Lao Hou shook his head and said with some reproach: "Comrade Xu, you are also an old underground worker, why do you still make such a mistake?" The task of this lesbian is top secret. Since I can't tell you that it must be the needs of work, don't you, as an old comrade, know the principle of not asking what you shouldn't ask? ”

Xu Wenwu smiled brightly and explained: "Look at me, I made a mistake again. Am I not worried that this action of ours will affect the work of that lesbian? If this lesbian, codenamed 'Sparrow,' had not been in Stone Town for long, and we were engaged in such a screening operation, I was a little worried that the enemy's attention would be drawn to that lesbian, and that would be bad. ”

Lao Hou still did not let Xu Wenwu go, but continued to criticize him: "You don't have to worry about this. The news we released was that the lesbian codenamed 'Swallow' would arrive in Stone Town in ten days, but in fact, the codename 'Sparrow' had been in Stone Town for more than half a month at this time, and the enemy should not pay attention to 'Sparrow'. Lao Xu, you are too worried. Although your starting point is still to protect our v lesbian, you can't make mistakes in principle, you can't inquire about what you shouldn't ask, and even the real code name of this lesbian 'sparrow' you have to find a way to forget. Okay, let's not talk about that. Let's talk about the details of the screening operation, Lao Xu, what do you think? ”

Xu Wenwu nodded again and again and replied: "Yes, Comrade Lao Hou, I humbly accept your criticism, and I will definitely pay attention to this aspect in the future." As for the screening operation, I think so, in addition to me, the secretary of the underground party organization committee in Stone Town, there are several members. You know all these things, including the organizing committee, the propaganda committee, the student movement committee, the labor movement committee, and so on. To be honest, I really don't want to believe that there are moles among these comrades, after all, these comrades are excellent comrades who have been tested for a long time, and there has never been any problems before......"

Lao Hou shook his head and interrupted Xu Wenwu's words: "Lao Xu, we have known each other for more than ten years, and as a comrade who joined the party together, I trust you very much." But the nature of the incident in which Commissioner 'Owl' went to the joint last time and was almost arrested was very serious. This also made your superiors suspicious of your leadership ability, of course, not because of you personally, but because they thought that the underground working committee of Stone Town that you led had been infiltrated by the enemy. Otherwise, how do you explain that the enemy will get the news that the 'owls' are coming to Stone Town in advance? Since this incident came out, not only you, but also my superiors have sent me to investigate this incident, and the results of the investigation are basically consistent with the report you submitted to the Ministry of Social Affairs. It was He Langtao, the head of the Stone Town branch of the secret service headquarters, who received an anonymous phone call in advance to report the news that the 'owl' had come to Stone Town to connect, and according to you, only a few members of the Stone Town Underground Working Committee knew about it, in fact, I personally thought that this mole was in this committee. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that these insiders inadvertently leaked the news, but the kind of possibility I am talking about is the most likely. Revolutionary work is not a dinner party, you and I have also experienced the 'April 12' counter-revolutionary coup, and we also know that some people will waver under this white terror, so we must not take chances about the fact that there is a traitor, but we must have sufficient psychological preparation and vigilance. ”

"Yes, Lao Hou, you're right, I'm just sad that this will happen. To tell the truth, I didn't sleep for two days and two nights after I learned that the traffic officer Lao Cai died heroically that day, and I kept reflecting on what went wrong with my own work to cause this situation. Since the last time Comrade Lao Cai died, I stopped most of the work of the Stone Town Underground Working Committee in accordance with the instructions of my superiors, which also caused trouble to all the comrades, because they may think that the superiors no longer trust them, and there is some mutual suspicion, and this atmosphere is also a very huge blow to the work enthusiasm of the comrades. Now I really hate that traitor, and if we find him out as soon as possible, we can return to work as soon as possible. Xu Wenwu nodded and said very calmly.

"Well, it's good that you have such an attitude. In this way, you have to communicate with the comrades of each of these committees separately in the last few days, and pretend to have inadvertently leaked the news that the lesbians codenamed 'Swallow' will be working in Stone Town in ten days' time. ”

"But there are two problems with that. First of all, the Hu Yongqiang team I led was only limited to the Anti-Smuggling Investigation Division, and had no way of knowing how the Special High Division and the Stone Town Branch of the Special Agent Headquarters would react if they knew the news we had released, and when they would learn about it, so I couldn't make a judgment. Second, if the lesbian I leaked came to work in Stone Town, it would definitely involve her joint problems and liaison problems. If this female comrade does not have contact with our underground working committee in Stone Town, then the traitor will definitely judge that there is another set of people in our party organization working independently in Stone Town. In this way, the mole will definitely think of the recent period when the Stone Town Underground Work Committee has been asked by his superiors to suspend its work, and he will understand that he has been suspected and will become more cautious or will stop sending information to the outside and be silent. This may be contrary to our original purpose of identifying or narrowing the scope of the mole's suspicions. Xu Wenwu slowly expressed some of his worries.

Lao Hou knew that this was because Xu Wenwu did not know the work of Li Yixin's group, so he had such worries, but he could not tell Xu Wenwu the truth.

Therefore, he replied to Xu Wenwu like this: "I have a way to solve this first problem of yours, once someone made an anonymous call to He Langtao like the last time, there are other channels for the superiors to know the time of this anonymous call and what the reaction of the special high school and the Stone Town branch of the special agent headquarters is." You don't have to worry about this, and I don't know how your superiors will know this, so don't ask. As for the second question, I really don't know how this mole will react to this news. But we now have no other means to narrow the scope of our suspicions, so we can only take the risk of such an operation, and hopefully the traitor will not be silenced again because he perceives something. Therefore, Lao Xu must pay attention to your performance when releasing this fake news, and you must not arouse the other party's doubts. ”