The "Dusty Files" series - "Iron Hand" was arrested

First, a devious character

This location is the famous attraction and landmark building of Nanjing, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties- the Drum Tower. The first appearance of "Ghost Hand Monster" is on the lawn in front of the Drum Tower Bell Pavilion.

Although Chinese the roar of the PLA's test artillery on the other side of the Yangtze River can already be heard in Nanjing, and the vehicles of the Kuomintang military and police on the streets are also honking and honking from time to time, the common people still live the same life as before according to the rhythm and custom of the past, but from time to time a smile appears on their faces that are about to come.

This morning, some morning practitioners came to the big bell pavilion as usual, both men and women, young and old. These people are in groups of three or five, each practicing their own, mostly in boxing. The "ghost hand monster" was targeted by one of the bagua palm practitioners, seven or eight young men surrounded a middle-aged man of about forty years old, first watching him practice, and then following the comparison under his guidance. It could be seen that not long after these disciples worshiped the master, the threshold of the Bagua Palm did not cross into it.

At about seven o'clock, the bag of bagua practitioners finished their activities, packed up their clothes and prepared to leave. Just then, the "Ghost Hand Monster" appeared. His attire was similar to that of the "military command" and "central command" often seen at that time, as well as the agents of the gendarmerie and the police department, and plainclothes: a black shirt, wearing a wide-brimmed top hat, the brim of the hat covered half of his face, and a pair of sunglasses on the bridge of his nose. No one noticed where he came from, but when everyone had just gathered to leave, he stood in front of everyone. Everyone was surprised to see it, because in general, this kind of dressed master is unlikely to come out early in the morning, and usually does not have the hobby of interfering in morning exercises in venues such as Drum Tower and Xuanwu Lake.

Just as everyone was looking at this uninvited guest in a daze, this person opened his mouth, laughed before he said anything, and threw his hands at the middle-aged man who taught boxing: "Ho ho! This master has practiced extremely well, and the brother is an eye-opener! admire! admire! ”

As soon as the other party said this, everyone thought they had come to kick the field. When the middle-aged man was thinking about how to deal with it, the other party stood by his side, and the tone was sincere: "Really, the master's punch is really good!" As he spoke, he raised his hand and gently patted the middle-aged man's left shoulder and back junction twice.

When the middle-aged man wanted to talk, the man spat out two words: "Farewell"! He nodded and walked away, stunned a group of people.

On April 13, 1949, there were still ten days before the liberation of Nanjing.

Since there are still a number of objects that have been harmed by the "Ghost Hand Monster", I am afraid that the reader will be confused by the names of one by one, so I will arrange them in alphabetical order in the order of appearance. This middle-aged man who practiced bagua palm appeared first, so he ranked A.

After A came home this day, he kept his usual breakfast and then did the things he usually did every day, and did not feel anything unusual at the end of the day. However, at night, the situation is weird. Before going to bed, he routinely practiced internal exercises for an hour. He has been studying Bagua palm for twenty-two years, and he does not dare to say that the fire is pure, but it is enough to say that he has a lot of experience, and he can enter the state as soon as he works. But this night, it was difficult to settle down, and as soon as the breath ran, it felt that the internal organs were different. As a result, A aroused vigilance, recalling the scene of the big bell pavilion in the morning, and couldn't help but feel a stirring in his heart, thinking that he was not being plotted by a high person. I continued to practice for a moment, but I still took out one of the life-saving Pills that I had treasured for many years.

That night, A failed to fall asleep, his internal organs burned in the first half of the night, and his severe pain in the second half of the night was severe. At dawn, A confirmed that he had suffered a serious internal injury and took another Dan Pill. After a while, his disciples who had not seen him after going to the Great Bell Pavilion came to the door to inquire, and when they saw the situation, they were shocked, and some people proposed to turn to "Zhang Jiebone" for help.

Regarding the "Zhang Bone" and his people, the southern part of Suwan is still well known. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Tianshan, a native of Zaozhuang, Shandong, refined the Art of Huang Zhi and invented a unique set of bone grafting techniques. Because the treatment of fractures is very effective, the rivers and lakes call it "Zhang Bone". Zhang passed on this set of bone graft skills and secret recipe drugs to his descendants, so the name "Zhang Bone" was passed down from generation to generation and became a famous brand. At present, several descendants of the Zhang clan who practice medicine in Nanjing are the eighth generation of Zhang Tianshan.

"Zhang Bone" not only treats fractures, but also specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of internal injuries. Therefore, at this moment, some of A's disciples remembered "Zhang Bone", and when he said it, A also agreed to ask "Zhang Bone" for diagnosis and treatment.

A What is the effect after treatment? Leave it alone. Because the second victim, B, is about to appear.

If A's conspiracy seems to have a reason to play the field- martial arts peers kicking the field, then B's encounter is inexplicable. It was evening three days later, and B hired a carriage to go to the Confucius Temple Ruyi Restaurant for a banquet. Maybe B's temperament was a little anxious, or maybe he was late that day, anyway, after the carriage arrived at the door of the restaurant and stopped, he did not wait for the coachman to help him get off the car according to the passenger rules at that time, and jumped down on his own. The partial foot slid down a little and hit the toe, just at this moment, a person came out of nowhere, reached out from behind to hold B, and said "Be careful." B stood firm, said "thank you" in his mouth, and when he looked back, he saw only the back of a man in a long black shirt and a top hat hurrying away.

As in the case of A, B did not feel anything unusual at that time, and as usual, he punched and drank with people, talking and laughing. After returning home, I didn't react much, so I went to bed and fell asleep. However, the habit of sleeping until the light of day was abolished, and B woke up at four o'clock in the morning. It was not that he wanted to wake up, but he was awakened by the burning sensation in his body, and the location of the pain was the armpit side of the armpit that had been supported by the black-shirted man when he got off the carriage in front of the Ruyi Restaurant yesterday evening.

B's family did not have any medicine for injuries, and his wife saw that he was in severe pain, remembering that his next-door neighbor Mr. Wang was a pharmacist in the hospital, and did not know whether there was any medicine at home that could relieve the pain. Knocking on the door of the Wang family and asking, Mr. Wang's family did not have painkillers. Mr. Wang asked about the situation and said that if it was indeed because of the pain caused by being "supported" by someone, it needed to be paid attention to, and it was necessary to look for the injury kelang. Mr. Wang suggested going to Shanghai to find Shi Xiaoshan of shi's injury department, and it is said that Shi Xiaoshan's treatment of internal injuries is a must in Jiangnan.

At that time, B's situation was even worse, not only was the pain difficult, but he also vomited blood twice. Therefore, he immediately went to the railway station to shanghai to find The Shi's injury department.

How was B going to Shanghai? I will not mention it here for the time being. Let's move the time forward by more than a month —

This month was an earth-shaking month for Nanjing: on April 23, the People's Liberation Army successfully crossed the river and liberated Nanjing. On April 28, the Nanjing Municipal Military Control Commission of the Chinese People's Liberation Army was established. On May 10, the Nanjing Municipal People's Government was established. On May 15, the Nanjing Municipal People's Government Public Security Bureau was established, which was unified with the Ministry of Public Security of the Military Control Commission and the Social Department of the Municipal Party Committee.

Zhou Xing, the first director of the Nanjing Municipal Public Security Bureau, was a down-to-earth cadre, and his long-term work on the defense front made him form a habit of paying attention to investigation. Therefore, at the beginning of his term of office, he liked to wear plain clothes and use his rest time to go to the streets to make private visits. The legend of the "Ghost Hand Monster" was learned by director Zhou by chance during a private visit.

So far, the "ghost hand monster" has used that kind of "mutual support", "unintentional collision", "friendly clapping" and other techniques to secretly calculate nine subjects, and the targets who have been attacked have no exception internal organ bleeding, and have been seriously bedridden.

Before the end of the day, Director Zhou Xing made an internal call. The doom of the "ghost hand monster" began with this phone call from Director Zhou. Zhou Xing's phone call was to a man named Cha Tiedian of the Criminal Public Security Corps of the Public Security Department. Cha Tiedian is a native of Cangzhou, Hebei, a Hui clan. Cangzhou is the world-famous martial arts town, thousands of years do not know how many martial arts masters, in front of the name of the surname Cha there is a "iron" word, it is easy to make people associate it with martial arts. But Cha Tiedian was a twenty-six-year-old intellectual, thin, wearing glasses and never practicing martial arts. Zha Tiedian joined the underground regiment organization when he was a teacher, and soon became an underground party member of the CCP, and when he was about to graduate three years ago, he was exposed for betrayal by traitors, and was included in the blacklist of the Kuomintang secret service organization, but fortunately he was not arrested due to the timely evacuation. After cha tiedian withdrew to the Liberated Areas, he was routinely subjected to organizational review, which was the work of the Ministry of Social Affairs. After the review, the party organization life was restored, and just when the Ministry of Social Affairs needed intellectuals, he was favored by Zhou Xing and stayed. When Zhou Xingfeng was transferred to Nanjing, he brought a group of old subordinates, and Cha Tiedian was one of them.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Nanjing Municipal Public Security Bureau, Zhou Xing was originally prepared to arrange for the work of the office of Zha Tiedian, but Zha Tiedian insisted on going to the grass-roots level to do the investigation work. As a result, he was assigned to the Criminal Public Security Corps of the Public Security Department, where he did not hold a position administratively, and was an ordinary criminal policeman, but his party status was a member of the party branch. Of course, only the CCP members and police know this, and the grass-roots party organizations in the early liberation period were not open.

Zhou Xing summoned Cha Tiedian and raised a question that made Cha Tiedian feel abrupt. The question is: If someone tells you that some part of your body is tapped lightly like you greet an acquaintance, that person suffers a serious internal injury as a result, can you believe it?

After all, Cha Tiedian came from the land of martial arts, and immediately nodded: Letter! I've heard a lot about this in my hometown! I also saw an old uncle of his own tribe secretly break the ribs of a donkey of the landlord's old rich family with a finger.

Zhou Xing nodded, "That's it, it seems that I didn't find the wrong person." This work should be done by people who believe that there are such miracles in the world, so that there is motivation for work. Zhou Xingsui briefly explained what he had heard, and at the end of the day, he said that it was necessary for the Municipal Public Security Bureau to investigate the matter, and if someone was indeed injured by a conspiracy, then whether it happened before or after the liberation of Nanjing, our public security has the responsibility to investigate this and bring the murderer out to justice. You can choose a criminal police officer who is familiar with the situation in Nanjing as an assistant, and the two will work together to investigate the situation of the "ghost hand monster" as soon as possible.

After Zha Tiedian was ordered, he selected an assistant named Guan Yangming from the criminal public security team, explained the situation, and discussed how to start the investigation. Guan Yangming is thirty years old, a native of Nanjing, and an apprentice of Mi Xing. In the old society, those who did rice work often had to carry two hundred pounds of rice bags and climb high, so they usually had a lot of strength; and Guan Yangming liked to grasp and pinch rice with his palm when he was idle, and over time he could squeeze the dried rice into a solid block, which could be imagined. In the year of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Kuomintang "returned the capital" to Nanjing, and the Capital Police Department dealt with a number of police officers who had problems when they were dismissing the Wang puppet regime, and openly recruited new police officers from the public. Because the treatment announced at that time seemed to be quite good, and at the beginning of the victory of the War of Resistance, people thought that they would have a stable life in the future and should find a stable career, so there were many applicants. As a result, the Metropolitan Police Department raised the entry threshold and the examination was very strict. Guan Yangming's boss encouraged him to try it, and as a result, he was favored by the criminal investigation brigade and hired on the spot. In this way, Guan Yangming became a criminal policeman. Until the liberation of Nanjing, the Communist Military Control Commission took over the former Kuomintang Capital Police Department. After screening the Kuomintang police officers, the receiving team dealt with some of them, dismissed some of them, and the rest as retained personnel, Guan Yangming's identity is to retain the police.

To be fair, Guan Yangming has been a criminal policeman for more than three years, due to his lack of talent, so he is a weakness in how to analyze and reason, his strength is to arrest people, some are strength, and after entering the industry, he has received some training in grappling and fighting, so whenever he catches any Jiangyang thief and a big fanatic, he is definitely going to appear, and he always rushes to the first. But at this moment, Zha Tiedian's favor on Guan Yangming was not strength, but familiarity and connections with Nanjing. He looked at Guan Yangming's file and learned that he was not only a native of Nanjing, but his late uncle was also Mr. Bookkeeper of the Gang. Cha Tiedian's intuition was that this kind of investigation might inevitably involve dealing with people who had previously participated in gangs, and Guan Yangming, with his uncle's connections, was easy to communicate with those people.

However, Zha Tiedian consulted with Guan Yangming and found that his idea did not seem to be realistic. Guan Yangming listened to Zha Tiedian solicit his opinion, so he said a sentence: "Go to find 'Zhang Jie bone' is."

Therefore, Zha Tiedian knew that there was an ancestral famous doctor in Nanjing who specialized in the treatment of orthopedic injuries, "Zhang Bone", and usually people who need to diagnose and treat bone injuries will go to find "Zhang Bone". And if "Zhang Bone" can't be cured, then go to Shanghai. At that time, Shanghai's wound medical treatment was really talented, with eight major injury departments such as Shi's, Wei's, and Lu's, as well as internal injury treatment experts who were both martial arts and doctors, including the martial arts master Wang Ziping. Therefore, the most convenient way to find out as soon as possible whether there is a "ghost hand monster" attack is to find "Zhang Jie bone".

2. Filing and investigating cases

Zha Tiedian and Guan Yangming then went to Pukou and found the clinic of "Zhang Jie bone", and when they inquired, they could not help but be surprised. According to "Zhang Jiebone", from the middle of last month before the liberation of Nanjing to the 11th of this month after the liberation, eleven patients with the same injuries have come to seek medical treatment in less than a month. The so-called "same injury situation" means that these eleven people were suddenly subjected to minor physical contact by a man without warning, and attacked by means of slapping, bumping, pushing, supporting and other means, resulting in symptoms such as visceral pain and physical inability to move within twenty-four hours after being attacked, and serious vomiting of blood.

In the medical technique of "Zhang Bone", orthopedics is the first, and then the injury department, which can also be seen from its name. Therefore, the effect of "Zhang Jie bone" for such diagnosis and treatment is not as obvious as the treatment of fractures, but the patients who have been treated by him, except for one person who is not aware of the current situation, have different degrees of relief.

Then, "Zhang Jiebone" broke the news: he heard that there was a person in Shuiximen who was doing paint business who had been attacked by the same secret attack and had died!

By this time, the criminal police had completed their mission of investigation, and they had copied down the names and addresses of the eleven patients and then resigned. But before leaving, Zha Tiedian did not forget to ask "Zhang Jiebone": "How do you estimate that these people's internal injuries were formed?" ”

Zhang Jie's answer was: This is a martial art technique, and the attacker is a master of internal skills.

Here I should responsibly tell the reader: Chinese martial arts are broad and profound, and their techniques are strange, and there are indeed hurtful techniques in this article.

For the criminal police officer in charge of the investigation, Cha Tiedian, he was convinced of this. He reported to Director Zhou Xing, and the well-informed Director Zhou also believed it. Therefore, there was a decision to form a special task force to investigate the "Ghost Hand Monster" series of injury cases.

The leader of the special case team was Served by Zha Tiedian, at that time the police force was tense, and there were only three team members, in addition to Guan Yangming, there were two criminal policemen who were also retained, one was called Huang Cong, and the other was called Deng Delong, both of whom were veteran criminal policemen in their thirties. After the establishment of the special case team, it immediately met to hold a case analysis meeting. In fact, there is nothing to analyze the facts of the case at this moment, because in fact, it is not clear how the case is. Therefore, the crowd decided to investigate the case one step ahead, to find all the victims who had been attacked by the "ghost hand monster", to inquire one by one, and to record the pen into a file.

At present, there are a total of twelve victims known, the special case team has limited manpower, and in any case, at that time, there was no such provision as "the investigation must be more than two people", so the four criminal police officers divided into four roads, delineated the objects of investigation, and began to work.

According to "Zhang Jie bone", there was a patient who did not go to his place for treatment and treatment, and it was this clue that Zha Tiedian wanted to check. Because this person did not go to the "Zhang Bone" side, the patient record of "Zhang Bone" did not have the person's name and address, so Zha Tiedian first went to the police station to check the account cancellation record, and found a thirty-seven-year-old man who died on May 10, named Teng Dagen, the cause of death was "violent illness and no cure", so he went to the Teng family to understand.

Teng Dagen, who died of a "violent illness and incurable disease", was the man with the serial number B in front. Teng Dagen was born in Dangtu, Anhui Province, and was in the dye business, with a wife and children. According to his wife, Zhang Xiuying, on the 16th of last month, Teng Dagen went to the Confucius Temple for dinner at the invitation of a friend and talked about some business matters by the way. He went by carriage, and when he got out of the carriage after arriving, someone helped him from behind with his hands under his armpits, and when he went home that night, he woke up in pain and took a bruise and put a dog skin plaster, which was ineffective. Because the Yangtze River was blocked by the Kuomintang Navy at that time, it was impossible to go to the north bank to ask "Zhang Jie bone" for diagnosis and treatment, so he directly took the morning train to Shanghai to seek medical treatment.

After Arriving in Shanghai, Teng Dagen visited Shi and Wei's two famous Shanghai injury masters within one day, and the diagnosis was consistent: he suffered a serious internal injury. The attacker injured the two major organs of the heart and lungs with special internal skills, if not treated in time, over time, the heart pulse will become weaker and weaker, and eventually it may die of incurable.

Shi Xiaoshan of the Shi Family Injury Department and Wei Zhi Salary of the Wei Family Injury Department both gave Teng Dagen a massage, prescribed external and internal Chinese medicine, but Shi and Wei both said that this internal injury was too serious and could be treated by non-injury doctors. So, is there a way to treat it? There is a way, and it sounds a bit like the saying in the martial arts novel: Please treat the martial artists of the same sect who hurt Teng Dagen.

As a famous person, if you talk to this extent, it is a sign of weakness. Teng Dagen also heard this meaning, so he consulted with the friend who accompanied him to the treatment, thinking that since he had come to Shanghai, he would simply stay for a day and ask Mr. Wang Ziping to go to the door.

Anyone who knows a little about Chinese martial arts should have heard of the name Wang Ziping. Wang Clan (王氏), zi Yongping, Hebei Cangzhou people's clan, Hui ethnic group, born in 1881, Jingcha fist, eight pole boxing, swordplay, qigong, proficient in eighteen weapons, wulin nickname "Qianjin Hercules King". In 1919, he defeated the Russian Hercules Canter in Zhongshan Park in Beijing, and later defeated the Japanese judoist Miyamoto in Jinan, where he served as the head martial arts instructor of the old army Ma Zi Zhenbu. Later, he went to Shanghai to treat injuries and orthodontics, and also taught martial arts, and taught boxing at the Jingwu Sports Association, the Chinese Wushu Association, the Wang Ziping Summer Martial Arts Training Institute, and the Jingqiang Wushu Club. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Mr. Wang Ziping served as the vice chairman of the Chinese Wushu Association.

Teng Dagen should have hope for such a martial arts master, right? The answer is: No! Mr. Wang Ziping personally examined the injury, inquired about the injury, shook his head, pondered for a long time, and sighed lightly: "Alas--first take some medicine to adjust it." Then he affirmed the diagnosis of Shi and Wei, saying that it was best to find people in the same martial arts sect as the attackers, and only they had a cure.

So, what sect is the attacker? Master Wang didn't know this either. Chinese martial arts has a long history, is broad and profound, there are many sects, each has its own secrets, since ancient times no one can tell how many sects and how many secrets, unless one is dragged out of the martial arts novel.

In this way, Teng Dagen had to return disappointed. However, after some treatment by these three injury and martial arts masters, his injuries were alleviated a lot at that time. After returning to Nanjing, he continued to take medicine and recuperate, and after a few days, the blood stopped vomiting, and the pain became intermittent. Just when Teng Dagen and his family were glad that they had finally passed this pass, on the morning of May 10, Teng Dagen suddenly felt heartache after getting up, and he vomited blood, and before he could return to His senses, he swallowed his breath.

This is the whole process of Teng Dagen being attacked and dying.

The injuries of the other eleven victims were similar to those of Teng Dagen, all of whom were coldly and "gently" treated for no reason, and then within twenty-four hours, they suffered from injuries, and half of them also vomited blood, because the victims after Teng Dagen were all after the liberation of Nanjing on April 23, when the Yangtze River blockade had been lifted, so they all went to pukou on the north bank to ask for "Zhang Jie bone" for diagnosis and treatment. How effective is it after treatment? Some said the pain was lessened, some said it had no effect, and some said it hurt even more.

Zha Tiedian and Deng Delong went to Shanghai, which had just been liberated the day before, and there was a scene of celebration. Wang Ziping's clinic also hung a red flag greeting the People's Liberation Army. The Nanjing police told Wang Ziping about the situation and asked for guidance, but they did not disclose the news that Teng Dagen had died. Wang Ziping still remembers that more than a month ago, a patient did come from Nanjing to ask him for treatment. The master is the master, and Mr. Wang said that the man had suffered a very serious internal injury, and if he had not found the best of the martial arts sect that caused him to be injured and given emergency treatment, the patient should not be alive by now. Only then did Zha Tiedian nod his head and said that although this person's injury was a case before the liberation of Nanjing, the public security organs of our people's government still wanted to investigate to the end, and asked Mr. Wang to give us guidance and help us analyze who the murderer really was, so that we could catch him in time and bring him to justice, so as not to continue to bring harm to the masses of the people.

The prince shook his head slowly, saying that he really couldn't tell what kind of martial arts man's hand it should be. When Mr. Wang saw the criminal police showing a puzzled look, he further explained: Similar to this kind of hurtful technique, practitioners of many types of boxing in Chinese martial arts can do it when they reach a certain level of skill, such as Wudang, Shaolin, Taiji, Zhiyi, Bagua, and Dacheng Quan founded by Mr. Wang Xiangzhai, and so on; as long as they are practiced to a certain extent, they can be injured at a touch. Of course, this can only be done occasionally, because it takes a certain amount of effort for the attacker himself to apply such a technique to hurt people. Let him hurt people continuously, can not do, otherwise it is not out of control for actual combat?

Deng Delong was confused and wondered if this would be Wang Ziping's deliberate sale of Guanzi. But Cha Tiedian, who came from Cangzhou, the hometown of martial arts, understood, and thanked Mr. Wang for resigning at the moment.

Two other members of the task force, Guan Yangming and Huang Cong, visited "Zhang Jiekuo" again, but they also failed to obtain relevant clues.

In this way, the special case team had to find another way to find a breakthrough. After another case analysis meeting, after some discussion, the criminal police believed that they could break through the motives of the murderer,000, so they set the next investigation: to investigate the victim's situation. Because the criminal police believe that the murderer made such a large-scale criminal case, it would definitely not be aimless and indiscriminate, and this did not commit neurosis. Therefore, the murderer must have committed the crime to achieve some purpose, so that there is actually an invisible invisible thread between the murderer and the victim. Since you can't find a clue to the murderer for a while, try to look for it from the other end of the line.

Therefore, the criminal police of the special case team made a division of labor, visiting the victims separately, Teng Dagen is dead, then learn about the relevant situation from his family. Will this investigation work? It is not known at this moment.

Intelligence: The target appears at the restaurant

After some running, the basic information of the victim obtained is as follows -

A, that is, the middle-aged man who was secretly calculated when he was an apprentice at the Great Bell Pavilion, forty-two years old, married, he was the first target of the "ghost hand monster". This is the Anhui and County people,thirty years ago with his father settled in Nanjing, is a candle shop. This person is fond of martial arts and has been practicing Bagua palms with his teacher since childhood, but his talent is ordinary and his kung fu is general. Usually humble and low-key, business pay attention to fair trading, good reputation. He has not participated in any partisan or political activities in history, and his relatives have no political ties or criminal history.

B, that is, the dead Teng Dagen, some of his situations have been explained before, here is only the part that was not mentioned: Teng Dagen has also practiced martial arts, involved in more sects, what Shaolin Quan, Taijiquan, Bagua Palm, Nan Quan have played, but that is the previous words, the past two years due to too many things in the business is too annoying, he no longer practices martial arts, just stand at home when he is idle every day, so he still maintains the mental state and shape of the past. In his lifetime, he did not participate in any party, nor did he have any friends, and he was an honest businessman.

The above two were secretly calculated by the "Ghost Hand Monster" before the liberation of Nanjing, and the following ten were all injured by the "Ghost Hand Monster" after the liberation of Nanjing.

C, the porter of Nanjing Railway Station, thirty-two years old, Gao Chunren clan, married, born in the urban poor, came to Nanjing at the age of eight, he and his relatives are innocent in history, and there is no dispute with all kinds of people in society. Injured: After work, he passed the train station square with his companions, was patted on the back from behind, thinking that he was an acquaintance, and when he turned to look, it was a man who had turned half of his face, and said "I'm sorry, I recognized the wrong person" in his mouth, and the voice did not fall, and he disappeared into the crowd.

D, an old policeman of the former Kuomintang Capital Police Department, was not retained after liberation because he participated in a secret operation of the Wang pseudo-police system and was idle at home. Thirty-five years old, married, member of the Three Youth League, member of the Kuomintang, complex social relations. He has learned boxing from his teacher and has been practicing it ever since. Injury: When he was pushing his hands with Wu You on the shore of Xuanwu Lake, he was pushed out by Wu You, and when he stepped back to the inner edge of the crowd of onlookers, he was supported by an unknown person in the crowd. At that time, I didn't care, I didn't look at who helped me, I just wanted to turn defeat into victory, so I didn't know who the attacker was.

The situation of the eight victims below is much the same as that of the above four, and considering the length of the article, I will not describe them all here.

The task force summarized and classified according to the situation investigated -

Among the twelve people who were attacked by the "Ghost Hand Monster", two of them were from Anhui (Dangtu and Hexian respectively), one was Shangyu in Zhejiang, one was in Linyi, Shandong, and the rest were from the 5 counties and cities of the former Jiangsu Province (jiangsu Province was abolished in the early liberation period and divided into two offices in northern Jiangsu and southern Jiangsu) and Nanjing;

Among the twelve, they were engaged in different occupations, their addresses were scattered throughout the city of Nanjing, and their economic situation was above and below the general level of local citizens;

There are four people who have practiced martial arts, but neither themselves nor the master, the brothers of the master, or the people in the same door are not well-known in the martial arts;

There were three people who had participated in feudal gangs and reactionary party groups, all of whom were ordinary elements;

None of them have been subjected to political or criminal punishment by the regimes of various eras, and except for D, who was an old policeman, the other eleven have a fairly good reputation. Of course, although D's reputation is a bit problematic, it has not been found to have committed any crimes, otherwise, it will not only be the result of disposing of the disposal that is not retained;

The injuries were all unconsciously injured by the man in the black shirt and top hat (later changed to a black suit and a white Panama straw hat) who gently patted, tapped, and supported from behind seemingly accidentally.

The criminal police then analyzed the above situation and wanted to find something regular in it. However, the analysis to analyze and remove nothing but the feeling that the head seems to be a circle larger, the rest of the found nothing.

The criminal police felt that the "ghost hand monster" did not have any regularity to follow for the attacks of these twelve victims, which was like a random choice, when he wanted to commit a crime, he would rush to whomever he caught. Such a way of committing crimes is the most headache for criminal police, because the lack of regularity means that it is difficult to find clues. According to the practice of criminal investigation, when such a situation arises, there is only one way to deal with it, that is, to wait for the perpetrator to commit the crime again. Although it is not known where the "ghost hand monster" will carry out the next crime in the vast city of Nanjing, the situation is different from that in April: due to the frequent appearance of the "ghost hand monster", most of the citizens of Nanjing already know that there is such a villain, and giving this nickname of "ghost hand monster" can explain this. Therefore, while people are afraid, people will also be vigilant and pay attention to prevention. It can be said that when the "ghost hand monster" commits another crime, it is easy to receive special attention.

Zha Tiedian reported this idea to the leaders of the criminal team, and the leaders immediately issued a telephone notice to the sub-bureaus in the name of the Municipal Bureau's Public Security Department, and if they received a report from the masses about the clue of the "ghost hand monster", they should immediately contact the special case group, and the special case team would rush to the scene at the first time.

At this time, it was more than seven o'clock in the evening, and criminal police officer Deng Delong had just called the public security departments of various sub-bureaus to issue a notice according to the instructions of Zha Tiedian, and the telephone switchboard of the city bureau transferred a call and asked Cha Tiedian to answer by name. The phone call came from the duty officer of the Public Security Section of the Drum Tower Substation, who said that they had just received a report from the masses that the "ghost hand monster" had appeared at the "Big Cozy Restaurant" in the Drum Tower.

"Da Cozy Restaurant" is a restaurant located on Zhongshan Road on the east side of the Drum Tower, with a two-up, two-down, two-bay façade, whose owner's surname is Qian, and who operates Huaiyang cuisine. When the task force was analyzing the case, four diners were drinking around the table behind a screen on the second floor. The four men, businessmen in the grain business, had gathered to discuss how to solve a business problem. At the beginning of the liberation of Shanghai, there was a shortage of rice, and grain merchants everywhere were eager to transport rice to Shanghai Beach for greater profits. These four people have been working together to do the rice business, and it is natural to seize this opportunity at this time. They have their own stable purchase channels, so the supply is not worried, but it is difficult to solve the problem of how to transport to Shanghai. There are three transportation channels, one is to take the Shanghai-Nanjing line by rail transportation, which is the best and fastest channel, but the railway has been managed by the military, and the government is too late to transport public materials, where will the wagons be provided to private individuals? Therefore, the channel of railway transportation can not be considered. The second is to take the road, which is theoretically feasible, but for the same reason, the government has controlled automobile transportation, not only arranging for all the cars that have belonged to the nascent regime after the takeover to transport scarce materials to Shanghai, but also requisitioning almost all the cars of private companies that can be requisitioned, so it is impossible to rent cars to run transportation. In this way, there is only a third channel left. The third channel is water shipping, which flows down the Yangtze River to Shanghai, which is convenient and low cost. The four of them gathered tonight to discuss the issue of hiring a vessel, and given the time, it would be better to hire a motorized vessel. However, at that time, there were very few motor boats, and basically all of them were hired by the government, so they had to look for retail investors. One of the four, the boss surnamed Wang, had a relatively wide road, and somehow got to know an officer of the Logistics Department of the East China Military Region, saying that recently there was a fleet of ships going to Shanghai to carry military supplies transferred from Dalian, and after the water was transported to Nanjing, it was sent overland to the south to prepare for the front. Of course, it is a loss to go to Shanghai from Nanjing, so it is necessary to transport some goods to the past. Due to the tight time, the price of the goods transported is low, which is only half of the market transportation price. Boss Wang then wanted to transport rice to Shanghai through this special channel, because this was a partnership of four people, so every shareholder had to agree. That's what I'm going to talk about today.

The other three shareholders were overjoyed to hear Boss Wang say this and so, saying that this opportunity is really difficult to find with a lantern, Lao Wang, you hurry to make a decision with others.

Just as he was saying this, a gloomy voice came into the ears of the four of them: "Hey hey! Yes, of course, such a chance to make a fortune cannot be wasted, and we must seize it quickly! ”

At that time, the restaurants were all privately operated, the investment was limited, and they were not very large, so there were usually no single rooms, such as the "Big Cozy Restaurant", which was already relatively large-scale, but there was no special single room. So, what if guests want to have a more private place to eat and talk? This problem is easy to solve, the restaurant prepares a screen, stop your pair of seats, the grade is revealed, and the privacy is relatively there. Boss Wang and the four of them are sitting behind a screen in the corner of the second floor of the "Big Cozy Restaurant" at this moment. In this way, the so-called scale of privacy can be imagined.

At this moment, this voice coming from outside the screen suddenly sealed the mouths of Boss Wang and the others. The four of them looked at each other and were silently discussing how to deal with each other, when the screen on the side that used to enter and exit the door was removed from the outside, flashed into a person, and performed a martial arts salute to the four people's palms: "Four gentlemen, good evening!" ”

It was a man of about one meter and seven meters tall, in his thirties, physically strong and full of spirit, wearing a black cardigan and lantern pants, and a white canvas hat on his head. Boss Wang and the four of them fixed their eyes on each other, and suddenly took a breath of cool air at the same time, and a frightening name appeared in their minds at the same time. Mr. Wang's mouth was fast, and he couldn't help but spit out those four words: "Ghost hand monster!" ”

The other party snorted: "Good! It is underneath. The arch of the hand turned in an arc, "This is a friend on the river and lake who raises his love brother and rewards such a nickname, ashamed!" ashamed! ”

Boss Qi, who was the head of Boss Wang, reacted the fastest, stood up, and returned the salute: "Fortunately!" Lucky! Have a seat! Please be seated! ”

The other three immediately stood up, and while returning the salute, they pulled an empty chair from the side and placed it on the top to invite the uninvited guests to enter. The "ghost hand monster" was also not polite, smiling and walking inside, when he passed by Qi and Wang, the two of them quickly and subconsciously kept a distance, only afraid that he would reach out his hand to show "friendliness" to his own body, and get a consequence of not dying or being injured. After the "ghost hand monster" sat down on the top, he waved his hand and said, "You don't have to be so wary, there are wronged heads, debts have masters, and the people I have chosen to do are all doing bad things." Then again, anyone I have chosen as a target, no matter how much he avoids it, cannot escape. ”

Although Boss Wang is a businessman, he is not timid and has a sense of justice, and he has decided to call the police immediately at this moment. So while shouting "running hall", he walked towards the door of the screen, only to move two steps, and was gently stopped by the "ghost hand monster": "Calling the running hall to come in is that you don't have to go out." ”

Boss Wang's heart was cold: It seems that this master is not confused and has a wary heart. When he returned to his seat, he just looked at Boss Qi with his eyes, so he quickly handed over a look, feeling a little worried in his heart, not knowing whether Boss Qi would care.

Boss Qi actually already had the heart to call the police, and when he saw that Boss Wang failed to implement it, he knew that he was going to do it. At this time, the running hall came in, so he ordered the addition of tableware to increase the dishes, and said that he wanted wine. Running Tang asked what kind of wine he wanted, and Boss Qi already had an idea in his heart, saying that he wanted to drink foreign wine, and spat out a string of English in his mouth. The running hall was stunned to hear it, saying that there was no such wine in the store, and that he had never heard of this kind of foreign wine. Boss Qi shook his head and said that you should really learn again, this foreign wine is British goods, it used to take twelve ocean bottles, and now it has risen to twenty oceans. Today this gentleman is our distinguished guest, and I have to use this wine to invite him to show his sincerity. In this way, please go to the front "Zhongding Trading House" for a run, this kind of wine is only available there. I'm there for bookkeeping, and you take this business card and the boss knows.

Running Tang believed it to be true and nodded his head repeatedly. Just as he took a step from his business card, he asked, "Boss, what kind of wine do you say?" I forgot. ”

Boss Qi then "naturally" took out a pen and wrote a line on the business card: "Hold!" It doesn't matter if you don't understand it, people can understand it. It looks like you're a bit presumptuous, be careful on the way, don't break the wine. ”

At that time, diners did not write a list when they went to the restaurant to order, they all remembered it in their minds, and the same was true at checkout, so eight or nine of the ten running halls were illiterate, and if they were literate, they did not have to be running halls. This running hall belonged to the eight or nine inside, but he was clever, and at the moment he already felt that something was wrong, so he nodded and took the business card and left.

The running hall took the business card to the accounting desk, and mr. accounting room looked at it and said: "Ghost hand monster!" Call the police! I couldn't help but be surprised, but this old gentleman was timid and did not dare to make a decision, so he immediately went to ask Boss Qian for instructions. According to the experience of the jianghu, the boss is more than less, but now it is a new society, and if he does not cooperate at this step, it is not impossible for the public security bureau to come back to the door, and it is not impossible to catch him and eat a lawsuit. Therefore, after weighing it up again and again, Boss Qian called the Gulou Sub-Bureau.

At the moment, Cha Tiedian was very happy to hear the news, saying that they all changed into plain clothes, brought pistols and handcuffs, and we immediately set out to catch the "ghost hand monster". Huang Cong was a little timid, saying that the "ghost hand monster" was skilled in martial arts, could the four of us go? If Zha Tiedian said that four to one is not enough, why are we still doing the police? Don't be afraid, I'll be the first to rush to the ground! Guan Yangming said Xiao Cha you are robbing my business, arresting people has always been my business, where to use your punch?

When the four criminal police officers rushed to the "Big Cozy Restaurant", the "Ghost Hand Monster" was drinking a bottle of miscellaneous foreign wine that the restaurant owner had sent to the screen to explain his intentions to Wang, Boss Qi and others. He said that he had clearly heard the business of the four bosses outside the screen, and now that it had just been liberated, it was unknown whether the Communist Party's world would sit for a long time, and it was a chaos to get out of Nanjing, the Yangtze River waterway was not peaceful, not to mention Shanghai, so although you used the brand of military transportation, it was difficult to say whether it would be done in Shanghai. I see that all of you are kind and kind people, and I can't help but feel compassion and want to help you. I don't want to hide from you that I have quite a few friends in the rivers and lakes, and Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Shanghai, black and white still buy me some accounts, so with me here, I can guarantee that there will be no problems. I wonder what you think?

At this point, the criminal police had already entered the "big cozy restaurant". Cha Tiedian looked at the terrain and let the diners upstairs quietly leave. Guan Yangming, the most powerful of the four criminal policemen, disguised himself as a chef and brought white sugar and silver ear into the screen, and the previous running hall introduced that this was the chef's name, please taste it for free. Guan Yangming stepped forward, stubbornly clasped a bowl of silver ear to the face of the "Ghost Hand Monster", and took advantage of his distraction to hold it. Zha Tiedian, Huang Cong, and Deng Delong immediately overturned the screen, and together they struck, crushing the "ghost hand monster" to the ground board, handcuffing them and tying their hands and feet with ropes so that they could not move, so that they could not move, and only then did they call a carriage to escort the city bureau.

As soon as he arrived at the city bureau, he was immediately interrogated, but after asking a few words, his joy turned into soap bubbles: the arrestees said that he was not a "ghost hand monster", but pretended to be a "ghost hand monster" and wanted to get some money from others!

The arrestees confessed the following: His name was Yan Yixing, a native of Jiangning County, a suburb of Nanjing, thirty-three years old, from a small merchant family, with a primary school education, engaged in hawkers, porters, boats, and other occupations, and became a family, but his wife soon ran away with people. In the autumn of the year before the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he was taken down by the water patrol police of the Wang puppet regime on the surface of the river near Zhenjiang because he participated in the robbery activities of the Yangtze River water bandit gang "Eating River Regiment". The two first offenders of the "Eating River Tuan" were executed, the three main offenders were sentenced to heavy sentences, and Yan Yixing was sentenced to seven years in prison because he was a new recruit, and he was escorted to Zhenjiang Prison to serve his sentence.

After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the judicial department of the Kuomintang regime took over Zhenjiang Prison, screened and dealt with the detainees, released a number of prisoners, and shot a number of them. In this way, Yan Yixing spent another four years in prison, ushering in the liberation of Zhenjiang and the communist regime taking over the prison. After the takeover, the detainees were also screened, and this time Yan Yixing benefited, perhaps because he belonged to the working people's class and served more than half of his sentence, so he was released early.

Yan Yixing returned to his hometown in Jiangning, and his father, who was over sixty years old, advised him to find a job and be honest. Yan Yixing agreed, asked his father for some money, and went to Nanjing City to find a job. He wandered around the city of Nanjing for a week, and his job was not found, but he heard rumors about the "ghost hand monster" from several friends he had made before, and he couldn't help but move in his heart: Since people talk about the "ghost hand monster" so much, why don't I fake this and make some money?

After the idea was decided, Yan Yixing began to implement it. I bought a set of lines with the money that had not yet been tossed out, and began to wander around looking for the target. In this turn, he set his sights on Wang, Qi and other four bosses. At that time, Yan Yixing happened to pass by the "Big Cozy Restaurant" and saw two tricycles pulling four boss-like people, and at a glance, he knew that they had come to talk about business. Yan Yixing's plan was to scare the other party in the name of "ghost hand monster" and let the other party take some money out, but he did not expect that the other party would actually call the police. And so bad luck struck.

In the next few days, the special case team received several reports about the discovery of the clue of the "ghost hand monster", but the investigation was all fictitious. At this point, the task force realized that the previous work idea did not seem to work, and it seemed that it needed to be adjusted.

Fourth, this woman hides secrets

Cha Tiedian is a person who is very good at using his brain and likes to use his brain, and is good at thinking when he encounters any problems. At this moment, he is also like this, when he finds that a road is not working, he summons three team members to a meeting to study, saying that we will review the case and related materials to see if we can find clues to solve the case that have not been found before. Although the three members of the group were not the criminal investigation elite of the former Kuomintang Capital Police Department, the good villains had also participated in the investigation of some criminal cases, and everyone got together and chatted, and they didn't know which one was the first to start, anyway, they felt that they had found a problem.

If you don't pay close attention to this problem, it will really slip through. That was the impression left by Zha Tiedian when he went to the Shuiximen police station to learn about teng dagen who was injured and died by the "ghost hand monster", when the household registration police took out the registration materials left by the family of the deceased when they came to cancel the hukou, and the cause of teng Dagen's death was said to be "violent illness and incurable". At that time, the investigation did not have a complete set of procedural regulations on how to do it, so Zha Tiedian did not ask the police station to give him a copy, but he left such an impression. Cha Tiedian recounted the situation at that time. The other three criminal police officers listened, not knowing who suddenly asked what it meant: "Violent illness cannot be cured"? The situation of the deceased Teng Dagen should not be "violent disease", he should be "hurt by people, and die without treatment".

With this said, everyone felt that the problem had finally been discovered. This situation seems to be abnormal, is it that the family did not clearly explain the cause of death when they went to the police station to report the death, or did they make it clear, but the police officer recorded by the police station did not record it truthfully? This is a problem that must be investigated!

Therefore, Zha Tiedian called the criminal police officer Deng Delong to go to the Shuiximen police station together. At that time, the city's public security system knew that the municipal bureau had set up a special case team and was making every effort to investigate the case of "ghost hands and monsters", so the police station attached great importance to them, and the director personally received them. Zha Tiedian said what he meant, and the director summoned the two policemen in charge of household registration and asked them to directly answer the questions of the criminal police of the special case team.

The two police officers, one is an old policeman who has been retained, and the other is Xiao He, a young woman who has newly been recruited into the underground league after liberation into the public security force.

Xiao He thought about it and said that it was the deceased's wife, Zhang Xiuying, who came to handle the household registration cancellation procedures that day. Zhang Xiuying cried and cried that her husband had vomited blood and died last night, and she came to cancel her hukou in accordance with government regulations. Xiao He then asked your husband what was wrong? Have you seen it in the hospital? Zhang Xiuying replied that she did not know what was wrong, did not go to the hospital to see, originally thought that she would be fine by taking some Chinese medicine, did not expect that last night suddenly vomited a lot of blood and then swallowed. At that time, the average life expectancy was very low, and often people slept well one night and could never get up the next day, and the police station was not surprised by this. So Xiao He wrote down the "violent illness and no cure" in the registration book according to Zhang Xiuying's statement and cancelled the household registration.

From this point of view, the responsibility for the theory of "severe illness and no cure" should be borne by the family of the deceased. Zha Tiedian had a question in his heart: Why did Zhang Xiuying deliberately conceal the fact that her husband died after being hurt by the "ghost hand monster"? From another point of view, Zhang Xiuying's concealment does not seem to be sticking to the end, when he first came to the door to investigate, Zhang Xiuying clearly told that her husband Teng Dagen was injured and vomited blood and even died after being "supported" by a black-shirted man when he went to the Confucius Temple to attend a banquet. How should this be understood?

The answer seems to be: if the cause of death of Ming Teng Dagen is truthfully explained to the police station, there may be adverse consequences for her. As for the criminal police of the municipal bureau, Zhang Xiuying felt that there was no need to conceal the cause of death, so it was as if it were true.

What adverse consequences will the police station have on Zhang Xiuying? It seems that there is only the case in terms of household registration.

Zha Tiedian then proposed to the female policewoman Xiao He to check the original record materials of the deceased Teng Dagen when he first registered his household registration. Xiao He asked the old policeman to find out the household registration file of the neighborhood where Teng Dagen lived before he died, which was still the material handled by the Capital Police Department during the Kuomintang period, which was already covered with dust. Xiao He took a rag and wiped it several times before removing the dust from it. Zha Tiedian found the file of the head of the household for Teng Dagen, and opened it to see that Teng Dagen was naturalized on April 26, 1936, the twenty-fifth year of the Republic of China (1936), when he was "with his wife Zhang Xiuying, nineteen years old", it is estimated that he may have been married for a short time and has not yet had children. According to the archives, before this, the couple lived in Xiaomo Lane, Daxuechang Road. Three years later, Zhang Xiuying gave birth to a boy named Teng Xiaohu; another year later, a girl, named Teng Xiaofeng, came to the police station that was then under the jurisdiction of the Wang puppet regime to declare her hukou.

Zha Tiedian was already suspicious of the family's household registration materials in his heart, so at this moment, facing this file, although he could not see anything wrong, he always felt unsteady in his heart. At this time, the old policeman came over and asked if he needed the household registration files of other neighbors, and he went to find them. Cha Tiedian handed him a cigarette, and the other party did not pay attention to touch the file placed next to him when he picked it up, because there was a ruler thick, and some of it fell to the floor. The two of them picked up the files on the ground and arranged them according to the numbers on the covers. At this time, a move made by Cha Tiedian made him have an unexpected gain.

In retrospect, this move was purely unintentional: the archives were not bound into a book with wax lines along the left edge, but only through a small hole in the upper left corner and tied a knot. Such a simple binding file, after falling to the ground and then picking up, is inevitably a bit chaotic. This move of Cha Tiedian was to restore the messy archive page, so that a slit appeared in the door of the labyrinth: he found that the format and writing of the file at hand seemed to be different from the one that teng Dagen had before. Cha Tiedian was a careful person and had the habit of liking to ponder, so he compared Teng Dagen's file with the one at hand. Sure enough, the lead printed content of the two archives is different in both format and typeface, in the words of the publishing industry, two different versions.

The situation that there are two versions of the same kind of printed material sometimes occurs, taking the current version of the household registration file, the first version is used up, to print the second version, perhaps the printing house that undertakes this business just does not have the same lead word as the first version, or the police department to talk about the business people ask to change the format of the word, the printing house will make a second version. But the problem at the moment is that from the perspective of the time of naturalization of the household registration in the file, these two different versions of the household registration file are registered in the same month. This has to be difficult to understand.

Cha Tiedian went through some other archives and found that no matter whether the time was before or after Tengdagen's copy, as long as it was in those years, it was different from the version of Tengdagen's archive. So he asked the old policeman what was going on. The old policeman looked at it and said that this file was not made in the twenty-fifth year of the Republic of China, when we did not use this kind of material paper, which was printed after the victory of the War of Resistance.

Zha Tiedian also carefully looked at the pen and ink on Teng Dagen's file, and suddenly became enlightened: the ink color is the same, so why the family of four people is actually registered on the same day, not as recorded in the archives, teng Dagen, Zhang Xiuying and his wife were naturalized to establish a household registration, and then after three years there was a son Teng Xiaohu, and another year later there was a daughter Teng Xiaofeng, but it was recorded in the file on the same day on a certain day after the victory of the War of Resistance. Why did Teng Dagen do this? Why was he mysteriously injured a few years later and died? There seems to be a link between the two, and finding the connection link of this link may be the motive of the "ghost hand monster" to commit the crime. As for the injuries of others, leave him alone for the time being, and after catching the "Ghost Hand Monster" in the future, he will find out.

Zha Tiedian then decided to check the file in front of him first, and asked the old policeman: "Who handled this file material at that time?" ”

The old policeman pointed to the unrecognizable signature on the cover of the brown paper of the file: "It's this person— Wang Jiling." ”

Where is this Wang JiLing at this moment?

Wang Jiling was returned home after the military control group entered the substation after liberation, because he was the brother-in-law of a high-ranking police officer with the status of a traitor during the Wang pseudo period, and although he had not heard of anything illegal, the leader said that he was "innocent of history" and dismissed him. After retiring, I heard that he went home to retire.

Where does Wang Jiling's family live?

The old policeman couldn't say. But he knew that there was a policeman surnamed Zhong in the substation who was a neighbor with Wang, so he made a phone call to inquire, and the answer he got was: Wang Jiling's family lived upstairs in the "Dali Tobacco Paper Shop" on Qianku Street in Qinhuai District.

Cha Tiedian and Deng Delong immediately went. Wang Jiling was a small old man of nearly sixty years old, with a very poor complexion, but his brain was not bad. When it came to Teng Dagen's file, he only thought about it for a moment and nodded: "Yes! some! I handled this matter. It was the spring of the second year of the victory of the War of Resistance. ”

According to Wang Jiling, the incident was like this at the beginning-

One day in April of the thirty-fifth year of the Republic of China (1946), Wang Jiling went to work at the police station, and the director accompanied a section chief of the unknown section of the police department surnamed Liu into his office and said that Lao Wang was the chief of the Liu section in the hall, and there was a matter you could do for him. The chief of the Liu section was more polite, sat down and handed him a cigarette first, and also used a lighter to light it for him. Without saying much, he didn't say anything ugly as an opening statement, and took out a note directly from his pocket and placed it in front of Wang Jiling: "Lao Wang, please make a household registration file according to the content written on it." ”

When Wang Jiling looked at it, the note wrote the names, dates of birth, place of origin, relationship between Teng Xiaofeng and Teng Xiaofeng, namely Teng Dagen, Zhang Xiuying, Teng Xiaohu, and Teng Xiaofeng—one was the actual residence of Teng Dagen on Shengzhou Road in ShuixiMen, and the other was the original residence of Xiaomo Lane on Daxuechang Road. Chief Liu pointed to the two addresses and said, you have recorded that you moved from the side of the big school yard to the side of the Water West Gate, and the time of moving in can be placed on a certain day ten years ago.

This kind of thing, for the old people who ate police meals, is really not a big trouble, and there are instructions from the police chief in front, so Wang Jiling immediately gave the other party a deal, and also sent a household registration book on the spot, and the above time was written according to the records in the file.

The criminal police wrote down such a clue as Chief Liu, and the next thing is to understand what kind of person this surnamed Liu is. The Kuomintang's Capital Police Department is the Nanjing Municipal Public Security Bureau, which was formed after the military control commission took over after liberation, so the special case team does not have to go out to investigate, but can understand it in its own bureau. On the way back, Zha Tiedian asked Deng Delong, you are from the former Kuomintang Capital Police Department, do you know Chief Liu? Dundelong shook his head and said he hadn't heard of it. After returning to the city bureau, Zha Tiedian asked Guan Yangming and Huang Cong again, and they had never even heard of them. Zha Tiedian felt a little strange, and even a little vaguely worried, thinking about the clues that were not easy to find. So I went to check the list of retained personnel, and there was not a single person with the surname Liu who had served as the chief of the Section or deputy section chief of the Kuomintang Capital Police Department.

Further down, that is, to inquire about the retained police of the police chief, several times in a row, and finally asked a financial personnel who wore a police uniform but did not understand any police business and would only settle accounts, and only then did they know: After the victory of the War of Resistance, the "military command" sent several secret agents to the "Capital Police Department", and the internal nominal unit chiefs, section chiefs, and the like were actually inspectors, who did not go to work, sometimes came and went around, and did not know what they were supervising, or had other missions. Their salaries are in the "military command", but they also receive a little subsidy in the Police Department, so the Finance Section knows them, and there is indeed a surname liu, which seems to be called Liu Fengyun, and hangs the false title of chief of the internal affairs section of the Police Department.

So, where did this person go?

This, can't be said.

Check again! Finally, liu Fengyun's whereabouts were found from a "military command" agent who was being held in prison. But the task force really didn't want to hear this result: This person had fled to Guangzhou or Taiwan!

At that time, Guangzhou had not yet been liberated, so whether it was Guangzhou or Taiwan, the special task force was beyond the reach of the whip and had no choice.

However, this road is not passable, and the other road can still be walked and seen.

The other road is to start from the pursuit of Teng Dagen's house, hoping to be able to follow the vine to find the source of Teng Dagen. The criminal police then went to the Shuiximen police station again and asked the household registration police to quietly invite the neighbors on both sides of Teng Dagen.

The neighbors came, all in their early fifties, a man and a woman. The man's surname Wang is mr. Wang, the hospital pharmacist who asked teng Dagen for help on the night of his injury mentioned earlier, the woman's surname is Guan, the housewife, and people call her "Guan Auntie". Before the criminal police asked Wang and Guan about the source of Teng Dagen's real estate, they first asked them when the two families had stayed at the current location. Wang and Guan said that their house was ancestral, and mr. Wang and Aunt Guan's husbands were born here. The criminal police were convinced that they had spoken of the source of Teng Dagen's housing, and when asked, both of them said that the Tengdagen family had moved in around the Time of the Qing Ming Dynasty the year after the victory of the War of Resistance. So, who owns the property? The property was originally owned by a businessman surnamed Shan, but he did not live here, and the house here was rented out for a long time and was empty when there were no tenants. It was Teng Dagen who bought it from Mr. Shan and moved in.

Finally found a piece of melon vine, the criminal police secretly relieved, decided to follow the vine to touch the melon. Upon inquiring, Wang and Guan said that Mr. Shan opened a Chinese medicine shop in Hubu Street, called "Bizhengtang", and should still be there. Without saying a word, the criminal police immediately went straight to Hubu Street and found "Bizheng Hall" (Bizheng Hall). The single boss was sitting on the accounting desk of the store hall holding a white copper hookah in both hands to swallow the clouds and spit out the mist, heard that the person who came was from the public security bureau, and quickly put down the hookah and went down to the accounting desk, with his hands waving, looking very respectful: "Three gentlemen are good!" Don't know what needs the service of old decay? ”

The criminal police explained their intentions, and Boss Shan immediately stated that the property he sold on the side of Shuiximen was ancestral legal property, and the sale and purchase was also a fair trade, and at that time, he also paid taxes to the tax office of the puppet government (in this case, the Kuomintang government, which was always called "pseudo-government" in the early liberation period). The criminal police said right, right, we know this. We came to you, not to investigate the details of the property, but to find out who introduced the sale in the first place, and how did the other party find you?

The single boss then took out the sale and purchase contract, which said that the buyer was indeed Teng Dagen, and the middleman was Yu Zhengqing. According to The owner of Shan, he did not know the buyer, and was introduced by Yu Zhengqing, because he found Yu about a month ago, saying that he wanted to sell a house on the other side of the Shuixi Gate, and asked Mr. Yu to help find a buyer. Soon, Yu Zhengqing came to visit and said that he had found a buyer, and it was a dye business surnamed Teng. The next day, the three went to Shuixi Gate to see the house, and Teng Dagen expressed satisfaction, so he negotiated the transaction price in a nearby tea house, and Yu Zhengqing wrote a contract on the spot.

So, how did Yu Zhengqing find Teng Dagen? Boss Shan shook his head: I don't know about this.

The criminal police then asked the boss: Where does Yu Zhengqing live?

Boss Shan said the address, but then added: But you can't find him.

Zha Tiedian's heart hung up, wondering if the surname Yu had also gone to Taiwan or Guangzhou? Upon questioning, Boss Shan said that Yu Zhengqing died two years ago due to tuberculosis.

Despite the disappointment, the criminal police went to Yu Zhengqing's house according to the address provided by Boss Shan, first, as an investigation procedure, to find out whether Yu Zhengqing was really dead; second, to learn from Yu's family about the transaction at that time. Yu Zhengqing's son, who was in his thirties, received the criminal police, and he confirmed Yu's death, but he didn't know anything about his father's real estate agency business.

The special case team then investigated the original household registration place of Xiaomo Lane on Nanjing Daxuechang Road written in Teng Dagen's household registration file, but this step did not make a difference, because the Xiaomo Lane of Daxuechang Road had been razed to the ground when the Japanese army caused the Nanjing Massacre, and all the residents died, fled, and moved, and could no longer find anyone who could provide information. I also went to receive the police station of the current management section of the Kuomintang police station at that time to look up the household registration file, but this part of the file was gone. According to the estimates of the retained police officers, it may have been disposed of as a dead file during the Wang puppet regime.

The investigation work at this point seems to be very unsmooth, thinking of what number of roads, as soon as it goes, it will be broken. However, Zha Tiedian was not disappointed, because he still had Qiankun in his sleeves: one was to investigate the details of this person from the dye business circle that Teng Dagen was engaged in before his death; the second was to go to find Teng Dagen's wife, Zhang Xiuying.

Choosing the simple path first, criminal police officers Guan Yangming and Huang Cong went to the Dyeing Industry Association, which is a non-professional group of a non-governmental nature, equivalent to the later industry association. In the old days, such guilds were usually established in all walks of life in the city, and guilds were familiar to members of the local industry. At this moment, the person in charge of the guild who spoke Shaoxing dialect who received the criminal police immediately said that I knew this person as soon as he heard that he wanted to know about Teng Dagen.

However, the situation that this little old man in Shaoxing knows is almost the same as that of the criminal police: it is the situation after 1946, the dye business is operated, usually in the form of brokers, but sometimes he also advances funds to buy the goods first and then sells them to others, because the fee is less than others, so the reputation is good, and the peers are willing to cooperate with him. In addition, the little old man of Shaoxing could not say anything else.

The criminal police did not die, and from the little old man asked for the addresses of several colleagues who cooperated well with Teng Dagen, and visited them one by one. These people naturally have a good evaluation of Teng Dagen, but like the little old man, they don't know anything about the situation of Teng Dagen before 1946, only that Teng Dagen is a people in Anhui Dangtu.

In this way, it had to be directly investigated by Zhang Xiuying.

Zhang Xiuying was quietly summoned to the police station on a rainy evening, and according to the request of the task force, all the police officers at the police station avoided the conversation. The four criminal police officers of the special case team all went out, Zha Tiedian and Guan Yangming talked to Zhang behind closed doors in an office, and Huang Cong and Deng Delong sat at the door, not letting anyone get close. Of course, since the director already had something to say, all the police officers at the police station were very conscious and would not come closer to this side.

The criminal police had hoped for the conversation, because the wife always knew more about her husband's situation than other outsiders. However, after a conversation, I realized that even in this respect, there are exceptions in the world. The couple in front of her, Zhang Xiuying and Teng Dagen, is an exception: Zhang Xiuying said that she did not know how her husband came to Nanjing, what kind of business she had engaged in before, and so on. The reason for this exception is that Zhang Xiuying only met Teng Dagen in early 1946, and it was only a short day from acquaintance to marriage.

The details are: Zhang Xiuying was born in the rural area of Yancheng, northern Jiangsu, married at the age of nineteen, and her first husband was Mr. Teaching. She and Mr. Teaching had three children, one of whom died within a few days of giving birth, leaving behind a son and a daughter. Originally, Zhang Xiuying could have lived a poor but comfortable life with her husband, but she accidentally drowned when she taught Mr. Shu in the summer vacation of the Anti-Japanese War victory. The feudal consciousness in Yancheng was very strong, coupled with the catalysis of people's greedy nature, Zhang Xiuying stayed for a few months after that, and was confiscated by the elders of her husband's clan on a trumped-up charge and swept out of the house. Zhang Xiuying took a pair of children to beg for food for a living and wandered around.

In February 1946, a family of three met Teng Dagen while asking for food in Zhenjiang. Teng Dagen led Zhang Xiuying's three mouths to a small restaurant and asked for some food for them to eat. After eating, he had almost understood Zhang's situation, and he did not say anything about himself, but asked Zhang Xiuying: If he is willing to go with him, he has the ability to ensure that her family of three has food to eat, clothes to wear, room to live in, and can let her children go to school in the future. Zhang Xiuying fell to this step, of course, it is impossible to ask for it. So, it was with Teng Dagen. At that time, Teng Dagen rented a house in Zhenjiang, so he took Zhang Xiuying's family of three back, changed their adults and children into new clothes the next day, bought some fish and meat, and let Zhang Xiuying cook a table of dishes, and put firecrackers at the door, even if it was marriage. Anyway, at that time, there was no law that required a license to get married, of course, there was no premarital examination.

After getting married, Teng Dagen went to Nanjing to buy a house, and in April, the family moved to Nanjing. Then there is the account, Zhang Xiuying knows almost nothing about this, only to hear Teng Dagen say that he wants to apply for a household registration, a pair of children originally named Xiaohu Xiaofeng do not have to change their names, change their surname and his surname Teng. As for the time of entering the house, it is necessary to be ten years in advance, if someone asks, it will be insisted that it is the twenty-fifth year of marriage and residence in the Republic of China, and Zhang Xiuying will be firmly remembered. As for why he did this, Teng Dagen did not explain, and Zhang Xiuying did not want to ask, even if he wanted to ask her, he did not dare to ask.

After settling in Nanjing, Teng Dagen soon started a dye business, and did a good job, although he could not earn a lot of money.

It is not difficult to imagine that the criminal police are quite disappointed by what Zhang Xiuying said. Cha Tie Dian thought about it for a while and decided to try another question.

This question, as we already know before, is about what Zhang Xiuying said to the female police officer Xiao He when she went to the police station to apply for cancellation of her household registration, "there is no cure for the violent illness", obviously Teng Dagen was secretly calculated to have suffered a serious internal injury at the Confucius Temple, and he failed to be cured and died, so how did it become a "violent disease"? Although Zhang Xiuying is an illiterate rural woman in northern Jiangsu, even if she is illiterate, she should be able to distinguish what is an injury and what is a disease, right?

As soon as this question was raised, the criminal police immediately caught the panic that flashed in Zhang Xiuying's eyes, so they waited for her to answer, thinking that since the panic would always reveal flaws, and if there were flaws, they were afraid that they would not be able to overcome them? However, Zha Tiedian and Guan Yangming were still disappointed, they did not expect Zhang Xiuying's answer to this to be so simple, so simple that it was equal to no fortification. Zhang Xiuying's answer was: The police asked her husband how he died, she said that her husband had been vomiting blood for a while, had taken Chinese medicine, it was useless, and suddenly vomited blood last night and died!

Zhang Xiuying asked the criminal police: Is there anything wrong with my answer? The policewoman didn't ask me how my husband vomited blood, so why should I tell her how he vomited blood? Later, when you, the policeman (referring to the Iron Code), came to my house to find out, you asked very clearly, didn't I tell you everything?

The criminal police looked at this northern Jiangsu woman, speechless.

However, the trace of panic that flashed in Zhang Xiuying's eyes gave Zha Tiedian a hint: this woman was hiding a secret.

Therefore, when Zhang Xiuying had just left the police station, Zha Tiedian proposed to the leaders of the police station: Please help to carry out secret surveillance of this woman, but do not alarm her.

Fifth, doubts have begun to appear

The task force immediately held a meeting to analyze the facts of the case. First review the investigation situation, check whether there is a deviation in the direction of investigation, and then re-examine whether the investigation ideas are correct. After everyone was convinced that there was really no problem in staring at the direction and train of thought of Teng Dagen's investigation, they began to discuss how to find out the true face of this mysterious figure who had died.

The meeting was not very long, it was more than an hour, which was really a short meeting in the case analysis meeting of criminal investigation. But short meetings can also produce very good results, and this meeting is like that. The criminal police analyzed the characteristics of Teng Dagen that he had mastered so far, although there were only two of them: one was that this person was from the Dangtu clan in Anhui Province; the other was that he began to do dye business after settling in Nanjing in 1946 and did it very successfully. From the second point of view, Teng Dagen is likely to have operated a dye business before, or at least does not understand the dye industry at all. The second article plus the place of origin of the first article pointed out a road for the special case team to investigate: go to Tengdagen's hometown to investigate such a person who has something to do with the dye industry!

Zha Tiedian immediately made arrangements for the next work: he and Guan Yangming went to Anhui Dangtu to investigate whether there was such a person as Teng Dagen; Huang Cong and Deng Delong were responsible for contacting the Shuiximen police station and paying close attention to Zhang Xiuying's movements.

Zha Tiedian and Guan Yangming went to Dangtu and first went to the county public security bureau to ask for the assistance of Cha Teng. The local public security bureau attaches great importance to this and specially assigns a criminal police officer Lao Guo, who is very familiar with the local situation, to cooperate with them. Lao Guo heard them say the name Teng Dagen and shook his head and said that he was not impressed. It was not surprising that no matter how familiar he was with the situation, it was impossible for him to know all the men in the county who were about the same age as Teng Dagen. So Cha Tiedian said that Teng Dagen may have some relationship with the dye industry, and Lao Guo said that it would be easy to do, let's go visit the dyeing workshop master. The county town is not big, there are only two dyeing mills, asked down, all said that they have not heard of such a name as Tengdagen.

That night, Lao Guo invited his Nanjing counterparts to dinner, and the three of them chatted about visiting Teng Dagen while eating. Lao Guo said that either this person may be a person in the line related to the dye business? Cha Tiedian said that it is also possible. Related to the dye industry, that is, the dyeing workshop's last raw material supplier. However, the county seat is too small to have such a chemical raw material store or other shop. However, the absence of such shops does not mean that no one does this kind of business. In any case, those two dye shops must often have to enter the dye, otherwise they will not be able to operate. After the meal, Lao Guo went to the dyeing workshop to inquire, figuring out that their dye was purchased in Wuhu by entrusting the county's "Zhengxingxing" to purchase, of course, he had to pay a little fee.

After Lao Guo went to the hotel where Zha Tiedian and Guan Yangming were staying to inform him of the situation, he suddenly thought of a question: "Is the name Teng Dagen you are talking about his real name?" ”

A word reminded Zha Tiedian that if Teng Dagen was not his real name, no matter how he inquired, he would not be able to find the right master. Therefore, he took out the photo of Teng Dagen who had come from Zhang Xiuying and said that this was the one we were investigating, and his real name and place of origin were really uncertain for a while. Lao Guo looked at the photo, slowly shook his head, and said that he had no impression of this person. The hearts of Zha Tiedian and Guan Yangming were cold, because Lao Guo was the old land of Dangtu, and this year he hung up zeros, and he has been waiting for Dangtu, and he has been working as a policeman for more than twenty years, and it is said that he is the oldest police officer in the Dangtu Public Security Bureau and has experienced various regimes. After liberation, he was the first to be designated as a retained police officer by the Military Control Group as a martyr with no bad deeds and as a martyr (his son was a martyr of the New Fourth Army). From this point of view, Lao Guo's reliability in this regard should be unquestionable. Such a reliable old land shook his head at the picture of Teng Dagen, and it seemed that their good luck was gone.

Of course, Lao Guo's shaking of his head is not equivalent to a complete denial, and then the old man said a sentence that brought hope to Zha and Guan: "Or, let's go to the 'Zhengxingxing' side tomorrow to inquire about it?" ”

Cha Tiedian said that it is not too late, it is just after eight o'clock, or we will go to "Zhengxingxing"? Lao Guo is a relatively easy-going person, he said that is good, let's ask about it.

"Zhengxingxing" is a special business in the wholesale business of department stores and groceries, the owner's surname is Zhuang, is a Sichuanese, in the early years, somehow fell to Dangtu, started a wholesale business. Nowadays, it has long been followed by local customs, and even the language is used as an accent. Boss Zhuang looked at the photo and immediately said, "Isn't this Liu Xiaosan?" ”

The police officer was overjoyed and hurriedly handed over cigarettes. Boss Zhuang then told liu Xiaosan about the situation: after Boss Zhuang settled in Dangtu, his wife Xue Shi (deceased six years ago) was a native of Qilizhuang outside the city. The business of "Zhengxingxing" is in Wuhu, and several times a month the back and forth transport of goods is by chartering ship space, which requires escorts; in addition, some goods in Wuhu are also transported from Hankou, Nanjing, shanghai, which is a sought-after commodity, and the next commercial bank must send people to wait in Wuhu to enter. Therefore, "Zhengxingxingxing" needs to hire people to act as escorts and agents stationed in Wuhu. Among the several people hired by Boss Zhuang, one of them was introduced by Xue Shi, a relative of whom was about the same age as Xue Shi, but according to the generation, Xue Shi had to be called "mother-in-law", and this person was Liu Xiaosan. Boss Zhuang is cautious, he entrusted people to secretly inquire about Liu Xiaosan, I heard that this person has learned boxing, Bagua palm play well, a set of jianghu is a bit familiar, very moral, before he worked in the Wuhu dyeing workshop, did not hear of any bad deeds, so it was fixed. Liu Xiaosan worked in "Zhengxingxingxing" for more than two years, first as an escort and then as an agent, and nothing happened. Later, the Anti-Japanese War broke out, and the "Zhengxingxingxing" suspended business, and Liu Xiaosan left, not knowing where he went.

After the two criminal police officers returned to the hotel, they analyzed the situation they had investigated, and believed that since they had found Liu Xiaosan's hometown, it was necessary to take a trip to Qilizhuang to understand what Liu Xiaosan had done later, and how he had changed his name and surname to settle in Nanjing.

The next day, Zha and Guan went to Qilizhuang. The chairman of the peasant association received them, and speaking of Liu Xiaosan, Fang Knew that he was not a qilizhuang person, but another wujia villager with a few families in the eight miles of qilizhuang. However, Wujia Village was razed to the ground by the Japanese army during the War of Resistance Against Japan and is now in ruins. So, does the other party know about Liu Xiaosan's situation? The chairman of the peasant association said that he only heard that he was born as an orphan, and had gone to the Wuhu dyeing workshop to study Yiyi, and then went to be a buddy in Tucheng City as a "Zhengxingxingxing", and then later heard that he did not take the right path. And then what? Further down – there is none. This is not unknown to the following, but heard that it is missing. The so-called disappearance of the master who does not follow the right path is usually killed by the accomplice or the enemy.

After Zha Tiedian and Guan Yangming returned to Nanjing, they immediately held a case analysis meeting of the special case team. Zha Tiedian said that he had gone to Dangtu to investigate the situation, and everyone analyzed it, and felt that the fog that was always floating in front of them was blown away by a breeze, and the relationship between the "Ghost Hand Monster" and Teng Dagen- Liu Xiaosan seemed to be clearer.

The situation may be like this: Liu Xiaosan may have joined a gang of bandits and engaged in a gangster profession with robbery as the main content (not excluding other violent crimes such as homicide). As we all know, there are also ways to steal, and the gangs in the underworld that are mixed with a little discipline also have internal rules, such as the Famous Ones, the Hong Gang, the Brotherhood of elders, and so on, and their gang rules are written and passed down from generation to generation; the nameless gangs such as Liu Xiaosan's participation, although they probably did not form a text, but verbally everyone has an agreement. Within the gang, whoever violates such a pact is tantamount to a citizen who has violated the laws of the state in society and must be punished. The brothers on the underworld did not seem to be very impatient to deal with the violators in different categories, usually either expelled from the mountain gate with three knives and six holes or executed in secret. It is estimated that Liu Xiaosan may have violated the gang rules, knowing that the former brothers in the gang could not spare him, so he adopted the upper meter of the thirty-six counts, and smeared oil under his feet. Liu Xiaosan first fled to Zhenjiang, changed his name and surname and became Teng Dagen, at this time it is estimated that the soul has been determined, and he has silver in hand, so he married Zhang Xiuying, and then went to Nanjing to buy a house, and then bought the "military unification" agent Liu Fengyi, forged a household registration file, and took advantage of the previous contact with the dye industry to start a dye business.

Judging from Liu Xiaosan's economic situation after becoming Teng Dagen, his "violation of gang rules" is likely to be an absconding of the volume, and the amount of money involved is not in the small amount. Therefore, the other brothers of his gang hated him to the bone, and they were sure to curse him quickly, and they may even have been cruel to him "at all costs". However, in their own capacity, they may not be able to do this, so they paid a lot of money to hire an agent to implement the plan.

This agent is the "Ghost Hand Monster"!

The martial arts of the "Ghost Hand Monster" are well known to everyone. In addition, it is estimated that the "ghost hand monster" is also a professional killer who pays attention to credit, is more dedicated, and proficient in business. Therefore, although it has been many years, although it is a difficult move to find Liu Xiaosan just like the criminal police want to find him at this moment, he has not lived up to the high expectations of his client, Liu Xiaosan's original gang of jianghu brothers, and finally found Teng Dagen in Nanjing and fulfilled the contract.

Of course, whether this analysis is reliable or not has not yet been confirmed. Because there is a question that always confuses people: if the "Ghost Hand Monster" was hired to kill Teng Dagen for the reasons estimated above, then among the twelve people who were injured by the "Ghost Hand Monster", Teng Dagen's serial number was B, and he was the second to be attacked, so why did the "Ghost Hand Monster" first attack the Bagua Palm Boxer with the serial number A? And after rushing A and B, why do you want to attack the next ten people in succession?

The criminal police of the special case team continued to analyze, and after some thought, they seemed to have found a part of the answer: A's attack was the "ghost hand monster" who recognized the wrong person. This is not a conjecture, but there are facts that can be used as a reference basis: first, A is a native of Anhui and County, and TengDagen is a Dangtu person in Anhui, and the distance between the county and Dangtu is not far, and the accent is basically the same; second, A is a bagua palm enthusiast, and TengDagen's Bagua palm is "good" in the words of the locals; third, the age, size, and appearance of these two are somewhat similar. Therefore, the criminal police believe that the first move of the "ghost hand monster" to rush A is to recognize the wrong person. This is also understandable, after all, the gang of brothers who were pit by Liu Xiaosan could not have a photo of Liu Xiaosan at hand, and could only make a verbal statement about the "ghost hand monster". This narrative is similar to the wanted notice posted at the city gate in ancient times, "white face, no beard, wide mouth and nose" and the like seem to be very clear, but because there is no standard, it is often caught the wrong person. Therefore, the "ghost hand monster" mistakenly thought that A was the target Liu Xiaosan.

However, this is only a small part of the answer, and there are still ten people injured at the bottom, so how to explain it? What is more worth mentioning is that the attack on the two Bagua palm enthusiasts A and B was when Nanjing had not yet been liberated, and the "ghost hand monster" committed a crime at this time, which can be understood: the city of Nanjing was in chaos, and it was easy to slip and foot. However, it is inconceivable that Nanjing has been liberated, the PLA patrols wearing red armbands on the streets are constantly shuttling, and the people are also taking to the streets to celebrate liberation with a feeling of raising their eyebrows. At this time, the risk of committing a crime again is definitely much greater than when A and B were attacked before. However, the "ghost hand monster" not only dared to commit crimes, but also did ten at once.

This is not easy to understand.

Zha Tiedian felt that if this problem could be solved, it would not be far from solving the case.

In fact, the enlightening hints of the answer to this question have appeared, but they have not yet been known to the criminal police of the special case team.

Sixth, the door of the labyrinth has finally opened

On the evening of the same day that Zha Tiedian and Guan Yangming returned to Nanjing from Dangtu, a thirty-five or six-year-old man came to Yanzi Lane on Shengzhou Road in Shuiximen, and this man came to find Zhang Xiuying, the widow of Teng Dagen. Although he only stayed for about ten minutes before leaving, the entry and exit of this person was watched by the neighbor Guan Dajie, who was arranged by the police station to help monitor Zhang Xiuying.

Although Aunt Guan is a housewife who has not worked in any profession in her life and has not been mixed in society for a day, she is somewhat knowledgeable and very responsible. When she saw someone enter Zhang Xiuying's house, she called ah hu, her son who was a postman, out of the back room. Say get your bike ready, in a moment there is a man coming out of the house next door, you ride to follow, wherever he goes, you must find out where this person lives, come back and tell me, turn around and I will send an errand to the police station.

Swallow Lane is a severed alley, with only one entrance and exit, so Ah Hu pushed his bicycle to the side of the road across the alley and parked, waiting for the target to come out. After a while, the man came out. Although the aunt has a strong sense of responsibility, she is unfamiliar with the business, worried that her son does not know the stalking object and misses it, and has been "sending" out of the alley after the person. The target stood at the intersection of the road, called a tricycle, and Aunt Guan watched her son ride up and followed, and then returned.

The young man did not dishonor his mother's life, successfully completed the mission, and reported to his mother with excitement: the tricycle sent the target to The Morning Lane of the East Arch Building, and the man paid the fare and entered the 27th, which was a residential house.

The next morning, this news was reported by Aunt Guan to the Shuiximen police station. Not long after, Huang Cong and Deng Delong, criminal police officers of the special case team responsible for contacting the police station, quietly went as usual and asked whether there was any situation. The two were very excited to hear that someone had visited Zhang Xiuying. When the police chief put the address note in front of them, Huang Cong, one of them, almost jumped up.

What makes Huang Cong so excited is that he knows this goal of living at No. 27 Sichen Lane, East Arch Building. Isn't it so exciting to know? The problem is: At the beginning of the establishment of the task force, he was ordered to visit this person at No. 27 Sichen Lane, East Arch Building, and this address was copied from "Zhang Jiekuo". This man was the last of the twelve subjects who had been attacked by the Ghost Hand Monster, named Shi Baizhen.

Not only Huang Cong, but also the head of the special case team, Zha Tiedian, was also excited to hear this situation, and the original sitting person immediately stood up and poured a glass of water for Huang Cong and Deng Delong: "It's hard! Take a sip of water and tell us the details. ”

The details are the records of Huang Cong's investigation of Shi Baizhen: Shi Baizhen, a thirty-four-year-old Lishui ren clan in Jiangsu Province, a carpenter, has been working for people in his hometown for a long time, after saving some money, he came to Nanjing in 1943, panned a coffin shop in the East Arch Building, became the boss himself, and currently employs three guys and two apprentices. Shi Baizhen was injured on May 10, when he went to the wooden house to buy wood, and at noon the owner of the wooden house invited him to dinner. When he left the restaurant after dinner, someone came from behind on a bicycle and patted him on the shoulder like an acquaintance greeting him, and the car did not stop and went forward, only to see a back. According to Shi Baizhen, at that time, he had already heard that there was a guy in the jianghu called "Ghost Hand Monster" who specialized in plotting against people, and when he encountered this person, he would be injured if he did not die. Therefore, he immediately realized that it might not be good, and did not go home, and went directly to Pukou to find "Zhang Bone". "Zhang Jiequan" did not check out anything at that time, but because many people had already been injured in this situation, they did not dare to take it lightly, or treated Shi Baizhen in the way of treating serious internal injuries. That night, Shi Baizhen felt unwell, but did not vomit blood. The next day, the pain was unbearable, so he immediately took the train to Shanghai. He also didn't know what about The Shanghai Shi family, the Wei family injury department and Wang Ziping, only heard that there were eight people in the shanghai beach, and after getting off the train at the North Railway Station, he called a tricycle and said that he wanted to see the best injury doctor in Shanghai. The coachman pulled him to Lu Yinhua, the sixth generation of the Lu Family's Injury Department, and after treatment, he returned to Nanjing and closed the door, took medicine every day, and rested in bed for a few days before feeling better.

The task force then had the direction of research: What is the relationship between Shi Baizhen and Teng Dagen? Did the two of them have any contact before? How did they get to know each other? Among the twelve people who were attacked by the "Ghost Hand Monster", Shi Baizhen was the last, why did the "Ghost Hand Monster" secretly calculate Shi Baizhen and then stop?

Zha Tiedian said: "Don't discuss these things first, there is a shortcut to take, this road is smooth, the relationship between Shi Baizhen and Teng Dagen is basically clear!" ”

The shortcut is: to check Shi Baizhen's household registration file, if the situation is the same as Teng Dagen's, then it can be concluded that the two not only knew each other very early, but also were bandits.

The results of the investigation are consistent with Zha Tiedian's estimation: First, his household registration was also that Liu Fengyi, a "military unification" agent who had fled to Guangzhou or Taiwan, came forward to ask the police station to handle it; second, he also advanced his entry into the household registration in the spring of 1946 to the 1943 Wang pseudo period.

Look up again what happened to Shi Baizhen's property. After checking it out, the intermediary of the property was the same person as the real estate agent of Teng Dagen.

Come on! The criminal police finally understood the reason why the "ghost hand monster" continued to commit crimes after the liberation of Nanjing: The gang that hired the "ghost hand monster" to solve the problem of violations within the underworld gang was not Teng Dagen alone, but two people, and the other was Shi Baizhen. Teng Dagen and Shi Baizhen were accomplices who committed serious gang violations, and after planning and implementing the violations that were unknown before the project, the two absconded together. Finally, he changed his name and surname in Nanjing and settled down. They may have thought that they had successfully evaded the revenge of the gang members, but they did not expect that many years later, there would be killers coming to the door.

After the "ghost hand monster" found out that the two brothers were originally hidden in Nanjing, they came to Nanjing to carry out the mission of hunting down and killing. Although his martial arts are high, but the level of recognition still needs to be improved, he actually recognized the wrong person at the beginning, mistook the same Anhui Eastern accent and the same physical characteristics as Tengdagen, and attacked. After winning the hand, the "Ghost Hand Monster" soon found that he attacked the wrong target, so he corrected the search parameters, found Teng Dagen, and killed it.

The "Ghost Hand Monster" is a person who is relatively good at summarizing experience, and this misidentification is also a revelation for him. Next, it is necessary to find and kill another target, Shi Baizhen, and Nanjing has been liberated. The Communist Public Security Bureau was very different from the Kuomintang police station, and in order to prevent the police from being targeted by the criminal police after the operation, it seemed that smoke had to be used to confuse the public. It is estimated that the "ghost hand monster" has a certain anti-investigation experience, in order to avoid the criminal police through the investigation of the targets Teng Dagen and Shi Baizhen to track down the people behind the killer, it is necessary to create a number of similar cases of misidentification of A as a target, so that the criminal police can not continue to investigate.

This is the motivation of the "ghost hand monster" to create many hurtful cases.

The situation became clear, and the task force began to consider what to do next. Criminal police analysis: At this time, it is impossible to directly track down the "ghost hand monster", and the understanding of this murderer is currently only on the virtual clue that the inferred jianghu gang that Teng Dagen and Shi Baizhen may have participated in before, the virtual is far from reality, and this distance may never be able to shrink to zero. Therefore, first of all, you have to put the "ghost hand monster" to the side. For the pursuit of the "ghost hand monster", it is appropriate to adopt a roundabout tactic, first get the truth about their relationship with the gang from Shi Baizhen and Zhang Xiuying, and then track down the gang, and then roughly go down to find the "ghost hand monster" is not far away.

So, between Shi Baizhen and Zhang Xiuying, are they looking for them at the same time or are they looking for each other first? The criminal police must weigh this up well. After repeated analysis, I think it is better to find Shi Baizhen first. Because although Zhang Xiuying looked flustered in the face of the relevant questions of the criminal police, it was impossible to determine what caused this panic. If we assume now that Teng Dagen and Shi Baizhen are embezzling stolen money and stolen goods, for Zhang Xiuying, the reason for the panic in her eyes is estimated to be that the stolen money and stolen goods of Teng Dagen are hidden, and it is unlikely that Teng Dagen has a relationship with the gang. Teng Dagen did not need and would not take his own experience of bringing him the disaster of killing as the content of the dragon gate array with his wife after dinner, and it is estimated that Zhang Xiuying, a female Taoist family, will not be interested in it. The situation of Shi Baizhen is different, this is a righteous master, he should understand why he was plotted by the "ghost hand monster". Of course, he knew better what he and Teng Dagen had done before, and whether the accomplice who "worked" with them was Zhang Sanlisi or Wang Wuzhao Liu.

However, the criminal police lacked confidence in whether visiting Shi Baizhen with empty hands at this moment would enable him to confide in the truth. Because most of what Shi Baizhen did before liberation was to kill people and cross goods, once he confided, he would also be investigated by the people's government, and if he did not do well, killing the head was not a scare word. Therefore, why should Shi Baizhen truthfully confess his previous crimes? So far, the task force has no conclusive evidence to prove that Shi Baizhen has committed any crimes.

Therefore, Zha Tiedian said that it seems that we have to think about it carefully, or we must not look for Shi Baizhen, and once we find the door, we must have the certainty that we can make it open our mouths.

While deliberating, a situation reported by the Shuiximen police station made the special case team change its mind and decide to put Shi Baizhen aside first and go to deal with Zhang Xiuying face to face.

The information obtained by the Shuiximen police station is related to the aunt who is in charge that we mentioned earlier. At that time, a neighborhood committee had already been established, and Guan Da's aunt became a member of the neighborhood committee's public security committee and also served as the head of the residents' group. The police station handed over the matter of paying attention to Zhang Xiuying's situation to her to implement, and the aunt looked for several activists, and laid an invisible net for Zhang Xiuying without showing the mountains and water, as long as she went out of the house, even if she went to the garbage bin to take out the garbage, there would be eyes behind the quasi-guarantee, not to mention buying vegetables, rice and so on. If someone visits her house, especially a stranger, it will be monitored, not only to record the time of visit and departure, but also to quietly follow up to find out where this person came from. This is the latest move taken by Aunt Guan after sending her postman son to follow Shi Baizhen and receive praise from the police station.

The situation obtained this time has nothing to do with outsiders visiting, but Zhang Xiuying's feedback after the visitors who took the initiative to go out were tracked. The object of Zhang Xiuying's visit was Shi Baizhen. She went to visit not empty-handed, but with a small package, small but looking a little heavy. Moreover, the housewife, who had always been frugal enough to break a penny in half, made an exception and called a rickshaw, causing the young activist who followed her to spend a little money to hire a vehicle.

After receiving the feedback on the above situation, the special case team analyzed that the small package that Zhang Xiuying took to Shi Baizhen was likely to be gold jewelry or something, otherwise, she did not have to call a rickshaw to go, walk a while and then take the bus. More frugal, the whole walk is also a good choice. The reason why it is called a rickshaw is because of safety, there is no need to worry about being robbed by gangsters. Zhang Xiuying stayed at Shi Baizhen's house for only three or five minutes before leaving, and his hands were empty when he came out. Therefore, she went out to visit Shi Baizhen this time in order to send valuables such as gold jewelry suspected by the criminal police to Shi Baizhen, and as for why she wanted to send it over, it was a problem waiting for the criminal police to crack.

The task force decided to change the original plan, put Shi Baizhen aside for the time being, and first talk to Zhang Xiuying.

In this way, Zhang Xiuying was summoned to the police station. The rest of the day was a bit old-fashioned, and it was usually the reaction of the summoned: first, they shook their heads at the situation they asked and denied it. Then unable to deal with the professional opponent criminal police, he surrendered his weapons and surrendered, and finally wept bitterly and confessed.

Zhang Xiuying's explanation is: Shi Baizhen and the late Teng Dagen used to have occasional contacts, about two or three times a year, sometimes Shi Baizhen went to her home, sometimes Teng Dagen went to Shi Baizhen's home, drank, and chatted. The two looked very familiar, calling each other brothers and brothers, as for what to talk about, because when there were guests in the family who did not come to the table according to the rules, she did not eat together, so she never paid attention, but felt that the chat atmosphere between the two had always been very relaxed and pleasant, and the laughter was continuous.

Teng Dagen basically does not have a deep relationship with others, Shi Baizhen is the only one he invited to the house to drink, in Zhang Xiuying's consciousness, Shi Baizhen should be Teng Dagen's iron brothers. However, after Teng Dagen was injured by the conspiracy of the "ghost hand monster", although Zhang Xiuying sent the child to ask Shi Baizhen for help and wanted to ask him for an idea, it was unexpected that Shi Baizhen did not appear, and pushed that he had been very busy recently, and after this period, please let Teng Dagen rest in peace, it is best to close the door. This surprised Zhang Xiuying, and it was inevitable that she would have to mutter in front of her husband. Teng Dagen didn't think so, saying that things had already happened, and Shi Baizhen was either Lang Zhong, or he couldn't play any role. Soon Teng Dagen died of his serious injuries, Zhang Xiuying was unaccompanied, only to ask Shi Baizhen for help, Shi Baizhen did not show up, just made an expression, this means that people usually do not do and are unlikely to think: he opened a coffin shop, let the guys in the store carry a coffin over, and specially said that there was no need to pay.

Zhang Xiuying, who has always attached great importance to money, was extremely unhappy this time, but she did not make any reaction, because she was too busy to do funerals, where did she have the time and energy to think about it? By the time she had finished the funeral with the help of a group of neighbors such as Aunt Guan and remembered Shi Baizhen's move, she already had some understanding of Shi Baizhen's move. What contributed to this transformation was an action by her husband before his death. That night, after Teng Dagen vomited blood, his face was like white paper, and there was a frightening bruise in the miserable white, he knew that his limit was approaching, and he wanted to leave his last words, but he could not speak at this time, so he pointed to the bottom of the bed with the last bit of strength, and his head was twisted and he lost his breath.

At that time, Zhang Xiuying cried bitterly too late, where did she still have to worry about deciphering the mystery left by her husband. It wasn't until I finished the funeral and came back to God that I remembered it. The dumb mystery left by Teng Dagen is actually very decipherable, but he hid something under the bed and left it for himself to take. Zhang Xiuying then dismantled the bed, turned over all the bottles, cans and cans piled up underneath, and cleared out a lot of cockroaches, but there was nothing valuable. Zhang Xiuying was not stupid, and after a little thought, she understood, so she quietly prepared tools and waited for the children to sleep at night to start excavation. Zhang Xiuying was so surprised by this excavation that he actually dug out an iron box that Teng Dagen had buried in the ground at an unknown time, containing as many as two or three pounds of gold yuan treasures and gold bars, as well as a number of jewelry and the like.

After Zhang Xiuying was pleasantly surprised, she began to ponder the origin of these treasures left by Teng Dagen, so she quickly understood some questions that she had not thought about before, such as why she was always reprimanded when asked about her husband's past situation; for example, Teng Dagen did not have any friends and maintained a brotherly friendship with Shi Baizhen alone; for example, before liberation, two old policemen visited neighbors to investigate a criminal case, which caused her husband to lose sleep for several nights; for example, Shi Baizhen did not dare to show his face after hearing that her husband was injured, and so on. All of this seems to be related to these gold jewels in front of you.

People of that era, whether they had gone to school or not to learn cultural knowledge, there was an oral transmission that everyone would accept consciously or unconsciously, and in the language of the Jiangnan region, it could be summed up in two words: "digging", which means discovering and excavating treasures that are buried in the ground by unknown people and when. If you dig up the treasure, you will make a windfall. And this kind of acquisition of wealth is not only easy to be jealous of others, but also may also be investigated by the government, and finally lose one person's wealth and two empty. Therefore, those who are fortunate enough to find the treasure have to choose to leave their hometowns, change their names and surnames, and go to live in seclusion in other places. This legend is passed down from generation to generation in folklore, and new content will be added as the years go by. In that era, when there was no television or video game, such legends were a form of entertainment that the people liked to hear, and it was also a kind of folk education that was controlled by literature and history. Zhang Xiuying had received this kind of education since she was a child, so now she suddenly felt that she knew the origin of these treasures, and made a judgment: Shi Baizhen was an accomplice to the excavation of the deceased husband. The excavation project carried out by the two of them together seemed to be somewhat problematic, so the husband was bloodily retaliated against by others.

Therefore, Zhang Xiuying understood the reason why Shi Baizhen did not dare to show his face after Teng Dagen's injury and death, and he was worried that he would also be retaliated against.

Zhang Xiuying originally thought that Shi Baizhen would never contact her again, and even estimated that he might leave Nanjing and move to a foreign country to avoid trouble. Because she already understood Shi Baizhen's reaction, she would not take the initiative to find the other party, and since Teng Dagen's death, she had nothing to do with Shi Baizhen.

However, to Zhang Xiuying's surprise, Shi Baizhen actually took the initiative to come to her! Shi Baizhen looked for Zhang Xiuying and brought her two unexpected news: First, he was also secretly calculated by the "ghost hand monster", he was seriously injured, but he finally saved his life, as for the internal injury suffered, it would accompany him for the rest of his life; it was precisely because he was not dead, so the "ghost hand monster" stared at him again, he found it bad, took the initiative, negotiated with the "ghost hand monster", begged to keep his life, as long as the other party nodded, he was willing to give a pound of gold. The Ghost Hand Monster nodded, so Shi Baizhen was not attacked twice. Second, according to the "Ghost Hand Monster", his mission to Ningbo this time is not only to take the lives of Teng Dagen and Shi Baizhen, but also to carry the families of these two targets to "wait for an opportunity to solve." Therefore, he also had to "properly communicate" with Zhang Xiuying's side, but he also couldn't bear to kill Zhang Xiuying along with his children's three mouths, so he just wanted to kill Zhang's son Teng Xiaohu.

Shi Baizhen's words made Zhang Xiuying stunned, and before she could return to her senses, Shi Baizhen had already resigned, saying that he did not dare to let the "ghost hand monster" know that he was sending a message to this side, so it was inconvenient to stay, and he left after pulling his leg.

At this moment, Zhang Xiuying could not sit still, her son was the flesh of her heart, and no matter what, she had to be saved. After thinking and thinking, thinking that the "ghost hand monster" is to recognize money, Shi Baizhen can buy a life with a pound of gold, am I not also able to do this, anyway, there is gold at home. Of course, this matter had to trouble Shi Baizhen to run, so Zhang Xiuying took three gold bars to visit Shi Baizhen.

At the moment, the criminal police listened to Zhang Xiuying's explanation, and they really felt overjoyed. In this way, Shi Baizhen knew the foothold of the "Ghost Hand Monster", at least he could get in touch with the "Ghost Hand Monster". As long as Shi Baizhen is controlled, the "Ghost Hand Monster" is also in the hands of the special task force.

Therefore, he first went to Zhang Xiuying's house to search, and sure enough, he found seven gold yuanbao, two gold bars, three jadeite pieces, and a string of chao beads. Zhang Xiuying was detained on the same day, released three days later, and later exempted from criminal punishment.

Seventh, the fate of the "ghost hand monster"

The task force considered that the "Ghost Hand Monster" might be hidden near Shi Baizhen's house, and was afraid that taking action against Shi Baizhen would scare the snake and scare away the snake, so they lured Shi Baizhen out through the Coffin Industry Guild.

After Shi Baizhen was arrested, he also denied it, and he was forced to confess when he could not rely on it. At this point, the mysterious cloak draped over Teng Dagen and Shi Baizhen was finally stripped off——

Shi Baizhen and Teng Dagen were both members of the "Gopher Gang", a mysterious bandit gang once known in southern Anhui during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. There were not many people in this gang, no more than nine at most, but the means of committing the crime were secretive and fierce, and every robbery would kill the owner of the matter to avoid any trouble. Before committing a crime, it must be thoroughly investigated, and the owner's wealth situation, preventive measures, advance and retreat routes, etc. are all checked and found out one by one, and then an action plan is formulated. Every time such a crime is successful, after the crime, it is impossible to investigate. The perpetrators selected by the "Gopher Gang" are all rich and oily, and the average rich family still can't look at it. Moreover, when they committed crimes, they did not take anything but gold and silver, cash, and jewelry, and even threw away antique calligraphy and paintings. It is said that the "Gopher Gang" commits no more and no less crimes every year, based on the standard of six, but not in two months, and sometimes two cases in three days. The gang's crimes began in the second half of 1939 and did not end until the end of 1946. The Wang pseudo-police station, the Japanese gendarmerie, and the Kuomintang police station in the southern Anhui region have all investigated the "gopher gang", but it is said that they have not even touched the fur, and they do not know what these people are doing. Therefore, the folk have many legends about the "Gopher Gang", saying that this is a group of jianghu people with high martial arts.

Shi Baizhen and Teng Dagen had already met before joining the "Gopher Gang", and the two also worshiped brothers. In 1942, a chance encounter brought them to know Du Denggao, the boss of the "Gopher Gang" at the time, and they joined the gang.

After the two joined the "Gopher Gang", they understood that the reason why this gang was able to remain mysterious was because of the principle of "hiding in the city". The gang boss, the second and third partners to open a sauce garden, the rest of the members are the long-term partners of the sauce garden, usually legal business, and angry and wealthy, no one will associate this sauce garden called "Ren Yihe" with the "gopher gang" on the rivers and lakes. This gang's gang rules are very strict, for the usual business, the division of labor when committing crimes, the division of labor, the division of stolen goods, the usual activities, etc. there is a set of rules, if violated, there is no Qinghong gang's kind of three knives and six holes to expel the mountain gate of the lenient punishment method, there is only one, simpler than three knives and six holes - kill.

There are two reasons why Shi Baizhen and Teng Dagen have two hearts: one is that the owner of the sauce garden and the boss Who led them to join the gang, Du Denggao, has always been in good health, punching and sitting in meditation every day, and suddenly died one night inexplicably. After the boss died, the second and third elders went up one level. At that time, Teng Dagen was already the fourth oldest, and according to the custom, he should also be promoted to sit in the third chair, but the new boss and the second eldest promoted a fellow villager in the seventh rank. This made Teng Dagen feel unhappy, and he also became suspicious of the second and third elders, believing that the two colluded to kill the boss. Another reason has a long history, that is, the "gopher gang" way of dividing the loot, the gang boss, the second, the third can share the loot according to the proceeds of robbery, while the members below the fourth can only get a fixed amount of cash, and the proportion difference is tens of times.

These two reasons led to Teng Dagen and Shi Baizhen deciding to leave the gang. According to the gang rules, once you join the gang, you are helping for life, and there is no withdrawal. If you have to quit, then let you hang up. The two men were resolute, discussing stealing a batch of stolen goods and then running away, looking for a place to change their names and surnames and live in seclusion. The plan was successfully implemented in November 1945. After escaping from Wuhu, the two went to Shanghai first, then to Zhenjiang, and finally decided to hide in the city of Nanjing.

In this way, Teng Dagen and Shi Baizhen married their wives, bought a house, and bought Liu Fengyi, a "military unification" agent who hung the title of section chief in the police department, implemented the household registration, and began to live a careful life. After more than three years of peace and quiet, I saw that the People's Liberation Army had already approached the city and the liberation of Nanjing was imminent, and I wondered if the "Gopher Gang" could not help them. What I didn't expect was that the "Ghost Hand Monster" appeared at this moment and rushed at them.

After the criminal police figured out the ins and outs of these two people, they asked Shi Baizhen to explain the connection with the "ghost hand monster". As soon as this problem is solved, we can immediately start to arrange for the arrest of the "ghost hand monster". Who knows, Shi Baizhen's answer surprised the criminal police!

He said: "I don't know who the 'Ghost Hand Monster' is, and I can't even be sure that the person who attacked me and Teng Dagen was indeed instructed by the 'Gopher Gang'. I'm just guessing that our plot may have something to do with the Gopher Gang. ”

So, Shi Baizhen has nothing to do with the "Ghost Hand Monster"? So, what happened to Zhang Xiuying's three gold bars?

Shi Baizhen confessed: He saw Zhang Xiuying become a widow, easy to be deceived, and he also knew that Teng Dagen had a treasure in hand, and he would definitely give it to Zhang Xiuying before he died, so he used some brains to deceive him, fabricated the lie of pleading with the "ghost hand monster" to buy his life, and easily made Zhang Xiuying believe that he was really deceived.

The four members of the special case team quietly set out that night, and together with the police officers of the police station, they went to Shi Baizhen's house, first searched and found the stolen goods hidden in the mud under the bed like Teng Dagen; they also asked their families and neighbors about Shi Baizhen's activities and contacts in recent days, and confirmed that no one else had come to the door except Zhang Xiuying, and he himself had only gone out once, and soon returned (that is, he went to deceive Zhang Xiuying that day).

After the criminal police returned, they immediately held a meeting to analyze the situation, and believed that judging from the statements of his family and neighbors and the amount of stolen goods obtained from the search, Shi Baizhen's confession was true, and he really did not know the situation of the "ghost hand monster" and did not have any contact with the "ghost hand monster".

What's next? It seems that only in Wuhu, the station of the "Gopher Gang", can we track down the whereabouts of the "Ghost Hand Monster". After the leader of the special case team, Cha Tiedian, reported to the leader on the progress of the investigation, he asked whether this move was appropriate, and the leader said that it was very good and happily approved the funds.

At that time, the administrative structure was that there was no Anhui Province, and the original Anhui Province was divided into two independent provincial-level administrative regions in southern Anhui and northern Anhui. The Southern Anhui Administration was established in Tunxi in May and soon moved to Wuhu. When the special case team passed, the public security department of the bureau had just begun its formal work. Zha Tiedian reported to the leader in charge of criminal investigation work of the Public Security Department on the situation of the "Gopher Gang" and their mission to hunt down the "Ghost Hand Monster" this time. The leader was shocked to hear this, and then got up to shake hands with the Nanjing criminal police one by one, and thanked them one by one, saying that he was grateful that you had found out this situation, and he did not expect that there was still such a vicious bandit hidden in Wuhu City.

The two sides then discussed a plan of action and decided to seal up the "Renyihe Sauce Garden" that night, and interrogate and trace the whereabouts of the "Ghost Hand Monster" after being arrested; out of safety considerations, they also laid a secret sentry around the Sauce Garden so that the "Ghost Hand Monster" could be tracked and arrested when they went.

At midnight that day, the Wuhu Military Control Commission dispatched a platoon of people's liberation army, together with the Nanjing special case group and local public security personnel, a total of more than fifty people, all armed with live ammunition, and quietly surrounded the "Renyi and Sauce Garden." The operation was very smooth, no shooting and no bloodshed, and fourteen people from the boss to the buddy and apprentice were all taken down. Then there was the search, the sauce garden is such a place, the area is large and the altar jars are very large, it is very convenient to hide things. Accordingly, on the basis of a pre-negotiated plan, the arrestees are interrogated on the spot and searches are carried out at the same time.

The interrogation soon made a breakthrough, and the boss, second, and third elders of the "Gopher Gang" all confessed their identities and explained the location of the stolen goods, stolen money, and weapons. While the fighters were being arranged to dig, one of the arrested men broke free of the handcuffs and knocked down the guards to escape, and the man fled to the backyard and was about to fly up the wall when he was shot by the soldiers.

At the same time, the interrogation of the bandit leader in the house was still ongoing, and the special case team directly pointed out the "ghost hand monster" and his person. The boss confessed that he had indeed hired this person to hunt down and kill Liu Xiaosan and Shi Baizhen, who had absconded in violation of gang rules and regulations, and that the "Ghost Hand Monster" was the nickname given to him by the common people after his crime in Nanjing, and his real name was Chen Fan, a Taoist monk from Maoshan, and the Daoist name was Pu Fanzi.

So, where is this guy now?

Where is it? Didn't you catch it?

Cha Tiedian immediately reacted: "Ghost Hand Monster" happened to be in the sauce garden tonight, and was taken down as a buddy when he just moved. So I immediately went out to check, and I saw a few soldiers carrying the injured guy out of the backyard, and my heart was moving: Could it be this person? The man was covered in blood and in a coma, unable to answer questions. So they called in a few other arrested guys, who identified him as the boss's guest. Then he brought the boss in and said that it was this person.

The "ghost hand monster" was sent to the garrison hospital for emergency treatment, and after waking up, he confessed his identity and the situation of committing crimes in Nanjing. The special case team had planned to escort him to Nanjing when his injuries improved and he could be moved, but he did not expect that three days later, he died of his injuries that were serious and worse. The special case team immediately went to Maoshan, and according to the explanation of the "Gopher Gang", they found the Taoist temple and confirmed the identity of Pu Fanzi.

The investigation of the "Ghost Hand Monster" series of cases was thus concluded, and the "Gopher Gang" was disposed of by the Wuhu side, and later seven of them were sentenced to death, and the rest of the crimes were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment.

--This article is reproduced from the "Dusty Archives" series of "Wood Bird Chasing"