Section 4: A crane

I didn't eat lunch at noon, and no one had the heart to drink it, and Yang Bangzi's mouth saw a row of burning bubbles. Shochu and mutton soup, the fire in the stomach of the top is rushing, and the fire in the warehouse simply burns the fire in the heart to the mouth.

Grinding around the house in circles, and couldn't think of a clue, Yang Bangzi was upset and wanted to find someone to fight. Grab the dirty uniform, kick it open, and sneak to the scene of the fire to see if you can find any clues.

Comrades in several localities were still shaving and picking up the grain to see if they could pick up some cotton cloth that had not been burned through. Seeing Captain Yang coming over with his hands behind his back, they all stopped what they were doing and greeted each other.

Yang Bangzi didn't raise his eyelids, nodded in return, turned around, and then asked Xiao Liangzi where they went? The mayor of the town office, who was appointed only a few days ago, replied that a few of them had been looking through the inspection here for a long time, and had just left the town from the south entrance.

Seeing the ashes and broken bricks all over the ground, the fire in Yang Bangzi's heart became even stronger, and the burning bubbles on his mouth hurt slightly. Letting his comrades continue their work, he shook off his torn clothes, put them on his back and walked towards the south entrance of the town.

Except for the broken yard not far from the south entrance, the street is deserted, there are no people, there is such a big thing, the soldiers on the army have nothing to do with here, the townspeople are also far away, and the people who searched in the morning are panicked.

I asked the soldiers who were standing guard outside the town, and said that they were Xiaoliangzi and they were in the field at the south entrance to check on the meeting, and then turned to the eastern hillside.

Kawaguchi Town is a house built against the east slope of the mountain, so there is a north entrance, a south exit, a west exit, and there is no exit to the east side of the cliff, and the gables of several houses are built to the base of the cliff, and the outside of the wall are shrubs and wild grass that are more than one person high.

Holding the dwarf trees, he didn't see the figure, Yang Bangzi was a little annoyed in his heart, and said that these people are always one step faster than him, and Lao Tzu is holding their butts, but he can't keep up!

It has been cloudy for two days, this afternoon finally let go of the sun, the late autumn sun, warmly shining on the hillside, tossing for more than half a night Yang stick was a little tired by the sun, leaning on the low tree, took out a cigarette pouch, wanted to smoke a few puffs, relieve the boredom in his heart.

After only two puffs, the cigarette holder touched the bubble on the mouth, and there was a pain in the heart, and the painful Yang stick grinned and snorted. Annoyedly, he slammed the cigarette pouch and pot into the trunk of the tree, and suddenly Yang Bangzi's hand stopped, his eyes looked at the grass with dripping eyes, and the whole person froze.

What attracts him so much? It's a cigarette head that's left over from a cigarette! The white cigarette paper is miserable in the yellow and green grass, which is quite eye-catching!

After a pause, he turned his head a few times, looked around, looked up at Tuyazi again, listened with his ears sideways, gently opened the holster cover, pulled out the shell gun, squatted down, and his small eyes touched around.

After half a bag of cigarettes, after making sure that there was nothing abnormal, Yang Stick reached over and picked up the cigarette butts. I put it in the palm of my hand and looked at it carefully.

It is an ordinary cigarette roll head, according to the length of the ordinary cigarette roll, there is two-thirds of the smoke, and a small section is left, and the part of the mouth is stained with cigarette oil. I pinched it gently, it was quite soft, and it didn't take too long to shake this piece.

Picking up the grass and trees, Yang Bangzi looked at the ground carefully, and could vaguely see that there were a lot of weeds trampled on the ground, and he could vaguely see the shape of a pair of feet.

Following the shape of the grass being trampled, a line of footprints can be seen extending from the location where the cigarette butt was found to the bottom of the earth cliff.

Yang Stick followed the footprints lightly and found the bottom of the cliff, the footprints disappeared, and nothing could be seen on the stone surface.

After measuring the length and width of the footprints with his hands, and then comparing them with his own, Yang Stick judged that these were the footprints of an adult man, smaller than his own feet. However, except for the cigarette butts and footprints, other Yang sticks didn't see too many clues.

Put the gun back in the holster, pinched the cigarette butt, Yang ran to the town with a stick to wipe his head, just entered the south exit, and almost bumped into a person at the corner of the street, the person who came from the opposite side was quite clever, and the two did not collide together.

Yang Bangzi didn't bother to open his mouth to scold, and ran forward in a hurry, his arm was grabbed, and when he turned his head, he almost hit Xiaoliangzi.

Xiao Liangzi accompanied Zhang Blind and Ervultureng to the fire ground for a long time, listened to the whispered muttering of the two, and followed them to the south entrance of the town to go around a few times, sticking to the gable from the east side until the north end, and then returned to the brigade headquarters.

I didn't find Yang Bangzi, so I asked Xiao Liangzi to come out to look for it, and I didn't bump into it on the street.

Hurriedly ran back to the brigade headquarters, as soon as Yang Bangzi entered the door, he was still angry, and he stretched out his hand in front of the two vultures and their faces, opened his hand, and the cigarette butt he picked up lay quietly in the palm of his hand.

Zhang Blind pinched it with his fingers, walked to the window, looked at the light for a while, turned around, and said: "This is Japanese smoke, a crane, when I was in the northeast, I saw the devils smoke, we Chinese in the northeast know that this kind of cigarette is produced in small Japan, do not buy it, only smoke our own production of red tin packets or something." ”

"You see, the cigarette paper used in Little Japan is specially made, thinner and thinner than the cigarette paper used in our cigarette factory, and there are thin flower ribs when you look at the light. Looking at this tobacco again, it is also thinner than the old fort or something. Look at this, do you see this broken pattern? It's not the words, it's the claws of the crane! ”

The brand "One Crane", Yang Bangzi heard for the first time that the cigarettes seized from the little devils in the past, except for those made in China, were white paper cigarette boxes, which were said to be specially supplied to the army.

Yang Bangzi scratched the back of his head, took out his cigarette pouch and sat on the edge of the kang, and let Zhang Blind continue.

Zhang Blind put the cigarette butt on the small kang table and said that either the Japanese dropped it after smoking, or it was thrown by a Chinese with a special status who could get this kind of cigarette.

Looking at the temperature and humidity of this cigarette butt, it is a matter of half a day at most, and it will never exceed a whole day! After saying that, let Yang Bangzi smoke again at the party, and several people went out together in a hurry and went straight to the cliff outside the town.

After checking for a long time, I climbed the cliff with great difficulty, and walked out a long way along the back ridge, but there was no new discovery.

When the four people turned back, they made all kinds of guesses along the way, and Zhang Blind also told Yang Bangzi about the results of the investigation of the fire scene.

They learned that the fire had started in the yard where the cotton was stored, and that the two missing soldiers were guarding the yard. The captain on duty said that as soon as the shift was changed every hour, the two soldiers who were changed at night went to work, and it didn't take long for the fire to rise, and everyone was busy fighting the fire and didn't care about the two soldiers.

The yard where the cotton was stored was the most burned, but some clues could still be found, such as the smell of oil smoke from the ashes on the bottom floor, indicating that it was ignited by pouring flammable materials such as fire oil.

There is also the first burning of cotton, which shows that the person who set the fire knew what materials were stored in several warehouses, and the three warehouses were connected, and the cotton was flammable and easy to burn, and the other two warehouses were easily ignited.

There are several clues like this, in short, this shows that the warehouse fire is not an accident, someone deliberately set the fire, and the person who set the fire knows very well about the materials in the warehouse, and the most important point is that the person who set the fire knows that according to Jihua, the materials of the three warehouses are going to be transported to the south today!

After listening to these words, Yang Bangzi brushed his back with cold sweat and wetted his back, what does this mean? It's not just a simple sabotage by enemy elements! There's a mole!

The matter has been analyzed to this point, what to do next, several people have no idea, and they have been checking all morning, and there are no strangers and abnormal situations in the town. How easy is it to find a traitor? Counting the new second division in the town, there are at least thousands of armed personnel and local organizations, and if you check them one by one, you have to find out until the Year of the Monkey!

The second bald dragon still had a little anger in his eyes, and revealed a sentence: "Captain Yang, our brothers have just come, and it is impossible to know what is stored in the warehouse in such a short period of time, and when it will be shipped!" ”

There is an obvious intention to clear the suspicion of his own people, but Yang Bangzi didn't say anything when he heard it, and what they said was right, the warehouse was guarded by eight roads, and the people of the new second division were stationed in the north of the town, and they basically didn't come here, so they didn't have any reason to rely on others