Chapter 20: The mantis stalks the cicada? The oriole is behind!
“Ahem—“
Gu Zhongzhang coughed twice and looked back and forth between the two of them.
"You are a man of great potential, it's hard to see a man like you..." He dragged out his voice and thought of someone in Beijing. "She is your fiancée, so what about Yang Xueying?"
"Yang Xueying?" "Yang Xueying!"
Two voices sounded at the same time.
Xiao Bai narrowed her eyes and looked at Tang Jingmo. Her little hand flicked up the buttons of his shirt, and her tone carried a hint of autumn.
"Commander Tang..."
"I explain! I confess! I swear! There is nothing between us!
There has never been one before, there is not one now, and there will never be one in the future.”
Tang Jingmo held her naughty little hand tightly, worried that if he spoke too late, this girl would murder her husband, causing blood to splatter on the spot and scaring someone.
"Yes, yes, look at my mouth," Gu Zhongzhang patted his cheek gently, "Don't mind, sister-in-law, Yang Xueying grew up in the same courtyard with us, and she has loved following Jing Mo around since she was a child..."
In the middle of his words, he received a death stare from his friend. Gu Zhongzhang quickly sped up his speech.
"But, I guarantee with my character that your fiancé never paid any attention to other people. At that time, we thought he liked men...hahaha——"
"Is it funny?" Tang Jingmo warned his friend with a sharp look to keep his mouth shut.
Gu Zhongzhang immediately shut up and put on a serious face, "It's not funny, let's talk business!"
He pulled out a yellowed old photo from his inner pocket and pushed it towards me: "Do you know these three people?"
The photo shows three young men standing in front of Longtou Cliff.
The man on the far left wearing a puppet army uniform and with a sinister look in his eyes is actually the young old man Lin.
Lin Xiaobai's vines suddenly tightened in his sleeves.
"Lin Youfu, Li Quan, and Lin Wu," Gu Zhongzhang pointed at the three people in the old photo, "Back then, the Japanese conducted geological surveys in the Longshan Village area, which was actually a treasure-hunting team. These three are the survivors of the team back then..."
Tang Jingmo held Xiaobai's hand, shook his head, and signaled her not to be impatient.
"How did they survive?" Are they also time travelers?
Gu Zhongzhang pulled out a document from his briefcase and slapped it on the table, saying mysteriously, "Top secret!"
After receiving the warning look, he immediately smiled again: "But now it has been unsealed. It is said that they have the key to enter and exit Longxue. One of my tasks here is to get the key and play a pioneer role in the subsequent research..."
Lin Xiaobai and Tang Jingmo stared at the photo, not knowing what to say for a moment.
No one knows the secret of Longtou Cliff better than them. It is not a problem that can be solved in this era. Even if time fast-forwards to two hundred years later, they can only glimpse one or two of it.
Tang Jingmo pondered for a moment and said to Gu Zhongzhang, "Let's split up. You are responsible for collecting evidence, and Longshen Mountain will be left to us."
"You guys?" Gu Zhongzhang frowned, "Don't tell me, sister-in-law..."
"Xiaobai is a villager of Longshan Village and is more familiar with the terrain than you and I. Right now we have to race against time with the enemy, and Lin Youfu's biological son is in the county,"
Tang Jingmo changed the subject subtly. Before he was completely sure that he could protect Xiaobai, her identity and abilities must not be exposed.
"You mean, take him by surprise and interrogate him to get a confession."
Gu Zhongzhang reacted quickly and immediately understood what his childhood friend meant.
"Yes, this person is Lin Zhihong, a temporary employee of the Propaganda Department and Qian Deren's lackey."
Tang Jingmo took out a folded paper from his jacket pocket and said, "I found it in Qian Deren's office."
Gu Zhongzhang glanced at it. "List of female educated youth? Gold? Explosives?"
"Qian abused his power to bully others. There is evidence that at least three female educated youth died because of him. There is no telling how many others have suffered in silence!"
Tang Jingmo's voice became low. It would be an insult to him to let this scum live for even one more second.
He agrees with Xiaobai's sense of revenge, but for the victim's family, only by bringing Qian's crimes to light and bringing him to trial can they comfort the dead souls.
"Heh--" Gu Zhongzhang laughed angrily, "He's been a local tyrant for so long that he actually forgot how to write the word death. It's not unfair for him to fall into my hands~"
After the three of them finished their discussion, they went about their own business.
At the same time, Qian Deren dismissed everyone and worried alone in the office.
He was not able to climb to his current position entirely by luck. The main purpose of the Longshan Village trip was to receive supplies, and secondly to receive a young bride.
As a result...the important business was delayed.
He has been ordered by his superiors to find the exact location of the treasure in Longshen Mountain to atone for his sins, otherwise...
"Damn it, they can only talk. If it was really that easy to find, the Japanese wouldn't have lost a whole battalion there."
He scratched his bald head, complained a few words, exhaled, opened the drawer, reached inside, opened the secret cabinet, and there lay a navy blue metal fragment.
"It all depends on you, little darling!"
Qian Deren carefully put the fragments into his inner pocket and shouted to the outside:
"Come on, gather, get in the car, and go to Longshen Mountain!"
A group of people, sitting in a large truck, roared away, heading straight for Longshen Mountain.
In the cave on the mountain, Qian Deren looked at the empty supply point and stamped his feet in anger:
"You little bastards, why didn't you tell me that all your stuff was stolen last time you came back?"
He grabbed the little henchman who had escaped last time and put a pistol to his forehead.
"Boss, when we left last time, the things were still there..."
"Bang!"
Qian Deren gave him a bullet and didn't want to listen to any more nonsense. He touched his head and realized later -
Damn it, I always felt something was wrong before coming here. It turns out that someone had been targeting me for a long time.
But now he has no time to retreat, the arrow is on the string and has to be shot.
"Where is Lin Zhihong? Where is the guide he said he would be?" Qian Deren looked around but didn't see anyone.
"Boss, I didn't see him when we set out. I guess... he ran away." There are people who take advantage of others' misfortunes everywhere. How can a group of villains understand the word loyalty?
"Run? You can run away, but you can't run away from the temple. Go, two people, and kidnap his father from the village."
"No need to tie him up. Zhihong has already told me to wait here for the director." Old man Lin walked out slowly from the shadows with a simple and honest face of a countryman.
Qian Deren's fat face froze. He smelled the scent of his own kind and was secretly alert, but he didn't show it on his face. Instead, he grinned and said, "Father Lin, how are you?"
"Thanks to you, Dragon God Mountain has appeared."
The two of them understood each other tacitly and were calculating their own plans.
"Director Qian, please come this way." Old Man Lin led Qian Deren and his party around to Longtou Cliff.
After walking for about half an hour, Old Man Lin suddenly stopped in front of a rock wall covered with vines.
His skinny fingers pushed aside the layers of vines, revealing a dark cave entrance behind. The night wind swirled out of the cave, carrying a sweet and fishy smell of decay.
"This is..." Qian Deren's voice suddenly rose an octave. He stumbled forward two steps, not feeling any pain when his belly hit the protruding rock.
Old Man Lin stepped aside, the afterglow of the setting sun shining on half of his face, and the other half hidden in the shadows: "Yes, the entrance of Longxue Cave."
His voice was so light that it sounded like a sigh. "The rules left by our ancestors can only be seen when the sun shines halfway up the mountain at dusk."
Qian Deren's breathing became heavy.
He took out a brass compass from his arms with trembling hands, and the needle spun wildly and pointed directly into the cave.
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