The New Year is getting closer and closer.
Although this land is suffering from the war, the traditional festival of the Spring Festival is the most important festival for every Chinese.
No matter how difficult it is, we must make it through the New Year.
Leave all the worrying things until later in the year.
Although Shanghai suffered from three months of war, the public concessions did not suffer much damage. The flavor of the New Year is still very strong in this city.
Foreigners who have lived in China for many years are also willing to participate in this annual feast for the Chinese.
"Well, don't worry, I'm fine here. It's okay. Some colleagues in the unit are celebrating the New Year with me. I won't be able to make it for a while, and I will ask the boss to find a solution as soon as possible. The phone bill is quite expensive, please help me kiss the children .See you."
Wu Jingyi hung up the phone.
The call between Shanghai and Hong Kong was opened in February 1937, a full year later than the call from Shanghai to Tokyo. Moreover, telephone charges are extremely expensive. If it is not a particularly important matter, everyone would rather choose to contact us by telegram.
Her husband lives in Hong Kong with her children. Until now, she still doesn’t know Wu Jingyi’s true identity.
Wu Jingyi's husband also doesn't know that his wife, who is usually weak and devoted to taking care of the family, is actually a heroine who scares the Japanese and a great figure who commands countless agents.
Under the mediation of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce Bureau of the Public Settlement, the Chinese and Japanese secret services temporarily stopped the bloody assassinations and counter-assassinations that lasted for three months.
The Shanghai Public Settlement has temporarily entered a period of peace.
But no one can tell how long this period of peace can last.
Maybe an hour later, an accidental gunfire would quickly involve Shanghai into the war.
"Report."
"Come in."
Ye Rong walked in: "There are three new Japanese agents at Jing'an Temple's Laodongpu Pharmacy... There on Yuyuan Road, a group of our agents had a head-on conflict with Japanese agents while following them, and one person was slightly injured. The patrol room took everyone away and interrogated them for an hour before releasing them... In addition, our surveillance agents near the Japanese consulate were ordered to change their posts..."
Seemingly bits and pieces of trivial matters constitute the entire struggle between the enemy and ourselves in the Shanghai Public Concession.
"Let our people exercise restraint as much as possible." Wu Jingyi said after listening to the report: "Also, get in touch with Zhou District Chief Secretary Cheng. Although the situation is relatively stable now, it has become more complicated..."
Perhaps influenced by Meng Shaoyuan, Wu Jingyi also attaches great importance to cultivating new people. Shen Li and Ye Rong, the new agents transferred from Chóng Qìng, are Wu Jingyi's key training targets.
If she has free time, Wu Jingyi will find authentic old Shanghainese, teach them pure Shanghainese, and tell them some of Shanghai's special living habits, customs and customs.
They will live here for a long time in the future. In this case, they must quickly integrate into this city.
Others are easy to handle, but more than half of these new agents are locals of Chóng Qìng. It is really difficult for those who were born and raised in Chóng Qìng to learn Shanghainese.
But Wu Jingyi was almost harsh on this matter.
"I don't want you to stay in Shanghai. I want you to integrate with Shanghai. When you perform tasks, you will make the other party think that you grew up in Shanghai. Shen Li, your hometown accent is very Heavy, when others hear it, they will know that you are from Chóng Qìng. Where is Chóng Qìng? In our rear area, when your opponents hear your accent, they will naturally be wary of you, which will make your mission even more difficult. It’s incredibly difficult.”
This is what Wu Jingyi said to these new agents.
These people studied very hard, especially Shen Li, who was almost harsh on himself. He wrote down some difficult-to-learn Shanghainese words in a notebook using homophonic pronunciations. No matter it was day or night, he would take out the notebook and practice whenever he had free time.
When he met local Shanghai spies, he would always pester them to learn how to speak.
The most talented among these people is Ye Rong. It didn't take much effort for her to learn the Shanghainese dialect in a decent way, and she also had a perfect grasp of the dress, accent, and lifestyle of Shanghai's fashionable women.
Talent is something that cannot be envied.
Some people work hard and are still not as good as they want, but some people are far ahead of their peers even though they are playing around without seeing how hard they work.
"The news came from the Yanzi detachment of our guerrilla force that Meng Shaoyuan has left Nanjing. Counting the time, if the journey goes well, he has entered Shanghai by now."
This is the contact title that Meng Shaoyuan thought of.
The Yanzi detachment is a guerrilla detachment commanded by Zhu Yanni.
Upon hearing this, Ye Rong immediately said: "The most difficult thing is how to enter the public concession through the Japanese-controlled area. Commander-in-Chief, do you want to send personnel to respond?"
"No need, no one is more familiar with Shanghai than the commander-in-chief." Wu Jingyi is not too worried about this: "What's more, we still have a large number of agents active in the Japanese-controlled area. Director Meng will find a way himself."
Ye Rong discovered that these old agents in the Shanghai Public Concession all had a heartfelt, almost blind trust in Director Meng.
In their opinion, there seemed to be nothing that Director Meng could not do.
But Wu Jingyi seems a little colder, right? After all, Director Meng is their top commander. Now it is still very dangerous for the commander to reach the public concession from the Japanese-controlled area. Is she really not worried at all?
"Okay, let's do things."
Wu Jingyi said expressionlessly.
As soon as Ye Rong left, Wu Jingyi signed her name on a file, and then picked up the phone: "Mr. Sollats, this is Wu Jingyi, please assign me a few patrol officers and arrange them at the south entrance of the public concession. At the entrance. Okay, thank you."
After hanging up the phone, he took out a pistol from the drawer and put it in his bag.
…
The black car was waiting there calmly.
Two hours have passed.
Wu Jingyi just sat in the car calmly.
According to the agreement between himself and Meng Shaoyuan, if he cannot return to Shanghai according to the normal route, he will enter the public concession from here.
Wu Jingyi will be personally responsible for the reception.
In the entire military-controlled Shanghai latent area, anyone can have trouble, except Meng Shaoyuan. No one knows this better than Wu Jingyi.
However, she couldn't show anything in front of her subordinates.
She wants everyone to know that one person's life is far less than the overall interests.
Several patrolmen were walking back and forth not far away, just in case.
Thirty minutes to go.
If it doesn't happen after this point, it won't happen until tomorrow.
Fixed place, fixed time.
There will be no exceptions.
Time passed by minute by minute.
Why haven't you come yet?
Could something happen?
At this time, Wu Jingyi looked calm and composed on the surface, but in fact, she was more nervous than anyone else in her heart.
The patrolmen clicked their watches here, which meant that it was time to get off work.
Wu Jingyi rolled down the window and nodded.
The patrols left.
They will not take the initiative to work overtime.
It looks like it won't come today.
Just as Wu Jingyi was about to leave, a familiar voice suddenly came from the car window:
"To Albert Road?"
