"Is my father still alive?"

"He's still working at the airport,"

"How old?"

"60 years old. He's very strong. He organized the first flight across the ocean, from Hong Kong to London, England. ”

"Where?"

"London, England, that flight was not easy, his plane was too broken, and he encountered air currents......"

Chang Kaishen smiled coldly: "I'm not used to taking such risks, it's pointless."

The driver didn't say anything, and only glanced at the team leader after a minute, Chang Kaishen felt that his eyes contained some kind of pity and doubt.

"You're a party member?"

"Yes, all pilots must join the party after July 20."

"You have to join, did you have to join the party?"

"I don't like to put on a show, not all these hysterical episodes at the palace meeting, touting the speech I like my motherland, but it doesn't matter to me whether there is Wang Wei or not."

"What's your name?"

"Qi Kexiu."

"Why not come up with a better name? The name seems too pessimistic to me. ”

"Because my father thinks that everything can be stopped, and no matter how good it is, it will eventually come to an end."

"And what about bombing?"

"Hey, that's far away from us, we can't go. People talk about being powerful, and when it comes to striking them, they are embarrassed. ”

"Did your father join the party?"

"Of course, he is an old party member, and he has been like a veteran of the movement since the Northern Expedition."

"Do you have a good relationship with him?"

"How could it be bad?" The driver smiled slightly, "He's an outstanding person." I admire him. You know, he arranges a plane for someone else to get from London to Hong Kong. He was very fond of his pilots, gentle as a woman, and he said that he was as brave as a young soldier's father who had gone on missions with him. It should be understood that this civilian route was not opened by the military, and the marshal was very concerned about it, so his father was ordered to make friends with him, and his father said this. There was a pilot who wrote a book, did he talk about it? ”

"Haven't heard of it yet?"

He told many things, and he was as gullible as a child, and his father said that he needed no need to be reminded of anything, of course, like all old men, he was a drunkard and a womanizer. The father intended to find him in prison, and the father believed that he would go to prison after the defeat. He said to his father, flying across the ocean alone is the most pleasant thing, you, the blue sky, the horizon I understand him, including watching Wagner's things..., strange is that a Chinese will feel this way. ”

"And what about Hugo?" Chang Kaishen sneered, "Balzac? Mobersan? Zola? Don't they feel it? ”

"I don't like them. They write a little lightly, and I think the most important thing about reading is thinking. I like books that are hard to read, and when I feel that everything is clear, everything becomes boring, as if people are lying. A writer is a special kind of person, and I am scared of the writer's thinking. ”

"He should be a flight captain," Chang Kaishen sighed.

Qi Kexiu said happily: "That's exactly how "discipline is essential, everything needs to be disciplined, otherwise it will be a mess." ”

"Where did he come from this fallacy," Chang Kaishen thought, "because he didn't like the hysteria at the meeting, so what did he feel, he was autonomous, why was he so stupid when it came to writers, why did he worship fame?" Chang Kaishen asked in his heart,

"Don't lie, you like it, especially when we're in a place where there are no people and no houses, how happy and lonely."

"You know, you'd better not spend the night at the transit station and fly straight to our destination, that big estate in the mountains."

"Aren't you tired?"

"No, I'm used to it."

"Luckily, I'm still tired, we can't fly more than 800 kilometers with this kind of gadget, especially late at night."

"What's that place we're going to?"

"I don't know. We landed at the airport of a friend, who ran some chemical companies. He lives on the other side of the island, and he has a house, land, an airport, and a radio station. The house was nice, I stayed there for one night, great music, swimming pool, and tall horses of good blood. ”

"Who have you brought here?"

"Even if there were such a thing, I would not answer you, dear sir. I have sworn to remain silent, please forgive me. ”

"No, no, good, Comrade Qi Kexiu, I just can't help it, understand?"

"Understood, let's try, if I think I can fly, I'll fly, but I should ask the command center if I'm allowed to fly continuously."

"Yes, of course, everything should be done according to the rules. For me will let you break the sentence".

"It's not a rule, it's an order."

"That's all the more so, what's the name of the owner of the airport over there?"

"The airport is on a runway carved out in the middle of the island. 15 kilometers to the right, can not fly to the outskirts of the city. I don't know what his name is. Knowing too much can become a burden, I want to live peacefully, I'm going through a tough time, I'm saving money to return to my home country in the future. ”

"Will it be soon?"

"I think in two years, all the fighters will ask to go back."

"Really? You're such an optimist, you're jealous. Well, I'd be glad if you weren't wrong. ”

Qi Kexiu showed his gentle smile again, and the smile on his face looked very strange, "I'm not flying here aimlessly. ”

A Bavarian-style radio hut made of impregnated logs. Greeting Chang Kaishen on the nearby airport lawn was the guardsman, Captain Lao Pang. He was the head of the design bureau of the "Ultimate Challenge". They met in 1940, when Chang Kaishen came to Wuzhishan and Jianfengling to investigate, where a company office was set up. Chang discussed with those people the use of a group of Japanese and Nanyang engineers in their work. They were arrested for their involvement in the resistance and held in a nearby prison.

Chang Kaishen negotiated with them that the engineers would be used for different purposes for a certain period of time, at most one year, and that they must be eliminated after that, so as not to get out of the way.

At that time, the captain said: "I will find out who will do what immediately, and those who have no idea can be eliminated immediately." A two-month period to figure out what they are used for is sufficient. We should be courteous to talented people, and let's consider how to get them to accept our faith. ”

The captain raised his hand and gave him a military salute; Chang Kaishen was happy for a while. It didn't take him a few days to give him a medal.

They stood motionless for a moment, the captain rubbed his eyes with his hands, and nodded in the direction of the radio hut: "The rice is ready, I respect the director." ”

"Thanks, what shall I call you?"

"Dr. Ma. I'm the chief engineer of a processing plant here, it's completely legal, and I've flown here to show you my respect and have something to say to you. ”。

On the table in the room were two sets of cutlery, sausages, beer, grilled meat, low-temperature smoked ham, lots of greens and fruits.

The captain explained that the pilot was eating in the house and that he was a senior pilot. You are obviously familiar with the name. He came here in 1935 and is now one of our men, leading the party organization in the central region.

During the meal, the captain said that he had recruited a group of theorists: "Aviationists, physicists, and technical surveyors all live not far from the surrounding area, and they work in our factory, and the guards are all their own people, and foreigners are not allowed to pass." Ambassador Beau asked to be able to visit our factory, but the colonel himself refused. Of course, it's a shameful thing, but this is the end of the world, and I can't slow down in the special design bureau I have absorbed some very talented and skilled people, all of whom are top scholars. You'll meet them with me, and it's with our organization. Some of the people who work with prisoners have to come up with local names, all of which are names with Li characteristics, which sounds pretty good, right? Now it's up to you politicians. ”29GG

Chang Kaishen slowly put down the wine glass, did not bring it to his mouth, he frowned, for the first time in his life he was called a "politician". He didn't understand at once that the word man was spoken to him. From now on, he Chang Kaishen is no longer someone else, but a politician.

"Do you have any high-proof beers here?" He asked.

"Whew, of course. But I don't think I'm proposing it in order to be able to talk on the fly. ”

The captain stood up. Opening the small cabinet made of alpine woods, he handed over the liquor, filled Chang Kaishen's small goblet, and then filled it for himself, the wine almost overflowed, he didn't drink, as if his liver was not good. Chang Kaishen recalled that he didn't drink alcohol when he was in the mainland, and I found out why he used mineral water instead of liquor, why did he act so quickly, just like drinking water. At that time, Chang Kaishen installed a bugging device in his house and sent someone he trusted in particular. A true party member does not refrain from drinking, and it is not normal to avoid alcohol in this way. But two weeks later, news came that the professor was indeed ill, and Zhan Guoqiang himself twice asked him to go to Da Nang to see a British doctor gastroenterology clinic there at the request of Mei Sipin.

"Please let me continue to fly," Chang Kai begged, "I'll toast you, thank you, professor, you don't drink it yourself, you don't have to drink it, I remember your liver is not good." ”

"It used to be bad, Captain, to be exact."

Hearing the "detachment leader", Kaishen often couldn't help but look around, and he immediately felt that the other party had understood that he was afraid, not bad, a politician, but to let him completely collapse, just don't tell lies, fear is the natural mentality of exiles, and lying blind will ruin any cause in one fell swoop.

"Do you notice how timid I am here?" Chang Kaishen smiled coldly, "I even have my own shadow as a victim, a puppet and a shame. ”

"Everybody can do that," replied the captain. Chang Kaishen understood that his behavior was correct. From his side, any contrary reaction could lead to failure.

"When Colonel Lu came to us, you knew how brave this man was. Walk to the window every ten minutes to see if it's safe. This will pass, and it took me a month. ”

"When did you get here?"

"At the end of March no, no, with the permission of the marshal I took away the most valuable archival documents. I took with me some information about missiles, drawings of new bombers, and a series of ideas for the design of the sighting system, and the International Telegraph and Telephone Company promised to transfer me to other countries, where everything was ready. ”

"Do you have any contact with the International Telegraph and Telephone Company here?"

"Nope. At the moment I'm still restraining myself. After all, the people here are more reliable, and he is the master here. In many ways, his slogan resembles a badass. Of course, his tolerant attitude towards the locals and the Communist Party seems somewhat strange. There are many people from Hubei and Sichuan, even from the Northeast, on this southernmost island. ”

"In the past few months," Chang Kaishen smiled slightly, "you have cured liver disease?" ”

"You see, that's it. It seems that all of us used to live in a state of nervousness, and all diseases were caused by nervous restlessness. And here I have a group of reliable colleagues, and we live in harmony and harmony. ”

Chang Kaishen smiled again: "Without the No. 76 agent, he would not be summoned to the party office, he would not have to write a report to the Air Force Command, and he would not have to recite those hymns with the staff every day..... Yes? ”

"Alas, you're always joking," replied the captain, and Chang Kaishen understood that he could now make a profit: now that the professor was a bad uncle, his face suddenly became overwhelmed and ambiguous, as if a boxer had received a beautiful blow and felt dizzy.

"Cheers to you, Professor, to the memory of our friendship in your heart, thank you."

Chang Kaishen slowly sipped the wine with relish, and didn't eat anything, he just felt the warmth spreading throughout his body, and he asked with interest: "Where is Qi Kexiu?" ”

"He is the main military adviser of our company. We retained his rank of colonel. He often flew to the vicinity of the Ryukyu Islands, and completely openly he got it all, a soldier. ”

In 1940, Captain Tsitch was wounded during an assault on the team. Machine gun fire, he was shot in both legs and underwent surgery. After two surgeries, a special prosthetic limb was ordered in London and sent to Askong, a small city on the border between Switzerland and Spain, to recuperate. There he learned to walk again, returned to his flying group, and after his first flight, someone reported the matter to Zhan Guoqiang. Wang Wei personally awarded him the Medal of Loyalty. Colonel epaulettes and Kuomintang gold insignia. Mei Sipin was commissioned to draft materials about Qi Kexiu's wounded 20 combat flights, the shooting down of 5 aircraft, and the destruction of 7 military vehicles. He was no longer allowed to fly. He toured in formation, marching to the people, calling for devastating blows against the barbarians and the Communists, and he was later "loaned" to the flying brigade. Colonel Chillehu traveled from place to place, and during these trips he completed a series of delicate tasks assigned by Zhan Guoqiang, and your men knew about it, because they prepared various documents for his trip for him, and examined his relatives, friends, and acquaintances for hidden Communists, or members of unregistered religious groups. Chang Kaishen read his reports twice about his contacts with other pilots. Before Wang seized power, he had very reliable contacts with American and British aircraft manufacturers. During the war, which regarded him as both a merchant and an engineer. When traveling to these places on business, he changed his Air Force uniform into ordinary people's clothing. Chang Kaishen didn't like Qi Kexiu's report: he made up lies, plagiarized material from magazines, there was no news censorship in the country, he could publish whatever he wanted, it was really good to be neutral, there was nothing to say, although the content of the report was empty (the colonel always wanted to create a dangerous phenomenon that he discovered during his mission. Chang Kaishen was convinced that the fate of all soldiers was far from being so favored by Wang Wei, and the honor of officers who could cooperate with the secret department became an obstacle: the aristocratic style of the soldiers, the factionalism of the soldiers, and so on. ”

"Yes," Chang Kaishen agreed, watching the professor pour him liquor, "Your words are completely correct, he is a soldier and has received a monument in his lifetime... Haven't had anyone from us come to you yet? ”

"There have been individuals. I have to admit that I don't know this man. He told me that for the time being we had to try to be as hidden as possible and to work non-stop for the army. This person said, what to do in the future, I will be notified later. ”

'Who is notifying?' ”

"He didn't say."

"You didn't think this would be a spy?"

Nope. Look, you're talking about spies who definitely want to sow discord and spy on the situation. ”

Chang Kaishen sighed: "Ahem, naïve, very naïve person, the spy must first become your acquaintance, then become a very familiar person, and finally become a friend, a close friend, after which you will say what he is interested in, and will do according to his requests and advice, provoking your opponent to take the action I want to envision, this person has become your acquaintance... See, please describe this person. ”

"Not tall, with a very well-proportioned face, wearing a gray suit."

Chang Kaishen laughed: "Professor, if you rely on this kind of depiction, I won't be able to catch an enemy." The color of the eyes, the contours of the nose and mouth, the difference. Is the size, gestures, and accent Northeast or Shandong? Or is it Hunan or Sichuan? Or is it Shanghai or Nanjing, Chongqing or Northwest? ”

"It's from Chongqing," replied immediately, "the eyes are big and sunken, the nose is straight and straight, the nostrils are quite vivid, and even the cartilage is a little protruding, and the mouth is very large and completely like the letter 'M', which is a little blurry." There are no hand gestures when speaking. ”

"No, I don't know who can do it," Mr. Chang said.

He didn't tell the truth. He knew almost all the Kuomintang workers and their secret underground dispatch to Hainan and Nanyang in 1942. According to his verbal description, Chang Kaishen understood that it was not a spy, but Ge Yuelai, the director of information and the captain.

It was precisely because he knew this Ge Yuelai that Chang Kaishen was a little surprised and greeted his plane at the huge airport on the island.

When Chang Kaishen talked to him in the Chongqing dialect of Turtle Feet, Ge Yuelai laughed: "Captain, we only have 30 mainlanders here, and their days and times. The people around you only believe in you in the world, Mr. Chang Kaishen.

Ge Yue came to show the guests his house. He said that in the small room lived the servants of the team leader, they were from Hainan, they were locals, they were not worth anything at all, they would buy one for 10 fiat currency, the girl was 13 years old, he could put her on the bed to warm her feet, this little guy was used to it. Within half a year, Lao Zhanshang will get Singaporean citizenship for his own person, and the marriage with this girl is of course only a formality. It will allow him to obtain a passport for this place. It will be relayed by radio to all the people concerned, and Comrade Chang Kaishen has successfully arrived at his temporary place of residence, and has not decided to take positive action for the time being. There is reason to believe that in the past year, the situation in the world is changing, and their people are passing on this message through one link at a time. He's a reliable guy, though not exactly ours, he's overly self-centered and militarily factionalistic. Time will help us, though. Be calm, calm again. Fishing and hunting help to kill this unavoidable time of unwanted work.

A few months later, a local banker in Hainan (he used to be a persecuted banker. Because his mother is one-eighth Japanese) lying on the couch, watching the sun shine through the blinds and turn into thin steel light climbing high on the white walls, he thought. His time was coming soon.

He had reason to think so. He never substituted fantasy for reality, so he can live here now instead of living in a prison cell at Geyue Mountain.

"Please keep going," he said, "not far." ”

"I've often heard people say that the 'cyclamen' food is good," says Li Guangyuan, "it's around here, turn right." ”

"I only believe what I know, let's go, let's go, don't worry."

"Wait a minute," Li Guangyuan said, "red light." There will be a fine. ”

There were no pedestrians, no vehicles, the time passed when the road was congested, but the traffic lights on the street opened that stupid and irritable red eye, did not blink, stopped, and that's it.

"Maybe the light is broken." The Americans said.

"We should wait."

"To hell, let's go."

"Fines," Li Guangyuan said again, "think of them." ”

The siren immediately sounded. A policeman who is not young, this sergeant is polite and does not like to talk. He refused to be fined on the spot. He confiscated his driver's license and Li Guangyuan's certificate. He said he was going to check the address of the illegal lot, then walked to the sidewalk, got into the car without a police sign, and he hid and waited to catch the violator.

"Bastard", the Americans say, pretend, don't worry, I'll help you pay the fine. ”

"Hey," Li Guangyuan smiled.

"Can't you hurry up?"

"In a hurry?"

"Not in a hurry, but ......"

"But why did they come to me today?" Li Guangyuan thought, "Why did they wait so long?" What do you mean? Why is it precisely on the day of the end of the trial? The whole world is waiting for the verdict, and here they are convinced that many of the defendants will be acquitted, and only one person will be put in prison as a punishment, I don't believe that, where no one will be acquitted. Naturally, the members of the Falangists who slaughtered the common people cannot fantasize about being acquitted, and they will be tried here in the end, but there will be no wind and no waves, won't the fantasy become a reality? Yes, alas, yes. Li Guangyuan secretly retorted to himself, "But I don't believe that any of Wang Wei's assistants will escape death..., where the bandits are being judged... Here there was a place where the defendant was a bank manager before shouting. No murder warrant was signed. So who provided Zhan Guoqiang with funds to build the Demon Cave No. 76? It's him. Who gave Dingmo Village Gold to form the Army and Air Force? It's him, or who else could it be? He used to be an ambassador, wasn't he? Who was Wang Wei before he became ambassador? Prime Minister, he handed over power to a senior soldier, they knew what kind of person Wang Wei was, he knew Wang Wei's plan very well, he understood what to do when he gave Wang Wei the crown of 'leader of the nation' and 'great founder' I don't believe it, I can't believe it, Wang Wei has only one of them who will be acquitted here. If that happens, then I'm doomed, I'm a hostage here, and I'll never be able to leave. ”

Li Guangyuan patted his pocket, there was no cigarette.

"Want to smoke?" The American asks, "Smoking on the street is dangerous and leads directly to cancer."