Chapter 405 Fortress Reconnaissance (II)

Zhang Xiangchun took off his dog's fur and said with a smile: "Shopkeeper, give us a plate of peanuts and a plate of beef sauce, and a pot of good wine!" Hearing Zhang Xiangchun's words, the shopkeeper said with a smile: "Please wait, two guests! The wine and food will be here soon!"

After a while, the shopkeeper brought the wine and food to Zhang Xiangchun and Xiao Jianhai and put it in front of him and said, "Please use it slowly, two of you!" As the shopkeeper was about to leave, Xiao Jianhai suddenly spoke, "Shopkeeper, why didn't we see the mountain goods store here after we ran around the town?!"

Hearing Xiao Jianhai's words, the shopkeeper smiled and said, "I guess the two guests came from other places, right?! The mountains near our Hutou Town have been forbidden for more than ten years! A few years ago, there were people who entered the mountains and poached. These people who entered the mountains were either mysteriously missing or were caught as spies. Hunters could not go up the mountain, so naturally there would be no mountain goods in the city."

"Why are you arrested when you go up the mountain? The Japanese are too unreasonable! After all, this is still a place for Chinese people!" Zhang Xiangchun said angrily. When the shopkeeper heard Zhang Xiangchun's words, he immediately stopped Zhang Xiangchun from complaining and said, "Shh, whisper. Those Japanese are all killing people without blinking! You don't need to provoke them!"

Hearing the shopkeeper's words, Xiao Jianhai also cooperated and said, "Brother, you should say less! Don't let the shopkeeper's embarrassment!" As he said, Xiao Jianhai looked at the shopkeeper and said, "Shopkeeper, can we take action here in the future?!"

The shopkeeper heard Xiao Jianhai's words and smiled bitterly and said, "Oh, I heard that what project is being done on the mountain? A few years ago, an announcement was issued, which marked the entire mountainous areas around Hutou Town as military restricted areas. At the beginning, some hunters secretly went up the mountain to hunt, but they were all caught and paraded in a wide variety of ways and then cut their heads down. Since then, no one dared to go up the mountain, but the Japanese want to eat wild game, so people from other places are allowed to traffic the prey here! If you have any good mountain goods in the future, you might as well send them to me!"

"Then thank you, shopkeeper!" Xiao Jianhai took out a ginseng hidden on his body in advance and quietly stuffed it into the shopkeeper's hand and said, "This is a little bit of a word, and the people in the mountains have nothing valuable to take!"

The shopkeeper glanced at the things that Xiao Jianhai stuffed into his hand, and smiled and said, "What's the point of being a family member in the future?" After that, the shopkeeper turned around and left with the things.

After a while, the shopkeeper looked at the lack of business and smiled, holding a cup and a pot of wine, and sat down next to Zhang Xiangchun and Xiao Jianhai, then said, "I think you are not ordinary mountain sellers!" As the shopkeeper said, dipped his fingers in the cup and wrote the word "National Army" and looked at Zhang Xiangchun and Xiao Jianhai with a smile.

After hearing the shopkeeper's words, Zhang Xiangchun smiled and said, "You can see this from the shopkeeper's face?!"

The shopkeeper smiled and said, "My distant nephew is now a platoon leader under the young marshal. When I went to Fengtian (Shenyang) to see him, he told me that General Zhang Lieyang, who had fought outside the pass a few years ago, was scattered in General Zhang Lieyang..."

Before the shopkeeper finished his words, Zhang Xiangchun asked seriously: "Okay, let's not say this anymore! I want to ask if you know the Japanese are doing projects in the mountains?!"

The shopkeeper looked at the other person around, so he sucked two sips of dry tobacco and waited for a while and said softly to Zhang Xiangchun and Xiao Jianhai: "In recent years, he has come to a few tank trucks every year to bring some strong young people. The Japanese drove them to the town, covered their eyes with black cloth and put them on a big truck and pulled them away. I heard that these are all workers who have repaired some projects. There are at least more than 100,000 people over the years. Anyway, I only saw them pulling them out, but I never saw them pulling them back." The shopkeeper sighed deeply and said, "It's a sin!"

Hearing the shopkeeper's words, Zhang Xiangchun saw the puppet army leader he met at the city gate just now. So he smiled and said to the shopkeeper: "Uncle San, my mother asked the two of us to bring you mountain goods. I respected Taijun halfway! Don't blame us brothers for the two!"

The old-fashioned shopkeeper heard Zhang Xiangchun's words and looked at Zhang Xiangchun's eyes and immediately said clearly: "Respect the Lord of the King is to respect your uncle and me! Don't run around here! Don't go to the hillsides and hills outside the town. Many people are caught and beheaded or "thrown anchors" there (referring to tie the hands behind their backs, tie a large stone on their backs, and then throw them into the Ussuri River)!"

"I understand! Uncle San, my brother and I are just walking around the town and buying some salt, candy and pastries for my mother!" Zhang Xiangchun said with a smile.

At this time, the puppet army leader had already walked to Zhang Xiangchun and Xiao Jianhai and said with a smile: "Shopkeeper Cao, didn't expect these two to be your nephews?"

"Yes! Captain Hu, what wind blows you today?!" said the shopkeeper with a smile.

"Of course, it was the chicken stewed with mushrooms and pork stewed with vermicelli and the top-notch old white ganja here that led me here!" said the puppet army captain with a smile.

Seeing the shopkeeper talking to the puppet army leader, Xiao Jianhai smiled and said, "Uncle San, my mother asked me to bring you some things. Am I going to hand them over to you now?" The shopkeeper heard Xiao Jianhai's words and asked with a smile: "What's the matter?! Let's talk about it tonight! You two brothers will go shopping in the town!"

"Hey! Uncle San, then my brother and I will leave first!" After saying that, Zhang Xiangchun turned and left with Xiao Jianhai. About an hour later, Zhang Xiangchun and Xiao Jianhai walked around the town and returned to the restaurant. When the shopkeeper saw Zhang Xiangchun and Xiao Jianhai who were suddenly back, they were about to say something, Zhang Xiangchun smiled and said, "Uncle San, my brother and I rushed back overnight! There are only two old people in the house, and we are not at ease!" As he said that, Zhang Xiangchun took some money and quietly put it in front of the shopkeeper, and said with a smile: "Uncle San, we are leaving!" As he said that, Zhang Xiangchun and Xiao Jianhai left the restaurant.

The puppet army captain who had been waiting not far from the tavern saw Zhang Xiangchun and Xiao Jianhai leaving the tavern, and then returned home with confidence! After leaving the restaurant, Zhang Xiangchun and Xiao Jianhai came to the woods outside the city and waited for the others.

In the blink of an eye, it was evening. Zhang Xiangchun looked at the people who had arrived and said, "Let's go back and prepare now, and start to use the evening to reconnaise the surrounding mountains!" Hearing Zhang Xiangchun's words, Xiao Jianhai thought for a while and said, "Xiang Chun, I suspect that the Japanese are moving secret whistles around. Should we check it out first?!"
Chapter completed!