Through their meeting with Huang Ying, Robert Capa and Hemingway decided on a specific date and itinerary for their trip to China. According to the arrangement of the Chinese and American diplomatic departments, they will leave the United States by plane two days later and arrive at Kunming Airport in China after a connecting flight. After arriving in Kunming, Robert Capa would travel to Lashio, where the Chinese Expeditionary Force was stationed, while Hemingway would travel to Nanjing.

This is all the original plan, China and the United States have already made a rough agreement before, this time to the newspaper to discuss with Huang Ying, but to determine some details. In this negotiation, there are some changes compared to the previous ones, such as Su Hui also wants to join the delegation this time, which was not done before.

This is Su Hui's initiative to ask, she is also a war correspondent, this time she can go deep into the Chinese theater with the well-known war correspondent Robert Kappa to conduct interviews, not only to learn from Kappa, but also to cover the expeditionary force, a field she has never set foot in, she will naturally not give up this opportunity.

Of course, this is not within the budget. Su Hui offered to pay for the expenses for this trip. After sending Capa and Hemingway away, Su Hui expressed her opinion to Huang Ying.

Huang Ying smiled after hearing this: "Actually, you don't have to pay for yourself, you can also be regarded as a reporter for our China Daily, and it is more appropriate for you to go with Mr. Capa." ”

Su Hui waved her hand and said, "No need, you have been providing me with travel expenses for my manuscript fee before, and now that I have money, this money can be regarded as my feedback to the motherland." ”

"You're rich?" Huang Ying shook his head and smiled: "Did you make a windfall?" How did you suddenly become so rich. ”

Su Hui leaned over and smiled: "In the past, my father favored that son Xiaoguang and basically didn't give me money. Now the Japanese are going to occupy Manila, so most of the assets are transferred to the United States in advance. When I moved to the United States, I divided it into three parts for the safety of funds, one for my mother and me, one for my father himself, and one for his son. Although my mom and I were the least of them, we had millions of dollars. ”

"Millions! So much, it seems that your family is really a big family in Manila. "Although Huang Ying had heard her brother talk about Su Hui's family background before, she didn't expect it to be so strong.

At this time, Huang Ying thought of the matter of raising the two million yuan for her father, and the exchange of millions of dollars into the legal currency of the Republic of China was at least tens of millions of yuan, if she proposed the matter of these two million yuan to her, Su Hui would definitely not refuse, but this was obviously inappropriate.

Although she doesn't know much about Su Hui's family situation, she can understand from her words that Su Hui's family situation is still quite complicated.

His father has two wives and an older brother, plus her father is now in the Japanese-occupied area, and it is difficult to determine the future situation, and this money is likely to be the last alimony for Su Hui and her mother.

How could she be embarrassed to ask for such money?

"If you have any money, you can tell me." Su Hui said with a smile.

"It's okay, we're almost able to balance our bills and expenditures now, and besides, we have the central government." Huang Yingdao.

"That's good, but I'll pay for the interview myself."

"Well, if you're willing to pay, I can't turn it away." Huang Ying said with a smile.

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Ready to go to the war zone, Su Hui returned to her home in Washington. She used her father's assets to buy a house in Washington, D.C., which was her and her mother's residence. Although she didn't spend much time here on weekdays, her mother always needed a place to live, so she bought this house.

Su Hui's mother was born in an overseas Chinese family, highly educated, and although her English is not very slippery, she has no problem living in the United States. When she was in Washington, Su Hui's family also hired two maids, and her mother read books and raised flowers on weekdays, and every time Su Hui came back, it was her happiest day. This time Su Hui returned to the United States, her mother cooked almost every day, and would cook a lot of different delicacies for her to eat every day.

After finishing this matter, Su Hui hurried home. But when she returned home this time, she did not see her mother, and she asked the maid where her mother had gone. The servant only said that at noon, a Chinese man had come to the house, and after he had spoken a few words to his wife, she followed him out.

Su Hui frowned after hearing this, who else would there be a Chinese man? My mother's connections in Washington are very limited, and she is basically a Chinese person she doesn't know, so who will it be?

Su Xiaoguang? Yes, it must be his brother Su Xiaoguang.

This brother Xiaoguang and her are half-brothers, when they were in Manila, they were eating, drinking and merrymaking, since he arrived in the United States, he took the property given to him by his father and squandered it, presumably because he squandered all the money before coming to her mother.

Mother is soft-hearted, will she give him money after hearing his cry? Su Hui didn't dare to think about it, so she walked out without changing her shoes.

When I got to the door, a Chevrolet sedan stopped, and my mother slowly got out of the car, and after saying hello to the people in the car, the car was gone.

Su Hui hurriedly walked over to her mother and asked, "Mommy, where have you been?" Who are the people in the car? ”

Su Hui's mother said calmly: "It's someone sent by your father." ”

"Someone sent by Daddy? How is he now? When is he going to come over? Su Hui asked anxiously, since Manila was occupied by the Japanese army, she has been trying to get in touch with her father, but there has been no contact. This can't help but make her quite worried, although her father has shortcomings such as love for money and greed for sex, but in the end it is still her father.

"Let's go, let's go in." Su Hui's mother said calmly.

……

"What? Daddy took refuge with the Japanese? Su Hui couldn't believe her ears, she didn't expect the worst thing to happen.

Mother sighed and said, "Your father is reluctant to have an estate in Manila, so he has been reluctant to come until he comes." After the Japanese occupied Manila, he was still reluctant to get out, and now the Japanese forcibly expropriated some of his family's assets and took away the factory. Now the Japanese say that as long as he agrees to do things for the Japanese, the industry can be handed over to him to continue to manage, and he agrees. ”

Su Hui said angrily: "Daddy is so smart, how can he not understand that the Japanese are now at a disadvantage. Besides, the Japanese are jackals, tigers and leopards, so how can jackals, tigers and leopards do business on the terms? ”

Su Hui's mother sighed and said, "People are sometimes like this, once they are blinded by something, they will lose their original reason. Your daddy is a business wizard, but his weakness is that he is too money-focused. ”

"What did Daddy say when he sent someone to contact him? Did he say he wanted to come to the United States? I can find a way, but if it doesn't work, let's go to Nanjing or Washington. Su Hui was also a little excited.

Her mother shook her head: "He sent someone here to tell us that he is all right now, and that he is not going to give up on coming to the United States." ”

"Then why don't you go and persuade him?" Su Hui asked.

Su Hui's mother smiled helplessly: "Your father is a very resolute person, if he decided to come to the United States, he would not have waited until now." ”

Su Hui was silent, she didn't know how to deal with this matter, and she didn't know how to comfort her mother.

However, Su Hui's mother opened her mouth at this time, and she said calmly: "Although the Japanese army is now in an offensive momentum on all major battlefields, most people judge that it is impossible for the Japanese to win this war. I have a more or less understanding of Japan, the United States, and China, and the combined war mobilization capabilities of China and the United States are incomparable to Japan's, and the current battlefield situation has already begun to take shape, so it is unwise to take refuge in Japan. Based on Japan's current atrocities in China, Southeast Asia, and other places, the trial of Japan and pro-Japanese people after the war is inevitable, and I am really worried that your father will not know what will happen after that. ”

Su Hui looked at her mother in surprise, as if she was looking at a stranger, she didn't expect that her mother, who was just planting flowers and reading at home on weekdays, would be able to say this.

Su Hui's mother seemed to see through her daughter's thoughts, and she continued: "In fact, it is not difficult to make these judgments, as long as you pay more attention to reading books and newspapers, pay attention to current affairs, and then look at historical comparisons, you can analyze them." ”

"Do you have any plans?" Su Hui knew that although her mother didn't go out on weekdays, she was very careful in her work, so she naturally thought of a solution when she had this concern.

Su Hui's mother sighed after thinking about it: "Your father's decision is like this, and the overall situation is like this, what can I do to change it?" For now, we can only do a little bit. ”

"What can we do?" Su Hui didn't understand.

Su Hui's mother stood up, and after walking around the huge room, she said, "We just have to take precautions and use your father's money and his name to do something." ”

"You mean?" Su Hui still didn't quite understand.

Su Hui's mother said calmly: "Support China and the United States in the war against Japan." ”

"You mean that we will donate the money we have now to support China and the United States in their war against Japan?" Su Hui was puzzled.

"It's not that we donate it all, because then our lives will be a problem, and if we donate it all at once, it will soon be forgotten. And the United States has deep pockets, so it doesn't care about our family property at all, but our motherland, China, is now in a difficult period of war against Japan, and you have some contact with their high-level officials, I think we can donate this money in your father's name, and before that, didn't your father also donate $100,000 to the Nanjing government through you? Su Hui's mother said.

Su Hui seemed to understand, she nodded and said, "Okay, I understand." ”