Spy Wars: Return of the Red Luan

Chapter 53 The Masked Beauty Was Shot

On March 1929, 18 (the 3th year of the Republic of China), a passenger ship from Lushun, China to Shanghai was about to dock.

Chen Jiehua sat in a booth in the first-class cabin cafe on the cruise ship, looking at the Shanghai buildings gradually approaching in the distance, and his thoughts gradually came back to him.

The last time I came to Shanghai was when I was delivering medicine and sneaking on a ship through Shanghai. I didn’t even have time to take a good look at this prosperous Shanghai. The Magic City of the East, here I am again!
In the past two months, after Chen Jiehua had cleaned up his mess in the Northeast, he called "Uncle Okamura", who was then the Deputy Section Chief of the Personnel Bureau of the Army Ministry. Okamura Neiji asked him to take the initiative to find his senior brother Doiyuan who was still in the Fengtian secret agency.

We are all from the Aoki clan, brothers from the same school. We shouldn't fight to the death. The Aoki clan needs unity! We can't fight among ourselves. This is what Okamura Neiji thinks.

Chen Jiehua probably figured it out. Uncle Okamura was relieved because he determined through Aoki Ichiro's confirmation that Aoki Qiao was still Aoki Qingxuan and had not been replaced by someone else. He believed that it was Doiyuan who had misunderstood. Due to Doiyuan's wrong and spontaneous investigation, Aoki Qiao's source of medicines was damaged, causing damage to the economy of the Emperor and the Army Ministry!
Although the warning from the Army Ministry did not dispel Doitono's doubts, it at least made him stop pursuing Aoki Takashi's industrial investigation on the surface. In fact, he no longer had any industry. The "Aoki Pharmacy" throughout the Northeast and the Blue Tornado "Fast Running" system appeared suddenly and disappeared suddenly.

Those who “run fast” miss those days. As long as they can run, at least they can live like a human being. The military police also miss those days. Isn’t it great to queue up every month to receive extra money?
With the departure of Qingmu Qiao and Chen Jiehua, all of these have become a brief period in the history of Northeast China and may not even be recorded in history.

Okamura Yasuji knew Doihara's character. In order to avoid future infighting among his fellow disciples, he took advantage of the change in his position and transferred Aoki Takashi to Shanghai as a special military attaché, responsible for inspecting all affairs of the Army Ministry in Shanghai, China. He set off immediately after receiving the transfer order.

A special military attaché is actually an intelligence gathering officer. His power can be great or small. You can contribute or you can slack off.

Chen Jiehua disembarked, suitcase in hand, and stood at the dock, wondering whether to rent a house in the Japanese-populated area of ​​Hong Kong, buy a house, or perhaps look elsewhere. He knew he'd learn from his mistakes. This time, he'd think twice before buying a house near the headquarters, as he had done in Lushun.

It seems like the only famous road in Shanghai I remember is Jessfield Road? No. 76! I'm going to buy on Jessfield Road! Is it okay to buy near No. 76?

"Sir, would you like to take a rickshaw?"

This time, Chen Jiehua was not wearing Japanese military uniform, but a decent and handsome suit that was most popular at the time. A sharp-eyed rickshaw driver ran over.

"Okay, take me to Jessfield Road."

"Okay! Come up!"

The rickshaw driver swiftly helped Chen Jiehua move the suitcase onto the rickshaw.

In fact, Chen Jiehua was just thinking of Jessfield Road, but his thoughts were interrupted. However, Shanghainese sounded very familiar, and he also wanted to take care of the driver's business, so he simply said Jessfield Road.

It is only more than three kilometers from Shanghai Shilipu Wharf to Jisifei Road, and the rickshaw puller is still willing to pull. As the rickshaw puller runs briskly, Chen Jiehua looks at the scenery of Shanghai streets greedily!
Greed was the right word. Chen Jiehua was eager to absorb the street scenes on both sides into the space. In a few years, this place would be purgatory, and there would never be such a view again!

When they reached the intersection of Jessfield Road, the rickshaw driver asked which shop they were going to. Chen Jiehua thought, "I'll just get off and take a look around." So he took out a silver dollar and offered it to the driver, but he didn't dare to take it!

"This ocean is too big, I can't open it."

"Here, here you go!"

"How can I be so embarrassed? How about I take you for a walk and see for yourself?"

Chen Jiehua had no concept of prices. One dollar was the smallest unit of money he had, but it was enough for a rickshaw driver to travel for a week. "That's fine. It saves me the trouble of carrying a suitcase."

The rickshaw driver was quite nice, a local with a keen eye. He took Chen Jiehua for a slow walk, introducing each house to who lived there, which house was empty, and which house was for sale.

This was exactly what Chen Jiehua wanted, and finally, Chen Jiehua stopped in front of No. 73.

Chen Jiehua loved the single-family villa, its European-style design, and its grand courtyard. He couldn't think of anything else. He asked the driver to find the owner while he looked around and even went to No. 76. Now, No. 76 is just a large single-family garden house (the residence of Chen Tiaoyuan, Chairman of Anhui Province and President of the Military Senate of the Nationalist Government).

After getting the house, Chen Jiehua put down his luggage and excitedly inspected it from top to bottom. (I won't write about the house-buying process, as it would be too tedious.)
The same old problem: although the furniture and quilts are all ready, Chen Jiehua is a mysophobia (it's normal for doctors to be mysophobic, right?) I need to buy my own necessities! So, let's go out and take a look first; it's a good opportunity to get familiar with the place.

As soon as Chen Jiehua opened the iron gate, a young woman in a black tights and with her face covered rushed in! Then the masked woman put a knife to Chen Jiehua's neck!
"Close the door quickly!"

Chen Jiehua quickly closed the door.

In fact, with Chen Jiehua's skills, he was fully capable of avoiding her "knife" and subduing the woman, but he did not do it.

Chen Jiehua turned his back to the iron gate and looked at the beauty in front of him calmly. Although she was wearing a mask, one could still tell from her figure, hair and face shape that she was a standard beauty!

"You are such a beautiful woman, why do you become a thief?" Chen Jiehua blurted out! Watched too many movies!

"Shut up!" The beauty moved the "knife" forward a little bit.

"Beauty! This knife is a bit sharp, be careful. If you kill me by accident, no one can save you!"

Chen Jiehua observed that the beauty was bleeding from under her left breast and right leg. It seemed that she had been shot!
As he was speaking (here comes the movie cliché), the beauty's body softened and when she was about to fall, Chen Jiehua avoided the surgical blade and grabbed the beautiful woman in black with one hand.

Chen Jiehua quickly put the beautiful woman in black against the wall of the yard, opened the door, looked outside, quickly wiped the few drops of blood at the door and not far away with a scarf, then camouflaged it with leaves, closed the iron door, and carried the beautiful woman in black back into the house.

Chen Jiehua directly carried the beauty upstairs and put her on the bed in the bedroom. At this time, he couldn't care less about sterility. He had to perform surgery to remove the bullet and check the injury. However, he had to wait because the military police would be here soon. If the military police broke in halfway through the operation, the game would be over!

So, the beauty’s blood will continue to flow for a while!

Chen Jiehua had just gone downstairs to wipe the blood off the ground when he heard a knock on the door!

"Open the door! Open the door! Open the door quickly!"

"Police check!"

(End of this chapter)