Chapter 51: Charred Corpses in the Snow (Part I)
Tang Qianlin didn't expect that Gao Shigui would ask them not to investigate the 016 special train case anymore, but after thinking about it, he seemed to understand.
Zhang Liankai told Li Yunfan that there was an organization codenamed Florist on the 016 special train to monitor the emperor, and the Xuan Department directly belonged to the puppet emperor, and the simplest inference was that the disappearance of the 016 special train and the strange death of the people on the car were directly related to the Xuan Ministry.
Otherwise, why did Gao Shigui ask them not to investigate anymore?
Tang Qianlin said bluntly: "The 016 project is related to you, and the purpose is to get rid of the gardener?" β
Gao Shigui looked at Tang Qianlin and said, "I don't quite understand whether your tone is affirmative or questioning?" β
Tang Qianlin said simply: "It's uncertain." β
Gao Shigui picked up the chopsticks and ate: "I know, you think of the 'gardener', you think that the Xuanbu is planning this operation to eliminate them, but it is only a few flowerers who died, and it cannot completely disintegrate the secret organization of the Japanese to monitor the emperor, which has no meaning." β
Tang Qianlin asked again: "Why is that?" β
"You can find out why, but you might die." Gao Shigui said expressionlessly, "If you don't check, I guarantee that you can live well." β
After speaking, Gao Shigui got up, took out a handkerchief to wipe his mouth, and said to Zhang Liankai: "Thank you, I should go." β
Zhang Liankai got up: "Instructor ......"
Gao Shigui raised his hand to stop him from saying: "Everyone has different reasons for doing things, I can protect you for a while, but I can't protect you for a lifetime, the road is your own choice, since you have chosen a road to the dark, then the teacher respects your decision, goodbye." β
After finishing speaking, Gao Shigui turned around and left.
For some reason, Gao Shigui's departure made this originally cold room warmer, and Tang Qianlin felt comfortable in his heart.
Li Yunfan asked: "Lian Kai, I don't understand what you mean?" Did you do the 016 special train case? β
"We?" Zhang Liankai smiled and said, "I only learned about the existence of the Xuan Department after meeting Senior Instructor a few hours ago. β
Li Yunfan was surprised: "You are not from Xuanbu?" β
Zhang Liankai shook his head: "Instructor Gao just warned me, don't investigate this case, that's all, as for whether I am from the Xuan Department now, it seems that it is not up to me to decide." β
Tang Qianlin put down the bowl: "So, do you want to check it out, or give up?" β
"If I wanted to give up, I wouldn't have brought you here." Zhang Liankai leaned against the earthen wall and lit a cigarette, "The unsolved case I experienced is indeed similar to the 016 special train case, to be precise, the murderer's methods in the two cases are exactly the same." β
Ni Xiaowan hurriedly asked, "How can it be the same?" One is seemingly burned to death, and the other is bloodletting, skinning, and disemboweling. β
"That was just the surface, but when my adoptive father examined the bodies, he found that the limbs of the five deceased were originally bent and straightened after death." Zhang Liankai said, took on a cigarette, and made the same posture as the deceased on the 016 special train, "According to my adoptive father's speculation, they maintained this posture when they died." β
Li Yunfan looked at Zhang Liankai's posture: "Like the dead on the 016 special train, it looks like he was burned to death." β
Tang Qianlin asked a key question: "What about the internal organs?" Is it also carbonized? β
Zhang Liankai shook his head: "Didn't I say it?" The entrails were hollowed out and nowhere to be found, and the blood in the house was later confirmed to be sheep blood, not human blood. β
"Therefore, the modus operandi of the two cases is actually the same, but the one twenty-one years ago was deliberately covered up." Tang Qianlin looked at the boiling pot and analyzed, "Twenty-one years ago, the Xuan Department had not yet been established, and at that time the Manchu Qing Dynasty was already finished, and the sticky rod had long since ceased to exist, according to the analysis of the existing data, it should have nothing to do with the Xuan Ministry, and after the 016 special train case, the Xuan Department did not want us to investigate, and even threatened with our lives, isn't this inconsistent?" β
As soon as Tang Qianlin said this, before everyone could start to discuss, the door of the broken house was pushed open, and a secret agent from the secret search department stood at the door, panting and said: "Section Chief Li, Mr. Tang, something has happened, we must rush back to Harbin immediately." β
Li Yunfan hurriedly got up and said, "What's wrong?" β
The spy glanced at Zhang Liankai and stopped talking.
Li Yunfan said: "Section Chief Zhang is his own person, so if he has something to say, he will say it." β
The spy said: "There was also a case in Harbin that was exactly the same as the 016 special train case. β
"What?" Tang Qianlin also immediately got up, "Exactly the same case? β
The spy said: "The car is waiting for you outside, hurry up, Section Chief Park will wait for you to go back, and we will take a special train back to Harbin overnight." β
Li Yunfan, Tang Qianlin and Ni Xiaowan hurriedly packed up, Li Yunfan walked out of the door of the house and turned back to Zhang Liankai and said, "Liankai, if there is something we can communicate on the phone in time, it depends on you to keep an eye here." β
Zhang Liankai didn't say anything, just took the bowl and said "um".
After Tang Qianlin and the others got into the car, the car sped away, and Zhang Liankai stood at the door with a bowl of haggis soup, and said to himself in the cold wind: "It's a pity that it's such a good pot of soup." β
On the way back to Sanhe Station, Tang Qianlin and Li Yunfan asked the spy for details, and the spy said that he knew so much, and Park Byung-jung would explain to them when he returned to the special train in detail.
The sudden appearance of the spies also made Tang Qianlin and Li Yunfan clear that no matter where they went, Park Bingzheng would send someone to follow, this should be the arrangement of Kyoji Miyake, as long as they were in the northeast, it was almost impossible for them to get rid of the surveillance of the Japanese.
When the car returned to Mikawa Station, Tang Qianlin and the three found that Kubo Tiandao was standing outside the office door and watching them, while the Japanese camp in the distance seemed to be expanding, and countless Kwantung Army soldiers were busy at night.
Before getting into the car, Tang Qianlin motioned for Li Yunfan and Ni Xiaowan to go up first, and he walked to Kubo Tiandao and asked, "Mr. Kubo, are you preparing to evacuate?" β
Kubo Tendo shook his head and said with a smile, "I wish you all a smooth journey." β
Tang Qianlin also smiled: "Thank you." β
Tang Qianlin turned around and walked towards the special train, and found Park Byung-jung sitting at the window of the special train, also looking thoughtfully in the direction of the Japanese camp.
Back on the special train, Tang Qianlin asked: "What happened to Harbin?" β
"Something like this happened." Park Byung-jung said with a cup of coffee, "The place where the incident happened was a shop specializing in fur, and the deceased were the boss and his partner......
As soon as Park Byung-jung said this, Tang Qianlin blurted out: "Is the deceased called Guan Xinyue?" β
Park Byung-jung nodded and asked strangely, "How do you know?" β
Tang Qianlin sat down slowly on the table, just shook his head, his mind was blank at this time.
This is a way of self-thinking that he has developed, and every time he has no clue about the clues, he will deliberately empty all the things in his head, as if he is cleaning a messy box, and then he will pick up the miscellaneous items scattered on the ground one by one to check the number, and then put them back in the order he rearranged them.
Park Bingzheng, Ni Xiaowan and Li Yunfan all looked at Tang Qianlin.
After a long time, Tang Qianlin asked, "Is it the same as the dead on the 016 special train?" β
"Not very much the same, but similar." Park Byung-jung said, "This time it was indeed burned to death, burned to black charcoal, but there was no trace of burning in the house." β
Li Yunfan immediately said: "That proves that the place where the corpses are displayed is not the first scene, and they moved there after they were burned to death." β
Park Byung-jung shook his head: "I don't know, when I go back, you will personally investigate the scene and then draw conclusions." β
On the way back, it took a long time for the four of them to fall asleep in their box, Tang Qianlin, Ni Xiaowan and Li Yunfan were analyzing the case over and over again, while Park Byung-jung sat and smoked cigarette after cigarette.
He regretted it, he regretted accepting the dispatch of Honjo Nobuyoshi, and he regretted doing what Honjo Nobuyoshi said, if he had not been transferred to Manchuria, maybe he would still be investigating the anti-Japanese activities of the Korean Righteous Martyrs in the Joseon Governor's Palace, although it was just as dangerous, but at least within his own control.
Now not only can he control himself, but he also can't control the other people in the secret search class, he is just a symbol of Kyoji Miyake placed in the secret search class.
He didn't dare to check whether Li Yunfan was a Communist Party or not, because he wasn't sure what Kyoji Miyake's attitude towards Li Yunfan was, whether he wanted to recruit An? Or do you want to use it wisely?
Therefore, he could only bet on Tang Qianlin, whose seemingly simple purpose was relatively simple, hoping that Tang Qianlin could do something and that he could be wiped out, so as to lift Kyoji Miyake's death threat to him.
No, death wasn't terrible, he wanted to get himself a shot right now, and the most terrible thing was to be sent into that demon army to be an experiment.
Park Byung-jung did not dare to close his eyes, because once he closed his eyes, he would have in his mind everything he had witnessed in that North Korean village, and he would imagine all kinds of torture he had endured after being brought into that unit.
When the special train arrived at Harbin Railway Station, Tang Qianlin was already standing at the door of the carriage, and Ni Xiaowan and Li Yunfan also walked over.
Tang Qianlin asked, "What about Park Byung-jung?" β
Li Yunfan glanced inside: "I guess I didn't wake up, let's go by ourselves, someone will pick us up anyway." β
After the car door was opened, two cars from the Security Bureau had been parked on the platform, and there were agents standing outside the car who were waiting for them.
When Tang Qianlin walked to the door of the car, he saw Guan Beihe sitting inside.
"Contemptible Guan Beihe, director of the Harbin Local Security Bureau." Guan Beihe looked at Tang Qianlin with a smile, "Mr. Tang, get in the car, Yunfan, you and this young lady sit in the car behind." β
Li Yunfan nodded and said, "Yes." β
Tang Qianlin sat in, and after closing the car door, Guan Beihe instructed the driver: "Go to the place where the crime occurred." β
The car started, and it wasn't until after leaving the train station that Guan Beihe stretched out his hand towards Tang Qianlin: "Long Yang, I have wanted to visit you for a long time, but unfortunately I didn't have that opportunity." β
Tang Qianlin shook Guan Beihe's hand: "You're polite." β
Guan Beihe looked at the front of the car: "Mr. Tang, before going to the scene of the crime, I have two things to tell you, I hope it will help you in your investigation." β
Tang Qianlin looked at Guan Beihe and said, "Director Guan is so polite, I have to thank you for your guidance." β
Guan Beihe smiled: "I am related to the deceased Guan Xinyue. β
Tang Qianlin was stunned for a moment, Guan Beihe looked at him again and said, "Distant relatives, sometimes they come and go, after all, they have common interests." β
Tang Qianlin was silent and listened to Guan Beihe continue.
Guan Beihe said again: "I heard from my eldest brother, you went to him and asked him for some professional advice, so I know that you know him and have had a contact." β
Tang Qianlin did not deny it: "Yes, I did find him and talked to him in detail. β
Guan Beihe said: "My eldest brother, there are some shady deals in private, maybe you will find out in the investigation, and you will also find that these transactions have something to do with me." β
Guan Beihe said, looking at Tang Qianlin with a smile on his face.
Tang Qianlin just said: "Even if it is related, I think it should have nothing to do with the case." β
Guan Beihe laughed dryly: "Yes, according to the normal procedure, we should both be the first to be investigated in this case, and ten days ago, I may have been very worried, because at that time, Yun Fan was suspected of being a Communist, and later it was found out that it was not Yun Fan, it was Qian Sinian who shouted to catch the thief, and Yun Fan is my proud protΓ©gΓ©, I pulled him with one hand, so if he is really a Communist Party, then I can't get out of it." β
Tang Qianlin just laughed and didn't say a word.
"Also, you were recruited by Yunfan, and if something happened to him, you are also in trouble, right?" Guan Beihe still maintained that terrible smile on his face, "What my eldest brother did in private was arms trading. β
Tang Qianlin nodded: "Oh, the arms trade ......"
Guan Beihe said: "Yes, this is a felony in Manchukuo. β
Tang Qianlin said: "You mean, Guan senior's arms trade is entirely because of your protection, and he will pay you protection money on time?" β
Guan Beihe smiled: "Alas, Brother Tang, you are really direct, not like me beating around the bush, do you know?" If you work in the Security Bureau......"
Speaking of this, Guan Beihe laughed dryly twice: "You have died several times a long time ago." β