Chapter 680 Rescue Operation 3
In a forest less than two miles away from Machikou Village in Changping, two teams of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill Security Department Training Base Action Team and most of the members of the Security Department's Public Security Section and Guard Section, except for the action team members sent out for surveillance missions, were hiding here, waiting for instructions from their leaders.
Soon, twelve members of the action team who had stayed behind at the training base, carrying various weapons and equipment, arrived here under the leadership of two team leaders. As for the four trucks they took, in order to avoid alerting the enemy, they all stopped directly in a valley four or five miles away.
The two captains and the action team members who had just arrived did not rest. They immediately began to distribute heavy weapons, set up the starting telephones, and quickly got in touch with the training base. After receiving Lin Yu's personal order, they immediately acted in an orderly manner.
If someone could look down from the sky at this time, they would find that more than a hundred fully armed strong men have surrounded the entire Machikou Village from afar.
Fortunately, it is a hot summer day, and it is already past ten in the morning, which is the hottest time of the day. No farmers in the village are working in the corn fields. Most of the villagers have gathered in the shade of the drying yard of the village canteen, quietly waiting for the canteen to open for lunch at noon.
This is also a habit that the villagers have gradually developed since they started eating from the same pot last month.
Machikou Village has less than seventy households and more than four hundred villagers. More than half of the families in the village have the surname Ma. According to legend, three brothers with the surname Ma first settled here, and gradually the village has grown to its current size.
Since Machikou Village is located at the foot of the mountain, there are less than 500 acres of farmland in the village. As the saying goes, "live by the mountain, eat by the mountain; live by the water, eat by the water." Many families have people who often go to the mountains to hunt. They hunt some game and sell it to buyers from factories in the city, or secretly go to the pigeon market in the city to exchange it for food to make up for the food gap at home. However, after eating in the canteen, basically no one takes the risk to go into the mountains to hunt. After all, even if you work hard to catch the prey, you have to hand it all over to the village collective, and you can't get any extra benefits at all. Who would be stupid enough to continue hunting?
At the beginning, when the village responded to the call from higher authorities to open a large canteen in the village, it required every household to hand over all the food in their homes to the village collective, and then the village organized people to cook for all the villagers. From then on, everyone ate three meals a day in the village canteen.
For those families who were already poor, this was a great opportunity, so they responded immediately and took the initiative to hand over the little food they had at home.
Obviously, those wealthy families were unwilling to suffer losses in vain. At the beginning, the village cadres would go to their homes to do propaganda. Later, when they saw that these families still disagreed, they led the village militia to search for food from house to house, and concentrated all the food, poultry and livestock in the village warehouse.
The big canteen in Machikou Village was set up with great fanfare. They served three large white steamed buns for meals every day, and would slaughter pigs and sheep for big pot dishes at noon. For a time, the villagers of Machikou Village lived a good life that they had never dared to dream of before. You must know that in the past, every household lived on steamed buns and cornmeal, and even when cooking, they mostly boiled the vegetables with plain water, and rarely saw any oil. Only during the New Year and other festivals would they spend money to buy some meat to improve the family's life. As for those poor families, they had to eat cornmeal every day.
Nowadays, the villagers of Machikou Village eat and drink to their heart's content all day long, without any restraint at all. In particular, the waste phenomenon is extremely serious. It is common to see half-eaten white steamed buns thrown into the slop bucket used to feed pigs. Some older people sigh behind their backs, feeling that something big is going to happen.
The people in Machikou Village didn't know yet that the whole village had been completely surrounded by the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill Security Training Base Action Team and the Guard and Public Security Department personnel. According to Lin Yu's order, anyone entering or leaving Machikou Village would be detained and awaiting interrogation. The criminals who kidnapped the children were able to hide in Machikou Village and detained hundreds of children. This could not have been done without the cooperation of the people in Machikou Village. Before the kidnapped children were rescued and all the criminals were captured and eliminated, anyone in Machikou Village would be a suspect.
In fact, Lin Yu had already received Zhou Hong’s report and confirmed the identities of the guys involved in Machikou Village.
At this time, in a five-room tile-roofed house at the east end of the village, a middle-aged man with dark skin and tall and thin figure was smoking non-stop. Sitting opposite the middle-aged man were a man and a woman in their thirties. Although the clothes on these two people looked no different from those of ordinary people nearby, if you look closely, you can find that their faces and skin are white and delicate, and they definitely don't look like the farmers who work in the fields under the scorching sun all day long.
The middle-aged man who was smoking non-stop was Ma Youfu, the team leader of Machikou Village. He was feeling very uneasy at the moment, and his heart was in a mess. He had not slept well since this distant cousin of his moved into the Ma Family Ancestral Hall not far from the village with his people. Now he felt more and more that the one thousand yuan given by the other party was too much for him to handle.
However, Ma Youfu is now in a difficult situation. According to his observation, several other village cadres have probably been bribed by his cousin Ma Youlu. Among them are not only the village deputy captain and the accountant, but also the militia captain Ma Dalong, deputy captain Ma Dahu and others. Ma Youfu even suspects that those guys in the militia have received some benefits from Ma Youlu, otherwise they would not be so polite to Ma Youlu and his companions.
Ma Youlu glanced at Ma Youfu, who had a dark face, and said with a smile: "Brother, we will only stay in Machikou Village for another month or so. Even if someone comes to investigate in the future, you just need to give them our letter of introduction to the village. We have formal procedures from the Beijing Geological Department. We came to Machikou Village for geological exploration. According to the information we have, there is a large coal mine in the mountains behind our Machikou Village. Our geological team is here to detect the specific reserves of the coal mine and the future mining plan."