Episode 11 (Part I)

They're arrested!

Xiang Xiaoqiang flashed terrible thoughts for the first time.

He stared blankly at the small building that was surrounded, and the beads of sweat on his sideburns slowly rolled down and hung on his chin.

In the blink of an eye, a third military vehicle came galloping, braked on the ground, put down the rear panel, and jumped down a dozen gendarmes, all with loaded guns and live ammunition, and wearing steel helmets. Three other people lifted down a Maxim heavy machine gun, put it on wheels, and pushed it to the side of the road, facing the side of the road.

Xiang Xiaoqiang realized that on the other side of the road, there was another heavy machine gun, facing the other direction of the road. Two machine guns sealed the road in its entirety.

No, if it's a catch, the machine gun should be aimed at the inn. Why is it facing the outside?

It's like a blockade. It's not in the inn, it's on the periphery.

The stomachache seemed to have discovered this problem, glanced at him, and quietly pouted, meaning let's stand on the side of the road first and take a look first.

"Hey, what are you doing? Pull! ”

A gendarme came over with a gun and shouted at them, the muzzle of the gun was about to poke Xiang Xiaoqiang in the chest.

"I didn't ...... It's nothing," Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled very scaredly, stepped back, and replied in the local dialect, "I'm passing by, what's wrong with this, why don't you let it pass?" ”

The gendarmes looked at them, and when they saw that they were wearing long robes and riding in chariots, they did not trouble them, but only snorted and waved their hands:

"Lean back, let's take a detour, this is sealed, don't let it pass!"

"Ah, good ......"

The two of them pushed the car back a few steps with great interest, leaned against the side of the road, and watched with the other onlookers.

Although there were a few gendarmes on the periphery to maintain order and set up heavy machine guns, there were still many civilians around, all sticking their heads out and desperately looking ahead. A lot of people don't understand what's going on and ask each other about it.

The machine guns are all out, it should be said that this formation is very scary, but the ordinary people, who have always been timid and afraid, are still like stimulants, as if they can see it and don't care about death.

The gendarmes blew their sharp whistles and fired a "snap" shot into the sky, and the crowd "boomed" and retreated, still gathering more and more.

The people at the front began to whisper four words:

"Empress of the Ming Dynasty...... Empress ...... of the Ming Dynasty

Xiang Xiaoqiang's ears seemed to be mentioned by someone, and if you listen carefully, it is these four words.

Xiang Xiaoqiang and his stomach hurt looked at each other, and their faces were incredible. Shopkeeper Sun looked at the two of them, and then looked at the crowd, his face changed color sharply.

He never expected that the first merit of trapping Empress Nanming would be taken first. He gritted his teeth, his face was red and white, and his disappointment and surprise were revealed.

A respectful and excited voice came from inside:

Zhu ...... Miss Zhu Yourong, you see that this is all like this, it is useless to pretend to be deaf and dumb...... You can rest assured that we just need you to get in the car...... We promise to treat each other with courtesy......"

The person who spoke was very careful, knowing that Zhu Yourong was the empress, but he only dared to call her "Miss", and did not dare to be called "Your Majesty" and other titles. He knew that this kind of thing was not a joke on the side of the Qing Dynasty, and if he made a mistake, he would become a political prisoner.

Another girl's voice argued:

"Are you really mistaken...... She is not Zhu Yourong...... It's really not ......."

Xiang Xiaoqiang glanced at the stomach pain, and the two locked the car on the side of the road, and while it was still crowded, they squeezed to the front with Shopkeeper Sun.

Under the wall at the entrance of the inn, two girls were forced into a corner, nervously looking at a group of officers, gendarmes, and countless black muzzles in front of them.

Four or five tall officers barricaded them in the corners, each with a black dragonfly sign on the sticky pole on their epaulettes.

One of them, still holding a newspaper, looked excited and nervous, and said to the girl who spoke:

"I don't want you to say it, I want her to say it herself, she is not Zhu Yourong, who is that? Her photo is in the pseudo-Ming newspaper, and you say no? ”

Oh, it turned out to be a Ming Dynasty newspaper with a picture of the empress. Not long after getting the news from the sticky pole, I probably couldn't find a special photo of Zhu Yourong for a while, and found a former Nanming newspaper with a photo of Zhu Yourong. However, it is impossible for the Qing Dynasty to have a Nanming newspaper. I guess this is also in the sticky rod. Analysis of intelligence from open publications of the enemy is a basic function of the intelligence services.

Both girls are wearing dresses, not to mention, one of them really looks like Zhu Yourong. Elegantly dressed, with a melon seed face, apricot eyes, a slender little nose, long hair tied together with a hairpin, it seems to be a little younger than Zhu Yourong, only seventeen or eighteen years old, and his eyes are wide open.

The other girl was a little older, about twenty-five or sixteen years old, dressed more plainly, looking very elegant and quiet, wearing a pair of glasses, short ear-length hair, dressed in blue, like a female college student, stretched out her arms to protect the young girl, like protecting her own sister, but she looked very demure, and said elegantly:

"I told you...... You're all mistaken, she's not ......"

Her voice is nice and has a Nanjing accent.

The officer at the head laughed:

"You've said enough, now I don't want you to say it, I just need to listen to Miss Zhu......"

"I've already told you, she's not Zhu Yourong, she can't hear and can't speak......"

"Hehe, Miss Zhu, we invite you so gracefully, you still blindly pretend to be deaf and dumb, don't you lose your identity?"

The girl in glasses frowned, sighed, and said helplessly:

"As I said, she is the eldest lady of the 'Lin Fu Chi' Food and Agriculture Company, and she has been deaf since she was a child...... I was her tutor ......"

"Hmph, what kind of food and agriculture company, obviously with a Nanjing accent......"

"We are from Pukou, and of course our accents are more like those from Nanjing...... Okay, I'm not going to tell you, we bought a train ticket, and we have to catch the train......"

As he spoke, he was going to escort the young girl out, but of course he couldn't get out, and as soon as the two officers stopped, they blocked them back.

The eyed girl was not angry, but just looked at them with a frown, and said a little pleadingly:

"Really, sir, we're not the ones you're looking for, let's go."

……

After Xiang Xiaoqiang confirmed that he had nothing to do with him, he also craned his neck to watch while listening to the discussion in the crowd. Slowly I learned what was going on.

Just when Xiang Xiaoqiang and them were in the city, several junior officers at the sticky pole came to the store with the newspaper with Zhu Yourong's photo and rode to the store to inspect and ask the boss if there was such a girl in the store. The boss looked at the photo and felt that one of the two girls living in the private room on the second floor was very similar. They immediately went up to look for it, and saw two girls coming down to check out with the boss, one of the girls did look very much like Zhu Yourong, and she was about the same age, and the older girl who took care of her still had a Nanjing accent. Several officers stopped them for interrogation, and the "Zhu Yourong" pretended to be deaf and dumb, and the older girl with glasses talked around, saying where they were from, and who was the eldest lady......

The officer at the sticky pole sent someone to inform the city, and interrogated him, and asked for half an hour, like Zhu Yourong, the girl always pretended to be deaf and dumb, but she didn't expect the girl with glasses to look quite Sven, but she slipped like a fish, first kicked and broke a thermos, and then she was able to run out of the inn in front of several big men. Several people chased them out, but they couldn't find anyone at all. There was a dog barking in the alley next to them, and they found that the escape of the two girls was blocked by a vicious dog, and the "Zhu Yourong" did not dare to pass, and the girl with glasses was trying to drive it away. If it weren't for the dog, they would have run away.

In this way, they became more and more sure that this was Zhu Yourong, the empress of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and there was a scene in front of the inn.

The officer still has a lot of respect for "Zhu Yourong", but he is not so polite to the girl with glasses:

"It's useless to say anything, we invited Miss Zhu, you have to follow along...... Okay, go to our branch office and say, hurry up, or we'll do it. We don't dare to do anything to Miss Zhu, don't say anything to you, just move your feet. Hurry up, or I'll pull someone. ”

The girl in glasses frowned, looking very irritable, and looked at the more and more people gathered around her, stomped her feet, took the hand of "Zhu Yourong" and said:

"Forget it, go with them."

Seeing that they had finally accepted their fate, several officers at the sticky pole were relieved for a while. In view of the fact that the glasses girl is very good at escaping, they just let "Zhu Yourong" sit in the back seat of the car and stuff the glasses girl with a car of gendarmes together.

The crowd slowly dodged open, and two cars drove out one after another, and the gendarmes of the last car also went up one after the other.

Shopkeeper Sun's face changed rapidly, his chest rose and fell violently, his throat kept rolling, and suddenly, he tore open his throat and shouted:

"Sir! Wait a minute! ”

The last cartels were looking this way. Shopkeeper Sun's face turned red, and he thought to himself, he had lost the great skill of trapping the Empress Nanming, and the small skill of catching Nanming's spies could not be lost again. He grabbed Xiang Xiaoqiang with one hand, grabbed his stomach with the other, and shouted:

"Sir, don't let them run away! They are Nanming spies,! ”

……

Episode 11 (Part II)

If this person is unlucky, he can hit his head with bird feces falling from the sky.

Xiang Xiaoqiang was going to trick this shopkeeper Sun to the edge of the ancient Yellow River, let his stomach ache, pull the rope, tie a stone and throw it into the river, and it would be over.

Now the blackened army was stuck, with cold steel helmets and military overcoats on the left and right, and long Mauser rifles.

Xiang Xiaoqiang's mind was very confused, and he didn't know what happened to the rest of the team, whether he was still in that inn, and he didn't know if they saw it when the two of them were arrested. When they were arrested just now, they were briefly searched, and each of them had two box guns and a Luger to be found. At that time, the people at the sticky pole were surprised that so many guns could be found on one person.

But the document at the sticky pole was still in his arms and had not been found. Xiang Xiaoqiang still doesn't know whether to take it out, when to take it out, and how to say it after taking it out. In fact, the best time to show your "identity" is when you are just arrested. But there was a panic at the time and I missed it.

Xiang Xiaoqiang couldn't think of what to do for the time being, so he looked at the girl with glasses opposite.

The girl in glasses leaned against her, her eyes closed, her head resting on the canvas, her body swaying gently with the bumps, not knowing whether it was indifferent after accepting her fate, or thinking about how to escape.

Although she is called a "girl", she is probably twenty-five or sixteen years old. Very elegant goose egg face, gold wire glasses slid under the bridge of the nose. The cherry took a small bite and snuggled slightly, stretching out the tip of her tongue from time to time to lick her lips, as if she was very unaccustomed to the dryness of the north.

Xiang Xiaoqiang began to observe and study her, and unconsciously turned into appreciation. Such a fresh and elegant "little stunner"...... Yes, that's the word...... Such a fresh and elegant "little stunner" sat in front of him, closed his eyes slightly, and stretched out the tip of his tongue from time to time to lick his lips...... Whether she notices it or not, it's really sexy......

Alas, my life and death are uncertain, and here the X worm is in the brain...... Xiang Xiaoqiang shook his head lightly and smiled bitterly.

Near the exit sat a sticky pole Captain, also staring at the bespectacled girl's face, as if admiring her. However, he also leaned over from time to time to look at Xiang Xiaoqiang here to see if he had any small movements.

The girl with glasses seemed to feel the gaze on her face, opened her eyes, stared at the captain at the sticky pole for a while, and then stared at Xiang Xiaoqiang. He looked at Xiang Xiaoqiang for a while, and suddenly asked:

"Excuse me...... Are you from Dongchang or Jinyiwei? ”

The captain at the sticky pole immediately shouted at her:

"Ask what? Don't speak! ”

The girl with glasses seemed to be taken aback, pursed her lips, and said lightly:

"Okay, don't say it, don't say it......"

The glasses girl softly carried the Nanjing flavor, and suddenly hit Xiang Xiaoqiang's heart. He remembered Qiu Yu.

Xiang Xiaoqiang looked at the girl with glasses, smiled slightly, and said softly:

"Neither."

The captain, realizing that he had been ignored, leaned over and glared at him, and sneered:

"What's the matter, I don't mean to talk, do I?"

Just finished speaking. Xiang picked up the butt of his gun from one of Xiaoqiang's side and slammed him in the stomach. Xiang Xiaoqiang's eyes were dark, a piece of Venus, and he took a long time to catch his breath.

He clutched his stomach, gritted his teeth and cursed: His grandmother's, it hurts......

The girl in glasses let out an "ah", glared at the lieutenant angrily, her lips moved, and she wanted to say something, but she still swallowed back, looked at Xiang Xiaoqiang, and asked:

"You...... You okay? ”

The captain at the sticky pole let out a "huh" and laughed back:

"What's the matter, the more you talk about it, the more you talk about it

The glasses girl curled her lips and glanced at him coldly, still leaning against the canvas and closing her eyes.

……

The truck, carrying the proudest captive, staggered around the city of Xuzhou and entered the south of the city.

To the south of Xuzhou City are several mountains several hundreds of meters high: Yunlong Mountain, Mount Tai (not the one in Tai'an), Quanshan, Phoenix Mountain, plus a small Yunlong Lake, which can be called a lake and mountains, with beautiful scenery.

But these mountains, known militarily as "highlands", were located in such a way that the Xuzhou garrison, one of the several elite units of the Manchu army, was mainly stationed here. Radio transmitting and receiving towers have been installed on several of the main peaks.

Like Pukou, Xuzhou's sticky pole branch office is also in the local garrison headquarters, at the foot of the highest "Quanshan" mountain.

Like the sticky pole in Pukou, the temporary cell at the sticky pole here is not large, and it is also on the basement floor.

"Stay here first!"

With a push from behind, Xiang Xiaoqiang and his stomach hurt one after the other, and the two stumbled and fell into this small cell.

"Bang dang!"

The iron fence behind it was locked. Outside the iron railing, a small dim light bulb is lit.

There were just the two of them. Xiang Xiaoqiang looked around, I don't know if there is a cell here, or if there is another place.

When they entered the sticky pole just now, they clearly felt a kind of feverish excitement permeating the entire sub-office. Officers ran around grabbing papers, and their phones rang nonstop.

It seems that all their interest is now focused on the "Empress Nanming" they just caught, and they can't take care of the two of them for a while. It's not sure that you can afford to bring them food at night.

……

"My lord," reminded me of the stomachache, still maintaining his disguise, "they may be arraigning us soon, so think about what to say." ”

That's right! Yes, Xiang Xiaoqiang suddenly remembered, why were the two of them arrested? Isn't it just to go to the joint? Why Joints? Isn't it just to "save the empress"?

They will soon come to interrogate the two of them, and the first thing is to confirm the identity of "Zhu Yourong". Say yes or no? Which statement is better for you?

"Fuhai," Xiang Xiaoqiang asked as he stared at his stomachache eyes, "You say, how long will it take for them to find out that the 'Empress' in their hands is a fake?" ”

The stomach hurt suddenly, as if he remembered something, he slapped his head, widened his eyes, put his index finger to his lips, and winked at him.

Xiang Xiaoqiang closed his mouth very understandingly. Look around.

With a stomachache like a well-trained hound, he quickly searched the small cell back and forth, up and down, left and right, and found nothing.

The cell was small, only a few square meters, and the walls were bare, with not a single piece of furniture, only a toilet in the corner.

I ran over with a stomachache, but I didn't feel dirty, and I looked carefully inside and out against the toilet. Still haven't found anything.

Xiang Xiaoqiang stood in place, wondering what this kid was looking for?

Looking for a bugging?

Is there a bugging device at this time? It seems to have only become popular during the Cold War. At this time, even if you eavesdrop, that is, use a tape recorder, but how big that thing is, is it not obvious at a glance?

Stomach ache kneeling up, staring at Xiang Xiaoqiang, as if very confused. Then he ran to the edge of the iron railing and looked out into the walkway. Walking to it is also empty.

His eyes were fixed on the light bulb on the top beam of the aisle. The bulb was hanging from the wires and glowing listlessly. My stomach hurt and I opened my eyes wide, and I looked hard for a long time, as if there was a thin, very inconspicuous thin wire wrapped around a short wire.

He turned his head with a stomachache, pointed to the light bulb outside, and his eyes gestured to Xiaoqiang.

Xiang Xiaoqiang immediately understood. Behind the black seat of the light bulb, there is probably a small microphone. You can't see it from this direction, but you can see the thin wire that is wrapped around it and leads to the ceiling along with the wires.

At this time, although there are no wireless bugs, there are wired ones.

……

Above their heads, in an office on the first floor, several officers gathered around a small speaker on the table. A piece of equipment in the back is running, sizzling every bit of noise in the cell into a vinyl record.

A seated captain said softly:

"It's been five minutes. One person only said one sentence. The second sentence is a question, saying that the Empress Nanming in our hands is fake...... I haven't answered. What do you think? ”

The captain, surnamed Ha, sat on the corner of the table and smoked, flicked the ashes, and frowned:

"It's been a long time, and I probably found out."

Suddenly, several people were leaning on the loudspeaker and listening intently. Because there is another sentence from inside:

"Fuhai, we'll be sure later, Your Majesty is fake, and the real Majesty is still outside and hasn't been caught. In this way, they may be a little lax in guarding Your Majesty, and Your Majesty will still have hope of escaping......"

……

The seated captain raised his head with a "whew", pointed to the speaker and said in a trembling voice:

"He must have spotted the microphone, he's lying to us!"