The Pretender's Taoyaoyi Building

"Actually, I'm very selfish." Of course, Ming Lou is very aware of his own weaknesses. "I want to complete the death plan and also want to save you, so that you can survive." His plan of drowning himself, which made Taoyao very angry, came from this way. Yes, as she said, if the chess piece was not Mingtai, he would not have calculated like this again and again, but still almost counted his life "My most painful thing is that you lost your dearest in this plan Comrades in arms, the most respected teacher, but you remember, their deaths are not meaningless sacrifices; they exchanged their lives for the victory in the third theater, delayed the momentum of the Japanese attack, and saved the lives of countless people. A worthy death!"

After Mingtai heard the final result, he still couldn't let go of the death of his teacher and comrades and wept bitterly.

Minglou took out his handkerchief and saw someone coming from behind.

Tao Yao walked slowly in a dark coat and a bright red scarf.

Mingtai also heard the footsteps that he didn't deliberately conceal, and turned his head, "Sister-in-law?" Is this the person he is going to meet today?

Minglou squatted down and handed the handkerchief to Mingtai.

Mingtai took it and wiped away the tears, but still sobbed strongly: so this is the truth of the family, the eldest brother is the military commander, and the sister-in-law is the Communist Party.

"Fortunately, all of this is over, let's get up, let's get back to business." Minglou helped him up, and suddenly asked, "Excuse me, did you bring cigarettes?"

Mingtai's sobbing stopped abruptly: what do you mean? !How could it be the eldest brother who asked this code word?Shouldn't Taoyao ask the code words that my father told me last night?

Minglou pulled him up completely, and with a standing body, he asked again clearly, "Excuse me, did you bring cigarettes?"

Mingtai can't turn his head around now, he keeps turning between the big brother in front of him and Taoyao behind him, but Taoyao's indifference and tranquility make him only answer to the big brother who asked this question, "I'm sorry, I just quit smoking. .”

Minglou smiled, very satisfied with this answer.

But Mingtai stared at Minglou and took a few steps back, his face full of disbelief, "Brother, are you the same Communist Party as Taoyao?"

Ming Lou held his head high, "I am speaking to you on behalf of the leader of the Shanghai Underground Party Intelligence Team."

Mingtai couldn't believe that what he saw and heard was real.

"Don't look at me like that. You didn't come here today to meet the poisonous snake of the military command, but the leader of the intelligence team of the Shanghai underground party." Ming Lou exposed his purpose, "Isn't it."

"Don't talk yet!" Mingtai raised his finger to hold him, and then took three steps back, "Let me think about it, don't talk." Turning his back, he couldn't accept such a thing at all, he couldn't react; he turned his head to look He turned his back again, and then turned his head to look at the heroic man standing there, "You, you are the deputy director of the special committee of the new government?!" Ever since he knew the code name Cobra, he always thought that Cobra was Taoyao, how could it be?

"Yes." Minglou admitted.

"You are the financial consultant of the Economic Division of the Ministry of Finance and Economics!?"

"Yes."

"You are the chief of the intelligence section of the Military Command Shanghai Station!?"

"Yes."

"You are still the fast-paced son-in-law of the head of the northern branch of the Japanese Mei Agency!"

"Yes."

"Now tell me you are China/Communist Party!"

"Yes."

"What is it!" Mingtai was surprised and angry, "What do you think you are hiding from me!?"

"He's still your big brother." This is what Ming Lou wanted to tell him the most, so Tao Yao walked to Ming Lou's side.

Mingtai looked at the couple, "You two!" Are they wearing masks all the time?Eldest brother lied to him, and Taoyao also lied to him, he wondered if the husband and wife also lied to each other like this every day, "You -- is this fun?" He complained loudly.

"It may be a bit far-fetched for you to accept these things now." Taoyao was wearing black sheepskin gloves, "but time doesn't wait. Since you choose to join us, this kind of disguised life will be more dangerous and cruel in the future. If you want to give up now, I can let you To the United States."

It was far-fetched, it was mental torture.Mingtai walked to the side, supported the railing with both hands, then sat on the ground weakly, and looked at their husband and wife.

After all, Minglou still felt sorry for him and thanked him, and walked over, "Mingtai, I hope you can accept this, because I believe you can survive it, instead of leaving your motherland that is suffering in the flames of war and fleeing to the other side of the ocean."

"Accept?!" Mingtai looked up, "Brother, tell me, who is she? What identity?"

"She is your sister-in-law." Ming Lou lowered his head, "She is also your other party introduction, and it can even be said that what you are learning now is her knowledge." The recuperation time at Uncle Li's house is not completely free, He knew she was teaching Ming what she had learned. "May I give the assignment?"

Mingtai sat on the ground, "In what capacity?"

"Of course it's red." Tao Yao didn't move.

Mingtai looked up at her, "Okay, tell me."

"You will join our party's underground work as a secret agent who was instigated against the military command." Minglou formally assigned him a red mission, "but you will continue to maintain contact with the military command. Only Taoyao and I have this identity. You want Lurk for a long time and keep silent, and carry out a major mission." The military commander's mission is controlled by him, but the red mission is controlled by him and Taoyao together, this is also to prevent Mingtai's identity in the party from being isolated if he dies. hanging.

Mingtai looked at his elder brother this time, "What important task?"

"Although you have joined our party." It was Taoyao who spoke, and she walked to the other side of Mingtai, "but you still have to get in touch with the military commanders lurking inside our party as a military commander, and find out their details and liaison network, awaiting order for removal." At the time of victory in '45.

Mingtai paused for a moment, then got up quickly, "Wait, have I officially joined the Communist Party now?"

"Yes." Minglou replied.

"But I want to tell the military commander that my joining the Communist Party is a false rebellion."

This time it was Tao Yao who answered, "Yes."

Mingtai turned to look at her, "I want to use this identity to find out the hidden military secret agents in the party?"

"Yes." Ming Lou spoke again.

"What is it?" Mingtai took two steps back, "Can you stop making things so complicated?"

Minglou said solemnly, "Do you need me to repeat the task?"

Mingtai turned his eyes between the two, "No, I understand." Complaints are complaints, and the job content is still very clear.

"It's also the incubation period. Both sides need you to lurk for a long time and work under a double disguise." Taoyao stood on a tall building and looked out. "Your brother trusts you to complete this task well before proposing to your superiors that you should complete the task." , so I hope you will not disappoint us."

Minglou looked at Mingtai, "Yes, I believe in you."

Mingtai suddenly understood the elder brother's heart a little bit, "Brother, you have participated in all my actions, you must be very bitter."

"It's envy." Tao Yao smiled, "Because his greatest wish is to live in the sun. I love this city, even if it is not familiar to me, but I still can't change my heart. I was born and raised here , Although I don’t know if I will die here, but the place where my bones are buried must be here; this is my only request in the game, if I fail the mission, even if I only leave a tooth, please take me back to Shanghai; This is also the reason why I still choose this path here 80 years ago. I don’t want anyone to know that I am an anti-Japanese, because I have chosen to be a dark walker of the motherland under peace; but you The elder brother is different, he also loves the city where he was born, but he chose such a disguise not because he wanted to. He is an upright Chinese, an anti-Japanese fighter, a soldier, and a CCP/Communist/Party/ member."

Mingtai was moved: Taoyao expressed her inner understanding so frankly, if she hadn't been like-minded, she wouldn't know her elder brother so well.

Ming Lou also looked at the scenery she was looking at, "I have not failed this city. Just like her, I was born and raised here, and I will be buried here in the future. The only thing I have failed is the Ming family, and I have failed my eldest sister." For the sake of his ideals and beliefs, he is doomed not to be able to inherit the family business. "I failed you!" This sentence was said to Mingtai.

Mingtai shook his head, "Brother, you have not let anyone down, you have always been our pride." The words came from the heart, sincerely.

A heart-to-heart conversation with his younger brother cleared up the misunderstanding between the two brothers. Minglou was really relieved, turned sideways, and faced Mingtai, "Mingtai, remember that you are now a communist fighter." , Next you need not only courage and wisdom, but also strict discipline and firm belief."

Mingtai is also facing his eldest brother, with a sincere attitude, "I know what it means to join the Communist Party, and I will not disappoint your expectations of me."

"In the future, in addition to maintaining your health and continuing to hide, you must also master the knowledge you need to know as soon as possible." Ming Lou said the most difficult words, "The organization will send you out of Shanghai soon."

"I understand." In fact, he was extremely reluctant to leave Shanghai, the Ming family, and his elder sister.

"Mingtai, have you met Uncle Li?" Tao Yao suddenly asked, "You know?"

Mingtai turned his head, "Sister-in-law?" How did she know?

"This is also what you have to learn. Observe words and demeanor. If you learn well, you may be able to save your life in a crisis." Tao Yao smiled at him, "Congratulations, father and son recognize each other."

She didn't tell Minglou about this, so Minglou was very surprised when he heard about it, "This? Well, this is a good thing." But the reluctance couldn't be concealed.

Mingtai was also a little worried about this matter, and didn't know how to tell them, but she didn't expect to be noticed by her, this is too powerful, "Sister-in-law..."

Tao Yao comforted him, "Don't worry, I will find an opportunity to explain it clearly to my eldest sister. Although she will definitely be sad, she will also be very happy for you."

Mingtai lowered his eyes, "I'm actually very worried about whether the eldest sister will be very sad when she finds out, but fortunately, with you and Mingrui here, Minghua will be born in a few months, and the presence of these two little ones will definitely make the eldest sister happy." Much comfort."

"Mingtai, you don't have to worry about Eldest Sister. The bond of flesh and blood is inseparable. No matter what the reason is, Eldest Sister and I will not stop you father and son from getting to know each other." Minglou is also a father himself, so of course he understands the pain and pain of separation between father and son. The great joy of reunion "Our Ming family is sensible."

Mingtai nodded vigorously.

"However, Mingtai, can you continue to be named Ming?" Taoyao made a request, "I hope you will always be Mingrui Minghua's little uncle and our family."

"Of course, I will always be a member of the Ming family." Although the kinship of flesh and blood cannot be separated, he also cannot let go of the family ties of nurturing and nurturing for more than ten years.

Speaking of this brother, both of them had moist eyes.

"I should thank you for Eldest Sister." Thanking Mingtai for his gratitude, Minglou still forced a smile on his face. "From now on, you should be filial to your father. This is what Eldest Sister has always hoped for."

"I will." Mingtai also tried his best not to let the sadness trouble him, "Brother, in the future, you have to take care of your elder sister and sister-in-law..."

"Ask." Tao Yao knew that he had many questions to ask herself.

Mingtai stared at her, "Is what you said to Wang Manchun true?"

"Yes."

"Will we win in the end?"

"Yes."

"You know everything?"

"I know the time and the general circumstances, but not the details of what happened, how it happened, and how it ended; the whole history can't really be known."

"That's why you say you've seen the future." Of course Mingtai remembered the "tranquility and peace" she said when chatting with her at home.

"Yes, because that's where I come from."

"Why are you here?"

"Betrayed, at least I think I was calculated, but there are many things I can't investigate in detail now." She was not sad, but a little surprised, after all, she was attacked before her mission started.

Mingtai was in a daze, hearing it and admitting it to herself were two different things, "It turns out that you really came from time travel, so will you go back?"

Minglou moved slightly.

"No, at least not on my own." The uncontrollable she didn't know, "I'm also a member of the Ming family, right?" She has a family and a husband here, and she has a mission that she can't give up.

Mingtai watched her speechless for a while, all kinds of emotions came surging.

Minglou looked at the time, "Taoyao, I have to go."

Tao Yao stepped forward and hugged Ming Tai, "Little Uncle, I might not be able to see you again before you leave, take care." The reason she came here today is because she doesn't know when she will meet again today, and she has made it public After returning to Shanghai, he could no longer be erratic, because the order to arrest Mingtai was still in place.

"It's the same with you. I'm leaving. The big brother is most worried about you." Mingtai also hugged her tightly. "Although you are my introduction to the party, your discipline is really not a good teacher; take good care of yourself !"

Tao Yao closed her eyes, hugged him once, and then let go, "I'll go down first." The rest of the time should be left to the two brothers, and they left without looking back, trying not to let the tears fall.

Mingtai watched her go away, but finally turned his head, "Brother, you have to take good care of your elder sister and sister-in-law, as well as that kid Mingrui..."

"You have to take good care of yourself. You have to be more careful when you are there than when you are at home." Only the two brothers were left, and Ming Lou was also holding back, just like Taoyao, today they don't know when their brothers will meet again Meet "Take Care!"

Mingtai was willful again, stepped forward and hugged his elder brother, unwilling to let go for a long time.

Minglou raised his arms and hugged the younger brother who had grown up unconsciously, blinked his eyes hard, fearing that tears would fall, and forced himself to leave after a long while: don't look back, walk with head held high, and let all the sorrow of separation go away. Pressed down in his heart, he hid all his worries, leaving only Mingtai's strong back, because he firmly believed that their brothers would be able to reunite, and they would reunite under the sun when there was no need to pretend anymore.

Mingtai stood where he was, unable to calm down for a long time.