Crackle - tom!

About the west side of the alley in front of the shop, I don't know what people set off firecrackers, a series of firecrackers sounded, quiet for a while, and banged again. This "bang" sound is a bit like the end of the firecrackers that sounded in front. The sound of firecrackers was not far away, and in the silence around it, it was extremely loud! It was the sound of firecrackers that woke Ding Qi up!

As soon as Ding Qi regained consciousness, he immediately stretched out his hand under the pillow behind him, and already took the pistol under the pillow in his hand! When I realized that it was the sound of firecrackers that woke me up, I didn't relax. Ah! Why are you asleep? Ding Qi sat up straight on the kang and looked out the window. The red light of the big red lantern hanging in front of the shop was reflected in the shop, brighter than the incandescent light in the house! Ding Qi listened intently, and occasionally, there were some sparse firecrackers in the distance.

Ding Qi got off the kang, put on his shoes, gently opened the gun, walked out of the house where he lived, went to the stove, went to the cabinet of the shop, and then to the east, and then to the storehouse. Ding Qi stuck the gun he was carrying into the belt inside his robe, opened the door, walked out of the shop, stood under the two big red lanterns, and touched the surroundings far and near.

The sky was exceptionally clear. The sky is full of stars, but the moon is missing! At this time, Ding Qi still has the leisure to watch the stars! Ding Qi took a few deep breaths of cool air like a human being, and stood in front of the door for a while, but still did not notice anything abnormal.

Ding Qi turned off the lights in the other rooms before resting on the kang, and in the shop at this time, only the room where Ding Qi was resting was lit, and the rest of the rooms were pitch black. Ding Qi returned to the shop, locked the door of the shop from the inside, and he did not walk back to the room where he rested, but stood in the darkness inside the door, and stayed there motionless, just straight! The shop is as calm as ever! After a long time, Ding Qi put his mind at ease and turned around to return to the room where he was resting. But at this moment, Ding Qi heard a sound, the kind of creaking sound made by stepping on the snow! The sound was so soft, almost so light that it couldn't be heard! Ding Qi quickly made a judgment that the sound should come from the backyard of the shop. The voice slowly and suspiciously approached the shop.

Someone's coming!

At this time, in the second half of the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the person who can come to this shop will definitely not be a good person!

Ding Qi quickly moved from the inside of the front door of the shop to the inside of the back door, lifted the cotton curtain, and looked out through the gap between the open doors.

Ding Qi has been in the dark in the shop for so long, and at this time, looking at the snow outside the door, it is really an advantage! Ding Qi saw that a dark person was tentatively walking step by step from the firewood stack in the backyard towards the Fangshan on the west side of the shop, and then, that person entered the blind spot where Ding Qi was - the door panel blocked Ding Qi's view. But such a small effort is enough! In the haze, Ding Qi saw that the man with a stuffy hand was carrying a short gun in his right hand!

Ding Qi did not move, but squatted down on the spot. Ding Qi is waiting, listening! Outside, the creaking of feet on the snow stopped, and then it sounded again, along the back wall from the west side towards the back door of the shop! Ding Qi leaned his eyes towards the crack in the door again, and in a short time, the man outside reached the back door, stopped on the west side of the door, and then, a huge shadow pasted towards the crack in the door! The man wanted to look through the crack in the door into the shop!

Ding Qi quickly withdrew his body!

The man lay down in the crack of the door for a moment and then retracted! It was pitch black inside the shop, and when you looked inside from the outside, you couldn't see anything! Next, the dark shadow outside the back door of the shop moved through the back door, and the creaking sound moved towards the east side of the shop, and not long after, it moved back again! Ding Qi speculated that the person should have arrived at the big gable on the east side of the shop, but when he saw that there were two big red lanterns shining in front of the shop, which were too bright and easy to be discovered, he turned back again!

This time, the man stood outside the back door, and stood for a long time. Ding Qi once felt for a moment that the person was going to give up! But what happened next was really beyond Ding Qi's expectations! The people out there are moving! After a squirming sound, the blade of a short knife came in the crack under the latch in the middle of the open back door, and the blade came in halfway and stopped! The people outside pressed their blades against the latches, trying to push the latches aside! I pulled a few times, didn't pluck, gave up! Then he drew his short knife and stood in front of the door for a moment. Ding Qi could hear the wheezing sound of the people outside the door! Suddenly, the man walked gently towards Dongfang Mountain. It seems that the man did not know that the back door of the shop was usually locked with an iron lock on the latch.

With this sudden effort, Ding Qi's head turned several times! Ding Qi felt that at this time, if the person outside could come to my shop, it should never be an ordinary street gangster or the like! Maybe you'll have to be Japanese! Ding Qi quickly thought about it in his heart! At this time, it is better to drive away and scare away. If you can't get rid of it, and you can't be scared away, then it's no wonder that I can't be scared away! When he pondered like this, in fact, Ding Qi did not feel very dangerous! Ding Qi judged from the sound outside the shop, there was only one person outside, or only one person who came to the shop, was there other people hiding in the distance? That could be a real deal!

This time, Ding Qi thought right! There really is an accomplice of this outsider hidden in the distance!

There are two people hiding over there!

These people are all spies of the Mukden secret service of the Japanese Kwantung Army in Heshan County. Wandering outside the door for a long time was Shimada, the shopkeeper of the grocery store in the north of the west side of Kawayama Castle. The other two, one is Ono who monitored the Zhengjie Police Station in Heshan City with Kanshan, and the other is a spy who made up for Kanshan's position after Kanshan's death, and he is also a young man, twenty-five or sixteen years old, whose name is Inu Hao. The servants had made an appointment in advance, and Shimada would take action first, and it would be better to sneak into the shop, but if he couldn't get in, he would come hard, pretend to be a robber, tie up the shopkeeper, and force the shopkeeper to speak! If the shopkeeper really doesn't say anything, he will copy him as much as possible! This is part of the strategy designed by Nishida, just to make the Chinese New Year dizzy!

Nishida is a master of the whole thing. When designing this set of strategies, it was also racking his brains, and the whole set of moves designed was also interlocking. Even Shimada and the others don't know that there are two secret agents hidden in the shadows behind them! The main task of those two spies is to rescue the queen of the palace! If Shimada's individuals miss, those two men will make a move to ensure that his strategy is foolproof.

Shimada tossed in the back of the shop for a long time, failed to succeed, looked up at the sky, it's not early, if you continue to toss like this, then if you don't get this task right, you will have to lose it! Anyway, the strategy and plan designed by Nishida Shaozuo are allowed to be hard, so there is no need to spend it here anymore - thinking like this, Shimada no longer hid, but walked to the east mountain of the shop, and waved his hand towards the alley in front of the shop! But at the mouth of the alley, two people flashed out at once, the same short dress, wearing a dogskin hat and covering their faces!

Obviously, what is the situation in the shop at this time, presumably those individuals in Shimada are already clear! I know that there is one shopkeeper in the shop! Even if the shopkeeper is an anti-Manchu anti-Japanese element, what can he do? In the minds of these individuals in Shimada, they didn't take the Manchurian anti-Japanese elements seriously! It's all dirt buns! To put it mildly, it's a ragtag army, a rabble! Just these individuals, not to mention that there is only one person, you just have three or five, so what can you do? In front of our Great Japanese Kwantung Army-spies, there is really only defeat! With these thoughts in mind, it's a bit of a big deal to do things -- to fight a war!

Shimada no longer walked gently, but walked to the front door of the shop as if he were walking in a normal way, and he wanted to knock on the door and call the door like a normal person!