Chapter 39: Confrontation
On the third day, two Japanese and two Koreans came to Northeastern University, and went straight to the president's office, Zhang Hanqing was not there, and after an hour, he was found by the secretary, he looked at the four of them, and his eyes were not worried.
"The female teacher of your school, shooting and assassinating North Korean immigrants, as a consular referee, we are responsible for investigating this matter, and we must give an explanation to North Korean immigrants." A Japanese officer in his thirties gave a military salute and said.
"Stabbing? These two things don't deserve to be stabbed. You say, these two, a female teacher in our school beat them? Zhang Hanqing couldn't help laughing.
"She's got a gun! She shoots! The North Korean yelled.
Shen Mengxi heard about this earlier, came to the door of the principal's office, and just heard this, knocked on the door, and came in.
"That's her! That's her! The two North Koreans pointed at Shen Mengxi excitedly.
Shen Mengxi smiled silently.
"This is our Northeastern University, Professor Zhang Jiayu who has returned from studying in Germany, and her brother is Mr. Zhang Jiaxuan, President of the Bank of China, and I can vouch for her that she will not commit murder with a gun." Zhang Hanqing said slowly to the Japanese officer with his hands behind his back.
Shen Mengxi politely nodded to Zhang Hanqing and the Japanese officers.
"I've seen these two North Koreans who were misbehaving by molesting a Chinese woman on the road." Shen Mengxi saw Zhang Hanqing's face turn pale. Then he pointed to his head and said, "It's just that they are not mentally normal, and there is something wrong here." ”
"We didn't molest the woman, she saw us on the road, told us to go back to North Korea, and shot me!"
"What gun? I'm a woman, how can I have a gun? Shen Mengxi was very aggrieved, and said to one of the Japanese officers in Japanese: "I am a teacher, I am powerless, and I have never touched a pistol." ”
"She has! The day before yesterday she pulled out a Browning pistol from this bag and pointed it at my head! ”
Hearing Browning, Zhang Hanqing looked at Shen Mengxi speechlessly.
Shen Mengxi opened his backpack and showed it to the Japanese officer, "Look, sir, here is my belongings, where is the pistol?" ”
The officer looked into the one-foot-wide leather bag, which contained only a key handkerchief and a fountain pen.
Shen Mengxi showed two more North Koreans and said in Chinese: "Oh, open your dog's eyes, look!" ”
"Pistols! Pistol! The two men shouted, and in the leather bag that was held up to them was the Browning pistol, and they reached out to grab it.
Shen Mengxi turned around helplessly and threw the leather bag on the ground, and the contents fell out and scattered on the carpet.
"Sir, you better take them to see a psychiatric department, China allows immigrants, but those with brain diseases are not welcome, and you take them around with you, which will affect the image of your consulate too much." Shen Mengxi sneered. "I live in the French Concession in Shanghai, and the ambassador, Mr. Caroling, is very personable, and there has never been such an incident with the Chinese side."
The Japanese officer's eyes turned a few times, this woman's accent kept changing, sometimes Northeast accent, sometimes Shanghainese, sometimes Japanese, sometimes Korean, there was a high-ranking official brother, and he also mentioned the French ambassador, knowing that it was not easy to provoke, kicked the North Korean man who was lying on the ground rummaging through his purse to find a gun, to be honest, he also felt that these two people looked like fools.
"I really saw the pistol!" The two North Koreans were so excited that their muscles floated, "She's a female ghost!" She's gone with a pistol! ”
The Japanese officer bowed to Zhang Hanqing, and then to Shen Mengxi, "Farewell!" ”
The other pushed and shoved the two North Koreans and left.
Shen Mengxi smiled bitterly, it is necessary to rely on the French to deter the Japanese.
Zhang Hanqing asked something with a straight face.
"I didn't shoot." Shen Mengxi picked up the things on the ground and put them back in his purse, "They are mentally ill." ”
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Soon, the first domestic car rolled off the assembly line, Zhang Hanqing was very happy, held a ball to celebrate, and invited Shen Mengxi to participate, but she refused because she couldn't dance.
Since arriving in the Northeast, Shen Mengxi has seen the situation more clearly, the infiltration of the Japanese army, the shock of the Soviet army, and the Great War in the Central Plains. There is no pure land in the whole country, and the fate of the three eastern provinces has been decided, and it is not Zhang Hanqing who can turn the tide alone.
All parts of the three eastern provinces were provoked by Japan, the Central Plains melee was in full swing, Shen Mengxi felt powerless, she admitted that she was just a small boat in the ocean, it was not easy not to be swallowed by the huge waves, she was powerless to change anything, she was actually a lamb.
She often stared out the window, her mind blank.
One day, hearing the students talking about Zhang Hanqing sending the Northeast Army to participate in the Central Plains Campaign, Shen Mengxi was anxious and persuaded Professor Peng to go with her.
The marshal's mansion is a palace style building, the whole marshal's mansion is arranged longitudinally in the north-south of the east, middle and west three roads, as soon as you enter the door, you have passed the white marble shadow wall of a ridge and eaves of the ridge, it is a large vestibule of about 1500 square meters that runs through the three courtyards, it is very magnificent. After passing the Yi Gate, entering the middle courtyard, this is an inner house with three courtyards, Shen Mengxi didn't have time to take a closer look at this building that combines classical and Liaodong styles, so he was let into a large office.
The room is carpeted, most of the whole room is covered with solid wood, only one person high with white walls, and the ceiling is also hung with a solid wood roof, which makes people unreasonably depressed.
A set of cabinets on the wall, a rockery bonsai on the ground, and then a desk, and two Taishi chairs, placed far away from the desk, Shen Mengxi guessed that most of the people who entered this office did not have the opportunity to sit down.
Zhang Hanqing soon appeared, politely invited them to take a seat, and asked politely: "The two professors don't know what is important?" ”
Old man Peng waved his hand, "The mouth of eating people is short, I am here with this girl today!" ”
"I heard that the commander is going to send troops to the Central Plains again, I don't think so!" Shen Mengxi was straightforward.
"Miss Zhang doesn't know that to resist foreign aggression, she must first unify the motherland? Now that the Central Plains is in turmoil, the reason why I sent troops to mediate the civil war is to ensure domestic unity, and in addition, in order to prevent the Northeast Army from being divided, I can only quickly promote reunification. Please understand my distress! ”
Shen Mengxi understood that he was considering safeguarding the interests of the Feng group and safeguarding the unity of the country, but she was a person who knew the outcome of history, "As far as I know, your 100,000 troops are now deployed in the Pingjin area, and now send another 80,000, the Northeast will be empty!" The Japanese invaders are eyeing each other, once the Northeast is lost, China is in danger! ”
Zhang Hanqing's face was ugly, and no one wanted to hear such harsh words before setting out on the expedition. At this time, Mrs. Zhang personally brought tea in, smiled and took Shen Mengxi's hand to sit down, stood next to her, and stroked her shoulder with one hand, very intimate.
Shen Mengxi also learned some tactfulness, she smiled and said to Mrs. Zhang: "Madame smiled, I dare to discuss state affairs as a woman, and it is also the sentimentality and worry of a woman's family, I can't bear to let the people of the three eastern provinces fall into the hands of the Japanese invaders, you must know that they are engaged in bacteriological research, secretly catch the experiments of our people, if they succeed and implement biological warfare, then they will not spend a single soldier or a bullet, and the Northeast Army will have no power to fight back!" If the three eastern provinces fall, it will not be someone else who bears the infamy, but Commander Zhang! ”
Mrs. Zhang was moved and looked at Zhang Hanqing. Zhang Hanqing didn't look at her, lowered her eyelids, "I've been thinking about it for four months, and it's already the best way." ”
Shen Mengxi was silent.
Since ancient times, northerners are good at fighting, southerners are good at trade, and the emperors of the past generations are almost all north of the Yangtze River.
Today, the Northeast Army is the country's second largest armed force, with the largest Shenyang Arsenal in the country and one of the top three in the Far East, Nissan weapons can arm a battalion, 300 aircraft imported from France and the Czech Republic, 21 ships in the navy, and 3,300 officers and men in the fleet.
If the Japanese army provoked, as long as Zhang Hanqing resisted, he could insist on waiting for the troops sent abroad to rush to help, and the Kwantung Army was only 20,000 at this time, and he could completely beat them.
It's a pity that my father sent a good hand, I didn't dare to play the cards, in order to unify such a righteous reason, I gave the three eastern provinces to send each other, a thought of heaven, a thought of hell.
Shen Mengxi had something to say, but he felt that it was useless to say it.
She glanced at Zhang Hanqing, this person is strong on the surface, but in fact he is cowardly in his heart, he has lost the protection of his father, this second generation of officials can only bluff, he is usually proficient in eating, drinking and having fun, but whenever he encounters major events, he will definitely make mistakes when he faces a choice, thinking of the days when he is imprisoned in the future, Shen Mengxi secretly deserves it in his heart.
Shen Mengxi wasn't going to say anything more. With her identity, she is already a passerover, and she can't say anything more.
Mrs. Zhang smiled and brought Shen Mengxi and the others to the living room, and asked the children to come out to meet people to ease the atmosphere.
One daughter, three sons, and four children, handsome, all very polite, and apparently well educated by their mother. Over there, Zhao Yuan's son was also born, I don't know what Mrs. Zhang felt in her heart. The Zhang family also has a concubine, has no children, and does not come out to meet guests. Looking at Mrs. Zhang's behavior, she is a person with the city government and means, faintly, and it seems that she still presses Zhang Hanqing.
Based on Shen Mengxi's experience of raising a son in the past, Zhang Hanqing behaved like an adolescent rebellious teenager for a moment just now. Shen Mengxi imagined in his mind that in this kind of marriage with gold bricks, Zhang Hanqing's journey from getting rid of his father's halo to breaking free from the shackles of his eldest wife.
Thinking about it, Shen Mengxi smiled and blamed himself, "I came in a hurry, and I didn't prepare a meeting gift for the children." ”
As she spoke, she took out a small bottle of perfume from her purse, a faint fruity fragrance, and gave it to Mrs. Zhang's eldest daughter, a fifteen-year-old girl who looked very standard, she smiled and thanked her, took it and sniffed it, and said that she liked it very much. The two older boys each had a Swiss Army knife, the youngest boy was only four years old, and Shen Mengxi gave him a one-inch Beetle car, which several children liked very much.
The youngest child was short, and had been staring at her purse when she gave gifts to her brother and sister, and suddenly said, "Where did you come from?" ”
Shen Mengxi smiled, "Where you can't see!" ”
The little guy didn't give up, looked at Shen Mengxi with a pair of single eyelid eyes like his father, and said solemnly: "You didn't have it in your bag, you made it!" ”
Shen Mengxi laughed.
As soon as he snatched the car, put his hands behind his back, and raised them in front of him, "Little handsome guy, guess which one has the car in his hand!" ”
"This!" He hesitated and pointed to his left hand.
Shen Mengxi spread his hands, no.
"This!" He pointed to his right hand again.
No matter how much you spread your hands, there is none.
The child was in a hurry, went around Shen Mengxi to find the car, pulled her up from the sofa again, and looked for her in the gap of the sofa.
The little mouth is a little down.
Shen Mengxi clenched his fist again, blew on his left hand, and motioned for the child to come over, he hurriedly pulled away her hand, the yellow car was in the palm of his hand, and he opened his mouth to be happy.
Shen Mengxi blew into his right hand again, and motioned him with his chin to drive again, and in his right hand was a red car.
"Ahh That's great! The little boy jumped to his feet, and his joy could not be expressed.
"How did you conjure it up?" The two older children were very curious and gathered around.
"It's a secret."
"Obviously you have an empty hand and can't hold such a big car?"
"Boys, what you see with your eyes, it is possible, it is all fake!" Shen Mengxi said with a smile.