"Brother Wei, you are going the wrong way," Han Shoutian warned before Wei Ran stopped the car.
"Let's finish the business first"
Wei Ran got off the motorcycle and pointed at the reeds on the roadside, "Boss Qiu, do what you say, get off the car Come on, I'll count to ten. As long as you run into the reed swamp so that I can't see you, I'll let you go today."
Old Qiu is not a fool, so he quickly said, "Sir, I resist the Japanese!" I am anti-Japanese! Don’t kill me, keep me useful!”
“1” Wei Ran raised his finger and shook it. With one finger, "2!"
At this time, Boss Qiu no longer dared to waste time. He rolled and crawled out of the sidecar, jumped into the pond without hesitation, and dived into the reeds. .
However, almost when the dense reeds completely blocked his short figure, Wei Ran, who was standing next to the motorcycle, suddenly pulled the trigger.
After two moderate gunshots, a ball of blood appeared on the back of Boss Qiu's head and heart, and then he simply fell into the depths of the reeds. Han Shoutian looked at Wei Ran hesitantly, and finally restrained himself from saying a word.
Wei Ran looked at his young great-grandfather, sighed and explained, "Keeping him alive like this is a disaster. Let him live. No one knows how many people will die because of him in the future. "Under the gun."
"We...we can educate them," Han Shoutian insisted.
"Let those compatriots who were killed by the Japanese and traitors educate him." Wei Ran didn't want to argue too much with the other party, so he changed the subject and asked, "How far away is this place from the Lotus Pavilion?" "Far?"
Han Shoutian also didn't want to argue with the person who saved his life over a traitor, so he raised his hand and pointed to the road just now and said, "Just walk two miles further along that road. We're here."
"Get in the car!" Wei Ran waited for the other party to get into the sidecar, then immediately turned the car around and drove back to the road to continue running.
Han Shoutian said it was two miles away, but under the direction of the other party, Wei Ran ran around for more than ten minutes until he He could hardly find the way he came, so Han Shoutian signaled him to stop under a big willow tree on the side of the road.
Under Wei Ran's watchful eyes, Han Shoutian walked to the roadside, put his hand into his mouth, blew a loud whistle towards the reed swamp with no end in sight, and then followed his example. There were several unpleasant crow calls.
After waiting for more than ten seconds, the faint call of the cuckoo came from the dense reeds on the roadside. Han Shoutian immediately learned a few more wild duck calls in response, and then fell into silence.
After waiting for less than five minutes, a small row boat squeezed out from the reed swamp. There was also a tall and thin man standing on the row boat who was about the same height as Wei Ran. .
When the boat pulled up to the side of the road, the boatman took off the straw hat on his head, revealing a wheat-colored face with Chinese characters.
"Shoutian,You are back, where is my father? "After asking, the tall and thin man looked at Wei Ran, who was standing next to the motorcycle, "This is..."
"Brother Houpu, this is Wei Ran, the guy from the tea shed at Dongguan Wharf. , thanks to his help this time, otherwise I would have been caught by Qiu Sancun. "
Han Shoutian was not in a hurry to get on the boat. He quickly told what happened last night, and then said, "It was the master who asked us to come here. He..."
< p>"He's at the back, he probably won't arrive for a while. "Wei Ran quickly continued, while secretly sizing up the people on the boat. If this person is Zhou Houpu, does that mean he is Suisui's great-grandfather? And what he has to do is to help him complete it. Ambush mission?
“Where did this iron donkey come from? Zhou Houpu asked curiously.
Seeing Han Shoutian looking at him, Wei Ran quickly said, "Snatched it from Qiu Er Mazi."
"Qiu Er Mazi ? ! You ask..." Zhou Houpu showed a look of surprise on his face at first, but then he stopped abruptly in the middle of his words.
"I asked"
Wei Ran seemed not to notice the distrust of the other party, and said proactively, "The Japs plan to use the boats at Dongguan Pier to organize a joint land and water raid. The specific time is not clear to Qiu Ermazi. It seems that the Japs commander named Kamemoto has not yet Plan well.
In addition, it is possible that four of the more than one hundred ships were loaded with munitions, but this news is not certain. How did the translator make a drunken mistake and leaked it? "
"What did you say?! Zhou Houpu and Han Shoutian immediately widened their eyes, "Really?" "
Wei Ran spread his hands, "How dare I lie to you about this? "
"It's broken, it's broken, it must be done as soon as possible..." Zhou Houpu stopped abruptly again mid-sentence, and after hesitating for a moment, he said, "You two, get on the boat quickly!" "
Of course Wei Ran and Han Shoutian had no objection. After getting on the Paizi boat one after another, Zhou Houpu immediately pushed the small wooden boat into the dense reed marsh.
Wait until he was already behind him Unable to see the big willow tree, Zhou Houpu said to the dense reeds around him, "Uncle Lao Chui, Shoutian brought back a Japanese iron donkey, which is under the big willow tree. "
" Got it! "
Hearing the response from the dense reed marsh, Zhou Houpu called to Han Shoutian to continue holding the small wooden boat and drill into the depths of the reed marsh with Wei Ran sitting behind.< /p>
How many people are hiding in this reed swamp?
Wei Ran, who was sitting at the end of the small wooden boat, stood up curiously and tried to look around. However, the dense reed swamps around him were more dense than the others. He was still tall, so even if he stood on tiptoe, he couldn't see what was two meters away.
Zhou Houpu, who was at the front of the boat, glanced at Wei Ran, and then deliberately swayed. Swinging the boat under his feet, the former quickly sat down again.
After walking through the reed swamps for at least ten minutes, Wei Ran couldn't tell the direction, and suddenly appeared in front of him.It was only half a meter wide. After walking along this winding channel for less than five minutes, a small platform slightly above the water, built with broken wooden boards and wooden stakes, suddenly appeared in front of it.
This small platform is no more than two meters square at most. A black incense stick as thick as a finger is lit in a broken bowl in the middle. Although the lingering smoke is slightly choking, it is All the big mosquitoes around were completely wiped out. Four thigh-thick wooden pillars on the side hold up a roof covered with weeds. The lush reeds around the roof are also pulled close by ropes, completely covering the small platform.
Zhou Houpu and Han Shoutian brought the boat to the edge of the small platform and tied it with a rope. Then they asked Wei Ran to get onto the wet platform.
"Wait here for a while!" Han Shoutian said while handing Wei Ran a small bench.
"Is this the Lotus Pavilion?" Wei Ran asked sitting on a small bench. He didn't even see lotus leaves along the way, let alone lotus flowers.
Han Shoutian smiled, but didn't say anything. He just took the porcelain kettle from Zhou Houpu and poured a bowl of cool tea for Wei Ran.
With nothing to do, Wei Ran simply opened the hard leather satchel he brought back, took out the guns seized in the bathhouse and placed them at his feet. The two pairs of eyes became wider and wider. Looking at him, he said, "Zhou...Brother Zhou, pick one and keep it for self-defense!"
"Where did you get all this?" Zhou Houpu picked up a box cannon and turned it over. looked at it.
"Borrowed it from Qiu Er Mazi," Wei Ran said jokingly, "He said he would return it to him after he beats the little devil away."
"Qiu Er How can Mazi be so easy to talk to?" Zhou Houpu obviously didn't understand the meaning of Wei Ran's words, but the expression on Han Shoutian's face suggested that he seemed to have guessed something, but he didn't say anything.
Wei Ran also didn’t want to explain in detail. Tanshou took out a newspaper wrapped with chocolates from the hard leather bag and opened it. He took out two pieces from it and handed them to the two brothers. He also picked up a piece of the bag himself. He put it in his mouth, "Try this, it's sweet. I borrowed it from Er Mazi."
"Is this a brown sugar cube?" Han Shoutian followed Wei Ran's example and tore open the wrapped chocolate. of tin foil and stuffed the thumb-sized piece of chocolate into his mouth.
"It's a bit bitter, bitter-sweet, and it's all sour in the throat."
After hearing Han Shoutian's description, Zhou Houpu also curiously stuffed the chocolate he was given. mouth, and then sighed with surprise, "It's like eating purple mud from the bottom of the water, but it's so sweet!"
"If you like to eat, you can take these, but this kind Sugar is afraid of high temperatures, so it will melt when it gets a little warmer." Wei Ran said, rewrapping the full paper bag of chocolate and stuffing it into Han Shoutian's arms.
"This...this is so embarrassing"
"Keep it," Wei Ran made an excuse nonchalantly, "My tooth hurts from eating sweets."
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Zhou Houpu stretched his armsHan Shoutian's trouser legs, "Or keep them, just in time for them to eat."
Hearing this, Han Shoutian was stunned for a moment, and then he stopped refusing and bent down to pull two more people over. The small benches were brought together and the bag of chocolates was placed on them.
"Do you want this thing?" Wei Ran took out two more pocket watches and handed one over, "I also borrowed these from Qiu Er Mazi."
"No, no, no. , This is too expensive, we don’t dare to ask for it.” After Zhou Houpu said this, he finally realized something, “Brother Wei, you shouldn’t treat Qiu Er’s pockmark...”
Seeing the opponent's hand making a vegetable-cutting gesture, Wei Ranhun nodded carelessly, while Han Shoutian next to him followed up and said, "Qiu Sancun was also killed by Brother Wei, right next to the reed field of Shuiyang's family. "Enter."
"That's not bad!" Zhou Houpu said with a smile, "Now that Qiu Er's pockmark is gone, it will save the common people."
"It's not just that. Now that Er Mazi is dead, it will not be as easy for the little devils to grab grain as before. While the traitors are fighting over Er Mazi's family property in their den, households in the surrounding villages and towns hurriedly collect the wheat. Get up."
"Shoutian is right." The three people on the small platform looked around, but it was Uncle Zhou who was squeezing over from the other direction on a small wooden boat.
"Dad, you are back." Zhou Houpu waved the box of cannons that he had not let go since he just picked them up, "Brother Wei gave this to me!"
Uncle Zhou But he did not answer his son's words. Instead, he turned to look at Wei Ran and asked in an extremely serious tone, "Boy Wei, where did you come from?"
"Where do you think I came from?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.
"Forget it, just don't say it if you don't want to say it."
Uncle Zhou didn't have any unnecessary curiosity at all, "It's a great achievement for you to kill Qiu Ermazi." One thing, but have you asked about the ships at Dongguan Pier?"
"Yes"
Seeing that the other party did not pursue his identity too much, Wei Ran was secretly relieved. After taking a breath, he quickly recounted the information obtained during the torture.