Shen Mengxi returned to Shanghai to rest for a week, and then went to San Francisco to see the house that Zhang Jiaguang gave him.

The house is located on Tuban Street in the central area of Chinatown. The two neighboring houses are not large, and the surrounding residents are in relatively good condition, and some have cars parked in their yards.

Forty or fifty years ago, the Chinese were taken to California like pigs to build the Pacific Railroad and pan for gold, and contributed greatly to the local economy, but they were regarded as inferior citizens and were designated as living areas so as not to "pollute" other places.

With the arrival of new residents, it developed into a Chinatown, which is comparable to New York's Chinatown. The faces you see are all yellow-skinned, the plaques on the streets are all in Chinese characters, the voices you hear are all in Chinese, the vegetable market, the tailor shop, the nightclub, the school, the gang, everything is the Chinese model, just like a little China.

But Shen Mengxi can keenly perceive that there is still a difference between them and the real Chinese, to be precise, a difference in temperament. Europeans look at Asians with the same face, but Chinese can distinguish the difference between Chinese, Japanese and Korean gait expressions. Especially the children in Chinatown look Chinese, but the action language is more flamboyant, they can speak English and Chinese, more confident.

Shen Mengxi didn't live in a Chinatown house, there was basically nothing at home, and she couldn't move in, she spent half a month, walked a few cities, and bought canned grain and vegetables, pork, beef, milk, medicines, gauze and ammunition.

You must know that during this disaster relief, the underground garage where the grain was stored in the Wuling space became empty, and Shen Mengxi's heart was emptier than the garage, and she felt extremely insecure.

She contacted a number of farmers, delivered the materials to the designated warehouse in batches, collected them, and moved on to the next city. As for whether anything suspicious was found, I don't care about it.

Finally a full load.

When I returned to Shanghai, on the first day of work, I met Zhang Hanqing, which made Shen Mengxi, who had spent a lot of gold bars, a little indescribable.

"Go out for a walk, and your complexion is getting better." Zhang Hanqing put his hands in the pockets of his trousers and looked at Shen Mengxi.

"It's okay. It's nice to have a private jet, it's so convenient to fly around. ”

"Well, by the way, do a full physical examination."

Shen Mengxi accompanied the whole process to do the inspection, and it was lunch time when he returned to the office.

Lin Yuesheng rushed to hear the news and invited Zhang Hanqing to eat Western food, accompanied by Shen Mengxi.

During the banquet, the two did not shy away from Shen Mengxi's conversation, they talked about what weapons were transported to Heihe, Shen Mengxi pretended to eat steak wholeheartedly, did not raise his head, and listened to the conversation word for word.

Although he doesn't know the truth, he probably knows that in the past few years, Zhang Hanqing has been communicating frequently with Ma Zhanshan, who is fighting against Japan in Heilongjiang, and has contributed money and weapons to supply Ma Zhanshan's anti-Japanese activities. Shen Mengxi's heart was surging and he was surprised.

Speaking of anti-Japanese resistance, I also talked about the Northeast Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army and Puyi.

"What if I want to go to Harbin now?" Shen Mengxi interjected.

"You?" Zhang Hanqing glanced at her, "It's not as good there as before, don't go!" At any time, do not come into contact with the Japanese, women fall into their hands, and life is worse than death. ”

Shen Mengxi was speechless, put down the tableware, and wiped his mouth.

"Han Qing is right, my sister can go to Nanjing, Beijing, or Europe to relax, don't go to the Northeast, you don't have a good citizen certificate, and you can't even get on the train."

Shen Mengxi nodded, no longer dwelling on this topic.

The two said a few more words, and they talked about it, Lin Yuesheng said to Zhang Hanqing, "I, my righteous sister, both civil and military, can be described as a heroine among women, if Shanghai selects the top ten outstanding women, she must be one of them!" ”

Shen Mengxi stroked his forehead and sighed to Zhang Hanqing, "The eldest brother is a self-cherishing person, you don't know, their caterpillars are the biggest and fattest in Shanghai, and my righteous sister, in his mouth, is naturally not bad." ”

The two laughed when they heard it, and Lin Yuesheng said, "In this world, men and women have their own division of labor, my sister is outstanding, better than us men, I am proud to be a brother, but there is a man with a careful eye, and he may not be able to stand your excellence." He turned his head to Zhang Hanqing and said sadly, "She has a bad temper and can't get married at all." What is it, the husband can't have an aunt's wife, can't have a lover, can't go to the dance hall. Isn't this a manifesto of celibacy, you see! ”

Zhang Hanqing turned his wine glass, took a sip of wine, and did not speak.

Shen Mengxi's coffee came up and took a sip, "This world is always the world of the strong." The strong bully the weak, and the man bullies the woman. I can't afford to provoke and can't hide. ”

"How can we call it bullying, how difficult it is for women in this world to live, I eat and drink well and dress to raise them, play mahjong and go shopping every day, I don't know how easy it is."

"Not all women have to be raised, I am glad to have a dowry and a son, and I can survive." Shen Mengxi took a sip of coffee, "I'll tell you a joke, saying that once upon a time, a man raised a rabbit, and one day the rabbit gave birth to a white rabbit, and he liked it very much, and named it Dabai." After a while, the rabbit gave birth to a white rabbit, and the man looked at it for a while and said, "Guess what he said?" ”

"What do you say?" Lin Yuesheng didn't understand it at all.

"He must have said, 'This is called Xiaobai.'" Zhang Hanqing thought for a while and said.

Shen Mengxi shook his head and said, "No, think about it again." ”

The two of them couldn't guess what the man would say.

Shen Mengxi revealed the answer, "He said, ah, the truth is revealed!" ”

Two seconds later, the two laughed, Lin Yuesheng even laughed out of tears, Shen Mengxi shook his head helplessly,—— his laughter lowered.

The two never knew that they could play word games like this, so let Shen Mengxi talk about one more, Shen Mengxi looked at his watch, it was still early, and said, "Then let me test the rapid reaction ability of the two of you!" Who comes first? ”

"Come on, Han Qing, I'm definitely not comparable." Lin Yuesheng pointed at Zhang Hanqing.

"That's good." Shen Mengxi clenched his left hand into a fist, pointed to the four metacarpal protrusions with his right index finger, and said to Zhang Hanqing, "These four protrusions represent a word, look, wear, autumn, and water." Remember, which protrusion I point to, you have to quickly say what it represents, can you do it? ”

"Okay!" Zhang Hanqing read it silently and nodded very seriously.

"Alright, I'll get started!" Shen Mengxi pointed his finger to the index finger protrusion.

"Look!" Zhang Hanqing said.

And then to the little finger.

"Water!"

"Hey! The response is pretty fast! Shen Mengxi quickly pointed to other fingers, only to hear Zhang Hanqing quickly follow and read "Autumn!" Wear! Hope! Hope! Hope! ”

Shen Mengxi let go of his left hand, raised his eyebrows and smiled at Zhang Hanqing, he reacted suddenly, he learned to bark with a dog, raised his head and burst into laughter, and shouted that he was fooled.

Lin Yuesheng couldn't laugh either, and rejoiced again and again, "Fortunately, I'm slow to react!" ”

"Big brother try it too? You say 'class cadre' in quick succession. ”

"Class cadres, class cadres, cadre department, hahaha." Lin Yuesheng's tongue was knotted and he couldn't go on.

"That's a simple one." Shen Mengxi pointed to the dried flowers on the table, "You just say this forget-me-not." ”

"Forget-me-not-forget-me-not-forget-me-not" Lin Yuesheng stopped and blinked, "It's so strange." ”

Shen Mengxi couldn't help laughing, and stood up with his handbag, "Alas, go back to work and work hard." What a sensation it would have been if a reporter had been here and had published two well-known bigwigs in the newspaper in public! ”

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