One morning, three months later, the sky was cloudy and sweltering. On the wharf of Ponte 16, the whistle of the steamer sounded, and a passenger ship from Hankou on the Yangtze River slowly docked after two days and two nights of sailing, and the passengers on board poured out of the cabin and onto the stern like prisoners waiting for the wind to be released. A middle-aged man wearing a top hat and carrying a suitcase walked up the board with the flow of people, looked around vigilantly, and came to the road, where he was Fang Zongming, who had succeeded Wang Benhua as chairman of the National Committee.

A taxi pulled up at the exit of the steamship terminal, and Ma Chenlong, wearing a top hat and sunglasses, got out of the taxi with a shik in his right hand. After Ma Chenlong hid in the Shen family's mansion on Huayi Street for a few days after the sudden change in the situation, and then moved to Zhoujiaqiao Rolling Dilong to live in seclusion, waiting for the organization's instructions. Three months later, he received organizational instructions to greet Fang Zongming, the new chairman of the committee, sent by his superiors, at the dock today. Fang Zongming wore a top hat and a long shirt, carried a suitcase in one hand and rolled a newspaper in the other, rolled the four characters of "Republic of China Daily" outside, and looked left and right on the road. Ma Chenlong stepped forward and asked: Are you from Hankou to Mr. Li? Fang Zongming replied, it was Mr. Fang. Ma Chenlong said, I am the CITS Ma Office, and I am here to take you to the hotel. Fang Zongming saw that Ma Chenlong had a CITS badge pinned to his chest, and the code was not bad, so he followed Ma Chenlong into the taxi and came to the Six Nations Hotel. After entering the room, Fang Zongming put the word "Min" in the "Republic of China Daily" on the table outwards according to the regulations, so that he could be regarded as the head.

Fang Zongming immediately asked Ma Chenlong to find a safe place to hold a meeting, Ma Chenlong went to the main station to call Shen Zhai on Huayi Street, and it was Fusheng who answered the phone, because Ma Chenlong's chin was missing, and it was not good to speak, Fusheng knew that it was Ma Chenlong's voice when he heard it, and he was very surprised. Ma Chenlong didn't say much, asked if it was convenient for Fusheng, and half an hour later, he went to Shen Mansion to find him. Fusheng said: "It's okay, there are not many hired workers at home today, and they will be sent out to run errands later." Ma Chenlong said, "No, so as not to alarm them." Half an hour later, Fusheng saw Ma Chenlong at the door of his mansion wearing a Xiangyun gauze shirt, shorts, a top hat, and sunglasses, like a thug under the boss of the Green Gang, holding a folding fan in his hand to cover his missing chin, and limping across the road.

"Brother Ma!" Fusheng greeted. Ma Chenlong approached him, looked around, held his arm and whispered, "Don't be public, don't enter the house, just talk in the car." The Shen family's Buick car was parked at the door of the house, Fusheng hurriedly opened the door, Ma Chenlong leaned over into the back seat, and Fusheng also got into the car. Ma Chenlong said: "Comrades want to find a place to hold a meeting, can you find a safe place?" "

Fusheng said: "Far away in the sky, close at hand, the safest place is Guangfu countryside, otherwise how to send you there for treatment?" I'm in a busy city, and it's not safe to see a lot of people. "

Ma Chenlong thought about it, Fusheng was right, but he was afraid that returning to Guangfu would affect the Li family. Thinking about going back again, Zhao Da said that the master of the Li family was his biological father, what was going on? So he asked Fusheng, Fusheng was taken aback when he heard it, and asked Ma Chenlong where did this come from? Ma Chenlong told Fusheng what Zhao Da said in the Sanshan Hall, and Fusheng said in surprise: "Zhao Da won't talk nonsense, I'm afraid there is really such a thing." Ma Chenlong nodded and said, "Then go to Guangfu, but I want to trouble you to send it." "

"No problem. By water or by land? "

"Which one goes safely."

"The land route is related to the card, the water route is safe, and the distance is long."

"Then take the waterway."

Ma Chenlong and Fusheng agreed that at noon tomorrow, four or five personnel would meet at the small pier in the backyard of Shen Mansion and ask Fusheng to personally support the boat. Fusheng said: "I won't hold the boat, Zhao Assembly." Ma Chenlong said, "Okay! Call Zhao Da. Fusheng said, "There is also Xianghai." Since you left, Xianghai has been talking about you every day, you have come and gone without a trace, wandering outside, I don't know when we can see each other. This is a godsend for you to meet again. Ma Chenlong said: "You three brothers are like a family, it's so good!" Fusheng said: "You are Xianghai's own brother, and you can ask him all your questions." The two of them often travel to and from Guangfu on my family's boat, which does not arouse suspicion. Ma Chenlong said: "That's it!" However, this matter must be kept strictly confidential and no one should be told. "

At noon the next day, Ma Chenlong appeared in the backyard of Shen's house on time, and Fusheng, Xianghai and Zhao Da were already waiting on the boat. As soon as Xianghai saw Ma Chenlong, he burst into tears and hugged him tightly: "My eldest brother, I thought I would never see you again, you guy is too desperate." Ma Chenlong was also very excited, patted Xianghai on the shoulder and said, "Brother, it's so good to see you, you sacrificed your life to save me, I haven't repaid you yet, I can't die so soon." "

Ma Chenlong took this opportunity to ask Zhao Da: "You told me that day that the master of the Li family is my biological father, what's going on?" "

Zhao Da said: "You were busy with the revolution that day, so I didn't have time to elaborate, but I think if you die suddenly and don't even know whose son you are, then I'm so sorry for you, so I have to tell you when it's not timely, who knows that you are dedicated to revolution and don't take it to heart." Ma Chenlong arched his hand and said: "Although I have joined the revolution, I will never dare to betray my ancestors and forget my ancestors, and I am so sloppy, please understand!" "

"Your nickname is Xiang Gong, and you are my half-brother!" At this time, Xianghai interjected, "Your adoptive father's name is Jin Xiangyu, there is a white spot on his eyebrows, he is a descendant of Aixin Jueluo, he can't have children, you can't be his son." Your biological mother was originally the second grandmother of the Li family, so you are my father's son. When Xianghai saw Ma Chenlong again, he seemed to want to make up for the mistakes caused by his previous cover-up, so he poured out the complicated past like a bamboo tube pouring beans.

Ma Chenlong was skeptical: "My father, no, my adoptive father is a descendant of Aixin Jueluo?" Zhao Da added on the side: "That's what your master Ma carpenter told me when I returned to the beach." Jin Xiangyu has a good relationship with your master, he spit out the truth after drinking, and personally said to Ma Carpenter that he is a descendant of Aixin Jueluo. After hearing this, Ma Chenlong said: "I can't believe it, it's all true!" Fusheng listened quietly on the side, and exclaimed unconsciously: "There is really such a coincidence in the world, it is really not a family that does not go on the same boat, there is no chance to see each other, there is a fate to meet thousands of miles away, you are all a family, this is something that Bao Xiaotian didn't dare to write like this when writing novels, great!" Xianghai said to Ma Chenlong again: "The Li family has a unique genetic mark, my father and I have a back mountain bone in the back of our heads, you also have it, if you don't believe it, touch it, I have already touched you." If there is no such bone, it will be a lifelong regret if the brothers really don't know each other. Ma Chenlong asked strangely, "When have you ever touched me?" Xianghai smiled: "You forgot that you fainted like a dead man for three days? Ma Chenlong suddenly realized: "No wonder Madame wants to touch me several times, it turns out that this is the case!" After speaking, he touched the back of his head and said, "I know that I have, and I was scolded by the foreman when I was in the yarn factory: the back bone of the back of the head is the same as your father, and I think my father does not have this bone in the back of his head." But you still have to touch it, if you are lost by a bullet, you won't be able to recognize Zong! As he spoke, he touched the back of his head and said, "It's okay, it's still there!" Fusheng on the side couldn't help laughing, touched the back of his head, and exclaimed again: "It's really there!" Zhao Da said: "Actually, you don't need to touch it, just look at the foreheads and hair of the two of you, you can know that it is carved out of a mold." Ma Chenlong looked at Xianghai and said, "But he has a chin, I don't." Xianghai and they all laughed, and Xianghai said, "Big brother, after you left the beach, where did you go after so many years?" "