"What the hell, an actor wants to find me if he loses his belongings?"

Meng Shaoyuan looked a little angry.

This is a telegram sent by Dai Li himself.

The reason is also very simple:

Fifteen boxes belonging to the famous movie star Ms. Hu Die were lost.

It's Hu Die, who is famous for making movies.

After the fall of Shanghai in 1937, Hu Die and her husband Pan Yousheng fled to Hong Kong.

Then, at the end of December, she asked someone to pack fifteen boxes of her belongings that she had no time to take away in Shanghai, and prepare to transport them to Hong Kong.

The problem is, all fifteen boxes have been stolen.

After hearing this, Hu Die fell seriously ill.

Later, she asked many people to help her and met Dai Li.

This Hu Die is the goddess in Mr. Dai's mind.

Since the goddess was in trouble, Mr. Dai patted his chest and promised to help her find fifteen boxes.

For this task, Mr. Dai naturally thought of his first favorite general in Shanghai:

Meng Shaoyuan!

But the problem is that Meng Shaoyuan cannot do such a thing at all.

The situation in Shanghai was so tense, and he and the Japanese were at loggerheads.

If an actor loses something, it's not military intelligence, it's none of his business?

"Yes, the situation is difficult, and Shanghai is in dire straits." Wu Jingyi rarely stood on Meng Shaoyuan's side: "It's true that Hu Die is an influential movie star, but if she lost something, she can hand it over to the patrol room. Let us

For the military commander to resolve this matter, to be honest, it would be overkill."

"There is nothing we can do. Who told our Mr. Dai..." Meng Shaoyuan said nothing.

Wu Jingyi glanced at him, and the meaning in her eyes was obvious:

The upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked.

Meng Shaoyuan knew what she was thinking, but he just pretended not to know.

"Go and deal with this matter."

Meng Shaoyuan thought for a while: "It would be best if we could find it, but the beach in Shanghai is so big and it has been lost for a long time. It is like finding a needle in a haystack. I don't think so."

"Then if you really can't find it, tell Director Dai the truth directly?"

"The truth? Do you know what the truth is?" Meng Shaoyuan smiled: "The truth is that Mr. Dai also knows that time has passed and it is impossible to find it. Also, how big is the box? What is put in it? Everything.

Didn’t say anything. There’s no information, so where should we find it? But we still have to find it.”

Wu Jingyi is also a smart person, and she suddenly realized when she heard this: "Does that mean we are allowed to pay out of our own pockets?"

"Yes, that's the truth." Meng Shaoyuan smiled bitterly: "Don't worry about whether these fifteen boxes can be found, don't care about what is in these boxes. In short, we will fill the fifteen boxes full by then.

Just give it back to this big star."

Now, Wu Jingyi finally understood why Meng Shaoyuan was so favored by Director Dai.

Strong business ability is of course one of the important reasons, and another aspect is that he is very able to figure out the thoughts of his boss.

Director Dai only had a simple telegram, and he immediately understood what to do and how to do it.

"Director Dai knows that you are rich." Wu Jingyi smiled: "Boss Meng, you, are rich and have a big family. It's nothing to spend money to make up for it."

"No, no, you are wrong again." Meng Shaoyuan said immediately: "Since Mr. Dai has used you, he will definitely convince you that if his subordinates use their own money to supplement an actor, he will really do it.

How can you convince the public?"

Wu Jingyi didn't quite understand: "Then what does this telegram mean..."

"Just wait." Meng Shaoyuan lit a cigarette: "There will be new telegrams."

As soon as he finished speaking, a telegraph operator walked in, holding a telegram in his hand: "A secret telegram from Wuhan. It is specially sent to Director Meng."

"read."

"Yes. Investigate Shanghai businessman Cheng Lanxing for colluding with Japanese pirates and exploiting the country's calamity... He can still be saved and should be punished to contribute his meager strength to the country..."

"I know, let's go out."

Meng Shaoyuan asked the operator to go out: "Assistant Wu, do you understand now?"

He made everything right. Wu Jingyi was really impressed. His character was still open to question, but his ability to figure out the thoughts of his boss was unparalleled.

Director Dai means that the Shanghai businessman Cheng Lanxing lost all the property he lost to Butterfly.

"Cheng Lanxing, a veteran businessman in Shanghai." Wu Jingyi is very familiar with this information: "I made a fortune by making toothpaste before, but later I specialized in women's business, and my business doubled and expanded, specializing in toothpaste, mosquito coils, and soap, and I made a lot of money...

When the invaders occupied Shanghai, he donated some supplies to the Japanese invaders in order to protect himself, but he did not commit any major evil deeds."

"Think of him as unlucky." Meng Shaoyuan said lightly.

"The question is, how much money should he be asked to pay? After all, Director Dai did not clearly say how much property Butterfly lost."

"Actually, it's easy to calculate." Meng Shaoyuan smiled and said: "In the 17th year of the Republic of China, Butterfly received the highest monthly salary that a movie star could get at that time, 2,000 yuan per month. Star Film Company gave her a total of one year, that is

Twenty-four thousand yuan. It seemed that he still owed her a thousand yuan when he left. Rounding up, it was twenty-five thousand.

Later, her monthly salary was 1,000 yuan, and we had no control over the extra money. Even if she received 1,000 yuan every month in 1937, in eight years, it would be 96,000 yuan. Let’s round up the figure and make it 100,000 yuan.

.Add the two together, it’s 125,000 yuan. Don’t worry about interest and other calculations, just calculate it as 150,000 yuan.

We don’t know what’s in her box, whether it’s necklaces, gold, silver or jewelry, it has nothing to do with us, but since Mr. Dai is serious about making friends with Ms. Butterfly, the property in this box should be more rather than less. These fifteen

If you have two boxes, just combine them into one box, don’t bother and just return a total of 200,000 yuan.”

This account is a confusing account, but it is also a clear account.

Meng Shaoyuan was a little sarcastic: "This Butterfly brought at least half of her family property to Hong Kong. It is estimated that half of it will not be left in Shanghai. Now if I give her 200,000 yuan, it will be more than what she earned in ten years as a movie star. She will definitely be interested in it."

Thank you, Mr. Dai."

"Director Meng." Wu Jingyi said suddenly: "If you have been an official for ten years, you will definitely be a very big official."

"Don't flatter me. I, a dignified senior intelligence officer, actually do such a thing." Meng Shaoyuan sighed: "It's difficult to be an official well. Assistant Wu, I'll go to Cheng Lanxing's place.

When you get the money, do you know what to do?”

"Know."

Wu Jingyi had no time to think and blurted out: "We tried our best to collect clues and finally found the robbers, but the belongings in the fifteen boxes were sold and squandered by the robbers. We also found the backers of these robbers. They heard that they robbed the famous

Ms. Hu Die regrets it so much that she is willing to compensate NT$200,000."

"Yes, take the initiative to compensate." Meng Shaoyuan stood up and stretched: "The most unlucky one is Cheng Lanxing. This really makes people sit at home, and disaster comes from the sky."

"Director Dai specially selected him." Wu Jingyi said calmly: "If he had not cooperated with the Japanese, naturally there would not have been such a disaster."
Chapter completed!