Chapter 32: The Chef's Intelligence
Before the rooster crowed, Chen Yunfeng, who was lying on the earthen kang, woke up, and the wounds on his thighs and shoulders were almost healed, but Chen Yunfeng still remembered the pain, dizziness and despair at the moment when the bullet hit him from time to time. Chen Yunfeng, as an intelligence officer of the military command, is a strange thing, he was temporarily recruited as an intelligence officer by the military commander in the small courtyard of his own house in Yuncheng, at the age of 30, he has not even touched a gun, and he has the most contact with kitchen knives, yes, before joining the military command, Chen Yunfeng was a cook, and he was a little famous chef in Yuncheng.
Chen Yunfeng is well-known for his timidity on the street of his house, he doesn't look like an intelligence agent no matter how he looks at it, and he doesn't have the kind of mind that worries about the country and the people. He will be recruited by the military commander, it is completely an accident, more than half a month ago, Chen Yunfeng left home as usual to go to the restaurant to start work, not far out of the house heard a burst of gunshots, the timid as a mouse Chen Yunfeng was frightened and hurriedly ran home. People are unlucky to drink cold water and stuff their teeth, this old saying is not bad at all, Chen Yunfeng, who rushed home like a rabbit, had not had time to close the door of his house, and a hand full of blood stains reached in through the crack in the door.
"Fellow, don't be afraid, I'm not a bad person" A man dressed as an imperial army broke into Chen Yunfeng's courtyard with his abdomen covered, and blood was dripping from the cracks between his fingers covering his abdomen, looking like it was not light. Chen Yunfeng wanted to refuse, but when he saw the shell gun that the man was carrying in his right hand, he was timid and finally chose to shut up and remain silent.
The injured man looked around Chen Yunfeng's yard, and after finding the water tank placed in the yard by Chen Yunfeng's house, he strode over and poured several scoops in a row. "Fellow, you are a local, you must know about the Guandi Temple in Jiezhou" After Chen Yunfeng nodded subconsciously, the man who was sitting on the ground leaning on the water tank took out an envelope wrapped in layers of oiled paper from his personal pocket, "I am an intelligence officer of the National Government, and I belong to the Shanxi Intelligence Station of the Military Command, this is a very important piece of information, please take it to the Guandi Temple and hand it over to Qu Mazi who sells incense and candles at the gate of the Guandi Temple."
Chen Yunfeng had come into contact with these there, and looked at the oiled paper bag handed over by the man, but he couldn't stop shaking his head and waving his hand. The man who had lost too much blood was already very weak, and if he hadn't been thinking about this information, he wouldn't have been able to run to Chen Yunfeng's house at all. "Fellow, I know it's embarrassing for you to do this, but this information is very important. For this information, I lost a brother, who was a man of family, and he lost his life to cover me."
"Did you know that there is a Japanese airfield in Yuncheng? Their planes have been bombing Chongqing for a long time since they took off from Yuncheng, and if they can't send this information out, more people will be killed by the Japanese planes" Chen Yunfeng has seen dead people, just when the Japanese captured Yuncheng, two families died in the alley where his house was located, if Chen Yunfeng didn't happen to go to the birthday banquet for the president of the Chamber of Commerce, I am afraid that he would have died early.
Chen Yunfeng is not a hard-hearted person after all, but when he thinks of those Japanese soldiers who kill people with guns, his heart beats the drum, the man in front of him is not the opponent of the Japanese soldiers with a gun in his hand, what can he do as a cook, maybe he has not yet run to the Guandi Temple, he has been beaten into a sieve by the Japanese soldiers. "I can't, I really can't, the neighbors around me know that I'm timid, and I've been like this since I was a child" Chen Yunfeng's head shook like a drum, and the man who looked at it was dizzy.
The injured man who "shut up" saw that the soft words and righteousness could not impress Chen Yunfeng, so he immediately turned his face and pointed the shell gun in his hand at Chen Yunfeng, looking like he wanted to kill people. Chen Yunfeng, who was pointed at the muzzle of the black hole, immediately knelt down in the courtyard as soon as his legs became weak, if it weren't for the fact that this man had already entered his own yard, Chen Yunfeng was afraid that he would move out of the old lady who had already passed away and swore to the sky.
"Pop" A small dark green notebook was thrown in front of Chen Yunfeng, "This is the document of the military commander, I will now recruit you to join the Shanxi Intelligence Station of the military commander on behalf of the military commander" The injured man looked at Chen Yunfeng with the eyes of a hunter looking at his prey. Chen Yunfeng's fat body was slumped on the ground and trembled like chaff, he knew that if he dared to say half a word, the gun in the man's hand would definitely go off. The people who ate the guns were all outlaws, plus he was injured now, and there were Japanese soldiers out there to arrest him everywhere, maybe this guy would pull himself as a backing ghost before he died.
"Guandi Temple, Qu Mazi, Guandi Temple, Qu Mazi" Chen Yunfeng, who was afraid that he would forget, was chanting words in his mouth while walking, facing the muzzle of the black hole, Chen Yunfeng finally chose to compromise. Chen Yunfeng was timid, but he did not forget that he was still a Chinese, and he was temporarily recruited by the military command, Chen Yunfeng did not care, how could that kind of place just move a few mouths and enter casually, if that is the case, then there are not all military commanders everywhere.
The reason why Chen Yunfeng agreed to allow the injured man to go to the Guandi Temple to send information was more because of the shock, in order to create an opportunity for Chen Yunfeng, the injured man decided to use himself as bait to lure away the Japanese soldiers who were blocking the street, "My injuries are too serious, even if there are doctors and medicine now, it won't work, I'll go out first to shoot and distract those Japanese soldiers in a while, you find a chance to go to the Guandi Temple" The injured man tore off the imperial army uniform on his body and wrapped his waist and abdomen tightly, and then checked the magazine again, and then looked at Chen Yunfeng and finally said with a smile, " Remember, you're now a military intelligence officer, and this information was exchanged for two lives."
The injured man left, leaving only Chen Yunfeng stupidly looking at the information and military command documents in his hand, just 10 minutes ago, he was just a cook in the Yuncheng Hongju Building, but now he has become a so-called intelligence officer, and he still has a piece of information in his hand that was exchanged for two lives, and this information is likely to be related to the lives of more people. "Pap" "Pap" A gunshot rang out not far from Chen Yunfeng's house, and Chen Yunfeng knew that it was the wounded man who was luring away the Japanese soldiers on the street.
The continuous gunfire gradually faded away, Chen Yunfeng, who had been sitting on the ground, suddenly got up and touched his face with his sleeve, put the information and documents close to him, and turned around and walked out of the small courtyard. There was no one on the street at all, and the early risers were frightened by the gunfire just now, and they didn't dare to walk around on the street, only Chen Yunfeng walked briskly on the street like a fool.
Relying on his familiarity with Yuncheng and his face in the restaurant, Chen Yunfeng pushed a bicycle away from the restaurant, and his fat body made the bicycle creak and moan in pain. But Chen Yunfeng didn't care about wiping the sweat off his face, he just cared about riding a bicycle all the way with a skewed head, there was only one thing in his mind, he wanted to send this information to Guandi Temple, and for this information, two people had already died.
Qu Mazi is also a celebrity in the Guandi Temple, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he set up a stall here to sell incense and candles, and he only has one arm. Where do koji pockmarks come from? Why only one arm? No one knows, people who are familiar with him only know that Qu Mazi doesn't like to talk, and always likes to burn some paper money alone in the middle of the night. Qu Mazi with only one arm is easy to find, Chen Yunfeng rode a bicycle to the outside of the Guandi Temple and found Qu Mazi almost without much effort, but unfortunately he did not dare to go over to pass on the information, the reason is very simple, today there are Japanese women here to worship the Buddha, and the outside of the Guandi Temple is full of Japanese soldiers and plainclothes spies.
Chen Yunfeng decided to wait and see, he had already found Qu Mazi, so he didn't plan to give up halfway. Time passed minute by minute, and it was easy to wait for the Japanese woman in the temple to come out, but Chen Yunfeng, who was anxious, found that Qu Mazi seemed to be about to close the stall. "Are you Qu Mazi?" Chen Yunfeng, who walked over quickly, didn't care that there were still Japanese soldiers and spies who didn't leave, and directly found Qu Mazi.
"A friend asked me to bring something for you" Chen Yunfeng didn't wait for Qu Mazi to stare, and quietly spread his palm to show Qu Mazi the military command document he held in the palm of his hand. Chen Yunfeng originally thought that he would find Qu Mazi by himself, and then hand over the information and documents to him, this matter would be over, but he underestimated the ability of the Japanese, and also overestimated the backbone of the Chinese people.
"Let's go, let's go, send the information to Chongqing to Boss Dai" Qu Mazi suddenly pulled out a pistol from under the incense candle stall, and knocked a man in a long shirt next to him to the ground with just one shot. Chen Yunfeng, who didn't care about asking carefully, hugged his head and ran around, and didn't even want the bicycle he was riding, and several plainclothes who wanted to pursue Chen Yunfeng were stopped by the bullets fired by Qu Mazi, and for a while the front of the Guandi Temple was a piece of ping-pong, and when the Japanese patrol arrived when they heard the news, Qu Mazi had already been shot several times and fell in a pool of blood, but Chen Yunfeng was gone.
Chen Yunfeng, who has lived in Yuncheng for three generations, never knew what it was like to flee, this time he knew, after Chen Yunfeng, who was forced to be calm, mixed with the crowd out of the city and left Yuncheng, he was an aimless Liulang, he only knew that Chongqing was in the southwest of Yuncheng, but he didn't know how to go to Chongqing. When you are thirsty and hungry, you will find a village to ask for some food and drink, and if you are sleepy, you will find a sheltered place to deal with it casually for a night, and in less than half a month, Chen Yunfeng, who was originally wide and fat, became a beggar.
It wasn't until Chen Yunfeng bumped into the Japanese squad that came out to clear out the guerrillas and was rescued by the guerrillas with two guns, that he knew that his half-month life on foot was in vain. The village where he is now recuperating is only a few dozen kilometers away from Yuncheng, and he can't tell the direction at all, but he has been circling around Yuncheng for half a month. The documents of the intelligence and military commanders had long been taken away by the guerrillas, and after Chen Yunfeng had asked for them several times to no avail, he simply relied on them, and if the guerrillas could not give him an explanation, he would continue to rely on them.