For intelligence officers, if captured, the best possible outcome is death.
Qing Mu was captured because one of his subordinates, a Kite Falcon, betrayed him.
This Kite Falcon not only gave up Qing Mu but also caused 121 members of Qing's northern intelligence system to be caught.
The Jindai family used the lives of these 121 people to demand that Qing Mu not commit suicide; as long as he obediently raised pigs at the Northern Military Base, those 121 could perform the lowliest menial jobs at the northern production base.
Although life was hard for these 121 people, lacking even cotton clothes to wear in the winter, and over 30 of them suffered from night blindness due to a prolonged lack of meat in their diet,
at least they all survived.