Chapter 124: Eavesdropping Device The two men dug away the snow and dirt with their bare hands...
Chapter 124: Eavesdropping Device
The next day, Yan Jiuru went to his father-in-law's house before breakfast.
If the daughter-in-law suddenly falls ill at night, even if she has recovered, her parents' home must be informed.
Doing so is both a respect for the mother's family and a way to reassure them.
After hearing this, Secretary Chen stared at him straight in the eyes, and the pipe of his pipe almost hit him on the head.
Yan Jiuru bowed her head in shame and admitted her fault: "It's all my fault. I should have thought of it earlier, and she wouldn't have to suffer."
"Knock, knock, knock!" Secretary Chen knocked his pipe against the stone under the kang edge several times with such force that he wished the stone was Yan Jiuru's head.
Tian Xiaolian didn't care about much else. She quickly packed up a few things, left her father-in-law and son-in-law behind, and went out. Before leaving, she said, "If you want to beat him, hurry up. Don't waste my time. Go see my daughter quickly."
The Chen family was also in chaos. Even the old lady had to move her bound feet to go see her granddaughter. Secretary Chen managed to persuade her to stop.
"Bei Zhan, you stay home and look after grandma. You can go after we come back."
Yan Jiuru accompanied his father-in-law and mother-in-law to see their daughter, and only gave him a good look after confirming that she was fine.
Yan Jiuru took the opportunity to quietly ask for leave from his father-in-law: "Well, you sit here first, I have to go see Platoon Leader Wang..."
Secretary Chen: "Oh, I'll go too. I'm a grown man, so I should be fine. After all, I'm a soldier."
Having said that, the two of them still got up and left.
The main thing is that apart from being a little tired, Chen Yin doesn't look like anything is wrong anymore. All that's left is for her to rest for a while and recover her strength.
Everyone is standing by like they're in a daze, which is really disrespectful to the in-laws.
***
The two men saw Wang Dali and learned that he was also possessed by a ghost last night, thanks to a loud thunder.
Seeing that there was no one in the room, Yan Jiuru said, "I suspect someone in our surrounding area or in the county town has tampered with the phone, otherwise..."
As soon as he made any move, someone came to surround and kill him.
Apart from the phone call with Director Wu, he did not reveal any information to the outside world. The Japanese knew everything too quickly and in too much detail.
"What do you want to do?" After fighting the Japanese together yesterday, Wang Dali already admired him very much. Even though he was very young, he couldn't help but ask for his opinion first.
"I think it would be best to check the village's outbound telephone lines, as well as the associated telephones and operators."
"Well," Wang Dali and Secretary Chen exchanged a glance, "there's no problem from the town to our village, but from the town up, we can't help."
"I know that. Let's check our side first. As for Hexi Village, I'll check the outside first."
They could not check the telephone or the operator.
***
The three of them went to the village office without saying a word.
Although Yan Jiuru knew that there was nothing wrong with the phone at a glance, he still took the receiver apart so that Wang Dali could see how to disassemble it and it would be best to check it regularly.
The village phone was fine, so I checked the outside line.
The electric and telephone lines are connected by the same pole. There is a row of porcelain bottles on the pole that looks like a long and thin cross, with wires wrapped around them. To inspect or replace it, you have to step on the iron-toothed foot hooks to go up and down.
Yan Jiuru was young and agile. He climbed up in a few quick steps against the cold wind and checked them one by one.
The external lines of Xinghua Village are usually very precious and are inspected diligently, so naturally no problems were found.
Yan Jiuru took some things to investigate Hexi Village again.
This kind of thing needs to be informed to Hexi Village, but he and Wang Dali just focus on their work and leave the communication to Secretary Chen.
Sure enough, the problem arose when we found the third electric pole.
As we all know, wooden poles are prone to cracks over time. In a tiny crack, there is a thin copper wire hidden. If the sun had not shone at a certain angle and reflected a flash, he would not have noticed it with the naked eye.
Hidden deep enough.
Looking up along the copper wire, I saw that one end was attached to the telephone line, and then I looked down along the other end.
Yan Jiuru quickly stepped down from the pole
"Did you find anything?" Wang Dali guessed from his expression.
Yan Jiuru nodded and pointed to the copper wire hidden in the gap to show him.
"Fuck, they really dare to think and do it, and it's happened right under our noses!" Wang Dali cursed, but his hands were not slow, and he quickly followed the copper wire to the bottom of the electric pole.
"Look, the snow and soil here aren't frozen solid, which means someone has been tinkering with them recently."
The two men dug away the snow and dirt with their bare hands and soon found a wooden box underneath. Inside, besides fur, cotton, and other items for insulation, there was also a coil-like device connected to a copper wire.
"This is a bug." Wang Dali said with experience.
Yan Jiuru looked at the direction of the electric poles and realized that this was the case: Xinghua Village was at the innermost part, and the electric and telephone lines all passed through Hexi Village, extending in one line.
When they make phone calls in their village, they can be eavesdropped on by installing such eavesdropping equipment anywhere along the line.
Yan Jiuru took a deep breath of the cold air and said, "Put it back first. I'll look for it later."
Hexi Village is much larger than Xinghua Village and has more electric poles. The two then checked more than a dozen poles and found another eavesdropping device.
"Don't their messengers usually inspect the lines?"
"It's too hidden. If I hadn't looked for it specifically, it wouldn't have been easy to see."
***
The secretary and the village chief of Hexi Village stared at the eavesdropping device and copper wire on the office desk in the village office, feeling a headache.
A few days ago, a group of Japanese invaders appeared in their village, and now they found that there were eavesdropping devices on the telephone lines. Life is really unbearable!
I’m afraid this village official is in danger.
"Let's report to the police." Now it's not a question of whether or not to become an official, but what kind of punishment will I receive and whether my crime can be mitigated by my merits. . . . .
Yan Jiuru also agreed.
He is not a professional spy. These things are very diverse. There are eight hundred different types of eavesdropping devices alone. It is better to leave it to professionals to study.
The Ze County Public Security Bureau has been very busy these past two days.
We were just feeling happy after catching a bunch of Japanese devils, when suddenly we were told that five Japanese killers had been killed and their bodies had been delivered, along with all the guns, ammunition and bullet casings.
Just as we were planning to send someone to the scene, we received news that a bug had been found on the telephone line.
Is this a meritorious service or a dereliction of duty?
***
Not to mention how much of a headache the Ze County Public Security Bureau was in, Yan Jiuru borrowed the county armed forces department's phone number to report to Director Wu about what had happened in the past two days.
What he mainly wanted to express was that the information had been leaked to him, and he wanted Director Wu to have an idea of whether it would be safe for him to take away the materials.
Director Wu was silent for a moment, then said, "This matter is beyond our jurisdiction. I've reported it to the National Security Department. I'll urge them to contact you as soon as possible. Once you're done with your work, please return as soon as possible."
Some things can only be discussed in detail in person, and now even he can't guarantee whether there is any problem with the telephone line.
After all, the line is so long and covers such a wide range, who knows which pole is targeted by the spies.
Yan Jiuru saw that the time was almost up and there was no point in staying any longer. He simply booked a date to return to Yancheng at the Armed Forces Department. The Armed Forces Department would help arrange the train tickets, and he could just pick up the ticket and get on the train.
***
On the 12th, a team of special security personnel came to Ze County.
It’s not the public security, it’s the national security!
They split into three groups. One group went to the county public security department to learn about the spy incidents, corpses, guns and ammunition during this period; one group went to the Lin family hideout in Hexi; and another group went directly to Xinghua Village.
Yan Jiuru met three national security personnel at the village office.
After both parties looked at each other's IDs, Yan Jiuru had a secret conversation with the other party for about half an hour.
Provide the other party with some information you have discovered that is not convenient to say over the phone.
He also raised his doubts: "Regardlessly, the Japanese shouldn't have sent out five undercover personnel to surround and kill me, and then I was directly exposed? This is too abnormal."
The leading national security officer nodded, his voice soft but clear to Yan Jiuru's ears: "Because the travel book you found in the secret room, after analysis by the security department, contains a list of hidden spies and the people they are in contact with who are preparing to or are in the process of inciting rebellion!"
It’s hard to tell the public what exactly happened.
oh!
No wonder.
"Okay, looking at it this way, five people isn't too many."
Seeing that he looked like he accepted it, the other party smiled and said, "This is also an unexpected gain.
When we first received it, we thought it was just a reactionary manual. It was an old comrade who accidentally discovered the suspicious points. It took some time to decipher it, and the Japanese gave us a time lag.
Otherwise, we would have informed you to be careful.”
How could the enemy not counterattack when such important information was discovered?
The only one who really exposed them was Yan Jiuru.
"You've done a great job this time! But you should pay more attention to your safety in the future." After all, he was in the open and the enemy was in the dark.
***
After a thorough investigation, the national security personnel also held a village meeting in Xinghua Village and Hexi Village respectively.
At the meeting, he specifically talked about some of the enemy spies lurking in Hexi Village, and pointed out some of their common methods and disguises, as well as their modes of operation.
For example, secretly connecting eavesdropping devices to telephone poles, carrying hidden telephones to temporarily steal information on the lines, installing recorders, etc.
There are also eavesdropping devices disguised as tree stumps, trash cans, statues, and even hidden in the national emblem.
National security must never be neglected at any time.
According to the decoded information, when the Japanese evacuated, they left behind tens of thousands of spies and targets for rebellion lurking in various parts of our country!
What kind of concept is this! ?
Although Xuan Country is vast, these tens of thousands of spies are only under one organization in Japan, and it is unknown how many there are in other countries and organizations.
What is particularly serious is that some people have been lurking for decades and have been assimilated to the point that they can no longer be recognized as Japanese. Some have even become R&D personnel, professors, economic and trade personnel in certain fields. Many of them are backbone forces or even leaders.
This is pretty scary.
In order to gain the trust of others and organizations, some people have publicly criticized and denounced Japan's acts of aggression.
It can be said that this discovery has sounded an even louder alarm for our national security!
***
Yan Jiuru has done enough in this matter, so it is not appropriate for him to interfere. After all, his job is not to deal with national security.
Professionals do professional work.
He called his second brother to repack the food bags that were used as shelter that day, and rushed to the town to exchange them for a batch from the grain station.
This is not his favoritism, it is arranged by the organization.
After all, the contaminated grain can be considered as work-related loss. The state can collect it and deal with it, but they can't wash or dry it themselves. The main reason is that they can't get over it psychologically.
Mountain products were sent by mail a long time ago, but the mailing cost for something as heavy as grain was too high, so we consigned it together with them.
***
On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, all the members of the Yan family, except his grandparents and his father, boarded the train back to Yancheng.
After getting off the train, Chen Yin took her three children, mother-in-law, Ruyue and Rushong and took the jeep that came to pick them up back to Kuihua Hutong.
Brothers Yan Jiuru and Rushan loaded more than a dozen sacks of grain onto the truck.
Among these food, several sacks were brought for colleagues in the institute.
Nowadays, no matter how much food there is, people will not waste it, especially if it is new food.
Although everyone was worried when they heard that Yan Jiuru was attacked, they were not polite when they heard that he could buy surplus food in his hometown.
We are family, so if we are polite to each other, we won’t be friendly anymore.
The truck drove to the back door and unloaded the family's goods. Yan Jiuru handed the remaining list to Xiao Wu, who was driving, and said, "I'll leave it to you to decide how to divide it when we get back. This is the amount everyone reported."
"Alright, leave it to us. Brother Jiu, take a good rest. See you another day!"
Ninth Brother has nothing to do with ranking, it’s just a casual name.
We originally wanted to call him Brother Yan, but it sounds like "castration" (castration), so everyone automatically chose a more catchy name.
***
After a day's rest, the postman delivered the mailing list.
The two brothers got on the tricycle to get it back.
There were also several sacks.
Chen Yin carefully sewed strips of cloth on it, so it was easy to see at a glance which ones were hers and which ones were for others.
Yan Niang called Ruyue and Rushong, two errand boys, to deliver some local specialties to the neighbors with whom she had a good relationship.
When they came back the house was tidy and clean, which must have been thanks to the care of their neighbors.
The brothers and sisters came here happily and were happy to do this job, as they could also celebrate their old age and get some delicious food.
Although there is no shortage of food at home now, who would complain about having too much?
Zhuangzhuang also had his pockets bulging with money. He grabbed a cotton hat and put it on his head and ran after them.
Chen Yin watched them go to Uncle Zhang's house in the front yard before returning home with peace of mind.
The little ones gave out gifts and brought back a lot of snacks and candies.
***
The family has been settled, but Yan Jiuru has not yet gone to work.
Chen Yin asked him, "Why aren't you going yet?"
Yan Jiuru moved his stool to sit next to her, took her hand and held it: "Give you a couple of days to relax, there's nothing urgent anyway."
Chen Yin pursed her lips and rolled her eyes at him, "I said it's okay..."
"I..." Before Yan Jiuru could continue, he was attacked with a "bang".
"You two bastards, who did this!?" Yan Jiuru jumped up, touched the back of his head, and looked at the milk bottle on the ground. Needless to say, it must be the two kids.
The two little ones giggled with joy and fell directly onto the quilt. The two sisters were quite strong, and he and Chen Yin were sitting closer to the edge of the kang just now.
"He must be taking revenge on me for what happened that night!" Yan Jiuru picked up the milk bottle angrily. They were all the same and it was impossible to tell whose it belonged to. The other one fell on the kang, and the main culprit could not be found for a while.
Chen Yin was also very happy and tried to excuse the children, "Alright, they didn't mean it. I'll teach them a lesson later. Throwing things at Dad is definitely not okay."
Yan Jiuru was unhappy, "Seeing how capable they are, let's send them to a nursery after school starts."
The two little ones trembled, no way? So cruel, dad?
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