Chapter I Discussion at?apartment?and?noise?in?the?university

The victory memorial of the Anti-Japanese War, was hidden in the gray sea of fog. At the junction of the Yangtze River and Jialing River, the city was enveloped in dense clouds. This gloomy morning brought people into the new year in the time of turmoil.

In this downtown, although the sky was so dark, the streets still filled with pedestrians on New Year's Day as usual.

"Sell the newspaper, sell the newspaper! City daily news! Daily?of Peace..."

The barefoot newboy yelled in the fog: "Read, how China successes in 1948?... Read the military exercises of Atomic Bomb in the US, the Third World War is about to break out..."

In the voice of the newsboy, suddenly heard such a sentence: "Read the command! During the New Year, firecrackers are forbidden, no flames are allowed. Fire alarm! ”

In the sea of people constantly flowing, a young man who hastily walked, suddenly heard "Fire alarm!" shouts. When he turned his head and searched, the newsboy was gone, the shouts are getting weaker and weaker.

This young man who hastily walked was Yu XInjiang. Today, he did not wear a worker's uniform, and wore a?clean blue tunic. With a pair of eyes watching straight into the dark under his eyebrows, the man looks calm. He is only in his twenties, but his expression is more extraordinarily solemn than the same age. After listening to the shouting of the newsboy, his brows shrank slightly and he walked faster. His two long arms, swaying back and forth in a hurry, the?sleeves rubbed against the placket, rhythmically snoring.

Through the chaotic streets, he repeatedly let by the bus with the black smoky tail.?

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A few long car horns alarmed the pedestrians on the street and shocked a group of children.

At this time, from the radio on the top of memorial, a woman’s vibrato is singing: “The flowers do not always bloom, and the good scenery is not often...”

Yu XInjiang inadvertently turned back and saw a white police car. The police car was passing quickly through the street, followed by several similarly streamlined cars. Star-stripe flag was inserted in the car, with some conspicuous words: "US NEWS?SERVICE." These cars would be led by police vehicles, headed for the Victory Building. If they attended the New Year reception held by the municipal authorities for the "ALLIANCE". Yu XInjiang looked coldly at a car drove past. As if he saw Americans, who often went to the munition factory, from the window in those?cars.

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He snorted at the place where the car had run through. And then he walked through the downtown area and continued to move forward.

He calmly walked through a few streets, convinced that there was not "TAILS" behind him. He went straight to the No. 5 dormitory of the Dachuan Bank. It is a housing area close to the city center. The roadside is full of trees. It is very quiet and there are few pedestrians on the streets. He reached out and pressed the bell, and after a while, the black painted door slowly opened. A middle-aged man wearing a navy blue suit appeared in the doorway with a coat. He saw Yu XInjiang and nodded slightly, letting in. Before closing the door, He used to look at the movements on the street. It can be seen that this was a person who was used to living in a complex environment.

The small living room, after having carefully arranged, looked neat. The small round table was covered with tablecloths. A bottle of blooming plums was added, sprinkled with its fragrance. Some colored Chinese New Year cards and a few discs of candy were there to show the New Year atmosphere. The works of art hanging on the wall, in addition to the original several, added a paint of Xu Beihong's horse. The fire in the oven drove away the cold, and the whole room was warm. This place didn't like the dorms of the workers and make Yu XInjiang feel comfortable and free. But he did not have too much hard feelings. The struggle is complicated, and underground workers under terror must defend the organization and themselves. If there is a need for work, the owner of the apartment, Fu Zhigao, can certainly use this lifestyle as a cover. Yu XInjiang walked towards a half?new sofa near the window and spoke.?

"Xu asked me to meet you."

"Yeah, I saw the fire in the factory on the other side last night, I was thinking..." Fu Zhigao hung up the coat, talked while diligently making tea. "Would you like Longjing or scented tea?"

"It's all the same." Yu XInjiang was answering unintentionally. "I used to drink cold water."

"No! While comrades come here once, they have to practice communism, and share together!" Fu Zhigao smiled, handed the bowl of tea to the table, and stared at his deep eyelids and gently clapped his shoulder. "Yu, didn't you sleep last night? Why was there fire?"

Fu Zhigao was a member of the underground party Shaci District Committee and is responsible for economic work. He cared and eagerly asked about the situation of the factory, Yu XInjiang was in his heart uncomfortable. Yu seemed to see the fiery hot fire again, burning in front of him. The dorms were engulfed in flames. Flaming flames turned the half of sky to red. He did not answer for a moment, excitedly picked up the bowl of tea, swallowed like he was very thirsty.

"Don't hurry!" Fu Zhigao explains: "The difficulties in the life of the workers can always be solved. How much does it cost?"

He stopped and asked: "Are you reading the newspaper? It is said that the workers had inadvertently caught the fire!" Fu Zhigao simply picked up a "Daily News", pointed to a small headline, and threw the newspaper away. "I see that is not true! What do you say? Yu."

Yu XInjiang shook his thick black eyebrows, and could not help but stand up, and said loudly to Fu Zhigao. "How was the fire? It was caught by the spy! I saw it with my own eyes."

He remembers that when he rushed to the fire, he met crowds of people running from the fire. The secretary of the branch in the gun factory, XIao, and?a lot of comrades were there. The two arsonists were tied up and escorted.?The workers recognized the two, and they were spies of the General Inspection Office.

Yu XInjiang was staring at the wall opposite, as he stared the spies. After a while, he turned back and told Fu Zhigao:?"The two spies, after being caught on the spot, confessed that they set fire as the second order of the Southwest Governor's Office told!"

"The?second order?" Fu Zhigao stunned, "That is the special service of the military organization!"

Yu XInjiang, whose anger was appeared, did not pay attention to the interjection of Fu Zhigao. He took a pair of steps forward, and his tone was filled with the power.

"A monk ran, the temple can't run. The loss of the workers must be fully compensated by the enemy!"

He knows that before the fire broke out, many branches of the General Factory had already been strange. At the beginning, a large number of military police entered the factory and forced workers to work overtime.?And later dorms of coal factory workers were set into the expansion, which forced workers to remove their houses. Now the fight has become even hotter!?The workers of the branches of the General Factory will gather at the gun factory today. Although the personnel ran, but the angry workers determined to move the building materials. They will rebuild the dormitory of the factory workers. If it is not won this time, the fight will never stop! Yu XInjiang lifted his fist and slammed it on the small round table, shaking the plums in the bottle.

Fu Zhigao was infected by his emotions and was very excited. Although he rarely had the opportunity to participate in the mass movement because of his work relationship. He still knew the political situation very well.?

"Yes. Chongqing's arms industry accounts for 80% of Chiang Kai-shek's total production capacity! If he wants to supply the loss of American equipment, of course, he must invest in Chongqing!" His eyes were flashing, showing a rare excitement. "Yu, do you still remember? When the 'New China Daily' was suspended last spring, Wu asked our enemy angrily: 'See, our opposite is your factory. For months, we have seen there working every day and night. What is this?' The reactionaries have wanted a civil war and are eager to expand arms production. It has reached the point of unscrupulous means. This time, our party must lead the workers to fight until the end!"

"We workers of Chongqing, must not help the reactionaries to accomplish with our innocent hands!" Yu XInjiang said loudly, at this moment he even felt the significance of this struggle against demolition. "Xu said that it was decided to publish the crime and strive for justice and solidarity in all aspects. And to mobilize workers to raise funds in the city's factories. Before compensating the loss, we have to solve the life difficulties of the factory workers..."

"When the donation is not available, I can try to..." Fu Zhigao did not wait until Yu XInjiang finished speaking and interrupted his words. Yes, it is not easy to maintain the lives of hundreds of workers. Moreover, certain expenses in the underground party and the economy were originally his responsibility.

Yu XInjiang nodded and said the number of current needs. "Xu said, the money you have given, will be returned by the donation."

"No problem, money can be given you tomorrow." Although the economy of?financial sector was very tight after the New Year, Fu Zhigao did not express the difficulties. He proactively added: "If it is not enough, I could try to get a little more."

He was looking at thick eyebrows and eyes of Yu XInjiang: "Yu, you are too tired, take a break, eat and go." Then he looked at the watch and added a sentence: "My wife was going to buy food, she will come back soon."

He said that, during the New Year, he specially let the cook return home to meet with her family. In the past few days, he and his wife cooked their own food.?

Yu XInjiang did not pay attention to his concerns. He didn't like to speak very much, and he had the strength to pay attention to nothing but work. As long as there was something, he even forgot to eat. For this, his mother often complained. Xu also criticized him. But this temper was not easy to change. Now, he had installed his brain the job, and he had not even concerned about eating and sleeping. In fact, Xu’s temper was similar to him. This morning, after listening to Yu XInjiang’s report, even if he didn’t eat breakfast, he rushed to the factory. Xu also gave him a lot of work when they parted.

"There is still one thing."?Yu XInjiang was suddenly watching Fu Zhigao: "Xu want to set up an alternate contact station in the Shaci area."

This idea came with the development from?the?movements of?workers in various factories in Shaci District. However, Xu wasn't willing to let contact station be mixed with Committee's other work which he was in charge of. Recalling the look of Xu at that time, Yu XInjiang explained and told Fu Zhigao: "The contact station must be separated from the mass movement, so it is decided to hand over to you. Xu would like to ask for your opinion."

"Jiang is going to leave soon. The Committee intends to ask me to take part in the study!" Fu Zhigao smiled bushfully, no longer saying more, he accepted the task without any difficulty.

“The Shapingba area is a cultural area. It is good to have a bookstore. However, there are not yet any employees. ”

“Xu has considered the staff at the contact station.”

"Who?"

"Chen Songlin. Worker. Comrade. My good friend."

"That's great! When will he come?"

"The situation in the factory, you know... wait a few days."

When Fu Zhigao heard Yu XInjiang said, Xu also considered a bookstore. He smiled heartily and his emotions were even more exciting. Yu XInjiang said that Xu had told, the bookstore should be small, gray, not to sell progressive books...

"Yeah, yeah! In the past few years, I have worked in a contact station." He nodded and smiled, then turned the topic: "Yu, have you read the latest issue of 'Progress'?" He took a roll of pink typewriter paper from his pocket. Before Yu XInjiang coming, he was carefully reading the secret newspaper of the underground party at home. "This document written by Chairman Mao 'The Current Situation and Our Mission' is too encouraging! The Chinese revolution has reached a great turning point. The days of victory are coming, and we will be saved!"

Fu Zhigao waved the "Progress" in his hand, shaking out a piece of paper from inside, revealing his inner passion. "I have been thinking about these two days: How can I be?

worthy of the great era? We should work more for the party in the struggle in the?

mass movement! When I think about the future, I feel the strength in the whole body..."

The doorbell suddenly rang. "It must be?her who returns. Do you know that she fancies you? A worker, writing poems - she read the short poems you published in the 'New China Daily'..."

He did not seem to let Yu XInjiang stand up and insisted firmly: "She wants to meet you. She makes some dishes, you would like to eat.?The weather is so cold. I can't let you work for the party with cold body and empty stomach!" After that, he gave the piece of paper that had been shaken out of the "Progress" into Yu XInjiang's hand. The explanation is that he spent two nights writing it and was ready to hand it over to the underground magazine. He asked Yu XInjiang to take a look and give some advices.?

The doorbell rang again. Fu Zhigao smiled, put on his coat and stepped out of the living room.

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Chapter II?Bookstore / Dormitory

Chapter III?Sister / Brother / Siblings

Chapter IV?Wharf / Northern Sichuan / Mountain

Chapter?V?Friends / Comrades

Chapter VI Secret Agents / Colleagues

Chapter VII?Alert / Remind / Escape / Confused

Chapter?VIII?Tea Garden / Factory / Park

Chapter IX?Interrogation

Chapter X?Banquet / Layout

Chapter XI?Imprisonment

Chapter XII?Detention / Struggle

Chapter XIII?Injuries / Disturbance / Negotiation / Detention / Compromise / Funeral

Chapter XIV?Arrestee / Rescuer

Chapter XV?Torture

Chapter XVI?Preparation / New Year / Contact

Chapter?XVII?Peace / Petition?/?Job

Chapter?XVIII?Migration / Release / House arrest

Chapter XIX Mansion / Illusion

Chapter XX?Trust / Dream / Organization

Chapter?XXI?Student / Talk / Passion / Viper

Chapter XXII?Guard / Isolate?/ Captured / Surrender / Arrange

Chapter XXIII?Library

Chapter XXIV?Basement / Cellar / Store / Hostel

Chapter?XXV?Plan / News / Massacre

Chapter XXVI?Internal Response / Execution?/ Hijacking

Chapter XXVII?External Cooperation / Suppression

Chapter XXVIII?Joining the Party / Awakening / Executioner

Chapter XXIX?Liberation / Deployment / Duel

Chapter?XXX?Defeated?/ Prison break