After going down the mountain, she drove towards the county town. On the way here, she had heard that there were two landlords in the county who were notoriously immoral.
One family was surnamed Ma and the other surnamed Ding. Both families were landlords and owned land and shops. They rented the land to tenants in the surrounding area every year.
If an ordinary landlord does this, he will at most deduct some of the rent from his family's long-term workers and ask the tenants to pay higher rent.
If someone brings it up and curses you behind your back, you can just say a few small words and it will be over.
It just so happened that these two families, in addition to collecting rent and running shops, also had ties with the Japanese devils.
Grandma once said that her guide, Lao Wang, should have returned safely and recruited a general to fight the Japanese.
Who would have thought that at the beginning of the operation, those two families colluded with the Japanese and acted as accomplices. When their main force was charging forward, these two families were plotting evil behind the scenes.
Lao Wang injured his arm while saving someone, and since then he had to come down from the front line and do work in the rear.
It was also when he was hiding in the rear doing underground work that he met his confused grandmother. Then she resolutely joined the team, drew a clear line with her family and devoted herself to the revolution.
At that time, at grandma's house, a group of them listened to her talk about the past. Some of the things made their blood boil, while some of the things made them hate it to the core.
These two families are the most despicable. They became traitors during the Anti-Japanese War, but during those turbulent years, they managed to keep their entire family alive by sending their daughter away to be the concubine of a certain committee director.
After the reform and opening up, he relied on the family fortune he had hidden to become a well-known local entrepreneur.
There was even a younger generation who became the local village chief, and although he was later arrested for corruption, it still makes people feel unhappy. Why do good people not live long, while evil people are left for thousands of years?
Old Wang died before liberation. He was betrayed by a traitor. Because of his injured arm, he was not very flexible. During the retreat, he volunteered to stay behind to cover his companions, and was killed on the spot by the enemy!
So Jiang Cha remembered very clearly that the root of all the trouble was these two families. If it weren't for their internal and external cooperation, the Japanese would not have surrounded them from behind.
The team wouldn't have suffered heavy casualties from the enemy both in front and behind, and Lao Wang wouldn't have been injured in this battle. His arm wouldn't have been unable to lift heavy objects, and he wouldn't have been unable to hold his gun steady during a future retreat due to a relapse of an old injury.
There was a strong wind blowing on the road. There are strong winds in the north every spring. The wind is filled with sand and soil, making it impossible to open your eyes.
Sometimes the wind blows so hard that even the small gravel on the ground can be blown up and hit the glass with crackling sounds.
When Jiang Cha was little, she often witnessed sandstorms. It was common to see underwear and long johns of all colors floating in the sky. Bedsheets and pillowcases were also common, often swept into the air by the strong winds. The children would lean against the windows and comment on which one flew higher.
It seems that the wind today is going to be quite strong. The mule is having a hard time walking, and the small shed on the cart is shaking in the wind.
Fortunately, they were about to reach the county town. Once they got into the city and found a place to stay, her mule could have a good rest for a few days.
By the time she checked into the inn, it was already dark outside.
The strong wind blew yellow soil all over the sky, and the whole sky was yellow.
Looking out the window, there was no one there. Most people wouldn't go out in this kind of weather. Not only would they risk being blown away by the strong wind, but they could also be hit on the head by something carried by the wind.
When she was in school, there was news about billboards being blown away by sandstorms, and tower cranes being blown down, which was super scary.
For ordinary people, today is a day to have a good rest and sleep at home, but for Jiang Cha, today is a good opportunity to take action.
At night, lock the door of the room, prop up the back of the door with the table of the inn, then open the window and go down from the second floor.
The inn's windows were old-fashioned wooden windows, covered with white paper and covered with lattices. She pushed the window open and found a hook stuck on the side. She climbed out and closed it.
Otherwise, with such a strong wind, the window frame would probably have been blown away by the time she came back!
He put on a motorcycle helmet and changed into a black windbreaker, then braved the strong wind to reach the home of the landlord named Ma.
There are two stone doorposts at the entrance of their house, and many flowers and plants are planted at the entrance.
It is said that although their family is of landlord origin, they usually oppress the people in the village and harm them, yet they still call themselves intellectuals.
This can be seen from the decoration of their house. When I climbed over the wall and entered the yard, there was no one on duty. Who would be so stupid as to come out and steal in such weather?
So the whole house was particularly quiet, and people walked in the yard very carefully, for fear that a dog would suddenly appear and wake them up.
But she was lucky. The servants in the house were probably afraid that the wind would be too strong and the dog would be killed by something, so they considerately locked the dog in the kennel and locked the door to prevent it from running around.
It was quite easy to search for things in a large house with three courtyards. The front yard was usually the male owner's study and the reception area. Jiang Cha went in one by one and looked around, even the bricks on the ground and the walls.
Use a stick to knock on them one by one. Once you find a hollow sound, start digging with a military shovel.
Try not to miss any secret compartment or room, even if the house has been dug up like a demolition site.
The owner lives in the second hall, and the things inside are definitely the most valuable.
She also took out a special incense stick, lit it and stuffed it into the crack of the window, listening to the snoring in the room gradually become smaller until there was no movement, then she used a knife to pick the door lock and entered the house.
Putting on a gas mask, he looked at the two people on the bed. These were the two evil people in the Ma family.
The man was dark-skinned and had little hair on his head, and the woman always pouted when she slept, looking like someone who was not to be messed with.
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