Siheyuan: Relieve stress and relieve worries

Chapter 684 The drama begins

On the 29th day of the lunar year, Qi Dasheng sent Wang Li to Uncle Li's house. In order to get Wang Li to agree to spend the New Year there, Wang Zhan had been coaxing his sister for the past few days and agreed to countless unreasonable requests. Only then did Wang Li agree to spend the New Year there.

When leaving that day, Wang Li looked at her brother, hugged him and burst into tears, saying, "Brother, don't you want me anymore?"

"No way, you're overthinking it. I'll pick you up after the New Year. I've told you everything, don't you understand?" Wang Zhan said helplessly.

"I understand. After the fifth day of the New Year, you must pick me up, otherwise I will cry and make a fuss at Uncle Li's house." Wang Li said.

Wang Zhan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said, "Don't worry, you are my closest person, how could I bear to leave you? When you come back, we will celebrate the New Year again, and I will make it up to you, okay?" Wang Zhan said while wiping his sister's tears.

Wang Li thought about it and said, "Then I can celebrate two New Years. Okay. By the way, did you bring all my snacks?"

"I've brought it. Don't worry. Don't keep the master waiting too long. Let's go." Wang Zhan carried the bag in one hand and walked to the front yard with his sister in the other. Qi Dasheng was getting impatient waiting. He wore a military coat and leaned against the door frame at the gate, looking towards the backyard.

"Sorry, Master, I've kept you waiting for so long. You guys can go quickly." Wang Zhan said, letting go of his sister's hand and handing the bag in his hand to the master.

Qi Dasheng took the bag from Wang Zhan, picked up Wang Li and walked out. Wang Li kept looking back at her brother. Wang Zhan waved to her and then opened his hands to make the number five, meaning that he would definitely pick him up after the fifth day of the New Year.

Only when Wang Li disappeared did Wang Zhan return to the yard, close the gate, then jump over the wall and head straight for the Nanhe River in Qianhai.

After running to a few willow trees, Wang Zhan stood still and looked around. Seeing that there was no one, he exerted force with his feet and jumped up the tree. There was a big bird's nest on the top of the tree. Wang Zhan took out a backpack from it. Wang Zhan quickly put the bag on his back, then jumped off the tree and ran quickly towards home.

After returning home, he looked around and made sure there were no signs of outsiders entering. Then he went back to the basement and turned on the lights. Wang Zhan had placed a table in the middle hall. He walked to the side and took out the things in the bag.

A Browning pistol, a box of bullets, and two double-edged daggers. Wang Zhan loaded the gun with bullets and put it on the back of his waist. He tied the two daggers to the lower abdomen of his legs. He jumped a few times to make sure everything was fine before walking out of the basement.

Wang Zhan looked at the yard and felt that he couldn't do nothing as this would arouse suspicion. The New Year had to have a new look, so he had to decorate the yard. Wang Zhan hung up lanterns and pulled lights and put them in the lanterns. He also pasted window decorations, blessing characters, door gods and couplets. All of a sudden, the whole yard was filled with a New Year atmosphere.

While decorating the yard, Wang Zhan also placed some small bells on the walls and doors, including the wall of the backyard, and sprinkled a lot of fish scale vine powder at the base of the wall.

After finishing his work, he went to the lounge in the left hall and poured himself a glass of water. He looked at the clock on the table and saw that it was already past twelve o'clock. Wang Zhan went to the kitchen and ordered a bowl of noodles. He started eating in the kitchen. When he was halfway through his meal, he heard a knock at the door. Wang Zhan put down his bowl, walked to the door and asked, "Who is it?"

"Who else could it be?" Qi Dasheng's voice came from outside the door.

Wang Zhan opened the door and Qi Dasheng walked in and said, "Didn't you tell me not to climb over the wall? Wow, it's so beautiful. This is how a festival should be celebrated." As he spoke, he saw the red lanterns and window grilles on the windows.

"Master, have you eaten?" Wang Zhan asked.

Qi Dasheng said, "After you finish eating, go to Mr. Li's place. You can't come back without eating." After hearing this, Wang Zhan closed the door and went back to the kitchen to continue eating. After eating, he went to the master's room and saw the master cleaning his gun. Wang Zhan said to the master solemnly, "Master, shall we have a chat?"

Qi Dasheng looked at Wang Zhan curiously and said, "What are you talking about? Are you hiding something from me?"

"No, I want to talk to you about the person behind the scenes." Wang Zhan sat directly opposite his master and said calmly.

Qi Dasheng became interested when he heard this and said, "Even the people who caught him don't know who he is. What do you want to talk about?"

Wang Zhan said, "Master, we have to analyze this carefully. Think about it, did those people just arrest the kid from the Liu family and not hurt him?"

Qi Dasheng said: "Yes, I heard that they are waiting for the next instruction. Their mission is to capture them alive."

"Then the person they really want to catch is me. If it's because I reported their hidden group, they can just get rid of me directly without leaving me alive, right?" Wang Zhan asked.

Qi Dasheng thought for a moment and asked, "What if they want to know? How do you know the locations of those groups?"

"That is possible, but I think they arrested me for other purposes. There is no need for them to capture me alive as someone who knows the locations of those groups. They chased me relentlessly without firing a single shot even though they knew they could not catch up with me. If you are the person behind this, do you think this is necessary?" Wang Zhan asked again.

Qi Dasheng thought about it carefully, and he understood that for those who endangered the location of their hidden team, they could just get rid of them, and there was no need to keep them alive, so he asked: "Why do you think that was the case?"

Wang Zhan looked at his master with a serious expression and said seriously, "I thought about it carefully. The people who knew that it was me who reported the hidden group must have participated in the assassination of Yan Jiecheng, and they must have heard you talk about me."

Qi Dasheng suddenly became serious when he heard this. Wang Zhan continued, "Secondly, they wanted to catch me alive because I must be of greater use. I carefully recalled what happened after I came back. The biggest and only thing I have done is to hand over a large sum of money to Uncle Li. Therefore, among those who know that I did these two things, there must be the person behind the scenes."

Qi Dasheng was so shocked that he opened his mouth wide and stammered, "No, no, then, according to what you said, not many people know about the second incident, and they are all very important people. According to what you said, this person's status is not low? This, this is not possible, right?"

Wang Zhan shook his head and said, "That's not certain. Maybe it's just a driver, maybe a clerk, maybe someone else. It's all possible. Do you know why I sent Wang Li away?"

Qi Dasheng shook his head and said, "I don't know why, but maybe you think it's dangerous here."

Wang Zhan nodded and said, "If my guess is correct, the next time they will do it will be at 12 o'clock on the night of New Year's Eve, and there will be a lot of people coming. That's because at that time, the whole city of Beijing will be filled with the sound of firecrackers. Amid the deafening sound of firecrackers, who can immediately distinguish between the sound of gunfire and firecrackers?"

Qi Dasheng almost jumped up after hearing this. He felt more and more that Wang Zhan's analysis made sense, and that this incident was very likely to happen.

(End of this chapter)