Chen Gongshu threw away his bicycle at the south entrance of Wangfujing and took a rickshaw back to No. 37 at the west exit of Cinder Hutong, where he packed his luggage and planned to take the train back to Tianjin. Chen Gongshu knew that after the incident, the Japanese military police would definitely conduct a door-to-door search, and he did not have a temporary household registration, and if he was found out, it would certainly cause trouble to the work of the military commanders in Beiping.

Mao Wanli went out to inquire about the news, and only came back in the afternoon, only to see him holding a few newspapers and looking depressed. Chen Gongshu opened it and looked at it, and suddenly felt that the world was spinning, and he sat on the sofa.

The newspaper said that Wang Kemin was not dead, but that the person who was killed was a Japanese adviser Eiji Yamamoto, who was a Japanese ronin and a member of Japan's "Black Dragon Society." His advisor named Wang Kemin was actually an insider inserted by Seiichi Kita next to Wang Kemin, but he unexpectedly became Wang Kemin's substitute ghost, and this operation failed again.

Chen Gongshu managed to get a train ticket to Tianjin, and also found out the details of the assassination operation, when he learned that Yang Qiuping was not dead, but was captured by the Japanese military police in a coma, he was taken aback, and immediately nervously calculated, among the people who participated in this operation, except for Xu Jinge and Mao Wanli, the rest did not know that No. 37 Cinder Hutong was the district headquarters of the Beiping District of the Military Command, so this location was not in danger for the time being, but Yang Qiuping's arrest may expose Xu Jinge's identity and the "Nanshantang" pharmacy, What's even worse is the identity address and contact point of the members of the "Anti-Japanese Hoe Gang" led by Zeng Che, Xuanwumen Catholic Church, if Yang Qiuping can't survive the torture of the Japanese military police and confides in the situation, then these personnel and contact points will mean destruction, and this matter will affect the whole body, which is not trivial.

Chen Gongshu quickly informed the "dark horse" of the situation through secret channels, hoping that the "dark horse" would immediately notify Xu Jinge, Zeng Che and others to transfer. According to the organizational procedures, Xu Jinge's action group was directly commanded by the "dark horse", and neither Chen Gongshu nor Mao Wanli could have horizontal contact with Xu Jinge, so they could only hope for the actions of the "dark horse".

Chen Gongshu and Mao Wanli gave up their plan to retreat to Tianjin, left No. 37 Cinder Hutong, and hurried to another secret contact point, Pingxi Tanzhe Temple.

Pingxi Tan Zhe Temple is located in the lofty mountains of the Yanshan Mountains, long and secluded, is a good place for the upper class of people in Beiping to cultivate their self-cultivation, the thousand-year-old temple is built according to the mountain, the staggered is caused, overlooking the peaks and peaks in the distance, the clear spring in front of the temple is murmuring, known as the saying of "Tan Zhe Temple shows the world".

Xu Jinge is the first time to come to Tanzhe Temple, he sits in the carriage and drives the Huiyun monk idle, see the thousand-year-old temple in the mountain col from afar, the peaks are like Dai in early spring, the layers of forests are dyed green, the Tanzhe Temple with yellow top and red wall looks secluded and solemn in the sunset.

It can be seen that Monk Huiyun is a talker[1]

, Since he entered the mountain, he has been chattering all the way, and he still can't hold back: "Donor, that is Tanzhe Temple, speaking of which there are ten views of the small temple, which can be described as famous!" ”

Xu Jinge replied absentmindedly: "Master might as well come and listen." ”

"The scenery here is different in spring, summer, autumn and winter, morning, noon and night. The ten scenes are the red leaves of the Pingyuan, the nine dragons playing with the pearls, the arch of the thousand peaks, the clouds piling up in the ten thousand gullies, the south smoke of the palace, the flowing cup of the imperial pavilion, the majestic peak holding the sun, the mountains and the moon, the snow waves of Jinping, the flying dust and the night rain, respectively, the superb scenery of each season. Alas, what a pity! The world is not peaceful, and this year's pilgrims are much less than in previous years. Monk Huiyun sighed.

Xu Jinge didn't pay attention to what Huiyun said, his heart was very confused, this was the first time he had been in a state of restlessness since he was engaged in secret work. Along the way, Yang Qiuping's smile always lingered in his mind, and he was sad to find that he didn't know when he began to change, becoming heroic and short-breathed, and having a long love for children. If a killer gets to this point, his career should be over. Who is Yang Qiuping? She is just her temporary work partner, this kind of temporary combination has been before, the female agents of the military command are very knowledgeable about the rules, all of them are amorous in bed, once the task is completed, they will go their own way, never entangled, if they meet in the future, sometimes they can relive old dreams, spend a romantic night together, there can never be any feelings between colleagues, Xu Jinge is more used to getting along with women like this.

Only Yang Qiuping is an exception, this woman doesn't know how to hook Xu Jinge's soul, from the day he lived with her, Xu Jinge was always in a passive state, when he wanted to have fun with Yang Qiuping, he was unceremoniously refused, and even threatened with a pistol, he could be on "The Legend of the Fierce Girl". When Xu Jinge completely broke off this thought, Yang Qiuping took the initiative to give her arms again, and her tenderness was like water, which made Xu Jinge startled and at a loss. Especially on the last night, Yang Qiuping snuggled up to him and whispered sweetly, coquettishly bantering, her eyes were sometimes passionate like fire, sometimes blurry like a dream...... This kind of behavior made Xu Jinge want to stop.

When I used to talk about women with some colleagues who like to sleep in flowers and willows, some people said that women are the same in the world, and there are only two kinds - those who are allowed to do it and those who are not allowed to do it. Unexpectedly, after contacting Yang Qiuping, Xu Jinge gradually realized that the words of those colleagues were wrong, for men, women are like leaves - there are no two identical leaves in the world, different women will bring different feelings to men, and only the parties themselves know the taste.

Xu Jinge's heart felt a kind of panic, why did Yang Qiuping's safety make him so worried? There is only one conclusion: I am in love with this woman.

Evil door, a professional killer who licks blood on the tip of a knife can actually have love? This is simply unreasonable, a person who kills for a living can only possess a woman, but cannot fall in love with a woman, and love and murder cannot appear in a person at the same time.

"Donor, it's here, please come with me!" Monk Huiyun got out of the carriage and guided Xu Jinge into the temple gate. After the Daxiong Treasure Hall facing the gate, I came to the courtyard, and two ginkgo trees nearly 20 meters high came into Xu Jinge's eyes.

"The one in the east is the 'Emperor Tree', and according to legend, every emperor in the Qing Dynasty succeeded to the throne, and this tree grew a new branch. Donor, please see, the one in the west is the 'King Tree', and these two ginkgo trees are more than 1,000 years old. Monk Huiyun introduced Xu Jinge.

The two walked through the corridor, passed through the cup pavilion, turned all the way, passed more than a thousand meters of sheep intestine path, and came to Longtan, Huiyun monk asked Xu Jinge to wait for a while, and he bowed down and retired. Xu Jinge looked around, only to see that the pool under his feet was unfathomable, and the opposite mountain peak wall was ten thousand feet high, and he couldn't help but forget his worries and worries for a while, and enjoy the scenery.

Chen Gongshu and Mao Wanli appeared on the path, the weather has warmed up recently, both of them have changed into spring clothes, Chen Gongshu is wearing an iron-gray Pyris three-piece suit, wearing a navy blue tie, looking personable. He shouted happily from afar: "Brother Jin Ge, our brothers have finally met again, brother has gone all the way, right?" ”

Xu Jinge sneered quietly: "It's okay, it's okay, Brother Gong Shu is really a talent, it's really a jade tree in the wind." ”

"Brother Jin Ge makes fun of me, doesn't he?" Chen Gongshu has come to Xu Jinge.

Xu Jinge suddenly hit Chen Gongshu in the face with an uppercut, and Chen Gongshu was caught off guard and fell on his back...... Mao Wanli grabbed Xu Jinge's arm: "Brother Jinge, are you crazy?" Xu Jinge's shoulders shook, Mao Wanli flew out two meters away, and fell into Longtan with a "tom", splashing water. Chen Gongshu was about to get up, Xu Jinge went up and kicked again, and Chen Gongshu fell to the rock with a bloody face......

"Brother Jin Ge, why is that? If you want to beat someone, you should tell me why, brother, where did I offend you? Chen Gongshu asked as he lay on the ground, his tone very calm.

"Chen Gongshu, don't fucking pretend to be stupid, you should know what the reason is, get up! Aren't you known as the number one killer of the Military Command Bureau? Today I have played a trick with you, life and death depend on the destiny of heaven, if I lose to you, this Longtan is my burial place. Xu Jinge said coldly, the murderous aura on his face gradually condensed.

"Don't move!" Mao Wanli, who was drenched in water, pointed a pistol at Xu Jinge and ordered.

"Mao Wanli, you kid will shoot if you have a kind, come! Hit it here! If you don't dare to fight, I'll break your neck later. Xu Jinge looked at him contemptuously, opened his clothes, and patted his chest.

"**, put down the gun! They are all their own brothers, and they can't be guilty of dancing with knives and guns. Chen Gongshu scolded loudly. He stood up, his suit covered in mud and bleeding from his nose and lips.

"Chen Gongshu, you can make a move, I came to you today to make a decision." Xu Jinge opened the fighting stance.

Chen Gongshu took out a cigarette and handed it over: "Come, smoke a cigarette." ”

"Less of this!"

"Brother Jin Ge, I know that you hate me for Yang Qiuping's matter, but I don't need to explain this matter, you know better than anyone else in your heart, how can you be emotional in our business? You also know the situation at that time, Yang Qiuping has been injured, we can't save her, instead of letting her be captured, it is better to take decisive measures, if you are replaced, you will do the same. ”

Xu Jinge was speechless, he understood it all in his heart, but emotionally he couldn't accept it anyway, a young girl shouldn't have participated in this kind of daring action at all, took 10,000 steps back and said, even if she participated, she should have been covered by a man to evacuate first, but what did we do? When she was injured and needed help the most, we fell into the trap, not only did not help her, but instead of helping her, we blackened her hand to achieve the goal of extinguishing the mouth, are we still human?

"Brother Jin Ge, there are rules for doing our business, everyone has to do things according to the rules, we only do things, not people, and it's the same when the king of heaven comes. In other words, if it was me who was wounded at that time, you would have shot at me, but I would not resent you, because I know that we are not for personal vendettas, but for the sake of resisting Japan and saving the country. Chen Gongshu said impassionedly.

"Resist Japan and save the country? If it is for this reason that we become inhumane, I think that if this country is not saved, we should destroy the country and exterminate the species. Xu Jinge said indignantly.

Chen Gongshu replied with restraint: "That's your idea, it doesn't represent us, I always think that the national interest is above everything else, for the sake of the national interest, what is the personal sacrifice?" Brother Jin Ge, with all due respect, when I was training in the SWAT class, I saw that your brother's professional ability is unmatched among the thirty people in the class, but you are the only one who is not suitable to be an agent, because you are a person with a temperament, overemphasizing your own judgment, according to your words, you do things according to your conscience. But you are wrong, you can do other professions with your conscience, but you can't be an agent with your conscience, for the sake of the national interest, it is not too much to use any means, this is the minimum requirement for an agent. ”

Xu Jinge sneered: "If only Boss Dai thought the same, I would rather lead the troops to fight, do you think I am willing to do this?" ”

"That's right, Boss Dai protects you because you can do it, in all fairness, I'm not as good as you in terms of business ability, but have you thought about it, why did you let me be the person in charge of this operation, and only let you be my deputy? Let's be clear, it's because your psychological quality is not as good as mine, if you can adjust in this regard, your brother will have a bright future in the Military Control Bureau. Chen Gongshu said sincerely.

Xu Jinge turned around and left.

"Brother Jin Ge, stay here for a few days with peace of mind, wait for the instructions of Shangfeng, and don't go back to Beiping." Chen Gongshu shouted from behind.

Xu Jinge threw out a sentence without looking back: "Don't worry about this, I'm not in your charge." ”

As soon as Fang Jinglin went out in the morning, he ran into Wen San'er, who was wearing a blue cloth on his upper body[2]

, the sweat base on it is five points thick, and it looks like it hasn't been washed this summer. His gray cloth trousers were patched with various colors, and there were two or three holes in his trouser legs, and he wore a pair of broken shoes with open mouths, tied with hemp rope, and carried a small towel of the same color as the ground in his hand, and his arms were open, and his ribs were edged like a washboard. Wen San'er was not in tatters except for the blue cloth that was a little new.

"Ouch, Master Fang, are you going out? Take my car. Wen San'er leaned over and said expectantly.

Fang Jinglin looked at Wen San'er: "I said Wen San'er, why are you so unlucky?" You're getting spoiled, so you can't wash it? Dirty like this, who would dare to ride in your car? ”

"If you don't wash it, you won't wash it, I'm dressed up just to give them virtue all over the street." Wen San'er blinked her little eyes and smiled evilly.

Fang Jinglin knew what Wen San'er meant, he was dissatisfied with the new number issued by the police station. In the eighteenth year of the Republic of China, the foreign cars in Beiping reached tens of thousands, and the police department at that time came up with a way to make money, and made a number of the kaner, which was printed with a number, and sold it to the car puller through the owner of the car factory, and stipulated: no car is allowed to be pulled without wearing a number. The drivers were very dissatisfied with this, but after a long time they got used to it, and they often tied the number around their waists, saving them from wearing out and having to buy new ones. After the Japanese entered the city, the police chief Shen Wanshan remembered this trick again and announced that the previous number of kaner was invalid, and the coachmen had to buy a new one, otherwise the foreign car would be confiscated. This regulation is very shady, it is clear that they are using the power of the Japanese to exploit their own compatriots, and the coachmen in Beiping dare not speak out, so they have to secretly greet the female elders of Shen Wanshan's family, and Shen Wanshan's eighteenth generation ancestors several times.

Fang Jinglin thought for a while and said to Wen San'er: "Okay, take care of your business, I'll go to Zhongshan Park, let's go." ”

"Okay, sit tight, let's go!"

Fang Jinglin sat in the car and chatted with Wen San'er, since Fang Jinglin saved Wen San'er, Wen San'er decided that he was a good person, and there were good people in the police, Wen San'er always thought that the police in Beiping did not have a good bird, but he didn't expect that there would be a good person like Fang Ye.

"Master Fang, I have to take care of you last time, otherwise I and the big pants will have to listen to the cricket, I haven't thanked you yet, so let's do it, I'll invite you to drink bean juice in a while, you open up and drink ......" Wen San'er expressed his gratitude to Fang Jinglin as he ran.

"You don't need to thank me, that area is my pipe, I can't watch you let the Japanese kill you, so we are all Chinese, we should take care of each other."

"Master Fang, it's not me praising you, you are just different from other policemen, those grandsons are actually the same as us, they were originally grass people, they have to wear black skins, and people think they are masters, if you want to call me, that is, a black dog......"

"Hey, hey, hey! How do you speak, who is the black dog? Fang Jinglin didn't listen very well.

"Ouch, look at my foul mouth, and I'm bald when I talk about it[3]

Now, if I don't pay attention, I'll pay you in, I don't mean that, I mean the police...... By the way, except for you, Master Fang, those policemen are grandsons than the Japanese. ”

"Wen San'er, you said a little too much, the police are all Chinese after all, how can they be inferior to the Japanese? You don't seem to hate the Japanese, but you always have trouble with the Chinese police. ”

"Master Fang, to put it this way, the Japanese are cross-haired, people are coming in with guns and cannons, we have the ability not to let people in, can't we afford to provoke them? If you can't be provoked, you have to let the family be the master, but those gang ...... No, it's the police, why are those policemen in charge? If you have the ability to manage the Japanese, why can't you get along with the common people, just talk about buying a number this time......"

"Okay, okay, you're here again, and you're back to the number, how much did this one cost you? Summoning such a big fire from you. Fang Jinglin said impatiently.

"How much does it cost? Okay, it's just such a thing that stunned me for eight cents, this still doesn't let people live, how much do I earn a day? Wen San'er stubbornly grasped this topic, and the eight cents for buying the number made him feel distressed, so he was angry with all the policemen in the world.

"Wen San'er, in the future, you have to leave a guard on your mouth, according to your nonsense, something will happen sooner or later, there are good people and bad people in the police, if you let the bad people hear, you should be unlucky." Fang Jinglin looked around and whispered: "If you can't live this kind of life, you will go out of the city to find an anti-Japanese team and fight with the devils, it is better than being angry in Beiping, what are you afraid of if you have no home or job?" ”

Wen San'er was like a deflated ball when he heard the anti-Japanese resistance, and the righteous indignation just now disappeared in a blink of an eye: "Master Fang, you spare me, just my body is still fighting, if you really have that ability, we don't have to pull a car, we should have changed our careers to be bandits, don't we have that guts?" I thought about it a long time ago, it's better to die than to live, someone has to take care of Beiping, earlier it was the emperor who was in charge, then Duan Qirui, Zhang Dashuai was also in charge for a few years, was it Song Zheyuan or Chairman Jiang before the Japanese came? We can't make a fuss, anyway, it's Japanese now, and whoever we grass people are in charge of is the same, anyway, we have to earn money to eat, don't we? Whoever is willing to resist the Japanese will resist, we will only pull the car. ”

Fang Jinglin finally roared angrily: "You, a typical slave, you don't know the shame of being a slave of the dead country, I see that you are not much better than a traitor, I ask you, are you still not Chinese?" ”

Wen San'er asked with trepidation: "Master Fang, are you unhappy, did I offend you somewhere, why did I start a fire?" Master Fang, you dissipate your anger, and I will have to invite you to drink bean juice in a while. ”

"Alright, pull your cart and keep your mouth shut." Fang Jinglin closed his eyes and stopped talking.

Fang Jinglin's mind was very chaotic at this time, there have been too many troubles recently, last time Luo Mengyun conveyed the current situation and the instructions of his superiors to him, at the beginning of March this year, Deng Hua, the political commissar of the first detachment of the Jinchaji Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, led his troops into the Zhaitangchuan in the Mentougou area to create an anti-Japanese base in Pingxi. Pingxi is the front line in North China, the northern barrier of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border region, and also the strategic rear of the 10th area of the Eighth Route Army in central Hebei. The higher authorities instructed the comrades of the underground party in Peiping to assist the base area in establishing a material transportation channel from Beiping to the Mentougou area, to transport medicines, cloth, telecommunications equipment, and chemical raw materials needed by the base area to Pingxi, and to mobilize as many young and middle-aged people in Beiping as possible to come to the base area in order to strengthen the anti-Japanese armed forces.

Fang Jinglin was very angry with himself, he had been a policeman for several years, and the scholarly anger brought from the school was still difficult to eliminate, originally he and Luo Mengyun had a guaranteed ticket, and at least five young adults were mobilized to join the Eighth Route Army, but he didn't expect to encounter the material of Wen San'er, and the whole child was not in the oil and salt, and he didn't even have the concept of the country and the nation. Fang Jinglin looked at Wen San'er's shaking back in disgust and thought, how many people are there among our people? If the Japanese military department had changed its policy toward the occupied areas a little, for example, by using the Huairou policy, and given a little benefit to this person, I am afraid that there would be many traitors. Fang Jinglin is deeply aware that when dealing with the people at the bottom, I am afraid that I have to change my thinking, and the most important thing is that the book is angry.

Fang Jinglin got off the car at the west gate of Zhongshan Park in Nanchizi, Wen San'er was still chattering about asking Fang Jinglin to drink bean juice, Fang Jinglin said: "Another day, I have something to do today." ”

Wen San'er still refused to give up, and insisted on having a treat: "Master Fang, a few steps further north to Xihua Gate, there is a bean juice stall there, the stall owner is called Hou Lao Liu, that is my brother who worships the handle, their bean juice is an ancestral craft, not much sold every day, just such a bucket, after selling down, it is not too late." Fang Ye, people's bean juice is really called bean juice, the color is just the taste, a bowl of bean juice with two burnt rings, a plate of shredded pickles, the shredded pickles are finer than wool......"

Fang Jinglin handed over the car money to Wen San'er: "I said that you are not finished?" Along the way, it's either 'buggy' or bean juice, why are you all these things in your head? Okay, take the money, do what you want. ”

He drove Wen San'er away, carefully observed the movements around him, and made sure that no one was following him before entering the west gate of Zhongshan Park.

Bai Lianqi is finally looking forward to the beginning of autumn, and autumn is the best season for fighting insects.

Bai Lianqi has really become a character recently, and every night when he starts fighting crickets, he is the identity of the organizer and host. It is not a simple matter to host a fighting cricket, which requires a certain amount of operation.

After the post of "Joy and Battle" was issued, preparations began, first setting up a table covered with red carpets, and putting a basin in the middle, which was for the battlefield. Another table is equipped with gambling products such as centimeters, ivory brands, ivory chips, and rat whisker scouts. After a while, gamblers from all walks of life arrived one after another, and the gamblers all brought their servants and carried the round cages containing crickets, and each one was based in a corner of the hall. This is very important, each person's crickets cannot be put together, there is a fear of others doing tricks and avoiding suspicion.

Everyone first greeted a few words, and then prepared to start the war, the crickets that were ready to play were put into the ivory tube, and the host Bai Lianqi weighed the weight excessively, and then recorded it on the ivory brand, and put the two crickets of the same weight into the basin, and the decisive battle began.

According to Bai Lianqi, fighting insects is an elegant activity, the real best species of famous insects are like wrestling masters, such famous insects on the field, there is no need to take the rat whisker scout to tease, the crickets on both sides are inextricably killed once they are in contact, the posture is the same as the wrestler of the flyover, and the moves are roughly the same, nothing more than clamping, hooking, flashing, kicking, hugging, hoopping, rolling. The alias Cricket also seems to have the martial artist's "hand-eye-body steps", which is probably due to talent rather than human training.

Fighting crickets are easy to fight, usually after a fight, the victorious crickets flutter their wings and chirp, and the owner suddenly feels that his face is bright. If it is evenly divided, and the battle is not decided, the masters of the two sides shake hands and make peace, and they still maintain their due demeanor with each other. If the fight is lost, the winning side lacks self-cultivation, and throws off a few words of "piece of soup", which is easy to fight, and the defeated cricket often becomes the master's punching bag, and is thrown to death by the master, and the master sometimes still hates endlessly, and even scolds Huai, insinuating that the opponent's master ends up like this. This will lead to enmity, and the fire on some underworld children is often caused by fighting crickets.

According to the rules of the casino, no matter who wins or loses, the dealer will take the lead, as for how Sun Erye and Bai Lianqi share dividends, it is the secret of the two of them. Sun Erye is a dual identity, he is both a dealer and a gambler, he has two trump cards, a "iron head and green back" from Ningyang, and a "purple head and golden wing" from Suzhou. Since the start of the bet, these two crickets have won more and lost less, and they are the top of Sun Erye's heart.

Second Master Sun was originally born in a gangster, he was neither educated nor self-contained, and he was happy when he won his cricket, and he didn't take care of the other party's emotions at all. If he loses, Second Master Sun will scold endlessly, of course, he will scold this uncompetitive cricket, and take the cricket back into the tank while scolding, and he is absolutely reluctant to fall to death. This kind of petty family spirit is very contemptible, Li Erhu of Dazhiqiao is one, he has long looked at Sun Erye unpleasantly, but he didn't find a chance to turn his face with Sun Erye.

Li Erhu is a ruffian in the area of Dazhiqiao, this person has been playing green skins on the street since he was a child, he is brave and ruthless, and his subordinates have also gathered a lot of hooligans and scoundrels, and he is quite famous in the area of Dazhiqiao and Caishikou in Nancheng, and the merchants in this area give him "protection money" on a monthly basis, otherwise the business will not be done. This back and forth has spoiled Li Erhu, and as he grows older, his temper has grown, and now he is in his early forties, and there are really not many people who can make him look pleasing to the eye.

On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Bai Lianqi sent out a post early, and set the table after dinner, and a few guys who received the car early in the car dealership were sent by Sun Erye to pick up the guests, and the coachmen were naturally willing to go, because in addition to the fare, the guests also inevitably gave some rewards, and caught up with the generous master, and there were also things about rewarding one or two yuan. Wen San'er naturally would not let go of such a good thing, and he was ordered to go to Dazhi to pick up Li Erhu.

Li Erhu had just finished dinner, and while picking his teeth with a toothpick, he got into Wen San'er's car in a big way. Wen San'er took a sneak peek and found that this master was quite big. He wears a middle-parted hairstyle with wax on his hair, which looks oily and smooth. Wearing a set of black "Xiangyun Yarn" trousers, with an open arms, a three-inch-wide soft cowhide leather belt tied around his waist, a dragon with teeth and claws engraved on the huge brass buckle, and a thick gold pocket watch chain hanging down on his chest, his two "broken urges" held cricket jars and followed the car and trotted away.

Li Erhu didn't say a word since he got into the car, and his gloomy face didn't seem to be very happy. Dazhiqiao is not far from Nanheng Street, Wen San'er passed through the Mishi Hutong at the entrance of the vegetable market, and it only took twenty minutes to reach the "Tonghe" car dealership of the black kiln factory, he ran in a hurry, sweaty, and was waiting for Li Erhu to give a reward, who knew that Li Erhu didn't even let out a fart, jumped out of the car and greeted Lu Zhongyong, who had just arrived, and hung Wen San'er aside.

Lu Zhongyong is now not what it used to be, he has become the editor-in-chief of "Xinmin Daily". Lu Zhongyong doesn't care about being poked in the backbone by wearing a traitor hat, anyway, he is a small person, whether it is immortal or stinking for thousands of years, he doesn't care, he can't think about it.

Lu Zhongyong does not feel like a slave of the country, he believes that the country and the nation have always been an illusory concept, as a small person, the country has never given him any benefits, since he has not given benefits, then why should he work for the country? In the realm of Beiping, whoever loves to come, whoever has the ability is the master, whether it is Chairman Jiang or the Japanese, they are all fucking almost. It is said that Chairman Chiang was the most resolute in resisting Japan, and that is also right, because Chairman Chiang had a good life, eating and drinking spicy food all day long, but the Japanese did not let him live a good life and wanted to take away his good life, so what could the old Chiang do? Of course, he has to fight hard with the Japanese, so from this, the matter is very clear, the war is a matter between Lao Chiang and the Japanese, and it is about him Lu Zhongyong?

In fact, the job of the editor-in-chief of "Xinmin Daily" is very simple, mainly to write editorials and comments, such as why did the Japanese army come to China? This is a question that people may not understand. This is not surprising, the foolish people are like this, most of them are confused. This needs to tell them that the place where they live is called Asia, and we yellow-skinned, black-haired Asians have lived in this place since ancient times, and those white-skinned, high-nosed, yellow-haired Westerners always want to come here to find a bargain. Therefore, the Asians should unite and beat up the shameless Westerners and drive them away, and it is for this purpose that the Japanese army came to China. Doing this kind of propaganda work can be described as familiar to Lu Zhongyong, who was born as a tabloid reporter, and he can do it easily.

Inuyang Pingzhai didn't know Sun Erye, it was introduced by Lu Zhongyong, like this kind of "Joy and Fighting" activities, Inuyang Pingzhai has participated in many times, he doesn't care much about winning or losing, for him, fighting crickets is just a means for him to understand the folk customs of Beiping.

Lu Zhongyong felt very face-saving for having such a Japanese friend, he thought that the Japanese knew how to be polite, not to say anything else, every time he met with Inuyo Heisai, people bowed and greeted in a regular manner, which is like the Chinese, and does not understand etiquette at all. Today's Beiping, the Japanese are the real masters, but the Japanese friends have no frame at all, he and Inuyang Pingzhai have eaten several times, each time it is someone to settle the bill, Lu Zhongyong is not without a fight, once in order to rush to pay the bill, he almost rushed to pay the bill, but in the end he did not fight him, this is the Japanese, how can the Chinese be so righteous?

Lu Zhongyong and Li Erhu exchanged a few words, and then introduced Inuyang Pingzhai to the Wu shopkeeper and "La Fang Xian'er" [4] in the "Yongsheng" bar room in Dongsi

's Hu Liu'er, these two are also cricket fans, and they are also a player in Beiping.

Second Master Sun is an anxious son, and a rough person, he is not good at greetings, he thinks that these old Beijing etiquette is pure nonsense, Second Master, I am not holding a church meeting today, what are you talking about? Since everyone is here to fight crickets, then talk less nonsense, fight when you come, and pay money if you lose, where is there so much to say?

Second Master Sun cleared his throat impatiently and said loudly: "I said masters, have you talked enough?" If I don't have enough talk, I'll go back to the house and sleep for a while, and then wake me up when you've had enough, I don't think we're here to talk nonsense today, right? ”

Shopkeeper Wu said: "Look, Boss Sun can't wait, people's pockets for silver are ready, just waiting to win, don't pull, don't pull, let's start." ”

Li Erhu said with a smile: "Second Master Sun has a good temper recently, you can extinguish the fire, don't scare me, we are cowardly." ”

Second Master Sun stared at Li Erhu without speaking, and Li Erhu also squinted at Second Master Sun, both of whom had undisguised disdain and hostility in their eyes......

Zhongshan Park, located on the west side of Tiananmen Square, was originally the shrine of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and was the place where the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties sacrificed to the god of land and grains, and was built in the 19th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty. Because in 1925, Mr. Sun Yat-sen's coffin was parked in the worship hall in the park, so it was named Zhongshan Park by the national ** in 1928.

The junction of Fang Jinglin and Luo Mengyun was chosen in the Sheji Altar, Luo Mengyun had already arrived first, she saw Fang Jinglin smile and naturally grabbed his arm, and the two walked towards the worship hall like a pair of lovers. Fang Jinglin's breathing was a little short, Luo Mengyun's soft body was tightly attached to him, making him feel very intoxicated, he had not had any physical contact with a young woman when he was so old, he hoped that the time of this intimate contact could be extended as much as possible.

Luo Mengyun snuggled up to Fang Jinglin and said softly like a love story: "Jinglin, the military commanders carried out an assassination operation against Wang Kemin, they didn't do a very good job, they only killed Wang Kemin's Japanese adviser Eiji Yamamoto and a few guards, Wang Kemin escaped death and escaped the attack. But according to our insider intelligence, Wang Kemin was frightened by this assassination, and he is now living in seclusion, and he doesn't even ask about the official duties of the pseudo-**. In a sense, although this person is still alive, he is no longer of much value to the Japanese, and the military command will not take any more action. ”

"Xu Jinge has approached me for this matter, your classmate Yang Qiuping was arrested for participating in the assassination, Xu Jinge asked me to inquire about her detention location, it seems that the military commander has plans to rescue Yang Qiuping." Fang Jinglin replied.

"Is this possible?"

"The possibility is very small, Yang Qiuping was captured after being injured and unconscious, and the Japanese sent her to Union Hospital for rescue in order to obtain a confession. Now the Japanese military police have set up a strict guard on Yang Qiuping's ward, no one can approach, and the armed raid cannot be successful. ”

Luo Mengyun looked sad: "Is there no other way?" ”

"I'm afraid there is nothing we can do, and the military command has no ability to rescue us. Yang Qiuping's situation was told to me by Wang Qingsheng, who was a translator for the Japanese military police and had a good personal relationship with me. According to Wang Qingsheng, Yang Qiuping's injuries were sent to the interrogation room as soon as they stabilized, and the torture methods of the Japanese gendarmerie were simply outrageous. ”

Luo Mengyun said to herself worriedly: "I really can't imagine how Qiu Ping will be tortured. ”

Fang Jinglin's eyes seemed to be casually looking around: "There is something please ask my superiors for instructions on my behalf, see what Xu Jinge means, is to carry out armed hijacking in Xiehe Hospital and rescue Yang Qiuping, but I have already learned from Wang Qingsheng that this is a trap set by the Japanese, and the people of the military command will fall into the trap once they act, can I disclose this information to Xu Jinge?" ”

Luo Mengyun thought about it for a while and nodded: "I think it's okay, isn't it emphasizing the united front now?" No matter what party it is, as long as we are sincerely fighting against Japan, we are all friendly forces, and I will report it to my superiors. Jinglin, let's get here today, you have to pay attention to safety, I'll go first. ”

"Wait, Mengyun, shall we take another walk? I...... I want to stay with you a little longer. Fang Jinglin plucked up the courage to plead.

Luo Mengyun smiled and straightened Fang Jinglin's collar, and said softly: "Jinglin, don't you look at when this is, we are facing bloodshed and death every day, a personal matter...... We'll talk about that later, okay? ”

Fang Jinglin said stubbornly: "No, I don't agree with your point of view, don't revolutionaries need love?" Marx also had a Yanni, and Lenin was not a Puritans, so why can't we love each other? Unless you look down on me, then I will never mention this matter again in the future, and we will continue to maintain a comradely relationship. ”

"Jinglin, you are really ...... What a little bourgeois, what a cop? ”

"I'm not a police officer in the first place, you like to be a police officer? It's an organizational arrangement, and I have to obey it. Besides, you say I'm a little bourgeoisie, I admit it, but what about you, I see I'm a fellow traveler, and the last time I connected I noticed that you were still holding a copy of Pushkin's Poems, and I accidentally flipped through it, and found that you had bookmarked it on the page of "The Fountain of Tears of Bakhchisaray", and I thought that the girl who could like this lyrical narrative poem must be a woman with delicate feelings and romantic feelings, and I, of course, little Bourgeois, would have to look for the same kind. Fang Jinglin stared into Luo Mengyun's eyes and said.

Luo Mengyun, who was about to leave, suddenly changed her mind, and she suggested, "Let's find a place to sit?" ”

"Of course I can't ask for it."

The two walked to the river and sat on the bench, Luo Mengyun looked at the gray walls of the Forbidden City on the other side of the river and the slightly dilapidated corner towers.

Fang Jinglin softly recited Pushkin's poem: "The fountain of love, the fountain of eternal life!" I have two roses for you. I love your incessant whispers and poetic tears......"

Luo Mengyun turned his head to look at him and asked, "You also like literature?" ”

"Of course, when I was in middle school, I read a lot of miscellaneous books, and my homework was delayed, and I read what I caught at that time, novels, scripts, Tang and Song poems, new style poems after the May Fourth Movement, as well as poetry collections by Pushkin, Lermontov, Whitman, and Tagore...... Became a police officer. Fang Jinglin sighed deeply.

Luo Mengyun comforted: "This is temporary, and when communism is realized, you can do whatever you want, maybe you can become a great poet, just like Pushkin." Jinglin, you really impress me, when you talk about "The Fountain of Tears of Bakhchisaray", you can recite the verses in it, do you also like this narrative poem? I just read the beginning, and I haven't even figured out the background of the poem, and you know, I've been so busy lately that I barely have time to read. ”

"Bakhchisaray is an ancient city on the Crimean Peninsula in Russia, where the capital of the Crimean Khanate was established in the early 16th century and the Khan's Palace was built here. The soul of the Bakhchisaray Khan Palace is the Fountain of Tears, which is located in a corner of the palace fountain courtyard and is carved out of a rectangular piece of marble. The marble façade is carved into the outline of an arch, with the spring in the center above the arch. Below are several stone trays of spring water. It is said that the fountain of tears was built by the then Khan Krem-Gilleij Khan to commemorate his lover Giliala who died young. Girei Khan said to the designer: 'No one has seen me cry, but my heart bleeds every day. People have hearts, and stones have souls, so let the stones weep like hearts. The tears of the stone are my tears. Thus, a fountain of 'tears' day and night was born. In 1820, Pushkin, who was exiled to the south by Tsarist Russia, came to the palace of Bakhchisaray Khan in Crimea, heard about the story of the fountain of tears from his lover Sophia Potoskaia, and composed this lyrical narrative poem, which was later widely circulated, after Pushkin's death, in memory of this great poet, the administrator of the Bakhchisaray Khan Palace put two roses on the tray of spring water every day, one red and one yellow. Fang Jinglin closed his eyes and immersed himself in reverie.

Luo Mengyun said to himself with infinite fascination: "It's so beautiful, I should have read it earlier, 'People have hearts, and stones have souls.'" Let the stone weep like a heart. The tears of the stone are my tears. That's a sad statement...... The two roses are also full of poetry, red represents warmth, and yellow symbolizes love. Jinglin, you're right, I also have a little bourgeoisie, we have a lot of things in common, it seems that we still have a certain distance to become a real revolutionary. ”

"Revolutionaries are made up of people of different strata and different levels of education, and some of our comrades who were born as workers and peasants are always proud of their lack of education, and even have a sense of superiority from this. Bernstein, Engels' executor, was a working-class man who worked as a train driver, and Bernstein said: 'We must look at the workers as they are.' They are neither as pervasively impoverished as foreseen in the Communist Manifesto, nor free from prejudice and weakness as their servants would want us to believe. They have the virtues and sins of the economic and social conditions in which they live. ''We cannot expect such a high level of knowledge and morality from a class whose majority is overcrowded, poorly educated, and unstable and inadequately paid, and that a socialist society is presupposed for its establishment and maintenance. 'Mengyun, I came by Wen San'er's car just now, do you know this person? ”

"Yes, my father often uses his car, this man should be considered a real proletarian, and I have talked to him."

"I just mobilized this proletarian to go to the anti-Japanese front, guess what he said? He said that it is better to die than to live, he is a grass farmer who is in charge of whoever is in charge, anyway, he has to earn money to eat, whoever is willing to resist the Japanese will fight, he just pulls the car. Wen San'er has neither the concept of a country and a nation nor human dignity in his mind, but just lives for the sake of living. It seems that Bernstein has some truth in what he said, and I am not very convinced that the proletariat can be 'unfettered by prejudices and weaknesses', that they are what they should be, and that they must not be artificially exaggerated. Fang Jinglin had never spoken so incessantly as he did today.

Luo Mengyun muttered thoughtfully: "What you said has some truth, but most of the comrades in the party may not agree with this view, as for myself, I have to think about it carefully, you know, I have always been a little slow to deal with theoretical issues, such as the Second International, Bernstein, Kautsky and other terms and figures are often confused, in fact, I have spent a lot of time studying it, but in the end I have not made much progress, but you just mentioned "The Tears of Bakhchisaray", and mentioned the two roses placed on the tears fountain, I remembered it at once, And never forget. Jing Lin, although I am trying to overcome the little bourgeois ideas, I am afraid that I will never be able to become a staunch revolutionary. ”

Fang Jinglin retorted: "What a real revolutionary should look like, who can tell?" I do not believe that people who are uneducated, uneducated, narrow-minded, and vulgar in their manners can be models for revolutionaries, and if so, they should not be in such a revolution. Mengyun, just now you talked about your so-called shortcomings, I don't think so, this is precisely the loveliest thing about you, sincere, kind, and romantic, so I will be attracted to you. ”

"Thank you! I'm glad you can say that about me. ”

"And you agreed?"

"Agree with what?"

"Agree with me to pursue you and be my girlfriend." Fang Jinglin looked at Luo Mengyun expectantly.

Luo Mengyun thought for a while, raised his head and looked at Fang Jinglin boldly: "Jinglin, to be honest, I haven't talked about a boyfriend before, you know, my parents are very strict with me, they spent time in girls' schools before going to college, and they haven't been in contact with a few men, so ...... I have no idea what kind of man I will choose in the future, and I don't seem to have thought about it, can you give me some time to think about it? ”

"Of course you can, I have the patience to wait, I think we are a good match, I still have some advantages in this person." Fang Jinglin introduced himself without modesty.

Luo Mengyun smiled: "Really? So what are the advantages of introducing yourself? ”

"Have the courage to dedicate oneself to one's ideals, have the tenacity to never give up until the goal is achieved, have an unusual sensitivity and romantic feelings for beautiful things, and be loyal to one's beloved...... Aren't that enough? ”

Luo Mengyun laughed loudly: "Fang Jinglin, you can really brag about yourself, can you allow me to investigate these advantages in the future?" I'll give you one more request......"

"Mention it, and I'll do it." Fang Jinglin assured in surprise.

"The man I knew best was probably my father, who was a professor, and in my eyes he was an elegant, erudite, upright and noble man. As a man, his only drawback is that he is too angry and not strong enough. My mother and I are very timid, because our family has always been insecure, and we always feel that if we are in danger, my father will not be able to protect us, and maybe he himself needs our protection, do you know what I mean? ”

"You're saying that I'm also bookish, and I'm not strong enough?"

"Jinglin, don't be angry, you're fine anywhere, it would be better if you could be stronger."

Fang Jinglin touched his bare chin disapprerovingly and said, "Well, I understand, I'll put on a fake beard and make my face a little rougher, so it may meet your requirements." ”

"Don't talk nonsense, who wants you to put on makeup? What I value is the inner strength of men. Luo Mengyun explained.

Fang Jinglin sighed: "Then you just wait and see, maybe I can prove it after I die." ”

"Tonghe" car dealership in the "Joy of Nine Autumns" activity has kicked off, according to the prior agreement, the first game should be Wu shopkeeper to the dog Pingzhai. Wu shopkeeper is a master of raising crickets, because he has been in the Daoer for a long time, everyone in the circle knows that several of his best crickets can be called famous by others. The trump card of the shopkeeper Wu is a "shrimp head green" from the black dragon pool in western Beijing, nicknamed "stunned head green". It is said that this cricket has gone through dozens of battles without defeat, and the value of "stunned Erqing" has exceeded 200 yuan.

Dog Pingzhai quietly put his crickets into the bucket basin, everyone let out an exclamation, this is a good "blood tooth green", produced in Jiaxing. This cricket is a worm that is not easy to mess with, and before the opponent comes, it opens its teeth and hurriedly searches around in the basin, with the spirit of "who dares to mess with me".

Shopkeeper Wu looked at "Blood Tooth Blue" and said with a faint smile: "Mr. Inu, what do you call this worm?" ”

Inukai Heisai replied, "I'm sorry, I have a Japanese name, my name is Togo Heihachiro." ”

Most of the people present didn't know why Togo Heihachiro Xu Renye, not to mention that they had never heard of this name, and they had never even heard of the Russo-Japanese War, and everyone was stunned for a while after hearing it.

Lu Zhongyong is worthy of being a learned person, he explained: "This is the name of the Japanese admiral and commander of the combined fleet during the Russo-Japanese War. ”

Inukai Heisai nodded and added, "My father was a second lieutenant in the navy when he was Admiral Togo's flagship 'Mikasa', and he described to me in detail the scene of the naval battle that year, so Togo Heihachiro is the person I admire the most in my life. ”

The bet has been placed, and the crickets on both sides have also weighed the weight in centimeters, and the duel between "Stunned Erqing" and "Togo Heihachiro" has begun. Both sides are veterans of the killing field, and they are very experienced. "Stunned Erqing" is good at using the "heavy bite" tactic, as soon as it enters the basin, it will treat the other party as an enemy without teasing, God knows where it comes from, no wonder it is called "stunned Erqing", it really lives up to its name. As soon as it looks at its face, it bites its opponent viciously, this trick is very vicious, if it bites, no one wants to let it go, and it will not be finished until the opponent is bitten to death. And "Togo Heihachiro" is not fooled by it, it just intersects with the opponent's teeth and immediately separates, and then retreats, waits for a while, and if the opponent is found to be flawed, it will immediately fight back fiercely. This is a "wise rodent method" tactic, no wonder this insect is called "Togo Heihachiro", its tactics are really similar to that of the Japanese admiral, good use of sneak attack methods, very insidious.

Everyone was head-to-head around the basin, and their eyes were about to pop out. Second Master Sun pressed the bet on the "stunned Erqing", and at this time he was even more excited to grit his teeth and stomp his feet, eager to rush into the bucket gang handle, he slapped the table and shouted: "Bit, bite its belly, bite it, don't let go of the, take out its internal organs......"

Li Erhu made a bet on "Dongxiang Heihachiro", and naturally didn't hear much of Sun Erye's shouting, he snorted for tat with a cold face: "This 'stunned Erqing' is only these two times, just like Cheng Biting Jin's three-plate axe, it looks amazing, and there is no trick after three strokes." ”

Second Master Sun felt harsh, and he glared at him: "You can see clearly, it's not Cheng Jin's plate axe, it's Li Yuanba's hammer, and it's all over if you hit it." ”

Li Erhu was vindictive: "Second Master Sun, do you say that Li Yuanba's hammer is powerful, or is the Japanese 38 cover powerful?" ”

Second Master Sun's fire is even bigger: "What's the matter, Master Li, what's the fighting spirit?" ”

Shopkeeper Wu saw that the two of them were not angry, so he hurriedly played a round and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, my cricket Li Yuanba doesn't dare to be a cricket, if he dies, he will be a Luo Cheng, and I will be content with the seventh good man......"

Inuyo Heisai put his finger on his lips and "shh The battle in the basin is nearing the end, and the "stunned child" has repeatedly pounced on the air, and at this time it has been defeated. "Togo Heihachiro" due to the beginning of the leisurely work, physical exertion is not large, now began to aggressively counterattack, "stunned Erqing" first suffered a bite on the leg, it dodged away in pain, "Togo Heihachiro" did not allow the opponent to breathe, bullied up, first to shake the opponent's gaze, and then slammed into the stomach of the "stunned Erqing", its sneak attack position is extremely tricky, so that the "stunned Erqing" can not fight back. "Heihachiro Togo" was merciless when he succeeded in his move, and it bit his opponent's stomach and shook it from side to side...... Everyone cheered in unison, among which Li Erhu shouted the most energetically, and a smug smile also appeared on the face of the dog Pingzhai.

The shopkeeper Wu saw that the "stunned Erqing" was bitten in the stomach, and his tears were about to flow down, and he shouted repeatedly: "I admit defeat, I admit defeat, I can't bite anymore, separate them ......"

Inukai Heisai sneered: "I'm sorry, I can't separate them, so let's let it be." ”

The "Togo Heihachiro" in the basin bit the opponent's stomach and continued to shake, without any intention of letting go, seeing that the "stunned Erqing" gradually stopped struggling......

Shopkeeper Wu cried and lamented with a sad face: "It's over, it's over, my 'stunned child', two hundred oceans, it's just like that." ”

Sun Erye has always been the kind of person who wins but can't afford to lose, today he lost in the first game, and he was not angry, but Li Erhu also said cool words: "Yo, Second Master, isn't Li Yuanba the first hero in the world?" It's not supposed to be cleaned up. ”

Second Master Sun sneered at each other: "Is this so strange, haven't heroes and heroes been calculated by villains since ancient times?" ”

"Second master, why am I a little piercing when I hear what you say, who are you referring to?"

"! Whoever the thinks I'm talking about, what's the matter? Second Master Sun rolled up his sleeves as he spoke.

Li Erhu sneered: "Ho, I can see it, the second master wants to get along with me today, I'm tired of living a good life, I want to have some fun, I'm not wrong, right?" Second master. ”

When it came to this, Second Master Sun simply tore his face: "The surname is Li, let's say it clearly, Second Master, I just don't like you, what's wrong?" Don't sit in the cradle with your beard on—pretend to be grandchildren. ”

Li Erhu's cultivation is stronger than that of Sun Erye, and the real hooligans are like this, and they don't talk about ruthlessness. He said tepidly: "Second master, you extinguish the fire first, even if you want to kill me with a knife, you don't care about this moment, right?" As the saying goes, if you have a buttocks, you don't have to worry about the board, we brothers have time, what are we playing today, the second master, you have the final say, and I will accompany you. ”

Shopkeeper Wu is a trader, born timid, he can't see this kind of sabre-rattling scene the most, so he hurriedly got up to persuade: "Two masters, two masters, all extinguish the fire, isn't everyone just for fun, can you be guilty of dancing knives and guns like this?" Grandpa, Master Li, you two brothers give me a face, today I will be the east, how about going to 'Fengze Garden' in a while? ”

Hu Liu'er also persuaded: "Forget it, forget it, two masters, is it worth it for this little thing?" ”

Lu Zhongyong took out a pen and notebook without a sound, and at this time he came to inspiration, and an excellent news material appeared, the fire of the characters in the rivers and lakes should be more legendary and exciting than the shrews fighting in the streets and alleys. Lu Zhongyong is the most annoying person to persuade the fight, these people are so nosy, some things are inconspicuous at the beginning, which requires you to have a unique vision to accurately judge whether this matter can develop into a shocking bloody case, the person who persuades the fight is the most likely to do bad things, their appearance often makes the two sides of the brawl find the steps, so that the wonderful scenes that could have appeared are in vain. These people are really the enemies of journalism, and there will be no news without them. Lu Zhongyong pondered what method could be used to keep both sides of the brawl from the interference of the persuaders and keep their anger at a critical point.

Bai Lianqi had already walked to the door of the hall at this time, and he was ready to flee at any time. On the contrary to Lu Zhongyong, Bai Lianqi has always been far away from the brawl on the street, in case the person who fights is knocked unconscious and ignorant of him as an opponent, this will be troublesome, Bai Lianqi's body is thin and thin, and he will fall apart if he can't withstand two punches.

Inuyang Pingzhai looked at Sun and Li with interest and spoke: "Second Master Sun, Mr. Li, you both insulted each other in the quarrel just now, in my opinion, there is no possibility of mediation, the only solution is a duel, I don't know how bloody you Chinese are, this is in our Japan, today I am afraid that a person will die in a duel." I think that if you still think that you are a man, then you should take action to prove it, what do you think? ”

The words of the dog raised Pingzhai fell, and the shopkeeper Wu and Hu Liu'er immediately closed their mouths in understanding.

The air in the living room was tense......

A bucket of cold water was poured on Yang Qiuping, she woke up from a coma, and the first person she saw was Kuroda Nakasa, who was sitting in a chair with a back chair, he was wiping his glasses with a flannel cloth, and then put the glasses on, looking at Yang Qiuping**'s body with interest.

Since entering the interrogation room, Yang Qiuping herself can't remember how many times she has been unconscious, she has only heard of torture such as tiger chairs and pouring chili water on the Japanese gendarmerie, who knows that this is just the most ordinary torture method. The creativity of the Japanese military police in the field of torture is indeed breathtaking, they are as proficient in human anatomy as doctors, and there are ample data to prove the tolerance of human organs to pain, and as for what instruments are used to inflict torture on which parts of the human body and the consequences of torture are as precise and accurate as surgical operations, the purpose of which is to achieve an effect, so that the inmates are worse than death, and in a state of mental breakdown, they vomit out the secrets in their hearts. The criminal law that caused Yang Qiuping to fall into a coma several times just now was actually very simple, but the red-hot soldering iron was carefully carved on her body, and in just ten minutes, Yang Qiuping let out a terrible scream, and the air was filled with the smell of barbecue.

Yang Qiuping was taken to Union Hospital for rescue after being injured and unconscious, and outside the door of the emergency room, an attending doctor believed that Yang Qiuping was on the verge of death due to excessive blood loss and there was no need for rescue. At this time, Kuroda Nakasa took out his pistol, put the muzzle of the gun against the doctor's head, and said briefly: "If this woman dies, you must also die." ”

The doctor's face immediately turned pale, and without further arguing, he turned and walked into the emergency room.

Yang Qiuping's vitality was very tenacious, and she finally survived after a large number of blood transfusions. Regarding Yang Qiuping's discharge, the attending doctor once again showed excessive pedantic, he believed that although the life of the wounded was saved, it was still too early to be cured and discharged, and it would take at least three months of treatment and recuperation, otherwise why would we go to such great lengths to revive her?

Kuroda originally wanted to use Yang Qiuping as a bait to lure her accomplices to the hospital to rescue her, so as to achieve the goal of catching them all. Who knew that the Japanese military police had been in ambush in the Union Hospital for more than two months, and they were all exhausted, but Yang Qiuping's accomplices did not even show their faces, and Kuroda felt very annoyed.

Kuroda thought it was ridiculous for the doctor's opinion, that the reason why he saved Yang Qiuping's life was to better torture her, and to take out the information he needed from her mouth, but other than that, Yang Qiuping's life had no value. Kuroda is a person who doesn't like to talk nonsense, and he expressed his meaning to the doctor bluntly: "Mr. Doctor, I am a person who relieves promises, and now this woman has saved her life, so I congratulate you, you can also survive, as for the rest, you don't have to worry about it." ”

Kuroda speaks Chinese very well, and his accent has a distinctly northeastern flavor, and if he doesn't wear a military uniform, everyone will think of him as a northeasterner. He grew up in northeastern China, and his parents were members of China's early "pioneer group" after the First Sino-Japanese War, and after 1932, this semi-military organization was called the "Manchu-Mongolian Pioneer Regiment", and the number of people also expanded to tens of thousands, Kuroda, who grew up in this environment, insisted that Chinese was an inferior race, and an inferior race was not qualified to occupy such a vast land and resources, and we might as well see the world in front of us as a big jungle, and think about the problem with the law of the jungle. What is the Law of the Jungle? Isn't this how human beings have come from ancient times to the present day?

If Kuroda had a choice, he would rather choose to interrogate a young woman, which was a pleasure for the interrogators, meaning that he could do whatever he wanted with a young woman's mind and body, without any responsibility, everything was done in the name of the national interest, and Kuroda had no personal burden of conscience.

When Yang Qiuping was put into the interrogation room, Kuroda just asked, "Ms. Yang, is there anything you have to say?" ”

Yang Qiuping shook her head silently.

Kuroda asked softly with a smile on his face, "Please speak from your heart, do you want to die?" ”

"Since it's in your hands, I don't plan to live." Yang Qiuping finally spoke.

"But how could I be willing to let you die? During the war, a woman was a rare item, let alone a beauty. ”

Yang Qiuping shivered and remained silent.

Kuroda waved his hand, and the two gendarmes immediately stepped forward and pulled off Yang Qiuping's clothes and pants. Yang Qiuping was expressionless, did not struggle, and looked very calm, she knew that it was useless to resist, and let the gendarmes strip off her clothes and pants. Her trousers and the bandage that bandaged the gunshot wound to her thigh were so tightly glued that they could not be pulled off, and it took great difficulty for the two gendarmes to tear her trousers open. Yang Qiuping instinctively wanted to cover her lower body with her hands, but immediately gave up this meaningless plan. She stood naked in the middle of the interrogation room in full view of everyone, shook her hair, stared up at the gendarmes indifferently and stubbornly, and indifferently followed the gendarmes in tying her hands and feet to the torture rack.

Kuroda has long been accustomed to Yang Qiuping's attitude, such people are engaged in anti-Japanese activities for a certain belief, and they are not desperate to take risks because they have no food to eat, and as interrogators, of course, they must be allowed to express themselves. To Kuroda's surprise, Yang Qiuping actually withstood the burning of the soldering iron, and although she screamed, she was silent after the screams subsided, and she didn't even say a word.

Kuroda walked up to Yang Qiuping, pinched her **and** fiercely, and dug hard with his hands the wound that was burned to expose the fresh flesh. Yang Qiuping held back the pain, fine beads of sweat appeared on her forehead and face, and she remained silent.

Kuroda waved his hand to the gendarmes and said, "Go ahead." He returned to his seat.

A stout gendarme held two thick steel needles with a cold light and inserted them into Yang Qiuping's **, she couldn't help shouting, then gritted her teeth and said nothing. The gendarmes pinched the nose of the needle, twisted the steel needle inserted in the depths of Yang Qiuping's ** back and forth repeatedly, pulled out the steel needle and then slowly inserted it, and the tip of the needle stirred and stabbed the most sensitive deep nerves of Yang Qiuping's breasts......

Yang Qiuping held her chest nervously, her shoulders shook helplessly a few times, and large drops of blood slowly poured out from the **, but she still persevered tenaciously and controlled herself from shouting.

Kuroda stared at Yang Qiuping intently, and he tapped the table with the handle of his pistol, and the gendarmes stopped moving.

"Ms. Yang, I can tell you the truth, when you come here, whether you say it or not, there is no possibility of living, the difference is that if you cooperate with us, I can make you die a happy death, otherwise, you will die in extreme pain. What I want to ask is, which way are you going to die? ”

Yang Qiuping closed her eyes and said nothing, she was using all her willpower to resist the sharp pain in her chest...... In a trance, she thought, everything is meaningless, even if she can't stand the torture, it is meaningless to confide in the members of the organization and the contact location, Xu Jinge and the others will not be so stupid, they will transfer personnel as soon as possible, evacuate the contact point, and cut off any contact related to themselves, this is the minimum common sense of the secret service personnel. The only thing that makes Yang Qiuping survive is the insistence on her feelings, she loves that man, and she must not betray her lover with this feeling, even if the slightest thought of this flashes in her heart, she doesn't want Xu Jinge to resent herself, even after her death, Xu Jinge will know sooner or later that Yang Qiuping didn't say a word unfavorable to her lover until she died, he didn't love this woman in vain.

Kuroda finally got impatient, and he looked around at the gendarmes executing in the interrogation room and asked, "Oshima-kun, Kasawara-kun, how long have you not played with women?" ”

"Kuroda-kun, it seems like it's been a century so long."

"Well, you take good care of this woman for me, I think she needs a man too."

"Thank you, Kuroda-kun! We are interested. ”

Kuroda turned and walked out of the interrogation room.

The gendarmes excitedly began to undress, and Yang Qiuping watched them in horror......

The air in the hall of the "Tonghe" car dealership was filled with a terrifying atmosphere, and Sun Erye and Li Erhu were looking at each other silently; Inuyo Heisai casually picked up the bowl and gently brushed off the tea foam with the lid of the bowl, he waited for a bloody fight, and seemed very patient; Lu Zhongyong crouched on the table and worked hard to write; Shopkeeper Wu, Hu Liu'er, Bai Lianqi, Wen San'er and others were all trembling to look at this, look at that, no one dared to say anything.

A cold light shot out of Second Master Sun's eyes, making people feel cold to the bone, Li Erhu calmly met his gaze, looking Second Master Sun up and down recklessly, his face was full of fierce murderous aura.

Inukai Heisai taps the table with his knuckles, as if urging something.

Second Master Sun quietly unbuttoned his shirt and ordered, "Wen San'er, you come to my room and bring the knife." ”

"Alas!" Wen San'er happily agreed to go into the house to get the knife, he found a dagger with a sheath under Sun Erye's pillow, he took out the dagger and tested the sharpness of the blade with his thumb, and was very satisfied. He couldn't wait to see the excitement, Wen San'er didn't have an opinion on who this knife stabbed in.

When Wen San'er returned to the hall with a knife, Second Master Sun had already taken off only a pair of pants, this gangster back then was not strong, and his skinny body was full of eye-catching scars. Li Erhu looked at Second Master Sun with a smile and crossed his arms, looking like a guest and a host.

Second Master Sun made a few chest expansion movements and kicked his legs a few times, as if he was warming up for the fight, everyone held their breath, all eyes were fixed on Second Master Sun, and he slowly pulled out the knife from the scabbard...... Everyone knows that Second Master Sun was a famous figure in Tianjin Wei back then, and what he ate was a bowl of rice licking blood on the tip of a knife, and he naturally had some famous demeanor when he fought.

Who knew that everyone was wrong, in fact, it was not like that, Sun Erye didn't plan to attack Li Erhu at all, he threw the knife into the air, and the dagger flipped a few times in the air and fell into his hand, his movements were very chic, and he was worthy of being a veteran of playing with knives. The next scene was stunned, Sun Erye held a knife in his right hand and chopped off the little thumb of his left hand with a knife...... Everyone present let out an exclamation, only to see blood coming out of Sun Erye's severed finger like a fountain, Sun Erye threw the severed finger and dagger on the table without changing his face, and made a gesture to Li Erhu: "Li Ye, please." ”

Li Erhu didn't expect Sun Erye to play such a move, and he lacked psychological preparation. He has experienced a lot of knives in his life, this is nothing, the problem is that in the past, he used to use a knife to greet others, but today he is putting a knife on himself, which requires a little courage. Things have come to this point, Li Erhu has no way out, since he boasted about Haikou in front of everyone just now, what to play is up to Sun Erye, and he will accompany him to the end, if he doesn't dare to attack himself at this time, Li Erhu will be planted at home, and what face will he have in the future?

Li Erhu gritted his teeth and grabbed the knife with his hand, and also chopped off a little thumb, he couldn't help the pain and asked with a smile: "Second master, how to play next?" ”

Second Master Sun swept his knife and said: "Master Li, you are a rare guest, you finally came to me, it would be rude if I didn't care about the meal, so how about we eat stew tonight?" Second Master Sun stabbed a knife into his ** thigh, slowly cut the muscles, and slashed parallel to the edge of the first knife, and then picked it with the tip of the knife, threw a long strip of bloody meat on the table and commanded: "Wen San'er, take this piece of meat to the kitchen and stew, put more peppercorns, and put some liquor to remove the fishy smell, remember!" The stew is rotten, and Li Ye's teeth are not very good. ”

Wen San'er looked at the large amount of blood gushing out of Second Master Sun's legs and was so frightened that he didn't know what to do, and he asked incoherently, "Second Master, are you ...... It doesn't matter to you, right? I...... I'm going to look for ...... Find some Yunnan Baiyao......"

Second Master Sun laughed loudly and said, "Wen San'er, Wen San'er, look at you like that, where did you just go?" This bit of meat is not enough for Li Ye to stuff his teeth, that is, it is a snack, let's let Li Ye eat and drink enough, right? Master Li, are you okay, if you have nothing to do, let's continue playing? ”

Li Erhu shook his knife with a miserable smile and said, "Second master, you are righteous enough, I will also get a part and get some snacks, this thing is chewy." He grabbed the left ear and cut it off, thudding the knife into the table.

Where had shopkeeper Wu seen this kind of formation, his face turned white with fright, and he waved to Sun and Li vigorously: "Second master, second master, stop it, if you continue like this, you will die." ”

Inukai Heisai looked at it expressionlessly and didn't say a word.

Second Master Sun didn't mean to stop, he grabbed the knife again and played with it in his hand, the handle of the knife was already stained with blood, and it was slippery and greasy to the touch. Second Master Sun laughed dryly, and said gloomily: "I said Master Li, we are like children playing at home, playing around and picking up some small parts, this is not what the grandfathers do, it makes people laugh when it is passed out, so let's get some rare things for Li Ye, have you ever eaten Qian'er meat?" Well, it doesn't look like so. Actually, it's not a rare thing, you and I have it in the crotch of my pants, and at my age, this thing is not very useful, and it's a burden to keep it, so I just chop it off and drink it......"

Li Erhu was stunned, he never expected that Sun Erye would dare to let that thing out, this was too unexpected for him, he finally knew what Tianjin gangsters were, this old thing was really vicious, he was half of his body into the ground anyway, it really didn't matter if that thing was going to be or not. But he, Li Erhu, is only in his forties, has a wife at home, and has a good relationship in the kiln, if he doesn't have this thing, he'll be fucking all over. Li Erhu is not afraid to use a knife to play with his life, he can bear a leg or an arm if necessary, but he can't give up that thing, otherwise the consequences will be very serious. Li Erhu didn't dare to think about it anymore, his mind turned quickly, and he immediately came to the conclusion that he couldn't fight with the old coffin, how many days would he live? But Li Erhu's days are still long.

Second Master Sun is really unambiguous, his old man is already taking off his pants, Li Erhu feels that he can't hold on anymore no matter what, he doesn't want to play anymore, he admits it, Li Erhu finally shouted: "You wait......"

Second Master Sun was using a knife to draw on that thing, as if he was choosing the best position to put down the knife, and he raised his head at this time: "What's the matter, Master Li?" ”

Li Erhu hugged his fist at Sun Erye: "Second master, you are ruthless, I, Li Erhu, will admit it today." ”

Second Master Sun smiled: "Don't pay the price, Master Li, our brothers are having fun, why did they withdraw the fire?" I heard that Li Ye is a man, and it is trivial to have three knives and six holes on his body, what is wrong with him today? ”

"Well, you are the master, I am the grandson, can it be done? If you don't kill too much, don't squeeze me anymore. Second master, all the expenses are counted on me today, and I will come to say hello to the second master another day, I will leave. ”

Li Erhu hadn't forgotten Lu Zhongyong, who was writing at the desk, and he hugged his fist at Lu Zhongyong: "Master Lu, how much is your manuscript worth?" Please make a price, I Li Erhu bought it, and I saw you back. He covered his ears and walked away.

Lu Zhongyong immediately put away his pen, since this manuscript was requested, it didn't matter if it was in the newspaper or not. He understands it this way, what Li Erhu wants to buy is the news reporting rights of Editor-in-Chief Lu, and he doesn't care about a manuscript, if so, the price has to be discussed.

Inukai Heisai also stood up and took his leave, he walked to the door and turned around, and said something that made everyone present feel harsh: "I am strange, you Chinese are very bloody in fighting, but why do you always lose battles?" ”

[1]

"Talker" is a person who speaks a lot in the Beijing dialect.

[2]

"No. kaner" refers to the kan shoulder with the number printed on it.

[3]

"Bald" refers to talking and walking the board, which is equivalent to "talking and walking the board".

[4]

In the old days, the people in the capital who were specially engaged in the sale and purchase of houses, once the buyer and seller made a deal, had to pay him a commission, and this kind of occupation was called "pulling the house".