"What's so happy?" Bai Ruolan asked with the sleeping little sesame seeds in the crib.

After the husband came back from outside tonight, although he had concealed it well in front of outsiders, Bai Ruolan could still feel her husband's heartfelt excitement.

"An old friend came back from Manchuria and brought a gift." Cheng Qianfan said.

"Old ginseng, look at how happy you are." Bai Ruolan said with a smile.

"It's great if you have friends coming from afar and you can still think of you." Cheng Qianfan hugged his wife, and the two of them were close together.

"Um."

"You have to rest first. I'll go to the study and some official duties need to be handled."

"Yes." Bai Ruolan got up, took a coat and put it on Cheng Qianfan, "You can come here early to rest."

"Okay, I'll come back to sleep after finishing my work."

...

Cheng Qianfan was lying on the sofa bed in the study, and there were already several cigarette butts in the ashtray on the coffee table next to him.

He was holding a cigarette in his mouth and was thinking closed.

The organization knew very little about the enemy's "octopus" plan, so Comrade Peng and Ou could not provide him with many clues.

Even whether the "Octopus" plan exists exactly cannot be confirmed at present.

The only clue is that the comrade who died was lurking within the Wang Puppet regime in Nanjing, and he was discovered by the secret agent headquarters in Nanjing.

From this matter, we can find two uncertain clues:

The ‘Octopus’ plan should be related to the Wang Puppet regime in Nanjing, or at least it was a plan jointly formulated by the Japanese and Wang Puppets.

In addition, this comrade died in the hands of the Nanjing District of the Special Agent Headquarters, which shows that the Special Agent Headquarters may have participated in the plan.

This comrade who died was a lurking person whom Comrade Peng and Ou was planted inside the enemy.

Comrade Peng Yuou knew this sacrificed comrade very well and had a high evaluation. Therefore, Comrade Peng Yuou believed that Comrade Hang Kaiqing was willing to expose himself and tried to access information at the expense of himself, which in itself was enough to illustrate the importance of this information.

In other words, Comrade Hang Kaiqing may be mentally prepared for his own exposure or even for his own warning to the organization at the expense of himself.

Therefore, Comrade Peng and Ou tend to be the enemy's "octopus" plan that exists exactly.

However, this is just a judgment made by Comrade Peng and Ou based on his understanding and trust in Comrade Hang Kaiqing, and there is no evidence to support it.

...

It is of great importance. After Comrade Peng and Ou contacted Comrade "Farmer", they handed over this difficult and confusing task to the special party branch of the French Concession.

To be precise, this idea can be said to be given directly to him and to "Comrade Fire".

Because Comrade Liu Wuliu, who was lurking in the agent headquarters in the organization, died and committed suicide before the enemy arrested him. This made the agent headquarters confident that there were other underground parties within it, and the enemy is now secretly investigating it.

Therefore, when the existence of the "Octopus" plan is a suspicion of the enemy's trapping, Cheng Qianfan believes that Comrade Zhao Shuli is no longer suitable to take action on this matter.

In other words, it is already quite dangerous to start from the agent headquarters in the current situation.

For him, he had a special status within the Wang puppet regime, and the enemy's possibility of doubting him was relatively low.

In addition, most importantly, he also has channels to obtain intelligence from the Japanese.

Therefore, he was considered by Peng Yuou as the best candidate to investigate the matter secretly.

‘Octopus’ plan.

‘Octopus’…Cheng Qianfan frowned, and he felt he had no clue.

...

It rained in the early morning, and the sky was surprisingly clear at dawn.

No. 76, Jisifeier Road.

The agents headquarters in the morning have already started to be busy.

Cao Yu stood at the window and looked out. His office was located close to the torture room. He could even vaguely hear screams from the direction of the torture room.

The door was knocked.

"Come in."

Duan Wuyang carefully pushed the door and came in, "Team Leader Cao, are you looking for me?"

"Brother Duan is here." Cao Yu smiled and nodded slightly, "Sit down and talk."

Seeing Cao Yu smiling and gentle, Duan Wuyang felt a little relieved. He turned around and closed the door and sat on the chair opposite Cao Yu.

Looking at Cao Yu opposite him, he felt a little uneasy. This face-to-face conversation reminded him of the days when he was interrogated after being arrested.

...

"Team Leader Cao, please give me instructions if you have any questions." Duan Wuyang took out the cigarette box, polite a cigarette to Cao Yu, and said.

"Sit down and talk." Cao Yu took the cigarette, but did not ignite it, but put it on the desk casually.

...

"That's how it is." Cao Yu looked at Duan Wuyang and said, "I heard that Brother Duan was a traffic officer for Luo Yannian, an important bandit leader of the Shanghai Red Party?"

"No, no, no." Duan Wuyang waved his hand and said quickly, "I am not Luo Yannian's trafficker, but I have seen Luo Yannian."

"Don't be nervous, you are already your own person now." Cao Yu picked up Duan Wuyangjing's cigarette roll, put it in his mouth, lit a foreign fire and ignited it, and took a light sip, "Just ask Brother Duan to learn some of the situation about Luo Yannian of the Red Party."

"Yes, yes, yes." Duan Wuyang nodded, and he asked carefully, "Team Leader Cao, is there any news about Luo Yannian? Has he sneaked back to Shanghai?"

Cao Yu looked at Duan Wuyang with a smile, but did not answer his question.

Duan Wuyang became a little nervous again and smiled embarrassedly, "I'm too much, I shouldn't ask."

...

Duan Wuyang told Cao Yu truthfully what he knew about Luo Yannian.

"Luo Yannian is a red bandit of Ji Nian. This is an old cunning rival. It will be quite difficult to start with Luo Yannian by himself." Cao Yu frowned slightly, "We can try to start with the people around him."

He looked at Duan Wuyang, "Brother Duan, how much do you know about Luo Yannian's traffic officer?"

"Team Leader Cao, I have only met Luo Yannian and do not work by his side. I really don't know much about his traffic officer." Duan Wuyang smiled bitterly and said.

"Think about it carefully and see if you can remember something?" Cao Yu blew up the ashes, and the smile on his face had faded a little.

...

Duan Wuyang saw Cao Yu's attitude change, his face was full of bitterness and thought.

"Team leader Cao..."

"Okay." Cao Yu glanced at Duan Wuyang, "You don't understand the living. You must understand the situation of Luo Yannian's dead traffic officers. Even if you don't know deeply, you have always heard of something when you were in the Red Party."

"Those people are dead." Duan Wuyang showed confusion, "What's the use of finding out death..."

"Who told you that it's useless to check dead people?" Cao Yu snorted coldly, "Living people can run, hide, and lie. The dead are the most honest. The dead are there, they can't run, they can't act or lie. The dead often have clues that we don't usually notice."

"Think about it." Cao Yu said, "I'll kill the cigarette butt."

...

"Team Leader Cao, I really remembered it when you say this." Duan Wuyang said.

"Tell me." Cao Yu raised his eyebrows, picked up the cigarette box on the table, threw a cigarette to Duan Wuyang.

Duan Wuyang hurriedly caught the cigarette, "Luo Yannian has a traffic officer named Jiang Qi, who was later sent by Luo Yannian to the Qingdong Anti-Japanese Guerrillas..."

"Hmm?" Cao Yu glanced at Duan Wuyang.

"It was Qingdong anti-Japanese guerrillas." Duan Wuyang said quickly, "This Jiang Qi captured him when the Locust Army surrounded and suppressed the guerrillas. Jiang Qi was inspired by the Locust Army and decisively abandoned the secret and turned to the light and surrendered."

"Continue." Cao Yu nodded slightly.

"The Locust Army secretly released Jiang Qi and asked him to return to Luo Yannian's side. However, Jiang Qi was not lucky. He was discovered by Luo Yannian, and the Red Party secretly executed Jiang Qi." Duan Wuyang said.

He said to Cao Yu, "There should be a document record in the Locust Army. If Team Leader Cao is interested, you can apply to the Locust Army to review the file."

...

"Jiang Qi." Cao Yu nodded, picked up the pen, and unscrewed the cap, "What are the two words?"

"Jiang is Jiang Ziya's Jiang, and Qi is Qi, the governor of Zhili Qi in the late Qing Dynasty, in the early Qing Dynasty." Duan Wuyang said.

"Jiang Qi." Cao Yu nodded and wrote the words "Jiang Qi" on the document paper.

"What else?" he asked.

"And?" Duan Wuyang frowned and thought, "Team Leader Cao, I..."

Cao Yu opened the drawer, took out a file and turned to a certain page, "This Huo Xingqian, the document shows that he should be Luo Yannian's traffic officer, is that true?"

As he said that, he picked up the file.

Duan Wuyang got up and took the file and looked carefully.

"What? Do you have an impression?" Cao Yu asked.

...
To be continued...