Powell held a piece of paper in his hand, handed it to the small bandit with a gun next to him without saying a word, and the little bandit presented it to Sun Meiyao. It was passed on to Chan Tsz-kun.

Chen Zikun looked at it, and there were a few short sentences written on the paper in English, to the effect that there were Western hostages on the mountain, and he asked the government army not to press too hard, otherwise it might lead to the death of the hostages, followed by the signatures of all foreigners.

It seems that the bandits have done a lot of work this night, and all kinds of means have been used, or that sentence, there is no shortage of elite talents in the cottage, Chen Zikun said: "In this case, I will go down the mountain to tell the government, but I don't know when this meat ticket will be released?" ”

Sun Meiyao said: "Let it go now, come here, bring people over." ”

Several bandits came over with more than 30 hostages, including the man Chunsheng who had died of his wife and his children, a bunch of people were all frightened, Chen Zikun looked carefully, there were no foreigners among them, so he asked: "Big boss, the four kinds of people you said do not include foreigners?" ”

Sun Meiyao was a little dazed, looking back at Sun Guizhi, the old military advisor said with a smile: "Foreigners and us are not of the same culture, and these rules do not apply to them." ”

Chen Zikun secretly scolded the old fox, but it is also a great achievement to be able to rescue a batch of Chinese tickets, without further ado, he proposed to go down the mountain immediately, Sun Meiyao agreed, sent a team of capable bandits to escort them down the mountain, and issued an insurance ticket to each person, as long as they meet other bandits in Lunan, as long as they show this insurance ticket, they can ensure safety.

When going down the mountain with the hostages, the bandits were in the middle of the road to farewell, and Qingfeng, who had been following Chen Zikun, suddenly coughed, Chen Zikun followed his gaze, and there were four roe deer rat guys squatting on the soil wall of the Taoist temple, copying their hands, wearing melon skin hats, rustic scum, looking at this side with a smile, one of them was the translator of the cottage Erbao, who seemed to be aware of Chen Zikun's sharp gaze, and Erbao twisted his head to the side.

More than 30 devastated hostages approached the area controlled by the officers and soldiers until late in the evening, and finally escaped, and everyone hugged their heads and cried, and the volunteers of the Red Cross Society of China sent them to the local hospital for a physical examination, while Chen Zikun was taken into the large conference room of the Zhongxing Coal Mining Company, which has become the headquarters for solving the problem of robbery.

After reading the letter presented by Chen Zikun, Tian Dujun and Governor Xiong were overjoyed, as long as the bandits were willing to negotiate peace, what was the establishment of a mere brigade, and there was no need to report to the Beijing government at all, Tian Zhongyu himself would be able to make a decision, stirring up the world chaos, and the Beiyang government's anxious hostage incident could be solved so easily, which made people feel that their strength was useless.

The overall situation has been decided, and the follow-up matters are left to the military and political officials to do, Chen Zikun returned to the hostel, and was beaten by Jianbing again, and when his wife's anger was smooth, he took out twenty-four gold bars from his arms, twenty of them were pushed to Li Yaoting, and four were put in front of Jianbing.

"Where did you get so much gold?" Jian Bing was dumbfounded, originally thought that Chen Zikun would go deep into the tiger's den and die for a lifetime, but who knew that he had run a single gang once and made a lot of money.

Li Yaoting was also dumbfounded, the twenty big sticks he brought from Shanghai, ready to pay the ransom of Jianbing, and later because Jianbing had been rescued, he borrowed flowers and offered Buddha to General Wu under the guidance of Chen Zikun, which was a formal IOU written in black and white, and the interest must be quite rich, but how did it go around, these gold bars came back.

"Big brother, I can't take this money, you exchanged your life for it." Li Yaoting pushed the gold bar back.

"What's the matter, I've seen a lot of this kind of small scene, brother, take it, and use it as Jianbing's expenses at your place." Chan still insisted.

"Big brother, I don't dare to take it even more when you say that, my sister-in-law spends my money, that's my honor, besides, my money is lent to the Ministry of Communications, not to you, why do you give it to me."

Chen Zikun said: "One yard to one yard, in short, you have to hold these big strips, I have so much gold on my body, why do people see it?" ”

Li Yaoting said: "Then I'll take it, and the benefits of going back to the Ministry of Communications are all yours." ”

The two laughed, and suddenly someone knocked on the door, Jian Bing went over to open the door and saw that it was Ruan Mingchuan, a reporter from Beijing, holding a big camera in his hand and saying, "Chen Yingying, go down and take a group photo." ”

Chen Zikun happily agreed, went downstairs to the courtyard of the hostel, the rescued hostages were lined up in three columns under the command of the officers and soldiers, and there were several Taishi chairs in the front, Tian Zhongyu, Xiong Bingqi, Wu Yulin, He Fengyu and others were lined up according to the order of their seats, and there was an empty chair in the middle, which was prepared for the lonely heroic Chen Zikun.

"How can Chen be virtuous, how can he sit with the chiefs." Chen Zikun pretended to excuse himself for a while, and finally couldn't resist everyone's kind invitation and stepped forward to sit down.

At this time, dozens of reporters had gathered in Lincheng, reporters from major newspapers and radio stations in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Hankou, as well as a considerable number of foreign reporters, and the uncrowned kings were huddled together, holding their cameras for a while, and the magnesium lights flashed wildly, and the people who took pictures could not open their eyes.

After the group photo, the commander of the Tanaka Yu Army, who was in charge of the rescue plan, made a speech, announcing that the hostage incident was about to be resolved peacefully, and all the hostages would be released in a short time, and then a large amount of nonsense was sprinkled, and the reporters absentmindedly held a small notebook and recorded indiscriminately, what they really wanted to interview was actually the lone lieutenant Chen Zikun who went deep into the bandits' den.

But Chen Zikun hid, according to the agreement, he only accepted an exclusive interview with the Beijing Daily, Ruan Mingchuan was happy to die, the tweed suit that he lent Chen Zikun at the beginning got the greatest profit, and the sales of the Beijing News skyrocketed, as if he was already a leader in the Beijing newspaper industry.

Of course, Chen Zikun is also indispensable, all the serialization he dictated, one word and one ocean, half a month of serialization, there are not a few people who make money.

After the reporters finished the interview, they went to the telegraph room of the ZTE company to send telegrams to the newspaper, and now the busiest are the employees of the telegraph room, who are not idle 24 hours a day, not only to accept and send government telegrams, but also to send manuscripts for the reporters, the price of the telegram is not cheap, a word hexagonal small ocean, ordinary people are trying their best to shorten the length of the telegram, but in order to pursue the effect of words, the reporters often have a telegram of hundreds of words, and the telegram room has made a lot of money this time.

After receiving Tanakayu's urgent telegram, the Beijing government immediately replied: Accurate!

In order to show his goodwill for a peaceful settlement, Tanaka Yu ordered the officers and troops surrounding the calf to retreat ten miles and send people up the mountain to contact them to discuss the specific release of the hostages and the integration of the bandits.

Soon news came from the mountain, asking the local gentry of Teng County, Yi County, and Zou County to sign and guarantee the government's fulfillment of the conditions, and Tanaka Yu immediately agreed, so that the dust was settled, and only the hostages went down the mountain.

After hearing the news, Wu Yulin, the chief of communications, who had been hiding at the Lincheng railway station, immediately sent a telegram to Beijing, asking him to personally go up the mountain in exchange for the release of the hostages.

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Beijing, the Ministry of the Army, Vice Minister Jin sat in front of the desk, the mood was very unhappy, the Lincheng train robbery thousands of miles away had nothing to do with him, it was a matter of the Shandong authorities and the Ministry of Communications, what bothered him was that there was a car accident not long ago, and it was Liang Qichao's two sons who were hit.

If it is an ordinary person, with just a phone call, the police department can help them deal with the aftermath, but Liang Gongzi, who was injured, this matter is a bit complicated, and it is said that the injury is more serious, and it is necessary to have an osteotomy, and the Liang family is even more unrelenting, and the lawsuit is brought to President Li Yuanhong.

Jin Yongyan used to be Li Yuanhong's staff, and the president was naturally oriented towards him, but he couldn't say anything if he didn't give the Liang family an explanation, and in desperation, Vice Minister Jin only had to lose his pawn to protect the handsome, tearfully cut off the horse, sent his coachman to the police department, and committed a traffic accident, and lost thousands of dollars, which temporarily suppressed the matter, but Vice Minister Jin's name can be counted, what kind of person is Liang Qichao, that is the master of Chinese studies, the leader of the literary world, although he will not die if he offends him, but his reputation is basically ruined.

The more Jin Yongyan thought about it, the more angry he became, if it weren't for Chen Zikun's kid sobbing about it, he wouldn't have made such a fuss, and he picked up today's newspaper and looked at it, the front page published the latest progress of the Lincheng incident, and on a vague photo, the figure in the front row seemed to be a little familiar, and then looked at the caption next to him, Jin Jichang was furious.

Chen Zikun, who was locked up in the confinement room of the War Department, how did he run to Lincheng, and he also earned the reputation of a lonely hero, he slapped the table: "Someone! ”

The adjutant came in and said, "Deputy Chief, what is the summoning?" ”

"You go and find out what's going on." Vice Chief Kim said as he tapped the newspaper on Chen Zikun's head with his knuckles.

The adjutant hurriedly went to the boiler room to check, the door of the "confinement room" was hidden, how could there be a figure of Chen Zikun, and then asked the boiler worker Lao Ma, who shrank his neck and said: "Confinement is the business of the military police, I burn the stove, take care of your." ”

It's no wonder that others, after Chen Zikun was locked up and confined, the War Department held emergency meetings for several days in a row, and Vice Minister Kim was disturbed by the car accident again, how can he take care of Chen Zikun, he doesn't care, and the people below don't have that idleness, so that Chen Zikun escaped from prison for several days, and no one knows.

The adjutant reported back to Vice Minister Kim, Jin Yongyan was furious again, this matter is really too fucked up, the dignified deputy chief of the army, he can't even be cured by a lieutenant, and this matter will not make people laugh when it spreads.

"Deputy Chief, do you want to send someone to bring him to be dealt with strictly?" The adjutant asked.

"It must be done strictly, otherwise the system of the War Department will no longer exist." Vice Minister Kim said solemnly.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door outside, and it turned out to be an attendant from the Presidential Palace who came to deliver an official letter, saying that the president would personally award the Order of the Tiger of the Third Class to Chen Zikun of the War Department, and asked the War Department to cooperate with Yunyun.

Jin Yongyan accepted the official letter with a blushing face, and after sending the attendant officer away, the adjutant asked cautiously, "Deputy Chief, ......what do you see?" What is it to do? ”

Vice Minister Kim didn't say a word, and the adjutant was bored with himself, so he quietly went out and closed the door.

As soon as I closed the door, I heard the sound of a teacup breaking.