Chapter 8 Chapter VII Qiaocha Yang Mazi

On the way to the Township People's Committee, Aunt Qiu and her daughter Qiu Xiao'e helped a woman in her twenties or seven.The woman had disheveled hair that hadn't been combed for a long time, making her dirty and unsightly.On her thin and pale face, there was a pair of empty and dull big eyes, and she looked very haggard. Thick snot flowed down her two nostrils, like two sticky streams. on her upper lip.She was wearing a patched blue shirt with two buttons on the top collar left unbuttoned, and a pair of green cloth trousers underneath. Both trousers were covered with mud and a piece was torn at the knee. Showing white knees.She wore a pair of rag shoes on her feet, and "kicked, kicked" dragged along with her swaying body.People can tell at a glance that this is a woman with some abnormalities.

The three of them walked into the office of the township people's committee, and they met Liang Shouzheng, secretary of the general party branch, and Li Wenbin, secretary of the township.When the general branch secretary saw Mrs. Qiu coming, he greeted her and said, "Ah, what are Mrs. Qiu and Xiao'e doing here?" He looked at the woman being supported and said, "Oh! Who is this?" "Oh, Old Uncle Liang! I don't think you know her. This is my dumb niece Qiu Daye." "Oh! I haven't seen you for eight or nine years. The child has grown up so much! Why is there no elf at that time?" The secretary of the general branch looked at Qiu Daye in amazement.

"Oh! Don't talk about it! This child's life is really bad! It is enough to be deaf and dumb, and now he is insane, how pitiful you are!" Aunt Qiu said sadly. "What did you bring her here for?" the township secretary asked curiously. "Come here to open an account." The township secretary found a chair for Qiu Daye to sit down, then took out the household registration book, took the "household transfer certificate" that Qiu Auntie handed him, and looked at it carefully.I saw on the household registration certificate that it said: Qiu Daye, twenty-five years old.female.Note in the remarks column below: The woman is deaf-mute and mentally ill.The reason for the relocation is: to recuperate at her aunt's home.

After registering the household registration, the clerk smiled and said to Qiu Daye, "What's your name?" Qiu Da'e stared blankly at the document, as if she couldn't hear anything, and sat there mechanically.Seeing what Li Wenbin asked Qiu Daye, Qiu Xiao'e burst out laughing, pointed at Li Wenbin and said, "You, you probably have a mental illness as a clerical! Why are you talking to a dumb person?" Li Wenbin suddenly smiled and said, "I'm really confused, why am I talking to her!" After the household registration procedures were completed, Aunt Qiu and Qiu Xiao'e walked home with Qiu Day'e swaying.

A few days passed in a flash.Everyone in the village knew that Aunt Qiu's dumb niece was coming again.Some people have seen Qiu Daye in the past.At that time, Qiu Daye lived here for more than half a year. Although the child was dumb, he was very smart.Now, when people see this dumb and crazy Qiu Daye, they really don't recognize her.Everyone sympathized with the girl.Some well-meaning people persuaded Aunt Qiu to see a doctor for her niece. When Aunt Qiu said that she was sad, she shed tears. One morning, although the sky was covered with dense clouds, the sun's rays peeked out from behind the clouds from time to time, making the mountains and forests mottled.Aunt Qiu and Qiu Xiao'e led Qiu Daye along the path on the hillside to the east of the village. They went to the east of the village to find Yang Mazi, a Chinese physician, to see Qiu Daye.When they walked halfway to a place where there were no homes around, the dumb and crazy Qiu Da'e said to Aunt Qiu in a very small voice: "Mother, be careful when you get there, don't show your feet."

Aunt Qiu also said in a low voice: "Don't worry, girl!" It turned out that this deaf, dumb and crazy Qiu Daye was played by scout Li Ping.According to the instructions of Zhao Yong, the head of the reconnaissance section, she discussed with Liang Shouzheng, secretary of the general branch, Aunt Qiu and Qiu Xiao'e.Aunt Qiu was very happy when she heard that she wanted to help the public security organs. In 1950, she assisted the public security organs in collecting a lot of materials about the crimes committed by counter-revolutionaries in the Soviet area.This old lady hated the counter-revolutionaries deeply, so when she found her this time, she agreed wholeheartedly.So Li Ping came to Aunt Qiu's house as Aunt Qiu's niece Qiu Daye.Fortunately, people know that Aunt Qiu has such a dumb niece, and Aunt Qiu is helping her, so people can't tell whether she is real Qiu Da'e or fake Qiu Da'e.

Aunt Qiu and the others walked out not far from the east end of the village, and saw a lonely hut in the dense forest at the bottom of the hillside. Around the hut, there was an irregular fence woven with thorns.Next to the door of the hut is a rectangular black-lacquered wooden signboard with five white characters written on it: "Yang Qing, Physician of Traditional Chinese Medicine", which is also the home of "Yang Mazi". Aunt Qiu and Qiu Xiao'e helped Li Ping into Yang Mazi's room, and saw a man in his fifties sitting on a bamboo chair reading a newspaper. On this man's brown face, there were many large spots, and the top of his head was almost bald, shining brightly, and his two eyes, protruding high, were placed on the bridge of the wide nose. on both sides.Around the big mouth, there are a few sparse yellow beards.He was wearing a faded gray gown.If people saw him for the first time, they would really think he was a monk, but he was Yang Qing, a traditional Chinese medicine doctor nicknamed "Yang Mazi".

Seeing someone coming in, Yang Mazi hurriedly stood up to say hello.Said: "Sister-in-law Qiu, what wind brought you here?" Aunt Qiu said with a smile: "Hey! What else is there to see a doctor, other than seeing a doctor!" "Who are you treating?" "That's not it," said Aunt Qiu, pointing at Li Ping, "My dumb niece is suffering from some kind of madness again! What can you say!" "Ah! Miss Da'e is here again? Eight or nine years later, I don't know her anymore." Yang Mazi had seen Qiu Da'e on the eve of liberation, and recently heard that Qiu Daye was coming again, so when he saw Da'e, he was more familiar with her. Said, "When did you get sick?"

"It's been more than a year. Sometimes it's better, and sometimes it hits people when it gets crazy." Aunt Qiu said with a sigh, "I'm so sad!" Yang Mazi asked "Qiu Daye" to sit down and felt her pulse.Li Ping sat there like a wooden man, staring blankly at Yang Mazi.She suddenly discovered that there were two scratched bloodstains on the back of Yang Mazi's right hand.Li Ping didn't show any expression on the surface, but she was thinking secretly: Did Song Tianwu scratch these two bloodstains?If not, how did it come about? ... After Yang Mazi felt the pulse, he pretended to draw out his voice and said, "From the condition of the pulse... there is a phenomenon of 'sinking and counting'."

"What did you say?" Aunt Qiu asked without knowing why. "Ah, this 'sinking while counting' is a term for pulse condition in Chinese medicine. You don't understand, sister-in-law," Yang Mazi continued while explaining, "This girl is insane, she doesn't avoid relatives, she seems to have epilepsy. sick." "What disease!" Aunt Qiu didn't know what nonsense he was talking about. "An epilepsy is what you call madness." "Oh, you are really a genius doctor, you can tell what the disease is at a glance." Aunt Qiu said to Yang Mazi with a smile.

Qiu Xiao'e watched the funny scene between her mother and Li Ping, she was amused, but she didn't dare to show it.At this time, Li Ping concentrated all her energy on observing and thinking about the problem.She observed everything in Yang Mazi's room with those dull eyes. At this time, Yang Mazi said to Aunt Qiu, "This girl needs an injection for her illness." When Li Ping heard that the needle was needed, she had an idea in her heart, and remembered the method explained by Section Chief Zhao when she arrived.She secretly touched Aunt Qiu with her leg.Aunt Qiu hurriedly said to Yang Mazi: "Doctor Yang, I'm afraid this child won't be able to get an needle. If you make her angry, she will make a fuss again." Yang Mazi said nonchalantly, "It's okay. Can she not get the needle if she's afraid of trouble? She won't recover if she doesn't get the needle." Yang Mazi picked up the silver needle and was about to prick Li Ping, when Li Ping stared, opened her mouth and stuck out her tongue and yelled "Ah", and then "Wow, wow". Aunt Qiu hurriedly supported Li Ping.At this time, Yang Mazi still wanted to forcefully give Li Ping an injection, but just as he grabbed Li Ping's hand with his left hand, Li Ping scratched the back of his hand viciously, making the back of Yang Mazi's hand drenched with blood. Aunt Qiu hurriedly took out a white handkerchief, and while she was busy wiping Yang Mazi's blood, she murmured, "Oh! What do you think, this sick girl!" Yang Mazi was so frightened by the sudden scratch that he hurriedly took two steps back, staggered a little, and almost didn't turn his back to the sky, and even dropped the silver needle on the ground.He looked at the bloody left hand with a terrified face and said, "Oh! This girl is really amazing,...this child is seriously ill!" While Qiu Xiao'e was busy pulling Li Ping, she was laughing in her heart, she couldn't hold it back anymore, she wished she could have a good laugh, so that she felt comfortable.She admired Li Ping's vigilance. In order to pretend to be crazy, Li Ping turned around and grabbed Qiu Xiao'e's hair and began to fight on purpose.Qiu Xiaoe cried desperately: "Mom! Mom..." Aunt Qiu hurried forward and broke Li Ping's hand away.Pushing her hard onto the chair, Li Ping gasped heavily, closed her eyes, and sat there motionless, but there was still a lot of white foam coming out of her mouth... Yang Mazi was frightened and tired, sweating profusely, flowing down the top of his bald head in strings, flowing into the pockmarked pit on his face, stopping for a while and dripping again... "Doctor Yang, what do you think we should do?" Aunt Qiu asked anxiously. Sitting on the bamboo chair, Yang Mazi panted and fanned himself. After waiting for a long time, he said, "Oh, it seems that the needle is not allowed." "Can I take some medicine?" "Alright, you can take medicine." "No matter what, as long as the child can be cured, I will be grateful!" Aunt Qiu begged with a pleading tone. Yang Mazi got up from his chair, went to the bookshelf to find a medicine book, flipped through it for a long time, then picked up a brush and wrote a prescription on a piece of white paper: "Gou'er three coins Tianma two coins Quanscorpion One and a half Fushen three coins Forsythia two coins calamus one and a half polygala one and a half magnets three coins jujube kernels three coins amber eight cents (research and exchange) orange network one and a half licorice eight cents decocted in water" After the prescription was finished, Yang Mazi picked up the medicine according to the prescription, wrapped them into two paper bags, and handed them to Aunt Qiu, saying: "Take these two medicines first and have a look, and then come back later." After Aunt Qiu paid for the medicine, she held the medicine bag in one hand and supported Li Ping in the other, and Qiu Xiaoe supported Li Ping with both hands.Li Ping still staggered out the door with her eyes closed. Aunt Qiu walked out of the door, turned her head and said to Yang Mazi: "Doctor Yang, I will trouble you today. This crazy girl doesn't know what to do, so don't take it for granted that she scratched Doctor Yang like that!" "Where, where, how can you blame her for being crazy!" Yang Mazi said with a smile on his face. Aunt Qiu thanked Yang Mazi, and Xiao'e staggered home with Li Ping supported. At dusk, Qiu Xiao'e came to the back door of the district government with a bamboo basket in hand, just as Section Chief Zhao was sitting in front of the door.When Section Chief Zhao saw Qiu Xiao'e's dress and appearance, he knew it was a correspondent sent by Li Ping.Because Section Chief Zhao had received a secret phone call from Liang Shouzheng, secretary of the township general branch, he waited in front of the door.He hurriedly stood up, walked up to Xiao'e and asked, "Are you Xiao'e?" Xiao'e nodded. Section Chief Zhao hurriedly led Xiao'e into his special office.Xiao'e hurriedly handed Li Ping's letter to Section Chief Zhao, and at the same time handed him a paper bag.Chief Zhao looked at the letter intently, smiling while reading it.Then he went to the cubicle and invited Director Li, Han Lizhong and scout Xiao Chen.Section Chief Zhao handed Li Ping's letter to Director Li for reading, and then asked Qiu Xiao'e to tell the story of the investigation of Yang Mazi. After listening to Qiu Xiaoe's speech, everyone couldn't help laughing.Director Li said happily: "Li Ping, Aunt Qiu, and Comrade Xiao'e, this play is really not bad!" Section Chief Zhao hurriedly opened the paper bag that Li Ping brought him, and saw that inside it was a blood-stained white handkerchief and the prescription written by Yang Mazi.After reading it, he handed it to scout Xiao Chen and said, "Quickly test the blood type on this handkerchief, and then verify the handwriting of this prescription, and see if it matches the note on the note left in Song Tianwu's house." Are the words the same?" Xiao Chen went out with the handkerchief and the prescription, and went to his temporary technical room. After Section Chief Zhao and Director Li stayed with Qiu Xiao'e for dinner, Xiao Chen walked to Section Chief Zhao's office with a smile on his face, holding the test sheet and handwriting identification. When Zhao Pingchang and Director Li saw Xiao Chen's expression, they understood eight points in their hearts.He hurriedly asked, "How is it, Xiao Chen?" Xiao Chen said happily: "The blood on the handkerchief is type 'A', which is the same type as the blood type in Song Tianwu's fingernails. The characters on the two notes are the same." Xiao Chen compared the original two notes with the prescription that he brought today and said, "Look, the word 'Heaven' in 'Gastrodia' on this prescription It is exactly the same as the word "day" in "closed business today", the word "one" in "one money" on this prescription is the same as the word "one" in "people have a face", the word "full" in "full scorpion" on the prescription The writing style of '' is exactly the same as that of 'Jin' in 'this life and death'. From the perspective of the characteristics of the whole brushwork, the direction of the brush, and the structure of the font, it is completely written by one person." After careful inspection, Section Chief Zhao and Director Li fully agreed with Xiao Chen's conclusion.Director Li took out a cigarette, lit it, and smoked it with his mouth.He took a deep breath, pondered for a long time, and then said to Section Chief Zhao: "Old Zhao, it is certain that Yang Mazi killed Song Tianwu, but who is the other murderer? Could it be that Yang Mazi did it alone?" Is it?" "No. You can't do it alone." Section Chief Zhao said with certainty. "I think if Yang Ma is arrested for a surprise interrogation, another murderer will be confessed from him. Because he will never take all the crimes away." Han Lizhong, the head of the investigation department, made an opinion. "No," Chief Zhao disagreed. "If it's just a homicide case, then we can consider this opinion. Now that we haven't fully grasped the whole case, it's impossible to rush to proceed arbitrarily like this." "Yes, why did the enemy kill Song Tianwu? There must be a big conspiracy here. We don't know how many enemies are active in this mountainous area. If Yang Mazi is arrested now, there is evidence, but because of the arrest Isn’t it self-defeating for him to scare the snake by himself?” Director Li also agreed with Chief Zhao’s opinion. After research, it was decided not to arrest Yang Mazi for the time being, but to closely monitor him.So Section Chief Zhao wrote a reply letter to Li Ping. In addition to giving encouragement, the letter especially asked her to be vigilant, rely on the masses closely, and monitor Yang Mazi in order to expand clues.At the same time, he wrote a letter to Liang Shouzheng, secretary of the township general branch.The letter asked him to be vigilant to prevent the enemy from continuing to carry out assassination activities, and specifically proposed to investigate the township secretary Li Wenbin.Because Song Tianwu's death had something to do with him, that is, what exactly did Song Tianwu talk to him about?Why was Song Tianwu assassinated by the enemy on the night of talking with him?There may be a problem here.Besides, Yang Mazi was his uncle, so the problem here was even more doubtful.The actions of this individual and his history of parentage must therefore be investigated immediately. After Section Chief Zhao wrote the letter, he gave both letters to Chief Li for reading.Director Li said seriously after reading the letter: "I completely agree with your deployment. Township clerk Li Wenbin is suspected and should be investigated clearly." After Section Chief Zhao sealed the envelope, he asked Han Lizhong to find Qiu Xiaoe.After Qiu Xiaoe entered the room, Section Chief Zhao asked her enthusiastically, "Xiao'e, thank you for your hard work. You have to go back overnight tonight. Comrade Han Lizhong will escort you on the way." "What's the trouble? I should do things for the party. Although I am not a party member, I am a member of the league. I am willing to work for the government. Besides, the government's elimination of counter-revolutionaries is also for the common people to live in peace." "Thank you, Comrade Xiao'e!" Section Chief Zhao and Director Li said in unison. Section Chief Zhao told Han Lizhong: "You are going to meet with Comrades Liang Shouzheng and Li Ping tonight, and pass on your opinions on the next step to them. Be very careful, don't let others see you." Qiu Xiao'e walked out the door with Han Lizhong carrying the basket.