After Yan Yuqiao and Lian Weitao came to the scene of the incident, they chased all the way along the footprints left by Xiao Jian on the snow.

When the night was dark, the two also chased to the foot of Mao'er Ridge, looking at the dense jungle in front of them, Lian Weitao stopped, Yan Yuqiao rushed over and asked, "What's wrong?" Why not go ahead? ”

Lian Weitao pointed to the mountain in front of him and said, "Yuqiao, there is no road ahead, let's stop here first and see how to go?" Lian Weitao said, taking out a map from his satchel and unfolding it.

Yan Yuqiao looked at the map and said to Lian Weitao: "This should be Maoerling!" ”

"That's right, now the place where we are is Mao'er Ridge, this map is marked very clearly, Mao'er Ridge and Black Blind Ridge and Big Belly River finished glyph distribution, in the middle is Taohuagou, the terrain here is dangerous, the mountains and forests are dense, and people are inaccessible. As far as I know, the little cabbage should be active in the area of the Black Blind Ridge, the goatee is in the Big Belly River, and the blue butterfly is in the Taohuagou, this Maoerling has not heard of bandits, why did Jian Bai track it all the way here? Lian Weitao felt a little puzzled, he looked at Yan Yuqiao and asked.

Yan Yuqiao shook his head: "I'm not familiar with Mao'er Ridge, but I've heard the elders say, the mountains here are high and dense, the strange rocks are craggy, the ancient trees are towering, and almost all of the Mao'er Ridge are steep cliffs, few people have gone up to the ridge, so almost no one has been here, although there are many wild things here, but the hunters rarely come, and it is good to be able to go back to three out of ten, and almost all of them are trapped alive in the deep mountains and old forests because they are lost, or they have become the belly of wild beasts." ”

Lian Weitao nodded and said: "Yes, I heard Lao Zhao tell me that the little devil caught him back then, chased him all over the mountains, and then somehow got into this mountain, and the little devils who followed were eaten by the beasts in the mountains, and he himself was almost trapped in the mountains, and then he met an old hunter who brought him out of the mountains!" ”

"Since Jianbai can catch up here, it proves that he must have found the target, or followed the trail to catch up, with my understanding of Jianbai, he will definitely leave a mark for us, even if we can't catch up according to the mark he left, he has to consider how to return the same way, therefore, I conclude that he must have made a special mark somewhere, let's look for it separately and see if we can find it" Yan Yuqiao said confidently.

Lian Weitao nodded: "Then let's look for it, maybe we can really find the mark left by Jian Bai!" ”

Yan Yuqiao pointed to the footprints on the snow and said: "Look here, the footprints are gone here, there are no traces of people walking on the snow on both sides of this thing, and occasionally there is a line of paw prints that are also left by animals, so we look forward along the footprints, that is Mao'er Ridge, it can be seen that he must have gone up the ridge." Yan Yuqiao said and bent down and used a flashlight to carefully observe the trees under his feet.

Lian Weitao also looked for a path to the mountain from another direction. Yan Yuqiao searched for a while, and suddenly she stopped beside a birch tree, and she saw a mark on the trunk of the birch tree that had been cut with a knife, the cut was fresh, and it was in the shape of an arrow, and the arrow pointed forward. Yan Yuqiao was excited, and continued to walk forward in the direction of the arrow on the tree, and after walking dozens of meters, he found the same mark on another tree, Yan Yuqiao understood, this must be the road sign left by Xiao Jianbai. I found the people behind me, and it was convenient for me to return the way I came according to the mark.

Yan Yuqiao shouted Lian Weitao in a low voice: "Deputy Director Lian, Deputy Director Lian!" Lian Weitao rushed over when he heard the sound, Yan Yuqiao excitedly pointed to the mark on the tree and said: "Deputy Director Lian, look, look here, this is a freshly cut opening, it is very fresh, this must be a mark left by Jianbai!" ”

Lian Weitao took a flashlight and nodded: "It should be, from the incision, this is the mark just made, then we will continue to follow the mark, you look at this foot, it can be seen that someone has walked from here, although it is not a serious mountain road, but at least people can walk, otherwise we can only touch the stones to cross the river and hit the luck!" ”

After Yan Yuqiao saw these marks, the fatigue along the way dissipated a lot in an instant. She walked in front, Lian Weitao followed, and the two of them were one foot deep and one foot shallow, crawling up the mountain in the dark night.

The two didn't know how long they had been walking, Yan Yuqiao stopped in front of a marked tree and gasped and said, "Director Lian, take a rest."

Lian Weitao walked up to her and whispered: "Go forward slowly, you can't stop in this big mountain, you look up, there is still a moon in the sky, we can still go forward by the moonlight, if there is no moonlight for a while, the mountain will be suffocating, we can't move an inch, once we stop, it will be too dangerous, maybe there will be some beasts, so we can't stop, even if we go slowly, we have to rush forward!" ”

Yan Yuqiao nodded, pulled out the gun from his waist, and Lian Weitao hurriedly said: "If you encounter a beast attack, you can't shoot unless you have to, once the gun goes off in this mountain, it will spread far away, and then Jian Bai will be dangerous."

"I know, don't worry," Yan Yuqiao said, putting the gun back in the holster. Lian Weitao smiled: "After a while, let's continue to move forward, I don't know if we have a ...... when we go."

"Master Xiao, we'll send you here, and then you can go by yourself, at most in an hour, you can go down the mountain"

The voice in front of him made Lian Weitao stop talking immediately, and Yan Yuqiao and him dodged behind a boulder at the same time. Yan Yuqiao took out his gun again, Lian Weitao also took out his gun and put it on fire, and said to Yan Yuqiao in a low voice: "Someone is here, it seems that someone is called the eldest son of Jian Baixiao."

Yan Yuqiao nodded, and the two slowly poked their heads out from behind the boulder and looked ahead. It was dark ahead, and I couldn't see anything, but I heard someone say, "Go back, tell your eldest lady, and I'll come back to her in a few days!" ”

"It's Jianbai, it's really Jianbai" Yan Yuqiao almost shouted, Lian Weitao glared at her, Yan Yuqiao raised his hand to cover his mouth, so excited that she looked ahead with her eyes wide open, only to see the forest in front of her shaking, making a "rustling" sound, and a few minutes later, I vaguely saw a person coming out of the forest.

Lian Weitao and Yan Yuqiao held their breath, slowly walked out from behind the boulder, and moved their steps forward little by little, when suddenly someone in front of them shouted, "Who is there?" ”

"It's Jianbai's voice," Yan Yuqiao said to Lian Weitao.

Lian Weitao pointed to the flashlight in his hand and said to Yan Yuqiao: "Let's turn on the flashlight together, do you understand?" Yan Yuqiao nodded, Lian Weitao and Yan Yuqiao held a gun in one hand and a flashlight in the other hand at the same time, and two strong beams of light suddenly shone over, making Xiao Jianbai in front of him blur in front of him in an instant, at the same time, Lian Weitao and Yan Yuqiao rushed over in a few arrows, and Lian Weitao's gun shouted at him: "Don't move!" ”

"Lao Lian, huh?" Xiao Jianbai stretched out his hand to block the strong light and asked. Lian Weitao was sure that it was Xiao Jianbai standing in front of him, he put down the flashlight in his hand and said, "Jianbai, we can be regarded as finding you."

Yan Yuqiao simply rushed over, threw himself into Xiao Jianbai's arms, hugged his neck and shouted happily: "Jianbai, Jianbai is really you, are you okay?" ”

Xiao Jianbai hurriedly covered her mouth with his hand and said, "Shh

Lian Weitao walked over and looked at Xiao Jianbai happily and asked, "Are you okay?" ”

Yan Yuqiao let go of Xiao Jianbai and looked him up and down, Xiao Jianbai looked at the two of them and smiled: "Look, do I look like something is wrong?" ”

"How did you get to this Mao'er Ridge? What about Zhong Yeyang? Yan Yuqiao asked.

Lian Weitao looked at the sky, then looked around and said: "We can't stay here for a long time, let's hurry down the ridge and talk as we go."

The three of them began to walk down the ridge along the same road, and then Xiao Jianbai said: "Deputy Director Lian, this time it is my dereliction of duty, let ......"

"How can I blame you for that? It's me and Lao Zhao who didn't think it through, that's why this situation happened, don't blame yourself, we're very happy to get you back, if we can't find you, Yuqiao won't have to eat me and Lao Zhao? Lian Weitao said and glanced at Yan Yuqiao, Yan Yuqiao looked at him and said, "How can you not find it?" I know him too well, can he run away? ”

"Deputy Director Lian, Zhong Yeyang is dead, and he was killed with a soul chasing bone!" Xiao Jianbai looked at Lian Weitao and said.

Lian Weitao was stunned for a moment, stopped and looked at Xiao Jianbai and asked, "Chasing soul bones?" ”

"In addition, you must not have imagined that Kong Fanxiang and a group of people are on this Mao'er Ridge, I went up the ridge and saw Kong Fanxiang, she sent someone to send me down the ridge! Zhong Yeyang died on the desperate cliff of Maoerling," Xiao Jianbai said.

Xiao Jianbai's words surprised Lian Weitao and Yan Yuqiao, and Yan Yuqiao said in surprise: "One of her eldest ladies took people up the mountain to be a bandit?" ”

"No, no, they don't make a living as bandits, they are well-equipped and well-supplied, they don't hunt, they don't rob, they don't kill, they just wait for someone in the mountains, or plan something!" Xiao Jianbai looked at the thoughtful Lian Weitao and said.

"So he knows who you are?" Lian Weitao asked.

"I told her that it was specially arranged by Fang Tianzheng and Leng Xiaochen that I entered the Public Security Bureau!"

"Do you think she'll believe it, then?" Lian Weitao looked at Xiao Jianbai and asked.

Xiao Jianbai shook his head: "Kong Fanxiang is completely like a different person, I am sure that she will not believe it all, but it is impossible not to believe it at all!" ”

"That'...... so."

"The person who hijacked the prisoner's car is called He Laohu, and now he has gone to Harbin, saying that he is going to see someone, Zhong Yeyang suddenly attacked the soldier who was guarding him and jumped out of the car and ran away when our people were fighting back. However, he didn't run far and stepped on the tiger trap buried in advance by Kong Fanxiang's men, and in this way he was captured alive by Kong Fanxiang's men. I followed the footprints they left in the snow all the way to Mao'er Ridge. Not far from the bottom of the ridge, I met an old hunter, it was he who showed me a way, so I could catch up with them, Zhong Yeyang originally ......"

Suddenly, there was a sound of leaves being shaken in front of them, and Lian Weitao shouted: "Who is it?" ”

Xiao Jianbai pulled Yan Yuqiao behind him, took out his gun, and stood side by side with Lian Weitao looking ahead.

I saw a shaking in the bushes in front of me, and someone shouted: "Hurry" With the voice, a few people came out of it.

Lian Weitao shook it with a flashlight, and the other party also shook it with a flashlight, and someone shouted: "Why does it sound like the voice of General Manager Lian?" ”

Lian Weitao turned his head to look at Xiao Jianbai and whispered, "Sister Hong of the Red Family Class"

"Sister Hong?" Xiao Jianbai looked at Lian Weitao and asked.

"Her real name is Liu Mei, because she is the head of the Hong family's class, so people call her Sister Hong!" After Lian Weitao finished speaking, he shouted at the other side: "But is it Sister Hong of the Red family's class? ”

"How did General Manager Lian get here?" While speaking, a woman came over and hugged her fist at Lian Weitao: "General Manager Lian, oh, by the way, you should be called Director Lian now!" Unexpectedly, since the Communist Party entered Harbin, everything has changed, and General Manager Lian has also become a senior official of the Communist Party! ”

Lian Weitao looked at the woman standing in front of him and smiled: "Sister Hong, where did you come from?" It's not peaceful in this deep mountain and old forest! ”

The sharp-eyed Yan Yuqiao gently tugged at the corner of Xiao Jianbai's clothes and whispered, "Look at the ring on this woman's hand, it's a red scorpion!" ”