Next to the staff stood a man, his posture straight, like a tall pine or cypress.

He had a handsome and stern face, with sharp eyebrows and eyes, but his eyes were too stern. He stared at her with a cold and sharp look like an unruly Saker Falcon.

Han Jingchen!

Pei Manning's heart skipped a beat. She felt nervous and uneasy. She had not expected to see Han Jingchen so suddenly!

She stared at him blankly, not knowing how to react.

When she was blocking the door and getting angry, the staff of the guesthouse frowned and said, "Comrade, this is a nighttime inspection. Please make way."

Pei Manning didn't know how she managed to move aside. She only knew that her hands and feet were stiff, as if they didn't obey her commands.

After the two entered the room, they did not rummage around, but just took a look at everything in the room.

She didn't know if it was an illusion, but she always felt that Han Jingchen was staring at her, and that look made her feel uneasy.

Pei Manning's heart was pounding, and he put the drug in his hand into his Xumi Realm.

Why was Han Jingchen staring at her like that? Did he recognize her disguise? Wasn't he a soldier? Why did he come to the guesthouse again? Or... was he here for her?

This realization made Pei Manning feel uneasy.

After checking around, the guesthouse staff typed a check on the registration form, "OK, no problem..."

Before she finished speaking, she was suddenly interrupted by Han Jingchen, "Comrade Pei."

The deep and melodious voice was nothing short of a shock to Pei Manning.

The tone was not one of doubt, but a direct affirmative statement, skipping even the process of doubt and temptation.

As expected, he had recognized her disguise and he was coming for her!

"Do you know Yuan Weicheng from Xinhua Bookstore? Please answer truthfully." He stared at her with sharp eyes, and his gaze was so severe that it made people's scalps numb.

...Hey? Yuan Weicheng?

She was a little confused, but seeing Han Jingchen's serious expression, she nodded and said, "I know him."

Pei Manning stopped pretending to be dumb. She felt that if she lied to Han Jingchen again, the consequences would be serious.

Moreover, when the guesthouse staff knocked on the door just now, she said "wait a moment". It would be unacceptable for her to pretend to be silent at this time.

Han Jingchen stared into her still, watery eyes, trying to detect nervousness, panic, or guilt in them, but there was only a hint of doubt and calmness in those eyes. If she was not ignorant, then she must have a strong psychological quality.

After looking at each other for a moment, Han Jingchen said, "Yuan Weicheng is suspected of providing intelligence to the border organization. We are investigating him. I hope you will cooperate with us."

Pei Manning was stunned. Providing intelligence to foreign organizations? Isn't that a trick?

After reading books and newspapers for so many days, she knew very well that due to some historical issues, the local area was now very strict with spies, and once you were identified as a spies, there was almost no good ending.

Pei Manning pursed her lips, feeling uneasy. Her household registration and letter of introduction could not withstand scrutiny. If what Han Jingchen said was true and Yuan Weicheng was a spy, then she had an unknown background and happened to know Yuan Weicheng. Wouldn't that be very suspicious?

But Pei Manning also understood that she had no room for refusal.

"Okay, I'll tell you everything I know." Pei Manning responded in a low voice that almost exhausted all her energy.

She didn't expect that she was just trying to get a household registration and encountered such a thing. She thought she kept a distance from everyone and was just a nodding acquaintance with Yuan Weicheng. Unexpectedly, Yuan Weicheng turned out to be her younger brother.

Similarly, Yuan Weicheng felt that he had been badly cheated.

After entering the yard, several officers disguised as red armbands searched the entire yard carefully, almost digging three feet into the ground, on suspicion of speculation.

Then, he watched intently as one of them opened the cake, revealing a black object as big as a little finger inside, and then took out a few hair dryers from the lining of his cotton coat.

"Report, the floor tiles under the bedroom bed are loose, we found these things in the basement!" The person who came out of the room, with a stern face, made a gesture to everyone, indicating that the things had been found.

Inside was a set of espionage tools, an old telegraph, a hand-cranked generator, a manual full of ciphertext, a miniature camera called "Plac" specially designed for taking pictures of documents, and eleven printers with hollow bottoms, which contained a set of "one-time translation" miniature code books.

"Take it away." The leader nodded.

Yuan Weicheng was still confused, but when he saw what was sticking out of the pastry, he realized what was happening. How could an average person hide something in a pastry?

He immediately looked at Uncle Zhou, asking him what was wrong with his eyes, but the man lowered his head, his hair blocking his eyes, making it impossible to see his expression.

Yuan Weicheng was taken away for interrogation in a daze.

Because his head was covered with a black cloth, he didn't know where he was being taken. He only knew that he and Zhou Bangguo were taken to a military jeep, and the car drove around for nearly an hour before finally stopping.

He was taken to a dark, closed room with a faint yellow light on. The person taking the statement sat behind a desk.

Zhou Bangguo did not join them, they were directly isolated, and Zhou Bangguo was taken away by others, perhaps to the next door?

Yuan Weicheng sat down nervously, stammering, "Comrade, I, I am innocent! I really didn't know what was hidden inside, I didn't know they were spies, you must believe me!"

The person interrogating him was quite gentle. He held down his hand and signaled him to calm down. "Don't get excited. We are here to explain the situation to you. We will definitely not wrongly accuse a good person, and we will not let a bad person go. Tell me first, how did you know Zhou Bangguo and Cheng Hao?"