Findings at sea

It was the night of January 28, [-].

That night the gunshots rang out in Zhabei, the first shot on the Songhu battlefield.

The peace inside the concession remains the same, but the outside of the concession is full of gunfire, and heaven and hell are so close.When the rumble of guns and artillery came from the Zhabei area, Ji Xingtang got up in his clothes all night without sleep. He knew the wolf ambitions of the Japanese, but he didn't expect the flames of war to be brought to Shanghai so soon. .

Seeing him standing alone by the window again, Xu Baoshan walked over and handed him a cigarette, "What? It's life outside the concession."

Ji Xingtang leaned on his fire and lit a cigarette, and after a quick puff, he gradually calmed down, "Which army is outside?"

"The Nineteenth Route Army, the newspaper said that this team was in Jiangxi to encircle and suppress the Red Army for Chiang Kai-shek a few months ago, and now it has been hastily deployed to defend Shanghai, with more than 3 people, I don't know how long it will last." He glanced at Ji Xingtang and said. , "The money raised came in handy. This army is not a direct line of troops. It was rejected by Lao Jiang and treated very badly. It is not so much a regular army of the Kuomintang as an armed group. Wearing straw sandals without wearing a hat, and not even a serious military uniform, Besides, how can a rifle grenade light machine gun compare to a cannon tank armored vehicle. It seems that your money is not enough, although the factory is gone, I still have some savings to donate half of it to fight against Japan over the years. It’s not a problem.”

Looking at Xu Baoshan, Ji Xingtang felt a sense of respect in his heart. He knew that it was useless to feel sorry for himself here. What he should do now was to do his best for the bloody [-]th Route Army.

The night was very dark.This month, the cool last quarter moon, the moon reaches the heart of the sky; this wind, the cool January wind, the cool wind soothes the mind.Usually at this time, Chunfeng Shanghai does not need to care about the joys and sorrows of the world.No one has ever worried that now, the extravagance and prosperity in the air will be replaced by gunfire and gunpowder smoke.

Ji Xingtang and Xu Baoshan discussed that it would be too difficult to hold a hundred-day banquet for Mo Bai with great fanfare in the current war.Ji Xingtang got some inkpad and dyed his black hands and feet red, and pressed his hands and feet to rub his hands and footprints on the white brocade, the immature hands and feet left traces of age.Mo Bai was dishonest, giggling and reaching out to grab Ji Xingtang, the red ink mud on his hand stained his clothes.Ji Xingtang smiled and folded the brocade and put it in the brocade box. Xu Baoshan saw it and told him to tidy it up. He took a towel and wiped Mo Bai's hands and feet, grabbed his kicking legs and wiped them hard, " Kick me again and tie you up and hang you on a tree." Mo Bai was still smiling, Xu Baoshan opened his mouth with two fingers, "I've checked the long teeth", and took a closer look, "Yo, the eyebrows have grown , when will you talk, call me father, call me."

Mo Bai shook his head and waved his fingers, his mouth was covered with red marks, Xu Baoshan pinched his buttocks, "Is it easy for your father to serve you? Hurry up." Mo Bai said "嗤...嗤" a few times, With a "poof", the saliva stuck to the red ink pad dripped.Xu Baoshan was disgusted by him, so he stuffed a handkerchief into his hand, "You son of a bitch, I probably call you daddy more than you call me daddy, wipe it yourself." Mo Bai glanced at it twice and went Mouth stuffed.

Just as he was about to fight, there was a sound of vigorous footsteps at the door. Xu Baoshan looked out and saw that the man in a suit and leather shoes did not look hooligan in the slightest, but it was Feng Youqiao.

Xu Baoshan and Yan Yuese came forward to greet him, and then invited him to the living room to make a pot of tea.Feng Youqiao didn't look very fierce, but his imposing manner was terrifying, as soon as he came in, the corners of Mo Bai's mouth twitched and he was about to cry.Feng Youqiao wanted to tease him, but was taken aback by the baby's crying, and was at a loss when Ji Xingtang came down from the stairs, and saw Feng Youqiao calling for Brother Feng.

Seeing Mo Bai's dirty look, Ji Xingtang simply tidied it up and put it beside him, and said embarrassingly, "I'm laughing."

Feng Youqiao gave a "tsk", "The boy is quite a troublemaker, it's not that he doesn't have money to find some girls."

Xu Baoshan added a cup of tea for him, and handed him a cigarette, "There are too many people, so I don't feel comfortable. Take care of me when I have time, but I don't have time to fend for myself."

Feng Youqiao and the two chatted for a while, Ji Xingtang thought he was here to ask for a bill, and said, "Brother Feng, don't worry, brother Baoshan and I will go to Nanjing tomorrow to order a batch of arms and donate them to the [-]th Route Army that night. If you Don't worry, you can come with us."

Feng Youqiao smiled while smoking, put out the cigarette butt in the glass jar, crossed his fingers on Erlang's lap and said with a smile, "Ming people don't talk dark words. Tomorrow, you will prepare a hundred-day banquet for this kid, and by the way, Murai Come here, blow up his bones tomorrow."

"No." Ji Xingtang refused without thinking, "There are plenty of opportunities to get rid of rape, so we can't take this risk."

Feng Youqiao turned his head to stare at him, and Ji Xingtang looked at him without hesitation. Ji Xingtang saw in his dark and bright eyes the envy of evil and the swiftness of action.Xu Baoshan hurriedly came out to smooth things over, "It's a good idea to catch the turtle in the urn. It's better to be in your own territory than in the pirate's territory." He patted Ji Xingtang's arm to tell him to relax.

Ji Xingtang said, "Brother Feng, I know that you are well versed in the righteousness of the nation and have great abilities. There is no one in Shanghai who is not afraid of the news. Punishing rape and eliminating evil is a good deed for the country and the people. I will do my best where I am needed. Help. But Mobai is still young, use him as a bait to assassinate the Japanese, what if something goes wrong. Besides, if you kill Murai today, there will be another Murai tomorrow..."

Feng Youqiao interrupted him with a wave of his hand, and said contemptuously, "Before you did not agree to assassinate Murai, you were afraid that the Japanese would use this as an excuse to start a war. Now that Zhabei has already started a war, you can neither carry a gun to the battlefield to kill the enemy, nor do you want to kill the enemy. Frustrating their arrogance in the rear, why don't you just hold the baby at home and watch the theater? I have long seen that you are indecisive, and the kindness of a woman is difficult to accomplish, and there is nothing I can do if you insist on being a coward."

Ji Xingtang looked at Mo Bai's staring eyes, clear and innocent, not only his eyebrows grew back, but also his skin became fair and soft, a cute baby carved in powder and jade.Whether it's wind guns, snow halberds, frost knives and rain arrows, Ji Xingtang thinks she has never been afraid.But he couldn't deny it. He is a human being, and as a human being, he would have an affair. He sympathized with the refugees in the Northeast and respected the soldiers of the Anti-Japanese War, but compared with Mo Bai's safety...it's not worth mentioning.Ji Xingtang also didn't want to confront him head-on, so he said nicely, "Brother Feng said it before. The original purpose of saving the National Congress was to suppress the Japanese's arrogance. Now that the war has started, it won't be of much use. , the main task is to comfort the army, rescue refugees, stabilize the financial industry and industry and commerce, liaise with the military and civilians to coordinate actions, and fully assist the [-]th Route Army in combat, you see..."

Feng Youqiao got up and put on his woolen hat, "I don't care what you want to do. It's my business to blow up the village well. I thought you would be able to understand the righteousness, but I didn't want to be such a narrow-minded person. Don't get involved, so as not to waste time. Scared the shit out of me."

Ji Xingtang's face showed embarrassment. This assassin king is hard and soft. What to do now.At this time, Xu Baoshan picked Mo Bai from Ji Xingtang's side, and said with a smile, "Hey, son." He patted Ji Xingtang on the shoulder and said, "Xingtang, you are too sensitive. Since Brother Feng said so, he must have him." The truth must have been planned from beginning to end. Firstly, it can eliminate harm for the people, and secondly, it can be honorable. Why don't you agree? My son is the master." Without giving Ji Xingtang a chance to refute, he looked at Feng Youqiao at the door and said , "Then I will trouble brother Feng to take the brothers for a trip tomorrow."

Feng Youqiao lowered the brim of his hat and smiled suddenly, "Brother Xu still knows the general idea."

After Feng Youqiao left, Ji Xingtang's soul seemed to be taken away by him, and she slumped on the sofa and said to Xu Baoshan, "Brother Baoshan, you shouldn't have promised him, how could you take Mobai to take risks? Could it be that Murai can't tell the truth?"

Xu Baoshan said, "It's not easy to live in this world. It's better to make an enemy than to make a friend. We will have a lot of places to rely on him in the future. We can't provoke him. Besides, he is not blind and will drop bombs on the boy."