Chapter 18: Sister and Brother Recognize Each Other
This sudden light made Wu Tongguang a little unable to open his eyes. Wu Tongguang couldn't help but feel a little strange in his heart, how could this fix the electric light here? And not at the entrance too?
After getting used to it for a while, Wu Tongguang barely opened his eyes, the space they were in was only two or three square meters, and the light bulb above their heads was less than a foot away from Wu Tongguang. But in front of the two of them was a swarthy gate.
The shopkeeper knocks on the door three times, but unlike the normal knock, the first two knocks are continuous, and there is a three-second gap between the second and third knocks. After a short while, I heard three knocks from inside the door, and the sound of knocking was the opposite of that of the shopkeeper. The last two strokes are continuous, and there is a three-second interval between the first and second strokes. At this time, the shopkeeper knocked on the door three times, which were no different from the normal knocks.
Wu Tongguang could see that this was a code signal between them. I didn't expect this group of lawbreakers to be really organized and disciplined.
I heard only a "creak" and the door was opened from the inside. The moment the door was opened, Wu Tongguang's arm was slightly raised, ready to shoot into the house.
But when the door was all opened, there were two people standing in front of the door, the person who opened the door was a young man in a suit, and next to the young man stood a young woman, a young woman in her thirties, with her head crossed, dressed in a light-colored women's tunic, looking very capable.
Wu Tongguang looked at the young woman carefully, and gradually his eyes were full of tears, his lips kept trembling, wasn't the young woman in front of him his sister Wu Xiaomei, who had been looking for many years!
Wu Tongguang's arms hung down, and the Browning pistol in his hand also slipped to the ground, and the metal collided with the concrete floor with a piercing sound.
I saw Wu Tongguang with tears in his eyes, and in an elongated voice, he called out, "Sister, is it really you?" ”
Wu Xiaomei also had tears rolling in her eyes, he nodded lightly, and called softly, "Tongguang." ”
At this time, the two could no longer suppress the tears in their eyes, and the reunion after the ordeal made the two feel that this was not a dream, and it seemed that only crying could make the two feel that this was really reality.
At this time, the shopkeeper patted Wu Tongguang's shoulder a few times and said, "Mr. Fang, let's go in and talk." After speaking, he picked up the pistol that Wu Tongguang had dropped on the ground and returned it to Wu Tongguang.
After Wu Tongguang got the gunman right, he wiped his tears and glanced at the shopkeeper gratefully. Then he walked into the basement with Wu Xiaomei.
The room is poorly furnished, with only a safe in one corner. In the center of the room was a square wooden table, with a long wooden bench on each side of the table.
At this time, the young man in a suit in the shopkeeper's room made a look, and the young man understood, so he walked out with the shopkeeper. This is the shopkeeper, who wants to let these two long-lost relatives have a separate space to chat.
When the shopkeeper was about to close the door, he seemed to suddenly remember something, turned back to Wu Xiaomei and said, "Miss Wu, you and Mr. Wu will chat first." When I came to you later, I used the same code. ”
Wu Xiaomei nodded and said gratefully, "Hard work, Mr. Shang." ”
There was another "crunch" sound, and the door was shut. Wu Tongguang couldn't help but have some doubts in his heart, who were they, and it felt very mysterious. And his sister and them are very familiar.
Wu Tongguang didn't care about these many questions, but couldn't wait to ask Wu Xiaomei about the situation after encountering the devil during their transfer.
Wu Xiaomei poured a cup of tea for Wu Tongguang first, and refilled her teacup with water. picked up the teacup and took a sip before speaking in detail to Wu Tongguang.
After Wu Xiaomei and others encountered the devil, many villagers were brutally killed by the devil. However, fortunately, they ran into the guerrillas, and under the cover of the guerrillas, the rest of the people managed to escape from the butcher's knife of the devils. The village was destroyed, and Wu Xiaomei, in a desperate situation, went to Yan'an with the communists who were going to Yan'an. After arriving in Yan'an, Wu Xiaomei joined the Communist Party of China as she wished. Because Wu Xiaomei had studied, she was placed in the post of propaganda officer.
Wu Xiaomei did not come north to Nanjing to see Wu Tongguang this time, but he came with a chief to guide the work of the underground party in Nanjing. It can be said that I came to see Wu Tongguang by the way. The shopkeeper, the buddies and the young man in the suit are all comrades of the underground party of the Communist Party of China in Nanjing, who are specially designed to protect Wu Xiaomei's safety.
Hearing this, Wu Tongguang couldn't help but sigh. He knew very well that after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, sooner or later there would be a war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. And the military commanders are now secretly searching for the CCP's underground party to prepare in advance for the outbreak of war in the future. But fate is a joke, he serves in the military command, and his sister Wu Xiaomei is a propaganda officer of the Communist Party. In the future, their relationship will not only be a sister and brother relationship, but also a hostile relationship between the two camps of friends and enemies.
Wu Tongguang didn't care about these, originally he was not willing to serve in the military command. He will not regard the interests of the party and the state as more important than family affection like Lin Xiaotian.
Just when the two sisters and brothers were chatting, there were two short and one long knocks at the door, Wu Tongguang and Wu Xiaomei immediately stopped talking, the two looked at each other, and felt that the shopkeeper came to knock on the door so quickly, there was no emergency.
Wu Xiaomei immediately came to the door, and knocked on the door three times according to the pre-agreed code. Then there was an evenly rhythmic knock on the other side of the door.