Chapter 24
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"Sun Cheng jumped into the river?!" Yu Fu was immediately shocked after hearing this.
Zhuzi heard these words as he closed the door and entered the lobby. He looked at Yu Fu in surprise.
"You haven't received this news either?" Yi Hanxing didn't expect that this might not be arranged by the organization. "There's no reason, right? Sun Cheng isn't such an impulsive person. Could that woman really be his white moonlight and cinnabar mole?"
"What do you mean by white moonlight and cinnabar mole?" Yu Fu was puzzled.
"That's not important." Yi Hanxing said, "What's important is, don't you know that Sun Cheng jumped into the river?"
"The organization did give me a message before," Yu Fu frowned. "They said they'd found a way for Comrade Tai'a to be evacuated safely, and that we should finish the cleanup work in Shanghai. But they didn't mention him jumping into the river to escape."
"Han Xing, tell us in detail what happened at that time." Yu Fu thought about it and still felt something was wrong, so he said to Yi Hanxing.
"I feel like this was arranged by the organization. Otherwise, there's no reason." Yi Hanxing muttered, and told Yu Fu and Zhuzi the details: "On the boat, Sun Cheng suddenly stared at a girl on the deck. Yang Qin teased him a few times, and Sun Cheng said that she was their former classmate. At that time, everyone thought Sun Cheng was interested in this girl, so Yang Qin pulled him over to chat with her."
"Everyone originally thought it was just a reunion, but the girl slipped and fell off the boat. Sun Cheng immediately jumped overboard, calling her name, and the two disappeared into the Yangtze River." Yi Hanxing finished describing the situation and offered his own analysis: "I think, firstly, Sun Cheng himself is not the kind of person who would jump overboard with a girl. Secondly, how could such a coincidence happen? And the organization just happened to notify you to evacuate."
After all, Sun Cheng doesn't look like a love-brained person at all! Yi Hanxing thought: This isn't Jack and Rose's YoujumpIjump!
"That's true. I will find Laojia (slang for the base) to confirm whether he has evacuated safely. All of you witnesses on the road may be questioned later, so you should be careful then." After Yu Fu understood the general situation, he reminded Yi Hanxing.
Yi Hanxing naturally agreed obediently.
Yi Hanxing, who was reporting the situation to Yu Fu, didn't know that Sun Cheng, who she judged not to be love-brained, was holding the hand of his beloved girl and laughing non-stop.
Su Wan and Sun Cheng got married abroad a long time ago. In fact, Su Wan was also one of the people who introduced Sun Cheng to the party.
Su Wan was also studying in Europe. There were not many Chinese students in Europe, and everyone liked to travel to different countries. The two were high school alumni and quickly became familiar with each other.
Because my elder brother had already joined the Workers' and Peasants' Party
Su Wan also joined the organization when she was in Europe, and later her relationship with Sun Cheng grew deeper. It happened that the organization needed to develop talents in science and engineering. After reporting to the organization, Su Wan would often talk to Sun Cheng about the ideas and deeds of the Workers' and Peasants' Party.
Sun Cheng was able to take the exam to study abroad at public expense in this era, so there was no need to worry about his IQ. Even if he didn't notice it at first, he guessed the relationship between Su Wan and the Workers' and Peasants' Party after many times. In addition, the ideas of the Workers' and Peasants' Party were actually very popular among patriotic and progressive students of that era. Soon, Sun Cheng found Su Wan and took the initiative to seek to join the party.
After Sun Cheng joined the party, the two, whose relationship was getting better and better, walked into the wedding hall under the witness of their comrades. However, not long after the marriage, Su Wan completed her studies abroad, but Sun Cheng needed to continue his studies because he was studying for a doctorate. After the two discussed it, Su Wan returned home early and went to the base to carry out her work.
Motivated by the desire to return home early to make contributions and reunite with his wife as soon as possible, Sun Cheng completed his doctorate in less than three years. However, he did not expect that when he was staying in Shanghai and wanted to go to the mall to buy some fashionable women's items for his wife, he was recognized by Yang Qin.
In this way, including the time spent on the ship returning home, the two had not seen each other for almost three and a half years. So after they met, Sun Cheng's eyes never left Su Wan.
"Why are you grinning like an idiot?!" Su Wan couldn't help but say angrily, feeling Sun Cheng's gaze following her at all times.
"Ah, did I smile?" Sun Cheng spoke sweetly from the heart, "I couldn't help myself when I saw you. I didn't even notice that I was smiling."
Su Wan blushed after hearing this: "Don't look at it!"
"If you don't look at me, how do you know I'm looking at you?" Sun Cheng laughed foolishly: "Besides, it's been a long time since we last met, why don't you let me look?"
"Oh! The key for us now is to get back to the base as soon as possible." Su Wan couldn't argue with Sun Cheng, so she changed the subject and talked about business.
"Everything will be according to your arrangements." Sun Cheng agreed.
"Will your friend and those people from the Nanjing government come to the shore to search for you?" Su Wan asked.
"It's hard to say." Sun Cheng thought for a moment. "Logically, the place where we landed is quite far from where we jumped. This is a small tributary river. It took us two or three hours to swim here. They won't be able to find us here in a short time. They will definitely have to salvage something in the Yangtze River and then search along the Yangtze River before they start looking for the tributaries."
Hearing this, Su Wan felt a little relieved: "Then let's stay here for now. I'll go to the nearby county town tomorrow to inquire about the situation and then find a way to leave here."
Sun Cheng naturally agreed.
At night, Sun Cheng had nothing to do and went to sleep. He hugged Su Wan and said to her, "Tell me how you can be so brave. You can wear a cheongsam and
You dare to jump into the water in high heels!"
"You were scared at that time?" Su Wan smiled: "So did you jump down because you saw through our plan, or did you jump down because you were worried about me?"
"When you ask this question, if I say I see through your plan, you'll say I don't love you enough. If I say I'm worried about you, you'll say I'm not smart enough." Sun Cheng: "Are you setting a trap for me to jump into?"
"Then do you not love me enough, or are you not smart enough?" Su Wan asked.
"Can't I just jump in because I love you and I'm smart?" Sun Cheng hugged Su Wan tightly. "Also, don't change the subject. First, why did you wear high heels and a cheongsam when you knew you were going to jump off the boat? Don't you know it's dangerous underwater?"
"I'm wearing a swimsuit underneath my cheongsam. The cheongsam is slim-fitting and has no resistance in the water, and the skirt is elastic, so it can be taken off with a tug." Su Wan explained, "And it's just a kick of my high heels, so it's gone."
Sun Cheng deliberately made his voice serious: "We can't take it lightly."
"Alright, alright." Su Wan said coquettishly, "Are you still not confident in my diving and swimming skills?"
Sun Cheng was helpless: "Who on earth came up with this idea? He is really a genius."
Talented Yi Hongxing was still working hard at night when he suddenly sneezed.
"Caught a cold?" the guard asked. "Would you like some ginger tea?"
"I think someone is nagging me, so let's forget about the ginger tea, right?" Yi Hongxing said, touching his nose.
"If you sneeze every time someone talks about you, you'll probably keep sneezing all day long." The guard complained, "You must have caught a cold, right? It would be better to drink some ginger tea."
After hearing what the guard said, Yi Hongxing couldn't help but ask, "What is the image I have in your mind?"
The guard looked at Yi Hongxing with dead eyes, his whole body conveying one message: What else?
Seeing this, Yi Hongxing didn't want to care about it (bringing shame upon himself), and didn't say anything more to the guard. Instead, he hummed a song and started working again.
The guard quietly left the room and said to his colleague who was making supper, "Make some more ginger tea. I think he's going to be working late again tonight."
"Then I'll make him a ginger milk dish! It's a good midnight snack, and the ginger helps with sweating. We can eat the buns we just made later." The colleague said eagerly, "This brainpower takes a lot of energy, so we need to eat more to replenish it. And we happen to have eggs and milk at home."
"Okay, I'll light the fire for you." The guard squatted in front of the stove.
A colleague said to the guard, "Tell me, what's going on with our leader's quick thinking and quick thinking whenever he gets to work? I just can't figure it out. Why is it so easy for him to solve problems?"
"Don't talk about you, our entire base
The leaders probably couldn't figure out why. "But the results of his actions are usually good for the base," the guard grumbled. "It's just that sometimes we have to hustle and clean up after him. So if he wants to cause trouble, just let him do it."
"Don't say that." The colleague, busy with his work, sighed: "What the leader did this time was a genius idea. Most people really can't think of it."
"Haha, so he's not an ordinary person!"
Yi Hongxing, who is not an ordinary person, is obsessed with the beauty of mathematics. He doesn't know that there are many more people discussing him that night than just Sun Cheng, Su Wan and the guards.
"Our people have reported that the Nanjing government has been fishing in the river for a whole day but hasn't found anyone." The base leader tapped his pipe and said to the assembled leaders, "This time, the mermaid project seems to have been a success."
"Okay!" A middle-aged male leader clenched his fist and waved it restrainedly.
"Comrade Xiaotian is truly brilliant," another leader exclaimed. "Who could have imagined such a method?"
"He's now called Red Star. The key is that he's been passing information openly under the noses of so many government intelligence personnel, and he's been doing it so quietly. Not even our own comrades know about it. Only Sun Cheng, who saw Su Wan, could react." The old leader sighed and shook his head while smoking his pipe, "This idea is truly brilliant!"
How did the genius Yi Hongxing complete the entire evacuation operation?
First, on the way back home from the patriarch's house, Yi Hongxing and Sun Cheng discussed academic issues under the eyes of their bodyguards.
Yi Hongxing didn't say anything he shouldn't have said, but simply added a sentence to the academic discussion: "Sometimes when I see a problem I can't solve, I like to go out and take a look. Sometimes it can give me new ideas."
At the beginning, Sun Cheng didn't pay much attention to Yi Hongxing's words, thinking it was just a sharing of experience.
The next day, while the bodyguards were guarding Sun Cheng and scouting the villagers, Yi Hongxing took one of his guards to deliver a letter, requesting the organization to arrange someone Sun Cheng knew on the boat, who would then take Sun Cheng to jump into the Yangtze River and swim away. After receiving a reply that Sun Cheng's wife Su Wan would be arranged as the pick-up person, Yi Hongxing took his guards and strolled back to the village. No one in the village noticed where he went.
Of course, the premise of Yi Hongxing's plan was that he knew Sun Cheng could swim, had good exercise habits, and had good physical strength. At the same time, Yi Hongxing believed that Su Wan would be arranged and must be a good swimmer.
When Yang Qin was called by his uncle and everyone went to watch the fun, Yi Hongxing did not forget to call Sun Cheng: "Teacher Sun, are you here to watch the fun too? I heard that you stayed in your room this morning? You should go out and walk around more,
Wouldn't it be nice to chat with the villagers, relax a bit, and learn from Mr. Yang?"
"That's not necessary." This was Sun Cheng's answer at the time.
After hearing about Yang Qin's romantic debt, Yi Hongxing pretended to know what Yang Qin was like and apologized to Sun Cheng, saying, "Teacher Sun, I'm sorry, I didn't know Mr. Yang was this kind of person, otherwise I wouldn't have asked you to learn from him. It's okay to go out and talk to people more, but when we fall in love and get married, we should be more loyal, don't you agree?"
"Of course, of course." Sun Cheng became suspicious at that time.
Because he knew that Yi Hongxing was Yi Hanxing's brother and that Yi Hanxing's studies were arranged by Yi Hongxing, Sun Cheng had long suspected that Yi Hongxing was also his own informant. When he heard Yi Hongxing repeatedly emphasize the importance of walking around and talking to more people, Sun Cheng couldn't help but wonder whether Yi Hongxing was conveying a message to him.
However, because everyone was busy in the afternoon and wanted to return early, Sun Cheng went out for a walk by himself and became conspicuous. He even regretted that he might have missed an opportunity to escape.
Unexpectedly, the situation took a turn for the worse. After Sun Cheng boarded the boat, he saw his wife Su Wan. He immediately recalled what Yi Hanxing said: walk, talk, and marry...
Then Sun Cheng had a flash of inspiration, and he probably understood that his wife was helping him to carry out the escape plan. He quickly pretended to look at his wife intently, and did not resist strongly when Yang Qin dragged him to chat with her.
Then, seeing his wife Su Wan falling into the water in panic, he jumped in right after her.
After jumping down, Sun Cheng was quickly pulled by Su Wan to swim to the side. The boat was swimming downstream at a fairly fast speed, and the two of them quickly disappeared from the sight of Yang Qin and others.
Afterwards, the two swam from the center of the Yangtze River to the edge, went upstream into a tributary, and finally swam to the riverside water house that Su Wan had prepared in advance.
Such an escape plan was carried out very smoothly.
For this, Yi Hongxing was still a little proud in his heart: Look at my sister! She worked with the people in the organization for several months, but it was not as good as me taking action and getting it done in two days!
The complacent Yi Hongxing could not have imagined that after his sister Yi Hanxing knew about this, she would be so frightened by her brother's refusal to reveal the plan to her that she beat him with a pillow thinking he was Yi Hongxing.
Yu Fu told Yi Hanxing the whole plan after he had finished being questioned.
The day after Sun Cheng disappeared, Zhou Yizhi and several others came to pick up Yi Hanxing and said to Yi Hanxing, "We previously reported Teacher Sun's disappearance in the Yangtze River. The investigators asked us to come over and tell them what happened that day and recall the details."
Yi Hanxing pretended to be very puzzled and said to Zhou Yizhi and others: "Teacher Sun is missing, shouldn't we quickly send people to search for her along the Yangtze River? How can it help if we recall the details of that day?
"
Zhou Yizi's face was heavy. "My brother mentioned to me that this matter might not be a simple disappearance. I just hope it won't implicate us."
Yi Hanxing's heart moved.
Zhou Yizi's words indicate that his brother may have received some information, so the Nanjing government interrogated all people who may be related to Sun Cheng's "disappearance" to screen out suspects and determine the nature of Sun Cheng's "disappearance" case.
Yi Hanxing believed that the Nanjing government should not have discovered Sun Cheng's identity as a Workers' and Peasants' Party member, otherwise Sun Cheng would not have had the opportunity to go to Huizhou before. However, after Sun Cheng disappeared, the relevant personnel should not have believed that Sun Cheng would jump into the river for a woman, and no one found him alive or dead, so they thought that there might be some problems with Sun Cheng.
But fortunately, Yi Hanxing, Yu Fu and others did not participate in the entire process, so even if they were interrogated, they would not be found to have any connection with Sun Cheng's disappearance case.
With this thought in mind, Yi Hanxing went to the police station with Zhou Yizi and others with peace of mind.
"So disappearances in the Yangtze River are also under the jurisdiction of the Shanghai Police Department!" Yi Hanxing said with an ignorant look.
"Maybe it's not the police station that's in charge. We all have to be careful later." Qin Guanyu glanced at the staff member who was not wearing a police uniform and spoke to everyone in a low voice.
Everyone immediately became alert.
"Don't be too nervous, otherwise people will think there is something wrong with us." Zhou Yizi reminded.
"What you said makes us even more nervous," Wang Fu said. "I feel like my legs are shaking."
"Why are you shaking?" Qin Guanyu said, "They invited us to come here and take our own statements, and they didn't come to arrest us. This means they didn't really suspect us. We just need to tell the truth."
"That's what I said, but my mind is completely blank right now. I don't remember what happened yesterday at all." Yi Hanxing said from the side: "What should I say when they ask me?"
"Now that you mention it, me too. My mind is blank right now and I can't remember anything at all." Wang Fu said with a sad face when he heard what Yi Hanxing said.
"You two should try your best." Zhou Yizi said with a bit of regret: "Yue Tong is the youngest and much calmer than the two of you."
"I, I, I..." Zhou Yuetong said, "I'm not nervous. What's there to be nervous about?"
"He was so scared that he stuttered." Yi Hanxing pointed out.
Zhou Yizhi and Qin Guanyu's expressions changed instantly. If they were to be depicted in cartoon form, there would undoubtedly be the Chinese character "井" (well) on their foreheads.
No matter how nervous everyone was, someone soon came to interrogate the five people.
"Tell me about the specific situation that day?" Yi Han
The five people were led to a man in a casual windbreaker. The man did not ask for their names or identities, but directly asked about what happened that day.
"Should we start from the moment we got on the boat? Or from the moment we met the woman who fell into the water?" Zhou Yizi asked.
"Start from the moment you woke up in the morning and saw Sun Cheng!" The man pointed at the table: "One person will speak, and the others can add to it at any time."
After hearing this, Yi Hanxing realized that the interrogator obviously thought that a suspicious person must have informed Sun Cheng of the evacuation method that day, which means that the Nanjing government has now begun to doubt Sun Cheng's identity.
Yi Hanxing took note of this and never planned to be the one to tell the story. The more he spoke, the more mistakes he would make. What if he was caught?
Thinking of this, Yi Hanxing felt a little relieved. The other party must have judged that this matter had little to do with his students, so he did not interrogate everyone separately and then ask them to give their statements, but asked the five people to talk together.
After hearing this person's request and thinking of the nervous looks of Wang Fu, Yi Hanxing and Zhou Yuetong, Zhou Yizi and Qin Guanyu still took on the roles of the main narrators and the main supplementary personnel.
"We lived in a yard that day. After getting up, everyone washed up and had breakfast. During this time, there were only a few of us together. Then the young patriarch of the Tian family arranged for the clan members to take us to the dock by car. We waited for a while at the dock and then got on the boat..." Zhou Yizi roughly explained the whole situation.
After listening, the man began to ask for details: "Did anyone contact you at the dock? What happened after you got on the boat?"
Yi Hanxing instantly understood that those "bodyguards" should have already explained Sun Cheng's itinerary. During the entire time Sun Cheng was in Tianjia Village, there was at least one bodyguard near him, so the topic of the Tian clan was not mentioned during the interrogation.
"I didn't notice it, so there shouldn't be any." Zhou Yizi said.
The man raised his chin: "What about you?"
"I didn't notice it either. Teacher Sun seemed to be walking near the bodyguards at the time. There was nothing that required him to speak proactively, right?" Qin Guanyu added.
"I remember Teacher Sun saw roasted sweet potatoes being sold at the dock and asked his bodyguard to buy a few to share with us," said Wang Fu.
Yi Hanxing noticed that after the man heard it, he wrote down the three words "roasted sweet potatoes" and knew that the man was probably going to check out the roasted sweet potato stall.
"I don't remember much, there shouldn't be anything else?" Zhou Yuetong said.
Yi Hanxing recalled carefully: "Teacher Sun didn't talk to outsiders at the dock. Then after we got on the boat, when the waiter was there, we all ordered food, and he ordered a cup of tea."
The man nodded, showing his understanding, and said to the five teenagers, "That's all for today's conversation. If we have any questions later, we will contact you at any time. Please don't go out of town recently."
After several people nodded, they signed the conversation record and left the police station.
"Boss, is there something wrong with these dolls?" someone asked the plainclothes man in windbreaker.
"They're just a few teenagers. There's nothing wrong with them. What could possibly be the problem?" The plainclothes officer in the windbreaker said, "It's just a routine questioning to see if there are any clues we've missed."
"Did you find any missing clues?"
"We'll check that waiter and the roasted sweet potato stall, but we probably won't find anything." The plainclothes man in the windbreaker said, "Instead of spending this much time, why don't we go back and properly interrogate the student we recently arrested? If we can pull out a clue about the Workers' and Peasants' Party, we might even be able to shed light on Sun Cheng's disappearance."
"You mean to say that Sun Cheng is a member of the Workers' and Peasants' Party?"
"That should be right." The plainclothes man in the windbreaker said, "They are students who returned from Europe, not from Japan. They should have no connection with the Japanese. And if they really are Japanese, why don't they send someone else to be their intelligence officer? Why not send a weapons design expert to help us design weapons to deal with them? Besides, if they were Japanese or European and American intelligence officers, they wouldn't run away secretly. They are nowhere to be found alive or dead. It's unlikely that they drowned. And how many people would be stupid enough to jump into the water for an old friend they just contacted? Why did Sun Cheng run away secretly? Most likely, the woman was a female Workers and Peasants Party member he knew, and she followed her into hiding and ran away to help those peasants design weapons."
"Boss, you are truly wise and powerful!" The person next to him flattered him, "Then let's go back and interrogate that student first?"
"That's a tough one. These patriotic students are the hardest to interrogate. They're stubborn and obstinate!" The plainclothes officer in the windbreaker flicked the cigarette ash off his clothes. "You guys go back and interrogate them. Remember not to be too harsh. I'll go check on our safe house!"
After saying that, the plainclothes man in the windbreaker picked up his gentleman's hat, pressed down the brim of it, left the police station, made a few anti-tracking moves, and disappeared into the crowd.
"Hey, brothers, let's go! Let's meet this stubborn patriotic student. Who knows how many big fish from the Workers' and Peasants' Party are behind him!"
The author has something to say: I had a headache today. After queuing up for the nucleic acid test, I slept for a long time without eating much. When I woke up, it was already 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Due to time constraints, there won't be many updates... It mainly depends on my typing speed when I have a headache TAT
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