Section 4 Cave in the Ground

The two sisters hugged each other and jumped and jumped, and the soldiers who washed and ate breakfast in the courtyard thought that something was wrong, and stretched out their heads to see the rarity, so that the little golden lock at the door was snatched and chased away.

Crazy enough, Hong Mei pulled Jin Ying to sit on the edge of the kang and whispered. After a family routine, Hong Mei knew that Officer Jin had been transferred. Originally, after escorting the eldest lady of the Guo family, she should go back to Pingbei, but she received a notice from Yi County and asked her to stay in the Lingman Prefecture.

Now the girlfriends can get together for a long time, and the tasks given by the superiors to Officer Jin are mainly two things, one is to cooperate with Hong Mei's work, and the other is to strengthen the connection with Guo Jiabaozi, and strive to pull this mass armed force into the Eighth Route team.

Hearing this order, Hong Mei was also overjoyed. What she lacks most now is people! Especially the old comrades who are familiar with local work, Jin Ying's work experience is not to say! In addition, from the perspective of the entire Lingman Prefecture, there is no other armed force independent of the Eighth Route except for the "three non-sticky" armed "separation" of Guojiabaozi.

If Guojiabaozi, an excellent militia group, can be brought under the leadership of the prefecture, it will undoubtedly be of great benefit to the strengthening of the eastern front.

Hong Mei suppressed her thoughts, and asked what she had seen in the past few days when Officer Jin went to Guojiabaozi?

It's a pity that Officer Jin hasn't opened his mouth yet, Xiao Jinsuo came in, and brought the face wash to the two of them.

When they saw the face wash, they were still unkempt when they thought about it! Hee hee haha washed up together, and when it was over, Jin Suo also brought back breakfast, and Huang Chengcheng millet porridge and miscellaneous noodles.

While eating, the captain of the third squadron came, and when he entered the door and saw Officer Jin, he was stunned, he had never seen this person, too, when the independent brigade was formed, Jin Ying accompanied Miss Guo and left.

The captain came to report the incident, and the soldiers guarding the house at the south end reported that there was nothing unusual in the past few hours, and asked whether the sentry should be withdrawn or continued?

Hong Mei thought about it and said don't withdraw yet, she will go over and take a look later.

Officer Jin opened his mouth, wanting to ask what was going on, but after thinking about it, don't ask what he shouldn't ask, and closed his mouth again.

Hong Mei finished eating the wotou and drank all the porridge, went to the water tank in the yard to scoop up the water, and whispered about the "ghost" to Jin Ying while brushing the lunch box. After speaking, Officer Jin excitedly said that he would also go to see it later.

There was a new sentry in the courtyard, and some fellow villagers at the mouth of the alley were pointing and talking about something in a whisper. After Hong Mei and the others came over, some villagers knew that this was a mother-in-law cadre in charge, so they greeted each other very powerfully, and they all dispersed.

It's still the same as it was during last night's search, and the scene remains the same as it is. As soon as Officer Jin entered the courtyard, his eyes lit up, and although he hadn't slept all night, he looked quite attentive, following the footprints of the soldiers, looking room by room.

Hong Mei looked at Officer Jin with interest with her hands behind her back, like a seasoned anti-agent agent, and thought, we don't know that my sister still has this ability.

After checking it for a while, Jin Ying patted the dust on her hands and returned to the wall with a smile on her face.

Hong Mei looked at no one on the left and right, reached out and stabbed Officer Jin's armpit, joking that when did you become an enemy engineer, haven't you been in the Women's Rescue Association!

Jin Ying dodged left and right and said, "Don't make trouble, don't make trouble!" I was an enemy worker when I was still in the Anti-Japanese Union! Before I went to Yan'an, it was the organization to take care of me, let me do some idle things, after graduating from the two anti-Japanese universities, I was an enemy officer in Pingbei again! ”

No wonder, Hong Mei said that she didn't expect me, a kind sister, to be a counter-special!

When someone came in at the courtyard gate, Hong Mei retracted her hand. It was the captain of the 3rd squadron, who came over and whispered that someone recognized who had worn that group of clothes!

That's the most important clue! The clueless ghost made Hong Mei have a headache, I heard that the only piece of clothes found was actually recognized, but I have to catch this unexpected discovery!

Just now in the alley mouth to see the lively villagers, there is an old man in the north, who got up early and wanted to pick up some livestock dung, but the big animals in the town were all collected to go to the horses and horses to pull supplies, and there was no passerby.

A few soldiers from the third squadron who got off the sentry took the group of clothes, unfolded it to see the freshness, and was just seen by this old man who picked up dung, looked at it carefully, and also went up to look at it carefully, touched it, and had a bottom in his heart.

When the villagers saw Hong Mei and them coming, they all dispersed, but the old man didn't leave, and the soldiers pulled haha, and when they came and went, they asked what was the matter with this dress. The squadron leader of the third squadron was a scheming man, and he immediately realized that the old man had something in his stomach, so he went over and pulled the old man to a secluded place to ask about the situation.

As soon as he said that he picked up clothes from the yard, the old man was also an enthusiastic activist, and he immediately said that he knew whose clothes belonged to him! The captain immediately came to find Hong Mei, and the captain and the old man said that this female comrade was the highest-level manager of our Eighth Road here, and the old man said that this was the crooked clothes of his family, and I heard that they were lost the night before yesterday.

Hong Mei asked, is this possible? The old man patted his chest and said that he had put a hundred hearts, he had seen this dress many times! Zhang Lao Crooked also showed off with him, and let him touch the clothes and materials.

Zhang Lao Crooked lost his clothes, and the old widow's guard dog was lost, these are all things that Hong Mei heard about when she first arrived in Kawaguchi Town, and when she found Yang Stick, he was muttering things with Zhang Blind and Ervulture's house in Zhang Lao Crooked.

As soon as his brain was hot, he was about to take his clothes to Beitou to find Zhang Lao's crooked identification, but Officer Jin stopped him and told Hong Mei softly that she was not in a hurry about the clothes, if she analyzed it correctly, the clothes would be stolen and changed at most.

Officer Jin wondered in his heart that the two of them were staring at Hong Mei, how could they enter the courtyard and disappear? She also surveyed outside the courtyard wall, and kept the scene well, not adding many new footprints or anything, basically confirming that people are not running over the wall, and not far from the courtyard wall is the newly built warehouse, and there are soldiers guarding outside the fence, and I have not found anyone jumping over the wall after asking.

That means there must be a hiding place in this courtyard! Officer Jin told Hong Mei what he thought, and Hong Mei sounded reasonable, and all of them were doing the eight ways of finding a hole in the ground! Because all of them are masters of digging holes and tunnels!

A group of people took wooden sticks, small pickaxes or something, knocked east and west in the yard, and after a while, there was a new discovery! The east half of the main house pulls the wall, and the stick hits it to make an "empty" sound, and when you hear that there is an open space in the wall, this is strange!

A few reckless young men raised their pickaxes and were about to plane the wall, Hong Mei smiled and shook her hand, but she didn't let the pickaxe go, she asked the soldiers to pull out a few wild artemisia hanging green, stuff them into the chimney on the roof, block them tightly, and fill them with some thin mud to cover them.

The broken hearth where the clothes had been found was cleared, stuffed with firewood and grass, lit a fire, and covered it with green artemisia, and several young men shook their shirts and fanned them vigorously, and with great effort, choking white smoke came out of several places in the house.

Hong Mei and Jin Officer, who covered their mouths and noses with towels, wrote down the place where the smoke was coming from, and ordered the soldiers to put out the fire, and a bucket of water went up, and the fire in the white smoke hearth was extinguished.

The white smoke was still rising from the gaps in the kang and the gaps in the flue on the wall.

A pickaxe went down, a boxy hole was revealed on the kang surface, the original kang surface of that place was alive, it was a thin adobe board covered, the dust fell away, the mystery was revealed, and under the board was a soil hole that could accommodate a person to go up and down.

On the issue of deciding who would go down to explore the cave, Hong Mei and Jin were officers, and the soldiers and her two quarreled with each other. They were still arguing here, no one paid attention, a thin figure moved to the edge of the kang, and as soon as he raised his leg and got on the kang of the earth, he slid into the hole.

It was Officer Jin who saw it, and hurriedly called Hong Mei, saying that Xiao Jin was locked down! After shouting, she also pulled out her gun, and then slid into the hole. Hong Mei was also about to go in, but was dragged by several fighters.

There's no way, it's not okay to be an official and take the lead in some things, not to mention such a noble female comrade, in the eyes of this gang of male soldiers, Hong Da Political Commissar is the key object of protection!

"Hong Mei! Guess where I am? "It's Officer Jin who is talking, but you can only hear the voice, but you can't see people!