Chen Bei returned from the chairman's residence. locked himself in the room for two hours and didn't come out, and he didn't eat dinner, Chen Zikun knew the reason, so he sent Xia Xiaoqing to enlighten his son.

Xia Xiaoqing entered the room, and Chen Bei sat in front of the window, with half a bottle of whiskey in front of him, and the smell of wine was smoking.

The son is older, and he is a little estranged from his mother, coupled with the frequent combat missions, the communication between Chen Bei and his mother Xia Xiaoqing is not as much as the communication with his godmother Song Meiling, but after all, the mother and son are connected, Chen Bei cried and said: "Mother, I am panicking." ”

Xia Xiaoqing said: "If you have anything, just say it, my mother will make the decision for you." ”

Chen Beidao: "Lisa is dead, I know that she will never commit suicide, but no one seems to care about her life and death, even the godmother doesn't care, just like the dead is just an ant, but it's not an ant, it's a living human life." ”

Xia Xiaoqing said: "In the eyes of dignitaries and nobles, the lives of the people are like ants, and this has been the case since ancient times. ”

Chen Beidao: "Godmother has received an American-style education since she was a child, and freedom and equality are what she often talks about, but today's events make me feel very strange, she is elegant, decent, but cruel and ruthless, she seems to be more like a queen who looks down on the people, rather than a kind and kind leader wife, this is not the godmother in my mind." ”

Xia Xiaoqing said: "Child, you and they are not all the way after all, your father is a bandit in the old forest of Kanto, a chivalrous and courageous person, you are a child and your mother wandering all over the world, and the blood of the heroes in the veins is flowing, and the most unbearable thing is that the people are bullied, my mother understands you, that Laoshizi's godmother, and she will have less contact in the future." ”

Chen Bei nodded: "I won't go to her again in the future, but ...... Lisa's death, there must be an explanation, Mrs. Jiang doesn't care about this case, and the police and the court won't care, can people die in vain? ”

Xia Xiaoqing sneered: "What bullshit is that the prosecutor's office of the police station is for the rich, the poor want to avenge their grievances, they can only rely on their own fists, they don't come out, and my mother will stand up for you!" ”

Chen Bei was surprised: "Mother, what are you going to do?" ”

Xia Xiaoqing said: "In the past few days, the surnamed Tang has sent some people to our house to step on the plate, and when I don't know, I don't pee to take care of myself, when the old lady is chivalrous and brave, they are still playing with mud. ”

Chen Beidao: "Mother, you want to kill someone?" ”

Xia Xiaoqing said: "No, my mother doesn't kill people, she only sets fires, the one surnamed Tang is in the gasoline business, and a fire ignites the oil depot of the dog day and makes him cry." ”

Chen Bei was extremely excited: "Mother, I'll go too." ”

Xia Xiaoqing said: "You are tall and big, you are not good at it, don't make trouble for your mother, if you have the heart to help, get some guys for your mother, such as grenades or something." ”

Chen Beidao: "There are grenades, but that thing is not professional, it is better to get some white phosphorus, get a few Molotov cocktails, and it will be a sea of fire if you throw it over, and it can't be extinguished, it's definitely easy to use." ”

"Okay, that's it."

Lin Wenjing found her younger brother Wenlong to come out and wrote a sharp article exposing the report of a high-ranking military official reselling military gasoline, which was published in major newspapers in Chongqing under a pseudonym.

Xinhua Daily quickly reprinted the article and published an editorial expressing concern about the corruption situation, and for a while Tang Entong was on pins and needles, and he had no heart to deal with Chen Zikun.

One night in early March, Xia Xiaoqing's mother and son quietly went to the freight yard of the Tang's Oil Company on the outskirts of Chongqing, which was heavily guarded, with glass ballasts and barbed wire fences on the high walls.

This kind of high wall to prevent ordinary thieves is OK, in front of the light master of Cangzhou Yanzimen, Xia Xiaoqing, who is dressed in night clothes, took a few steps back, lifted his breath, and stepped on the wall, propped up on the wall and looked, the gasoline barrels in the freight yard were piled up, and there were at least three teams of people patrolling the night, all with wolf dogs, and there were warning words prohibiting fire candles everywhere, and the fire prevention measures were strict, there were fire buckets and various instruments and tools, and there was a sand pile, which was specially used to extinguish oil fires.

The defense is tight, it is extremely difficult to start, Xia Xiaoqing's brain is running quickly, he came up with a plan, jumped off the high wall and whispered a few words to his son, Chen Bei kept nodding, took out the Molotov cocktail that had been prepared, pulled the frame and threw it in, the New York Yankees' professional pitching arm was strong, the Molotov cocktail flew into the freight yard in a parabola, fell on the open ground and shattered, the white phosphorus in the kerosene burned in the air, and there was a sea of fire.

The watchmen of the oil company found out that there was a fire and hurried from all directions, shouting for firefighting, they were very experienced, and this kind of fire was difficult to extinguish, and it was necessary to cover it with sand.

In a hurry, the second and third Molotov cocktails roared and ignited a raging fire, fortunately far from the stack of gasoline barrels, and could not cause an explosion, but this had already made the officers on duty overwhelmed, some of them were busy fighting the fire, some of them rushed out of the gate to arrest the arsonist, and no one noticed that a black figure quietly entered the yard.

Xia Xiaoqing moved as fast as a civet cat, first took a basin in the duty room, then came to the gasoline barrel stack, unscrewed the lid of the barrel and received a basin of gasoline, poured oil while walking, poured it to the wall, dropped the basin, wiped the match and threw it over, and a line of fire quickly extended to the freight yard.

When the officers on duty found out the danger, it was too late, and hundreds of gasoline barrels were piled up in the yard, and there was no way to save them once there was a fire, because it was not an ordinary fire, but a devastating explosion.

There was a violent explosion in the freight yard of Tang's Oil Company, and half of the sky was reddened by the fire, Xia Xiaoqing and his son left without looking back, and their faces were full of heroic expressions after the chivalrous battle.

When the two returned home, they saw a full house of friends, Chen Zikun was radiant, talking and laughing with a tall American general, and when he saw his son coming back, he introduced: "Xiaobei, this is your father's old friend for 20 years, Lieutenant General Joseph Stilwell, chief of staff of the Allied China Theater, and will soon be the commander of the China-Burma-India Theater. ”

Xia Xiaoqing has never been involved in this kind of scene, and quietly went upstairs, Chen Bei stood up and saluted, greeted the commander, Stilwell greeted him a few words, and continued to chat with Chen Zikun, Chen Bei sat beside him, listening to their conversation probably that Stilwell wanted to recommend his father to be the commander of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and led the army into Burma to assist the British army in defending Japan, and couldn't help but feel overjoyed.

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When Tang Entong arrived at the scene, the freight yard had been burned to the ground, and the damage was immeasurable, and the surviving attendant told him what had happened, so angry that his face turned pale, his body shook twice, and he spurted out a mouthful of black blood and fell to the ground.

Tang Enbo, who was on the front line, soon got the news, and even gritted his teeth, it must be Chen Zikun who sent someone to deliberately set fire, and this lawsuit will not hesitate to fight even if it reaches the front of the commission.

Commander Tang found an excuse to fly back to Chongqing, and took the opportunity to report the war situation to the chairman of the committee to mention that his brother's company was set on fire, Chiang Kai-shek's expression was indifferent, and said: "Now that gasoline is hard to find in Chongqing, where did your brother get so many urgently needed materials?" ”

Towne was speechless.

"Okay, you go back to the front, serve the party-state well, don't think nonsense." Chiang Kai-shek sent Tang Enbo, returned to the inner room, told Song Meiling about the matter, and said: "I don't think it may be Chen Zikun who did it, in the end he is in his forties, and he will not do things like this, but his son is a troublemaker." ”

Song Meiling smiled: "Yes, then this kid is really naughty, I'll teach him a lesson when I go back, by the way, Darling, I want to help him be a matchmaker, what do you think of Janet?" ”

Chiang Kai-shek shook his head violently: "No, not to mention that Chen Zikun and Kong Xiangxi are not in harmony, the two children are lawless, if they get together, they don't poke a hole in the sky, absolutely not." ”

Song Meiling smiled: "I'm just talking about it casually." ”

Tang Enbo returned in a huff, found a few friends in the military circle to drink stuffy, and the drunkenness came up, and he vowed to kill Chen Zikun out of this evil breath.

"Lao Tang, this matter is to talk about it in front of a few of us, don't publicize it, Chen Zikun is a hot figure now, you can't afford to offend." One person persuaded.

"How?"

"China, the United States and Britain formed an alliance, and the United States sent a general named Stilwell to serve as the chief of staff of the Allied China Theater, this person is an old friend of Chen Zikun, and the relationship is very iron, and there are rumors above that Chen Zikun will be appointed as the commander of the expeditionary force, which is a fat difference."

Tang Enbo gasped, Chen Zikun had a relationship with the Americans, so he really couldn't afford to provoke him.

At the same time, Chen Zikun's family was also full of friends, and some high-ranking military officials who did not have much contact with him came to visit with gifts, just to find a position in the expeditionary force.

At the end of last year, after the signing of the Sino-British agreement on the joint defense of the Yunnan-Burma Road, Chongqing was organized into a Chinese expeditionary force to prepare to go to Burma to participate in the war, but the commander of the first road was not decided, and the troops were in place, including Chen Zikun's old acquaintance Sun Liren, the general from the tax police corps is now the commander of the new 38th Division of the Army, and Xue Bin also put on his battle robe again, and relied on Sun Liren's relationship to become a deputy commander of the 38th Division.

There is no impermeable wall in the world, and the news of Stilwell's recommendation of Chen Zikun has already spread, but Chen Zikun himself does not think so, he knows Chiang Kai-shek too well, the expeditionary force is the elite of the national army, how can it be handed over to a candidate who is not a descendant, the better he has a relationship with Stilwell, the more impossible it is to be the commander-in-chief.

But he still accepted the gift sent to the door, and the one who came did not refuse, and the request was full of promises, but he couldn't honor it anyway, if he blindly rejected it, he was afraid that he would be said to have a big shelf and a high vision.

Sure enough, in the end, the choice of the commander-in-chief of the first road was decided, not Chen Zikun, but Wei Lihuang, and it was Du Yuming who actually took charge of the task, and Chen Zikun did not even have a deputy position.

The expeditionary force marched into Burma, and Chen Zikun quietly fled and sneaked back to Jiangbei to continue to resist the Japanese.