The plainclothes did not dare to jump out of the car in pursuit, but they still had the ability to capture the little servants, and a group of people pounced on them and knocked them to the ground, and four or five pistols were put on their heads and asked: "Say, where did you hide the meat tickets?" ”

The little servant was so frightened that he cried: "Uncles, spare your life, nothing does anything to me." ”

After interrogation, it turned out that when he stopped at Fengtai Station, a passenger gave him a dollar and asked him to give this note to Mr. Yao in the first-class carriage after driving.

"Where's the man!" The plainclothes shouted.

"Get off at Fengtai Station."

"What does it look like?"

"I forgot."

"Do you dare to forget, if you are looking for a fight, handcuff it!" The plainclothes took out their anger on the little servants.

The ransom was handed over, but they didn't have a face to face with the thieves at all, and the criminal investigation masters of the dignified Jingshi Police Department were actually played around by a gang of country bandits, and everyone had a strong sense of frustration at this time.

In fact, I can't complain about them, the swiftness of the thieves' actions and the thoroughness of their plans are completely beyond the scope of the ability of the Jingshi Police Department, and now that the initiative is completely controlled by the other party, so many policemen, military police, and troops are throwing rat traps, which is not useful at all.

When the train arrived in Langfang, Vice Chief Yao and a group of plainclothes people got off the train and called the Beijing Police Department, where Wu Bingxiang swore that he had discovered the exact location of the Three Artillery Gangs and was working with the military police and the military to suppress them, and that he would never be able to outrun them.

……

When Chen Zikun was a horse thief in the Kanto region, he learned a lot of tricks from the old-timers, tracking was one of them, he followed the horseshoe prints left by the bandits all the way, about half an hour later, he saw a dilapidated restaurant on the side of the road, there was a water tank for feeding horses at the door, and there were many messy hoof prints and footprints on the ground, and the bandits must have been here.

The small dining shop is very simple, with a mat shed on the roof, a clumsy table and chairs under the shed, and a disguise in front of the door that cannot be seen in the primary color, with a big word on it: "wine".

Chen Zikun walked into the restaurant, and the thin and obscene boss came over to talk: "Guest officer, what do you use?" His eyes flickered as he looked at Chen Zikun, and he couldn't help but flicker when he saw the blood stains under his armpits.

"Oh, I've had a couple of friends just here, which direction are they going?" Chen Zikun asked casually, his eyes also looking around keenly.

On a table next to it, there were seven or eight wine bowls messily, and meat bones, oiled paper, and dirty phlegm were thrown on the ground.

"Just now there was a group of hawkers from Shandong, who drove the mules north after eating." The boss laughed.

Could it be that he guessed wrong, Chen Zikun was still suspicious, and suddenly there was a small thing flashing in the sunlight in the gap of the table, and he stepped forward and pinched it out, and it was a round pearl.

When she set off this morning, Miss Yao wore a pair of pearl necklaces!

"You coax me!" Chen Zikun was furious, and suddenly the wind behind his head sounded, he quickly dodged and dodged, and a sharp axe slashed deeply into the table, and the one holding the axe was a sturdy woman, who seemed to be the proprietress out of the horse.

Fierce is strong, but the force value is seriously low, Chen Zikun kicked the boss lady to the ground, the boss touched a kitchen knife out of nowhere, wow wow screamed and pounced, Chen Zikun easily flashed, a punch in his stomach, painful he lost the kitchen knife and vomited wildly.

Chen Zikun pulled out his bayonet, swept all the wine bowls on the table to the ground, picked up the skinny boss, stripped off his clothes, pressed the tip of the knife on his chest, turned his head and asked the proprietress lying on the ground: "Say, where is the third gun, I have a bad temper, just ask again, if you don't say it, your man will be disemboweled." ”

The people on the road know the depth, don't be scared, a trace of hesitation flashed in the boss's eyes, but she still told the truth: "The good man spares his life, the three guns just left, and they kidnapped a big girl and went to the west." ”

"Where did you go?"

"We don't know."

"Don't say yes." Chen Zikun used a little force, and the blade cut into the soft flesh on the boss's stomach, so frightened that the proprietress hurriedly kowtowed and begged for mercy: "The three guns have a good name called Yizhimei in Zhanggezhuang, ten miles away in the southeast, and I am happy to go there." ”

"If you dare to coax me, be careful with your life." Chen Zikun took the bayonet, but did not intend to let the two men go, he tied them to the door of the restaurant, and used the bayonet to mark a line on the ground: "These two are kidnappers." Then he clapped his hands and left.

The horseshoe prints were indeed heading in the direction of Zhanggezhuang, but Chen Zikun made a mistake when he chased to the fork in the road, and the footprints showed that the bandits were divided into two groups, one went to Zhanggezhuang, and the other went to the southwest.

Chen Zikun searched carefully on the dirt road, and sure enough, he found another pearl in the southeast direction, and he couldn't help but secretly admire that Miss Yao was not chaotic, brave and witty, and really had the demeanor of everyone.

Following the secret notes left by Miss Yao, Chen Zikun himself also left an obvious mark for the reinforcements, he knew that if Miss Yao had an accident, the Police Department would definitely send a large number of people to track down her whereabouts.

After walking a few miles forward, there was an open space in front of him, a big river was in front of him, and the horseshoe prints ended here.

Damn, the living can still be suffocated by urine, Chen Zikun once again studied the horseshoe prints on the ground, Hebei bandits are not as good as the outside of the pass, it is not yet possible to do a horse per person, there were about fifteen bandits at the scene of the robbery, but the horseshoe prints show that there are only three, one of the horses' hoof prints is deeper, it should be carried by two people, so analyzed, the bandits probably went to Zhanggezhuang to avoid the wind, and the other took the meat ticket to the boat to hide, waiting for the ransom to come.

In different regions, the bandits' style of acting is also very different, the bandits outside the border are called horse thieves, each hand is a healthy horse, come and go like the wind, the nest is usually located in the deep mountains and old forests, a small group of officers and soldiers do not dare to launch an encirclement and suppression, and the area of Beijing, densely populated, the public security force is relatively strong, and there is no deep mountain where you can hide, if you are a kidnapper, you will also choose a most unexpected place to hide the meat ticket.

That's on the water.

happened to be passing by by a fisherman, and Chen Zikun hurriedly stopped him: "Big brother, what is this place?" ”

"Here, this is called Mentougou."

"What is this river?"

"This river is the Yongding River."

"Big brother, can I borrow your boat?" Chen Zikun took out two silver dollars, gently pinched them and tapped each other, making a crisp and pleasant sound.

Where is the tattered little sampan for fishing worth two oceans, he hurriedly agreed: "Okay, use it as you like." ”

……

The back house alley of Shijuma Street, Lin House, the yard is a mess, large and small wicker boxes, suitcases, and packages are piled up into a hill, and there is not much luggage when I come, but there are a lot of them when I leave, most of which are new lines purchased by Mrs. Lin in Beijing.

This courtyard has been sold, and it cost 500 yuan when it was bought, and it only costs 400 yuan when it is sold, although Mrs. Lin is a shrewd Shanghainese, but she doesn't want to stay here for a moment, so she doesn't care about the money.

Mother Lin is the maid that Mr. Lin brought from home, Aunt Mi is not going to use it anymore, Uncle Zhang is a local, and he can't take it away, the two servants both paid ten yuan of severance pay, standing in the yard and sighing.

The wife was still packing up her jewelry box, Lin Wenlong was squatting on the ground to watch the ants move, and Lin Wenjing was standing alone beside the bicycle with a train ticket, feeling like numbness.

"Why hasn't he come yet, didn't he say he'd come and take me away?"

Suddenly there was a knock on the door, Lin Wenjing's heart moved, and he hurriedly went over to open the door, who knew that it was a strange man who came in, entered the yard to find his wife, counted a few banknotes for her, and was about to push the bicycle.

"This is my bicycle." Lin Wenjing said timidly.

"Wen Jing, you can't take this away, besides, I've already sold it to Mr. Wang, let's be honest." The wife said, counting the bills.

"But......" Lin Wenjing was powerless to stop it, and could only watch as the man pushed his beloved bicycle away.

Mrs. didn't care about her and continued to pack her things, Lin Wenjing couldn't sit still, sneaked out of the door, and went straight to the hair alley, she believed that Chen Zikun must have been delayed, if he didn't come, then I would go to him.

When I came to the hair alley, I saw a group of people with guns around the gate of the Ziguang depot from a distance, including patrol officers in black uniforms, soldiers in gray clothes, and military police in riding boots.

Lin Wenjing was stunned, she guessed that something was wrong, but she didn't expect it to be so serious.

Lost her soul and returned to the Lin house, a car had been parked at the door, and when her wife saw her coming back, she scolded with a scolding face: "How can Nong be ignorant, you have to leave and go out to Baixiang, quickly help carry the luggage." ”

Everyone helped to carry the luggage into the car, and Mrs. Lin and a pair of children also got into the car, waved goodbye to Zhang Bolin's mother, and went straight to the train station.

……

The Yongding River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal are connected, the water area south of Mentougou is particularly open, the ships shuttle back and forth, very busy, an inconspicuous passenger ship is quietly moored on the shore, no one expected that the female owner of the kidnapping case that shook the Beijing division was imprisoned here.

Yao Yilei was tied with her hands tied, a ball of linen cloth was stuffed in her mouth, lying helplessly in the cabin, her face was still hot and painful, the slap of the three guns was hard enough, and she came all the way, she didn't know where she went, she only knew that it was on a boat, and the smell of dead fish and rotten shrimp was everywhere.

"Blessed by the Blessed Virgin Mary, and blessed by him for finding me, Amen." Miss Yao had a lot of words, and at this moment she pinned all her hopes on Chan Zikun, and she firmly believed that Julian's incarnation would definitely find herself.

At this time, Chen Zikun was cruising on the Yongding River with a small sampan, looking around anxiously, thousands of sails were over, they were all the same cargo ships and passenger ships, and they couldn't see the difference at all.