After Sheng Muyi returned to Shanghai, she was busy with business all day long. When she calmed down alone, she was worried about one thing: she lost contact with Guo Songtao.
She didn't know how to contact him. She once wrote several letters and sent them to Huiwen Bookstore in Hong Kong, but nothing happened, with no reply.
She felt a little panicked, wondering if something had happened to Guo Songtao and Song Zhenyang.
The situation in Hong Kong is even more complicated. Working in underground organizations there is like walking a high-altitude tightrope. If you are not careful, you may be arrested or killed.
Sheng Muyi therefore admired them very much. Real revolutionaries are people like them who have already dedicated everything to their country and nation.
Whenever she had free time, she would visit bookstores in Shanghai, especially those with the words Huiwen or Wenhui, hoping that one day she would suddenly run into Guo Songtao or Song Zhenyang again at a corner.
After more than half a year, she visited almost all the bookstores in Shanghai, even the newsstands, but she didn't see Guo Songtao or Song Zhenyang, not even a similar person.
Sheng Muyi secretly laughed at herself, she was almost becoming an expert in collecting books.
Since she visited bookstores too frequently, she was too embarrassed to just look at them and buy them, so she just bought them. There were several bookstores there, and she really thought she was a scholar who said "I am a bibliophile".
What she never expected was that on the third day after she returned to Shanghai, Guo Songtao also received an order to return to Shanghai and prepare to rebuild the Shanghai Liaison Station of the underground party of the Communist Party of China.
He needs to develop new members, and the first member he wants to develop is naturally Sheng Muyi.
However, the order given to him by the headquarters was to remain silent and continue to observe. Before receiving further instructions, he was not allowed to absorb Sheng Muyi into the organization, nor was he allowed to have any contact with her without authorization.
Guo Songtao didn't understand what this order meant. Did he still have doubts about Sheng Muyi? Or was he worried that her identity would be too conspicuous?
He could only carry out the headquarters' orders to the letter and continue to cool down the relationship with Sheng Muyi.
The person who delivered the order to Guo Songtao was Mr. Dong who lived in Wanguo Apartment, but he did not know the content of the order.
Mr. Dong's task is to put a secret message in a designated place, and he doesn't have to worry about who picks it up.
After Guo Songtao retrieved the message, he used the password to decrypt it and realized that it was an order from the headquarters.
The Shanghai underground party organization of the CCP was almost wiped out because of betrayal by traitors. This lesson is a painful one.
Now each branch site adopts the deadlock method to minimize contact between personnel and eliminate personnel exchanges at branch sites.
This is just like all the branches of a big tree. If one branch is cut off, it will not affect the normal growth of other branches.
What Mr. Dong established in Wanguo Apartment was not an intelligence station, but a radio station. Only special orders or top-secret information could be received or transmitted by him. Information that was not urgent was still transmitted back to the headquarters through other channels. This was also to reduce the number of
Mr. Dong’s transmission volume is to prevent frequent transmission signals from being captured by the authorities.
In addition to sending and receiving telegrams, Mr. Dong has been observing and inspecting Lu Ming. This is also the order he received. He must continue to observe and inspect Lu Ming, but no further action is allowed without instructions.
Lu Ming didn't know that when he was observing the whole of Shanghai, he was being observed and investigated by a pair of eyes in the dark.
He often saw Mr. Dong in the corridor, and the two of them separated with a simple greeting. Lu Ming attended various gatherings of the press every day and became a professional.
Mr. Dong always seems to be alone, living in seclusion and rarely seeing friends visiting. These details did not escape Lu Ming's vision.
However, Lu Ming didn't care about this. After knowing Mr. Dong's identity, he deliberately kept a distance from Mr. Dong and didn't want to cause trouble.
Andrei and Peter often came to greet Lu Ming, and they maintained close contact. Lu Ming even began to learn Russian.
This is also the most important change that happened to Lu Ming after he started a new career.
Lu Ming did not disclose Mr. Dong's identity to Andre and Peter, although he knew that they belonged to the same type of people.
But there are obviously certain differences between them. Lu Ming couldn't figure out what the specific differences were.
After several fake negotiations with Qiantian, Lu Ming determined that releasing Ozawa would not implicate Qiantian, and finally shyly released these people.
After Ozawa Seishiro returned to the Mantetsu Building, he left a suicide note to his younger brother Ozawa Seigoro, and then committed suicide by caesarean section.
When he committed suicide, Yu Ying'er was beside him and she did not stop him. She understood that Ozawa Seishiro could not continue to live in humiliation and suicide was his best destination.
"Lu Ming, I swear I won't be a human until I kill you in this life!" Yu Ying'er swore to Ozawa's body.
Yu Ying'er's oath reached Lu Ming's ears through Qian Tian. Lu Ming didn't care at all. Yu Ying'er's anger was completely understandable, but turning it into action might not be that simple.
Lu Ming is now a special correspondent for the Washington Post, the real uncrowned king. If the Japanese were not really crazy, they would never dare to attack him.
Except for writing a special observation about Shanghai every week, Lu Ming still lives a life similar to before.
Every three days I hang out with Zi Zhangyang and drink. Once a week I have a meal with Sheng Muyi, Yuan Ziyuan, Yuan Mingzhu and Zhang Ziyang, picking lotus and of course the cuckoo.
Except for Sheng Muyi who was a little surprised, everyone else had long been used to it and accepted Du Juan's existence.
After having dinner with Du Juan for the first time, Sheng Muyi found Lu Ming alone, pointed at his forehead and reprimanded him: "You are too ridiculous. If you really want to live a life of one wife and one concubine, you will read all the books.
Have you gone there?"
"Where is it? Du Juan is my friend. It's really just a friend. There is no other relationship."
It took Lu Ming a long time to explain clearly his relationship with Du Juan, his arrangements for Du Juan, and his future plans.
"Well, that's more or less the same. I heard about it after I came back. This girl has good character and is very capable. She is basically managing the spinning factory now. The factory has reached a higher level. My father praised her several times in front of me.
This time." Sheng Muyi's face turned happy.
"That's good, you can continue to train her, maybe one day she can become your deputy." Lu Ming said with a smile.
"I know she likes you, but you can't be confused. You know, Mingzhu has no requirements for you, I have requirements for you!" Sheng Muyi assumed the posture of the eldest sister.
"I know, I will listen to you when it comes to finding a wife and a girlfriend in the future. Whatever you say will be whatever it is, okay." Lu Ming said in a rogue manner.
Sheng Muyi couldn't do anything to him. Every time she got together, she could only secretly remind Du Juan that as a woman, you need to be self-reliant and be able to take things and let them go. After going back and forth several times, the two of them became best friends who talked about everything.
At the first regular gathering, there was one more person in their small circle, Huang Yanning.
He was invited by Yuan Ziyuan to thank him for helping him during his escape.
Sheng Muyi was also very grateful to him. After all, he was the one who led a battalion of soldiers from the Songhu Security Command and helped Lu Ming put down the turmoil in Liuyuan.
Then he led a platoon of soldiers on a long-distance attack to Hong Kong to rescue her and return to Shanghai. Although the two truckloads of people didn't even see the city of Hong Kong, if you didn't have that formation, Japanese spies might have emerged from some nook and corner.
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Although the Sheng family paid a large sum of money for this, and Huang Yanning acted under orders, thanks are still necessary.
Since then, Huang Yanning has become a member of their small circle and attends their weekly gatherings.
"Is your sister in love with Adjutant Huang?" Lu Ming asked Yuan Mingzhu directly after passing by.
"It's certain that my sister likes Adjutant Huang. We can't fall in love yet. It won't be so soon. That bastard Sheng Di broke her heart. But I can see that Adjutant Huang is secretly in love with Sister Muyi." Yuan
Mingzhu smiled.
Lu Ming didn't say anything. Even Yuan Mingzhu, who was relatively slow in this regard, felt it. Naturally, everyone else could also feel Huang Yanning's secret love for Sheng Muyi.
"He is just thinking about it. I don't think Sister Mu Yi will like him." Yuan Mingzhu said mischievously.
Lu Ming was worried about this matter. He was not afraid of anything else, but worried that Yuan Ziyuan would be emotionally hurt for the second time.
Sheng Di's treason hurt Yuan Ziyuan from his body to his heart. Lu Ming was also hit hard, on a spiritual level, which almost destroyed his trust in people.
Although Sheng Youde once warned him not to trust anyone, he still believed that there should be the most basic trust between people. Now this belief is broken.
This brings about a very difficult to overcome anxiety and uneasiness, like a thorn inserted into the heart.
Therefore, Lu Ming kept an appropriate distance from Mr. Dong. Even when interacting with Andre and Peter, he always remained aloof, with a kind of vigilance and precaution.
Lu Ming spared no time to participate in the activities of the press corps of various countries stationed in Shanghai, just to broaden his knowledge. Although he made a group of new friends through this, he no longer trusted others as unreservedly as before.