Chapter 41: The Giant Rat Appears(1/2)
Chu Wenhao said very heavily, but it was a fact. Jiang Tao stood in a daze, and the drawings in his hand fell on the ground, not knowing what to do.
"Okay, go and cook some hot water and drink a cup of tea. I haven't made a cup of tea for so long." Chu Wenhao tried to divert his attention.
Jiang Tao walked out without saying a word, lowered his head. There was a well in the yard. He skillfully threw the bucket into the deep well and swayed left and right. After a while, a bucket of clear water was lifted up.
Remove the mud stove from the east room, pour the kettle with clear water, and carry the firewood that had been chopped long ago to the next to the stove. The fire burned up, and Jiang Tao sat there in a daze, his eyes were dull.
Chu Wenhao ignored him and searched through the room, found several large bowls and two tea cups, and moved the short tea table for dinner to the yard.
Clean the tea set with well water. The conditions were simple and could only be divided into large bowls. When the sound of the kettle came from the kettle, Jiang Tao, who was in a daze, took the boiled water to him and looked at him without saying a word. He sat down next to the tea table and continued to daze.
Chu Wenhao grabbed a handful of tree root tea leaves and frowned. There was no way that the tea leaves were made of leaves. It was estimated that a large ocean could buy a sack.
I am happy in the bitterness, wash tea and make tea, and move like flowing water. After a while, the tea leaves emitted a fragrance that should not have. I poured a cup for Jiang Tao, picked up the tea cup in front of me and took a sip.
"Good tea." Unexpectedly, the tea leaves made in well water have a unique flavor. They are clear, sweet and slightly bitter, and they are both bitter and sweet.
Jiang Tao was disturbed by him and smelled the fragrance of tea. He looked at him differently, picked it up and took a mouthful of it, raised his eyebrows, probably surprised.
"When are you going to leave?" Jiang Tao not only did not thank him but also prepared to drive him away. This was really not a way to entertain guests, but he still had something to deal with and didn't care about so much.
Chu Wenhao was not angry and kept drinking tea. After drinking a few cups of tea, he spoke: "I promise General Yang to settle you, tell me your plans, do you have other people need to settle?" You will know that he is not doing well, and his identity is very embarrassing. He said that the Communist Party has not joined, the Kuomintang has left, and he even dared not use his previous identity to come out to engage in activities, and was more serious than the Communist Party members who were caught.
"I...I haven't thought about it yet." He really didn't think about it. In recent years, he has been pursuing a goal. After suddenly feeling that everything has no hope, he was at a loss.
"There are still a dozen brothers who want to settle down, and I don't know how to explain to them." Jiang Tao lowered his head in a little frustrated.
Chu Wenhao didn't expect there were so many people, but since he promised General Yang, he had to keep his word. "Okay, I still have a task for the time being. I'll settle you after the processing is done. It's okay to stay in Chongqing. After all, there is no problem with the safety of the rear."
He took out all the money from his body. He usually doesn't bring the money out of his house without bringing the money in his car. "Save it and buy some clothes, sort it out for the brothers, and then wait for my news and arrange it after handling the matter."
Looking at the money on the table, although it was not much, it was also a concern. Jiang Tao nodded: "Thank you, I will wait for you for a while."
"Yeah." Chu Wenhao stood up and planned to leave first. He still had a task. Jiang Tao was initially stable. The most important thing was to dissuade them from being stupid. Jiang Tao also stood up and sent him to the door. "By the way, keep this for self-defense." As he said that, he took out a handful of Browning from his waist and handed it to Jiang Tao. This was all robbery. Anyway, there were more than a dozen in the car without spending money, so he didn't feel sorry for sending it all.
Jiang Tao took the pistol, and a look of joy flashed across his face. He hadn't touched the gun for a long time and had a skillful operation, as if showing it to him.
Chu Wenhao glanced at him and said nothing, waved his hand and disappeared quickly at the end of the street.
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At seven o'clock in the evening, Chu Wenhao was waiting in front of Zhang Qiang's house for two hours, and there was no sign of him coming back. The woman inside did not go out. If she believed that Zhang Qiang had returned, it seemed that she was obviously warned now.
He didn't continue to wait. He wanted to go to another place. This place was the team member Zhong Hu mentioned, that is, Ma Dong, who exchanged vehicles with Zhang Qiang. This man pulled supplies from the No. 2 Arsenal and received supplies from the No. 5 Arsenal. He should know a lot.
In Lijiazhuang, ten miles from Gele Village, Chu Wenhao parked his car at the entrance of the village and walked towards the village. It was not too late that there were still people outside to enjoy the cool air. After asking about Ma Dong's house, he came directly to the door. Today is Sunday, he should go home.
When he arrived at the gate, the door was not closed yet, and Chu Wenhao quietly walked into the courtyard without knocking on the door. The lights were lit in the small courtyard house, and the sounds of the two people talking could be heard.
Chu Wenhao came to the door carefully and listened carefully. There was indeed a man talking inside. According to Zhong Hu's information, Ma Dong lived with his mother, so he should not be wrong.
When I returned to the gate, I knocked on the gate and wanted to lure him out. There was an old man inside that was inconvenient to do it.
Ma Dong, who was eating, frowned slightly when he heard the sound, and stood up and said, "Mom, I'll go open the door and see who is coming." He went out directly to the gate: "Who?"
But no one responded. Ma Dong frowned and this happened normally. He never expected that someone would come to catch him. The moment he opened the door and walked out, Feng Sheng heard in his ears and said in his heart: No!
Bang! Chu Wenhao didn't talk nonsense to him and just slashed him out with a knife. He carried it up while the night was dark and ran away.
I woke up in a daze, my neck was sore and twisted, and I remembered that I had been attacked just now. I was about to get up when I was shocked, but I found myself tied to a chair. I was very uneasy when I thought about it.
"Who, who dares to kidnap the Air Force soldiers?" He tried to remind the other party, but received no response. The room was very dark and only a candle was lit in front of him. The faint light was quiet around it, making people feel scared.
Soon, footsteps came, and there were distances and nearness. He seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw: "Who are you? I advise you to let me go, otherwise you will feel better."
A hoarse greeting came from behind, "Do you think I don't know your identity? Just be simpler and want to die."
"You...who are you?" Ma Dong tried to see the person behind him clearly, but turned his neck but saw only a piece of darkness. This was the credit of the candle in front.
"Stop talking nonsense, I want to die and live for the last time!"
At this moment, no one wants to die, and even die, you must understand, "I want to live." A very simple answer.
"Very good. I'll ask you one and answer one. If you don't say it or say it on purpose, I'll put the candle on the top of your head and light it. Although it's far worse than the ancient sky lanterns, burning your hair still works."
"What do you want to ask!" Such an environment is inevitably trembling.
"It's very simple. Where did you go after taking the truck driven by Zhang Qiang? What was in the truck? Did your car come out of the No. 2 Arsenal?" He asked continuously and woke up Ma Dong, as if he guessed who it was.
"You...what white-haired boy are you?" He had met Chu Wenhao once, and there was only one strange face in the past six months. And he was reminded not to go down the mountain recently, but he still ran down secretly and planned to explain to his mother that he had settled down. Unexpectedly, Zhang Qiang really guessed it.
"You don't have to know who I am, and whether or not I am in you."
Ma Dong's expression changed back and forth, and looked strange against the candles. He gritted his teeth: "I don't know what it is, but it was the only time I changed the car. There were regulations for soldiers to be not allowed to watch secretly." This was obviously a lie.
"Very good, treat me as a fool, and you will have to pay the price." As he said that, Chu Wenhao got up and pulled the prepared wooden frame to his head. A candle was slanted across the top of his head. After igniting, it dripped on the top of his head with the burning wax oil.
"Ahhh..." The burning pain was still unbearable. Although I could persist, I didn't know when I endured it.
"Call your words slowly, I'm not in a hurry. There are still more than twenty of them that can last until dawn. If you don't say it, I won't ask. Take your mother to the Military Control Commission to enjoy a few days of happiness." Chu Wenhao felt that this kid should be quite filial, so he threatened to add some materials to him.
"You...you dare to touch my mother, I will tear you!" Ma Dong avoided the wax oil back and forth, causing burns to occur in different positions on the back of his body.
Chu Wenhao was too lazy to pay attention to him, so he just waited and didn't ask again. Ma Dong lived like a year, and after a candle burned, he changed to another one, endlessly. If he could persist at the beginning, he would not have any confidence when he thought about so much later.
When he changed the third candle, Ma Dong said anxiously: "Don't change it, I said... I said it's not okay!"
Chu Wenhao was not surprised by this result. If he had been exterminated, he would probably explain it quickly. He said lightly: "Tell me, it is best to answer clearly before the candle burns, otherwise he would have to change one."
Ma Dong gritted his teeth: "I only know that what Zhang Qiang pulled out of Factory No. 5 was bullets, grenades and other weapons, and he had also secretly checked it without any problems.
As for the supplies loaded in my car from the No. 2 Arsenal, it was all delivered to the weapons and ammunition for pilots for training. There were also ammunition pulled from the No. 3 and No. 6 factories and daily necessities pulled from the ration station.
He is the only one who can get up at the pilot base. This is also stipulated above. If you don’t give it to him, will you give it to you?" Ma Dong said in the end and was furious. He knew very little about this, but just asked him to talk less.
Chu Wenhao frowned: "Can Factory No. 5 produce weapons and ammunition?" He had never been in and was not sure about the situation inside.
"No, of course it can be produced. Although most of the time it is to clean and screen single shells and other materials sent from various places, there is still a workshop to produce bullets and grenades, and the machine is the most advanced, and the production speed can be up to two workshops."
"Did you send the finished bullets from Factory No. 5 into the Arsenal No. 2 to return to the furnace?"
"Ah!" Ma Dong grinned: "You are an idiot, so you will naturally send it to the finished product warehouse. The No. 2 Arsenal has the largest finished product warehouse. The Army has to collect bullets from all over the country from the No. 2 Arsenal. Where do I get the ones pulled in my car?"
The room was quiet for a while, Chu Wenhao rubbed his head and guessed what was happening here, "Which did you send the bullets from No. 5 to the finished product warehouse to keep them, and then pull weapons and ammunition from the finished product warehouse to the training base?"
Ma Dong endured the pain and didn't know what he meant by asking, so he said angrily: "I have been sent to the No. 5 finished product warehouse for more than half a year, and I have taken supplies from the No. 8 warehouse to load them into the vehicle for Zhang Qiang. No. 8 is a designated warehouse for the Air Force, and the rest are used by the Army, Navy and other departments."
There is something in this, but he didn't understand it for a moment, "Have you tried the bullets from Factory No. 5, grenades?"
"I've tried it a few times and it's no problem."
He retained his opinion on this issue. It seemed that everything was normal and without any flaws, but it always gave him a feeling of being a ghost. Moreover, Japanese spies came in and wanted to do things, and there was something wrong with the things that people who could do with Xu Qiyan.
It seems that this kid doesn’t know much, “Will Zhang Qiang take out the car tomorrow?”
"It should be out, but we all upgraded in the afternoon. Three people and one car said they were in case of someone robbing weapons and ammunition. Is it not you?" Ma Dong vaguely heard the above talk about it, and knew about Chu Wenhao's identity but was misled by it.
"You can find a way to get some bullets and grenades from Zhang Qiang's car, and I want to check it." Chu Wenhao was worried and wanted to try it out by himself.
Ma Dong grinned and cursed: "You are just a spy to do your own business. Professionals are worried about these professional things. You don't know that before producing ammunition, people from the Military Technical Department will conduct repeated tests before they can produce them. If there is any problem, they can't see it. They are worried about eating salty radish and quickly let me go!"
Ma Dong reminded him if he had any questions, he wouldn't know if he asked the people from the Technology Department for any questions. If there was any problem, it must be that the people in charge of weapons and ammunition had problems.
"Do you know who the technical department in charge of Factory No. 5 is responsible?"
"How do I know? These are all internal secrets. If anyone knows it, wouldn't they be arrested and threatened to buy it?" Although Ma Dong's tone was not good, he said it was right.
"Who is responsible for the Technology Department?"
"Are you still a spy in the Military Commission? It's so embarrassing! The Technical Department is under the management of the Military Affairs Department, so it's not very clear about which department it is divided into."
Chu Wenhao felt that it was almost done. This kid had limited knowledge and was not too bad. He didn't want to commit murder.
"I'll give you a chance. Since you know my identity, you must catch one and go back to submit the service. You choose, whether you arrest you or not, or arrest your mother and return to the military commander to submit the service."
As soon as he finished speaking, Ma Dong said anxiously: "Are you a fool? Of course, I was arrested and sent me back to submit the service. What does my mother know?"
Chu Wenhao stood up and came to his side without saying a word, "If you really want to stay away from Zhang Qiang in the future for your own mother." After that, Ma Dong lost consciousness again before he could react.
Chu Wenhao packed everything, glanced at Ma Dong, who was sleeping and left.
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The next day.
A young man came to the office of the Military Affairs Office of the Ministry of Military Affairs. He wore a black top hat and a blue long gown. He sat there silently without saying anything. He lowered his head as if he was thinking about a few moves that could kill the enemy on the other side.
The office clerk chattered in a low voice, "What's it? It looks cool." A little girl asked her colleague with a smile.
"I don't know if I might be here to propose to you," the female colleague laughed.
"Ah... I hate you." The little girl looked at Chu Wenhao, who was sitting in the contemplative state.
At this time, the office door was pushed open, and a man who looked thirty years old walked towards Chu Wenhao with a smile on his face, and came to him and said with a smile: "I, Kong Hansheng, I don't know what this little friend is doing here."
Chu Wenhao, who had originally lowered his head, froze, then he stood up and smiled, "I need to know some business matters, but I don't know if Director Kong is convenient."
Kong Hansheng narrowed his eyes and said, "It's easy to say, it's easy to say." Although he was kind-hearted, he didn't think so in his heart. For some reason, the boy in front of him gave him a very uncomfortable feeling. This feeling suddenly came without any trace.
The two of them came to Kong Hansheng's office, and the secretary left after giving him tea. At this time, the scene became strangely quiet.
Kong Hansheng was considering the purpose of this Military Intelligence Service coming here. There is no need to doubt the power of the Military Intelligence Service. The logistics supply of all the party and state troops needs to be signed here. Of course, the establishment of the Military Commission still divides a large part of the rights, and some of them are not worthy of the name and become real logistics departments, just signing.
Although the Military Control Commission has the right to supervise, even if the highest-level departments like the Ministry of Military Affairs need to be reviewed, they need to be approved at all levels. It is not something you can check just if you want.
To be continued...