Xuzhou Station is a big station in the real sense of the word on the Jinpu Railway. This is not a place where people think of buying train tickets and queuing up to check in and get on the train, but a large area with a wide distribution, including depots, locomotive depots, dispatching stations, parking lots, freight yards, passenger stations, and freight stations......

This area stretching for several kilometers from south to north in the east of Xuzhou City, in the middle of the intricate railway tracks, there are various bungalows, small buildings, coal yards, locomotive garages, staff dormitories, repair factories, and many highways, dirt roads, small river ditches or parallel or interspersed, intersections, and countless turnouts.

In the eastern part of the city, soot and steam were shrouded everywhere, and the whistle of the whistle, the jet of the steam locomotive, and the rumble of the passing train were heard from time to time.

Behind the locomotive depot, between the coal yard and the coal yard, there is a sparse bungalow, which is part of the workers' quarters on the railway.

It's past eight o'clock in the evening. On a cold winter night, every house closed its doors and windows, and even the curtains were drawn tightly, and in the night, only the windows of the bungalows showed yellow light, and there was a tin chimney sticking out of the window, and the hot smoke came out, and immediately turned into thick white steam.

……

Li Changgui was alone in his dormitory, digging out the ashes with an iron hook, while listening to the movement outside with his ears sideways.

I don't know what's going on today, but since the afternoon, there has been a lot of commotion, barricades and checkpoints set up everywhere, and groups of soldiers running past with guns on their shoulders, as well as police and gendarmes. Arrests and searches are being carried out everywhere.

He's a train driver, in his thirties, and he's still single, and he just doesn't work today. At this time, I would probably gather around someone's stove with a group of fox friends and dog friends on the railway, gambling cards and drinking.

But today it obviously tastes wrong, and no one dares to get together. Just before dinner, Wang Sandan in front of him asked the military police to take him away, saying that he suspected that he was a spy of the Ming Dynasty. It was not too dark at that time, and the neighbors could see it, and his wife and children were crying like crazy.

Generally put on this kind of charge, whether you are true or not, once you take it away, don't want to see it again.

Now his daughter-in-law and five-year-old child are still hugging and crying at home, and they can be heard from so far away. He was a big man who couldn't bear to listen to it. But for this kind of crime, even if the neighbors usually get along well, they don't dare to go up to the house to comfort them.

God knows if today you went to comfort her, who saw you informing, and the next day the gendarmes broke into your house and took people.

……

Li Changgui glanced at the pile of rags under the bed, his heart tightened, and he pretended to be nobody.

At the bottom of the pile of rags was a radio station.

I just received an order from the south: to assist the comers in completing a task and to help at all costs. As for what task, listen to the instructions of the people.

There was a knock on the door.

Li Changgui was taken aback, and his intuition told him that this was not an acquaintance. If a worker or neighbor comes to him, he will call his name when he knocks on the door: Changgui, open the door! Xiao Li, open the door, I'm XXX......

Now it's just knocking on the door and not saying a word.

He steadied himself and went over to open the door.

Only a crack was opened before he was knocked open, and several people in military uniforms swarmed in, forced him with guns, and finally closed the door gently.

Li Changgui was relieved for a while:

The day has finally come.

"Are you Li Changgui?"

The captain asked.

He said very calmly:

"It's me."

A few people briefly searched the house, and then compared:

"Take it away!"

The last one to leave the house was still closed intact.

……

The military vehicle drove out of Erli and came to a secluded place, where several people jumped down first, and then ordered Li Changgui to get out of the car.

Winter nights are cold. The terrain is relatively high, with a hill of black berberlin in the background, a train moving slowly with long white smoke in the distance, and a small bungalow under your feet.

The truck's lights were on, and a pillar of light shone in front of a small dirt slope. There were already a few soldiers waiting, each with a rifle.

There were also two tied men sitting on the ground, their heads bowed, not saying a word. The two soldiers grabbed Li Changgui's arm violently and tied him with a rope.

Li Changgui suddenly understood. In my heart, it was like a burden had been lifted: I finally didn't have to be tortured, and I didn't have to worry about not being able to stand it and becoming a traitor in the end.

The captain made them stand in a line in front of the headlights, and then asked:

"Do any of you have anything else to say?"

……

"None? Okay, blindfold them. ”

All three of them were covered in black cloth and turned to face the hill overgrown with black cypress trees.

"Raise your gun—"

"Huh", six rifles were raised neatly at the flat ends, and two guns were aimed at the back of a man's heart.

The bound man trembled and shouted:

"Drive out the Tartars and restore my China!"

Li Changgui's heart was hot, and he shouted with his anger:

"Drive out the Tartars and restore my China!"

The three of them chanted together "Drive out the Tartars", and the slogan echoed over Black Berlin.

"Ready—"

"Put!"

Li Changgui silently recited the last sentence in his heart:

"No regrets in this life!"

……

One hand is removing the black cloth in front of him, and the other two hands are untying him.

Li Changgui felt all this in a trance, not knowing whether he was dead or alive. The officers and soldiers all put away their guns and came around with a smile, and even the two death row inmates who were shot together next to them were loosened, and they swept the faces of the lambs to be slaughtered, and surrounded them with a smile.

The captain who laughed the most was sticking to him, put his arm around his shoulders and said affectionately:

"Brother Changgui, it's great to be sure you didn't vote for Qinglu...... You know, we're sent by family on a mission and need your help...... Hehe, eldest brother, my name is Xiang Xiaoqiang, and his name is ......"

Li Changgui didn't say a word, a right hook flew out more than a meter away towards Xiaoqiang's chin with his chin up.

The stomach ache and the snail reacted, clamping him left and right, Li Changgui roared, as strong as a cow, almost about to throw the two of them away, and to pounce towards Xiaoqiang, eager to tear him apart.

Li Gensheng and another team member joined in, and the four of them held him down.

……

In the bumpy truck bed, Xiang Xiaoqiang personally apologized to Li Changgui and explained the situation to him.

Because at dusk, they drove the car to the secluded place just now and reported the situation to the rear. The rear provided them with another person, Li Changgui. This person is a hidden person sent by the East Factory, a genuine East Factory personnel. Because of important transportation hubs, such as railways, such as key departments, the Ming Dynasty would send some personnel to lurk, which could play a role at critical moments. Judging from the nature of their mission this time, the train driver Li Changgui is more suitable than the shopkeeper Sun of the restaurant in the city. Why didn't Li Changgui arrange for them for the first time?

Because Dongchang once received a bit of information, it is not very accurate, that is, someone once saw Li Changgui taken away from his home by the police last year. Later, it was put back. In this way, Li Changgui is suspected of a major rebellion, which is very dangerous, and this line cannot be touched unless it is absolutely necessary.

Although this is just speculation, and the information is specious, you must be cautious in this business, and you must be very careful if there is a danger, and if you don't get it right, it will be a bloody lesson.

I really couldn't find the right person this time, so Dongchang asked Xiang Xiaoqiang to contact them to try it out, and told them to be careful. So, Xiang Xiaoqiang made a plan and "tested" Li Changgui.

When Li Changgui heard this, he was even more aggrieved and almost jumped up:

"Bear! It's okay, who wants to have a lawsuit! That time, the boys in the maintenance section were drinking together, and I passed by, and they said that I had seen them with their eyes, and they wanted to beat me, and finally told me to lie down. There was a kid who had a relationship with him, and the police arrested me, beat me, squatted for a few days, and finally gave a fucking apology to others and pretended to be a grandson, so he was willing to let me out privately. If we didn't know that we had a heavy responsibility, with our ability, we would be fucking angry, damn, we wouldn't be able to kill them one by one......"

Everyone laughed at it. Xiang Xiaoqiang is colorful:

"Brother Elder, you are also in this industry, you know the rules here, and you also know how powerful the side here is. It's not that I can't get along with you, I want to set up a situation to get you, no one has that meaning. This is the rear of the Qing Dynasty, and this mission is extremely important, and there can be no mistakes, so we have to be extremely careful. As you may know, there are people hanging on the city gates today. Two of them are the colleagues of this Du brother. I usually know them, and I just watched their heads in wooden cages and hung on the city wall. At noon today, we went to the restaurant in the city to connect, and the 'relationship' was backwater, and Brother Du and I were caught on the sticky pole on the spot. If it weren't for the courage and dexterity of the brethren to get us out, you wouldn't have been able to do this tonight. But if you're going into the city tomorrow, you'll probably see two new heads. ”

The stomach hurts, and he also took out the tone of his boss to comfort him.

"Sir!" Li Changgui turned around, looked at Xiang Xiaoqiang to the end, and sighed, "It's true that I have received formal training from the East Factory, and I have been working for so many years of old intelligence!" I can't turn my brain for a while, don't be like your subordinates! ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled:

"I'm just the person in charge of this operation, not a person from the East Factory. You should call this Chief Du a subordinate. ”

The stomachache hurriedly said a few words of humility to Xiaoqiang, and Li Changgui wrote a series of words about the stomachache to the end, and said forgiveness.

The military car drove past a railway turnout, and the strong light from the outside came in, and Li Changgui suddenly saw Zhao Fang and Xiao Wu sitting in the innermost seat, and was stunned, looking at Xiao Qiang suspiciously.

Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled when he saw this, he wanted to take this opportunity to open Miss Zhao's mouth.

He naturally introduced:

"Oh, hehe, this is Miss Zhao, uh, Miss Zhao Fang. Miss Zhao is ...... Uh, hehe, Miss Zhao, you see, it's been so long, and I don't know how to introduce it to others, Miss tell me about it herself. ”

Miss Zhao smiled and said:

"Mr. Xiang, I am grateful that you saved us...... But didn't I follow you all afternoon, and I don't know anything about you? And take it first, you must give it first. Let's talk about it first. What the hell are you here for? ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang was stunned, and then thought about it, it should be her task is relatively large, and she should not suffer a loss when she exchanges words, just hearing who "Little Five" is, it is enough.

He looked at Miss Zhao's eyes flickering in the dark, and decided to tell the truth that the team was preparing to hijack the train under the guise of "saving the empress".