ”

"Mrs. said that the New Year's Day, although the white plum is good, it is not the right scene. Just as I'm going to give it away. Lao Ni, I left a pot of narcissus for your dormitory and sent it to you at night. ”

Ni Xin thanked him and was about to walk away, when he suddenly seemed to remember something and said, "Zezhi, give me this white plum." ”

Liu Zezhi refused: "What's the use of you? It's just our small dormitory, and there is no one all day, don't waste the flowers. I'm going to send it to Mr. Xu. ”

Ni Xin didn't wait for an agreement, and had already moved the plum blossom out of the car: "You don't care about it, you can find something else to give to Teacher Xu, I think it's good to give this narcissus to her." Come on, thank you. ”

"Hey, aren't you robbing? Forget it, I can't afford to mess with it. Slow down, don't drop the flowers. What to do? Do you need to let Ah Wu drive you? ”

"No, I'll hire a three-wheeler myself."

This article is from Reading Rim Novels