"You're crazy," the captain shouted, "You're crazy, please come back." ”

Chang Kaishen obediently turned around and sat down on the circle chair again, and now he sat down heavily like a master, and then said peacefully, "To be honest, it's good to have a cup of coffee."

The captain restrained himself and replied, "I can treat you to coffee, but it seems that you might as well send a squad of secret police to your mansion." Because you also have a wife and a son. Isn't it? ”

"There was one in the family," Chang Kaishen replied, "my son has already died on the front line, but I am ready to give up my wife." Did you stop me to say this? ”

"Why would you want a 'top secret document'?"

"I want you to join in"

"What do you mean?"

"Everything is very simple, I have opened a channel to connect with Yan'an; If you throw your 'top secret documents' in that direction, it will cause a violent storm, extreme panic and crazy suspicion there, the consequences of which are difficult to predict. The West will be shocked by the recent eruptions. I've heard that you've concocted a lot of materials for big people, and we're going to dedicate them to each other in an appropriate way. Human memory is selective. Ordinary people are easy to forget, but traitors remember clearly, this is the real fusion of logic and emotion, is an attempt to make all pure people give their dirty selves, betrayal is an unusual category, traitors often want to be a third party in order to exonerate themselves. He's always looking for the first and second batch of stand-ins, if you're afraid, incidentally, you're rightly afraid, if you're afraid that my 'top secret documents' will end up in Ding Mocun or Zhan Guoqiang's safe, then I'll use them in your office right here."

"In a word, are you at home that I have allowed you to participate in the cause for which I have dedicated my life?"

"Oh, you're right, leader, you're too precise."

"In that case, you must help the unfortunate old man."

"Ding Mocun is personally inquiring into his case."

"Yes, but in the prison where true patriots of the nation and lovers of leaders are tormented," added the captain himself with surprise, "there are your people." You know, they can do anything."

"What a logic, where is your logic? Just now you said that the power of the army is incomparably strong, and we, poor secret police, disdain to be ignored, why do we suddenly contradict ourselves and say that our people are omnipotent? ”

Chang Kaishen glanced at the captain and understood that he had said that the other party might be desperate to do it. This guy from the squire gate lord and army gang, hell do he.

"Well," he said, "let us agree that I guarantee that the relatives of some of those who have been executed will not be killed by order from above." I promise that the families of those who committed suicide on the orders from above will not be sent to concentration camps in accordance with Zhan Guoqiang's decision, and that as for the fate of the unfortunate agent, I will do my best to find out what will happen to him in the future. I would like to see if I can understand why he has not been executed, who stopped the executioner, and who is good for doing so. Can such an agreement satisfy you? ”

The captain picked up the microphone and asked the adjutant to bring two cups of coffee, then opened the safe, and silently, a little disgusted but distressed gave the question file to Chang Kaishen.

Chang Kaishen flipped through the first few pages, smiled and said, "Isn't this a commodity?" Simply a commodity"

"It's not a commodity, it's a future"

When the adjutant brought the coffee, Chang Kaishen asked, "Which pages can be photocopied?" ”

"It's okay to copy a few pages, but not the whole material"

"What percentage?"

"Quarter"

"That's it. What more do you want from me? ”

"Yes"

"Please speak"

The captain snorted and said, "You will definitely fall madly in love with a lady in the future, this is a common phenomenon at your age, and I will care about her no less than you care about the safety of my family."

Chang Kaishen shook his head: "I often read some of Marx's writings, General. His formula of 'commodity money' can be used to explain the solace of adult men, and his views are unwavering, untouched by any emotion."

"Your coffee is going to be cold"

"I don't drink coffee at all, I just want to make sure I'm fit for the situation, and I want everyone around me to follow the unwritten rules."

When Chang Kaishen returned to his home, he instructed his adjutant to make some strong tea and asked him what news he had. After listening to the adjutant's answer, he shrugged his shoulders a little inexplicably, and then, for some reason, feeling very tired, he smiled and fed the little fish.

To his bewilderment and joy; Li Guangyuan was going back to Berlin, although he had concluded that Li Guangyuan would probably not return; The reason why he thinks this is very reasonable, because the information sent by his private observation post from Yan'an is not to anyone else, but to confirm to him that Li Guangyuan has a connection with the secret organs in Yan'an.

What does this mean exactly? Why?

Li Guangyuan stood up from the ground covered with russet oak leaves. In some places, green seedlings as bright as jasper were bursting through the ground, and he was terrified of them for some reason, as if he were afraid that a little girl would suffer misfortune again, and Mary Carroque was singing the last stanza of the song of the seventeen moments in April. The song sings that the trees will whirl and waltz. A petrel caught in the rushing waves is drowning, but no one can save it. Roque's voice was a little hoarse, so it sounded particularly tender, full of trust in people, the voice had reached its limit, the last homonym, a moment of silence; The announcer began to broadcast the battle situation at the front; The tone was high and proud: "The bravery of the tankmen, the victory of the warriors, the invincible ferocious counterattack." ”

Li Guangyuan approached the car, turned off the radio, sat behind the wheel, and drove towards Nanjing

He was in no hurry now, as if trying to prolong the stillness and loneliness that he alone experienced at the moment.

It was not so much that he did not want to be in a hurry, but that he could not imagine what kind of situation he would encounter when he returned to Nanjing in another three hours. He drove slowly, trying not to think about anything, he was exhausted, but the more stubbornly he commanded himself not to think, the more stubbornly some question marks popped up in his mind, and questions were often the motives of thought, the beginning of action, and the prelude to action.

At this time, Li Guangyuan decided to play a trick on himself, he forced himself to recall his wife's face; The face has remained in his mind since the distant 1922 years.

However, such memories are now so anxious and uneasy, and make people feel so irretrievably distant, Li Guangyuan even squinted his eyes for a while, missing a road sign, but he said to himself

"It's the 213th kilometre, don't go too fast, everything will go well, or more precisely, everything should go well, otherwise there will be injustice, and you shouldn't have it. But is injustice a category that bears the stamp of 'deserving'? Injustice is the highest manifestation of irrationality in reality, and it often falls on those who do not deserve it and who strive to live according to the norms of unwritten good deeds, you see, how high you praise yourself," Li Guangyuan sneered, "Although it is not too explicit, but the meaning is the same, when a person is commended, he is very passionate." But what if no one commends them? It would be, as the saying goes, to do as you please, perhaps, as Mr. Wang heard thunderous cheers and thousands of people chanting his name from time to time in his youth. It's interesting, but will the people accept the decision to have the psychologists do a pathological analysis of their leader? The doctors will say yes, sir, you are a psychopath, you cannot manage the people, but you should recuperate in a sanatorium in order to strengthen your nervous system; You can paint, watercolors calm the nervous system, you can practice composing poems, you can recite your poems to the crowd, you can also hear cheers, girls like the rhythm of sweet words, but it is not, although poetry is a noble thing, mental patients are not allowed to write poetry, "not allowed to write poetry" What a sentence this is ashamed, Guangyuan, what you just said is not appropriate, because the matter of poetry itself rejects all immoral and unhealthy things."

He recalled a happy incident that had happened to him in the autumn of 1937. At that time, after careful planning, the command set out a smokescreen in Nanjing that "he must communicate with the agents who had penetrated the security organs" and approved him to cross the battle line near Jiangpu. He was greeted at the "window" by another comrade whom he knew. They formed a friendship in 1921 when they were sent to investigate the theft of gems from the treasury, and the comrade was in contact with him and Xiao Huang, an underground leader in northern Jiangsu.

He forged strong friendships with each and every one of them in those good years of the revolutionary period, when one of the Soviets, Blyukhel and Mikhail Borodin, also financed the creation of the revolutionary Red Army in China.

He only spent one night with his friends. No one closed their eyes. Together, they reminisced about their past friends.

"Guangyuan", he said from time to time, smoking a cigarette, "I know that you want to write a report and ask for a transfer back to the organization, and I also know that your energy is about to run out, I understand all this, my comrade, but I will not forward your report to the Central Committee, because the face of the puppet government is as fickle as a multi-faceted person, and the struggle against it has just begun, and it will be a long and bloody struggle."

He took a deep breath of cigarette, examined Li Guangyuan, and then exhaled, and said with a smile that said, "You know, as a soldier, no matter what, I am still a warrant officer in 1905, and I have been in the military for thirty-two years, so I know all military orders, but there is no such thing as 'order you to live' in the regulations, do you understand?" ”

"I understand," Li Guangyuan replied at the time, "but there, that is, at home, you can realize it."

The comrade interrupted him: "There is a mind for everything. Guangyuan, understand? to everything. ”

"Order you to live", Li Guangyuan repeated what he said at that time. But you can only do it according to your conscience, or you should die. The life that is exchanged for the loss of personality is not a life, but a stealing life

He remembered that in 1927 he had entered the socialist movement in Shanghai on the orders of Menzhinsky. At that time, the more he studied Wang Weiwei's thoughts, the more he felt that the central authorities' view that this madman was dangerous and that he would definitely come to power sooner or later was wrong. It was only in 1933 that he realized that what his superiors had said six years earlier was right, and at that time he had anticipated the terrible thing about Wang's puppet coming to power, which had finally come true now.

Up to now, no matter how hard Li Guangyuan tried his best to think about the reason why Wang Wei did not come to power, he still couldn't figure out how such a strange thing could happen. Yes, there is no harmony between the Democrats and the people, and there is no united front, so it is impossible not to contribute to the victory of the ultra-rightists, but why did Wang not come to power? In the thirties, the forces that stood on a conservative and standpoint were strong in the country, first of all the army, and then the "Blue Coat Society" and "Military Command". But why did the coalition fail to govern, while Wang Wei came to power? Is it because the term "socialism" is being played? Is it because it takes advantage of its appeal to the working class? Is it because while reducing the term "socialism" he has also put forward his argument that the organization is first-class? That is, is the Comintern and the idea of happiness for all not against Moscow, but against the same good nation? Could it be that mad nationalism, i.e. self-worship, was so strong and spontaneous in the outset that it could obscure history? It is a fact that everyone knows that any national movement based on the theory of superiority has never and will not achieve a final victory. So, what tricks did Wang Wei use to deceive the people? Are the people, the whole people, willing to blame the conspiracy of the Comintern for the reasons for the lack of food for the people? Perhaps people like to blame others for the sins of existing ills? Shoved on the body of an innocent lamb who can save lives? That is to say, Wang Wei took advantage of the most despicable and insidious side of people, especially those with weak wills and low cultural standards, to play this inferior card. But know that it is a great sin to bet on meanness and weakness; This will only lead to some initial gains, the predictable outcome of which is face failure, national condescension and the collapse of the state

"But, where can Wang Wei manage so much?" Li Guangyuan thought, "He lives on such a prestige entity; It is true that from time to time he hears in his mind the cheers of the crowd and the continuous shouting of his name, no, the test of a statesman should also be to see how many good qualities he possesses, for a good man always thinks of others before himself."

Li Guangyuan felt extremely tired, unbearable tiredness. In the distance, Nanking was already in sight, and when he saw the mournful smoke wafting in the clear sky, a symbol of death, he guessed that it was now the capital of half the country, and the bombardment was now going on day and night.

"If I stop moving again," Li Guangyuan suddenly realized, "if I get out of the car and sit on the ground (he mechanically perceives that there is no green on the roadside to the north, and that the snow hanging from the trees in the forest is still covered with a layer of smoke, because the wind can blow the soot from the fire to the suburbs for dozens of kilometers), then I may not be able to hold on, and I will involuntarily turn backwards; I will go to the northwest, and then cross the blockade and lie down and sleep. Directly opposite the station. The roar of the locomotives could be heard there, but the streets were very quiet, and the mournful roar of the locomotives when they started was so pleasant; Once, my father took me to a small station in the suburbs of my hometown, and I listened to him for a long time the unique sound that came out of the knot of the rails as the train ran back and forth, which only they could understand.

There were still three turns from home, Li Guangyuan stopped the car suddenly, and the black cat with a pair of crazy eyes ran across the road.

He knew that no one would overtake his car here. There are almost no cars left here, they are all confiscated and sent to the front for use. Those vehicles that could not be used for military purposes were parked in garages because gasoline was strictly controlled; He knew that it would take a long time for the first pedestrian to cross the invisible line where the black cat had just run, because people only came out of their homes to hide in bomb shelters during bombing; All men are at present in seclusion, in the same mind, awaiting the inevitable end, except for the great leader of the nation, who treats the people as his own personal hostages, who have no rights and no voice. This is clear to everyone in the country.

"I'll wait a while," Li Guangyuan still extinguished the fire.

Say to yourself, "Anyway, I can wait." It's a black cat after all, and it's still running from left to right, just before I'm about to go back to hell, it's a nasty thing anyway."

His second consciousness made him understand that the black cat was but one of the reasons which prompted his primary, calm and logical first consciousness to direct his hand to turn the ignition key, and that everyone was a multi-thinking body, and that the number of these latent layers in the cerebral cortex was often increased by the heavy load of contradictory thoughts and emotions due to the magnitude of the talents.

"But once again, I have to think about the situation in detail," Mr. Li said to himself; "From the moment I promised to come back, I was shocked. I understand that this promise obviously means that I signed the death sentence, but, you know, only the sick have no sense of fear, which means that I still have a glimmer of hope when I agree to return, isn't it? No doubt. In what areas might I be exposed? That's not an answer in all respects, man, it's too easy to answer a question like this, don't laugh at yourself. You know the deadliest link is the pastor's sister and her children. If they were found out and caught in the secret police, I wouldn't be able to survive, that's number one. Of course, it is not easy to find them, and in fact it is not possible. The documents were infallible, and the Americans were about to enter the mountainous region. However, I was sure that Hoi would be safe, but he died. And what about the teacher himself? Was he attacked by a secret inspector? It may not be impossible for them to get him out, their strength is far from what it used to be. Although I don't know much about their forces, if they cooperate with Chang Kaishen; So what to do? The first question he asks at that time will be how did Ding Mocun and Li Shiqun know about that meeting? 'I should have thought carefully about a line of defense, but I couldn't concentrate my thoughts, and a black cat had just crossed the road, so I had to sit for a while until someone was the first to cross this damn place, and what if the border post used a mean, newly invented device that could take pictures of everyone who crossed the blockade?' That's bad, if that's the case, then Chang Kaishen is now studying the photos of the newspaper operator and me, right? How do I answer that? Why did he ask me this right away, though? He'd arrange for surveillance to capture me and the liaison at the joint, and it was as simple as two or two and four. ”

Li Guangyuan raised his eyes tiredly, and in the small oval mirror, he could see that there was no living person in the empty street.

"So what should we do?" He refuted the self in his heart who was very relieved because there was no one to monitor him at the moment: "In this country, I can call three neighbors and ask them to write down the places where my car passes and all the vehicles that come to me, and write down the instructions for people who come by motorcycle, bicycle and foot, and they will honestly write it down with a pen and call to report it, but I have avoided one main question, and Zhan Guoqiang will ask him to bring it up with the usual smile on his face, Let me give a written report on the work that I have done in the border area in those days when I have exposed. He would ask me to report to him in his office, to report the address and telephone number of my meeting with the teacher in Yan'an, and that they might have arranged for someone to monitor me in a controlled manner, and I believed that I would be allowed to go home, so there was a misdemeanor, you are so indecent, Li Guangyuan, so you have to remember where you left traces. First, the hotel where you stay. Second, Chang Kaishen had promised me to confront the man who had sent my coded telegram to the secret police station, and the professor had not let him succeed in this small warrior with protruding eyes."

However, what else could happen if I had been to the hotel where he was staying, and if it had been recorded by the surveillance posts outside, I would have been finished.

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