Chapter 35: Sudden Change in the Wind and Clouds

  "How is this tea?" Chen Xiru smiled and asked Wei Zhipin.

  "Hmm, being able to drink such good tea is indeed wonderful." Wei Zhipin also said with a smile.

  "Can you tell me how this tea is made?" Chen Xiru asked with a smile.

  "Other teas are picked and then go through a rolling process, but this white tea is simply sun-dried after it's picked, so it retains the original white downy hairs on the tea leaves." Wei Zhipin said with a smile.

  "That's the essence." Chen Xiru also smiled and said: "Actually, Old Wei, this is my evaluation of you."

  "Thank you for Director Wei's appreciation." Wei Zhipin said humbly.

  "Lao Wei, your appointment has arrived." Chen Xiru said, getting up and walking to the place where the file was kept, picking up a file, taking out a piece of paper from it, and handing it over to Wei Zhipin.

  "Director, I proposed to adjust my work, no other meaning, just because I feel physically and mentally exhausted. For the director, for the people in the bureau, I still have feelings." Wei Zhipin explained.

  "Physical and mental exhaustion is also a common human emotion, I often feel that I'm a bit mentally exhausted too." Chen Xiru also deeply felt the same way: "Never mind, it's a bit depressing. Hehe."

  "Heh heh, yes." Wei Zhipin said as he put the transfer order into his own pocket.

  "Old man, if the battle situation here is really bad, Taiwan will be our base." Chen Xiru said to Wei Zhipin.

  "Yes." At this time, Wei Zhipin seemed unwilling to say anything, and it was unclear whether he was afraid of causing trouble or something else.

  In the enemy-occupied areas, such a tense struggle between the enemy and us is going on, and it is also like this in our liberated areas. The Kuomintang reactionaries see that they are about to lose the overall situation, extremely hate the people to live a truly happy life, their agents are carrying out large-scale sabotage activities.

  At this time, in a certain public security bureau in the liberated area, the telegraph room was bustling with soldiers.

  A female translator was concentrating on translating disaster relief materials when she stopped working and rubbed her temples with her hands.

  "Xiao Yan, how's the translation going?" Director Li walked into the translation room and asked as he approached Xiao Yan.

  "I've only translated this much," she said, handing over the telegram draft she had just finished translating to Director Li.

  This little swallow is Zhang Xiaoyan, a tall and slender young woman with a melon-seed-shaped face and two short braids.

  "Can't we find someone to help?" Li Ke Chang thought for a moment and asked.

  "It seems there isn't one for now. But I can ask my husband to help." Zhang Xiaoyan looked at Li Kechang and said, "My husband is a math expert."

  "Can it be done?" Director Li asked Zhang Xiaoyan.

  "I will try to persuade him," said Zhang.

  At Zhang Xiaoyan's home.

  Zhang Xiaoyan finished her household chores and came over to her husband's side, saying: "Recently our department wants to crack a code, I'd like to ask for your help."

  "This is something I will absolutely never help with," Zhang Xiaoyan's husband said resolutely.

  "Didn't you used to work in intelligence before?" Zhang Xiaoyan asked her husband.

  "That's different, those are Japanese devils, I don't want to see Chinese people fighting Chinese people." said Zhang.

  He said so, and Zhang Xiaoyan was also speechless for a while.

  A few days later, in the hospital's laboratory, Li Mei was busy with a test, and Dr. Li was standing beside him. The two were talking when a flustered person rushed in and said, "Dr. Li, Zhang Xiaoyan is not doing well."

  Upon hearing this, Li Mei and Dr. Li rushed quickly into Zhang Xiaoyan's hospital room.

  At this time, Zhang Xiaoyan was lying quietly and motionless on the hospital bed. Li Mei went to check her breath, but there was no breathing at all. It was clear that Zhang Xiaoyan had already died.

  Li Mei's face immediately showed a painful expression.

  "How could he have died when everything was fine just now?" Li Mei asked in great surprise.

  "Many times, a patient's life is very fragile." Dr. Li said deeply.

  In a small house, the fox was slowly saying: "This Zhang Xiaoyan should die. You did well, clean and efficient."

  "What's next?" asked an agent beside the fox.

  "Next, we will meet with Ma Kui Zi. The incense shop of Ma Kui Zi is our meeting point. It's a good place." The fox paused for a moment and looked at the three agents beside him.

  On a small street, there was a "Ma's Incense Shop". Many passersby on the street often bought incense from him. It seemed that his business was still quite good.

  "Come on, come on! Today is a good day, hurry up and burn incense!" Ma Guaizi stood beside the incense stand shouting loudly.

  On one side, constantly doing business with customers.

  At this time, a tall man walked over from one side of the street, and slowly came to the side of the incense shop, standing still.

  "Guest, would you like some incense?" Ma Huai Zi asked him.

  "I want to buy a lot of incense. Here, take this money first, 3 yuan. I'll come back for the incense later." The man said, and then took out a stack of banknotes from his pocket and handed it to Ma's hand. After that, he turned around and left.

  Ma Kui's son carefully looked around, locked the door of the store, and came inside. He slowly spread out the money in his hand one by one, revealing a note inside.

  He took a look and hastily put the note into his own pocket.

  In the evening, it was revealed that there were no more pedestrians on the street, and the whole street was desolate, with only a few street lamps still shining dimly.

  Ma Huai Zi came out from inside, took care of the shop door, and walked slowly forward on the dark street with his crutches. Gradually, he walked faster and faster, as if he was flying. It's really like the common saying: "A lame man can run a horse."

  After turning several corners on the street, he arrived at a mountain outside the city. He entered the forest and soon came to a large tree in the middle of it.

  He got down, deliberately pretending to be carrying something, cautiously looking around at the situation, and after making sure there was nothing unusual, he quickly came to the side of a large tree, stretched out his hand and took down a piece of bark from the trunk.

  Then, he quickly took something out of his body and put it into the hole, quickly covering it with tree bark. He retreated a few steps, bowed to the big tree, turned his head to look around, and then disappeared quickly into the night.

  The next day in the afternoon, two people were sitting in a teahouse opposite Ma Wazi's incense shop, vigilantly watching the situation here.

  These two people were actually Li Kezhang and Da Gezi in disguise.

  After a while, Li Kezhang and Da Gezi pretended to be pedestrians of the boiler, slowly passing by Ma Gui's store.

  When they arrived at a place where there were few people, Li Kezhang and Da Gezi stopped.

  "This guy must be a problem. Let's make a secret arrest." Li Kezhang said to the big man.

  The next afternoon, four or five customers came to Ma's shop. Their appetites were really big, and as soon as they made a move, they wanted many of his incense sticks, almost packaging all of his incense sticks.

  The individual was overjoyed, thinking he had encountered the God of Wealth today.

  "These are all very good incense." Ma Guaizi said happily while busy inviting.

  "We'll take all of these." one said.

  "Alright." Ma Huai Zi said happily.

  After putting all the incense sticks on the stall in order, Ma Huai led them inside to pay.

  At this time, Li Kezhang gave a glance, and the big man quickly closed the shop door. Several people came together to the inside.

  "Don't move." The big guy said, then pulled out a handgun and pressed it against Ma Kui's chest.

  "What are you doing? I'm just an ordinary citizen, doing normal business." Ma Huanzi said calmly to Li Kechang and the others.

  "What you're doing in front of everyone is a normal business, but what you're doing behind their backs is something that can't be seen." The big guy said sternly.

  In the office of Director Li in the Public Security Bureau, Director Li was looking at a telegram draft that had just been translated, but this telegram draft had not been fully translated yet.

  "Wolf, fox, bat, snake. Four horsemen. Calamity befalls, the earth loses color." Li Ke Chang looked at the telegram draft and said: "This must be one of their big actions."

  "Section Chief, will it be an activity like this?" asked a big guy standing on one side.

  "For now, it's still unclear what they're going to do, but it will definitely be a huge destructive activity," said Director Li.

  ………

  In the corridor opposite the city train station building, Xiaofuzi arrived here, hiding behind a large stone pillar, looking at the train station building across from him, taking out his ticket from his pocket and looking at it for a moment, then raising his head to respond for a while.

  He felt that leaving like this, leaving the few people who came from his hometown here, was a betrayal of Lao Wei's entrustment to him. He decided that he must take them with him when he left, so as not to betray Lao Wei's expectations and also to live up to the hopes of those who had come from his hometown.

  He put the ticket back into his pocket and turned around to head back.

  He walked quickly, and soon came to a remote place. Xiaofuzi stopped for a moment, looked around cautiously, and then came to the door of a house. He looked around again before pushing open the door and walking in.

  Inside were a woman and a child, they were Wei Zhipin's family in my liberated area. Originally Liu Shiqiang wanted to win over Wei Zhipin and let them reunite.

  But now the situation has changed dramatically, Old Wei has sacrificed herself, and they can no longer stay here.

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