Chapter 277
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"Hua Jiuchun has very good psychological quality," said the staff.
Yi Hanxing immediately understood: "He refuses to admit it?"
The staff member nodded with mixed feelings. "We mainly want to know Aizi's information, but he won't talk about it."
As he said this, the staff was also puzzled: "Generally speaking, those who refuse to speak out either think that there is a better way out by not speaking out, or they are spies trained by the Japanese since childhood. Logically speaking, Hua Jiuchun does not belong to either of these..."
Seeing this, Yi Hanxing said, "If you feel like you can't get any more information out of him, you can let me meet him. Maybe I can bring you some different news."
After Yi Hanxing said this, everyone understood.
It is currently speculated that Hua Jiuchun is the younger brother of the concubine's family. If this is the case, the other party has always been resentful of Yi Hanxing and will seek revenge. Even before Fengqin confessed, it was Hua Jiuchun who mentioned that Yi Hanxing might be faking a miscarriage, which is why Fengqin wanted to follow and see what medicine was sold in the bottle.
So when it is really impossible to interrogate Hua Jiuchun, let Yi Hanxing give it a try. Maybe when the other party is excited, everyone will get different results.
The opportunity soon arrived.
"He's really refusing to speak. We've already cut off his contact with the outside world for nearly a month. If this continues, other spies will likely become suspicious. By then, even if he speaks, it won't mean much."
"Then let me try." Yi Hanxing said.
"You go in and ask, we'll be listening in the room outside," said the old professor.
Yi Hanxing nodded. In order to prevent Hua Jiuchun from suddenly attacking and hurting others, a skilled soldier entered the interrogation room with Yi Hanxing.
Hua Jiuchun raised his eyes and glanced at Yi Hanxing.
Catching Hua Jiuchun's gaze, Yi Hanxing deliberately acted complacent and asked, "Didn't expect that I would be the one to interrogate you?"
Hua Jiuchun remained silent.
Yi Hanxing had entered the interrogation room specifically to dispel Hua Jiuchun's non-violent non-cooperation. Seeing this, he naturally intensified his demands, "Although you've always wanted revenge on me, it's a shame that I didn't suffer any harm, and you ended up getting yourself into trouble."
Hua Jiuchun continued to remain silent.
"Are you stupid? If I wanted to retaliate against someone, I would just frame them and physically destroy them while they're still alive. Why would I even think about angering them? What kind of killing power would that have?"
"What do you know?! If it weren't for..." Hua Jiuchun couldn't help but speak. The word "love" was on the tip of his tongue, but he came to his senses and swallowed it.
"If it wasn't for Aizi not letting you do it?" Yi Hanxing made a reasonable guess and continued to stimulate: "So you have always been suppressed by Aizi
, you don't even have the ability to do such a small thing?"
"Ha! You're just lucky!" Hua Jiuchun made a sarcastic face.
Yi Hanxing knew at a glance that she had hit upon his inner dissatisfaction, and quickly continued: "Actually, it's no wonder Aizi doesn't let you do this. With your level, you're completely incompetent at anything. If it weren't for Fengqin, would you have been able to join us?"
Yi Hanxing was telling the truth, but how could the truth hurt the most? Hua Jiuchun was clearly struck in the heart: "That old woman Fengqin is nothing more than lucky and capable of scientific research. She's completely stupid! Taiwan even values this kind of spy. No wonder they can't defeat your Workers and Peasants Party!"
Hearing this, Yi Hanxing smiled slightly: "Thank you for the compliment."
"Oh, I forgot to remind you that the Great Japanese Empire you serve can't defeat our Workers and Peasants Party. Your eldest brother should stop laughing at your second brother."
"Ha!" Hua Jiuchun sneered: "Japan is now a dog of the United States! Only people like Aiko would work for Japan."
"So you are working for the United States? But the Americans you are working for can't defeat our Workers and Peasants Party!" Yi Hanxing immediately followed up.
"I'm doing this for myself. Are those countries worth my life?" Hua Jiuchun said with a sarcastic look on his face.
"Is that so?" Yi Hanxing said, "So you're refusing to reveal any information now. Don't you know that confession is treated leniently, while resistance is punished severely? I thought you wanted to be loyal to the Emperor and intended to die in tribute."
Hearing Yi Hanxing's words, Hua Jiuchun immediately said, "You can't sentence me to death! This violates human rights and the laws of war!"
"Of course we can!" Yi Hanxing said, "You weren't captured by us on the battlefield. Sorry, the laws of war don't apply."
Yi Hanxing looked at Hua Jiuchun sympathetically as he said this: "It seems that the Japanese didn't explain the applicable rules of international law to you in order to deceive you?"
Hua Jiuchun immediately became excited: "You're talking nonsense! Are you trying to trick me? You're dreaming! I'm telling you, I won't be fooled!"
"If you don't believe me, forget it." Yi Hanxing said, "Isn't it a good thing that there is one less person hostile to me in this world?"
"Don't you want to know who Ai Zi is?" Hua Jiuchun said grimly.
"It doesn't really matter, does it?" Yi Hanxing muttered to himself, "A little mouse in the gutter might starve to death one day, so it won't cause any big waves."
"Then you really underestimated my beloved son." Hua Jiuchun raised his eyelids and looked at Yi Hanxing: "You will have a surprise."
Yi Hanxing suppressed the urge to frown and put on an exaggerated expression of feigned curiosity: "Wow! There's actually a surprise. Unfortunately, we have banned both guns and gunpowder materials now, so it might not be easy for them to surprise me."
Hua Jiuchun smiled: "
You’ll be surprised when you find out who she is.”
Knowing that Hua Jiuchun would not reveal the identity of his beloved son, Yi Hanxing did not want to argue with him about whether to be surprised or not, and planned to make a breakthrough in a different direction.
"Come to think of it, do your parents know that you're working for the Japanese?"
"What? Are you still planning to threaten me with my parents?" Hua Jiuchun said with a look of 'I've found out, right?' "You Workers and Peasants Party members also like to implicate others when you do things."
"Of course not." Yi Hanxing explained: "We all know that you are not a filial person at all. You don't care about your parents. Will it be useful for me to threaten them? I'm just curious."
Hearing Yi Hanxing's words, Hua Jiuchun sneered: "You know me well. Didn't you investigate them a long time ago?"
Yi Hanxing said, "I'm just curious, how did you find an opportunity in your life that your parents didn't know about to connect with the Japanese spies?"
Hua Jiuchun, a non-researcher, was selected by the organization to manage logistics. On the one hand, it was because he was Fengqin's husband and had a suitable professional background. On the other hand, it was because he had a clear resume and had never lived in the Japanese-occupied area or the core area controlled by the Three People's Party.
The person who reviewed his resume also believed that he would have no chance of becoming a spy for other forces.
Hua Jiuchun was clearly very proud of his ability to conceal his secrets, and he said to Yi Hanxing provocatively, "Aren't you a spy star? Tell me, how did I do it?"
Yi Hanxing stared closely into Hua Jiuchun's eyes, making a bold guess and carefully verifying: "You became a Japanese spy before you even started middle school."
Because his eyes never left Hua Jiuchun, Yi Hanxing quickly noticed that Hua Jiuchun's pupils shrank, and he immediately knew that he had guessed right.
"In fact, the money for your middle school education was given to you by the Japanese." Yi Hanxing said this with great confidence, but he was actually bluffing.
But Hua Jiuchun's reaction told Yi Hanxing that she guessed right.
"How could you possibly know that?" Hua Jiuchun felt his worldview challenged. "Do witches really exist?"
Yi Hanxing: That’s because I worshipped the god of exams, so I knew all the answers and got all the correct answers.
Having guessed the truth, Yi Hanxing continued to ask, "I remember that we gave your sister a large sum of money before she came home. Did your family spend it all so quickly?"
As soon as this matter was mentioned, Hua Jiuchun cast a hateful gaze at Yi Hanxing: "If you hadn't driven my sister back home, she could have been alive! You murderer!"
Yi Hanxing was slightly surprised when she heard this: "Your sister has passed away? How did she die?"
Hua Jiuchun sneered: "Why are you pretending? If you hadn't found the information about my useless sister, how could you have found me?"
Yi Hanxing: I’m sorry, we really couldn’t find out. It was you who didn’t know the five grains and exposed your identity.
Thinking of this, Yi Hanxing said: "Actually, you thought you had concealed your identity very well, but it was exposed a long time ago."
"Where?" Hua Jiuchun was indeed intrigued.
"That's too many." Yi Hanxing said, "For example, you don't even know the difference between radish and carrot."
"How could I not even know the difference between radish and carrot!" Hua Jiuchun immediately retorted.
"But when you were walking in a field full of radishes, you watered them too much and said that more water would make the vegetables fresh and tender." Yi Hanxing said, "Are you going to throw away the rotten roots and eat the fresh radish leaves?"
Hearing this, Hua Jiuchun choked and immediately changed the subject, blaming Yi Hanxing: "Don't change the subject! It's obviously because of you that my sister died! And that's why I dropped out of school!"
"Did your sister die of an illness?" Yi Hanxing asked, "What disease? Was it hereditary?"
"You are sick!" Hua Jiuchun said.
"That shouldn't be the case! We gave her so much money, she could have started a new chapter in her life. How could she not even leave you money for your education after she passed away?"
"What do you know? People like you who grew up in big families will never understand! When I was studying, I had to give so many gifts to the teacher and socialize with my classmates. The little money you gave me was gone in a year or two!"
"So after you used up all the money, you dropped out of school?" Yi Hanxing asked. "Goodness! That money would take me ten years to use, and your family squandered it all in just over a year? You all wear silk and satin, right?"
"It's said that you should respect the clothes first and then the person..."
"Our family won't take the blame you're putting on us. To encourage our children to study hard, we have to wear coarse linen clothes after they enter school. This is what they say: Heaven will give a man a great responsibility, but it will first make his heart suffer, his body hungry, and his body empty." Yi Hanxing said, "You are quite generous. It's true that you don't count the money you spend, right? You have to know that even if I didn't drive your sister away, she would only get that much money in her lifetime. I'm afraid the Cheng family can't withstand your spending like this."
Yi Hanxing calculated the severance pay for that concubine based on thirty years of monthly salary.
Yi Hanxing made a very reasonable guess: "When you ran out of money, you definitely wouldn't go out and make money on your own. But you ran out of money after your sister died, so you sold your sister again?"
"Is she someone else's concubine? A concubine? Or is she still a maid?"
"Wait!" Yi Hanxing was puzzled. "Who would be so generous as to support the brother of a spendthrift maid like you? Even your brother-in-law wouldn't be willing to do that, right? So you sold your sister to a brothel?"
“She is really
She has a spirit of sacrifice." Yi Hanxing sighed.
"What do you know! My sister is doing this so that our Hua family can get rid of the peasants and become the upper class!"
"She clearly favors boys over girls, and her brain is full of cancer." Yi Hanxing said, and then he was a little more certain: "She died later. She must have died to make money to support you losers, and then her health was damaged, right? Or was she accidentally killed by a client? But if that's the case, didn't you extort money from them?"
Hua Jiuchun: How does she know so much?
Hua Jiuchun's family did go to blackmail the brothel, but they failed. They were beaten and thrown out by the thugs in the brothel, and they didn't even get their sister's jewelry.
Later, because the brothel owner was quite powerful, Hua Jiuchun's family could no longer stay in the local area, so they moved and met Fengqin, who sponsored their studies.
Yi Hanxing had to say that no matter which faction Fengqin belonged to, her act of helping students was a good thing. She could only endure being fooled by a scumbag like Hua Jiuchun who only knew how to take advantage of others.
"So what's your reason for saying you're taking revenge on me for your sister? The reason you're taking revenge on me is simply because I failed to let the Cheng family become your family's cash register. But the question is, are the Cheng family stupid? Is your sister a fairy or can she cast a spell? How can they give her so much money?"
Hua Jiuchun's face turned red with anger.
"Then your sister passed away, and you were broke. So you took refuge with the Japanese when they approached you for money? Or even took the initiative to approach the Japanese yourself?"
"You've got a good idea, wanting to sell out your country for money, but the problem is how dangerous selling out your country is! Look, you're going to be paraded through the streets, then put on trial, then forced to dig manure and plow while incarcerated, and finally shot. How unprofitable! Why don't you learn from your sister's spirit of sacrifice? It's just a small contribution, isn't it? Go there, maybe you can even hook up with one of your rich classmates and save on socializing!"
"Just wait! Aizi will teach you a lesson! She has been staring at you the whole time! You will never guess who she is!" Hua Jiuchun was so angry that he spoke without thinking.
"Haha! I'm waiting! Tell her to come quickly, don't let me fall asleep waiting."
After making these harsh words, Yi Hanxing got some of the information he wanted and knew that this interrogation needed to come to an end, so that when he went in again later, he could continue to make Hua Jiuchun feel emotionally unstable.
The old professor and others outside also heard these words.
"As for Hua Jiuchun, I admit that it's true that a poor family needs to invest a lot to raise a student, but that investment comes in books and tuition. How can he possibly achieve anything by wearing silk and satin all day and socializing with wealthy young masters?" The old professor lamented, "When we were studying abroad, tuition was not enough, and everyone had to wash dishes and laundry."
Who is nobler in this world? Professors need to work part-time to support their studies, but you are the only one who wants to live a luxurious life while studying?
It can be said that Hua Jiuchun's actions made everyone look down on him.
"A man who sold his sister to a brothel in exchange for a luxurious life..." Everyone shook their heads. With such a character, it was no wonder that he became a spy.
"Alright, don't worry about him," the old professor said. "He just revealed a lot of information about his beloved son. We need to analyze it carefully."
"He said Aizi has been staring at me, which means that Aizi and I may know each other?" Yi Hanxing analyzed.
"And he has great confidence in his son." Another staff member added: "Aiko's identity is definitely unexpected."
"Is there anyone I know who might be Aiko?"
"Han Xing's friend? Xiao Shu? Chen Yuewang?"
"This Aizi started active at a young age, so she must be a middle-aged woman now, right?" Someone retorted, "Those two examples you just gave, how old were they when Aizi started active?"
"That's true, but if it's a middle-aged woman, could it be Han Xing's sister? Or a neighbor?" Everyone's speculation became more and more vague.
"Everyone go back and think about it carefully. We will have a meeting tomorrow to discuss possible candidates." The old professor said this and everyone dispersed.
Yi Hanxing acted as if he was not affected at all and returned to his room. It was not until late at night when everything around him became quiet that Yi Hanxing, who could not sleep, decided to go out for a walk.
It is said that the desert is filled with lonely smoke. In a place like the Gobi Desert, the night sky view is very beautiful. Yi Hanxing looked at the sky full of stars that he could pick with his hands and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"Who?" Before Yi Hanxing could finish his sigh, he heard someone ask a question.
"It's me!" Yi Hanxing answered and walked towards the direction of the sound, fearing that someone would disguise themselves and sneak in in the middle of the night.
When Yi Hanxing saw the person coming, he breathed a sigh of relief: "Professor, why are you still awake at this time?"
"We're old, we don't sleep much!" the old professor said. He couldn't help but ask, "What about you? You're so young, why aren't you sleeping yet?"
Perhaps because the old professor's aura was too trustworthy, Yi Hanxing answered truthfully: "I really can't sleep."
"Why? Because of the interrogation of Hua Jiuchun today?" asked the old professor.
Yi Hanxing nodded.
"Is it because Hua Jiuchun's sister passed away?" the old professor continued to ask.
Yi Hanxing continued to nod: "Actually, I think I am also responsible for his sister's death."
"Why do you think so?" the old professor asked, patting the stone base of the roadside flowerbed. "Come, sit down, and let's talk."
Hearing what the old professor said, Yi Hanxing smiled helplessly, sat down next to the old professor, and said: "In fact, this happened more than 20 years ago.
thing.
"At that time, I couldn't stand the fact that my second brother-in-law took in a maid when my second sister was pregnant. I made a fuss about it for a long time and asked my second brother-in-law to send the maid away.
"Are they a couple now?" the old professor asked, "No concubines?"
"No! My second brother-in-law has turned over a new leaf and is now a member of the Workers' and Peasants' Party.
“Isn’t that great?
"Listen to me and continue!
"Go on, go on!" The old professor indicated that he would not interrupt.
Yi Hanxing was then able to continue speaking.
"Although I am a member of the Workers and Peasants Party, when I was only a few years old, I did not have a thorough understanding of the party's ideology. Yi Hanxing said: "At the time, I only knew that my brother-in-law was wrong, and the maid who wanted to become his concubine was also wrong, but I didn't know why they were wrong. My mind was full of those things about the family fights.
Although he had received many years of ideological education, Yi Hanxing still lacked experience in linking theory with practice at the beginning.
“So even though I gave her a severance pay out of sympathy for the helpless servant and even told her how to use the money and how to live, I never thought about helping her, the oppressed one, to fight against the slave owner and those who oppressed her because of her parents’ power.
“Human cognition is a process, just like when we were young, I told you that the sun is far away from us and the moon is close to us, you still couldn’t realize the difference. Even now, most people can’t realize it, but now you know it. The old professor comforted her, “It’s just like this incident. You didn’t realize the correct way to help her before, but after learning at the base and at work, you realized it. When you encounter similar situations in the future, you can avoid tragedies from happening again.
Having said that, the old professor added, "As for feelings of guilt, you can have them, but don't feel too much, because this incident itself was caused by many factors. Your failure to act in time is only a tiny part. As long as Hua Jiuchun's parents still favor sons over daughters and want to support their son's extravagant life by selling their daughter, unless this girl wakes up, no one can truly save her.
Yi Hanxing nodded: "I just feel so sorry, if I could have shown her a way out, it would have been great.
“No one is a savior, and there has never been any god or emperor. Everyone must rely on their own struggle for a happy life…” The old professor began to sing.
Upon hearing this, Yi Hanxing smiled and responded to the song.
Under the starry sky of the Gobi Desert, one was over 60 years old and the other stood upright, singing a song with slightly changed lyrics, and laughed.
"So we must work hard! We must rely on our brains and hands to create a new China where everyone is equal and similar tragedies will no longer happen. The old professor said: "Only when the country has powerful weapons can it deter all parties.
"Yeah! Yi Hanxing nodded vigorously and asked: "Then should we work overtime secretly?
"Do you have a solution?" The old professor was frantically excited.
Yi Hanxing pointed at the kitchen staff and said, "In ancient times, people used fireflies to illuminate the snow, and now people use the light of the stove fire?
The old professor gave a thumbs up. !
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