Volume I, Chapter XVII

Agents from the Beiping Station of the Secret Service are on a mission to arrest ** and ** suspects, and Ma Liangchen is a leader of the special operations group, and he and several of his subordinates are responsible for monitoring the activities of ** and leftists on the university campus. Through their reconnaissance and intelligence provided by student agents on campus, they drew up a list of arrests involving dozens of people from several universities in Peiping. In order to prevent leaks, they plan to immediately and secretly arrest the ** people and left-wing figures on the list, and they must not miss a single person. Ma Liangchen was in charge of the arrest at Yenching University.

After arriving at school in the morning, Wang Hongju did not find Huang Tingting. After class at noon, Wang Hongju couldn't wait to walk to the student cafeteria, he wanted to see Huang Tingting at lunch. He heard that there was a reading club on campus that was blocked, did the reading club have an accident? He didn't care about eating, so he hurriedly ran in the direction of the reading club. In a remote corner of the campus of Yan University, a very inconspicuous house in the idle staff dormitory, Wang Hongju ran to see that the door of the reading club was locked, two seals were crossed on the door, and some books and newspapers were torn and scattered on the ground. In the crowd of onlookers, several students from the reading club pointed not far away and protested loudly.

Wang Hongju squeezed into the crowd and anxiously asked the students in the reading club: "What's going on?" ”

A classmate said angrily: "Our reading club let those dog spies smash them, they are very fierce, pointing guns at us as if they are going to shoot at any time." Lo and behold, they haven't gone far. Wang Hongju looked in the direction pointed by his classmates, and several men in black silk shirts got into a car and drove away, and the back of one of them looked very much like Ma Liangchen.

Wang Hongju was puzzled and asked why the spy wanted to close the reading club? One of the students pointed to the wall and said, "Just look at the notice." ”

Wang Hongju approached and looked, and a large white piece of paper wrote:

The Yanjing Students' Reading Club spreads heresies, reddens students, confuses the public, and incites the people to oppose the national government. It is hereby outlawed. I hope that all students will recognize the best face, respect and love themselves, study hard, work with the national government with one heart and one mind, and build a beautiful China with democracy, prosperity and strength with the Three People's Principles

"Shit! What about the Three People's Principles, even the freedom to read is gone! Wang Hongju tore off the notice without reading it and stomped on it fiercely.

"Who knows where Huang Tingting is? Does she know about it? Wang Hongju looked around and asked anxiously.

"I haven't seen her at school today." A girl in the same department as Huang Tingting told Wang Hongju.

"Is it true that no one saw her?" Wang Hongju asked again full of doubts, but no one responded.

Odd! They were still together yesterday and said that they would meet today, where would she go if she didn't come to school? His instinct told himself that something must have happened to Huang Tingting, thinking of this, his emotions were a little out of control, and he slammed his fist against the sealed door, and due to excessive force, his hand was broken and bleeding. Several classmates advised him to calm down. After thinking for a while, Wang Hongju said to the classmates around him: "Huang Tingting may have an accident!" She may have been captured by the agents. ”

"How did you know she was captured by the agents?"

Looking at the classmates around him, Wang Hongju pointed to his head and said, "Think about it, in the past six months, there have been no less than a dozen people who have been arrested and disappeared in our school. Huang Tingting is the initiator of our reading club, and since the spy has blocked the reading club, the spy will definitely not let go of the organizer of the reading club. ”

"Something is wrong! Our reading club is not public, how do the spies know? Someone asked.

Wang Hongju said: "Don't be too naΓ―ve, this spy is pervasive, what can be difficult to hide from them? ”

"That's right! There is a point in that! Then we have to find a way to save Huang Tingting! The man who said this was so anxious that he slapped his thigh.

"I just don't understand, it's illegal to form an association and study on campus, and is there any academic freedom?"

"Be careful what you say, you'll get in trouble if the spies hear it!"

The onlookers talked a lot, except for some who were timid and afraid, most of them expressed their dissatisfaction. At this time, Wang Hongju calmed down, and he said to the classmates beside him: "The spies casually enter the campus to do mischief, seal the reading club, and arrest students, we will never agree!" The colonel also has an unshirkable responsibility in this matter, go! Let's negotiate with the school! Let the spies go! ”

"Wang Hongju is right, go! Let's go to the school to protest! Mr. Wang's proposal was echoed by the majority, and people gathered and shouted protest slogans and poured toward the principal's office.

There is a more elaborate courtyard house in the alley near Wangfujing, which was originally confiscated traitor enemy property, Ma Liangchen bought it at a low price through a relationship, and he and his wife Shuzhen lived here. Shuzhen did not give birth to a boy and a half girl to Ma Liangchen after marriage, the ancients said: There are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is the greatest! Ma Liangchen is always obsessed with the things that have no future, and Shuzhen has become the object of his frequent anger. This Shuzhen is a very traditional woman, her understanding of marriage is to marry a chicken and a dog to a dog, no matter what kind of person her husband is, she has to follow her with an iron heart. Although Shuzhen just wants to live with her husband wholeheartedly, in Ma Liangchen's eyes, the middle-aged Shuzhen is already a broken flower and a hen that can't lay eggs. Ma Liangchen became more and more indifferent to Shuzhen, ignored him, and sometimes beat and scolded for no reason, he drank and gambled outside from time to time to find flowers and ask for willows' nights, and Shuzhen became a resentful woman in the boudoir.

Recently, Ma Liangchen became obsessed with a traitor's little wife, and after this traitor was imprisoned, he accepted this young and beautiful woman as a trophy. Ma Liangchen took this new favorite to buy a house outside and live as a husband and wife, and Shuzhen made a fuss when she found out and went back to her parents' house angrily. Ma Liangchen saw that Shuzhen was angry and ran away, so he officially accepted the coquettish and charming woman as his second wife, took her back to his original house to live, and offered the woman as a baby all day long. But who knew that his water-based Yang Hua's little wife hooked up with the stationmaster of the Beiping Station of the Secret Bureau, who was richer and more powerful than himself, at a dinner, and since then, the two people have often corresponded openly and secretly. Ma Liangchen couldn't afford to mess with his boss, and he didn't want to be cuckolded, so he had to sell a good job to his boss and give this woman away.

Although Ma Liangchen was frustrated in the love field but the officialdom was proud, he recently broke through the underground organization of Beiping ** and arrested several important Communist Party members. After the boss took away Ma Liangchen's woman, he took more care of him, and gave him a promotion and salary increase. Ma Liangchen has recently been promoted to get rich and lucky, but it is a happy thing for him that his beloved woman was taken away by his boss, so he drinks and gambles every day to find a woman at night, and numbs himself with pleasure. Today, Ma Liangchen led people to seize the reading club of Yenching University, secretly arrested Huang Tingting, and at night he sat in the village and invited a few colleagues to drink in the restaurant to celebrate his achievements, and drank until the early hours of the morning before going home.

Ma Liangchen returned home drunk, closed the courtyard door and walked into the main room. After turning on the light, he saw that the room was empty, and he couldn't help but think of the woman who was abducted by his boss, and also thought of his wife Shuzhen who was angry with him, he felt lonely and lonely, so all kinds of sweet and sour tastes poured up to his head through the strength of wine, and he was dizzy and fell asleep on the sofa. In a trance, Ma Liangchen felt that there was a figure shaking in front of him, and he couldn't see who it was vaguely. When the man reached out and grabbed him, he suddenly woke up and cried out in horror, "Who are you?" ”

"Don't be afraid! It's me. As he spoke, a big hand grabbed Ma Liangchen's neck tightly and lifted him up from the sofa.

At this time, Ma Liangchen's wine woke up halfway, and he blinked vigorously to see the person in front of him, who turned out to be his brother-in-law Wang Hongju. Only then did he let go of a hanging heart.

"How did you kid get in? Scared the hell out of me! Hurry up and let go of your hands! Ma Liangchen said very unhappily.

"I came in over the wall, are you afraid? Is it bad to do too many things and be afraid that ** will come to you to settle accounts! Wang Hongju looked at Ma Liangchen and said without yin or yang, and deliberately glanced out the window with his eyes.

When Ma Liangchen heard Wang Hongju say this, he thought that there were still people outside the house, and he was frightened again. His legs trembled, and he asked Wang Hongju tremblingly: "You were sent to assassinate me?" ”

"If you want to kill you, you won't send me. Don't be afraid! I was just kidding you. If I have something to ask you today, you have to tell me the truth. Wang Hongju let go of his hand, and Ma Liangchen sat down on the sofa.

"That's how you treat your brother-in-law? Nothing big or small! Say, "Did you come to me for your sister's business?" You are a little hairy child, so don't fuck and mix with the two of us. Ma Liangchen's mouth was full of wine.

Wang Hongju was angry when he saw Ma Liangchen mention his sister, and his fist shook in front of Ma Liangchen's eyes: "Tell you Ma Liangchen, I don't take you as a brother-in-law for a long time, and I'm disgusted when I mention you!" ”

Ma Liangchen thinks that he is a person who has seen the world, and he is an arrogant and arrogant old spy, Wang Hongju, a young brother-in-law who has not dried up, dares to break into his home and be so rude to him, which simply makes him mad. He staggered up from the sofa, crossed his waist with one hand and pointed at Wang Hongju with the other and scolded: "** little Wang Ba Lamb!" He dared to break into a private house and threaten the party-state soldiers. Aren't you afraid I'll arrest you? ”

Wang Hongju sneered and said, "Ma Liangchen, I have never been afraid of you!" You're a pile of shit in my eyes. ”

"How dare you scold me! You're tired of it! Ma Liangchen's drunken face turned from red to iron blue, he trembled with anger, and the green tendons on his forehead were exposed. He reached out to his waist with the strength of the wine and groped as he said, "Do you believe it or not? I'm fucking killing you today! Kill you! If I don't kill you and me, I don't have a surname of Ma! He groped around his waist but didn't find a pistol, so he threw himself at the writing desk beside him. Seeing this, Wang Hongju grabbed his arm, pushed him aside, and then walked to the desk and opened the drawer, and saw a loaded pistol inside. Wang Hongju held the gun in his hand and gestured at Liangchen and said, "With this finger of mine, your life will be over!" Don't think I don't dare shoot. After saying that, he aimed his gun at Ma Liangchen.

Ma Liangchen, who was very arrogant just now, woke up at this time, he clasped his hands into fists and said: "Brother Hongju, I am your brother-in-law, let's have something to say, let's talk well, the pistol is not, it's not fun, and if you go crazy, you will die!" ”

"Phew! Your dog's life is worthless, and if I kill you, it will be regarded as eliminating harm for the people! Wang Hongju shook the pistol in front of Ma Liangchen's eyes before approaching, Ma Liangchen stared at the muzzle of the black hole, his lips trembled, and he was nervously speechless, he was afraid that Wang Hongju would kill himself with a shot.

"You sit down and answer my questions truthfully." Wang Hongju forced Ma Liangchen to sit on the sofa with a gun.

"Let me ask you, did you take someone to seal down our school's classmates' reading club?" Wang Hongju asked sternly.

"I led someone to do it, and it was to carry out the orders of the upper peak." Ma Liangchen arranged his collar with his hands, trying to calm himself.

"Did you arrest the students again?"

"Yes, it was arrested, and the supervisor of the peak wanted to arrest it, and I acted on orders."

"Is there a female student named Huang Tingting among the people who were arrested?"

"Yes! She is a Communist who is hiding in your school under the cover of being a student, and she is our main target. ”

Wang Hongju pointed a gun at Ma Liangchen's head and asked, "Say, how did you arrest her?" ”

"It was secretly arrested on her way to school." Ma Liangchen said and thought in his heart: I thought that this kid came to me to settle accounts for his sister's affairs, but it turned out that he was inquiring about the situation of the arrested female communists. An imperceptible sinister smile flashed across his face.

"I'm telling you, this woman is an extremely dangerous person, stay away from her, and be careful of getting involved!" Ma Liangchen said to Wang Hongju in a threatening tone.

"I also tell you, Huang Tingting is my girlfriend, you let her go as soon as possible, if she has three long and two short, ** will settle accounts with you!" Wang Hongju said with a threatening tone.

Ma Liangchen sneered, he shook his head and said: "Wang Hongju, Wang Hongju, I have long felt that you have a leg with this female Communist Party, but today you don't recruit yourself!" She's a communist, and you're no better! I really regret that I didn't arrest you and Huang Tingting together? I caught the man, what can you do? Ma Liangchen raised his thumb provocatively and said: "If I didn't take you, Huang Tingting was locked up in our prison, you didn't have the ability to make trouble in my house, did you dare to go to the prison to save her?" ”

Ma Liangchen's few words tickled the roots of Wang Hong's angry teeth, he forcibly suppressed his anger, and said in a consultative tone: "Do you see if you can release Huang Tingting through relationships?" You can put forward conditions. ”

"She can't get out if she goes in like this, even if I want to release someone, my boss won't let her go! We will use her to find out the big fish behind her and wipe out all the communists in Beiping. I advise you to die of this heart! After Ma Liangchen finished speaking, he looked at Wang Hongju and laughed proudly a few times and said: "For the sake of you being my brother-in-law, it is not difficult for me to be for you." You put down your gun now, get out of my place quickly, I don't embarrass you. If you continue to entangle with me, I will even arrest you and send you to prison to be your Communist girlfriend! ”

Wang Hongju endured the anger in his stomach and asked directly: "Ma Liangchen, don't go around in circles, my father ransomed it with money last time, let's be honest, how much money do you want to release this time?" ”

Hearing that Wang Hongju wanted to ransom people with money, Qian Ma Liangchen's eyes lit up, and then he sold Guan Zi with a smile and said: "The ** criminals we caught can't be bought with money, but money can make ghosts grind, it depends on how much money you can pay?" If you can afford a lot of money, I'll find a way to help you! ”

Wang Hongju asked eagerly: "How much does it cost?" ”

Ma Liangchen raised his fingers to Wang Hong and said: "Look, my boss is going to serve with money, they take the lion's share, and my share is not less, and my brothers don't do it without money!" It's a lot of money together, I'm afraid you won't be able to take it out! ”

"Let's be honest, how much do you want? Say it! ”

"I don't want money." Ma Liangchen raised his eyelids to look at Wang Hongju, who felt inexplicable, and said, "Is the current money still called money?" I ask you, how much can a sack of money buy? Do I want this thing to wipe my ass or to burn a fire? ”

"And what do you want?"

Ma Liangchen straightened his chest at this time, put his hands behind his back, raised his head and said angrily: "Go back and sum up with your old man, and give me your house." Otherwise, there is no need to talk about the release of people! ”

"Ma Liangchen, your heart is too dark!"

"My heart is black? I'm kind! If I take your whole family's belongings, can your big house run out of my palm? Tell you, I've been thinking about that big mansion for a long time, and it's mine sooner or later! If you don't believe it, just watch! Ma Liangchen laughed proudly after speaking, and then he added: "Don't be afraid! You can still live in that house after it is mine, we are still a family! I just want the name of the head of the household. ”

At this time, Wang Hongju was so angry by Ma Liangchen's shamelessness that blood poured out on his head, and he used a gun to hold Ma Liangchen's head tightly and scolded: "You are delusional!" How many days can the Kuomintang last? When the time comes, the trees will fall and scatter, and you won't be able to live in any kind of house, and your destination will only be a dead end! I'm going to shoot you today! He pointed his gun at Malachen's head.

Ma Liangchen is an old Jianghu, in his eyes, Wang Hongju is just a hairless half-grown man, as soon as he is frightened, he has to be cowardly, so he uses a rogue trick, and uses his brain to resist Wang Hongju's muzzle and say: "I'm not afraid of death!" Shoot me if you kid kind, I'll fucking lend you ten guts! You fight, you fight! As he spoke, he arched forward, his eyes secretly observing Wang Hongju's expression.

After all, Wang Hongju is a student who is not deeply involved in the world, he just used a gun to scare Ma Liangchen and did not have the courage to kill, he was at a loss for a moment about Ma Liangchen's rogue behavior, held the gun step by step, and shouted in his mouth: "Stop, you stop for me!" If I move again, I'll shoot! But his fingers holding the trigger trembled uncontrollably, and he couldn't shoot? His mind went blank, and he was three points short in momentum between hesitations.

Ma Liangchen saw that Wang Hongju was a little flustered, he suddenly turned his face sideways and pointed out the window with his hand and said, "Look! Someone's coming! ”

Wang Hongju stood with his back to the window, hearing Ma Liangchen say this, he couldn't help but tighten his heart, and subconsciously turned his head to look, Ma Liangchen took advantage of Wang Hongju's relaxation and snatched the gun in his hand, and the power balance between the two changed instantly. Ma Liangchen forced Wang Hong to raise his skin with a gun and said without smiling: "Hmph! You're still young, my eagle can make your little finch peck! ”

Ma Liangchen forced Wang Hongju into a corner with a gun and said, "Stand up honestly for me!" Lao Tzu is going to send you to prison as a ** today, and let you use his house to ransom you! He saw Wang Hongju with a dissatisfied look and held up the gun and said, "You don't dare to shoot, Lao Tzu dare!" If you dare to resist, I'll shoot you to death!" Then throw you in the mass grave outside the city to feed the wild dogs, and let your Lao Tzu collect your body and not find a complete bone! He pointed a gun at Wang Hongju and said as he retreated to the desk, took out a pair of handcuffs, and then walked up to Wang Hongju and asked Wang Hongju to raise his hands and stand facing the wall. Ma Liangchen held Wang Hongju's waist with a gun, and asked very proudly: "Brother-in-law, you are planted in my hands today, are you convinced?" ”

Wang Hong raised his hands and asked very angrily: "Ma Liangchen, I just asked you today to inquire about individuals, what right do you have to arrest me?" ”

"Lao Tzu's gun is the right, what's wrong with arresting you? Go back and let your dad redeem you!" Ma Liangchen said that he grabbed one of Wang Hongju's hands and was about to be handcuffed, but Wang Hongju turned around violently, and the arm that was raised high just now suddenly turned into a powerful fist and hit Ma Liangchen's face hard, Ma Liangchen sighed, only to feel that his eyes were spinning, and he immediately fell to the ground. When Wang Hongju saw that Ma Liangchen had fallen to the ground and the pistol did not let go, he pounced on him and pressed on him, holding his hand holding the gun and trying to snatch it away. Ma Liangchen was hollowed out by wine, and he was not Wang Hongju's opponent at all, and in a hurry, he deducted the bolt twice, "Bang!" Bang!" Green smoke came out of the muzzle of the gun, and the bullets grazed Wang Hongju's ears and shattered the glass windows behind him, and the crisp sound of gunfire reached the outside of the house, apparently he was reporting to the spies who lived nearby. Wang Hongju knew that he could no longer entangle with Ma Liangchen at this time, he raised his right elbow and smashed it into Ma Liangchen's soft underbelly, Ma Liangchen's ribs were broken a few times, he screamed and then passed out, and the pistol fell to the ground. Wang Hong pulled his legs and ran out, he just ran out of the door and felt that he couldn't let Ma Liangchen cause any more trouble to the family, so he turned back into the house and picked up the pistol, gritted his teeth and shot Ma Liangchen lying on the ground twice, Ma Liangchen snorted, and his arms and legs stretched out a few times and then stopped. Wang Hongju kicked Ma Liangchen in relief and scolded in a low voice: "I killed you, a harmful spirit, to prevent future troubles!" ”

There was already movement in the alley outside, Wang Hongju quickly turned off the light, threw away the pistol, and ran out of the house in the dark. He ran to the courtyard, heard someone knocking on the door outside, knew that it was the spies coming, in a hurry, he climbed to the house with the help of an old jujube tree in the courtyard, Wang Hongju just climbed on the roof of the house a few people with guns and shouting through the front door.

"There's someone in the room!" Someone shouted, "Bang! Bang! Bang!" Several bullets grazed Wang Hongju's head and flew past. Wang Hong jumped from the roof of the house into another courtyard behind Ma Liangchen's house, he opened the courtyard door and came to another alley, he ran quickly and disappeared in the night.

"Bang! Bang! A few more gunshots pierced the silent night sky.

Wang Hongju's two shots fired in a hurry did not kill Ma Liangchen, and the spies did not catch the assassin, so they hurriedly sent Ma Liangchen, who was covered in blood, to the hospital, and he was in a state of unconsciousness when he was taken to the hospital by the spies. The spies deduced that Ma Liangchen's assassination was done by **, and it was revenge for their action to arrest the Communist Party. They asked the doctor to do everything to save Ma Liangchen, expecting to learn the truth of the matter from his mouth.