Old Tang looked at the door of the archive room with some confusion, he remembered that he should have locked it, why did he open it with a twist? Didn't you remember by mistake and didn't lock it? Oh, that's a mistake, and next time you have to remember it in this book, and you can't forget it.

This archive room is actually not taken care of, and basically no one goes to it at ordinary times, not because the head of the bureau does not work, but because the files stored in this archive room are all left by the police station during the Republic of China.

But this bureau has a spiritual pillar, not the director but the old Tang of the Criminal Investigation Division. He is considered an old public security officer, he was in the criminal investigation team before the liberation, how many years have he been, and he finally survived until the section chief turned out that the whole country was liberated and the communist system was implemented, and Lao Tang thought he was finished. didn't expect that he was not affected at all, but still blocked the head of the Criminal Investigation Section, and even his salary did not change, so he was more serious about handling the case with a solid heart, and at the beginning of liberation, he cracked several big cases in a row, and the whole bureau followed the light after making great achievements, which is what happened.

The reason why Lao Tang was able to solve many big cases that others couldn't think of was not because of good luck or any extraordinary talent, but because he was willing to put in more energy. The archives are all old materials, useless to others, but to the old Tang that are all treasures, when he is fine, he nests in the archives room rummaging through the information, afraid of forgetting jì with a small book, and writes down what he thinks, although it seems that he is very leisurely, but in fact, he is thinking about big things.

The two met in the archives, Wu Qi was looking through the previous files about the Hu bandits, and Lao Tang pushed the door into the house, or Wu Qi greeted him first and said, "Hello Section Chief Tang." ”

Old Tang blinked his eyes a few times, and wanted to withdraw and wait for Wu Qi to come back when he was away, but he heard Wu Qi speak. He raised his face and replied with a smile: "You are busy first, and I will come back later." ”

But Wu Qi put down the file bag and said, "Section Chief Tang can come in and say something if it's convenient, I have something I want to ask you." ”

As soon as he heard that he had something to ask, Old Tang was stunned for a moment and then came in again, and closed the door with his hand. After walking to Wu Qi's side, he looked at the dust everywhere. Old Tang said a little embarrassed: "No one usually comes to this place, so it's a little gray, if you don't like dirty and don't want to do it, you can ask me directly, I have seen a lot of files, and I can remember a lot." ”

Wu Qi shook his head and said with a smile: "Section Chief Tang, you don't have to be so polite with me, it's not because I'm delicate and can't get a little dust, but because there are too many and I really don't know where to start." Trouble. ”

Old Tang's expression suddenly changed, and he became a little enthusiastic, he took the file that Wu Qi was looking at just now, and looked down at the label on it: "1920-1945, bandit." This means that the files of the people who have been bandits in the mountains over the years have been captured and recorded, but they are all places of origin and the like, and they do not have their current place of residence, so if you want to find the people above, it will not be of much use.

"You're looking for a beard?" Old Tang looked at Wu Qi suspiciously. I thought he was here to investigate some big case, and what could make the director tremble must at least have something to do with the national level. What kind of arms and equipment and weapons, this beard is also a bandit, to be honest, it's nothing, even if he was forced to go up the mountain by starvation before, it is impossible to cause such a big movement.

Wu Qi nodded and said, "Section Chief Tang, there are some things that I can't talk to you about. But it does have something to do with this beard, I need to find a bandit leader back then, nicknamed a pot of rotten. ”

But unexpectedly, this sentence caused Old Tang to laugh a few times, and when he saw Old Tang put down the file, he raised his eyes and looked at the file cabinets in front of him and chuckled and said, "It seems that you don't know too much!" ”

"Section Chief Tang. What does that mean? Wu Qihui asked.

Lao Tang tapped the file bag he had just taken with his hand and said, "Don't think about it, I'm not targeting you, saying that you don't understand because you just said that the bandit leader is a pot of rotten." This is not someone's nickname, but the black word of the beard, and the meaning of a pot of rotten is actually a surname, indicating that this bearded surname is Li, and he may be the king of the mountain. ”

Wu Qi was slightly surprised, when he came here before, he saw that this Section Chief Tang had some skills, but he didn't expect that this person knew a lot of things, and he actually knew the black words of this Northeast beard, maybe he could help himself a little.

Everyone has their own strengths, when Wu Qi had something to ask for, Lao Tang obviously did not have the previous hostility, but told him about this beard, and also knew who Wu Qi wanted to find through a name left by Wu Qi that was not a nickname, and then pulled out a very thin paper bag at the height of the filing cabinet, and there were only a few pieces of paper in it, but they were all yellow paper from the old days, and the notes on it recounted the bizarre encounters of a group of bandits back then.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, there was a group of beards in Changbai Mountain, Jilin, nearly 100 people, all of whom carried big knives, and some people carried that kind of kitchen knife, and some people jokingly called them kitchen knife groups. But this gang of beards is particularly vicious, often go out of the mountains to rob the property and livestock of the surrounding villages, and the slightest resistance will be hacked to death on the spot, not used to the problem is particularly ruthless, and the people nearby talk about the color change and avoid it.

At that time, the country was turbulent and very chaotic everywhere, coupled with the fierceness of the beard, everything was exposed, and it was always impossible to manage it when he set up a cottage as the emperor of the soil. But most of the beards are poor people who can't eat or have no land at home, and if they don't rebel and become beards, they will starve to death, and people will basically do anything to survive.

In fact, this beard in the Northeast does not have the appearance of bandits robbing houses as we imagined, there are many beards who are just gangs of three or two, hiding in the mountains and having to rely on picking up firewood to keep warm, it is easy to eat, go directly down the mountain and go to a person's house casually, three or two people do not need to talk after entering the house, sit on the hot kang head, this family will understand, and begin to steam cakes with noodles.

At that time, the white flour millet was more expensive, and the most I ate was bud rice paste, to put it bluntly, the corn kernels were dried and crushed, and then the porridge was boiled and drunk, and the steamed cakes could also be crushed and eaten finely.

The beards came into the house to eat, and they didn't need to say anything, so they could leave when they were full. But sometimes it's unlucky, just after steaming a pot of cakes to let the beard eat and leave, then another group comes, and they have to re-steam the cakes, and there are not many in total, and the beard is basically eaten up, and it is really not easy. But it's all good, at least these beards abide by the rules and don't go directly to the common people, but the kitchen knife group is different, there are many of them who can't say that they live by eating cakes, they have to have money to eat good, and they have to have a bright woman to play. Pan Liang is a black dialect, which means that the face is good-looking, and the pan Liang Tiaoshun is from the black dialect. So the good-looking girls were snatched away, and if they were not honest, they were stripped off on the spot, and then their hair, eyebrows, ears and ears were cut off, and this person was wasted, anyway, they could do whatever they wanted, and no one cared.

said that this group of people called the beard of the kitchen knife group, they called themselves "the bottom of the touch of the sky" Their bandit leader is a foot door, it sounds like it has nothing to do with a pot of rotten, but in the black language, the meaning of these two words is the same, that is, the surname Li, the most important thing is that this group of people once appeared within a hundred miles north of Siping, and there was one thing that happened

"Foggy Country."

Old Tang spoke slowly, but as soon as he said the last two words, Wu Qi said them, and he was stunned for a long time without reflecting it. Because this incident was discovered when he was looking through the old archives not long ago, after visiting, he learned about the situation from the oral accounts of some old people, and the most suspenseful and unreasonable thing they said was the foggy town.

"How do you know?" Old Tang looked at Wu Qi with some surprise, looking at his young face, he didn't know what to think.

Wu Qi smiled and took the files in Lao Tang's hand, took them out and spread them on the table, just stood on the side of the table and looked at them, and after looking at them for a while, he raised his face and said to Lao Tang: "I came here for this foggy country!" ”

When Lao Tang heard Wu Qi's words, he immediately let out a sigh of relief, shook his head and said to himself: "I knew that you were not small, and it was definitely not for any trivial matter, but I didn't expect it to be this, I regretted asking a little, Comrade Wu Qilian, how did you ask me?" ”

"How can you say that, Section Chief Tang? I need your help very much at the moment, and I can see that you don't welcome me, understandably. You're a smart person, I'm a dead-eyed person, we can match each other, as long as this matter is solved, then I can leave. Wu Qi turned his head to look at Old Tang.

Old Tang looked at Wu Qi, and then looked down at the yellowed papers, hesitated for a moment, and then he relaxed, dragged the chair from under the table, and didn't care that Wu Qi sat on the chair himself, squeezing out a lot of dust, but he had no scruples, first lit a cigarette for himself, and then took out a small book from his arms and opened a few pages while spitting, raised his eyes and said to Wu Qi: "What does Wu Qi know about the mud statue, ask!" The director has spoken, and I absolutely cooperate! ”

Wu Qi didn't speak directly, but smiled and turned around and walked to the window, wiped the thick dust on the glass, looked at the houses behind the building and the railroad tracks passing through, it happened that at this time there was a train transporting coal moving quickly, when the last carriage disappeared out of the window, Wu Qi saw his reflection on the glass, and suddenly laughed, leading the old Tang to look at him strangely.

"Comrade Wu Qilian, what's wrong with you?" Old Tang asked suspiciously.

Wu Qi turned around and sat on the windowsill, and said calmly: "Suddenly I thought of an old man, it's nothing, Section Chief Tang, you don't have to be so polite, I'm much younger than you, I should call you Brother Tang, you can just call me Xiao Qi, my brothers all call me that." Brother Tang, I can see that you know a lot of things, can you tell me about the foggy country? (To be continued......)