wind in the dark night

Chapter 305 You smell of her perfume

"You two, know each other?"

Taoist Li was surprised.

Zhou Yi smiled and said, "More than knowing each other, Fu Wen and I are old friends. When we were in Yan'an, Wang Shiwei once invited us to dinner..."

Li Fuwen interrupted, "Old Zhou, why are you bringing this up? My uncle doesn't understand."

"You guys chat, I'll go check the main hall. We have to clean it every day, but I had so much to do today that I forgot to do it. I'm old and useless..."

Taoist Li got up and left the house.

As soon as the door closed, Li Fuwen immediately asked, "Lao Zhou, why are you here?"

Zhou Yi sat down: "I guessed that Taoist Li was your uncle, so I sent someone to keep an eye on the movement here. As soon as you entered the temple, I got the news. Oh, I live in Shiqiao Village, which is close."

Li Fuwen said: "Just now, I shouldn't have said those words in front of my uncle."

Zhou Yi said: "Didn't you say that your uncle knew that you went to Yan'an to join the revolution? If he knew, why did you hide it from him?"

Li Fuwen sighed: "My uncle is getting old. The more he knows, the more he worries about me. He has no children. He came to the Northeast this time just for me..."

Zhou Yi said, "When people get old, it's basically like this... Fu Wen, did you come to Lianhua Town this time to visit your uncle?"

Li Fuwen said: "I came from Kaoshantun and visited my uncle on the way."

Zhou Yi was very surprised: "You went to Kaoshantun? How come I didn't know?"

Li Fuwen said: "We walked one after the other. You just left and I just arrived."

"Have you seen Political Commissar Zhang?"

"No. In fact, I went to Kaoshantun specifically to find you."

"Find me?"

"Correct."

"looking for me?"

"Do you know Qing Yi?"

"I heard Political Commissar Zhang mention it."

"I'm looking for you because of him."

Li Fuwen took a sip of water and continued, "Originally, I was skeptical about this Qingyi. He told me that Xu Tiehu was a spy, so he was killed. At that time, no one, including me, believed that Old Xu was a spy."

Zhou Yi agreed: "Of course, Old Xu has been through hundreds of battles and has withstood the test of the revolution. How could he be a spy?"

Li Fuwen shook his head slightly: "But after a series of events that happened later, I feel more and more that maybe Qingyi is right, and Xu Tiehu may really be a spy."

Zhou Yi asked: "What are your plans?"

Li Fuwen said: "Recently, I have always felt that someone is secretly monitoring me. If something happens to me, I am afraid that I will completely lose contact with Qingyi and he will only meet with me."

Zhou Yi thought for a while and said, "I don't quite understand. Qingyi has only been in the organization for a short time and is just an ordinary intelligence officer. Why do you attach so much importance to him and even come to Kaoshantun to find me?"

Li Fuwen said: "This is because the intelligence he provided almost all involved high-level secrets of the enemy. I dare to conclude that he is lurking inside the enemy, at least at the middle level or above, otherwise he would not have been able to access this kind of intelligence."

Zhou Yi thought for a moment and said, "I understand what you mean. This person is in a high position and is very important to us. We must not lose contact with him."

Li Fuwen said: "That's right."

Zhou Yi said: "Then you come to me?"

Li Fuwen said: "If something happens to me, I hope you can get in touch with him. I don't trust anyone else."

Zhou Yi said, "This is the work of the Binjiang Prefectural Committee. Why are you looking for me? Even if you can't trust others, you can trust Yang Feng, right?" Li Fuwen took a sip of water from the bowl and explained, "Qingyi told me that he suspected that there was an enemy spy in the Binjiang Prefectural Committee. He didn't go to see Yang Feng, but came to see me for safety reasons - because I am a single-line intelligence officer."

Zhou Yi frowned and said with some embarrassment: "If you say that, it can only be me... The problem is, I live in the mountains all year round and never go to Binjiang. How can I contact him?"

Li Fuwen said solemnly: "Old Zhou, Qingyi's existence will play a vital role in the Binjiang Detachment and even the entire Anti-Japanese United Army at critical moments in the future. We must not give up on him!"

Zhou Yi pondered for a long time and said, "Okay, I'll agree to this for now, but I'll have to discuss it with Political Commissar Zhang after I go back."

Li Fuwen said: "We can discuss it, but it's limited to the two of you."

Zhou Yi said, "Don't worry. I will keep such an important intelligence officer strictly confidential. By the way, what's his name?"

Li Fuwen shook his head: "I don't know."

Zhou Yi smiled and said, "Yes, yes, yes. Underground workers usually use aliases. So, how did you get in touch?"

Li Fuwen said: "He always came to see me. Some time ago, I moved. First, I wanted to get rid of the surveillance, and second, I didn't want Qingyi to come to see me when I was under surveillance."

Zhou Yi praised: "Fu Wen, you are worthy of being an old underground, you are really thoughtful."

Li Fuwen said: "Do you know why there are more and more traitors?"

Zhou Yi asked: "Why?"

Li Fuwen said: "Our party has always been seeking development in the face of difficulties. Many people with weak wills joined the Kuomintang for the sake of their so-called future, such as Xiang Zhongfa and Gu Shunzhang. Others took the enemy as their father and directly surrendered to the Japanese, such as Ding Mocun and Zhou Fohai."

Zhou Yi sighed and said, "From ancient times to the present, there have been many people who take shortcuts. It is like this now and it will be like this in the future."

Li Fuwen said: "Therefore, we must be doubly careful in the struggle against the enemy, especially in underground work. If we are not careful, we will make big mistakes! We have learned enough lessons in this regard."

Zhou Yi said: "That's right."

Li Fuwen said: "I have moved, and Qingyi may not be able to find me. Whether they can contact me in the future depends on luck..."

Zhou Yi asked: "What should we do then?"

Li Fuwen said: "I believe that even without me, he would find a way to get in touch with the organization, and the process would be relatively secretive."

Zhou Yi asked again: "What does he look like?"

Li Fuwen said: “I don’t know.”

Zhou Yi frowned: "Then when you meet..."

Li Fuwen said: "Every time we met, he wore a mask and came after dark. I can understand this. I don't trust him. In fact, he doesn't completely trust me either."

Zhou Yi was stunned for a moment: "Fu Wen, you are giving me a difficult question. I don't know his name, I don't know what he looks like, there are nearly a million people in Binjiang, it's a huge crowd, where can I find him?"

Li Fuwen smiled slightly, took out a bottle of perfume from his bag, unscrewed the lid, and put it close to Zhou Yi's nose: "Smell it."

Zhou Yi sniffed: "Jasmine scent?"

Li Fuwen said: "Yes, it is the scent of jasmine."

Zhou Yi thought about it and asked tentatively: "Is this bottle of perfume related to Qing Yi?"

Li Fuwen nodded: "This is the only way to find Qingyi. Every time he met me, although his face was covered, I noticed that he had a faint scent of jasmine."

Zhou Yi was puzzled: "Why would a grown man wear perfume?"

Li Fuwen said: "When doing underground work, one would try to avoid having obvious characteristics. I guess it's not that Qingyi uses perfume, but that he often hangs out with people who use this kind of perfume, so he inevitably gets contaminated. I was born a Taoist priest, I don't usually smoke or drink, so my nose is particularly sensitive, so I made this discovery."

Zhou Yi's eyes lit up: "Your analysis makes sense, this must be the case!"

(End of this chapter)