The Life of a Son-in-Law in a Courtyard House

At this moment, Lin Shangnan was hiding in a side room of this secluded and uninhabited courtyard, feeling very depressed.

I don't know how I was suddenly discovered; I was being followed for several days without even realizing it.

I don't even know if the person I set the fire for at the hospital has escaped.

Although he wanted to get out and run away right now, the owner of the house told him to wait and see.

If you run now, there might not be many people watching you at the train station or bus station.

Let's wait until tomorrow night to make our escape.

The people who are supposed to meet him will arrive tomorrow night. He will then escape from Chaoyang Gate to the outside of the city. There will be a car to pick him up outside the city. He will take the car directly to Tianjin, and from there he will board a ship to return to the Empire.

Over the years, he has provided the empire with countless pieces of important intelligence.

The empire will not forget him.

After returning to China, he had access to luxury cars, beautiful women, villas, and gold bars.

Lin Shangnan, filled with anticipation for the future, ate some of the food the other party had brought him that evening, but didn't sleep very soundly.

It's also a bit cold. No one lives in this courtyard normally, and there's no stove or heated kang (a traditional heated bed).

If they hadn't given us extra blankets, we would have been freezing tonight.

Yang Dalin and his companions in the jeep were in the same situation; although they were covered with cotton-padded coats, the temperature was even lower than Lin Shangnan's.

However, I can still drink some plain water, which is good.

It was below -10 degrees Celsius at night, and even though we were in the car, there was no air conditioning, and even if there were, we couldn't turn it on.

It's so cold! Yang Dalin took some powerful pills, but he never expected them to have the effect of improving his physical condition.

Yang Dalin felt okay at the moment, that he could handle it, and he vaguely heard Wu Tiejun's roars several times.

However, Dou Xiaolong and the captain of the Dongcheng branch were alright.

Keep in mind that there were soldiers outside watching the courtyard at that time.

They are colder.

Inside the car, Shawn Dou asked Yang Dalin many questions about details and chatted with him casually.

Dou Xiaolong asked him how he discovered the other party suddenly ran away, how he followed them, and why the other party didn't notice, etc.

Yang Dalin was looking for an excuse, but he couldn't reveal the system, so he explained that he had a keen sense of perception and excellent hearing, such as when he discovered the human traffickers, and that he had this talent innately.

When following Lin Shangnan, I followed him from a great distance. I had good eyesight and hearing, so I could even hear the sounds coming from whichever house he lived in.

Over the years, Shawn Dou has met quite a few extraordinary people, including some from his time in the military.

He really wanted to get Yang Dalin into their team.

However, Yang Dalin declined, citing his young age and the fact that he was the only boy in his family.

The group chatted idly.

Finally, midnight arrived, and the arrests began.

Yang Dalin then got out of the car and stretched a bit.

Dou Xiaolong told all the officers in charge of the arrest to drink some hot water and warm up their muscles.

They started arresting people.

The two of them had to make the arrest at the same time, while also being careful of each other's weapons.

It was late at night and all was quiet. Fortunately, there weren't many dog ​​owners in this area. Even if there were, Dou Xiaolong had already arranged for the neighborhood staff to take the dogs away from their owners that afternoon.

In this day and age, people are struggling to get enough to eat, so those who can afford to keep a dog are people who are very well-off.

These families mostly belong to government departments, and they cooperated readily when notified and had their vehicles taken away.

There were some setbacks in the operation to capture Lin Shangnan, but fortunately, only one member of the operation was slightly injured. The capture of Lin Shangnan turned out to be surprisingly easy.

The other person probably didn't expect to escape the hospital so easily.

Why are we being targeted?

I walked around several times in the afternoon but didn't find the person following me.

He was completely bewildered, but unfortunately, he could only ask this question back in the interrogation room.

Having successfully apprehended the suspect, Wu Tiejun identified his target.

After taking the other party away, Wu Tiejun tightly grasped Yang Dalin's hand and said, "Brother, it's still you I can rely on. This time, there's no escape."

Yang Dalin then told Wu Tiejun what he had heard that afternoon: "Brother Jun, it would be best to arrange some people here. I heard them say that someone will come to pick them up tomorrow night to leave the city, take a car to Tianjin, and then leave from Tianjin."

Wu Tiejun said he understood, and that they would have made the arrangements anyway. However, Wu Tiejun was a little surprised that Da Linzi's hearing was so good that he could hear them discussing this matter.

After successfully apprehending the suspect, Yang Dalin didn't go straight home but went to the police station with them to rest.

Otherwise, getting home in the middle of the night would be too much of a hassle.

The captain who was working with Dou Xiaolong led Yang Dalin to his single dormitory at the Dongcheng branch. Yang Dalin only took off his coat, without taking off any other clothes, and directly covered himself with the other person's quilt and fell asleep.

I didn't take off my clothes because it wasn't my own blanket, and I didn't know if it was clean or not, plus it smelled quite strongly of smoke.

Fortunately, he didn't even take off his shoes; he just made do and slept like that.

Yang Dalin was woken up after sleeping for less than two hours.

It turned out that Lin Shangnan refused to speak no matter what, insisting on seeing the person who discovered him and the person who was able to track him down today. He would only speak if he saw him, and would rather die than speak if he didn't see him.

Having no other choice, Yang Dalin went to check on him.

Dou Xiaolong and his team originally didn't want Yang Dalin to show up, but if they didn't get a confession quickly, they wouldn't be able to catch many people.

Dou Xiaolong and his team consulted Yang Dalin, who suggested that they break the other party's leg first.

In case he escapes or is rescued, his family might be threatened.

Shawn Dou said, "That's absolutely impossible, don't worry."

It's not like the first two years after the founding of the People's Republic of China. In those years, there were indeed spies in their department, but so many years have passed, and they have been purged countless times.

Yang Dalin thought about it and realized it made sense; it wasn't like when Zheng Chaoyang had just entered Beijing.

It's been eleven years. Even if there were spies, he wouldn't do something that would easily expose him.

Because once he chooses to retaliate against Yang Dalin and Yang Dalin's family.

That directly proves that there are spies in the Dongcheng branch.

That's just asking for trouble.

For spies, their primary objective is the mission, not revenge for a target that has already been exposed.

Furthermore, Shawn Dou said that because of his great contributions this time, he could apply to be issued a gun first, and he would also arrange for people to protect the Qi family for a period of time, so he could rest assured.

Seeing that he could be equipped with a gun in advance and that the arrangement was reasonable, Yang Dalin went to check on his "fellow villager" who had been badly dealt with by the Great Memory Restoration Technique.

In this era, there wasn't much humanistic concern when dealing with spies.

Interrogating spies like Zheng Chaoyang on TV is just something to watch as a comedy.

Thinking that we should refrain from taking action against the Japanese invaders for how they treated our captured comrades is wishful thinking.

So when Yang Dalin met Lin Shangnan, this "fellow villager" had already been dealt with very badly.

Lin Shangnan perked up instantly upon seeing Yang Dalin: "It's you?"

Yang Dalin replied, "Yes, you didn't expect that, did you, fellow villager?"

Lin Shangnan tried to lunge forward, but his hands and feet were handcuffed and shackled: "How did you find me? How did you manage to follow me?"

Yang Dalin immediately extinguished the other party's hope: "Coincidentally, you smell of fish, which means you like to eat fish. But there are few fish in Beijing, so you eat a lot of salted fish. Also, your teeth are crooked, the gaps between your toes are wide, and you are not tall. All these characteristics show that you are a little devil. Hehe. As for how I kept up with you, it's because I have very good eyesight. I can remember you just by looking at your back without looking in front of you."

Isn't it a coincidence? You were about to run away today, and I just happened to run into you. It was fate. You'd better confess sooner rather than later. Holding on will only cause you more suffering and you won't get anything out of it.

Lin Shangnan struggled against his handcuffs and leg irons, shouting, "Impossible, impossible, you're lying to me, you're lying to me!"

The sound grew fainter and fainter, which must have been incredibly frustrating for a seasoned veteran spy like him.

Yang Dalin added another pound to his accusations: "Your people upstairs and downstairs are living the high life outside, while you're suffering here. You'd be miserable if you didn't bring them over with you."

Lin Shangnan roared for a while, then finally resigned himself to his fate: "I'll talk."

Perhaps he knew that if he didn't speak up, he wouldn't be able to withstand the torture.

After all, he had been living a life of luxury for so many years, unlike when he was young and training, relying on his fearless spirit of risking his life for Tianhuang to endure the torture training.

It's important to understand that most people would find it difficult to endure these forms of punishment.

Having achieved his goal, Yang Dalin left and went back to sleep.

After sleeping soundly until dawn, Yang Dalin greeted Dou Xiaolong and the others who hadn't slept all night, then rode his bicycle to work.