usatvline Chapter 1613 Family Banquet
Chapter 1613 Family Banquet
Chapter 1613 Family Banquet
Cheng Qianfan got out of the car. He was wearing a brand new and well-fitting suit without a tie, and a windbreaker over the suit.
The temperature in Shanghai suddenly dropped in early April. A gust of wind blew and Cheng Qianfan couldn't help but shiver.
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Cheng Qianfan handed the briefcase to the little maid Li Zi who came up to greet him, and when he looked up, he saw Bai Ruolan who came out to greet him with her son Xiao Zhima in her arms.
He smiled at his wife, "Are you not angry with me anymore?"
"Virtue." Bai Ruolan gave her husband a charming look.
After entering the living room, the maid helped Cheng Qianfan take off his windbreaker. He picked up his son from Bai Ruolan's arms, but saw his wife with her arms folded, looking at him.
"What's wrong?" Cheng Qianfan asked.
"You're not hurt...right?" Bai Ruolan asked.
"How can you ask like that? When I got home..." Cheng Qianfan muttered, and then he shut up when he saw his wife's serious expression, and then said, "No, no, not even a scratch."
"I hope you won't encounter any dangerous things on the way there and back." Bai Ruolan asked again.
"No, everything is fine." Cheng Qianfan glanced at his wife.
"Amitabha, Amitabha." Bai Ruolan patted her chest and then said Amitabha, "Allah knows it is useful."
"What's useful?" Cheng Qianfan asked puzzledly.
"Sir, you don't know this." The little maid Li Zi said with a smile, "During the days when you were away on business, your wife was at home eating vegetarian food and chanting Buddhist scriptures to pray for your safety."
"I'm on a business trip, not going to war." Cheng Qianfan shook his head and said.
"How dare you say that? Every time you went on business trips before, something went wrong. You were either injured or someone wanted to assassinate you." Bai Ruolan complained, "Luckily I prayed for you this time."
"Ah - yes, yes, yes." Cheng Qianfan smiled and nodded repeatedly, "I can return safely, all thanks to my wife."
"Pah, pah, pah." Bai Ruolan spat, "It's a blessing from heaven."
……
"Okay, I got it. Keep watching." My grandson Shinta put down the phone, a thoughtful look on his face.
After getting off the train, Kentaro Miyazaki went straight back to Cheng's house on Lafede Road and did not go out afterwards.
My grandson Shinta is quite satisfied with this.
Kentaro Miyazaki is a good friend of Araki Harima, the captain of the Shanghai Special High Section Operations Team. Naturally, my grandson Shinta already knew about this.
This time, he came to Shanghai to take up his post secretly.
He thought that Kentaro Miyazaki would meet with Araki Harima urgently to inform him of this matter.
However, Kentaro Miyazaki went straight home, which surprised my grandson Shinta a little. Of course, this also made my grandson Shinta quite satisfied.
but--
After thinking about it, my grandson Shinta clapped his hands.
……
Immediately, a subordinate pushed open the screen door and came in, "Director."
"Try to find out the address of the calls made and received by Lafede from Qianfan's house since he returned home today until now." My grandson Shinta said.
"Director, I'm afraid we need to contact the Intelligence Office." The subordinate said with an embarrassed look, "We are new here..."
"Try your best to find out." My grandson Shinta frowned and said.
"Hay."
After his men left, my grandson Shinta shook his head and said that it was still convenient to work in Nanjing. If he wanted to check the phone, he just gave an order and the telegraph office would obediently submit the investigation results.
Now that I'm in Shanghai, everything is inconvenient.
My grandson Shinta's face was solemn. For him, from the position of Chief of the First Section of the Nanjing Special High Section Intelligence Room to the current position of Chief of the Shanghai Special High Section Intelligence Room, this was a promotion, and a huge promotion at that.
However, my grandson Shen knew very well that it would not be easy for him, an outsider in Nanjing's Special High Section, to gain a foothold in Shanghai or even seize more rights.
This was especially true after the death of Mitsumoto Jiro and the Shanghai Special High Police Department was leaderless.
Without a leader, the internal power struggle will become more intense.
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That night, Bai Ruolan asked the cook Zhou Ru to prepare a table of delicious dishes to welcome her husband who had returned from Nanjing.
"Miss Zhou." Bai Ruolan called out to Zhou Ru who was about to go to the kitchen to eat, "Sit down and eat with us."
"Madam." Zhou Ru looked at Bai Ruolan.
"Sit down." Cheng Qianfan said, and then he glared at the dumbfounded Li Hao, "What are you standing there for? Speak."
"Brother Fan asked you to sit down, so just sit down." Li Hao glanced at Zhou Ru and said.
Cheng Qianfan stroked his forehead and glared at Li Hao. This boy couldn't even say a word of love.
"Xiao Ru." Bai Ruolan said with a smile, "I will call you this from now on."
"Yes, ma'am." Zhou Ru understood a little and said shyly.
"That's right." Bai Ruolan said happily, "Today's meal is not only a welcome dinner for you, but also a family dinner."
Then, she looked at Li Hao and said, "Haozi, your brother Fan told me that I will take care of your and Xiaoru's marriage."
"Listen to my sister-in-law." Li Hao said.
"I asked someone to look at the date. The second day of March is a good day for marriage." Bai Ruolan said with a smile, "If you two have no objection, then let's set this date."
"Listen to my wife." Zhou Ru said.
"Still calling me Madam?" Bai Ruolan glared at Zhou Ru.
"Listen to my sister-in-law." Zhou Ru said shyly.
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"That's right." Bai Ruolan said happily. As she spoke, she took off the bracelet from her scallion-white wrist and placed it in Zhou Ru's hand. "You don't call me sister-in-law for nothing."
Zhou Ru looked at the bracelet in her hand, hesitated, and looked at Li Hao.
"Sister-in-law gives it to you, just take it." Li Hao said casually.
"Thank you, sister-in-law." Zhou Ru then put on the bracelet.
"Haozi."
"Eh."
"Although you and Qianfan are not blood brothers, you are better than brothers. He often tells me that his biggest wish is for you to get married, have children, and live a good life. Then he will feel relieved." Bai Ruolan said.
"Why are you saying these things?" Cheng Qianfan frowned and said.
"I'm saying my own thing. Haozi likes to listen to it. What's it to you?" Bai Ruolan glared at her husband.
"You say, you say." Cheng Qianfan said helplessly.
"Okay, I won't say any more unnecessary words." Bai Ruolan stopped talking and looked at Li Hao and Zhou Ru with a smile, "Today, we are a family, let's have a good time."
Zhou Ru and Li Hao looked at each other, then stood up at the same time and raised their glasses. "Brother Fan, sister-in-law, we toast to you."
"Okay, okay, okay." Cheng Qianfan nodded happily and said happily, "Okay!"
……
After dinner, Bai Ruolan and Zhou Ru took care of the children downstairs and chatted about some private matters between women.
Cheng Qianfan, who was slightly drunk, took Haozi upstairs to the study.
"Is there anything happening these days?" Cheng Qianfan asked.
"Everything is fine." Li Hao said, "The brothers are all abiding by the rules, and nothing has gone wrong."
"That's good." Cheng Qianfan nodded slightly.
"However, Brother Fan, I have something to report to you." Li Hao said.
"Ok?"
"There's a new situation at the He Mansion." Li Hao said.
"Which house?" Cheng Qianfan was slightly surprised. "You mean Guan's house?"
"Yes, there are two strangers in Young Master Guan's house." Li Hao said.
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"Two strangers?" Cheng Qianfan asked, "Tell me more about the situation."
"It was a little girl of fifteen or sixteen, and a little girl of one or two years old." Li Hao said, "I asked around and heard that the little girl brought her sister to Shanghai to escape the war. They begged at the gate of the He Mansion. Mrs. He felt sorry for the two sisters and took them in as maids."
"But did you find anything unusual?" Cheng Qianfan asked.
"That's not the case." Li Hao shook his head, "It's just that Brother Fan said that if there is any situation at Master Guan's home, he will report it to you at any time."
"Mrs. He is a kind person who eats vegetarian food and chants Buddhist scriptures. It is possible that she felt pity for the sisters who were fleeing." Cheng Qianfan pondered and said, "She just took in two girls who were fleeing. That's it. Don't pay too much attention to them."
"Yes."
"Are there any other situations?" Cheng Qianfan asked.
"There was a gunfight on Daxi Road the day before yesterday. The secret service headquarters was arresting people from the Shanghai area. There were casualties on both sides. It is said that people from the Shanghai area were arrested." Li Hao said, "Not only the secret service headquarters, the Japanese have also stepped up their efforts to hunt down people from the Shanghai area recently."
"Chen Gongshu is a man who likes to show off his achievements. He has been making a big fuss about the assassination of Gangcun at Qimin Hospital." Cheng Qianfan snorted coldly, "So many things have happened, and the Japanese are angry and embarrassed. The Shanghai District has walked into the muzzle of the gun."
As he spoke, Cheng Qianfan sneered, looking as if he was gloating over someone else's misfortune.
Li Hao saw it and smiled bitterly in his heart, but he didn't say anything to spoil the mood of sincere unity. Brother Fan and Chen Gongshu disliked each other, and the conflict between the Special Affairs Department and the Shanghai District had long been deeply rooted.
To be honest, Li Hao still remembers the time when the gunman at the Shanghai station almost killed Brother Fan.
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After Li Hao and Zhou Ru left Cheng Mansion, Cheng Qianfan was left alone in the study.
He told Li Hao that there was nothing strange about He Guan's family taking in two maids and there was no need to pay attention to it.
In fact, Cheng Qianfan began to have doubts in his heart.
He Guan's brother died in the January 28th Anti-Japanese War, and He Guan joined the Red Party and the New Fourth Army.
In this situation, even if Mrs. He was ignorant, how could Jin Kemu not be careful and cautious.
From Jin Kemu's perspective, he would definitely pay special attention to his sister taking in strangers, and might even express opposition.
But now, these two people are staying safely in He Mansion.
There are two possibilities.
One is that President Jin arranged for someone to investigate the background of the sisters and found that they were indeed refugees, so he was relieved.
As for another possibility...
Cheng Qianfan frowned slightly. He couldn't figure it out for the time being, but this matter might not be as simple as it seemed.
He told Li Hao not to pay attention to it, but it was only because of He Guan's identity as a Red Party member that it was not appropriate to pay too much attention to him.
……
Erling.
The temporary base of the 3rd Regiment of the 2nd Detachment of the New Fourth Army.
This is a crude makeshift field hospital.
Huang Xiaolan had just helped Dr. Pan finish an operation and sat down to rest with her tired body.
When she was busy, she had no time to take care of anything else. Now that she had some free time, her worry and longing for her daughter surged uncontrollably into her heart.
Especially when she thought that her daughter might have met with an accident, Huang Xiaolan's eyes turned red and she shed tears secretly.
"Missing Xiao Shengli again?" Sister Zheng handed a vegetable steamed bun to Huang Xiaolan and said softly, "Xiao Shengli will be fine."
"Really?" Huang Xiaolan took the wild vegetable steamed bun, held it in her hand but did not eat it. Instead, she raised her head and looked at Sister Zheng with shining eyes.
Sister Zheng's heart ached. She knew that Huang Xiaolan must know that these were just words of comfort. However, for a mother who was worried about her infant daughter, even vague words of comfort were a kind of hope.
"Of course." Sister Zheng nodded. "It's just a small victory. Our small victory is not only about victory in the war of resistance, but also victory in the revolution. We want to live happily in the victorious new China."
"Yes, victory!" Huang Xiaolan's eyes sparkled with hope. She took a bite of the wild vegetable steamed bread and said, "Victory, victory!"
Sister Zheng nodded and sighed in her heart. The team also sent people to look for the young nurse Tong Wenshu and Xiao Shengli, but there was no news.
And there was bad news. After the team broke through, the Japanese army searched everywhere and committed many bloody incidents along the way. Many civilians and anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians were brutally killed by the enemy.
Two young soldiers from the field hospital were protecting two wounded soldiers while they were breaking out, when they encountered the Japanese army and were brutally killed by the enemy.
The child of Sister Hu from the Logistics Department was captured by a fellow villager who was hiding from the enemy. The child was betrayed by a traitor. The inhumane Japanese army stabbed the fellow villager to death with a bayonet and even threw the child alive into a boiling pot. When Sister Hu learned the sad news, she almost went crazy.
Tong Wenshu was just a little girl of fifteen or sixteen years old, with a baby in her arms. Facing the enemy's search, the possibility of her successfully escaping was very low.
Everyone talked about this matter privately, worried that Tong Wenshu and Xiao Shengli might have met with an accident, but no one mentioned it in front of Huang Xiaolan.
For a mother, as long as she has not received bad news, there is still hope and expectation.
……
"Xiao Li, call me grandma." Mrs. He was teasing her granddaughter with a rattle in her hand.
Little Shengli blinked his big, twinkling eyes and reached out to grab the rattle.
"Xiao Li, call me grandma."
Xiao Shengli blinked his eyes and looked at the kind woman in front of him. After a few days of recuperation, the little girl's complexion finally became a little more rosy.
The little girl, who had been lacking in food and clothing and suffering from malnutrition since she was born, finally had a few days of good days without going hungry.
"Grandma, grandma." Little Shengli grabbed the rattle and called out in a baby voice.
“Hey, hey, hey.” Mrs. He’s eyes were red, and tears could no longer be stopped from flowing, “Hey, hey, hey.”
She hugged her granddaughter, tears dripping onto little Shengli's cheeks, "My dear girl."
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