At the edge of Langcaozi ditch, Wei Ran and Tian Xiaohu made the same judgment almost at the same time.
"Did this explosion come from your house?" Tian Xiaohu walked directly to Master Cao and asked.
However, maybe the force of Miss Hongxia's kick just now was too strong. At this time, the second young master Cao was still covering his crotch and kneeling on the ground and twitching in pain. Looking at his painful look, he had changed a lot.
The posture of Miss Cao Er.
Turning his head and looking at Young Master Cao, whose legs were trembling as Wei Ran pressed the gun barrel against his upper teeth, Tian Xiaohu helplessly shook his head, "Forget it, let's get out of here first, Brother Wei, Brother Hu,
Tie them both up and gagged them."
Before he could finish his words, Wei Ran reached out and pinched Young Master Cao's chin and pulled it. With a snapping sound, Young Master Cao burst into tears of pain, and his chin was also numb.
Swinging back and forth in a controlled manner, the girl Hongxia standing opposite could almost see his throat directly.
Picking up a handful of pine needles and stuffing them into Young Master Cao's mouth, Wei Ran once again used his back to cover up the box of cannons, and then pinched open the unfortunate man's elbow joints in a familiar way.
Amidst the screams of the guy, Wei Ran took a Japanese leather belt handed over by Tian Xiaohu and tied it around Young Master Cao's mouth to prevent him from pushing the pine needles out of his mouth.
"Bring me another belt."
Before Wei Ran finished speaking, Miss Hongxia had already pulled a belt from the sledge truck and handed it to Wei Ran.
Without any discussion at all, Wei Ran tied one of Young Master Cao's wrists tightly to the harness of the big white mule.
Now, as long as he didn't keep up with the hard-working big white mule, his dislocated elbow would undoubtedly be pulled and painful.
After a final inspection of Young Master Cao, Wei Ran didn't take off his Nine Dragon Belt. He just took out a handful of flower-mouthed paper towels from his arms, looked at it, and handed it to the second Young Master Cao just now.
Tian Xiaohu picked up the Nagant revolver.
Immediately afterwards, he took out a jingle shoe from the young master's arms and handed it to Miss Hongxia.
"Brother Wei, please take a look at him."
Hu Bazhi called out to Miss Hongxia while she was putting on her shoes, "Second Young Master Cao has fainted."
"Dizzy?"
Wei Ran turned back and glanced at the pale Young Master Cao, and quickly called on Hu Bazhi to help lift him onto the sledge.
At this time, Miss Hongxia also came over curiously and returned the dog-skin hat to Hu Bazhi, "I won't be kicked to death by him, right?"
"Well, Miss Hongxia, please go hold the mule for me." Wei Ran, who was about to unbutton his pants for Master Cao, said in a confused voice.
The energetic girl Biao seemed to realize something belatedly. She blushed and ran to the mule that Wei Ran was in charge of before, and skillfully picked up the reins.
Without further delay, Wei Ran didn't take off his skis at all. He sat sideways on the edge of the sledge, unbuttoned Master Cao's trousers, casually pulled out a Japanese bayonet from the side, picked up his cotton trousers with the back of the knife and took a look inside.
.
"Tsk tsk tsk!"
Wei Ran couldn't help but gasped, and then he couldn't help but glance at the girl Hongxia behind him who was helping to hold the mule.
"What's going on?" Hu Bazhi, who was in charge of driving the car, asked curiously.
"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would have thought I was kicked by a horse."
Wei Ran grinned and explained, "The double-yolk egg was kicked and exploded. If he wants to survive, he probably has to cut it."
"hiss--"
Hu Bazhi and Zhao Jinyu, who was walking in front of the sledge with two black horses, took a deep breath. On the other side of the sledge, Young Master Cao, who seemed to be cursing a second ago, immediately stopped moving.
However, Tian Xiaohu, who was leading the mule at the front, said as expected, "Brother Hong Jiang's prodding kick can break two bricks."
"I can't compare to my brother, so I just practiced some tricks blindly." Miss Hongxia said modestly, slightly shyly.
After a slightly strange short silence, Tian Xiaohu asked, "Brother Wei, can the second young master not die for a while?"
"You can't die, but as time goes by, you probably won't be able to survive."
At this point, Wei Ran asked, "Should we run or hide first?"
"What happened to the mass graves they were talking about just now?"
Tian Xiaohu was not in a hurry to answer Wei Ran's question. Instead, he asked the key words he had just heard from the young master of the Cao family.
Subconsciously he glanced at Wei Ran, who had just gotten off the sledge and was chasing Zhao Jinyu and the two dark horses in front on his skis. After a slight hesitation, Hu Bazhi recounted what happened at Luanfengang.
Said it ten times.
"So, the Japs can't find the murderer and are planning to take action on Shopkeeper Cao?" Tian Xiaohu asked overjoyed.
"That place in Luanfengang was originally the territory of shopkeeper Cao Da." Hu Bazhi's answer confirmed Tian Xiaohu's guess in disguise.
Just as the two of them and the girl Hongxia walking at the end subconsciously looked at Young Master Cao who was tied to the big white mule, Wei Ran and Zhao Jinyu focused all their attention on the two big black horses.
superior.
The two horses are not small, and the harness they use looks luxurious enough. On the horse that Young Master Cao is riding, in addition to the horse box stuck in the leather gun bag, there is also a thick leather saddle on the other side.
Telescope case and an unlit lantern.
When he opened the telescope box, what he didn't expect was that what was inside was a Soviet 840 wide-angle telescope with a hammer and sickle mark.
This thing is not just a 6X30 that is on the street. Those who are qualified to use it are generally senior commanders of the Soviet Red Army.
In addition, the horse's saddlebags also contained concentrated feed for the horse, as well as some dry food for people, a large piece of salt pimple, and even a pipe, a smoke lamp and a
Tin box big smoke.
"This gun is really short."
At this moment, Zhao Jinyu also pulled out a gun from the leather gun bag of another black horse and admired it.
Turning his head and glancing at it, Wei Ran immediately recognized it. It was a Type 44 rifle produced by the Japanese.
There was no discussion at all. Wei Ran and Zhao Jinyu changed positions and took the rifle from the other party's hand. The latter also eagerly took out the horse box and looked at it with a curious expression.
Compared to Zhao Jinyu, Wei Ran only took a rough look at the wear and tear of the rifling after taking the gun, and then focused all his attention on the horse, trying to find something valuable in it.
something.
The items on this horse are basically the same as the other horse, except that the weapons in the gun bag are different and there is no telescope.
Unwilling to give up, I turned over the horse bag. Apart from eating horse chews, there were no pipes, cigarettes, lamps and cigarette pastes here, but there was an extra leather tube that looked about the length of chopsticks and as thin as my wrist.
Opening the buckle of the leather tube, Wei Ran's eyes lit up when he saw what was inside. He really found something good!
Pulling out the contents of the leather bag and unfolding it, the expression on his face became more exciting.
This is a thin canvas less than one meter square. Various lines are drawn on the light yellow and white cloth, and a few handwritten Russian words are also marked here and there.
However, those words are just things like "brown bear", "tiger", "wolf pack", "swamp", "rabbit hole" and the like.
At first glance, it seemed like it was just a hunting map. But Wei Ran was keenly aware that this thing might kill Master Cao, so...
If you get it right, you may be able to kill shopkeeper Cao Da, and you can also take over his bandit business!
This second young master Cao is not simple...
Wei Ran glanced at the direction of the sledge truck, took the canvas and found Tian Xiaohu, who had just finished chatting with Hu Bazhi about the "Grave Grave Incident", and told him his guess.
"Can he wake up?" Tian Xiaohu asked while looking at the canvas.
"Now?" Wei Ran asked.
"Wait a minute, don't let him die."
Tian Xiaohu said, then handed the reins of the mule to Wei Ran and turned to Hu Bazhi, "Brother Hu, we have to find a place to take shelter from the wind. Do you know how we can hide with so many of us?"
Hearing this, Hu Bazhi couldn't help but frown, and even subconsciously looked before and after.
They now have four mules and two horses, two wounded people, two prisoners, and a large amount of arms and equipment, not to mention they have five large living people.
When he wanted to hide so many people, the only thing he could think of was his own underground nest and cave.
At this moment, Young Master Cao, who had not dared to say anything just now, seemed to want to say something. His eyes were looking back and forth at the piece of cloth in the hands of Wei Ran and Tian Xiaohu.
.
Knowing that this guy seemed to have something to say, Wei Ran, after getting Tian Xiaohu's nod of agreement, walked around to the big white mule on his skis, first took off the belt on his face, and then took out the pine needles that were stuffed in, and then
As he screamed, his dislocated jaw was installed.
"Let me go...let me live."
Young Master Cao looked at Wei Ran in fear, and while massaging his sore jaw joint with his shoulder, he said, "I know a place to hide you. No one can find it, not even my father."
"Don't..."
"How can you guarantee that you won't lead us directly to your father?" Wei Ran asked before Zhao Jinyu could finish speaking.
"Old...if I tell lies, you will kill me." Young Master Cao said with a pinched neck.
"You want more than just survival, right?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.
"Let him die"
Young Master Cao simply looked at the second child lying on the sledge, the second child who was about to lose his second child.
"Is it far from here?" Wei Ran asked.
"It's not far, it only takes two packs of cigarettes at most." Young Master Cao said immediately, "But we have to go back."
When Tian Xiaohu saw Wei Ran looking at him, he hesitated for a moment and then nodded simply, "Let's go back, let's go back now!"
"Kill him now" Young Master Cao boldly made a new request.
"Let's wait until we get to the place before we talk."
Wei Ran smiled and patted the other party's swollen cheek. The latter also shivered subconsciously and stopped insisting, and led them back obediently.
Under the leadership of Young Master Cao, the group left the trail and passed through the bottom of the ditch where the snow was waist-deep, and then climbed up the opposite slope.
However, what worries Wei Ran is that for such a long time, except for the explosions and sporadic gunshots he heard at the beginning, there has been no sound of crossfire from the direction of Shopkeeper Cao's lair. On the contrary, the snow has been falling heavier and heavier.
Already.
After walking sideways on the opposite hillside for about 15 minutes, Master Cao led them in a different direction along an inconspicuous mountain col, and then stopped immediately.
"The right side of the big rock"
Young Master Cao pointed with his chin at a large rock not far away that was almost covered with snow. "Dig the snow away. There is a door panel. The door key is in my boot."
Without any instructions, Zhao Jinyu, Hu Bazhi, and Miss Hongxia started to clear the snow together with their skis.
At the same time, Wei Ran handed the telescope to Tian Xiaohu, and the two of them observed the surrounding situation respectively.
However, the wind and snow at this time were so heavy that visibility could not exceed 50 meters. All they could see was snow and vague terrain undulations.
After a while, the snow was cleared away, and a door panel was indeed exposed.
This so-called door panel is nothing more than a reinforced iron fence gate that is at most one meter wide and two meters high.
The gap in the fence door is only a fist wide, and there are wooden boards tied horizontally with iron wires.
The iron chain that locked the door, which was as thick as a wrist, was wedged directly into the mountain with a spike, and the other end was locked to the iron door with a large, greasy lock.
"What is this place?"
Zhao Jinyu asked as he took off Master Cao's animal skin boots and found a copper key hidden in the mezzanine.
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Young Master Cao didn't hide it. He took advantage of Zhao Jinyu to open the door and said, "I grabbed a red ticket two years ago. Her father told me about this place in order to redeem him. He said that Xu Laocai was there back then.
Gold nuggets were mined here, and he was the miner who stoned Xu Laocai at that time."
"Then what?" Miss Hongxia asked subconsciously.
"Then beat him to death"
Young Master Cao replied nonchalantly, "That old guy is really lying to me. You will know after you go in and see for yourselves."
Before he finished speaking, Zhao Jinyu also opened the iron gate. Hu Bazhi was even more prepared and took out the captured flashlight from his arms and fired a beam of light into the cave.
The space inside is not very spacious. The height is barely two meters and the width is only one and a half meters at most. Clear traces of manual excavation can be seen on both sides, above the head and even under the feet, as well as on one side of the rock wall.
, a character "Xu" that can be as big as a washbasin.
"I'll go take a look first."
Tian Xiaohu said, going to get the flashlight in Hu Bazhi's book.
"I'll go, you have to lead the way." Hu Bazhi was the first to walk in with a flashlight before he finished speaking.
While everyone was waiting slightly anxiously, he walked out after a while holding a flashlight, waving to everyone and saying, "Come in, Master Cao didn't lie to us."
Hearing this, Wei Ran first lit the kerosene lamp, then untied the belt from Young Master Cao's wrist, and got in first with him wearing it.
After walking about five or six meters into the cave, you turned a corner. The space was slightly larger. It looked about 20 square meters. There were also some old mines abandoned around it.
Tools, and even a pottery statue of the God of Wealth the size of a thermos. The small incense burner in front of the statue was still full of incense ashes.
In addition, there are traces of excavation all around this small space, as well as two narrow mine tunnels that lead to unknown directions.
He glanced at Young Master Cao without any trace, and sure enough, his eyes seemed to be wandering in the direction of one of the mine tunnels.
"What's in that mine tunnel?" Wei Ran asked abruptly, almost putting the oil lamp close to Young Master Cao's face.
"No...nothing..." Young Master Cao replied in a panic.
Hearing this, Wei Ran smiled, waited for the others and the mules and horses to come in, and tied the young master who was trying to trick him to the harness of the big white mule again, and blocked his mouth.
After saying hello to Hu Bazhi and others who were about to lift the wounded, Wei Ran borrowed a flashlight and carefully got into the narrow mine tunnel.
But soon, he retreated. This mine tunnel was connected in all directions. He knew, or rather Young Master Cao knew, that there was a way to escape, and there was even a hidden weapon for counterattack.
When he hunched over and returned to the small space that looked like a living room, the two wounded men on the sledge and Master Cao had been carried in. At this time, everyone was busy carrying the Japanese backpacks, cotton clothes and shoes on the sledge.
The supplies were also brought in.
"What's in there?" Zhao Jinyu asked curiously.
"The young master probably wants to escape from there."
Wei Ran glanced at Young Master Cao, then walked over to the unconscious anti-Japanese soldiers and checked them. Seeing that they were still alive and breathing evenly, he walked over to Young Master Cao and pulled them off.
After observing his pants, he took out the knife he had used as a scalpel and lightly made a small wound on the second young master's balls, and then broke off a small piece of the first young master's balls.
The smoke was smeared on it.
There was no follow-up treatment at all. After Wei Ranjing waited for a while, he used two rounded big ear scrapers to successfully awaken the scheming but rootless Young Master Cao.
"Young Master Cao"
Wei Ran waved his hand in front of this Chuan'er, then asked in Russian with a smile, "If you wake up, we can talk about the map."
Just looking around, the second young master Cao, after trying to look at his crotch but having the barrel of a gun pressed against his chest, happily lay down on the ground again, and asked extremely calmly, "The grave mound?"
Did you really do this?"
"Is this important?" Wei Ran asked back. He had already seen that this second young master Cao was a smart man, much smarter than the eldest young master.
"unimportant"
Second Young Master Cao smiled and said, "It doesn't matter who did it. Was that cannon shot just now by the Japanese?"
"Yes" Wei Ran was extra tolerant and gave the answer the other party wanted to know.
"It seems that my father is going to take the blame."
Having said that, the second young master Cao did not look panicked. Not only him, but also the eldest young master did not seem to care about this matter. It seemed... as if he was sure that the Japanese would not do anything to their bandit father.
Similar.
Could it be...
Wei Ran was startled. He grabbed the second young master by the collar and pulled him up. He looked into his eyes and asked almost word by word, "Does Shopkeeper Cao want to give away the camp to the Anti-Japanese Alliance to save his life?"
Before he could finish his words, the second young master's eyes flashed with undisguised surprise, but then, a smile appeared on the young second-generation gangster's face, which became brighter and crazier.
"Haha! Hahaha! Hahahaha!" The second young master laughed more and more crazily, and even slapped the dusty floor hard, crying with tears.
"Stop being silly"
Wei Ran let go of the other party's collar, "Your balls are gone, and you can only be the second young lady of the Cao family from now on."
After saying this, Young Master Cao's wanton laughter stopped abruptly, and then he looked at Miss Hongxia who was busy moving things in not far away with a fierce expression.
"Kill her and my brother"
After a moment of silence, Young Master Cao continued to speak in Russian, "I have a way to prove my father's crime, and I have a way to keep Captain Zhao and the others alive."
"How many evil things has this old man Cao done to have such two awesome sons..." Wei Ran muttered with a strange expression.
