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

Yang Dalin then closed the door to the interrogation room.

I went to listen outside the iron gates of the innermost rooms.

There were painful groans and soft snores from the sound of someone asleep.

Yang Dalin opened the doors one by one and woke them up.

Five Chinese nationals were found to be imprisoned separately.

There was another one who was also Russian.

However, it's unclear how long this guy has been locked up.

He was very thin, and his beard and hair were all white.

It's not easy to determine his age.

Among those Chinese people was Wang Xiaocui's brother, Wang Xiaoshan.

There were also two people from their village.

However, they clearly did not know beforehand that they were being held in a certain place.

I was quite excited to meet him.

However, Yang Dalin did not directly acknowledge Wang Xiaoshan.

Wang Xiaoshan had never met Yang Dalin.

None of these people knew Yang Dalin's identity.

Yang Dalin did not show him any deliberate enthusiasm.

Yang Dalin threw food, water, medicine, and clothing to them.

Let them look after each other.

They brought the first Russian over again.

It must be inconvenient for this guy to apply the medicine himself.

They were temporarily locked up together.

Yang Dalin told them in Chinese and Russian, "Eat something first, then apply medicine and bandages to each other."

Change into these clothes.

Let's go together later.

I need to keep a close eye on the patrol and shift change times.

Otherwise, if you all rush out together, none of you will escape.

Let's conserve our strength first. Once I've scouted the area, we'll leave together.

Do not make any loud noises here, lest you attract the enemy.

Do you understand?

"Okay, I understand."

"Understood, Comrade General."

"Understood, don't pull him."

"Don't pull him," said the man with the gray beard and hair.

"Bu La He" means "brother" in Russian.

"Comrade" means comrade.

This guy certainly called out in a friendly way.

Yang Dalin then closed the door, thought for a moment, and then locked it again.

Then he went up and got everyone in the other large workshop under his control.

There's no one locked up over there.

It stores food and other supplies.

Yang Dalin stored all the food and supplies in the space.

Among these are rice and flour that were used to pay off debts in China. If Yang Dalin sees them, can he leave some for them?

Think more.

Not a single grain of rice will be left.

Yang Dalin returned to the basement and found the data management room.

I looked through the documents.

I then realized that those two Russians were quite something.

The first person to be rescued was a physicist.

He can be considered a relatively pure scholar.

They entered a rather secret research base.

He participated in some secret research.

However, because a report was filed alleging that some logistics staff were embezzling funds.

As a result, they were tricked and harassed.

That's terrible. You know, only ordinary people can embezzle money in that kind of place.

How can someone embezzle money if there's no one in charge?

They all obviously have powerful backers.

You, an expert with no power or influence, dare to report us. If we don't take you down, who will we take down?

The other man with the white beard is even more formidable.

She looks much older than her age, but she's actually only in her forties.

He's just been locked up for a bit too long.

He is a very impressive nuclear submarine research expert.

Unfortunately, due to an experimental accident that caused significant losses, he was made a scapegoat because of his straightforwardness and willingness to speak the truth.

Both of them had access to classified information, so naturally they wouldn't be imprisoned in an ordinary prison.

The Russians have a penchant for internal purging in recent years.

They died without even knowing how they died.

Both of them are talented.

There are probably many more such talents in other places.

Yang Dalin thought he could bring both of these guys back to China.

Rather than being tortured to death here, it's better to take it back and let it shine.

If we could bring back just one nuclear submarine expert, we'd make a fortune.

The Russians have a huge territory.

We need someone arranged by Director Hou to help us gather some information.

Otherwise, you'd work yourself to death and still not find many.

These people, having suffered unwarranted persecution, would probably be happy to leave Russia and go to China to make their mark.

Yang Dalin then looked at the information of the other five compatriots from China; these people were much more ordinary.

All five of them were fairly ordinary people.

The most capable experts in China are all in a secret, uninhabited base hundreds of kilometers to the northwest.

It won't be easy for the Russians to capture Chinese experts.

These people were all captured in the mountains on the border.

It was the Russian intelligence department that wanted to know the geographical location of China's border.

These people are all talking about ordinary information.

Taking it back shouldn't be a big deal.

These documents all serve as evidence.

Yang Dalin put all of these materials back into his spatial storage.

They swept the entire basement clean.

After Yang Dalin went up, he deliberately ran to the back wall of the timber processing plant and smashed a hole in it with a hammer.

Then, he quietly led the few people who were imprisoned out.

He would let them sneak out of the hole, and then pretend to clean up any traces at the end.

They seemed mysterious, as if there were still quite a few enemies in this place.

It's to prevent these people from saying things they shouldn't have when they return to their home countries.

Yang Dalin led them for a long time.

They released a truck into the woods ahead.

There was also a plank hanging on the back of the truck.

The wooden plank dragged on the ground.

It makes it easier to sweep away the tracks left by past trucks that have trampled the snow.

Yang Dalin drove far away and found a cave in the mountains.

They have temporarily settled everyone here.

These people all need to recover from their injuries.

The body needs to recover.

Moreover, Yang Dalin needed to ask those two old Russians some more questions.

Where are there any Russian experts being held captive around here?

If we're going to do it, let's take it all back together.

Moreover, that physicist clearly had family members with him.

If we don't bring his family along, this guy might not come with us.

The old Russian with the white beard had no family left.

His family had all died during the Great Patriotic War.

So it's easy for him to talk.

Yang Dalin went out and quickly brought back some firewood, which they lit at the entrance of the cave to keep warm.

They gave them another silly roe deer.

But they continued to eat good food.

Yang Dalin called the first Russian man he rescued to the depths of the cave.

Yang Dalin asked him, "Comrade-in-Chief, what do you plan to do next?"

The old Russian man's nose tingled, and he said, his voice slightly choked, "Comrade, my name is Vasily. Can I go home?"

Yang Dalin handed him a cigarette, lit it for him, and said, "Comrade Vasily, if you go home, wouldn't that be like a lamb entering a tiger's den?"

Once I lead you out of here, those people will surely find out very quickly.

And they might even be spying on your family.

If you go back now, you'll be walking right into a trap.

"But, but I can't bear to leave my family."

I don't know what to do either.

And so I embarked on my journey as a fugitive. Leaving aside whether I could survive, the crucial issue was that I didn't even have a destination.

Yang Dalin tried to fool him: "Vasily, do you see those five Chinese people inside?"

I might send them back; do you want to go to the Dragon Kingdom with them?

Of course, you need to show that you are useful, otherwise China wouldn't want a useless old Russian.

If possible, you can then ask the other party to help rescue your family members.

That should work, right?

Otherwise, if you go to pick up your family yourself, you'll probably just be throwing your life away.