Wu Laoqi died.

The body was found by the husband, and a shot hit the center of the eyebrows, slanted in the alley next to Xia Fei Road. Huo Zuo only listened to what his subordinates said, then sank his eyes and secretly rubbed the handle of the knife on the bottom of his hand: "You don't need to check, the French Concession knows that it was Ma Weisan's work if you think about it." ”

When he said this, some people scolded: "Ma Weisan is really not a thing!" When you were not there before, he first led someone to confiscate the firearms of the brothers in our Nan City, and then buried several brothers in Qingpu alive with Cheng Changyu. ”

"Not to mention the dirty things he did to please the Japanese devils, his own wife can give away to the Japanese and the turtle grandson on the bed can't do anything!"

"If you want me to say I should have killed him a long time ago."

Huo Zuodu listened with a gloomy face. After Wu Laoqi's death, five more people who followed him in the Blue Dragon Society were assassinated the next day, and for a while, the brothers who were following him were panicked. On the third day, Huo Zuo and the people under him opened a letter: "Ma Weisan can't live." ”

Even if it wasn't for the sake of righteousness and for the dead brother, Huo Zuo would kill him.

The Kuomintang wants to kill Ma Weisan, and the underground party also wants to kill Ma Weisan. So when Huo Zuo took the next move, he naturally thought of Shen Yigong and Qin Mingyue. If this game is to be arranged, it must be the three of them.

I never thought that it was Qin Mingyue who looked for him first. She came with an order from the party-state, and Chongqing sent You Yiman and him out of Shanghai safely, and they could choose whether to go to Hong Kong or Chongqing.

In the "April 12" political [harmony] change, they were good thugs of the party-state, and now that Shanghai has fallen, how many party-states have not forgotten them. Huo Zuo couldn't want to escape, but it didn't mean that he didn't want You Yiman to have a better place to go, he had already talked to Qin Mingyue in private. As for when this matter will be done and how to go about it, Huo Zuo will personally talk to You Yiman.

Since Wu Laoqi's affairs were excepted, You Yiman took her husband to live in a small hidden apartment at the corner of the fourth road, less than 100 square meters, full of furniture and sundries. When Huo Zuo went downstairs, it was just past noon, and the smoke of ordinary people's cooking was wafting in the building, he went upstairs according to the address given by You Yiman, and saw Mr. Xiao Liang squatting by the coal stove with a black iron tongs to pick up the honeycomb coal, looked up and saw him, smiled with him, and said: "Yiman is cleaning in the house, you will call her later." ”

After finishing speaking, he shouted: "Manman, Lao Huo is here." ”

The door of the house was opened, and You Yiman, wearing a thick cotton jacket with no style or style, stood behind the door with a broom and smiled at him: "Come in!" When he entered the house, he turned back to Liang Qingwen and said, "After a while, the water is boiling and I will make him a cup of tea." ”

sat in the house, and also drank Liang Qingwen making tea. You Yiman sat at his table with his hair tied up like those ordinary women in the alleys of Shanghai, listening to him talk about the arrangements in Chongqing. Before coming, Huo Zuo thought that she would refuse, but when he saw the scene here, he already had the answer in his heart.

You Yiman held the glass, stroked the mist condensed above his fingertips and said lightly: "Don't blame my sister, Xiao Huo." I'm almost fifty years old, forty is not confused fifty and knows the destiny of heaven, I have been with you for a lifetime, I have been fighting for a lifetime, I used to be the same as you was not afraid of death, but now I am afraid after so many things have happened. ”

She looked up just in time to see the man squatting by the coal stove outside the house.

"I'm not afraid of my death, Xiao Huo - what I'm afraid of is that I live alone."

Fengyun's life is coming to an end, and You Yiman said that she has found what she wants. Huo Zuo said that this is good, really, really good. So he left two gold bars and secretly placed them under the table, and took up his hat and walked out the door. Liang Qingwen saw that he was leaving, and came over and asked him: "Lao Huo, ...... where is a bow?"

Huo Zuo shook his palm and smiled at him: "Don't worry, Shen Yigong has me over there, you can accompany my sister with peace of mind." ”

A day later, Qin Mingyue came to him and said that the person had been sent away, and he was already on the plane to Chongqing at this time.

Huo Zuo said: "It's good to go to Chongqing, there are still many things to do when you get to the rear." ”

On the same day, the two of them went to find Shen Yigong together. When Shen Yigong and his son were still arguing, hearing that Zhao's mother said that the guests were coming, she frowned and stared at Shen Qiang for a long time without saying a word.

Huo Zuo opened his mouth to relieve the silence and asked, "What's the matter, Xiaoqiang, what are you arguing with your father?" ”

The young man gritted his teeth, ignored Shen Yigong's gaze to stop him, and said loudly: "I joined the army and joined the air force!" Ming'er is going to report to Jianqiao, Hangzhou! ”

"You're going to die!"

Shen Qiang retorted to his father: "Everyone goes to the battlefield to kill the enemy, why can't I go." I know that you too, I know in my heart why Grandpa Lu and Uncle Hu don't have it, and it is impossible for you to tell me not to go at this time. ”

"But-" Shen Yigong has never been a person who is good at arguing, the word "can" came out, and he didn't say anything for a long time, but Qin Mingyue applauded on the side and said, "Okay!" ”

"Is this alright?"

The woman patted Shen Qiang on the shoulder: "Win glory for the country, or the Air Force, it's very good." ”

Shen Yi was speechless angrily, raised his eyes to look at Huo Zuo, and the man was also on Shen Qiang's side: "The child knows it in his heart, do you want him to hide behind and be a coward?" If we set an example for him, it's not good not to ask him to learn from you. ”

“…… But now that he is a pilot and goes to the sky, does he still have the life to land? ”

"Dad, I ......"

"Forget it." Shen Yigong shook his head, took one last look at Xiao Qiang and gave up in frustration, handed him back his suitcase, and put a long sigh around the young man's shoulder, "I'll take you to the station." ”

How to stop these things? Just like Huo Zuo said, it is a good example for them. Although it was a bit rude to leave the guests at home and send the children out, Shen Yigong knew that Huo Zuo and they could understand. The child was older, and he couldn't control it, and on the way to send Xiaoqiang to the station, he knew that the child had already gone to the recruiting office without telling him.

When they were separated, Shen Qiang hugged him tightly, and said with red eyes: "Dad, I don't want to hide it from you, I'm afraid that you won't let me go from the beginning." ”

The children have already been sent to the station, what else can be said? Shen Yigong can't scold even if he scolds at this time-because maybe this is the last side?

He has seen too many and too many differences over the years, and the only thing he can do at this moment is to hold his son's obviously taller body and tell him with great heaviness: "Remember to come back." ”

He sighed.

"Come back and see Daddy."

The kid was gone. Like his father, he chose the hardest path.

The moment Shen Qiang turned around and his back disappeared behind the car, Shen Yigong suddenly shouted at him: "Your parents will be proud of you!" ”

The boy did not answer. As he sat down in the truck seat, he suddenly felt something in his pants pocket and reached for a photo that he had just slipped into.

A tear instantly fell on the couple in the black-and-white photo. Shen Qiang turned the photo around, and Shen Yigong wrote carefully one stroke at a time: "Father, Xu Ruonong." Died in 1928; Mother, died in 1928. ”

He wrote: "We are all proud of you. ”

Huo Zuo and Qin Mingyue were waiting at Shen Yigong's house, and when he came back, seeing that he was in a low mood, they didn't mention Xiaoqiang's matter anymore, and instead talked about things related to Ma Weisan.

That night, Qin Mingyue brought Mu Qiuping back.

Qiu Ping told everything she knew, and the rest she couldn't even say, even if she couldn't ask again. Shen Yigong accompanied her downstairs, and Qin Mingyue was in charge of sending her back to the banquet and going to drive first.

The two went downstairs together, Mu Qiuping looked at the children in the living room and Shen Yigong and sighed lightly: "After the war, I opened Ma Weisan's big world and accepted a large number of refugees, do you know this?" ”

"Yes. I guess you did it, too. ”

The woman's eyes were sad, and she said coldly: "That night he beat me for this, and he turned his head to explain to his Japanese master." Shen Yigong, I used to think that I could see through what I wanted and what I didn't want. I thought I had gotten everything I could...... Now that I look at it, I realize that I actually have nothing. ”

The man didn't speak, he put his arm around her shoulders and sighed softly.

"He treated me like a business card, a gold watch. Just let it go, let it go...... I can be anything but people. As they stepped into the courtyard, there was white snow on both sides and the sound of car engines outside the alley. Shen Yigong sent her out, and in the place where the half-inch light shone, Mu Qiuping whispered again, "After the fall of Shanghai, the Japanese army celebrated the banquet, and Ma Weisan sent me to the place where Yamamoto stayed. ”

There was not a hint of emotion in her tone, but what she said was humiliating. The car stopped at the entrance of the alley, and Qin Mingyue opened the rear door and asked her to get in the car. Shen Yigong shook her palm vigorously, closed the car door for her, leaned against the window and told her: "Pay attention to safety when you go back, if you really can't survive, come to me." ”

Mu Qiuping raised his eyes to look at him, the corners of his mouth raised, gave him a smile that was still very reluctant, and rolled up the window.

When he returned to the room, Huo Zuo was sitting at the table and carefully looked at the clues and information left by Mu Qiuping, and when he saw him coming in, he spoke directly: "Ma Weisan has dozens of bodyguards on weekdays, these are not difficult to solve, but the small gun he will carry with him, it is best to have a more accurate model, so that we can deal with it." Also, I think they had a banquet on the ship on New Year's Day, available. ”

When he finished speaking, he didn't listen to the other party's answer.

"A bow?"

Shen Yigong sat on the rattan chair next to the bed, his hands folded against his chin as if he was still distracted. Huo Zuo called him again: "Shen Yigong? ”

He seemed to react slightly, and said to himself: "Why does Qiuping ask if you can protect her child?" Isn't she going to protect him herself? Or is it ...... She wanted to die with Ma Weisan. ”

Huo Zuo put down the booklet in his hand, and his face became solemn: "The guarantee I gave her was that the mother and son were safe, and as soon as Ma Weisan died, I would send them to Hong Kong." ”

Shen Yigong was still thinking about the details left by Mu Qiuping just before leaving: "Do you think she will ask Qin Mingyue for a gun?" ”

“…… Are you sure you see it? ”

"I don't know, I just feel this way." Shen Yigong sank down and said with some remorse, "I know her temper to some extent, and no one can stop her stubbornness, even after so many years, it hasn't changed." ”

But Mu Qiuping is a smart person, and she knows that she can't kill Ma Weisan on her own. Besides, even if she did take the gun and was under the same roof as him, it would be difficult for her to succeed, did you forget what she said? Ma Weisan is now wary enough to live separately from them. Huo Zuo said and walked to the edge of the bed and sat down in front of him, looking into his eyes, "He also knows what he has done in his heart, and now no one believes it, so he hides alone in the small fortress in Hongkou, panicking." ”

He held Shen Yigong's hand and persuaded him, "Don't worry, we will find the best solution." ”

"I'm just ......" Shen Yigong put his other hand on the back of his hand as well, he sighed and replied after a moment's silence, "I just don't want to see more people sacrificed." ”

"I'd love to tell you 'no,' but I can't lie to you. You also know that you can't fool yourself about this. ”

"Because it's wartime."

"Yes."

"And wartime...... Someone is going to die. ”

Even if it is unbearable, it is a fact.

“…… Yes. ”

"Then what about Xiaoqiang?" After asking this, even Shen Yigong himself felt frustrated, and he waved his hand at Huo Zuo, asking him not to answer. A man would rather believe that his son would return triumphantly and wear a medal than ...... Died prematurely under the fires of war.

But they all know what war looks like.

When Qin Mingyue came back after sending Mu Qiuping, Shen Yigong subconsciously asked her if Mu Qiuping had asked her for a gun. The woman looked puzzled and replied, "No." Why did she want a gun? ”

Shen Yigong finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Now that Qin Mingyue is back, the three of them have also begun to plan the sneak attack at the next New Year's Day banquet.

"This ship belongs to Japan's Yusen Shipen Co., Ltd., which I visited last year, and the ballroom is huge, the deck is wide, and it is one of the few cruise ships that can cross the Pacific Ocean." Qin Mingyue drew the general layout of the ship on paper according to her past memories, "This banquet will be attended by Japanese military and political dignitaries, and those who are good friends with the Japanese side will naturally also attend." I've got the list of participants in the past two days, and I probably know what the scale is. ”

Huo Zuo said: "Does Ma Weisan have a small gun that he carries with him? ”

"Yes."

He tapped his chin with his index finger: "Find a way to get the model, get the fake one to him, and when you do it like this, as long as you deal with the bodyguards around him, there will be no problem." ”

"One more thing, if we are on the ship to assassinate, how are we going to get up, and how are we going to get down next?" Shen Yigong asked, "Huo Zuo and I have been listed on the Japanese assassination list, and you can also see what happened to Penglai Market, they don't like me in the first place." ”

Huo Zuo talked about his hands and laughed: "Yes, I hate it even more." ”

Qin Mingyue pressed the layout map in her hand on the table: "Don't worry about getting on the boat, there are many people needed to hold a banquet, as long as you blend in with the waiter, it's no problem." ”

"It's a bit dangerous. There were very few Chinese businessmen who did not know me. Huo Zuo said.

"It's okay, put on makeup. It's the little things. ”

Shen Yigong said again: "Okay, then how can you go up and come down?" At that time, the cruise ship will leave the port of Huangpu, Ma Weisan will die, and the defenders on the ship will definitely search, and the hidden on the ship will be found sooner or later. ”

"If it's to kill someone and pay a group of my brothers, it's not worth it."

Qin Mingyue took out a map of Shanghai from under Shen Yigong's table, looked at it carefully, and said two neatly: "Jump ship." ”

"Jumping ship?"

The woman pointed to the location of the harbor and drew a line, which connected directly to the public concession on the bank of the Suzhou Creek: "All the guests will rest on the boat for the night, so they will definitely go to their rooms first after they get on the boat, and the banquet will start at half past five in the evening, when the ship has just left the port, and it will be dark at that time, and from the back of this boat to the northeast, less than four hundred meters to the suburbs, there is no patrol there, and you can go ashore directly." ”

"The plan sounds like nothing wrong." Shen Yigong replied. Qin Mingyue smiled and laughed at herself: "After all, the party-state didn't train me in vain. ”

Shen Yigong turned his head sideways to look at Huo Zuo again, and when he saw that his face was solemn, he asked, "What do you think?" ”

Huo Zuo raised his head, as if he was a little hesitant: "This plan, on the whole, is really fine." But...... A little. ”

"What?" Qin Mingyue also looked at him.

Huo Zuo looked up at the two of them, thought about it and waved his hand: "It's okay." I just want to say that the time is relatively tight, and there are three days until New Year's Day, so can I get all the information tomorrow first? ”

Qin Mingyue put away the map: "You can rest assured." Leave this piece of intelligence to me, small problem. I'll be here at 10 a.m. tomorrow to discuss with you the details of the mission. What about you? Still have questions? ”

Shen Yigong raised his hands: "I'm fine." ”

She looked at Huo Zuo again, and the man shrugged: "I don't have a problem either." ”

In that case, she packed up her things and went downstairs to leave. By this time it was late at night, and the children had gone to sleep. Huo Zuo and Shen Yigong sent her outside the door, and when the door was closed, Shen Yigong suddenly spoke again: "Just upstairs, you have something to say, what is it?" ”

Huo Zuobei started and prevaricated: "It's a matter of time, nothing else." ”

"Not true. You don't say that in a tone that is just about time. ”

Huo Zuo walked back with his shoulders around him, and chuckled when he heard the words: "What else can it be?" You've been too nervous lately and thinking too much. It's really just about time. ”

"Really?"

"Really."

Shen Yigong sighed and put his hand on his waist: "You told me to wait for you, I waited for you to come back." Huo Zuo, promise me one thing. ”

The two of them stopped, and Huo Zuo looked at Shen Yi's bow face through the light reflected in the snow in the courtyard: "You say." ”

The man's slightly cold hands pressed on his shoulders and whispered, "Get on the boat in three days, no matter what the situation is, you have to make sure that you don't mess around and will live." ”

"......" Huo Zuo looked at the serious eyes of the man under the night sky, and nodded slightly, "Okay, I promise." You too. ”

Shen Yigong didn't answer, but just hugged him hard. The snow melted and the day was colder than the falling snow, and the two of them just stood in the courtyard, seriously hugging each other tightly, harder than ever.