Dingjiangshan

Tongbai County, Dongcheng Camp.

The tent that was set up temporarily looked too simple, only a few pieces of linoleum were used to put it on a bamboo frame, and it was crumbling in the cold wind, looking like it might collapse at any time.

The camp was brightly lit, and a burning brazier was placed every five steps away, illuminating half of the camp as bright as day.Feng Yuan's personal soldiers, in groups of three, are driving all the villagers in the camp out from the shelters in various corners, and instructing them to line up in front of the camp.

Because of the recent closure of the city in Tongbai County, life is not very easy for the farmers outside. They have to purchase food, rice, oil, salt and other things in the city, and fresh melons, fruits and vegetables from the field have to be sold in the city, so most of the farmers are Before dawn, he guarded the gate of the city, just waiting to pass the card as soon as the gate opened.

So although the gate of the city was only opened for less than half an hour today, more or less seventy or eighty people entered the city.

Qin Liu had already changed into a coarse peasant clothes with patches earlier, and changed into a middle-aged man's face, with a slightly hunched body, standing at the back of the line, looking honest.

Standing beside him was a young mother and daughter. The woman looked to be in her early thirties, wrapped in a dark blue cloth, and leading a five or six-year-old girl.

Children seem to be more sensitive than adults, as if they were frightened by such an unusual scene, they whimpered and cried as they walked out, always crawling into their mother's arms, wanting to go back to the corner where they were hiding from the wind just now .

The woman was in a hurry, trying to comfort the child, but at the same time fearing that the child's cries would attract officers and soldiers, she dragged her helplessly, and for a while only stretched out her hand to cover her mouth.

Qin Liu looked at the side indifferently for a while, seeing that the little girl was about to roll on the ground crying and fussing, so he put on a simple and honest look on his face, stepped forward and patted the girl. woman's shoulders.

The woman was startled by him, and subconsciously hid aside with her arms around the child.

"I don't mean anything else." Qin Liu scratched his head, and said embarrassedly: "I see the baby is crying a lot, you are coaxing."

Qin Liu's temporary face looked simple and honest, and he was a little embarrassed when he smiled, his eyes wandered around, but he didn't dare to look at the woman.

Probably because his appearance was too deceptive, the woman breathed a sigh of relief, and seemed less vigilant than before.

"I can't help it, big brother." The woman whispered, "The baby is too young and scared, so she wants to go home."

"It's probably impossible to go back today." Qin Liu said: "Looking at this posture, I don't know what happened."

As Qin Liu said, he put his hands in his sleeves and poked his head to look outside the queue.Soldiers lined up at the other end of the queue. Twenty or thirty soldiers with swords stood on both sides of the queue, dragging people into a narrow tent one by one, not knowing what to do.

Qin Liu frowned, retreated into the queue, and rested his shoulders on the couch.

"I don't know when I can go back." Qin Liu muttered, "My wife and children are still waiting."

This casual complaint seemed to hit the woman's heart, she grabbed the little girl in her hand, and secretly wiped the corner of her eyes.

"That's right." The woman said: "...To tell you the truth, the father of the child in the family is still lying on the bed, waiting to go to the city to buy medicine. Who knows that such a thing will happen."

"Hey——" Qin Liu comforted: "Do you think this is an investigation? Maybe we will be let out after the investigation is over in a while."

"It's not that easy." The woman shook her head sadly: "People in the village have seen this happen before, and they all said that after checking the documents here, they would have to be put in prison, waiting for the village head and relatives to take them. Only when the household registration certificate comes to pick them up can they take people back—the baby’s father is sick and can’t get up in bed, and he doesn’t know who we are orphans and widows, who to expect to pick them up.”

——It turned out that it was for checking documents, Qin Liu thought.

Qin Liu looked at the team ahead, and said casually, "Which village does eldest sister belong to? If it's nearby, when my mother-in-law comes to pick me up, I can drop by and send a message to elder sister home."

"Really?" The woman was pleasantly surprised: "My family lives in Mingyue Village outside, and the third one at the entrance of the village is the one with a willow tree at the entrance."

Qin Liu found the news he wanted to inquire about from the woman, and he suddenly became hesitant. His eyes habitually swept to the sides, and after confirming that there was nothing unusual around him, he casually responded to the woman.

"Okay, I've made a note." Qin Liu said, "The team in front didn't move for a long time. I'll go ahead and have a look."

After Qin Liu finished speaking, without waiting for the woman to respond, he kept walking around the crowd with his hands in his cuffs and forced his way to the front half of the line.

There are officers and soldiers at the front, and candles and charcoal pots are lit all around. The atmosphere is much more tense than that at the back of the queue. Most people stand with their heads down, being shouted around like wooden stakes, and they dare not asthma.

When Qin Liu came over just now, he watched two young and middle-aged men dragged out of the tent. Before they could say "wronged", they were gagged and handcuffed away, and they didn't know where they were taken. .

When something like this happened, everyone didn't want to be taken away without knowing why, and hesitated for a while, not daring to go forward.

Qin Liushun passed the two of them without anyone noticing, and quietly stood back in the queue.

In the enemy camp, Qin Liu was very cautious. Instead of pushing to the front, he picked a place that was not too far away, and carefully and cautiously looked at the place not far away for inspection under the shadow behind the charcoal basin. account of the population.

The tent was smaller than normal military tents, and it could roughly accommodate three people. The felt cloth on the tent was opaque, so after people entered, they could not see what was going on inside from the outside, and could only hear a few trivial voices that were deliberately lowered.

Qin Liu followed the flow of people and took two steps forward, with his head half down, looking at the surrounding environment from the corner of his eye.

When the curtain was opened just now, Qin Liu took a second look inside, perhaps because the people who were going to check were just a group of unarmed farmers, and there was only a man in his thirties sitting in the tent, whose clothes should be Is the leader of this group of people.

The old woman who had just had her identity document checked walked out tremblingly, but was dragged impatiently by the soldiers beside her to a simple porridge shed beside her.

Qin Liu withdrew his gaze in a timely manner, followed the flow of people with his head down, and took out a blade as thin as a cicada's wing from the interlayer of his left sleeve, and put it in the palm of his right hand.

Qin Liudalue calculated in his mind that it was not long before everyone went in, almost three people shared a stick of incense, and when it was his turn, exactly half an hour had passed.

Seeing Qin Liu dawdling, the soldiers guarding the tent impatiently pointed at him with the hilt of their knife, and scolded, "Get your ID card and go in quickly."

Qin Liu trembled all over, and hurriedly bent down to beg for mercy, while reaching for something in his arms, he walked into the tent.

The soldier pushed him from behind, saw him staggering and fell into the tent, then turned his gaze, and scolded a few young people who were whispering.

The soundproofing of the military tent used to check the identity is average, and you can hear the voices inside if you stand at the door.

The middle-aged man who just went in seemed to be too slow in his hands and feet, and he couldn't find out the astronomical documents for a long time, and was scolded by the commander.

The young soldier standing on the right side of the tent changed his posture calmly, shifting his weight from his left foot to his right foot, while scanning the crowd with his eyes at random, while listening to the movement inside.

——If you can’t produce the identity document, you will be counted as a suspicious person. Just wait for the commander inside to give an order, and they will go in and arrest people.

After a while, it became quiet again, as if the man had found something.

The young soldier on guard pouted and turned his attention back, feeling a little bored.

——Originally they should rest comfortably in the camp at this time, waiting for the guard to change in the middle of the night.As a result, the enemy soldiers on the other side of the river didn't know what was going on in their minds, they ran over to make a fuss and then left, making Feng Yuan's grass and trees like soldiers, and even brought them to death.

He has been standing here for almost an hour, and he only thought about getting things done sooner, so as to save himself from the cold wind standing outside in the big autumn night.

Just as the young man was thinking this way, there was a sudden loud shout from the tent, followed by something heavy falling to the ground, and there was a muffled bang.

The two soldiers standing guard outside the door looked at each other, and at the same time opened the curtain with their hands back, and rushed into the military tent.

The middle-aged man who had just entered the door was lying on the ground without a sound, his eyes were wide open, and there was a deep bone wound on his neck, bleeding out gurglingly.

The young man subconsciously looked up at his commander, only to see that the other party was frowning tightly, holding a piece of white cloth torn from the cuff tightly in his hand. The white cloth was stained with mottled blood, which seemed to be injured.

Seeing this strange situation, the young man first glanced vigilantly at the commander sitting beside him, then at the man lying on the ground, and subconsciously compared the sizes of the two.

The young man briefly glanced at the man on the ground, and he was relieved after confirming that the middle-aged man's physique was indeed the same as in his impression, slightly shorter than the commander.

"Commander." The young man said, "This is—"

The commander waved his hands at him, walked over silently, knelt down beside the middle-aged man, reached out and touched his face, then took the teacup on the table, and poured a cup of cold tea on his face .

Immediately afterwards, the man reached out and touched the opponent's cheek, and then with a little force, he tore off a thin human skin mask from the opponent's face.

Under the human skin mask is a strange face, it looks ordinary, very young, probably only in his early thirties.

"Pull it away." The commander finally spoke, his voice was a little hoarse, probably because he was in a hurry just now and was aroused by the fire.

"This man attacked me just now," he said. "It must be an enemy spy."

The two soldiers in the tent looked at each other, nodded quickly, reached out and pulled the corpse, one raised his head and the other his feet.

"This corpse—" the young man hesitated for a moment, and said, "Do you want to take it back for examination?"

"No need." The commander said, "Pull it to the back and bury it."