Liancheng City, less than 50 kilometers southeast of Zhuzhou.

The visit of Yang Weiping, the head of state of the Eastern Union of Eastern Union, to China did not have a little impact on this third-tier industrial city, which is located in the hinterland of central and southern China and is historically known as "Little Nanjing".

It's just that as the executive deputy director of the Liancheng National Security Bureau, Zhou Guohua hasn't closed his eyes for two consecutive days and two nights.

Zhou Guohua is a native of Liancheng, in the 79 years of the war against Vietnam armed protection of overseas Chinese, his Southern Military Region 41 Group Army outstanding military achievements, he himself also fought bravely in this war, outstanding performance, won the individual second-class merit twice, collective first-class merit once. After the war, he was unable to continue serving in the army because of a left leg injury, so he returned to his local hometown as a deputy regimental-level cadre, and was assigned to the Second Squadron of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Liancheng Public Security Bureau as a squadron leader.

When Huaxia formally established the Ministry of State Security, the national security bureaus in various localities needed to absorb a large number of experienced cadres, and Zhou Guohua was both fortunate and unfortunate to be transferred to this special department specializing in the underground hidden front, and was appointed deputy director at the level of deputy director, and two years later was promoted to executive deputy director, and the deputy director level enjoyed the treatment of the director level.

Some time ago, the national security system across the country received a secret mission to find a young woman named Su Hongmei across the country at any cost. For this reason, the central authorities even did not hesitate to launch the second round of the national population census ahead of schedule.

The Liancheng City National Security Bureau received only a black and white half-length photo of Su Hongmei, and a personal resume that couldn't be simpler. In Zhou Guohua's view, the only valuable thing in this information is that this woman named Su Hongmei was once the female champion of liberal arts in Longxi Province in the 77 national college entrance examination, and was admitted to Beijing Normal University, but she suddenly dropped out of school and returned to her hometown Jinnan County in the second half of her junior year.

The task assigned by the superior did not state what the female college student had committed, but only strictly proposed that the woman's personal safety should be ensured no matter what. She and her family must not even be allowed to do anything harmful.

In recent years, it has been the peak period of the return of educated youths from all over the country, and Zhou Guohua took it for granted that this woman named Su Hongmei might be the lover of a certain second generation of red in the central government who had a special relationship with him when he was a young intellectual. After all, this kind of thing has happened a lot all over the country this year. Therefore, Zhou Guohua did not attach too much importance to this case at the beginning, but only arranged for his subordinate units to go through the routine process according to the instructions of his superiors.

However, what Zhou Guohua didn't expect was that just a week ago. Suddenly, a department-level director named Guo Shangyi came from the headquarters of the Ministry of State Security in Beijing, and he came to Liancheng to squat. According to the political commissar Peng in the bureau, the origin of this Director Guo is very scary, he is a guard with a knife in the Forbidden City, and he is currently the director of the South Asia Department of the Ministry of National Security.

As soon as Director Guo came, the entire Liancheng National Security Bureau naturally did not dare to slack off from top to bottom. Immediately, the Liancheng City Public Security Bureau cooperated to conduct a carpet secret investigation of all the foreign populations in the Liancheng area.

Just the day before yesterday, the Xiacheng Township Police Station of the Yuetang Branch of the Liancheng City Public Security Bureau received a clue that a habitual criminal who had stolen wires and cables had been caught providing an important clue. The suspect claimed that he had seen Ms. Su and knew her whereabouts.

Director Guo attached great importance to this clue, and personally went to the Xiacheng Township Police Station to interrogate the theft suspect.

It turned out that this unemployed young man nicknamed "Monkey Seven" had been stealing wires and cables from the Liancheng Cable Factory and the Liancheng Electric Machinery Factory for a long time, and he had not committed any serious crimes. Four days ago, when stealing genuine cables from the Liancheng Cable Factory, he was arrested by the economic police of the factory, and then he was sent to the Xiacheng Township Police Station.

When the criminal police officer of the police station handling the case was routinely interrogating Monkey Seven in the office and taking a confession. inadvertently let Monkey Qi see a missing person notice pressed by the criminal policeman under the glass plate of the desk. This notice was sent by the Ministry of National Security to all units of the national public security system, and the people who were looking for were Su Hongmei and Su Changgui, father and daughter. It is also clearly printed with a bareheaded black and white photo of the father and daughter.

Monkey Qi claimed that he had seen the person on the missing person notice, and that both father and daughter had seen it. It's just that the names on the missing person notice don't match what he knows, but he patted his chest and assured that the father and daughter in the scrap yard he had been to looked exactly like Su Hongmei and Su Changgui on this missing person notice. And the old man in the scrap yard is nicknamed "Gui Lao".

After the arraignment of Monkey Qi, Director Guo did not hesitate and personally led the team to lead Monkey Seven to the scrap yard that the suspect said.

I don't know what Director Guo is thinking. He did not let Zhou Guohua and others go to the scrap shop to find someone to verify in such a dignified manner, but parked on the side of the road more than 100 meters away from the scrap shop, and stayed in the car very cautiously to observe with binoculars.

The terrain here is not too complicated, the main road is Jianshe South Road, and there is an intersection nearby. Two T-junctions. The surrounding area is basically bungalows, there are no high-rise buildings, and the highest floors are only a few three-story buildings on the side of the road on Jianshe South Road. The scrap yard, with its sign on old wooden boards that reads "Scrap Acquisition", is located in the middle of the second T-junction, a dirt road leading to the outskirts of vegetable farmers.

Zhou Guohua still clearly remembers that when Director Guo saw the young woman who looked like Su Hongmei pushing the scrap collection three-wheeler factory out of the two simple and dilapidated shanty houses, Director Guo's body obviously trembled with extraordinary excitement. Immediately afterwards, Director Guo took out his mobile phone without any hesitation and dialed a call, and then calmly said simply, "Shouzheng, the person has been found, and it is in Liancheng!"

Director Guo was happy, but Zhou Guohua and his three subordinates were guilty.

No, Director Guo took three men and one woman with them, on the side of the road, the cat was in the car, and they stayed for a whole day and two nights. During this period, as if in order not to alarm the target, Director Guo also asked Zhou Guohua to move the car to several positions, but the location ensured that the unnamed scrap shop was in the line of sight of all the personnel at the scene, and anyone who entered and exited the scrap shop was photographed and archived. In addition, two female policemen in civilian clothes were temporarily dispatched from the bureau to secretly protect Su Hongmei when she was out.

At half past ten in the morning, two "Tiangong Humvee" off-road jeeps sprayed with digital camouflage sped over the right corner of the T-junction at the end of the potholed, cinder-covered dirt road.

"Attention, someone is coming, first-class combat preparation!" Director Guo, who was sitting in the back seat of the car behind Zhou Guohua, suddenly gave an order, and also picked up the Type 82 9mm military pistol that had been placed on the seat beside him, and quickly pulled the bolt to load the bullet, lowered the window, and locked his eyes on the two military vehicles that suddenly appeared.

Zhou Guohua naturally saw the two high-grade off-road vehicles that obviously belonged to the military vehicles of the army from far and near at this time, and couldn't help but subconsciously ask: "Director Guo, isn't this our army's car? Why do you still need to prepare for battle?"

"Execute the order!" Director Guo said sternly: "There can't be any slight difference at this time!"

Zhou Guohua didn't dare to ask more, but picked up the walkie-talkie and said in a deep voice: "Everyone has it, first-level combat preparation!"

The sudden battle order made all the Liancheng national security police officers on the scene scramble one by one, as if they were facing a great enemy.

"Squeak!" In the two screeching sounds of sudden braking, the two off-road military vehicles stopped in the middle of the road about three meters in front of the Beijing JEEP where Zhou Guohua was staying.

The back door of the military vehicle at the head was pushed open, and a middle-aged man in his thirties, wearing a national security police uniform and wearing the rank of first-class police inspector, looked extremely sturdy.

After seeing the middle-aged man, Director Guo sighed softly, turned off the safety of the pistol, and then said: "Director Zhou, it's your own person, don't be vigilant, so everyone doesn't have to be nervous." ”

After finishing speaking, Director Guo pinned the pistol under the back of his waist and pushed the door to get out of the car.

"Shang Yi, what's the situation now?" the first-class police superintendent strode towards Director Guo, asking as he walked.

"One qiē is normal!" Guo Shangyi seemed to have finally let go of a heavy boulder that had been pressing on his heart, and easily hugged the comer warmly, "Meng Zheng, your kid came faster than I imagined, and now I will be relieved." ”

These two are Guo Shangyi and Meng Shouzheng, who have been following Yang Weiping as guards at the beginning!

"What about people?" Meng Shouzheng asked, looking around.

"Over there. Guo Shangyi turned around and gestured to the unnamed scrap collection shop, and said in a low voice: "Su Hongmei went out to collect scrap, and the two children were taken by Elder Su and his wife to stay at home. I asked the people of Liancheng Guoan to arrange two female policemen in plainclothes to protect Su Hongmei in secret, calculate the time, she should be back soon. ”

"Their family has always lived in this kind of place, and they make a living by collecting waste?" Meng Shouzheng stared at the two shabby-looking shantytowns not far ahead, his face full of disbelief.

"Hmm!" Guo Shangyi's face became heavy, and he sighed and said, "If Chief Yang sees that their family is having such a hard time, I believe he will be very, very uncomfortable in his heart." ”

It seems that Su Hongmei has been taking care of her parents with two children all these years, which is really not easy. Meng Shouzheng's mood also became quite depressed, "Now it's okay, I've finally found their family." I'll report to Minister Lin right away!"

"Minister Lin came over in person?" asked Guo Shangyi, obviously with some surprise.

"For such a big thing, can he not come to the old man's house?" Meng Shouzheng sighed and said, "After receiving your call, I immediately reacted to Minister Lin. Then he contacted the military overnight and requested that at 6 o'clock this morning, he took a military plane to fly directly to the 36th Air Division's station. In order to ensure safety, Minister Lin brought over a guard company of the 36th Air Force Division stationed at the airport, and is now personally directing the establishment of a cordon on the periphery. I'm going to check on the situation first. ”

"You call, I'll ask where Su Hongmei is now. Guo Shangyi nodded lightly, then turned to look at Zhou Guohua. (To be continued......)