Friday, December 25, 2009

潜伏 (中)

潜伏 (中)
The Mole

by 龙一


晚上回到家中,余则成说你累了一天,早些睡吧,便下楼去工作。他们住的房子在旧英租界的 爱丁堡道,是原比商仪品公司高级职员的公寓,楼上有一间大卧房和卫生间,楼下只有一间客厅兼书房的大房间,另外就是厨房兼餐厅了。这所住房并不大,但对于 他来讲已经很不错了,接收工作开始之后,接收大员们首先争夺的就是好房子。这个时候能在几天之内就弄出个像样的家来,大约也只有军统特务能够办得到。
That night after they returned, Yu said,” You must be tired. Go to bed early,” and then he went downstairs to work. Their apartment was located on the Edinburg Road in the former British Concession and was the quarters for the senior executives of a Belgian real estate company. There was a master bedroom with a bath upstairs and down below was a great room containing the living room and study area, plus a kitchen with a dining area. The apartment wasn’t huge, but more than adequate to him. During this transition period, the best housing went to the highest ranking officers. Only the intelligence agents from the Military Statistics Bureau could have pulled the strings to obtain such nice accommodations as this in such a short time.

  余则成知道自己必须得睡到楼上卧室中去,军统局对属下考察得非常细致,万万马虎不得,往日里他若是有过一丝一毫的疏忽,必定活不到今天。钟敲过十二点,他这才上楼。洗漱完毕,他将卫生间的窗子拉开插销虚掩上,又打开了从走廊通向阳台那扇门的 门锁,也把门虚掩上。这样一来,他就有了两条退路。任何时候都要保证自己有两条退路,这是军统局干训班教官的耳提面命,他记得牢牢的,并用在了正义事业上。
Yu realized that was necessary for him to sleep in the upstairs bedroom. One couldn’t afford to make any mistakes, because the Military Statistics Bureau tended to keep everyone under close surveillance. Had he made any mistakes, he would not have survived to this day. When the clock chimed twelve, he went upstairs and cleaned up. After that, he cautiously left open the bathroom window ajar, and unlocked the door leading to the balcony from the hallway, thus providing him with two getaway exits. When he was put through the training at the Military Statistics Bureau, he was taught to always have two alternate escape exits. That fact had always been kept in the back of his mind, and he now was putting to use for the righteous cause.

  翠平还没有睡,她将带来的行李铺在地板上,坐在上面打盹。他说你到床上去睡,我睡地下。 翠平说我睡地下,这是我的任务。他问什么任务。她说保护你的安全。说着话,她挪开包袱,露出怀里的手雷。余则成一见手雷不禁吃惊得想笑,那东西可不是八路 军或日军使用的手榴弹,也不是普通的美式步兵手雷,而是美国政府刚刚援助的攻坚手雷,粗粗的一个圆筒,炸开来楼上楼下不会留下一个活口。看来组织上想得很周到,余则成放心了,睡得也比平日里安稳许多。到凌晨醒来时,他发现翠平没在房中,便走到门口,这才看到翠平正蹲在二楼的阳台上,嘴里咬着一杆短烟袋,喷出来的浓烟好似火车头,脚边被用来当烟缸使的是他刚买回来的一方端砚,据说是文徵明的遗物。如果此刻被时常考察属下的军统局发现他太太蹲在阳台上抽烟,不论从哪方面讲都不是好事,但是,他还是悄悄地退了回来,他希望来监视他的人只会认为是他们夫妻不和而已。
Rather than being asleep on the bed, he found Cuiping dozing hunched over that parcel she carried, sitting on the luggage that was spread on the floor. When he offered “Go sleep on the bed, I’ll sleep on the floor.” She replied, ”I’ll sleep on the floor, because this is my assignment.” Then he asked, ”What assignment is that?” She explained that her assignment was to protect him. While they were talking, she shifted parcel, exposing a grenade, which shocked and amused Yu at the same time. The grenade was not made by the communists or the Japanese. It was not even an ordinary American infantry grenade, but one of those which were powerful enough to raze a whole building. He was relieved and gratified that the communists were watching over him, and thus slept better that night than before. At dawn when he woke up, he discovered that Cuiping was not in the room and went out to look for her. He found her squatting on the floor of the balcony, clutching a pipe and puffing like a locomotive. Beside her was his antique ink stone used by the famous calligrapher Wen Huiming from the Ming dynasty being used as an ash tray. It was not a scene to be seen by anyone from the Military Statistics Bureau. So, rather than making a scene, he withdrew without causing a commotion which might attract the others.

  果然,早上站长召见他,并且当着他的面点燃了一根粗若擀面杖的雪茄烟,笑道:没想到我那干女儿居然是个抽烟袋的呀!然后又安慰他,说那孩子在沦陷区一定吃了许多苦,你就让让她吧。你是个男人,可不能婆婆妈妈的,要是家中没意思你可以出去玩儿 嘛,但不许遗弃我这干女儿,这样的孩子看着她就让人心疼,更别说欺负她。余则成对此只有诺诺而已,心想这位上司不知道动了哪股心肠,居然如此维护翠平。
Unsurprisingly, Yu found himself summoned by the branch chief that morning, and upon arriving, found him lighting up a humongous cigar almost the size of a Chinese rolling pin. He said with amusement,” I didn’t realize that my god daughter was so addicted to smoking.” Then in a consoling tone, he said,”This child must have suffered a lot during the Japanese occupation. You have to be tolerant and accepting. You are a man, so don’t nag like a fish wife. If you do get bored or unsatisfied, go out and enjoy yourself, but don’t ever desert my god daughter. She is already pathetic and needs to be pitied, not to also mention the fact that you are not allowed to hurt her.” Yu nodded in agreement over and over, all the while wondering, why he was so compassionate towards Cuiping.

  余则成的日常工作是汇总、分析军统局天津站在华北各个组织送来的情报,多数是中共方面 的,也有许多是关于政府军和国民党军政大员的,五花八门,数量极大,他必须得把这些情报分类存档,并将经过站长核准的情报送往刚刚迁回南京的军统局总部。 除此之外,他还必须要将这些情报中对中共有用的部分抄录一份,通过联络点送出去。
Yu’s regular job was to compile all the intelligence reports sent by the different stations from all over northern China, most of which was communist related. Also, there was information included regarding the Nationalist Army and their officials. He had to sort out from this mountain of information the most useful and important aspects, which was then given to the branch chief for approval and then forwarded to the recently relocated bureau headquarters in Nanjing. Further, he had to copy the useful information for the communists and then leave it at the drop.

  他的另一项主要工作是替站长处理私人财务。天津光复后,军统局是最先赶回来接收的机构之一,为了这件大事,局长也曾亲自飞来布置接收策略,并满载了整整一架飞机的财物飞回南京。站长在这期间的收获也极大,但他毕竟是个有知识有修养的人,不喜欢那种抢劫式的方法,便主要对银行业、保险业和盐、碱等大企业下手,但对企业进行改组、重新分配股权等工作极为复杂,很费精力和时间,他便把这些事都交给了余则成,而他自己则一心一意地去深挖潜藏在市内的共产党人,而且不分良莠,手段冷酷无情。余则成曾几次提请组织上,要求让他对站长执行清除任务,不想却受到了组织上的严厉批评,说他现在的价值远远超过杀死站长数百倍,不能因小失大。
Another of his jobs was to handle the personal finances of the branch chief. After Tianjin was liberated from the Japanese, the Military Statistics Bureau was among the first to be reinstated. As a matter of fact, the Bureau chief, himself flew in to reorganize the bureau and filled a plane load of treasures confiscated from the Japanese back to Nanjing with him. During the same period, the branch chief also acquired a fortune. His forte, because of his intelligence and education, was not in compiling art and treasures, but rather in the banking, insurance, and salt enterprises. The restructuring and redistribution of stock shares involved complicated methods and required a lot of energy and time, so he delegated these tasks to Yu, and focus his own time and energy in routing out communist spies in the city of Tianjin. He never differentiated between good or bad communists, but used ruthless methods in his pursuit. And because of this, Yu had proposed to the communists the assassination of the branch chief numerous times. However, they repeatedly came back with reprimands him that his usefulness in gaining information for them was a hundred times more valuable than to have the branch chief killed. They could not risk his great usefulness for what to them was an insignificant matter.

  由于他的工作量极大,胃也不好,身体在不知不觉间便越来越差。翠平看着他一天比一天瘦, 便提出来由她去送情报,给他分担一点负担。他问,组织上怎么给你交代的?她说组织上知道你一个人忙不过来,就想重新建立单线联系,让你写,让我送。他又 问:你知道为什么会选中你吗?她说知道,组织上说,一来是因为女学生们都到延安去了,一时找不到合适的人:二来是因为我不识字。余则成点了点头,第二条理 由最重要,组织上考虑的比他要周全得多。但是,他仍然不同意由翠平代替他去送情报,因为这项工作太危险,如果被抓,他的军统身份可以暂时抵挡一阵,能够争 取到撤退的机会,但翠平却没有这机会,而是只有一条死路。
Because of his heavy workload and stomach ulcers, Yu’s health had been deteriorating during this time. Seeing him losing weight, Cuiping offered to lessen his burdens by taking the deliveries to the drop. He asked her what the party said about doing this. She said that the party had known that he was overburdened, and would need to establish a new line of communication. “You compile the information and I will deliver it.” Then Yu asked, “Do you know why the party picked you for this job?” She replied that the party officials said the first reason was that all the female students had gone to Yan’an and they couldn’t find a suitable candidate. The second reason was that I was not literate. Yu nodded, the second reason was more important and the party was more thoughtful than he realized. Still, he was not going to let Cuiping be the messenger. His thinking was that would be too dangerous for her should she be caught. Had he been caught, he at least had an official title which could afford him some time, possible to escape, whereas they would execute her on the spot.

  翠平许是看出了他的心意,便有些生硬地说,我被抓住也不会连累你,我的衣领里缝着砒霜哪。他只好笑道:你是我太太,站长的干女儿,抓住你必定会连累我。翠平当即怒道:你这样婆婆妈妈的,是对革命同志的不信任,依我看,你根本就不像他们说的那么英雄。从此后,一连几天翠平不再与他讲话,每日无聊地楼上楼下转悠,但抽烟还是到阳台上去,用那块文徵明的端砚当烟缸。
Cuiping might have guessed what he was thinking, and said bluntly, “Even if I were caught, I would not rat on you. I have arsenic sealed in my collar, which I will immediately take.” Being amused at her simplistic thinking, he said: ”You’re my wife and the god daughter of the branch chief. How could it possibly not implicate me?” Cuiping instantly flared up and said: “ What a coward you are! You don’t trust your revolutionary comrade. In my eyes, you are not the hero they make you out to be.” For several days thereafter, Cuiping refused to speak to him, but wandered around the house going up and down doing nothing. When she went out on the balcony to smoke, she continued to use his precious ink stone as an ash tray.

  余则成心想,这便是他第一次望着她时,在她眼神中发现的那股子执拗。她是个单纯、不会变通、甚至有些鲁莽的女人。但是,他相信她一定很勇敢,会毫不犹豫地吞下衣领上的毒药或拉响那只攻坚手雷,为此,他对她又有了几分敬意。
Yu thought this was exactly the stubbornness he had seen in her eyes the first time they met. She was simple-minded, inflexible and even a little rude. But he also believed that she must be very brave and would surely take the arsenic without hesitation or even use the grenade to blow herself up. For that, his respect for her grew.

  然而,此后不久发生了一件事,让他发现,对于他的安全来讲,翠平的存在甚至比老马还要危险。
However, something happened before long to make him realize that for his own safety, Cuiping was even more dangerous to him than Old Ma.

  一九四六年八月十日,马歇尔和司徒雷登宣布对国共双方的“调处”失败,内战即将全面爆 发。在这个时候,军统局天津站的工作一下子忙碌起来,余则成一连半个多月没有回家,到了九月二日,国民政府军事委员会的《国军在华北及东北地区作战计划 书》终于下达了,与此文件一同送来的还有晋升他为中校的委任状。余则成这几年的工作确实非常出色,不论是对于中共党组织,还是对于军统局,所以,得到晋升是意料之中的事。
On August 10, 1946, General Marshall and Leighton Stuart announced that peace talks between the Nationalists and the Communists failed and civil war broke out. At this time, the Tianjin branch of the Military Statistics Bureau became very busy. Yu hadn’t gone home for over two weeks. On September 2nd, the National Military Commission announced the Military Strategic Plan for the Northern and North Eastern Areas and along with it came the notice of promotion that Yu was now a lieutenant Colonel. Yu had done an excellent job in the past few years, both for the Communists and the Nationalists, making the promotion totally expected.

  他将文件替党组织拍照了复本,将原件给站长送了过去。站长一见挺高兴,说工作终于告一段落,咱们总算可以松一口气了,晚上带你太太来我家,让那孩子认认义母,你也顺便给大家伙儿亮一亮你的新肩章。
He made copies of the document for the communists and sent the original to the branch chief. Upon seeing the document, the branch chief said happily, “Now that we have wrapped up everything, we can take a break. Bring your wife to my home tonight. She can meet her god mother and you can show off your new stripes.”

  于是,他急忙给家里打电话,是老妈子接的。翠平虽然来此已经几个月了,但仍然不习惯电 话、抽水马桶和烧煤球的炉子。他让老妈子转告太太,说晚上有应酬,让她将新做的衣服准备好。他还想叮嘱一下让翠平弄弄头发,但最后还是决定回去接她时再 说。这些琐事都是他们日积月累的矛盾,不是一时半会儿可以解决得了的。
So, he hurriedly made a call to home. It was the old maid who answered the phone. Although Cuiping had arrived several months earlier, she was still not used to the phone, the flushing toilet and the charcoal stove. Yu asked the maid to pass his words to his wife that there would be a party that evening and tell her to wear her newly made dress. He also wanted to say something about her hair, but decided he better tell her in person. All the small matters that had been accumulating for sometime now, could not be fixed at once.

  果然,等他回到家中,翠平还蹲在阳台上抽烟袋,他安排的事一样也没做。老妈子赔不是,说太太这些日子心情不好,先生您要好好说话。他不愿意被用人看到他们的争吵,不管他是受命于军统局还是中共党组织,这些事被传出去都只会有害无益。
Not surprisingly, when he got him, he found Cuiping squatting on the balcony smoking her pipe, and hadn’t done anything he had asked at all. The old maid said apologetically, “the Missus has not been in a good mood recently, please speak to her nicely, sir.” Yu wouldn’t want anyone to see them arguing, for it wouldn’t be good if such incidents were gossiped about and got to either the nationalist or the Communists.

  他努力让自己平静下来,对翠平说,晚上站长请你去见他太太,穿得正式才好。
He calmed him down with difficulty and said to Cuiping,” Branch Chief invited you to meet his wife. It would be best for you to dress up.”

  站长虽然在本地安了好几处家,但始终与元配太太住在旧英租界常德道一号那所大宅子里。他对世俗的礼节非常重视,经常对手下讲,纲常就是一切,乱了纲常,一切也就都乱了。
Although the branch chief had several homes, he and his first wife had been always living in the mansion located at No. 1 Changde Road in the old British Concession. He was very respectful of the Chinese traditional morals and etiquette rules. He had told his subordinates repeatedly that forms of the social and family hierarchy is everything. If that was changed, all society would be thrown into chaos.

  翠平收拾起烟袋和“烟灰缸”,回到卧室,这才说,我不想去见那些人,他们明明是些杀人魔鬼,坐在一起却装得好像是一群小学校里斯文的先生,让我越想越恨,总忍不住要拉响手雷把他们都炸死。
Cuiping gathered up the pipe and the ash tray and went back into the bedroom, and said, “I don’t want to see these people. They are all murderous demons inside, but sit there acting like polite school teachers. This only makes me feel more resentful towards them, making me want to pull the grenade and blow them up.

  余则成只好说,我跟你解释过许多次了,这是工作需要,是革命事业的需要。
Yu said with resignation, “I have explained this to you many times. This is required of us to further the cause of our revolution.”

  他必须得说服翠平,这种应酬是无法推托的。军统局对属下的内部团结有着极其严格的要求, 所以,不论是站长一级,还是侦探、办事员之类的下级人员,各种联谊活动以及私人之间的往来非常稠密,然而,翠平每一次参加这类活动,总是会给别人带来不快。当然了,她倒也没有什么特别的举动或言语,只是一到地方她便把那对粗眉拧得紧紧的,脸上被太阳灼伤的皮肤因为神色阴郁而越发地晦暗,有人与她讲话,她 也只是牵一牵嘴角,既没有一丝和气的神色,也没有一句言语。这与军统局所谓的“大家庭”气氛格格不入,特别是让那些因为丈夫参与接收而一夜之间浑身珠光宝气的家眷们大为恼火,便忍不住回到家中大发牢骚,而这些牢骚的作用也已经对余则成的工作造成了极其不利的影响。
Yu had to persuade Cuiping to go, because this was a ‘social demand’ and not just an invitation that they could refuse. The Military Statistics Bureau had very strict requirements for its associates to socialize, so there were frequent social gatherings at each level from the branch chiefs down to the detectives and agents. Whenever Cuiping attended one of these gatherings, she would cast a pall on the party. It was not because she said or did anything inappropriate, rather it was because she was always frowning and her sunburned face made her look even gloomier. Even when people tried to engage her in conversation, her lips would barely move and showed no interest whatsoever. Her lack of friendliness and withdrawal kept her an outsider from the “big bureau family.” It caused resentment among the snobby wives of the higher ranked officers, who complained about her to their husbands at home, and the repercussions of that often fell on Yu at work.

  于是,他亲自动手替翠平拿出新做的印度绸旗袍、美国玻璃丝袜和英国产的白色高跟拷花皮鞋,又从首饰匣中挑出一串长长的珍珠。余则成不怕危险,也不怕牺牲,然而,做这些事却让他感到极度的屈辱。他从来也没有在心底埋怨过组织上对他不理解,但他有些埋怨组织上没有把翠平教育好。他从事的是一项极其危险的工作,在这个环境中翠平显然没有给他帮上任何一点儿小忙。
Therefore, Yu, himself, took out the newly made Indian silk Qipao for Cuiping, and the American nylon stockings and the English white leather pumps, as well as a long string of pearls from her jewelry box. He never feared dangers or sacrificing his life for the cause, but he felt humiliated having to do these things. He never blamed the party for not knowing him well, but felt that they should have trained her better. He was working on a very dangerous mission, and under the circumstance, Cuiping certainly was not helping.

  在他拿衣物时,翠平一直深深地低着头,坐在床边生闷气,这时她突然说道:你整天把我关在家中,根本就没有把我当作革命同志,更没有给我任何革命工作。
While he was laying out the cloth and jewelry, Cupiping was sulking with her head down sitting on the bed. Suddenly, she said, “You have kept me imprisoned at home all this time. You have never treated me like a revolutionary comrade or given me any real assignment.”

  余则成只能好言相劝,你住进这所房子本身就是革命工作,另外,如果你想散心,可以出去玩儿嘛,抽屉里有钱,站里边有车,到哪去都行,干什么都行。
Yu reasoned with her, saying that her living there was her assignment for the revolution. Had she felt bored, she was free to go out. There was money in the drawer for her to spend, and a car from the bureau was at her disposal. She had the freedom to go wherever she wanted and do whatever she pleased.

  你是想让我跟你们站里那些阔太太一样混日子吗?我可是堂堂正正的游击队员。翠平抬眼盯住他,黑眼珠在燃烧。
“Do you really want me to squander my time like those snobby women? I am a proud guerilla soldier.” She glared at him with fire in her eyes.

  对于女人的反抗,余则成无计可施,说道:那么你看该怎么办才好呢?
Facing resistance from a woman, Yu could do nothing but ask, “What do you want me to do?”

  给我工作,正式的革命工作。翠平表现出当仁不让的勇气。
“Give me a job, a real job for the revolution.” Cuiping said with conviction.

  你又不识字,而且……余则成猛地咬断口里不中听的话语,转口道:现在正是党的事业最关键的时期,党要求你潜伏在这里,你应该很高兴地服从才是,潜伏也是革命工作之一呀!
“You are illiterate, and …” Yu bit off the rest of the sentence and changed his tone, “It’s a critical time for the cause of our party. The party has asked you to stay undercover; you should gladly accept this job. Being an undercover agent is also a job for the revolution.”

  从他进入军统局干训班开始,曾经有两年多的时间与党组织没有任何联系。那是一段痛苦不堪 的回忆,要求他一边学习并实践对共产党人的搜捕、刑讯和暗杀,一边等待为党组织做工作的机会。因为经历过那么艰难的考验,所以他对翠平轻视潜伏工作的态度很不满意。他觉得,翠平之所以不能理解组织上的用意,主要是因为她不是知识分子。他这样想丝毫没有轻视农工阶级的用意,只是这种无知无识的状态,让翠平对党的革命理想和斗争策略无法进行深入的理解。然而,他又确实不擅长教导翠平这样的学生,无法将党的真实用意清楚地传达给她,因为他只会讲些干巴巴的道理, 而翠平脾气硬,性格执拗,最不擅长的便是听取道理。所以,虽然他们是革命同志,但却无法沟通他们的革命思想。为此,余则成心中非常痛苦,而且是那种老老实实、刻骨铭心的自责。
Since Yu started the training program with the Military Statistics Bureau, there had been a period of over two years where he did not communicate at all with the party. It had been an excruciating experience to learn and practice arresting, interrogating and assassinating communists, while waiting for a new assignment from the party. Due to his numerous trials, he was disgusted by Cuiping’s contempt for being an undercover agent. He thought it was because she was uneducated that she didn’t understand the party’s strategy. He was not demeaning the illiterate farm class per se, but that the lack of education prevented her from understanding the party’s strategy and goals. Unfortunately, he was not able to teach Cuiping or others like her, the real party line. He could only repeat the dry party slogans and clichés to them. And because of her undisciplined, impetuous personality, Cuiping was neither a good student nor a good listener. So even though they were comrades, they could not communicate with each other their own ideas of the party’s ideals and goals. Yu felt unreasonable pain because of the strong guilt of not being able to change her mindset.

  无奈之下,他只好再一次对翠平妥协,表示今晚应酬过后,他一定提请组织上给她安排任务。
Having no choice, he had to compromise by saying after tonight’s event, he would ask the party to give her a specific assignment.

  翠平却说,组织上早已安排过了,协助你工作就是我的任务。
But Cuiping replied, “The party has assigned me a job, and that is to assist you.”

  那么好吧。余则成只得又退了一步。不过,这次让步总算是给他带来了一点儿工作成绩——翠平终于同意用香皂洗头了。
“That’s OK.” Yu backed off one more step. But his compromise eventually brought him a reward – Cuiping agreed to use some fragrant soap to shampoo with.

  许是因为余则成答应了她的要求,翠平今晚还算合作,将清洁的长发在脑后挽了个光润的发髻,但看上去却有些显老,与时髦的衣饰也不般配。余则成止住了她往脸上扑粉的动作,只让她搽了一点润肤油和唇膏。她的皮肤黑得确实不宜扑粉。
Probably because Yu agreed to her request, Cuiping was relatively cooperative that night. She twisted her shampooed hair into a smooth bun, which made her look more mature. Unfortunately, the hair do did not complement her fashionable outfit. Yu kept her from putting on too much make-up because of her dark complexion, and only allowed her to use a little vanishing cream and lipstick.

  站长见到装扮一新的翠平,笑得非常开心,说这才好嘛,打扮起来真是好看。又对余则成下命令说,你可不许苛待我的干女儿,要尽可能地给她买些好衣服。余则成咔地一声碰响鞋跟表示从命,却没有留意到站长的话只是玩笑。
Upon seeing Cuiping in her new outfit, the branch chief laughingly said, “This is what you should be doing. You look very pretty when you are all made up.” And he turned to Yu and teasingly ordered him, “you must be generous to her and let her dress fashionably.” Yu agreed readily.

  站长夫人是位身材高大,性格粗豪的老太太,五十多岁,据说是北洋时期一位督军的女儿,那位督军是行伍出身,于是女儿便继承了家风,双手能打盒子炮。翠平向老太太行大礼认亲,老太太也为她准备了非常贵重的首饰和衣料作为见面礼。前来观礼的都是军统局的同事,老马紧跟在余则成身边,一个劲儿地恭维他有大运气,日后必定会升官发财,妻贤子孝,姬妾香艳,姻亲满朝。
The wife of the branch chief was an assertive mature woman who was quite statuesque in her fifties. It was alleged that she was a general’s daughter during the period of the warlords and inherited her father’s ability to shoot with both hands. Cuiping paid proper homage to her adoptive god mother and the god mother in acceptance gave her some valuable jewelry and silks in return. The audience were the colleagues from the bureau. Among them was Old Ma standing next to Yu, following him and plying him with flattery, that his future was assured, that he would be promoted, and have a nurturing wife and many beautiful concubines and dutiful children with in-laws scattered all over the country.

  余则成不即不离地应酬着老马,希望没有得罪他。这个家伙既有可能是杀他的刽子手,也会是他在军统局里的竞争对头。天津站在不久的将来会出现一个副站长的空缺,老马巴结这个位置已经许久了,而余则成这次被及时地晋升,便很自然地让他成为了这个 位置的候选者之一。成为副站长之后,他便可以看到通过照相电报传来的蒋介石的亲笔手令等最高级的机密。这也是他必须要完成的任务,在军统局里职位越高,他对党组织作出的贡献就越大,因此,他与老马的关系便不得不势如水火。
Hoping not to offend Old Ma, his replies were neutral. Old Ma could be his executioner, and was definitely his rival at the bureau. Rumors were that a new vice branch chief position would be forthcoming at the Tianjin branch. Old Ma had been coveting that position for a long time. As Yu had been recently promoted, he was also in line for this promotion. If he got this promotion, he would have access to the highest military secrets even those written by Chiang Kai-shek himself. His mission was to rise in rank as fast as possible, because the higher his position, the more he could contribute to the party. Therefore, he and Old Ma were really arch rivals and enemies.

  老马今天的话很多,巴结得站长和站长太太都很高兴。他对翠平的话也很多,甚至主动带领她 楼上楼下参观了站长豪华的住宅,而且是半弯着腰在前边引路,像个旅馆里的门童。这让余则成很是后悔没有事先提醒翠平,因为,老马的前任便是被老马这样给恭维死的。那人是组织上给余则成安排在军统局中的搭档,他死后,余则成便常常感到孤单。
Old Ma was very talkative and flattering to the branch chief and his wife and made them happy. He was very attentive to Cuiping, showing her all around the grand mansion with a humble attitude as though he was an inferior. Yu regretted that he had not warned Cuiping earlier of Old Ma, whose predecessor died due to his obsequiousness. He had been Yu’s partner and fellow spy assigned by the communists. After his death, Yu felt very alone.

  这一晚,翠平在聚会的后半段突然高兴起来,与老太太有说有笑,她的宝坻口音与老太太的安徽口音相映成趣,却让余则成看着担心,他猜不透翠平这份高兴的缘由。
Towards the latter part of the party, Yu noticed that Cuiping had suddenly become more animated. She was laughing and chattering with the branch chief’s wife. Their two distinctive accents mingled with enthusiastic laughter worried Yu to wonder what made Cuiping so cheerful.

  内战在即,所以聚会散得很早,众人纷纷告辞。翠平搀着老太太的手臂落在后边往外送客,余则成也跟在她身后唯恐她出错。突然,他发现翠平趁着众人不注意,朝他使了个得意的眼色,并提起旗袍的开衩处向他一抖,而他一见之下,立时被惊得险些坐到地上。他看到,在翠平的旗袍下,美国玻璃丝袜子里面,插着一份文件,字面朝外,正是那份《国军在华北及东北地区作战计划书》。他立刻抬头向门外望去,发现早已告辞的老马还留在院中,身后散落着他的七八个手下,不住地拿眼盯着走出来的客人。此时聚在门边等候与主人告辞的客人已经不多了。无奈之下,余则成从老太太身边抢过翠平说,你不是要上厕所吗?然后拉起她便跑上二楼。
Due to the fact that the civil war was about to begin, the party ended early and people started leaving. Cuiping was clutching the arm of the branch chief’s wife, as they said their farewells to the guests. Yu was behind them worried that Cuiping would do something to expose them. Unexpectedly, Cuiping, surreptitiously, winked at him with a self-satisfied expression. She flipped at the slit in her qipao, shocking Yu to the point of horror. He saw slipped under her stocking a document with the words facing outwards, which was none other than the same Military Strategic Plan for the Northern and North Eastern Areas. Yu glanced out of the front door, noticing that Old Ma who had left some time ago was still in the front yard with some of his men. They seemed to be scrutinizing all the departing guests. At that time, there were very few guests left. With no other option, Yu yanked Cuiping’s arm, while saying “Don’t you need to go to the bathroom before we leave?” and rushed her upstairs.

  站长的书房也在二楼,翠平一定是中了老马的奸计了。虽然老马并不一定知道翠平的真实身份,但圈套他是一定要下的,“有枣没枣打三杆子”,这是军统局传统的工作方法。
The Branch chief’s study was on the second floor, where Old Ma had set a trap for Cuiping, hoping to catch her possibly in it. The tradition of the bureau was to test all members, better to catch one than let one escape.

  翠平却一边跑一边问,走出去就安全了,你干啥要回来?余则成只好吓唬她说你偷文件的事已 经被发现了,他们正在门外等着抓你。跑进书房,他问你在哪拿的?翠平一指书桌上已被打开的公文包,那是站长的公文包。他迅速从翠平衣下拉出那份文件,又放 在书桌上用十根手指弹琴一般按了个遍,好用他的指纹盖住翠平的指纹。刚刚将文件塞进公文包,门外便响起了脚步声。翠平这时黑眼睛一闪,咬紧嘴唇,一下子扑到他的怀中,像一只小动物一般在他的胸前拱来拱去。但余则成知道这样解决不了问题,便猛地将翠平的旗袍撩到腰际,然后将她抱到书桌上,一只手搬起她的一条 腿,另一只手迅速将站长的公文包锁好。同时他也留意到,翠平的脸已经红到了脖子和耳朵上。
While running up the stairs, Cuiping asked, ”We were almost safe, why are you pulling me back?” Yu frightened her by saying she had already been caught in the trap and they were waiting outside to expose them. When they entered the study, Yu asked “Where did you get the document from?” She pointed the open briefcase on the desk, which belong to the branch chief. Yu quickly pulled out the document from her stocking, put on the desk and rubbed it with his fingers to take out any finger prints left on it. Just as he placed the document into the briefcase, he heard the footsteps outside the room. Cuiping shut her eyes, bit her lips and threw herself into Yu’s arms, cuddling him. Yu knew that was not sufficient, and lifted her qipao over her hips, set her on the desk, with one hand up her panty, while locking the briefcase with the other. He saw that Cuiping was flushed from her ears down her neck.

  冲进来的是老马和他的一班手下,见情形立刻愣在门口,笑道,小余,想不到你这个老实人也会干这调调儿!
It was Old Ma and his men who entered the room. Seeing them in that position, Old Ma said while grinning:” I never expected an innocent like you to do such a thing.”

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