My spy diary

Chapter 370 Shadow (asking for monthly ticket)

Here, three dejected little winter melons started complaining to each other as soon as they left Boss Dai's office.

"It's all your fault. You're so slow to send a special car."

"You were too slow in sending the radio, weren't you? It took several days to send it, and the opportunity was already gone."

"Old Wei, I see you are busy with love every day and don't take it seriously at all."

"You're not sending people fast enough!"

"We in the Personnel Department only select people. We have to look at the first and second departments before sending people. Their field agents are very precious. When they heard that they were going to the front line, they kept silent. Finally, they reported a few ugly ones."

The three of them were arguing as they walked. In the end, it was Gong Xianfang, the oldest and most bookish director of the Personnel Department, who came to the conclusion. He sighed, looked at the two of them and said:
"Well, don't blame anyone. Didn't Boss Dai sentence us? We are just happy to take a two-year break."

As he spoke, he patted Shen Xisan on the shoulder and said:

"Brother, you don't smoke, drink, or have any hobbies. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. You should at least know how to play Mahjong, right? It just so happens that neither of us can play, so we can learn from Brother Daming. How about that?"

Like Shen Xishan, Gong Xianfang is from Hunan. He graduated from the sixth class of Whampoa Military Academy. He is in his forties, plump and always smiling when he sees people, like a smiling Buddha.

But he is different from Mao Qiwu, the Maitreya Buddha. Mao has a smiling face but is actually gloomy and cunning, while Gong is very bookish and a little silly.

This person is timid and has never dared to embezzle or accept bribes like the other directors, or to do business with others to make money. Even if others give him gifts, he dare not accept them. He relies solely on his own salary to support his family.

He didn't even have his own house. His wife and children lived in the dormitory of the Ordnance Factory, and sometimes he had to rely on others for support.

I don't know if he was deliberately trying to avoid suspicion around Dai Chunfeng, or if that was his nature. While he was deeply trusted by Boss Dai, he was also seen as a good guy by everyone.

Shen Xisan and Wei Daming were both amused by the serious look of this nerd. Wei Daming said:

"No problem. As long as you two are willing to learn, I guarantee you will learn it within three days. But it takes four people to play cards, and we are still short of one!"

Gong Xianfang said, "Hey, there are plenty of people in the detention center. We can just pick any one and we can rest comfortably for two years."

"Okay, let's live comfortably for two years." Shen Xisan also figured it out, turned around and called the orderly beside him and said:

"Go, carry some steel beds and duck down quilts to the prison, and remember to ask them to arrange a big house with a bathroom for us."

After a pause, he added, "Go to the General Affairs Office and move a few dozen boxes of canned food over there."

After arranging all this, each of them called their subordinates to hand over their work, and the three of them packed up their things and moved directly into the Wanglongmen Detention Center.

As soon as I entered Jiazihao, I ran into Zhang Yi.

"District Chief Zhang, are you inspecting the work?" Looking at Zhang Yi strolling leisurely in the No. 1 compound, several people looked at each other.

"What district chief? He was dismissed a long time ago. I am just an idler now."

"What's going on? I haven't heard about it?"

Zhang Yi briefly recounted the incident and said with a sigh:
"Luckily, the American lie detector proved my innocence, otherwise I would have become a wanted criminal, wailing and confessing in the interrogation room."

"How can you be red?"

"But that's what Mao believed."

"What Mao Qiwu did was not fair."

"What can I do? He is a favorite of the boss. Ever since he became the acting secretary and the director of the inspection office, he has been very aggressive. He never closes his eyes when he sleeps. He just stares at us and nitpicks at us when we make mistakes."

Zhang Yi said sarcastically, "I have finally understood that in extraordinary times, those of us on the front line fought wits and courage with the Japanese every day, shed blood and sacrificed our lives, not for fame or profit, but for how to devote ourselves to the great cause of the Party and the country...

But everyone in the party and the country is scheming against each other, trying to make money, occupy houses, and have sex with whores, right?

Well, if we continue like this, let alone defeating the Japanese and destroying the Red Party, we will be in a mess first. Humph, the great cause of the party and the country? In the eyes of some people, it is a stepping stone to promotion and wealth. Brother, I am disappointed. "

"Hey, brother, you are too negative."

“It’s not negativity, it’s extreme.”

"I also want to go with the flow, at least I can protect myself, but I can't tolerate any grain of sand..."

"Okay, brother, don't think about it. We are in the same boat, so let's make the best of it. We were just talking about playing mahjong and we were short of one player."

Gong Xianfang, the good guy, came out to smooth things over again and asked Zhang Yi:

“Can you play Mahjong?”

"Sichuan and Chongqing Mahjong or Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai Mahjong?"

"It's all right. Anyway, Brother Shen and I won't fight."

Wei Daming said: "Just fight those from Sichuan and Chongqing."

"Well, let's get started."

As they were talking, the prison guards from the detention center came in carrying a mahjong table.

The table was set up, mahjong was placed on the table, and there were cigarettes, hot tea, and canned fruits on the side. The prison guards bowed and nodded and served attentively. It was lively and comfortable.

Unlike the bustling here, Dai Chunfeng's office was silent. He sat with his back to the door, leaning back in his chair, motionless.

A ticking sound suddenly occurred in the dim office.

He was a well-mannered man who was sitting on the sofa opposite Dai Chunfeng, fiddling with a radio attentively.

Dai Chunfeng sat alone with his eyes closed, not knowing whether he was asleep or deep in thought. He opened his eyes when he heard the ticking of the radio.

The well-mannered man noticed it immediately. He looked at Dai Chunfeng and handed him the copied code.

Dai Chunfeng opened the safe, took out the code book, flipped through it and wrote something, and soon the telegram appeared on the paper.

There are only four words: "No such person found."

Dai Chunfeng looked regretful and somewhat relieved. He destroyed the telegram, looked at the man and said:
"Shadow, if your contact hadn't exposed his identity, I would have been reluctant to let you withdraw. All the suffering you've endured in the past nine years will be compensated.

I have already informed the director of the First Division, you will be the head of the Intelligence and Support Section, and your rank will be promoted from major to lieutenant colonel."

"Thank you, Mr. Dai. Zhiyue will devote himself to serving you and the party and the country."

This person is none other than the famous Shadow Shen Zhiyue, the most successful secret agent of the Military Intelligence Bureau during the Secret Service period and an ace agent.

In 30, Shen Zhiyue entered the Transportation Department of the Second Corps of the Eighth Class of the Central Military Academy in Jinling, and in 33, he entered Fudan University in Shanghai.

During college, influenced by his classmates, he began to actively participate in the workers' movement.

Soon, as the leader of the strike movement, he was arrested by the Fruit Party authorities.

After being arrested and facing torture, Shen Zhiyue remained calm and quickly fabricated an identity for himself as a relative of a senior member of the Guo Party.

The secret agents who were interrogating the case did not understand the situation and did not dare to torture him, so they had to report it.

It was soon discovered that his so-called relatives in high positions were completely fictitious. The interrogating agents became furious and vowed to execute him.

But when the news reached Dai Chunfeng, he couldn't help but become curious about this daring guy, and took the initiative to find Shen Zhiyue to talk and find out more.

After several in-depth discussions, he finally persuaded Shen to join the Guo Party and sent him to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Police College for further studies. After Shen Zhiyue graduated, Dai Chunfeng ordered him to try to infiltrate Pagoda Mountain, lurk in the core of the Red Party to collect intelligence, and wait for an opportunity to assassinate the core members of the Red Party.

In April 38, Shen Zhiyue, using the pseudonym Shen Hui, came to Pagoda Mountain as a young student with a visiting group of professors.

At the end of a month's visit, the delegation left Pagoda Mountain, but Shen Hui insisted on staying and asked to participate in the revolution on the spot.

The Border Security Department would naturally conduct strict scrutiny on people coming from the Kuomintang-controlled areas, but whether it was an investigation or a personal conversation between the director and deputy director, Shen handled it with ease and without any flaws.

He soon entered the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University. Due to his outstanding performance, he was praised many times by the Minister of Social Affairs, who also asked his comrades to change their prejudices against progressive youth in the Kuomintang-controlled areas and to help and cultivate them.

With the minister's appreciation, the doubts about him were no longer there, and he soon joined the Red Party.

After he gained a firm foothold, the Military Intelligence Bureau began to assign him tasks.

His contact left a meeting mark on the old elm tree in front of the agreed cave, but after much consideration, Shen Zhiyue decided not to go.

As a strategic agent, he is no ordinary person. He assesses the situation and is not in a hurry for immediate success. Instead, he thinks about how to climb higher.

Because he didn't go, he luckily avoided the risk of being exposed.

Because the Border Security Department found a suspicious monk in the ancient temple under the Pagoda Mountain. This monk did not eat vegetarian food or chant sutras, but walked around the streets every day in a sneaky manner.

After the Security Department arrested this man, they learned through interrogation that he was a spy sent by the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics and had been lurking in Pagoda Mountain for two years.

After catching this man's gang in one fell swoop, another senior agent of the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics voluntarily confessed that there were also people from the Military Bureau of Investigation and Statistics operating nearby.

They are all the same kind, and you can tell them apart by smelling them.

With this person's help, the spies sent by the Military Control Commission were quickly captured.

But this person told him that the person he was going to meet was a man named Li Guodong. Apart from the code, he knew nothing about what the other person looked like.

This is the cunning of Shen Zhiyue. On the Red Party side, he is Shen Hui, an outstanding graduate of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University. On the Guo Party side, he is the undercover agent Li Guodong. Except for Dai Chunfeng, no one knows that Li Guodong is Shen Hui.

The Security Department mobilized the masses to conduct a carpet search, but after a year, there was still no clue.

At this time, Shen Hui had been recommended to be the secretary of the leader because of his outstanding performance.

Soon, he was exposed.

Someone discovered that his new secretary was very unusual.

Since the security work was strengthened, his personal preferences were completely unknown to outsiders except core personnel and the guards and secretaries around him.

But this new secretary, who didn't smoke, carried his favorite cigarettes with him, and his skill in handing over cigarettes and lighting them was not at all like that of a non-smoker.

The leader then became suspicious and secretly asked the Social Affairs Department and the Security Department to investigate.

But after searching for a long time, still nothing was found. Shen Hui is simply a model of a model Party member.

There was no evidence and he could not be isolated for investigation, so he had to be transferred and sent to work in the New Fourth Army as a central liaison officer.

When he arrived at the New Fourth Army, he immediately reported the New Fourth Army's movements to Dai Chunfeng.

It took nine years from being persuaded by Dai Chunfeng to join the Secret Service in 33, to infiltrating the Red Party's organization in Shanghai and infiltrating Pagoda Mountain, to returning to the mountain city today.

"You deserve this."

Dai Chunfeng waved his hand, "Let's turn this page here first. There is something else I need you to do."

"Sir, you say."

"Do you know why I appointed you as the head of the Intelligence Department?"

"Find out the mole hiding within our ranks."

"You just understand."

Dai Chunfeng looked solemn, staring at him straight in the eyes, and murmured:

“Sometimes, after washing my face in the morning and looking in the mirror, I would feel suspicious.

I don’t know if you have this feeling when you are lurking in the Red Party. No matter where you are, eating, sleeping, going out or coming in, you always feel that someone is following you, and you always feel that there is a pair of eyes staring at you from behind. "

"This person is right beside us. He wakes up at the same time as us, goes to bed at the same time as us, goes to work at the same time as us, leaves work at the same time as us, looks at the same sun, and eats from the same pot.

Everyone could be, and everyone could not be. I want to know who he is. There were several times when I reached out my hand and could even feel his shadow and his breath, but in the blink of an eye he disappeared.

"I had the same feeling when I was at Pagoda Mountain. Maybe I was too nervous."

"Yes, when I wake up at night, I feel that this person is sitting in the room, watching me silently in the dark. When I fall asleep, he will get up and move around, doing things secretly that we know nothing about."

"Don't worry, Chief, I will definitely help you find this person."

"Okay." Dai Chunfeng nodded, then thought of something and asked:
"Is the new Shadow safe?"

"Sir, you have a long-term vision. The seeds you planted are naturally growing strong. If you hadn't told me his identity, I would never have dreamed that it would be him."

"That's good." Dai Chunfeng smiled complacently, then sighed and said, "It's a pity that he didn't find any clues about the mermaid. Is it because his level is not high enough? Or does this person not exist at all?"

Shen Zhiyue pondered and said, "Maybe his level is very high, but no matter what, as long as he moves, Shadow will get the clue. With both methods, he will eventually reveal his true colors."

After a pause, he continued, "Most people would look for a traitor among a group of innocent people. My method is to first assume that everyone is a traitor, and then prove their innocence one by one."

"Very good. I will tell Director Mao and the archives office and give you the right to do as you please. You can investigate anyone. Whenever you find evidence, you can come to me at any time."

"Yes." Shen Zhiyue felt the support from behind and became more confident.

Dai Chunfeng smiled and picked up the teacup, but Shen Zhiyue was not in a hurry to leave. He noticed that he seemed to have something else to do, so he asked directly:

"Is there anything else?"

Shen Zhiyue said: "Mr. Dai, Shadow already has a successor, that page has been turned, and I have given myself a new name."

"what is it call?"

"Sun Zichao."

"Is there any special meaning?"

"No, I just want to keep a low profile and not let anyone know about my past."

"Okay, this is also for your safety. I will ask the Human Resources Department to make a new file for you." Dai Chunfeng thought, and raised the teacup in his hand with a smile:

"I'll have tea instead of wine. I'll wait for you to find that person so we can celebrate together. Shadow never lets me down!"

Sun Zichao stood at attention and saluted, then replied, "Yes, Commander, I will ensure that the task is completed."

After Sun Zichao left, Dai Chunfeng still sat there motionless, with an unfathomable expression on his face.

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(End of this chapter)