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Like a pair of familiar strangers, Zhu Nanjiang and Wen Changling asked each other "how is your life" when they met, and then each said "I'm fine".

In fact, the two of them are not doing well, especially recently.

Two months ago, Japan invaded and occupied the three eastern provinces, and took Emperor Xuantong who was in Tianjin to Xinjing to establish "Manchukuo".Although the Nationalist Government repeatedly negotiated peace, the Kwantung Army's offensive did not decrease at all, and the war spread to Shanhaiguan.

There was a rumor from the headquarters that the Japanese were provoking trouble in the Yangshupu area, fearing that there would be a big move in the future, and the concession was shrouded in darkness for a while, and even the foreigners began to get nervous.

One of Zhu and Wen is in the Chinese area and the other is in the concession. Although they are both nervous, they are not nervous about the same thing.Wen Changling knew that it was useless to share his thoughts with Zhu Nanjiang. Instead of worrying about Niu playing the piano, he might as well pretend that he was "living well".

However, he didn't expect that after two months, he couldn't even pretend anymore.

One night at the end of January, the Japanese troops stationed on North Sichuan Road suddenly opened fire on the Chinese community. The Zhabei District was instantly ablaze, and the shells blew up the printing factory and the five-story building of the editorial office on Baoshan Road into rubble.

The Japanese army's move came from the collection of more than 40 books in the Jiangnan Library.On the fourth day after the bombardment, the head of the curator received a threatening letter from the Japanese ronin, saying, "Er Guan sells all corrupt items and prints the words of the party department in the Book of the Three Peoples. If we don't change our bad habits quickly, our army will be everywhere in Er Guan. Burn it all down."

The library and management office were spared because they were located on Baoxing Road, which is closer to the French Concession, but the destruction of the printing house, editorial office and warehouse was also a catastrophic blow to the printing house.As the director of the printing factory, Wen Changling watched ten years of hard work ruined in one go, heartbroken and helpless.

The war continued until February.The Press established a post-disaster recovery committee to organize employees to evacuate while raising money to rebuild factories and warehouses.

One day, Wen Changling suddenly received several anonymous huge donations, and after many inquiries, he learned that one of them was donated by He Tingfan.

Although this He Tingxuan is rich and powerful, he is known as an iron rooster, and he has no friendship with the printing press, so it makes no sense to suddenly spend so much blood anonymously doing charity.Wen Changling suspected that Zhu Nanjiang did something behind his back, but he didn't have a chance to ask what happened.

He was so busy that he didn't even notice that his sideburns had turned gray in just half a month.

He is busy, Zhu Nanjiang is not idle either.

In early March, China and Japan signed an armistice agreement, and Shanghai became a demilitarized zone. Britain and France gradually felt relieved that their national interests had not been affected, and the concession returned to its former prosperity.

Luo Zhanyuan, Huang Xingrong and other gang leaders jointly established an opium management company in the French Concession, hoping to take advantage of the turmoil in China to monopolize the opium business in Shanghai in the hands of the gang.It is said that Luo Zhanyuan specially recruited opium dealers from the British Concession to be the manager of the company. Consul Albon also agreed with the "legalization of opium" and will personally participate in the company's opening ceremony in the near future.

At this busy time, the patrol room received an order from the Sino-French detectives and arresters to jointly arrest criminals.

Years ago, the National Government signed a Sino-French agreement with France, which included that the Chinese side could cooperate with the French Concession authorities to hunt down suspects and hand them over to China after producing evidence.The clause has only been confirmed for a few months, and I did not expect the case to be laid out so soon.

Song Chenggeng has taken over the position of the head of the political team since March and is personally responsible for the search, arrest and interrogation. Lang Bo ordered him to go to the suspect's residence with Zhu Nanjiang to search.

The suspect was Feng Tingzan, a male newspaper employee living in the central area of ​​the French Concession. He was about 35 years old. After preliminary investigation, it was found that he had worked as a translator in the editorial office under the Jiangnan Press two years ago.

Zhu Nanjiang found a wallet in the mezzanine of the desk in his bedroom, which contained a French bank passbook with a deposit amount of up to 30 yuan.

Song Chenggeng thought for a moment and put away the passbook, then turned to the two of them and said, "I will keep this thing for now, please keep quiet for a while."

Zhu Nanjiang and the man looked at each other, and they both understood his intentions.

A few minutes later, Police Officer Lei from the Shanghai Police Headquarters, Mai Xiwen, Chief of the Criminal Section of the Patrol Room, and his interpreter arrived at Feng's house to search again, but found nothing.

Feng Tingzan was taken back to the police station, and the national government authorities demanded that the prisoner be handed over to the SAR court. After receiving Song Chenggeng's report, Director Langbo proposed that "the defendant should be detained by the French police station because there is no conclusive evidence in this case."

Later, because the Chinese side had been unable to provide strong evidence, the police station finally acquitted Feng Tingzan.

Afterwards, Song Chenggeng transferred the 30 passbook to Feng, and revealed to Zhu Nanjiang that the money was for the activities of the revolutionaries, and Feng Tingzan did participate in "reactionary" activities.

Langbo has done a lot of convenience for the revolutionary workers in the concession in the past few years, so Zhu Nanjiang didn't take this matter to heart.Unexpectedly, within a few days, he learned from his younger brother that Feng Tingzan was on the Fuxing Society's assassination list and was secretly executed the day before yesterday, and Luo Zhanyuan personally provided the whereabouts information.

Zhu Nanjiang's shock was no small matter, and he drove to find Song Chenggeng overnight, and the latter also had a serious face when he heard about it.

"Mr. Song, as far as I know, Mr. Luo has a good personal relationship with Feng Tingzan, and he even sent a lot of things to the newspaper during the Chinese New Year!"

"Mr. Feng used to be the editor-in-chief of "New Life Magazine". Mr. Luo is familiar with him, and I know it."

"Then...then why did he sell this Feng to the Fuxing Society? Could this be a rumor?"

Song Chenggeng closed his eyes and exhaled: "If you still don't see anyone in two days, then it's probably true."

People, [-]% of them are invisible.

Before Zhu Nanjiang came to patrol the arresting room, he had sent his men to inquire. Feng Tingzan had escaped from the spy's gun and went to Luo Zhanyuan's house with injuries to ask for help.After recovering his life, he was sent to a family in the suburbs to recuperate, but was informed that he disappeared suddenly two days ago.

A living person disappeared out of thin air under such circumstances, and you can guess what happened with your toes. It seems that the rumors spread by the gang are true.

Zhu Nanjiang lowered his voice: "If it's what Luo Lao meant, then he is helping the Fuxing Society?"

"Based on Mr. Luo's friendship with the chairman, it's not impossible."

"Then we..."

"Xiao Zhu." Song Chenggeng suddenly reached out to snuff out the cigarette, "You didn't tell me about the passbook, did you?"

"No."

"Don't let anyone know about this matter, especially the gang. In the future, you can say as little as possible about the matter in the arrest room."

"Yes." Zhu Nanjiang vaguely sensed something, and stopped talking superfluously.

Song Chenggeng liked his attitude of never asking more questions after he understood it.

"People... everyone must leave a way out for themselves."

The author says:

If someone doesn't know, please explain, the Fuxing Society is the Blue Shirts Society, a spy organization led by jjs himself.This article is not fiction, the background is real, but the details are made up, don't take it seriously.