The subordinate pushed open the door and came to Captain Hong, saying: "Captain, someone wants to bail Xu Wenxiu."
"Oh? Who is he?" Captain Hong suddenly became energetic.
"Qi Yuantai."
"Qi Shanren?"
"Yes."
"Where are the others?"
"Just outside the door."
"Invite him in and be polite."
"yes."
After a while, an old man carrying a cane, wearing a light yellow mandarin jacket and a melon-pipe hat walked in, accompanied by a plainclothes man.
Captain Hong stood up and said respectfully: "Mr. Qi, Mr. Hong is being disrespectful for being too far away to greet us."
The old man smiled and said: "Captain Hong is so polite."
This person is Qi Yuantai, a well-known philanthropist in Yanjin. Every year during the Spring Festival, he opens porridge shacks on busy roads to help the homeless.
If any family is too poor to blame, or encounters unsolvable difficulties, Qi Yuantai will provide certain financial help as long as the situation is verified to be true.
After sitting down, Captain Hong asked: "Mr. Qi, I heard that you are here to bail Xu Wenxiu?"
Qi Yuantai twisted his gray beard with his hand, nodded slightly, and said: "Exactly. I have brought the bail money. I hope Captain Hong can do it for the sake of his old age."
Captain Hong laughed and said: "It's easy to talk, Mr. Qi has opened his mouth, there is no reason... Excuse me, who are you and Xu Wenxiu?"
"Oh, she is a relative of one of Lao Chan's friends."
"I understand, that is to say, your friend asked you for help, so you came to bail Xu Wenxiu?"
"Yes."
"To tell you the truth, if it were someone else to bail him out, I wouldn't let him go easily. Do you know why?"
"Appreciate further details."
"When they were arrested, contraband was found on Xu Wenxiu's body on the spot. She is suspected of being a Communist spy! Therefore, you are taking a lot of risks by bailing her out."
"I am an old man who is dying and living in troubled times. I just want to be worthy of my own conscience. As for politics, I have never been interested."
Even when it was mentioned that Xu Wenxiu might be a Communist spy, Qi Yuantai remained calm and composed, with a faint smile on his face and no trace of panic.
"Now that you've decided, okay..." Captain Hong turned to his subordinates and said, "Take Mr. Qi to go through the bail procedures."
Qi Yuantai bowed slightly and said, "Thank you Captain Hong."
"You're welcome, go slowly." Captain Hong stood up and personally escorted Qi Yuantai out of the captain's room.
…………
Two hours ago.
Inside the prison.
Xu Wenxiu, who pretended to be calm on the outside, was like a boiling oil pot inside. She had spent a torturous night, and she was now physically and mentally exhausted.
With a bang, the guard opened the cell door, covered his nose and frowned, and said: "Xu Wenxiu, come out!"
At this moment, this was what Xu Wenxiu wanted to hear the most. Ignoring the feces and urine under her feet, she staggered out of the cell, holding her knees and retching non-stop.
The crazy woman grasped the iron railing with both hands, looked at Xu Wenxiu with good eyes, suddenly smiled and said: "Hey, are you pregnant?"
Xu Wenxiu looked back at her, unable to tell whether she felt disgust or pity.
Walking along the long passage of the prison and following the guard toward the door, Xu Wenxiu couldn't help but said, "Excuse me, have I been released on bail?"
"No," the guard replied.
"Then, where are you taking me?"
"Someone comes to see you."
"Oh...someone came to see me, why not go to the cell?"
"Can anyone still enter the cell? We have to rush to the toilet..."
Xu Wenxiu felt a little calmer, thinking that Aunt Mei must be here, and maybe someone would come to bail her out today.
There is a room at the entrance of the prison, which is the prison guard's duty room.
When they came to the door, the guard said to Xu Wenxiu: "Go in."
Xu Wenxiu opened the door hesitantly and stepped in. She was surprised when she saw that it was Shen Zhifeng who came to see her.
"Wenxiu, sit down."
"why you?"
"Oh, I heard something happened to you, so I came back early."
"Brother Shen, please explain, I was wronged..."
Shen Zhifeng interrupted and said: "Stop talking, I know the whole story. Wenxiu, I just want to ask you, what are you going to do? Do you want to continue to be your undercover?"
"Brother Shen, what do you mean?"
"Wenxiu, you still want to hide it from me now?"
"Hide it from you?"
"You are a member of the Communist Party, and so is Aunt Mei."
"You wronged me!"
Xu Wenxiu defended herself, but she was secretly surprised in her heart. Could it be that Shen Zhifeng was deceiving him?
Shen Zhifeng sighed, reached for his briefcase, took out the tape recorder, and said, "Do you know this?"
"I don't know." Xu Wenxiu shook his head.
Shen Zhifeng looked at her for a while and said slowly: "Wenxiu, I hope you can understand one thing. We are an unmarried couple, and I am doing it for your own good! So, you must tell the truth to me!"
After saying this, he pressed the button of the recorder and said: "For safety reasons, I hid this recorder at home. I originally wanted to monitor it secretly, but I didn't expect that you would have discovered it long ago."
Xu Wenxiu said: "Brother Shen, what are you talking about? Why can't I understand a word?"
Shen Zhifeng glanced at her and said, "Try not to interrupt me. I tell you to listen. After you listen to what I say, you can express your opinion, okay?"
Xu Wenxiu nodded. She felt extremely uneasy now. Judging from Shen Zhifeng's attitude, he seemed to have some solid evidence.
Shen Zhifeng continued: "I know now. On the public holiday, Aunt Mei asked me to accompany you to Zhongyuan Department Store. You had planned this for a long time, with the purpose of driving me away from home..."
At this moment, there was a clicking sound from the tape recorder. Shen Zhifeng played it again and then said: "Did you hear it? Do you know what this is? This is the sound of leather shoe nails."
Shen Zhifeng lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, and said: "This is the voice I recorded at home on the day we went to Zhongyuan Department Store. Aunt Mei was wearing cloth shoes. I also asked her afterwards if anyone came to the house.
She asked me about it and she said no, so the question becomes, why did the recorder record the sound of shoe spikes?"
"I have kept this recorder at home for many days. I was originally thinking, could it be that I was too worried and wronged you and Aunt Mei? Now I have figured it out, it is because Aunt Mei or you have noticed me.
I have doubts in my heart, so I never talk about secrets at home!"
"Combined with the recording of the shoe spikes, I analyzed it carefully, and then I guessed the key to it. There are only two possibilities. One, while I was not at home, the owner of the shoe spikes came to contact Aunt Mei, and he just stepped on it.
He got to the floor and immediately realized something was wrong, so he took off his shoes."
Shen Zhifeng smiled and said self-deprecatingly: "I have experienced several setbacks, especially the latest one, which is also a very good experience for me. Now I always remind myself, never think that your opponent is too stupid!"
"Calm down and think about it, if it were me, would I take the risk of having a meeting at the home of the intelligence director of the Secrecy Bureau? No, of course not! So, there is only one last question left, what on earth did the owner of the spikes do here?