Twenty minutes later, the three of them arrived outside a small dilapidated courtyard.
The small courtyard is similar to an ordinary farmyard, small and long in shape.
The exterior wall skin of one side of the wing has fallen off, exposing the earthen wall.
Mounds of earth are piled outside the fence to prevent water from the road from soaking the wall when it rains heavily.
The door is closed.
Li Donglai took out an old canvas bag from the tricycle and filled it with three or four bundles of old newspapers.
He unbuttoned the top clothes, messed up his hair, took two deep breaths, pretended to be out of breath, and knocked on the door.
"Who is it? Is it Damao who is back?"
"It's getting dark now. Damao is a publicity officer and is very busy. Why is he back now?"
After a while of muttering, an old lady opened the door.
"Comrade, who are you looking for?" the old lady looked surprised.
Li Donglai's eyes instantly fell on the big mole on her chin, and he looked at her vaguely.
His height, face shape, and voice are all exactly the same as those in Banggeng's record.
It's her.
Li Donglai also pretended to be surprised, took a step back, and patted the bulging canvas bag: "Don't Old Chentou live here? I am a distant relative of his family. I haven't been here for several years. I can't remember clearly.
place."
"Old Chentou?" The old woman frowned and thought for a moment, then pointed to the north, "You are talking about Chen Xing, right? His family lives at the end of the village. If you walk along the road to the end, you will see an old stone mill.
Behind the stone mill is his home."
"Thank you, ma'am, you are such a good person." Li Donglai turned around and walked towards the north.
Hearing the sound of the door slamming behind him, he did not look back, but turned around again, bypassing the yard in front, and then returned to Erzi.
The two of them were waiting eagerly. When they saw Li Donglai coming back, they hurriedly joined him.
"How about it?"
"It's that old woman."
"Then hurry up. There is an old lady and an old man inside. Let's rush in and tie them up. What do you want to ask, and are you afraid they won't say anything?" Erzi said, turning around to find the rope.
"Come on! You want to squat on the fence!" Li Donglai stopped him, "Hurry up to the Siheyuan Street Police Station, ask Director Gong to come over, and say that you have found the old woman."
Erzi then came to his senses, nodded, got on his bicycle and ran away.
He was traveling extremely fast, and a burst of yellow smoke came out from behind his bicycle.
Li Donglai and Guo Zi squatted in the shade behind another house, smoking and staring at the small courtyard.
The two of them were dressed similarly to people from the same county. Even if someone passed by, they would think they were just passers-by taking a break.
The sky quickly darkened, and smoke was rising from every house.
Although the same county is part of the capital, it is not much different from the countryside. There are many people cooking large pots in the kitchen.
Li Donglai regretted not bringing any dry food.
Just as he was about to let Er Zi go to the street to buy some donkey meat and burn it, there was a roar of an engine in the distance.
I stood up and looked up, I saw a dark green GAZ Jeep speeding from a distance like a steel monster, with a cloud of dust rising from behind the car.
The jeep seemed to realize that it was approaching its destination, and when it was half a mile away from the small courtyard, it slowed down.
However, it still attracted the attention of many passers-by.
There are very few vehicles on the streets these days, and even a three-wheeler can attract children to chase it.
Not to mention the Jeep.
When the jeep stopped, a large group of children had gathered around it.
Some naughty ones were still squatting at the back of the car, with their little noses twitching, trying their best to suck the remaining jeep exhaust into their stomachs, looking intoxicated.
Not to mention how beautiful it is.
What Gong, who was driving, saw was strange.
He just told the children not to get too close to the exhaust pipe to avoid getting burned, so he came over with two guards and the second son.
The two guards Li Donglai happened to know each other, they were the old smoker Liu and Xiao Zhang.
Before Gong Suo could say anything, Li Donglai took out three cigarettes and prepared to disperse.
"No, I'm on a mission now, so I can't smoke." Gong Suo stretched out his palm to block it, turned his head, and looked at the small courtyard.
"On the way here, Erzi told me the story. Is that where the suspect's home is?"
"Yeah, I've been watching here, why are you here so late?" Li Donglai frowned.
Although the current police station does not have the rigid rule that after receiving the alarm, the police must be dispatched within 5 minutes.
But the police station is very efficient.
Often when two cucumbers start fighting on the street, the security comrades arrive before the bicycle chain is even taken out.
Now it has been two hours since Erzi went to call the police.
Even considering the distance between the two counties, it still took too long.
"That's not all. Do you think we can arrest people at will based on your words without approval from above?" Gong Suo smiled and took out an arrest warrant from his pocket.
"Also, I need to transfer my household registration. The old man who lives in this small courtyard is named Xu Ganzi, and the old lady is named Xu Chen. They have a son named Xu Damao who works in the steel rolling mill."
——It was indeed Xu Damao. The voice coming from the room just now was a bit vague, and Li Donglai was not sure.
Now that Gong Suo has checked the household registration information, there is no mistake.
The real culprit behind the scenes is Xu Damao.
He asked his mother to give the jade pendant to Banggeng and let Banggeng secretly place it under the bed in order to frame him.
This Xu Damao is really a filial son.
Li Donglai's heart sank, but he didn't show it. He pretended to be interested in the arrest warrant and took it from Gong Suo and looked at it carefully.
The arrest warrant is an A4 paper with the words 'Beijing Security Bureau' on the letterhead.
It is also marked next to this page as a supplementary page.
There is a font printed in red ink below, and a vermilion seal on the edge, which can be used to prevent counterfeiting.
The arrest warrant indicates the date, the name of the person arrested, his place of origin, the reason for the arrest and the name of the person being taken into custody.
At the bottom is the signature of the district director.
"We are lucky today. Director Wang happens to be in the office, otherwise we might have to stay here tonight."
As Gong said, he took back the arrest warrant and turned around and shouted: "Old Liu, Xiao Zhang, take out all the guys and wait until your eyes are clearer. Don't let your guard down just because there are old men and old ladies living in the compound."
——There are still a lot of local guns and artillery in rural areas these days.
"Understood!" Old Liu Dazhang took out the May 4th-style pistol from his waist.
The May 4th type is also the Black Star pistol of later generations.
It is the first semi-automatic pistol independently designed by China. The shape of the grip has been changed to better suit the hand shape of Chinese people.
It has a relatively long range, fairly good power, fast rate of fire, low cost, simple structure, and is easy to maintain.
More importantly, the Type 54 gun has a large body and a long barrel.
The black muzzle is very scary and intimidating.
Often, after taking out the May 4th Style, the criminal surrenders before even pulling the trigger.
It's because this thing is so scary.
Due to these advantages, the May 4th Type soon became the main weapon for defending comrades after its birth.
——Waiting for the 1980s and 1990s, many of them spread to Hong Kong City and became the main weapon of corporate elements.
Seeing the security comrades pulling out their guns, the nearby spectators did not show any fear, but instead became expectant.
Is this to capture enemy agents?
Some enthusiastic people even picked up the carrying poles and hoes to help surround the small courtyard.
Gong Suo and two security comrades came forward and knocked on the door.
Li Donglai originally wanted to go along, considering that he was a victim.
And the identity of the old lady and old man has not yet been fully clarified.
It's better to be patient.
He quietly disappeared into the crowd.
"Tuk Tuk"
"Who is it? What are you knocking on this late at night?"
"From the waterworks."
"Check the water meter late at night?"
"Mom, we suspect that the water pipe in your yard is leaking."