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British Consulate, Military Attaché's Office.

There were two people sitting in the office, one of whom was Barness, the British Empire's military attache in China, who was not only the military attache of the consulate in China, but also the captain of the British Marine Corps and the commander-in-chief of the International Merchant Corps.

The other person was a woman, who turned out to be the dancer Demar in the ballroom of the Huizhong Hotel who had made Xiao Zhenlei suspicious, and now this woman was sitting opposite Barnes in a British women's military uniform with a straight waist.

Barnes, with his beard and horseface, and a finger of cigar between the fingers of his right hand, took a puff of cigar as the green smoke of the cigar rose to fill the room with the rich aroma of tobacco. Spit out a large cloud of smoke and said, "Tell me about the situation you have investigated in the past two months!" ”

"Yes, Colonel!" De Mar agreed, and then said: "After I received the task, I began to investigate, approached Huang Jingrong and Du Yuesheng and others, and examined the two bodies, I found that although the two people who were killed by the patrol room of the French Concession that night were very similar in shape to the gangsters who killed several of our British soldiers, their marksmanship was far from the marksmanship of the gangsters who killed our eight soldiers, and the guns used by the former were completely different from the guns that killed our soldiers. bribed one of Huang Jingrong's subordinates, and sure enough, as I imagined, in order to show his status and strength in Shanghai, Huang Jingrong actually bribed two death row prisoners and let them act in a play. This is all for the Fa Trap and us to see.

The subordinate of Huang Jingrong who was threatened and bribed by me sued me, and Huang Jingrong and others suspected that Xiao Zhenlei had done this. Even his old man, Fan Gaotou, was so suspicious, so I began to investigate Xiao Zhenlei. Xiao Zhenlei rose too suddenly, at first he was just a coolie at the Sixteen Miles Pier, but he turned into a rich man with millions of properties, this situation is too strange, and then I went to the Sixteen Miles Pier to investigate, according to Xiao Zhenlei used to work in the contractor said, Xiao Zhenlei has not been on the beach for a long time, only more than half a year, and he has never been lazy in his work. Very honest kind, completely different from the current Xiao Zhenlei, and he and his little brother Ma Xiaoshuang's body shape is very similar to the figure of the gangster, and then I began to investigate Xiao Zhenlei, and found that Liu Fubiao, under Fan Gaotou, had also sent someone to investigate him, but the two people he sent died in a car accident inexplicably, and the matter was over, which made me even more suspicious of Xiao Zhenlei, so I began to contact him. I found this man's whereabouts to be extremely suspicious, and it is very likely that he and his younger brother Ma Xiaoshuang are the murderers we are looking for, but so far I have not found enough evidence to prove this! ”

After listening to Delmar's account, Barnes frowned and smoked a cigarette. After pondering for a few minutes, he spoke: "If we find out that he did it before he makes a fortune, we can bring him to justice even if there is no evidence, but now Xiao Zhenlei is no longer the person we can move without enough evidence." This person's influence in Shanghai is too great now, once he is moved. It is likely to cause incalculable consequences, and the last time the patrol room invited him into the bureau because of the fire fight in the Xiao Mansion. His energy was shown on the same day, Chinese lawyers, American lawyers, and Germans all came out, we can no longer do it blindly, if we want to do it, we must be sure enough to crush him to death at one time! ”

Demar said: "Colonel, I don't understand, with the power of the British Empire in the Far East, do we still have to care about the feelings of the Qing people? Wouldn't it be okay to send someone to arrest Xiao Zhenlei directly? If the Chinese want to make trouble, let them make trouble, and if you catch a few and kill a few, no one will dare to make trouble! ”

Barnes glanced at Delmar and shook his head, got up and walked to the window to smoke a cigar, and said after a while: "Of course, we can ignore the feelings of the Qing people, with the power of our British Empire in the Far East to kill a Qing people, even if he is a high-ranking official, it is just a matter of one sentence, but you must know that the impact of this incident is not only for the Qing people, but also for the Germans and Americans, Xiao Zhenlei's accident means that Germany has lost millions of taels or even tens of millions of taels of silver business, Do you think they're going to take a break? The Germans will do their best to deal with Xiao Zhenlei, the Americans will not watch the excitement, the Japanese and Russians may gloat on the side, international politics is not something you can understand, you just need to do what you have to do! ”

Hearing this, Delma's body trembled, his face changed immediately, and he quickly got up and said, "Yes, Colonel, please assign me the next task!" ”

Banes puffed on the smoke of his cigar and suddenly turned around, his eyes flashing with coldness, "Our soldiers cannot die in vain, the authority and dignity of our British Empire cannot be desecrated, but whoever violates it will pay the price!" Since we can't arrest him through formal legal channels and send him to the guillotine, then let's use dark means to make him pay for the crimes he has done, cannibal flower, your next task is to kill him, but you can't let the outside world know that we did it, this matter is disgraceful after all, I don't want to attract gossip, do you understand? ”

Delma raised her right foot and said, "Yes, sir!" ”

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Public Concession Xiao Mansion.

Early in the morning, Xiao Zhenlei finished practicing martial arts and had breakfast in the courtyard, holding a newspaper while eating and reading it with relish, although it was all gossip that some wealthy families were jealous of, but it could also entertain the public.

At this time, Zhou Chuandong walked over and leaned over and whispered in Xiao Zhenlei's ear: "Sir, today I found out that in addition to the Qing court spies who are spying on us, it seems that there are other people who are spying on us!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei frowned: "Where is it?" ”

"The four-wheeled car diagonally across from the door of the cake shop, there were three people on it, including the driver, and although they were well disguised, I noticed that he was watching us here from time to time!"

"Ignore it for the time being, as long as they don't make any drastic moves, we will treat it as if we didn't see it, you go get busy first!" Xiao Zhenlei said and waved his hand.

"Yes, sir!" Zhou Chuandong nodded and turned to leave.

Xiao Zhenlei couldn't read the newspaper anymore, he hadn't finished more than half of his breakfast, picked up the cup and drank the milk, then lit a cigarette and smoked it. He pondered: It's not been a day or two since the Qing court has been staring here, if you want to send someone to keep an eye on it, let him keep an eye on it, why is there another group of people to keep an eye on it? Which side is it? Also from the Sea of Corn? Or is it someone who has a head in Van Goh? Or maybe it's a spy in the patrol house of the public concession?

Xiao Zhenlei thought a lot in his mind, since the other party was only monitoring, it also meant that the other party was just suspicious, or wanted to stare at his every move, and he had not encountered any assassination or other incidents during this time, indicating that the other party's purpose was not to assassinate, and in order to prevent being assassinated, he himself was not fixed in terms of work and rest time, working time and life time, and he did not deliberately arrange anything when he thought of what he wanted, so Even if the other party wants to find their own habits from these aspects, it is impossible to attack themselves.

After thinking for a while, Xiao Zhenlei couldn't think of any clue, since he couldn't guess it, then check it, he got up and went upstairs, opened the curtains and picked up the binoculars to observe the car at the door of the cake shop opposite, to be honest, he really looked down on this kind of oldest classic car, not only slow, but also prone to breakdown, and noisy, so he usually took a carriage.

The license plate number of the car clearly appeared in the lens of the telescope, he put down the telescope and turned around and walked to the desk to pick up the phone and dialed a number, after the phone was connected, he said directly: "There is a car at the door of the cake shop diagonally opposite the Xiao Mansion, it has been parked for a long time, you send someone to check whose car it is, the license plate number is xxxx."

"Good!"

After putting down the phone, Xiao Zhenlei did not sit down and wait, he believed that it would not take long to check the license plate number, although Shanghai Tang is not small, but there are not many people who can afford to sit in a car, and there is still a difference between the license plate of the public concession and the legal capture house and the Huajie, as long as people who are familiar with the license plate issuance procedures will know which area of the car is when they hear it.

Sure enough, only a quarter of an hour later, the phone on the desk rang, and Xiao Zhenlei picked it up: "Hey? ”

A voice came from the phone: "I found out, the license plate number is the French Concession Law Capture House, it is found that this car has been used by the Chinese Inspector Ren Wenjiao, and there is another thing to tell you, according to the people I arranged in Zhenhua Company, there are often people watching and snooping near the factory in recent times, I sent someone to carry out counter-tracking, and found that the person who monitored the house was the person from the legal arrest room, I suspect that the last dock explosion and this time broke into the French Concession after the law field, the legal arrest room has been suspected to your head, Otherwise, it would be impossible for the Fa Capture House to send people to keep an eye on the factory and the Xiao Mansion at the same time! ”

Xiao Zhenlei took a puff of cigarette when he heard this, and said: "Don't worry, the law arrest room is just suspicious, they have no evidence, and it can't be sure that I did it, and it is not only I who can do the dock bombing case with this strength, Fan Gaotou also has this strength, there are many Jiangyang thieves on the rivers and lakes who have this strength, and the Xiao Mansion is in the public concession, and the factory is in Baoshan, even if they want to do it, they must go through the public concession or the Qing court official mansion, and it is impossible to have the courage to cross the line and arrest people!" ”

"Then you better be careful, and contact me as soon as there is a situation!"

"I know!"

After hanging up the phone, Xiao Zhenlei smoked a cigarette and thought for a long time, then picked up the phone again: "Hey, pick me up from the old gate of the public concession patrol house!" ”

After the phone was transferred to the patrol room by the people from the telephone bureau, it was quickly connected, and a young man's voice came from inside: "This is the old gate capture room of the patrol house of the public concession!" (The novel "Shanghai 1909" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner "Add Friends", search for the official account "ddxiaoshuo" and follow, hurry up! (To be continued......) R1292