"It makes sense, this road is not smooth, from the northeast to the border area, in addition to passing through a large area of occupied areas, you also have to pass through the national control area. If it is just to sell a little wild ginseng, it is really not advisable, because there is a possibility of being robbed at any time, whether it is a bandit or someone else. It seems that the purpose of these two people coming to the border area is not simple. Section Chief Lu nodded, agreeing with Xie Xiaoliu's judgment.

Xie Xiaoliu continued to analyze: "There is another detail that makes me a little suspicious, as soon as this Zhong Qiangen arrived at the checkpoint, he called me comrade when he saw me, and he didn't want to be an ordinary person, especially the people from the occupied area, who should call me that. Judging from my conversation with him, this Zhong Qian Gen should have some culture, and he doesn't look like a peddler selling wild ginseng at all. That's why I asked people to come back and report back to you. ”

Section Chief Lu continued to nod, he patted Xie Xiaoliu's shoulder with some joy, and praised: "Comrade Xie Xiaoliu, your observation is very careful and your vigilance is very high, and you should be praised." In this way, since you found out that these two people are wrong, you will not go to the checkpoint for the time being, and I will send other comrades to replace you. Your task during this time is to closely monitor the movements of this Chung Champen couple and see who they have come into contact with. They thought they were not flawed, but I was curious to know what the real purpose of their visit to the border was this time. ”

Xie Xiaoliu said with some embarrassment: "I have already met with them, if I often appear by their side, will I startle the snake?" Section chief, I feel that I can only spy on them secretly, and follow them, and the people who appear around them should be other comrades. ”

Section Chief Lu thought about it, nodded and agreed to Xie Xiaoliu's suggestion. It was decided to specially transfer two comrades from the department to Xie Xiaoliu, who were responsible for closely following Zhong Qiangen and his wife and monitoring them at close range.

Early the next morning, when Section Chief Lu summoned Xie Xiaoliu and the two comrades to his office for a meeting, suddenly, a guard from the county government came to the office and knocked on the door and shouted: "Report!" ”

Section Chief Lu stopped talking, walked quickly to the door of the office, pulled the door open and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"Report to Section Chief Lu that a man and a woman came outside the gate of the county government, and they were driving a donkey cart, saying that they were looking for comrades in charge of security work." The guard replied loudly.

"Oh? Is it? Then you invite them in, arrange to wait in the conference room, and I'll be right there. Section Chief Lu felt a little puzzled, and while he commanded the guards, he looked at Xie Xiaoliu in the office.

Of course, Xie Xiaoliu also heard the guard's report, and he was even more surprised. Because from the description of the guard, he could tell that the man and woman who had come were the targets of their meeting to discuss how to conduct surveillance!

Section Chief Lu said thoughtfully: "It seems that our meeting can only be suspended, saying that Cao Cao Cao will arrive, these two people actually took the initiative to come to the door by themselves, this is an unexpected situation." I'm going to meet them right away and see what they have to say. Don't go away yet, and I'll come back when I'm done seeing them. ”

After speaking, Section Chief Lu turned around and walked out of the office, Xie Xiaoliu and the other two comrades of Corey looked at each other, and couldn't help but discuss in a whisper the intention of the Zhong Qian Gen couple. However, they discussed and discussed, but there was no accurate result, and although they put forward many ideas, they could not confirm them because there was no further information.

Section Chief Lu walked into the small conference room of the county government, and said to Zhong Qiangen and his wife, who were already waiting in the conference room, with a smile on his face: "The two are looking for comrades in charge of security work, I am the head of the security section, and my name is Lu Ziqiang. What do you two call them? What's going on? Come, please sit down and speak. ”

As soon as Zhong Qiangen heard that the person was the chief of the security section, he hurriedly stepped forward, stretched out his hands to shake hands with Lu Ziqiang, and then said happily: "Section Chief Lu, hello." We finally reached the border safely and found the organization. Oh, let me introduce myself, my name is Zhong Qiangen, and this is my lover Wang Sufen. I am an intelligence officer in the Northeast of the Soviet Far Eastern Intelligence Service, codename: Oak. Since the fall of Tohoku, I have lost contact with my superiors. So my wife and I went through a long time of preparation, managed to scrape together enough money for the journey, and traveled to many places before we reached the border area. ”

Lu Ziqiang was greatly surprised by Zhong Qiangen's self-introduction, because he did not expect that Zhong Qiangen was an intelligence agent of the Far Eastern Intelligence Bureau.

But Lu Ziqiang did not show surprise in his heart, but asked Zhong Qiangen with some doubts: "You claim to be an intelligence officer of the Soviet Far East Intelligence Bureau, and you have lost contact with the organization. But we can't confirm your identity, right? ”

Zhong Qian Gen smiled, took out a piece of paper, and said: "I know that there is no evidence, this is a document to prove identity, it is written in Russian with cipher writing potion, if you soak the paper with rice soup and then put it on the fire to roast, the handwriting will be revealed." In addition, you can report to your superiors and have the organization verify my identity with the Far Eastern Intelligence Service, who should have my file. My superiors in the Far Eastern Intelligence Service were Lieutenant Colonel Kolyameskov, and my cover identity in Mukden was the owner of a small grocery store. This grocery store is only run by our husband and wife, and my lover Wang Sufen is the downline of my development, she is just a housewife with a low level of education. ”

Lu Ziqiang took the piece of paper in Zhong Qiangen's hand, and was thinking quickly in his heart. Judging from the situation described by Zhong Qiangen, it does not look like he is telling a lie, because Zhong Qiangen said many details in great detail, and these details can be verified through the Far Eastern Intelligence Bureau.

It is a pity that since the defeat of the Northeast Democratic Anti-Japanese Allied Army and its retreat into the territory of the Soviet Union and the strengthening of the Japanese control over the three northeastern provinces, the underground work of the party organizations in the northeast has encountered great difficulties, and many of the underground party members who had been lurking in the northeast have lost contact with the central authorities. Otherwise, the organization would have been able to verify what Zhong Qiangen had said on its own, without having to ask the Soviet Far East Intelligence Service.

Thinking like this in his heart, Lu Ziqiang's mouth was not slow, he took the piece of paper and said: "We have to verify what you said, so now it's just your words, and we can't confirm your identity." Well, stay here now and wait until we verify your identity. By the way, if you were an intelligence officer of the Soviet Far East Intelligence Service, why did you travel thousands of miles to the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border area? ”

Zhong replied: "Since the loss of contact with Lieutenant Colonel Kolyameskov, the two of us have been in a state of silence, waiting for the Far Eastern Intelligence Service to send someone to 'wake up' us. It's just that the Far Eastern Intelligence Service has not sent people for a long time, and we have been waiting for several years. And now the Japanese devils have tighter and stricter control over Mukden, many of our comrades and underground party organizations have been arrested and destroyed, and our forces have suffered great losses in the northeast. There were very few people like us who could safely lurk and work for the Party, so we discussed with each other and simply found a way to come to the border areas, get in touch with the organization, and accept the new tasks of the Party organization and the Comintern. ”