Volume I, Chapter XXVII
That night, not long after Wang Yunqing and his wife left from the front door of the palace, Yurong, who was dressed as a man, quietly slipped out of the side door of the palace. Yu Rong clapped her hands lightly twice, and a foreign coachman walked out of the dark shadow, this coachman was the big pillar. Yurong whispered a few words to Dazhu before sitting in the car, and Dazhu pulled up the car. When the car was about to reach the mouth of the alley, another person flashed out of the dark shadow, this person was the old man who was secretly guarding. Lao Fu whispered to the big pillar: "There is no one around, safe." The big pillar asked Lao Fu to get into the car and sit down, and he pulled the car and trotted up. Halfway through, Lao Fu always felt that a dark shadow was flickering behind the car following them, and he whispered to Dazhu: "It's not good, we are being targeted." Then he pulled the loaded pistol from his waist, and the big pillar immediately quickened the pace of pulling the cart again. Yurong seemed very calm, and she instructed Lao Fu and Dazhu to be calm and calm in case of trouble, and not to act rashly. After a while, the black shadow behind them turned into another alley and disappeared, and Lao Fu felt that he was making a false alarm, and put away the pistol again. Da Zhu is a very experienced agent, and he tells Lao Fu not to let his guard down and continue to observe the situation behind him. He dragged the car around the narrow and crooked alley, and the big pillar deliberately made a big circle before pulling the car in front of an inconspicuous courtyard. The big pillar pulled the car into the courtyard, Lao Fu bolted the courtyard door, and then they took Yurong into a small room. The windows of this small room were tightly curtained, and there was no one in the room except for a few rudimentary furnishings.
Yu Rong asked the big pillar: "This doesn't look like a coffin shop!" Where's Ma Beard? ”
Da Zhu said softly, "Sister-in-law, you will see him soon." So saying, he opened the door of a closet, which was full of old clothes, and he pulled them aside, and then pulled the back of the closet, revealing a half-man-high hole in the wall. The big pillar handed Lao Fu a flashlight and said, "You drill through first, and I will break it later." Lao Fu turned on the flashlight and burrowed into the hole in the wall. Yurong then followed, and the big pillar closed the wardrobe door from the inside and burrowed into the hole.
Three or four meters down from this hole is a low and narrow tunnel, and the three of them bent down by the light of the flashlight and walked forward twenty or thirty meters before they came to the end of the tunnel. At the end of the tunnel is a shaft with a ladder in it. The big pillar climbed the ladder to the top of the shaft and stretched out his hand to push hard, and a round hole appeared in their heads, and a faint light instantly shone into the shaft. After the big pillar was drilled, Yurong and Lao Fu also climbed the ladder to drill out of the tunnel, and after they came out, they saw clearly that this exit was originally a stove for boiling water and cooking. The big pillar pushes open the door of the stove room, and outside the door is a courtyard. In the courtyard lay several swarthy coffins, which glowed with an eerie ominous sheen in the dim moonlight.
Dazhu pointed to a room with a light on and said, "Sister-in-law, this is our coffin shop, and Boss Ma is waiting for you in the house." ”
At this time, Ma Dabeard heard a voice in the yard and knew that it was Yurong coming, so he pushed the door and walked out of the house. Although Ma Dabeard and Yurong hadn't seen each other for many years, he could tell from the figure of the woman standing in the courtyard that she was Yurong. Ma Dabeard called affectionately: "Cousin-in-law." Then he stepped forward in three steps and two steps, and carried Yurong into the house. The big pillar and the old wilt did not follow up in the house. The two of them stood guard in the dark part of the courtyard.
Ma Dabeard let Yurong into the house and made her a pot of tea. The two of them hadn't seen each other for a long time, and then they started chatting.
"Sister-in-law, my cousin said in his letter that you are very sick. But I think you're recovering well. ”
"yes, I also feel that my body is recovering well. However, there will still be a period of treatment and recovery time before full recovery. ”
"Sister-in-law, my cousin is really bold enough, he let you go to Peking alone to treat your illness. He's not afraid that you will have an accident? ”
"Brother, this can't be blamed on Xuanxia, I insisted on coming to Beiping for treatment. He couldn't convince me, so he had to follow me. ”
Ma Dabeard grinned and said, "Yes, although my cousin is a martial artist, he is notoriously afraid of his wife!" ”。
Yurong also smiled, "That's not called being afraid of my wife, it's hurting my wife." ”
Ma Dabeard said, "Sister-in-law, I was joking just now. I know that the two of you are a loving couple who respect each other, and now that you are in Beiping, my cousin must be thinking about you all day long! ”
Yu Rong said with some worry: "The war on the front line has been very tight, and his mind is all about fighting!" Where can he take care of me, I don't worry about him! ”
Ma Dabeard pretended to be mysterious and said: "Sister-in-law, my cousin has become famous recently, and I have news of him here!" After he finished speaking, he took out a recent newspaper, pointed to one of the pieces of news, and said: "It is written: The Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Allied Army surrounded and annihilated the division led by the Kuomintang general Feng Xuanxia in the area of Chifeng in Chahar, and under the powerful offensive of our army, only Feng Xuanxia and some remnants of his division escaped, and the rest were all annihilated. ”
Yu Rong was taken aback when she heard this, "Huh? Xuanxia fought a big defeat! It's true? ”
"Sister-in-law, I read that the newspapers of devils and traitors have to be understood in reverse, they say that winning a battle is a losing battle. I have news from Chongqing, and they say that my cousin has just won a big battle, and he has been praised by the central government. ”
"Great! My man is great! Yu Rong listened with joy on her face.
Ma Dabeard returned to the truth: "Sister-in-law, you are Feng Xuanxia's wife, you are too valuable in the eyes of the Japanese!" So, I must send you out of Beiping City safely! ”
Yurong asked: "Bearded, I think there must be a lot of eyeliner for devils and traitors, how can you send me out?" ”
Ma Dabeard asked a little embarrassed: "Sister-in-law, you are not taboo to lie in a coffin with a dead person, right?" ”
Yurong said very simply: "Bearded, you also underestimate your sister-in-law!" I'm not afraid of death, what else am I afraid of! As long as you can safely escape from the surveillance of traitor agents, I have no problem no matter what method you use! ”
"Good! With my sister-in-law's words, I am relieved to have a big beard! I'm ready to go, and we'll act as planned early tomorrow morning! However, I can't send you personally, because we are very disciplined, and all actions must be approved by the superiors, otherwise we will be severely punished. Escorting you out of town is not my job, it's just my personal decision, and I pretend I don't know to avoid suspicion of violating discipline. Thank you for your understanding. ”
Yu Rong's eyes moistened with emotion, "Bearded, I'm causing you trouble, I'm sorry for this!" ”
"Sister-in-law, you're welcome! Whoever asked us to be relatives, I have to help with this favor. ”
After chatting a few words with Yu Rong, Ma Dabeard and Yu Rong called Da Zhu and Lao Fu in from the courtyard and laid out the next day's actions to them in detail.
On the night of Yurong's secret meeting with Ma Dabeard, Shi Shuli had quietly surrounded the coffin shop with his spies. It turned out that when Yu Rong slipped out of the back door of the Wang family's mansion, she had been being followed by the spies, although the spies lost Yu Rong near the coffin shop, but Shi Shuli analyzed that Yu Rong was likely to have entered the coffin shop, so he sent additional manpower to monitor the coffin shop and the nearby area.
Yurong had just made contact with Ma Dabeard, and this contact was carried out in a very covert way, how could the spies get the relevant information and control their whereabouts so quickly? If you go back to the source, the problem lies within the Wang family. Ma Liangchen once revealed to Ono that he had an eye and ears in the Wang family, and this eyes and ears were none other than the housekeeper Lao Zhao.
Although Lao Zhao worked as a housekeeper for the Wang family, he was born in a declining aristocracy, and he had not suffered much in most of his life. When Lao Zhao counted the banknotes, he found a small note sandwiched in the banknotes, which was written in a threatening tone: Pay attention to all the movements of the Wang family and report to me at any time, if you conceal or do not report, be careful of your family's lives! In order to prevent Lao Zhao's identity from being exposed, Ma Liangchen did this very secretly, and even his cronies around him didn't know. Lao Zhao trembled with fright when he saw this note, he had already learned the viciousness of the spies, he didn't want to involve himself because of the Wang family, let alone his two baby daughters, if his daughter fell into the hands of the spies, it would be terrible, I couldn't imagine it! Although Lao Zhao was loyal to the Wang family, he was still bought by Ma Liangchen and coaxed.
Lao Zhao was bribed by Ma Liangchen and concealed it from everyone, of course Wang Yunqing didn't know, he also regarded Lao Zhao as his confidant, he felt that it was easy to attract the attention of the spies when he came out to find Ma Dabeard, so he naturally handed over this matter to Lao Zhao to do, but Lao Zhao handed over the secret letters exchanged between Yurong and Ma Dabeard to Ma Liangchen, so their every move was under the control of the spies, and they didn't know about it. (To be continued......)