Chapter 88 Place

On the platform of Wuchang Railway Station, when the special express train coming from Beiping stopped in a mass of steam, a young woman standing on the platform holding her daughter's little hand suddenly felt sad. She looked at the bustling passengers and couldn't help praying secretly in her heart:

"God bless him in peace."

Carrying a suitcase containing his wife and daughter's luggage, Li Shaoshao took a serious look at his wife and daughter. There was a check of 2,000 yuan hidden in the suitcase. The day before yesterday, a friend introduced by an internal comrade bought his house in Wuhan at this price. There were four main rooms and six more. The yard of a partial room is in Wuhan, and it is difficult to buy such a yard now.

Although Li Shaoshao never told his wife what he was going to do, his wife knew that he was preparing to do a big thing, otherwise he would not sell the house and even send them to Hong Kong. Although she does not understand politics as a woman, as a wife, she enthusiastically agrees with her husband's political beliefs and blesses him with pride and gratitude.

Now, when she raised her four-year-old daughter to say goodbye to her husband, looking at her daughter's innocent eyes, Li Shaoshao suddenly felt hot in front of her. He hugged his daughter tightly. When the train sounded the whistle that was about to leave the station, he took his daughter's hand. When Major General Li sent them to the door of the carriage, his wife snuggled tightly in his arms.

"No matter what happens, don't do anything for us."

The wife obediently comforted her husband and said:

"I will find a way to raise our children."

However, Li Shaoshao took out a bag of duck necks wrapped in oil paper, which was his wife's favorite food. This was the snack he prepared for their mother's journey.

"Here is a letter for Xiaoyu. Show her when she grows up!"

He stuffed the letter into his wife's hand, and Li Shaoshao's face was full of reluctance.

Then, under the supervision of the conductor, the wife left her husband with her daughter and walked into the carriage, and the train started slowly. The young woman frequently waved her daughter's chubby little hands, looked at the disappearing husband from afar, and silently wished him "smooth sailing".

Finally, the train drove out of Wuchang Station. When her husband's figure slowly disappeared, the young woman opened the envelope with three pages of the letter.

"Xiaoyu, when you read this letter, you were eighteen years old and a eldest daughter. As a father, how I wish I could..."

Tears slipped from the young woman's cheeks, and the letter was full of her husband's love for her daughter.

"Have you ever thought that you have happiness and freedom today because before you, someone has fought, fought, fought for and sacrificed. If you feel that other people's misfortune has nothing to do with you, then one day when misfortune happens to you, no one will care. I believe that the only safe society is a society that everyone should bear. Otherwise, we will all live in danger and fear!"

The woman didn't understand the words in her husband's letter. She just looked at the letter infatuatedly. This may be the final pen left by her husband.

"A safe society is a society that everyone should bear. In order not to let you, my daughter live in danger and fear, as your father, I chose a path that I don't want to choose. Right or wrong, it doesn't make sense anymore..."

Tears fell from the woman's cheeks again. Finally, after reading the letter, the woman looked at her daughter again and silently put the letter into the envelope. She looked at the earth flying out of the car window, but prayed for her husband in her heart, praying for all the best, praying... standing on the platform. Li Shaoshao kept looking at the train until he couldn't see the train at all. At this time, he didn't notice that on the platform, there was also a person wearing a light brown tweed coat and a dark, narrow-rimmed hat, standing next to the platform column and staring at him. At first glance, there is nothing particularly conspicuous in this person. Probably only his eyebrows are different, thick and dense, which makes people feel that there seem to be two arch holes in the upper half of this very plain face.

But if you look at it carefully, you can find that from the face, although this person's facial features are flat, he is not tacky, and he has a resolute look. Although the small whirlwind blew from the platform, he stood in the wind without blinking his eyes. He was absorbed in Li Shaoshao and didn't even blink once.

Finally, after seeing the southbound train again, Li Shaoshao followed the flow of passengers to the slope road in order to get out of the gate of the station from there. Although the people around him squeezed him, he ignored it and stared straight ahead and looked around aimlessly.

Years of journalistic career have given Li Shao Shao to have a very special intuition. He suddenly noticed that there was an abnormal situation: there were two people whose faces were different from those around them. They were not curious or expectant, but only murderous. The two of them crowded forward in the crowd one after another, staring at a person in the crowd.

At this time, the man who was standing next to the cylinder had already followed Li Shao. He also noticed the two people. He could conclude that the hands in his pocket and in his arms must be armed. Don't ask, they are trying to plot someone! The man walking in front put his right hand in his pocket, and the man walking behind put his left hand in his arms and reached into his open coat. Aware of their behavior, Li Shaoshao only felt nervous. Who were they? Is it a secret agent of the Investigation Bureau, or? At this moment, they were only a few yards away from him. The person who had been following Li Shaoshao with thick eyebrows was like a wild beast possessed by a wild ghost. He followed Li Shaoshao slowly. At the same time, his hand was also inserted into his waist.

"Who will their target be?"

Just as the man was surprised, his afterglow accidentally saw a shadow. It was an officer in a black military uniform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The lieutenant colonel was in his forties. Following the sight of the two people, he noticed that their eyes were on the officer.

He grabbed a pistol hidden in his pocket, but after a moment of hesitation, he let go of his hand. That was not his task. At this time, the assassin had squeezed onto the slope, only a few people away from Li Shaoshao, and only a few people away from the officer.

"Hope..."

At this moment, he saw the assassin take out a pistol from his pocket, perhaps a Browning pistol, just as he tried to remember the other party's appearance. The gunshot suddenly sounded, and two bullets penetrated into the officer's body. The first bullet made the man's body suddenly twitch forward; the second bullet made the man's head suddenly swing back, and the blood in his throat spewed far away, splashing on the faces, clothes, and suitcases in their hands around them. There was also a pool of blood on the slope, and people shouted in panic. .

With the sound of gunfire and shouting, there was immediately chaos on the slope, but it was a few seconds of chaos that was out of control: horrible screams, one after another. People stepped on a large number of blood footprints under their feet. The crowd hit, adding to the hysterical atmosphere.

The "stalker" knows very well how he can get out of this scene. He suddenly looked completely panicked, raised his hands high, and tried his best to run forward, making himself wander into the hysterical crowd.

People are like a group of frightened animals running forward. He also ran away from the bloody platform. He hurriedly passed by the person he followed, and no one even looked at him.

Li Shaoshao also heard the terrible gunfire and screams just now. This voice woke him up from a state of confusion and numbness. He wanted to look back to see what kind of chaos had become behind him; but the crowd was so crowded that he could not turn around. He was squeezed to the edge of the ramp and squeezed his body to the cement female wall - a low wall for railing for the ramp. He grabbed the top of the wall and turned his face back, but he couldn't see what had happened.

All he saw was: on the slope below, an officer's body bent backwards, and the blood on his throat sprayed out; the officer opened his mouth in pain; he couldn't see anything else clearly. The turbulent flow of people took him again and continued to walk up the slope.

A man wiped by his side. When he turned his face, he still had time to see the man's appearance. And the officer was killed, which only made him think:

Another tyrant's lackey was killed, probably by a radical young student, just like the vice governor of Jilin Province.

When he hurriedly left the railway station, Li Shaoshao sighed in his heart; he didn't expect that there would be so many like-minded people. If they launched a revolution, maybe the face of the country would be very different.

However, at present, Li Shao has to think about these things carefully. He can't distract himself. He has a more important thing to do, and he should never appear on such an occasion. If he is noticed by the police, then the action may be exhausted.

"Maybe if the police notice themselves, they can get rid of all this and live safely with their wives and daughters..."

But this idea just flashed by. As a firm republican revolutionary, his faith could not allow him to betray. With this group of screaming people, he hurriedly walked through the ramp and turned to the gate of the station. When leaving the square in front of Wuchang Railway Station, the cold wind made Li Shao Shao raise his collar. Although he was a little panicked, he tried his best to calm himself down, but the sweat and white face on his forehead betrayed his true feelings.

At this time, Li Shaoshao did not pay attention. When he walked out of the slope exit, outside the station, the man quietly followed his footsteps again, but the light brown tweed coat on his body would turn into a light coffee collar black tweed coat, like an ordinary passer-by, following him. Behind him, keep a certain distance from him.

Wuchang Police Station, a senior police officer in police uniform and gray-haired man, stood in front of a window with a metal window frame and smoked. When he heard the footsteps of people coming, he turned around and said:

"I've been waiting for you. Are the deceased sure?"

The person who came in immediately replied:

"We found the dead man's certificate on his body."

With that, he took his ID card out of the file bag.

"Are you sure that the deceased is the military officer of the Third Special Military Prison?"

"Yes, sir, we have contacted the Ministry of Internal Affairs and have confirmed the identity of the deceased."

"What do you think someone would do it?"

"There are only republican radicals, and there can be no one else but them. This is the only possible surname.

"Damn it, in a few days, President Yuan will come to Wuhan!"

The gray-haired old man turned around and looked at the police officer behind him and said:

"How can President Yuan come here at ease in such a public security situation?"

Maybe Yuan Shikai, the president of the House of Lords, has nothing to do with the police station, but anyone knows that if any accident happens to the president of the House of Lords here, the local police will be the first to be held accountable. Now, such an assassination case, if in the past, will be listed as a normal "political assassination". In this era, "political assassination" is extremely common in the world. For senior officials, assassination is even one of their professional risks.

Those so-called republican radicals are a non-political axists to some extent, and the purpose of non-political axists is to assassinate privileged people in political circles. European non-political axists have assassinated kingdoms, nobles, prime ministers and officials. In China, they have also assassinated governors. For this, people have long been It's not strange.

But now, on the eve of the visit of the dean of the House of Lords, such a case is really disturbing. At this time, the gray-haired old man said after a moment of silence:

"I think the good show has just begun. There are some things to see in the back. If we can't completely crack down on those republican factions, sooner or later, they will all get involved!

He turned his face to the police officer and said, "This case has been taken over by the Bureau of Investigation, right?"

"Yes, sir!"

Hearing this answer, the senior police officer nodded first, and then continued:

"You coordinate with the Bureau of Investigation to see what information they can provide to us!"

Perhaps he was afraid that his subordinates would feel embarrassed, he specifically emphasized.

"You tell them, tell those who wear black suits, and say that if they want to take action on my territory, they must cooperate with us and share information with us. I don't want to be hidden in stocks like a fool after an accident on my territory!"

The words of the senior police obviously mean something. All of China, even the republicans themselves may not know them by the Bureau of Investigation. In the confidential archives of the Bureau of Investigation, the secret archives of each republican faction are stored. Because of this, the assassinations of those republican officials are often stopped, but the Bureau of Investigation It is difficult to share the information with the local police. In fact, the police and the investigation bureau often have colluding problems because of jurisdiction and other issues, and there are even serious discord between the two sides. In some places, the police and the investigation bureaus are often opposites.

"Yes, sir!"

The director's words made the police officer understand the dissatisfaction in his words, and then he said it deliberately.

"Sir, the investigation bureau is very cooperative with us this time, and the process of handing over the case file is very smooth!"

"They are not fools. President Yuan will come to Wuhan at the end of the month. They can't afford any accident. At that time, everyone will definitely fall on their heads!"

The senior police officer snorted, with some contempt in his tone. For the investigation bureau, the local police had a good impression, especially for these old policemen. The reason was very simple. In the early days of the founding of the empire, the intervention of the investigation bureau in local security made these old police extremely disgusted. At that time, In the eyes of the investigation bureau, the local police are undoubtedly "corrupt signs" and "gangster umbrellas", so they are extremely distrustful to the police, and that kind of distrust directly leads to the lack of cooperation between the police and the investigation bureau, while the investigation bureau simply helps them complete one case after another with the help of the army. In the process, The Bureau of Investigation has gained fame, but it has also made the police hate those "Central Committee Members".

"Notice those people on the ground have been restrained recently. If anyone provokes something, don't blame me for being ruthless. Not only me in Wuchang, but also the whole Wuhan will not have their place, understand?"

Out of caution, the senior police officer still solemnly told him that the people on the ground in his mouth are exactly those local gangs. No matter in any era, gang organizations can't be eliminated. Just like Taiji, if there is yang, there is yin, and if there is white, there is black, and in China, the gang has a very special During the national liberation, a large number of gang members joined the uprising. As a reward, there were "legalized" gangs everywhere. These gangs may be legal, but their operation situation is difficult to be legal.

In the face of this situation, in order to maintain the basic order of the place, the local police often turn a blind eye to it. At the same time, through cooperation, they control the gang within a reasonable and orderly range. Of course, all this must be under their control, and firmly believe in the "black and white" tone. The investigation bureau is extremely disgusted with this. In their opinion, the control gang is undoubtedly "collusion with gangsters", but in the eyes of the police, the people of the investigation bureau are undoubtedly a little naive.

Naturally, the police officer will not disobey the officer's order. After he answered, he just left the office with the officer's wave. When he left the office, the senior police officer's eyes were looking out of the window attentively, staring at the bustling streets of Wuchang City. The security here needs him to go to Wei. In the same way, the prosperity here also needs to be maintained by him.

"Those damn guys, sooner or later you have to clean them up..."

(to be continued)