Xiao Moxuan looked at his son and shook his head and said, "Jian Bai, do you remember the question you once asked me?" ”

"What's the problem?" Xiao Jianbai asked.

"Do you remember that pipe?" Xiao Moxuan asked.

"Oh, of course I remember, didn't you tell me that the man who gave you your pipe is dead?" Xiao Jianbai said.

Xiao Moxuan nodded and said: "Yes, the person is gone, but his brother is still there, he just returned to Harbin, and now he is from the Harbin City Government, so I can ask others to help us with this, because they owed me a favor back then, and this time it can be repaid!" ”

"Favors? What favors? Xiao Xiaochen asked.

Xiao Moxuan looked at his daughter and said: "It's hard to say, I'll tell you when I have time, the key now is to let Jianbai work in the new government and get rid of the black history of the Kuomintang as soon as possible, otherwise, my Xiao family will have to ......"

"Dad, don't worry too much, our Xiao family is a businessman who keeps to himself, no matter whose world it is, he always has to let the family do business, right? Besides, you are a business tycoon with a head and a face in Harbin, even if the new government of the Communist Party is based on economic construction, if the economy can't be developed, what will the people eat? What to drink? I don't think the Communist Party will not fail to understand this truth, so I don't think it will have any too harsh demands on Jianbai, let alone throw Jianbai into prison as you think! Xiao Xiaochen looked at his father and comforted.

Xiao Jianbai looked at her and smiled and said, "Can't you see it, my sister can see it very clearly?" The head of the analysis is Dao, well, I think my sister is okay! Besides, if I can do something for the new government, if I can do something, if so, I think the new government will accept me, right? ”

Xiao Moxuan's eyes lit up immediately when he heard this, and he looked at his son and asked: "Yes, Jian Bai, you are the deputy head of the Kuomintang Secret Bureau, you know the secret bureau spies best, if you can tell the new government where Leng Xiaochen is hiding, this will be a great achievement!" ”

"What you think is too simple, who is Leng Xiaochen? Every hair of that guy is hollow, that heart has more eyes, and the cunning can't be more cunning, can he let me know where they're hiding? Do you know why he left me and Yuqiao in the light? It is to let the two of us always ventilate for him, he always grasps the movements and plans of the Communist Party, so now it can only be him looking for us, it will be difficult for us to find him, such a big Harbin, it is not easy to hide a person, Leng Xiaochen has Qiao San Province around him, Tan Zhihan is an authentic Harbin person, Liu Rufeng grew up in the Northeast since he was a child, and even knows Harbin better than me, so don't think about this matter anymore, if they don't take the initiative to find me and Yuqiao, we don't want to know where they are hiding." Xiao Jianbai looked at his father and said.

Xiao Moxuan spread his hands and said, "Then what you said just now was so lively, I thought you could help the new government find them?" If it is like what you said, then what kind of meritorious service is there to talk about? ”

"Is there only one way to do things for the new government? Why not consider other avenues? Xiao Xiaomeng said.

Xiao Moxuan looked at her and frowned: "You go back to your hospital, don't follow here to participate, I will study it with your brother again, in short, your brother's affairs can't be dragged on like this, the longer the time, the more bad it will be for your brother!" ”

Xiao Xiaomeng looked at Xiao Jianbai and said: "Brother, I see that the streets are full of notices now, wanted warrants or something, the biggest meritorious performance is to catch Leng Xiaochen and a group of secret bureau agents, in addition to this, there is a bigger reward, that is, to catch the murderer of General Li Zhaolin, Meng Taoran, I see that the notice says, as long as you provide clues, there will be a reward, if you can catch someone, it will be a miracle, and the new government will try its best to meet the various conditions he proposed!" ”

Xiao Moxuan snorted and said, "Pull it down, your brother doesn't even know where Leng Xiaochen, who has been with him all day, where to catch that woman?" Isn't that a fantasy? It would be nice if he had that ability."

Xiao Jianbai looked at Xiao Xiaomeng and nodded slightly: "This is a good idea, if I can arrest Meng Taoran, then I will have made a great contribution on the side of the new government, and it just so happens that my father will help me find a relationship with someone, so that I can enter the new government to do things."

Xiao Moxuan looked at his son and daughter and got up with a smile: "You two are here to talk about it, I'm going to go up and rest for a while!" ”

Xiao Xiaochen looked at them and said, "I think what Dad said is right, you love to be whimsical, forget it, I'll help Dad upstairs, you continue to study here!" ”

Xiao Xiaomeng smiled, looked back at his father and sister who were walking upstairs, and said, "I have confidence in my brother, maybe he can really catch Meng Taoran?" ”

"If that's the case, I'll show this old face to dredge up the relationship for you, let you enter the government to do things, the public security bureau is now employing people, I can ask them to recommend you to go" Xiao Moxuan shook his head after saying and said: "I'm afraid you don't have this ability."

Meng Taoran, who came out of Meng Pozhuang, looked around with a body of pain, except for the howling north wind and the snow, where is her going? The pain in her two arms, which had been burned by hot oil, made her sweat like rain in such cold weather.

The two hands could no longer curl up, but the body was shivering with cold, Meng Taoran walked in the snow with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and he didn't know where he should go. Just when you were desperate, Meng Taoran suddenly remembered Fang Tianzheng's words: "Once you reach the end of the mountains and rivers and are cornered, you will go out of the city to the south for twenty miles, and pass a place called Meng Pozhuang, there is a small village in front, there is a broken temple in the southeast corner of the village, after you go to the broken temple, there is a secret passage under the shrine of the statue, after you go down, it is a basement, where you can eat and drink everything, you can use it as a temporary shelter, rest assured that no one will find there!" Also, I have a radio station there that you can activate the emergency contact and contact me! Or contact Leng Xiaochen and he will help you get out of trouble."

Thinking of this, Meng Taoran raised his head with difficulty to look ahead, identified the direction, and then staggered along the path all the way south.

She didn't know how long she had been walking, the more she walked, the more tired she became, the more she felt weak, and the pain in her arm made her almost faint several times. Meng Taoran gritted her teeth, continued to move forward in the snow, and probably walked out of the five-mile road, a cold wind blew, Meng Taoran's eyes were blackened, and her body shook, at the same time, she saw a person in a trance carrying a fire gun on his shoulder, and he was turning a small mountain to meet her, Meng Taoran's heart was beating wildly for a while, she opened her mouth and wanted to shout, but the voice didn't come out, and the person fell.

When Meng Taoran opened her eyes again, there was an old couple in front of her, looking at her with a simple smile, and the old lady said with a smile when she saw that she was awake: "Girl, you are awake!" You're going to scare us to death."

Meng Taoran looked at the old lady, and then turned her head to look at her two arms on the left and right, the arms were wrapped with a thick layer of cotton cloth, she moved a little, it didn't hurt so much, she looked at her hands again, they were also wrapped with cotton strips. Meng Taoran's eyes suddenly became hot, and a stream of tears flowed out.

The old lady looked at her and said, "Girl, don't be afraid, your uncle has helped you treat your arms and these two hands, and he has wrapped you up, and we have good scald medicine at home, just for you to use." Girl, where are you from? How did you burn your arms like this? If your uncle hadn't found you in time and carried you home, I'm afraid your little life would have been gone, and you wouldn't have been frozen to death, and you would have been eaten by the blind bears coming down from the mountain! ”

Meng Taoran looked at the old lady's lips and said, "Can you give me saliva to drink?" ”

At this time, the door curtain was lifted, the old man came back from outside, and when he saw Meng Taoran who had come to his senses, the old man smiled and said to the old lady: "I just beat a pheasant, take it and stew it to make up for the girl!" ”

The old lady turned around and took a bowl of water, helped Meng Taoran sit up and said, "Come, drink water first!" ”

Meng Taoran drank all the water in the bowl in one go, looked at the old man and asked softly, "Uncle, how long have I been here?" ”

"You have been lying for three days and three nights, you can frighten our old couple, if you don't wake up again, I plan to send you to the city, find a Lang Zhong to treat you well!" The old man said and took out a cigarette pouch and filled a pot of cigarettes, lit the fire and smoked it.

"It's been three days, I've been lying down for three days," Meng Taoran said to himself.

The old lady picked up the pheasant that the old man threw on the ground and said, "You can drink some rice soup in the past three days, now you are good, wake up, I will stew chicken for you!" ”

Meng Taoran looked at the old couple with an infinite gratitude and said, "Thank you, uncle, aunt saved me!" I wonder where this is? ”

The old man said while smoking a cigarette bag and pot: "This is the shack tun, and then there is the mountain, behind the tunzi is Meng Po Zhuang, from Meng Po Zhuang directly to our tunzi, the tunzi is not big, more than a dozen families, we have no children and no daughters, we have been in this tunzi for almost 40 years, you are the first guest of our family, my wife, I have served you as a daughter for three days"

Meng Taoran sat up straight, knelt down on his knees, kowtowed to the old man and the old lady, and said, "Thank you for saving your life, so how far is this place from Harbin?" ”

"It's not far, forty miles away, girl, you are from the city, I know at a glance, you are a girl of a big family," the old man said with a smile.

Meng Taoran did not answer the old man's question, but looked out the window in a daze, and the old man smiled when he saw her stunned: "Don't look, the sky has changed outside, the sky has changed, and the dynasty has changed."

"Uncle, what do you mean by that? What changed the dynasty? Meng Taoran looked at the old man and asked.

The old man knocked the cigarette pouch and pot on the edge of the kang, shook out the cigarette ash inside, and then said with a smile: "Girl, you slept for three days, just the day before yesterday, Harbin changed the sky, the Communist Party liberated Harbin, and drove the Scraping People's Party away, do you think this is considered a change of day?" Has there been a change of dynasty? ”

Meng Taoran was startled when she heard this, she looked at the old man with wide eyes and asked, "Uncle, are you saying that the Communist Party has entered the city?" ”

"Yes, yes, it's not good, early the morning before yesterday, before dawn, the gunshots, like fried beans, crackled non-stop, I thought who married a girl to marry a daughter-in-law, and then after dawn I went out to inquire, it turned out that the Communist Party had entered Harbin, and the Kuomintang did not resist beating at all, and ran away without much fighting!" The old man said and stood up and looked at Meng Taoran and said, "Girl, you lie down well, I'll go and see how my wife is cleaning up the pheasant, let's eat chicken tonight!" ”

Looking at the old man who walked out, Meng Taoran couldn't tell what it was like in her heart, but she knew that she had to leave here as soon as possible, hide in the basement that Fang Tianzheng said, and get in touch with Fang Tianzheng or Leng Xiaochen as soon as possible, otherwise she would be in danger again. The Communist Party's entry into the city will mean that the wanted and arrest of itself will become stricter and faster.

The old couple in front of them saved their lives, although they don't know their names, but once the Communist Party's search forces find here, can the old couple betray themselves? This made Meng Taoran a little worried.

Meng Taoran felt that except for her two arms, her body was no longer in serious trouble, and she moved her legs and feet, and she also felt relaxed. She looked around, looking around the room. The house was a dilapidated brick house, with its walls in tatters, and some animal skins were nailed to the holes that had been exposed. There was nothing in the room, and near the kang was a wooden table with a hunting knife hanging on the wall above the wooden table.

Meng Taoran lightly got off the kang, walked to the table, reached out and took off the hunting knife and looked at it, although there were strips of cotton cloth wrapped around his hands, his fingers could already be stretched, Meng Taoran endured the pain and clenched the hunting knife.

"Girl, why did you get off the kang?" The old man and the old lady walked in together and looked at her and asked.

Meng Taoran hurriedly let go, put the hunting knife on the table and said, "I just want to come down and move."

The old man looked at him and said, "The knife is very fast, try not to touch it, a girl is not good at dancing with a knife and getting a gun."

The old lady smiled and said, "Girl, you go to the kang, I'll go and bring the stewed chicken, you want to eat more tonight!" ”

Meng Taoran nodded and slowly walked to the edge of the kang and sat down, the expression on the old man's face changed somewhat at this time, he looked at Meng Taoran and asked, "Girl, where are you from?" What is your name? ”

"I, my surname is Meng, called, called, called Meng Lan" Meng Taoran made up a name and said.

"Oh, surname Meng, surname Meng, this morning, someone in Tunzi went into the city and said that the new Communist Party government was looking for a woman named Meng Taoran"