Christmas is approaching, and the embankment is just as little like the city.

There are Catholic churches on the embankment, and there are many Catholics, but the way of celebrating Christmas is completely different from that of Western countries, there are no Christmas trees, no Christmas dinners, no gifts, and not to mention lively. Christmas was just a legal holiday, and that morning the faithful went to church and went home to pray quietly.

This year is different from previous years, although the Spring Festival is the busiest time of the year, and Christmas is not celebrated this year, but many places in Districts 5 and 6 are lit up with lights and a festive atmosphere.

The eldest son of the Chaozhou Gang "Brother Guanyun" wants to marry the daughter of Wu Dayuan, a wealthy businessman of the Fujian Gang.

This "cross-gang marriage," which has been talked about for more than 10 years, is about to become a reality, and almost all of the overseas Chinese leaders of the five gangs, the wealthy businessmen with heads and faces on the embankment, and the Chaoshan and southern Fujian villagers who are close to their relatives and hometowns have received invitations, and at noon the day after tomorrow, the Li and Wu families have a banquet at the same time, and the big restaurants on Confucius Avenue and Laozi Street have all been taken down.

Several troupes are setting up the stage and will start their performances tomorrow with gongs and drums.

Only receive blessings and do not receive gifts, no matter whether you know or not, as long as you go at noon the day after tomorrow, you will have a wedding wine to drink, but you can't enter the restaurant like the person who received the invitation, and you can only eat flowing water in a few nearby schools. This is understandable, after all, there are too many people, and no matter how big the restaurant is, it can't sit down.

Young people feel very exaggerated, old people think it is normal, the Huang family did it once 20 years ago, and the lively scene is still fresh in my memory.

The two have a total budget of more than 8 million Piaste, and when they make money, they have to help them do things beautifully, and the large and small restaurants and restaurants that participate in the banquet are all preparing dishes.

As soon as the fishing boat landed, the day's harvest was snapped up by the restaurant guys. Say how much money is a pound. There is no counter-offer at all.

It's not easy to come across such a good thing once or twice in a lifetime. The old people near the Pétain Bridge were all mobilized, one by one wearing red sleeves of "public security patrol", and when they saw strangers, they interrogated them, and those who found that they had the wrong accent or looked suspicious immediately reported them, making Zhuang Shiwu, who came to pick up people early in the morning, nervous.

"Lao Wu, go back and tell me about your grandson, how are you doing now? The Pingchuan faction is gone, and Qiyuan has run away. The gambling hall is closed, and all those who should be arrested are arrested, and next to it is the industrial village, everyone has a job to do, and everyone has food to eat. ”

"I told my eldest that the child ran away and couldn't be contacted, what should you do if he asked him?"

"Going north?"

"I don't have a heart or lungs, I don't even write a letter to my family, who knows where I went."

……

It's only been more than half a year. The security situation on the embankment has undergone earth-shaking changes, and it is no longer the "criminal paradise" that it used to be.

There are more than 1,000 Chinese police officers in several counties combined. Each sub-bureau has set up more than a dozen sections, including the Public Security Management Section, the Household Registration Section, the Intelligence Section, the Organized Crime Investigation Section, the Propaganda Section, and the Operations Section, and has set up police stations in different districts, established a system for the management of household registration and foreign personnel, recruited and trained "auxiliary police," and recruited informants everywhere.

What the Vietnamese police want to manage but can't manage is not a problem for the native-born Chinese police. It is also not easy to disguise yourself as a Vietnamese to work on the embankment, because there are Vietnamese police officers in the sub-stations and precinct police stations.

Han Shuo and Zhang Wei were too cunning and the compatriots on the embankment were too easily deceived, and Zhuang Shiwu was really worried that Mr. Zhang would be exposed and fall into their hands.

Listening to the discussion of the old men and old ladies, I was worried when a bus from the city stopped at the bridge.

A middle-aged man in his thirties, dressed in a suit and leather shoes, walked out of the car with a suitcase, Zhuang Shiwu looked at it carefully, and hurriedly greeted him: "Teacher Zhang, I'm Zhuang Shiwu, you've finally arrived!" ”

The middle-aged man clasped his hand as if he had seen an old friend for many years, and said excitedly: "Teacher Zhuang, after three years, we will meet again." ”

Speaking Chinese, the "official language" of the embankment is vernacular, and Teochew or Hokkien dialect is only spoken at home or when the villagers see the villagers, and this person is very raw.

A "security patrolman" felt very suspicious, walked up and asked, "Mr. Zhuang, do you know this gentleman?" ”

"We met when I was teaching in Hanoi a few years ago, and we were colleagues. Isn't Fude Middle School recruiting teachers, and Mr. Zhang came to apply. ”

"From the north?"

The middle-aged man couldn't speak in the vernacular, but he was obviously able to understand, and he turned around and smiled bitterly: "It's so dangerous, I almost didn't escape." Now, I don't have to worry about it anymore. ”

Xiao Wu of the police station said that people coming from the north, especially strangers, are suspicious.

Chambers has lived in Pétain Bridge for decades, has experienced so many things, and has seen all kinds of big scenes, and while suggesting that the old fellows should report it, he said quietly: "It's right to escape, where is the place where people stay, they are carrying out land reform, they are killing people, I heard that even Mr. Teaching is killed." ”

"yes, you don't blink when you kill."

Finally perfunctory to these deceived old people, Zhuang Shiwu finally breathed a sigh of relief, took Mr. Zhang's bag and walked all the way to look back, and finally came to the teacher's dormitory of Fude Middle School without danger.

The most dangerous place is also the safest place, the former Chinese Youth Association Fude Middle School Branch, and the current Republic Youth League Fude Middle School are on the second floor in front.

He closed the door and said with palpitations: "Comrade Zhang Qianwen, it was really dangerous just now, those old men and old ladies are not easy to deal with, in the past month or so, they have helped the police station identify four fugitives, all of whom are informants of the puppet government police. ”

The embankment was a few years ago, although it was very dangerous at that time, but it was far less than the grass and trees are all soldiers now, Zhang Qianwen asked solemnly: "The environment is so bad?" ”

"It's worse than you think."

Zhuang Shiwu sighed secretly and said helplessly: "In the past period, especially during the Spring Festival this year, we did not do our work well and did not respond quickly enough, so that Li Weimin Shun smoothly encouraged almost all compatriots to become naturalized. Immediately afterwards, he took advantage of the east wind of eradicating the warlords of the Pingchuan faction and transferred the foreign police brigade into the police stations of each county in one fell swoop.

Under his command, Han Shuo, the police chief of the fifth county, and Zhang Wei, the police chief of the sixth county, quickly expanded the police force, recruited a large number of Chinese policemen, and spared no effort to develop the eyeline and control the grassroots. By cracking down on gangsters who break the law and commit crimes, banning smoking, gambling and prostitution, and propagating reactionary ideas, many people have been deceived, and we are now unable to move an inch. ”

Zhang Qianwen came to lead the "Hua-Yun" on the embankment, and of course he had to understand the situation first-hand, so he looked outside through the window and asked in a low voice: "What about the Kuomintang?" ”

"There are all kinds of signs that there are contradictions between them and the Kuomintang, and they are not allowed to hang the blue sky and white sun flag on the embankment, and they intentionally or unintentionally suppress the Kuomintang to develop party members on the embankment, and intentionally or unintentionally suppress some Chinese businessmen who are closer to the puppet consulate and are unwilling to naturalize."

"So they are determined to support Diem Diem?"

"Think so."

"Wu Tingyan carried out a great purge, do we lose a lot?"

"It's not big, it's not small. They arrested more than 70 peripheral personnel and some comrades whose identities were exposed, but they did not commit poison, did not even torture to extract confessions, but only held 'introspection classes' to publicize their reactionary ideas, and then asked their family members to persuade them, and finally asked each of them to write a 'letter of repentance'. ”

"All of them?"

"All of them have been released, but their families have to vouch for them, and the released comrades have to go to the police station once a month."

The impact of involving the family is very great, Zhang Qianwen was silent for a moment, and then asked: "What's going on with their Huaqing Club, is there any of our people in it?" ”

"The YYC was originally initiated by a few students, but with the addition of reactionary capitalists such as Li Weimin, it gradually became an organization of Ngo Dinh Diem. Joining the Chinese Youth Association will make it easier to do business, find a job, and even become a police officer of the puppet government of South Vietnam, and enter the puppet government as an official, which has a certain attraction to young students.

It was not until Ngo Dinh Diem deposed Bao Da and abolished the constitutional monarchy that it merged with the Viet et Nam Youth Association to form the current Republican Youth League. However, it is only a merger in name, but in fact it is still in charge of each other. We have some peripheral members joining, and one of our classmates has served as a branch director, but in the end, it is Ngo Dinh Diem's peripheral organization, and it can't collect any valuable information when it enters it, so it won't play much role. ”

"What about the industrial investment company?"

"Li Weimin takes care of the Chinese, and the employment of young people on the embankment is basically not a problem, and many recent graduates go to work in various industrial villages, and some of us have entered, but they are just working, and they can't get into the company's management, and they can't even enter the industrial village security team."

"Why?"

"There are many middle school students on the embankment, few college students, and even fewer people with work experience. As for the industrial village security team, all members must be members of the Republican Youth League, and they must go through strict political review. ”

………

The place where Zhuang Shiwu thought he was safe was actually not safe at all.

When the anti-French wave was at its highest, they often organized students to take to the streets, often instigated people to strike and boycott the city, and often had friction with the Kuomintang organization on the embankment.

It's just that the embankment is mixed, and the French can't do anything about them, the Japanese can't take them, and the Vietnamese can't do anything about them.

At present, there are so many Chinese policemen on the embankment, there are so many intelligence organizations of the intelligence department of the police station and the "Vietnamese Chinese Literature and Art Research Association," there are so many eyes that support the Chinese police, and there are also some lists of personnel of the "Hua-Movement" organization provided by Li Weimin.

In the office of the director of general affairs of Fude Middle School, Gui Qingshan held his chin, looked at the dormitory opposite and muttered: "This is a big fish, we must stare at it to death, and we can't let him leave our sight." ”

Deputy Chief Wang of the Intelligence Section of the Fifth County Police Department asked with a smile: "Continue to put a long line?" ”

"It's easy to catch, what if they send someone after they're done?"

"Okay, stare at him, he can't toss any wind and waves under our noses anyway."

…………………………… (To be continued.) )