Guan Hua's new house was completed in the spring. It's a five-room, tiled house, the most impressive in the village. Originally, they'd considered keeping it low-key with just three rooms, but then they figured, as Fifth Grandpa got older, he'd definitely want to live with them, and if relatives or friends came along, three rooms wouldn't be enough. So, they decided to just build five.

The bright glass windows and the newly covered walls and ceiling with newspapers made the room look particularly bright and spacious. The newspapers used for the pastings were also very particular. Guan Huashu specially found expired agricultural newspapers at the county scrap collection station. This agricultural newspaper was flawless when pasting the paper.

Guan Huashu now receives a salary of 5 yuan a month from the commune, and Professor Dong, as the director of the women's department, receives 3 yuan a month. In addition, everyone tells the public that Fifth Grandpa is helping them. Everyone in the village knows that Fifth Grandpa treats Guan Huashu as his own son. The old man receives a subsidy every month, so it is normal for him to add some money to Guan Huashu's family's housing construction. Therefore, they are not afraid of being investigated when building these five houses.

The house was built at the turn of spring and summer. They had not moved in because it was too damp inside the newly built house. Besides, Fifth Grandpa would not let them leave, so they wanted to air it out for the winter.

Sweet potatoes, potatoes, radishes, corn, sorghum, and other crops have just been planted, so the fields are not very busy, with only occasional work like weeding. Taking advantage of the recent lull in the fields, several families in the village have set wedding dates during these days.

Another family was getting married that day, and many people went to watch the wedding. A few people from the educated youth camp also went to watch the fun. There was nothing else to do in the village except working in the fields. Since we were young people, all from big cities, we naturally couldn't stay there for long, so we followed the villagers to watch the fun.

Xiaodong, who has been responsible for monitoring Zhang Zhiqing, came back and brought exciting news that Zhang Zhiqing was moving.

While everyone was watching the wedding, he went to the mountains. There was a cave halfway up the mountain. He stayed in it for about an hour before coming out. Xiaodong watched from afar and was afraid of being discovered by him, so he didn't go near. However, Xiaodong marked the nearby geographical locations.

After following Zhang Zhiqing back, he went straight to the team to report the situation.

"Great, great, we finally caught them!" Fifth Grandpa was so excited that he finally found them.

"Dongzi, take us up the mountain. Shengzi, take someone to continue monitoring Zhang Zhiqing." Guan Huashu said as he arranged the militia.

"Yes!" Shengzi was extremely excited when he heard that the cave was discovered. After waiting for more than half a month, he finally found the loophole.

Guan Huashu, along with the village chief, Fifth Grandfather, Suihe, the militia captain, and about ten others, armed with guns, flashlights, torches, shovels, ropes, and other tools, headed straight for the mountain. Dongzi led them halfway up the mountain and, instead of ascending, they changed course and headed west into the wild woods. This mountain had once belonged to a large landlord in the village, who had planted fruit trees there. Before liberation, several nearby mountains had also belonged to that landlord. After liberation, the landlords were overthrown, the land was returned to the working people, and the mountain became the property of the village.

After walking about a mile to the west, Dongzi slowed down. He found the crooked tree that served as a mark and walked along it. Not far away, he saw a dilapidated cave.

Dongzi stepped forward and whispered, "It's here!"

Suihe walked in front and asked people to wait outside while he went in to take a look.

Guan Huashu disagreed, worried that he would go in alone, so the militia captain wanted to go with him.