"Uncle Wang, it's me, Li Mianmian."
"Mianmian, your uncle is asking you, was Ruan Yuanyuan among those who beat you?"
"Uncle Wang, how did you know?"
"Never mind that, just tell me about Ruan Yuanyuan."
"Okay," he recounted where he met Ruan Yuanyuan, everything that happened to him when he arrived at the production team, including the first time Ruan Yuanyuan came to ask him for food, and so on.
"Okay, Uncle Wang, I understand. It's so late, please don't go home alone, okay?"
Commander Chen asked, "Have you found the address of Bai Jiaming, the one who called Mianmian?"
"Old Chen, look, does this address look familiar?"
"Isn't this Old Bai's home address? Could it be his son?"
"It's probably going to be a done deal, what do we do now?"
"Just do what needs to be done."
"Something's not right!"
"What's wrong, Lao Ma?"
"Old Chen, think about it. Everyone has watched Mianmian grow up. Putting everything else aside, there's no way she can't handle these people with her skills."
"Look, there are five people, three of them are women, and the remaining two are men. Regardless of how skilled these men are, just look at Mianmian's skills; in our military region, not just the family quarters, but even the soldiers in our barracks, three to five of them wouldn't be a match for her."
"Old Ma, are you saying there's a problem here?"
I think so.
"But what was she trying to say?"
"Reporting to the commander, Deputy Regiment Commander Zhang has arrived."
"Let him wait outside," the political commissar said.
"yes"
"Sir, Director Wang is here."
"Let him in."
"Greetings, esteemed leaders."
What did Mianmian say?
"The leaders are like this," she said, recounting the information she had just learned over the phone.
Everyone fell silent for a moment after hearing this, but not because of what Director Wang said, but because they were wondering what Li Mianmian had discovered.
While sitting in the commune secretary's office, he wondered if the military leaders would understand what he meant.
This is a long story. It happened about a week ago. One night, when I got up to use the restroom, I noticed that one of the comrades from the educated youth compound next door had gone out.
Driven by curiosity and feeling confident in his skills, he secretly climbed over the wall to get out.
He followed her at a distance, and discovered that she had reached the foot of a mountain not far from the educated youth compound, where she secretly met with someone and handed him something.
When she turned around, he realized it was Liu Wenwen. Seeing her walk back, he didn't leave, but followed another person directly into the mountains. After wandering in the mountains for about an hour, they arrived at a cave. Afraid of alerting the enemy, they didn't dare enter rashly. Even so, he could still hear:
"This food was given to us by Han Wenwen, so eat it sparingly."
"This isn't enough to eat."
"There's nothing we can do about it. She just arrived here, and it's already good enough that she can sneak a little bit of food for us every night."
"Tell me! What exactly does the higher-ups mean by assigning us to this place? We've been wandering around in the mountains for almost half a month and haven't found anything. How did they know there were Japanese weapons hidden here?"
"Since the higher-ups said there are weapons here, then there definitely are. We can just search for them slowly."
"Sigh! I haven't been eating or sleeping well all day."
"Well, since we're soldiers of the Party-state, we can only obey orders."
"Brother, I know that! It's just that the checks are so strict right now! Is it possible for us to smuggle the stuff out?"
"That's beyond our scope of consideration."
Upon hearing this, he realized that this was an enemy on the other side of the strait, meaning Liu Wenwen, no, Han Wenwen, was also an enemy. He had to get this information out.
He glanced at the cave and slowly retreated. Back at the intelligence compound, he climbed over the wall back to his quarters. He couldn't sleep, thinking about how to get it out! He wanted to tell Uncle Zhou that it was busy farming season and the team leader wouldn't allow leave, and it would also attract attention.
So what should we do to get out of the production team? Also, are there any enemies in the county town? Would telling Uncle Zhou alert them? The safest option now is to contact the Beijing Military Region. But how? We need to think about that carefully.
For the past few nights, Han Wenwen from next door has been going out around midnight. But last night, when I followed her, I heard:
"This is the last bit of food the intelligence center has. Use it sparingly these next few days, and I'll think of something else."
"Okay, get the food as soon as possible."
"Yes, but you need to hurry, otherwise the mountains will be blocked by heavy snow soon."
"We know that, we'll head back now."
Oh my god, it sounds like the other side is out of food, and they won't be able to get any until the heavy snow closes the mountain passes. What on earth is going on?
Ever since discovering that Han Wenwen was secretly giving food to the people on the mountain, I've been bringing them a lot of food for lunch every day for the past week, mostly steamed buns made from two kinds of flour. I want them to know that I have plenty of food, and see if I can get them to come to me for help when they run out. Then I can make a big scene and get them removed from the production team.
It can be said that everything that happened tonight was part of my meticulous planning, but I don't know if the military region leaders will be able to react.
The leaders in the military region's conference room were deep in thought when Deputy Commander Guo Wei said, "If all else fails, we should thoroughly investigate the circumstances of these educated youth and their families."
"Yes, Deputy Commander Guo is right. Mianmian kept emphasizing on the phone that the new educated youth were bullying people," Director Wang said.
"Then let's do it this way?"
"But Lao Chen, the army needs the approval of its superiors to deploy troops."
"Then we'll ask for instructions."
"I'll go!"
"Old Ma? I'll go. You go hold off Old Bai."
"this?"
"You know my temper."
"good"
"Old Guo, you just stay home and wait for news. Once you get the news, send people out and investigate. Investigate these people, their ancestors for eighteen generations!"
"yes"
"Then, what about Zhang Dabiao outside?"
"Make him wait in his office. He's not allowed to step out of the office until I'm back."
"yes"
When he saw Uncle Zhou arrive with his men, he said, "Uncle Zhou, I'm sorry to have troubled you."
"What you're saying..."
"You all wait outside. I'll ask about the situation first."
"yes"
"Then I'll leave Director Zhou's office to you; I'll go to the courtyard."
"Thank you for your trouble, Comrade Zhang."
"No trouble at all"
Zhang Changfa was no ordinary person; otherwise, he wouldn't have been in the position of commune secretary.
Judging from the phone calls Li Mianmian made, this matter is definitely not as simple as a few newly arrived educated youths beating someone up. They've even taken the matter to the Beijing Military Region Commander's office. How could this be a small matter? Either one of the people who did the beating has a high-ranking official in their family, or there's something else going on.
Meanwhile, Political Commissar Ma rushed to his superiors overnight and explained the whole story.
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