Chapter 41: Suspicion
Black clouds overwhelmed the city, and heavy rain poured down.
Shen Yigong slowly walked into the rain curtain with the gun in his hand, and the rain washed away the blood on his body. He walked back to where his rickshaw had been parked and looked at the gentleman who was waiting for him under the eaves.
ββ¦β¦ I'm sorry. He made a hoarse voice.
The man closed his eyes in agony.
Shen Yigong returned the gun to him: "I didn't find Mr. Xu Ruonong's body, except for the guards, the people who died there were the few I had picked up before." β
"You're hurt." He glanced over Shen Yigong's shoulder. Shen Yigong said: "It's just a dislocation, it's not serious." Where you go next, I'll be with you. β
The other party shook his head and said heavily: "You have done enough, little comrade." Leave the rest to the 'red team'. You go back and recuperate, and I will definitely contact you again if you need anything. β
Shen Yigong didn't want to quit like this: "My hand is fine!" If you know where Mr. Xu is being held, please let me know and I can participate in the rescue operation! β
The other party held his briefcase and was choked up and silent for a while, and after a thousand words, there was only one sentence left: "Thank you." β
Then he hugged Shen Yigong like a brother, left a business card in his palm, turned around and hurriedly walked into the rain curtain. Shen Yigong was a little at a loss and stood under the eaves. He looked up at the apartment that stood quietly in the darkness, then back at the back of the gentleman leaving, and finally at the business card, which had a name and address on it.
"Guofeng-501, No. 361-3, Hankou Road"
Shen Yigong felt very frustrated and walked on the way back. He suddenly realized that on the way back, he had passed by the car escorting Xu Ruonong - the yellow car that was rampaging from the alley, and the left and right curtains were closed and he couldn't see the scene clearly, and now he thought that there was a ghost.
However, Guo Feng left a message, saying that it would be handed over to the "red team" for execution next, what can he be considered in this? He has been with Xu Ruonong for more than three months, and what he has heard and seen will theoretically have more clues. For now, will they be able to find out who Mr. Xu was arrested and where he was taken to the first place? Who leaked secrets in this secret meeting, and who attracted the Politburo spies?
When he went to the downstairs of the apartment where he lived, he was stopped by the administrator, and the uncle was so frightened that he almost called the police when he saw that he was covered in blood, Shen Yigong pressed the phone first with a calm face, and only said: "I'm fine, it's raining today, the road is slippery, and I just fell." β
The uncle's teeth chattered when he spoke: "You, are you really okay?" β
Shen Yigong shook his head, let go of the hand of the telephone under the other party's critical gaze, and walked up the building area with shuffling steps. Leaving the uncle to sit in the communication room, staring at the bloody handprint he left behind, he gasped.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and there was no sign that it was going to stop. Shen Yigong came to the door and raised his left hand to knock on the door a few times, there was a sound of anxious footsteps coming out, Mu Qiuping almost screamed as soon as he opened the door, Shen Yigong squeezed in and covered her mouth, and closed the door.
"Don't scream."
Mu Qiuping held his wrist with trembling hands: "You...... What happened to you? β
"Don't ask so much. Help me get some hot water, I want to take a shower. β
"Good, good! I'll be right away, I'll fetch water for you right away. Mu Qiuping forcibly suppressed the panic in his heart, and was at a loss to pick up the hot water kettle and run towards the bedroom. Shen Yigong leaned against the door frame and slipped down a little and sat on the ground. The blood-stained rain dripped down his body and fell to the ground, staining Mu Qiuping's newly added brown diamond-patterned carpet.
Mu Qiuping ran up and down several times, poured the water in the bathtub and wanted to help him up, but accidentally touched Shen Yi's dislocated right hand, causing the man to snort. She was so frightened that she quickly retracted her hand again: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" β
"It's okay, thank you. I'll just do it myself. β
Mu Qiuping saw him struggle to stand up and walked towards the bathroom, dragging a scarlet water mark on the carpet. She closed the door as soon as she saw him enter the bathroom, still pacing back and forth in the living room. Leng Buding heard a loud wail from the bathroom, and she hurriedly rushed to the door: "What's the matter, Shen Yigong!" β
The man replied to her in a weak voice, "It's okay, I've got my dislocated arm attached." β
Mu Qiuping was about to cry outside the door: "Don't scare me anymore, okay, is it really okay?" Please, don't scare me so much, you know you can trust me and I can help you. β
Shen Yigong adjusted his breathing, and the sudden pain was definitely a lie if it had no effect at all, but after the adjustment came back, what was given to Mu Qiuping was still the same sentence: "I'm fine, don't worry." I'll just take a shower. β
There was no sound outside the bathroom soon, Shen Yigong thought that Mu Qiuping was finally relieved, so he immersed his whole body in the hot water, and the blood stains on his body dissolved in the hot water little by little, and the clear water vapor filled the room. After taking his hand back, all the details and clues slowly gathered in his mind.
Who knows about the residence in Wangdeli? Who have been here and are most likely to betray Mr. Xu Ruonong? Are those people necessarily having a deal with the CIA, and doing it would do no harm to them?
Shen Yigong's first reaction was actually Huo Zuo, and it was difficult for him not to list the other party in the position of the first suspect. At the time of the accident, he had already left Shanghai for Tianjin, and he had been in contact with the Kuomintang.
But the problem is that since Huo Zuo was willing to provide Xu Ruonong with these helps, including asking him to help protect him, why bother to leak secrets at this time?
And who else is there?
Shen Yigong leaned against the bathtub and closed his eyes with some trouble, and the events of the past three months flashed in his mind like a marqueeβa cold face popped up, and he drank "I thought you were a gentleman!" Now these despicable speculations of yours let me know how little you really are! He rushed out the door in a rage.
Shen Yigong wiped the filth off his face, and muttered to himself the person's title: "Xiao Wei." β
When he came out of the bathroom wrapped in a bath towel, there was no one outside the house, and Shen Yigong called Mu Qiuping's name, but heard another man's answer.
"Miss Mu went upstairs, it's too much for you to let a little girl watch such a bloody and terrifying scene."
Shen Yigong stood barefoot on the carpet, listened to the voice and hurriedly looked towards the living room, and exclaimed: "Brother Changyu! β
Cheng Changyu sat at the table with a cane in his hand, looked him up and down at the humid and hot air, and raised his hand to touch the corner of his forehead as a greeting. Shen Yigong was already strange when he saw him appear, and when he heard him call Mu Qiuping, he was even more puzzled: "How did you know Mu Qiuping?" β
Cheng Changyu slapped a business card on the table: "My wife has a film company, and Lao Huo recommended this little girlfriend of yours to her." β
"She's not my girlfriend." Shen Yigong denied it when he picked up the business card. Cheng Changyu shrugged: "I don't know what men think, but women look emotional." You don't have experience with this, but I can see it relatively clearly. β
"Then why did she contact you?" Shen Yigong gave him back his business card. Cheng Changyu replied: "I told her that I was a friend of Mr. Huo. Obviously, seeing you come back covered in blood, she also instinctively went to someone more reliable to ask for help. β
Shen Yigong gave him a look that wasn't very trusting.
Cheng Changyu smiled, and when he saw this, he had no choice but to say frankly: "Okay, it was Lao Huo who specially told me before leaving, you can help at any time if something happens here." I contacted this little girl privately and asked her to call me as soon as she found out what had happened to you. β
This reason is much more credible.
Shen Yigong wrapped a jacket and sat down at the table. He crossed his hands with visible tension. Cheng Changyu twisted his mustache: "Obviously, you have something to say to me." β
The man looked up at him: "Huo Zuo clearly asked you to help me at any time?" β
"Then can there be a fake? Although I was surprised when I heard it. β
"Why?"
"What?"
"I don't understand...... He, what the hell is he doing here. β
"Ah, you ask me why." The playful expression on Cheng Changyu's face, which he always loved to hang on, faded little by little, and then was replaced by a kind of ridicule or even disdain, "I also want to know what kind of qualification a guy who once betrayed him is to make him so concerned about life and death." β
Shen Yigong subconsciously touched the tip of his nose.
"You know, I thought it was strange that Lao Huo kept your life at first. Frankly speaking, Shen Yigong - you are a person who is not enough for me. Cheng Changyu leaned on the table and said, "The first time we saw you, you were dirty and kneeling on the ground, begging Huo Zuo, begging him to help you, teach you kung fu, and take you as an apprentice." You're worse than a wagging dog on the street. He's done enough good things to you, isn't it? How do you repay him! β
"If you're here to insult me, you can leave."
Cheng Changyu glanced at him with contempt: "I shouldn't have stopped Lao Huo at the farmers' market, and it wouldn't be so much trouble to just let him beat you to death there." But it's just unthinkable - three years later, he's still going to let me help you. β
Shen Yigong felt inexplicably weak. He couldn't tell where that sentiment came from.
"I don't regret what I did when the market was burned." He looked at Cheng Changyu in his eyes, "I can understand if I want to be a master, but for me, no matter how much I seek fame and fortune, I shouldn't attack innocent people." I know that no one burned to death that night, but this fire destroyed the efforts and hopes of too many people in the shantytown. β
"It's great!" Cheng Changyu sneered, "But do you owe others to pay off, so dare to be so angry." β
"I owe Huo Zuo a life, maybe I will never pay it back, but I owe him, and what I want to do, what I don't want to do, I know it from the bottom of my heart."
Cheng Changyu rolled his eyes: "Okay, okay, keep these words for your eldest brother, don't force me here." Lao Tzu reads a lot of books and knows what a righteous gentleman is and what a villain is. I'm just a complete villain, and the bad stuff is going to be in my life. β
Hearing him say this, Shen Yigong smiled instead: "Since you already want to be a bad guy, what are you doing to me?" β
"Do you want me?" Cheng Changyu knocked on the ground with a cane, "Tell me, what happened tonight, what do you need me to help you with." After all, to investigate the problems within the Politburo, it is useless to rely on those fools who work underground. β