Huang Boyang returned to his office from the Military Management Commission, and as soon as he sat down, he heard a knock on the door outside the house, and he said, "Please come in." Several subordinates led by Section Chief Yuan of the Investigation Section pushed the door and walked in.

Section Chief Yuan held a notebook in his hand and reported to Huang Boyang: "Director Huang, the net has been tightened, and we think that we can take action against Xu Liping and other spies now." ”

Huang Boyang said to Section Chief Yuan: "Don't be in a hurry to act first, you can give me a detailed account of the situation collected in the past few days, and then everyone will discuss it together." ”

Section Chief Yuan opened his notebook and reported in detail: "According to the recent follow-up investigation of Xu Liping, we found that Xu Liping is actually just a small fish, and her identity is equivalent to an intelligence liaison. Her upline is an old man who bought tickets at the ticket office in the theater, known as Da Lao Pei. Xu Liping's role is to transmit information between the enemy's special radio station and Da Lao Pei, and is responsible for transmitting Taiwan's instructions to Da Lao Pei, and then transmitting the information collected by Da Lao Pei back to Taiwan. This old spy was hidden behind, and Xu Liping ran in front of him. Every Sunday night, Xu Liping has to watch a play, and she uses the opportunity to buy tickets to exchange information with the eldest boss Pei. ”

Huang Boyang asked: "Xiao Yuan, is this information reliable?" Are there sufficient factual basis for these situations? ”

Section Chief Yuan replied: "The intelligence is reliable. We observed that after Xu Liping received a secret telegram from Taiwan every Saturday, she would go to the theater to watch the play on Sunday night. Xu Liping has always used large-denomination tickets to buy tickets, and we analyze that Xu Liping may have sandwiched the secret telegram sent from Taiwan in the money for buying theater tickets, while Da Lao Pei sandwiched the information to be sent to Taiwan in the change for Xu Liping. Elder Pei's family lives outside the Xuanwu Gate, and we have been monitoring his house 24 hours a day. We also learned from Da Lao Pei's neighbors that Da Lao Pei was single and moved there when Peking was about to be liberated. They also reported that the original quiet home of the eldest Pei was a little strange recently, and people often visited his house at night, but they all came and walked quietly, giving people a mysterious feeling. ”

Huang Boyang took over and said, "You mean that the elder Pei has been gathering spies to plot something recently, right?" ”

"Yes! It's very possible! I think that Da Lao Pei may be the Kuomintang ace spy Lao K of Spades lurking in Beiping. ”

Huang Boyang patted his head thoughtfully. As if he suddenly understood something, he said: "May Day is approaching, and this is the first people's holiday after the liberation of Beiping, and I estimate that the Kuomintang spies will carry out sabotage activities during the May Day International Labor Day." ”

"You're right, I think Elder Pei has been gathering spies to plan and prepare for sabotage activities in the past few days. In addition, this week, the contact between the enemy and Taiwan has been changed from once a week to frequent contact, and I guess that there will be a big mess in the near future. Let's do it now! ”

Huang Boyang's brows tightened after listening to the report in detail, he stood up and paced back and forth in the room for a few times, and then his tightly knit brows stretched again, with a confident expression on his face. Huang Boyang said to several subordinates: "I don't think our reconnaissance work has yet been completely completed, and we can't rush into action. ”

"Because of what?" Someone asked puzzled.

Huang Boyang said: "Xu Liping's identity as a spy is already very clear, but saying that Da Lao Pei is a spy leader is just a conclusion you have drawn based on analysis, and there is no factual basis." Even if he were a spy, he wouldn't be the old K of spades. I think that since the old K of spades is the head of the secret service, he will definitely hide it very deeply, and it is impossible for him to appear in public every day like Da Lao Pei, and he will not contact Xu Liping directly. If we catch Xu Liping and Da Lao Pei before the situation is fully understood, it will startle the snake and make the old K of spades hiding behind them escape, and it will also make us very passive in the interrogation of them in the future. ”

The young investigators felt that Huang Boyang's analysis was very reasonable, so they nodded yes one after another.

Section Chief Yuan asked, "Director Huang, what do you think we should do next?" ”

Huang Boyang lit a cigarette unhurriedly and continued: "My idea is that we will send a false message to the spies first. Look at their reflections to prove if our inferences are correct. In short, we have to do our work carefully, and if we arrest them, we must catch all the stolen goods. ”

"Admire! Admire! Director Huang is indeed a scheming old ground worker. Compared to you, we are milky children. Section Chief Yuan joked,

Huang Boyang also jokingly bought the old man: "In terms of age, you are just stinky children, I may be older than your father!" Then he said solemnly: "You are all newcomers who have just stepped into the public security front from the army. In the future, we must temper ourselves in the work of confronting the enemy, learn from experienced veteran comrades with an open mind, and constantly improve our professional level. ”

After the meeting. Huang Boyang left Section Chief Yuan alone and chatted about the case for a while. On this day, Huang Boyang's work lasted until the early hours of the morning, and he still did not feel sleepy at this time, thinking of his conversation with Luo Zhendong during the day, there was always a trace of unhappiness in his heart that was difficult to release. Recently, he personally felt that some comrades have unhealthy work tendencies in their work, and some cadres tend to prefer the left to the right when dealing with problems, feeling that the left is revolution and the left is loyalty to the revolutionary cause, and even if the left goes too far, it is only a matter of understanding and work methods, and the more left the left, the more party spirit there will be. The so-called right-leaning is a question of class position, a question of principle of loyalty to the revolution. Thinking of this, Huang Boyang was a little depressed, he pushed open the window and took a few breaths, he decided to write a written material overnight, and directly reported Wang Yunqing's situation to the higher-level party organization in order to obtain a fair solution. It's almost the middle of the night, Huang Boyang is still reading at his desk, and only his office is still lit in the entire office area.

Outside, the moonless night sky was pitch black. At this time, a man in black peeked into the courtyard with half of his head out of the wall, and when he saw that there was no one around, he then climbed into the courtyard like a civet cat, and he approached the window of Huang Boyang's office under the cover of dense bushes. After the resourceful Huang Boyang took charge of the work of the anti-special forces, they recently arrested a large number of hidden Kuomintang spies and cracked many espionage cases against the confidential departments of the people's government. As soon as Huang Boyang's name was mentioned, the Kuomintang spies lurking in Beiping hated him to death and were afraid to death, and they all wanted to get rid of him as soon as possible. The Taiwan authorities have instructed the Peiping spy organization to get rid of Huang Boyang in order to strike at their opponents and boost their morale.

After observing that there was no movement around him, the black shadow hiding in the bushes bent down and tiptoed a few steps to Huang Boyang's window, where he squatted under the window edge and took out a pistol with a silencer on his body to prepare to stab. At this moment, Huang Boyang stood up, left his desk, walked to a bookcase, and put the materials he had written. By the time the killer stood up to aim at the target, Huang Boyang was no longer sitting in front of the window. The killer didn't have a good shooting angle, so he had to hide by the window with a gun and wait for Huang Boyang to return to the window.

At this time, two patrolling soldiers came from not far away, and a bright flashlight shone in the courtyard. Seeing this, the killer hurriedly hid back in the bushes. The flashlight shone back and forth on the dark bushes, and the killer held his breath and lay on the ground with his head down, not daring to move. He heard Huang Boyang closing the window and greeting the patrolling soldiers. When he looked up after the patrolling soldiers walked by, Huang Boyang's office had turned off the lights, and the killer couldn't see anything, so he had to retreat the same way.

In a school auditorium, Huang Tingting is directing the rehearsal of the drama "The Eve". Xu Liping played the A-role actress, and she played very hard. Her emotional performance won unanimous praise from those who watched the rehearsal. During the rehearsal break, Xu Liping affectionately took Huang Tingting's hand and asked, "Tingting, are you still satisfied with my role?" ”

Huang Tingting said approvingly: "Liping, you have a good understanding of the role, your expressiveness on the stage is very good, I really convince you!" ”

Xu Liping said modestly: "This script is written about the eve of the liberation of Beiping, the story of our patriotic students fighting against the Kuomintang reactionaries and welcoming the liberation of Beiping. ”

Huang Tingting couldn't help but say with emotion: "Yes." The events that have just passed are still vivid in my mind. ”

Xu Liping said: "Tingting, you said that our drama is something that the superior leaders want to watch. So I have to try to play the role well. When are they going to see our show? She wanted to get something out of Huang Tingting's mouth, which was what she was most concerned about recently.

Huang Tingting looked at Xu Liping and called her aside and whispered, "Liping, we are old classmates and have participated in student sports together. I believe in you, so I have something to tell you. This morning, I then announced that we should give an internal report to the superior in a few days. If we perform this drama well, we will get the approval of the leaders. We can take part in the tour in the liberated areas, and it is a great honor to know that! Speaking of this, Huang Tingting's eyebrows danced with joy.

"Oops! That's great! Xu Liping also seemed very happy.

Huang Tingting suddenly frowned again and said, "But time is so tight, can we rehearse?" I believe in your abilities, but can those actors do it? I'm a little worried, I'm afraid that we'll mess up the show then! ”

Xu Liping was overjoyed when she got this important news, she swore and patted her chest and said, "Tingting, don't worry!" Our troupe is no problem, the actors are great, we must rehearse the drama well, and our performance will definitely satisfy the superiors! ”

Huang Tingting clapped her hands happily and said, "That's great!" ”

"Tingting, what day is the day of the performance? To be precise, we need to prepare in advance. ”

Huang Tingting folded her fingers and counted: "Well, today is Saturday, if there is no change, the time for us to report the performance is set for the night of next Wednesday." Anyway, there are only four or five days left, so let's hurry up and rehearse! ”

Xu Liping kept this time in mind and asked, "Tingting, where are we performing?" ”

Huang Tingting said that the venue of the performance was set at the current rehearsal place. She told Xu Liping: "It's a little secret to report the performance to the superiors, don't talk about it with other actors first, so as not to put pressure on them." Let's just get to rehearse. After speaking, she walked to the actors who were resting on the side and said, "Have you rested?" Let's all hurry up and rehearse. ”

After rehearsing that day, Xu Liping went straight home and used the radio to report to the Taiwan secret service the information she had just obtained from Huang Tingting's mouth. Taiwan's secret service authorities immediately instructed Xu Liping to contact the old K of spades to formulate a plan to use the show to assassinate the Communist Party leader. In the evening of the next day, Xu Liping carefully groomed herself and walked out of the house with her waist twisted. She went out into the street and stopped a rickshaw and told the driver to go to the Jiqing Theater, and the driver waited for her to sit down and rode briskly. After the scout who was in charge of monitoring Xu Liping nearby saw the situation, he immediately got on a bicycle and followed the target not far away.

Jiqing Grand Theater is located in a bustling commercial street in Xuanwu District, there are many shop signs and banners hanging on the street, the street is not too wide and crowded with people is very lively, Xu Liping got off the rickshaw and walked to the door of Jiqing Grand Theater. Since it's a weekend. There are a lot of people watching the play, and people line up in front of the theater ticket office to buy tickets. Xu Liping had just stood at the end of the line when a scout who had been waiting next to her came over and lined up behind her. After a while, Xu Liping lined up at the ticket window, she took out a folded banknote from her delicate handbag and handed it to the window and said, "Hello, I'll buy a ticket for tonight." ”

The person selling tickets in the window is Da Lao Pei, who is a kind-looking little old man with a round face and a nose. From the outside, it is difficult to hook up with the title of "Da Lao Pei". Elder Pei took Xu Liping's money and said, "Miss, it's best to use change to buy tickets." ”

Xu Liping said: "I don't have change. ”

Elder Pei was a little embarrassed and said, "Miss, I'm running out of change, and I don't have much change to give you now." You might as well buy a ticket with change. ”

"It's your own business to find no change, and it has nothing to do with me! Can you hurry up? Don't delay me watching the show! Xu Liping said a little unhappily.

The eldest Pei hurriedly said: "I'm sorry! I'd better give you my change first! I'll see if I have any change in my pocket? With that, he fumbled his hands up and down for a few of his pockets. While pretending to fumble in the pockets of his clothes, he quietly stuffed Xu Liping's ticket money into his pocket. But his little action didn't escape the scout's eyes.

"Coincidentally, I really have a lot of change in my pocket today." The eldest Pei took out a stack of change from his coat pocket and handed it to Xu Liping along with the ticket, saying, "Miss, I found you the change, please take it." ”

Xu Liping took the tickets and money, politely thanked the eldest Pei, and then turned around and walked into the theater.

At this time, Huang Boyang, who disguised himself as a Peking Opera ticket holder, also watched the play in the theater with a few scouts, and when the scouts asked him whether to close the net, he immediately decided to let Xu Liping secretly arrest the eldest Pei. The basis for his decision was that Xu Liping controlled the enemy's special radio station. Recently, the interpreters of the Public Security Bureau were cracking the secret code of the enemy's special radio station, and the reason for not moving Xu Liping for the time being was to intercept more valuable information from her secret telegrams to and from Taiwan. Catching Da Lao Pei can intercept the secret message sent by Taiwan to the old K of spades, and Da Lao Pei is very likely to be the informant between Xu Liping and the old K of spades, and catching Da Lao Pei may be able to dig out the old K of spades hidden behind the scenes. This is the reason why Huang Boyang wants to arrest Da Lao Pei.

After the theater ends. Da Lao Pei was arrested on his way home from work. Sure enough, the investigators found a secret message sent by Taiwan's secret service that he had assassinated the CCP leader during a drama show.

Huang Boyang personally interrogated Elder Pei, and in front of the facts and evidence, Elder Pei admitted his identity as a spy, and also admitted that this secret telegram was given to him by Xu Liping. When Huang Boyang asked him who was the old K of spades, he first said that he didn't know the old K of spades. Under constant questioning, he admitted that he was the old K of spades. Huang Boyang, who has been engaged in underground work for many years, is very good at seeing people, and he can see from the demeanor and speech of Da Lao Pei that he is simply a small role that runs tricks, where will it be the old K of spades!

Huang Boyang and two colleagues interrogated Da Lao Pei for a night. Huang Boyang didn't get anything useful from his mouth. At dawn, the eldest elder Pei proposed to go to the toilet, and in the toilet the investigator opened the handcuffs for him, and the eldest elder Pei, who was a diehard loyalist of the Kuomintang, took out the poison hidden in the collar and committed suicide by taking poison while the investigator was not concentrating. Huang Boyang wanted to find the old K of spades hidden in the shadows through the eldest Pei, but the clue was broken as soon as the eldest Pei died.

Huang Boyang really didn't expect that Da Lao Pei would take poison and commit suicide, he regretted that he did not do his work carefully, thought about some things too simply, and also realized that the time to catch Da Lao Pei was not ripe enough, he felt that he should change his thinking about the struggle against the enemy, and after smoking a few cigarettes in a row, he had a novel and bold idea in his mind. He wanted to deliberately reveal the news of the arrest of the eldest boss Pei and the interception of Taiwan's secret telegrams, so as to arouse the panic of Xu Liping, the old K of spades, and even Taiwan's secret services. Thinking of this, Huang Boyang immediately convened a meeting of the core backbone to study the next step of work, regardless of fatigue, and he wanted to express his ideas and solicit everyone's opinions. (To be continued......)