Chapter 42: Infiltration
Wang Quan and I came to the door of the non-staple food store one after another, it was almost early in the morning, and the alley was pitch black, only the signs at the entrance of a few bars in the distance were still lit, and the entrance of the alley was very quiet, and only the breathing of Wang Quan and I could be heard around.
All the way to the closed door of the grocery store, Wang Quan and I took out the phone at the same time, turned on the flashlight, we squatted in front of the door, Wang Quan signaled me not to act rashly, and then, with his hand, gently pushed the closed wooden door of the grocery store - the wooden door was not pushed open by Wang Quan, it seemed that it was locked inside.
Hopeless to enter through the main entrance, the two of us got up and began to look at the window of the grocery store, trying to enter the grocery store through the window. It was a dilemma for both of us - the windows were covered with nailed planks, and it was impossible to get in through them unless the nails were pried off and removed.
"What are we going to do? We can't get in. I whispered anxiously about the royal power.
Wang Quan was also a little anxious, scratching his ears and cheeks, and looked around: "Let's go, let's take a look at the back, if it really doesn't work, we will go over the wall and go in." With that, he led me around the wall on the side of the manhole grocery store.
After going around, we were a little disheartened to find that the manhole itself was located in a courtyard house, surrounded by houses, and unless we entered through the front door, we had to climb to the roof and jump into the courtyard again. I discussed it with Wang Quan, and although it was already the third watch in the middle of the night, it was easy for someone to catch him red-handed if the wooden planks on the window were removed, so we decided to use the second method - jumping from the roof into the courtyard.
With that said, Wang Quan and I walked briskly around to the right side of the courtyard where the Shajing Grocery Store was located—there was a small wooden sign that could be used as a stepping stone, so we were going to jump into the courtyard from here. When I arrived at my destination, I looked up at the wall and felt a pang of bitterness: the wall was almost two people high, and even if I stood on top of the sign, I still couldn't touch it, let alone climb it.
It is estimated that the royal power saw my embarrassment, and immediately ridiculed: "Tut-tut, the son is staring, Lao Tzu is one step ahead!" I watched him go to the roof so easily, and I couldn't help but whisper and scolded at the bottom: "When I see that you kid is not less engaged in stealing chickens and dogs and going to the house to expose the tiles, don't hurry up and get me up!"
"Hey, please me~" Wang Quan sat on the room and said with a cheap smile.
"If you do it again, I'll cry out to catch the thief. I immediately straightened my face and said solemnly.
"Hey, don't, don't, you adults have a lot, bypass the small one, and the small one will get you up immediately. Wang Quan hurriedly laughed.
"That's pretty much it," I said, satisfied, as I stood still under the wooden sign. Fortunately, I have taken physical education classes seriously in school, and I usually exercise, this body is not sluggish, I climbed up the notice board three times and two times, Wang Quan saw me climb up, immediately leaned down, lowered his arms, and made a monkey fishing for the moon posture, I stretched out my hand, grabbed his arm, only to see him grit his teeth, and lift it hard, I felt that the whole person was like taking an elevator, and was suddenly mentioned on the roof.
"Okay, boy! It's not small! But the arm strength that has been practiced after 20 years of being single?" I chuckled under my breath.
"Fuck off, if you sink a little, Lao Tzu's arms will be broken by you, and I'm embarrassed to say it here," Wang Quan glanced at me and said in a low voice: "Now is not the time to talk nonsense, let's quickly figure out the important matters." ”
Listening to Wang Quan, I also felt reasonable, nodded again and again, Wang Quan looked left and right, and after making sure that there was no one, he stepped on the roof and moved quickly towards the courtyard, and I quickly followed him and ran to the eaves inside the courtyard. When I got to the edge of the eaves, Wang Quan jumped down first, and seeing his quick movements, I really wondered if this kid had been a snitch before.
After he jumped, he looked left and right, and after making sure that there was nothing abnormal, he motioned for me to jump. I made up my mind, and jumped into the yard like him, who knew that just as I was about to land, the center of gravity shifted suddenly, and just when I thought I was going to fall, Wang Quan quickly stretched out his hand to stabilize me.
Since I didn't know what was going on around me or what was hidden in the restaurant, Wang Quan didn't say anything to squeeze me, but made a silent gesture with his hand and led me in the direction of the restaurant. While following Wang Quan, I looked around: this is an ordinary old Beijing courtyard, with left and right wings on both sides, and the main house on the back, all of which are dark and tightly locked, looking a little crazy, and in the direction of the non-staple food store in the courtyard, there is a stone shadow wall, which is carved with ordinary stone carvings, and there is a circular circle in the middle of the stone carvings. Beyond the shadow wall, there is the closed back door of the grocery store, which, like the front door, is nailed with black wooden boards, and there is nothing inside.
Wang Quan and I walked to the back door, and found that the back door had been locked outside, but strangely enough, the lock was as clean as new, and looked out of place compared to the dilapidated one next to it. Wang Quan and I looked at each other in astonishment, and knew each other's thoughts: It seems that this grocery store is not a freak, but something is hidden! I can't help but wonder: who hid what kind of things in this dilapidated grocery store? And the reason why the door of the manhole grocery store is closed has anything to do with it?
"Shall we go in?" I asked in a low voice.
"Of course you have to go in, that man is hiding something in the locked place of this gate, and it must not be a matter of seeing the light, good boy, he knows how to hide in the city!" Wang Quan scolded in a low voice.
I thought to myself, yes, the man is sneaky, he doesn't come to put things during the day, but he comes in the middle of the night, maybe this is a den of thieves, and there are stolen goods hidden in it, and if we destroy it, it will be a good thing.
"Since you have infiltrated the yard, you are not afraid of being discovered by people outside. Wang Quan muttered, rounded his shoulders, and whispered to me: "You dodge a little, the master will split this broken lock, don't be broken." With that, he picked up the dog's legs, and with all his strength, he slashed at the iron lock. I hurriedly retreated, only to hear the sound of "Dangdang" two gold and iron impacts, the iron lock nose was split in half by the royal power, I couldn't help but sigh: "You kid is very violent!"
"Master, I've always been so brave and invincible. Wang Quan said disapprovingly, and pushed open the wooden door that had been unlocked, revealing the true face of the "mysterious non-staple food store".
I looked in with the king, and saw an empty room behind the wooden door, but there was no musty smell in the air that had not been opened for a long time, but it was not much different from the outside. The top of the house was still the same old wooden beams, with cobwebs in places. The middle of the room was empty, with a door frame on the left, the door on which had long since disappeared, presumably leading to the storefront in front, and three large clay jars on the right—it seemed that this should be a warehouse.
Wang Quan and I carried the dog's legs, cautiously walked into the warehouse, walked around, found nothing, and walked to the big clay jar in the corner, looked down, and found that there were only some old gray and rotten valleys inside. There was nothing to be found in the warehouse, and then we walked into the door frame on the left, and sure enough, as I expected, the door frame led to the front storefront, only because there was no one in front of it, and there was only an empty counter in front of it.
The two of us went back and forth a few times, but found nothing, Wang Quan couldn't help but relax a little, and opened his throat and scolded: "This TM is a broken house, there is no hair, what a freak ghost, it's all!"
Listening to his scolding, I also felt a little strange, this place is too ordinary, even like a warehouse, but just now we all saw that there was light in it, and there was that "knock" sound coming out, are these all our hallucinations?
I felt that something was wrong, so I hurriedly spoke: "Don't be in a hurry to scold you kid, we can see the abnormal situation here just now and hear it in our ears, don't tell me that this is an illusion caused by the two of us drinking high." ”
After listening to what I said, Wang Quan became cautious again, and we both stood in the warehouse, both carefully searching for clues in our minds, and after thinking for a while, we both raised our heads in unison and looked at the big clay jar in the corner again......