"It seems that we all underestimate this Lu Yuan, take a look, this is the news that just came from Shanghai." In the back hall of the pharmacy, Wang Qingnian handed a telegram that he had just received to Ma Baocheng. The latter took the translation of the telegram and only looked at it roughly, then looked up at Wang Qingnian sharply, and at this moment Ma Baocheng's face was already full of surprise. This telegram was sent by the Shanghai underground party, and there is no doubt about its authenticity, but in this way, Lu Yuan's combat effectiveness is really too strong.

"I didn't believe it at first, we all know what Shanghai is. A young man who looked at him who was only 20 years old dared to make trouble with the Japanese one after another in the Shanghai Concession, and every time he retreated. I have never seen such a person in my life, but there is one such person who has appeared in front of our eyes, and I am still like a dream. Wang Qingnian's expression showed a hint of sourness, if he had known that Lu Yuan was a person with great ability, he would have pulled Lu Yuan into the Tianjin underground party organization no matter what.

When Ma Baocheng and Wang Qingnian sighed secretly, Lu Yuan had already left Tianjin City, and Lu Yuan's first step was Baoding, and after arriving in Baoding, he would contact the local underground party organization, and then contact the Eighth Route Army in Tang County through them. Baoding is also a famous historical city, located in the central part of Hebei Province, at the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain, not only has the name of "Gyeonggi Heavyland", but also once named after "defending the capital and stabilizing the world", known as "the north controls the three passes, the south reaches the nine provinces, the capital is the south of Pinghan".

This is the first time Lu Yuan has come to Baoding, and for Baoding, Lu Yuan is most familiar with the only thing that is donkey meat burned. After separating from the caravan on the same road, Lu Yuan temporarily stored his five-flowered horse in a large cart shop, and after a brief wash, he took a hired donkey cart into the city. The big car shop where Lu Yuan was resting was outside the city, not that Lu Yuan didn't have the money to live in an inn in the city, he just didn't want to cause unnecessary trouble. "Young master, the Dongsheng Buzhuang you are looking for has arrived." Lu Yuan, who was secretly thinking about things on the donkey cart, was gently pushed by the man who was driving the cart, and turned his head to see that the donkey cart had stopped outside the door of Dongsheng Buzhuang.

"You go to the restaurant over there and wait for me first, and I'll go to you when I'm done." Lu Yuan jumped out of the donkey cart, took out a piece of ocean from his pocket and handed it to the man who was driving the cart, who didn't ask much, just took the ocean and drove the donkey cart to the restaurant on the corner. Glancing at the back of the man who drove the car, the corners of his mouth slanted to show a hint of a smile, Lu Yuan raised his leg and entered the door of Dongsheng Buzhuang's store, in fact, when Lu Yuan was about to hire a donkey cart to enter the city, he had already confirmed the identity of the man who drove the car with a full-view map, otherwise he would not have handed over a piece of ocean to the other party for nothing.

Dongsheng Cloth Village's business looks good, when Lu Yuan entered the store, there were several people buying cotton cloth, Lu Yuan looked around, and finally fell on the shopkeeper in the store. "You're the shopkeeper here? I heard that you have a kind of trestle brand cotton here, I wonder if you can sell the trestle cotton cloth here? If I could, I would like to buy a four-inch trestle cotton cloth and take it home just in time to make a quilt cover for my grasshopper. Lu Yuan smiled at the shopkeeper of the cloth shop according to Ma Baocheng's original words, but Lu Yuan couldn't help rolling his eyes in his heart, he could come up with such a joint code, and he didn't know how the underground party's brain grew.

When a normal person hears Lu Yuan's words just now, their first reaction will be that Lu Yuan is a fool, and the second reaction may be that Lu Yuan is a bastard who comes to make trouble and ask for money, and only the people of the Baoding underground party will know that Lu Yuan is his own person who came to connect. "Sorry, we don't have trestle cotton here." Contrary to Lu Yuan's expectations, after he had already said the joint code, the shopkeeper of the cloth shop sent him out of the cloth shop directly in a good-natured manner, without saying a word to himself at all.

"Could it be that your own code words are wrong?" Lu Yuan, who was standing outside the door of the cloth shop, was a little dumbfounded, but when he carefully recalled his every move after entering the cloth shop just now, it seemed that he did not say the wrong codeword. Lu Yuan thought for a while and didn't come up with a reason, so he had to go to the restaurant on the corner of the street with some frustration, anyway, he had already entered the city, and the famous donkey meat was always eaten once.

"I said, is it interesting that you guys are doing this?" Lu Yuan found the man who was driving the car, but before he could sit down, his face suddenly changed. I saw that on the table in front of the driver man, there were three quilts arranged in a triangle, and a chopstick was placed straight in the middle of the triangle, which looked like an arrow at first glance. Lu Yuan's face suddenly changed because he saw this arrow shape, nothing else, this is another code that Ma Baocheng taught him to use when he used the joint.

Lu Yuan sat down in front of the man who drove the car a little angrily, and turned around, the person who dared to come to connect with him was beside him, and Lu Yuan was somewhat difficult to accept being played like this. Lu Yuan's dissatisfaction, the man who drove the car was very unimpressed, after all, in the news from Tianjin, it was only said that Lu Yuan wanted to contact the Eighth Route Army of Tang County through the Baoding underground party, but he did not say that Lu Yuan was his own person. Since he is not his own person, he doesn't have to be too polite, that's what Zhao An thinks in his heart at the moment.

This meal was very uncomfortable, and after leaving the restaurant, Lu Yuan, who returned to the donkey cart, did not say a word, and let Zhao An take him around in Baoding City. After about an hour of wandering, Zhao An parked the donkey cart outside a courtyard in the west of the city, and nodded at Lu Yuan, who was speechless on the donkey cart, Zhao An said to Lu Yuan, "Come down, the person you are looking for is in this yard." Lu Yuan was speechless, and after getting off the donkey cart, he went directly into the courtyard.

The yard doesn't look very big, but it's cleaned up very neatly, it seems to hear the movement of the courtyard door being pushed open, the curtain of the main house is lifted, and a middle-aged woman comes out of the house. "You're Boss Lu from Tianjin, right? Come in, please. As if surprised by Lu Yuan's age, the middle-aged woman who came out of the main house paused for a moment, and then beckoned Lu Yuan to enter the main house to speak. Before entering the courtyard, Lu Yuan had secretly searched the surroundings with a full-view map, and it was precisely because he was sure that there was no danger around him that he would take the initiative to enter the courtyard, and at this moment, in the face of the invitation of the middle-aged woman, Lu Yuan would naturally not be ambiguous.

"I don't have much time, and I bother you to talk straight, I like to go straight." Entering the main room and sitting down, after the middle-aged woman brought the tea, Lu Yuan simply went straight to the topic. "I think you already know the matter, the purpose of my visit this time is to take those two Germans, according to the terms that my friend negotiated with the Eighth Route Army before, I have already brought everything. But before I do that, I have a small request, I want to make sure that the two Germans are still alive. ”

"Here is a letter from my friend, please help to hand it over to the two Germans, I hope to see their handwritten reply as soon as possible. As soon as I see their handwritten reply, I will deliver the medicine to you first, and when I see them, I will hand over the rest of the weapons and ammunition to you. Without giving the middle-aged woman a chance to speak, Lu Yuan had already said everything he wanted to say in a row, and then took out the letter and put it on the table.

Zhang Chun'e couldn't have imagined that it was a young man who came to connect with her, in fact, Zhang Chun'e's first impression of Lu Yuan was quite good. But after entering the main house, Zhang Chun'e's good impression of Lu Yuan immediately disappeared, and the young man in front of him was simply a smooth guy like an old fox. Glancing at Lu Yuan, who was concentrating on drinking tea with his head down at the moment, Zhang Chun'e opened her mouth but couldn't say anything, so she had to reach out and take the letter on the table.

"I'll give you a week, and if I haven't seen a handwritten reply from them in a week, I'll find a way to bring them back myself. Don't question my skills, I'll do what I say, but I warn you in advance that you don't necessarily want to see that. After drinking a cup of tea, Lu Yuan got up to say goodbye, and before leaving, Lu Yuan stopped and specially told the middle-aged woman a few words.

"That kid looks like a kid from a rich family, although he lives in Niu Qi's big car shop, but he himself has chartered the entire backyard, before I come back, that kid is asking Niu Qi's son to boil bath water for him." In the evening, Zhao An returned to the courtyard in the west of the city, in addition to Zhang Chun'e, there was also Zhao Ping, the shopkeeper of Dongsheng Cloth Shop. Zhao Ping and Zhao An are brothers, while Zhang Chun'e is the wife of his brother Zhao Ping and the sister-in-law of his younger brother Zhao An, and all three of them belong to the Baoding underground party organization.

Zhao An held the porridge bowl and complained to his brother and sister-in-law angrily, and he already said that Lu Yuan was a heinous rich boy. Zhang Chun'e knocked Zhao An's head with chopsticks, "Eat well, don't talk about those who are out of tune, although that young man is not compatible with us, but people don't understand anything." I have inquired with Tianjin in the afternoon, and the reply from there is only a few words, so we need to cooperate. ”

Zhao Ping is a smart person, he has already heard something from his wife Zhang Chun'e's words, and immediately explained to his younger brother Zhao An, asking Zhao An to keep an eye on Lu Yuan in the past few days, but don't take it upon himself to contact Lu Yuan. The letter that Lu Yuan handed over to Zhang Chun'e was sent out of the city by the Baoding underground party that afternoon, and after two changes of hands on the way, it was finally successfully delivered to the hands of the Eighth Route Army in Tang County before dawn the next day.

When Lu Yuan got the reply, it was three days later, and after reading the entire reply in German, Lu Yuan gave Zhao An a hand-drawn simple map. According to the mark on the map and the many hints given by Lu Yuan, Zhao An and his party successfully dug up the batch of medicines buried by Lu Yuan himself in a woodland outside the city, and the number of medicines far exceeded the amount that Hans had promised at the beginning.