Chapter 374: Identifying the Identity and Capturing the Eight Roads

Lin'an County, Western Hebei Region. In the morning. The street on the north side of the West City Gate.

On the west side of the north-south street is a tall gray brick city wall, and on the east side of the street eight or nine meters wide are rows of shops, mixed with some ordinary households.

Just as Huang Zhongdra was walking into the street with a flatbed truck full of fresh vegetables and the second housekeeper in his early thirties, more than a dozen detectives suddenly ran over and surrounded Huang Zhongde, Gu Lanlan and the five-person security team behind her.

Huang Zhongde was stunned for a moment when he saw this, then bent down and put down the flatbed, and asked calmly:

"Hey?! Hey?! What are you trying to do stopping us? Still wielding guns and sticks, scaring people with more bullies and less scare? Did you eat too much for breakfast? ”

"Tell me, who are you? What are you going to do when you come to Lin'an County? The second housekeeper turned around and completely changed his face, looking directly at Huang Zhongde with suspicion and sharp eyes.

"Second housekeeper, you have seen it, and I have told you, we are here to sell vegetables in the city, is there anything wrong with this?" Huang Zhongde is calm and calm.

"Vegetable sellers? What are the five boys behind you doing? ”

"Do you need to ask? They also go into the city to sell vegetables, you can see for yourself. ”

"Hmph. Are there any people who sell vegetables in groups? Is there anyone who doesn't shout and sell vegetables? Well? ”

"Second steward, it's not right for you to talk like that, right? Didn't we just enter the city? I was about to shout when you came here. Get them all down their guns. Don't go off. ”

Glenlan's spirit was highly stressed, and her heart was pounding wildly. The five fighters of the defense team were ready to grab guns with their bare hands and kill the enemy desperately, waiting for Director Huang Zhongde's action to hint at the order.

Seeing this, the passers-by on the street panicked and fled as if they were leaving.

"Okay, okay, don't say it, don't make it up. The more you say, the more loopholes there are, do you believe what you say? A three-year-old can't be fooled. It's not honest, it's not honest, is it? Do it! Tie them all up for me! The second butler shouted angrily.

The seven detectives put away their shell guns, took out hemp ropes, and tied up Huang Zhongde, Gu Lanlan, and the other seven people firmly. The other seven detectives were still holding guns.

"Hey! Hey! Second butler, what are you doing here? Why did you tie us all up? What kind of skills are you doing to bully us into selling vegetables? Who are you? What do you do? Is there anything you can't do?! Huang Zhongde protested fiercely.

"Less nonsense! In a moment, you'll know what the royal law is and who the royal law is. After speaking, the second butler whispered to a tall detective beside him: "Put dead nails at the end of the street (camouflage fixed observation posts), and put live eyes in the city gate and on the street (camouflage swimming observation posts)." Just go. ”

The tall detective nodded, put away the shell gun, and turned to leave.

"Take them all with me!" The second butler shouted menacingly.

The detective team pushed Huang Zhongde, Gu Lanlan and others and continued to walk north.

After walking a few dozen meters to the north, the second housekeeper walked to the side of the road and stopped, half-turned around and kicked open the street door of a shop with his legs, and shouted arrogantly: "Is there a living person in it?" ”

A middle-aged man walked out of the door quickly, and when he saw the second housekeeper nodding and humblingly said:

"Ouch, it's Captain Wan, Lord Wan? Disrespectful and disrespectful. How? Do you still have to search the Eight Roads today? You've been searching for days on end, why are you here again? How can I hide eight roads in this stove store? Absolutely nothing..."

"Humph! If you say it doesn't count, Lao Tzu said that if you have it here, then you have it. ”

"Don't mind. Captain Wan, I can't do business if you search like this, the guys can't eat, drink, and work, and I can't explain to my master. ”

"Huh? Are you dead or alive, what kind of does your lord care about me? If you can't live, you die. Come on, put these eight ways into me! Bring in all the dishes in the car. Captain Wan said fiercely.

The detective team pushed Huang Zhongde, Gu Lanlan and others into the stove store and closed the street door. Two detectives stood inside the door with shell guns in their hands, guarding the door. A few guys in the store couldn't help but be frightened and overwhelmed when they saw this situation.

Huang Zhongde understood at this time, it turned out that as soon as they entered the city, they were targeted by plainclothes agents of the detective team, led by the captain of the detective team, which caused them to be followed all the way and even entrapded. Why is that? Where did a few of us show our flaws? No, it shouldn't. What to do? Sacrifice is a small matter, and failure to complete the task is a matter of great importance and the overall situation. Hmph, maybe it's the shadow of the cup, the bow and the snake, the grass and the trees are all soldiers, guessing and grabbing, and cheating money. Hey, I've seen a lot of this kind of trick before.

"No, no, no. Captain Wan, you can't bring Balu into my shop, if you let the imperial army know, you will be killed. The middle-aged man stopped.

"Don't talk nonsense! The shopkeeper, the quick Malier, make tea and snacks for Lao Tzu, and then cut a big watermelon. Lao Tzu and his brothers were busy for half a morning, and this time I was able to catch a few big ones alive, and I was so tired that I was thirsty and hungry. Hold on. ”

"Yes, yes. I'm waiting. The middle-aged male shopkeeper submissively agreed. When he saw Captain Wan glaring at him, he walked over, stretched out his head to his ear, and nodded nervously as he listened. After listening to Captain Wan's whisper, he sighed heavily and shook his head, turned his head and waved his hand. A man walked quickly to the shopkeeper's side, and after listening to the shopkeeper's whisper, he suddenly changed color, and the man walked out of the stove shop with his legs raised and walked out of the stove shop like a gust of wind.

The detective team escorted Huang Zhongde, Gu Lanlan and others out of the back door of the stove shop, through the front yard to the westernmost room of a row of bungalows in the backyard, and rudely pushed them to sit on the earthen kang under the north wall.

Gu Lanlan sat at the westernmost end, and Huang Zhongde and the others sat side by side on the edge of the kang, their hearts burning with anger, gritting their teeth and raising their heads to glare at the dozen detectives standing in front of them.

Captain Wan sat on the chair on the left side of the table under the south window, proudly cocked Erlang's legs and swayed, took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, lit it and took a puff and asked:

"Let's talk about it. Where did you come from? What are you doing in the county? ”

"Second shopkeeper, no, Captain Wan, my daughter-in-law and I came to the county seat to sell vegetables, how could it be the eighth road? You see that you have caught the wrong person, so let's untie us all. Huang Zhongde stood up and said calmly, neither humble nor arrogant, and calmly.

"Humph! Hum! Hum! Sit down! Captain Wan sneered and shook his head, his eyes grimly looked at the six men and one woman sitting on the edge of the kang, wondering what to do with these people? How to expose their true colors? Since I can definitely determine that these six men and one woman are the Eighth Route Army, I will definitely be able to find evidence from them. "Search!"

The detectives pounced on him and forcibly searched him, but found nothing. Glenland's little baggage was nothing but a change of clothes.

A detective team member walked into the house with a newspaper bought by Huang Zhongde and placed it on the square table.

Captain Wan glanced at the newspaper proudly, smiled and asked in a calm tone:

"Which of you will speak first? Which unit of the Eighth Route Army are you from? What is the number and position? What do you want to do in the county? Who are you looking for? ”

"Captain Wan, this kind of thing can't be nonsense. I don't understand, do you? Why are you so sure that we are the Eighth Route Army? Huang Zhongde asked rhetorically.

"Of course I'm sure you told me about this newspaper you bought."

"Hey, is it the Eighth Route Army when I buy a newspaper? It's ridiculous. ”

"As soon as you entered the city, you didn't hurry up and shouted to sell vegetables, but the first thing you did was to sell newspapers to read, you are not a scout of the Eighth Route Army, what is that? The peasants who went to the city to do small business were all illiterate, and they could not read a single big character, so how could they be willing to spend money to sell newspapers to read before the store opened? ”

"Ouch, Captain Wan, you misunderstood. I'm also illiterate and illiterate, and I'm ready to sell newspapers to go to the thatched house to shit and wipe my buttocks. Huang Zhongde explained.

"Boom. Selling newspapers to wipe your ass? Don't make it up. I've never seen peasants who go into the city to do small business sell newspapers and wipe their buttocks, they wipe their butts with lumps of dirt or a few leaves. You said you leaked your mouth. Captain Wan ridiculed Huang Zhongde.

Huang Zhongde was shocked, and felt that he had indeed leaked his mouth, and the other party's analysis was indeed reasonable. Also, what should not be done is that you should not sell newspapers as soon as you enter the city. Mistakes, big mistakes. Huang Zhongde blamed himself deeply. He thought about it, he couldn't just be tied up, and he had to find a way to reverse the current passive situation as soon as possible.

Captain Wan asked Huang Zhongde which village he was from, how old he was this year, how many years he had been married, how many children he had, who else was in the family, how his life was going, and other trivial questions from his parents. Huang Zhongde's answer is fluent and flawless.

"Captain Wan, how can I say that you can believe that we are not the Eighth Route Army?"

"Boy, no matter what you say, I believe that you are the Eighth Route Army, and if you don't say anything, I am sure that you are the Eighth Route Army." Captain Wan swore by it.

"Huh? What do you mean by that? I don't understand? ”

"Don't understand? Can't you understand people? Or are you pretending to be confused? I know you can't ask anything. Okay, boy, don't you say I'll talk about it. ”

The shopkeeper of the stove shop walked in with a tea tray, followed by two guys who walked in with a plate of snacks and a large plate of watermelon, put them on the square table, and the three of them turned to leave.

Captain Wan lit another cigarette, took a puff and spit out a few smoke rings and said:

"Boy, just now you answered so eloquently that it sounded like you couldn't find anything wrong with it, and you made it up and memorized it before you entered the city. In fact, it is full of loopholes and irrefutable. Okay, I'm not going to talk around in circles with you anymore. Tell me what is going on, huh? You are the officers and soldiers of the Eighth Route Army Supplementary Regiment in Shuihe Village. Boy, you should be the company commander of the reconnaissance company, or the reconnaissance staff officer of the regimental headquarters, these five boys are the guards and assistants who are responsible for protecting you. That young woman is not your wife at all, and I know from the way you look at her that you are not husband and wife, and you are not married yet. But, I can tell you like her. This woman should be a member of the propaganda team of the supplementary regiment or a nurse of the health team. The two of you pretended to be husband and wife and took five guards to Lin'an County to reconnoiter the enemy, collect intelligence, and if possible, set up a secret intelligence traffic station under the pretext of selling vegetables. I know all the underground work of your Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army, and I feel like a mirror in my heart. Alas! It's a pity to smash the pot and play now. Your commander is really stupid, how can he send you fools and fools to the county seat to carry out such an important task? It's incredible. Ay? You fools and stupid boys, am I right? ”

Captain Wan's sarcasm was like a thunderbolt from the blue, shocking and amazed Huang Zhongde, Gu Lanlan, and the five soldiers of the defense team. I all wondered in my heart: how could he be so accurate? Do you know so much and so much detail?

"Hmph, Captain Wan, you really know how to make up nonsense, you have a nose and eyes and look like the real thing. It's ridiculous, it's ridiculous. Huang Zhongde looked disdainful.

"Hmph. I knew you would deny it. Boy, then I will tell you plainly, how I found out your identity, so that you are convinced and have nothing to say. ”