Chapter 909: Bright line? (Ask for monthly ticket)
“What are you laughing at? What’s so funny?”
Seeing Cheng Qianfan's playful smile, Gu Xinrui was thin-skinned and said angrily, "Vice President Cheng, I have to say something ugly beforehand. You have to help me with this, or you can help me if you don't."
“I’m very curious now.” Cheng Qianfan blinked, “This female classmate is so outstanding that she actually fascinated Mr. Gu.”
"What do you want to do?" Gu Xinrui immediately showed a vigilant look, "I'm warning you, don't have any bad intentions."
“What’s that look in your eyes?” Cheng Qianfan was unhappy, “As the saying goes, a friend’s wife should not be bullied, am I that kind of person?”
Gu Xinrui looked Cheng Qianfan up and down, then nodded, "You haven't answered me yet, can you help me with this?"
"Help, help." Cheng Qianfan said with a smile. He picked up the briefcase on the iron side table and took out a gold-gilded business card. "Take this paisley to Chen Hu and he will arrange everything properly." ."
"I have something to say first." Gu Xinrui took Pais and glanced at it, "We need to have a safe journey. Your name as 'Mr. Xiao Cheng' is very useful to the Japanese."
“You want to transport prohibited items?” Cheng Qianfan’s smile faded and he looked deeply at Gu Xinrui.
"You can't say this nonsense." Gu Xinrui was startled, looked around, and lowered his voice and said, "It's just some groceries and household necessities, including a few barrels of kerosene."
"What are you afraid of with a few barrels of kerosene?" Cheng Qianfan laughed, and he couldn't help but said sarcastically, "Mr. Gu seems to have really fallen in love with this female classmate at first sight."
“My fair lady, a gentleman is so bold.” Gu Xinrui did not avoid Cheng Qianfan’s sarcasm this time, but said with a stiff neck, “When men get married, women get married. What’s so funny?”
Cheng Qianfan's eyes widened and he looked at Gu Xinrui up and down as if he didn't know him, "It seems you really like this woman?"
"What do you care about?" Gu Xinrui pretended to be annoyed and picked up the tennis racket, "Let's go, let's play another round, and we will definitely beat you this time."
…
“Concession.” Gu Xinrui said with a proud look on his face as he held the tennis racket in his hands and clasped his fists.
"This game doesn't count." Cheng Qianfan said angrily, "I didn't perform well in this game."
Gu Xinrui showed a contemptuous look.
“One more game?” he asked.
"I'm not coming. Let's play again next time." Cheng Qianfan handed the tennis racket to Ying Huaizhen, took the towel handed over by Ying Huaizhen, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and took it from Ying Huaizhen's hand. He took the cocoa lotion and took a sip.
He burped and let out a sound of comfort, then looked sideways at Gu Xinrui, "I haven't seen you for half a year, and your tennis skills have improved by leaps and bounds?"
Gu Xinrui said proudly, "I am a disciple of a famous teacher."
“Lin Bei?” Cheng Qianfan thought for a while and asked.
“How do you know?” Gu Xinrui was shocked.
“Is it difficult to guess?” Cheng Qianfan said proudly, lighting a cigarette and taking a puff, “You have been to Tianjin for most of the year. You can guess which tennis masters there are in Tianjin.”
"Mr. Lin Bei is not the only tennis master in Tianjin." Gu Xinrui said angrily, obviously a little annoyed that Cheng Qianfan had guessed right.
Tianjin once had "four famous tennis masters" - the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty and the one who is now the puppet Manchuria, and the other one is Li Yuanheng, the former president of the Republic of China, Zhang Hansheng, the marshal, and Liang Guoqing, the comprador of Jardine Matheson.
Of course, their skills are not superb, but with their high social prestige, they can be said to have promoted the popularity and development of tennis in Tianjin.
Of course, the real tennis master in Tianjin is Lin Bei.
This person was the tennis coach of Mr. Pu and Zhang Hansheng respectively, and trained Liang Guoqing's two daughters, Liang Jingyun and Liang Peiqi, to become national champions, and married Liang Jingyun.
Lin Bei was born in Sydney, Australia. He is a tennis prodigy and became a famous tennis player in Australia at the age of nineteen.
Twenty years ago, the 8th Far Eastern Games was held in Shanghai. 21-year-old Lin Bei partnered with Malaysian Chinese tennis player Qiu Feihai and won the men's doubles championship.
At that time, Zhang Hansheng lived in Tianjin. Lin Bei was invited by Zhang Hansheng to come to Tianjin and attended a party and dance at the home of comprador Liang Guoqing, and also played tennis together.
Liang Guoqing has five sons and ten daughters. Among them, the daughters Peiqi and Jingyun, as well as the two young masters, have been fond of playing tennis since childhood.
Lin Bei came to the Liang family to attend a party, so he accepted these disciples.
Especially Peggy and Jingyun, who grew up rapidly under his guidance.
Not long after, Peggy Leung participated in the North China Tennis Open held in Tianjin and won the first place in the mixed doubles.
A few years ago, Hangzhou held the National Sports Games at the same time as the West Lake Expo.
Tianjin athletes won four championships in high jump, 4×200 meter relay, men’s basketball and tennis.
Among them, sisters Liang Jingyun and Liang Peiqi won the women’s tennis doubles championship. The Liang sisters are known as the “Two Female Tennis Heroes of Tianjin”.
Hence, Tianjin is also considered to be the place with the most tennis masters in China nowadays.
“You are a man.” Cheng Qianfan glanced at Gu Xinrui, “The only one who can teach you is Mr. Lin Bei.”
The Puppet Manchukuo emperor could not have traveled from Changchun to Tianjin to teach Gu Xinrui, and Gu Xinrui did not like him.
Zhang Hansheng was sent abroad for inspection at this time.
It is impossible for Mr. Liang to play with a junior like Gu Xinrui.
Lin Bei’s wife and sister-in-law are of the same age. However, Gu Xinrui pays great attention to the defense of men and women, and it is impossible for him to appoint a woman as his tennis teacher.
Then, only Lin Bei is the most likely candidate.
“It’s not necessarily Mr. Lin Bei, right?” Gu Xinrui said.
"The most important thing is that you, Gu Xinrui, are very proud today. You obviously have a famous teacher, and the most likely person who can make you Gu Xinrui admire him so much is Mr. Lin Bei." Cheng Qianfan said.
After hearing Cheng Qianfan's lucid analysis, Gu Xinrui had no choice but to shake his head and give Cheng Qianfan a reluctant thumbs up.
“He is indeed the famous ‘Mr. Xiao Cheng’.” Gu Xinrui said.
“Don’t think I didn’t hear it, your words were sarcastic.” Cheng Qianfan said with a sneer.
Gu Xinrui chuckled.
Although the two are good friends, Gu Xinrui cannot stand the various behaviors of the well-known "Mr. Xiao Cheng".
However, even though they couldn't stand it, the two never broke off their friendship and could instead continue to play together.
Cheng Qianfan sneered, glanced at Gu Xinrui, and felt something in his heart.
…
"What are you thinking about?" Ying Huaizhen handed the peeled orange to Cheng Qianfan and asked.
“I remember seeing tennis for the first time when I was a child.” Cheng Qianfan reached out to take the orange and said with a smile, as if there were memories in his eyes.
Ying Huaizhen took the orange back, broke off a segment of the orange with her slender hands, and brought it to Cheng Qianfan's mouth, "Ah—"
Cheng Qianfan opened his mouth directly, not only took the orange into his mouth, but also held Ying Huaizhen's green-white fingers.
“Oops.” Ying Huaizhen glared at Cheng Qianfan.
Cheng Qianfan pointed his finger and then let go. Then he received an angry small punch from Ying Huaizhen.
“My friend and I were passing by a place, and suddenly something flew over. It was hard, heavy, round, and furry, and hit my friend’s head with a bang.”
Cheng Qianfan caught Ying Huaizhen's catkin, gently stroked it, smiled, and continued, "My friend yelled in anger, and I followed suit."
“Then what?” Ying Huaizhen grabbed Cheng Qianfan’s mischievous hand and asked with a blushing face.
"I picked up the fluffy ball and was about to throw it away. My friend took one look at it and quickly grabbed it and said don't throw it away." Cheng Qianfan squinted his eyes and fell into some kind of memory, "My friend said it was a ball played by foreigners. , that’s called tennis!”
Student Lu seemed to be lethargic and sleepy, leaning on his seat.
However, from the way the upper body of this student Lu was swaying while he was sleeping, Cheng Qianfan judged that this woman was listening carefully.
When leaving the tennis court, Gu Xinrui had something to deal with, so he begged Cheng Qianfan to send his tennis partner and classmate Lu home.
Cheng Qianfan had no choice but to agree.
He grabbed Ying Huaizhen's little fist, raised a proud smile at the corner of his mouth, and continued, "The two of us looked up and saw a blond-haired foreigner on a green grass not far away. , and a bald woman. There was something like a fishing net between the two of them. Each of them was holding a short-handled racquet in their hands, and they were shouting at us..."
“What happened next?” Ying Huaizhen asked.
“The two of us were so frightened that we ran away,” Cheng Qianfan said. “Later we realized that the two foreign women were asking for the tennis **** from us.”
“Ouch, you made me laugh so hard, I dare say you must have taken the tennis ball away on purpose.” Ying Huaizhen chuckled, “So you’ve been so evil since you were a kid.”
"The conscience of heaven and earth." Cheng Qianfan raised his hand, "I was just looking at the bald foreign woman, and seeing her shouting at us, I was frightened. I just wished I had two more legs to run."
"What are you shouting for?" Ying Huaizhen was stunned for a moment, and then she understood. She patted Cheng Qianfan's hand angrily, "Oh, you..."
As she said that, she gave Cheng Qianfan a look and said, "I was fooled again. You made this story up. There is no such thing as a bald foreigner."
Cheng Qianfan winked and laughed, "I just realized it."
He grabbed Ying Huaizhen, took the woman into his arms, and patted her gently. This blocked Ying Huaizhen's sight. Cheng Qianfan glanced at the front row. He saw Classmate Lu's head moving little by little. Seems to be dozing off.
“Haozi.” Cheng Qianfan shouted.
“Brother Fan.”
“Send Mr. Lu home first,” he said.
“I understand.” Li Hao agreed.
…
About two hours later.
Cheng Qianfan came out of Ying Huaizhen's home. He stood next to the car, took out the cigarette case, took out a cigarette, flipped the lighter, lit the cigarette, and took a deep breath.
Li Hao was sitting in the passenger seat and was about to open the door for Brother Fan. Seeing that Brother Fan seemed to be thinking about something, he gently got out of the car and walked farther away, looking at the surrounding situation vigilantly.
Cheng Qianfan held a cigarette between the index and middle fingers of his right hand, and scratched the scalp behind his ears with his little finger. He was thinking about Gu Xinrui.
Gu Xinrui is the nephew of Fourth Master Zhang.
I returned from studying in Nanyang two years ago and returned to Shanghai.
This Fourth Master Zhang introduced Gu Xinrui to Cheng Qianfan, hoping that the two could become friends.
With the deliberate friendship between the two parties, the two quickly became familiar with each other and became true friends.
Gu Xinrui is a quite interesting young man.
Advocating Chinese studies, but being proficient in English, French and Japanese.
Likes Western-style sports, but rejects imported foods and etiquette. He believes that Chinese etiquette and food are handed down from ancestors and are the best in the world.
In short, this is a very interesting person.
However, it was not these habits of Gu Xinrui that aroused Cheng Qianfan's secret concern today, but the fact that Gu Xinrui asked him to help arrange for the home of the female classmate he was pursuing to be connected to Jiujiu Trading's transportation line.
This kind of behavior of silently helping the woman solve the difficulties at home in order to pursue the woman he likes is indeed in line with Gu Xinrui's temperament and is not suspicious.
What really aroused Cheng Qianfan's interest was what Gu Xinrui said. This woman's family had a batch of goods that needed to be urgently transported to Wuxi and Changzhou.
This is interesting.
This route is very consistent with the route that Jiujiu Trading took to cooperate with the Japanese army to go to Meicun for "reconnaissance".
Cheng Qianfan is thinking:
Is this a coincidence?
still…
If it is indeed just a coincidence, then of course there is nothing to ponder.
If it is not a coincidence, then what does Gu Xinrui mean?
In other words, Gu Xinrui didn't know it. He really just wanted to help the female classmate's family get out of trouble, but he didn't expect that he would fall into the trap and be taken advantage of -
The relationship between Gu Xinrui and him is not a secret.
According to the plan he reached with Yuichi Ohta, Jiujiu Trading is about to ship a batch of goods to Wuxi and Changzhou. This has been rumored for a long time.
Therefore, if the female classmate’s family had planned carefully, they could have facilitated the plan to use Gu Xinrui to connect to the transportation line of “Mr. Xiao Cheng”.
So the question is, what is the background of this female classmate or her family?
What do you want?
Zhongtong?
Juntong Shanghai Station?
Or is it a shady flying friend who wants to use Cheng Qianfan’s transportation line to cross the sea?
Or is it our party?
kindness?
Cheng Qianfan took a deep breath from his cigarette and thought of a possibility:
Could it be that this batch of goods was arranged by the organization to cover the batch of materials he prepared for the New Fourth Army and to attract the attention of the enemy?
This possibility exists.
Cheng Qianfan thought carefully and came to this judgment.
That batch of materials was stored in a warehouse. Apparently, this batch of materials had passed through several hands and ended up in the hands of the Shanghai underground party organization.
The Shanghai underground party organization will also spend money to buy the route, and mix this batch of goods into the batch of materials shipped by Jiujiu Trading to Wuxi and Changzhou.
This is not noticeable:
Jiujiu Trading has been secretly selling transportation lines to some friends in need. Of course, the asking price has always been very high.
In order to protect this batch of supplies, another group of people will be arranged on the bright line to also take the Jiujiu Trading Line.
This is the plan for transporting supplies that Cheng Qianfan made together with the "Charterer".
Cheng Qianfan flicked the ashes of his cigarette and watched the ashes drifting in the wind. His heart suddenly moved.
He recalled a detail from his conversation with Gu Xinrui.
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