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

"Today?" Xu Tianyi and Chang Shunbao almost jumped up at the same time: "Today...it's already 8 o'clock in the evening, haven't we heard any news about the war?"

Xu Tianyi said that when they were looking for a house just now, they met a newsboy who was holding a newspaper and shouting about the latest love life of a certain celebrity. If a war breaks out, it will not just be the front page that announces the latest developments in the love life of a certain celebrity. The newspaper will definitely publish a special edition.

Su Bai couldn't remember whether the July 7 Incident happened during the day or at night. Information transmission was extremely underdeveloped in that era. Perhaps the fighting had already started, but the news had not yet been passed on?

Maybe the government has temporarily blocked the news?

"It's today. Let's wait for news tomorrow." Su Bai believed that there would be news tomorrow and all major newspapers would also publish a special edition.

"Then... according to your estimate, where will the fight take place?" Xu Tianyi asked again.

Su Bai looked at Xu Tianyi: "Probably in the Pingjin area."

Su Bai thought that it would be better for him not to be too mysterious and could not tell him that the July 7 Incident took place in Wanping City and Lugou Bridge.

Otherwise, everyone will regard me as a charlatan in the future.

Although Su Bai was already very humble, judging from the extent of Xu Tianyi's grin, he didn't believe it.

Chang Shunbao didn't believe it either, but didn't show it.

Only Zi Yan believed it firmly: "Miss Lan either doesn't say it or she must be right!"

"There will be fighting in Shanghai in August, but it won't reach the concession. I can tell you that I will continue to stay here when the war breaks out in Shanghai. If you feel it's dangerous or have family members you can't leave behind, make a good plan so that I can prepare in advance."

"Is this true?" Xu Tianyi began to openly express his doubts, but he immediately said that he would not leave Su Bai: "Fighting is nothing, it's not like I haven't died before!"

He turned around and asked Chang Shunbao: "Shunbao, am I right?"

"Brother Tianyi is right!" Chang Shunbao immediately responded: "From the day I joined the army, my head has been on my belt. I have been ready to die!"

In a blink of an eye, it was nine o'clock in the evening, the agreed time for sending and receiving telegrams. At this time, Su Bai became suspicious of the Wan family and no longer looked forward to some good news from Longxing when it was time to send the telegram as he did before.

There was really no new news today, neither good nor bad. Kong Yun just told Su Bai again that she wanted to come to Shanghai, and urged Su Bai to find a house and settle down quickly. She also offered to send money to Su Bai for the first time.

For more than two months, the two sisters have been purchasing goods at no cost, and the purchase money was entirely paid by Su Bai. According to the telegram sent back by Wan Qili after she returned, the company's business was pretty good.

There should be no problem with the cost of maintaining the Kong Mansion. This was what Su Bai hoped for when he left. He was afraid that the profits from the business would not be enough to maintain the huge expenses of the Kong Mansion, so he left enough gold bars for the two sisters.

But now, the cost of supporting Yang Huasen and Liu Yiyan on the mountain is also paid from the company's profits, right?

Forget about them. Su Bai is not short of money now. What she is really worried about is when Bi Yuming will show up. She believes that only Bi Yuming can be trusted.

Apart from waiting, there is endless anxiety.

Who exactly are the Wan family? Is Luo Qiming from the Military Control Commission? What is their relationship with Wang Shuan... Although everything is uncertain, in Su Bai's heart, distrust accounts for the majority.

If my suspicions come true, it would be an unpredictable danger and there would be no way to deal with it.

In addition to finding a new house so that Manager Wan and his family cannot track his whereabouts at any time, if he wants to maximize his safety when danger comes, he may only be able to rely on one person, Han Charlie.

No matter whether they were Japanese spies or the Military Control Commission, they had to look up to the police station before entering the French Concession, and this Han Charlie was the specific person in charge of public security in the surrounding area.

Su Bai plans to meet with this Charlie Han tomorrow to further test his attitude and see what he can do for him.

"Send a message to Long Xing. Starting tomorrow, the sending time will be changed to 9 a.m. If there is anything, just say it at this time. The evening message will be cancelled." Su Bai announced his latest decision to Wan Jiaqi.

There haven't been so many things going on recently, so there's no need to communicate with each other twice a day. Just like Wan Qili joked before, they could chat about family matters via telegram. Su Bai is the only one in the world.

Wan Jiaqi smiled and said that he felt the same way, especially the two young ladies from Longxing, who only talked about daily trivial matters.

In the past two months since coming to Shanghai, Su Bai and his friends have had to eat out, either at restaurants or buying food to eat at home. Su Bai asked Xu Tianyi to rent a new house, and then he and Zi Yan went to the street to buy some cooking utensils so that they could eat at home from now on.

This is also for safety reasons.

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On the morning of July 7, before 8 o'clock, Zi Yan and Xu Tianyi left home. Xu Tianyi went to contact the landlord, and Zi Yan went to buy breakfast.

The two of them went out and came back one after another after a while, each buying a newspaper.

"Miss Lan, you were right. The news this morning was that the Japanese army attacked Wanping City!" Xu Tianyi opened the newspaper and showed it to Su Bai.

Su Bai took the newspaper and read it, only to find out that the Japanese army only started provocation on July 7, and the war officially started before 7 a.m. on the 8th.

The newspaper reported the news quickly. Just two hours later, the special edition was sent out. It was only one page long and contained only this one piece of news, printed in very large font.

"I was talking about yesterday. Early morning is considered today. It seems that my prediction is not very accurate." Su Bai said deliberately.

"Isn't this accurate? It's amazing!" Chang Shunbao said as he snatched the newspaper.

"Go quickly. We can only care about these things, but we still have to take care of our own things first."

After breakfast, Su Bai went to a telephone booth and dialed the number of the police station.

Ten minutes later, Su Bai arrived at Charlie Han’s office.

Charlie Han respectfully asked Su Bai to sit down and asked his men to make tea for Su Bai.

"You're welcome. I just happened to be passing by here and came to see Inspector Han."

It was an obvious lie, and Charlie Han’s eyes turned: “Miss Lan is a busy person. In fact, if you have something to do, just call me and tell me. You don’t have to come in person.”

After saying that, he waved his hand to indicate that it was not that he did not welcome Su Bai, but asked Su Bai not to misunderstand.

“How can you not come to someone’s door when you want to ask them to do something for you?” Su Bai said, placing a gold bar on Charlie Han’s desk.

Charlie Han’s eyes lit up.

“Miss Lan is a noble person, as long as I can do it…” Charlie Han asked, “There’s no need to talk about going through mountains of swords and seas of fire, right?”

Su Bai cursed secretly in his heart, "You are such a smooth talker, it would be strange if you could go through fire and water for others."

He smiled and said, "It's not that serious yet, is it?"

Charlie Han patted his chest and said, “Even if it really comes to that, Han may not be unable to do it!”