The twenty-fourth day of May in the twenty-sixth year of Shenwu, the day of murder. Appropriate: bathing, sweeping, do not take the rest; Don't: Nothing is appropriate.

At noon, July 2, 1937, at 9:55 a.m. local time in New Guinea, Lae Airport. A silver Lockheed Electric twin-engine plane is slowly moving out of the Guinea Airlines hangar, and even though the cockpit is airtight, the pilot, Emilia Earhart, and her navigator, Fried Noonan, can feel the heat outside. After all, it's equatorial summer, and as soon as the sun comes out in the early morning, there is a hot heat wave outside.

As soon as the plane pulled out of the hangar, the crowd standing in the sun on the side of the turf runway cheered, and Sid Marshall, an employee under the command of Eric Chait, general manager of Air New Guinea, turned on a 16mm movie camera marked with Chinese characters and began to record the take-off of the 'Flying Laboratory'. This is the most difficult leg of the Queen of Flight's Emilia Globe Equatorial Flight, which has flown more than 32,000 kilometers in the past 40 days, and only needs to fly over the 11,000-kilometer-wide Pacific Ocean to return to their starting point, California, to complete the world's first women's round-the-world flight.

The whole United States, and even the world, is waiting for the news. In order to support Emilytte, her friend President Roosevelt specially ordered funds to build a more than 300-meter-long runway on Howland Island for planes to land, and the U.S. Coast Guard also sent a number of ships, equipment and personnel to support her safe flight across Lae to Howland Island's most difficult stop.

The cheers of the crowd were not heard by Emilytte on the plane, which was already 50 percent overloaded by this time in order to fill with more fuel. There were more than 4,100 liters of gasoline in the tank, a small portion of which was jet gasoline 100 supplied by the vacuum oil company. The others are 87 jet gasoline. The overloaded aircraft slowly taxied towards the northwest end of the runway, when it reached the top. The cabin was already as hot as a steamer. After the last inspection before takeoff, the plane's two engines roared and took off.

Like everyone else, Eric Zeit, the general manager of the airline, stared at the speeding plane, and when he saw that the plane was still not fast as it flew past the mid-point smoke bomb, he couldn't help but draw a cross on his chest - the plane was too heavy to take off at a normal distance, and at the end of this runway was a cliff, and below was the rolling Huon Bay. Sharks are often found here.

As Zeatt had predicted, the plane did not fly a hundred yards from the end of the runway, the crowd buzzed, and just as everyone was about to pray, the plane struggled fifty yards from the end of the runway and rushed into the sky, but it was still at a low altitude and flew close to the sea. "Thank God!" The crowd was unanimous in their rejoicing, and at this time Mr. Zeatt looked at his watch, and the time was ten o'clock. He hurried to the airport radio room. Tell Balfour, the dispatcher, to "send a report to Howland Island." ”

"Sir, things don't seem to be going well." The dispatcher was receiving a telegram from Hawaii at this time.

"What's going on?" Mr. Zeitt tugged at his tight tie and untied it. Then go under the air conditioner. "Damn it." He scolded. It was so hot, but thankfully the radio room was air-conditioned – cheap, reliable, but disgusting Chinese.

"Sir," Balfour looked at his boss who had 'usurped' the air conditioner. Blinking his eyes, he reported: "Second Lieutenant Thoy from Pearl Harbor is calling. It is said that the upper-air headwind is higher than previously estimated. He handed over the telegram, "about twenty-six miles per hour." He glanced at his superior, who was reading the telegram, and said, "We have received reports of less than fifteen miles per hour. ”

"Uh-huh." Zeat, who was enjoying the cold air, responded casually, his eyes did see the numbers, but his brain, which had not yet completely cooled, was not working.

Seeing his boss like this, Balfour said again: "Sir, if the headwind from above intensifies, then Miss Emilytte's speed will be slower, about one hundred and thirty-four miles per hour, and the distance from here to Howland Island is two thousand five hundred and fifty-six miles, which is more than an hour more than the eighteen flights they had expected before." ”

"There's nothing to worry about." Zeit, who had been blowing into the air conditioner for a while, finally had some reaction, and he said, "They have 1,100 gallons of gasoline. This gasoline is enough for them to fly for twenty-one hours or more. Of course, we should also tell them the news of the strengthening of the headwinds, and if they are really worried, they can return. ”

"Understood, sir." Balover nodded, and when he sent a telegram informing the plane of the strengthening headwind, Zeit also drafted a departure telegram: 'Emergency-Itasca-Black-Tutuila Radio Transfer-Emilia Earhart will leave Lae at 10 a.m. local time on July 2 - Arrive at Howland Island-Air New Guinea in 19 hours. ’

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Ten o'clock in New Guinea is noon in the capital. Outside the front door, the five temples and alleys are deserted. Although the sales of the newspaper have exceeded 800,000 copies, Lu Hongkui, as the president, just doesn't want to move the place, according to his words, Tangzi Hutong has good feng shui and brightness, and no matter how much money there is, he can't find a better one.

At lunchtime, all the guys in the editorial department ate in the courtyard next door. So far, the newspaper has no independent printing house, and the manuscripts are generally sent to the printing houses of the China Times in various places - the views of the two newspapers are relatively close, and even the Imperial Daily is more extreme, but after all, the speech of Greater China is not completely free, such as 'Asia is the Asia of Asians', or 'use the Chinese sword to obtain land for the plough of China' are all things that are forbidden by the Propaganda Department of the Ministry of Rites. However, the theory of the reincarnation of civilization of the Zhenguo Gong, the foundation of the founding of the Chinese nation, and the stone carving of Hong Fan Jiuchou at the entrance of the Inspectorate did not support this kind of remarks, because the Imperial Daily, which had always been stubborn, decadent, feudal, and authoritarian in the eyes of the Westernized elements, was only preaching 'the plow of defending China with the sword of China', nothing more. But even so, there is still trouble to find the door.

"Who is Zhang Shaozeng?! [Note 161] A voice shouted at the gate of the courtyard. The newspaper guys were eating under the pergola in the courtyard at this time, and the gentlemen were eating in the house, and only one of the guys who had finished eating early looked at the young men standing at the door.

"A few young masters. What is the matter with Mr. Zhang? The man beckoned, and he sensed that these people were not coming.

"Look! That's what he wrote! "The white-looking young man shook with a copy of the Imperial Daily published yesterday." How much conscience money did he take from those warmongers? Give them the ...... to preach for military spending."

As soon as the young people opened their mouths, they knew that readers had come to their door to scold them -- the political circles, the press, the academic circles, the business circles, since last year, all the voices of peace talks. I was afraid of a war with the United States, so I chose Prime Minister Hangmei to negotiate peace with the Americans. It is said that this person looks like Qin Hui kneeling in front of Grandpa Yue's temple, but he has no beard and shortens his hair.

"Young masters, if you don't read the newspaper well, it will be ...... if we lose your money" The guy laughed, this is an example for the newspaper to deal with this kind of thing.

"We're not short of a few dollars!" Behind the white young man at the head, a person with a black face said in a loud voice. "We just came to Zhang Shaozeng to theorize, why did he say all that nonsense in the newspaper! How much money did he take from those warmongers, death merchants! ”

"Young masters, the little one should lose money to you. You bought a few newspapers...... "The man saw that these young men seemed to want to break into the courtyard, and immediately tried to stop him, but he was too small, and he was pushed by the black face of the urn and flashed to the side.

"Who is Zhang Shaozeng?!" Turning the wall, the black face who broke into the courtyard shouted, this person was very stout, and the whole yard looked at it. As he was about to drink the second sentence, an old man in a dark silk shirt stood at the door of the main room, holding a white paper fan and clenching his fists at several people. "The old decay is Zhang Shaozeng, you are ......"

Zhang Shao, who is in his sixties, was dressed without any special features, but several young people still saw the clues, and this person had a short white braid. The black face immediately scolded: "It turned out to be a Tartar, your master has long been dead!" Haha......"

"My master is dead, but where is your master?" Zhang Shaozeng retorted.

"We are free people. Not a minion, no master. The white face of the leader reprimanded angrily. Zhang Shaozeng. Why do you want to lie in the newspapers and advocate a war between China and the United States? And to advocate an alliance between China and the Soviet Union? How much money did you collect from the warmongers? ”

"Everyone, please come back. Military affairs are not something you can understand. As soon as the other party opened his mouth, Zhang Shaozeng knew that they were some 'angry youths' with no family education and no ethics, or someone deliberately provoked trouble.

"What does it mean to not understand, it is clearly written in black and white on paper!" A bespectacled young man beside Bai Jing's face grabbed a newspaper and waved it in the air, he had read through the article and looked up the information. "Zhang Shaozeng, you said above that the United States is the greatest threat to our country, and the purpose of merging its Atlantic Fleet and Pacific Fleet into one is to completely annihilate the Sino-Japanese combined fleet. What else do you say, 'This war is a battle for the Pacific Ocean, and only by allied with the Russians in the west and the Japanese in the east can our country have a little ......vitality.'"

"Hehe, am I wrong about what I said?" Hearing that the young students read the articles they wrote very seriously, Zhang Shao once changed his mind to thank the guests, but wanted to educate and educate these young students. I opened the fan and asked leisurely.

"Of course it's wrong, it's wrong!" The monocle waved the Reich Daily again. "The United States is a democratic and civilized country, and even if the Philippine colonies gave it the opportunity to become independent ten years later, how could it be at war with our country? And Soviet Russia is a barbaric and autocratic country, even if there is food support from our country, there are no less than a million people starving to death in the country every year, and there is also a communist party and a dictatorship in the country, how can we ally with this kind of country! What is your intention in advocating such in the newspapers? ”

"I don't have any intentions, I just can't see the wishful thinking of the court, covering my ears and stealing the bell." Zhang Shao once said proudly, "I don't care whether the United States is democratic or civilized, or whether Russia is communist or communist." I just saw that the big war was approaching and the mountains and rains were coming, and I wanted to remind you to ratify the Sino-Soviet treaty earlier. By the way, you said that the United States gave independence to the Philippines, so why not let Honolulu become independent? ”

", that's Honolulu people volunteering to join the United States!" The black face glared at Zhang Shaozeng, and then stared at his braids.

"Is that so?" Zhang Shaozeng said with a smile, he mentioned another statement, "I only know that it was the American expatriates in Honolulu who imprisoned the Queen of Honolulu and forced the Queen to abdicate and finally join the ...... of the United States."

"Nonsense!" The black face glanced at the white face of the leader, and saw that his eyes flashed. At that moment, he reached out and twisted Zhang Shaozeng's **** braid like lightning, and raised the big fist of the sand pot and slammed it on his head. While beating back, he scolded: "I'll let you talk nonsense!" I'll fool you! I'll let you cheat the military spending! I'll let you make an alliance between China and the Soviet Union! I can't kill you cheap tartar and dog minion......"

Four or five young men suddenly came to the door menacingly, and the guys began to be very vigilant. But as soon as I saw that they were theorizing with Mr. Zhang, I sat down. At this time, when he saw that the person who came did not agree with him, he started to beat the person, and after the person was stunned, he immediately stepped forward to dissuade him, but he didn't expect that the two young people who had not spoken suddenly took out a thing.

"Whoever dares to touch me will kill whom!" A young man with fashionable hair shouted, holding a revolver.

Since the partial lifting of the gun ban 10 years ago, taxpayers who have a reliable family background, pay a security deposit and obey the supervision of the patrol police department have the right to buy firearms. But who buys that thing? At this time, when the person came and took out a gun, everyone panicked. Only two clever ones ran to the main room to shout for help. was shouting for help over there, but the black face was beating people, Zhang Zhongzhao was stunned by the first punch, and then fell to the ground in a daze, when the black face stomped a few feet and it was not enough, Bai Jingyan pulled him and said, "Okay, let's go!" ”

The white face did not mean that the fight was enough, but that the matter of the newspaper next door was done - two clouds of black smoke with flames rushed into the sky from the tile room of the editorial office next door. The temperature was high in the afternoon, and there was still some wind, and the fire made room clearer, and it burned even more vigorously. "Let's go! Walk! Back to school. Bai said again. After that, the first one went out, followed by the man with a black face and glasses who beat people, and the two people with guns left last. These people are clearly well planned. When I left, I closed the door of the courtyard and locked it with the lock I had brought in advance. Eventually, the men heard a gunshot, presumably to warn them not to come out to put out the fire.

Just like Wang Weisan, the guy who received the visitor later, said when he recorded his confession. The whole thing happened in a moment, and no one expected that the other party would commit murder and beat people, let alone that the other party beat people and set fire to the newspaper building. As soon as these young people ran, the courtyard was full of shouts for fire and life.

Imperial Daily is a national newspaper, and although Lu Hongkui, the general office, is a native of Hunan, because of Yang Du's relationship and the fact that he is more old-fashioned (Zhu Kuansu, the king of Min, is also from Hunan), he has always helped the Revival Association to advocate and praise the scene, but he also has a great relationship with the Kuomintang. At this time, the newspaper editor was beaten and the newspaper was burned, and such a major event naturally affected all directions. Besides, there is no trivial matter in the capital, and in broad daylight, someone actually carries a gun and sets fire, is this treating the three mansions and eighteen departments of the imperial court as nothing? !

"Did you find a clue?" Nine hours later, Gong Baoquan, the inspector of the Tingwei Mansion Inspectorate and the inspector who had not died early, looked at Zhang Zongxiang, the head of the Jingshi Patrol Police Department, who came to report, and asked.

"It was a student who did it!" Zhang Zongxiang relied on the relationship of the Lu family, and finally achieved the position of Yulang Baylor back then. The Imperial Daily case was a big one, and the whole city was shocked, and he had to come to the Inspectorate in person to report the case. "After the negotiations in London in the second half of last year, the Imperial Daily wrote several articles, which caused a big uproar in public opinion immediately because of its tough stance. At that time, several students of Yan University bought up all the Imperial Daily and Revival magazines on the market, and all of them were taken to the suburbs and set fire. They also pulled banners such as 'Set fire to the imperial newspaper system of the authoritarian media for the Chinese nation' and 'denounce the authoritarian newspaper system of the foolish people'. There were also students in Taiyuan, Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, and Guangzhou, and they took special photos. This matter has a great impact, but because it is not illegal, it is not pursued. ”

"I guess the students did it." Gong Baoquan nodded. "Guns with guns, beatings, arson, such reckless but unprofitable things can only be students."

"My lord, we have found a suspect - we took the portrait to a few suspicious universities and asked, no less than five people said that the leader was Wang Huazhi, the president of the Yanjing Student Union, who had made radical speeches at the Beijing Normal Student Federation many times, and many people recognized it, but Yanjing is a church school ......in the United States" Zhang Zongxiang has been in Beijing for decades, and the situation of the two dynasties is very clear, that Yenching University is a church university, a church university run by the United States of America, and the former president Situ Leiden is said to have a huge influence in American politics. So he had to specifically remind Gong Baoquan that this was run by Yenching University and the North and South Presbyterian Church of the United States of America.

"So what are you waiting for!?" Gong Baoquan asked. "Could it be that Yenching University is located in the United States?"

"This ......" Zhang Zongxiang smiled awkwardly, he suddenly took out a stack of documents from under him, and said, "Lord Gong helped to approve these documents." The lower official is to arrest people. ”

After receiving his documents, Gong Baoquan saw two arrest warrants first. There is also a search warrant authorizing the patrol to search the university for any suspicious location.

Seeing Gong Baoquan's gaze fall on this search warrant. Zhang Zongxiang smiled embarrassedly again, "Students are not stupid, those two black guns that are not registered will definitely be hidden." We found kerosene drums in the alley, a pool of blood, a blood-stained handkerchief, and a 9mms pistol bullet, presumably caused by a misfire when they fled in a hurry. ”

"Well," Gong Baoquan nodded, but he took a pen and wrote 'this case only' on the search warrant, and then took out the Inspectorate's printout. Firmly stamped on it, "The school is full of students, try not to use guns, so as not to accidentally injure you." He finally admonished.

"Of course." Zhang Zongxiang only looked at those few things, he thought that because he was involved in Yenching University, he would not get the search warrant and arrest warrant until tomorrow, and he didn't want Gong Baoquan to approve it on the spot. After taking it, he smiled and said, "In these extraordinary times, I will be very careful." ”

Zhang Zongxiang went out with a smile, and as soon as he turned around and made a straight face in front of his subordinates, he slapped the document in his hand. He said, "I'll leave it to the next below." Catch someone at night! Tell me about it, be quick! Don't injure the innocent by mistake. ”

At the same time, the men's dormitory of the Department of Sociology of Yan University.

Looking at Yao Ke'an, the glasses man lying on the bed and moaning, the student president glared angrily at Huang Zheng, who was hurting people. This made Huang Zheng very cramped, and he kept holding his head with his hand - it was the first time for everyone to hold a gun, and the yard could still be stable. As soon as he said to leave, he panicked, and in this panic, he forgot to remove the trigger.

"Alright. Don't scream! That dog slave was beaten by me much worse than you. After the black-faced Wang Zhiyi finished speaking, he asked Zhang Huizhen, who was invited from the pre-nursing department, "Is he okay?" ”

"It's just a penetrating wound. Do not operate. Just rest for two days. Zhang Huizhen pulled her hair, looked at her boyfriend Wang Hua again, and blamed: "Where have you been, the gods are mysterious, why are you ......?"

"We burned ......" Wang Zhiyi just wanted to say but was stopped by Wang Huazhi, he had to smile, "We went to eliminate harm for the people, defend peace, and take 100% patriotic actions." You'll find out tomorrow by reading the newspaper. ”

"It doesn't feel like a good thing anyway." Zhang Huizhen smiled, stood up and said: "Okay, it's okay, just drink more salt water, pay attention to changing the tampon every four hours, don't be too tight when bandaging, it's easy to get infected with wounds in summer." She glanced at her boyfriend again, "It's not too early, I should go back to the dormitory." ”

"Hmm. Go back. Wang Huazhi knew that she wanted to send it herself, but the matter here was not over, and there were many things to explain.

"Oh." Zhang Huizhen saw that he ignored him, so he had to start packing his things. Before going out, Wang Huazhi only sent her out of the door, and said: "The matter must be kept secret, and the patrol police will definitely come to the door if it spreads." ”

"I know." Zhang Huizhen agreed, she saw that there was no one in the corridor, her face turned red and she suddenly approached him, stood on tiptoe and whispered, "You kiss me." ”

"Ah......" Wang Huazhi hadn't recovered from the tension just now, and was a little overwhelmed by the girl's sudden romance. After the girl pulled twice, seeing that there was no one around, he finally quickly touched her snow-white forehead twice with his lips, and then the girl left, never to be seen again in this life.

"A few people, this is the Caizi Building, who are you looking for?" The doorman who has been accompanying the patrol police from the school gate asked vigilantly. These people did not wear police uniforms but showed themselves the police badge, saying that they were coming to Caizilou, and he had to ask people to call the old principal Mr. Situ while personally accompanying him.

Seeing that this was Caizilou, the scar-faced sheriff threw away the cigarette he was smoking, and a warrant suddenly appeared in plainclothes next to him, "We are performing official duties in accordance with the law, arresting the suspect in the case of wounding and arson in the Imperial Daily, please don't obstruct official business." ”

At noon, the Imperial Daily newspaper was burned down, and the doorman who liked to listen to the radio had already known, and he glanced at the arrest warrant, although he was not very literate, but the big red official seal of the Inspectorate on it showed that this was no joke. Seeing that the doorman was stupidly blocking the door, and seeing that there were colleagues in other places, the plainclothes patrol officer said again: "The suspect is in this building......

A man is talking about Zhang Huizhen, who has just been kissed twice by her boyfriend, is not worth paying attention to, she is still immersed in sweet love, but the word 'suspect' touched her eardrums, and when she looked again, there were several people under the street lamp who ripped off the clothes on the outside of the police uniform and put on a police hat, and the dragon-shaped police badge flashed to make her heart beat a hundred times faster.

She subconsciously turned around, and after a few steps, she threw away the things in her hand and ran, and when she ran into the corridor of the Caizilou, she immediately used all her strength to bend down and shouted: "Huazhi, run!" Huazhi, the patrol is coming, run! Huazhi, run ......"

A girl hurriedly ran back to Caizilou and did not make the patrol police vigilant, after all, the suspects they were going to arrest were all boys, but when they heard her shout, Sheriff Scarface immediately felt that something was wrong, and he immediately shouted, "Quick! Fast! He pushed away the old doorman who was blocking in front of him, and beckoned his subordinates to rush in. But Zhang Huizhen, a smart girl, chose to report at the door for a reason, and at the same time as she reported the news loudly, the open door in and out of the Caizi Building was closed by her. Unfortunately, she wasn't moving fast enough, and when she was about to find a crossbar to tie the gate, the patrol rushed up.

"Get out of the way! We are on official duty...... "The current patrolman saw that she was a handsome girl, and her heart softened, and she opened her mouth, but this girl stubbornly shook her head, wanting to hold the two gates on her own.

"Crash it off!" The scar-faced sheriff who came up was the most disgusted with the women of Yenching University. When the school was closed more than 10 years ago, a girl also seriously injured her captain with a brick. Seeing that his subordinates still wanted to persuade him again, he shouted: "What are you rubbing!" Crash away and arrest someone right away! ”

With a '......bang', several patrolmen exerted force at the same time, and not only was the door slammed open, but the girl behind the door was also bounced open - she fell to the ground sharply, but the back of her head hit the red edges of the fire extinguisher cabinet by the wall, and then there was no sound. (To be continued.) )

PS: Note 161: Changed back to the original name.