Zhang Quanmin watched the man put away his gun and sauntered away. He sat down on the stool with a painful expression on his face.
This was once again a traitor from the Japanese military police, and another agent from the secret service headquarters came to interrogate him repeatedly. Zhang Quanmin realized that the man who made the phone call at his grocery store was not just an anti-Japanese element, but might even have a lot of background.
This made Zhang Quanmin feel even more guilty.
…
"Interesting." Cheng Qianfan took a sip of the cocoa and said with a chuckle.
The brothers who were secretly watching the Yangjiang Restaurant discovered Dong Zhengguo's anomaly, secretly followed him, and saw Dong Zhengguo draw a gun and interrogate the grocery store manager.
Hao Zai then thought of a plan and arranged for a brother who could speak Nanjing dialect to pretend to be a gendarmerie agent and interrogate the shopkeeper.
Through ‘interrogation’ from the shopkeeper of Quanmin Daily Grocery Store, Cheng Qianfan basically figured out the context of the matter:
Someone made a secret phone call to Dong Zhengguo, who was staying at Yangjiang Hotel, and Dong Zhengguo investigated the matter.
According to what the shopkeeper said, Dong Zhengguo said that the person who called was an anti-Japanese element.
Moreover, the shopkeeper also provided the physical characteristics of the caller:
One ear is missing!
"Do you think the caller will be Cao Yu?" Cheng Qianfan asked Hao Zi.
"It's almost like that." Hao Zai thought for a while and said, "Except for the possibility that someone may deliberately frame Cao Yu, then this person is basically Cao Yu."
As he said that, Hao Zai showed doubts, "Brother Fan, this matter is a bit strange. Didn't the two of them come to Nanjing from Shanghai together? If there is something that cannot be discussed in person, Cao Yu still needs to make a phone call.
?And Dong Zhengguo is still checking this phone number."
"This can only explain one thing." Cheng Qianfan took another sip of the cocoa, put down the bottle, smacked his lips, and said, "Let's not presuppose who the caller is. What is certain is that this person is calling.
He deliberately concealed his voice to avoid being heard by Dong Zhengguo."
"I understand." Hao Zai said, "Then Dong Zhengguo investigated the call and finally found the Quanmin Daily Grocery Store, and then learned from the shopkeeper the characteristics of one ear of the caller."
"That's right." Cheng Qianfan threw a cigarette to Hao Zai, and he took a cigarette and played with it in his hand. "Since we will suspect the caller Cao Yu, then Dong Zhengguo will also react first.
It’s because I doubt Cao Yu.”
"Contact Lu Liu." Cheng Qianfan said, "Where did Dong Zhengguo go and what did he do after he returned to Yangjiang Hotel from Gongyuan Road?"
"clear."
…
"Brother Fan, some news has come back." Haozi knocked on the door and came in to report.
I saw Brother Fan studying an exquisite snuff bottle with a magnifying glass.
"Tell me about it." Cheng Qianfan put down the magnifying glass, picked up a piece of silk velvet and gently wiped the snuff bottle.
"Dong Zhengguo returned to his room at Yangjiang Hotel from Gongyuan Road. After staying for a while, he went to the room of Cao Yu who lived on the same floor." Hao Tsai said.
"How long have you been here?" Cheng Qianfan looked slightly moved and asked immediately.
"Lu Liu said it should be at least an hour." Hao Zai said.
"There was no quarrel or conflict between the two?" Cheng Qianfan asked.
"Probably not." Hao Zai said, "Lu Liu had been looking out through the peephole behind the door, listening to the noise outside. When Dong Zhengguo came out of Cao Yu's room, he pretended to open the door and go out to buy cigarettes. He saw Dong Zhengguo and Cao Yu
His expression was quite normal, and he was even talking and laughing."
"What do you think?" Cheng Qianfan looked at Hao Zai and asked.
"These two people are still talking and laughing. It seems that the caller Dong Zhengguo secretly investigated is probably not Cao Yu." Hao Zai said.
"No." Cheng Qianfan shook his head and said, "Those who are talking and laughing do not necessarily mean that the person is not Cao Yu. On the contrary, it is very likely that Dong Zhengguo confirmed that the person is Cao Yu, and it is not even ruled out that Cao Yu also admitted it."
"Brother Fan, I don't quite understand." Hao Zai said with a frown.
…
"Time." Cheng Qianfan said solemnly, "Almost an hour is too long. This is enough to explain everything."
He said to Hao Zai, "If Dong Zhengguo had tested Cao Yu in the past, the conversation would not have lasted too long if the two sides were acting back and forth."
"If Dong Zhengguo had directly questioned Cao Yu, and if Cao Yu had directly denied it, there would be no need for the two of them to continue talking too much."
"There is only one possibility, and that is that Dong Zhengguo questioned Cao Yu, and Cao Yu admitted it." Cheng Qianfan said.
"Brother Fan, why didn't these two people have a dispute?" Hao Zai thought for a while and said, "Dong Zhengguo even told the shopkeeper of the grocery store that the caller was an anti-Japanese element. Although this statement may be false, but
, it is obvious that Dong Zhengguo takes this matter very seriously, and Cao Yu can clearly talk to Dong Zhengguo directly, but now he does things by making anonymous phone calls. Obviously there is a problem here."
"Okay, Hao Zai, you can think about things now." Cheng Qianfan glanced at Hao Zai and praised him.
"Follow Brother Fan and you can learn to use your brain no matter what." Hao Zai said with a smile.
"The confusion you just had is the most interesting part of this matter." Cheng Qianfan said, "Although we have no way of knowing why Cao Yu contacted Dong Zhengguo by making an anonymous phone call, and Dong Zhengguo still felt like he was facing a formidable enemy, but,
Just judging from the results..."
He flipped the lighter, lit the cigarette, took a puff and said, "If it is as I judged, Dong Zhengguo questioned Cao Yu, Cao Yu admitted, and then the two of them talked for almost an hour. This shows that these two
Individuals have reached a consensus, have not fallen out, and have even reached some kind of cooperation. At least there is a tacit understanding about some things or some people."
Cheng Qianfan flicked the ash from his cigarette and said, "A secret phone call led Dong Zhengguo to quickly investigate the phone call..."
He said to Hao Zai, "Hao Zai, Dong Zhengguo's investigation of this phone call itself is enough to explain a lot of problems."
"Because this is Nanjing." Hao Zai thought about it carefully and said, "This is not Shanghai where Dong Zhengguo can easily mobilize more forces for investigation."
"Smart." Cheng Qianfan nodded slightly and praised.
…
"Keep staring at Dong Zhengguo and Cao Yu." He said to Hao Zi, "I want to see what they are doing."
"Understood." Hao Zai said, he thought for a while and asked, "Brother Fan, Dong Zhengguo said that Cao Yu who made the call is an anti-Japanese element. What do you think?"
"You are wrong. He said that the caller was an anti-Japanese activist." Cheng Qianfan said with a smile, "This is more likely Dong Zhengguo's words to intimidate the grocery store manager. This also shows that he attaches great importance to this call."
As for the possibility that Cao Yu is an anti-Japanese element?
Cheng Qianfan didn't think this possibility existed at all.
…
After lunch, Liu Xia called Minsheng Hotel and asked him to rush to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hualin Garden as soon as possible.
"Brother Fan." Haozi opened the car door and asked Brother Fan to get in the car.
"Drive faster." Cheng Qianfan said to Hao Zai.
"clear."
The car honked its horn, stepped on the accelerator, and sped through the streets of Nanjing.
Watching the car drive away, behind a telephone pole across the road from the Minsheng Hotel, a man put down the newspaper in his hand with a solemn look.
"Xiao Qi, let's go." Liu Bo said to the man beside him.
Xiao Qi nodded, and although he had doubts in his heart, he followed Liu Bo and left without saying a word.
…
The two came to a secluded alley.
"Teacher Liu, what's wrong?" Xiao Qi then asked.
"I met an old acquaintance," Liu Bo said.
He didn't expect to meet Cheng Qianfan in Nanjing.
Due to the familiarity between the two people, he quickly covered himself up. Otherwise, he even suspected that Cheng Qianfan might recognize him if he just glanced over.
"Is he a traitor?" Xiao Qi asked immediately.
"No." Liu Bo said, "A former acquaintance became a traitor."
He looked at Xiao Qi and said, "Let's go, the situation has changed and I need to meet with Lao Zhao."
"Okay, I'll take you there." Xiao Qi nodded.
…
Wellcome Clinic.
Zhao Guoliang was sitting in the clinic when he saw Xiao Qi coming back.
"I asked you to go out and deliver a pair of medicines, why have you been here so long?" Zhao Guoliang said to Xiao Qi angrily, "Are you lazy again?"
"No way." Xiao Qi said with a smile. He poured water into Zhao Guoliang's cup diligently and said in a low voice, "Teacher Liu is here and wants to see you."
"Where is the person?" Zhao Guoliang asked.
"At my house."
Zhao Guoliang nodded and said nothing more.
Then a patient came. After consultation, Zhao Guoliang prescribed a medicine and told the patient to take the medicine on time when he went back and to follow up if he felt any discomfort.
"I'm a little dizzy." Zhao Guoliang said to Xiao Qi, "I'll go to your house to rest for a while. My boss will come after a while. Please call me."
He is a doctor hired by the owner of the clinic, so he has his own degree of freedom. As long as the consultation is not delayed, he can naturally take a rest when there are no patients.
"I know." Xiao Qi quickly agreed.
…
Xiao Qi's home is in the alley east of the clinic.
"Why are you here at this time?" Zhao Guoliang returned to Xiao Qi's home, saw Comrade Liu Yinwen, and immediately asked, "But is there something going on?"
"Yes, there is an emergency." Liu Bo said, "I may not be suitable to enter the Minsheng Hotel right now."
"What happened?" Zhao Guoliang asked in surprise.
Previously, the Nanjing party organization suffered serious damage, and a large number of comrades were arrested and sacrificed.
A key reason for this heavy organizational loss was the emergence of traitors within the Nanjing party organization.
This person's name is Dai Chengbi, a traffic officer of the Municipal Party Committee. After being arrested by the enemy, he failed to withstand severe torture and chose to rebel and become a traitor. It was Dai Chengbi who betrayed a secret traffic station of the Municipal Party Committee to the enemy, causing the enemy to secretly monitor the traffic station and follow the clues.
A large number of comrades were arrested.
The latest situation is that Municipal Party Committee member Lan Yangyan was arrested by the enemy. However, what we now know is that although Lan Yangyan was arrested, he used the pseudonym Zhang Qiushi, and the enemy did not grasp the true identity of Comrade Lan Yangyan.
Due to his identity, he was only regarded as a 'little accountant who was seduced by the Red Party to attend the anti-Japanese night school'.
The problem now is that as the traffic officer of the municipal party committee, Dai Chengbi has met Lan Yangyan.
Once Dai Chengbi sees Lan Yangyan, Comrade Lan Yangyan will be completely exposed.
Therefore, the organization urgently decided to take anti-rape operations against the traitor Dai Chengbi.
According to the intelligence gathered from the organization, Dai Chengbi is currently living in a room in the Minsheng Hotel and is closely protected by agents from the Nanjing District of the Secret Service Headquarters.
To find out, you must first confirm which room Dai Chengbi lives in.
However, the enemy attaches great importance to Dai Chengbi and has taken good confidentiality measures. Currently, they only know that Dai Chengbi may be in a room on the third or fourth floor, and there is no other way to know.
Moreover, the agents are very wary of any strangers who appear in hotel rooms, and it is impossible to get close for reconnaissance.
Any suspicious person may lead to arrest and interrogation by the enemy.
In this case, Zhao Guoliang discovered a detail:
Minsheng Hotel is a quite high-end hotel in Nanjing, so it is very popular among foreigners, especially Japanese.
The spies did not dare to mess with Japanese people staying in hotels.
Under this situation, Zhao Guoliang thought of Comrade Liu Yinwen, who was proficient in Japanese, and considered asking Comrade Liu Yinwen to take action, check into the Minsheng Hotel as a Japanese expatriate, and then wait for an opportunity to gather information and obtain the exact location of Dai Chengbi's hiding room.
Now, he suddenly heard Comrade Liu Yinwen say that he was not suitable to enter Minsheng Hotel now. Zhao Guoliang was naturally surprised, because this would not only disrupt the plan and deployment, but also might not allow time to redeploy.
Because of the intelligence fed back from comrades on the inside, the enemy has prepared to arrange for Dai Chengbi to re-examine and identify the arrested comrades of our party and patriotic anti-Japanese personnel.
And this identification has already begun.
We will soon arrive at the Xiaguan Detention Center where Comrade Lan Yangyan is imprisoned by the enemy.
…
"A group of traitors have stayed at the Minsheng Hotel," Liu Bo said. "Some of them know me."
He did not go into details because too much information might reveal his true personal information.
"Is the situation serious?" Zhao Guoliang asked with a heavy face, "Is he an old acquaintance?"
"That's right." Liu Bo nodded, "He's the kind of person who can recognize me at a glance."
"Does the other party know your identity?" Zhao Guoliang asked.
"I know." Liu Bo nodded, thinking to himself, in Shanghai, there are many people who know that Liu Bo is a member of the Red Party.
"This is going to be difficult." Zhao Guoliang's expression was solemn. He knew the traitor and stayed at the Minsheng Hotel. In this case, Comrade Liu Yinwen was indeed not suitable to participate in the investigation operation. It is impossible for the organization to arrange for another comrade to save one comrade.
Even though he knew it was very dangerous, he still took risks.
"It's not that there are no other ways." Liu Bo thought.
"What can I do?" Zhao Guoliang asked.
"Because I just found out that my 'old friend' was staying at the Minsheng Hotel. This was an unexpected situation. For safety reasons, I stopped the investigation in time." Liu Bo thought for a while and said, "However, if we can accurately grasp the situation of these 'old friends',
For the friend's specific accommodation information and their whereabouts, and on the premise of confirming that they left the hotel and will not return to the hotel quickly, a time lag can be set."
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