"Before the outbreak of the War of Resistance against Japan, there was a couple who ran a cloth shop in an alley near Jinglong Temple in Shanghai. They had two children, a boy and a girl. The girl was the older sister and the boy was the younger brother."
"Besides selling cloth, the cloth shop also does tailoring business. The couple is very good at business, and the family lives a comfortable and harmonious life."
"During the War of Resistance Against Japan, the couple also contributed to the front lines by providing a large amount of cloth and money, but their lives were not affected."
"After the Japanese were driven out, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party started fighting again. One day, a friend of the cloth shop owner surnamed Cheng suddenly took the couple and their two children out of Shanghai and told them that Shanghai was not safe and that it would be safer to arrange for them to go to the owner's hometown of Duliang."
"So, Uncle Cheng brought the two siblings to Duliang City and arranged for them to go to school. The two children lived a carefree life, and an aunt helped them cook, do laundry, and take care of them."
"On the eve of liberation, the aunt who took care of them suddenly disappeared, leaving the siblings without a livelihood. The money left by the aunt was quickly used up, and the siblings suffered from hunger all day long. Sometimes they could not eat a meal in a day. The sister was so hungry that her face turned pale, and the brother was so heartbroken that he kept shedding tears---."
"Right around the time the boy graduated from junior high school, a teacher surnamed Liu from the school found him, gave him a few silver dollars, and asked him to join a special agent organization, saying that he would receive silver dollars every month from now on. He also put him through more than six months of military training."
"In order to prevent his sister from going hungry and to survive, the boy agreed to join the Kuomintang secret service and became a secret agent."
"Not long after, Duliang was liberated, and the boy's superiors ordered him to remain in Duliang and wait for the organization to awaken him."
"One day, the two Uncle Chengs who had brought the siblings from Shanghai to Duliang reappeared, and then arranged a new place for the siblings to live and gave them living expenses."
"Later, someone took the boy to a medical device factory in the mountains and took his sister away, saying that they were arranging for her to continue her studies in another city. While working at the factory, the boy went to Shanghai with his mentor and met a beautiful girl by chance. At that time, the girl was still in school."
"Back in the factory in the mountains, the boy and the girl from Shanghai often exchanged letters. Through these letters, they developed a romance. After graduating, the girl came to the medical equipment factory in the mountains and became a doctor. They fell in love, got married, had children, and built a happy little family."
"When the Third Front construction began, the original medical equipment factory in the mountains was expanded into a military factory under the command of the army."
"Over the years, through continuous efforts, my husband became the workshop director. In his heart, he had long forgotten that he had once joined the Kuomintang secret service. Until one stormy day with thunder and lightning, this father's life was completely changed. During the Kuomintang period, his superior named Liu Han suddenly appeared and woke him up---".
"As a secret agent, this father felt very aggrieved. Over the years, he had not done a single bad thing, had long lost contact with the Military Intelligence Bureau, and had not received a single penny of funding from them."
"But this workshop director knew that once his secret identity was exposed, his happy family would be completely destroyed, his two children who were already working might be fired from the factory, his wife, who was a doctor in the clinic, might also be fired, and even his daughters who were in school would be affected."
"This agent father was unwilling to let his family be destroyed like this, so he decided to kill his superior, Liu Han."
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Qiu Jingwen stopped there.
He took out a cigarette and handed one to his son, Qiuyang.
Qiu Yang, his hands trembling, grunted and took the cigarette from his father's hand.
But neither of them lit the cigarette.
Time and space seemed to have completely stopped turning.
The croaking of birds in the rice paddies sounds even more joyful and rhythmic under the moonlight.
Qiu Yang was no fool; he naturally understood everything.
Her father was the boy from back then, a Kuomintang agent who had been lurking in the factory for many years, and her mother was the girl who was studying in Shanghai back then.
night,
It has become deeper.
It also became cooler.
Qiu Yang involuntarily shivered.
He didn't know how much time had passed when he looked at his father through teary eyes.
"Dad, so you killed that barber with the scar on his face, and that barber was your superior when you joined the Military Intelligence Bureau, a genuine enemy agent?!"
Yes, Qiu Yang used a genuine enemy agent.
In his consciousness and brief thoughts, his father was just a recent graduate at that time, still a teenager, and had been tricked into joining the Kuomintang organization by the Liu family with money. Moreover, his father had never done anything wrong, nor had he taken a single penny from the organization, so he could not be considered a real enemy agent at all.
Qiu Jingwen lit a Pegasus cigarette and nodded to his son.
He admitted that it was Qiu Jingwen who killed Liu Han, which was part of his plan.
Qiu Yang suddenly felt something was wrong and looked at his father, saying:
"Dad, you just mentioned a man named Liu Hanhan. Didn't the notice posted in the factory say that the old man with the scar on his face is named Liu Xianghai?"
"Qiuyang, Liu Xianghai is just the name he later added to his household registration; his original name was Liu Han."
“Dad, you shouldn’t have killed him. You didn’t do anything wrong. Even if he exposed you, so what? You were only fifteen years old then, still a teenager. The police could have been lenient with you. But now you’ve killed him---.”
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