Heroes of the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 25
Nakajima Hideki walked into the room and saw an old lady sitting cross-legged on a stool and eating breakfast at the table.

A pair of mille-soled cloth shoes on the feet, and the fat cotton trouser legs are tied around the ankles with twine ropes, like two large pockets.The upper body is a small padded jacket with a tight and slanted chest.The hair is combed into a knot at the back of the head.

Looking at the attire of the old lady, she is exactly like the old ladies from ordinary poor families that can be seen everywhere in the Northeast.

There was also a long, oily pipe shaft on the table.It looks like it should be used for many years.

The old lady was drinking a bowl of corn noodle porridge with her head down.There was also a deep-fried stick on the plate in front of her.

Hideki Nakajima specially sent people to Hengdaohezi Street to buy these food in the morning.

"Senior Kono, we have found another candidate. I hope this time I can satisfy you." Hideki Nakajima said respectfully.

"How many times have I told you that you want to call me by my Chinese name!" the old lady said angrily.

Half a century ago, when the Japanese set their ambitious sights on the Far East, they began to train a large number of intelligence personnel.

Many of these people are women.The women who later entered the Russian Far East were called Siberian Aju.

Women who enter Northeast China are called Manchuria Aju.

The old lady sitting in front of Hideki Nakajima was one of the most effective Manchurian chrysanthemums in intelligence work - Harue Kono.

But she is more commonly used by her Chinese name - Sun Yumei.

Decades have passed, and she has completely Chineseized in all aspects of language, clothing, and living habits.Sometimes even she herself forgot that she was originally a Japanese.

"The previous ones were too bad! I hope this one can pass." Harue Kono said.

"Now Manchuria has a lot of intelligence personnel of the Empire. But there are very few people who really mix among the Manchus and can't see the flaws. It took me many years of training to become what I am today. But now time is waiting for no one. We must learn from the Manchus. Choose the right person from here." Harue Kono continued.

"I heard that Harbin's intelligence headquarters is already formulating a training plan for this. In the near future, there will be many intelligence personnel of different races appearing in this organization." Hideki Nakajima said.

"People are not completely cultivated. They also need to have talent and understanding." Harue Kono said.

"Yes!" Nakajima Hideki replied, standing in front of her like a primary school student.

Harue Kono tore the fritters into pieces and put them in the porridge bowl and said to Hideki Nakajima, "Go out and make arrangements now, I'll finish eating right away."

Qian Xiaobao slept very soundly.He had never slept in such a comfortable place in his life.

He hadn't gotten up when Fan Wengui came to call him.

After getting dressed in a hurry, without eating breakfast or even washing his face, Qian Xiaobao followed Fan Wengui to the guard team.

As Qian Xiaobao walked, he thought that the foreign appearance was too useful, otherwise Fan Wengui would not treat him so hospitablely.

He had no idea that Fan Wengui had other plans.

Fan Wengui led Qian Xiaobao into a room of the Railway Guard.An old lady smoking a pipe was sitting in the room.

"The two of you wait in this room for a while. I'll go to do other things first. I'll take you two to apply for a good citizenship certificate in a while." Fan Wengui closed the door and left after giving instructions.

Qian Xiaobao bared his teeth at the old lady and smiled as a greeting.Then he sat down in a chair and waited.

The old lady was smoking a pipe leisurely.A pair of eyes stared closely at Qian Xiaobao's face through the smoke.

Qian Xiaobao endured it at first, but in the end he couldn't bear it anymore.

"Old lady, what are you looking at! Is there a blind or lame girl in your family? Do you want to recruit me as your son-in-law? I'll tell you right now, there's no way!" Qian Xiaobao said angrily.

"Look at your ugly face! I wouldn't marry you even if I had a girl! You look like a gangster, and you can tell it's not a good thing at first glance!" the old lady scolded.

"Who is the gangster? Are you lame or blind? I'm a student!" Qian Xiaobao straightened his student uniform and said.

"Student? Can you write the word student?" The old lady retorted.

Qian Xiaobao was immediately stopped by the question.

It took him a long time to answer: "It is because I can't write that I became a student! If I can write, then I will graduate."

The two confronted each other for a long time.The old lady finally eased her tone: "I know how to read. You stretch out your hand and I will help you see if you are lucky and if you will get rich in the future."

This sentence aroused Qian Xiaobao's interest.He stretched out his left hand in front of the old lady.

"Let's take a look. But seven or eight fortune tellers have shown me my face. They all said that I am the fate of the rich!" Qian Xiaobao said nonsense.

"It's not this hand, it's that hand." The old lady said.

"Aren't men left and women right?" Qian Xiaobao asked.

"I look differently from others. I always look at my right hand." The old lady replied.

"Don't look at the right hand!" Qian Xiaobao simply put his hands into his sleeves and said.

Due to the use of guns all year round, his right hand has worn out a callus.Qian Xiaobao easily prevented others from looking at his right hand.

The old lady did not insist on still bowing her head and smoking her own Kanto cigarette.

"I'm getting old and I need to urinate. I don't know if I can find a place to make it easier." The old lady stood up and walked out slowly while talking.

When she went out, she felt a pair of eyes staring at her from behind.

Harue Kono walked into Fan Wengui's office.Sitting behind the desk was Hideki Nakajima, while Fan Wengui was standing aside respectfully.

Seeing Harue Kono walking in, Nakajima Hideki hurriedly stood up and gave her the seat.

"This little bandit is very smart, let's get a certificate of good citizenship for this little bastard. But I have to investigate him for a while." Kono Harue said.

She is going to perform an important task now, and needs someone to cover her in ambush.That's right, it was lurking in the northeast under Japanese occupation.

Covering meant both protecting her safety and using the man's unmistakable Manchu identity to disguise her identity.

"So the person I recommended passed?" Fan Wengui said in surprise.

If Qian Xiaobao passed the inspection, Fan Wengui would be recorded in the credit book of the Japanese.

"I have to investigate again! Don't be sloppy at all!" Harue Kono emphasized.

The old lady went back to the room and sat with Qian Xiaobao.

After a while, Fan Wengui came in and asked the two of them to take a photo.Qian Xiaobao and the old lady were very cautious when taking pictures.Looks like it's the first photo shoot.It took a long time to get everything done.

"Auntie, nephew, come to collect evidence in three days." Fan Wengui said to the two with a smile on his face.

(End of this chapter)