Globe Trekker

Chapter 73

Entering the main hall of the Chen Mansion, the performance of Yu Jishi and Chen Shizheng was astonishing and very touching—the two of them did not take a sip of tea, but according to etiquette and customs, they respectfully put incense on the ancestral tablet of the Chen family, and finished together Walking to the east wall, I looked at the portrait of my junior brother Chen Bo'an with great emotion, stared at it for a long time and stood silently, making everyone in the house red-eyed and silent.

At the invitation of Chen Jiyao and Wang Daohan, Yu Jishi humbly came to the chair of the first grand master, and sat down after Chen Jiyao sat down. Zhili had a warm conversation with Chen Jiyao.

Chen Shizheng, who was sitting at the bottom of Yu Ji's head, had a smile on his face, but his eyes turned left and right from time to time, and he saw Wu Ming and two rows of guards standing at the gate together, like a guard officer, not showing the mountains or the water, so he had no choice but to Let go of your worries for now, and chat with Chen Jiyao with Yu Jishi.

About 10 minutes later, Chen Shizheng finally seized the opportunity. He laughed at Chen Jiyao who was in a good mood, and pointed to Wu Ming standing at the door, and introduced:

"Uncle, there is also a local hero in the nephew's team. I saw his hometown in the file a while ago and realized that he is also from Shangrao. Let me introduce it to uncle, head Wu—"

"To!"

Wu Ming scolded in his heart, glanced at Chen Jiyao who was stunned on the main seat, and Wang Daohan who was smiling wryly at the side, bit the bullet, and stood in front of Chen Shizhen: "Please give instructions, sir!"

Chen Shizheng took everyone's reactions into his eyes, laughed, stood up and pulled Wu Ming over: "Commander Wu, come here! Let's get acquainted, Mr. Chen is..."

"Thank you, Mr. Chen. This subordinate and Mr. Chen have known each other for a long time."

Wu Ming interrupted Chen Shizheng's introduction, respectfully saluted Chen Jiyao who was at a loss, turned to Chen Shizheng and Yu Jishi, and explained:

"Mr. Yu and Mr. Chen, last year, my subordinates led a small team to hunt down several criminals who were wanted in two provinces and came here. It happened to coincide with Mr. Chen's birthday. At that time, my subordinates were tired and hungry, so they had the audacity to come to the door to beg for food. , I didn’t bring any gifts, and there was a little misunderstanding. I originally planned to take the time to come to the door to apologize, but I didn’t expect the two officers to call the subordinates to come up today. They dared not go forward with empty hands and empty stomachs!”

Chen Shizheng, who thought he had a plan, was shocked. He looked at Chen Jiyao, who nodded frequently, and Wang Daohan, who was smiling all over his face. , haha, it’s good to know each other.”

After Yu Jishi was surprised, he laughed happily and asked Wu Ming to sit down and have a good chat.

Wu Ming had no choice but to sit down under Chen Shizheng, took the fragrant tea offered by the little maid, and was about to lift the lid when he saw two familiar figures appearing at the side of the main hall, his hands trembled in fright, and he almost threw away the teacup.

Yu Jishi and Chen Shizheng saw two dignified and beautiful family members coming forward to greet them, so they quickly stood up and greeted each other politely.

The naughty Wang Daohan has already come to the middle, and enthusiastically introduced to Yu Jishi and Chen Shizheng: "This is the third wife of the Chen family, this is Wang Yuehan, the wife of the second young master of the Chen family, Chen Zhongkang, who is now on business at the provincial party headquarters, and is also my niece, haha! "

After the third aunt saluted Yu Jishi and the two very politely, she turned to the expressionless Wu Ming to express her gratitude: "I have never had the chance to thank Captain Wu for his generous help. The little girl Chen Yi wrote a letter the day before yesterday, saying that she is doing well at school. The teachers and professors cared about her very much and learned a lot, let us thank Head Wu."

Wu Ming nodded politely: "It's nothing more than a little effort."

Wang Daohan quickly explained to Yu Jishi, who was full of astonishment, "It's like this. In the second half of last year, Chen Yi, the daughter of the Chen family, was able to enter the Hangzhou Missionary Medical College under the care of Head Wu, so everyone in the Chen family paid attention to Wu Tuan. Thank you very much!"

Yu Jishi was even more surprised: "This is a good thing! Wu Ming, I didn't expect you to have such abilities. Hangzhou Missionary Medical College is known as the No. [-] medical school in Jiangnan, and it only recruits dozens of outstanding students every year. It’s hard to get into universities and Fudan University in Shanghai!”

Wu Ming hastily put aside the relationship: "Commander, it's not that the subordinates are capable, but that the combat staff officer Captain Dai Ziran is capable. Mr. Dai Zichen, the director of the China Youth Christian Association and the chief Chinese pastor of Hangzhou Tianshui Church, is Dai Ziran. The captain's cousin, Captain Dai Ziran, and Miss Chen Yi have known each other for a long time, they are friends and have connections with each other."

"What's more, the three medical officers in the subordinate health team, together with Captain Dai Ziran, who is now transferred to the combat staff, all graduated from Hangzhou Missionary Medical College. Thanks to these relationships, the subordinate health team can go smoothly. Established and cooperated with the Quzhou Christian Church to open the Quzhou Western Hospital to train medical talents for the army and the local area as much as possible, and it seems to be doing well so far.”

Yu Jishi suddenly realized and nodded frequently.Chen Shizheng was still full of doubts, and felt that the matter was too coincidental, so he kept observing the expressions of Wu Ming and everyone else.

Fortunately, the butler came up in time to report that the banquet was ready, and everyone was invited to move to the middle hall. Chen Jiyao and the third concubine hurriedly invited them warmly, while Yu Jishi and Chen Shizheng were polite, and followed happily with Wang Daohan.

Wu Ming didn't bother to go in, and stayed in the main hall on the pretext of opening another table with the adjutants and secretaries. After the adjutants and secretaries left with the enthusiastic third concubine and the housekeeper of the Chen family, Wu Ming sat in the empty main hall with a sigh of relief. He took out a cigarette and lit it silently.

"Hey! Why don't you take the seat?" A gentle voice came.

Wu Ming knew who it was without turning his head. He took a few sips slowly from the teacup, looked up at Wang Yuehan who was sitting in front of him, and blamed him, "Why did you come to Shangrao at this sensitive time?"

Wang Yuehan, with bright eyes and blushing face, asked with a smile, "Are you worried about my safety?"

Wu Ming put down his teacup, looked around, and said something extremely shocking: "I'm not worried that the Kuomintang will kill you, I'm only worried that your life will be misunderstood and kill you."

Wang Yuehan felt her heart twitch suddenly, and the smile on her face disappeared instantly. She stared blankly at Wu Ming for a long time before exhaling, and begged in a low voice: "Don't say such things in the future, okay? If you scare people, you will scare them to death!"

"Where's Chen Zhongkang? Does he worry about you running around?"

After Wu Ming said this, he regretted it. He didn't know why he asked such a stupid question, so he had no choice but to lower his head and pick up the teacup again under embarrassment.

Wang Yuehan didn't seem to notice Wu Ming's abnormality, sighed quietly, and replied in a low voice: "At the end of last year, he followed the group of escorted officers to Germany for further studies, alas! He said he went to Germany for further studies, but he actually went to Germany to see a doctor. I don't know where he came from. I heard that only Germany can cure his hidden disease in the world, so he hastily applied for it, and spent a lot of money secretly, and finally got his wish... He contracted this disease while studying in Japan, and it has been more than four years. If Germany can't be cured, I'm afraid it will never be a man."

"what!?"

Wu Ming raised his head in shock, and quickly turned his gaze to the teacup in his hand.

Seeing that Wu Ming remained silent, Wang Yuehan bit her lips and summoned up her courage, "I was going to Quzhou to find you, but when I got here, I heard from my uncle that you led your troops to be stationed at the North Gate Barracks in Shangrao, so... I would like to ask for your help. Our patients urgently need quinine injections, disinfectants and hemostatic powder, as well as pethidine and surgical instruments. Now the whole country is controlling these shortages. They cannot be found on the market. I'm looking for your help."

Wu Ming frowned slightly: "A small amount of medicine is not a big problem, and a few sets of surgical instruments are fine. I can't do anything if there are too many... You bought almost all of the things I quietly saved over the past year. There is one more thing, you guys Mr. Zhang still owes me [-] oceans, so let's settle the bill first."

Wang Yuehan hesitated to speak, glanced at the two rows of guards standing outside the gate, stood up and asked in a low voice: "It's not convenient to talk here, let's go to Dad's East Courtyard to talk, okay?"

Wu Ming hesitated for a while, seeing Wang Yuehan's beautiful face full of expectation, his heart softened, he nodded and followed Wang Yuehan through the small door in the side hall to the east courtyard where Chen Jiyao and his third wife lived, raised his head and looked at the blue Sky, strolled to the stone table in the courtyard and sat down, the well-behaved little maid next to the third aunt quickly brought tea and snacks.

Wang Yuehan slowly sat down on the stone drum opposite Wu Ming: "To be honest, I'm getting more and more scared now. Nanchang and Shangrao are very strict, and almost every few days I hear news of Communists being executed or betrayed. And I heard that Mr. Zhang...Mr. Zhang..."

"What happened to Mr. Zhang?"

Wu Ming stared nervously at Wang Yuehan's eyes.

Wang Yuehan didn't dare to look at Wu Ming, she lowered her head for a while, and then answered in a low voice: "My direct contact is Mr. Zhang. I didn't know about Zhang until last week when my contact person was replaced by another old acquaintance from Shangrao. Soon after he arrived in the Central Soviet Area, he was quarantined and inspected."

Wu Ming sighed, "I'm afraid it will be your turn next."

"That's why I'm afraid..."

Wang Yuehan's beautiful eyes were already filled with tears, and her delicate face was pale, as if she had been frightened by the cruel reality.

Wu Ming was silent for a long time, and asked, "Does your family know that you are a member of the Communist Party?"

Wang Yuehan shook her head, wiped away her tears quietly, and raised her head: "My family doesn't know, and... I'm not a real communist. From the year before last to now, my application for joining the party has not been approved, and I won't even be approved next time. I don't even know who the traffic officer I contacted...I...I'm afraid..."

Wu Ming felt pain in his heart, pondered for a long time, and asked in a low voice, "What are you going to do?"

"I don't know, I really don't know, I'm so scared! I want to quit my job at the Jiangxi Provincial Party Headquarters, and I would rather go back to the countryside of Yingtan to be a primary school teacher and live a peaceful life, but I'm also afraid that my family will be punished I am even more afraid of being misunderstood as a traitor by my superiors, I...I..."

Wang Yuehan couldn't go on talking anymore, tears welled up in her eyes.

　I feel unwell and dizzy, and I don’t know how to write this chapter, so let’s take a look!Ask for recommendation tickets and collection encouragement, thank you!

　　


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