Chapter 54: Xin Shen
Beiping, Zongfu mansion. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
The hall was silent, and even the lieutenants and secretaries walked lightly, for the atmosphere seemed to be intolerable.
The door of the study on the second floor was closed, and the entire second floor was empty, but it seemed that the oppressive atmosphere seeping from the study on the second floor could be felt from the first floor.
The old steward looked at the pond with a sad face, and the chubby carp was fighting for fish food.
"That is, you fat fish don't know that the form is severe, and the military dogs in the front yard don't dare to bark. He hammered his waist and sighed, "I still have to suffer this crime at such an old age, so when the grandmaster comes back, I should tell the old man and return to my hometown." ā
The curtains of the study had long been drawn, and at noon, it was very dark in the antique study.
Xin Shen held a broken fountain pen in his hand, and his face, which had always been expressionless, was full of nervousness and uneasiness at this time. His eyes were on the phone on the table, cautious and apprehensive. It's as if it's not an ordinary phone on the table, but a bomb that can explode at any moment.
"Ding ......" The phone rang suddenly, Xin Shen took a deep breath and reached out to pick it up.
"Did you find it?" his voice was as cold as ever, like a mixture of ice slag.
"Nope. Secretary Xin, we went to the place where Miss Lu and Grandmaster lived before, and only found a pool of blood in the courtyard, but we didn't see Miss Lu. The other party tried his best to stabilize his tone and finished speaking, "Miss Lu should have been to this small courtyard, but she was taken away before we came. ā
"Are there any other clues?" Xin Shen felt that his heart was about to stop.
"We asked the people around us, but we saw someone driving in front of the courtyard, and we didn't know anything else. Secretary Xin, his subordinates are incompetent....."
"Alright. Xin Shen's voice was a little weak, and he interrupted the man's words, "When will Zong Wei come back?"
"The grandmaster left Tianjin at noon, and he should arrive in Beiping at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. ā
"Alright, I got it. Xin Shen hung up the phone and rubbed his eyebrows tiredly.
Soon he stood up and kicked hard at the plank behind him, and a vase fell to the ground with a thud and shattered.
He didn't even bother to look at the vase, but calmly and quickly unscrewed the lamp on the table, and a secret door opened quietly.
The secret door is simply furnished, with only a radio station and a table.
He walked in, closed the secret door, sat down at his desk and began to send a telegram.
The train from Tianjin to Beiping is speeding on the railway, and the scenery on both sides of the railway is backwards.
The conductor's lounge was in the third section of the carriage, and there was no one in the lounge at this time, and the sound of "clicking" suddenly sounded in the rest, and soon a neatly dressed conductor pushed open the door and walked out of the third carriage and began to patrol the train.
He had just received news from Beipingdi that the grandfather was in the car, and it was in the second VIP carriage. Several of the carriages at the back of this train are used to transport goods, and there are very few passenger carriages.
"Sir, do you need hot water?" the conductor pushed a small cart with neat thermos on it.
"Okay, thank you. ā
He smiled and continued to deliver water to the next private room.
When he reached the third doorway, he took a deep breath before knocking on the glass on the door.
"Hello sir, do you need hot water?"
There was no one inside, and he knocked on the door again, but there was still no one. The conductor looked a little more serious, and gently pushed the door open, only to find that the carriage was clean and empty, and there was no sign that anyone had been in it.
He frowned and looked around to make sure there wasn't anyone here.
In this way, the grandmaster may not have gotten into the car at all?
He slowly exited, just in time to meet the colleague who managed the carriage approaching this way.
"Xiao Zhou, is there no one in this carriage?"
Xiao Zhou flipped through the registration form in his hand, shook his head, and said, "Originally, there was someone, and it was a ticket bought by a gentleman surnamed Zong, but for some reason, he didn't get in the car at all." ā
The conductor nodded when he heard this, said hello to Xiao Zhou, and continued to deliver water to the next carriage.
He has been delivering water for several years, and some businessmen often ride in this car and know him more.
"Guest, do you want hot water?"
The person who opened the door was a girl, a foreign girl, very good-looking, looking at him with a smile in her big blue eyes, stretched out her hand, and said in a stiff tone, "Thank you." āć
The conductor passed the thermos and continued to the next door, walking unhurriedly, as if he had not noticed that the foreign girl had been staring at him for a long time.
"Just a water deliverer?"
The girl entered the box and closed the door before a man whispered in Russian.
"Yes, it's just a water deliverer. The girl said a little dejectedly, "It's really depressing, the people who followed all the way are probably lost, this sect is really cunning." ā
"Not all officials are straw bales. The tall foreign man yawned lightly, and continued, "In the Shelley Poetry Society, this person can avoid the siege of the two of us and find the proprietress and Jiu, and he is by no means an ordinary person." ā
The girl pouted, playing with her braids, and her big blue eyes were full of cunning. She smiled, like a naughty child.
"Then you say, where will he go? If we don't get it this time, that perverted old man won't let us go, right?"
The man still looked lazy, and his narrow eyes looked as if they hadn't been opened.
"What do you do with so much? When we get to Beiping, we can go to Lin, and no matter how powerful the old man is, he won't dare to go to Lin to ask for someone. The girl clapped her palms and said happily: "Yes, how dare he go to Lin to ask for someone?"
After all, for Lin and Xiao Jiu, finding every opportunity to kill that old immortal is a normal thing.
When the water was delivered, the conductor slowly pushed the car back to the third carriage. He gently closed the door and opened a piece of the wooden floor of the carriage, under which a radio station was playing.
After putting on the headphones and hurriedly typing the instructions, the conductor breathed a long sigh of relief. Secretary Xin only gave him ten minutes, and finally sent the message out at the last minute.
"Zong is not here, or Liujin. ā
The code sent by the conductor became these six words in Xin Shen's pen. Xin Shen's eyes widened and looked at the few words on the paper, Zong Wei didn't get in the car, it is very likely that he stayed in Tianjin?
He knew that the small courtyard near Tianjin Port, that place was only known to four people, could it be that the person who took her away was actually Zong Wei?
Xin Shen's face was a little pale, he already knew everything about the Tianjin Hotel, and he also knew that Lu Hexi was seriously injured and left the hotel, and even what Zong Wei did and what he left behind, the people at Tianjin Station also said.
After all, he is Zong Wei's intelligence officer, and these intelligence networks are in his hands, so how can he hide them if he wants to hide them?
Xin Shen slammed his fist on the table, and the resentment and uneasiness in his heart made him feel very uncomfortable, but he couldn't vent it.
Helpless, he could only pick up the phone and call the Tianjin Hotel.
"Don't look for Miss Lu. ā
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"Yes, you don't have to. ā
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"That's all. ā