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

The call was from Chang Shunbao.

More than half an hour ago, when Chang Shunbao and Zi Yan got off work from the pharmaceutical factory, Zi Yan asked Chang Shunbao to go home first. She was a little tired today, so she would not cook at home and would buy some food from outside.

Not long after Chang Shunbao returned home, Zi Yan also came back with food. Unexpectedly, two masked men with guns rushed into the yard behind him. One of them controlled Zi Yan, and the other rushed into the house.

When Chang Shunbao heard Zi Yan enter the yard, he was busy preparing dishes. By the time he reacted, it was too late. The masked man who rushed into the house had already pointed a gun at him.

They first asked where Su Bai was, but when they didn't get an answer from Chang Shunbao and Zi Yan, they tied Chang Shunbao to a chair and tied Zi Yan away.

Before leaving, he left a message for Chang Shun, asking Su Bai to wait for them in this yard at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. If they didn't see Su Bai, Zi Yan would die.

"They said they were the young lady's friends and would not harm her. They just wanted to meet her to discuss something important," Chang Shunbao added.

who can that be?

The point is, the person they want to see is Su Bai, the young lady, not Lan Jieru.

Based on this point alone, it is unlikely that they are Japanese spies led by Wang Shuan, and the possibility of them being from the Military Control Commission is also low.

Who would that be?

The first person Xu Tianyi thought of was Manager Wan. Everyone in Longxing called them Su Bai and Young Madam, but they couldn't possibly come to Shanghai, and even if they did, they wouldn't be able to find Su Bai.

It can only be Manager Wan.

Xu Tianyi believes that Manager Wan and his family are, after all, Wang Shuan’s men and are traitors.

"It's just a possibility." What Xu Tianyi said made sense. If Wan Qili was really working for the Japanese, then the appearance of Wang Shuan would be very reasonable.

But why did she leave Shanghai and run back to Longxing?

This doesn't make sense from any perspective.

"Is it possible? Definitely!" Xu Tianyi seemed very anxious.

"Let's eat first." Su Bai returned to the table and sat down: "After dinner, go back to the old courtyard and I'll send a telegram to ask."

Su Bai has been practicing sending messages with the code book these days. Although he is not yet proficient in the technique, he has memorized almost half of the contents of the code book.

This was not difficult for her. She had been a top student since she was young. If her brain had not been degraded by the endless troubles after coming here, she would have memorized the code book by heart long ago.

In fact, brain dementia is just Su Bai's self-deprecation. The real reason is that there are too many things distracting her. This is really not easy for a former scientific researcher who has neither housekeeping skills nor financial management skills.

"I'll walk in front when we go back to the new hospital tomorrow." When Xu Tianyi learned that Su Bai was determined to save Zi Yan no matter how great the risk was, he decided that he would walk in front tomorrow. If anything unexpected happened, he would block it and Su Bai could just run.

"I suddenly feel that these two people may not necessarily be our enemies."

Xu Tianyi immediately retorted: "Because they didn't tie Chang Shunbao tightly to the chair? They did it on purpose so that after they left, Chang Shunbao could untie himself and report to us!"

Su Bai nodded. Xu Tianyi's analysis was correct, but she still felt that this group of people were neither Japanese spies nor the Military Control Commission, and had nothing to do with Manager Wan.

After dinner, Xu Tianyi accompanied Su Bai to the old courtyard at No. 9 East Zilaihuo Street.

"Miss Lan, you learned how to send a message so quickly?" Xu Tianyi couldn't help but admire when he saw that Su Bai did not call Wan Jiaqi but sent the message himself.

"Tianyi, you are good in every way except that you talk too much." Su Bai straightened the radio and plugged it in: "Go and guard the door!"

Although the time agreed with Zhou Beiwang to send the message was at noon, that was only the time for Zhou Beiwang to send the message here, because the radio station here is usually not turned on.

It was different over there on Zhou Beiwang's side. It was a military radio station with someone on duty 24 hours a day.

Su Bai first sent a few words to the other side: Please ask Captain Zhou to come.

After a while, a telegram came back from the other end. From the tone of the telegram, it seemed that Zhou Beiwang had asked the radio operator to send it. He blamed Su Bai for why no one responded for several days in a row since they had agreed to send the telegram at noon.

Indeed, although they had agreed on a time, Su Bai never came to the old courtyard to send a telegram to Zhou Beiwang because there was nothing to do.

"So you can come to me, but I can't come to you?" Zhou Beiwang sent a telegram with a hint of resentment.

Zhou Beiwang didn't have anything to do, he just wanted to see if Su Bai would send a message.

Let’s get down to business.

The first content was the same old question, asking Zhou Beiwang if he had any news about Bi Yuming recently. The answer made Su Bai so disappointed that he couldn't remember how many times he had been disappointed, there was no news at all.

Zhou Beiwang even went to the Political and Educational Department of the Security Division to ask the director of the Military Control Commission, but he didn't know either.

Zhou Beiwang said that the more than 1,000 people in the Security Division were no longer important to the national government and the provincial government. The director of the Political and Educational Department of the Military Control Commission told Zhou Beiwang that he would be transferred soon and that in the future, the Military Control Commission would no longer send people to the Security Division.

Zhou Beiwang also told Su Bai that he would leave the Security Division and officially take up his post in Longxing in two days. Chairman Han had been appointed by the National Government as the commander-in-chief of the Third Army Group, which was in charge of four armies.

However, the Longxing Battalion did not belong to any of the four armies, but to the provincial government.

Zhou Beiwang said a little disappointedly that the Longxing Independent Garrison Battalion sounded good, but in fact it had become a ragtag army, or to be more precise a local force.

Zhou Beiwang's old habit came back again. He would talk endlessly about military affairs. Fortunately, the person who sent the message for him was a professional radio operator. If it was Su Bai, this call would have to last until tomorrow morning.

He might have something else to say, but was rudely interrupted by Su Bai.

The second thing she wanted to talk to Zhou Beiwang about was to let Qian Rufei find Kong Man and ask her what Wan Qili had been doing in the past three days and if she had any unusual behavior, such as whether she had secretly sent a telegram or met anyone when she went out.

After asking Kong Man, he asked Qian Rufei to go find Niu Yanzi again to see if Wan Qili had come to see Niu Yanzi.

Although Su Bai had a hunch that the kidnapping of Zi Yan was not done by the Wan family, she still wanted Longxing to confirm whether Wan Qili was normal.

If Wan Qili has been active in the past few days, it is possible that she is related to the kidnapping.

……

The next day, at noon on July 7, Su Bai and Xu Tianyi came to the old courtyard again to telegraph Zhou Beiwang. Qian Rufei got everything done in the morning. What surprised Su Bai a little was that Wan Qili had done nothing in the past few days. She had been staying in Linhua, helping sell goods in the store!

He almost never left the business. Although Kong Man did not live in the business, she confirmed this from the Sixth Aunt.

The situation with Niu Yanzi is that not only in the past few days, but also in the few days before, Wan Qili never came to see her.

This is strange.

Su Bai couldn't help but curse: "What the hell is this damn girl doing?"