After coming out of the hospital and arranging for police officers to continue the investigation, Yu Jingque looked at the sky and prepared to go home.
He came back very early today. Yu Mosheng and Ji Youning were not at home. He said hello to his family and ran to his room.
I didn't stay in the room, changed my clothes, and went to the study room.
After entering the study room and locking the door, Yu Jingque took out all the notices that he had torn off.
Yu Jingque moved the things on the desk away and placed the notices on them one by one.
However, these notices were stacked on top of each other, some as many as seven or eight, and some as few as four or five.
Taking one, Yu Jingque placed it on the table, then dipped a brush in water and began to paint on the notice.
After applying a thin layer of water, Yu Jingque took the tweezers and carefully tried to peel off the paper bit by bit.
This process is very slow, and it is not one layer, but many layers and many pictures.
This process requires patience, and Yu Jingque told herself not to rush.
After dark, Yu Jingque's desk was covered with notices, and Yu Jingque peeled off the overlapping notices.
Some were torn into pieces and put together again, there were about twenty in total.
But Zhou Jiezhi only posted one.
It may seem difficult to peel off these notices just now, but as long as you have enough patience, you can do it.
It’s just that the next work will be more troublesome.
Yu Jingque had to find out which of the twenty or so notices was posted by Zhou Jiezhi.
Huang Tian said that someone posted anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese leaflets, which Yu Jingque now thinks is impossible.
Zhou Jiezhi's younger brother, Zhou Jieming, might post anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese leaflets because they were members of the Progressive Society.
But Zhou Jiezhi doesn't know how. Zhou Jiezhi doesn't know how to post flyers, which is not in line with Zhou Jiezhi's status.
Huang Tian was stabbed by someone and was sent to the hospital after being rescued. He took it for granted that it was anti-Japanese elements who posted leaflets.
None of the two dozen leaflets or posters spread out on the table have anything to do with the anti-Japanese elements.
This further proves that Yu Jingque’s judgment is correct.
But another doubt arose.
That is, since Zhou Jiezhi was not posting leaflets from anti-Japanese elements, why did he panic when he saw Huang Tian and did not hesitate to kill people to silence them?
Is this a problem?
Since there is no suspicion in what Zhou Jiezhi posted, why would he risk killing people?
Yu Jingque had thought about this problem in the afternoon, so he took all the leaflets back.
He knew that the problem must lie in the leaflets. What Zhou Jiezhi posted at that time might be more important than the anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese propaganda.
"Which one is it?"
Looking at the papers on the table, Yu Jingque fell into deep thought.
Search notices?
Job recruitment?
Rental information?
Factory hiring?
Item price reduction?
Store opening?
New girl?
There are various lists, which one was posted by Zhou Jiezhi?
"Jing Que, come down for dinner." Ji Youning's voice came from outside.
Yu Jingque glanced at his watch and saw that it was already past seven o'clock. It seemed that it took a long time to peel off these leaflets.
"Just come." Yu Jingque agreed.
After looking at the things on the table, Yu Jingque stood up and left. After going out, he locked the study and put the key in his pocket.
There was still a flyer on the table in the study room. Although it couldn't prove anything, he didn't want anyone to see it.
"I haven't seen you since I came back today. Why are you hiding in the study?" Yu Mosheng also came back and asked angrily.
When Yu Jingque came back in the afternoon, he told his family not to call him again during dinner.
Smiling, Yu Jingque sat down and said, "If you love learning, read books."
"Just try to make some mistakes." Yu Mosheng closed the newspaper in his hand. It would be strange if he believed what Yu Jingque said.
After dinner, Yu Jingque said to Ji Youning: "You go to bed tonight, I haven't finished my work in the study yet."
Ji Youning was very considerate and did not ask what Yu Jingque was busy with. From Yu Jingque's unwillingness to be disturbed, she could tell that Yu Jingque did not want to talk.
Since she didn't want to talk, she didn't ask. Both of them felt comfortable in this way of getting along.
After eating, Yu Jingque locked himself in the study again.
His eyes swept over these papers one by one.
Exclusion.
Today, the flyer on the first floor must not have been posted by Zhou Jie.
Throw away everything on the first level.
During this process, Yu Jingque eliminated six pictures. Yu Jingque directly kneaded these six pictures into a ball shape with his hands without taking another look.
These six leaflets cannot be on the first one. It has been two or three days since what happened that night. It cannot be on the first one. It will definitely be covered by other flyers.
In fact, Yu Jingque wanted to throw away the second layer as well, but he was worried that something might slip through the net, so he chose to be conservative.
It's still the elimination method. Throw away the bottom ones as well. You can also throw away six.
One of these six pictures has a date, which is already a week ago.
Through the elimination method, twelve pictures were eliminated at once, and there were still fifteen pictures left.
How to eliminate it next?
Yu Jingque also had no idea. He started to look at each one carefully.
All with phone calls are excluded.
There was a contact number, but Yu Jingque thought it couldn't have been posted by Zhou Jiezhi. It would be too easy to call and confirm.
Among the fifteen pictures, many have contact numbers, six of them.
After excluding them, nine are left.
Although a lot has been eliminated, there is still a lot left, and Yu Jingque can't help but frown.
etc……
Yu Jingque continued to observe the nine leaflets and found that the printing quality of some of the leaflets was very good and seemed to be printed by big factories.
Zhou Jiezhi's flyers were probably printed by himself in the school.
Then the quality is definitely not as good as that of large factories, so continue to exclude them.
This time five more were eliminated, leaving four.
The desk was originally covered with flyers, but now there are only four left. This process is very complicated.
What was excluded, Yu Jingque did not look at or think about.
There are only four pictures on the table in my eyes.
Choose one of four?
Which one might have been posted by Zhou Jiezhi?
There is really no way to rule it out now, so Yu Jingque can only look at each one carefully, one by one.
This is not a simple leaflet, this is actually a transmission of information from Zhou Jiezhi.
Yu Jingque could believe that the bulletin board was where Zhou Jiezhi and others passed on information, and the information was encrypted in the flyers.
Encrypted leaflets posted on designated bulletin boards are their method of transmitting information.
That night, Zhou Jiezhi was delivering information, but he happened to be caught by Huang Tian.
In fact, Zhou Jiezhi had nothing wrong with him. The flyer was encrypted and there was no way Huang Tian could see it.
But he had a guilty conscience. Even if Zhou Jiezhi was not a thief, he would have thought that Huang Tian had discovered his secret.
At this time, Zhou Jiezhi had to kill the so-called insider, Huang Tian, in order to ensure the safety of the organization's transmission of intelligence.
At that time, Huang Tian, in Zhou Jiezhi's opinion, was an insider and must be killed and silenced.
Unfortunately, Huang Tian did not die. Fortunately, Huang Tian had no idea what Zhou Jiezhi was doing.
Yu Jingque took back all the flyers on the bulletin board in order to uncover the secrets on them and to know what information Zhou Jiezhi was conveying.