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Father Zhu Road, Xiao Si Nan Road, Little Lafield Road, Little France Park and other streets and gardens are famous places in the French Concession, this area gathers a large number of literati and revolutionaries, and the surrounding Xiafei Road, Fuxi Road, Molière Road and other places are inhabited by many political dignitaries, dignitaries and dignitaries, the beautiful environment and the legal system of the ancestral authorities are self-contained, making the entire French Concession a paradise for a group of Chinese and foreign adventurers, and almost half of the influential left-wing and right-wing newspapers, magazines and social organizations in China today come from this area. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Ye Qing and Gong Qian, who were wearing luxurious winter skirts and furs, accompanied An Yi in suits and leather shoes. From time to time, he pointed to the western-style buildings on both sides of the road and the alleys with old-fashioned shikumen to tell An Yi where the residences of which celebrities and which famous literati and artists lived in which alleys. An Yi nodded frequently and sighed with emotion, deeply worried about the weakness of his country and the arrogance of the colonizers.

Shen Fengdao, who was wearing a black suit and a black top hat, followed the three of them, listening silently, with a pair of seemingly calm and leisurely eyes. Slowly scanning the front and back, Lin Yaodong and the twelve guards were divided into four groups. Walking more than 10 meters in front of and behind An Yi and others, taking on important security tasks, the driver who was arranged by the army to the Oriental News Agency drove three cars dozens of meters behind and slowly followed.

One o'clock at noon. After strolling around Nanjing Road, a bustling commercial street, An Yi and his entourage turned to Kafkas's Western Restaurant near St. Nicholas Church, and went up to the second floor to take a seat under the bow of two young and handsome White Russian waiters.

Sit in a tranquil space surrounded by bonsai flowers and admire the French plane trees on the sidewalks on either side of the window. Lined with the high-nosed Mrs. Shenshi strolling around, modern men and women hanging their arms, an endless stream of cars and rickshaws, many salarymen in a hurry, and a newsboy with a snot and a red face from the cold" Familiar and unfamiliar all of these made An Yi suddenly have a sense of time and space confusion.

Lin Yaodong and the guards carrying large bags and small bags followed, and sat down at the two tables next to An Yi and the four of them. He skillfully instructed the waiter to serve a borscht meal to each of his two tables, and made a special note that he would not want vodka, but should have a high-necked wine with caviar, and that he should have coarse oatmeal and no French bread with cream.

Ye Qing and Gong Qian were happily picking their favorite foods with a beautifully printed menu. Hearing that Lin Yaodong next to him could actually talk to the waiter in simple Russian, he hurriedly looked over and was surprised to see that Lin Yaodong and the deputy captain Xiao Zongji were so familiar with Western food.

An Yi laughed and explained in a low voice that at present, there are famous Western restaurants in Lao Nanchang that have opened for business, among which the largest and most famous Don River Western Restaurant is opened by Russians. In their spare time, the brothers like to sit and have a drink. Feel the fresh food and exotic flavors. More than 2,000 European and American technicians, engineers, and teachers working in the old Nanchang area like to go there to eat, and many of them are very familiar with Lin Yaodong and other officers at all levels, and they get along well with each other, and the brothers naturally speak some Russian and other languages.

A pleasant lunch was halfway through. An Yi was holding a wine glass to greet Gong Qian and Ye Qing, the shopkeeper, who was nearly forty years old, tall and dignified, with neatly combed gold hair, with a grateful face, led the three white Russian waiters to the table of An Yi and the four, bowed deeply, and whispered to the waiter to send An Yi and the four of them a bottle of aged French red wine, a Caucasian grilled sausage and a delicate sheath fish dumpling to An Yi A little surprised, glanced at Ye Qing and Gong Qian, and now they were also at a loss, and immediately politely put down the knife and fork and stood up to ask the reason.

The white shopkeeper enthusiastically stretched out his hand and shook An Yi tightly. Respectfully begged An Yi to sit down. This was followed by a sincere thank you in fluent Chinese:

"We are overjoyed and honored to visit our store by the General and all the gentlemen and ladies of you.

All Russians far from home are grateful to the general for his benevolence and fraternity, without which we Belarusians would not have the greatly improved social status we have today, let alone the dignity and rapidly increasing security.

General, please accept the Seventh Alessandro family of St. Petersburg, Ojerosheng Ogimsky Alexandro, on behalf of tens of thousands of Russians living in foreign lands, to express sincere gratitude and heartfelt thanks to the general! ”

An Yi was quite surprised, stood up and asked with a polite smile: "It seems that we have never met before, aren't you afraid of recognizing the wrong person?" ”

"You can't be wrong, there are large pictures of the general in newspapers and magazines, and I have a copy at home. As soon as the general came in and took off his hat, many of our people recognized the general as coming. Everyone is very happy, it is our honor to meet the general Alessandro said politely, bowed deeply again, and several attendants around him looked at An Yi excitedly, their eyes full of admiration.

"I see,"

An Yi remembered something, suddenly patted his forehead, shook his head and smiled, and shook hands with the shopkeeper again: "I remember." Wa Jia of the old Nanchang Don River Restaurant once mentioned Mr., Wa Jia and you are brothers, right? ”

"Yes, General, he is the eldest son of my uncle, his cousin, who served as Chief of Staff of the Second Army Corps in St. Petersburg, and after the October Revolution he was exiled to Shanghai, and our illustrious family has since lost their homeland. Watya didn't know how to cook, but he was among a dozen family slaves who came with him to China. There are four of the best chefs. One of them is now the head chef of the restaurant, and the other three followed Wajia to Nanchang, and we have been in correspondence every month for a year, and Wajia said that he was very happy in Nanchang. Alessandro replied with a smile.

An Yi warmly thanked Alessandro for the generous gift and invited him to sit down for a drink. Alessandro immediately agreed happily, and the three young waiters smiled and bowed gracefully to An Yi, and turned to leave, attracting the attention of many guests in the restaurant.

Because An Yi's position happened to be obscured by tall decorative broad-leaved plants, and the two table guards blocked everyone's view, the guests didn't understand who the owner was offering his courtesy after a careful look, and after a while of whispering, they lost interest in delving into it, and the restaurant returned to calm.

Touching a glass lightly, An Yi asked in a low voice how the Belarusian refugees on the beach were doing? Alessandro once again thanked An Yi for his efforts to improve the social status of Belarus, and politely said that his people are much better than before, especially the more than 1,000 Belarusians who have obtained temporary residence permits from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the National Government to work in the Nanchang area. The situation of the displaced people in Erqi has not changed much. Still in Shanghai, they rely on menial jobs in exchange for meager food. Among them, gathered White Russian repairmen and **** who were waiting for work at the corner of the street. Many of them were formerly aristocrats or wealthy families, but now everything is lost. They can only survive with their own hands and by selling their bodies. However, their current situation has improved a lot compared to before An Yi and the central government's attention, at least they will not be abused and killed inexplicably.

Gong Qian and Ye Qing glanced at each other. Nodded silently. They knew that An Yi recruited a large number of skilled Belarusians from Belarus, solved their identity documents, and went to Lao Nanchang to serve as foreign language and professional teachers and factory technicians in two universities, and they also knew that two-thirds of the English, French, German, and Russian language teachers in the Foreign Language Department of Jiangnan University of Technology were Belarusian. I also know that in order to correct the name of the Belarusians who work for him, An Yi has said several times at the Central Work Conference that he hopes to naturalize the Belarusians living in China, although it was not approved in the end, but it also made the central government understand the bad situation of the Belarusians now, and formulated some laws and regulations to protect their interests, presumably this is why Alessandro is grateful.

But Dung Qian and Ye Qing didn't know. What I know is actually just the tip of the iceberg, and the exchanges between An Yi and the White Russians are far more than that. Seven old Belarusian professors and two middle-aged scholars who returned to China from Japan in the foreign language teaching and research group of Jiangnan Medical College, in addition to a large number of European and American scientific and technological books. In addition to writing teaching materials. It also undertook the study of foreign language teaching and scientific and technological information collection in the "Advanced Advanced Training Course" of the non-commissioned officer training base. There is an "advanced advanced training class" with only 49 students in the non-commissioned officer base, which is affiliated with the military logistics major and trains An Yi's batch of intelligence talents. Forty-nine cadets, who were selected from among the more than 5,000 students of the army and two universities, and who had undergone strict political examination and secret investigations before they were qualified for further study, were divided into groups for three days a week to study the language, writing, history, and etiquette of Japan, Europe, and the United States, and returned to the base for the other three days to study political security, intelligence, and radio knowledge. Not only are they assigned to a comfortable small building located in the hospital's expert residential area, but the children and their families enjoy generous benefits such as free education and medical care. He also received a high monthly salary of 700 yuan paid by An Yi, and his life was stable and prosperous.

Alessandro's participation in the chat made everyone's chat topic more broad, from the changes in Shanghai over the past few years to the possible future exhibition trends, from the living conditions of expatriates in various countries to the current situation of major foreign banks and banks, this chat is more than two hours, Alessandro's keen thinking, elegant demeanor and cheerful and cautious words and deeds. It left a deep impression on An Yi and others.

Time flies. Seeing that four o'clock in the afternoon was approaching, An Yi and the others wanted to return to Yiyuan to change clothes and prepare gifts to attend Jiang Dingwen's wedding, so they had to politely say goodbye.

Alessandro didn't say anything to save him. But insisted on not charging for meals, and delivered An Yi and his party to the door with his beautiful wife and assistant.

Before the two sides shook hands and said goodbye, Alessandro hesitated slightly, but still told An Yi an important news: An old White Russian friend who had just arrived in Shanghai from Harbin yesterday revealed to him that one of the light aristocrats in Harbin who was active in Harbin was actually a Bolshevik. The young nobleman had accompanied several important officials of the Japanese government's cabinet to Moscow quietly, and it was said that it was to discuss the new relations between Japan and Russia and the distribution of interests between the two sides in the northeast. He crossed the lively street with Gong Qian and others and walked onto the opposite sidewalk.

When it was more than 30 meters away from the parking lot, a group of brightly dressed and fashionable men walked out of the café that was about to pass, and the sturdy man who walked in front saw Gong Qian and Ye Qing, two stunning beauties, walking beside An Yi on the left and right. A smile and a smile are all fascinating, and I can't help but swallow my saliva.

Gong Qian and Ye Qing didn't see anything wrong at the beginning. I still talked and laughed with An Yi during the stroll. looked happy, and couldn't help but make the eyes of this group of men who came out of the café straight. After walking a few more steps, Gong Qian quickly noticed the expressions of this group of Shanghai deflated fans full of drama and provocation, her heart sank, and she couldn't help but clench An Yi's arm to speed up.

This pair of An Yi was whispering to Ye Qing on the left, and he didn't pay attention to it, and was about to pass in front of the group of deflated three. A blatant Shanghai swear word for a man immediately annoyed Ye Qing.

"Why are you so rascalous? Uneducated! ”

Ye Qing said a word. It gave the truth to this group of hooligans who were thinking about how to pick quarrels and provoke trouble, and the man who was happy to see Mei Xin was thinking about how to pick quarrels and provoke trouble, and strode closer to Ye Qing with a laugh. The other eight guys who had been itching for a long time immediately surrounded Ye Qing and An Yi.

The man seems to have seen a lot of the world. Seeing Ye Qing and Gong Qian's temperament, they didn't dare to move their hands and feet. With a pair of blister eyes half-closed, he looked the two beauties up and down. Finally, he turned his gaze to An Yi's face, who was quite impatient. said a few words in a row that this little white face is quite like dismantling the white party, and I don't know if the second child below is useless or not. caused bursts of laughter from his accomplices, and suddenly An Yi, who couldn't speak Shanghainese but could hear it clearly, became angry.

An Yi pushed the brim of the hat on his head higher, squinted his shallow eyes slightly, and pursed his lips and scolded disdainfully: "Your grandson's mouth is really cheap." At first glance, you can tell that it is a lack of education! Stay away from acquaintances, Lao Tzu is in a good mood today, hurry up and get out, Lao Tzu will not pursue your rudeness. ”

The three major groups were taken aback. I didn't expect An Yi, who was not good-looking, to dare to be so presumptuous on their territory, looking at each other and scolding angrily about to surround him, the man suddenly coughed, and spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm that gushed out of his throat because of anger to An Yi, An Yi instinctively pulled the two beauties to dodge, who knew that the spitting body was empty, and there was no qi at all, and a mouthful of thick phlegm did not fly a meter and smashed on An Yi's leather upper, and the eight accomplices around him immediately rushed up, and they were about to clean up An Yi, who knew that he just raised his foot and felt a flower in front of him, Immediately, there was a wail, and in a blink of an eye, he was knocked down by Shen Fengdao, who had been silent.

The man and the two people around him were taken aback, and saw the six accomplices fall to the ground and roll violently, obviously injured not lightly. After coming back to his senses, he was frightened and retreated. As he retreated, he reached into his arms and took out the flowers, but before the three of them had time to take out the guy, the younger brother led by Lin Yaodong arrived, and the muzzles of the twelve black hole American Colt guns were pressed against the heads of the three dumbfounded.

Passers-by saw this. All of them were frightened and avoided from afar, and screams and exclamations came and went.

"You" you, "actually dare to report on Lao Tzu's territory, I", I can't spare you to wait" The man threatened weakly with a pale face at gunpoint.

A hint of anger flashed in Shen Fengdao's eyes. stepped forward and quickly found the Browning pistol in the arms of the three unlucky guys, and dismantled it violently, making the ground full of parts, and gave the soulless man a slap, and with a "snap" knocked half of his mouth full of teeth, and before this guy screamed, he grabbed his chief. Pulling it out a few meters like dragging a sack, he pressed it in front of An Yi's toes at once:

"Lick back what you spit out!"

The originally beautiful big man had a mouth full of blood, and struggled desperately, but Shen Fengdao's hand was like an iron tong. Unable to move, Dahan used his strength to eat, barely turned over half of his body, stretched out his left hand to grab Shen Fengdao's hand, Shen Fengdao's other hand lightning came, tightly clasping Dahan's wrist. With a "click", accompanied by a series of broken bones, the big man wailed in pain like a pig, and his head was immediately pressed by Shen Fengdao on An Yi's toe:

"Give you a second, you won't live if you don't lick it clean."

The guests and the boss of the café went out to watch when they heard the sound, and when they saw the scene in front of them, they were so frightened that they shivered and avoided from afar, and many guests recognized that this unlucky man was a famous man on Xia Fei Road, who was used to being arrogant and domineering, and at this time he actually opened his mouth and stretched out his tongue to lick the thick phlegm on An Yi's shoes, and he was deeply afraid of his own trouble, and soon scattered and fled.

Ye Qing had never seen such a ruthless and bloody scene before, she was so frightened that she grabbed An Yi's arm tightly, she didn't know what to do, although Gong Qian was shocked by Shen Fengdao's methods, she was still very calm after seeing how well-informed she was, looking at the big man on the tip of An Yi's shoes licking in pain, the blood flowing out of his mouth was more than he licked in, he shook his head slightly, looked around and said in a low voice:

"Okay, if you delay any longer, you will miss the matter, spare his life.

Shen Fengdao saw An Yi nodded, so he let go and stood up, Lin Yaodong also put away his pistol and prepared to leave, who knew that An Yi snorted and flew out, and kicked firmly on the cheeks of the big man who was struggling to stand up, and the big man was hit hard. Thrown horizontally more than a meter away, he rolled on his back and fainted with his face facing the sky.

An Yi took out a handkerchief in the panicked eyes of Gong Qian, Ye Qing and hundreds of pedestrians around him. He bent down to wipe the dirt and blood off the vamp of his shoes, threw away the handkerchief and clapped his hands. Slowly stood up and ordered in a low voice: "Don't let go of any of them, give Lao Tzu a hard beating!" ”

As soon as the words fell, there was a dull sound of fists and kicks hitting the body, and the two deflated miasan who had long been frightened were beaten and fainted in a blink of an eye, and the six deflated san who had just recovered from breath on the ground screamed a few times and lay down again.

Ye Qing and Gong Qian couldn't persuade them, they didn't persuade and couldn't bear it, and when they wanted to speak, they were hugged by An Yi and walked to the car in front. The driver welcomed An Yi and the three into the car. He closed the door with a fluttering eyebrow. After Shen Fengdao got into the car, he moved the car slowly, Lin Yaodong led the guards, and quickly got into the second and third cars and left.

The car turned into the Sinan intersection, and Xiao Song, who was driving, smiled at Shen Fengdao, who was sitting in the co-pilot:

"Brother Shen, the guy you cleaned up just now is called Xie Zhengming, he is the apprentice of Inspector Hua Huang Jinrong of the French Concession, this guy has only been on the top for a short time, and he has won Huang Jinrong's appreciation for daring to fight and kill, and he has just been transferred from the north to Xiafei Road to be in charge of the Qinghong Gang's business not long ago, and his reputation is very stinky. However, these gangs in Shanghai Tang know the background of our newspaper and never bother us, and they are polite to the hundreds of employees of our newspaper, but this time they probably don't know the boss. I thought it was a good bully, but I ended up deflated. ”

"Oh. That's right. Shen Fengdao replied indifferently.

Ye Qing in the back seat looked at An Yi beside him with some concern, An Yi smiled slightly, patted her hand and comforted:

Don't worry, it's okay "Sister Qing, you are still a reporter, why are you so small, from ancient times to the present." I have never seen hooligans dare to take the initiative to provoke the army, if these gangsters dare to take revenge, the younger brother will call a few senior brothers of the second division stationed in Zhabei and seize all their properties except for the concession, if not, I will transfer the special brigade of the independent division and kill a few powerful characters Liwei! I don't believe it, they dare to fart! ”

Gong Qian smiled bitterly: "It is estimated that the patrol room of the French Concession will find the newspaper office soon." All three of us belong to the newspaper, and they must know. ”

An Yi said indifferently: "Let He Jing deal with it." He and Lao Zhou are old friends of the French Consulate, and the newspaper is a key support and cooperation unit of the Ministry of Industry. ”

Gong Qian suddenly remembered the relationship between An Yi's Jiangnan Group and Du Yuesheng, Feng Jingyao and other bigwigs. With a slight smile, he no longer worried about anything, Ye Qing suddenly understood from An Yi's confidence and Gong Qian's smile. slapped An Yi lightly, pretending to be angry:

"You guy, I didn't expect Si Swenwen's attack to be so ruthless, no wonder the generals and soldiers in the army call you a smiling tiger, there is a way that the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked. The officers and men of your independent division are arrogant wherever they go, and even the gendarmes in Nanjing give you face, and when your officers and men make mistakes, they just talk about it, and they do not reprimand or confil them like they do with other troops. ”

"Wronged, Sister Qing, why don't you tell me what the people think of our independent division?

O sons and daughters of the people! Where is it so unbearable as you say? No one of our soldiers will take the initiative to cause trouble when they go out, but they are not afraid of it, this is a tradition. It has been like this since the establishment of the Model Battalion. If an army does not even have this minimum of self-confidence, what can it talk about defending the country? Right, sister?

Right, Old Shen? An Yi smiled.

Shen Fengdao smiled and didn't answer, Gong Qian said that An Yi was quibbling, and Ye Qing was so angry that he simply pinched An Yi hard.