Chapter 47: Catching the Agent

The two entered the house.

After Li Jiandong sat down, he mentioned inviting Director Zheng to dinner.

Director Zheng smiled and said, "You have thanked me several times, but I haven't thanked you yet for helping our street solve the housing problems of more than a dozen households."

Then he added: "Since you, Li Jiandong, have invited me, I will respectfully obey your order. I will be there on time tonight."

"Then I'll wait for you in the dormitory building. See you then."

After Li Jiandong finished speaking, he said goodbye and left.

Then he went to the steel rolling mill and gave her the key to Ding Qiunan's house.

Ding Qiunan didn't expect that Li Jiandong would give her a house.

Although it is collective and there is no property certificate, the permanent residence right is just like her house, except that it cannot be sold.

"Master, thank you so much. I have given all my money to my family. From now on, I will pay you 3 yuan every month. I can't accept such an expensive gift from you for nothing."

Ding Qiunan was grateful, but he also knew that the gift was too expensive.

Li Jiandong said, "You don't have to give me money. When we live in the dormitory building, if anyone in our courtyard is sick or has a minor illness, you can help take a look. Of course, if they need to buy medicine, you can write a prescription and let them buy it themselves. You just need to be responsible for treating the disease."

A resident doctor is worth more than 3 dollars a month.

The most important thing is that more practice will help you upgrade faster.

Although the steel mill's infirmary is busy, it is staffed by a director.

Ding Qiunan could only help out most of the time.

If she were allowed to treat patients on her own, I believe her medical skills would improve much faster.

"Okay, thank you, Master."

Ding Qiunan smiled and took the room key.

Li Jiandong told her that they would go to the dormitory building to have dinner together in the evening, and then said goodbye and left.

The day passed and it was evening in the blink of an eye.

People from the courtyard came to the tavern dormitory building one after another.

He Daqing hired a few women to help him. Things like cooking are mostly done by women, unless they are chefs.

Seeing that Sha Zhu was not there, Li Jiandong asked He Daqing, "Daqing, why hasn't Zhu come back yet?"

I've already gotten off work by this time, so even if I take a shower, it's still early.

He Daqing said casually: "He is working overtime."

Li Jiandong thought for a moment and said, "Is Zhuzi working overtime too often recently? Why do I feel like I haven't seen him for a long time?"

He Daqing looked around.

Suddenly, he walked over to Li Jiandong and whispered in his ear,

"Old Li, I'm telling you, don't tell anyone else that enemy spies have been spotted on our street.

Zhuzi and his colleagues at the police station have been searching for this enemy spy for more than a week.

I guess it will be hard to find time to come over for dinner tonight."

When Li Jiandong heard the word "enemy spy", his heart twitched violently.

After being in the courtyard for so long, this was the first time he felt the enemy spies were so close to him.

Even though I just heard a title.

"Daqing, you have to remind Zhuzi to be careful. Most of the enemy spies have guns."

Li Jiandong said in a deep voice.

Sha Zhu is his apprentice, and he doesn't want anything to happen to his apprentice.

He Daqing smiled calmly and said, "Do you need to tell me that? I have already taught him a lesson. Although Zhuzi is usually silly, he still has good foresight at critical moments."

Li Jiandong nodded: "That's good, Daqing, you go ahead and do your work, I'll go out and see if Director Zheng is here."

"Okay, you go about your business."

He Daqing waved his hand and continued to busy himself with his dishes.

Li Jiandong walked out of the kitchen and headed towards the door of the tavern.

In the distance, Xu Damao and Xu Jianjun had just returned from a day of shopping and saw Li Jiandong standing alone at the door of the tavern.

Xu Damao came up and said, "Master, I have a gift for you."

Li Jiandong smiled and said, "Haven't you already given me half a wild boar? Are there any other gifts?"

Xu Damao smiled and said, "That half of the wild boar was given to you by Uncle Jianjun and Second Master, this is what I give you."

As Xu Damao spoke, he took something out of his pocket and handed it to Li Jiandong.

Li Jiandong took it in his hand and saw that it was a slingshot made of a wooden fork. It looked like a lot of thought went into its making.

Li Jiandong tried pulling it twice and found that the slingshot was very powerful and should have great lethality.

"Sure, Damao, did you do this?"

Li Jiandong liked this gift very much because it was a token of his disciple's love.

Having accepted so many disciples, he never expected that Xu Damao would be the first to give him a gift.

It turns out that this kid is the best at handling things.

Xu Damao was praised and said happily,
"Master, I made it myself. It's hard to find a straight branch like this, and the slingshot made from it is very accurate. I made two in total, one for each of us."

"Not bad, really good."

Li Jiandong nodded repeatedly, picked up a small stone from the ground, put it on the rubber band, straightened it and let go, and with a snap, it hit the sparrow on the wall in front of him.

Neither Xu Damao nor Xu Jianjun expected him to be so accurate. His movements showed that he was an expert in slingshot shooting.

"Master, have you practiced before?"

Xu Damao asked in surprise.

Li Jiandong smiled and shook his head: "I've played it a few times, it's just luck."

Xu Damao said "oh", he also felt that Li Jiandong was lucky.

You know, he has been practicing shooting birds with a slingshot almost every day for the past twenty days.

But he couldn't be as accurate as Li Jiandong just now.

Little did he know that Li Jiandong would get a hundred times the experience back.

Xu Damao has been practicing slingshot bird shooting every day for more than 20 days, and his sharpshooter level has exceeded level 12.

With a hundredfold experience return, Li Jiandong is now a level 7 sharpshooter.

Although, they are not as good as those professional snipers.

But at least I can hit the target within 10 meters.

For example, the bird on the wall just now was exactly 9 meters away from Li Jiandong.

Li Jiandong raised his hand and shot down without even aiming.

"Jianjun, you and Damao go sit in the dormitory building first, and let Damao introduce you to the people in our hospital.

I have to wait for someone here, I will accompany you later."

Li Jiandong put away the slingshot and said to Xu Jianjun.

Xu Jianjun nodded and said, "Okay, Master Li, go ahead and do your thing."

When Xu Fugui saw his son, he was stunned.
Xu Damao hadn't been home for almost two months. When he first met his son, he saw that he had become darker and thinner.
Xu Fugui burst into tears on the spot, and Sun Xifeng was also wiping away tears.

Li Jiandong and others were waiting at the door of the tavern.

After a while, I saw a man in his fifties with gray hair riding a bicycle coming from a distance.

Director Zheng rode his bike until he was in front of Li Jiandong before stopping: "Jiandong, I didn't keep you waiting for long, did I? I had something urgent to do just now, so I was delayed for a while."

Li Jiandong said, "No, I just arrived too. Director Zheng, please come in."

The dormitory building was right behind the tavern, and the two pushed their bicycles over.

Li Jiandong shouted loudly: "Everyone, please be quiet. Director Zheng from the street has come to give us a speech. Director Zheng has been very helpful in building our tavern dormitory building. Let's welcome Director Zheng with applause."

The residents were chatting excitedly with each other, and when they heard Li Jiandong's shout, they stood up and applauded.

Director Zheng is a leader and is most accustomed to this kind of scene. After he simply said a few words of encouragement, Li Jiandong invited him to the main table.

Also sitting at the table are Liu Haizhong, Yan Bugui, today's guest Xu Jianjun, and Director Zheng.

Liu Haizhong was very excited to be able to sit and have dinner with his leader, and he kept trying to curry his favor.

Li Jiandong couldn't stand it anymore and wanted to change his table.

Just then, Sha Zhu suddenly appeared in police uniform.

Ignoring other people's greetings, he went straight to Li Jiandong's table.

Yan Bugui was the first to see Shazhu and greeted him with a smile.

"Silly Zhu, your dad said you couldn't come today. Looks like he's done with his work."

Sha Zhu glanced at Yan Bugui, nodded at him, and ignored him.

He quickly said to Li Jiandong, "Master, please come with me." Jia Dongxu and Yan Jiecheng were sitting at the next table and saw Sha Zhu who looked a little nervous.

He came over and asked with concern: "Zhu Zi, what's wrong with you? Did something happen?"

Sha Zhu said to them, "It's okay, brothers, please sit down first. I have something to discuss with Master."

At this time, Li Jiandong also realized that something had happened. He quietly stood up and walked with Sha Zhu to a deserted place nearby.

Then he said, "Zhu Zi, what happened?"

Sha Zhu swallowed his saliva, then lowered his voice and said, "Master, there are enemy spies in our courtyard."

Buzz! Suddenly, Li Jiandong's brain went into a state of panic.

Although, Li Jiandong cannot care about everyone in the hospital every day.

But they all lived in the same compound, and there were enemy spies in the compound, but he didn't even notice it. It was too dangerous.

"Do you know who it is? The one in the front yard, the middle yard, or the back yard?"

After realizing what was happening, Li Jiandong immediately asked calmly.

Sha Zhu shook his head: "Master, what I said just now was not very clear. It's not that there are enemy spies among our people, but that the enemy spies have infiltrated our courtyard."

"Now, he is among the group of people outside. Someone from our police station saw him sneak in with their own eyes. They were afraid that he would alert the enemy and hurt someone, so they sent me in to inform you first."

At this moment, Chief Zhang from the police station was guarding outside the dormitory building with seven or eight policemen.

They have been keeping an eye on the enemy spies these days, and today was the day to close the net, but the enemy spies suddenly changed their route, making their surveillance in vain.

Zhang suspected that the enemy spies had already discovered that they were being targeted.

Therefore, action must be taken today. However, at the last second before the arrest, the enemy spy suddenly turned a corner and rushed into the dormitory building of the tavern.

Now, there are more than a dozen tables in the dormitory building, and each table is full of people. There are more than 80 people in total, crowded in such a small place. If something happens, it is easy to cause the death of innocent people.

Therefore, Zhang Suo and others did not dare to come in now, for fear of scaring the enemy spies and directly shooting at ordinary people.

After listening to Sha Zhu's words, Li Jiandong also felt that this matter was tricky.

The residents of the compound are all ordinary people. Even someone as brave and careful as Li Jiandong would have his heartbeat quickened when he suddenly heard about enemy spies.

If the enemy spies are forced into a corner and take a few people with them, many people may die.

"Zhu Zi, go out and tell Zhang that the arrest must not be carried out in our dormitory building."

"Everyone in our hospital is here. If an accident happens, how many people will die? You and I can't afford this responsibility, and Chief Zhang can't afford it either."

Li Jiandong's expression was serious. He didn't expect that an ordinary gathering would attract enemy spies.

While Li Jiandong was speaking, his eyes were also scanning the surroundings. There were too many people in the compound, and he couldn't find the enemy spy who had sneaked in.

At this time, Sha Zhu said: "Master, I know everything you said."

"But the key issue now is that we suspect the enemy spies have discovered us. We are going to take action against him today. If we miss this opportunity, he may leave North City and we will have no chance to capture him again."

"Confused."

Li Jiandong stamped his feet anxiously.

It is indeed important to catch enemy spies, but catching enemy spies is also to protect the people.

If innocent people die in order to catch someone, that would be putting the cart before the horse.

Just then, Yi Zhonghai suddenly walked in from outside.

It seems unintentional, but actually he said it loudly on purpose,
"Has someone in our hospital committed a crime? Why are there so many police officers outside? They are all standing by and waiting for someone. Are they here to arrest someone?"

Yi Zhonghai particularly hoped that these policemen were here to arrest Li Jiandong.

Little did they know that it was because of his words.

This immediately made the already vigilant enemy spies completely certain that they were being targeted.

He suddenly raised one hand and pulled the person next to him over. At the same time, he took out a pistol with his other hand, pointed it at the hostage's forehead, and shouted,
"Don't move, sit still, or I'll shoot."

"And all the police outside, stop right there. If anyone dares to move, I will beat her to death."

The originally bustling courtyard suddenly became so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

Immediately afterwards, the residents closest to the enemy spies ran away screaming.

Some rushed out of the compound, while others hid in unlocked toilets and bathrooms.
When Ding Qiunan realized that she was kidnapped as a hostage, her pretty face turned pale and she dared not move or even breathe hard.

"Let him go."

At this time, Sha Zhu suddenly rushed forward and stopped about seven or eight meters away from the enemy agent. He said, "Let her go. I'll be your hostage. I'm a policeman and I can do better than her."

There is no fool who can be an enemy spy.
Hearing this, he laughed and said, "Don't try to be a hero with me. You want to be a hero? Get out of my way."

The reason why he took a woman as a hostage was because women were easier to control, but it would be too dangerous to use Sha Zhu as a hostage.

"Young man, don't get excited. Let's talk it over. There are so many people here. You won't be able to escape if you start a fight."

At this time, Director Zheng also reacted and slowly stood up from his seat to persuade him.

As for my deskmate Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui, they had already hidden away somewhere unknown.

While the enemy spy was looking at Director Zheng, Li Jiandong quietly squatted down, picked up a stone from the ground, and held it in his right hand.

His left hand was put into his trouser pocket, which contained the slingshot that Xu Damao had just given him.

"Stand there and don't move!"

"Damn it, I knew I was discovered. Listen up, everyone outside, get out of my way. Otherwise, I won't be able to leave today, and I'll have to take a few people with me."

The enemy spy was very excited and shouted hoarsely at Director Zheng and the police outside.

When Zhang Suo saw that he had been discovered by the enemy spies, he no longer hid.

Standing at the gate of the dormitory building with people, shouting,
"Xu Jiaming, you should know that you can't leave today. I advise you to surrender your gun honestly and not be killed. Confess and try to get leniency. You should know our correct policy. It's not just a dead end."

"Bullshit, confessing will get you leniency and you'll spend the rest of your life in prison. I know what I did, and even if I don't die, I'll have to spend the rest of my life in prison. Rather than having no freedom for the rest of my life, I might as well fight you."

"I'll count to three. You guys move away immediately, or I'll shoot."

"one……"

The enemy spy's eyes were red and he had completely gone crazy.

Li Jiandong held the stone and slingshot tightly in his two hands.

But he needs a chance.

Otherwise, before he could even take out his slingshot, the opponent's bullet would have probably shot through Ding Qiunan's head.

"two……"

Sha Zhu clenched his fists. He was too far away from the enemy spy and Ding Qiunan. If he was five or six meters closer, he might still have a chance, but at such a long distance he had no chance of winning.

"Wait a moment."

Director Zheng suddenly spoke up, "I am the street director Zheng He, young man, you also want to live, right?"

"As long as you put the girl down and take me away from here, with me as a hostage, no one will dare to touch you."

After hearing what Director Zheng said, the enemy agents were indeed moved.

Upon seeing this, Director Zheng shouted to Chief Zhang,

"Zhang Xiangyang, I order you to lead your men to retreat immediately, at least 20 meters. If I get hurt in any way today, I will strip you of your police uniform."

Zhang also saw that it was Director Zheng inside, and he quickly shouted to his men,
"Retreat, everyone, and no one is allowed to shoot without my order."

Director Zheng raised his hands and slowly walked towards the enemy agent without waiting for him to make a decision.

As he walked, he said, "Young man, don't be nervous. Look at me, at my age, I am not as strong as a woman.

You let go of that girl, hold me hostage and we leave together."

Director Zheng looks like a harmless middle-aged man.

No one could believe that he had killed more than a dozen enemies during the War of Resistance.

But he forgot that the person in front of him was an enemy spy who specialized in collecting intelligence. How could he not know the details of the street director?

The corners of his mouth suddenly curled up, and he said with a grim look,

"Zheng He, do you think I don't know your background?
You are a veteran of the war of resistance against Japanese aggression. I must be crazy to choose you as a hostage."

"I can see that none of you really want to let me go. In this case, you should die with me."

The enemy spy's nerves were completely broken. He suddenly pointed the gun at Zheng He and was about to pull the trigger.

Because of Director Zheng’s order just now.

Zhang Suo and others retreated more than ten meters. Even if they wanted to shoot now, it would be difficult to hit at such a long distance.

It seemed that Director Zheng was about to die on the spot.

Li Jiandong found the right moment, and when the enemy agent took the muzzle of the gun away from Ding Qiunan's temple and turned to Director Zheng, he suddenly pulled out a slingshot from his pocket.
Opportunities are fleeting.
Li Jiandong quickly took out a slingshot from his pocket with his left hand, and put the stone into the rubber band with his right hand while raising the slingshot.

By the time he raised his arm fully, the rubber band had been stretched to its full extent.

Bang~!

The sound of the rubber band shaking was heard.

Just a moment before the enemy spy pulled the trigger, the stone flew across a distance of nine meters and accurately hit his thumb holding the pistol.

(End of this chapter)