The security guards who passed in a line, one by one holding wooden sticks and hanging weapons on their waists, walked on the road with serious expressions, and pedestrians automatically gave way to the road.

Zhang Shaotang asked Yang Xuezhi in a low voice: "Is something wrong?" ”

"It's okay, it's just their routine patrol, as long as they follow orders, it's fine." Yang Xuezhi replied with a relaxed expression.

At this time, the security team suddenly stopped, and a soldier pointed to a man in the crowd and said, "You come here, your ID card." ”

The man stepped out of the crowd and walked towards the soldiers.

The soldier ordered: "Stop. ”

The man paused and took out his ID card and handed it over. The crowd around them consciously distanced themselves from them.

"Your name? Address? The soldier asked, looking at his ID card.

The man gave his name and address one by one. The soldier checked his ID and said, "You can go." "Handing it back to the man, the man took it back, and the soldier joined the security squad, and the team moved on.

"What are they doing here?" Zhang Shaotang asked strangely.

"It's just that there is suspicion of that person, check his identity." Yang Xuezhi replied.

"How can this be, just treat the people as bad people and suspect them, isn't this an insult, that person is no problem after being investigated, why don't you ask them for an explanation, why do so many people check him, and his words are so blunt." Zhang Shaotang said angrily, thinking that a thief is still a thief, he is not reasonable at all, and he can't even say a kind word when doing things.

"We didn't think so much, they want to check it, let them check it, and they will let you go if it's okay, only people with ghosts in their hearts will be afraid of being investigated, the security army often checks like this, and has arrested several spies sent by the government, if you let these people move around casually and no one cares, it won't be long before the officers and soldiers will call, and our good life will come to an end, everyone doesn't want to live the hard life before, everyone has to make sacrifices, it's not a big deal to be checked." It seems that Yang Xuezhi has become accustomed to this.

"Then can you be polite?" Zhang Shaotang is still unhappy with that people.

"The yamen here are all like this, there are no kind words, simple and clear, and there are no superfluous words. According to them, in order to solve the problem, it is not for the sake of relief, and it is useless to solve the problem badly, no matter how nice it sounds. We don't have to care so much, we can do business with peace of mind, they catch thieves, no one harms us, let's do things, we don't need to be troubled to get things done, we don't want to be uncles, who do we need to accompany us with a smile. Yang Xuezhi wanted to open it very much.

Zhang Shaotang felt that his mind was in a mess, Zhang Chu, the thief, was really deviant, what the hell is this, the rebels generally use the method of opening a warehouse and releasing grain to buy people's hearts, he is good to issue a small iron card for ten cents, and then check it at any time, and there is no smile on the people, so a person listening to Yang Xuezhi's words is quite popular. The world is selfish. Zhang Shaotang was a little stunned for a while.

Yang Xuezhi saw that he didn't speak and admonished: "When you encounter a security guard on the street, you must cooperate, don't run around, otherwise you will be beaten with a stick, and you will be arrested to dig coal." ”

"Oh, got it." Zhang Shaotang was unhappy in his heart, so he could only agree verbally.

After walking around the street for a while, Yang Xuezhi was going to purchase goods, and Zhang Shaotang excused himself to go around and separate from him. I can't see anything when I go around the street, Zhang Shaotang and the shopkeeper next to him figured out where the security army barracks are, and he walked towards the barracks with two entourages, wanting to see the scale of the barracks of the security army, if you meet soldiers outside the barracks, you may be able to get some news.

According to the instructions of the shopkeeper, they came to the barracks on the edge of the school field, the barracks was very lively, many soldiers were training there, Zhang Shaotang looked at them for a while and saw that they were just walking around, there was nothing new. If you practice like this, you can eat tens of thousands of officers and soldiers at once. Zhang Shaotang was very puzzled.

He didn't understand there, but he had already been spotted by the sentry in the barracks. They poked their brains outside the barracks, and soldiers from the barracks touched behind them and surrounded the three of them at once.

Zhang Shaotang looked at the musket pointed at him and immediately ordered the two entourages not to move. The musket is a strict prohibition for people who practice martial arts, and the previous martial arts masters can be ten with one, and it is not a problem to stand out among hundreds of people, but as soon as this musket appears, you just practice a lifetime and don't care, there is a way that the gods are afraid of a smoke, and no one can stop a gunshot.

The soldiers surrounding him asked sharply, "Who are you?" Documents. ”

Zhang Shaotang and the others hurriedly took out their temporary residence permits.

The soldier handed the temporary residence card to an officer, who was overjoyed and said with a smile: "Hehe! Coming from Yan'an Mansion, doing business, he didn't bring goods to go around outside the barracks, it seems that we are going to make meritorious contributions. Hurry up and tell me your true identity, let's all save trouble, if we send someone to check if what you said is false, there will be a bitter pain for you. ”

The two guards were originally good hands in the army, and there was no problem in escaping if they only used weapons, but the security army didn't want to test their martial arts with them at all, so they directly forced them with muskets, and they didn't even dare to move, in case the soldier fired away from the gun, this death was too unjust, and there was Zhang Shaotang, a literati, the chance of escaping was too small. had to obediently obey the orders of the security army.

Zhang Shaotang thought to himself that this time was really over, the vigilance of this military camp was too high, and he was arrested just by looking outside, which was too much of a betrayal.

Zhang Shaotang hurriedly begged: "We are just businessmen, we are here to be curious, and we are not allowed to leave immediately." Please also ask the military master to raise his noble hand. ”

Zhang Shaotang walked to the officer's side, quietly took a piece of silver and stuffed it into his hand, and whispered: "It's a little meaning, please take care of it." ”

The officer took the silver and didn't put it away, turned around and held it up and said to the soldiers behind him: "You see, this is the sugar-coated cannonball that the marshal said, we were not killed by the cannonball on the battlefield, we may be killed by this sugar-coated cannonball, what should we do with the sugar-coated cannonball?" ”

"Ate the icing and throw the shells back at him." The soldiers said in unison.

"Okay, go and call the inspectors to come over and register, this silver is enough for us to eat a few meals of meat. There must be something wrong with these two people bribing us with silver. Catch it back and interrogate it properly. ”

Zhang Shaotang secretly complained that he had exposed his identity by giving the silver, and the thief could report him if he took the money. It's something I didn't expect.

The soldiers of the security army came over and tied the three of them tightly, Zhang Shaotang thought to himself that this time was really over, no matter how lofty his ideals and ambitions were, he would not be able to realize them, and this extension was where he buried his bones.

The soldiers escorted them happily back to the barracks, at this time just a group of people drove over, the soldiers immediately stood on the side of the road and saluted, it seems that it should be an officer, the team of people and horses has a leader appearance of a young man who saw Zhang Shaotang and others standing on the side of the road, came to inquire about the situation, after listening to the report, rode straight to Zhang Shaotang.

looked Zhang Shaotang up and down and said: "Mr. Zhang is too careful, why was he arrested by my soldiers as soon as he arrived, bribing my soldiers is not a way, I have already stipulated that the silver can be collected, and there will be a reward after receiving the report, they want to get double money, and your sugar-coated cannonball will not matter." ”

"What Mr. Zhang, I don't have the surname Zhang, you recognize the wrong person." Zhang Shaotang strenuously denied it.

"Mr. Zhang, you don't need to hide it, I'll know as soon as you arrive. I wanted to treat you well, but I didn't expect you to be arrested so quickly. Let me introduce myself, I am Zhang Chu, the marshal of the security army, and it is a great honor to meet Mr. Zhang here.

He was Zhang Chu, the thief of the security army, and Zhang Shaotang couldn't help but be surprised. (To be continued.) )