Late at night, snow falls on Xinjing.

Tianguang Road coffin shop. Outside the gate, two blood-red lanterns fluttered in the wind, and each lantern had the word "Xiao" written in black script.

In the courtyard were eight coffins that had only been painted a few days ago, and the snowflakes fell on them and melted in an instant.

This is a new liaison station launched by Nalan Songhan. The courtyard was seldom visited, and it was even more terrifying at night.

In the hall, Nalan Songhan was drinking tea around the charcoal brazier. Lu Liujin, Long Sihai, Ma Chaozhen, Jin Mingcheng, Li Yuan, Zhou Fu and others stood aside.

Long Sihai was very worried and said: "Third Master, our Lu Ye's injury is not serious, if it doesn't work, let him go home and raise it, this is in the hospital every day, and he can't rest." ”

Nalan said: "You said it lightly, the injury has to be a serious injury, or it will be for nothing to replace the old Yu's injury, this momentum, understand?" The more time he spent in the hospital, the more distressed he became, and the closer his feelings became, and you were discharged from the hospital less than two days after you were admitted to the hospital, so how can it work? In the past few days, you little brother has done a good job, it turns out that my brother Lu has used you very easily, thanks to the four seas, it seems that six catties have taken you to experience well. It's better for me to come tonight than Lu Li, you remember one thing, do whatever you want, don't ask if you don't dare to ask, keep your mouth strict, your eyes sharp, you know? ”

"Third master, you are our father, without you, how can we be today, you can rest assured, we will not be on an errand." Li Yuan hurriedly said.

"Alright, we'll go and meet the owner of this pharmacy in a moment, don't take off his hood, and don't talk to me, I'll just listen. As for how to ask, Zhou Buqi can handle it accurately, Yun Xian and Qianxun, the two of you are here to observe the movement, don't be careless, and call the police in time if there is an accident. ”

Chen Yunxian is a small-eyed, small-man young man, very thin, but very likable, known as the "Holy Hand Divine Ape", he smiled and said, "My third master, you can rest assured." I just looked at Qianxun and didn't let him be lazy. ”

Zhao Qianxun is two years older than Chen Yunxian, a burly strong man, with a dark face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and two dice in his hand, "Little hairy boy, when did your brother and I sleep when we were doing business?" Except for the time I went to Tonghua to transport mountain ginseng, wasn't it because I was tired from driving the carriage for three days? ”

Nalan smiled and said, "We don't have time to listen to your verbal fights, so we are all in good spirits." As he spoke, he stood up and glanced at the Emperor Guan shrine on the west side of the hall.

This Guan Gong statue is made of copper, and the folds of the incense have been smoked for many years to be dark in color, and the protrusions are glowing yellow. Long Sihai stepped forward and turned the big knife in Guan Gong's hand twice, and saw that the ebony carved shrine was moved to the right side along with the bottom cabinet "Gazzi -----", revealing a small door that only allowed one person to pass through, and the six catties led to push open the small door, and then the group hugged Nalan and walked in. Then, the shrine was returned to its original place.

Lu Liujin led everyone into the small door, and went down the steps to the end, which was a basement the size of one and a half rooms. There are three oil lamps lit in the room, and on the left is a large table 2 meters long and 1.5 meters wide, on which some tools for repairing firearms are placed, or on the side is a 2 meter high and 3 meter long cabinet with no doors and some carpentry tools scattered on it. In front of the cabinet against the wall was a basin with an iron pillar beside it, and in front of it was a charcoal brazier; On the pillar was a man with a black hood on his head and a pleated robe of gray cloth.

"Goldfinger" Zhou Bu first picked up an iron rod and stabbed it at the tied man, "I said this shopkeeper, you have been here for a long time, what is your name?" Do you know why you were invited? ”

The kidnapped man was obviously tired, and it was late at night, and he was "whining---- weakly"

"Xingtan Peter Pan" Jin Mingcheng glared at Zhou Fu with his eyes, stepped forward and put his hand into the cloth bag on the man's head, and took out the socks stuffed in his mouth.

The other people standing on the side almost burst out laughing.

The man panted vigorously, "My mother, my master, what's wrong, my name is Wang Sanqi, I usually sell my medicine honestly, don't invite disasters, don't cause trouble, why did you kidnap me?" Please, take good care of me, let me out, I still have a 70-year-old mother at home. ”

Zhou Bu laughed, "Can you stop talking nonsense?" You're almost in your early 60s, your mother is only 70, when did your mother give birth to you? ”

"That---- that, my mother will be 80. Leave me alone. ”

Zhou Bu was so angry that he was happy, "Ah, how old is your mother's relationship, it's not your grandpa and grandma who say it, how old is you when you say it?" Can you be sincere? Affordable? ”

"Master, you want money, how much do you want, Sanqi, I'll write a note immediately and let the family take it, please let me go, I haven't lived enough."

"You're a softbone. Tonight, the master will not go around the bay with you, you must explain truthfully, if there is half a lie, your lord will Ling Chi Ling Chi, what is Ling Chi know? It is to strip you naked, and use a knife to cut off the flesh on your body one by one until you breathe. You can do what you want. ”

"Master, what are you asking me to recruit?"

"Grandpa is a member of the Concord Volunteer Team, let me ask you, why do you always stare at the "Missing Person Notice" on the bulletin board opposite your pharmacy during the day?"

"I didn't stare at it, so I don't know who posted it, I can't take a look?"

"You don't talk about it, that's the bait put by our Fenggong team to trap anti-Manchu anti-Japanese elements, take a look? By whom? Since that notice was posted there, your eyes have never left, my brothers have seen it very clearly, if you are not honest, the master will give you a big punishment. ”

"Master, I really don't know anything, did your people misunderstand me?"

"Misunderstood you? Well, today I misunderstood again, I mistook you for being dishonest. As he spoke, he took out a soldering iron from the charcoal brazier and pointed it to the fingertips of the pharmacy shopkeeper, and heard this man scream, "Ah------ my master, it hurts!" ”

"Where is this, I will rip off my pants for a while, and burn your life, and you will be wasted, I let you not even have the eyes to pee, suffocate you, anyway, it is useless to keep you. Recruit or not? ”

"Master, I'm a small businessman, what can I know? There's really not much to say. ”

"In the middle of the night, I don't bother to grind with you, brothers, there is a shortage of work in the palace these days, so you picked up this old guy's pants for me."

Lu Liujin and Long Sihai held back a smile, stepped forward to untie the shopkeeper's trouser belt, and thought, this week is really bad.

"Ah, master, I'll move, I'll move, don't burn me." By this time, there was a puddle of urine under his feet.

"You mean, this soldering iron is cold for a while, and I have to heat it in the brazier again, or it won't be cleaned, but what should I do?"

"I recruit, I recruit. ----- little old man has no ability, just open a small pharmacy to make a living, five days ago, Gu Maolin and Captain Hou Sangai of the Special Service Section of the National Police Agency found me, who can they afford to mess with? Tell me that if there is a notice of 'second brother, our mother is sick, let you go home quickly' is posted, I will report to them immediately, and then I heard that Hou Sangai is dead, I can't find him, and I haven't had time to go to the police department to report Gu Maolin, so I asked my lord to get me out. ”

"Ah, what else did Gu Maolin say?"

"They also said that if they saw someone take down the notice, they would go up to me and tell them where the man was going, and that if I told outsiders about it, they would kill my whole family."

"What else do you have to explain? If you dare to hide it, I will not only kill your whole family, but I will make you die even worse. Do you know what our volunteer service team does? ”

"I don't know, I heard that the Concord will be the office of the Japanese Taijun."

"Then tell you, we are under the order of the Japanese Taijun in Xinjing, supervising the execution of these military and police gendarins, what Hou Sanchang, what Gu Maolin, all of them are small roles, small shrimps, they don't work hard, they are not reliable, Lao Tzu will take Taijun's saber and chop them alive, do you understand?"

"Little Lao'er understands. Please let me go, I really don't know anything else. ”

Wang Sanqi's legs were trembling all the time.

Zhou Hao seemed to have a lot of things to do, and said to Wang Sanqi: "That's it for today, just send you a bean at dawn, you still have something to do." ”

"Master, don't, I don't eat any beans, please let me go back."

In fact, Zhou Can't afford to worry about them, it will be too long, and it will be difficult to arouse Gu Maolin's suspicion. But he still has to make a breakthrough.

"I said Sanqi, what can compare to keeping you shut up forever, I have peace of mind, Lao Tzu doesn't ask any of them to interfere with my case, and I don't want anyone to go to Taijun to sue me for my black state. The only best way is for you to die for your country. ”

"Don't ----- don't, master, the little old man told you everything, it doesn't matter, if you have something to arrange, the little one will also let you make meritorious contributions, as long as you save my life, the little old man will definitely tie the grass ring, the true information answers."

"Is that true? At first glance, you know that you are an old fritter. If you have to, I really want to do something that will make you and me feel better. ”

"Oh, that's good, it's better to let the little old man do something for you than to let me eat beans."

"In this way, in order not to make Gu Maolin, the king of eight lambs, suspicious, the lord can send you home overnight, but you have to listen well, someone will come to sell clams to you tomorrow morning, and he will give you a note, whatever is written on it, you can do it, don't care about anything else, you will keep you safe. What do you think? ”

"Okay, great, master, your righteous and brave service team is really a benevolent and heroic army."

"Nothing else, that's all. Someone came and stuffed the socks back on. I said Sanqi, your family is surrounded by your master's subordinates, if you go back and don't follow the rules, your family will be ruined. I'll go first, and I'll arrange for someone to take you home in a moment. ”

Long Sihai didn't say a word, so he picked up the two pairs of socks from the ground, rolled them up, and stuffed them on Wang Sanqi.

Nalan finally understood that it must be Song Xizhe who leaked the news to Gu Maolin and them before he was killed, and the others didn't know how to wake up the early lurkers. It seems that it must be carefully arranged to make the news of this traitor's betrayal worthless information.

The sky was about to dawn, and Wang Sanqi was sent home without anyone else noticing.

At dawn, Wang Sanqi opened his doors as if nothing had happened. He asked the guys at home to clean the shop, and waited for someone to come to him.

After a while, I saw a man dressed as a mountain hunter enter the store. "Who's the boss? I have more than 60 sun-dried clams, and I don't accept them? ”

Wang Sanqi hurriedly greeted him, "Brother, this thing of yours is a good thing." I'll take it all. ”

Then Orion didn't say much, "You are the thing, in a word, how much?" ”

Wang Sanqi said: "Forgive the sins, I will accept all your clams and give you eighty-five Manchurian yuan." How? ”

"Okay, that's all." The man took the money and turned away.

Wang Sanqi paid the money, opened the oilcloth bag, and had no intention of checking the clams, but saw a note sandwiched in the middle. It reads: "Go to Gu Maolin, say that a big middle-aged man has unveiled the notice, and you will not be able to trace you when you follow the small courtyard adjacent to the east of the Three Immortals Temple on Tiandao Street." ”

Wang Sanqi hurriedly lit a fire, burned the note to the ground, told the guys to take care of the store, and went straight to the police department......

Time flies, and night falls in the blink of an eye.

Luo Shuangchen, who was resting in the hospital, didn't know that Nalan Songhan led the brothers to direct a wonderful drama.

Tiandao Street Sanxian Guandi is a secluded place in the suburbs, its east neighbor is a very closed private house courtyard, three and a half rooms, there are two large open gatehouses, in the middle is a black lacquered courtyard gate, the courtyard has a little bit of light, and the courtyard is gloomy all around. Occasionally, the intermittent and miserable cry of an owl could be heard from a large poplar not far away.

Gu Maolin of the Special Service Section of the National Police Agency was promoted to deputy captain after Hou Sangai was killed. Tonight, he was afraid of startling the snakes, so he brought more than 30 people on bicycles. At this time, he sat on the doorstep steps of the Three Immortals Temple, secretly happy in his heart, tonight I will do a great job to make the master happy according to the clues left by Song Xizhe, catch a big middle-aged man who uncovered the notice, he may be the early lurker of the CCP, according to Wang Sanqi's description, this person rarely appears nearby, I can't delay, so as not to dream too much at night, now Toyotomi also attaches great importance to me, and I must make achievements in the near future; It's also strange, eyeliner has been arranged on the public bulletin boards in the city, only about the emperor's temple, there are clues, it seems that God pays off, Brother Sangai, the credit you didn't get will be given to your brother.

According to the arrangement when they came, they stuffed their bicycles in the Sanxian Temple, and then loaded the bullets, divided into two teams, a team of people surrounded the courtyard, and a team of people waited until the second half of the night to enter the courtyard to arrest, from more than eight o'clock in the night, until nearly eleven o'clock, there was a small leader who was squatting outside to report, "Gu Ye, the lights in the courtyard have just gone out, I am lying on the wall of the courtyard outside to observe, there is only one figure in the main room moving from time to time, it is a big man, and no one speaks." Shall we catch it now? ”

Gu Maolin was born as a bandit, and he is the best at robbing homes and houses, "What the fuck are you in a hurry?" Wait first, one is to see if there is anyone else coming, and if there is, catch it together; Even if no one comes, we wait until he is asleep and defenseless, and then arrest him. What's more, he is already a caged bird. Tell the big guy not to make a noise first, be in good spirits, and do this well, and invite you to go to Kaiyun Street for an Oriental dinner. ”

"Okay, Master Gu, we'll wait for your order."

The early spring nights suddenly seemed long, and the cold wind was biting. After more than an hour, the Taoists of the Three Immortal Temple have turned off the lights and gone to sleep, it seems that no one can come, Gu Maolin thought, I will first arrest this "bird", and then arrange for someone to ambush it, and then there will be people who come to the door must also be CCP members, and it will not be too late to arrest it. Thinking of this, he straightened his felt hat, waved his whip, and walked towards the gate of the small courtyard, and when he arrived at the door, he stood skillfully, crossed his hands on his waist, and whispered: "Be on guard, act, catch alive." ”

At the sound of an order, someone first jumped into the courtyard to open the courtyard door, a team of seventeen or eighteen people were all holding two guns, cats bent on their waists, tiptoeing towards the courtyard, Gu Maolin had already put on the posture of a victor and was ready to see who made his contribution to it.

After a while, I heard a loud "---------boom" in the main room in the courtyard, followed by a tragic cry of "ah---ah---------, and the courtyard was on fire and exploded!

I don't know how many dead and injured in the courtyard, just as the fierce flames are about to swallow the dark night, those who are lying on guard outside the courtyard are also injured a lot, and the windows of the gatehouse are shaken down.

Gu Maolin was stunned by this sudden change. yelling: "Not good! Fooled! Someone to put out the fire! To see if I can find a living mouth, people outside will keep an eye on me to prevent him from breaking through. It has to be caught alive. ”

The Taoists of the Three Immortal Temples were also awakened by the sound of the explosion, and they all ran to put out the fire with water, for fear of affecting the Taoist Temple. The squad members are also trying to put out the fire. It took more than three hours for the fire in the yard to be extinguished. Gu Maolin, who was smoked with soot on his face, walked into the dilapidated courtyard with a torch, frightened, depressed, and scolded in his heart, who is this? How can you use suicide to get out of trouble? It doesn't make sense. Let's take a look in the first house.

Gu Maolin stepped into the main room from the corpses of several of his brothers who had been killed.

One of the team members said to him, "Captain, look! ”

In the center of the room lay a long wooden bench upside down, with a wooden figure tied to it, and two pulleys hanging underneath, connected by iron wires, tied to a pillar on one side and a stone on the ground on the other, and the wooden man was also burned to the point of sparking.

Gu Maolin understood that this was a man-made mechanism, and the figure they saw walking back and forth outside was this wooden man; And someone has already planted explosives in the house in advance, which is why we will not return! It's so ruthless! Thinking of this, Gu Maolin was so angry that he threw his hat to the ground, "Damn, I've been played!" Retreat----, give me a raw pharmacy! Wang Sanqi, this old bastard, dare to trick me, see if I don't castrate you old bastard! You left a few people here to clean up the bodies of the dead brothers, and the others who can walk around will go with me to the Shengsheng Pharmacy on Guandimiao Street. ”

When Gu Maolin led his shrimp soldiers and crabs to smash open the door of the raw and raw medicine store in the night, they saw by the moonlight that the store was empty and empty, and Wang Sanqi's family had disappeared.

This scene made Gu Maolin even more angry, and he was ashamed.

The sky is about to dawn, and the morning fog is hazy on the street of Guandi Temple.