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Joanna looked at Jiao Zhonghang on the opposite side of the glass, and her memory suddenly returned to the 21st year of the Republic of China. At the age of 17, she accompanied her sister who ran away from home in order to escape an arranged marriage to Shanghai and entered Nanyang Commercial High School.

It was also that year that she met her good friend Pan Mingzhi, who was a standard progressive young man who often propagated various patriotic ideas to her. Later she learned that Pan Mingzhi was a member of the underground party Shanghai Special Section.

In the 22nd year of the Republic of China, after studying at Nanyang Commercial Senior High School for a year, the business in her hometown in Suzhou suddenly deteriorated, and she and her sister had to drop out of school. Then she chose a shorthand school with low tuition fees and good technical skills to learn Diao shorthand.

Just one month before graduation, the provincial government of Guodang Zhejiang Province wanted to recruit stenographers. The school recommended three outstanding students to apply for the job, including her.

Originally, she was extremely unwilling to serve the Guodang┴. Although the treatment from the provincial government was good, she hated the corruption of the Guodang┴, so she never nodded.

My good friend Pan Mingzhi revealed his secret identity to her after hearing about the incident, hoping that she could break into the provincial government of Zhejiang Province and help the organization obtain information on the Guo Party.

Perhaps out of friendship, or because she wanted to do something for the country┴ and the nation┴, she agreed to the other party's request and officially started underground work in the winter of the 23rd year of the Republic of China.

As soon as she joined the job, she was appreciated by Mr. Xi Zhu, the then governor of Zhejiang Province, because the highest standard for general stenographers is 170 characters per minute, but she can reach 200 characters per minute.

Not only that, the wording of the documents she sorted out was accurate, and she was able to accurately convey the spirit of high-level speeches. With these two points, she quickly became Zhu Liuxian's exclusive stenographer and became a celebrity in the provincial government.

As her status got higher and higher, some flirtatious people sent calligraphy and paintings and other belongings, hoping that she would say more good things for them in front of Zhu Liuxian and clear up the relationship.

Under Pan Mingzhi's suggestion, she neither participated in nor directly rejected these matters, but these calligraphy were hung in the most conspicuous places in the office to show respect, which was very useful to these officials.

Of course, there are exceptions, such as Ms. Xue, the secretary-general of the provincial government. As the secretary-general, the other party has a lot of secrets, and these secrets are exactly what she and Teko want to know.

So, she simply recognized Ms. Xue as her godmother, and moved to the downstairs of the other party, nominally to take care of her godmother, but actually to facilitate intelligence gathering.

In this way, under the protection of Ms. Xue and some Guo party veterans, her initial latent work went very smoothly, and she successfully obtained a lot of important information.

After a period of time like this, my sister who also joined the underground party wrote a letter asking her to go back to Shanghai. The superior wanted to know the recent movements of the Guo party so as to help her hometown who was still fighting the Guo army in the southwest.

After receiving the letter, she would think that the important folder was among the clothes in the suitcase, and without any disguise, she boarded the train and set off from Hangzhou to Shanghai.

Perhaps it was God's blessing that she didn't encounter inspections on the way, and she arrived in Shanghai smoothly, and handed over the documents to the leader of Teke, who broke out in a cold sweat immediately when she saw the document.

Afterwards, the other party told her that when transferring confidential documents, the original documents must not be moved, and the contents of the documents must be copied separately and hidden behind the family letter written in invisible ink.

At the same time, in order to protect her, help her, and train him, the superior officially made Pan Mingzhi her contact person, and the two of them formed a secret intelligence team, directly under the leadership of the chief of the special department.

In the later work, they discovered that the validity period of the invisible ink is short, and when the effect of the medicine passes, the content of the intelligence will be revealed, which is very dangerous.

After constant exploration, she and Pan Mingzhi thought it was safer to hide the information in cigarette cases and matchboxes. Since then, the two have used this method to transmit information without any problems.

It was also during this process that both she and Pan Mingzhi believed that each other was an ideal partner, so with the approval of the organization, they changed from life-threatening comrades-in-arms to intimate lovers.

In the 26th year of the Republic of China, China and Japan went to war.

The government moved to the mountain city, and she and her husband lost contact with their superiors. After discussing with each other, they decided to quit their jobs. She returned to Jiangcheng alone to find an organization, while Pan Mingzhi stayed in the mountain city to wait for orders.

One day, she ran into an acquaintance of Teke on the streets of Changcheng. Following this line, she met the head of Teke at the Northwest Office of Shancheng.

She reported her current situation to the other party, and said that she hated the smoky working environment within the Guo Party, and hoped to go to the Northwest to work in isolation and no longer lurk.

The chief listened to her thoughts, and in addition to telling her to calm down, he also told her that the current struggle situation is complicated, and the Guo party may tear its face at any time.

Therefore, intelligence transmission work is even more important. Without intelligence personnel, Northwest would have lost a pair of eyes. I hope she will focus on the overall situation and continue to be an unsung hero.

As a party member, it is her bounden duty to obey orders. She approached her old boss Zhu Liu and asked him to arrange work. With the help of the other party, she successfully entered the Huangshan Mansion as a stenographer.

Because of her strong professional ability and not forming cliques, someone appreciated her very much, and recommended her to serve as a stenographer at his wife's speech.

Knowing that this man loves beauty, she specially put on a decent cheongsam that day, painted flowers on the cover of the shorthand document, and wrote the title with artistic words. These little "schemes" immediately won the other party's likes.

Since then, she has been in charge of the executive meeting of the Guo Party, the Plenary Session of the Central Committee, the Supreme Wei Committee of National Defense, the State Wei Wei Committee, the Supreme Military Council, and the shorthand of someone's speech in the training group.

Half a month ago, at the Supreme National Defense Conference, the high-level Guo party determined the strategy of containing the Northwest, and asked Chief Hu and the First Theater to look for opportunities to carry out military strikes.

When she got the news, she restored the minutes of the meeting from her memory, and a few days ago, she connected with the new line-Jiao Zhonghang, the management director of Zhengzhong Bookstore, and informed the other party to report the information to Northwest.

Unexpectedly, they met again in the Zhongtong interrogation room. Joanna silently watched Jiao Zhonghang who was being tortured through the one-way glass. There was no fear in her heart, but endless anger.

"Everyone, I can't see clearly through the glass, let's get closer."

At this time, Xu Enzeng clapped his hands and said something, and with a smile signaled the little spy to open the door of the observation room, and then led everyone through the corridor to the interrogation room.

Jiao Zhonghang, who had been whipped a few times, heard the footsteps and spit bloody spit on the ground. Taking the opportunity to glance at the crowd who came in, he immediately saw Joanna, who was acting as if nothing had happened.

He, who has been engaged in secret intelligence work for more than ten years since the Republic of China, did not panic, but laughed, and turned to look at Xu Enzeng next to him, with a strange air.

"Deputy Director Xu, we brothers also ate at the same table in the past, I can understand that you want someone to take the blame, but it's a little unreasonable for you to pin the shit bowl on my head, right?
I just hitched a ride to Chang'an, so why did I become an underground party┴? According to what you said, is it true that the pedestrians on the highway from the mountain city to Chang'an are dissidents? This matter is not over today. "

Hearing that the prisoner dared to say that, the special agent in charge of the torture was so angry that he raised his whip and wanted to beat him again, but was stopped by the smiling Xu Enzeng, who then walked to Jiao Zhonghang and slowly lowered his head.

"Director Jiao, if you weren't for Xu's old acquaintance, you would be the same as Zhou Yujun and Secretary-General Zhou. If you want to know about his situation, let me tell you, damn it!

And he died terribly, the ribs were all skinned and thrown on the stove, and lo and behold, they are still roasting on the fire. This is the fate of dishonesty. "

He looked into the other person's eyes, pointed to the direction of the stove, and said in a dark tone. After speaking, he straightened up and patted Jiao Zhonghang's shoulder, and heaved a long sigh.

"Hey, we are all friends, why make it like this, as long as you can tell the truth and admit that you put the documents in the mezzanine, I guarantee you can go out safely tonight.

Minister Xiao Chen also asked me to bring a word, the underground party’s strategy would not work in the Republic of China. After the Japanese are driven out, the government will sooner or later exterminate the Northwest. You still have time anyway. "

Xu Enzeng seemed to have decided that Jiao Zhonghang was an underground party┴ inside and outside his words. This was also a means of cliche, used to tempt and confuse the interrogated persons, and inexperienced agents were easily fooled.

But Jiao Zhonghang has been lurking in the Guo Party for so many years, and being sent to join Joanna, it is naturally impossible to make such a low-level mistake, and immediately sneered disdainfully.

"Yes, yes, I am an underground party┴, I admit it, and I put the documents in the mezzanine, where is the confession, I will imprint my fingerprints immediately, is this the head office, my Deputy Director Xu?
But I have to remind you, if I become an underground party┴, wouldn’t the Secretary-General become a dead ghost that week? You should first think about how to explain to the head of the attendant’s room. "

After finishing speaking, Jiao Zhonghang looked at Xu Enzeng with a provocative face. Don't you think I am an underground party┴? Then I will, as long as you are not afraid of Zong Xiangqiu's retribution.

"you!"

Xu Enzeng was furious, and at the same time he was a little worried. Zong Xiang is not a good talker. After thinking for a while, he pointed at Jiao Zhonghang's nose and said bitterly.

"Stupid! Do you think this is a child's play house? This is a life-and-death struggle. The headmaster will understand. I advise you to tell all your upline and downline, otherwise you will go underground with Zhou Yujun go!"

After intimidating Jiao Zhonghang, he glanced at the observers and waved his hand to ask them to be taken out. He was about to go back to the office and think about what to do next.

Of the three suspects, one didn't speak up, one was really dead, and the last one spoke up, but he didn't know anything, which meant he didn't confess.

Annoyed Xu Enzeng sat in the office and thought hard for a long time, when he heard footsteps approaching quickly, he immediately grabbed his gun vigilantly, but saw a trusted aide push the door and run in after a while.

The other party came to his side and reported something in a low voice out of breath. Xu Enzeng's eyes gradually widened, and finally got up abruptly and slapped the table to give an order.

"Quick! Gather people, and we must not let this bastard go!"

Is there really everlasting love in the world?