Xu Siqi came to the dock today for investigating a case. He gave the police officers a few instructions, drove the police car, and rushed to Guangci Hospital with Tao Qinghong.
On the way, Tao Qinghong was still worried about missing the boat and said: "I usually get up very early, but I didn't know what happened last night. I even set the alarm clock and didn't wake up."
Xu Siqi said calmly: "This kind of thing is normal, I also oversleep sometimes..."
In fact, Xu Siqi had mixed two sleeping pills into the Coca-Cola Tao Qinghong drank last night. The spicy taste of Coca-Cola neutralized the bitterness of the medicine.
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Guangci Hospital is located on Father Jin Road and is a well-known mission hospital.
After the January 28th Incident, cholera and smallpox ravaged Shanghai, infecting tens of thousands of people, and the hospitals were suddenly overcrowded.
Comparatively speaking, Western medicine is more effective in treating infectious diseases.
The problem is that Western medicine is expensive and low-income people simply cannot afford it. As a result, many infected people cannot receive timely treatment.
If infected people do not receive treatment, they will become mobile sources of infection, causing more people to be infected and panic to further spread in the city.
Faced with such a severe situation, bureaucrats will only close the door and talk loudly, but they cannot come up with practical and effective solutions.
At the critical moment, Guangci Hospital stood up and took the lead in publicly announcing to the outside world that it would provide free medical treatment to all poor people who could not afford medical treatment.
This incident made Guangci Hospital famous, especially among the people who benefited from it.
For a time, Guangci Hospital became synonymous with the word "charity".
Soon after arriving at the hospital, Xu Siqi went to the front desk to ask a few questions, and then went to Dr. Ian's office to issue a death certificate.
"There is no problem in issuing a death certificate, but I want to remind you that the air conditioner in the resting room is broken. In this weather, you must bury the deceased as soon as possible." Dr. Ian is a middle-aged man in his forties.
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Tao Qinghong could not understand English and could only watch Xu Siqi talking to the doctor.
Ten minutes later, the two came out of the doctor's office.
Xu Siqi glanced at Tao Qinghong, smiled helplessly, and said: "Good news or bad news, which one do you want to hear first?"
Tao Qinghong thought for a while: "Then, good news."
"The good news is that we don't need to issue a death certificate because Xiaojun's body is still resting in the hospital."
"Ah? What, what's going on?"
"What's going on, I don't understand now. However, Dr. Ian said that the remains of all the deceased people are in the hospital."
"Let's take away the coffin..."
"Maybe it was empty. When I lifted it, I felt that the weight of the coffin was very light, but I didn't expect that I would make a mistake. I thought it was because Xiaojun was thin."
The people responsible for the burial were all volunteers. Tao Qinghong did not dare to step forward at all. A corpse that had been stored for so long always made people feel a sense of inexplicable fear, even if the deceased was one of his relatives.
Tao Qinghong calmed down and asked: "Then, what's the bad news?"
Xu Siqi said: "The air conditioner is broken and the temperature in the resting room is a bit high. Therefore, Dr. Ian suggested that it is best to bury him as soon as possible."
After a slight pause, he continued: "I didn't think much about transporting Xiaojun's body back to Northeast China at first. Now, I do feel that something is wrong."
Tao Qinghong asked: "What's wrong?"
"It will take at least a week on the road from Shanghai to Northeast China. The temperature will get higher and higher from now on, and the coffins will be stored in sealed conditions. I'm worried..." Xu Siqi shook his head gently and said no more.
In the final analysis, Tao Qinghong is just a young girl who is not yet mentally mature. When encountering a real big event, it is inevitable that she will not consider things carefully.
Just like transporting Xiaojun's body back to Northeast China, she felt that the biggest difficulty was whether she could borrow 30 yuan, and she never thought about the weather.
If Zhang Xiaolin's ship hadn't been involved, Xu Siqi would have reminded her at that time.
Tao Qinghong hesitated for a while and said, "Brother Xu, what do you think we should do about this matter?"
Xu Siqi thought for a while and sighed: "Let's cremate it. It will be the same when we go back with the ashes, and it is easy to carry."
Tao Qinghong has become confused. Judging from the current situation, this is the only thing she can do.
Pushan Villa, located north of Zhabei Sun Temple, is the only crematorium in Shanghai. Xu Siqi called and the Villa quickly sent a car to take away Xiaojun's body.
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That night.
As the Shunhe was sailing in the vast ocean, choking smoke suddenly appeared in the cabin. Before anyone could react, dazzling fireballs shot out from everywhere.
Bags of Chinese medicinal materials were as dry as dry grass and became local combustion accelerants. The wind on the sea was already strong, and the wind took advantage of the fire. The fire quickly engulfed the entire cargo ship.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Liu Zhensheng hurriedly ran to the stern of the ship and lowered the boat to prepare for escape.
The captain, whose beard and hair were burnt, stumbled over and shouted: "Zhensheng, Zhensheng, quickly organize people to put out the fire!"
The second officer is mainly responsible for the safety work on the ship. When such a big thing happened, the captain first thought of his brother-in-law.
Liu Zhensheng said with a bitter face: "Brother-in-law, the fire is so big, how can we save it? Run quickly, otherwise it will turn into a roasted sweet potato!"
"If the ship disappears, how can I explain it to Mr. Zhang?"
"If you don't confess, you must be ordered to do so..."
Peng!
A small boat was launched.
Liu Zhensheng couldn't care less about others and was the first to slide down the rope.
The other crew members did not mess up at first and worked together to put out the fire with the water hose. What is surprising is that the water poured on it not only had no effect, but the fire became more and more intense.
"Captain, no, this is not putting out the fire, it's like adding fuel to the fire!" a crew member shouted loudly.
The fire burned half of the sky red. Looking from a distance, it looked like a huge torch burning blazingly on the dark sea.
On the small boat, Liu Zhensheng said: "Fortunately, we came down quickly. Look, the stern of the boat is on fire. If we were a few minutes later, we would have lost the chance to escape."
The captain was silent for a while, then suddenly said: "Zhensheng, tell me the truth, is there any private goods on the ship?"
"Private goods? No, they are all company goods, medicinal materials, anti-scratch cloth and so on..." Liu Zhensheng tried to calm down.
The captain also calmed down. He looked around at everyone and said in guidance: "Since the ship is all the company's goods, how did it cause the fire?"
The first mate said wittily: "It is probably...that the machine was aging and leaking oil, which caused the fire."
Liu Zhensheng also said: "The Shunhe is almost 30 years old. It should have been scrapped long ago. How is it now? Has something happened?"
The captain nodded slowly. This was a unified statement. Everyone was responsible for this matter, so everyone could only make up lies.
At dawn, a fishing boat out to sea passed by here and found the smoke-emitting Shunhe, and rescued the people on the boat.
The Shunhe was severely damaged and had to be towed back to the shipyard for overhaul.
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In fact, the cause of the whole thing is both simple and complicated.
Xu Siqi knew very well that not long after he joined the Secret Service, he solved a major case and was promoted three levels to a major.
Any boss must have some thoughts about such subordinates.
To put it simply, it can be summed up in four words: great achievements shake the master!
As a newcomer who has just joined the Secret Service, if your immediate superior is dissatisfied with you, he will definitely be restricting you in every possible way.
Faced with this situation, Xu Siqi must find a way to remedy it.
The best remedy is to lower your profile and give your boss an easy reward, letting him know in his heart that he is not the kind of person who can't tell the difference between his eyebrows and his eyebrows.
It happened that Tao Qinghong happened to be involved, and after following the clues, I found out that the ship Shunhe was indeed transporting goods for the Japanese.
So Xu Siqi reported the matter to Zhou Weilong in person and proposed a framework plan.
With Zhou Weilong's ingenuity, he naturally arranged things properly. After the plan was successful, the credit would naturally fall on Zhou Weilong. Xu Siqi was just one of the links. Although he had merit, it had nothing to do with the overall situation.
The crewman A Huai was bribed to pretend to be ill at a critical moment in order to give Xu Siqi the opportunity to board the ship and check the location of the coffin to ensure that the fire could burn to the point where it could not be extinguished.
In addition to the fatal detonation device, there was also a small tank of crude oil in the coffin. If such a thing burned, there would be no way to save it.
In fact, it was Zhou Weilong who came up with the specific details of the plan, including switching coffins at Guangci Hospital and even adding sleeping pills to Tao Qinghong soda.