Li Guangyuan dialed the blazing chopping wood and said, "Okay, let's talk about it quickly."

"Everything I say is very important"

"What's not important in today's world?"

"I invited three experts from Wang Hong's department"

Wang Hong is an adviser to the Japanese army's new weapons, and he leads some personnel to study the issue of atomic splitting.

"After you imprisoned the professors, I also invited their experts there"

"Yes. The professor was held by our 76 people. But why is your intelligence department engaged in his problem? ”

"Don't you understand?"

"Yes, I don't understand"

Wang Hong has studied in France and the United States. Isn't it obvious that his various connections there are significant? The lack of courage and decisiveness in looking at problems is the Achilles' heel of all of us. We don't dare to imagine boldly, follow the rules, are afraid to cross the thunder pool, and this is our main mistake"

"That's right," agreed the captain, "you're right. I don't want to argue about being brave and bold. However, I have a different view on some specific issues. Wang Hong insisted that the possibility of extracting rings from highly radioactive materials should continue to be studied, and for this reason he was criticized by the scientific community. It was these people who told him, and after my work, they all admitted it."

"I don't doubt that"

"But now our people in Tokyo are reporting that Wang Hong is right. The Americans and the British continued to study in his own way, while Wang Hong was imprisoned in our prison

"In your prison, it's not us 76." Li Guangyuan corrected, "At your place, captain. It wasn't us who caught him, it was you. It is not our case, but yours. Chang Kaishen and you. Not me and your wife. ”

"Even if his grandfather was a true Japanese," said the captain, "if he was loyal to us, and he served us wholeheartedly, what did it matter who his grandfather was?" But you're gullible to a bunch of bad guys. ”

"Badass?" Could it be that the patriarchs of these movements, the tried and tested members of the party, are dead, and the intellectuals whom the president personally awards are badas? ”

"Alright, well, forget it, you're right. You're right. Pour me some wine. ”

"Did you throw away the stopper?"

"The cork is in your left hand, Captain Lee"

"I'm asking about the plug on the safety brake."

"Didn't throw it away. Placed on a small table next to the mirror"

The captain craned his neck and drank the wine dry in one gulp.

"I'm drinking a lot right now," he said.

"I wonder who drinks less now?"

"Poor man without money," joked the captain, "unfortunate man"

"Someone once said that money is everything"

"So," the captain agreed, "what would he decide if I reported the results of my investigation to the top?" What are your thoughts on this? ”

"First of all, you should report the results of your investigation to Wu Sibao. It was he who ordered the arrest of the professor."

"But you're the one who interrogated this professor."

"Yes, I was interrogated, and I did it according to the instructions of my superiors."

"If you had let him go then, we would have been far ahead in creating 'weapons of retaliation' six months ago."

"Can you confirm that?"

"I've confirmed it"

"Do all the other physicists agree with you?"

"Mostly. Most of the physicists I asked to talk to agreed with me. And what will you do? ”

"Nothing," Li Guangyuan replied, "I don't care." The results of scientific research should be proven by practice. Where are these proofs? ”

"I have, in my pocket"

"How so?"

"Exactly. I received some intelligence from London. Up-to-date information. This is a death sentence for you"

"Captain, what do you want to achieve? What do you mean, what do you want to do?"

"I can repeat: whether intentionally or unintentionally, you, it is you who sabotaged the creation of a 'weapon of retaliation'. Whether you mean it or not, you should have asked a hundred physicists for their opinions, and you only asked ten physicists, and on the basis of their testimonies, all they were concerned with was to isolate Longer and thus lead people to think that Longe's methods were harmful and unpromising."

"So, you ask me not to trust our real soldiers, to suspect the people trusted by Chang Kaishen and Zhan Guoqiang, to defend a man who has taken the American path in research? Are you asking me to do this? Are you asking me to trust the professor arrested by 76, and that 76 will not innocently arrest anyone and not trust those who helped expose him? ”

"Li Guangyuan, everything seems logical. I have always admired you for your ability to act according to clear and rigorous logic: you condemned Chang Kaishen for ordering the arrest of professors, accusing me of harboring the Communist Party, and firmly building your confidence on our bones. Okay, Li Guangyuan, I applaud you. But I'm not here for that purpose. You care about professors and are quite visionary. Although he is now in prison, he lives in a separate residence in the Guards camp and has the possibility of engaging in theoretical physics. Li Guangyuan, now I want to say to you the most important thing: I am in a desperate situation, if I report the results of the investigation to Chang Kaishen, he will realize that you have a weapon against him. Yes, you are right, it was he who ordered the arrest of the professor. If I tell him that the outcome of the investigation is not in your favor, it will also deal him with an indirect blow. And I, no matter how ridiculous it may be, will be attacked from both sides. I will be hit by both Chang Kaishen and you. As for him, he will have to test my arguments again and again, and you will basically correct me as you just said. What should I do as an officer of the Central Command? Officers of the spy agency, please tell me."

"That's what he intended," Li Guangyuan understood in his heart, "Is this a test for me?" If he wants to test me, then I know how to deal with it. But what if it's wooing me? They are like rats before the ship sinks, and they want to flee the ship immediately in order to avoid destruction. It wasn't for nothing that he talked about 76 and the spy agency. Well, you have it in mind. It's too early to answer him."

"No. 76 and the spy agency," Li Guangyuan shrugged and said, "what's the difference?" Although we have frictions, in general, we are all working for a common cause."

"It's for a common cause," the captain admitted, "except that we are known as executioners and thugs, and you are skilled craftsmen in making jewelry, merchants in cosmetics, and political spies." Any system, any country needs you, and we only belong to the country, and we live and die with the same destiny as the country."

"What should I do, you ask?"

"Right"

"What do you recommend?"

"I'd like to hear your opinion first"

"Based on your unscrewing of the safety brake plug and the request I will lower the curtain and see"

"The curtains are what you suggest you put down"

"Really? Hell, I feel as if this is what you suggested, it's not a matter of substance. Do you want to wash your hands without drying them? ”

"Do you have a 'cross-border window' at the border?"

"Let's just assume there is"

"How about the three of us going to a neutral country together?"

"Three?"

"Yes. It's three people: the professor, you, and me. We will save a great physicist for the world. I'm here to save him, and you're organizing the smuggling across the border. All right? You have to take into account: it's you, not me, who are being spied on by suspicion. You know exactly what it means to be under constant suspicion. What do you think? I'm waiting for your answer."

"Do you want brandy?"

"To"

Li Guangyuan stood up, walked to the captain unhurriedly, handed him the wine glass, and at this moment, Li Guangyuan picked up the heavy wine bottle with edges and smashed it towards his head. Broken glass from the bottle splattered everywhere, and dark brandy flowed onto the captain's face.

"I did the right thing," Li Guangyuan pondered in his mind, stepping on the accelerator pedal of the "sedan", "I have no choice." Even if he came to me with genuine intentions, I was right to do so. I have lost some things on some issues, but what I have won is Chang Kaishen's complete trust, which is more important than that."

Beside him, the captain was half-seated and half-lying against the red leather door. He was in a coma.

He said that Chang Kaishen was sleeping, which was not exact. He didn't sleep. He had just received a report from the decipherment center: the code of the female Communist Party spy was the same as the one he received from Yan'an. As a result, Chang speculated that the Communist spy leader in Shanghai was looking for new contacts, and he either thought his operators had been killed in the air raids, or had sensed that something was wrong with them. But Chang has been reluctant to think about the nerve-wracking fingerprints on the radio and the telephone microphone that is in direct contact with Mr. Wu. But the more he didn't want to think about it, the more these nerve-wracking fingerprints prevented him from thinking about the problem. During his twenty years as a police officer, he has developed a peculiar habit: he first listens to his own heart, his intuition, and only then analyzes the facts and tests his intuition. He rarely made mistakes: whether it was during his previous administration's crackdown on student protests, or when he turned against Wang Wei and imprisoned Chongqing government officials. When he carried out all of Zhan Guoqiang's tasks and later leaned towards Wang Wei, his feelings never deceived him. He knew that some people might not forget the tasks related to Li Guangyuan. It means that something is happening, and it is on the upper level. But what happened and when it happened, Chang Kaishen does not know. So he assigned his subordinates to Li Guangyuan to perform a fake show. If Li Guangyuan came to him the next day and reported to him the words and deeds of his subordinates, he could safely end the investigation, lock the materials in the safe, and put them on the shelf. If Li Guangyuan agrees to his subordinates' suggestions, he can have a public showdown, go to the above, and report the case to him based on the investigation materials of his subordinates.

"Well," he continued, "well, when the men who sent it out come back, we'll see." Now it's time to consider the matter of the Communist Party's 'female pianist'. It seems that when her superiors began to find contact through Yan'an, we could use our own methods to deal with this woman, rather than Li Guangyuan's persuasive way of talking. She can't just be a tool in the hands of her leaders. She should know something. She didn't actually answer a single question. There is no time left. The cipher index sent by Yan'an may also be in her mind. This was our last chance."

Before he could finish thinking about it, the door opened, and it was Li Guangyuan who came in. He held the bleeding captain with his hands cut behind his back and a pair of chrome handcuffs locked to his wrists.

Chang Kaishen noticed his assistant standing at the door in a panic, so he said, "Captain Li, are you crazy?" ”

"I'm not crazy," Li Guangyuan replied, throwing the captain on the couch in disgust, "Maybe he's crazy." Otherwise, he's a traitor."

"Water," the captain barely opened his lips, "give me some water"

"Give him water," Chang Kaishen said, "what's wrong?" Explain it to me."

"Let him explain everything to you first," Li Guangyuan said, "and I can write everything down in writing."

He gave the captain a drink of water, then placed the glass next to the long-necked glass bottle on the tray.

"Go back and write down everything you think you should write," Chang commanded. "When will you be able to write?"

"Ten minutes is enough to write short. If you want to be detailed, I will write it tomorrow."

"Why tomorrow?"

"Because I have something urgent to do today. Besides, he hadn't come to his senses yet. Can you go? ”

"Okay, please," Chang Kaishen replied.

After Li Guangyuan left, Chang Kaishen opened the handcuffs on his wrists and thoughtfully walked to the small table with glasses. He carefully picked up the cup with two fingers and looked at the light. Li Guangyuan's fingerprints were clearly left on it. He was one of the fingerprints that hadn't had time to be examined. It is not so much that he is suspicious of Li Guangyuan, but that he is according to his own habits and finds out all about it. Chang Kaishen called the secretary and instructed:

"Remove the fingerprints from this cup. If I sleep, don't wake me up. I don't think I'm in a hurry."

The fingerprint identification materials surprised Chang Kaishen. The fingerprints left by Li Guangyuan on the cup are the same as those on the telephone microphone, and the most terrifying thing is that they are exactly the same as the fingerprints found on the radio.

Li Guangyuan drove his "Renault" to the suburbs at a gallop. The pale-faced teacher sat silently beside him. Li Guangyuan turned on the radio, dialed into the radio, and was playing the music of a young female singer. Her voice is deep and powerful, and her lyrics are simple and plain.

"The present atmosphere is completely corrupted," said the teacher, "and I don't condemn it, no, but listening to this music always reminds me of Handel and Bach." It seems that people who used to engage in art were more strict with themselves; They have faith and set themselves the highest tasks. And what is this singing? It's like a market call."

"This singer will be famous for a long time, but I will argue with you after the war. Now you repeat to me again everything that you are going to do in the borderlands"

The teacher began to repeat to Li Guangyuan everything he had explained to him in detail three hours earlier. While listening to the teacher, Li Guangyuan continued to think: "Yes, the operator stayed with them. But if I take the operator away, they will catch the teacher, because there is obviously someone in number 76 who is also paying attention to him. In this way, the entire plan of action will inevitably fail, and Zhan Guoqiang will be able to collude with the people in Yan'an. If something unexpected happens, it shouldn't happen, but it can happen that if they torture the child, the operator may mention me. However, the teacher can get started, and Professor Shi should have completed the task I gave him. The telegram must have arrived at home. Neither the teacher nor Professor Shi knew who they were carrying out my plan for. Everything will go very smoothly. I will never allow Zhan Guoqiang to 'sit at the negotiating table' in Bern. Now they will not succeed. Chang Kaishen didn't know anything about my 'crossing window', and the border guards wouldn't tell his men anything, because I was acting on the orders of the commander of the guard. In this way, the teacher will arrive in Yan'an today and start my mission tomorrow, or more precisely, our mission."

"No," Li Guangyuan interrupted his train of thought, "you should meet in the rose-colored hall of the hotel, not in the azure hall"

"I don't think you're listening to me at all"

"I'm listening. Please keep talking."

"Once the teacher has successfully crossed the border and everything is going well, I will go to the rescue of the operator. At that point, I can take a desperate gamble. They will tighten the encirclement, and even Wu Sibao will not be able to help me at that time, so let them all go to hell if they can't help me. If I knew I was completely exposed, I would go through my 'cross-border window' with the operator. If they have no evidence and no way to do it, I will use force to rescue the operator, but with the tacit approval of my superiors. Go to his house to report to work or go to the teahouse, where he is inseparable from Zhan Guoqiang. Calculate the time, get rid of the guards in the secret house, destroy the radio station, and take the telegraph operator away. The main thing is to calculate the time required and the speed of action. Let them go to her leaders. It won't take them long to find out. Judging from Chang Kaishen's shock when he saw his subordinates' heads bleeding, the captain was sent by him. If he hadn't acted in a fake show, and he had sincerity in addition to the role he wanted to play, he wouldn't have been able to play it so realistically. If I do agree to abscond with him and the professor, I don't know what he's going to do next. Maybe he'll sneak across the border with us. This is very likely. I still remember the way he looked at me during my interrogation and what he said at the time. I did the right thing about dealing with him. On the one hand, I used Zhan Guoqiang, and on the other hand, I used Wu Sibao as a cover, and suddenly left. The main problem at the moment is the operator. I will not go back to the office tomorrow morning, but will go to her immediately. But no, you can't. We must not act blindly at any time. I have to go see Müller first."

"Yes," said Li Guangyuan, "very good, you remember that; Take the second rickshaw, not the first, and never take a ride on the way. In short, I am sure that in that temple I mentioned to you, your friends will take care of you. I repeat: anything can happen to you. All kinds of accidents can happen. With the slightest negligence, and before you even have time to figure it out, you'll be caught in Chang Kaishen's basement here. If this happens, remember that if you mention my name once, whether in a dream or during a torture, my life will be lost, and your sister and nephews will die. If you say my name, your relatives will die. You have to understand what I mean, it's not a threat, it's reality, you should know that and always keep in mind"

A hundred meters away from the station square, Li Guangyuan threw down the car. The car at the border post was parked at the predetermined place, and the key was inserted in the ignition electric door. Mud was deliberately splashed on the window glass so that the faces of the passengers could not be seen.

"Let's change your clothes," Li Guangyuan said.

"That's it," the teacher replied in a whispered voice, "my hands are shaking, and I have to calm down a little."

"Don't keep your voice down, no one here will hear us"

The valley was covered with snow and glittering, and the pass was dark. There is silence, and the slightest sound can cause a loud echo. With gusts of wind, the sound of power station engines can be heard from time to time in the distance.

"Okay," Li Guangyuan said goodbye, "Teacher, I wish you all the best."

"Bodhisattva bless!" After the teacher finished speaking, he slid in the direction pointed by Li Guangyuan, his movements were a little clumsy. Not far away, he fell twice. Li Guangyuan stood beside the car until the teacher shouted from the black forest on the side of the pass. It's only a short walk from there to the hostel. All the best. Now the operator must be rescued from the jaws of the tiger.

Li Guangyuan returned to the station square, got into his car, drove about 20 kilometers, and felt drowsy. He looked at his watch, and two days and nights had passed, and he had been busy running around without rest.

"I'll sleep for half an hour," he said to himself, "or I wouldn't have been able to go back to Shanghai."

He slept for a full twenty minutes, and when he woke up, he took a sip of a burnt knife from a flat military kettle. He was at full throttle, his chest close to the steering wheel, and the Renault's motor sped up to make a smooth, powerful sound. The pointer on the speedometer already points to the scale of "100". The road was empty, and the morning light was faint. In order to drive away the drowsiness, Li Guangyuan sang witty folk songs loudly.

When drowsiness hit Li Guangyuan again, he stopped the car and rubbed his face with snow. Only a small amount of loose azure snow remained on both sides of the road. The villages and towns that Li Guangyuan passed through were so peaceful and quiet that they seemed to be painted with a layer of blue color: the area was not heavily bombed by planes, so the small red-roofed buildings seemed natural and harmonious in this tranquil area: surrounded by blue pine forests, clear rivers cascading down the mountains, thawed lakes, and as calm as a mirror.

Once, Li Guangyuan, who liked early spring the most, once said to Professor Shi: "Literature will soon use concepts, and it will never be long sentences written in words." The more information people get through radio and film, the more pathetic the role of literature becomes. If in the past it took writers three pages to describe the scene of the awakening of all things in spring, now filmmakers only need to use half a minute of footage on the screen to express the same scene.