On that desperate night in 1983, my father hated the apostates, and if it weren't for the apostates, perhaps this "backup system" that didn't know whether it existed or didn't exist would not have made any sense at all. But my father didn't believe that Wangxi would be an apostate, this was too much of a test of a person's psychological endurance, this person had lived and died with him, and was a person who could defend his loyalty with death, how could he become an apostate overnight? My father would rather die than believe that Lookout West was the apostate.

My father sat on the couch in Huang Kexing's office and thought, if people like Wangxi can't be trusted, then what kind of loyalty is loyalty?

My father smoked, and he was a completely different kind of person compared to my grandfather, Huang Buxing, who smoked and drank anything. So, many years ago, my grandfather Huang Kexing said that people like my father Huang Weiguo are not born to do special work.

In my father's time, time stood still, there was no past, there was no future, and it was the winter of 1956.

Start your day at the Los Angeles Blue & White Ching store, a branch of China Blue & White Art Import & Export Corporation in Los Angeles. Huang Weiguo is the manager of the branch. Huang Weiguo saw the instruction on the blue and white porcelain vase that had just arrived. This blue and white porcelain vase custom-made by the University of Los Angeles is a Chinese painting "Fuchun Mountain Residence", and the content of the porcelain vase is to instruct him to cooperate with an agent of the Central Investigation Department called Wangxi to escort the Chinese scientist Gu Mo back to China, and the time, place, and joint code are specified in detail. (The blue and white vase may still be in Los Angeles today, but no one will know about the book-like symbol on it.)

This American-Chinese scientist named Gu Mo Huang Weiguo knows it, because the organization has spent all its efforts to save Gu Mo for his homecoming, and has thought of various rescue methods, but they have not succeeded. This level was closed from 1943 to 1956. Under the intervention of the World Human Rights Organization, the United States was forced by the international community to allow Gu Mo to return to China. The news obtained in China is that the FBI decided to kill Gu Mo on the high seas on his way back to China. After the organization got the news, it was very angry and decided to rescue the Chinese-American scientist Gu Mo back to China at all costs.

Huang Weiguo has the courage, but his heart is still full of fear, because the meaning of the command is very clear, this mission can only succeed and not fail. But there are no absolutes in the real world.

On November 11, 1956, Huang Weiguo boarded a ship from Los Angeles to China.

Huang Weiguo wrapped in a gray coat, a bag under his arm, carrying a small black leather compartment, came to the cabin on the second floor, Huang Weiguo pushed open the door, saw a white-haired Chinese, Huang Weiguo asked, may I ask sir, is this 211?

The gray-haired Chinese said, yes.

Huang Weiguo said, oh, I finally found no mistake.

Huang Weiguo placed his luggage compartment, came to the door and sat down, he took a copy of "Three Hundred Tang Poems" and read it, the sunglasses on the bridge of his nose almost covered half of his face, and the sea breeze ripped his hair. He saw that there were guns on the people watching the scenery on the side of the boat, Huang Weiguo wanted to remember their appearance with his heart, and read in a low voice, "Thousands of mountains and birds fly away, and thousands of people disappear." Lonely boat, fishing alone in the cold river and snow". At this time, a pair of black leather shoes walked up to him and asked in Han nationality, may I ask Mr., "Heaven and earth are together, but dare to go down to the king" These two sentences are in Tang poems?

Huang Weiguo said, oh, no, but there should be in Chu Ci.

Huang Weiguo looked up and saw an elegant face, although the face was elegant but had no characteristics, it belonged to the kind of face that would not be remembered no matter how you looked at it.

Someone said that he had been away from home for many years, and he remembered these two sentences just now. Thanks, excuse me. As he spoke, he turned around and entered the 212 cabin next to him.

The whistle blew and the ship left Los Angeles.

Huang Weiguo took the book into the cabin, listened to the white-haired Chinese, and finally left hell.

Huang Weiguo knew that the person in front of him was Gu Mo, and Gu Mo didn't know who Huang Weiguo was. Looking at Gu Mo in front of him, Huang Weiguo couldn't help but feel heartache, 13 years, what turned this American-Chinese scientist in his prime into a gray-haired old man. Huang Weiguo thought, in fact, not everyone wants to live in hatred, but in the face of cruel reality, you have to hate. Huang Weiguo asked the old man, saying, Mr. is Chinese?

Gu Mo said that for the Chinese, this person, after leaving the motherland for a long time, he felt that the old garden was so cordial, which made people dream. Your own home is your home. You're Chinese too, right?

Huang Weiguo said, yes, Chinese. Sir, you're traveling to China, right?

Gu Mo said, no, I'm going home. Look at the gentleman's appearance as an immigrating to the United States, right?

Huang Weiguo said, no, no, no, the business is to import Chinese porcelain to the United States, and Americans like Chinese porcelain.

Gu Mo said meaningfully that the United States likes too many things about China. One is 5,000 years of culture, the other is 300 years of history, so what about one thing? Silk, porcelain, gold and silver, they wish China was theirs. What is Empire? The so-called empire is to turn other people's things into one's own.

Huang Weiguo said, Mr. is really knowledgeable.

Gu Mo said, it was learning that killed me.

Huang Weiguo pretended not to know anything, and his knowledge would kill people?

Gu Mo said, yes, learning can also kill people. Huang Weiguo was reminded that he must be cautious when doing business in other people's countries.

Huang Weiguo said, thank you Mr. for reminding me, I will. When I get back to China, I will treat my husband to the best Chinese food.

Gu Mo said, I'm really looking forward to it.

Huang Weiguo said, I don't know Mr. Gao's surname yet.

Gu Mo said, my surname is Gu, my name is Mo, Mozi's Mo, as long as I am Chinese, I know Mozi, and I love to be non-attacking, and things in the world cannot be solved by force.

Huang Weiguo said, Lao Tzu, Confucius, Mozi, know a little bit. This is a distant journey, Mr. Gu has a good rest.

Gu Mo said, I will, Si Guo is sick, on the contrary, there is no sleepiness.

Cabin 213, inhabited by two FBI people, one fat and one skinny. They conversed in the native language of the Indians.

The thin man said to the fat man, Hain, are you interesting? The matter of a bullet, I want to run so far, this is all the idea of a prostitute, thinking that on the high seas people don't know that the Americans did it? . Sneaking around always thinks that others don't know, but in fact others know it.

Fat Hain said to the thin man, I said Thomas, this kind of unsightly thing is always our turn to do.

And the thin man said, What is this?

The fat man said, let's do something to kill people.

The thin man said, I said, this person has been locked up for more than ten years, everyone is stupid, what is the difference between dead and not dead? If you don't kill, you save a bullet.

The fat man said, the White House is not at ease, scientists, know too many things, so this person is too smart and troublesome, he has been locked up for more than ten years for no reason, and the result is still a death, and it is miserable enough to think about it.

The thin man said that when my brother came home after the Korean War, he was crazy all day long, and he didn't see a doctor or take medicine, as if he had fallen into an evil spirit.

The fat man said, your brother is lucky, my brother went to Vietnam, and he doesn't know whether he is alive or dead.

The thin man said that lately I have been having nightmares, always dreaming that those whom I have killed come to me.

The fat man said, so am I, when is this the head, will I continue to kill it like this for the rest of my life?

The thin man said that the Operations Division was what people call the butcher of the FBI, with nothing but killing. Also in the FBI, the difference is huge, have you heard of Althea? Legend has it that when he was in Africa, he was a Chinese merchant, and it is said that his house was full of diamonds.

The fat man said that this is not news in the FBI, Nastasia, the Soviet mother-in-law, is holding the oil prince in her hand, and the war is dead, but the war also makes some people rich.

The thin man said that everyone else has a way out, but we have nothing, so as soon as Lao Tzu heard about the interests of the United States, he became angry in his heart, whose interests of the United States? Neither your American interests nor my American interests, but we still work for it.

The fat man said, don't talk about it, let's do a good job of the butcher. You said that the person in the cabin with the scientist could not be a CCP agent.

The thin man said, no, don't be a soldier, in the eyes of the FBI, the streets of the United States are all spies, so there are so many spies? It's a disease. Just like in the eyes of a doctor, all human beings are sick. Besides, not a single piece of paper was taken with him. Otherwise, as for sending only the two of us to this task? The main reason why the White House is doing this is to give an explanation to the international community and make an appearance, if he is allowed to die in the United States, it will hurt the hearts of all Chinese. Let him die a dignified death on the high seas, and no one can find something to say.

The thin man said, "Sleep, it's a sightseeing tour."

Huang Weiguo found that the man who was connected to him often leaned on the railing at the door of the cabin and looked at the sea, standing for half a day. Huang Weiguo could see that he seemed to be looking at the sea, but in fact, his eyes were stuck in cabin 213.

Sunrise and sunset are the time when there are a lot of people standing on the railing and looking at the sea, and after this time, people return to the cabin to rest. Scientist Gu Mo occasionally stands by the railing and looks at the sea, but more often he spends his time talking to himself in the cabin. The fat man Hain and the thin man Thomas wanted to throw Gu Mo into the sea several times while Gu Mo was watching the sunrise and sunset, but every time at this time, they would meet 212 Chinese men looking at them. had to give up the murder of Gu Mo.

The steamer was close to the open sea at sunrise and sunset, and it was already six days since it left Los Angeles.

The sunset of the sea on this day is surprisingly poignant and gorgeous, in the vast and boundless sea, a cruise ship can be completely omitted by the sea, just like a drop of water can be completely omitted by the rain of the sky, even if the huge sea ship sails on the ocean-like sea, it is still so lonely, this loneliness will be transmitted to everyone on board, before leaning towards the solid earth, this distant travel will produce a sense of empty suspension, like clouds in the sky, unable to reach the sky, nor can they get close to the earth. When the sun falls into the sea, darkness floats up from the abyss-like sea.

In the middle of the night, the fat man Hain and the thin man Thomas pried open the door of 211, and the thin man pointed a gun to Huang Weiguo and whispered, I will shoot if you make a noise. The fat man put a gun at Gu Mo's heart and said, Mr. Gu, we can only send you here, enter the Chinese sea when you go out of the high seas, the United States is too far, your soul has nowhere to return home, now it's okay, along the China Sea, your soul should find your own home, and we can be regarded as dedicated.

Gu Mo said, who are you?

The fat man said that Mr. Gu asked knowingly, except for the FBI, who would be so dedicated?

Gu Mo said angrily, you are so shameless, you will not end up killing me in the United States, and you will spend so much thought.

The fat man said, I think so too, why bother to come so far, but we may not think like this, people of your status can't die in the United States.

The thin man said to Huang Weiguo, it had nothing to do with you, but you saw things you shouldn't see, so you had to die.

Before the thin man's death was finished, Huang Weiguo suddenly flew out with his feet, as fast as lightning, as fierce as a lightning strike, and actually kicked the fat man and the thin man out of the cabin door together, the fat man and the thin man did not expect the Chinese scholar to be so violent, so strong, a little confused, the two of them lay on the deck and did not stand up, Huang Weiguo had already flown out of the cabin. When the fat man and the thin man got up, they saw a Chinese man standing at the door of the 211 cabin. The fat man and the thin man confronted Huang Weiguo, and the Chinese man stood at the door of 211 like a general, looking at them as if the battle in front of him had nothing to do with him. The fat man and the thin man understood that these two people were coming for the scientist Gu Mo. The fat man and the thin man formed a flank attack on Huang Weiguo on the left and right, and the two guns pointed at Huang Weiguo at the same time, Huang Weiguo suddenly burst out of a 360-degree rotation in place, and even his legs were shot out in the air, and the guns in the hands of the fat man and the thin man were instantly knocked away. The pistol that was knocked out of the air fell in the air, and Huang Weiguo, who had not yet landed in the air, took the fallen pistol in his hand again. The fat man and the thin man were stunned again, how could there be such a thing, could this be the legendary Chinese kung fu? The fat and thin people who kill all over the world, as the butchers of the FBI's operations department, are not without knowledge of Chinese kung fu. I've never seen such lightning-fast punches and kicks. The force of the fat man's fist was a hundred kilograms, but he couldn't get close to Huang Weiguo. Huang Weiguo shot at the thin man, and the thin man fell down. The sound of the pistol equipped with a silencer did not wake the passengers on board. Huang Weiguo looked more confident in the face of the fat man's attack alone. But the fat man suddenly gave up the attack on Huang Weiguo, and went straight to the door of 211 to listen to the Chinese man, the Chinese man did not avoid the fat man's attack, the fat man's punch to the Chinese man, the Chinese man was knocked back into the cabin by the fat man's strength, and the fat man woke up to the scientist Gu Mo he was going to kill, not these two Chinese men and women. The fat man's huge body flew into the cabin and stabbed Gu Mo in the chest with a knife. At this moment, the Chinese man's body flew in front of Gu Mo, and the fat man's knife stabbed into the Chinese man's heart. The fat man just wanted to stir the knife in his hand, the bullet exploded in his body, the fat man let go of the handle, and his whole body collapsed to the ground like a boulder. The Chinese man and Huang Weiguo pushed the bodies of the fat man and the thin man into the sea, quickly wiped the blood stains on the cabin and deck, the Chinese man finally fainted in the 211 cabin, the blood in his heart was still flowing, Huang Weiguo opened his small leather compartment, cleaned the wounds of the Chinese man, bandaged it, and injected it. Jier helped the man to his bed in the cabin. After finishing all this, he said to Gu Mo, Mr. Gu, you are frightened.

Gu Mo said, it was he who saved me with his life, and it was you who saved me with your life.

Huang Weiguo said, yes, Mr. Gu, we can die, but you must return to the motherland alive.

Gu Mo didn't ask, he naturally knew the identities of the two people in front of him, held one of Huang Weiguo's hands and said, thank you, thank you motherland.

The Chinese man didn't wake up until the sun rose over the sea on the third day, and when he woke up, he asked Huang Weiguo, "What about Mr. Gu?"

Gu Mo held the hand of the Chinese man and said, I'm fine.

The Chinese man said that as long as Mr. Gu was safe, it was worth dying.

Gu Mo's eyes were damp for a moment. He said, "I don't know your name yet."

Chinese men say that the surname is covetous, and the fame is western.

Gu Mo said, coveted, there are not many surnames.

Huang Weiguo could see that it was not that Wangxi was not good at attacking, but that he was more like a goalkeeper, and for the safety of Mr. Gu Mo, he was willing to stay with his life. Not afraid of any attack. This looks like a defensive position, but in fact it is the strongest offense. Because how strong your offense is, how strong is his perseverance, and unless he falls, you can't get past his body. Huang Weiguo then remembered the man's name, but couldn't remember his face, an elegant but unremembered face, a face that would not be cared about in the crowd. It is the sand of thousands of sands, and it is the water of the sea. A truly great agent sleeps next to you for the rest of your life, and you don't know he's an agent. Because, this is the essence and essence of the agent, unknown.

On this evening in the winter of 1956, Gu Mo's ship docked in Shanghai, China. Chinese scientist Gu Mo returned to his homeland under the escort of Huang Weiguo and Feng Wangxi. For them, it was just a special mission. Therefore, Huang Weiguo does not believe that how can a person who can defend his loyalty with his life be an apostate, and if he is not, who is? Time passed by second by second, and every second was so long. Huang Weiguo didn't dare to think about it anymore, the top priority was where the "backup system" was?