Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 271 Be wary

"Chief Li, I'll take you to that road. You can see the other side of the guesthouse from there."

"it is good"

After passing through the gate of the guesthouse, the two did not stop and continued to walk slowly forward.

When they reached the intersection and turned north, the two of them glanced in the direction they came from at the same time, and happened to see a few people coming out from the back door of the institute.

Seeing this, the two men stopped in tacit understanding. Qu Xianfeng took out a cigarette from his trouser pocket and gave it to Li Yancheng, then struck a match to help him light it.

The two of them stood at the intersection pretending to talk, waiting for the people from the research institute to come over.

Maybe it was because they were talking while walking, those people walked quite slowly. Judging from their walking postures, there were both old and young people, which made the two of them a little excited and very expectant.

Unfortunately, the person they were looking for was not among these people.

Watching these people walk into the guesthouse, the two shook their heads at the same time, stood there for a while, and then continued to walk north.

After taking a few steps, Li Yancheng suddenly stopped.

"Hmm? Pioneer, Professor Zhang Zongyou wasn't among those five older people just now, right?"

"No, I looked carefully."

"I feel like these guys are from the project team. They look like they just finished their meal. The guy at the end was picking his teeth while walking. Did you see that?"

"I know what you mean, Chief Li. It's possible that Professor Zhang is still behind. Is that what you want to say?"

Qu Xianfeng immediately understood what Li Yancheng wanted to say.

"Yes, I think since we are here, we should at least confirm it first, right?"

"But this intersection is bare, and it's a bit conspicuous to stand here. The sentry at the back door of the institute can see this side."

There was really nothing at this intersection, the road was not wide, and the shops and post offices on both sides of the road were all closed at this time.

The main reason is that there are no residential areas here, only units, and these units are only for work during the day. In the afternoon, there are few people walking on the streets after lunch.

If these two grown men were standing on the side of the road, they would be very obvious. Not to mention that it is only a hundred meters from the back door of the institute, even from five hundred meters away you can see the two of them standing there.

Li Yancheng looked around and smacked his lips with some regret. This was the disadvantage of not playing at home.

In this situation, it would be better if the local social affairs bureau could help. It is not difficult to find a place to monitor, you can just pick one from any roadside unit.

But they have no choice now.

Moreover, after dark, if the two of them still dared to wander back and forth on this road, it would be strange if the sentry did not send someone to check them.

Li Yancheng suddenly felt a little regretful. He should have suggested bringing a lesbian yesterday so that they could pretend to be a couple. It would be much better than having two grown men like now.

It's too late to say anything now. Seeing that the sky is starting to darken, let's just leave and go back to discuss it later.

"Forget it, let's go and meet up with Team Zeng at the west gate."

"Return the same way?"

"Just go back the same way. We're not doing anything right now, so there's no need to be too careful."

"Walk"

There was no need to look at the other side of the guesthouse building, as there was nothing interesting. Even if they knew Xue Baolai lived here, they did not dare to climb up from the outside and enter the guesthouse. If they were discovered, the sentry would definitely shoot without even a warning.

They came here to secretly arrest Xue Bao, not to die, but they were beaten to death by their own people. They couldn't even be named a martyr.

The two men turned around and started walking back the way they came. When they turned the corner and were about to reach the entrance of the guesthouse, they saw several more people coming out of the back door of the institute. There were more people than they had seen just now, and this time there were more than a dozen people.

However, after these people came out, they did not cross the road directly to this side, but walked slowly along the road over there while talking about something.

There are trees planted on the road, and now the sky has darkened. Although the road is not wide, standing here, you can't see the faces of the people on the opposite side of the road at all because of the shade of the trees.

The two of them didn't dare to stop and look anymore. There was a chance that the sentry at the back door had noticed them. If they stopped again, whether to light a cigarette or do something else, it would most likely arouse suspicion.

How to do?
"Pioneer, please wait a moment. This is for everyone. Let me ask for directions. We can't run too far away."

Just when Qu Xianfeng was getting anxious, Li Yancheng beside him suddenly uttered a sentence in the Qin Province dialect, and his voice was quite loud.

He turned around in surprise and saw Li Yancheng already walking up the steps in front of the research institute's guesthouse.

As Li Yancheng walked up the stairs, one of the two soldiers on duty on the first floor of the guesthouse stood up and came out to greet him.

"What do you want, comrade?"

"Hello, comrade. I want to ask for a place. Do you know where the ** guesthouse is? We are here on a business trip from Chang'an. We just came out for a walk after dinner. Now we want to go back but can't find the way back to the guesthouse."

"Oh, just go straight along this road, turn left at the second intersection and walk another 100 or 200 meters. The guesthouse is on the right."

"Just follow this way?"

"right"

"Okay, okay, thank you comrade, thank you comrade."

"You're welcome"

"Look, Pioneer, I told you to just go this way, but you didn't believe me and insisted on going that way. You really pissed me off."

With a grateful smile and a nod at the soldier, Li Yancheng turned around and spoke to Qu Xianfeng who was standing at the bottom of the stairs.

Qu Xianfeng didn't dare to speak and could only smile awkwardly, because the dozen or so people on the opposite side had already started crossing the road. What if Xue Baolai was among them? When he opened his mouth and spoke in Beijing dialect, others might not react much, but someone with the surname Xue might become alert.

As Li Yancheng was talking, he walked down the stairs. He happened to be facing the dozen people crossing the road. He could now see their faces clearly. With one glance, his heart beat fast. He saw the familiar face that he had only seen in photos, and also saw Professor Zhang.

Worried that Xue Baolai might have seen him, Li Yancheng, who had just walked down the stairs, raised his left hand and pretended to scratch his forehead, using his raised left forearm to cover half of his face. He then raised his right hand and pointed to the west and said, "Let's go back quickly. I need to go to the toilet."

As he spoke, he turned around and waved to the soldier on the steps, saying loudly, "Thank you, comrade."

The soldier didn't say anything, just smiled and nodded, then stood there watching the two of them walk west. He waited until the dozen or so people had walked into the guesthouse before he turned around and walked in. As he turned around, he put down his right hand, which had been on the holster at his waist.

"Chief Li, is Xue Baolai among those people?"

After walking forward for dozens of meters until he passed the back door of the research institute, Qu Xianfeng asked impatiently.

When the dozen or so people were crossing the road just now, he just turned his head and looked at them as a normal person would do.

But because he was standing on the same level as those people, and the people behind him were blocked by those in front, they could only see the appearance of the few people walking in front.

Li Yancheng was different. He was facing those people directly and walking down the stairs, looking down from a high vantage point, so he could see everything at a glance.

"Yes, he was walking behind me. Just now, when we were crossing the street, he was talking to someone about his age. I also saw his teacher, Professor Zhang Zongyou."

call……

Hearing this, Qu Xianfeng let out a long breath.

Today's trip was not in vain, as they finally met the person they were looking for.

"That was a close call, Chief Li. The soldier must have become suspicious."

"We had no choice but to take a risky move. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to see the faces of those people clearly."

Li Yancheng also secretly felt lucky in his heart. The soldier stood up and put his right hand on the holster at his waist, and the secret buckle on the holster was open, showing that he was very alert.

He was also gambling that the people across the street would come over soon, and the soldiers were anxious to get them to leave and had no time to check his ID.

He made the right bet.

"Chief Li, I didn't expect you could speak the Qin dialect." Of course he could. This was his mother tongue in his previous life, and he had spoken it for more than fifty years.

"I have a comrade in the army who is from there. I thought what he said was funny, so I learned a few sentences from him. But I only know a few sentences, and my pronunciation is not standard. If I say it in front of a genuine Qin Province person, I will definitely be exposed."

"It's good that you can deal with emergencies. You just gave me a fright when you suddenly did that."

"Damn, this secret operation is so painful. I broke out in a cold sweat just now."

"Haha, what can we do?" Qu Xianfeng smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"By the way, Chief Li, now that we know Xue Baolai is staying at the guesthouse, what should we do next?
As you can see, it is not easy to carry out surveillance here at the back door. It may be better during the day, but it will be very inconvenient once it gets dark.

We can't just wait at the main gate or the west gate and try our luck, right?"

Try your luck?
That would probably kill them.

There is no way they can just sit here and wait for something to happen for long.

According to Li Yancheng's estimation, five days is the limit.

But who knows whether Xue Baolai will come out again after returning to the reception center. Even if he comes out for a walk, he may not go to the west gate, let alone the main gate.

But here they have nowhere to defend even if they want to.

"I have no idea at the moment, let's go back and discuss it first."

……

What results can be negotiated?
The six people sat on their beds in the guesthouse, staring at each other in helplessness.

"Is there no place to defend over there?" Zeng Honglin asked with some hope.

"Of course there are. During the day, you can see the back door of the institute and the main entrance of the guesthouse, but at night, due to the distance, you can't see the people coming in and out at all. There is no point in guarding it.

Moreover, the sentinels were very vigilant. I could clearly feel that when Pioneer and I passed by the back door of the institute, the sentinels at the door were looking at us.

The main reason is that there are too few pedestrians on that road."

"Alas, it's just like the gate of the scientific research institute." Lao Xu said helplessly, leaning against the head of the bed.

The research institute he was referring to was the one in Beijing. The road where the Beijing Research Institute was located was sparsely populated even during the day. There were three sentry posts at each of the two gates, not counting the mobile sentries.

The sentinels are also very vigilant. If they have any suspicion, they will report it immediately and someone will come out to check soon.

"Under the current circumstances, we can only focus on the main gate and the west gate at night and forget about the back door." Lao Xu threw the cigarette butt in his hand on the ground and stomped it out with his foot before continuing.

“There are more places to defend on these two sides, so we can only try our luck and see if he will turn over here.

As for the daytime, Honglin and Quanzhou will go through the back door tomorrow to investigate. At 8 o'clock tomorrow morning, I will call the bureau and the department and ask Xiaotong and others to launch a comprehensive investigation into Liang Jinhua.

If they can make some breakthrough in their investigation, maybe we won’t have to suffer so much.”

"Director, there is another question you have considered. If we catch Xue Baolai during the day, how can we take him away smoothly? If we use force, we may be the ones who suffer."

"Oh, I've thought about this. First, let's try to do it at night. If it's during the day, we can do this..."

The meeting of the six-member group was still going on, and the night was gradually getting late.

……

It is said that plans cannot keep up with changes. They discussed for most of the night last night and had a rough plan for all possible problems. However, all this was completely ruined when Lao Xu went to the post office on the morning of the 6th and made a phone call to the bureau.

The difficulty of their mission was reduced directly from hell level to normal level.

The reason why the changes were so fast and so great was simply because of the change in attitude of Professor Zhang Zongyu.

Director Zhong recounted to Lao Xu on the phone what Professor Zhang had said to Zhang Qingcai, deputy director of the Jiangsu Provincial Investigation Department, on the evening of the 4th.

Lao Xu immediately realized that since Professor Zhang could make his student Xue Baolai suspicious, he could let Professor Zhang cooperate with them to trap the man named Xue.

To put it simply, they would go directly to Professor Zhang, explain the current situation to him, and ask for his cooperation to lure Xue Baolai to the guesthouse where they were currently staying.

As long as the man named Xue comes over, Li Yancheng can immediately get a confession from him about the above methods.

At this point, it is the result of whether the mule or the horse is pulled out for a walk.

If their judgment is correct and the man surnamed Xue is indeed the undercover agent, then the next step will be easy. They can take the confession to the Su Provincial Bureau and then contact the army.

If they made a wrong judgment, they would have to serve Xue Baolai well and well until he fully recovers in half a month. During this period, they could directly ask for punishment themselves.

As for how the troops and superiors will deal with them, that is another story.

The moment he hung up the phone, Lao Xu had already made up his mind that he would take all the responsibility regardless of whether this matter succeeded or not.

He told the headquarters that he was the one who planned the operation, and the bureau leaders were unaware of it. As for the other five people who came with him, they were just following orders.

There is one benefit to him doing this, it saves Bureau Zhong.

After pondering it for a while, he picked up the phone and called the department.

I entered the post office at around eight o'clock, and when I came out it was almost ten o'clock. This phone call made the people waiting at the door very anxious.

Even Zeng Honglin and Zhang Quanzhou, who went to the back door to check the situation, have come over.

When they saw Lao Xu coming out with a relaxed look and a smile on his face, they were quite confused and went to greet him.

"Director, any good news?"

"There is indeed good news, and more than one piece of news." Lao Xu did not keep the audience in suspense. He took the cigarette handed to him by Tian Linjun, lit it, and continued talking.

"Let me first tell you the good news from the department. On the afternoon of the 4th, the day we left, Xiao Tong realized the problem with Liang Jinhua when he was interrogating Yin Anda who was taken back.

It was also from that time that they launched a more comprehensive and detailed investigation of this woman and discovered several suspicious points.

1. After Wei Haiping committed suicide by jumping off a building on the 27th, the people from the Security Department took a statement from her. She said at the time that Wei Haiping returned home after a meeting on the evening of the 26th, and she did not tell her husband about the arrest of Cao Wanquan during the day.

Yesterday, Sun He went over to ask about their daughter, but according to Wei Tingting, she remembered that after her father came back that night, her mother told the news of Cao Wanquan's arrest in the living room.

She also told her father to explain to the police tomorrow morning that she often went to drink and chat with Cao Wanquan.

This is a suspicious point, why did she lie to the people in the Security Department and later lie about this matter during the quarantine and review period.

There is another suspicious point. Her information before liberation was also falsified. According to her information, from 1946 to 1949, she attended a girls' school run by a church in the west of the city. There is a witness, who is her classmate.

Yesterday, Mao Fei and his men found the witness. Liang Jinhua did attend this girls' school, but the witness herself never graduated. She dropped out in 1947.

Based on the information provided by this witness, Mao Fei found another classmate of theirs at the time. According to this person, in her memory, she seemed to have never seen Liang Jinhua again after 1948.

At the same time, she also provided a photo. The photo was taken in May 1948. It was taken by church staff after they finished a labor movement. Liang Jinhua was not in that photo.

To be on the safe side, Mao Fei found a few more people based on the photo to inquire about the situation. Some of them couldn't remember clearly, but one of the women was the deputy monitor of Liang Jinhua's class at that time.

She said that Liang Jinhua did not come when the school started in 1948. She went to look for her according to the school's instructions, but the Liang family's house was empty.

Later, in 1949, when the troops entered the city, their girls' school was taken over and renamed its current name. It no longer only recruited female students, and classes were suspended for about a month.

Then, in 1950, their class graduated, and it was at this time that Liang Jinhua appeared again.

The class monitor said that she didn't know how Liang Jinhua did it, but the school still gave her a diploma.

She asked specifically, and Liang Jinhua said that she had not been to school in the past two years because her parents died of illness one after another, and she did not explain anything further.

The squad leader that Mao Fei found at the end got married in 1951. After marriage, her husband was transferred for work, and she lived and worked in Shi City, Beihe Province for 17 years. It was not until last year that her husband was transferred back and she returned to Jing City. She has not seen Liang Jinhua in these years. "

(End of this chapter)