Liu Cunren's family's living standard is deteriorating, if it weren't for Liu Ting's frequent help, even the pot would not be opened, but most of the people have no relatives, so they can only pawn the things at home to buy rice to survive and maintain the lowest standard of living.

In mid-March, Hu Zongnan, director of the Xi'an Pacification Office, led his troops to conquer Yan'an, the CCP's long-entrenched nest, but did not hurt its main force; In April, Liu Bocheng's troops and the Nationalist army fought along the Jinpu Road, and the north-south artery was interrupted; In May, the elite 74th Division of the National Army was completely annihilated by ** Huaye in Menglianggu, Mengyin, Shandong, and the division commander Lieutenant General Zhang Lingfu became a ren.

In June, there was the news that the 15-year prison sentence of Sergeant Pearson, the main culprit in the rape of the US military in Peiping, was overturned by a US Navy judge and recommended that he be acquitted and reinstated.

Soaring prices and successive civil wars have made the students unbearable, and Pearson's acquittal has made it even worse, and students in Beiping, Shanghai, and Nanjing have once again taken to the streets, but with much weaker momentum than before, because there are so many things to protest that they are distracted.

In the provincial capital, the official residence on Fenglin Road, Chen Zikun was sitting in his study reading the newspaper, and the soft voice of the female announcer of the Central Radio came from the radio: "The national army defeated the communists and bandits along the Pinghan Railway, annihilated more than 10,000 enemies, and turned into ...... victory."

Chen Zikun slammed the newspaper on the table, picked up his pipe and snorted coldly: "The national army lost 25 divisions and 300,000 people, and there was not a word in the newspaper. ”

The orderly knocked on the door and came in, handing over a telegram.

Chen Zikun glanced at it, overjoyed, and went upstairs with a telegram to find Yao Yilei: "Yan'er is coming back!" ”

Yao Yilei snatched the telegram and looked at it, with only a few words, only saying that she would return to China during the summer vacation, and she didn't even indicate the time, she suddenly burst into tears: "My hard-working daughter, I finally remembered her mother, no, I want to pick it up in person." ”

Chen Zikun smiled and said, "Go, you all go, I'll be in charge at home." ”

So, Yao Yilei led the whole family to Shanghai to meet her baby daughter, and the family stayed in the villa on Xiafei Road, and went to the pier all day long to wait for the passenger ferry from Hong Kong.

After waiting for half a month, he didn't wait for Yan'er to come, but Chen Bei came, it turned out that he heard that his sister had returned to China, so he specially asked for leave to greet him, so Yao Yilei handed over this important task to Xiaobei and went to the store happily.

Chen Bei drove his family's open-top car to the Bund, where steamers were moored on the Huangpu River, and a large group of coolies carried down bags of rice, which were relief food brought by the United Nations, and many people in shabby clothes were waiting to board the boats.

After the defeat of Japan, there were three million expatriates left in China, and the repatriation was a long process, the expatriates were only allowed to carry their belongings, all large belongings were not allowed to be taken away, and there were also quantitative requirements for cash and precious metals, and everyone had to be searched by the police when they boarded the ship.

Hashimoto Takayoshi was among this group of repatriated refugees, he disguised himself as a Japanese businessman, hiding the family heirloom sword Tachibanaru in his crutches, successfully mixed on the ship, whistled for a long time, looked back at China, and couldn't help but sigh that the empire began to operate the mainland from the Meiji Restoration, first Korea, then Taiwan, Northeast China, and then the entire Chinese mainland and Southeast Asia, laying a large territory, but in the end it was all in vain.

As the ship laden with expatriates left the docks and began its journey home, an American cargo ship flying the Star-Spangled Banner arrived ashore, loaded with M3 Stuart light tanks and Dodge 10-wheelers, as well as military uniforms and boots sold as war leftovers.

Colonel Liu Xiaoyong of the Jiangdong Traffic Police Corps was on the dock, he was ordered to come to receive a batch of military uniforms purchased, this is still a bargain purchased by Chen Zikun using his old relationship, the cheap is like giving it away for nothing, when receiving the goods, a major wearing an American-style lapel jacket came over to talk: "Sir, look at your uniform, it seems to be the Jiangdong traffic police?" ”

Liu Xiaoyong replied politely: "Yes, I am from Jiangdong." ”

The man said: "Ask personally, do you know Chen Bei?" ”

Liu Xiaoyong said: "Is it Chen Bei who is driving a fighter jet in the Air Force?" I know and am very familiar. ”

The man was very happy, saluted first, and then stretched out his hand: "Fortunately, I am Jiang Weiguo, a friend of Chen Bei." ”

Liu Xiaoyong was shocked, it turned out that this heroic major turned out to be the second son of Chiang Kai-shek's family, and he was so polite, which was really unexpected.

Jiang Weiguo came to receive the tank, it happened that Liu Xiaoyong was also very familiar with the tank, the two talked, Jiang Gongzi learned that Liu Xiaoyong had participated in the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Beitai, and he was immediately in awe, and was chatting, when suddenly a young man wearing an Air Force short jacket walked quickly and patted Jiang Weiguo on the shoulder: "Brother Weiguo, it looks like you, it's really, oops, Liu Xiaoyong, you are also there." ”

The person who came was Air Force Captain Chen Bei, Jiang Weiguo was overjoyed, and said: "What a coincidence, it will take a while for the dock to unload, let's go over there and smoke a cigarette." ”

The three young officers walked to the Bund Park, Jiang Weiguo took out his cigarette case, there were only two left, first to Colonel Liu, then to Captain Chen, and ran to the cigarette paper shop in the distance to buy cigarettes.

In the early summer season, the sun is shining, the vegetation is luxuriant, the Bund Park is full of tourists, but they are all hiding from a bunch of gentlemen, these noble men in suits and leather shoes and suspenders comb their oily hair, leading the big dog, indispensable, loud noise, suddenly one of the fat guys stared at the two girls not far away, and said with a smile: "One in one and one in the ocean, complement each other, Mr. two, you can see the color is okay." ”

Surrounded by everyone, there was a short man, commanding and waving his cane: "Well, yes, Jinbao, call me over and show me." ”

Ou Jinbao said vividly in the past: "Two beautiful young ladies, our second son invites you to come over and talk and make friends." ”

The two girls were taking pictures, and suddenly saw a fat man who was obsessed with lust coming to talk, and suddenly felt uncomfortable, and the black-haired one politely and resolutely refused: "I'm sorry, we're not interested." ”

Ou Jinbao said: "I'm interested when I go, give me face." ”

The girl picked up another foreign girl and was about to leave, but Ou Jinbao opened her arms to stop her, and said with a hippie smile: "Brother is from Yangzi Company, have you heard of it, take you to the department store, what do you want to buy." ”

Liu Xiaoyong and Chen Beizheng walked over from not far away, and when they saw that they were molesting people's girls, they were a little indignant, Chen Bei fixed his eyes and saw that the one who was molested was actually his sister Yan'er, and he was immediately furious, and rushed over and gave Ou Jinbao a slap.

Ou Jinbao covered his face and glared angrily, seeing that the other party was two officers with guns, the hero didn't eat the loss in front of him, and ran away with a smoke.

"Yan'er, is that you?" Chen Bei still didn't dare to admit it, his sister has changed, the eighteenth female college has changed, and she is getting more and more beautiful.

Yan'er recognized her brother, and pounced on her brother, and her brother kept shouting.

The American girl on the side is also an acquaintance, Elizabeth. Stanley.

In the distance, "Mr. Er" and others saw that Jinbao was beaten, and immediately came up violently, and the bodyguards surrounded him from both sides, lifted their suit jackets, and exposed the handle of the gun.

Chen Bei was not afraid, stepped forward to negotiate, and the two sides reported their names, it turned out that the other party was Kong Lingjun, the second lady of Kong Xiangxi's family, that was really a lawless master, plus the Kong family and the Chen family were always at odds, and they met on a narrow road, so it was not a long time.

Kong Lingjun made a look, a bodyguard secretly pulled out a gun, he had already been seen by Liu Xiaoyong, how could the quality of people who had experienced the flesh and blood battlefield be comparable to these wine bags and rice bags, Liu Xiaoyong immediately pulled out a gun and shot, hitting the bodyguard's wrist.

A shootout began, the two sides shot at a distance of more than ten meters, Kong Lingjun released the fierce dog, and the four vicious dogs pounced with blood-red tongues, which frightened Yan'er and Elizabeth, Chen Bei raised the gun and hit, a burst of gunsmoke, the four dogs were lying on the ground and convulsed, and quickly choked.

Jiang Weiguo, who had just returned from buying cigarettes, saw that the two brothers and people were fighting each other, and immediately summoned his subordinates from the dock, and a platoon of armored soldiers came over with M3 submachine guns to reinforce them.

Kong Lingjun has a lot of people and guns here, but he may not have the upper hand, Chen Bei's marksmanship is outstanding, a Colt revolver points where to fight, Liu Xiaoyong uses a Canadian-made Browning high-power pistol, 13 rounds of ammunition are full of firepower, if it weren't for taking care of the two girls, he would have attacked a long time ago.

The armored soldiers came around, the submachine guns were pointed into the sky, the bodyguards of the Yangzi company stopped, Jiang Weiguo waved his hand, the soldiers went up to tie up people, at this time, the police and gendarmes also arrived, and when I asked, I found out that they were all the masters who could not be provoked, Kong Xiangxi's daughter, Chen Zikun's children, and the second son of the Jiang family.

In the chaos, Yan'er fell out of her pocket with a key with the hotel door number, and Ou Jinbao quietly picked it up.

Fortunately, Jiang Weiguo is more good at being a man, although he is not related by blood, and Kong Lingjun is also his cousin, so he said that it was all a misunderstanding, so let's take a step back.

Kong Lingjun was unforgiving: "Why forget it, three people and four dogs have died on my side, and I want them to die!" ”

Chen Bei was very arrogant: "Who are you, a demon who is neither male nor female, Lao Tzu punched your ugly face." ”

Kong Lingjun is indeed not handsome, and has not yet been married, this is her most taboo topic, Chen Bei's words are vicious to the extreme, the second miss of the Kong family was furious, jumped to her feet and scolded with a male duck voice: "The surname Chen, I am inseparable from you, and I will not kill your whole family, I will not be surnamed Kong!" ”

Chen Bei hugged his arms and said condescendingly: "Come on, you can't reach Lao Tzu when you step on the bench." ”

"Peace is precious, don't talk about it." Jiang Weiguo continued to play a round, and at this time, a team of armed traffic policemen brought by Liu Xiaoyong on the dock also came, the bullet was loaded, the nose of the plane was wide open, Kong Lingjun's eyes rolled, and his face suddenly changed: "Okay, I'll give Brother Weiguo face, let's go." ”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, it was already difficult to deal with the evil, and Miss Kong Er was even more of a gentleman, and no one could afford to provoke her if she dared to kill the police.

Jiang Weiguo was very helpless: "When the street is fired, what kind of system will it become, I will report this matter to my father." ”

The captain of the gendarmerie on the side said: "Second son, it is not the first time that Miss Kong Er has been on the street to fight the fire, and last time in Chongqing Central Park, the third son of Wang Longyun of Yunnan Province disagreed with each other and pulled out a gun, killing many innocent passers-by, and it is not over." ”

After such a scene, no one had the heart to play anymore, but fortunately, Chen Bei picked up his sister, and he said: "Yan'er, come home with me, Aunt Yao wants to kill you." ”

Yan'er said: "No, I have to go back to the hotel to get my luggage first, and I have a friend here." ”

Chen Beidao: "Is it a boyfriend?" ”

Yan'er said: "No, it's my Harvard classmate Mary." ”

Elizabeth added: "It's Mary. Margaret. Truman. ”

"Oops, where's my key?" Yan'er touched her pocket and exclaimed.