Tianzhu: The Record of Foreign Stories in the Republic of China

Chapter 25 Rat Killing (11)
Zhu Dapeng looked at the two little white mice in the bamboo cage, pondered for a moment, then raised his head and asked, "How long will it take to train these two little white mice to this level?"

Ma Shiqi smiled lightly and said, "This is not a complicated performance. Generally, a week of training is enough."

Zhu Dapeng slapped his hands, stood up and said, "Okay, tomorrow I will go buy glass and melon seeds. Please train these two mice within a week."

Ma Shiqi didn't know what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd, looked at him and said doubtfully, "You asked me to catch two little white mice for you, isn't it just to eat roasted white mice?"

Zhu Dapeng said with a chuckle: "Of course not. This is a crucial preparation in my plan to assassinate Otsuka Sadaichi. If you can help me do it perfectly, I can assure you that Ozuka Sadaichi and Yao Waquan will Such a cowardly fellow, he can still live in this world for no more than half a month. From tomorrow onwards, you should stay in the inn and help me train these two little mice."

Ma Shiqi nodded and asked again, "What about you?"

Zhu Dapeng put away the smile on his face, and said seriously: "Besides, there are still some preparations to be done. I will go to the city for a trip. If there is no accident, I will definitely come back to the inn to find you in seven days."

Ma Shiqi nodded and said, "Okay, I'll listen to you." Glancing at him, he said worriedly, "The ghost soldiers are heavily guarded at the gate of the city, and they are extremely strict on people entering and leaving, so you have to be careful." .”

Zhu Dapeng smiled slightly, and said, "Master Ma, don't worry, it may not be easy for the devil soldiers to catch me, Zhu Dapeng."

Early the next morning, he went to the street to buy a piece of glass and a bag of melon seeds and returned. He left a few dollars for Ma Shiqi's living expenses, then dressed up again and went out of the city.

9
It has been a week since Zhu Dapeng returned to Xinglong Inn.

When he returned to the city, he was wearing a navy blue long cloth padded robe, a black felt cap on his head, glasses, two mustaches, and a black leather bag in his hand. Like a traveling businessman.Ma Shiqi stared at him for a long time before he recognized him.

The two sat by the stove and warmed the fire, asking each other about the situation after the farewell.When Zhu Dapeng got up to drink tea, he accidentally kicked over the rat cage Ma Shiqi put in the corner.The two mice in the cage squeaked out, and saw a charcoal fire burning in the center of the room. Without saying a word, they jumped straight into the stove, as if there were melon seeds waiting for them like.

But seeing two white lights flashing, the two little white mice are about to jump into the stove, the fire is burning hotly, if they jump down, they will catch fire immediately and die in the stove.Fortunately, Ma Shiqi could see clearly while sitting by the stove. When he bent down and stretched out his hand, he caught two little white mice who were about to throw themselves into the stove.Even so, the two whiskers of the fastest-running little white mouse were still ignited by the charcoal fire, making a hissing sound.

Ma Shiqi glared at him and asked, "What are you doing, do you really want to eat roasted white rats?"

Zhu Dapeng scratched the back of his head and said with a grin: "Don't be angry, I just want to see how well you have trained these two little mice. Unexpectedly, it is exactly what you said, these two little mice The guy saw the fire, even dying, so he dared to jump in. That's really great, I've also done some other preparations, and now we just need to hide in the inn and stare at Yao Waquan's house opposite , as long as Kozuka comes, then his death will come."

Ma Shiqi couldn't help staring at him and asked, "What method do you want to use to kill Kozuka? You won't rely on the two little white mice I trained to kill him, will you?"

Zhu Dapeng laughed, and said mysteriously: "Using the fangs of rats to bite people to death, your old man has already played it once in front of Yao Waquan, and this trick can no longer be used. Don't worry, as long as Xiaozuka dares to come, I will teach him that there is no place to bury him. As for how to kill him, I can’t say yet, please wait patiently, and you will understand when the time comes.”

Although Ma Shiqi was full of doubts in his heart, seeing him talking and laughing happily, looking like he was ready for everything, he could only nod his head and said, "Okay, my old man will listen to you."

He counted the days with his fingers, and estimated that Ozuka Sadaichi would come to Yao Wa's family within a few days, so the two of them waited in the inn without going anywhere, as if waiting for a rabbit.

Their guest room was just facing the street, and the window was opened at one corner, just enough to watch the passers-by on the street outside while warming up the fire.The two sat and waited in the room for three days, but they didn't even see Kozuka's shadow.Ma Shiqi gradually lost his composure, and kept picking up the tongs and fiddled with the stove, as if Kozuka Teichi was hiding in the stove, and he wanted to pinch him out of the stove.

On the fourth day, the weather suddenly turned cold, with freezing clouds hanging low and a harsh wind. At first, a burst of dry and hard snow particles fell like salt flowers.At noon, the biting cold wind rolled down large flakes of snowflakes, and after a while, the ground was paved with white.

Ma Shiqi couldn't help but secretly discouraged, thinking that in such a cold day and with such heavy snowfall, Xiaozuka would definitely not come.Unexpectedly, just after noon, the snow was falling with a sound, and there was a sudden sound of motorcycles on the street, and they drove from the street to the end of the street in a short while.

Zhu Dapeng was resting his mind with his eyes closed when he heard the sound and jumped up. He went to the window and saw five or six three-wheeled motorcycles driving up the street. Each car had a plaster flag on it, and three people with guns and live ammunition sat on it. ghost soldiers.Counting from front to back, sitting on the third motorcycle was the supreme commander of the Japanese army stationed in Xiulin City, Kozuka Shinichi.

Yao Waquan had already received the message, so he opened the door and came out to greet him.With a wave of his hand, Kozuka Sada led two guards, who carried two empty mouse cages in their hands, and followed him into the house first.The remaining dozen devil soldiers also stepped on the snow, running and following up.Yao Waquan walked at the back, and when he turned around, he slammed the vermilion lacquered door tightly with a creak.

Zhu Dapeng saw two empty wire mouse cages in the hands of Xiaozuka's guards, and knew that they were here to catch mice. If he was right, after they entered the house, Yao Waquan would soon call out the "rat king". ", to recruit white rats for Kozuka.He hurriedly turned around and ran to the corner, grabbed the two little white mice that Ma Shiqi had trained, opened the black leather bag he brought back, and took out a glass bottle, which was mostly filled with light yellow viscous Something, from the outside, feels sticky, a bit like honey, but I don't know what it is.

Zhu Dapeng poured out some of the "honey" carefully, and evenly spread a layer on the two mice, then put the mice back into the cage, changed into a pair of water-resistant rubber-soled shoes, and lifted the mouse cage to Ma Shiqi. : "Master Ma, it's up to me next time. You wait at the inn, and I'll come as soon as I go."

Ma Shiqi looked at him with wide eyes: "You really want to take the risk and kill Xiaozuka Zhenyi and Yao Waquan alone?"

Zhu Dapeng saw his worry, smiled and said: "Now in Yao Waquan's house, in addition to Yao Waquan's thugs, there are more than a dozen devil soldiers with live ammunition protecting Xiaozuka. I want to kill both of them single-handedly. I'm afraid it won't work."

"then you--"

Zhu Dapeng shook the mouse cage towards him: "Don't worry, I'm not going to kill people, I'm just going to release them. I'll come back right away after I put these two little white mice in Yao Waquan's house."

"The assassination of Kozuka..."

Zhu Dapeng blinked at him, and smiled mysteriously: "You don't have to worry about those two bastards, as soon as our little white mouse comes out of the cage, those two guys will definitely die."

"But……"

Ma Shiqi was confused and wanted to ask him something, but he carried the mouse cage and strode out the door.Ma Shiqi hurriedly went to the window, looked with his head, and saw Zhu Dapeng came out of the inn, walked quickly through the deserted street, stuck to the high courtyard wall of Yao's house until he walked to the end of the street, and disappeared at the corner , disappeared.

Ma Shiqi's heart was suddenly suspended, his eyes were fixed on the place where Zhu Dapeng's figure disappeared, he held his breath, and listened to the voices in the courtyard of the Yao family opposite, if there was a sudden gunshot, then It shows that Zhu Dapeng was found in a dire situation.But after listening for a while, not only didn't he hear the gunshot, he didn't even hear any other movement. He saw the time passing by, but he didn't see Zhu Dapeng coming back.

His hanging heart began to sink bit by bit.Walking back and forth in front of the window for a few steps, my heart suddenly became anxious and irritable, and I sat back by the fire again, rolling a cigarette in my mouth in boredom, and started to click it vigorously.I don't know why, the tobacco leaf I usually smoke most, but now I smoke it, but I feel that it has no taste at all.

He furrowed his eyebrows tightly and was restless when he suddenly heard a voice at the door of the room laughing and saying: "Master Ma, you are really capable. You can smoke a cigarette without lighting it." Have a good taste."

Ma Shiqi was shocked when he heard the sound, and when he turned his head to look, he saw Zhu Dapeng standing at the door with an empty mouse cage in his hand, covered in thin snowflakes, breathing white breath, and smiling.Ma Shiqi couldn't help but let out a long breath, and hurriedly patted the snowflakes on his body and said, "Come in and warm yourself by the fire, don't you just come back when you say you're going, why have you been here for so long?"

Zhu Dapeng was overjoyed, and said with a smile: "You old man said it lightly, thinking that I really went to the temple to free life? I have to go around to the back door of Yao Waquan's house, then climb in with flying claws, and then avoid the guards in the backyard. Some of Yao Waquan's thugs sneaked up to the house where Yao Waquan put the 'Rat King' that you visited last time, and after seeing Yao Waquan release the 'Rat King', they were sitting there warming up with Xiaozuka while waiting The 'Rat King' lured them back. Seeing that the time was ripe, I found an empty place in the yard, opened the cage and quietly released the two little mice... It would take a while to go back and forth. Work?"

Ma Shiqi suddenly remembered something, went back to the window, looked towards Yao's house with his head, frowned and said doubtfully, "Didn't you say that as soon as the two mice came out of the cage, Xiaozuka and Yao Waquan would be gone?" Is it certain that you will die? How come there is still no movement at all?"

Zhu Dapeng sat down and roasted his trouser legs soaked in snow water by the fire, and drank two mouthfuls of hot tea to warm his body before he said calmly and confidently: "Master Ma, don't worry, I can assure you that you will After smoking this cigarette, you will know the result."

Ma Qiqi saw that he was still playing tricks in front of him now, so angry that he could not speak for a long time, and looked at him helplessly, so he put the cigarette he forgot to light into the stove and lit it, silently. Smoking quietly, listening to the sound on the other side of the window.In an instant, inside and outside the house, there was only the beating heartbeat of the two people.

A long time passed in the tense waiting and restless anxiety. Snowflakes were flying on the street, falling bigger and bigger. The whole Yipu Street was empty, no pedestrians could be seen, and no sound could be heard.At this moment, it seemed that the entire Xiulin City was buried under the heavy snow that had never happened in ten years.

Ma Shiqi was in a daze when he suddenly felt a burning sensation between his fingers. When he looked down, he realized that the cigarette in his hand had been burnt to the point where only half of the butt was left.He hurriedly sucked in the last breath, and was about to throw it away, when suddenly there was a loud bang, and the huge air current shook the white paper pasted on the window lattice into pieces.

He was startled, thinking it was an earthquake, got up and looked out the window, he could not help but gasp: Yao Waquan's house across the street seemed to have been bombed just now, most of the house was blown down A raging fire was burning on the ruins, and half the sky was reddened by the light of the fire.In the huge courtyard, no one could escape.

Ma Shiqi was stunned, slumped down on the stool, and turned to look at Zhu Dapeng: "You, what kind of magic did you use to make them all in one pot?"

Zhu Dapeng glanced out of the window and said lightly: "Actually, it's nothing. I forgot to tell you that before I returned to China to join the New Fourth Army, I had been studying in the United States. I majored in chemistry... I still remember the two little white mice I was talking about just now." Is there something painted on your body?"

"You mean the sticky stuff like honey?"

"That's not honey, that's one of my liquid explosives..."

"Liquid explosives?"

"Yes, this kind of explosive is usually safe to carry, but it will explode immediately when it encounters an open flame, and it is extremely powerful, far better than the solid explosives used in general battlefields."

Only then did Ma Shiqi understand: "So you want me to train those two little white mice to jump into the stove automatically, so that they can automatically detonate the liquid explosives attached to their bodies?"

Zhu Dapeng nodded and said, "Yes. I've already calculated that in such a cold weather, Xiaozuka will definitely wait for Yao Waquan to release the 'Rat King' to attract the white mice while roasting charcoal fire... The 'Rat King' can When other white mice are brought into the house, they can naturally attract the two little white mice we trained... As long as our two little white mice enter the house and see the stove, they will jump into it without thinking about their own safety... and so on Come, the liquid explosives on them will naturally be detonated..."

Ma Shiqi nodded and said as if suddenly realized: "Oh, so that's the case, no wonder you are so calm, it turns out that all of this is in your calculation and control, even my old man is kept in the dark by you. "

Zhu Dapeng held his hand tightly, and said sincerely: "Master Ma, this time we were able to take over the traitors like Kozuka Sadaichi and Yao Waquan, the Japanese majors, all thanks to your excellent mouse training skills and training The two little white mice who are not afraid of death. You should remember your victory this time. Oh, by the way, last time I went out of town, I told our team leader about you. Our team leader talked about your legendary experience and superb skills Rat Taming is of interest, and he'd love to see you. But there's one more big thing to do before we get out of town."

Ma Shiqi was startled, and asked, "What's the big deal?"

Zhu Dapeng said: "That is to blow up the Japanese 'Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department'. Although we killed Kozuka, the Japanese Army's bacterial warfare research and experiment center can still operate. Days can't be at ease."

Ma Shiqi also realized the seriousness of the matter, nodded and said, "Okay, tell me, what do you want my old man to do? I will definitely listen to you."

【postscript】

According to "Xiulin County Chronicles", in 1942, when the Japanese army invaded the border of Hunan and Hubei, the Kuomintang troops fled in anticipation, and the Japanese army occupied Xiulin County for the third time.In December of the following year, Otsuka Shinichi, the supreme commander of the Japanese army stationed in Xiulin County, was attacked and killed in Yipu Street.A few days later, the Japanese "epidemic prevention and water supply department" established in the county girls' high school was bombed.Shortly thereafter, explosions occurred in the Japanese barracks, ammunition depots, granaries, and even bathhouses and canteens, killing and injuring more than 12 Japanese soldiers.The Japanese army was in panic all day long, and after half a month, they withdrew from Xiulin County in panic.The No. 40 Regiment of the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army immediately advanced into Xiulin, without firing a single shot, and regained Xiulin.

Later, according to the research of Yue Yong, a writer in Xiulin, more than 40 explosions that occurred in the Japanese army station that year were all related to Ma Shiqi, a mouse taming artist in Xiulin. He and Zhu Dapeng, who was the commander of the No. Cooperation, or training the rats to carry liquid explosives into the Japanese barracks and warehouses, let the rats throw themselves into the stove to detonate the explosives on their bodies, or try to bury the dead rats covered with liquid explosives in the Japanese military coal. When the boiler in the cafeteria was fired, the explosives were also detonated at the same time.Later, under the introduction of Zhu Dapeng, Ma Shiqi joined the anti-Japanese team. After the founding of New China, he returned to Xiulin Mountain to live in a hut. He never married a wife and had children, nor taught apprentices.As a result, the Majia mouse play was lost.

(End of this chapter)