Lost and Spy

Chapter 314: The Black Servant Is Lost
Satisfied, Daniel accepted the real last check he earned in China:
Five thousand dollars.

That was Meng Shaoyuan's reward for encouraging him in front of Sinclair.

He likes China as a country and Meng Shaoyuan as a person.

He really didn't want to leave.

To him, Meng Shaoyuan was a God of Wealth.

What can be done?

I am afraid that there will be no chance to see Meng Shaoyuan again in the future.

In the afternoon, he will leave Shanghai on the American steamer "Lord Dominick" and return to his distant hometown:

U.K!

A lot of luggage.

Alao, his servant, the black servant, was exhausted.

A suitcase was placed next to the car, and it was full of Mr. Daniel's underwear.

Arau turned and went back to get another box.

Turning around, I saw a man picked up the box and ran away.

"Hey, stop! You bastard thief!"

Alao was in a hurry, so he ran after him.

You must know that any private property belonging to Mr. Daniel will never be easily touched by tourists, otherwise poor Aarau will be abused or even beaten.

Arau didn't want to be beaten by his master.

He chased after the thief desperately.

He saw the thief running into an alley, and he followed after him.

"Boom".

As soon as he entered, a wooden stick fell on Alao's head.

Arrow fainted all of a sudden.

Only then did the thief open the box, but he was very angry when he saw it.

It was full of men's underwear and socks.

He threw the box on the ground and kicked the unconscious Alao hard:
"You nigga bum, chasing me all the way for some rags..."

……

Arau is missing.

When Mr. Daniel was about to leave Shanghai, his black servant Alao disappeared.

And it was missing with a box.

The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Daniel, had reason to believe that Arau had absconded with his valuables.

Yes, a suitcase of valuables.

For example, there is a pair of socks inside, which are decent British products that I bought myself the year before last.Although a hole has been broken, it is still very precious.

Black people can never be trusted, Daniel confirms that.

If he hadn't been in a hurry to catch the ship, he would have personally urged the patrols to catch this nigger.

……

"The Japanese army is frequently deploying troops to Baoshan. My two teams are closely monitoring the Japanese movements in Baoshan. The Yao Ziqing Battalion has entered Baoshan to take over the city defense."

Meng Shaoyuan listened to the introduction and remained silent.

Baoshan bloody battle ah.

Yao Ziqing and his more than 500 brothers blood-stained Baoshan, sacrificed their lives and became benevolent, serving the country and the nation.

Many years later, when summarizing the Battle of Songhu, many military history experts looked at the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who died in the national army and felt that this battle should not have been fought like this!

But how can we fight if we don't fight like this?

Apart from exchanging human life for time, there was no other way to play the Songhu battle at that time.

Meng Shaoyuan remembers very clearly that on the first day of the bloody battle in Baoshan, the Japanese army concentrated more than 50 warships, 21 aircraft, 30 tanks, and 5000 infantrymen on the Yaoziqing camp, launching a fierce attack on Baoshan day and night.

The Japanese army had warships on the sea, planes in the sky, and tanks on the ground, and even the strength of the Japanese army was 10 times that of Yao Ziqing's battalion. There was no chance of winning this battle at all!
Yao Ziqing and his brothers knew that what they had to do was to hold back the advance of the Japanese army in this defense battle that had no chance of winning.

Life and death, forget it, there is no time to think about it.

What kind of tragedy is it that you don't even have time to think about death?
This is the cruelty of the Battle of Songhu. The Chinese army used one life after another to delay the time of the Japanese attack. The Chinese soldiers died tragically, and the Japanese soldiers also fought very hard.

"On the 24th, our army launched a counterattack across the board." Wu Jingyi pointed to the map and said: "Our army formed a prism-shaped defensive zone with the four key points of Baoshan, Yuepu, Yangxing, and Wusong to cooperate with the main counterattack. Around these four points The main point is that the Chinese and Japanese armies fought fiercely here, with mutual casualties on both sides, and the battle was very stalemate. According to the intercepted Japanese telegram, the 11th Division stated in the telegram, 'The war has reached a very critical moment'..."

"That's why we don't give up an inch of ground and stick to every position." Meng Shaoyuan said in a daze: "It's difficult for us, just as difficult for the Japanese. While holding on to Shanghai, factories and materials in Nanjing and other places in the south of the Yangtze River began to move in large numbers. The Battle of Shanghai bought us time."

"Director Meng, I have a question and I don't know if I should ask it?"

"Just ask."

"I heard that you bought a house in Nanjing last year. After we started the war in Shanghai, your Ren Yinghao in Nanjing called to ask if the house was sold, but you refused. If Shanghai falls, The Japanese army will definitely advance to Nanjing, and if the capital falls again, the house seems to be destroyed, right?"

"You're talking too lightly. It's not destruction. It's either destroyed or occupied by someone. There's no third possibility." Meng Shaoyuan said lightly, "But I have to have a home in Nanjing, even if Nanjing is really lost. , we will take her back sooner or later. I have to remind myself all the time that my home is in Nanjing. The home has been taken over by others. If I don’t try my best to get it back, am I still a man? I Is there even a little bit of blood?"

In this era, no one knows the course of history better than Meng Shaoyuan. From the first moment he bought a house in Nanjing, he told himself:
I have settled down in Nanjing!
If the home is destroyed, it must be rebuilt; if the home is lost, it must be regained!
Wu Jingyi seemed to understand, and she immediately took out a check and put it in front of Meng Shaoyuan: "This is your subordinate who came to look for you. You are not here, so I left it here for you. He also said that he went back to Jiangyin. And brethren, death will not shame you."

$14.

Wang Jingzhong extorted money from the Yao family.

In order to raise funds for Yao Muqing's redemption, the Yao family not only sold the house, but even mortgaged the factory.

This Wang Jingzhong is also ruthless enough, he wants a fraction of five hundred dollars.

Has the potential to be a gangster.

When the Japanese enter Wuxi and Jiangyin in the future, they will be troubled.

The phone on the desk rang.

Wu Jingyi answered the phone and listened for a while: "Got it."

Put down the phone: "Director Meng, our 11th Division recaptured Luodian. The Japanese army mobilized planes, tanks, and heavy artillery to fight back desperately. Our soldiers bravely killed the enemy. I, Guan Yincheng No.12 special agent team, assisted the 11th Division in defense. An hour ago, all killed."

Meng Shaoyuan's heart seemed to be pricked by a needle.

What he is most afraid of hearing now is the news.

"Prepare the car immediately. By the way, there are medicines. Call Xu Chengbo. The medicines, the medicines I asked him to store, will be delivered to me immediately. We will leave in an hour."

"Director Meng, aren't you going to Luodian?"

"Where do you want to go if you don't go to Luodian?" Meng Shaoyuan's eyes widened: "In Luodian, my eighth and twelfth squads were all killed, and the rest of the squads also suffered heavy casualties. How can I not go to command myself? And, The teams of Yue Zhenchuan, Tian Qi, and Zhu Yanni are all concentrated in the front line of Luodian, I have already lost a brother, and I don't want to lose another..."

"Well, I'll get ready right away. I'll go with you."

"No." Meng Shaoyuan flatly refused: "You still stay here, I know that Mr. Dai asked you to protect me. But you still have a husband and children, and if you are always away from home, your man will definitely be suspicious. This is an order."

After speaking, Meng Shaoyuan walked out of the small building and went outside.

He needs to breathe.

Take a breath of the air in the concession that is at least free of gunpowder smoke and bloody smell.

It's good to be alive and smell the air.

It's still safe here, and it will be safe for a long time to come.

Yesterday, Nanjing sent a new batch of students. There were about [-] students who had just arrived in Shanghai, and all of them were sent to the front line.

Many of them have only fired guns during training.

Since the start of the war, the various units of the military command have suffered heavy losses and urgently need to be replenished.

Those who had finished training, those who hadn't finished training, were all sent to Shanghai.

Meng Shaoyuan has not received supplements here yet. While Dai Li was in Shanghai, Meng Shaoyuan hurriedly asked Dai Li's important person. Unexpectedly, Dai Li, who had always been kind to Meng Shaoyuan, would rarely lose his temper with his proud subordinates:

"Where can I find someone for you? Before the war, you have been preparing for so long, and you need someone? Look at the whole of Shanghai, you have a strong army, light machine guns, heavy machine guns, mortars, what do you have? You still ask me Important person? I'll give it to you, join your team, do you want it!"

Could it be that it is difficult for everyone, and it is also difficult for Dai Li.

"Arau?"

Suddenly, Meng Shaoyuan saw a familiar figure: "Alao, here I am."

The black Alao was startled, and when he saw clearly that it was Mr. Daniel's old friend calling him, he immediately rushed over, crying:

"Mr. Meng, it's great to see you here."

"Why are you here?" Meng Shaoyuan was a little strange: "Daniel has already boarded the boat after the time? You didn't go with him?"

Meng Shaoyuan didn’t say it was okay, but when he said that Alao’s tears came down: “The thief stole Mr. Daniel’s things. I went after him and was knocked out. When I woke up and went home, Mr. Daniel had already left. When we arrived at the pier, the ship left half an hour ago. Sir, Aarau was abandoned."

I rub!

This can't be blamed on Alao's grievance. These black people have been servants since they were young, and the business has been passed down from generation to generation. If you want them not to be servants, they really don't know what to do.

They can do nothing but servants. ,

What freed slaves.

Many black slaves really want to be liberated, but there are still many black slaves who have long been accustomed to the way of life passed down from their ancestors.They even regarded those slave liberators as scourges.

"Why don't you leave me here for now." Meng Shaoyuan thought for a while: "I'll find a way to send you back to England later."

"Oh, good sir, you are my angel."

Alao, who had nowhere to go, immediately agreed when he heard this sentence.

(End of this chapter)