Chapter 691: Dead Man Plan

Today is a big day for the Ming family. Ming Jing called everyone in the house up early to prepare, dress up in high spirits, and change into expensive and luxurious formal wear.

Various chefs and waiters who had been contacted long ago were busy in the house dealing with ingredients and preparing wine and dishes. The famous band in Shanghai also came to the house early, messing with various musical instruments. The melodious music resounded on Julai Road, intoxicating people's spirits in this early autumn heat.

It was precisely because of the heat in September that the Ming family had been busy for most of the day, and by the cool afternoon, the friends they invited all came to the door with some gifts, looking like humans. They came to participate in the big event of the Ming family today, the engagement ceremony of Ming Tai and Cheng Jinyun.

As a neighbor, as a business partner, as a friend of government-business cooperation, Ming Lou had personally come to the door to send an invitation to Wang Yan a few days ago. So today, Wang Yan also strolled over to participate in Ming Tai's engagement ceremony, which was considered selling a face.

In the past two months, the Ming family basically lived according to the original trajectory. The difference was that Ming Tai still didn't know Ming Lou's identity. He was still jumping up and down in front of Ming Lou and Ming Cheng like a monkey, disguising himself.

Ming Tai was still completely at home, still jointly rescued prisoners of war with the Red Party, still operated a flour mill, still discovered some private transactions between the Kuomintang and the Wang puppet government, reselling various materials for profit, and even trafficking opium. Ming Tai was still angry and bombed the ship transporting goods at Wusongkou, which happened last week.

Reaching this point, it means that the most important Dead Man Plan of the whole drama is about to be executed.

Although Wang Yan didn't factually grasp more news, he clearly knew after watching the drama that Wang Tianfeng had already come to Shanghai, preparing to send Guo Qiyun and that female agent who replaced Yu Manli to die, and even more preparing to send himself to die.

Although Ming Tai didn't know Ming Lou's true identity at this time, he would definitely not go to the meeting scene between Ming Lou and Wang Tianfeng, so he wouldn't gamble with Wang Tianfeng to decide the leadership of the Dead Man Plan.

But without Ming Tai, Ming Lou himself could also win the gamble with Wang Tianfeng. Because in the original drama, Ming Tai could win because Ming Lou dealt the cards. This shows that Ming Lou knows some thousand tricks.

So comprehensively, it should be that Ming Lou has been set to lead the Dead Man Plan, so that according to what he said, no one dies, just he himself dies. Instead of Wang Tianfeng's plan, just the Kuomintang Shanghai station people would die many.

Because Wang Tianfeng was a Kuomintang Colonel after all, and had worked in Shanghai before. He couldn't just betray Ming Tai, Guo Qiyun and others as in the drama. But would betray a part, other Kuomintang Shanghai station people. Using the lives of these people to exchange for the Japanese's trust in him. And even more using the lives of these people to exchange for the lives of more Japanese on the front line of the Third War Zone.

So if you want to say ruthless, Wang Tianfeng is more ruthless and more decisive.

Of course, looking back, with Ming Lou's status in the Wang puppet group and the Japanese, such an operation of sending his life, he shouldn't even open his mouth. It is very unreasonable for him to compete with Wang Tianfeng for the leadership of the Dead Man Plan; dying ten Wang Tianfengs cannot die one Ming Lou. Dragging Ming Tai in is an even bigger mistake, and Ming Lou shouldn't have suffered unnecessary suspicion.

However, the plot is like this, and it is also to praise the noble spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice and selfless dedication, which can be understood, that is, just complaining. After all, as long as there is no major impact, whether it is reasonable or not is not in the scope of consideration; they are all added by heaven and can accomplish things.

Wang Yan, who witnessed Ming Tai and Cheng Jinyun's engagement, sat at a table under a cool shed, thinking about it in a chaotic mess, eating and drinking with relish.

The protagonists of this engagement cocktail party, Ming Tai and Cheng Jinyun, followed Ming Jing to meet people everywhere. The rest of the people were wandering around to make friends. Their purpose in attending the cocktail party was very simple: to maintain the relationship with the Ming family and to recognize some other people at the scene, preferably to reach some cooperation.

However, Wang Yan was still okay; people had already greeted him long ago, so no one continued to come forward to chat awkwardly. Cooperation requires equal status. Those present were mostly businessmen and couldn't talk much with Wang Yan. If they wanted to cooperate with Wang Yan, they should find Gu Yongcheng, the general manager of Yonghua Industry. Because of this, Wang Yan got peace and quiet and ate and drank comfortably.

It was not that the Ming family's hospitality was not good, but that he didn't use anyone to accompany him. Many people came today, and the Ming family members were all quite busy. He just ate a meal, and there were not so many ways to say.

After a while, Wang Yan looked at Ming Tai and Cheng Jinyun who were walking over from the opposite side, following Ming Jing, with a smile.

Ming Jing said: "Mr. Wang, thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to attend Ming Tai's engagement banquet. Ming Tai, what are you stunned for? Why don't you pour wine for Mr. Wang?"

"Oh." Ming Tai hurriedly put down the wine glass, went around to Wang Yan's side to pour wine.

He wasn't stunned, just a little embarrassed to see Wang Yan; that was the guilty conscience of being seen through. After all, Wang Yan clearly knew that he and Cheng Jinyun went to the consulate to steal intelligence. Although it had been a few months, his feeling was still very bad. Because he was a secret agent disguising his identity, and Wang Yan, an outsider, knew his identity, so in front of Wang Yan, he had a feeling of being seen through, which was very uncomfortable.

After pouring the wine, he didn't need Ming Jing to greet him, he went to stand with Cheng Jinyun, raised his wine glass and said: "Mr. Wang, thank you for your care, my fiancée and I toast you together."

Wang Yan nodded, signaled to them with his wine glass, and drank it in one gulp very simply. He looked at Ming Jing, who had a kind smile, and said: "Alright, Miss Ming, you go be busy, I'll just eat and drink here."

"Okay, please forgive me for the poor hospitality. If you have any needs, just order Ming Cheng. Eat and drink well, it's really too busy today, so we will excuse ourselves."

Ming Jing rarely said a comprehensive scene word, and took Ming Tai and Cheng Jinyun away.

Cheng Jinyun also just said a polite word with Ming Tai when drinking, and didn't open her mouth besides that. This was perhaps the only intersection between Wang Yan and her.

However, to be honest, in this drama, Cheng Jinyun's evaluation is not very good. Excluding the original emotional line between Yu Manli and Ming Tai, this Cheng Jinyun is also unorganized and undisciplined, and is not a qualified fighter. She revealed some things she thought were unimportant to Ming Tai; on this point, Li Shu had criticized her.

The most important point is that when executing the operation to rescue prisoners of war, there was a child who was taken away. Because of that child, she repeatedly hindered Ming Tai's shooting timing. When firing the first shot, it was also to save that child, killing a little Japanese who was about to execute him, instead of directly killing the Japanese military commander who led the team.

According to Ming Tai's personality, if he wasn't influenced by Cheng Jinyun, he would definitely kill the commander first; after all, he had been aiming at the commander's head. Such an action, if it weren't for Ming Tai and others added by heaven, who could stand and shoot, their rescue operation would not only fail, but also die. They only had so many people in total, and the Japanese were well-trained armies. And whether there is a commander or not has a decisive influence on the combat effectiveness of the army.

And then during the gunfight, in order to rescue that child, she left the team and ran out privately to find the child in the mountains. Looking at this operation, she was emotional, disregarded the team, and acted privately, which was very fatal whether in the enemy's rear or in the Soviet area.

The child in the prisoner-of-war camp is indeed a poor person, but because of such a child, affecting an operation to rescue hundreds of prisoners of war is absolutely not allowed. Child soldiers on the battlefield, those who are younger and have more bitter encounters, are also many; this child who was caught is not a special one. The brilliance of human nature should not be embodied like this.

So, it is still that sentence, this is an idol romance spy drama. First there is an idol, then there is love, and then it is buckled with the theme of spy war, and finally it is the drama.

However, The Disguiser has a very high evaluation, saying that it opened the precedent of the "idol spy war" theme...

Wang Yan didn't care, because he had long been accustomed to various unreasonable rationality, opposition and unity, which was very in line with dialectics. However, when he was bored, seeing familiar plot characters, it was always inevitable to have some chaotic thoughts.

He ate and drank here, and after a while, the person who should appear finally appeared.

"Long time no see, Mr. Wang still has such a good appetite, which is really enviable." Wang Tianfeng, who was pretending to be someone who came to climb the relationship, nodded and bowed to pour wine for Wang Yan, and sat on the chair by the way.

"It has been a long time. Why did Section Chief Wang come to Shanghai again? Any mission?"

"It's not a mission, and I don't dare to appear in Shanghai." Wang Tianfeng nodded, "However, taking this opportunity, I also want to thank you for your life-saving grace, and your care for Tian Biao for these two years."

"It was just a matter of convenience, and Tian Biao also helped a little in these two years, so it can't be considered care. As for the life-saving grace you mentioned, although Yu Manli was sent to my side to monitor me, I am very satisfied with her; you are very good at choosing people, and even better at sending people, one report for one report, so it can't be considered thanks." Wang Yan drank wine with a smile, "Have you seen Yu Manli?"

"Since I am no longer her superior, why should I see her? She is also a bitter woman; in this era, no one is easy. Now she is living well, letting her follow you is also accumulating virtue in the previous life, and not losing in this life."

Wang Yan raised his eyebrows: "It is said that when a person is about to die, his words are good. I felt the will to die from your words."

Wang Tianfeng was surprised by Wang Yan's sharpness, and the surprise in his eyes flashed away. He said in a deep voice: "The country is in danger, and people of my generation dare not live, only death. Every mission is walking on a steel wire intertwined with life and death; one carelessness is death. Without holding a will to die, nothing can be accomplished. Only by holding a will to die and moving forward bravely can one live toward death."

He was very firm and didn't entangle on whether to die or not, because what he said was more like scolding Wang Yan. He continued: "Alright, Mr. Wang, I won't add trouble to you. This glass of wine toasts you, I'm leaving, we will meet again later."

"Meet again later?"

Wang Tianfeng put down the wine glass and stood up, looking down at the smiling Wang Yan from above, returned a smile, didn't say another word, and turned to walk toward Ming Tai, who had been waiting in the distance. The two moved away from the crowd and talked in the corner...

Wang Yan watched this scene quietly, acting as a witness. Still that sentence, he couldn't intervene in this kind of operation, just watch it.

Wang Tianfeng's arrival marked the beginning of the Dead Man Plan. The progress of the matter was very fast. A few days after attending Ming Tai's engagement cocktail party, the depressed Wang Manchun came to Wang Yan to vent her anger, saying that she had intercepted the Kuomintang's intelligence, but it ran away when taking action.

This intelligence was Ming Lou's arrangement. They had a code name called Nightingale, a girl named Zhu Huiyin, who was lurking in the telecommunications office of 76 and was deeply reused by Wang Manchun. This Nightingale belonged to the Red Party, Ming Lou's subordinate. It was through her that Ming Lou guided Wang Manchun's action.

Ming Tai was not captured, marking that Ming Lou could not carry out the Dead Man Plan according to his ideas. The leadership of the plan was transferred to Wang Tianfeng.

A few days later, it was a quiet night, and the phone in Wang Yan's study rang rarely. He had three phones in his house, three different numbers. The one downstairs was the one with the most external calls, and ordinary people could only call this phone. And the two phones in the study rarely rang. One was called by others, and the other was called by him to others. The phone he called others was registered with false information, could not be traced to the address and household owner, and could not be bugged, which was to facilitate doing dirty work.

He went to answer the phone, and then dressed neatly, drove his car to the garden villa where he used to live on the same road. The person who called was self-evident; besides Wang Manchun, who else could it be?

After meeting, there was absolutely no extra nonsense. Wang Manchun was very hot and had more passion, directly leading the battle to white heat.

After a long time, Wang Yan asked: "What good thing? So happy?"

"Hahaha..." Although she was very tired, Wang Manchun was still laughing before speaking, and was very happy, "Guess who I caught?"

"It wouldn't be Wu Qiren, would it?"

"Oh, if I caught him, how could I run over and tell you? Guess again."

Wang Yan thought for a while very cooperatively: "Chen Gongshu?"

"Close." Wang Manchun nodded repeatedly and laughed, "It's the former intelligence section chief of the Kuomintang Shanghai station, code-named Poison Bee, Wang Tianfeng! Happy, right? I know that he used to protect Mao Qiwu and wanted to shoot you before. Today I asked him, and he nodded and admitted it, with a face of regret, regretting that he couldn't kill you."

"What are you telling me?" Under Wang Manchun's gaze, Wang Yan didn't have any happiness, but frowned for the first time, with an unhappy look, "Such an important figure, when the news of his arrest leaks, and the old accounts are settled, I won't be able to explain it even with ten mouths. Isn't it a secret arrest?"

"Of course it's a secret arrest, otherwise I wouldn't be so happy. But don't worry, those action personnel who participated in the arrest and interrogation have all been controlled. Besides them and me, no more than five people know about this. So once the news leaks, the mole can be caught soon."

Wang Yan immediately thought of the joints: "Fujita Yoshimasa let you tell me? Or is it for the mole that hasn't been found before? So you suspect me?"

"You also know that the Japanese don't trust anyone, and you have close dealings with both parties, so the suspicion on you has never been less."

"Then why did you tell me so clearly?"

"I trust you."

Looking at Wang Manchun's big eyes, Wang Yan's hand playing with the big treasure used a little force: "Green bamboo snake mouth, yellow bee tail needle. Neither is poisonous, the most poisonous is a woman's heart. This sentence is very appropriate for you. You, still less of this set, I can't afford your trust, otherwise I don't know when I will die."

"Then I have to be willing. If it weren't for you, where would I go to be happy?" Wang Manchun giggled.

Wang Yan didn't pick up this topic and turned to ask: "Since you caught Wang Tianfeng, why don't you hurry up and interrogate him, and catch people while the Kuomintang hasn't reacted, why run to me?"

"If it were so easy to open his mouth, they would be different from you; the whip didn't hit the body and they said everything." Wang Manchun didn't forget to despise Wang Yan, sighed and said, "Wang Tianfeng was beaten until he didn't look like a human, but he was still laughing at me, able to say what he could say, and not able to say a word."

Wang Yan felt looked down upon, but what he showed was indeed not much bone; he lived by seeing the wind and steering the rudder, not by having hard bones, he was also a wall-riding villain.

However, if he really pursued the real situation, Wang Yan thought about it carefully, removing whether he could catch him, he would definitely be able to carry the extreme punishment now, because his spiritual will was tempered, he had experienced, realized, and felt birth, old age, sickness, death, joy, anger, sorrow, and joy, and he had no problem with physical pain.

But then again, he really hadn't suffered any punishment. The most ruthless and heavy injury he suffered before was just when he got the living father's volume, and was kicked by a circle when he was a hooligan in Hong Kong. After that, it was just suffering some crimes when tempering his flesh and practicing martial arts in The Grandmaster, which was far from torture. After that, there was only his turn to punish others.

So to be precise, before The Grandmaster, he would definitely surrender if he suffered torture. Because he knew very well the power of torture, his will at that time was absolutely not hard-mouthed...

"Used all kinds of torture?"

"He was shot when he was caught, but not in the vital parts, and it was handled in time. Except for electric torture, almost all of them have been used. Most annoying is this kind of person, as if they are very noble."

Wang Manchun snorted coldly and said, "However, he won't last long. If it doesn't work tomorrow, then change the method. I don't believe he can ignore the life and death of his wife and children."

"If he really opens his mouth, maybe the Chen Gongshu and Wu Qiren I just mentioned can be caught, then you will be promoted and get rich, Director Wang..."

"Who knows. Hmm..." Wang Manchun frowned, "What are you doing? Coming again?"

"Director Wang isn't happy, then be happy again. I'll serve you well, and when you are promoted and get rich in the future, you can cover me." ===== CHAPTER 692 =====