Chapter 35 The mountain rain is coming

The first section of the dark road

Hong Mei picked up a firewood stick, knocked on the wall, and asked with a smile, "Stinky monkey, how is it inside?" ”

When I was studying in Yan'an, because Jin Ying was very thin, the classmates in the dormitory nicknamed her "Golden Monkey", and I hadn't heard anyone call for several years.

"Yo, black beauty, you also come in to cultivate." Needless to say, "Black Beauty" is Hong Mei's nickname, who has been sleeping in the open for many years, with dark skin and a relatively strong figure.

The soldiers didn't know what she was talking about, and they thought they were secretly saying something, so they looked at Commissar Hong in a daze. Hong Mei's face turned red, she was embarrassed, and quickly slid into the hole along the hole.

The hole dug obliquely on the edge of the soil kang is about 5 or 6 meters deep, and it becomes a 70-degree angle, and it is easy to slide down directly, and it is easy to go up, and there is a soil ridge dug out on the wall of the cave, and it is easy to go up without much effort by holding the soil ridge.

The diagonal passage reached the bottom, it was a circular hole, Hong Mei took advantage of the light of the torch to visually see that there was a seven or eight square appearance, one person came to the height, there was a straw mat or something in the corner of the hole, it seemed that there were people living here.

In addition to the inclined passage that came down, there were two holes, one was oblique, and the other was flat and extended, Hong Mei shook it with a torch, and she couldn't see her head in the black flat.

The oblique xiangshang is not very long, and it is a little bright, Hong Mei shouted "Old Jin", and the smiling face of Officer Jin appeared at the entrance of the hole above.

Picking up the ridge, I went up to this hole, and when I saw it, it turned out to be a rectangular wall mezzanine! Jin Ying shouted that she was here just now, about five or six steps long, one meter wide, and there was a dark window made of wooden planks on the top, which was probably a ventilation port.

The part of the wall next to the chimney flue is blackened, and it seems that this sandwich wall has been repaired a long time ago, and it is estimated that it was at least preset when building the house.

Jin Ying showed Hong Mei a few small mechanisms that she had just discovered, with peepholes for the house and the yard, and reflective baffles with glass, so that you could see the outside from the inside, but you couldn't see the inside from the outside. There was also a hidden compartment on the wall to store things, and after checking, it was empty, only dust.

Hong Mei heard from the cadres in the town that the family was not prosperous, and then everyone died, and the common people said that the yard was not clean and a bit evil, and no one came and no one lived, so the house was abandoned.

In the past, the owner of the house was a couple with a sick son, and hired an old mother and a janitor. I don't know what kind of business I do, and I don't farm, but I moved from other places in the year of the Central Plains War.

After buying the original homestead of a broken grass house, the people who invited him to build an adobe brick house, and the people from the town went to a few people to help at that time, and they also paid for it. The family didn't have much contact with the people in the town after they moved in, and the sick and crooked son of the family disappeared a few years ago, saying that he had gone to the city to do business.

Later, for the first time in 37 years, the devil came in to sweep, and the owner and the old mother let the devil stab him to death in the yard, or later the people in the town helped to carry and bury it, and since then, the yard has been deserted.

Judging from this wall, if this family doesn't have some special background, it's just for precautions in troubled times to hide someone and hide something.

There is also a row of iron rings nailed to the wall on the right, which is old and covered with red rust. Just now, Officer Jin pulled these iron rings with his hands, only one of them was alive, and after pulling out a piece of iron chain, the cover of the hidden lattices on the wall was opened.

Hong Mei and the two of them were tinkering, and there were no new discoveries, so the two went back to the lower cave, and Hong Mei remembered where the golden lock went? Q: When Officer Jin came down, did he see that Xiao Jin was locked?

Jin Ying patted her head, and then remembered the little golden lock! When she slid down, she saw the little golden lock go through the hole in the wall that stretched out, and she wanted to go in too, but when she looked up and saw the light of the hole in the wall above, she turned around and climbed up to check.

Later, after Hong Mei came in, the two of them patronized the small mechanism of the mezzanine, and forgot about the golden lock!

The hole is still quite dark, and it is so narrow that it is impossible to squat up if you want to, so you can only crawl forward, Hong Mei is holding a torch on her head, Jin Ying is behind, and the two of them are crawling in the hole one after the other.

On the damp ground, the cold air passed through the clothes, and the cold people couldn't stop shivering. The hole is quite long! I couldn't see an exit after climbing for a long time. It doesn't feel like a straight passage, it's bending, and some of the lots are still cold stone faces.

Matsunyou Mingzi gradually dimmed the flames, and she was about to burn out and extinguish, but there was no exit from the cave. Hong Mei was a little anxious, and stopped to greet Officer Jin behind. It's still that Officer Jin is smart, and she knows what's going on when she hears Hongmei greet her, so she took out a pair of leggings with fine stitches from her shoulder bag and handed it over.

Political Commissar Hong wrapped the leggings around the torch one by one, and the flames gradually stretched out and flourished, and now his heart was a little calmer.

After climbing for a while, I turned two corners, and I felt that the ground under me had changed, no longer flat, but tilted, as if it was beginning to stretch.

Climbing through a bend full of stone edges, the flames on the torch held above his head suddenly swayed, and it was obvious that a wind blew from the front and blew his cheeks.

Officer Jin reminded Hong Mei in a low voice that she might be at the entrance of the cave, be careful!

Hong Mei rubbed the torch in her hand on the cave wall a few times, pressed it into the soil and completely extinguished the torch, pulled out the pistol, loaded it, turned her head and said to Officer Jin: "I'll go first, stop for 5 seconds and then you can follow!" ”

Without the light of the fire, the depressed people in the dark passage of the black hole panicked, and from time to time their arms and faces hit the wall of the cave, which was embarrassing.

After climbing a few dozen steps, it feels like a 90-degree angle, and the passage becomes an oblique angle, and surprisingly, a ray of light pours down above this oblique passage.

Hong Mei hid behind the curve and listened to it for a while, there was no movement, and Officer Jin also came over, she whispered to Officer Jin that she had arrived at the entrance of the cave, be careful!

After speaking, he turned the corner with his gun in his hand, and Xiangshang climbed! The more xiangshang found that the passage became more spacious, and there were green moss and vines on the surrounding stone walls, how to look like a primitive cave!

When he was about to reach the entrance of the cave, suddenly a shout came from above and asked, "Who!" Don't move! Sign up for the word! ”

Hong Mei wanted to laugh when she heard this shouting, needless to say, this sentence was shouted by Xiao Jinsuo, and the word was registered, if a few soldiers came, Xiao Jinsuo couldn't recognize the name, you have only been in the army for a few days, and Hong Mei can't name more than half of the soldiers of the independent brigade!

"It's me! Golden Locks! I'm Hong Mei! ”

"Ahh It's a political commissar! Come on! Come on! The entrance of the cave suddenly darkened, and a person leaned out half of his body and reached out to pull Hong Mei.

Hong Mei and Officer Jin both walked out of the cave and eased their eyes and breathing that had been suffocating in the cave for a long time. Look around, wow! It's actually halfway up the mountain! What kind of mountain is this? Can't see it?

Xiao Jinsuo told Hong Mei that this was the back of the earthen cliff in the east of the town, and when she climbed over just now, the entrance of the cave was covered with bundles tied with branches, and a layer of wild grass and trees was laid on it.

There was no one in sight from far or near, and there were no clues except for Xiao Jinsuo picking up a few cigarette butts in the depression not far from the entrance of the cave.

Hong Mei discussed with Officer Jin and decided to cover up the entrance of the cave as it was, and then leave someone to hide and monitor here.

After building the entrance to the cave, the three of them climbed the earth cliff along the path, and the town was at the foot, it seems that this secret road was dug from the yard at the south end to the bottom of the earth cliff, and then used the natural cave to connect to the back of the mountain, and the people in the town would never have thought that there was a hole hidden in the wild tree depression behind the mountain.

When he returned to the courtyard, he told the soldiers to put the cover of the kang cave and all the people to withdraw, only put a sentry at the mouth of the alley, and seal the uninhabited alley with a wooden fence, so that the common people would not be allowed to go in and see the rarity. In particular, the people involved in the search were instructed not to mention a word about the secret passage!