Siheyuan: Survival Guide for Courtyard No. 95

Nanluoguxiang is made up of nearly 20 alleys, which are interconnected like a giant centipede, so it is also known as "Centipede Street".

It is the only residential area in China that still preserves the "fishbone-shaped" alley texture and chessboard layout of the Yuan Dynasty.

Dai Wuren was completely panicked after seeing all his men dead. He no longer had the ambition he had when he got the weapons in the thatched house. He threw all the money, beauties and medals behind him. He just wanted to survive.

Relying on his familiarity with the terrain, he shook off the pursuers and escaped to the back wall of Courtyard 95. He climbed over with a push of his feet and arrived at the door of the deaf old lady. He pushed the door hard, but found that it was locked from the inside. He then used his fingers to gently type the Morse code on the door. Although the force of his fingers was not great, as long as the people in the house were not asleep, they would definitely hear the sound.

The deaf old lady was old and a light sleeper, and with her years of war experience, she had already been awakened by the gunshots. When she heard the movement at the door, she listened carefully and knew the meaning of the code.

He stood up and opened the door, letting Dai Wuren in. He then stuck his head out to see if anyone else had seen what happened, then he closed the door and turned around to speak.

"You broke the rules. This is not the place for you to be."

Dai Wuren gasped in the darkness, and it took him nearly two minutes to relax his tense body.

"Captain Long, I really have no other choice.

You don't have to worry about being exposed. Even if your neighbors are awake at this moment, no one dares to leave the house. It was like this when the Japanese invaded, and it is still like this now. People cherish their lives. This is what you taught me."

What he said was really right. When the gunshots came from far away like popping beans, many residents in the yard had already woken up. After hearing the gunshots, these people didn't even open the door to check, let alone light a lamp.

"I kind of regret teaching you these things. Tell me, what is your purpose here? Where are your men? Why are you the only one here?"

Dai Wuren's expression was somewhat dejected, and he replied dejectedly.

“It’s all over, even Lao Hu who followed me for many years is dead.

I didn't expect that the current People's Liberation Army would be so powerful. If the Japanese devils had met this group of people, there would probably not have been an eight-year war of resistance. They would have been pushed all the way from the Northeast to Korea by this group of people and driven into the sea to feed the fish.

I have nowhere else to go, so I can only hide here. When the inspection outside is not so strict, I will leave and I promise not to cause you any trouble."

The deaf old lady's mouth twitched and her face showed ferocity. She really wanted to beat this guy to death with a stick, but it was a pity that the room was too dark and Dai Wuren could not see anything, otherwise he might have taken the initiative and pulled out a gun to shoot the deaf old lady directly.

"I have already withdrawn and will not participate in it again. Please leave here and I will pretend that I have never seen you. Now I just want to live a few more years."

"Old lady, do you think what you said is possible? Once you are the Military Control Commission, you will always be the Military Control Commission. Even if you changed your name after the Huaihai Campaign, cleared all traces of the past, and even donated your ancestral home, country D has your files. As long as these files are revealed by the other side of the sea, do you think you can still live your good life?

My requirements are not high. Although this plan cannot be said to be successful, it has not completely failed. One of the workshops in the steel mill was completely destroyed by our action team. The situation outside will definitely be tight for a while. As long as the investigation outside is relaxed, I will evacuate immediately. I also want to leave this damn place from Tianjin as soon as possible. I will definitely not cause you any trouble. "

Seeing the other party's firm tone, the deaf old lady knew that it was impossible to get the other party to leave by using words. Then she changed her mind and realized that the other party really had no way out, and the yard where she lived would soon be thoroughly searched by the military and police.

The conversation between the two was short, but it was enough for them to get used to the darkness in the room. The old lady walked to the bed in the moonlight coming through the window and groped in the corner under the kang cabinet until she touched a slightly raised lump, which she pressed down with force.

From the small room came the sound of gears clicking, and soon the cabinet moved half a meter to the other side of the kang.

"This is the basement I prepared for myself, old lady. There are food and drinks in it. You can hide in there. When the search outside is not so strict, get out of here."

Dai Wuren walked to the kang cabinet and looked underneath. It was pitch black and he couldn't see anything clearly. He turned around and said to the old lady.

"Old lady, you won't lock me up and leave me alone, will you?"

"Stop talking nonsense. If you keep wasting time, the police will come. Do you still want to live?"

Dai Wuren was thinking that if the old lady ignored him, he would fire a warning shot so that he could take someone with him before he died. It must be said that these enemy spies had long lost their moral bottom line and were only concerned about personal gain.

He felt around the opening next to the kang cabinet, found a ladder and climbed down.

(Please refer to Resident Evil 1 here)

When he climbed to the bottom of the pit, it was really pitch black this time. He had no choice but to take out a flashlight from his pocket. After turning it on, he saw that there was only a straight path at the edge of the pit. It was very narrow and obviously not designed for someone of his height, so he walked in hunched over.

After walking forward for more than ten meters, a wooden door appeared. Gently push it open and there is a basement four or five meters long and about three meters wide.

The weather in August is hot, but it is humid and cool here, and the air is noticeably fresher, which shows that what the old lady said is true. This is one of the escape places she prepared for herself.

Dai Wuren was holding on with one breath when he was escaping. Now that he saw his life was guaranteed, he sat down on the ground as soon as he let out his breath, thinking about the gains and losses of this mission, and what route he should take to evacuate.

In the deaf old lady's room, just as she was restoring the mechanism of the kang cabinet and picking up the broom to clean up the traces, she heard someone smashing the door to the front yard.

That’s right, the word “smash” was used. The people in the army chased the man all the way to Nanluoguxiang, but they lost him and were almost going crazy.

The old lady no longer pretended to be deaf and dumb, and quickened the pace of cleaning up the traces. Her legs and feet were more nimble than those of an old lady. By the time Yan Bugui in the front yard arrived at the gate of the yard to talk to the police, the old lady had already cleaned up all the footprints and other traces, and lay on the kang again.

At the front yard gate, Yan Bugui, wearing a faded hurdle vest, was shouting outside.

"Who is it? Can't you let me sleep at this late hour?"

"Open the door, open the door, open the door. We are from the Public Security Bureau. An enemy spy was chased to this area by the troops. We have been ordered to search."

Although Yan Bugui was muttering in his heart some nonsense like "you are a public security officer and you can't let people sleep", he still went to get the key to the front door from under the flowerpot outside his window.