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On a snowy afternoon in December 1954, residents of a residential building in Luda City (renamed Dalian in 1981) discovered that a new neighbor had moved in, a brightly dressed couple with four children. The man was very enthusiastic, and before anyone asked, he introduced himself and said that his name was Pu Daji, a trader who came to the northeast to do some small business, settled in Luda, and will be neighbors with everyone in the future, please take care of each other, Yunyun——
Gu Meijuan, who lived opposite the door, looked at the family and saw that they were all wearing brand new and the latest style of material coats of the year, and they looked really rich.
In early 1955, Pu Daji made a big deal that stunned the residents of the entire building - he bought an entire building for money and became a landlord, and the other residents of the building became Pu Daji's tenants. However, Pu Daji did not change because of the change of identity, he treated people as he was kind, polite, and the rent collected was also very fair and reasonable; the monthly rent of 156 households was according to the size of the house, the small household only charged one yuan, and the large household only charged two yuan, adding up to more than 20 yuan, which was much more conscientious than the ruthless "owner" of the old society.
Preserved to the present old Russian style residential buildings in the Luda area
Gu Meijuan has heard Pu Daji tearfully tell his "history of blood and tears" before liberation more than once: "Before liberation, I did business, I was persecuted by enemies and traitors, and I had to eat and escape the famine. That family is so good, not only gave me food, taught me to read, but also promised my daughter to me as a mother-in-law..."
Gu Meijuan has heard calluses in her ears, and Pu Daji is always particularly engaged when she says this, and she will squeeze a few tears just right when she talks about misery. But it is unilateral transmission, whether you like to listen to it or not, he will always tell you this, as soon as he says it, he can talk for a long time, and it is upsetting to talk directly, and often he leaves under an excuse without waiting for Pu Daji to finish speaking.
But Gu Meijuan is an "intellectual" who graduated from junior high school (in 1955, the cultural literacy movement had just spread to the stage of high school, that is, the fourth, fifth and sixth grades of primary school, and she could basically be regarded as an "intellectual" after attending junior high school), plus she was a housewife, usually doing housework at home, and had a lot of time to listen to people's gossip, so Pu Daji's "endorsement" she listened to all of them word for word, and she would memorize it over time.
Literate housewives in the fifties
However, after listening to it, Gu Meijuan pondered the wrong taste in these words - from Pu Daji's chattering narration, sometimes she could hear a half-sentence of reactionary remarks. In addition, listening to his description, he had a miserable life before liberation, and after liberation, he could barely be considered a food and clothing, but why did he dress so boldly? Since the couple came to Luda with their children, they have not seen them go out to work. I heard them say that they are enough to live by collecting rent, but the rent of this building is collected for less than 30 yuan a month, how can they provide for a family of six to eat and drink spicy for a month? Does Puda Guitar still have real estate elsewhere? And where does the money for buying a house come from?
As the suspicion grew, Gu Meijuan couldn't sit still, and one day took the opportunity to buy vegetables on the street to run to the police station in the prefecture, facing the police who received her, pointing out that she wanted to find Director Liu of the police station, and the loudness of her voice directly calmed the female police who received her, and hurriedly called Director Liu out. Then, Gu Meijuan voiced all her doubts about the neighbor and landlord's family who had only moved in for a few months.
Type 55 men's police uniform
Type 55 women's police uniform
Director Liu thought that Gu Meijuan's suspicions were very reasonable, so he instructed her to use the opportunity of visiting the door to investigate the truth, and strive to find out the details of Pu Daji from Pu Daji's wife and children as a breakthrough...
One day, Gu Meijuan visited Pu Daji's house again, when Pu Daji was not at home, only Pu's wife was reading a book at the table. When she saw Gu Meijuan stepping into the threshold, she immediately changed the book she was reading in a panic, and before she could cover the book, Gu Meijuan had already walked to her.
"Sister-in-law of the Pu family, what book are you reading? Show me okay? Gu Meijuan said affectionately.
Pu Daji's wife was obviously a little unhappy, and casually took a copy of the 1953 Shanghai Jinzhang Bookstore edition of "Dream of Red Mansions" and threw it in front of Gu Meijuan: "Look, Dream of Red Mansions." ”
1953 Shanghai Jinzhang Bookstore edition of "Dream of the Red Mansion"
"I've already read this Dream of Red Mansions, and I'm talking about that one." Gu Meijuan directly pointed to the book that Pu Daji's wife had just placed on the table and did not have time to cover up the book with a cover full of foreign characters and asked.
"This, this is an old book I bought from the thrift market, ready to pack things for." Pu Daji's wife is obviously a little weak-hearted.
Gu Meijuan didn't say anything, and she no longer insisted on reading it, but there was a question mark in her heart: You still read the old books used to wrap things so intently, and now you don't admit it. It is really strange that someone who can read foreign books would actually marry Pu Daji, the person who claimed to be going to eat, and there must be something behind it.
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A few days later, Pu Daji, who was usually well-dressed, suddenly changed into a set of shabby clothes and started a business of inlaid glass, carrying a box containing six or seven glasses every day to go out early and return late. But the careful Gu Meijuan found that the glasses he brought out every day were the same. At first, Gu Meijuan couldn't confirm it, but after looking at it more, she confirmed that it was the same several glasses, and even the characteristics of each glass she could identify.
However, five or six days later, Pu Daji disappeared again and did not return home for several days. Where did it go?
Gu Meijuan originally wanted to directly inquire with Pu Daji's wife, but looking back, Pu Daji's wife would definitely not tell her the truth, and their husband and wife must be wearing a pair of pants, and it was impossible to understand anything valuable. But to stop here, with her Gu Meijuan's character, it is impossible, absolutely impossible. So Gu Meijuan played a hand of "curve to save the country", and she found that the female dependents of several neighbors had a good relationship with Pu Daji's wife, and she often interacted with each other. So I asked them to inquire, and the saying I heard was: Pu Daji went to the countryside of Jinzhou to set people with glass and paint houses.
The scene of repairing houses in the countryside in the 50s
Brush the house? As far as Pu Daji's thin arms and legs can brush and do this kind of rough work, it is clearly "hanging a sheep's head to sell dog meat", and he doesn't know what the hell is going on behind his back. Soon, Pu Daji finally went home, Gu Meijuan asked him with concern that it was difficult for him to do these rough jobs, and Pu Daji instantly became a little embarrassed, and said directly: It's not difficult, it's not difficult.
A few days later, a postman sent Pu Daji's family a remittance slip that he had heard was from abroad, and after getting this remittance slip, Pu Daji and his wife were very afraid of people. In those days, remittances from abroad were absolutely rare, and there was an endless stream of neighbors who came to ask them out of curiosity, and Pu Daji and his wife always avoided talking about him, but they refused to answer positively.
These suspicious situations, Gu Meijuan reported to the director of the police station Liu in a fifty-one manner, and raised her own questions: Could Pu Daji and his two sons be spies sent by the enemy? Director Liu thought that Gu Meijuan's speculation was not unreasonable, so he reported the situation to the city bureau, and the Luda City Public Security Bureau attached great importance to it, and immediately organized forces to file a case against Pu Daji and his wife for investigation——
After leaving the bottom file of Pu Daji's remittance slip, it was found that the remittance slip came from Hong Kong, but through the internal inquiry of the Ministry of Public Security, it was found that the sent address was not found here, so it was immediately seized of this clue to investigate deeply, and it turned out that the remittance slip was sent by a so-called non-profit information consulting agency located in Hong Kong, and further investigation found that the background behind this so-called information consulting agency was the notorious "Western company" - the CIA's leather bag company in Hong Kong! It turned out that Pu Daji was really a special agent who was infiltrated into the activities of the brigade by the US imperialist secret services!
After collecting conclusive evidence, public security fighters from the Luda City Public Security Bureau raided Pu Daji's house one day in May 1955 in full armor and arrested Pu Daji and his wife on the spot.
Public security police in the 50s
After being escorted back to the city bureau, Pu Daji's "couple" told them that they had been assigned by a "Western company" to infiltrate the Luda area in the name of husband and wife, specifically collecting military intelligence on the Lushun Military Port and economic intelligence such as the throughput of Dalian Port; Instructions are hidden in words in foreign writing, marked with specific words or letters, and read together to form a complete instruction. Since Pu Daji did not understand English, the female spy dressed as Pu Daji's wife was responsible for translation, and Pu Daji was responsible for going out to spy on intelligence.
In this way, they successfully sent intelligence twice, fortunately they were discovered in time, otherwise the losses caused were immeasurable.
By the way: three of the four children brought by Pu Daji "couple" are not related to them in any way, they are orphans adopted in Hong Kong, and only the youngest child is the "result" of their fake play when they were trained in Hong Kong. It is precisely because of such a biological flesh and blood that they behaved like a real couple and deceived many people.
In the end, Pu Daji was sentenced to 7 years in prison for espionage, and his "wife" was sentenced to 3 years in prison.