wind in the dark night

Chapter 257 Amulet

In fact, Qi Yue knew what was going on.

What Li Sheng was wearing was definitely not a loincloth.

Staying with the people from Menghuzhai every day, sleeping on the same kang and wearing a loincloth, the chance of being discovered was too high. If he had been a little alert, he would not have made such a low-level mistake.

If Liu Ming thought that Li Sheng was a Japanese, it would lead to another trouble: Why would a Japanese want to monitor Qi Yue?
By verifying his identity in this way, Liu Ming could avoid having any wild thoughts.

“I thought they were Japanese.”

Liu Ming spat.

Qi Yue looked at him: "Are you afraid of the Japanese?"

Liu Ming said contemptuously: "What's the point of the Japanese? They have acquired Manchu nationality, just like us. Just like Yagi, if they provoke me, I will beat them up! I'm just wondering, why did you suddenly say something in Japanese?"

Qi Yue said: "There are many Japanese in Binjiang. It's not difficult to learn a word or two from them. Also... I have to remind you that even if they are naturalized Japanese, don't provoke them easily and don't cause trouble for yourself."

"Hey, I see."

"Wait here while I go buy a shovel."

Qi Yue returned to the car, but was not in a hurry to go back. Since he was going to buy a shovel, it would take at least ten minutes to go back and forth. It was just after one o'clock in the afternoon, so he had plenty of time.

The weather is cold.

There are few pedestrians on the street.

Ten minutes later, Qi Yue took out a shovel from the trunk and walked towards the grove.

Liu Ming sat on a rock, took off his pants, and was checking the wound on his leg. A large piece of skin and flesh was missing from the outside of his thigh, and it was covered in blood. Fortunately, the artery was not injured.

Without saying a word, Qi Yue put the shovel aside, took out the police first aid kit from his pocket, squatted down, and applied medicine and bandaged Liu Ming.

Liu Ming quickly said: "I can do it myself..."

Qi Yue was skilled in bandaging it quickly and said, "Although it is just a skin injury, you can't be careless. I thought about going to the clinic to change the bandage. If it gets infected, it will be very troublesome."

"I have thick skin, so I'm fine."

Liu Ming hesitated for a moment: "Officer Qi, you are really different from other police officers."

Qi Yue asked: "What's the difference?"

Liu Ming scratched his head. "It's hard to say, but it's different anyway... Take my minor injury for example. If it were another police officer, they wouldn't even bother to look at it, let alone help with applying medicine or bandaging it."

Qi Yue said seriously: "People are equal. What's more, you are my spy. If something happens to you, I must take care of it."

Liu Ming patted his chest and said, "Just because of what you said, from now on, I, Liu Yidao, will follow you! No matter if it means climbing mountains of swords or going through seas of fire, as long as you mark the way, I will dare to go!"

Qi Yue smiled and said, "Hearing what you said, it seems that you were not willing to be a spy when you were in the police department."

Liu Ming grinned: "At that time, I was not willing to do it. The main reason was that I decided to get out first. Now it's different. This time it's real. I swear!"

Qi Yue picked up the shovel and dug a few times. The soil was very soft and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief: "Fortunately the ground is not hard. If it was in December, the soil would be frozen and hard to dig."

Liu Ming grabbed the shovel and said, "Take a rest. I can do this job by myself."

"Okay, I'll take your place later."

Qi Yue walked over to Li Sheng's body and searched for a while. Apart from a certificate, there was nothing else. Liu Ming turned around and took a look. He said while digging, "There's nothing. I searched for a long time but couldn't find even a coin. Damn it, he went out without money. He deserves to die!"

Qi Yue thought to himself that with Li Sheng's status, he should have a way to contact his own people when encountering an emergency.

For example, when he saw Qiu Weihan trying to escape and couldn't contact Akiyama Yumi for a while, he could only ask the nearest police for help. In this case, just being able to speak Japanese was not enough. In other words, he must have something to prove his identity.

What could it be?

Qi Yue examined them one by one, and his eyes finally fell on Li Sheng's belt.

Country people rarely use leather belts. They are usually hand-sewn and not so particular. They just tie them with a rope to ensure that their pants do not fall off.

Li Sheng's belt is also hand-sewn. It is made of black and gray cotton and linen, about three fingers wide, with tight stitching, and looks sturdy.

Qi Yue thought for a moment, pulled out the belt, looked at it over and over for a while, picked up Li Sheng's switchblade on the ground, used the tip of the knife to cut a few stitches, and pulled the belt open with force.

A piece of white cloth was folded inside the belt, with sweat stains on the left and right, indicating that the belt was very old. When it was unfolded, there was a sun embroidered with red thread in the middle, with words embroidered on both sides of the sun, one side read "Military Luck" and the other side read "Long-lasting".

The stitches are densely packed, at least a thousand in number, and at the bottom is a line of small words embroidered: Army Officer School, Akiyama Shun, Spring of 1938.

This is a kind of amulet in Japanese culture, called Omori, also known as Thousand Needle. The white cloth is about one meter long, and one thousand women each sew one stitch. It is used to bless the soldiers with long-lasting military luck and to gain good luck on the battlefield.

Almost every active Japanese soldier has one of these.

Qi Yue roughly understood that with this dirty amulet, he would be able to gain the trust of the police when necessary. In today's Manchukuo, every police station has Japanese police officers of high rank, and they know what this piece of cloth means.

As a graduate of the Japanese Army Academy and with the lowest rank of warrant officer, no one dared to ignore what came out of Akiyama Shun's mouth.

"Officer Qi, what are you looking at?"

Liu Ming asked casually.

Qi Yue put the amulet and the switchblade into his pocket and said perfunctorily, "Check what he brought with him... Have you dug it out?"

Liu Ming poked the shovel into the ground and said, "Okay, this is enough to bury one person."

"That's enough."

Qi Yue said.

Liu Ming climbed out of the pit, dragged Qiu Shanjun's body, pushed it face down into the pit, picked up a shovel and started filling the pit with soil. Finally, he covered the new soil with snow to prevent anyone from seeing it.

"Yes, you do things in an orderly manner."

Qi Yue praised from the side.

"We are experts in this kind of thing. At the beginning of last spring, Li Ermaizi from Acheng relied on a few of his men to come to Fujia Dian to deliver goods and steal business from my territory. How could I tolerate him? I took advantage of the darkness and killed him with a hammer..."

Halfway through his words, Liu Ming suddenly remembered that the person in front of him was a policeman, and he blurted out the fact that he had beaten Li Ermaizi to death without paying attention.

Seeing Liu Ming speechless and with an embarrassed expression, Qi Yue lit a cigarette and said lightly: "The wind was strong, I didn't hear anything, but you have to be careful with your words in the future. Murder cases are very serious, just like this time. If the news leaks out, I can't protect you."

Liu Ming said quickly, "Don't worry, I haven't told anyone about this... No, not Li Ermaizi, I'm talking about what happened today. I definitely won't tell anyone. If I tell anyone, I'll definitely go to jail."

Qi Yue nodded: "I have something else to do, you go back first, I'll find you after this busy period. Oh, remember, if someone asks you what you did today, just say I came to you to ask for information about the anti-bandit movement..."

(End of this chapter)