Lost and Spy

Chapter 172 Sausage Robbery
There are still more than two months before the Spring Festival, and people in Nanjing are already preparing for the festival.

Stuffed sausages, bacon, kippers...

Domestic prices are stable, and everyone has a few pennies in their pockets. Who doesn't want to live a prosperous and comfortable year?

As soon as Meng Shaoyuan went out, he already felt that the New Year had quietly entered Nanjing.

The New Year's Eve now is much more lively than that in his time.

How did Meng Shaoyuan celebrate the New Year in his own time?

The family gathers together for a New Year's Eve dinner. During the meal, each chats with each other and plays with each mobile phone. After the meal is over, they shake hands with each other: "Hahaha, thank you, thank you, I invite you to dinner on the second day of the new year."

Each goes back to his own house, each find his own mother.

At most, the elders give lucky money or something.

At home, the older ones watch the Spring Festival Gala, waiting for the famous actor who "I miss you so much" to appear every year.

young?

Either play games, or go out clubbing.

At the beginning of the year, I slept until dawn.

This is called ageless.

But in this day and age it's completely different.

There are still sixty days to go, and the strong flavor of the New Year has already appeared in the streets and alleys.

There was a stall on the side of the road, and a handsome old man in his sixties with a pair of black-rimmed glasses was selling letters there.

At this time, the main thing is to sell Spring Festival couplets.

You know, in another month or so, the price of Spring Festival couplets will go up.

Most of the Spring Festival couplets in Meng Shaoyuan's time were machine-printed, and many of them were signed by "so-and-so bank".

The content of the Spring Festival couplets is nothing more than auspicious words such as "Peace and safety backgammon, Shun Shun Dang good year".

You can take a look at what was written in the Spring Festival couplets of the Republic of China in the 30s:
"By the river, the air welcomes the fragrant grass, and the wind returns to gather flowers on the water surface."

"The willow eyes are in the grass, and the peach cheeks are in the blue sky."

"In the shade of green poplars, the warblers are just singing, and the butterflies on the branches of red apricots are about to fly."

This artistic conception is completely different.

In that font, what Zhongzheng, Jinshi, Libian...

I will give you whatever you like.

As for the price?

As much as you are willing to give, if you give too much, the old man will be thanking you.There is less, the old gentleman smiled slightly, and didn't care.

If it happens to be inconvenient in your pocket today, and you forget to bring money, the old man will wave his hand and ask you to take it back first, and give it back when you have a chance.

Meng Shaoyuan looked interesting, so he asked the old man for a couplet.

The old gentleman pondered for a while, and then said:

"Furong Yeyue opens the mirror of the sky, and the spring breeze of willows embraces the painting."

it is good!
Meng Shaoyuan didn't know what was good, but he just thought it was good.

The words are good, and the meaning is also good.

I fumbled in my pocket, and there was always about twenty yuan, all of which I gave to the old man.

There are also people who spend generously, but it is still rare for a guy to spend twenty yuan.

The old man was slightly taken aback, but that was all. He still just cupped his hands, neither humble nor overbearing.

Beside the Spring Festival couplet stand was a stall selling bean curd flowers, and Meng Shaoyuan ordered a bowl.

This tofu flower is very different from the tofu nao in the north.

Make tofu with soybeans, add special soy sauce, then seaweed, shrimp skin, mustard powder, sprinkle with a handful of chopped green onion, stir well, and eat a bowl of hot tofu flower in cold weather, I don’t know how beautiful it is.

"Sell newspapers, sell newspapers! The Xi'an rebels have made major concessions, and the chairman will return soon!"

Well, it's already the morning of the 24th, and it's been two days since the Double Twelve Incident ended and the Chairman came back.

In this incident, there are many losers and few winners.

And there is no doubt that Meng Shaoyuan and Dai Li are the winners.

"Here's a paper."

After eating the tofu flower, Meng Shaoyuan paid the money, bought a newspaper, took it in his hand, and walked slowly to the second place.

As soon as I entered, I sniffed, what smell?
"Hey, who is this?" Meng Shaoyuan called out.

Good guy, there are strings of sausages hanging in the yard, as well as a lot of bacon and kippers.

Co-authored this as a vegetable market?
"Mine." General Affairs Section Chief Feng Xiaocai passed by: "What's the matter, Xiaomeng? Ah, it's not all mine, there are others. Wait for two days, and those two strings of sausages will go back. It's not blowing, the whole city of Nanjing, The sausages made by my old Feng's family are among the best."

"Ah, ah." Meng Shaoyuan was a little dazed: "What if Director Dai comes back and sees..."

"Hey, Director Dai allowed it before." Feng Xiaocai was not worried at all: "In the past, we didn't dare. Who doesn't prepare some New Year's goods before the New Year? But some people have a small place and no one to share. Put it outside Well, I have to go to work, and I'm afraid of being stolen. No, there was a "Sausage Robbery" the year before last, which caused a lot of trouble in the city...

Director Dai knew it. At that time, he was still in Chicken, Duck and Goose Lane, so he said, our yard is big, and everyone wants to pickle the new year's goods, so they can directly bring them to the unit.Who dares to break into our place and steal something, right?With this order, the local spies cheered happily. "

Cheng, how can Dai Li have means?
This may seem like a trivial matter, and it looks unsightly, but Dai Li's order is equivalent to solving many problems in the life of a spy.

When you are a leader, you don’t have to be kind to you. Only by constantly promoting and rewarding you can you be grateful. Sometimes a small matter can be exchanged for the other party’s loyalty.

Meng Shaoyuan was interested, but it was what Feng Xiao said just now: "Chief Feng, what is the 'Sausage Robbery'?"

"Want to know?"

"Yes I do."

"There is still half an hour before the meeting, Xiao Meng, move me a stool, make hot tea, and serve cigarettes, Section Chief Feng will tell you a paragraph."

"Hey, hey, you wait."

Meng Shaoyuan frantically found what Feng Xiao wanted. Those little spies with little information gathered when they heard there was a book.

After a while, a circle of people surrounded Feng Xiaocai.

Meng Shaoyuan graciously passed out a cigarette and lit it for him. Feng Xiaocai took another sip of tea, cleared his throat and said:

"By the way, it was the 22nd year of the Republic of China. At that time, there was an action team leader named Tian and Kaiyi. He was a general of our Lixing Club. He had repeatedly made outstanding achievements and was famous in Nanjing. Xiao Xiao was frightened when he heard his name.

That year, also on the eve of the Chinese New Year, Mrs. Tian Kaiyi filled a lot of sausages and dried them outside. It happened that her natal family had something to ask him, so she asked Tian Kaiyi to help watch it.It's also unfortunate that the mission arrived suddenly just as Madam left.

Tian Kaiyi looked at those sausages, thought of a plan, found a pen and paper, scribbled, and wrote a line. 'Who dares to steal Tian Kaiyi's sausage! ' Finished writing, hung on those sausages, and walked away.

Who dares to touch Captain Tian's sausage, isn't that courting death?After a busy day, the task was completed, Tian Kaiyi went back excitedly, but when he saw it, he was dumbfounded, the sausage was gone, and there was an extra note at the scene..."

Having said that, Feng Xiao paused for a moment:
"There were only three words written on the note, 'I dare to steal!'"

Hearing this, the surroundings burst into laughter.

"Tian Kaiyi was furious. Isn't this breaking ground on Tai Sui's head? Where is he going to put his captain Tian's face? At that time, he gathered elite soldiers and strong generals, searched all over the city, and vowed to solve the case. For a while, there was a lot of trouble. The city is full of ups and downs. Someone asked about a familiar spy, who are you arresting for making such a big fuss?"

Feng Xiaocai took another sip of tea:

"People are also embarrassed to say that our captain lost the sausage. They can only vaguely say that it is an 'important case, a big sausage case'. The rest refused to say a word. So it spread in Nanjing. It is said that there is a giant bandit who cast the property looted over the years into a lot of golden sausages and hid them somewhere in Nanjing.

Some people also said that foreigners have newly invented a sausage bomb, and one bomb is enough to blow up half of Nanjing City.This made people panic.After Director Dai found out, he called Tian Kaiyi over and gave him a severe reprimand, telling him not to borrow public resources to do anything wrong.This is the end of the matter.

After Tian Kaiyi came home, he suddenly saw a lot of sausages piled up at home.After asking, I found out that Director Dai sent someone to deliver it to him during the daytime..."

good means.

This thought came to Meng Shaoyuan again.

Since then, Tian Kaiyi has been loyal to Dai Li, who dares to say a bad word about Dai Li, Tian Kaiyi really dares to risk his life with him.

People send nickname:
Sausage Guard!

Less than half a year later, without knowing why, Tian Kaiyi was suddenly transferred away, and his whereabouts are unknown.

When asked, it was said that he had been promoted, but no one knew exactly where he went.

"Section Chief Feng, did you catch the person who stole the sausage?" Zhu Yanni couldn't help asking the question everyone wanted to ask.

"Catch it? Who dares to steal the sausage of Captain Tian, ​​where can we catch it?" Feng Xiaocai said with a smile: "Let's say that in our Lixing Society, the traitors can catch it, and Ritt can catch it, but it's just such a small thief. I can’t even catch it. If you say that this thief is really capable.”

It's not that I can't catch it, but I don't want to catch it.

It's just a few sausages, there are so many things in the Lixing Society all day long, who has the spare time to catch them?
"Okay, okay." Feng Xiao just looked at the time: "It's almost time, what should I do now. Xiaomeng, get ready, the morning meeting is about to start."

After all the others were dispersed, Feng Xiao lowered his voice: "Call from Xi'an, the matter will be resolved peacefully soon."

"It's all in the newspaper." Meng Shaoyuan took out the newspaper he just bought: "Look, it's all on the front page."

Feng Xiaocai was stunned: "I just found out about it too... Ah, show me the newspaper... By the way, by the way, it's him again, Aban, the reporter of the 'New York Times' stationed in Shanghai... Hey, this guy has great powers Well, we and most of the government officials didn't know about the Double Twelve incident, but he, a foreign reporter, took the lead in revealing it."

"Is this amazing?"

"Of course, Ah Ban called Song Ziwen that day, and the servant said he had gone to Kong Xiangxi's house. He called Duan Na again, and the servant also said that he had gone to Kong Xiangxi's house. As soon as Ah Ban heard that something was wrong, he immediately went to Mrs. Jiang's house. He made a phone call there, and as he expected, Mrs. Jiang also went to Kong Xiangxi's house. As a result, he called Kong Xiangxi directly, and after questioning, Kong Xiangxi admitted the incident."

Terrible, this American reporter.Just relying on a few phone calls to know that something is going on?

Meng Shaoyuan remembered two names firmly in his heart today:
Tian Kaiyi and Aban!

(End of this chapter)