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

Left with no other option, Yang Dalin decided to resort to a tactic of eliminating all his offspring.

If you dare to come, I dare to go too.

We can't find any clues about you on the mainland.

I'll go straight to your hideout and ask your superiors for clues.

Just watch whether I can find you.

And you can also find a lot of other undercover agents' names along the way.

There's no need to limit our search to mainland China.

Director Hou didn't return until evening, dragging his exhausted body back home.

When he returned, he whispered to him, "The higher-ups have agreed. You can go, but you must make sure you don't kill anyone indiscriminately."

Because there are still quite a few people from our area over there.

Yang Dalin understood why Director Hou had been so agitated and refused to let him go before.

Yes, there are definitely quite a few of our undercover agents in the intelligence department over there.

If I were to go and kill indiscriminately, that would be troublesome.

There was also a news report that Yang Dalin had read that back in Shanghai, four out of the five leaders in a Japanese intelligence agency were actually our undercover agents.

Can you believe how magical that is?

During the War of Resistance Against Japan, some places issued special notices prohibiting the indiscriminate killing of traitors and people who looked like collaborators.

Because many of them were loyal to the Han while serving Cao Cao.

Or they might be agents we sent from our side to infiltrate.

Indiscriminate killing might result in the deaths of everyone on your own side.

Director Hou would definitely not give him the list of undercover agents.

Then Yang Dalin wouldn't know which parts could be moved and which parts couldn't.

However, Yang Dalin could simply set a few maximum targets and be done with it.

Yang Dalin asked, "Director Hou, are the head of the other side's intelligence bureau and two deputy heads our people? I won't ask anything else, just information about these three people."

I won't ask anyone else, and I won't do anything either. How about that?

After listening, Director Hou said, "Okay, I'll go ask around for you!"

Yang Dalin felt a pang of regret. What? Judging from Director Hou's expression, there might be one of our people among these three.

Goodness, you're something else, you little bald guy.

You can be infiltrated into a sieve at any time.

It is also a fine virtue.

Just like their former intelligence chief, Director Xu, whose confidential secretary was one of our people.

If the situation hadn't been urgent, they wouldn't have been exposed at all.

Sigh, if I leak any more information, I'll only be held accountable.

Director Hou returned relatively quickly this time, and said as soon as he came back: "Those three are not, but if you can avoid killing them after you go there, then do so. We finally figured out how these people do things."

Such people are better left alive than killed indiscriminately.

"Because we've figured out these guys' tactics, even if you kill them, they'll send in new ones, and we'll have to figure things out all over again."

Yang Dalin nodded: "Understood, Director. When I go, I'll just quietly threaten them to hand over Old Ghost's information and that'll be it."

I won't touch anything else, and I won't reveal their affairs to anyone.

Keep them around; you can threaten them from time to time to exchange information with us.

Only when such people remain in power can they play a greater role.

Director Hou patted Yang Dalin on the shoulder with satisfaction and said with a smile, "You're quite something, kid. Your political thinking has matured. Not bad at all."

Should I take the train early tomorrow morning, or what?

What's your contact information?

Do you need my contact information for the people on the islands who can help us?

"Get them to cooperate with your operation?"

Yang Dalin shook his head immediately: "No, please don't."

Director Hou, I can go there myself.

You don't need to give me the contact information for any of your intelligence agents.

Otherwise, regardless of whether the operation succeeds or not, going directly to see them could pose a threat to their personal safety.

I have my own methods; I can handle it myself.

Also, don't take the train. We still have eight days. The train is too slow and a waste of time.

It takes at least several dozen hours to get to Jianfu Province, so another two days have passed.

Time is of the essence. Are there any military or civilian airliners that are traveling along the same route, Director Hou?

I'll fly there, and I can take the train back.

Also, we need to get a new set of the codebook we used to communicate last time.

After I get there and succeed, I'll find a radio station to contact you.

After listening to Yang Dalin's request, Director Hou nodded: "Okay, I'll contact them right away."

Gao Xiaolong will go with you.

We'll stay in Beijing and wait for your good news, then we'll coordinate with your operation.

"Yes, Director."

Director Hou went to make the arrangements again.

After Director Hou left again, Yang Dalin sat in his chair, lost in thought.

Poor, unlucky Xu Damao.

He might not see his wife when he comes back.

His wife doesn't eat peanuts, so she'll probably be sentenced to several years in prison.

It's her own fault for being so foolish as to be used and getting involved with spies.

If that happened, Xu Damao would definitely divorce her immediately.

In this day and age, nobody wants to be a spy.

I didn't expect that Brother Da Mao would be getting a new wife so early this time.

Qin Huairu's role is unknown, but Wei Xiaona is unlucky; she probably won't escape punishment either, or at least she'll be punished.

Who could have indirectly passed on her message to Wei Xiaona?

This is what they mean by "If you don't court death, you won't die."

It's all his own fault.

Perhaps when I come back, there will be new changes in the compound.

Yang Dalin was actually looking forward to it.

Two hours later, Yang Dalin and Gao Xiaolong boarded a military plane that was going the same way.

Gao Xiaolong accompanied him to help contact local officials in Fujian Province.

Yang Dalin simply needed to get on the fishing boat and find a way to smuggle himself ashore.

All the communication tasks that required it were handled by Gao Xiaolong.

Yang Dalin will leave Beijing to carry out his mission, and Director Hou will also help Yang Dalin contact Qi Desheng.

Yang Dalin doesn't need to worry about any of these things.

However, sitting in this military aircraft was really uncomfortable at this time; it was noisy and cold.

Fortunately, Gao Xiaolong was experienced and prepared two military overcoats for them.

There were also cotton quilts.

Otherwise, it would be difficult to take out the warm blankets and other things that Yang Dalin had in his space.

More than four hours later, after a ground refueling, the plane flew to the Minzhou military airport.

This place is right across the sea from their "capital".

The straight-line distance between them is about 250 kilometers.

I was originally planning to take a fishing boat there in the middle of the night.

As a result, the local comrades told him that they couldn't go today. By the time they got to the beach, it was almost dawn, and the fishing boats were only going about 20 kilometers per hour.

Starting from the nearest beach, it's more than 150 kilometers to the nearest coastline on the other side, which would take at least seven or eight hours, or even more than ten hours. It's simply impossible to go there in broad daylight.

So we can only wait until tonight.

There's nothing we can do but wait.

Local officials also suggested that Yang Dalin learn to swim in the sea.

Because at that time, the fishing boats can only throw him into the sea from a great distance, and cannot get very close to the other side's shore.

Sometimes, he might be the one to swim across.