On May 1, 1943, an inexplicable theft occurred in an unobtrusive old bungalow in Lane 135, Lin'an Road, Shanghai. Because the stolen stolen goods were a "special secret killing order" signed by Dai Kasa, head of the Kuomintang Military Command Bureau, and reported to Chiang Kai-shek for approval, the case became a particularly important case that alarmed Dai Kasa, who was far away in Chongqing, and Zhou Fohai, a traitor who was then an important official in the Wang puppet government, day and night.
This is a famous road located in the heart of downtown Shanghai, which was built as early as 1865 and belonged to the French Concession, originally named Gongguan Road, renamed Julaida Road by the French Concession Ministry of Works in 1907, and changed to Kaizier Road in 1913. After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese invading forces completely occupied Shanghai and changed its name to Lin'an Road.
Lane 135 of Lin'an Road is a small lane no more than 70 meters long, which is blocked by a brick wall about two meters high, and this kind of layout is called "broken head bang" by Shanghainese. Lane 135 is full of identical Shikumen houses, only the bottom of the lane is close to the brick wall, there is an old three-story small bungalow, and the "theft of the military commander's secret killing order" occurred here.
The property of this small bungalow belongs to a Ningbo businessman, but this person has left Shanghai 20 years ago, entrusted the house to a relative in Shanghai to rent it out on his behalf, and collected some rent. In the past 20 years, thirteen tenants have rented this bungalow, and the last tenant who rented the house is named Jiang Yuzhen, a thirty-four or five-year-old man, whose external identity is the comprador of the Swiss "Montere Foreign Firm" in Shanghai, and the real identity is the interpreter and telegrapher and traffic station chief of the Kuomintang Military Command Bureau in Shanghai.
At that time, Shanghai was already under the rule of the Japanese invaders, and the activities of the Kuomintang military command and the central command agents were completely underground and secret. If you are not careful, you may be cracked by the Japanese gendarmerie, the special high school, or the headquarters of the Wang puppet government secret service (that is, the infamous "No. 76"). Therefore, this underground traffic station, led by Jiang Yuzhen, has always been cautious and does not dare to make any non-division.
On the morning of April 30, 1943, when Jiang Yizhen was working at the foreign firm, he received a coded telephone call informing him that a particularly important top-secret telegram had arrived at his residence that night, instructing him to translate it immediately after receiving it, and then forward it to the new address according to the secret order received again. As an underground worker of the military command, Jiang Yizhen has been in Shanghai for more than two years, handling the translation and transmission of hundreds of confidential documents, but has never received such a harshly worded order. He realized that this telegram must be of great importance, so he did not dare to be careless, and returned to the owner of the foreign bank the banquet that had been agreed that night, and returned home in less than 5 minutes to wait for the traffic officer to send the secret telegram.
Coincidentally, two Japanese officers were killed at the same time in the Lin'an Road area that evening, which is said to have been committed by guerrillas active on the outskirts of Shanghai. The Japanese gendarmerie immediately dispatched to put martial law on several roads, including Lin'an Road, and did not lift martial law until after 10 p.m. Jiang Yuzhen was so anxious that he fidgeted about this, deeply afraid that the traffic officer who came to hand over the secret telegram would crash into the Japanese martial law area and be caught in the net. It wasn't until I heard the agreed knocking on the door outside that I was relieved.
Jiang Yuzhen sent away the traffic officer, did not care about dinner, immediately went to the third floor study, took out the secret writing potion, and displayed the secret telegram hidden in the "300 Sentences of Japanese Conversation", copied it on a blank piece of paper, and then began to translate. As a competent translator, Jiang Yuzhen has already memorized several sets of passwords, which is also a basic requirement for underground workers, so as not to cause trouble after the codebook falls into the hands of others. It took Jiang Yuzhen only 20 minutes to translate the secret telegram, and wrote it on a newly published "Map of Downtown Shanghai" with another secret writing potion, and then destroyed the original and hid the secret writing potion.
After doing all this, Jiang Yuzhen felt weak and his stomach drumming like thunder. At this time, his "wife" Han Huihui came in and said, "Okay?" Dinner had been hot four times, and I was already hungry with my chest pressed against my back. Go downstairs to eat, I scalded a pot of Shaoxing flower carving. ”
Originally a dancer at the "Paramount Ballroom" in Shanghai, Han Huihui was later developed into an agent of the Military Command Bureau, and belonged to a small role in sending intelligence and passing on messages. When Jiang Yuzhen was ordered to be sent to Shanghai, Han Huihui was ordered to abandon her family and form a family with Jiang Yuzhen. Since then, she has ceased to be a dancer and has become a comprador lady and housewife. Although the two are people with families, they have lived together for a long time, they have long been fake, raw rice is cooked to maturity, and the affection of the wild mandarin duck is even deeper than that of the original couple.
Jiang Yuzhen nodded, and while folding the "Map of Downtown Shanghai" into a long strip and putting it into the bottom compartment of a special black briefcase, he asked, "Is Mama Yang asleep?"
"Well, I'll let her sleep at 8:30."
Mama Yang is their hired aunt from the countryside of northern Jiangsu, and she knows nothing about the true identity of Jiang Yuzhen's "husband and wife".
With the joy of completing the task, Jiang Yuzhen drank the Shaoxing flower carving with Han Huihui. Then, the two returned to the bedroom on the third floor, undressed, and lay in each other's arms.
At this time, it was 10:00 a.m.
In the Jiangnan area, the late spring night is short, and at 4:30 in the morning, it is already the dawn of the East, and the birds chirp. Han Huihui was awakened by the sound of birds and seemed to have overturned a basin of paste, a mess. She lay on the bed for a few minutes, then rolled over and sat up, thinking that she would go to the bathroom and go back to sleep. She pulled open the door of the room, and a light wind blew in front of her, bringing a chill that made Han Huihui, who was almost naked, shiver several times in a row. The gust of wind also blew away the paste from her mind, and she suddenly woke up. With this awakening, she immediately felt that something was wrong: how was the window of the study in the back open?
In this secret agent family, every seemingly small thing in life is where they should pay attention. One of them is to close the window and sleep every day, even in the middle of summer, they also close the window to sleep. Sometimes it was too hot to bear, and I was afraid that closing the window would cause the neighbors to talk about it, so the two took turns sleeping with the window open. However, what is wrong now, did Jiang Yuzhen forget to close the window last night when he left the study after packing up his things? Han Huihui was so shocked that she couldn't even go to the bathroom and went straight to the study. One look, sure enough, the back window is open! She "giggled" in her heart, secretly screaming bad, don't be stolen by thieves? She was a little nervous, turned her head and twisted her neck, looked around, and saw that the desk and cabinet were intact, which was relieved and closed the window.
When Han Huihui reclined on the bed, the cold body woke up Jiang Yuzhen. Jiang Yuzhen muttered a word of "why are you so cold on your body" and turned over and slept again. But Han Huihui's answer immediately made him jump up like an electric shock, "I went to the study and closed the window."
After all, Jiang Yuzhen was a high-ranking student in the special agent training class of the Military Command Bureau, and immediately woke up, and even the thick drowsiness on his face suddenly disappeared, and a pair of eyes fixed on Han Huihui, and asked urgently: "What are you talking about?"
Han Huihui repeated the words.
Before Jiang Yuzhen could finish listening, he had already jumped to the ground, and his shoes could not be worn, so he took three steps and made two steps to run to the study. Han Huihui subconsciously followed behind the fake husband, and before she could get close to the study door, she heard Jiang Yuzhen's strange cry from the study that she tried to suppress, "Ah_"
"What happened?" Han Huihui felt her heart beating wildly in her chest. She broke into the study, only to see Jiang Yuzhen standing in front of the desk, holding his head in both hands, and screaming in pain like a Sun Monkey who had been subjected to Tang Sanzang's "tight hoop curse".
Until this point, Han Huihui did not know exactly what had happened. She subconsciously approached Jiang Yuzhen, gently wrapped her arms around each other's waist with the unique professional movements of a dancer, slightly opened her lips, and spat out a delicate inquiry: "Zhenzhen, what the hell happened?" You say!"
Jiang Yuzhen hummed as if he had a serious skin pain, "Leather bag... Lost!"
Han Huihui seemed relieved, "If you lose it, you lose it", she wanted to say", "Buy another one", but suddenly a heavy slap hit her back into the stomach. Jiang Yuzhen roared, "What do you know? The purse contains last night's special secret order!"
"Ah--" Han Huihui was also stunned, although her mouth and nose were oozing blood, but she didn't feel pain anymore.
At this point, it is necessary to introduce the situation of this secret order to the reader and friends, because this secret killing order has an important relationship with the traitor Zhou Fohai, so here we must start from Zhou Fohai.
In December 1938, Zhou Fohai colluded with Wang Jingwei to board a Eurasian Airlines plane on the 19th, fled to Hanoi, and embarked on the road of treason. Later, Zhou Fohai held great powers in finance, diplomacy, secret agents, and military affairs in the puppet government headed by Wang Jingwei, becoming the second largest traitor after Wang Jingwei, and was known as the "real power faction of the Wang puppet government."
On December 8, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in the United States without declaring war, opening the curtain on the Pacific War. The outbreak of the Pacific War greatly expanded the anti-fascist camp in the world, and many countries in Europe, Asia and the United States declared war on Japan, resulting in changes in the world situation and an even more isolated situation of Japanese imperialism. Zhou Fohai was deeply disturbed by this, and in order to find his own way out, he carried Wang Jingwei on his back and, with the mood of "try it out", began to "ask for self-surrender to the Nationalist government run by Chiang Kai-shek in Chongqing in order to redeem himself." This idea was proposed to Dai Kasa when Cheng Kexiang, a latent agent of the Military Command Bureau in Shanghai and then director of the Tibet Affairs Department of the Border Committee of the Wang puppet government, went to Chongqing in secret. When Dai Kasa received this news, he was extremely excited and immediately reported it to Chiang Kai-shek, who agreed.
Therefore, Dai Kasa wrote a handwritten letter to Zhou Fohai, and Chiang Kai-shek marked the letter with the word "ke", and Tuo Cheng Kexiang took it to Nanjing to hand it over to Zhou Fohai.
Since then, Zhou Fohai has been linked to the Chongqing side, and in a very short period of time, he has provided the Chongqing side with information on the economic situation and material supply of the pseudo-"Manchukuo" side and Japan, as well as the battle plan against the United States and the Japanese army's preparations for attacking Guizhou. In addition, zhou Fohai also installed Chongqing agents in Shanghai and Nanjing in accordance with the instructions of the Chongqing side, and bailed out the arrested people for the Chongqing side to cover their activities in the occupied areas. Prior to this, the Military Command Bureau had already started a "rebellion" campaign against Li Shiqun, another big traitor and the head of the Wang pseudo-special agent, through Du Yuesheng, a Shanghai beach tycoon living in Hong Kong. Li Shiqun said that "it can be considered". This gave Dai A great hope, so that on August 30, 1941, he sent someone to deliver a message to Li Shiqun, "You say to Li Shiqun, now give him a chance: or kill Wang Jingwei, we will concentrate our forces to receive him and retreat safely; Or when Wang arrives in Suzhou, wang will be kidnapped, and I promise to recommend it to Chairman Jiang and give him a better status; Or he assisted us in the work of sanctioning Wang, and I gave him a bonus of three million yuan, and I promised that the people who participated in the operation would be able to guarantee that they would be sent abroad for further study in the future. ”
However, at that time, Li Shiqun's status in the Wang puppet government had risen, and he served as the pseudo-police minister and director of the "Qingxiang Committee", so he refused Dai Kasa's request.
With Dai Kasa's thoughts, Li Shiqun's refusal would not arouse his resentment. However, what happened next was that Dai Kasa had to grit his teeth against Li Shiqun - in November 1941, the Headquarters of Wang Pseudo Secret Agents, chaired by Li Shiqun, broke all the organizations in the Shanghai district of the Military Command Bureau. After Dai Kasa heard the news, he was very angry and swore to heaven, "This vendetta must be repaid!"
However, considering the situation at that time and the safety of the arrested people, Dai Kasa had to endure this tone and still decided not to interrupt contact with Li Shiqun.
Li Shiqun knew that his relationship with the Military Command Bureau was not deep, so he opened up another way to establish relations with the Kuomintang Central Unification Bureau. In 1943, he thought it was inappropriate and began to look for a new way out.
Of course, Li Shiqun's attitude of taking the lead at both ends and stepping on several boats could not escape the surveillance of the military command, and Dai Kasa reported Li's situation to Chiang Kai-shek in person. At that time, Chiang Kai-shek was preparing to welcome the landing of American troops on the southeast coast and open a second battlefield in China, so he was eager to use wang puppet this force to eliminate the New Fourth Army and swallow the fruits of victory alone. This attitude of Li Shiqun made Chiang Kai-shek worry that he would use the real power in his hands to restrain him and increase unnecessary trouble. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek, after repeatedly weighing the gains and losses, finally decided to remove Li Shiqun.
The task of removing Li Shiqun was given to Dai Ka by Chiang Kai-shek, and the deadline must be solved before the autumn.
After Dai Kasa accepted the task, after some consideration and secret discussion with the secret agents and experts of the Military Command Bureau, he finally decided to entrust the matter to Zhou Fohai to complete.
The secret order that Jiang Yuzhen translated last night was a secret killing order for Zhou Fohai, which was drafted by Dai Kasa himself.
However, what Jiang Yu really did not expect was that such an important secret document would be lost in his hands!
At that time, Shanghai Beach was already completely under the control of Japan and the Wang puppet regime. The agents of "No. 76", directly controlled by Li Shiqun, ran rampant in the streets and alleys day and night. The loss of this secret telegram, even if it was not stolen directly by the Japanese or "No. 76", now once it leaves this traffic station, it may also fall into the hands of "No. 76", which is equivalent to directly issuing a notice to Li Shiqun. In this way, not only did it form an obstacle to the removal of Li Shiqun, but more importantly, it would pose a fatal threat to Zhou Fohai and affect Chiang Kai-shek's entire plan. Therefore, this scourge is really too big to be imagined.
This point, Jiang Yuzhen was already aware of at the moment when he first discovered the theft of the secret electricity. And Han Huihui realized it after understanding what was happening. At this moment, the fake couple seems to have sounded the death knell in their ears.
Jiang Yuzhen and Han Huihui both sat paralyzed on the floor of the study, and Jiang Yuzhen gasped heavily, like a large stone pressed against his chest. Han Huihui just covered her face and cried, panicked to the point that she had no master
After a while, Han Huihui raised her face, looked at Jiang Yuzhen with tears in her eyes, and asked, "Zhenzhen, what should we do now?"
Jiang Yuzhen pondered for a long time, and at the end of the day, he sighed a long time, "Sit and wait for dawn, and then report upwards." As for the outcome, let it be left to fate!"
At that time, the underground activities of the Military Command Bureau in Shanghai also adopted the method of "simple contact" to get in touch out of precautions. However, Jiang Yu is really an important figure in the Shanghai district of military unification, so his online line is directly Qi Qingbin, secretary of the Shanghai district of the Military Command Bureau, although he has a telephone there, but it is stipulated that he cannot be contacted by telephone until the last resort. At this time, Jiang Yuzhen couldn't care whether this matter was a "last resort", and waited until 7 a.m. every day, so he called Qi Qingbin.
When Qi Qingbin received this call, he was even more surprised than receiving a funeral call, and he was stunned for a long time before instructing Jiang Yuzhen in a heavy voice to "sit and wait for the dispatcher to come to the door."
After three quarters of an hour, two men came. One of them, Jiang Yu, really knew, surnamed Zhong Minggongjun, was originally an instructor in the action of the special training class of the military command, hung up the rank of colonel, and was a division-level secret agent of the Military Command Bureau, and at this time, he did not know what position he held in Shanghai. The other, a tall, thin and younger man, was very respectful to Zhong, and it seemed that he was mostly Zhong Gongjun's assistant.
Jiang Yu really saw that the person who came was known, and he was also his own instructor, so he did not care about his face, and Han Huihui both knelt on the ground, prostrating their heads like pounding garlic, only to exonerate the crime, willing to agree to any conditions of the other party. That Han Huihui had a bit of a posture, and while mourning, she kept throwing winks at the other party.
Zhong Gongjun was like a cold-faced judge, did not answer the pleas of Jiang and Han, and did not even take a sip of tea, but just asked Jiang Yuzhen to explain the loss of the secret electricity.
When Jiang Yuzhen was narrating, Han Huihui went into the bedroom and took out her and Jiang Yuzhen's gold ring, necklace and watch, and gave the fortress to Zhong Gongjun, but was rejected.
After Listening to Jiang Yuzhen's narration, Zhong Gongjun and his assistant went to the study and began to investigate the scene.
The study is about 14 square meters in size, and there is a 3 square meter balcony outside the floor-to-ceiling long window. Standing on the balcony and looking down, about 5 meters behind is the 3-meter-high brick wall at the end of the alley. The iron railing of the balcony was clean and clean without a bit of dust.
Zhong Gongjun wiped the railing with his hand, "This is what you wiped?" Jiang Yuzhen replied, "It was my aunt who wiped it." Referring to Han Huihui, "She likes to be clean, and every day she urges her aunt to wipe everything in the house clean and refreshing." ”
Zhong Gongjun's assistant analyzed, "If the thief climbs up the balcony from behind and enters the house, then he must use ropes or hooks and other criminal work, which is bound to leave traces on the balcony railing." However, there are now no traces on the balcony railing, which shows that the thieves did not climb up from behind. ”
Zhong Gongjun nodded, paused slightly and shook his head, "However, if he enters the scene from behind, he can wipe away the traces before leaving, and he does not have to climb the balcony when he leaves, but instead walks away from the gate." "
"The manager meant leaning towards the thief climbing up from behind.
Zhong Gongjun's public identity in Shanghai is that of a manager of a trading company, so the assistant has this title.
"No, I was thinking, if the thief climbs up from behind, how will he climb up?" You said that you used ropes or iron hooks, and I think the possibility is almost nothing. Why? Because if you really use this kind of crime tool, it will definitely leave an indelible mark on this railing. But now there's no such trace on it, so I say he didn't use ropes or other tools. In this way, he had only one way to enter the scene, and that was to jump directly from the wall. This is incredible - the head of the wall is at least 3 meters high from the balcony railing, and the width is also 5 meters, and a person stands on the wall, without running conditions, without any tools, do you say OK?"
As mentioned earlier, Zhong Gongjun originally served as an instructor in the action of the secret service training class of the Military Command Bureau, and was an expert in national art, and all kinds of killings and kidnappings, climbing on the wall, and setting fires and explosions were all his best tricks. Now, in his opinion, to say that the thief could not enter the scene directly from the balcony, it was to characterize the way the crime was committed. Then there is only one way for the criminal to enter the scene, one by one, from the upper floor downstairs to enter.
Zhong Gongjun did not say this, but glanced at the assistant and Jiang Yuzhen's "husband and wife", with a question mark in his eyes, do you understand?
Jiang Yuzhen and the two did not dare to open their mouths, and the assistant asked, "Does the manager mean that the thief entered from downstairs?" I couldn't help but think about it. ”
After Zhong Gongjun said this, he turned around and entered the room outside the drawing room of the reception room, and sat down on the sofa. He lit a cigarette, took a sip, looked at the three people who followed him, and his eyes stayed on Jiang Yuzhen's face, "What else is there besides the stolen bag?"
Jiang Yuzhen replied, "We haven't counted it yet, because we're afraid of destroying the scene."
Zhong Gongjun pointed to Han Huihui and said to his assistant, "You two go and take stock."
After Han Huihui and the two went to the study, Zhong Gongjun looked at Jiang Yuzhen and said, "This case basically looks like the hand of the internal thief."
Jiang Yu really didn't dare to say a word, thought about it, and nodded.
Zhong Gongjun pulled his finger, "There are three people in total here, one of you, one for Han Huihui, and one for your aunt." You are reliable, there is no problem with that. How about Han Huihui?"
"She was assigned to me after shangfeng looked for it, and it should be said that there is no problem." I spent so much time with her and found no flaws. ”
"What about my aunt?"
This, Jiang Yuzhen did not dare to play the guarantee ticket under the current situation, he shook his head, "To Aunt Yang, I dare not guarantee"
"Who introduced you to this aunt?"
"A colleague from the foreign firm where I worked introduced me."
Zhong Gongjun's face darkened, "Did you report it?"
"I have reported to Shangfeng, and Mr. Qi has also contacted her, and it is estimated that Shangfeng has also sent someone to conduct a background check on her."
Zhong Gongjun threw the half-smoked cigarette into the smoke tank, "Anyway, this aunt is a suspicious person!" The investigation of this case should be based on her. ”
At this time, Han Huihui and the two of them came to the end of the inventory to report that in addition to the leather bag containing the secret pieces, they had also stolen a small clock, a spring watch, and 230 yuan in cash, which was in the study, and an ancient painting and a Ming Dynasty ornament gilded bronze frog were stolen in the reception room.
Zhong Gongjun remembered the gold jewelry and watches that Jiang and Han wanted to give when they entered the door, "Those valuable things you just took out didn't let the thieves see it?"
Jiang Yuzhen said, "Those we all put in the room, and the door is locked when we sleep."
Zhong Gongjun got up and looked at the "Si Bi Ling Lock" on the door of the room, tried it out, and asked, "You have buckled the insurance?" No. We never buckle. Jiang Yu replied honestly.
When he found out, Zhong Gongjun felt that there was nothing more to check, so he said, "Aunt Niang, I will meet her."
Han Huihui said, "Downstairs, I'll call her up."
"Nope. Whether she did it or not, let's not alarm her now. Well, let's go downstairs together and ask her to get an early breakfast for us to eat, and contact her by the way. ”
So, the four of them went downstairs, and Han Huihui tried her best to pretend to be as indifferent as usual, and ordered Yang Mama to give each person a bowl of noodles. Zhong Gongjun looked at Mama Yang in a seemingly careless manner. This is a country woman in her thirties, short and fat, her skin color is very white, people are very clean, they like to talk, they speak northern Jiangsu dialect, probably suffered from wind and cold, and they cough a few times from time to time. Zhong Gongjun chatted with her for a few words, but found no flaws.
After Zhong Gongjun and his assistants left Jiang Yuzhen's residence, they immediately reported the situation to Qi Qingbin, secretary of the Shanghai District of the Military Command. Qi Qingbin's instructions: First, order Jiang Yuzhen to ask for leave from the foreign firm and stay at the residence; 2. Immediately carry out a secret investigation into Aunt Yang; Third, the military command agents who infiltrated the "No. 76" closely monitored Li Shiqun's movements.
Qi Qingbin decided to suppress this matter at this time, and if the secret electricity is retrieved, then the matter will be resolved on the spot; If you can't find it back, make another calculation.
Zhong Gongjun is responsible for conducting a secret investigation into Mama Yang. He can really be regarded as "miraculous", and it only took half a day to find out the situation of Yang Mama: born in the countryside of Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, her husband had eaten the national army marching meal, and then he was injured and discharged from the army, and both came to Shanghai, and her husband did a small business, and she gave a maid. He had two sons and a daughter, both in the countryside. No contacts were found with members of various political factions and the husband was not involved in any gang organization.
That night, Zhong Gongjun reported the results of the investigation to Qi Qingbin.
Qi Qingbin asked Zhong Gongjun, "Do you think Mama Yang is suspected of committing a crime?" ”
"I don't think it's very likely that she committed the crime." "Why?"
Zhong Gongjun's reason is simple, but it is difficult to refute: "I have been in contact with her and found that she suffers from whooping cough. For this reason, I also specially learned from Han Huihui, she said that Yang Mama coughed very badly at night, and she also gave Yang Mama pills two days ago. Therefore, if It was Yang Mama's crime, the irrepressible coughing sound would definitely wake up Jiang Yuzhen and Han Huihui. ”
With Qi Qingbin at the level of military command in Shanghai, this analysis is acceptable. As a result, Yang Ma's suspicion was ruled out. In this way, the case became a strange and strange case. After analysis, it is suspected that the thief used the lock to pry the lock or use the master key to open the door lock and enter the house. Therefore, that night, Qi Qingbin sent Zhong Gongjun to venture to Jiang Yuzhen's residence to investigate the scene again. The results of the investigation were that no crowbar marks were found on the lock tongue of the door lock, and Yang Mama said that she had secured the door lock on the ground floor every day before going to bed.
The last bit of doubt was also ruled out, and Qi Qingbin finally realized that it was impossible to solve this case by relying on the strength of the military command in Shanghai
What to do?
Qi Qingbin decided to inform Zhou Fohai of the situation and asked Zhou Fohai to resolve the case.
At that time, Zhou Fohai had residences in Shanghai and Nanjing, and his residence in Shanghai was located in Lane 1136, Yuyuan Road. It was a long lane with only one exit facing Yuyuan Road, quiet and hidden. There were originally more than ten independent garden houses in this lane. In the summer of 1939, after Wang Jingwei, Zhou Fohai, and other giant traitors arrived in Shanghai from Hong Kong, according to the arrangements of the Japanese side, Wang Jingwei, Zhou Fohai, Chu Minyi, Mei Siping, Lin Baisheng, Luo Junqiang, Chen Chunpu, Tang Liangli and others lived in separate houses, and the agents of "No. 76" and the plainclothes of the Japanese gendarmerie provided strict protection day and night.
It goes without saying that it was inconvenient for Qi Qingbin to go to Zhou Fohai's residence in Shanghai at this time. Therefore, he informed Zhou Fohai: If you have an important appointment, it is best not to meet in Shanghai.
Zhou Fohai immediately replied: Then go to his residence in Nanjing instead. On May 2, 1943, Qi Qingbin went to Nanjing alone and went straight to Zhou Fohai's residence in Nanjing.
Zhou Fohai's residence in Nanjing, at No. 8 Xiliuwan, was a Western-style Western-style mansion surrounded by two pine-cypress-covered alleys in a deep alley, which the traitors of the puppet government called the "Zhou Mansion" at the time. According to the records, the construction of the "Zhou Mansion" began in early April 1932, and was completed at the end of November of that year, and in December, Zhou Fohai's family moved in. The mansion is surrounded by ponds on three sides, with green bamboo weeping willows, reflecting the green waves of spring water: there are gardens in the courtyard, clusters of flowers and trees, strange rocks, and winding paths. The mansion has a total of 22 buildings, 6 Western-style bungalows with 28 rooms, and 2 basements. At the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, when Japan attacked Shanghai for a long time, it often sent planes to bomb Nanjing, and at that time, very few people built a basement in the palace of the Kuomintang dignitaries in Nanjing, and some dignitaries such as Gu Zhutong, Xiong Shihui, Zhu Shaoliang, Li Mingyang, and Hu Shi often went there to avoid air raids, and Chen Duxiu, who had just been released from prison, also went there several times.
In March 1940, the Wang puppet government was established in Nanjing, and Zhou Fohai returned to the mansion that had been gone for three years, which was already "broken walls and decadent walls, barren smoke and thatch", and renovated for three or four months before re-moving in. However, on January 11, 1943, a fire suddenly broke out in the "Zhou Mansion", causing serious damage. After the fire was extinguished, Zhou Fohai "inspected the burning situation and felt quite desolate." To comfort him, Wang Jingwei ordered permission for Zhou Fohai's family to move to the "State Guest House" on Zhongshan North Road by the Wang puppet government. The "State Guest House" was built when Guangsun Ke was the minister of railways of the National Government, and the house was also exquisite and elegant.
The place where Qi Qingbin and Zhou Fohai met was the "State Guest House" where Zhou Fohai temporarily stayed.
After Qi and Zhou met, Zhou Fohai first asked what was so urgent for such an urgent matter. Qi Qingbin conveyed to Xianzhou Fohai the contents of the military commander's secret killing order, saying that it was to explain the needs of the matter next, and informally conveyed the order. He himself did not look at the secret killing order of the military command, but only listened to Jiang Yuzhen say a rough idea, and the translation of the secret killing order telegram should prevail. Zhou Fohai was already shocked when he heard the military commander ask him to solve Li Shiqun, and when he heard Qi Qingbin talk about the theft of the secret electricity, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat and take a cold breath: "Is there such a thing?" this...... Mr. Qi, with all due respect, aren't you kidding Zhou's life when you do this? It must be known that Li Shiqun holds the power of secret agents, and the eyes and ears of No. 76 are all over the shanghai beach! Once this secret telegram fell into his hands, not only would my life be over, but even the lives of my entire family would be in danger!" Qi Qingbin had no choice but to apologize to Zhou Fohai, saying that the matter had already happened, that it was useless to say anything at the moment, or that the two sides would work together to secretly investigate the matter and try their best to strangle the accident seedlings
With this said, Zhou Fohai's mind was also clear, and it seemed that only in this way could it be considered a strategy. So, he asked Qi Qingbin what he planned to do. Qi Qingbin briefed Zhou Fohai on the measures taken after the case occurred yesterday, saying that it was impossible to solve this matter by relying solely on the current strength of the military command in Shanghai, so he had to ask Mr. Zhou to come forward.
Zhou Fohai asked, "What can I do when I come forward?"
"What sir came forward to do is to use your connections, including those of the Japanese, to find out as soon as possible whether this matter is related to the Japanese gendarmerie or No. 76. If there is a relationship, we will consider the countermeasures according to the relationship; On the other hand, they will try to retrieve the stolen secret electricity. This is our consideration, I don't know what sir means?"
Zhou Fohai thought carefully for a while and nodded helplessly, "Okay! I'm going to Shanghai right away.
"Yes, this matter must be taken up by Sir Shanghai." In case something is wrong and you have to evacuate, it is easier to walk from Shanghai. Zhou Fohai asked, "Has this matter been reported to Mr. Yunong?"
"We have not reported this matter to Director Dai, mainly out of protection for the secret radio. We don't know whether this was the japanese gendarmerie or the 76th, but just in case, I have ordered the use of radio to stop. ”
Qi Qingbin said this, which is actually just an excuse. The main reason why he concealed and did not report it was to prevent Dai Kasa and even Chiang Kai-shek from strictly pursuing the matter. At present, there is still a chance to quickly recover the secret cable, so let's hide it for the time being. Of course, this layer of meaning cannot be said to Zhou Fohai.
At that time, Zhou Fohai was preparing to move back to the restored "mansion", but such a big thing happened, he had to put everything down and rushed back to Shanghai that afternoon.
Zhou Fohai can be called "deep in the tree" in the Wang puppet regime, and he has many relationships that can be used in emergencies. When he returned to Shanghai, he first sent his deputy in the Tax Police Corps, Xiong Jiandong, to instruct him to inquire about the Japanese gendarmerie. Then, he instructed his henchmen in "No. 76" to secretly understand the situation.
Xiong Jiandong was a member of the Japanese faction, and Nakasa Okamura, who was then the head of the special high school of the Japanese Gendarmerie in Shanghai, was his classmate. With this relationship, Xiong Jiandong hooked up with Okamura very tightly, and he quickly found out the situation: the Japanese gendarmerie was not aware of the case.
Then, "No. 76" sent the same news. In this way, Zhou Fohai finally basically settled his mind. The next thing is how to recover the stolen secret cable. At this time, Zhou Fohai had calmed down, considering that he wanted to let Dai Kasa know about this matter, otherwise, Chiang Kai-shek might accuse him of "secretly killing Yang Fengyin and stepping on two boats." Therefore, Zhou Fohai mentioned this matter when he met with Qi Qingbin on the evening of May 3, 1943. Qi Qingbin promised to immediately report to chongqing and asked for instructions on the disposal strategy. Qi Qingbin expected that this matter could not be concealed by this time, so he immediately sent an emergency secret telegram to Chongqing that night, reporting the occurrence and handling of the case.
After Dai Kasa heard the news, he was greatly shocked and sent a call back half an hour later. Dai Kasa's call back was a sternly worded order, which read as follows: First, immediately place Jiang Yuzhen and Han Huihui in the residence of Lane 13 of Lin'an Road and imprisoned on the spot, find someone to guard it secretly, and if they dare to evacuate, they will be summarily executed! 2. Zhou Fohai shall hire a private detective to investigate the case, and the military commander shall be responsible for the expenses; At the same time, the Shanghai District of the Military Command sent personnel to fully assist private detectives in investigating the case.
Dai Kasa's order was in line with Zhou Fohai's idea, Zhou Fohai originally wanted to hire a private detective to quietly investigate the case, and now there is a telegraph order from Chongqing, which is just implemented. As soon as Qi Qingbin's phone hung up, he was a confidant a former disciple of Jin Rong and quite familiar with the three religions and nine streams of Shanghai Beach, pretending to be entrusted by others to hire a clever private detective, the cost was not to be mentioned, the other party opened his mouth, handled the case, and could also double the reward.
After Ah Qing received the order, he immediately went to find an old man named Shao Huaigu. Shao Huaigu is a native of Shantou, Guangdong Province, over sixty years old, short and thin, and his appearance is not proud. Don't look at his honorable face, but he is a good hand at investigating criminal cases. In his early years, Shao Huaigu was a criminal police officer in the Criminal Division of the Hong Kong Police Force, and was well-known in Hong Kong at that time. Around 1927, in order to strengthen the police force of the British Concession in Shanghai, shao Huaigu was one of several criminal police officers from Hong Kong. He was exactly forty-five years old. In 1936, when the criminal police team of Scotland Yard in London visited the British Concession in Shanghai, Shao Huaigu was exchanged with them as an excellent patrol representative by the British Arrest House. In 1940, when Shao Huaigu turned sixty, he went through retirement procedures according to British regulations. Originally, he wanted to live at home, but the Criminal Department of the Ying Hunting House sometimes had to go to him when it encountered cases that could not be handled, so he was in a semi-retired state. It was not until after the outbreak of the Pacific War, when Japan occupied the British Concession, that Shao Huaigu officially stopped.
At that time, the patrol house police officers in Shanghai Beach wanted to eat this bowl of rice steadily, and they had to have contact with the gang members. Shao Huaigu was naturally no exception, he was very familiar with the three tycoons of Jin Rong, Du Yuesheng, and Zhang Xiaolin on the beach, and his relationship with Zhou Fohai's confidant A Qing was even more extraordinary. Originally, Shao Huaigu had closed the door and could not come out, but looking at Ah Qing's face, he still agreed to help Zhou Fohai appear
Ah Qing also didn't know what case Zhou Fohai wanted Shao Huaigu to handle, so he immediately gave Zhou Fohai an echo. Zhou Fohai invited Shao Huaigu to "Meilong Town" for dinner that night, and during the banquet, he talked about the situation of the case, of course, he would not talk about the secret killing order of the military command, but only said that it was a contract document between a friend and a foreigner, and the importance was related to his life. Up to this point, Zhou Fohai was still tight-lipped, saying only that he was entrusted by others. But what kind of character is Shao Huaigu, wondering if it is someone else's business, and having a three-finger-wide strip of your Zhou Fohai is already amazing, and you still have to personally invite such a bad old man to dinner? But Shao Huaigu didn't wear it either, just drank, nodded, and didn't open his mouth.
Speaking of the end, Zhou Fohai spread out the issue of remuneration, "Mr. Shao, I know that you are a famous detective, and you have retired, so it is natural to pay a heavy salary for handling such cases." In this way, the honorarium in this case is 300 taels of gold, 100 taels are paid first, and after the matter is completed, the balance is paid. In addition, Mr. Shao Huaigu was given 5,000 yuan in cash as an activity fund. ”
Shao Huaigu heard that there was such a generous reward, and he was even more certain that the case was related to Zhou Fohai himself, but he pretended not to understand and nodded his head in agreement.
That night, Zhou Fohai sent someone to send 100 taels of gold and 5,000 yuan in cash to Shao Huaigu's home.
The next day, Shao Huaigu, accompanied by A Qing and Zhong Gongjun, went to the residence of Jiang Yuzhen in Lane 135 of Lin'an Road to check the scene.
Jiang Yuzhen and Han Huihui were ordered by Dai Kasa to be placed under house arrest there, day and day, morning and dusk, restless sleep, only two days have different appearances. At this time, he saw that Zhong Gongjun had accompanied an old man, and he thought that he must be a master invited by Dai Kasa, and he was about to kneel down again at the moment, and was blocked by Zhong Gongjun.
Shao Huaigu was very kind to Jiang Yuzhen and the two of them, just like the students asked the teacher many questions about the facts of the case. After asking, Shao Huaigu let the others stay in the house, and he went out and circled around the bungalow a few times, but he didn't see anything famous. Back in the bungalow, he looked out for a while in the study bar upstairs, then went downstairs again, this time under the wall outside the alley.
Outside the alley was a large open space, which was supposedly bought by an Englishman to build a garden house, but after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the British fled, so the land was empty. After such a long time, weeds and potholes were everywhere, and when it rained, it accumulated water, and it dried up every ten and a half days. Two or three days before the crime, it rained in Shanghai for just two days, and Shao Huaigu stood under the wall, looking up, full of mud.
Shao Huaigu stood for a moment and moved his gaze to the wall. The walls are made of green brick, brushed with a thin layer of mortar (i.e., a mixture of cement, lime, and yellow sand), and the surface is grayish white. Shao Huaigu's eyes usually looked squinting, a sleepy look, but at the moment, his eyes were sparkling and full of energy, and he only glanced at a trace of the wall.
This trace is half a footprint, about 05 meters high. Shao Huaigu walked to the footprints, took out a magnifying glass to look closely, and smiled as he watched. He looked at it for a moment, pulled out a piece of cotton paper, and pulled the footprints down, carefully clipping them into a notebook. Then, scraping off a strip of mud with the long fingernail at the tip of the little finger, I watched for a moment. Finally, he beckoned Jiang Yuzhen and Zhong Gongjun, who were staying on the balcony of the study on the third floor of the bungalow inside the wall, to come down and look at him. Jiang Yuzhen and Zhong Gongjun must have expected that it was a good thing, and they rushed downstairs quickly. Shao Huaigu pointed to the footprints, "You see, what is this?"
"Footprints!"
"Yes, footprints. Look again, what are the footprints?" Zhong Gongjun looked at it and said in an uncertain tone, "It seems to be the footprint of the three-ring running shoe."
Shao Huaigu said, "I'm not referring to the footprint of the brand, but what does this footprint illustrate?"
Although Jiang Yuzhen and Zhong Gongjun were good at doing secret work, after all, they did not eat the criminal police food, and they could not think of a result for a while. Shao Huaigu then said: "The inside of the mud of this footprint is not completely penetrated, so it can be determined that it was left by the thief when he committed the crime, and he came from the other side of this clearing; The bottom of the pair of three-ring running shoes he was wearing was stuck to the clearing, leaving traces on the wall as he climbed it. But here's what we have to notice: How did he climb the wall?"
Jiang Yuzhen said: "He walked under the wall, raised his hands, jumped on the edge of the wall, and then stomped on his feet, borrowed a force on the wall, and went up to the wall."
Shao Huaigu smiled, "You said it in great detail, as if you had seen it with your own eyes." Try it as you say. ”
Jiang Yuzhen first glued the soles of his shoes to the mud, tried to get most of his body on the wall, and when he had to climb up, he was stopped by Shao Huaigu and asked him to come down.
Shao Huaigu pointed to the footprints on the wall and said, "This is what you left behind to see how different it is from this footprint."
The difference between the two footprints is obvious: Jiang Yuzhen's footprints are two left and right feet, half small, and the shape of the rubbing is not very clear, about 0.8 meters high; The footprints of the thief are one on the right foot, most of them, with high clarity and a height lower than Jiang Yu's. Shao Huaigu said, "You see, if the thief goes up to the wall like what he just said, will he leave such footprints?" Jiang Yuzhen and Zhong Gongjun both felt confused, looked at each other, and did not say a word.
After a pause, Zhong Gongjun arched his hand toward Shao Huaigu, "I wait for superficial knowledge, and I still look forward to the guidance of my predecessors." ”
Jiang Yuzhen also kept making a fuss, with a look of pleading.
Shao Huaigu said, "The thief is on the wall like this..." He said as he drew with his hand, "Walking to the wall, lifting his right foot like this, stepping on the wall, his body jumped up, and his hand put on the top of the wall, and he went up."
Jiang Yuzhen and Zhong Gongjun's faces showed a look of surprise, "Huh?"
Shao Huaigu continued: "After he went up to the wall, he stood on it, and then he jumped up and flew to the balcony, standing on the outside of the bottom of the balcony railing, holding the balcony railing with both hands and entering the third floor."
"Huh?" Jiang Yuzhen and Zhong Gongjun half opened their mouths, and there seemed to be a big question mark between the gaps. After a pause, Jiang Yuzhen asked, "This... Isn't this a cornice walking on the wall?"
"Yes! He's a snitch! If you don't believe me, you can go up to the wall and look at it, and there are three footprints there. Two of them were stepped on when he stood there after going up the wall and preparing to take a leap, and the other was left behind when he flew out of the scene after the crime and clicked on the wall to make a slow charge. He left the scene without stopping at the wall, he clicked, and then landed directly outside the wall. ”
Zhong Gongjun asked Jiang Yuzhen to climb to the top of the wall to take a look, and sure enough, he found three footprints on it as Shao Huaigu said.
After Jiang Yuzhen came down, Shao Huaigu said, "We have confirmed the way for the thieves to enter the house. There is also a guess here: I remember that when Mr. Jiang Yuzhen introduced the case to me, he said that when he inspected the balcony after the crime, the thief did not leave any traces on the railing, which showed that he was wearing gloves to commit the crime. According to the psychology of thieves, they usually throw away the gloves and other crimes after committing the crime, because they are afraid of being stopped by the patrol on the way to escape the scene and then copy their bodies. So I think this thief would do the same, and we might as well look here now to see if there's such a pair of gloves. The three of them searched for a while, and sure enough, they found a pair of white gauze gloves under a stone in the clearing!
Shao Huaigu accepted Zhou Fohai's money, naturally he was absolutely responsible for Zhou Fohai, and after the on-site investigation of Lane 135 of Lin'an Road, he immediately called Ah Qing and asked to meet Zhou Fohai and said that he had something to say. Zhou Fohai happened to meet with Ding Mocun, the leader of another secret agent of the Wang puppet regime, to discuss things that day, and when he received a report from Ah Qing, he immediately returned his appointment with Ding Mo Village and sent a car to immediately take Shao Huaigu to his other secret residence in downtown Shanghai.
Shao Huaigu reported to Zhou Fohai the whole process of surveying the site. Zhou Fohai was stunned to hear this, and it took a while before he came back to his senses, stared at Shao Huaigu and asked, "So, this case was made by a snitch?"
"Yes." Shao Huaigu nodded affirmatively
"Alas--" Zhou Fohai sighed, and then sat there like a wooden chicken, half silent. It wasn't until Shao Huaigu got up to say goodbye that he said, "Don't... Don't go, I still have something to ask sir. ”
Zhou Fohai summoned Ah Qing from the outside and asked him to accompany Shao Huaigu, and then he went into the study himself, closed the door and talked to Qi Qingbin on the phone Zhou Fohai was most worried that the snitch was assigned by someone to specifically attack Jiang Yuzhen, and the assignee might be "No. 76" or the Japanese gendarmerie. But no matter which side it was, there was no good fruit for him to eat. Therefore, he had to ask Zhong Gongjun for an understanding and see what the other party could do to help him get through this difficulty.
Qi Qingbin naturally learned of the situation from Zhong Gongjun and also made an analysis of this, and he was already confident, so he immediately gave Zhou Fohai a guarantee ticket, first of all, since the last time the military command shanghai agents were destroyed by the "No. 76", they had raised their vigilance and paid great attention to concealing themselves, so it was impossible for the "No. 76" or the Japanese to detect anything, so the assumption that the two sides hired snitches to commit crimes to steal secrets could not be discussed: It was also said that the secret killing order was copied with a secret potion, and it was usually impossible to expose it; Taking another ten thousand steps back, even if it is exposed, Zhou Fohai can still insist that it is a "counter-plan" on the Chongqing side, and with Zhou Fohai's position in the Wang puppet regime, it is not something that can be moved by a few words from anyone. The most urgent thing is to solve the case as soon as possible and get the situation out.
Zhou Fohai gave Qi Qingbin such a statement, and he calmed down a little, so he talked to Shao Huaigu again and asked him to solve the case as soon as possible. Zhou Fohai asked unassuredly, "Is Shao Huaigu sure about solving this case?"
"To say sure, that's a bit of a point, because I already have a clue in my hand -- that's the glove."
Speaking of this, Zhou Fohai suddenly received a phone call, saying that Wang Jingwei was going to Shanghai, and the special car had already passed through Suzhou, asking him to go out of the train station to meet him. So when it comes to this, please ask Shao Huaigu to do his best to solve the case.
Shao Huaigu returned to a suite in the Chinachem Hotel, which Ah Qing had found for him and temporarily served as an investigation office, and analyzed the case with Zhong Gongjun. Shao Huaigu's "having a clue in his hand" is not to coax Zhou Fohai, but to really do it. This clue is the pair of white gauze gloves, this pair of gloves at first glance is nothing unusual, brand new, there are a few sticky dirt on it, that is, in the scene of the sticky, the thief for this crime, specially got such a pair of gloves. However, in the hands of a detective like Shao Huaigu, the situation was different. He turned over his gloves, examined them with a magnifying glass for a long time, and sniffed them with his nose again. This sniff found the situation: there was a faint smell of shoe polish on it!
Shao Huaigu and Zhong Gongjun analyzed it and thought that the thief rushed to the scene of AnLu because he saw that it was the only bungalow in this alley, so that he had a process of stepping on the spot in advance. Due to the police and secret agents on the road in recent times, it is estimated that he did not dare to openly walk around and "meet his feet", and must have been disguised. What's the makeup? Contact the shoe polish on this glove to see if it will be disguised as a "cobbler"? (The Shanghainese word for "cobbler", i.e. shoemaker.) Moreover, if the above motive for his crime is established, then he will definitely continue to work on the Shanghai Beach and wander around disguised as a "cobbler".
Therefore, as long as you send people around to investigate the "cobblers" who the local residents think are unfamiliar faces, it is possible to find the suspect
The Shanghai district of the military command immediately issued a secret order: twenty agents were dispatched to visit "leather smiths with strange faces" throughout the city.
Shao Huaigu also secretly sent a message for help to his patrol friends who stayed in the pseudo-Wang police station to conduct criminal investigations.
A-Ching used his gang connections to investigate.
Thus, the three channels combined mobilized a total of about a hundred people for such visits. The visit lasted for two consecutive days, and no "cobbler" was found that Shao Huaigu considered suitable.
Zhou Fohai was uneasy and uneasy, living like a year, three times a day. The Shanghai area of the military command was also like ants on a hot pot, and Zhong Gongjun was forced by Qi Qingbin to stare behind Shao Huaigu and did not dare to leave half a step. Shao Huaigu was not in a hurry, he stayed in the suite of the Chinachem Hotel, leisurely drinking, smoking, and listening to the radio. On the third day, Shao Huaigu saw Zhong Gongjun's anxious look and advised him to drink a few drinks and then get a good night's sleep.
Zhong Gongjun cried and laughed, "Where do I have the heart to drink?" If this thing is not done well, I will be unlucky!"
"Don't worry, this case will definitely work."
"Why? Didn't you check for two days and not find the cobbler? Today I guess it's hard. ”
"The cobbler is just a step I have taken, and one cannot hang himself from a tree. I stay here drinking to wait. What are you waiting for? Just wait for the boy to emerge on his own. ”
"Pop up on your own?"
"Yes! He'll come out on his own. Because if he committed crimes for money, then the harvest at the scene of Lane 135 on Lin'an Road was too small, and he had to find other targets to start. I reckon he's going to pop up in those two days. ”
"Is it?"
"Couldn't go wrong. I have eaten criminal investigation meals for so many years, and I have a very accurate mental activity of these people. I've already called some of my police friends and asked them to call me as soon as they get the news. Therefore, I did not dare to leave the room for a few days. ”
Shao Huaigu's estimate was so accurate, that evening, just a thousand meters away from Lin'an Road, the snitch once again committed a crime.-
Some of the residents in the area of Gaoyou Road are medium-to-upper capitalists, and the housing is relatively neat, all of which are new-style Shikumen houses built in the 1920s, a type of Ningbo redstone door frame, and black lacquered oak doors with copper nails. Usually, the doors are closed tightly and only when people enter and leave, and with this precaution, the residents there have effectively maintained the stability of the law and order, and have never been patronized by thieves. However, by May 7, 1943, the record for such a peaceful day was broken by the snitch.
In the evening of that day, the home of a capitalist named Gu Guisheng on Gaoyou Road was holding a memorial service for the first anniversary of his father's death. The whole family gathered in the front guest hall, prostrating themselves in the face of the old master's relics hanging above a table full of wine and dishes, crying and crying. In the midst of the drumming, a rush of footsteps came from behind like a wind, and a voice entered the guest hall with a fat middle-aged woman, "Not good..."
Gu Guisheng was kneeling in front of the table to burn paper ingots, and he looked up and said, "Don't you see when this is?" Shout when you want to, shout when you want?"
The woman is the Suzhou aunt of the Gu family, usually the wind and fire are habitual, at this moment still do not buy the master's account, as if the door is not reduced, "Sir, don't be good!" There are footsteps upstairs in the back guest hall, will A will be a thief bone into the door?
Upstairs in the back guest hall is the master's bedroom, Gu Guisheng's precious and soft is all hidden there, when the next listen is anxious, and can not care about burning paper ingots, the mouth shouted "not good", pulled his leg and ran to the back. When I got to the back, I heard a sound in the master bedroom upstairs, but it was no longer the sound of footsteps, but the sound of picking boxes. Gu Guisheng's rush was not trivial, the box contained his cash, gold and bonds, house deeds, land deeds, and his wife's jewelry box, if it was stolen, the family would be finished. He took three steps and made two steps to the stairs, saw that the door was closed, and then knocked on the door while telling his wife and other family members who had rushed after him: "Call the patrol room!"
Although the wife was from a female Taoist family, she was very knowledgeable, so she asked her eldest son to call and then said, "Don't knock on the door, the thief bone will not open the door." You lock the door and don't let him out, and when the patrol comes and catches him!"
Gu Guisheng thought about it too, so he put the buckle on the door. At this time, Suzhou's aunt had already run out of the door to shout, and the people in the alleys before and after came out, and when they heard that the thieves' bones had been locked in the room, they were all relieved, saying that this was determined, and they would wait for the patrol room to catch turtles in the urn.
In the middle of the discussion, someone suddenly exclaimed: "No, the thief's bones are on the roof!"
Everyone looked up, only to see a masked black shadow appear on the roof of the Gu family in the dark twilight, with a package tied to his back, and it was as easy as a flat ground to run quickly to the roof on the other side. Walk to the back lane, jump in the thunderous cries of the crowd, jump over the back lane, land on the roof opposite, and disappear in the blink of an eye! The Gu family pried open the door and went in, counted down, and found that the "valuable and soft, fangtian deed" was really all stolen! Gu Guisheng shouted and fainted on the spot!
Only then did the police officers at the police station come over. When he heard that the thief had escaped, he was so happy that he only asked and left. The person who headed the group, surnamed Lin, was originally a detective from the Criminal Department of the Ying Arrest House, and it was originally a criminal investigation with Shao Huaigu. This time, Shao Huaigu's visit to the "cobbler" also entrusted him, and after he returned to the police station, he called Shao Huaigu and told him about the snitch's patronage of Gao Youlu's house. In this way, Shao Huaigu regained the clue.
Lin asked Shao Huaigu on the phone, "Is this case investigated by Mr. Li?" I introduced you to the lost owner?"
At that time, when the Shanghai Beach police encountered the case, because there were many unclear relationships in the case, the Green Gang, the Hong Gang, the Zodiac, the Japanese Gendarmerie, the Japanese Special High School, the "No. 76", etc., so the police station was also a little panicked, only afraid that if they did not pay attention, they would "move the soil on the head of the age", so they pushed the investigation matter to a role that could level all parties and asked them to crack the case and recover the stolen goods. The victim is required to pay the person an honorarium. Lin knew that Shao Huaigu was interested in this case, so he asked first
Shao Huaigu naturally couldn't ask for it, so he immediately asked Lin to go to the lost owner to talk about it.
The owner, Gu Guisheng, is worried about the indifference of the police station, and is thinking of finding a friend who can talk to the police station to go to the police station to solve the case, and does not dare to expect to recover all the stolen goods. As long as you can recover the part, it is good. That night, after not sleeping all night, I suddenly saw Lin Appear the next morning, and I couldn't help but be surprised and happy, and I was even more overjoyed to hear Lin say that I was willing to introduce him to the old detective Shao Huaigu to take over the case.
An hour later, Shao Huaigu and Zhong Gongjun went to Gu Mansion. The Gu family received these two like an emperor, and when it was nearly noon, they immediately went to a nearby restaurant to order a sumptuous banquet, and Gu Guisheng was sick to accompany him. Mrs. Gu and the eldest lady stayed on the side, pouring wine and handing cigarettes and towels. During the banquet, Shao Huaigu learned from Gu Guisheng in detail about the snitch's crime and the stolen money and items.
Gu Guisheng finished talking with a sad face, paused for a moment and said: "I think it is unlikely that the stolen cash, jewelry, etc. will be recovered." However, those deeds, title deeds, bonds, etc., can be recovered, because they are all registered, and the thieves take it like a piece of waste paper, worthless. But, for me, that's so important!"
It turned out that this Gu Guisheng was a native of Ningbo, and his ancestors were the local rich and powerful households, and the real estate deeds that he had in Ningbo and the land deeds that were stolen by the snitch were the certificates of these real estate rights. Originally, copies of these deeds were left in the local government office, and they could be replaced if they were lost, as long as they spent a certain amount of money. However, when the Japanese army attacked Ningbo a few years ago, the government was bombed, and those copies had long been burned. In this way, he went back to go through the procedures for replacement and did not have the voucher, but instead informed the local bullies that he had no vouchers for these real estate in his hands, reminding them that they could seize it. Therefore, Gu Guisheng pinned his hopes on Shao Huaigu and asked to do his best to recover these deeds. He proposed to Shao Huaigu that if the deeds were to be recovered, he would be willing to pay 10% of the current value of these real estates as an honorarium.
Shao Huaigu listened while drinking wine, laughing without speaking. After a while, he slowly spoke, "I think it is not a very difficult thing to recover the deed, and I would like to have to recover most of the property as well."
Gu Guisheng was overjoyed, "Ah! Thank you both so much!"
Mrs. Gu and The Big Miss next to them also gratefully greeted them with smiling faces and poured wine diligently.
Shao Huaigu added: "Mr. Gu said that these contracts are all named, so it will be easy to handle." It was useless to him, but it seemed that the lord was an insatiable and greedy fellow, and it was estimated that he would not give up these deeds that seemed useless to him in vain. He will most likely send you a letter and ask you to pay for the deed to be redeemed. When the time comes, no matter how much he asks for, you will first promise to come down and then notify me. I have my own way of ignoring him. Gu Guisheng nodded and said, "Yes!" be! I'll do what you say. ”
The situation was unexpectedly estimated by Shao Huaigu again: before the banquet was over, the postman sent a letter from the snitch, asking him to go to the "Dahongyun Hotel" at 7 o'clock that night to redeem the real estate deed. Gu Guisheng shook his head in surprise while reading the letter, "This thief's bone, really black heart, actually offered 10 strips!"
10 strips is 100 taels of gold. Gu Guisheng's real estate, according to the market price at that time, was about 1,000 taels of gold. The snitch's asking price is exactly 10% of the actual value, which shows that he knows the real estate market.
Shao Huaigu said, "A good thing! Mr. Gu, you will go to Dahong Luck tonight!"
Gu Guisheng was a little worried, "Will that guy have another flower bucket?"
"It's all right. You just go, I have my own arrangements. ’
Five
After Shao Huaigu left the Gu Mansion, he immediately informed Ah Qing to report Zhou Fohai: The snitch had shown his face and was ready to take action tonight and take it down in one fell swoop.
Zhou Fohai was overjoyed, and a word came: If you want to catch him alive, ask him if you have something to ask him
At the same time, Zhong Gongjun also reported the situation to the Shanghai District of the Military Command. Qi Qingbin, the secretary of the Shanghai district, was overjoyed and immediately asked Zhong Gongjun to discuss an ambush plan with Shao Huaigu in order to mobilize agents to arrest people.
Shao Huaigu and Zhong Gongjun went to the "Dahongyun Hotel" to observe the terrain on the ground and decided to capture the snitch in the hotel. The two men drew up a plan in which Zhong Gongjun sent fifteen agents to the Shanghai district of the military command.
After Shao Huaigu made proper arrangements, he called the police station, saying that he was going to do something at the "Dahongyun Hotel" tonight, and that there might be some disturbance, and that there might be some good people who would call the police station to report the case to the police, so that the police officer on duty would not have to care and would not need to send someone over. With Shao Huaigu's old face, the police station agreed to it.
In the evening of the same day, Shao Huaigu and Zhong Gongjun took a rickshaw to the "Dahongyun Hotel". It was a three-bay two-story restaurant that burned Huibang cuisine and was quite famous in Shanghai Beach. In the 1920s and 1930s, Wang Yaqiao, a famous legend and leader of the Axe Gang and known as the "Assassination of the Great King", frequented the area, and several famous assassinations in Chinese history, such as the "North Station Assassination of Song" (Song Ziwen), the "Lushan Assassination of Chiang Kai-shek", and the "Hongkou Park Bombing (Assassination of The Japanese General Shirakawa), are said to have been planned in this hotel. When Shao Huaigu and the two passed, the fifteen prearranged military agents had already disguised themselves as customers and dispersed into the hotel, scattered in pairs at the door, the staircase, and the upstairs seats, ordering some wine and dishes and eating and drinking. Shao Huaigu and Zhong Gongjun chose a seat on the ground floor, ordered a few dishes, asked for a bottle of wine, and whispered something while eating like friends in the business field.
At 6:30, Gu Guisheng slowly walked into the hotel with a leather bag that looked heavy, and according to the pre-agreed agreement, he sat down in the seat facing the staircase, looked around, looked at Shao Huaigu for a moment, and then beckoned the running hall to send two pairs of tableware to ask for a pot of tea to drink.
At this time, three men came in from outside, wearing long shirts and top hats, and it seemed that the style was a bit of a gang background. One of them seemed to be very familiar with the hotel's accounting room, and Lao Yuan greeted him, and then took a fancy to the seat where Gu Guisheng was staying, and stepped forward to ask Gu to let him out. Gu Guisheng was not originally a good-tempered person, and he did not eat to give up his position, but he did not have the heart to argue with the other party at the moment, so he calmed down and changed his seat, also on the side of the table where Shao Huaigu was based. The three men ordered many dishes, asked for two bottles of shochu, and drank freely.
About ten minutes later, a tricycle came to the door of the "Great Fortune" and came down a young woman dressed in a strange shape: wearing a light red cheongsam, the hem fork was opened high, revealing two white thighs wrapped in flesh-colored "glass stockings"; The pair of high-heeled leather shoes on his feet were polished and polished, in stark contrast to the thighs, attracting many eyes to look at it: a vulgar face dressed with white cosmetics and bright red lipstick reflected the arrogance that was newly enlarged at first glance, with a gold necklace and earrings, and was alive with the appearance of a low-level kiln sister. After sending the tricycle driver away with two silver millimeters, she entered the shop hall with a shake and a twist, stood three feet inside the door, turned her head and twisted her neck to look into the shop, as if looking for an acquaintance.
At this time, the one of the three men who knew the hotel accounting room before suddenly found this woman, immediately stood up and greeted her, waved at her, and asked her to pass. But the woman smiled, shook her head, and went straight upstairs.
At this moment, neither Shao Huaigu nor Zhong Gongjun had connected this kiln-like woman to this case.
At this time, the most anxious person is the lost owner Gu Guisheng. He sat there, pretending to be relaxed, seemingly leisurely sipping a cup of tea, with a faint smile on his face. However, my heart was like overturning a fiery brazier, and it had already burned to the ground. He was worried that if the snitch temporarily changed his mind and did not come to the appointment, then his real estate worth a thousand taels of gold would be in danger of being destroyed. Therefore, no matter how much he maintained his apparent composure, he had to look at the wall clock on the wall wall of the store again and again, and then quickly glanced at the door.
The appointed time soon arrived, and the wall clock on the wall rang seven times. In the time since the woman entered the store, there has only been one hunchbacked old man. In the late spring, he was still wearing a thick jacket, a worn-out melon skin hat on his head, and a dry yellow braid like a dog's tail hanging from the back of his head. The age was not small, and the cane he was holding in his hand was trembling and shaking uncontrollably. The old man found a random seat in the corner of the store, ordered only two dishes, a pot of rice wine, and poured himself a drink.
As soon as the bell rang, Gu Guisheng couldn't sit still. Several times he tried to stand up, but he was stopped by Shao Huaigu at the next table with a decisive look. He remembered Shao Huaigu's previous instruction that "without my secret code, you are not allowed to leave the hotel", so he had to insist on sitting down.
A moment later, the woman had come down from upstairs. She stood on the third step of the stairs, still looking left and right for a while, and finally cast her eyes on the corner where the old man was sitting, smiled, and then turned upstairs.
As an old detective, Shao Huaigu had his own unique ability to observe things, and when the woman went downstairs to stop at the third level, he realized that there might be a drama singing here. When the woman smiled and went upstairs, he immediately realized that there was something wrong in that corner. Because he had his back to the corner, he was afraid of hitting the grass and startling the snake and did not turn his face to look at it, so he whispered to Zhong Gongjun, "Notice that there are flower heads in that corner."
Zhong Gongjun, who was facing the corner direction, had not yet had time to speak, and was already surprised to see the hunchbacked old man stand up and leave the table and walk towards Gu Guisheng's seat. He quickly made a look at Shao Huaigu, and the two of them felt relieved: the target was finally hooked!
When Gu Guisheng was still worried that the snitch would not come, the hunchback old man had already come to his side, "Hello!"
Gu Guisheng resumed the big boss style, squinting at the other party, "I don't know you." ”
"But I know you!" As soon as the voice dropped, the other party had already picked up the purse, "Oh, Mr. Gu brought something." ”
Only then did Gu Guisheng realize that the snitch was coming. For a moment, he looked at the snitch in a daze, not knowing whether it was surprise or fear, but he could not speak.
The snitch looked very natural, and his smile did not fade, "Hey hey, Mr. Gu, we haven't seen each other for nearly ten years. He spoke a northern dialect with a Shandong accent.
Gu Guisheng looked back and nodded, "Yes, yes." Sir please sit, I called the running hall to come, let's order. ”
"Let's go upstairs to the bar, and I'll treat you to this meal." Upstairs, it's quiet, and we can have a few words of wine. "
Gu Guisheng was already involuntarily at this moment, and had to nod, "This... Go upstairs or go. ”
In this way, the snitch and Gu Guisheng moved upstairs.
Shao Huaigu and Zhong Gongjun looked at each other, smiled slightly, and made a gesture. Zhong Gongjun coughed, and three agents had already followed him upstairs.
Upstairs, the enchanted woman saw the snitch coming up, suddenly got up and went downstairs, and in the blink of an eye, she went out. Shao Huaigu was moving his mind, and he hadn't paid much attention to it. After the snitch and Gu Guisheng went upstairs, they summoned the running hall, and when they were ordering, they suddenly seemed to feel that something was wrong, and they looked around, and there were already several big men around them!
The snitch's face changed, and a pair of eyes suddenly looked at Gu Guisheng like a flame, and sneered: "Hum, Mr. Gu is very good at it!" Where Gu Guisheng had experienced such a scene, he was shocked and afraid, a face swollen like a pig's liver, and he moved his lips but could not say half a word. At this time, Zhong Gongjun had already appeared at the top of the stairs, witnessed this situation, and drank: "What else are you doing?" Take it down for me!"
Several big men showed their pistols and aimed them at the snitch. The first bearded man said, "Dude, if you are a friend, don't make trouble for us, obediently follow us!"
The snitch laughed: "Haha, brother, I have traveled all over the world in order to make friends, and there is no reason for the friends sent to me not to make friends?" Folks, let me have a glass of wine and go. ”
At this time, the diners upstairs saw that the momentum of this side was not right, and they got up and slid downstairs. But downstairs, they were blocked by secret agents and did not let them go out. Upstairs, the snitch beckoned the running hall to take a bottle of wine, poured a cup, lifted his hand, and the agents surrounding him thought that he was going to drink it all, but unexpectedly only heard a "whoosh" sound, a burst of spicy gas swept over his face, and his eyes could not be opened!
While spilling out the spirits, the snitch threw the bottle in his hand at Zhong Gongjun, who had already seen it. Zhong Gongjun definitely did not expect this guy to have such a move, hastily turned his head to the side and let the bottle pass. In the blink of an eye, the snitch had jumped on the table, shouted, jumped over several tables in succession, and came to the one on the right under the slot window (a large skylight built on the roof of a Shanghai building that can be opened), with his hands raised, his feet lifted, and his body was on the tiger window!
Zhong Gongjun saw that it was not good, and he aimed his hand at the lower limb of the snitch, but it was still a delay, and the snitch had already escaped through the window!
Six
Fifteen people did not catch a single thief, which was the first time in Shao Huaigu's decades of criminal investigation. While the old man had to admire the snitch's skill, he also had great doubts about the skills of the military command agents called by Zhong Gongjun. At that time, although he did not know that these people were from the military command, including the identity of Zhong Gongjun, he still perceived these guys as different from the hooligans with many years of experience in dealing with various people and so on. However, Shao Huaigu did not say a word, and told Ah Qing about the situation that night.
The snitch appeared and let him escape, which was nothing more than an alarm for Zhou Fohai, reminding him that the snitch could not have been deceived for the second time, so that the military command's secret killing order could not be returned!
Zhou Fohai was greatly annoyed and summoned Shao Huaigu overnight, and there was a great sense of blame between his words. But he also knew that he couldn't do anything to Shao Huaigu at this time, and after saying a few words, he asked if there was a remedy. Shao Huaigu naturally couldn't say anything for a moment, and promised to go back and think about the tiger again.
The old man in his sixties had not slept very well, and to give this matter such a toss, Shao Huaigu had not fallen asleep that night, lying on the bed and thinking repeatedly about how to renew the broken clues. Thinking that the east showed a fish belly and had not yet come up with a result, the stomach was hungry, so he simply got up and opened a bottle of "daughter red" to drink morning wine. This drink actually made Shao Huaigu come up with a remedy. Shao Huaigu remembered that before the snitch appeared, the enchanted woman who had entered the hotel before him had come down from the upper floor and stood on the stairs to look at the corner where the snitch was staying, presumably sending a signal to the snitch. She came to the hotel first to check on safety, and was sure that there was no danger, so she signaled the snitch to appear. In this way, the woman was the accomplice of the snitch. Thinking further down, the woman had greeted a man when she entered the hotel, and the man had met Mr. Bookkeeper of the hotel. In this way, as long as you go to Mr. Accounting, you can probably find the woman who has a significant connection with this case.
Shao Huaigu did not drink the wine at the moment, and immediately called a rickshaw to go to the "Great Hongyun". Finding the accounting room, the other party heard that the bad old man in front of him was Shao Huaigu of the Shanghai Beach Ying Fishing House, and he couldn't help but be awe-inspired, asking what to answer. In this way, Shao Huaigu easily figured out the name and address of the man who greeted the "Kiln Sister" woman.
The man's name was Shen Gao, and he lived in "Mingyuanfang", a crossroads from "Dahongyun", and was a regular customer of "Dahongyun". I heard that it was a small leader of the zodiac, who was familiar with all parties in the jianghu and was a villain in this area.
Shao Huaigu, in accordance with the rules of the inspection room at that time for the investigation of people with some power in Shanghai Beach, prepared a gift, attached a business card, and went to the door to ask to see Shen Gao. But he ate a closed door soup, Shen Gao asked his family to return the gift intact, and carried a sentence: Which person is Shen Gaoye?
![He was once the number one person in the military command, and Chiang Kai-shek's confidant Mao Renfeng, why did he end up in such a miserable situation?[fig]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACwAAAAAAQABAAACAkQBADs=)