Chapter 35: The Qin Family's Disappearance (Part 2) Flying Pig Web

  "Comrade Chen Duxiu, your current thinking is very dangerous!" Zhou Enlai said with a heavy heart: "The things Chiang Kai-shek did in Jiujiang and Anhui are not enough to alert us?! Do we really have to wait until Chiang Kai-shek raises his butcher's knife and beheads you and me before we become aware?! By that time, everything will be too late!"

  Chen Duxiu said calmly, "Enlai, any matter must be based on evidence. From the news coming from Jiujiang and Anhui, those things were just done by local rascals, what evidence do you have to prove that they were instructed by Chiang Kai-shek?! I think you are worrying unnecessarily!"

  "What's the point of worrying about Heaven?!" Zhou Enlai was so angry that he couldn't catch his breath, pacing back and forth in his office. Just as he was about to speak, there was a knock at the door. Zhou Enlai opened it to reveal a middle-aged man dressed as a rickshaw driver, who said: "Mr. Zhou, Wang Boling, Yang Hu, and Chen Qun have secretly arrived in Shanghai and appeared at the mansion of the three intelligence giants Huang Jinrong, Zhang Xiaolin, and Du Yuesheng. What they specifically discussed is not yet clear."

  Zhou Enlai didn't bat an eyelid and said: "Keep a close eye on him, if there's any news, report to me immediately."

  "Alright!" The rickshaw driver responded and walked out of the office.

  "The current situation is very unfavorable for us!" Zhou Enlai sighed and said with a low mood after closing the door.

  Chen Duxiu let out a cold laugh and stood up from the sofa, saying: "I still insist on my own views."

  Watching Chen Duxiu leave, Zhou Enlai's heart was burning with anxiety. After hesitating again and again, Zhou Enlai began to arrange for personnel to evacuate Shanghai and avoid Chiang Kai-shek's slaughter.

  Just as the Communist Party members in Shanghai began to withdraw in an orderly manner, the Fourth and Eleventh Armies of the National Revolutionary Army in Wuhan were preparing to march east to put pressure on Chiang Kai-shek and force him to compromise. On April 5, the "Joint Declaration of Wang Jingwei and Chen Duxiu" was issued, which made some Communist Party members extremely indignant, but many people mistakenly believed that the situation had already eased.

  However, this good situation did not last long. On April 11th, Chiang Kai-shek issued a secret order to "unify the recovery of various provinces and implement party purification", and the situation in Shanghai suddenly changed.

  On the morning of April 12, a signal was raised above the warship anchored at Gaolang Temple in Shanghai. The gangsters of the Green and Red Gangs, who had long been prepared, wore white cloth with black "worker" armbands, disguised as workers, and rushed out from the concession area to attack the worker pickets in 14 places including Zhabei, Nanshi, Huxi, Wusong and Pudong.

  "Master, it's getting chaotic outside!" Lin Quannan rushed in from the outside, panting. Lin Aofeng hesitated for a moment before saying: "Uncle Nan, get the guns ready and have the workers be on guard. I'll go out for a bit and come back soon!"

  "Master..." Before Lin Quannan could finish speaking, Lin Aofeng had already run out of the mansion.

  "Knock knock knock, knock knock knock, knock knock knock"

  Qin Keqing's mother heard the knock on the door, opened it and before she could ask a question, a group of thugs with clubs and menacing faces rushed in.

  "Zi Chen!" The crowd rushed into the yard, and before they could take action, Qin Keqing's mother ran to her husband's side. Qin Guozhong patted his wife's hand, comforting her, while questioning the people who had rushed in: "Who are you?! What do you want to do?!"

  The leader with a scar on his face looked at Qin Guozhong with a sly expression and said, "Old thing, we are what kind of people, you don't need to care! Who told you ordinary old hundred names not to be, but to be the Communist Party, today your whole family's good days have arrived, follow me!" Then the scar-faced man gave a signal to his subordinates behind him and said, "Brothers, take them away!"

  "How dare you!" Qin Guozhong pulled out the pistol Lin Ao gave him. Scarface was taken aback, laughing: "Ah? Old man! I really underestimated you!" He tore open his clothes, patted his chest and said: "If you have the guts, shoot at me! If I frown, my parents didn't raise me!"

  Qin Guozhong was indeed a literary man, and his hands holding the gun began to tremble. Scarface saw Qin Guozhong hesitate for an arrow-step, preparing to rush up and grab the gun, when Qin Keqing walked out from behind and handed Scarface a gun with a flick of her wrist. Standing in the courtyard, Scarface's subordinate saw Scarface fall to the ground after being shot and prepared to run outside when the sound of gunfire rang out again.

  Kill those thugs who rushed in! Qin Keqing said to her mother: "Mom, hurry up and clean up, we'll go to Ah Feng's house for a while!"

  "Oh!" Qin Keqing's mother finally came back to her senses and rushed into the house.

  Just as Qin Keqing's mother was busy collecting the goods, Zhou Enlai rushed over with his men. Zhou Enlai saw the body lying in the yard and hurriedly ran inside to see Qin Guozhong sitting in the living room, shaking all over, and asked: "Brother Zichen, are you okay?!"

  "It's nothing!" Qin Guozhong came back to his senses and asked: "Enlai, Shanghai is so dangerous now, why haven't you left yet?!"

  "It doesn't matter! Jiang someone, can't even deal with me!" Zhou Enlai said, seeing Qin Keqing and her mother coming down from upstairs, asked: "Have you packed up yet?!"

  Qin Keqing asked: "Uncle Zhou, where are you taking us?!"

  "First leave Shanghai, then I'll take you to Hong Kong!" Zhou Enlai said, glancing at his watch. "Time is pressing, let's hurry up and go with me!"

  Qin Keqing hesitated for a moment and said: "I still have things I haven't taken! I'll be right down!"

  "Hurry up!" Upon hearing Zhou Enlai's urging voice, Qin Keqing had already run into her own room. Opening the desk drawer, Qin Keqing picked up the photo album and diary to prepare for departure when she suddenly stopped in her tracks, thought for a moment, then returned to the desk, took out pen and paper and left a note for Lin Ao Feng.

  Qin Keqing and her family left with Zhou Enlai about an hour ago, Lin Aofeng arrived. Seeing the corpse lying in the yard, Lin Aofeng's heart tightened, and he hastily pulled out his pistol, carefully walking in. After checking the house, confirming there were no other corpses, Lin Aofeng put away his gun and walked into Qin Keqing's room.

  Looking around the room, Lin Aofeng walked to Qin Keqin's desk and saw a letter lying on it. His eyebrows furrowed as he opened the letter, and Qin Keqin's elegant handwriting appeared before his eyes: "Dear Peak, due to the urgency of the situation, I didn't have time to say goodbye! Our whole family has left with Uncle Zhou, we'll be back when things settle down, wait for me! Yours lovingly, Keqin!"

  After finishing the letter, Lin Ao Feng let out a deep sigh and put the letter into his breast pocket. As he was about to leave, a commotion broke out in the courtyard: "Ninth Brother, Knife Scar and the others are dead!"

  "What?! Dead?! Nine Brother stormed into the yard, took a look at the corpses and bellowed: "Brothers, search for me! Even if we have to dig three feet underground, we must find the one who killed Knife Scar!"

  "Bang!" As soon as Jiu Ge's voice fell, Lin Ao Feng pushed open the window and jumped down from the building. With one kick, he knocked Jiu Ge to the ground, stepped on his head, pulled out a gun, and before Jiu Ge's subordinates could react, shot each of them once. After changing the magazine, Lin Ao Feng pressed the gun against Jiu Ge's head and asked: "Who are you people?! Who sent you here?!"

  "Friends, friends! Let's talk this out! Put down that thing on my head, or things might get ugly!" Lin Aofeng remained unmoved, his gun still trained on Jiu Ge's head. Jiu Ge panicked and said: "We're underlings of Zhang Yaolin of the Green Gang, we're just following orders! Please, brother, have mercy and let me go!"

  "Are you showing mercy?!" Lin Ao Feng sneered and said: "Haven't you heard the saying 'Cutting grass without removing its roots, spring breeze blows and it grows again'? Am I going to wait with my eyes open for you to come and take revenge?" After speaking, Lin Ao Feng pulled the trigger.

  "Feng'er has been out for so long, how can he still not be back?!" Ever since she found out her son went out, Cheng Xue Mei's heart had been hanging high. Lin Guo Dong, who was reading a book in the living room, saw his wife fidgeting and put down the book, saying: "Feng'er's martial arts skills are so high, and he's also carrying a gun, nothing will happen to him! You just sit down and rest for a while!"

  "You old fool, with things so chaotic outside and Feng'er all alone, how can I not worry?!" Cheng Xue Mei shouted at her husband two sentences, her mind unsettled as she prepared to leave the living room. Just then, Lin Quan Nan's voice came in: "Young Master, you're back?!"

  Lin Ao Feng nodded and was about to speak when Cheng Xue Mei rushed out and asked: "A'Feng, are you okay?!"

  "Mom! I'm fine! Don't worry!" Then Lin Ao Feng asked: "Is everything okay at home?"

  "It's okay! It's okay!" As she spoke, Cheng Xue Mei glanced behind Lin Ao Feng and asked: "You're the only one back, where's Qing?!"

  Lin Ao Feng replied: "Don't worry, Mother! They are all safe!"

  "Oh! As long as it's safe!" Cheng Xuemei pulled Lin Aofeng into the small villa.…

  Half a month later, Chiang Kai-shek's anti-revolutionary massacre temporarily came to an end, and Shanghai restored order once again.

  "Dad, why are you back so early today?!" Lin Ao Feng asked curiously as soon as he got home from school and saw Lin Guo Dong sitting in the living room.

  Lin Guodong smiled and said: "Wait a moment, your grandfather and your teacher Mr. Jiang Baili are coming home. So I came back early."

  "What?! The teacher is coming?!" Lin Ao Feng was shocked and asked in confusion: "Dad, why didn't you tell me earlier?!"

  Lin Guodong smiled and asked, "Why should I tell you in advance?!" Then he joked, "Didn't you say that everyone has their own right to privacy?! Not telling you in advance is my power!"

  Lin Ao Feng had a feeling of picking up stones and hitting his own feet, scratched his head and said: "Dad, you're not making sense! Are you selling me out now?!"

  Cheng Xuemei, who was carrying a fruit platter out of the kitchen, heard the conversation between the father and son and immediately burst out laughing. "Feng'er, hurry up and wash! In another hour, your grandfather and teacher will arrive!"

  "Oh!" Lin Ao Feng let out a strange cry as he sat in front of his father, casually picked up an apple from the fruit plate and ran towards his room while eating it.