Chapter 451: Meeting in Wind and Cloud (First update, please subscribe)
How expensive can a boat ticket be?
One boat ticket requires twenty small yellow croakers!
But even so, not everyone can buy it. I don’t know how many people, holding up the gold bars in their hands, can’t buy a ticket, so they have no choice but to stand in front of the ticket office of the Borneo Shipping Company. Wandering.
At this time, the yard of the shipping company was also in chaos. Dozens of employees were throwing a large number of documents into iron barrels. The black smoke from burning documents could be seen hundreds of meters away.
"All these documents will also be destroyed..."
Xia Shijie shouted loudly as he took out a thick stack of documents from the safe.
Soon the file was taken out by the clerk. After the clerk exited, he looked at the secretary and asked.
"Secretary Chen, have all our employees applied for passports?"
"Manager Xia, don't worry, they have all applied for passports. When the situation stabilizes, they will take the train Go to Suicheng or Hong Kong.”
Xia Shijie said before Chen Zeli finished speaking.
“Don’t go to Suicheng. Those fucking guys are just a bunch of pigs. It’s definitely not possible to expect them to fight. They are all experts who have transferred in. Maybe they will be liberated before you get there. , you go directly to the port city, and it will be handed over to the British. The company has an office there. Don’t worry, the company will not ignore you, and there will definitely be jobs for you in Nanyang.”
Xia Shijie then asked about the payment of salary. After confirming that the salary had been paid half a year in advance, he nodded and said.
"I feel relieved now...Okay, Secretary Chen, see you in Chang'an."
"Goodbye, Chang'an, Manager Xia."
Afterwards, Xia Shijie walked out of the office with his briefcase and said goodbye to the staff he met one by one as he went downstairs, telling them to take their families to Nanyang after the war subsided.
Then, amidst the chaos, Xia Shijie got into a car and drove towards the airport amidst the crowds of people.
Ten minutes later, the last Nanyang Airlines C95 aircraft took off from Hongqiao Airport. A few hours later, the airport defenders revolted.
……
Two days later, Shanghai was already a sea of red.
Amid the crowds of people celebrating, several foreign ships sounded their departure whistles in the middle of the river.
"Nanyang 133" was the last ship to leave Shanghai. It left under the watchful eyes of the soldiers. Although it was an LST tank landing ship, because it was flying the Nanyang merchant ship flag, Like other foreign merchant ships, they can still leave Shanghai under the watch of soldiers.
Like all ships, it is also overcrowded. The ship that once transported immigrants has become a merchant ship. Even though the ticket price has skyrocketed to fifteen to twenty gold pieces, everyone is still fighting for it. Buy a ticket and get on the boat.
Except for a few young and strong workers on the ship, the vast majority of passengers bought tickets at high prices. Those young and strong workers were not idle either. While people were scrambling to get on the ship, they used ropes to hoist passengers who could not climb onto the ship to the hull. The port was crowded with people and noisy.
Passengers were crowded on the decks, cabin walkways, and passages, and even the steps were crowded with people! People who could not move were even more grateful that they could catch the final flight. a ship.
Like many people, Liu Hongjie, who was fifteen or sixteen years old, looked at the sea in confusion after the boat left the mouth of the Yangtze River.
"Dad, are we really going to Nanyang?"
"Yes!"
Liu Zhongzhou nodded, unlike others who bought tickets with gold bars. , as a university professor, he got on the boat with a pass issued by the consulate, but on the crowded boat, no one cared whether he was a university professor or an ordinary person, everyone was huddled together.
"Will Uncle Wang's family come over?"
What Liu Hongjie cares about is not Uncle Wang, but his daughter, their childhood sweetheart.
"They should come. I heard that their family has already received passports from Nanyang. I guess they want to come here when the situation becomes stable again."
Liu Zhongzhou said. Although applying for a Nanyang passport has certain academic qualifications and family property restrictions, there are still many people who have received a Nanyang passport, but that's it. Maybe the passport is just a plan for them.
As the ship sailed toward Nanyang, the people on the ship just stared at the mountains and rivers of the motherland that were far away, with everything behind them.
In the following months, although there was still a steady stream of immigrants entering Nanyang by boat, there were fewer and fewer people.
..."The sky is about to change..."
Putting down the newspaper in his hand, Zhou Dafa let out a long sigh, and then looked around. Three years ago, he just arrived in Dongning from Rabaul. At that time, Puyapura was just a small town with only a few thousand natives. However, with the arrival of the Nanyang Army and the arrival of workers, in just a few years, it has become a city with a population of hundreds of thousands. .
However, the real transformation here happened five months ago. After the Dutch sold Dongning to Nanyang, immigrants poured into Dongning on a large scale, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands every month. People come here.
Factories and plantations have sprung up outside the city.
While Zhou Dafa was sighing, the whistle of merchant ships entering the port was heard in the distance.
It’s a ship.
“Beep!”
Hearing the whistle, Zhou Dafa glanced in the direction of the port, and then a familiar LST tank landing ship slowly sailed into the port. Back then, he and It was in this kind of boat that the brothers came here from Rabaul.
To this day, he still remembers how excited he was when he saw that the Nanyang troops on the ship were actually compatriots. They rushed to jump into the sea to greet them, and after swimming hundreds of meters, they climbed onto the ship and shared The joy of being together.
Soon the landing ship docked at the port. The moment the hatch was opened, thousands of people poured out. Upon seeing this, Zhou Dafa waved his baton and blew his whistle to restore order.
"Line up, don't crowd, don't crowd, avoid stepping on..."
Although the whistle was harsh, no one paid him any attention. Zhou Dafa, who had long been accustomed to all this, He immediately took out his left-hand revolver and pointed it into the air and pulled the trigger.
"Bang! Bang!"
Two gunshots were fired, and finally these impatient people calmed down.
"Everyone lined up, walked along the railing, and went to the waiting area on the left after being separated from their families..."
Under the command of Zhou Dafa and his colleagues, order on the pier was slowly restored. After coming down, Liu Zhongzhou, who was following the crowd, kept looking at the policeman with his eyes as he walked forward. His appearance seemed familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.
Zhou Dafa, who was maintaining order, glanced at the crowd when he noticed someone looking at him, and suddenly said in surprise.
"You, you, you..."
Looking at the familiar appearance, Zhou Dafa's title kept changing, and he didn't say it until the end.
"You are Professor Liu! Yes, yes, Professor Liu!"
"Police officer, you are..."
Liu Zhongzhou looked at the man in front of him. He looked familiar but couldn't remember where he was. Saw it somewhere.
"I, I am Zhou Dafa of the 88th Division. When I was imprisoned in the concession, I met Professor Liu in the "Lonely Army Camp". You helped us at that time..."
No When he finished speaking, someone next to him exclaimed in shock.
"Oh my God! It's a brother from Lone Army Camp."
The people who had been crowding to pass the customs all crowded to the railings and asked him how he got here and where they were.
When they learned that they had been taken to Rabaul by the Japs to do coolies, people immediately cursed the Japs loudly. When they learned that there were still thirty-three brothers from the solitary army camp living here, everyone was in despair. After taking a breath, some people survived.
The unexpected reunion between "old friends" made the atmosphere on the pier a little more relaxed and gave these new arrivals a little peace of mind.
Maybe this is not the main island of Nanyang, but at least it is still Nanyang.
When Professor Liu said goodbye, Zhou Dafa did not forget to tell him.
"Professor Liu, when you arrive at your place of residence, the police will come to inquire. At that time, you only need to answer their questions carefully. I work at the Port Police Department. If anything happens in the future, you can Just come to me.”
(End of this chapter)