Traveling through the Republic of China, I married a dead person

Su Bai helped Zi Yan at the pharmaceutical factory for a whole day and did not return to the old courtyard until evening.

Manager Wan drove the car away. After making sure that no one was following them, she and Zi Yan called a rickshaw back.

As soon as the time for sending the message came, Wan Qili's telegram came. Kong Yun and Kong Man asked her to send it. They wanted to come to Shanghai!

A while ago, I kept asking Su Bai when he would return to Longxing, but I stopped asking when I couldn't get an accurate answer from Su Bai. Now I suddenly remembered that I wanted to come to Shanghai to see Su Bai, and said that I would come to Shanghai to broaden my horizons.

Su Bai asked Wan Qili to tell them that he was currently living at a friend's house, which was very inconvenient, and he wanted to return to Longxing as soon as possible. He asked them to wait patiently. If he could not go back for a while, he would rent a house in Shanghai and invite them to visit Shanghai then.

If I can get back to Longxing soon, they don't need to come and can talk about it later when there is a chance.

Su Bai knew very well that the two young ladies were looking forward to his return. They had agreed to return in ten days or half a month, but now it has been more than two months.

Maybe they have realized that I may not be ready to go back, so they want to find an excuse to come to Shanghai to see me and try to persuade me to go back in person. This is a bit wishful thinking.

For now, I can only fool them. They definitely won’t believe it, but there’s nothing they can do about it.

Su Bai suddenly remembered that today was already July 7th.

I asked Xu Tianyi to bring Wan Qili back to Shanghai, so why is she still sending me messages from Longxing?

After asking Wan Qili, the answer she got was that Xu Tianyi had already gone to Qingdao and had boarded the ship. The reason she didn't come back with him was that she couldn't book a ship ticket.

She was lying. The last time I asked about the telegram, she said the boat ticket had been booked, but today she said she hadn't booked the ticket.

I was too lazy to argue with her over the telegram. The back and forth was not as convenient as a phone call. It took several minutes to wait for a reply after sending a telegram, and after the telegram was sent, Wan Jiaqi had to spend several minutes translating it.

Let’s wait until Xu Tianyi comes back tomorrow to talk about everything.

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1937 7 Month 7 Day.

After getting up, Su Bai stayed at home, waiting for Xu Tianyi to come back.

It was not until noon that Xu Tianyi was led to the new courtyard by Zi Yan.

Following Su Bai's instructions, he brought back a man named Chang Shunping, who was recommended by Xiao Wei.

He was one of the seventeen soldiers arranged by Gao Hu to take off their military uniforms and work with Su Bai. He had been working with Su Bai and they all knew each other well.

The two men returned with two suitcases, containing a total of 400 bottles of erythromycin.

Su Bai asked Zi Yan to go out and buy some food to entertain the two of them, and he also poured water for them personally.

During the days when Xu Tianyi was not around, Su Bai felt insecure and uneasy.

There are so many things to say and so many things to ask that I don’t know where to start.

"Let's talk about Wan Qili first. Why didn't you bring her back?"

Unexpectedly, Xu Tianyi's statement was almost the same as Wan Qili's. It was indeed a problem with the boat ticket.

A few days ago, Xu Tianyi started buying boat tickets as soon as he arrived in Qingdao from Shanghai. He only bought one cheap ticket and the second one cost three times the price.

He met a ticket dealer who could buy tickets at high prices. He promised Xu Tianyi that even if he couldn't buy a ticket when boarding the ship on the 6th, he would still be able to get him on board, but the price would be higher.

Since there were no tickets at the time and no time to wait for tickets in Qingdao, Xu Tianyi had to leave the ticket scalper's contact information and plan to contact him again when leaving on the 6th. If that didn't work, he would let Wan Qili and Chang Shunping board the ship with their tickets, and this person would arrange for him to get on board.

After arriving in Longxing, Wan Qili said that this was unsafe and she did not trust the ticket scalper.

He could send the person to the ship, but it was not known who on the ship he had greeted. What if the people on the ship did not acknowledge it?

It is normal for someone who makes a living on the ship at the dock all year round to know a few crew members. If he only bribed ordinary crew members or sailors instead of the captain or the first mate, it would be troublesome.

Wan Qili said that the reason why the boat ticket was so expensive was because Xu Tianyi was in a hurry to leave. She asked Xu Tianyi to come back first, and she would book the ticket through normal channels. At most, he would come back a few days later.

She would explain it to Su Bai in the telegram.

"She told you that I agreed?" Su Bai asked.

Xu Tianyi nodded: "Yes, why didn't she tell you about this?"

Wan Qili was indeed lying.

She didn't want to come back at all.

But why?

Su Bai suddenly stood up, which startled Xu Tianyi: "What's wrong, young lady..." He immediately changed the topic: "Miss Lan, what's wrong?"

Chang Shunping said at the side that Xu Tianyi kept reminding him on the way that when they arrived in Shanghai, he could no longer call Su Bai Madam, but had to call her Miss Lan. It turned out that he had not completely changed this title.

"Shut up, Miss Lan must be in trouble. What happened to Wan Qili? Do you want me to go back to Longxing again?"

Su Bai didn't answer him. He stared at the window and thought, this Wan Qili... I'm afraid she came here for her medicine from the beginning?

She learned from Shopkeeper Wan that he was producing a medicine that was kept secret from outsiders, so she came to him through Shopkeeper Wan, and after gradually understanding the efficacy of the medicine, she was ready to take action.

Since Su Bai was always by her side, she didn't find any opportunity.

It may also be that the idea of ​​taking action on medicine came to me after I returned to Shanghai.

For a girl in her twenties, wanting to get penicillin is definitely not her own personal idea, there must be an organization behind her!

If you think this way, many things can be explained clearly.

She is a spy and belongs to a certain organization.

After occasionally learning about penicillin from Manager Wan, she reported the matter to her organization and was assigned by the organization to come to Su Bai.

If we think further, Manager Wan's strong urging of Su Bai to buy a radio was probably also intended to pave the way for Wan Qili to come to Su Bai naturally.

I walked into the trap they set step by step without realizing it.

After returning to Shanghai, Wan Qili received an order to return to Longxing to get the medicine. She didn't need a lot, just samples.

She had just seen through Wang Shuan, making it impossible for Wang Shuan to get the sample from her. Then Wan Qili returned to Longxing on the grounds of safety.

Are they together?

Wan Qili claimed that she found an Executive Yuan official for her, and that official introduced her to Wang Shuan.

Now it seems that this Executive Yuan official may not exist at all, and this Wang Shuan was brought in by Wan Qili!

In this case, even Manager Wan cannot be trusted.

Su Bai even suspected that Wan Qili was not Manager Wan's biological daughter, and her surname was not Wan.

How to do?

If they wanted to stop Wan Qili from taking the medicine, they had to send a telegram back immediately to tell Niu Yanzi, Niu Fuping and others that not a single piece of medicine could leave the Confucius Mansion and Panlong Cave No. 1.

However, none of the people he trusted the most, Xu Tianyi, Zi Yan and the newcomer Chang Shunbao, knew how to send telegrams, so the message could only be sent through Wan Jiaqi.

Isn't this equivalent to notifying Wan Qili?

Su Bai felt that he was trapped in a vicious circle.