Li Yan forced his composure, and at the same time pretended to inadvertently glance at a few nearby tabletops: Fortunately, except for the diners who were gluttonous, there seemed to be no other abnormalities.

Perhaps seeing the change in the other party's mentality, Bai Baoyuan slightly tilted his head towards Li Yan, lowered his voice and said: "Manager Li, please don't worry, although our store is a mixed bag, I am still an upright Chinese." ”

Seeing that the shopkeeper of the restaurant put on such a posture and his words contained a gesture of goodwill, the male lieutenant of the military commander suddenly felt a sigh of relief, he laughed a little contrivedly, and responded vaguely: "The white shopkeeper can do such a big deal in Wencheng, naturally he will not be an idle person!" ”

Bai Baoyuan was stunned for a moment, and felt that the words between each other were not speculative, so he retracted his forward posture and sat up straight in the chair again, with a sophisticated expression on his face: "Manager Li speaks like this, it is clear that he does not take Bai as a friend." Okay, I won't bother much, I'll go to the back kitchen and serve you food. As he spoke, he got up.

Li Yan listened to Bai Baoyuan's words, but his mind had quickly turned several times, he thought: As soon as this white shopkeeper came up, he asked Wang Suihua if she was okay, and he had obviously seen Zhou Yi and Wang Suihua come to the restaurant to order takeout; Could it be that this person actually knows Zhou Yi's whereabouts? He also deliberately emphasized the "upright Chinese", as if to imply: he has something to do with the Japanese!

said that it was too late, and before the butt of the restaurant shopkeeper was allowed to leave the seat, Li Yan stretched out his hand and pressed one of the other party's arms lightly but resolutely: "Don't get me wrong, you and I are familiar at first sight, I think your face should be older than me, if you don't dislike it, the younger brother will be commensurate with the elder brother." ”

Bai Baoyuan really continued to sit still and did not move, and at the same time asked with a smile: "Dare to ask Brother Li what he commands?" ”

Li Yan hesitated for a second, and said carefully: "Don't hide it from Brother Bai, I just came back from Taiyuan with Manager Wang and contacted a batch of foreign goods to Wencheng. But when I came back this time, an employee who stayed in Wencheng to take care of the company's goods was missing—the woman who had just come to the restaurant with our Manager Wang. I wonder if Brother Bai has seen her in the past few days? ”

This time, it was the turn of the restaurant shopkeeper to be surprised: it turned out that this group of men and women didn't know that their female companion had an accident! Is it possible? Are you pretending not to know? Bai Baoyuan thought to himself: That woman was on the street outside her restaurant that night, and almost half of Wencheng heard the gunshots, and I am not afraid to tell you! So, he continued to lower his voice and told the story of Zhou Yi's death that night. While telling, he did not forget to carefully observe the changes in Li Yan's expression.

The male lieutenant of the military commander was like being empowered by a basin of snow water for thirty-nine days at this moment, and his whole body became cold: Zhou Yi, Sister Zhou, has actually died! His breathing began to rapid, but he had to try to suppress his emotions. It wasn't until Bai Baoyuan finished speaking that Li Yan reluctantly asked: "Brother Bai is sure that he didn't see the wrong person?" The woman who was killed was really the woman who came to the restaurant with our Manager Wang? ”

"It's true, when the gun went off, we all rushed out to watch the excitement, and I was not even three feet away from the head of Meng who shot at that time. I can see the woman's face so well. ”

"That Meng head is what you said, the captain of the Japanese secret service team?"

"That's right, it's him, he fired both shots, the first shot knocked down the woman, and he stepped forward and made up the second shot."

Bai Baoyuan deliberately described Meng Longsheng's situation in great detail, this new special service captain is currently a great threat to the big bosses in Guanmen Mountain, and he also harasses the restaurant business from time to time, so he might as well make more enemies, if he can get rid of it with the hands of others, it is a good policy. Unexpectedly, after saying all this, Bai Baoyuan was surprised to find that Li Yan, who was sitting opposite, looked very calm.

"Brother Li, how could anyone among your employees offend the Japanese? It's still a woman. ”

The restaurant shopkeeper, who was not reconciled, simply picked out the topic and tested how Li Yan would deal with it.

"I don't know! This woman was found by us from the countryside, and because of her bright mind and quick hands and feet, we hired her to look after the goods for the company; has always behaved decently; Who knew that this time we went to Taiyuan, and when we came back, she was gone. If Brother Bai hadn't happened to see it, who would have thought that she would get involved with the Japanese and lose her life! ”

Bai Baoyuan didn't say anything, stared at Li Yan with a solemn face for a while, and saw that the other party said it in a slight, so he didn't ask any more questions, sighed and said: "In these years, human life is not more valuable than ants on the ground." I hope this dead woman will not be implicated in your number. ”

Li Yan nodded vigorously with a sad face: "I'm also worried about this, Brother Bai!" To tell you the truth, the foreign goods made by our company mainly come from Beiping, Tianjin and Taiyuan, and many of them have to rely on the relationship with the Japanese to work. If you offend the Japanese, I am afraid that it will be difficult to do business in the future. ”

Looking at Li Yan, who was dressed in fine clothes and fine food in front of him, the shopkeeper of the restaurant couldn't help but be a little excited: maybe he was blindsided, this boy-like figure is unlikely to have anything to do with anti-Japanese elements; The woman who was beaten to death by Meng Longsheng may really just be hired by this company to see the goods, but they don't know her true identity.

In the following time, Bai Baoyuan stayed at the counter on the first floor diagonally facing the door of the restaurant, and under the cover of a row of huge wine urns placed on the counter, he looked out from time to time through the gap between the wine urns and observed Li Yan eating and drinking alone in a corner. Seeing that he really ate the wine and food he had just ordered, packed some cooked food, and finally left through the back door with a full burp.

Bai Baoyuan quietly followed Li Yan out the back door, and the shopkeeper of the restaurant saw that this deputy manager Li was riding a bicycle and carrying a large package, and rode away slowly and leisurely - where was their car? The shelf on the back of the bicycle can't be the foreign goods he said were sent from Taiyuan, right? Did they come back on their bikes from Taiyuan, hundreds of miles away?

With all kinds of incomprehensible questions, Bai Baoyuan re-entered the back door of the restaurant.

Li Yan made a big circle on the streets of Wencheng, and after finding no abnormalities, he rode back to No. 1 Yangliu Lane in the north of the city.

The Second Intelligence Group of the Shanxi Station of the Military Command immediately convened an emergency meeting.

When relaying the scene of Zhou Yi's heroic martyrdom, Li Yan cried several times, and during the time period in Taiyuan, Zhou Yi used to take care of Li Yan who was single like the eldest sister; Although Lao Liu has just joined the second intelligence group, since Wang Suihua led people to the front line of Nantongpu Road, it was Zhou Yi's appearance every other day that made the lonely and frightened radio director feel comfort and warmth, so he also shed tears and had to take off his glasses to wipe them.

But what feels more broken is Wang Suihua, who is calm on the surface. In the second intelligence group, Zhou Yi and Wang Suihua have cooperated for the longest time, and before Li Yan appeared, this middle-aged female spy was almost the right-hand man of the female major of the military commander. At the beginning of the Shanxi Anti-Japanese War, the two fought side by side on the Datong and Yanggao lines on Tongpu Road in the north, spying on the intelligence of the Japanese Itagaki Division and the forward of the Kwantung Army. At that time, the second intelligence group of the Shanxi Station of the Military Command had not yet been established.

Wang Suihua listened to Li Yan's story expressionlessly. Seeing the two big men in tears on the side, the female major of the military commander did not show her usual disdain and disgust. She just sat quietly on the mahogany chair, quietly waiting for the two subordinates of different ages to complete the catharsis of grief:

Sadness strikes like a tide, but it must also recede like a tide - sadness cannot replace fighting, and the sacrifice of comrades cannot only be sacrificed by sadness, but also comforted by action!

The military commander took out the unfinished bottle of English whiskey, filled a carved wine glass, and slowly spilled it on the ground.

"Now for the meeting."

With the wine glass in place, she gave the order in a calm tone.

This emergency response meeting of the second intelligence group analyzed the sudden change of the situation from several aspects.

First of all, Zhou Yi died on the way to be chased by Japanese plainclothes, apparently having revealed his identity before that; However, she was shot and killed before she was arrested, which may mean that the Japanese did not obtain information from her about the second intelligence group of the Shanxi station; What was once a critical situation now appears to be relatively safe.

Secondly, Zhou Yi's usual tasks in the freight yard of the railway station are not dangerous, but she only uses her identity as a miscellaneous servant to observe the movements of the Japanese troops at the station and on the railway line (the focus is on searching for the strange Japanese military column), but her identity was exposed, and it should have been a temporary accident, forcing Zhou Yi to take a risk, causing Xingzang to be discovered by Japanese spies; Then this unexpected situation must continue to be investigated.

Third, on the night of Zhou Yi's accident, she was supposed to go to the Nanyang Hotel as planned to inform Lao Liu of the hostile situation at the station and the railway line in the past two days, and at the same time cover the radio station director to start the machine and send a report to Shanxi Station. However, the place where she died that night turned out to be near the Dongcheng Baoyuan Restaurant, which was far away from the Nanyang Hotel, either because she found valuable information there, or because she had realized that her identity had been exposed, and deliberately lured the Japanese spies who were chasing her away from the Nanyang Hotel.

Fourth, it is still difficult to predict whether the white shopkeeper of Baoyuan Restaurant will be friend or foe. From his conversation with Li Yan today, it is difficult to judge this person's political position. And the various explanations that Li Yan made at that time may not really be able to make the other party believe. Based on this, Baoyuan Restaurant is currently not allowed to go again for a period of time. Moreover, you must be prepared to be betrayed by the shopkeeper of this restaurant, and if necessary, you can consider getting rid of him.

Fifth, the Japanese secret service will follow the clues of how Zhou Yi entered the north freight yard of the railway station to further investigate, and Li Yan may be exposed. And Wang Suihua has also had a few records of public trips with Zhou Yi in Wencheng, and we must be wary that some people, especially Japanese puppet spies, have memories of this.

"Will Sister Zhou leave some clues for us? Like hiding in her train station freight yard dormitory? ”

Towards the end of the meeting, Li Yan suddenly asked.

The female major of the military commander shook her head indifferently, she thought that Zhou Yi should have encountered an emergency, so she failed to rush to the Nanyang Hotel as scheduled. And even if she left something valuable in the dormitory before, then the dormitory after her accident had already been turned upside down by the Japanese.

In the end, they decided to immediately telegraph the above situation to Shanxi Station, and the entire second intelligence group temporarily avoided the limelight, hid for a few days, and waited to see what happened.

The Shanxi station did not call back until late after receiving the call, and it seems that it was specially for the second intelligence group to conduct emergency response consultations. Station Commander Zhao Qingwen instructed that in view of the recent sabotage of the brother station by the Japanese secret service, the second intelligence team was allowed to lie dormant in Wencheng for a week to ensure the absolute safety of the organization and personnel; The operation resumed a week later, and until a new mission was issued, the focus was still on the tracking of the "Wind Plan"; But now that you have changed your thinking and plan, don't look ahead.

From the reply from Shanxi Station, Wang Suihua further confirmed his previous judgment: when the entire second war zone is close to falling, the stationmaster no longer attaches so much importance to tracking the "wind plan".

"It's also good, without the sword hanging over our heads, we will act more calmly and rationally. I believe that sooner or later the truth of this mysterious wind plan will be revealed! ”

The female major of the military commander cheered for the only two remaining subordinates at the moment. At this time, she was already thinking about whether to find a way to transfer back Fang Moshu, who was still stranded in Linfen, Nantongpu Road. Linfen fell, the two commanders of the Second War Zone, Yan Xishan and Wei Lihuang, went their separate ways, and the war in Shanxi was almost over, so there was no need to put a single man there.

But-Wang Suihua felt a pain in her heart: when she came back from the Fang Moshu, how could she explain Zhou Yi's sacrifice to him? This loving couple, before the establishment of the second intelligence group, her husband Fang Moshu, who worked in the newspaper, never knew Zhou Yi's true identity, and it was Wang Suihua who encouraged Zhou Yi to pull him into the military command out of work needs, and Fang Moshu, who was born in journalism, performed several missions really remarkably. But in the blink of an eye, less than half a year, this agent couple turned out to be separated by yin and yang!

"That's right," the female major of the military commander suddenly changed her mind, looked at Li Yan and said: "The traitor special team set up by the Japanese in Wencheng, I didn't pay attention to the team composed of a group of ruffians, but this group of animals acted for the tiger and actually killed my comrades, which forced us to face them." The spy captain surnamed Meng, who shot and killed Zhou Yi, must be sanctioned as soon as possible, and this sanction must be publicized and made public. It also allows the people of Wencheng to see the fate of being traitors clearly! ”

When Wang Suihua said this, a layer of murderous aura shrouded her beautiful face.

Li Yan nodded vigorously: "The white shopkeeper of Baoyuan Restaurant is also quite resentful of that Meng head, it is said that this guy has become more and more arrogant since he took refuge in the Japanese, and many famous businesses in the city have now become his strongholds for eating, drinking, and playing for nothing." After a few days, I will feel his trajectory, and it is not difficult to deal with a scoundrel like him; saw an opportunity to get rid of him in one fell swoop. It is also to avenge Sister Zhou! ”