No. 369, Seymour Road, Shanghai.
This is where Soong Meiling lived before she married the chairman of the National Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Next door is Seymour Road Christian Church. This garden house is in the style of a Western European country house. There is a corridor inside the large iron gate leading to the stone steps of the inner door, along which you can enter the living room. The living room is decorated with stained glass and old-fashioned parquet floors. To the east of the living room is the vaulted inner room, and to the west is the large living room. A small room facing north on the second floor is Soong Meiling's boudoir.
Now, it has been given to Kong Lingyi to live in.
On both sides of the corridor as they entered, there were many bodyguards with guns and ammunition, all of whom Kong Xiangxi hired on behalf of his precious daughter.
Kong Lingyi's meeting place was in the large living room on the west side.
If Shanghai is extremely hot and muggy outside in August, here, it only feels slightly cool.
There are also large ice cubes placed in the four corners of the large living room.
There is something special about the big ice cubes here.
There is no big ceiling fan blowing there.
According to these rich families, large ceiling fans blowing at people are very harmful to the body. The best way is to keep the ice cubes in the four corners from morning to night, relying on the coolness emitted by melting themselves to cool down.
The ice cannot stop for twenty-four hours, and there are so many rooms here.
At the end of the day, the consumption of ice alone is staggering.
"Chief Meng, you are so arrogant." When he saw Meng Shaoyuan, Kong Lingyi was still arrogant: "If I insist on transferring Gao Fanyi to invite you, do you think you will come?"
"Miss, I'm wronged." Meng Shaoyuan said bravely: "I went to Shanghai and was busy with official duties. I went to Peiping again. I just returned to Shanghai and I really don't have time to visit the eldest lady."
"Forget it, I know you went to Peiping to instigate an uprising against the Tong County Security Team. Take a seat. Xiao Gao, serve the food."
The late one is Chinese food.
In total, only two people, Meng Shaoyuan and Kong Lingyi, ate.
When it arrives, there are eight cold dishes.
Shark fin and sea cucumber jelly, Shaanxi double combination, smoked horse meat, rice dumplings with hoof...
The drink was red wine.
Kong Lingyi raised his cup: "Meng Shaoyuan, congratulations on your promotion, and I also wish you success in Tong County."
"Thanks."
Here, Meng Shaoyuan did not dare to be too presumptuous and just took a sip of red wine.
He couldn't tell whether it was good or bad. Anyway, her eldest lady's things were always right.
Kong Lingyi kept urging him to eat more, but he barely moved his chopsticks.
"I have never cared about politics." Kong Lingyi said, "But the Japanese's blatant invasion of Peking and Tianjin is intolerable. I heard from my father that this time the superiors unanimously decided that they must fight, and they must fight hard. Meng Shaoyuan, if I transfer you to Shanghai at this time, I'm afraid..."
Meng Shaoyuan knew that Kong Lingyi had good intentions.
She knew better than most people what the higher-ups decided there, such as the Nationalist Government's decision to take action in Shanghai and annihilate the three thousand Marines here.
Once a war breaks out, agents like Meng Shaoyuan will inevitably be in danger.
"Shaoyuan understands." Meng Shaoyuan said calmly: "I am a spy, and I am also a soldier, a major, and I have just been awarded the Yunhui Medal. When the war begins, it is our duty as soldiers to kill the enemy and serve the country. "
"I don't understand the war, but if you want to change your job, I can always be of some help."
"Thank you, Miss, for your kindness." Meng Shaoyuan smiled: "If I escape at this time, then I, Meng Shaoyuan, will become a joke. From now on, I will never have to raise my head in front of others."
Kong Lingyi stared at him and suddenly let out a soft sigh: "My father was in Shanghai two days ago. I talked to him about this matter, and he also said that you, Meng Shaoyuan, would rather shed blood than become a deserter. .”
Kong Xiangxi knew himself quite well.
Dishes were served one after another, some of which Meng Shaoyuan had never heard of, let alone heard of.
This is definitely what Grandma Liu felt when she entered the Grand View Garden.
How can two people eat so many dishes?
Some dishes have not been touched with a chopstick.
"Isn't it a bit extravagant?" Kong Lingyi seemed to have noticed something: "This is your first time here, and I'm afraid you will rarely come here in the future, so I deliberately made the preparations in the kitchen richer. I have already said that, The daily six dishes and two soups will be changed to four dishes and one soup, and all the money saved will be donated to the country."
Meng Shaoyuan knew very well that this sounded ridiculous, but for people like Kong Lingyi, it was already remarkable that he could lower his daily living standards.
"During the Anti-Japanese War in Peking, the eldest lady has donated a large sum of money to the soldiers on the front line." Gao Fanyi, who had been standing aside waiting for the summons, said: "And she is also mobilizing her friends around her to come up with a sum of money to buy A plane was donated to the National Government."
To be honest, Meng Shaoyuan was particularly uncomfortable with this way of eating.
Two people were eating from such a large table, and there was someone standing next to them like a telegraph pole.
The problem is that Kong Lingyi doesn't think it has any high meaning, nor does he think it has any significance.
"Gao Fanyi, you told me secretly that you wanted to fight in the army." Kong Lingyi smiled: "Meng Shaoyuan is here now. Ask him if he can help you think of a way."
"It is my duty to protect the eldest lady." Gao Fanyi replied calmly.
Don't mean what you say.
Meng Shaoyuan could tell at a glance.
Hearing the word "army", Gao Fanyi's eyes flashed with fiery sparks.
He wished he could go to the army now.
such a pity.
Gao Fanyi himself was selected from the army to protect the eldest lady. He is still holding a false position in the army, and because of his protection of Kong Lingyi, his military rank was promoted from major to colonel.
Colonel.
No matter how many people fought bloody battles, they could not advance to the first level. But Gao Fanyi easily became a colonel because of his protection.
Moreover, Kong Lingyi would not let him go.
It's too easy to get Gao Fanyi back to the army, so why bother with a little spy like yourself?
Meng Shaoyuan knew it well and did not reveal it: "The soldiers on the front line will be very moved if they know about the eldest lady's heart. But Shaoyuan has a suggestion. You don't need to use the money to buy an airplane."
"Why?" Kong Lingyi asked.
"One more plane or one less plane cannot change the overall situation." Meng Shaoyuan sighed softly: "But if we can save this money and buy medicines in large quantities, we can save the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers."
"Meng Shaoyuan, do you know why on September 18th and January 28th, there were always celebrities buying airplanes to donate to the country and calling for resistance to the end?"
"have no idea."
Kong Lingyi smiled, a little sarcastically: "The plane is big, and the donation will cause a big sensation and influence. Reporters will swarm, and the people will be excited. Donating medicines will not have such a big impact. Because in the world In the minds of ordinary people, the value of medicine cannot be compared with that of airplanes."
Meng Shaoyuan suddenly realized.
A mystery that had always existed in his mind was finally solved.
In the past, when he read books, he always saw that during the Anti-Japanese War, someone donated an airplane. Didn't even Du Yuesheng donate an airplane?
He has always been thinking about how useful the donated aircraft will be to the Anti-Japanese War. With this money, it is better to buy more heavy machine guns, light machine guns, and more medicines that can save lives.
Now, Kong Lingyi helped him uncover the mystery.
"One of the donated planes is equivalent to more than 200,000 yuan in national currency." Kong Lingyi did the calculation: "This is indeed a lot of money, but to those big businessmen, it is actually nothing. But these planes, They are all small civilian aircraft. They are good for transporting people, but they cannot go to the battlefield. However, the two hundred thousand yuan has brought a great reputation to itself. Medicines? It has no such effect. "
Meng Shaoyuan exhaled.
No wonder so many celebrities donated aircraft during the Anti-Japanese War.
He once thought that the price of airplanes in this era was the same as Chinese cabbage.
Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang also donated airplanes, but one of his costumes is worth over 70,000 yuan.
Of course, Mei Lanfang’s patriotism is absolutely undeniable.
"Meng Shaoyuan, this is the reason why we donated the plane." Kong Lingyi smiled faintly: "This time, we even thought of the name, so we asked Shanghai ladies to donate generously and buy planes to support the Anti-Japanese War. Now you are asking the question. , that would be meaningless.”
"Well..." Meng Shaoyuan said humbly: "Having a plane is better than not having one. The generosity of the eldest lady is the best."
"You are such a hypocrite." Kong Lingyi curled his lips and said, "You clearly don't agree with it in your heart, and what you say is totally different from what you think in your heart. Let's do this. I'll call them together tomorrow and tell them that the plane we bought, If it doesn’t work, it’s still used to buy medicines.
We often go to Hong Kong and the United States, and there are always more channels to buy medicines than you do. I will take this money to buy as many medicines as possible, bring them back, and give them to you for use. Meng Shaoyuan, I don’t care about politics, but I am still a Chinese. You will be satisfied with this, right? "
Meng Shaoyuan stood up and poured a full glass of red wine into his own glass. He didn't care about etiquette and drank it all in one sip. Then he bowed deeply to Kong Lingyi:
"Miss, on behalf of the soldiers on the front line, thank you."
"Just for these medicines, it is worth it to make you Meng Shaoyuan bend his back." Kong Lingyi said seriously: "Dai Yunong is full of praise for you. My father and uncle also favor you. Meng Shaoyuan, fight well and fight well." Live, don’t die.”
"I will try my best."
Meng Shaoyuan didn't know how to answer. Who wants to die? But once on the battlefield, bullets won't go around him just because he is Meng Shaoyuan, right?
"Okay, let's eat, eat." Kong Lingyi looked a little lonely for some reason.
This Meng Shaoyuan, all his thoughts are on the battlefield. Maybe he has been preparing for this moment for too long, right?
Japanese, why do they have to start a war?
