Chapter 15: The Chamber of Secrets

Li Tang saw a faint sadness and hatred in Li Anping's eyes, and it seemed that that memory was a lingering shadow in his heart.

She felt a little sympathetic to him, and a little understanding of his impulsiveness at that time.

"The Japanese killed almost everyone in our village, they burned the whole village. Then they were defeated, the Kuomintang came and did nothing, and the Communists brought us displaced people back to our homes. Now I just want to do something to repay the party's kindness to me, and you turn me away. ”

Li Anping's words are not his usual oily and smooth style, but they are really his heartfelt feelings.

Li Tang also had an impulse in his heart, Li Anping in front of her was like many people around her, these people had experienced too much suffering, and now they are willing to sacrifice everything for the party, for New China, and for the people.

She began to re-evaluate Li Anping, although this man spoke a little tactfully, and when she thought about it carefully, he didn't do anything wrong.

As he himself said, if his consciousness is not high enough, how can the detention center let him be an outsider to interrogate prisoners. She had never seen anyone so obsessed with entering the police system.

Li Tang secretly made a decision in her heart, she asked Li Anping: "Do you really want to be a public security officer?" ”

Li Anping couldn't figure out what kind of medicine was in Li Tang's gourd, and then said, "Of course I want to." ”

"Okay, you'll come back for an interview this Thursday."

In the second application, Li Anping passed the various customs examinations very smoothly and was hired as a public security officer of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, but the position was not what he wanted, and he was assigned to the secretarial department.

The work of the secretarial department is far from what Li Anping wants, this is definitely not what he wants, in the face of Wang Yidao's constant nagging, he thought that his work in the secretarial department might make Wang Yidao understand.

On the way off work, Li Anping bought a bottle of Wang Yidao's favorite wine and told Wang Yidao that this was a benefit from the unit.

Then he slowly told Wang Yidao about every job he did in the secretarial department, saying that these jobs were all internal, and he would neither go out to handle cases, nor would he come into contact with criminals.

became a public security officer, Li Anping is still worried, although his work can contact the "barber", that is, Deputy Director Cao Ruofei Cao, but it is limited to sending him documents.

The entire city bureau relies on their departments for uploading and disseminating, and they cannot leave their jobs at will.

After waiting for two weeks, Li Anping still didn't have any chance to investigate Cao Ruofei, so he decided to take the risk and sneak into Cao Ruofei's office to find out if there were any clues.

Recently, it seems that the domestic secret service organizations have been particularly rampant, and they have been constantly launching operations to sabotage the gains of the revolution in various places.

In response to the central government's policy, the city public security bureau has been holding meetings for several days in a row to discuss how to strengthen prevention and intensify efforts to track down the Kuomintang spies lurking in the city, and Cao Ruofei is naturally the presiding officer of the meeting.

The leaders were busy with the meeting, and the people in the secretarial department were busy preparing the meeting minutes and receiving and distributing the relevant meeting documents, and the meetings usually ended very late, so Li Anping and his entire department had to stay and work overtime to sort out the meeting minutes, and then the meeting minutes were placed on the desks of the participants for them to prepare for the next day's meeting.

This is a great opportunity! After the meeting every day, everyone except for their secretarial department went home from work.

The minutes of today's meeting have been sorted out, mimeographed, and bound to the desks of the staff who will have a meeting tomorrow.

"There's not much left to do, I'll do it alone, you all go back first." When colleagues heard Li Anping say this, they were naturally happy and packed up their belongings and left.

Li Anping first mimeographed enough copies of the meeting minutes, bound them and put them on the desks of the relevant personnel one by one. gave Cao Ruofei that share, and he deliberately put it at the end.

By sending the documents just now, Li Anping can be sure that he is the only one in the entire office building, he pushed open the door of Cao Ruofei's office, but did not turn on the light, and the light in the corridor can faintly illuminate the office. He put the minutes of the meeting in the center of his desk and began to rummage through Cao Ruofei's office vigilantly.

He has already had two direct encounters with Cao Ruofei, and he knows very well that Cao Ruofei is an extremely careful person, so he is extra cautious when rummaging, and everything he turns over will be accurately put back to its original position, keeping the pages of documents and materials not messy.

Most of Cao Ruofei's cabinets are not locked, and they are filled with miscellaneous documents and files; Occasionally, there were one or two locked cabinets, which Li Anping opened with a pre-prepared master key, but still found nothing: either empty, or the Municipal Public Security Bureau's major operational files and some classified documents.

These documents are all related to Cao Ruofei's own work, and there is no way to prove that Cao Ruofei is a spy of the Kuomintang Party.

Li Anping was at a loss, he thought, after all, this is the Municipal Public Security Bureau, will Cao Ruofei not dare to leave any clues and information here?

As the saying goes, "the most dangerous place is also the safest place", Cao Ruofei is the deputy director, he has considerable power, and he has a considerable independent office space, I don't know if he will really leave some information or materials.

If it were him, where would he be placed? This office is not small, there are dozens of square meters, and there are: a large desk, a row of filing cabinets, two large bookshelves placed side by side, and a simple bookshelf with a unique shape near the window. The bookshelf looks like a simple few wooden planks built together, with a whole plank behind it as a bookshelf wall.

Li Anping took a cursory look at it, and suddenly felt that the bookshelf wall looked nondescript, and the bookshelf wall only had a middle part, which was not aligned with the top and bottom of the bookshelf structure, and a section of the wall was exposed from the top and bottom, which made the entire simple bookshelf very incompatible here. After a closer look, he felt that there was something wrong with it, and reached out and touched the wall of the bookshelf, which was not connected to the bookshelf.

Found it, the entrance is here. Li Anping was secretly happy in his heart, the wooden board behind this simple bookshelf was not a bookshelf wall, but a door.

He carefully removed the simple bookshelf, and saw that the door and the lock were ordinary and unremarkable, and he opened it with the master key with little effort.

It was pitch black inside the door, and I couldn't see anything, and I didn't know how big it was.

Li Anping didn't dare to turn on the light, he stood at the door to let his eyes adjust to the darkness, and he still couldn't see what was inside.

Li Anping remembered that two days ago, the secretarial department had prepared a few candles in order to prevent overtime and power outages at night.

He closed the door again, pushed the bookshelf back into place, and turned back to the secretary's section to get a candle and a box of matches.

In order to avoid being seen, Li Anping opened the secret door and lit the candle on the ground to minimize the leakage of light.

The secret room is not large, only a few square meters, and there are several locked filing cabinets inside. Li Anping was a little excited, and Cao Ruofei locked important documents related to his work in the filing cabinets outside, which most likely stored the materials of his spy organization.

Li Anping stood outside the door and observed for a while to make sure that there were no traps before picking up the candle on the ground and entering the secret room.

He was about to use the master key to open the filing cabinet on his left, when he heard a "bang" behind him, and the door closed!

"Who!"