Chapter 556
In the end, Cheng Mo persuaded Wen Qiu with reason and emotion. Wen Qiu also knew that his wife had never been in good health.
It was no easy feat to get pregnant, and she had taken a lot of medicine to stabilize the pregnancy.
Cheng Mo had also sent her many tonic foods. He could not afford to buy all of these things himself.
He is already in his thirties, and if he doesn’t have a child soon, he is afraid that he will never have the chance to have a child to bring joy to his knees in his lifetime.
In this regard, Wen Qiu is very grateful to Cheng Mo, but personal emotions cannot be exchanged for party spirit and principles.
He tries his best to strike a balance between the two, but it can only be a balance, not a choice.
As long as it does not go against the party discipline and principles, even if it is something he does not agree with, he will try his best to cooperate and support it.
After all, he can also understand the difficulties of Cheng Mo in that position. Regarding the matter of Chiyoko, he spoke well of Cheng Mo to his superiors and was criticized for it, but he didn’t mention any of this to Cheng Mo.
He felt that this was what he should do, and as for whether or not to tell Cheng Mo, it was unimportant, and he didn’t want anything in return.
It was all for the cause of resistance against Japan and national liberation, and even if a little personal sentiment was taken into account, it did not harm the interests of the party and country.
Special times call for special measures. It can only be dealt with in a special way. Later, a reasonable and legal solution will naturally be found.
Cheng Mo stayed at Wen Qiu’s house for half an hour and then came out, before returning to the hospital.
His sister was not in the hospital maternity ward. She must have gone home, as she would need to decode the telegram from Chongqing that evening. He trusted no one but his sister with this task.
Although she is not a member of the 鈥淗idden Fire鈥�, she knows Cheng Mo’s identity and what he does, so she can be completely trusted with the task of decoding the telegram.
She is only responsible for decoding the telegram, and she does not have the code book or the ability to decipher secret telegrams.
This is enough.
The reply does not need to be sent immediately, it can be sent the next day when contact is made.
As long as it doesn’t delay the receipt of the secret telegram from the Chongqing Bureau, that’s fine.
With Jiang Liyao, Xiao-yu’s mother-in-law, there, Xiao-yu should go back. She is an unmarried woman and doesn’t know how to take care of a child.
The two little ones eat and sleep. It’s only been two days, but the wrinkles on their faces have already flattened out, even though their eyes haven’t opened yet.
This is normal. Babies need time to open their eyes and adjust to the light outside. They usually open their eyes after two or three days.
Right now, they just sleep and grow quickly.
鈥淢o, you can go back. You smell of alcohol, don’t let Mo’er and the baby be bothered,鈥� said the mother-in-law, disgusted.
鈥淵ou’re alone, taking care of two children and Mo’er, can you manage?鈥�
“Don’t worry, I’ve given birth before. They’re still young and don’t cause much trouble. As for Mo’er, she can get out of bed already, so I don’t need to keep an eye on her.鈥�
鈥淥kay, I’ll go home first.鈥� Cheng Mo thought about it for a moment. It was true that it was inappropriate for him to stay there with the smell of alcohol on his breath after drinking, and he hadn’t slept much after being at the hospital all night yesterday, so he was a bit overwhelmed.
So, after checking on his children and wife, he drove back to his home on Pingwang Street.
He took a cold shower.
Then he went upstairs to sleep.
Early the next morning, he drove to his sister Cheng Hua’s place.
鈥漇ister, I’m here.鈥�
鈥淵es, I heard you. I know you’re coming.鈥� Cheng Hua came downstairs in her pajamas. Unlike Cheng Mo, she didn’t go to work at a fixed time every day. Except for when the stock market opened, she mainly worked during breaks. From the outside, it looked like a life many people envied, but no one knew how stressful it was to control tens of millions of dollars.
Without the support of a team, she can’t do it alone.
Seeing that Cheng Hua has a lady’s cigarette clamped in her hand, Cheng Mo said, 鈥淪ister, when you wake up in the morning, you should smoke less. It’s not good for your health, especially for women, because smoking makes you age faster.鈥�
鈥淒on’t talk about me, you don’t smoke?鈥�
鈥淚’m also trying to control my smoking now. After all, I have a child, and the smell of cigarettes is harmful to children,鈥� Cheng Mo said.
鈥淥kay, have you had breakfast? I’ll ask Ouyang to prepare one for you?鈥�
鈥漀o, I still have to go to the hospital in a while,鈥� Cheng Mo said. He didn’t have time to stay for breakfast, and that would inevitably lead to a lecture.
鈥漈his is a telegram from your brother-in-law. I don’t have the code book, so you can translate it yourself,鈥� Cheng Hua took out a piece of paper and handed it to Cheng Mo.
Upon seeing the dense array of numbers, Cheng Mo was a little surprised. Usually telegrams are concise, but this one was probably hundreds of words long.
This was probably the longest telegram he had ever received.
鈥淪ister, do you have a pencil?鈥�
鈥淕o upstairs and translate it.鈥�
鈥淥kay.鈥�
The contents of the telegram quickly appeared in the rustling sound of writing, as the code book was all in his head.
First, there was a high degree of appreciation for Cheng Mo’s actions this time, assassinating a lieutenant general in the heart of the enemy, even though the lieutenant general had already lost his freedom.
And the reason for losing his freedom was also because of Cheng Mo, so it was not wrong to give him half the credit.
If Cheng Mo had not captured Miura Saburo alive first, how would there have been the subsequent sniper attack by Liu Guoxing’s action team? It was a perfect collaboration.
Cheng Mo created the opportunity for Liu Guoxing to assassinate, and this time Cheng Mo was the leader, decisively deciding to seize this favorable opportunity to eliminate a Japanese lieutenant general, and this Japanese lieutenant general was also a Japanese invasion of China fanatic.
This contributed to the outbreak of internal conflict within the Japanese army, which is a greater credit than killing a Japanese lieutenant general.
A commendation was certainly unavoidable, and Cheng Mo was promoted to the rank of colonel. He was fast enough to get promoted, basically one step up in a year.
Even if you were born in Huangpu Military Academy, it would take seven or eight years to be promoted from major to colonel without military merit.
He, a cryptographer, did it in three years.
Money rewards are not to be ignored, but they are all empty promises. But the rewards below him, he still has to issue.
Then the most important thing is a third-class Yunqi Medal, which is quite rare. At the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japan, not many people got this, and it became worthless later.
But he can’t get it now, so it will be kept in the headquarters for safekeeping until he goes to Chongqing or after the war is won.
As for the official rank, he is still the colonel in charge of the Shanghai Special Intelligence Unit of the Military Commission, which means nothing has really changed. He is now on the same level as the Shanghai District, which means that Chen Gongshu of the First District and Jiang Shaomo of the Second District are both on the same level in terms of rank.
If something happens to these two people, theoretically, he is qualified to take his place, but Inspector Mao Sen is a major general and is above him.
Liu Guoxing and the members of his action team were also promoted by one rank, Liu Guoxing himself was promoted to lieutenant colonel, and was awarded 5,000 yuan in legal tender. The rest of the team received various rewards.
These are just minor details.
The most important thing is that Dai Yunan reported to the old man and formally approved his plan to 鈥渃hange the sky鈥� in the concession.