The river under the Saima Bridge is densely packed with wooden fishing boats.

After a tiring day's work, the men eat, chat, and rest at the snack bars or rice noodle stalls on Lai Quang Lim Street on the left, the women squatted on the banks of the river with baskets of freshly caught fish to sell, some women gathered together to mend nets and make household chores, and the children played in the river with their bare buttocks.

On the right is the Skill Paper Mill and the International Daily, and in fact the offices of Renren Daily and Guanghua Daily are also located nearby.

Courteous reporters and editors, hurried warehouse staff, and an endless stream of shoulder-to-shoulder hawkers...... The most exaggerated sale of sugar cane, lined up from east to west, the ground is full of sugar cane, and it looks magnificent. People are flowing endlessly, all kinds of shouting and shouting one after another, and the afternoon on the embankment always seems to be so lively.

Wang Jingui finished eating in two bites, took the change of clothes sent by his son, and told him to study hard and listen to his husband at school before returning to the wharf of the Li family's warehouse.

"Fourth, all the guys have moved up?"

It would have been a big joke for a dignified major staff officer to be reduced to being a bodyguard, if it had been put aside five years ago.

However, times have changed.

In this unfamiliar place, it is not easy to be able to eat together. Not to mention being a bodyguard, Gu Jianhua even had the heart to rob half a month ago.

He glanced back at the tightly covered oilcloth on the deck, took out a cigarette and said with a smile: "It's all ready, just wait for the eldest young master." ”

This is a steel steamer that can carry 400 tons of cargo, in order to make the eldest young master sit more comfortable, Mr. Liu specially asked the boat boss to drive the ship to Wu Ji Shipyard for surprise refitting.

The cargo hold had been turned into several guest cabins, and truckloads of furniture such as beds, desks, and sofas had just been delivered. Secretary Ruan is like a hostess, how to arrange the cabin, how to lay the sheets and bedding, all she has the final say, and no one else can touch their hands.

The deck was even more exaggerated, and under the tarpaulin were actually two iron shelves that could be propped up.

Ding Maocai has great powers, and he doesn't know where to get two M2 heavy machine guns and more than a dozen boxes of bullets, if he encounters a guy who is not long-eyed, and puts the two machine guns on the shelf, he can "burst" them all.

The Li family has money and status in Xidi, Wang Jingui has already seen it, raised his arm and looked at the watch that Mr. Liu just gave him the day before yesterday, and said to himself: "It's half past four, and I don't know if the young master has finished talking with that gentleman." ”

Gu Jianhua was half-lying on the oilcloth, took a puff of cigarette beautifully, spit out a series of smoke rings and said with a smile: "Big brother, the young master is not in a hurry, why are you in a hurry?" To be honest, I'm really a little afraid of taking a boat, that time I went to Phu Quoc, and the last time I came out of Phu Quoc, I almost didn't vomit to death. ”

"This little bit of interest, I have time to learn to swim, look at those children, how good they swim!"

As he spoke, a sedan drove up to the dock.

A thin glasses got out of the car, dragged out a large suitcase from the back row, and greeted him familiarly while getting on the boat: "Brother Wang, my shipping company Xiaolin, Manager Liu asked me to follow the young master in the future, meet for the first time, take care of me." ”

Wang Jingui was just about to speak, Ruan Mingxiu poked his head out of the cabin and asked with a puzzled expression: "You are Lin Jiasheng?" ”

"Oh, I am."

"Where's the thing, why is it just a box?"

Mr. Liu said that the beautiful woman in front of him was the cousin of the future young grandmother, Lin Jiasheng didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly put down the suitcase and said: "In the car, there are three in total, and even the batteries are prepared for more than a dozen." Brand new, American goods, debugged in the company, connected to the antenna can be used. ”

Ruan Mingxiu asked, "Did you bring the antenna?" ”

"Bring it, matching, don't pull it."

Helping to move things into the cabin, Wang Jingui learned that it was a radio station, and the United States used a radio station, which only the division-level headquarters could equip with such a thing in the First Corps.

The more Gu Jianhua thought about it, the more wrong it became, and as soon as he returned to the deck, he asked mysteriously: "Big brother, it's a machine gun and a radio station, making a cargo ship look like a warship, what does the eldest young master want to do?" ”

Although Wang Jingui was also very curious, he still glared at him fiercely: "You ask me, who do I ask?" Just do your part, don't ask what you shouldn't. ”

Meanwhile, Mr. Lee was sitting in a warehouse office not far from the pier, chatting with Qian Xinlin, a history teacher at Ngee Ann Middle School.

He asked a lot of questions, and he didn't know how many times more sophisticated than his uncles, and he was a cunning little fox. Thinking of the past, Qian Xinlin felt very uncomfortable with mixed feelings, and decided not to play haha and go around in circles with him anymore, and suddenly said: "Mr. Li, if you can contact your second and third uncles, you will definitely not be like now...... So worried. ”

Li Weimin was stunned, stared at him and asked suspiciously: "Mr. Qian, do you know my second and third uncles?" ”

"And your fourth uncle and your sister-in-law, in fact, I am classmates with your second uncle, and I often go to your house to eat Chen's mother's cooking when I am studying."

The embankment is not small, but it is not big.

is about the same age, and they are all Teochew people, they don't see each other when they look up, and they know it normally, which doesn't mean anything.

It was a matter of success or failure of the plan, Li Weimin didn't dare to take even the slightest risk, and asked quietly: "Mr. Qian, do you know where they are now, and do you have their current contact information?" ”

"They said that your second uncle died, but no one saw the body. Your third uncle did go to Yan'an, and it is said that he went through the Liuzhou Office of the Eighth Route Army. Your fourth uncle used to work for ** in Kunming, mainly helping to transport anti-Japanese war materials, and was later transferred to the fourth war zone, and then lost contact. ”

I can basically tell the old man that the Japanese army has been stationed in Vietnam, and it is a matter of life and fortune, and these things cannot be easily disclosed to outsiders, so not many people have always known about it.

Li Weimin nodded slightly, and asked again, "Where is my sister-in-law?" ”

Speaking of Wu Guanqin, Qian Xinlin showed a painful look, and was silent for a while before choking up and said: "Guanqin sacrificed, sacrificed to cover our evacuation, your father and Mr. Liu thought that she had returned to China to participate in the Anti-Japanese War, and they never knew that she was in Saigon, right at home." ”

In any case, the blood of the Li family also flows in her body, not to mention that she sacrificed for the Anti-Japanese War.

Li Weimin took a deep breath, covered his chin and asked, "Do you know where the body is buried?" ”

"I heard that it was thrown into the swamp, and our men went to look for it, but they didn't find it. I've been wanting to talk to your dad all these years, but I haven't known how to say it. Maybe it's better, at least there's a glimmer of hope, and there's still a thought. ”

"Your people, who do you help with?"

"At first, it was the party department, and after the party department was withdrawn, a special commissioner of the military command came, and later he directly obeyed the orders of the US Strategic Intelligence Agency. Gather military, economic, and meteorological intelligence under the leadership of Major Thomas while helping rescue downed U.S. pilots. ”

Looking at his thoughtful appearance, Qian Xinlin added sadly: "When your second uncle left, your grandfather was still alive, and the old man couldn't stop him, and he was worried that he would cause trouble to the family, so he made a rule." Whether it is to resist the law or to resist the war, as long as you leave the Li family, you will no longer be the Li family, and you will go to the rich temple to make an oath to Guan Erye. So your father only heard that the Japanese military police killed an overseas Chinese named Ni Qiqing, and he didn't know that she was your aunt Li Guanqin. ”

The more Li Weimin thought about it, the more uncomfortable he became, and he raised his head and sighed lightly: "My sister-in-law doesn't want to affect her family until she dies." ”

"Not only your sister-in-law, but your second, third, and fourth uncles all changed their names and surnames after they left home. If they are alive and they don't write to their families, it will not be easy for us to get in touch with them. ”

It's best to be able to get in touch, and there's nothing you can do if you can't, not to mention that this is a matter of the previous generation.

Li Weimin pondered for a moment, and then asked coldly: "Mr. Qian, do you still have contact with the Consulate General now?" ”

"It's gone, it's gone after the surrender of Lu Han's army."

"Why?"

"Military discipline is corrupt, adultery, adultery, and plunder, and everything is done. They are happy, and as soon as they leave, the overseas Chinese in Hanoi will be in bad trouble. The reason why the Vietnamese hate us so much has a lot to do with what they did in Hanoi and Haiphong. ”

The Vietnamese have a very bad evaluation of **, especially Lu Han, who took over northern Vietnam on behalf of the Nationalist Government, and his subordinates had corrupt military discipline, raped women, and robbed people's property, which was worse than the Japanese in the eyes of the Vietnamese. As an overseas Chinese living in Vietnam, it is really unpleasant to look at and unbearable.

Li Weimin touched his nose, and then asked, "What about the Viet Minh?" ”

"When the Japanese surrendered, I joined the Viet Minh, and I was very enthusiastic at first, but later I found out that they said one thing and did another, if you believe him and follow him, I don't know how I will die in the future. After going through so many things, the sacrifice of my best friend, the disappearance of the missing, my heart gradually became cold, and I even wondered if everything I had done before was meaningful. ”

"So you came back and continued to be a teacher?"

Qian Xinlin shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Where else can I go except to go back to the embankment?" ”

Liu Jiachang inquired that he lived very frugally, and almost all of his monthly salary was used to help the parents of students who returned to China with him to fight the war but failed to come back together, and now he thinks about it should be guilty.

Under the influence of the magnificent nationalist ideology, more and more people joined the Vietminh and later broke away from the Vietminh, including the Vietnamese head of state Bao Da.

Li Weimin couldn't be sure whether he had any contact with the Kuomintang or the Vietminh now, and he didn't know his face, and he couldn't find out the truth, so he asked with a smile: "Mr. Qian, can I trust you in this way?" ”

Qian Xinlin didn't answer this question, but asked lightly: "Mr. Li, why did you tell my students that, why were you so careful, and which way do you want to take my students?" ”

"It seems that you don't trust me as much."

"Life is so precious, I've missed it once and can't be wrong again. Mr. Li, as a teacher, I am responsible for them and their parents! ”

Looking at his serious face, Li Weimin felt that he could trust him, and smiled casually: "What I want to do is what they are doing." Be prepared for danger in times of peace, since both sides can't count on it, they can only rely on themselves. If Mr. Qian has to get to the bottom of it, I can summarize it in four words--- 'huddle together for warmth'. Unite all the forces that can be united, undertake some obligations, strive for the rights that can be won, and find ways to expand the living space of us Chinese. ”

"That's all?"

"That's all, I'll see."