"Boss, I personally think that from today onwards, you'd better stay here and don't go." Lu Yuan has been doing all the things in the city in the past few days, how can he hide it from Schuchmann and Hogg, knowing that Lu Yuan actually used a mortar to bomb the Japanese military police headquarters in Tianjin, Hogg and the two of them are already about to go crazy. So, despite Lu Yuan's strong opposition and protests, Shu Heman directly used brute force to lock Lu Yuan in the office on the 3rd floor of the commercial bank.

"Shuchman, you are guarding here, you must not let him out, I will go out to find out the news." Seeing Lu Yuan being locked up in the office with only a small window by Schuchman, Hogg told Schuchman a few words, and then went out to find out the news. Hogg's original intention was to lock Lu Yuan up in the trading house so as not to go out and cause trouble again, but he didn't know that Lu Yuan's resistance and arguments just now were all fake, and at this moment, Lu Yuan was sitting comfortably in the office sorting out the Japanese files and materials taken out of the storage space.

There were too many Japanese files and materials that Lu Yuan brought out from the Japanese military police building, and Lu Yuan only took out less than a third of the storage space, and he had already piled up the large desk in front of him. Just looking through a few files, Lu Yuan felt that his head was swollen and his heart was anxious, and after lighting a cigarette and smoking a few puffs, Lu Yuan put these Japanese files and materials into the storage space, and then opened the locked door.

"You can't go out." Shu Heman, who had been guarding the door with a chair, saw that Lu Yuan had opened the door, so he immediately got up and stopped in front of Lu Yuan. In fact, Schuchman's thoughts are different from Hogg's, and Schuchman, who has seen Lu Yuan's skills in Nanjing, is not worried about Lu Yuan's safety after he goes out. What Schuhman was worried about was that once Lu Yuan couldn't restrain his hand, he might incur a large-scale round-up by the Japanese army, and once Lu Yuan, who was rounded up by the Japanese army, went crazy, he might do something earth-shattering.

Schuchman's obstruction was beyond Lu Yuan's expectations, he didn't expect Hogg and Schuchmann to be worried to this extent, for a while, the softest place in Lu Yuan's heart was touched, and it seemed that someone cared about it. "Okay, don't worry, I'm not going out, I just want a rattan box to hold something." Seeing that Schuchman was unwilling to back down at all, Lu Yuan had no choice but to change his plan and ask Schuchman for a rattan box instead.

The rattan box was not hard to find, and Schuhmann just commanded, and the men recruited from the comptoir brought a half-new rattan box from downstairs. Lu Yuan took the rattan box from Shu Heman's hand, first opened it and measured the inner diameter of the rattan box with his hands, and then carried the rattan box, which was satisfied and returned to the office with the rattan box. Lu Yuan wanted to use those Japanese files and materials as bargaining chips, so that he would not be embarrassed by the other party when he asked the underground party or military commander for information, but Lu Yuan now had a headache about sorting those files and materials, so there was only one way left, let the underground party and military commander sort these files and materials by themselves.

Seeing the goods in person, bidding in person, and trading in person, this is the solution that Lu Yuan came up with, and the advantage of this is not only to save Lu Yuan from the heavy sorting work, but also to a certain extent, it can be regarded as a good opportunity for Lu Yuan to show his strength to the underground party and military commanders. Lu Yuan, who relocked the door, quickly pulled out a bunch of files from the storage space and filled the rattan box, and waited for a while before Lu Yuan opened the door again.

"Schuchman, I'm going to the Hutchison tea shop at the end of the street, don't worry, I won't run around, and I'll take you with me to Hutchison." Regarding Lu Yuan's request to go to Hutchison, Shu Heman didn't want to agree, but when Lu Yuan said that he would also take him to Hutchison, Shu Heman reluctantly agreed to Lu Yuan's request. "Then let's go now, bring that rattan box, the contents are very important, you have to take them."

Schuchmann inexplicably entered the room and picked up the rattan box, the weight of which was somewhat unexpected by Schuchmann, but Schuchmann only had some suspicions but did not open the box to see what it contained. The chaos in Tianjin does not seem to have affected the American Concession, and the Hutchison tea shop at the end of the street gathered a lot of tea customers as usual, but today the tea customers are not playing chess and playing leaf cards, but talking about the attack of the Japanese army yesterday.

"I said a long time ago, don't look at the Japanese are amazing, but they definitely won't stay in China for long, and yesterday's incident is the best list. Did you know? Last night, I heard from the big guy in my uncle's shop that the Japanese went to no less than 100 people just to carry the corpses, saying that the green bricks on the White Shoes Street were dyed red with blood, and that the little devil died this time in the sea. ”

Shopkeeper Sun, who runs a cloth shop at home, had just finished speaking, and Chu Changde, the owner of the South Goods Store who was sitting next to her, continued, "Shopkeeper Sun, I don't think it's quite right what you said, although there were a lot of Japanese soldiers killed in yesterday's incident, but after all, there were only a few. Let's take a look at the current situation, Lao Jiang has been defeated by the Japanese one after another, and the Japanese have now crossed the Yangtze River. ”

Chu Changde's words attracted the nods of several tea customers in agreement, the current situation is indeed unfavorable to China, and the strength of the Japanese soldiers is also obvious to all. Just when Ma Baocheng, the shopkeeper of Hutchison, wanted to persuade everyone not to talk about state affairs, the door of Hutchison's store was pushed open from the outside, and Lu Yuan, who was dressed as a young master from a rich family, took Schuhman into Hutchison. can take a foreigner with him as an attendant, Lu Yuan's style has made the tea customers in the store secretly look at him, but except for the shopkeeper Ma Baocheng, no one knows Lu Yuan's true identity.

Ma Baocheng, who even called the word distinguished guest in his mouth, naturally led Lu Yuan and the two into the back hall of the tea shop, Lu Yuan didn't want to introduce Shu Heman's identity at all, but just put the rattan box that Shu Heman had been carrying on the table and opened it. "Horse shopkeeper, here are some Japanese files and materials I brought out from the Japanese military police headquarters, I probably looked through it, maybe there are some things you need here, you might as well take a look at it yourself."

Ma Baocheng was overjoyed in his heart, but his face was very helpless, "No, I can't read Japanese either." Ma Baocheng's words made Lu Yuan frown, and his mouth laughed even more. In fact, when Lu Yuan decided to bring these things to Hutchison, Lu Yuan thought about similar problems, but he didn't expect that Ma Bao couldn't read Japanese.

"Okay, then I'll send the Buddha to the west, and I'll translate the meaning of these file covers for you, and it's up to you to decide whether you need this thing." How can this little thing be difficult to live in Lu Yuan, Lu Yuan can speak fluent Japanese, so he can naturally understand Japanese. Relying on Lu Yuan's help, Ma Baocheng quickly picked out the parts he needed from these things, but before he could put the files in his pocket, he was stopped by Lu Yuan reaching out.

"Shopkeeper, don't worry, the things have been picked out for you, but these things can't be given to you in vain, you have to at least exchange the same amount of information, after all, these things are also brought back by me with my head." Lu Yuan smiled and stretched out his hand to press on those files, Ma Baocheng's expression instantly changed from ecstatic to angry, but no matter how annoyed he was, it was in vain, these things were indeed made by Lu Yuan at the risk of death, and Lu Yuan was not a member of the underground party, so it was impossible to give these things to himself for nothing.

"What do you want?" Ma Baocheng withdrew his hand with a cold face, and his lifeless tone made Shu Heman, who had been watching from the wall, couldn't help laughing, and said that this old man was quite interesting. Schuchmann's laughter finally made Ma Baocheng unable to hold back, and the good-natured old man was furious, and directly took out a cloth bag from the hole in the floor and slapped it on the table. "Don't talk to me about some useless things, just order, just five small yellow croakers, things are expensive to me, and the gold bars belong to you."

Ma Baocheng, who had already kept those files on his chest, looked at Lu Yuan and the two of them with some pride, and the expressions on Lu Yuan and Shu Heman's faces at this moment were the kind of speechless and mixed with indifference and surprise, and Ma Baocheng also felt proud because of this. It's just that Ma Baocheng never expected that when he put those archives into the cave, Lu Yuan pushed the five gold bars to Schuhman. "Shopkeeper Ma, your Tianjin underground party is really rich, I originally wanted to say that I just wanted some Japanese intelligence, and I would think that your Tianjin underground party is really generous, much better than Xu Huanshan Gang."

Lu Yuan's words made Ma Baocheng angry and almost vomited blood immediately, but those gold bars had already been put into Shu Heman's pocket, and looking up at Shu Heman's burly body, Ma Baocheng knew that it was impossible for him to snatch the gold bars back. Carrying heavy gold bars, Lu Yuan and the two were kicked out of Hutchison by the unceremonious Ma Baocheng, and before Lu Yuan and the two walked far, Ma Baocheng took those Japanese archives and materials along the secret passage to the pharmacy next door.

"Forget it, it's just five small yellow croakers, if these things are sold on the black market, maybe 50 gold bars won't be able to buy." Wang Qingnian knows a little Japanese, and after carefully reading these things that Ma Baocheng brought, Wang Qingnian couldn't help but be overjoyed, these materials do have what they need, and they can be regarded as confidential. Only 5 small yellow croakers were exchanged for so much information about the Japanese army, and Wang Qingnian even felt that Lu Yuan had suffered a loss.