Chapter 23 The second part of the three dangerous words

After two or three days at Miaomiao's house, on the weekend, Lao Chen went back to Xingfu Village's home, changed into clean clothes, went to Starbucks for a big latte, and went to Jian Lin's monthly old movie party on Sunday night.In recent months, this gathering has only been Jian Lin, He Dongsheng, and Lao Chen. To put it bluntly, the gathering has become a deliberate arrangement by Jian Lin in order to accommodate He Dongsheng, his cousin and party and state leader. Lao Chen is just a necessary companion. If Lao Chen was absent, only Jian Lin and He Dongsheng were left. It felt a little awkward and it was difficult to maintain.In terms of human relationship, Lao Chen felt that he had the responsibility to be there.He patiently explained to Xiaoxi and Fang Caodi the reason why he had to go. Moreover, Lao Chen said that he was a little addicted, and wanted to listen to He Dongsheng's long-winded speech once a month.

This week, I watched "Sunshine Street" filmed in 1981, and I drank Lafite from 1989. Because Jian Lin asked the agent to buy five boxes of goods from the auction, I will probably drink all of them at the old movie monthly meeting in the next few days. It will be 89 lafites. Of course, Lao Chen has nothing to complain about drinking only 89 lafites. The filming location of "Xizhao Street" is today's Xizhaosi Street, Liangguang Road, next to the Second Ring Road in Beijing. The play describes the life of some ordinary people in Beijing in the early days of reform and opening up, and you can see the prototype of the market economy.In the play, there is a liar who pretends to be from Hong Kong, wears a white suit, speaks fake Cantonese, bluffs and cheats, cheats money and sex.The young Chen Peisi plays an unemployed young man who raises pigeons in the film, and his catchphrase is "Bye bye!"

After the film was finished, He Dongsheng read a few lines of Yuan Qu: "Look at the dense ants platooning, bees making honey, and flies fighting for blood", and then said: "The market economy can mobilize people's enthusiasm. It is chaotic, and sometimes it will fail. The key is to grasp the laws, what the government should not control, and what must be controlled. It has consumed two generations of our efforts. The reform and opening up cycle has been repeated and painstaking. Today, midnight dream I'll still break out in a cold sweat..." Old Chen almost laughed out loud, thinking that you, He Dongsheng, haven't gone to bed at midnight, and even if you go to bed, you will suffer from insomnia, why dream back?After being distracted like this, Lao Chen only pretended to be listening to He Dongsheng's eloquent recounting of several policy confrontations over the past 30 years of reform and opening up. In fact, he was thinking about Xiaoxi who hadn't seen him for two days.In the end, He Dongsheng said, "There are always flies, but we can't stop eating because of the flies." After that, the three of them drank until midnight. He Dongsheng went to the toilet and came out to ask Lao Chen if he wanted something. Taking him home, Lao Chen was afraid that he would delay you if he invited You Chehe for a ride, so he declined He Dongsheng's kindness.

He Dongsheng left, and Lao Chen stayed behind. Hearing that Jian Lin said that he would go to London to participate in the wine auction in person, and buy a few boxes of Burgundy, Lao Chen knew that Jian Lin was no longer confused by Wen Lan, so he was also grateful for him, and then he left .Jian Lin imitated Chen Peisi and said, "Goodbye!" As he walked, Lao Chen thought that before returning to Miao Miao's house tomorrow, he must remember to take the big bag of blood-fat-lowering breakfast oatmeal from Xingfu Ercun's house. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

It was an early summer night, and Lao Chen was in a very good mood, and his sense of happiness returned.When he left Jianlin's community, he turned a corner, and just when he reached the side of the main road, a black off-road vehicle suddenly stopped beside him, which startled him. He felt that it was He Dongsheng's car, but It was Fang Caodi who was driving, and Xiaoxi and Zhang Dou were in the back seat, all three of them were telling Lao Chen to get in the car, get in the car. "Get in the car, get in the car," the three called.Lao Chen involuntarily opened the front door and asked, "Whose car is this?"

"Get in the car, get in the car", the three of them said the same thing in unison. Before Lao Chen could change his mind, he got into the car, closed the door, and the car drove away. Old Chen looked around and said, "Isn't this He Dongsheng's car? Why...?" Lao Chen looked back at Xiao Xi and Zhang Dou in the back seat, and saw a person standing motionless under their feet.Old Chen was dumbfounded and speechless. Xiaoxi said: "Old Chen, calm down, everything has been arranged, it's fine."Zhang Dou said: "He's fine. I used a high-quality anesthetic. Kittens and puppies won't have any sequelae. At most, they wake up with a headache for a few hours."Fang Caodi, who was driving the car, also interjected, "He won't wake up for at least two hours, and he can't hear what we say. I tried this medicine once, and I fell unconscious for more than two hours. It is absolutely reliable."

Old Chen looked at He Dongsheng on the ground in the back seat with dismay, and said, "Are you crazy?" Xiaoxi said: "We won't hurt him, we just want to ask him some questions".Fang Cao said: "We will let him go after asking the question." Old Chen said in frustration: "You guys are really crazy! It's over, it's over!" Suddenly Fang Caodi also said: "Ah, trouble!" Old Chen turned around and saw that the traffic police in front of him were checking the road. He leaned back in his chair as if paralyzed and said, "It's really over."

Fang Cao said: "Everyone sit tight...".Fang Caodi seemed to want to rush over. At this time, Lao Chen saw a fat traffic policeman running over in a hurry, the same traffic policeman who stopped He Dongsheng's car last month.Lao Chen grabbed Fang Caodi's hand and said decisively: "Don't act recklessly, slow down the car." Sure enough, the fat traffic policeman stopped the other policemen from blocking the car and gestured for him to pass.Lao Chen instructed Fang Caodi: "Now drive away slowly and speed up slowly."When the car passed the roadblock, Lao Chen caught sight of the fat traffic policeman saluting the car.

At this moment, Old Chen breathed a sigh of relief, and the other three breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.Zhang Dou said, "It's dangerous!" Fang Cao said, "It's a miracle!" Lao Chen motioned for Zhang Dou to sit over, and he adjusted the back of the front seat forty-five degrees, then turned sideways, reached out his hand and found a bugging and tracking detector like a small remote control on He Dongsheng, and pressed it. button, and the three small green lights will light up after a few seconds.Lao Chen breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Fortunately, there was no wiretapping or tracking."He asked Zhang Dou to put the scout back into the right inner pocket of He Dongsheng's coat.

Afterwards, Lao Chen sat weakly, slumped and silent.Xiaoxi said: "Old Chen, don't blame us. I have discussed with Lao Fang for a long time. We must find someone who knows the inside story to ask, otherwise we will not be able to know the truth no matter how hard we piece together. This is what we do anyway. Unwilling." Fang Cao said: "We said that in China where information is controlled, only the state leaders know the whole story. But how do we know the state leaders? That's when I thought you told us about Mr. He, and then I thought of looking for him. Come to explain it for us, but we are afraid that he will not want to, so we can only make a bad move. We feel that the country’s leaders have an obligation to tell the truth to our people, but they will not say it automatically if they don’t scare them.”

Old Chen remained silent. Xiaoxi said: "Old Fang and I were afraid that you would disagree, so we didn't tell you in advance. In fact, it can be said that you were not involved in this matter. If you want to stay out of it now, we will not force you, we will let you go." If you take a taxi, act as if this incident never happened, and you are totally unaware of it.” Old Chen sighed heavily. Fang Cao said: "Of course we all hope that you can listen to Teacher He's explanation with us. We have already arranged to use a connecting cable to remotely record the Q&A in the two rooms. He can't even see our shadow. , and the voice is also processed so that we won't know who we are". Zhang Dou said: "Just now in the parking lot, I also wore a mask. I can basically be sure that Mr. He couldn't see me before he passed out." Only then did Old Chen speak: "Why are you so confused?" Fang Cao said: "You also have an alibi! When we acted, you were still with Boss Jane. We all thought of it." Old Chen said: "Oh, that's not the point." Everyone didn't know what Lao Chen was referring to. "The point is, this monthly old movie party, not many people know that He Dongsheng will come. Maybe only me and Jian Lin, and at most three people including his secretary know. I will definitely be investigated and cannot escape. , must be the number one suspect. You really don’t want me to know about this. When people ask me who I have met recently, I will give your name for investigation. Now that I know that you did it, I may have scared me without going to prison. If you lose your courage, you still don’t confess and let everyone confess? We are finished this time.” At this moment, everyone was stunned and stopped talking. After a long time, Xiaoxi said: "Old Chen, I'm sorry to have caused you trouble. Find a national leader to ask for clarification. It was my angry words, and I hurt everyone." Fang Cao said: "I came up with the bad idea that I don't roll mines, who rolls mines, I'm sorry everyone." Zhang Dou suggested: "Let's find a place now, stop the car, help Teacher He to the driver's seat, we will get out of the car and go home, as if nothing happened, Teacher He will wake up in less than two hours of". Old Chen asked, "Will he remember what happened before he passed out?" Zhang Dou said: "I hugged him from behind and covered his mouth and nose with a medical towel. He only struggled for six or seven seconds before passing out." Old Chen said dejectedly: "When he wakes up later, his head will hurt, and if he thinks about the six or seven seconds before, he must call the secretary, alarm the security system, check the street surveillance video, maybe he will find that fat man again." The traffic police testified, and then they started investigating me, and as soon as I went in, I pissed off and spit out everything. We are finished this time." Everyone was speechless again, probably thinking of various ways out, and then Fang Cao said: "Kill people to silence...", everyone gasped at the same time, Fang Caodi went on to say: "...I will not do murder and silence... ". He said: "One person does the work and the other is responsible. You all get out of the car. I will drive the car to the south, and then extort a large sum of money from the government to divert your attention. You all get out of the car here. Zhang Dou, give me all the narcotics." Leave." Xiao Xi said, "How can this work?" Fang Cao said, "I'm dead, why not? Old Chen, what do you think?" Old Chen said: "Old Fang, to put it bluntly, even if you go to the south and kill yourself before you are arrested, you still can't solve one problem, that is, only a few people know his whereabouts tonight, and I will definitely be investigated At the same time, I am 100% aware that I am afraid of pain and timid, and I will tell everything after I go in. Even if you sacrifice alone, you can’t handle this matter. We are still finished.” Then Lao Chen asked Zhang Dou: "How long is the most conservative estimate until he wakes up now?" Zhang Dou looked at his phone and said, "The fastest is 90 minutes, and I can add more medicine." Lao Chen said: "It's useless to be anxious now. There is still some time, let me think about it." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . When Lao Chen was thinking about various escape methods in the car, he recalled that in the tough detective novel "Thirteen Moons" he had written, he had used a scene called living together and dying together, but he had always suspected that in life and death In the real reality, is it too childish to hand over the lives of oneself and everyone else to the plot of the novel?But other than that, is there any surefire solution? Back at Miaomiao's house, Lao Chen also sat alone in a corner without making a sound.He closed his eyes and saw that his life was wasted and his reputation was discredited. He thought of the misty happiness, the impermanence of life, and thought of himself in prison and execution ground.His feet were trembling and he was sweating coldly, but every time he forcefully pulled himself back to reality, and played out his story of life and death in the sand table again and again. The frequent battles between heaven and man made Lao Chen exhausted, but he knew that it was time to make a decision, and a few lives were at his fingertips. Zhang Dou and Fang Caodi had already carried He Dongsheng into the house, and tied him to a wide chair with armrests, the legs of which had been pre-fixed on the ground.The camera was on, and through the extension cable, everyone watched the prisoner He Dongsheng who was about to wake up in another room. Xiaoxi moved a chair and sat in front of Lao Chen, holding Lao Chen's hands.Looking at Xiaoxi, Old Chen felt very calm. He had an intuition that the plot of a novel about living together and dying together might not be effective for ordinary officials, but it might have a chance for He Dongsheng, because Old Chen felt that He Dongsheng was not ordinary. A mediocre official with a high enough IQ and enough brains should know how to play this game.Old Chen made up his mind, so let's take a gamble. At this time, Fang Caodi came over with a solemn expression, and Fang said: "Old Chen, no matter what you decide, we will listen to you. I have a hunch that we can turn danger into luck." Old Chen asked, "Is he awake?" Fang said: "Yes." Old Chen asked: "The video recorders are all turned on and connected to the computer, can they be uploaded online at any time?" Zhang Dou said next to the monitoring TV: "A video recorder, an MP3 recorder, a desktop computer, and a notebook are all connected, wireless broadband Internet access, and the cameras of the three mobile phones are also aimed at Mr. He, all of which can be sent to the group with one button. ". Old Chen asked: "Very good. You have a lot of questions to ask him, don't you?" Fang Caodi and Xiaoxi nodded. Old Chen asked: "Okay, now that the matter is up to now, it's wrong to make a mistake. Don't talk about it later, you have to listen to me in everything, and when I ask you to ask questions, you will try to ask as much as possible. Is that okay?" Everyone said: "Okay, I will listen to you." Old Chen said: "Even if I tell you to do something you don't want to do, you have to do it, do you agree?" Everyone whispered: "Agreed". Old Chen said, "Then let's go and ask him now!" Fang said: "You don't need to go there, just ask here." Lao Chen said: "It's not clear, we have to face to face." Fang said, "Then I'll go and ask him for you." Old Chen said: "I have to go there by myself." Fang said, "Then you put on a mask." Old Chen said: "Old Fang, is there any difference whether to wear it or not? The moment you kidnapped He Dongsheng, I have already gone on the road of no return with you. Now, I go over, but you can consider staying here , stay out of it." After all, Lao Chen took the lead and left.Xiaoxi also dropped the mask in her hand and followed, and then Fang Caodi and Zhang Dou did the same, following behind Old Chen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . After all, He Dongsheng is a careful person. After waking up, he held back his headache and began to think. He already thought that this was either his secretary or Jian Lin or Lao Chen. This idea, otherwise it will definitely be torn apart.Therefore, when he saw Lao Chen pushing the door openly, his reaction was not surprise, but despair. The worst happened, and Lao Chen was not afraid of revealing his identity. Mask, which means that the kidnappers have made up their minds not to give him a way out.What he couldn't figure out was: why? Old Chen said: "Brother Dongsheng, drink some water and take two headache medicines."Zhang Dou took the water and medicine, but He Dongsheng didn't respond. Old Chen said: "Brother Dongsheng, if I want to harm you now, I don't need to trick you into drinking water and taking medicine, do I?" He Dongsheng said without raising his eyes, "Is there imported bottled water?" Lao Chen looked at the crowd, and they shook their heads. He Dongsheng sighed "ah", and then motioned Zhang Dou to feed him water, but no medicine.He gulped down the entire glass of water. Old Chen waited for him to finish his drink: "Brother Dongsheng, you are a smart man, let's open the skylight and speak honestly, what can we say, okay?" He Dongsheng gritted his teeth and asked, "Why?" Lao Chen said: "You asked me why I invited you here. To be precise, I kidnapped you without your consent. Why? It's very simple, because we have questions to ask you." He Dongsheng sneered a few times. Lao Chen felt that he was talking like a person in a novel, but he calmed down: "It's true, it's that simple. It's unbelievable! And, after answering the questions, you can go." He Dongsheng was a little angry but said weakly to himself: "Bullshit!" Old Chen said: "I know what you're thinking. You think we won't let you go alive, because I let you know who I am. In fact, even if I don't show my face, I think you will think of a few names, Including me. Of course, you can also foresee that if something happens to you, someone will definitely come to investigate me, then I will confess sooner or later, and my friends will also die." At this time, He Dongsheng became a little more focused.Lao Chen continued: "We also want to live. We can only live if you live." He Dongsheng said: "Yes, if you want to survive, let me go immediately." Old Chen said: "Don't worry. Let you go casually. You can't touch your nose and pretend nothing happened. If you turn around, someone will catch us. So, even if we let you go at this moment , we have already committed a serious criminal crime, and it is inevitable that we will die. Even if you intercede for us, we will not escape the death penalty if we can be spared the crime of life. No, we do not need your forgiveness, and we are not begging you for extrajudicial mercy now." He Dongsheng said, "What exactly do you want?" Old Chen said: "I want you to understand that we are now in a situation where we live together and die together. If we live together, we will live together, and if we die together, we will die together. The choice is yours. Do you want to hear me explain?" He Dongsheng said: "Say!" Old Chen said: “Let’s talk about the shared death first. Just imagine, our video recorders and recorders are all turned on, connected to the Internet and mobile phones, and we can send a group message at the touch of a button. If we do this, the whole world will immediately know that you have been kidnapped.” No one can hide it. Yes, you will be rescued soon, and we will be finished, but what do you think your party will think of you from now on? How will you understand this absurd event? Let you and us explain it, who Will you believe such an unbelievable reason for the kidnapping? Everyone will guess the "real" reason behind the incident! Not to mention that your driving around Beijing at night will also arouse reverie. Do you think your party will still believe you and use you? ?Of course, before we are arrested, we will try our best to release as many written materials as possible, all of which are said to be state secrets you revealed, and let them spread on the Internet. Tell me, do you think your official career will suddenly come to an end? Say goodbye? You know the way your party thinks and operates better than we do, so judge for yourself." He Dongsheng: "If you do this, you will die." Lao Chen said: "We are already dead, with one foot in the coffin. But when we die, we will drag you to be buried with us, even if we don't kill you, at least ruin your official career." He Dongsheng said, "Ha, is this what you call death together?" Lao Chen said: "That's right! It can also be said to be a joint suicide." He Dongsheng said, "Then what about Tongsheng?" Old Chen said: "First of all, we will ask you some questions later, and you will answer them honestly until we are satisfied. Then, at dawn, we will let you go." He Dongsheng said: "You let me go at dawn? I don't believe it!" Old Chen said: "It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not, the point is whether you play this game of living together and dying together. If you don't play, you choose to die together. We are going to die anyway. Now let your official career die first, and then consider your physical body." You can’t die. Play, game over at dawn, you drive your Land Rover home, just like you normally do, can’t sleep at night, drive outside in the car, sleep in the car when you’re tired, and go home at dawn. You know, and others know, that you, an alternate member of the Politburo, often spend the night out like this, and no one will ask." He Dongsheng said, "And then?" Old Chen said: "Then? There is no further. Or, then you take your Yangguan Road, we take our single-plank bridge, we save our lives, and you protect the officials. No one will tell what happened tonight. After this night , If you don’t mention it in black and white, just pretend that nothing happened.” He Dongsheng said: "How can I believe that you don't speak out." Old Chen said: "Indeed. You don't believe that we don't speak out, but as long as we speak out, we will probably be hunted down by Tianya. In order to save our lives, we can't speak out. Conversely, we don't trust you too much." Don't settle accounts with us after the autumn. After you go back, you may still be worried, and you will find someone to kill us to silence you, but you have to rely on people to kill us, and there is no guarantee that there will be no one who slips through the net. You will put what happened tonight on the Internet. In short, there are also risks, you can evaluate it yourself. You understand this truth. If people are really rational, even for reasons of self-interest and self-preservation, we also know that the best option is to keep silent and not make unnecessary actions. Don't add extra details. In other words, both of you and I strictly abide by this agreement of life and death." He Dongsheng said: "Rationality? Agreement? You have too much confidence in people." Old Chen said, "I'm willing to gamble. Are you willing?" He Dongsheng said: "You know the story about the frog carrying the scorpion across the river, the scorpion couldn't help but sting the frog halfway, and drowned himself, nature!" Old Chen said: "It is true, it is true. Both of us have risks. I admit that this is indeed a desperate move. If there is still a way, I don't want to survive in such a dangerous way. A few of our lives will be exchanged for your black hat , I think our price is much higher than yours. To be honest, I propose this plan of living together and dying together because I can’t think of a better plan that is both acceptable to you and me. Brother Dongsheng, you have a better win-win plan Is it? I don’t have any. You can think about it slowly.” He Dongsheng thought, the whole thing is too absurd and dreamy, but he is not dreaming, this idea of ​​living together and dying together is just a joke, but the other party seems to be serious.Risking their lives, asking a few questions and letting them go, what are these lunatics thinking?But it seems that as long as I agree to play with them, at least I can survive for the time being, and I will take the initiative to take care of myself after I go out, everything will be easy to handle.In this situation, under the condition of being controlled by others, He Dongsheng judged others by himself, and for a while, he really couldn't think of a better idea than Lao Chen's crazy idea. He Dongsheng said: "It's okay to ask questions, but I can't disclose state secrets." Old Chen said: "It's up to you. We don't want to come to Xiushui Street to bargain. The few of us paid such a high price to ask you to answer our questions until we are satisfied. We have put life and death at risk. If you are not satisfied for the first time, everything becomes meaningless to us. We would rather die than die together. Besides, brother Dongsheng, no matter whether you have leaked secrets or not, as long as your party suspects that you have leaked secrets, you have leaked secrets. Even if we Part of the video that ends at this moment is spread, and I believe that you have already jumped into the Yellow River to clean it up. Living together and dying together is a complete, indivisible and interlocking agreement. Both parties must either fully abide by it or pull it down. .how?" He Dongsheng was afraid that he would procrastinate, but Lao Chen changed his mind: "I have to leave at dawn." Old Chen said: "It's a deal!" He Dongsheng said: "Give me another glass of water." When Zhang Dou gave He Dongsheng a drink of water, Lao Chen also took the opportunity to tell Xiaoxi and Fang Caodi, and he also said the words to He Dongsheng: "Everything tonight, including all the questions and answers in the meeting, is just for us. I have ten ears to listen to, and you are not allowed to leak anything. Even if you feel that some content must be made public, sorry, you will not allow it. This is the most critical condition of the agreement of life and death." Xiaoxi, Fang Caodi and Zhang Dou were silent. Old Chen said: "You said just now that you should listen to me. Even if I tell you to do things you don't want to do, you still have to listen to me. Right?" Xiaoxi, Fang Caodi, and Zhang Dou nodded. He Dongsheng said: "What are you waiting for? If you don't ask any more, it will be dawn. If you want to ask anything, just ask!"