"Sir, these are all those who have just visited us, and they have left behind gifts." Uncle Gui held a stack of greetings and reports.

"Uncle Gui, please pick some gifts and give them there, which is our return gift." Lu Xiyan ordered.

"OK."

Even if neighbors don’t interact, there is no need to be so stalemate. You must know that there are gentlemen and villains in this world, and now they are villains in power.

"Meimei, what should we eat for lunch?"

"You are here, help me see if the soup I cooked has been prepared?" Meng Fanxing was wearing an apron and was busy in the kitchen. A Xiang was also helping her burn the fire.

There is not even a maid who helps the chef in this family, and the hostess who pays the meal do it herself.

In addition to being able to burn fire, the maid Axiang is also very edible. A little girl is not big and has no appetite than a young man.

God knows how she maintains her figure.

"What soup did you make?" Lu Xiyan walked over, unbuttoned the lid of the clay pot, and a light fragrance of lotus leaves instantly penetrated into his nose.

"Honghe pot old duck soup."

"ah……"

"I just learned that I heard that pregnant women had eaten it well, so I cooked it for Mengyao." Meng Fanxing said seriously, "I got up early in the morning and cooked it for almost four hours."

"In four hours, the meat was stewed, right?"

"It's good if it's rotten, it's easy to absorb it if it's rotten. Now Mengyao needs nutrition. Women who are pregnant are all thinner and feel sad when they look at it. Xiaohao is a big man again, so it's good that he doesn't need anyone to take care of him." Meng Fanxing said.

"Then I should let this kid study hard. I will ask your sister to do something about his wife. If you get pregnant tomorrow, who will get these for you?" Lu Xiyan said.

"Well, can I be the same as Mengyao?" Meng Fanxing angrily, "Go, go cook, we still have to have a meal in a while."

What can Lu Xiyan say? You can't let the whole family be hungry and have no food to eat. This is the first day of the Lunar New Year.

After lunch, Meng Fanxing took Axiang out shopping. During the Chinese New Year, Tianhou Palace and Temple Street were very lively, with circus performing there and comics.

Lu Xiyan didn't plan to join in the fun, staying at home alone to do his papers and his ideas about the underground transportation line.

Meng Hao and Xi Mengyao cannot go to a lively place. Fortunately, Mengyao only had morning sickness, which did not affect other actions. The two also made an appointment to go out to watch a movie.

Only Uncle Gui and Lu Xiyan were left at home, and even Lao Mengtou went to join in the fun with his daughter.

Uncle Gui said that he had seen all these things and was not interested in them anymore. It would be better to stay at home and take a break and raise your spirits. What if Lu Xiyan had a need, at least someone could respond.

Lu Xiyan was writing hard upstairs, but was suddenly interrupted by a knock on the door.

"Sir, call downstairs. Because the gentleman named Tan said he was looking for you." Uncle Gui pushed the door and reported it respectfully.

"Secretly Tan?" Lu Xiyan looked up in surprise. Could it be Tan Si? He dropped the pen, put the manuscript in the drawer, and put it away, "Uncle Gui, remember, no one is allowed to enter the study without my permission."

"I understand." Uncle Gui nodded. Although he didn't know why, he understood that Lu Xiyan was completing a very important article and could not be seen by others.

"Hey, it's me, you said." He picked up the phone and heard the sound, he knew it was Tan Si.

"Sir, I'm on Yulongmi, West Road, Tiankeng." After Tan Si said that, he hung up the phone directly. Some words could not be said on the phone. Who knows if anyone steals it? Listen, although the chance is very low, it's better to be careful.

"Uncle Gui, I'll go out for a walk and get some breath. I'll come back soon and I'll leave you with dinner." Lu Xiyan knew that Tan Si asked him to meet at this Yulong Mi Station, and there must be something important to say.

"Sir, be careful and come back soon."

"knew."

Put on a leather jacket, a scarf, and sunglasses, Lu Xiyan quietly left home and did not go directly to Tiankeng West Road, but circled around the opposite direction, and did not find anyone following him, so he went to his destination.

Half an hour later, Lu Xiyan found the location of Yulong Mixing.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, ordinary shops are not open for business. This is a custom of the Chinese people. Of course, in a city like Hong Kong that combines Chinese and Western styles, this inherent custom is slowly being broken.

Foreigners do not have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival, so with the wisdom and hard work of the Chinese, there are still people who are willing to break the convention with their business.

Of course, even if the store like Mixing opens at this time, it will have no business. During the Chinese New Year, who wouldn’t buy more rice and flour to go home?

The door was closed, but Lu Xiyan knew that there must be someone inside. Tan Si said that he would wait for him at Yulong Mixing, so he would definitely be there.

After confirming it around, no one followed him. Lu Xiyan walked forward and reached out and gently knocked on the door panel. After knocking it over and over again, a noise came from inside.

The person who opened the door was a young man wearing a melon-shaped hat. Lu Xiyan looked familiar. It turned out to be one of the subordinates Tan Si brought this time.

"You are here, the fourth brother is waiting for you inside." The guy has seen Lu Xiyan, of course he doesn't know Lu Xiyan's true identity.

"Um."

The door just opened a gap, and Lu Xiyan stepped in as soon as he raised his foot. The young man poked his head out and looked at it twice before closing the door panel and following him.

Walk through the main hall of the shop and come to a small room for guests behind.

When Tan Si saw Lu Xiyan, he hurriedly stood up and clasped his fists: "Sir, come, Xiao Wu, go make tea."

"No need, Fourth Brother, I'm not thirsty." Lu Xiyan raised his hand and stopped him.

"That's fine. Go out and watch. There is no order, so you are not allowed to come in." Tan Si nodded, waved his hand to the young man and ordered.

The guy nodded, took him to the door and went out.

"Sir, look at this." Sitting down, Tan Si took out a telegram from his pocket and handed it to Lu Xiyan, "This is received this morning. I think it is of great importance and you must know immediately."

Lu Xiyan browsed the message and his face changed slightly.

The content of the telegram is about the foreign minister of the pseudo-Nanjing Reform Government, Chen Zhuan, was killed by a killer who broke into the mansion on a rainy day on New Year's Eve.

The action was clean and neat. After killing someone, it disappeared without any trace. It was said that after the matter was done, it was covered with merit and fame.

After the last lesson, the people below dared not act arbitrarily. In addition, Lu Xiyan had already had strict orders. During his time when he was not in Shanghai, the Iron Blood Anti-Traitor Group entered the "hibernation and rest" time.

I think no one dares to violate his orders.

This is definitely not what their family members do, and they have never made plans for this.

This is a carefully planned assassination operation, with accurate intelligence and a hit with one blow, which is not something that a small anti-Japanese organization can do.

Only the Military Control Commission.

The Military Control Commission is the most powerful and most active anti-Japanese agent organization in the Shanghai Concession. It not only has a large number of people, but also has strong financial resources and professional agents.

However, the Military Control Commission did not have a unified organizational leadership in Shanghai, and the Military Control Commission’s Shanghai District Zhao Lijun and Wang Tianheng were still fighting very well.

Dai Yunong was afraid that the Shanghai Military Control Commission would be centralized and unified. If something happened, it would be a slaughter. Therefore, he wanted to take the minority of the two items and split the military's military control's power in Shanghai into several strands, so that they compete with each other but not affiliated with each other, and could prevent the big one from falling out.

The advantage is that even if one of the streams is taken, the others can still be preserved. If necessary, they can be remotely controlled to cooperate and act together.

In fact, this approach is not wrong, but the struggle for power and profit within the Military Control Commission is too fierce, and more people forget what their real purpose is for their own self-interest.

In order to attack your competitors, you will betray the enemy and use your knives to kill people. This is really not a compliment.

I have to say that the Military Control Commission did a beautiful job this time, and the person who organized and planned behind it was definitely a rare talent.

Could it be Lu Jinshi?

Lu Xiyan couldn't help but think of his own family, and Guo Hanjie only learned that Chen Zhuan was assassinated and killed. As for the identity of the murderer, it was afraid that it would be difficult to find out for a while.

The Police Department of the Ministry of Industry and Technology is not a good meal. The case happened in the British Concession, and the people with identities died. The Japanese will definitely take advantage of the issue and put pressure on the Ministry of Industry and Technology.

This time the excuse is more complete.

"Also, the four people under Sun Yanan who asked Hanjie to check, have not had any useful news for more than half a month." Tan Si said, "The life trajectory of these four people before this was almost blank. No one has seen them, and they don't know where they came from."

"Has someone deliberately erased their traces?"

"It's hard to say that there are so many refugees in Shanghai. I don't know how many people will die every day. If no one knows, I will be even less aware of the ordinary people."

"This is the opposite. Don't compare the photos. Search by name. Sun Yanan cannot live in a vacuum. There will always be people who know him and those around him." Lu Xiyan said.

"clear."

"Tell Hanjie not to be rushing to achieve success and be patient. As long as there are problems, we will find it sooner or later." Lu Xiyan said.

"Okay, sir." Tan Si nodded.

"What's the matter with Ding Mocun and Lin Shiqun?"

"They are very active recently. Their activities in Shanghai have become semi-public, attracting people everywhere, and the popularity is quite high. The Japanese have already publicly supported these two people to conduct spy activities in the concession." Tan Sidao.

"Well, now is the starting stage for them to expand their strength, and it is also the best time for us to penetrate into them. We don't want to enter their core all at once, but someone must go in." Lu Xiyan said.

"Understood."

"The key to military strength is to be elite, not to be numerous. Our people can use other identities to cover up and then go in, so as to reduce the risk of exposure. Also, tell Hanjie not to rush to take action and wait for the long term." Lu Xiyan reminded.

"Do you really think that Ding and Lin are strong enemies?"

"I don't know. Anyway, it shouldn't be a bad thing to prepare more and take more steps. The situation of the struggle is becoming more and more complicated. Therefore, we have to prepare for the future. If you have a free move now, it may be of great use in the future." Lu Xiyan said.

"Sir, foresight, Tan Si admires it."

"Guard Hanjie that people in the past must be reliable, and if their wealth and resume are innocent, there must be no mistakes. Otherwise, it would be better not to be sent than to leave any hidden dangers." Lu Xiyan said seriously.
Chapter completed!