Chapter 782 No one can be left alive!
Chapter 782 No one can be left alive!
Peking Detective Team.
Wang Xiaoshou sat upright behind his desk, taking a sip from the purple clay teapot on the table from time to time.
Yu Xuecheng was sitting opposite him. Seeing him like this, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Little Hand, don't drink anymore. Don't be so anxious later."
Wang Xiaoshou put down the purple clay teapot and said, "Brother, you don't know that this is the first time I've done such an assignment. If something goes wrong, I won't be able to explain to Master Lin."
Yu Xuecheng consoled him, "My captain brother, don't worry, Director Niu has made all the arrangements. Once I have taken care of everything over there, you just need to clean up the mess."
"Boom boom boom!"
Wang Xiaoshou heard someone knocking on the door. He signaled Yu Xuecheng to stop talking with his eyes, then coughed and said, "Come in!"
The one who came was Duan Wenxuan. He pushed the door open but did not go in. Instead, he stood at the door and asked with a smile: "Captain, Brother Yu, what are you planning for lunch? There is a good casserole restaurant, how about we..."
Wang Xiaoshou instructed, "Wenxuan, if you have nothing to do these two days, just do your own thing. I have to accompany him well since he has finished his studies and is coming from Tianjin. You are young and not married yet, so there are some places I won't take you to, hahaha!"
Duan Wenxuan gave me a smile that I understood, "Okay, then call me if you need anything."
After Duan Wenxuan left, Yu Xuecheng asked in a low voice, "Who is this person?"
Wang Xiaoshou shook his head. "Mr. Lin's relationship has a complicated background. Don't ask too much. In short, he is a friend, not an enemy."
Over there, Duan Wenxuan left the detective team and walked out of the city on his own.
Halfway through the walk, I entered an ancient book shop and wandered around for a long time.
After all, he was an educated man. He read the Four Books and Five Classics when he was a child, and later studied Western learning. It was normal for him to visit bookstores.
It was already past noon when he wandered around. Duan Wenxuan went into an alley behind the bookstore and found a meat shop that was still open. He ordered a plate of pig ears, a plate of peanuts, and two taels of wine, and sat down to drink them slowly.
There were not many guests, only two tables in total. After eating and drinking, Duan Wenxuan paid the bill and walked to the door to light a cigarette.
After finishing a cigarette, he looked around to make sure that no one was following him, then turned out of the alley, hailed a rickshaw, and headed straight for Dazhalan.
There is a Tianhuizhai snuff shop in Dazhalan. It is an old shop with three high steps. The storefront is not big, with only one room, but it has three rooms deep.
Xiao Duan arrived at the entrance of Tianhuizhai and walked in leisurely. When he entered the house, he saw a horizontal cabinet in front of him. The shopkeeper who was clacking his hands on the abacus beads saw him coming and hurriedly said, "Master Duan, you are here. How about the smelling medicine last time? I have another batch of genuine Jian tobacco, which was transported to our Huangtukeng and fumigated with white jasmine. The smell is not pungent. If you smell it for a while, you will feel energetic for an hour or two."
The so-called smelling medicine is an elegant name for snuff.
Tianhuizhai's snuff is indeed very particular. It must be made from a type of tobacco leaves produced in Yancheng, the eastern province, that has a strong flavor, few tobacco stems, and is oily. It cannot be dried in a drying room, but must be dried in the sun.
After drying, it is ground into extremely fine powder using a medicine grinder and then transported to Changle County, Fujian Province.
There is a kind of single-flowered jasmine in Changle. The smoked tobacco residue produced by smoking this jasmine for a whole summer is called "Jianyan".
This is not the end. The Jian tobacco has to be transported north to Huangtugang outside You'anmen in Peking. There is a special smoking room there, where it is smoked with special white jasmine flowers.
The smoked tobacco can be divided into ten grades. The highest grade Gao Wanxinlu sells for more than ten yuan per two ounces. Only rich people can afford to smell this stuff.
Xiao Duan calmly took out a snuff bottle, scooped a little snuff powder with a small spoon and put it on the base of his thumb, then put it to his nose and took a puff.
Then he tilted his head back and sneezed twice.
"You're right, I don't like smoking cigarettes, and I don't have much interest in Luzon cigarettes, but I can't give up this smelling medicine. I smell it once in the morning and feel refreshed all afternoon. After dinner, I smell it again and I feel energetic all afternoon. Since you have good stuff, give me some to try. It must be good, don't fool me with cheap stuff."
"My Captain Duan, please ask around the city and see who dares to fool you. Please go to the back, please go to the back."
As mentioned before, although the front of Tianhuizhai is not big, it has three rooms in depth. The last room is used as a warehouse, and the second room is used to separate several tea seats for entertaining important guests.
The waiter served tea, and the shopkeeper brought a small box of snuff for Duan Wenxuan to try.
After the curtain of the cubicle was closed, the shopkeeper whispered, "With the intelligence you gave us last time, we fought very well in the west. We killed and captured a lot of puppet troops. Not long ago, in the Yulin and Liaolin areas, our 129th Division killed more than a thousand Japanese soldiers! We also cut off the Tongpu Railway. The Japanese's plan to sweep our base area has failed again."
"That's good, Shopkeeper Chen, how are my brother Jiao and the others?"
Shopkeeper Chen smiled and said, "The higher-ups specifically asked me to tell you that Comrade Jiao Zhenguo's injuries have almost healed. He has gone to the rear with Comrade Sun. Although they can't stay in the north anymore, they may be sent to the south in the future, either to Shanghai or even Hong Kong."
Duan Wenxuan was also very happy to hear that Lao Jiao was fine. At this time, Manager Chen made another arrangement: "Big Brother in the north informed us that the Americans still hope to negotiate with the Japanese. If the Americans use appeasement and recognize the Japanese occupation, it will be very passive for us. So the superiors hope that we can find out more about the content of the negotiations. Of course, we just need to do our best. The last time Lao Jiao and his men happened, we were reminded that safety is the most important thing. As long as we can continue to lurk, there will always be opportunities."
Xiao Duan nodded seriously, "I understand. I will ask more through Uncle Lin and do my best."
When Shopkeeper Chen heard him mention Lin Ze again, he opened his mouth but said nothing.
Detective team.
The phone on Wang Xiaoshou's desk suddenly rang.
He picked up the phone solemnly, "Hello? Peking Detective Team!"
"What!!? I'll bring people over right away!"
Soon, the detective team began to gather urgently, and a shocking news came that Sir Gao Yuebao's residence and Princess Jing's mansion were attacked!
Just as Wang Xiaoshou answered the phone, Yu Xuecheng led a team of people, dressed in detective uniforms, and rushed to Princess Hejing's mansion.
There are more than a dozen people patrolling and standing guard at the door. Originally, Okamura wanted to send the devils to patrol nearby, but Gao Yuebao declined. He had to go out to meet some senior officers of the front army, such as Chief of Staff Yamashita and others, and did not want to be under Okamura's surveillance all the time.
Yu Xuecheng ran to the door and shouted, "Someone reported an attack here! We are from the detective team! We must make sure the Sir is safe!"
The Japanese soldiers standing guard at the door looked at each other in bewilderment? Attack?
A leader said coldly: "Sir Sir has not gone out since he came back at noon. He is very safe. There is no attack here. You can't go in."
Yu Xuecheng smiled.
"Go ahead, don't leave anybody alive!"
Before he finished speaking, he fired decisively, catching the Japanese at the door off guard.
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