Chapter 3 Storm (Seven Seconds)

The Fire Dragon Horse is worthy of being one of the best horses in a hundred miles. In one day, Wu'en ran back and forth between the hilly areas where Lao Chuang lived and the Heishi Village. Of course, there were Yan Fuquan, the security captain of the Heishi Village who was already in a hurry. The latter drank a few bowls of milk tea in Lao Chuang's felt bag, threw down a few gold bars, and then returned home in a row.

When Yan Fuquan appeared in Heishi Village with a haggard face, it was already the morning of the 22nd of the lunar calendar. He threw the tired war horse to his confidant who came up with him. He didn't even bother to wipe the dirt on his face. He spread his maid to the Japanese consultant office located in the pseudo-government compound of Heishi County. Before he could enter the door, he heard his deputy captain, the unique duck voice of his sworn brother Liu Wenzhong, "Taijun, the young man has found the clues, found the clues. The young man has led people to sort out all the hotels and restaurants in the city in the past two days, and finally found out the true identity of the assassin."

"Thank you for your hard work," the Japanese consultant in Heishizhai, the de facto "Supreme Emperor" Junji Fujita put down a cup of strong tea at his hand and smiled to express his praise.

As he wished, he received praise from the "Taishang Emperor". Liu Wenzhong suddenly felt that the bones on his body were a little lighter. He stood attentively and responded loudly, "No hard work, no hard work, sharing the worries of Taijun is the responsibility of his subordinates. If there is no Taijun's guidance, there will be no peace in Heishi Village, no..."

"Yes." Junji Fujita waved his hand and interrupted the other party's stingy confession. "Jun Liu is a capable person. Sooner or later, there will be a chance to show his talent. Let's not talk about these off-topics. Let's talk about your interrogation results in the past two days. If this case can be successfully concluded, the empire will not forget your contribution."

"Yes." Liu Wenzhong was so happy that he almost flew up. He quickly took out a record of the preparedness from his arms. Just as he was about to report, Yan Fuquan had already pushed the door in, "Taijun, good news, good news, I have found the whereabouts of the main culprit of the assassination case, I have found the whereabouts of the main culprit of the assassination case."

"Baga." The smile on Junji Fujita's face disappeared immediately, and walked forward, slapped Yan Fuquan with a big slap. "Who asked you to come in? As a soldier, don't you know whether you need to report to enter your boss's room in advance. Go out and think about what you should do before coming in."

"Yes." Yan Fuquan held the swollen face of Lao Gao and turned around and went out with aggrievedness. Liu Wenzhong was very happy when he saw it. Just as he was about to take the opportunity to show it, the old devil Fujita gave him a look and told him calmly, "Liu Jun, don't worry, wait until Yan Jun comes in before reporting. After all, he is your immediate boss. Although he is a little reckless, he still has experience in handling cases."

"Yes, I understand." Liu Wen was extremely disappointed in the center, but he did not dare to show it on his face. He bowed and waited patiently with the old Japanese.

The old Japanese devil Fujita grabbed the teacup again, savored Liu Wenzhong's behavior while coldly watching the assassination of county magistrate Zhu Chengbi, which made him very angry. It was not because of how important Zhu Chengbi, the dog, was to him, but the ongoing plan to integrate the four flags of Wuqi Yete, was shot by the 38-gun bullet that suddenly flew over. As the operator behind the entire plan, he had to find a new entry point and build a new agent. After a while, time and energy would be wasted a lot, and it was even harder to get the boss' appreciation at the Kwantung Army headquarters.

Fortunately, the incident just happened, and all the omissions were still available to make up. For example, the guy named Liu in front of him was less backbone and shameless than Zhu Chengbi, and of course it was easier to control. If he was helped to the position of county magistrate and continued to complete the marriage with the Yete Front Banner of Wuqi, the losses caused by the assassination of the previous county magistrate could be reduced to a minimum, but he didn't know that the cunning and greedy Duke of Wuqi Yete Front Banner was willing to agree with this new proposal.

After only half a minute of silence, the voice of the security captain Yan Fuquan came from outside the door. "Report, the security captain Yan Fuquan of the Black Stone Village has the latest information and requested to accept the in-person guidance from Fujita Consultant."

"Please come in." The old Japanese devil Fujita made his mark and greeted the door with his gradually gained weight. Seeing Yan Fuquan's dust and his face that had just been washed with cold water, he smiled and praised, "Yeye, how tired he is, he looks like a soldier? No matter how tired he is, he must show his full spirit and unyielding will in front of his superiors. Yan Jun, your behavior just now was too rude."

"Yes." Yan Fuquan raised his red handprints and replied loudly, "I understand Taijun's painstaking efforts. I will work hard to correct it in the future and will never commit it again."

"Well, it's a good thing to know that you can correct your mistakes." The old ghost Junji Fujita nodded with a smile, "Come in, look at your appearance, I probably haven't been asleep for several days. There are so many things happening recently, thank you for your hard work."

"No, no, no, no, no, no." Yan Fuquan immediately forgot the pain on his face and half bent over to express his opinion, "Maintaining the public security of Heishi Village is the most important thing. As for subordinates, being able to share the worries of Taijun is the greatest honor in his life."

"Shapeful, shameless." Liu Wenzhong whispered from the side, with seven dissatisfied and eight resentful on his face, but no matter how dissatisfied, he had to admit that Captain Yan was better than his team's deputy. Although he was slapped by the old Japanese just now, he could make all the losses just now from Fujita Takun. As for whether the army was not incest or not, he believed that Yan Fuquan had forgotten it before. It was obvious that he deliberately made the dusty look to prove how hard he worked these days.

Yan Fuquan keenly saw the sworn brothers' small movements, smiled, and continued, "The other brothers in the security team, like their subordinates, vowed to seek justice for the dead County Magistrate Zhu. Before leaving, his subordinates arranged for Deputy Team Liu to lead the brothers to investigate the nearest foreign population in the city. It is estimated that in the past two days and one night, they had found some clues. If they were combined with the information they had just obtained..."

"Yan Jun's proposal is very good." The old devil Fujita didn't care about the little thoughts of Yan Fuquan and Liu Wenzhong. For him, the more ununity the head and deputy captain of the security team was, the easier it was for him to control it. "Liu Jun was just preparing to report to me. Since you are rushing back, it would be better for the three of us to sit down and analyze all the information at hand. Well, I also have a telegram from Chifeng here, which I just arrived this morning..."

As he spoke, he turned around and pulled out an envelope from the bookshelf against the wall, and lit a telegram that was wide across his face in front of Yan Fuquan and Liu Wenzhong.

Yan Fuquan reached out to take it, read all the messages word by word, and then passed it to his deputy. Liu Wenzhong continued to read with dissatisfaction. After reading a few words, he exclaimed in a low voice: "How is this possible? County Magistrate Zhu's bodyguard must have wanted to shirk responsibility and made up for it. What I clearly found out is..."

"Mr. Liu, there is no sufficient evidence, don't talk nonsense in front of Taijun." Yan Fuquan immediately reminded Huang Chacha's face was full of contempt, "What you found may be just the tip of an iceberg. Only by combining all the situations can you dig out the whole truth."

"You, you..." Liu Wenzhong was anxious and angry, with blue veins rising on his forehead. The old Japanese devil Fujita was unwilling to spend all his time and energy on watching the two subordinates' struggles. He coughed gently, interrupting Liu Wenzhong's defense, "Well, Liu Jun, please don't worry. I don't think what the coward named Lian said must be true. Let's put your investigation results out, and then summarize the information in Yan Jun's hands, let's analyze it slowly."

"Yes." Liu Wenzhong finally found a backbone, reached out to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and then responded loudly, "This time, I have checked 32 large and small hotels and more than 460 ordinary houses. Finally, in the hands of a shopkeeper of a tavern named Yu, I found a batch of goods used by the assassin to cover up his identity, and there are a total of..."

"Okay." Fujita Maji interrupted impatiently, "You can talk about the results first, the specific details, and we will discuss them later."

"Yes." Liu Wenzhong lost the opportunity to perform his merits and added unwillingly, "Shopkeeper Yu admitted that his surname is Zhang at this moment, and he had a Shandong accent, and occasionally he would have a few Shanxi accents. He had a good abacus, but he was not good at doing business. Because he had a good citizen certificate, he was willing to take him to stay in his own tavern. Unexpectedly..."

"I didn't expect that it was obviously greedy for the little room fee that others gave me. Such a guy who was jealous of money should be killed." Yan Fuquan commented viciously, interrupting Liu Wenzhong's report for the second time.

The latter had just knocked a large amount of "removal money" from Yu Laosi, and did not dare to agree with this conclusion easily. He secretly looked at the face of the old devil Fujita and whispered: "Although Yu Laosi took in assassins, it was only an unintentional mistake. After all, our security team did not say in advance that all foreign customers were required to register and file. How could he, a person who did a small business, tell the truth or falsehood of a good citizen certificate?"

Yan Fuquan had long guessed that Liu Wenzhong would get benefits from the master's hands, so he had to deliberately embarrass him. "The regulations are indeed imperfect, but after County Magistrate Zhu was assassinated, he did not report the assassin to the security team in time, so he should be sentenced to the extreme and serve as a police officer."

"As you say, the brothers guarding the city gate and the land guards on that street will all bear joint and several liability. If they continue to kill them, the entire Black Stone Village..."

"Yu Laosi took in assassin, which led to County Magistrate Zhu's murder, and it should be killed." Seeing that the two subordinates had endless disputes over the details, Junji Fujita waved his hand and made the final ruling impatiently, "But because his fault was not out of intention, he was sentenced to go to the Great Salt Lake to serve hard labor. The specific length of time, you two are discussing the decision."

"Yes." Yan Fuquan glanced at Liu Wenzhong and raised his chin proudly. As long as he took back the final disposal rights for Yu Laosi from Liu Wenzhong, the latter had to distribute more than half of the property he had obtained. Otherwise, as long as he did not let go, Yu Laosi would have to dig salt from the Great Salt Lake for the rest of his life. Liu Wenzhong's reputation of collecting money and not doing things will be settled, and he will never get any benefits of taking the initiative to deliver it to the door in the future.

How could the old devil Junji Fujita guess the twists and turns here? He just wanted to find out the truth of the assassination as soon as possible so as not to continue to brew and ferment, and then expand to a major crisis that hurts the empire's control over the eastern grasslands. "Liu Jun, continue, what else did Yu Laosi confess? Is that assassin's other accomplices, and what should his specific identity be?"

"Other, Yu Laosi didn't say anything. The assassin has always lived alone in his tavern. He has never seen any accomplices come to contact him. The specific identity..." Liu Wenzhong blinked his triangle eyes and tried to seize the last chance to show his performance. "Subordinates believe that this person may be the remnant of the Communist bandit who wandered to the grassland. As for the boss's mouth, it is very likely that he confessed randomly to shirk responsibility."

"Oh." Junji Fujita responded softly, and a little obvious disappointment appeared on his face, "Yan Jun, what about you, what information did you bring back?"

"I got this." Yan Fuquan took out a piece of white paper moistened by sweat and slowly unfolded it. With his deliberate movements, the portraits of two pencils slowly appeared in the sight of the three people, which were very realistic and lifelike. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as lifelike. When taken outside, it can almost be collected as sketched artworks. Unfortunately, the painter's mind is not used in the right place.

"These two are..." Junji Fujita's eyes flashed with admiration and asked humbly, while Liu Wenzhong's face was full of desolation, like a local dog who had just lost the battle.

Seeing Ronghua and Fugui waved to him vaguely, Yan Fuquan smiled and continued to explain: "This tall man who looked a little older is the famous horse thief on the grassland, Ruyunlong and short young man, who was the assassin who shot and committed the murder that day. As Vice Team Liu reported just now, his surname was Zhang and his name was Zhang Songling. He may be from Shandong, and he spoke with a slightly Shanxi accent, or Shanxi, and deliberately pretended to be a visitor from Shandong. On the day of County Magistrate Zhu's assassination, it was mainly his move, and Ruyunlong was responsible for picking up the other three of the four brothers of the Lian family, as well as Lu Qiang, the captain of the security team."

"It's true that Iryunlong is involved. Hasn't he always been alone?" Junji Fujita frowned slightly and pointed out the unreasonableness in Yan Fuquan's words.

"That's right, he is a famous lone thief and never works with others." Liu Wenzhong also seized the faint opportunity and tried to turn the tables.

"This time, that time." Yan Fuquan shook his head proudly and added with a smile, "You don't know anything about Team Liu. This guy named Zhang is not an ordinary person. According to my inference, he is very likely to be sent to the grassland by the order of the Investigation and Statistics Bureau of the Military Commission of the National Government. So Zhiyunlong happened to take this opportunity to be recruited by the National Government."

The second half of the sentence not only made Liu Wenzhong stunned, but even the old Japanese Fujita who had always been calm was shocked and blurted out his questioning words, "How do you know, Yan Jun, you are a little sure enough to confirm that he is a Kuomintang agent."

"Ten." Yan Fuquan had already made full preparations on the way back. When he heard Junji Fujita's questioning, he immediately emphasized, "Reporting to Taijun, the source of information from his subordinates is quite reliable. In addition, his subordinates have been listening to the official news of the North China Autonomous Government. They reported that at the beginning of this month, a group of people who claimed to be the Iron Blood Anti-Traitor Group hit the Zhangjiakou checkpoint. The Iron Blood Anti-Traitor Group is a subordinate organization of the Investigation and Statistics Bureau of the Military Commission of the National Government."

"Maybe it's a coincidence." Liu Wenzhong made a weak and strong argument, and his voice sounded weak to himself. "After all, no one from Chengde or Chifeng had ever heard of the military commander appearing."

"It's not a coincidence." Yan Fuquan shook his head and denied, "I have thought that he was a remnant of the Communist bandits, but Team Liu, have you ever seen the remnant of the Communist bandits throw goods worth more than 20 yuan in the tavern and want them?"

"This, this..." Liu Wenzhong had to admit in his heart that he was indeed not as competent as the security captain as Yan Fuquan. He just thought that assassins paid at the price and did not take advantage of the people, and was very similar to the legendary Communist Party. However, Yan Fuquan cleanly and completely ruled out the possibility that he was a remnant of the Communist bandits based on the assassins' habit of spending money.

"In addition, recently, the radio said that the remnant defeated general of the pseudo-National Government accepted the proposal of a man named Zhu De, changed his tactics, and launched guerrilla warfare in North China..."

"Nee." Before Yan Fuquan finished speaking, Junji Fujita had already felt sweat on his forehead. If the Kuomintang agents entered the grassland to recruit horse thieves to fight guerrilla warfare, he would be sad in the following days. With the only half of the squadron of imperial soldiers and a squadron of security, it would be a problem whether he could protect the Black Stone Village, let alone go deep into the grassland and wipe out the rebels.

At this time, it is impossible for the Kwantung Army headquarters to draw more people to help him. You must know that the area of ​​the Mongolian grassland is much larger than that of the Empire's main island. If each county town had to send a large group of troops to guard it, the Empire would not have to continue fighting south. Just maintaining public security on the grassland would be enough to consume most of the troops.

No, this "fire" must not be allowed to form a prairie fire. It must be put out cleanly before it grows. Thinking of this, Fujita Maji immediately made a decision, "Yan Jun, you can immediately summon the security team and do your best to capture Yunlong and the agents named Zhang. I will send Ono squadron to assist in the battle. Be sure to bring the bodies of those two to me within ten days."

"Yes!" Yan Fuquan saluted, but did not set off immediately. Instead, he looked around and continued to report. "I also spent a lot of money to buy the next action plan of the Military Commission spies from a black market merchant. According to the merchant, the Military Commission spies had asked him for the departure date and specific route of our BlackShizhai freight convoy..."

His voice became lower and lower, and in the end he was almost inaudible, but soon, the entire Heishi Village Japanese and puppet troops were mobilized by these words.

"Yao,." While waiting for his subordinates to gather, the old Japanese devil Fujita stretched out his finger and gestured in the air. Risks and challenges were always born together. He wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to dispatch all his subordinates to jointly organize a giant net on the grassland. Any mortal who fell into the giant net was destined to be unable to escape.
Chapter completed!