The steward named Lao Turtle quickly walked in, took off his hat and saluted Tang Qianlin and the others.

He Chenxue said: "This Mr. Tang is from the Security Bureau, and you will answer whatever he asks you." ”

The old turtle nodded and said, "Yes." ”

Tang Qianlin said: "How many smokers are there in the smoke house today?" ”

The old turtle recalled: "There are 32 in total. ”

Tang Qianlin asked again: "No one has ever left?" ”

"Back to the sir, if it is usual, it is really difficult to calculate, but it just so happens that the cigarette paste is almost out last night, and there are not enough people left, so from last night to noon today, there are only 12 regular customers in the tobacco house." The old turtle replied respectfully, every word was very clear, "After lunch, some guests came one after another, and before the accident, 20 came, plus the 12 who didn't leave, a total of 32 people." ”

Li Yunfan asked: "These 32 people have not left, and there have been no other smokers?" ”

"Nope." The old turtle replied affirmatively, and looked at Wang Dacai again, "Except for him, he is not a smoker here, but a mouse who rubs cigarettes." ”

Li Yunfan looked at Tang Qianlin and said, "It can be ruled out that the murderer is a smoker." ”

Tang Qianlin was silent, just thinking about something.

Li Yunfan asked He Chenxue again: "President He, in addition to the old turtle, how many people are guarding the smoke hall here?" ”

He Chenxue said: "What? Do you suspect the people of the Eight Phases Gate? ”

Li Yunfan nodded, and was not polite: "Eliminate the smokers, and the rest is only your subordinates." ”

He Chenxue sneered: "This is a smoke house, there are all kinds of people here, how can you think that it is my subordinate?" ”

Li Yunfan asked the old turtle again: "Old turtle, are you sure that no one else has ever been here?" ”

The old turtle shook his head: "Definitely not, I sit at the door every day, there is only such a door in and out, who enters and who leaves, I know clearly." ”

When Li Yunfan heard this, he turned to He Chenxue: "President He, you also heard it, I have to bring your people back for questioning." Moreover, this case in the smoke house has similarities with the other two cases we are investigating, so ......"

"Section Chief Li!" He Chenxue said, "Since you said that there are similarities with the case you investigated, have you found out that the other case has something to do with the Eight Phases Gate?" ”

Li Yunfan shook his head: "No." ”

He Chenxue said coldly: "Since it has nothing to do with our Baxiangmen, it may not be our people who did it." I know where your duties lie, and I have the right to interrogate, but it is inconvenient for my people to go to the Security Bureau, because once you take it away, there will be rumors outside, of course, if you insist, I can go to Director Guan, and when the time comes, you don't have to be embarrassed. ”

He Chenxue directly clarified the stakes, and Li Yunfan couldn't say anything more.

At this time, Tang Qianlin was walking around the smoke house, carefully observing.

He Chenxue waved his hand, and the old turtle also hurriedly left the smoke house, but Wang Dacai reached out and fed something in his mouth at this time.

Li Yunfan stopped him and said, "What's in your mouth?" ”

Wang Dacai quickly swallowed the thing in his mouth, and then looked at him with a satisfied look and smirked.

"He's swallowing a cigarette pill stolen here." He Chenxue looked at Wang Dacai with disgusted eyes, "If it weren't for the fact that he used to be a regular customer here, he would have sunk him into the Huajiang River." ”

Wang Dacai stood there with a grin, and then lay down on the kang next to him with a satisfied face, enjoying the short pleasure brought to him by the smoke pill.

Li Yunfan shook his head and walked towards Tang Qianlin: "Did you find anything?" ”

Tang Qianlin shook his head: "As Wang Dacai said, there is only one ...... entrances and exits."

Just as he was saying this, Wang Dacai on the fire kang suddenly made a strange sound, and the three of them immediately turned their heads to look, and found that Wang Dacai on the fire kang was trembling all over, his face became extremely ugly, his body gradually curled up into a ball, his hands clenched into fists, and soon stopped moving.

Seeing this, Tang Qianlin and Li Yunfan immediately stepped forward, Tang Qianlin took a probe and found that Wang Dacai was no longer breathing, and his pulse stopped beating when he felt it again, and his pulse was stiff.

At this moment, Li Yunfan suddenly dragged Tang Qianlin away, pointed to Wang Dacai's body and said, "Look." ”

Wang Dacai's body began to emit white smoke, slowly rising like steam.

He Chenxue took a step back and looked at it in surprise, not knowing what was happening.

Tang Qianlin realized something: "Smoke pills! ”

After speaking, Tang Qianlin stepped forward, popped out the hidden phoenix blade, and directly cut open Wang Dacai's stomach, and then found that the internal organs in his body were being burned, gradually carbonized in front of the eyes of the three of them, but he didn't see any open flames burning in his body.

"Sure enough, it's a smoke pill." Tang Qianlin raised his eyes and looked at He Chenxue, "The old turtle just said that it was out of stock yesterday, where did the cigarette paste and pills that arrived today come from?" ”

He Chenxue hurriedly shouted outside: "Old turtle! ”

The old turtle hurriedly came in, and after seeing Wang Dacai's dissected body, he was directly dumbfounded, not knowing what happened.

He Chenxue stepped forward and said, "Old turtle, where are the new goods that have arrived?" Did all the smokers who died in the smoke house today use new products? ”

The old turtle didn't listen to what He Chenxue said at all, just stared at Wang Dacai's corpse.

He Chenxue raised his hand and slapped the old turtle, the old turtle came back to his senses, He Chenxue asked again, and the old turtle replied: "The new goods are locked in the warehouse, and after the new goods arrive today, they are indeed given to the smokers." ”

Tang Qianlin asked: "Where did the new goods come from?" ”

The old turtle glanced at He Chenxue and replied ambiguously: "It's the same as before." ”

Tang Qianlin said to He Chenxue: "Take me to the warehouse." ”

He Chenxue hesitated and said, "Not for the time being." ”

Tang Qianlin asked, "Why?" You can also see it, it's the problem of cigarette pills and cigarette paste! ”

He Chenxue insisted: "No, no, no!" You wait here first. ”

Saying that, He Chenxue led the old turtle to leave first, and when Tang Qianlin and Li Yunfan were about to go out with them, they were directly stopped by the disciples of the Eight Phases Sect at the door.

Tang Qianlin wanted to make a move, but was stopped by Li Yunfan: "Forget it, don't be impulsive with Baxiangmen, it's not good to explain to Director Guan when you go back." ”

In desperation, the two had to return to Wang Dacai's corpse.

Tang Qianlin said: "Now it can be determined that maybe it is a poison, or something similar, this kind of thing will only happen when it enters the human body, and the people on the 016 special train will undoubtedly die like this." ”

Li Yunfan shook his head and said, "Is it also opium smoking?" ”

Tang Qianlin said: "Maybe it's opium, maybe it's food, do you know that there are a lot of opium smokers in the government?" ”

"There are quite a lot, now in the Northeast, there are three kinds of drugs that are more popular, the first is opium, the second is morphine, and the third is a new type of thing, called heroine, but strictly speaking, morphine and heroine belong to the opium category." Li Yunfan explained, "Morphine is an extract of opium, while heroine needs to be chemically synthesized in addition to extraction. ”

At that time, the raw materials of opium came from Rehe Province, Hung Yen West Province, Guannai Shanxi Province, North Korea and Iran.

At that time, the area of opium poppy cultivation in Rehe Province and Hung Yen West Province was about 1 million mu, and the amount of opium collected according to the regulations should be about 16 million taels, but the actual amount collected was far from the requirement, so it was purchased from the North Korean side and also from Iran through Mitsui & Co.

After the opium was purchased, except for a part of it that was stored and ready to be sold on the international market, most of it was sent to the three opium manufacturing factories in Fengtian, Tieling, and Suihua, where it was processed into opium tobacco paste and morphine, and then distributed to various places by the Puppet Manchurian Anti-Smoking Bureau, and sold to smokers by the tobacco houses in various places.

At that time, the retail opium tobacco paste was divided into two types: the cigarette was allowed to take home to smoke, and the smoking was only allowed to be smoked in tobacco houses and designated tobacco houses.

The opium factory is generally guarded by the local security bureau and the joint police department and the Manchukuo National Defense Force, and is divided into four workshops - the specification workshop, the boiling workshop, the tobacco workshop, and the packaging workshop.

The specification workshop is responsible for removing and packaging the imported opium and sending it to the boiling workshop. Soybeans and wheat are processed into powders and mixed with the residue after morphine is made, and then the packaged ones are sent to the tobacco factory, which is called opium material.

The boiling workshop cuts the opium into strips, puts it into a copper pot and injects it into water to dissolve, and then filters it and then boils it, and then adds the opium material in the ratio of eight to two or seven to three, and it is made into opium smoke paste.

At that time, the opium paste of the puppet Manchurian was divided into three types: "Fu ointment", "Lu ointment" and "Shou ointment" according to the quality of the paste.

"The factories of morphine and hae-loin are all secret, and even the Security Bureau doesn't know where they are, and they are all directly guarded by the Kwantung Army, and because of the high processing technology, they are all Japanese from top to bottom, and I heard that there are also a small number of Koreans." Li Yunfan looked at the corpse and said, "The Japanese have established a huge poison network in the northeast, and our Anti-Japanese Federation has attacked the factories in it, but it has not succeeded, and the defense is too tight." ”

After listening to Li Yunfan's story, Tang Qianlin affirmed: "We don't need to start from the source, if someone poisons or mixes other things at the source, more than these 32 people will die, and this matter should have nothing to do with the Japanese, the Japanese will not destroy their own cash cow." ”

Li Yunfan said: "Looking at the situation of the case, it should be the same as you speculated, Guan Xinyue's death was done by the Japanese, and the Japanese are studying how this kind of thing kills people, but they can't come forward directly, so they sent us to investigate." ”

Tang Qianlin sat on the earthen kang, thought for a while, and said: "The second case we have to delete from the entire case, don't leave it alone for the time being, this can avoid trouble, at least let Guan Beihe see that we won't intend to investigate him, the so-called county officials are not as good as the current management, it is better for Guan Beihe, and it is also good for us." ”

Li Yunfan smiled: "I always thought that you were not interested in these people's sophistication, but I didn't expect you to understand it too." ”

Tang Qianlin said: "Don't forget, I used to stay in the Northern Expeditionary Army, and I also understand those things in the officialdom, I just feel troublesome, so I don't want to be in it." ”

Li Yunfan nodded: "You go on." ”

"In all three cases, looking at it now, the cause of death is the same, this is the only place that is the same, but the deceased have nothing in common." Tang Qianlin analyzed, "Villagers, puppet Manchurian officials, and big smokers can't be connected at all, and the only one that makes me feel that there is a breakthrough is your classmate Zhang Liankai." ”

Why was Zhang Liankai left at the scene back then? Why didn't he die? Where did he come from?

If you figure out these three questions, you may be able to figure everything out.