The words of the man in the long gown made Bai Zhanshan secretly clenched his fists, but when he looked at Tang Cheng again, he still had an expression of indifference. Realizing that Bai Zhanshan was looking at him, Tang Cheng immediately bared his teeth and said with a smile, "Uncle Bai, why didn't you come with me? If someone for no reason reaches out to me, I naturally can't suffer a loss. This matter is terrible. You can't blame me!" Tang Cheng deliberately put on a conceited face at this moment, but he was paying attention to the reaction of the man in the long gown from the corner of his eye.
"Little Chi, I think you're looking for death!" The man in the long shirt's expression changed. The man in the short shirt, who had come in first to report the news, immediately shouted loudly. He opened the front of his clothes with his left hand and tried to pull out the pistol from his waist with his right hand. The other party was about to use a gun, and Bai Zhanshan's expression turned grim. After all, he was still a special correspondent sent to Shanghai from the intelligence headquarters. It's just a small conflict, and the other party will start to rob it. This clearly shows that they don't give face to the Intelligence Department.
Tang Cheng, who had been paying close attention to the other party's reaction, didn't think so much at all. Before the man in a short shirt could take out the pistol from his waist, Tang Cheng spun around and kicked the short man with a flying kick. The face of the man in a shirt. With a crisp sound of "Pa!", the man in a short shirt who was hit hard on the face didn't even have time to make a sound before he spread his arms and fell backwards. "You...what do you want to do?" Seeing Tang Cheng leaning over to pick up the Browning pistol that fell on the ground, the man in the long gown immediately jumped up from his seat with a fearful expression on his face.
Contrary to the reaction of the man in the long gown, Bai Zhanshan was as steady as a rock at the moment. It was obvious that Tang Cheng's reaction just now was not beyond his expectation. Tang Cheng leaned over and picked up the Browning pistol from the ground. When he straightened up, he deliberately grinned at the man in the long gown. "The Browning pistol has good accuracy, but the caliber is a bit smaller. If the shooting distance is far, it may not be able to hit the target. If I had to choose, I would probably choose the m1911. The caliber of .45 is enough to penetrate this table and kill it. Target hiding behind the desk.”
As he spoke, Tang Cheng's hands moved quickly, and in the sight of Bai Zhanshan and the man in the long gown, he quickly disassembled the Browning pistol in his hand into a pile of parts. "Tsk, tsk, the person who uses this gun really doesn't care about things! Look, it's been a long time since the gun was cleaned. No matter how good Browning's stuff is, it still needs regular maintenance, otherwise it will definitely affect its performance."
Tang Cheng, who was talking to himself, then took out a handkerchief from his pocket, then pulled up a chair and sat down at the table as if nothing had happened, as if he was going to clean his gun here.
"Xiao Wu, stop making trouble!" Bai Zhanshan, who was secretly holding back his laughter, had a straight face and coughed lightly at Tang Cheng. "This is Mr. Wei from Zhongxin Society. He is the person next to Boss Huang Jinronghuang, one of the three tycoons. Xiao Wu, please be careful!" Bai Zhanshan pronounced the word "Zhongxin Society", and Tang Cheng immediately reacted.
Although Tang Cheng has not been in Shanghai for a long time, he is very familiar with Du, Huang and Zhang, the three tycoons in Shanghai. This Zhongxin Society was naturally established by Huang Jinrong, one of the three tycoons, with the purpose of countering the increasingly influential Du Society, which was founded by Du Yuesheng, one of the three tycoons. Tang Cheng was not interested at all in the fight between the three tycoons, but at the moment he didn't understand why Bai Zhanshan wanted to take on Huang Jinrong.
Tang Cheng always wanted to give Bai Zhanshan face, so he reassembled the Browning pistol a few times, then reached forward and pushed the pistol back to Mr. Wei's hand. "Mr. Wei, I'm sorry just now. I'll return the pistol to you. If you feel upset, I'll follow up on whatever you say, whether it's a beating or a punishment!" Tang Cheng gave Bai Zhanshan face and took the initiative to restore the pistol and return it to you. To the other party, but what he said just now made it clear that if the other party persists, Tang Cheng will bear the consequences, but Bai Zhanshan is not involved.
"Forget it, since he is Chief Bai's nephew, let's just say we don't know each other without fighting!" This Mr. Wei is also a talent. His back was already covered in cold sweat from Tang Cheng's sudden attack, but now he still has to Pretending to be magnanimous, even Bai Zhanshan secretly felt embarrassed for this guy. Tang Cheng took the initiative to return the pistol, and the other party also pretended to be generous and showed goodwill. Bai Zhanshan nodded towards Tang Cheng, indicating that the matter was over.
"Xiao Wu, I asked you to come in because I need your help with something." Bai Zhanshan was not polite. After the conflict just passed, he couldn't wait to get down to business. "Boss Huang from Zhongxin Society had a batch of goods that was intercepted by the British. I know that your foreign friend has some connections in the Ministry of Industry and Commerce Bureau. I want you to help ask about the whereabouts of that batch of goods." Bai Zhanshan said these words It didn't feel bad at the time, but Tang Cheng immediately glared.
"Uncle Bai, you are forcing someone to do something difficult. If the goods you are talking about are yours, I can ask my friend to help me find a solution. But that boss Huang of Zhongxin Society, even if I know him, he will You may not know who I am, so why should I ask my friend to help him find out the news?" Tang Cheng's words made Mr. Wei's face become even more ugly, but he could not find fault with Tang Cheng, because There is nothing wrong with what Tang Cheng said just now.
"Xiao Wu, you can't just think of it as doing me a favor!" Bai Zhanshan, who had praised Haikou in front of Mr. Wei before, now acted like he was familiar with Tang Cheng, but he didn't want Tang Cheng to just shake his head. "Xiao Wu, the director also knows about this matter. Uncle Bai, I have a hard time asking you to help me. You have to give me this face!" Bai Zhanshan no longer cared about Mr. Wei and just lowered his voice. Speaking to Tang Cheng, the director did not hesitate to move out of Nanjing.
How could Wei Xiangguang, who was like a wise counselor next to Huang Jinrong, not know the origin of Bai Zhanshan? Seeing Bai Zhanshan politely asking for help from Tang Cheng, Wei Xiangguang immediately became curious about Tang Cheng's identity. It's just that in the conflict just now, his side suffered the loss after all, so when Wei Xiangguang saw that Tang Cheng was in a state of despair, the anger he had been suppressing couldn't help but come out.
"Sir Bai, I think this is all unnecessary! Can't you see that he is asking for a price?" Wei Xiangguang thought he had found the correct answer, but he didn't know that Bai Zhanshan and Tang Cheng were thinking about him almost at the same time. A raised middle finger shows disdain. The meeting that was supposed to go smoothly ended in failure. After leaving the clinic, Bai Zhanshan's expression looked solemn and lost, but Tang Cheng still looked indifferent.
"Xiaowu, you have to change your temper in the future. You will suffer losses if you continue like this!" Tang Cheng asked Bai Zhanshan to send him to a nearby shoe store. Bai Zhanshan continued to lecture Tang Cheng on the way. , but Tang Cheng didn't remember a word of it at all. He was currently thinking about what Xu Huanshan said in his mind.
"Uncle Bai, after all, the Intelligence Department is an independent department under the national government. Regardless of whether the other party is Boss Huang or Boss Du, not everyone can lose the face of the Intelligence Department. Although you didn't tell me to see that person named Wei Why, but I think if the director had come today, he would definitely not give the Zhongxin Society face like this. In the end, both the Qing Gang and the Zhongxin Society are just chickens and dogs, but the Intelligence Department can It is considered a powerful unit of the military department! Uncle Bai, you have to be tough! Especially you represent the headquarters of the Intelligence Division!"
Before getting off the bus, Tang Cheng saw Bai Zhanshan's depressed expression, so he kindly gave him some advice. As for how much Bai Zhanshan could understand, it all depended on his ability to comprehend. In this meeting with Zhongxin Society, Bai Zhanshan made the mistake of overestimating the other party and at the same time underestimating the capabilities of the Intelligence Department. Even if the Qing Gang is deeply rooted in Shanghai, the Intelligence Office is a powerful state agency. Even if the Qing Gang claims to have hundreds of thousands of followers, if it really wants to confront the state machine, it will probably have to stay low and remain small.
Tang Cheng stayed in the shoe store for a while, picked up two pairs of leather shoes that he had ordered here before, then went out and took a rickshaw to the meeting place with Xu Huanshan. When Tang Cheng rushed to Han's Restaurant earlier, he found that there was someone watching on the opposite side of the restaurant, so he asked Xu Huanshan to leave first. When he left Hans Restaurant and was picked up by Bai Zhanshan in the car, he noticed that there was a suspicious person in the street outside the restaurant, and he guessed that it might be the person Xu Huanshan sent to rob him.
So after getting rid of Bai Zhanshan, Tang Cheng immediately rushed to meet Xu Huanshan. He was worried that this group of Shanghai underground party members would do something outrageous. "Huh?" The rickshaw was about to arrive, but Tang Cheng unexpectedly discovered that there were many hawkers and passers-by who looked suspicious in the street where the meeting place was. According to his understanding of the underground party, Tang Cheng believed that these suspicious people should Not from Shanghai’s underground party.
Could it be that there is another traitor within the Shanghai underground party? With doubts in his mind, Tang Cheng asked the rickshaw to continue going straight to the next street intersection. The rickshaw stopped here at the street entrance. After getting off, Tangcheng walked slowly across the street. Using the cover of the tram, he walked back along the opposite street for a while, and then got into an alley on the side of the street. With the shield and cover of the tram, Tang Cheng entering the alley would not attract anyone's attention. In the blink of an eye, Tang Cheng had already climbed up the brick wall on the east side of the alley.
The alley Tang Cheng entered was not very long, but there was a brick wall on the east side. Moving forward by stepping on the brick wall, Tang Cheng quickly climbed onto the roof of a two-story building. It is true that you can see far when you stand high, but standing in this position in Tangcheng, you can only see a small half of the street on the side, and the other parts cannot be seen. As a last resort, Tang Cheng had to jump off the roof and return to the alley. He needed a better observation point, at least to be able to clearly see the place Xu Huanshan mentioned.
