Xingshu and the others took the packed meals and followed He Chenxue to the five-star hotel that had been booked, the reason why He Chenxue wanted to book such a high-end place was not because of comfort, but because of safety. In this hotel, you need a room card to get up and down the elevator, and the stairs you walk on are also automatically locked, and they will only be open if there is a fire alarm.

After walking into the suite opened by He Chenxue, Tian Lianfeng looked at this suite with wide eyes, drilling around like a dirt bun, and finally returned to the living room where everyone was, picked up a skewer of barbecue, and said while eating: "Miss He, it seems that you usually make a lot of money, this kind of five-star hotel suite, it costs tens of thousands of dollars a night, right?" ”

He Chenxue said lightly: "It's too exaggerated, it's just a luxury suite, I'm their senior member, and it's about two thousand yuan a night, which is very cheap." ”

"Is 2,000 yuan a night cheap?" Tian Lianfeng looked around, "I only make a few dollars a month." ”

"Stop talking nonsense, let's get down to business." Yan Gang frowned and said, drinking his glutinous rice wine, "What I have to do now is two points, first, find Tian Ke, this is my task; Second, it is to find the grandson who harmed my comrade-in-arms, as for the things you are looking for in Qimen, what treasures and other things, I am not interested, but in the future, if you want to ask me to continue to do it, the price has to be calculated separately, I will do as much as I want, if you agree, speak, if you disagree, I will go back to Harbin after doing the first two things. ”

Torture looked at He Chenxue and said, "Miss He, what do you think?" ”

"The people you invite, you decide." He Chenxue was still in that tone.

Xingshu shook his head: "From the moment I was forced to drive your car to Mudanjiang in Harbin City, you are the employer, and according to the rules of the industry, the employer has the final say." ”

He Chenxue nodded: "I don't have any opinion, my eyes are not good, everyone on the road also needs to take care of each other, Mr. Tian is the subject of the matter, and he must follow, which is understandable." ”

When Tian Lianfeng heard this, he felt that the meaning of He Chenxue's words seemed to be that he was dragging an oil bottle, and he was just about to defend something, but he was glared back by the torture technique, and then the torture technique said: "Miss He, since we have negotiated the matter, then you should tell me what happened in the first line of tun back then, right?" ”

"Okay, but before we can do that, there's one more thing that needs to be done, and it's very important." After He Chenxue finished speaking, she got up, took out a piece of jade that was broken into two pieces and had no carvings on it, carefully placed it on the table and said, "Boss Xing, do you know what this is?" ”

The torture technique looked at it and asked, "Can you get started?" ”

He Chenxue nodded, picked up the torture technique, looked at it carefully, and said while watching: "The top and bottom are different, the top is the ice seed, and the bottom is the cyan seed, it has cracked, this thing is worthless, what do you mean by taking this out?" ”

"This is called broken jade, it is a kind of token given by the people who can't cut the jade out of the jade casting club, so let's put it this way, it is equivalent to saying that you went to school and didn't get a graduation certificate, but only gave a certificate of completion, which is the same reason." He Chenxue's voice was a little low, "According to the rules, people like me can't engage in this profession, because I haven't been a teacher at all, but the Jade Casting Society has other regulations, considering that many disciples have only learned this craft for more than ten years, and if they don't engage in this profession, they can only starve to death, so it is set that if a disciple who has not graduated from the master marries another disciple, he can engage in this profession." ”

"What do you mean?" The torture technique immediately asked, and he was very annoyed in his heart, thinking that there were so many things about this girl. Tian Lianfeng and Yan Gang next to them also had this idea in their hearts, and felt that this woman was too grinding.

He Chenxue said again: "So, in order to engage in this line of work, I later claimed that in the year I reached the marriageable age, I married a person named Fan Meng, in fact, this person has been dead for many years, and he is also a disciple of the Jade Casting Society, and he died in the mountains of Xiangxi, very few people know about it, and it is difficult for the people above to verify, so I am considered a success." ”

Xingshu frowned and said, "Miss He, I still don't understand what you want to say?" ”

"What I'm trying to say is that the church is already doubting me, and once they start doubting me, I'm done." He Chenxue frowned slightly.

Tian Lianfeng said nervously: "Will they clean up the portal?" ”

He Chenxue shook her head: "That's not it, but they will find some evidence of my previous violation of industry regulations, and find a way to kick me out of this business, so that I can't be an appraiser, that is, it will cut off my life, criminal boss, you should understand......"

Xingshu nodded, as he said to Tian Lianfeng a few days ago, in fact, it was very pitiful to do his job, because after doing this business, he couldn't do anything else, everything had to start all over again. Nowadays, many pawnshops, said to be pawnshops, are actually almost the same as microfinance companies, to put it bluntly, it is usury, although pawnshops are fundamentally similar to loans, but the profession of worship is very sacred in the eyes of them, and the pawnshops are very rare, and the entire Northeast, and even the whole country can not find a few.

Yan Gang drank glutinous rice wine and asked, "Miss He, you just said it directly, what do you want?" ”

"I hope someone can pretend to be Fan Meng and help me get through this difficult time." He Chenxue said, subconsciously looking at the torture technique, "But Fan Meng is also a very powerful appraiser, and it is very difficult for ordinary people to pretend to be him. ”

The meaning of He Chenxue's words is equivalent to explaining that among the three men in front of him, only the torture technique meets this condition.

The torture technique is not stupid, he immediately said: "How to pretend?" Fan Meng's appearance is different from ours. ”

"Very few people have seen Fan Meng's appearance, that time I went to Xiangxi, Fan Meng and the people who knew him were all dead, but only one person survived, and that person was also missing, so even if someone pretended to be Fan Meng, no one would recognize it." After He Chenxue finished speaking, she asked bluntly, "Boss Criminal, can you help me with this?" ”

Yan Gang and Tian Lianfeng looked at the torture technique, the punishment technique didn't know what to say, he always felt that He Chenxue had a purpose in mentioning this matter here and now, but what the purpose was, he couldn't tell, but he knew that if he didn't agree, He Chenxue would waste time until he agreed.

In the end, the torture technique still agreed, he looked at He Chenxue and nodded, "Yes, but you have to tell me the general situation of Fan Meng, right?" Someone asked, I have a countermeasure, right? ”

In fact, the torture technique wanted to find out something about He Chenxue from Fan Meng, but He Chenxue said: "You just say that you have amnesia, this is the best way." ”

The torturer knew that He Chenxue was trying to use this matter to contain herself, and if she continued to dwell on it, it would only delay time, so she had to nod and say, "Okay, I promise, now, you should talk about the matter of the first line." ”

He Chenxue nodded slightly, and began to tell about the process of the reappearance of the first line in 1938 - it was the winter of 1938, the twenty-seventh year of the "Republic of China", the fifth year of Kant of the puppet Manchukuo, and the thirteenth year of Japan's Showa, and on March 28 of that year, the puppet regime "Republic of China" under the support of Japan was established, and Shen Dongjun's liquidation action was also launched on the same day.

In fact, the number of the so-called Japanese Kwantung Army is less than 50 people, and the remaining 200 or so people are all puppet Manchurian defense forces, known as three companies, but in fact the number does not reach three companies, and the weapons carried are basically 38-type rifles, and some soldiers of the puppet Manchurian army are still using old-fashioned Murata rifles, and the heavy weapons are only 11-year-old light machine guns, grenadiers and mortars, because they must reach a certain marching speed, they do not even carry heavy machine guns. It was thought that with curvilinear strike firearms such as grenadiers and mortars, they could completely suppress the anti-United Nations forces that they wanted to exterminate.

In fact, in Shen Dongjun's intelligence, the number of this small force under the Anti-United Nations is not large, only less than 30 people, and it is basically mainly wounded, after all, Shen Dongjun's main purpose is to arrest Xing Renju, not to really exterminate the Anti-United Nations forces.

"In that operation, Shin Dongjun was selfish." He Chenxue said lightly, "Originally, he just wanted to mobilize two companies of puppet Manchu troops, but at that time, the Kwantung Army was worried about him, so they sent those fifty Kwantung Army soldiers, in fact, to monitor him." ”

"Even if Shen Dongjun has status, in fact, he has the power to mobilize only the puppet Manchurian army, and even if he has a legitimate reason for the Kwantung Army, he still needs to apply, and the application may not be approved?" ”

"Yes." He Chenxue responded, "And according to the regulations, he must apply through the military police of the Kwantung Army, and he cannot submit an application directly to the Kwantung Army Headquarters, at that time, the Battle of Normenhan had not yet broken out, before that, the combat effectiveness of the puppet Manchurian army was actually overestimated, after the Battle of Normenhan, the Kwantung Army realized that the combat effectiveness of the puppet Manchurian army was very low, so it began to rectify, but what Shen Dongjun needed at that time was a team with very high combat effectiveness, but obedient, so that he could control it." ”

Yan Gang asked a very important question at this time: "Where did Shen Dongjun start from?" Where are the troops transferred? In which direction? Where is the destination? Do you know all this? ”

"Probably clear." He Chenxue nodded, took out a map, pointed to it, and said, "Shen Dongjun first set off from Xinjing, that is, Changchun, and then arrived in Harbin, and then went to Mudanjiang from Harbin. ”

Yan Gang pointed to the map and said, "If I'm not mistaken, back then, he went directly from Changchun to Mudanjiang, which was a little closer than from Harbin, right?" Didn't he go far away? ”

Xingshu pointed to the map and said, "He should go to Harbin to apply for the mobilization of troops." ”

"It should be." He Chenxue nodded and said, "After he arrived in Mudanjiang, he took the fifty-person Kwantung Army unit that monitored him and took the transfer order, and took the local puppet Manchu army in Mudanjiang to Ning'an by train. ”

Tian Lianfeng immediately asked at this time: "Was the train so developed at that time?" ”

Yan Gang nodded and said, "Yes!" From the Qing Dynasty began to build a railway, to the puppet Manchurian period, the railway line in the Northeast can be said to be quite developed, at that time by train from Harbin to Mudanjiang, during which there were a total of 25 stations, from Mudanjiang to the Japanese colony of Korea at that time there are 22 stations, the train was the most important and most developed means of transportation in the Northeast at that time. ”

He Chenxue raised his eyes to look at Yan Gang opposite him in some surprise at this time, Tian Lianfeng also looked at him, but he was not surprised at all, because Yan Gang was born in a special forces brigade in the northeast before, and his familiarity with the terrain of the three eastern provinces was like his own body, and he also had various traffic maps drawn in various eras at home, since a few years ago, Yan Gang also began to expand his knowledge, not only limited to the three eastern provinces, but also began to study the national map.

There is a specialization in technology, and a good tracker cannot be unfamiliar with the terrain.

Yan Gang found that the two of them were looking at him, but he was very strange: "Why are you looking at me?" ”

Tian Lianfeng held up the beer and said: "'Lord Yama', I respect you and admire you, you can actually memorize it." ”

Xingshu smiled and shook his head, "He can really memorize it......"

Yan Gang looked at He Chenxue and said, "Then what?" How did they go next? ”

"They got off in Ning'an, and then the army disappeared." He Chenxue paused deliberately when she said this, and when everyone was wondering, He Chenxue said again, "What happened after that was told to me by my grandmother Guan Zhiqing, she said that after Shen Dongjun's group got off the bus from Ning'an, they went up the river......

"Wait!" The torture technique interrupted He Chenxue's words, "Go up the river? Which river? ”

Yan Gang pointed to the map and said: "The only tributary of the Songhua River around is the Mudanjiang River, but going up the river, this statement is not correct, right?" The origin of the Mudanjiang River is in the Mudanling of Dunhua, Jilin, and Ning'an should be the middle reaches of the Mudanjiang River, right? It should be against the river. ”

He Chenxue shook his head: "When I say go up the river, I mean that they walked, they walked along the Mudanjiang River upstream, walked for a long time, walked for half a month, and finally walked so much that even the puppet Manchurian army was confused." ”

Xingshu sat there looking at the map, looking at the area of Mudanjiang on the map, and after looking at it for a long time, he suddenly raised his eyes and looked at Yan Gang and asked, "'Hades', is there any other name for Mudanjiang in history?" ”

"Mudan, the Manchu language means bending, and it is also called the Huerha River, which was first called the Khuhan River in the Tang Dynasty." After Yan Gang finished speaking, he didn't realize what he had said, and when he found that the torture technique, He Chenxue, and Tian Lianfeng were all looking at him, he suddenly reacted and exclaimed, "Kuhan River!?" Khan Khanate?! ”

Torture nodded: "Yes, Kuhan River, is this a coincidence?" No, I've never believed in so many coincidences. ”

The people who attacked Yan Gang's comrades-in-arms told them that they were going to find Tian Ke to go to the Khan Khanate, and when Shen Dongjun led people to the first line to find Xing Renju, they were advancing along the Khu Khan River, that is, the Mudanjiang River, and Xing Renju was the one who everyone knew about the location of Qimen, but he was long gone.

None of this is a coincidence, but the torture technique is thinking in his heart at this time, the pair of thousand-year-old black incense chopsticks and the peerless painting, these two things are very important clues, but they have not come in handy so far, and on the premise that they have not been useful, they have found the general direction of Qimen again, which is too smooth, and things are not quite right.

"Miss He, you go on." The torture technique looked at He Chenxue Dao.

He Chenxue continued: "They walked along the Mudanjiang River, after walking for half a month, although they knew that they were next to the Mudanjiang, but they could no longer judge where they were from the terrain, because there are mountains around, you must know that most of the surrounding areas around the Mudanjiang River are plains, there are mountains, but there are very few mountains, and then, Shen Dongjun took this group of people to the mountains, and after walking for a whole day after entering the mountains, they walked into a mountain col, and spent a night peacefully in the mountain col, and the next morning, When they walked out of the col and saw the horizon, they found a line of tun. ”

When Tian Lianfeng heard this, he let out a "huh", and Yan Gang and Xingshu glanced at each other.

Even a person like Tian Lianfeng, who is not very good at using his brain, feels that something is not right, why? Because things went so smoothly, He Chenxue didn't say how they found it, where the clues came from, and Shen Dongjun was a mixed-race person, not a local, how could he find the first line of tun so smoothly? And the road was safe, is it a coincidence?

He Chenxue frowned and said: "These are all what my grandmother said, I just repeat it, you don't have to doubt me, after all, I have to rely on you to find this place, so I don't need to hide anything." ”

"What happened next?" Torture asked.

When I first said this, the fire alarm of the hotel suddenly sounded, and at the same time their door automatically popped open because of the fire alarm, and the alarm sounded everywhere, and the guests living on the same floor began to run out, some of them were wearing bathrobes, and ran towards the safe passage, and the security guards in charge of the floor kept shouting at the door of the passage that everyone should pay attention to safety, be careful of their feet, and not be crowded.

Xingshu grabbed his backpack and walked outside with He Chenxue in his arms, Yan Gang walked in front of the road, Tian Lianfeng ran behind with his things, and when the four of them walked downstairs along the safe passage, they found that the building was full of people, and the security guards and staff distributed the prepared winter clothes one by one to the guests who ran out of the room and had not had time to get dressed.

"Something isn't right." Yan Gang looked up at the hotel, and didn't find that there was a fire, so he took out one of his "police officer cards", and stepped forward to ask one of the people who looked like supervisors, lying that he was a police officer, but in fact, the police officer card was just a shell, and there was nothing in it.

The supervisor said that he didn't know what was going on, but the fire alarm system suddenly sounded an alarm, because the system never went wrong, and they had to evacuate the guests one by one according to the usual drills, and now they are manually checking whether there is really a fire.

After Yan Gang came back, he told Xing Shu and the others about this, and then when they discussed whether to go back to the room, Tian Lianfeng, who had been watching the excitement from the side, walked back, pointed to the men and women who were almost half-naked, wrapped in cold-proof clothes and half frozen to death, and said, "This is too two!" ”

Before he finished speaking, He Chenxue suddenly pressed Tian Lianfeng's shoulder and turned him around.

Tian Lianfeng was puzzled, and was about to ask He Chenxue what he was going to do, when Xingshu and Yan Gang found that Tian Lianfeng's back had been pasted with a note at some point, and a sentence was written in italics on the paper - "Time waits for no one, it's time for you to go."

The torture technique took the paper and subconsciously looked at the surrounding crowd, and now the people standing around, even the hotel staff and guests, not to mention that there are more than a hundred people, who put the note on Tian Lianfeng's back?