The source of the rag was finally found the next day, and it was sold by the American firm of Bushen, and only to the Ho Kee family. After listening to the report of his subordinates, Batkin asked about the search, and the subordinates presented him with a list of items. Batkin first turned to the page of Feng Ping's house to take a closer look, he looked at the jewelry, clothes, and several other items on the list, and looked up and asked, "Is his family rich?" ”

The subordinate said, "No, his family is poor, and everything of value is on the list." ”

"Is there anything special?" Batkin asked again.

"There is a box, it looks beautiful, and there is Japanese on the bottom", said the subordinate.

"Japanese?" Batkin touched his chin, "Do you know who has been to their house lately?" ”

"Neighbors said that after Feng Ping was arrested, there was a man who sent things to the family two or three times," said the subordinate, "but they didn't know this person, and this person came in a carriage every time." ”

"Carriage? Is it a royal blue carriage? Batkin asked.

"They didn't say anything," said the subordinate.

"It's okay, we can just say it to them", Batkin said with a smile, carefully read the list in his hand again, and then immediately gave the order to arrest Yao Shunchang and He Gui.

117.

Lin Hongwen and He Mu burned things intermittently in the yard for two days, afraid that the neighbors would see and smell them, so they didn't dare to burn too much at a time, and only after the smoke and smell were gone, they started to burn the next time. The two big bags of things were burned, and it was already the fifteenth night of the first lunar month, and the two of them just wanted to cook some Lantern Festival to eat, and He Mu's people came over. As before, the man whispered a few words to He Mu and left. He Mu turned around excitedly, and said to Lin Hongwen with a trembling voice, "It's done!" Yao Shunchang and He Gui have already been arrested. ”

Lin Hongwen was stunned as if he didn't understand, and he didn't come back to his senses until He Mu went over to push him. He Mu put the Lantern Festival in his hand aside, "The Lantern Festival is cooking later, I'll make a few good dishes!" ”

Lin Hongwen's smile was only completely open at this time, and he followed behind He Mu to help. The two of them cooked six dishes, opened another bottle of wine, and drank dizzily. After worrying for so many days, now that Yao Shunchang and He Gui have finally been arrested, it is said that Lin Hongwen should be able to sleep well, but it backfired, and he still couldn't sleep. The more he couldn't sleep, the easier it was to be cranky, Lin Hongwen thought about He Mu and couldn't hide his excitement and said, "It's done!" "In fact, at this point, it can only be said that it is half done. He Gui and Yao Shunchang died inside, and that was what it was called, if one of them was allowed to come out alive, then the matter would be endless.

After tossing and turning for a night, I still have to get up and start work the next day. On the sixteenth day of the first month, the firm resumed business, and Xu Qingzhi was no longer in good health after more than half a month of rest. He looked at Lin Hongwen's blue face in confusion and asked, "What's wrong with you, why is your face getting worse and worse after half a month of rest for the New Year?" ”

Lin Hongwen said with a smile, "It's not in the way, it's just that I haven't slept well in the past few days." ”

Xu Qingzhi looked at him suspiciously, feeling that things were not as simple as he said, but he couldn't find any flaws.

In fact, Lin Hongwen's words are not all lies, he really didn't sleep well. On the thirteenth day of the first month, he went to Xiangyun Pavilion to eat, and after the people under He Mu moved, he basically didn't sleep. Before, he was afraid that things would not work out, and then he was afraid that those two people would not die.

However, for several days, there was no news from the police station, and Lin Hongwen was anxious but had nothing to do. In fact, He Gui was more anxious than Lin Hongwen, and he had been in the cell for seven days. No one interrogated him for seven days, and no one came to see him. He thought that his men must have been bribing the police, but why didn't it work at all? He Gui waited tormentedly, and on the evening of the seventh day, when finally a police officer came to his cell, He Gui was full of hope that he had come to let him out, but he did not want the police to take him to another room.

He Gui walked in nervously, and there were two people in the room, one was a foreigner, tall and strong, about forty years old, and the other looked like he should be Chinese. The Chinese spoke first, "Boss He, this is Director Batkin." ”

He Gui was stunned, he usually let his subordinates interact with Yao Shunchang and the people in the police station, he was just secretly giving advice, and he didn't really see the police chief. He arched his hand and said, "Hello Director, He has always been a regular businessman, and this time he was invited here, I don't know what the reason is, is there any misunderstanding in this?" ”

Batkin was expressionless when he heard this, he arrested He Gui and Yao Shunchang, and separated the two of them from each other, but he didn't interrogate them for a long time, just to dry these two people to panic. Now it's almost time, and it's time for a showdown.

Batkin said in a strange Chinese dialect, "I try to communicate with you in Chinese, and the translator will add it appropriately, and if you don't understand anything, you can ask him." ”

"Thank you Director for your compassion," said He Gui.

"Then I want to know first, what is the relationship between you and Yao Shunchang?"

"He is my distant relative", He Gui replied truthfully, "In the past few years, we have been doing business together. ”

"Is the roof of your carriage blue?" Batkin asked again.

"Yes, but ......"

"That's it," Batkin pointed to a rag on the table, "Look at this cloth, but you sell it?" ”

He Gui picked up the dark gray cloth and looked at it twice, muttering in his heart. He Kee has such a deal, and the cloth shop is just one of them. There are so many kinds of cloth in the cloth shop, how can he recognize them all. But now he wished he knew them all.

"This ......," He Gui looked at Batkin in embarrassment, "There are so many types and colors of cloth that I can't remember for a while, so I'm not sure." ”

"You don't remember exactly, I'll sue you," said Batkin, "and this patterned cloth was sold to you by an American named Vincent, and only to you." ”

Although He Gui didn't know what Batkin had done to arrest him, it wouldn't be a good thing. Now he said that this cloth was only sold by He Ji's family, and he didn't know what bad things to put on his head. So he hurriedly said, "Even if it is only sold to us, we have to sell it, and how many people have bought this kind of cloth, this is not countable." ”

Batkin smiled and said, "Boss He explained reasonably, but there is one more thing, I don't know how you want to explain it." Nine days ago, I was attacked by a group of people in Dongshoji Street, and they beat me up and said in Japanese, 'Stop fighting, he will cause trouble for Boss He if he dies.' And the rag I showed you just now was torn from their clothes when I resisted. ”

He Gui's mind was blank, and everyone knew what the attitude of the Russians towards the Japanese was after they surrendered. After Qingming last year, the Russians also shot two Japanese spies. Now if I have a relationship with the Japanese who beat up the police chief, I am afraid that there will be more than one luck.

"What do you mean, the director, that I told the Japanese to attack you?" He Gui pretended to be calm and shook his head, "I have no grievances with Your Excellency, and I have nothing to do with the Japanese. It doesn't make sense why I should order them to attack you and say my last name on the spot. ”

"Speaking of why, I have to say another thing," Batkin said, diverting the subject, "some time ago I was busy purging those anti-Russian organizations and caught some people. Some people can't stand the punishment, so they sue us, and there have always been people who fund this organization. This person is very careful, never shows up, and only contacts a person named Feng Ping. I sent someone to search his house, and his neighbor told me that after Feng Ping was caught by us, a stranger had visited his house two or three times and sent a lot of things, and this man always came in a carriage with a royal blue sedan roof......"

"I wanted to explain this just now", He Gui interrupted him and said, "Although our family's carriages are all with this color of the sedan top, we must not say that the carriages with this color of the sedan roof are all ours!" ”

"Boss He, don't worry, I haven't finished talking yet", Batkin took a food box from the other end of the table and put it in front of He Gui's eyes, "The people I sent searched his house and found this food box. It's made in Japan, and it has Japanese at the bottom, and I got someone to translate it, which means Yamada Shoji. Boss He, you should know that Yamada, a businessman, had a close relationship with the two Japanese spies who were shot before, and even his trading house was a stronghold of spies during the war. But he was very well informed, and he ran away just as we captured the two Japanese spies. And before I invited you here today, I also investigated, and you have a very close relationship with you. So I think it's normal for him to send a food box. ”

"No, no, no, I did do business with him, but there was nothing else except business dealings", He Gui nervously distinguished, originally he was just worried that Batkin would misunderstand his involvement in the attack, but looking at the current appearance, Batkin clearly wanted to involve him with the Japanese spies. If this thing is really confirmed, is there still a way to live? He Gui cried and said again, "Chief Executive, sometimes there is really no way to do business, especially in this world, there are many poor people, and there are people who are willing to buy our goods, so we are thankful, how can we care whether it is Japanese, American or British." ”

Batkin looked at He Gui's wrinkled facial features and smiled, "Boss He, you don't have to be too nervous. If I really thought that you had any contact with the Japanese spies, I wouldn't have invited you here today. But although I don't think so, it's true that everything points to you, so I've invited you to analyze it together. ”