- Have you found a place to live? Zhang Bojun greeted me in the reception room in the floor and asked.

- We've just arrived, and we haven't found it yet. I wanted to go back to Lei Zhen and ask him to try with us.

- If you can't find it, live with us.

I smiled and pointed to the hut at the entrance and said, "Please give me that one."

- That's not going to work! At this time, Luo Longji walked out of the back room of the west head and lodged a serious protest: It is a whole building, it is assigned to you, and you will bring all your family members. Everyone laughed for a while.

There were a number of rattan chairs in the corridor at the head of the building, and Liang Shuming asked everyone to sit there, and he briefly recounted the activities of the third party and the process of negotiations. The serious face seems to show the seriousness of the situation.

There are only two and a half days to go before the end of the truce on the morning of 22 July, and there is no sign of an agreement between the two sides that can be approached. Although Marshall's final decision has been repeatedly stated by the spokesman as the right to arbitrate or arbitrate, the words "final decision" are used in the relevant official documents, both in Chinese and English. The army reorganization plan not only requires the CCP to withdraw from Harbin and Qiqihar, but also from Zhangjiakou, Chengde, Yantai, Weihaiwei, northern Jiangsu, and all railway transportation routes. This plan was not put forward until 19 July, and I heard that the Chinese Communists had no room to consider it.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the representatives of the third party (including the Democratic League, the Youth Party and social elites) invited the first representatives to a tea party on the second floor of the National Assembly, reported on the consultations with the Chinese Communist Party, and listened to the opinions of the first side.

I talked to Lei Zhen on the phone, and at ten o'clock, we met at the political meeting. Not far from ten o'clock, we took a hitchhike to the downtown area.

In the middle of Guofu Road, in the original art gallery on the east side of the newly renovated National Assembly Hall. Although the National Assembly Hall of Western-style architecture is rough, it is also quite magnificent, sitting in the north and facing south, there are two large red pillar arches on the east and west sides of the street, and the banner is the four characters of "National Assembly". Originally, it was the decoration of the meeting on May 5, but because of the postponement, the mud clothes of the red pillars of the torii were wiped off in some places, revealing the wooden bones and not repaired.

I went the wrong way and went up the second floor of the art gallery. It turned out that it was the preparatory office for the National Assembly, and the political participation meeting was downstairs.

Downstairs, I first met with Shao Zili, the secretary general of the Political Council, and admitted that he met us in the office.

- I'm here to worship the pier, is the situation optimistic?

INTERVIEWER Do you think it's okay to be optimistic? Shao Lao asked me with a smile.

- I saw in the newspaper that you are always optimistic.

- I'm blindly optimistic. He put his small hands in front of him for a long time.

- So Shao is always pessimistic?

— Not really.

INTERVIEWER What is the crux of the problem?

- Suspicious of each other, do not believe in Ren.

INTERVIEWER This is an abstract statement, but is it more concrete?

Shao Lao didn't answer immediately.

I raised the question of the so-called "right to arbitrate," and I said: It has been reported that Marshall was a little hesitant to accept this power.

- Of course he will be polite, but if you want to give it to him, he will still accept it. Shao Lao replied very frankly.

I also raised the issue of the army reorganization program. I am also frank about my feelings: I feel that the solution proposed by ** only increases the difficulty of the problem, and is not enough to help solve the problem. That seems to be a complete surrender of the CCP.

Shao Lao did not directly refute my complaint.

I went to meet with Deputy Secretary-General Lei Zhen again. Lei Zhen is a classmate from the Japanese Imperial University, he is a few issues later than me, and one issue earlier than Naichao. He was grateful for opening a room for us at the Central Hotel and giving us a car from the 21st.