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

Yang Dalin decided to first locate the hideout of the spy who was delivering the grain.

I'll have Captain Li arrange for someone to keep an eye on him.

He came back and stared at the vicinity of the utility pole.

The person who gave him the task will definitely come here to check the scratches on the utility pole by tomorrow morning at the latest.

Therefore, Yang Dalin had to go and return quickly.

These guys are still using the same old tricks, one after another.

However, it simply involves online and offline communication via a dead mail system, where tasks are carried out without face-to-face interaction.

That's fine too.

Although the message delivery may be a little slower.

However, it is highly secure and not so easy to expose oneself.

It can protect yourself to the greatest extent.

Yang Dalin continued to chase after the guy who had just left the grain at the Taoist temple.

However, the more Yang Dalin talked to him, the more he realized something was wrong.

This guy made marks in two different places.

Yang Dalin then notified Captain Li Guoqiang, who continued to assign people to keep an eye on things.

However, after arranging these two places, Captain Li was immediately left alone.

Moreover, this guy didn't go back to his hideout in the middle of the night; he kept moving forward.

Did the other party discover that I did it on purpose?

Yang Dalin didn't believe that the other party could discover him.

The distance between myself and the person I was tracking was at least nearly 100 meters.

It's impossible for him to discover his own?

So, was the other party's mission to leave more marks around the area?

Is this possible?

Yang Dalin's mind raced.

This situation is clearly not right.

Or are these markings just illusions, and none of them are real?

If this continues, Captain Li will run out of manpower to guard him.

Yang Dalin wasn't going to wait any longer, damn it.

Just pin him down and interrogate him on the spot.

Damn, this old devil is really hard to deal with; he's a troublesome character.

No wonder the higher-ups have always known about this person and he hasn't been caught.

It's really impossible without some skill.

Having thought this through, Yang Dalin no longer hesitated.

They rushed over, circled around to the front of the spy, and ambushed and pinned him down next to a telephone pole.

This guy even wanted to mark this utility pole.

At this point, Captain Li Guoqiang only had one police officer with him.

By the time they arrived, Yang Dalin had already finished interrogating the spy.

This spy's code name was "Mule," and his superior's code name was "Ox."

According to the mule's account, his supplier, a scalper, instructed him to deliver grain to the Taoist temple at midnight tonight and then leave immediately.

Then go and mark ten different places.

Once you're done drawing, you can go home.

He didn't know who this so-called "old ghost" was.

He wasn't the one who contacted the Taoist temple to receive the grain. He didn't know who would come to collect the grain. His task was simply to deliver the grain and mark the spot afterward.

As for his online scalper, he had never met him.

They had always communicated through letters.

The letters were delivered by pigeons; there wasn't even a dead mailbox.

As for drawing the marks, he didn't know why he had to draw them; he just considered it a task for the day once he finished.

Damn, that old devil is really cunning.

Even if Yang Dalin confiscated the carrier pigeon from the spy mule's house, he might not be able to use it to find his superior, Huang Niu's, house.

The mule also instructed that after each mission, he should return home and slip a coded message to the carrier pigeon, then release it and leave it alone.

There will be no contact for a short time.

The mule's reward would only be revealed ten days later via a carrier pigeon, informing him where the reward was hidden.

He can just go and pick it up himself when the time comes.

Moreover, the location of the hiding place is different each time.

Damn it, Yang Dalin has no idea whether this scalper is Lao Gui or not.

However, it is known that these scalpers are also difficult to deal with.

Perhaps this scalper is one of Lao Gui's men.

The flight speed of homing pigeons is between 20-30 kilometers per hour and 120 kilometers per hour.

When facing a headwind, a homing pigeon may fly at a speed of 20 to 30 kilometers per hour; when there is no wind, it may fly at a speed of 60 to 70 kilometers per hour; and when facing a tailwind, it may fly at a speed of 120 kilometers per hour.

Some carrier pigeons fly at speeds of 150 to 160 kilometers per hour.

Yang Dalin simply couldn't keep up with that speed.

Besides, it doesn't need to follow Luffy's path.

Even if Yang Dalin could catch up with the speed, it wouldn't be easy for him to track the enemy from below, as he would have to climb mountains and wade through rivers.

Moreover, homing pigeons generally fly at altitudes of over 1,000 meters.

Even if Yang Dalin could see it from a height of over 1,000 meters during the day, it was still really hard to track.

Enraged, Yang Dalin smashed a brick next to him with his fist.

Suppressing his anger, he told Captain Li to call back the people who had been marked.

Staying there is a complete waste of time.

After everyone was brought back, Yang Dalin led his men back home with the spy mule.

As dawn broke, three carrier pigeons were released into the air.

In this case, it's also for safety reasons.

Because carrier pigeons may encounter predators or be accidentally injured during their mission.

Therefore, releasing multiple birds at once is also for the sake of ensuring the safety of the message delivery.

Not sending a message would only alert the enemy more easily.

After delivering the letter, the scalper thought his mission was complete for at least ten days.

Yang Dalin was determined to catch Huang Niu and Lao Gui within these ten days.

Otherwise, he could only temporarily use the excuse of being on a business trip, unable to go home or return to the freight station, to lull his opponents into a false sense of security.

Otherwise, the other party would definitely know that he was alright.

They will launch a second attack.

This time, Yang Dalin will have to go underground to better capture them.

Yang Dalin thought to himself that people from his family and the freight station would definitely still try to find out about him.

So he decided to return to Beijing immediately.

But he couldn't go home, and he couldn't show his face at the station either.

He wanted to inform Director Hou and the others to see if they could secretly find out who these people were.

The station could have informed Aunt Qi that he was going on a business trip instead of directly announcing the false news of his "sacrifice".

This way, we can keep it a secret for a while.

Yang Dalin then thought of the telegram sound near his home.

Were those two people responsible for keeping an eye on their family?

He'll have to go back and verify that himself.

And what about the mule's carrier pigeons? Did they fly directly to Beijing?

Because there are many people in Beijing who raise pigeons.

Hidden in Beijing, scalpers are inconspicuous among the many pigeon breeders.

Yang Dalin remembered watching a military parade in a later era where peace doves were released, and only then did he realize that the management in later eras was much stricter.

Many pigeon breeders have joined the association.

But back then, an association could have tens of thousands of people raising pigeons.

Nowadays, many people in the alleys raise a few pigeons because there isn't enough food, so many people have reduced their pigeon keeping.

Otherwise, the number would be even greater.

However, there are many people in a hutong who keep two or three of these animals.

Leaving aside other suburban counties of Beijing, it would be easy to find tens of thousands of pigeon breeders in the city.

Therefore, it is very difficult to investigate and deal with this person codenamed "scalper" in Beijing.

The quantity is too large.

Yang Dalin could only look around his neighborhood for clues that someone was watching him.

Find the enemy through this person.

The other party is too cunning; we have to change our route.

Yang Dalin returned to the police station and informed Qi Desheng and Chief Lu of the news.

Qi Desheng understood what Yang Dalin meant.

So they agreed to Yang Dalin's idea and returned directly to the freight station.