Chapter 48 Can't Abandon My Brothers

  Dong Li Mao walked to the door and leaned against the door frame, looking out through the gap.

  It was Xu Hongming's Rolls-Royce, and he hastily got out of the car and ran into the bamboo building.

  "Dong Lianchang, something's gone terribly wrong!" Xu Hongming exclaimed as soon as he entered the door, seeing Dong Limao speaking anxiously.

  "What's wrong? Mr. Xu, speak slowly, what happened?"

  "It's like this..." Xu Hongming roughly explained the whole story.

  Originally, after Xu Hongming returned home, a servant in his household told him that someone had come to their house early in the morning and left a small note with the words "Beiguan Guanglu Temple". As soon as Xu Hongming saw the note, he understood its meaning and drove to the Guanglu Temple in the northern suburbs of Yangon, about 20 kilometers from the city center. Due to the rain and slippery roads, Xu Hongming drove for over an hour before arriving at the foot of the mountain where the temple was located. He heard intense gunfire coming from the temple and felt something was wrong, so he hid his car in a forest and walked up the mountain on foot. When he arrived, he saw six assault team members being tied up and taken away by police cars, with several Japanese military trucks parked around them... After the cars left, Xu Hongming entered the temple, where many people were lying dead all over the place...

  "Is it a note from someone in the resistance?" asked Dong Li Mao.

  Xu Hongming nodded and replied, "Yes, I saw the note and knew that the assault team members were hidden by our people in Guanglu Temple. Originally, I was going to bring them here and send you all away together at night, but unexpectedly..."

  "Are you sure there are six?" asked Dong Li Mao.

  "That's right, six of them. One seemed to be injured and was carried into the police car by two uniformed officers." Xu Hongming replied with a nod.

  "So that means the other four brothers are already..." Dong Li Mao didn't finish his sentence, furrowing his brow, feeling very uncomfortable in his heart.

  "Go on..." Just as Hao was about to speak, Dong Li Mao waved his hand to interrupt him and asked Xu Hongming:

  "Mr. Xu, can you take us into town now?"

  "Into the city?" Xu Hongming asked somewhat puzzled: "At this time, you still want to go into the city?"

  "I cannot abandon my brothers!"

  "Go save them!" Xu Hongming was shocked: "How is this possible! Just the few of us! The whole city is now in a state of high alert, let alone rescuing people, it's hard to even get you into the city! I came here to take you away ahead of time, I'm worried that there's a problem within the organization, if that's really the case, my identity may have already been exposed. Before the Japanese military police catch me, I must get you out, otherwise..."

  "No, we can't just leave like this!" Dong Limao didn't let Xu Hongming continue: "I know it's hard for you to take us into the city, but there will always be a way, right?" Dong Limao asked Xu Hongming in a slower tone.

  Xu Hongming plopped down on a bamboo chair, holding his head in both hands, seemingly unable to think of any good solution.

  "I have a way." Li Yuanyuan's voice came from upstairs.

  Three men almost simultaneously cast their eyes towards the stairs.

  Li Yuanyuan had walked down slowly, wearing that emerald green dress.

  "Sister, did you hear all of that?" asked Dong Li Mao.

  "It was Mr. Xu's car that woke me up, I heard everything you said." Li Yuanyuan walked down the stairs and stood in front of Xu Hongming, saying: "Trouble Mr. Xu to go into the city again."

  "Go into the city! At this time, I..." Xu Hongming was somewhat embarrassed.

  "If the Japanese army knew Mr. Xu's identity, they would have taken action against you long ago, could you still be here?" Li Yuanyuan said: "So I think it's not someone inside your organization who has a problem."

  Xu Hongming fell silent for a moment, feeling that Li Yuanyuan's analysis also made sense, and asked: "Speak, what can I do?"

  "Find someone."

  "Looking for someone? Who?" Xu Hongming asked.

  Li Yuanyuan glanced at Dong Limao, her eyes seeming to ask: Do you agree? Can he be trusted?

  Dong Li Mao could understand Li Yuanyuan's eyes and roughly knew what kind of person she wanted Xu Hongming to find, mostly sleeper agents from the intelligence agency. Dong Li Mao hesitated for a moment before nodding his head, thinking that this risk was worth taking.

  Li Yuyuan got the answer from Dong Li Mao, and then told Xu Hongming: "You go to the foreign exchange department of South Asia Bank, find a person named Xiao Sheng, after seeing him, you say 'I want to exchange some foreign currency', he will ask you 'what foreign currency', you reply 'Japanese yen', then he will ask 'how much face value?', you reply 'the largest one'. He will understand what you are doing, and you can safely tell him the situation we encountered, he knows how to do it."

  "Does he really have a way?" Xu Hongming asked half-believingly.

  "Do as I say, and the sooner the better." Li Yuanyuan said with seeming confidence.

  "What if we can't find someone named Xiao Sheng?" Xu Hongming asked again.

  "You will find him." Li Yuanyuan still said with certainty.

  Xu Hongming stood up: "Alright, I'm leaving. Hopefully this trip wasn't in vain. If night falls and I haven't returned, you all think of a way to escape from here." After saying that, he looked at Li Yuanyuan and said: "Miss Li, can I have a word with you alone?"

  "If it's about saving someone, you can say it here." Li Yuanyuan glanced at Dong Limao and replied.

  "No, it has nothing to do with saving people, it's a private matter," said Xu Hongming.

  Dong Li Mao then said to Gou Hao, "Follow me outside and take a look." After finishing speaking, he turned around and walked towards the door. Gou Hao glanced at Xu Hongming and followed behind Dong Li Mao.

  "Go on, what's up?" Li Yuanyuan asked after seeing Dong Limao and Gou Hao out the door.

  Xu Hongming took out a delicate brocade box from his bosom and handed it to Li Yuanyuan: "This is the gift I gave you."

  "What is it?" Li Yuanyuan didn't reach out to take it, but instead asked: "Why are you giving me a gift?"

  "You open it and take a look first." Xu Hongming said, stretching out his hand a bit.

  Li Yuyuan hesitated and took it over, slowly opening it, and was shocked to open her mouth: "This... this..."

  "Isn't it exactly the same as the watch you lost?" Xu Hongming asked.

  Li Yuyuan took out the watch from the brocade box, turned it over and examined it repeatedly, nodding her head and saying: "It's still a watch produced in the same era and batch!"

  "Miss Li has seen it, there are codes on top." Xu Hongming said with a smile.

  "Where did you buy this?" Li Yuanyuan asked as she put the watch back in its box.

  Xu Hongming smiled and replied, "It wasn't bought. You forgot that I told you my father opened a pawnshop, didn't you? This was before the Japanese army occupied Yangon, when a British woman pawned it at our shop."

  "How did you know that the watch I lost is exactly the same as this one?" Li Yuanyuan asked in confusion.

  "Miss Li, do you still remember looking at your watch by the bonfire after landing? I was surprised to see Miss Li wearing a watch at that time and thought it was such a coincidence. So when I knew Miss Li's watch was lost, I thought of this one received by our pawnshop..."

  Li Yuyuan interrupted Xu Hongming's words, handed the box back to him and said: "I can't accept such an expensive gift. What if that British woman comes back to redeem it in the future and the pawnshop can't produce the watch..."

  Xu Hongming hastily replied: "This watch is a dead weight, no one will come to redeem it."

  "Mr Xu, thank you for your kindness, but I really can't accept this." Li Yuanyuan handed the box back to Xu Hongming once again.

  "Miss Li, listen to me." Xu Hongming's face turned bright red, as if Li Yuanyuan not accepting the watch would be a humiliation to him: "Actually, I overheard your conversation with Dong Lianchang in the car and knew how important this watch is to you... You keep this watch, just like the one your mother left you, every day looking at it will be like having your mother by your side... I don't have any other intentions... Please, Miss Li, accept it."

  Li Yuanyuan was moved, her eyes slightly blurred.

  "Alright then, I'll keep it. Thank you very much, Mr. Xu." Li Yuanyuan agreed to accept the watch not because of Xu Hongming, but because she really missed her own mother.

  Xu Hongming smiled: "Put it on, quickly put it on and take a look."

  Li Yuyuan wiped away the unshed tears from the corners of her eyes with her sleeve and put on her watch.

  "Hehe... This watch looks perfect on Miss Li's hand, it's really beautiful... Hehe... I'm leaving, wait for my good news!" Xu Hongming sent the watch out and felt extremely excited, laughing non-stop.

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