Chapter 1 Mystery (Five Seconds)

"What's wrong? Why don't I think about you anymore? Sister He is not a bad person." Ni Feijun kindly tidied up the dishes her husband liked, but was scolded by the other party so much. Ni Feijun couldn't help but feel wronged. She put down the chopsticks that were picking up food for her husband and asked with red eyes.

Seeing that his wife was about to cry, He Yaozu's heart immediately began to soften, but when he thought of Chiang Kai-shek's reminder during the day, he forced himself to harden his heart, frowned, and whispered: "Of course she is not a bad person, but the things she has done recently are very disagreeable with her identity. She publicly sang against the government in the newspaper, publicly accusing Chairman Chiang of ruining the country, and publicly saying that the Kuomintang is not suitable for leading the country. It's fine. After all, she is the wife of former Premier Liao, and there is no such thing. In terms of qualifications and status, no one is willing to be serious about her when saying a few words too much, but this is the case for raising funds for the Eighth Route Army. The Military Commission is no longer there, and she needs a woman without a husband to interfere. Also, she organized a salon at home and who are going to go there, Chen Junru, Shi Liang, Sha Qianli, and recently there is also Zhou Enlai's wife Deng Yingchao. If you are involved with these people all day long, what good results can you get?"

"You, send someone to monitor me." After more than five years of marriage, the couple rarely blushed. They understand that He Yaozu was tired from work. Ni Feijun began to hold back and not talk back. Later, she was so angry that she started to tremble. She wanted to talk back, but she could no longer speak neatly. "You, you actually sent a spy to keep an eye on me. Just simply, just arrest me. Otherwise, it was your phone call and you didn't have to do anything."

"I'm staring at your skull, a joke." He Yaozu was on the head of the fire, not considering the other party's feelings at all. "I still have to stare at your skull. Chongqing is only the size of a palm. What's wrong with you? Besides, I, the director of the Military Affairs Bureau, was originally a listing, and you don't know that no one touched you until now. They were giving me Lao He's face. One day, I Lao He can't bear to cover my face. What should you do? Let's see where our children will look for their mother."

"Who cares about your face?" Ni Feijun was so angry that she didn't feel angry. She reached out to wipe the tears on her face and gritted her teeth and sneered, "If you want to arrest me, come and arrest me. See what crimes your subordinates of the Military Control Commission are going to make me accusation. Publish anti-Japanese articles in the newspaper, raise medical expenses for the wounded soldiers, or raise funds for the Eighth Route Army. By the way, the Eighth Route Army is still a number under the National Revolutionary Army. I will use the money raised to help them buy Western medicine. Is it considered an enemy? Also, I also helped find the house where Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao live. Now it is called the Eighth Route Army Office. You have also worked hard inside. Should you arrest you? Let's have a couple together?"

"You--" He Yaozu was also very angry by his wife's "stubbornness". He stood up and raised his slap high. However, when he saw his wife's stubborn eyes, he felt very guilty again. He sighed and put down his arm that had been raised above his head. "One moment, another moment, you can tell whether the situation is good. When Zhou Enlai and his wife arrived in Chongqing, cooperation in the War of Resistance was the theme. No matter how much we help, others would not say anything, but now..."

"What's wrong now? Now that the prevention of the Communist Party and the anti-() has become the theme, so Director He has to draw a clear line with the Communist Party, right?" Ni Feijun continued to sneer and asked back.

"You know I'm not that kind of person." He Yaozu was furious when asked and gritted his teeth.

"You were not when you married you." Ni Feijun shook her head and looked at her husband with disappointment and desolation, "But now, now I can't see you clearly. Lao He, I really can't see you clearly, wuwu..."

"I, am I right under your nose?" He Yaozu felt weak in his heart by his wife's eyes, and his aura when he spoke fell sharply. "You can't see clearly every day."

Ni Feijun raised her tears and shook her head gently. Indeed, her husband was standing in front of her, as tall and handsome as when she first saw him, and she was full of masculinity. However, there was a layer of vagueness on her husband's face, which made her want to uncover the veil, but she was afraid that after it was uncovered, she would never be able to accept the truth under the veil.

Seeing his wife's heartbroken expression, He Yaozu's hard heart quickly collapsed, and he whispered: "Oh, how can I tell you to understand? The enemy is in front of the great enemy, and the Kuomintang must cooperate, but at the same time, there must be no boundaries. After all, the Kuomintang killed the Communist Party and killed people. If there was no defense at all, if the Communist Party gained power one day, who knows whether it would avenge the revenge of the past?

"That's what your Kuomintang judges a gentleman with the heart of a villain." Hearing the easing meaning in her husband's words, Ni Feijun sniffed and whispered to fight back.

"Don't always talk about our Kuomintang, our Kuomintang, you are my wife. No matter how much you do for the Communist Party, you are the wife of a senior Kuomintang official!" He Yaozu's voice rose rapidly, and then he forced himself to suppress his anger.

Compared with his colleagues he usually comes into contact with, his wife Ni Feijun is as simple as a piece of white paper, which makes him feel very tired when he speaks. But at the beginning, it was his wife's simplicity and kindness that attracted him, making him forget the huge age gap between the two, and love her so hard that he never hesitated.

"I am your wife, but not the wife of the Kuomintang." Ni Feijun smiled, his face bleak, "It will never be like this in this life. To be honest, Lao He, I have seen your Kuomintang clearly from top to bottom in the past few years. The more I see, the more I look down on your party, and I really look down on you from the bottom."

"What's wrong with our party? If our party had not been able to continue, it would have been the Qing Dynasty now." He Yaozu's self-esteem was deeply hurt, his voice was getting higher and higher, and the glass windows were buzzing.

"Even the Qing Dynasty did not throw two-thirds of its territory to the Japanese, nor did it have foreign enemies. The Hunan Army and the Huai Army were still fighting and struggling, and there was no..."

"Table." He Yaozu threw the wine glass on the floor and fell to pieces.

There was also a "ping-tablet" sound from the kitchen downstairs, followed by the crying of the two children and the gentle comfort of the maid. The couple who were quarreling quickly realized the influence, took a long breath, and then forced themselves to sit back to their respective positions.

"I don't want to argue with you." Ni Feijun wiped her tears with her handkerchief and paused word by word, "Since you have put this in mind, I'll just give you a solid lesson. After the deal, whether you are willing to find someone to arrest me or want to divorce me, I won't blame you."

"You, you, how could you say that? As for it, we two took a lot of effort to get together." He Yaozu immediately lost confidence in his heart and responded with a bit of negotiation.

He loved the woman in front of him, her simplicity, her kindness, her body and soul, and everything she had done for him. This woman and this home, who was twenty-three years younger than him, was the harbor of his soul, and the only place he could put down his mask and expose his true face. Only here, he no longer had to calculate and disguise, and could laugh and sing loudly. Without this home and this woman, he did not know how much meaning there was left in his life, nor did he know where to find a shelter that would not be needed to defend everywhere when he was exhausted and wanted to take a rest.

Ni Feijun obviously loved him deeply, so she didn't want him to be influenced by him. After all, he was the general general of the Military Commission. Every move, he had countless pairs of eyes staring at him. "I took the lead in raising funds for the Eighth Route Army. Because I didn't want to be affected by others, I borrowed Sister He's name and pushed her in front to shelter me from the wind and rain. Therefore, the person you need to persuade is Sister He, not me. If supporting the Eighth Route Army is a crime, I am the main culprit. Sister He is just a threat!"

"You, what are you doing this?" He Yaozu was shocked and asked back to his mouth. He knew that his wife had dated Zhou Enlai and his wife, but he never expected that his wife had been dating so deeply with Communists.

"Don't worry about me, listen to me to finish my words first!" Perhaps because I felt desolate in my heart, Ni Feijun said while wiping tears, but there was no regret in her eyes. "I actually wanted to join the Communist Party for a long time. It was because I was worried about you and this family that I had not applied to Sister Deng for a long time. But I will not delay this matter for too long. Joining before the Kuomintang and the Communist Party has broken up, it will be less impactful to you than joining again when you came to the party again."

"The Communist Party is so good." He Yaozu's heart completely sank into the ice hole. He glanced at his wife, struggled and asked in a low voice.

"I can't tell how good the Communist Party is, but I believe that most of them really love this country, unlike your Kuomintang officials, who shouted slogans and were all concerned about catching them privately; the soldiers in front were short of food and bullets, while the officials in the rear were delicacies every day; they dared to hang up and stand aside when they saw the Japanese fleeing, but they asked for money and people to give them; the soldiers who were in the army could not even wear pairs of decent shoes, but the officials used military pay to lend money to usury; the machine guns and cannons would rather be stored in the warehouse for the Japanese to seize than support some friendly troops, even if they were standing at their doorstep..."

These are all things that are happening. There are many examples in the documents within the Military Commission. He Yaozu had no way to refute them, nor had the shame to refute them. He gasped and struggled for a while before gritting his teeth and said, "That's what a few people do after all. Most of our Kuomintang cadres are still good, and they are still working wholeheartedly for this country."

"Old He, you know more than me what a minority means." Ni Feijun smiled and shook his head gently, "One percent to ninety-nine percent can be called a minority, forty-nine percent to fifty-one percent, or a minority, but this minority has no meaning."

"This is what Zhou Enlai told you, I knew that if he asked her wife to follow you all day, there would be no good things." He Yaozu finally became furious and began to speak without saying anything.

"It's not about Brother Zhou and Sister Deng." Ni Feijun smiled and continued to shake his head, "Old He, you know better than me whether Zhou Enlai and his wife are like this. What I just said is all my own eyes and summarized by myself. It is inevitable that they will be superficial. Zhou Enlai and his wife have a much more objective and profound evaluation of you."

"How do they evaluate it?" He Yaozu's curiosity still gained the upper hand while gasping for a while.

"Brother Zhou said..." Ni Feijun smiled bitterly, and his words quickly turned into a magnetic bass. "The Kuomintang organization is not a political party in the modern sense at all. There are too many hills in it, and the habits of the world are too heavy. It was okay before they had not gained a foothold. In order to struggle to survive, everyone had to temporarily hold a group to keep warm. Once they had their own foothold and had their own acre of three-point land, they had to calculate who was brought up the mountain by Brother Chao, who was the confidant brother of Song Er Ge, and who was Yu Qilin Lu Junyi at the beginning. They began to think about how to divide gold, how to grab women, and how to arrange seats; they didn't want to fight the flags for the way for heaven, and they didn't want to eliminate the fig leaf of violence and the reason for the incident. As for the loyalty between the brothers and the reason for the incident, they were far behind the head, so it took a few years to make up themselves. If they don't believe it, we will wait and see."

This is said to be harsh, but it is just right. Even before Sun Yat-sen passed away, the factional infighting within the Kuomintang was very serious, and even if there was a disagreement, he would set up a cannon to attack him, or send dead soldiers to shoot cold guns behind others' backs. Song Jiaoren's assassination case was already very strange, and Liao Zhongkai's death was even more unclear.

However, He Yaozu was a veteran of the Tongmenghui era after all. Even though he knew that there were many chronic diseases within the Kuomintang, he could not tolerate an outsider who criticized him in front of him. He slapped the table hard and fought back with a sneer: "Everything is done by the Communist Party of China, and the internal differences are different. Otherwise, why would Mao Zedong stand aside back then? Even our old nest was taken over and we fled to northern Shaanxi in one breath."

"At least the Communist Party is still young and can continue to correct its mistakes, but you, the Kuomintang, are already terminally ill." Ni Feijun ended the dispute between the couple tonight with a short sentence, "I'll go downstairs to see the children. You can have your own meals and notify me at any time after you make your decision."
Chapter completed!