Early the next morning, Wang Ju, who hadn't slept well all night, got up. In recent years, his status has become higher and higher, from an ordinary clerk to a comprador in charge of his own business, and he has been pampered for a long time, so that he no longer has the energy to get up early and go dark. It's just that the fear of being arrested makes him unable to sleep peacefully, and he tosses and turns all night. So as soon as it was dawn, he got up, but it also relieved him a little. It seems that the Guangfu Army did not recognize his identity, as evidenced by the fact that the person who did not suddenly break into the door last night is proof.

After breakfast, he said hello to the fat shopkeeper and went out with the goods. At this time, the sun had come out, and most of the workers had gone out, and the streets were full of people, and the shops on the street had their doors down, and some of the early sellers had begun to do business, and it was not at all obvious that it was a city occupied by "anti-thieves". Wang Ju led the donkey and began to sell along the street, and some big girls and little daughters-in-law who came out early to buy vegetables surrounded them. Xin'an County has been "recovered" by the Guangfu Army for a month, during this period of time, the trade routes have been completely cut off, and there is a shortage of various living materials for clothing, food, housing, and transportation, not to mention the needles, threads, brains, rouge and gouache that women like, so now Wang Ju has become a friend of women in Xin'an County.

Wang Ju was doing business while talking to the women who were buying things, hoping to get some useful news from the fragments. Women like to gossip, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, Wang Ju also learned some about the situation of the Liberation Army from their mouths. For example, the doctors of the Guangfu Army are highly skilled, and the Qi butcher in the city was stabbed by Da Tianer, who took advantage of the fire to rob the city, on the day the Guangfu Army entered the city, and he couldn't live anymore. As a result, after the soldiers of the Guangfu Army came, they first applied immortal medicine to the wound of the Qi butcher, and immediately stopped the bleeding. Later, he carried the Qi butcher to the medical hall of the Guangfu Army and sewed up his wounds with needles and threads. "Really, I don't lie to you! It was sewn like a garment, and the scar was like a centipede lying on its belly. Hee-hee! After that Qi butcher was cured, he deliberately exposed that scar to others every time, as if others didn't know. A young woman said as she gestured to her abdomen where the butcher's wound was, causing the women around her to laugh.

It seems that this group of Liberation Army does have the support of Westerners, and even Western medicine can operate on it. Wang Ju became more and more interested in this group of Guangfu Army, and he didn't even feel dangerous in the enemy camp. I chatted with this group of women for a while, and found out that the old camp of the Chinese army of the Liberation Army was on the side of Futian. When I passed by yesterday, I was just in a hurry, and I didn't know that two miles away from the main road was the enemy's lair. However, when he passed by, he saw that it was not heavily guarded, and he thought that either the Liberation Army was too strong, or they were strong and were not afraid of the British sneak attack, so he decided to go deep into the tiger's den to find out.

Wang Ju shouted while walking towards the south gate, along the way met two groups of fast catchers patrolling the main road in the city, each group of three people, a white uniform of the Liberation Army commander and two blue uniforms of the local natives, the chief's waist was full of pistols, crutches and other equipment that Wang Ju knew and did not know, and the indigenous Kuai only had a stick of crutches. Wang Ju found a phenomenon that the colors and styles of the military uniforms of the Guangfu Army are different, and they should be distinguished according to their duties. One of the two groups of fast catchers was led by Yun Zhutou, and he nodded to him when he saw Wang Ju.

In order not to arouse suspicion, Wang Ju led the donkey along the road slowly, making the appearance of doing business with pedestrians while walking. Because the identity of the peddler is just a cover, he is not very serious about bargaining with people, he only wants to sell the goods, and he doesn't care if he suffers a little loss. When he reached Baishizhou, he turned south on a small lake and turned a fork in the road, which was a dirt road, and he would not have noticed it if it had not been for two deep ruts being pressed out of the road. The further he went, the louder the sound came from the front, and when he climbed up a small dirt slope, he saw a grand scene of labor.

This is a square ten miles of flat dam, on the right side there are a few small lakes dotted with pearls on the green carpet, about one or two thousand people are building on a huge construction site, a strong young man with a kind of wheelbarrow to transport all kinds of materials, the construction site Wang Ju has seen a lot, but there are thousands of people still shocked him. There was a roar, and he followed the sound to see several strange four-wheeled vehicles running back and forth in the crowd. The reason why it is strange is that these cars can gallop on flat ground without being pulled by oxen and horses, which makes Wang comprador who has not even seen the train very surprised. However, Wang Comprador, who has received a modern education, understands that the car should have a mechanism similar to a steam engine, so that it can run on its own, and will not think that it is using the power of ghosts and gods like ordinary villagers. Behind the body of these cars is a huge body, Wang Ju watched as tens of thousands of catties of sand, gravel or bricks were loaded into it, and when it reached the place, the body flipped backwards, and the things automatically toppled down. Such an efficient transportation capacity was beyond the imagination of comprador Wang. On the other side of the construction site, Wang Ju also saw a strange car with an iron arm and steel claw in front, driven by the long mechanical arm, the steel claw could grab a large piece of dirt from the ground with every blow. If this work is done by people, it is estimated that at least fifty people will have to work together to catch up with the workload of this iron claw car. And the craftsmen around the strange car were obviously scared of the big guy, and they had to stay away from it when they passed by.

Although Wang Ju knew nothing about construction machinery, it did not prevent him from becoming interested in these. The clumsy movements of the excavator made him unconsciously worship power, and how small manpower seemed in front of steel. Wanting to take a closer look, he drove the donkey downhill, only to be blocked by a barbed wire fence. Only then did he discover that there was such a circle of obstacles on the periphery of the construction site, and every two zhang there were wooden poles one zhang high, and seven or eight iron wires were wrapped from top to bottom. Barbs were tangled in the wires, apparently used to keep the people inside out, and at the same time to forbid those outside, such as him. He looked along the barbed wire fence to both sides, and found that there was a tall building on each side, and the two high-rise buildings were two miles apart, exactly the same as the one he saw in Luohu, which seemed to be the watchtower of the Liberation Army. He was looking around for a way to get inside the barbed wire fence when he saw two Liberation Army soldiers leading a wolf towards him.

That "wolf" was actually just a husky, but the Wang comprador who had never seen it was frightened, and he was no more well-informed than the catchers in Zaozhuang and Tengzhou in Shandong. He had also seen military dogs in the British army, but they were hunting dogs such as shepherd dogs and pit bulls, and although they looked vicious, they would not attack people. Unexpectedly, the Liberation Army actually used a "wolf" as a military dog, looking at the white teeth of the husky's mouth, Wang Ju only felt that the two trembled, sweating like pulp.

"What do you do?" Three feet away, the soldier of the Liberation Army who was holding the "wolf" asked.

Although Wang Ju was very nervous, she still tried her best to suppress her emotions. "Don't get me wrong, sir, I'm a commissary, and I'm here to see if there's any business."

Hearing Wang Ju's words, the two soldiers did not relax their vigilance, and when they approached, the soldier with the dog was responsible for monitoring, while the other soldier was responsible for searching him. Wang Ju's whole body was touched, and the goods on the donkey's back were also looked over, and when he saw that nothing suspicious was found, and Wang Ju showed a very afraid husky, the soldiers relaxed their vigilance.

"Can't civilians who don't know anything unrelated just come here?" The soldier asked, pointing to a wooden sign nailed to a wooden pole not far away. Wang Ju was just observing the situation at the construction site, and did not notice that the three-foot-square, white-painted wooden sign read, "Trespassers in military restricted areas will be killed" written in red letters.

Such a murderous warning frightened Wang Ju, and he hurriedly explained: "Master forgive your sins!" Master forgiveness! The little one just came from another county, and I really don't know the rules here, so I asked the master to spare the little one this time! Small gratitude, there will be heavy thanks! As he spoke, he took out the money bag from his bosom and shoved it into the soldier's hand.

In fact, this wooden sign is mainly used to scare people, scaring those local natives who intend to rescue their relatives who are undergoing labor reform, especially the Lu family, have already caught several of them. As soon as Wang Ju approached the cordon, the soldiers in the turrets on both sides found him, and because they saw that he was just alone, they only sent two soldiers to expel him. The soldier who led the dog pushed back the money bag that had been stuffed and shouted, "Put the money away, don't come to this set!" Get out of here now! After yesterday's incident, Wang Ju had already understood the determination of the Guangfu Army to refuse bribes, and he no longer said any more kind words, stuffed the money bag back into his arms, and led the donkey away under the gaze of two people and a dog.

After turning back to the main road, Wang Ju changed the route and walked towards the beach. Before he arrived, General Spintozi had told him that the Liberation Army had at least one small gunboat, and he needed to find out where the gunboat docked, and to find out if there were any other warships in the Liberation Army. This time he was very careful, and after following the rut for a while, he turned into the woods by the roadside, and went from an unobtrusive place to the sea. Without much effort, he saw a trestle of several iron-hulled barges by the sea, where the legendary gunboat was parked, and some of the Restoration Army in uniforms similar to those of the British Navy were cleaning the ships. Most of these sailors wore skullcaps with two black streamers on the back; The tunic is a pullover with a shawl, a blue shawl and several white lines on the cuffs; The pants are open on the side and the cuff is hypertrophied. There are also some short-sleeved undershirts wearing blue and white, Wang Ju knows that it is called a sea soul shirt. It seems that the legend that this Liberation Army has the support of Western countries is true, otherwise even the naval uniform would not be the same as that of the West. In addition to the gunboat, there were two other dinghys about the size of lifeboats on the dock, and these dinghys had no oarsmen on board, but they could only see the waves rolling behind the boats, cruising in the bay with a roar. There is also a watchtower not far from the trestle bridge, and a circle of barbed wire fence encloses a camp, which should be the barracks of the Restoration Army Navy. Wang Ju did not carry a telescope, a necessary tool for spies, so he could only observe with the naked eye, but unfortunately he was too far away and could only see the scene of Dazhi. Finding the base of the Restoration Army and navy, figuring out their strength, the goal was achieved, so Wang Ju stayed for a while and left this dangerous place.

Back at the inn, it was already evening, Wang Ju was naturally very happy to complete the task, so he invited the fat shopkeeper to drink, and the two drank until the first shift before they broke up. Wang Ju returned to the room in a daze, closed the door and fell asleep on the bed. I don't know how long it took, but I heard a knock on the door, "Who?" Wang Ju asked half-asleep.

"Guest officer, I'm here to deliver sobering soup." Outside the door, it seemed to be the voice of the shopkeeper. Wang Ju got up in the dark, stumbled and just opened the door, and watched the door be pushed open violently, and a strong light shone on his face. Then a group of people rushed in, and before Wang Ju could understand what was going on, he was pressed to the ground, his hands were cut behind his back, and his eyes were dark, and a black cloth cover was put on his head.