Spy War: My Cheat Code is a Rat

"What's wrong with that woman today?"

Lu Chen was still angry when he walked into the office. He was immediately accused of being a lackey of the Japanese. Who wouldn't be angry in that situation?

"Brother Chen, everything is arranged."

Liu Jie knocked on the door, came in, and reported the task assigned to him to Lu Chen.

"Okay, Xiao Jie, tell me, what's the current price of grain?"

To do grain business, you need to know the prices. Lu Chen didn't know this because he had never bought any before, and his younger sister was the one who managed the business at home.

Liu Jie thought for a moment before speaking, "1.2 yuan before the battle, 5 yuan after the battle; rice 2 yuan before the battle, 8 yuan after the battle."

The main currencies nowadays are legal tender and silver dollars, with one silver dollar being worth about 10 yuan.

"The price is so high?"

Lu Chen hadn't expected that even basic food items would be so expensive now, costing so much per kilogram. Before the war, an ordinary person's monthly income was enough to make a living.

After the war, incomes decreased while food prices rose. A month's income was only about ten yuan, which was only enough to buy two jin of flour!

"It's all because of those damn Japanese devils. I used to be able to barely make ends meet, but now, without Brother Chen helping me, this little bit of salary isn't enough to support my family at all."

Liu Jie gritted his teeth, his tone filled with hatred for Japan, but when he mentioned Lu Chen, his face was full of gratitude.

Lu Chen was also feeling very heavy-hearted. The price of grain was just too high. How were ordinary people supposed to survive?

Living in a peaceful era, Lu Chen had never thought about or seen anyone starve to death. But now, such things happen all the time; he just hadn't seen them.

"Xiao Jie, hurry up and exchange all the legal tender you have for silver dollars. I received news that the exchange rate of legal tender has dropped. Take advantage of the fact that it hasn't dropped too much yet and exchange it quickly."

After saying that, Liu Jie ran out of the office, leaving Lu Chen alone inside.

tear......

He struck a match, lit a cigarette, and took a deep drag.

This is a really difficult situation. If we buy the grain ourselves, the price will be too high for ordinary people to afford, and if the price is too low, we will lose money.

"Getting things done is one thing, but you can't just starve yourself."

Lu Chen exhaled a puff of smoke with a wry smile. Besides, even if he lost money doing it, how would he explain it to Zhang Rongshan?

And then there's Kuroda. He'll definitely find out about this. He's losing money doing business; it's obvious there's something wrong with that.

"It's time to take a shower today."

Lu Chen took out a few rats and looked at their shiny fur. Ever since Rat One and the others started following him, Lu Chen would give them a thorough cleaning every few days, as he was also afraid of the virus.

"When was this done?"

Lu Chen suddenly noticed a cut on his palm that was still bleeding. He hadn't felt anything until he saw it and started to feel the pain.

He didn't know where he got it, but Lu Chen didn't care about such a small wound.

dong dong dong.

There was a knock on the door, and Lu Chen immediately put away the rats.

"Come in."

When Lu Chen saw the person who came in, his brows furrowed instantly. Shen Ruoqiu? What did she want with him?

What are you doing here?

Lu Chen's face was somewhat cold, after all, he didn't know what was wrong with this woman that morning, she spoke to him like that.

"Lu...Lu Chen, I've just thought about it, and what you said does make sense. I was inconsiderate."

Shen Ruoqiu awkwardly tucked her hair behind her ear, avoiding Lu Chen's eyes and looking at the table.

Lu Chen didn't say anything, but his depressed mood finally improved a bit. At least this woman had some intelligence.

"Oh dear, what happened to you?"

Shen Ruoqiu suddenly grasped Lu Chen's hand and looked at the wound on it.

"I don't know, it's just a minor injury, it's nothing."

Lu Chen tried to pull his hand back, but found that the woman was surprisingly strong. He also noticed out of the corner of his eye that the woman's tiger's mouth was different from other women's.

Other women, even if they did manual labor, wouldn't have such obviously rough hands and feet, with faint pressure marks. Moreover, as far as he knew, Shen Ruoqiu was a doctor.

Lu Chen had seen these indentations on many people, and even he himself had them.

This is due to the deformation of muscles and bones from holding a gun for a long time, in order to conform to the position when holding a gun.

"Are they from Kuroda's side?"

Lu Chen gave up on pulling his hand back, staring at Shen Ruoqiu's concerned face, his mind racing.

"Sending a Chinese person to monitor her? No, why didn't she come out when Kuroda was around? Was she hiding from the Japanese? And look at how disheveled she looked when she came to the military police station."

Lu Chen was hesitant to confirm, since all of this was just speculation and he had no concrete evidence.

"I have iodine in my room. I need to disinfect it. In this environment, it would be very troublesome if I got infected if I didn't disinfect it."

As she spoke, Shen Ruoqiu walked out the door. Lu Chen nodded, his expression unchanged.

After Shen Ruoqiu left, Lu Chen reached into his pocket and pulled out Rat Two.

"Monitor her. Report any strange behavior or who she meets outside the military police headquarters to me immediately."

"Squeak squeak".

I put Mouse Two on the ground, and it disappeared in a flash.

Lu Chen decided not to alert her yet, and to wait until Rat Two had investigated thoroughly before making any plans, as he himself was unsure whether she had any problems.

The only thing that's certain is that this woman must have handled a gun frequently, otherwise her hand wouldn't have been in that position.

"Here, let me apply it for you."

Shen Ruoqiu returned to her office with the iodine and applied it to Lu Chen's wound with a cotton swab.

I only felt a chill, and then I felt nothing else.

After doing all this, Shen Ruoqiu saw that Lu Chen still didn't say anything and felt a little awkward staying there, so she made an excuse and left the office.

"Iodine..."

Lu Chen felt that this iodine was similar to the iodine solution he would use later. After examining the wound, Lu Chen stood up and walked out of the office.

Liu Jie took his car keys and went out, but Lu Chen refused to let him go.

"Xiao Jie, you stay at the military police station. I'll be back in a bit."

Lu Chen suddenly remembered that he still had five hundred bottles of morphine in the warehouse in the French Concession. Morphine is now a strategic material and is not cheap, especially now that the Japanese army and the National Army are fighting fiercely.

"If we want to exchange this morphine for food as much as possible, we can only try to find Du Yuesheng."

Lu Chen remembered that Du Yuesheng was an anti-Japanese figure. If he were to approach Zhang Rongshan, who was pro-Japanese, Du Yuesheng would probably try to devour him. Even if he did that, there would be nothing Lu Chen could do, and the Japanese would find out.

Needless to say, if you go to Huang Jinrong, your profits will be squeezed to the minimum, and you might not get much grain at all in the end.

So Lu Chen decided to meet Du Yuesheng to see if he could make a deal with him.

Arriving at the warehouse in the French Concession, I hadn't been here since the last time I traded morphine with that German.

Looking around, Lu Chen realized this wasn't a bustling area of ​​the French Concession, and there weren't many people around. Seeing that no one was around, he took out his key, opened the door, and went inside.

Five boxes of morphine were placed intact on the ground, covered with a layer of dust.

"To talk to Du Yuesheng, we need to find someone else..."