Tang Cheng has nearly a hundred team members. Counting the families of these team members, Tang Cheng has to support the lives of more than 400 people. Without the support of these shops in the city, the search team may have been disbanded due to lack of funds. In order to support these team members, Tang Cheng has tried every means. If the cost of purchasing information from informants is also included, the monthly expenditure of the search team has almost caught up with that of a second officer at the military unification station. level site costs.
The size of the tailor shop targeted by Tang Cheng is not small. The most important thing is that this tailor shop is actually a front shop and a house in the back. Not only is it very suitable for housing the family members of the team members, but it can even be used as a place for Tang Cheng to build a house. A place to hide in a state of emergency. From the earliest contact with the military commander in Nanjing, Tang Cheng actually never truly believed in the military commander. He spared no effort to help Zhang Jianghe climb up, just to have someone to support him in Chongqing.
So from the very beginning, ever since Tang Cheng decided to form a search team, he had been making a backup plan. Once the situation changed or the Tang family was targeted, Tang Cheng would activate this backup plan and the whole family would flee Chongqing. Even domestically. The search teams' stores in Chongqing are usually used to house members' families and collect intelligence clues, but if needed, these stores may become the source of riots throughout the city.
Tangcheng would never have too many places like this, so from the moment it set its sights on tailor shops, Tangcheng was already ready to receive them. Tang Cheng has made his attitude clear at this moment, and Zhang Jianghe, who originally wanted to stop him, cannot continue to object, but Bai Zhanshan vaguely agrees with Tang Cheng's decision to arrest people immediately, because in his opinion, the only way to arrest the Japanese and puppet spies lurking in the city is to arrest them. If you do it, then it is a definite achievement, otherwise it is all empty talk.
Time passed little by little, and the situation in the street outside was also reported to the oil mill from time to time by the team members pretending to be guests from the city. About an hour later, a young man who looked like he was in middle school came hurriedly from the street in front, carrying a schoolbag. Seeing the schoolbag carried by the young man in his left hand from a distance, the shopkeeper who was standing at the door of the oil shop and chatting with people immediately made a vague gesture. The clerk who was wiping the counter in the oil shop understood and immediately carried the basin to the back.
"Captain, our people have received news that the male target has appeared and is coming to the tailor shop." The waiter from the oil shop carrying the basin passed the news to the waiter behind the oil shop according to the sign language played by the shopkeeper. Tangcheng. Before Tang Cheng could react, Zhao Dashan and others, who were already impatient, turned to look at Tang Cheng in high spirits. They were waiting for Tang Cheng to give the order to start the operation. Tang Cheng didn't hesitate at all, just nodded lightly at Zhao Dashan, and the latter quickly left through the back door of the oil workshop with his people.
"Uncle Bai, let's go over and join in the fun! The two of us are dressed well together today. I will be the young master and you will be the housekeeper. Don't let anything slip!" Tang Cheng said and grabbed the rag on the corner of the table. , leaned over and wiped the leather shoes on his feet. Hearing this, Bai Zhanshan looked at what Tang Cheng was wearing today. He looked like a young master from a wealthy family, and his plain short shirt did look like a butler. Zhang Jianghe is missing an arm and is not suitable for disguised investigation, so he needs to sit in the backyard of the oil mill.
Bai Zhanshan followed Tang Cheng and left from the back door of the oil workshop, followed the alleyway behind the oil workshop to the left, and then turned into the main street. When Bai Zhanshan and Tang Cheng entered the main street, Zhao Dashan and others, who had left the Youfang earlier, had already vaguely surrounded the street where the tailor shop was located according to the action plan. When Bai Zhanshan saw Zhao Dashan, the latter had already changed his clothes and was sitting in a teahouse at the corner of the street, silently monitoring the situation on the street.
"Xiao Wu, these people under your command are pretty good! At least they are incomparable to those under Hai Guang!" Bai Zhanshan, who has entered the role state, has been one position behind Tangcheng. He looks like a follower who follows the young master at home. . Bai Zhanshan's words only made Tang Cheng secretly proud, but he did not answer the other party verbally, because Tang Cheng's attention at the moment was already focused on the man in Mao suit at the street entrance.
The man in Chinese tunic suit who was noticed by Tang Cheng as soon as he crossed the street was Qian Songlin. Before Qian Songlin went out, he was still hesitating whether he should go to the tailor shop as agreed. A large number of administrative agencies are about to go south to Chongqing. This news has already spread within the city government. How could Qian Songlin, who was tasked with being well-informed, not know about it. Although he has betrayed information many times, these are just trivial matters, not even classified as secrets. Now that even the chairman of the committee is going south to Chongqing, Qian Songlin has a hunch that the level of information the other party wants from him may become closer and closer to the level of confidentiality.
Although Qian Songlin had always been clear about the difference between selling general information and selling confidential information, he knew that once he really handed over confidential information to the other party, he would really be on the pirate ship. Before going out today, Qian Songlin struggled a lot in his heart. However, his loan shark loans were about to expire. If he couldn't raise the money to repay the debts, if someone who wanted to pay debts came to his work, he might not be able to pay back the debts. Will be fired. Being dismissed from one's job means that one has no decent job and has become a jobless vagrant.
Qian Songlin worked hard to become like this. How could he allow himself to become an unemployed vagrant. After some mental struggle, Qian Songlin decided to visit the tailor shop, because it was the only place where he could get money to pay off his debts. Qian Songlin looked inconspicuous, but he was not useless at all. From the time he resold the first piece of information, Qian Songlin began to like reading detective novels, and according to the plots in the books, he learned some anti-reconnaissance techniques as a self-taught person. means.
On the way to the tailor shop, Qian Songlin kept walking and used the anti-reconnaissance methods he had learned many times. Until Tangcheng saw him, Qian Songlin did not notice the tracking team following him. Tangcheng's first impression of Qian Songlin was that he didn't look like a gambling addict, because Qian Songlin looked polite and had a typical scholar's appearance. Tangcheng had been to many casinos. I have never seen anyone like Qian Songlin hanging around a casino.
But when Tang Cheng saw Qian Songlin walking across the street and suddenly stopped on the street, looking sideways at the street windows of the shops on the street, Tang Cheng immediately changed his original view of Qian Songlin. Qian Songlin is just a section chief of the Housing Department, and he is a sinecure himself. How could he use counter-investigation methods? Although Qian Songlin's counter-reconnaissance seemed very clumsy, it was not a skill that ordinary people should have. Tang Cheng felt that Qian Songlin might have a big secret hidden in him.
Qian Songlin tried to use the street windows of street shops to see if he was being followed, but naturally ended in failure. Qian Songlin secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he didn't find anything unusual, and then went straight to the tailor shop without staying any longer. Tang Cheng, who discovered the target in advance, had already reached the door of the tailor shop ahead of Qian Songlin. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Qian Songlin coming in this direction. Tang Cheng tilted his lips and smiled slightly before entering the tailor shop first.
Now is not the time of greatest traffic, and there are no other customers in the tailor shop. When Tang Cheng and Bai Zhanshan walked into the tailor shop, there was only one boy in the shop, half lying on the cloth counter in a daze with nothing to do. Seeing a customer entering the store, the young man hurriedly stood up from the counter. While saying hello, he also stepped on the bell pedal with his left foot that connected him to the backyard. Many shops in Chongqing have such wire bell pedals installed under the counters, which are used to contact the shopkeepers who are often in the backyard. After a few breaths, the owner of the tailor shop appears behind the counter.
This tailor shop not only sews clothes, but also sells various fashionable fabrics and some trinkets. When the owner of the tailor shop came out from the back, Tang Cheng was looking at the trinkets on the side counter with interest. Seeing these trinkets, Tang Cheng thought of Zhou Hongzhuang and the twin girls at home. After returning from Shanghai, he seemed to have not spent time with his family seriously. Tang Cheng, who was secretly blaming himself, planned to buy some trinkets here. , take it back and give it to your family when you have time.
Tang Cheng was dressed like a rich young man at the moment, especially the leather shoes on his feet and the watch on his wrist, which looked very valuable. The female owner of the tailor shop just glanced at Tang Cheng and immediately relaxed her attitude towards Tang Cheng. The city's vigilance. In her opinion, military intelligence officers would not be so showy, and Tang Cheng's face looked too tender. According to her estimation, Tang Cheng was just a wealthy student who went out to hang out on vacation.
As for Bai Zhanshan, who was wearing a short shirt, the female owner of the tailor shop didn't pay much attention, because as soon as Bai Zhanshan entered the door, she had been looking at the posters of actresses posted on the wall of the tailor shop. There is nothing curious about a young master from a wealthy family going out with a follower. "Take this out and show me." Tang Cheng was greeting the boy in the tailor shop and took out small accessories from the counter. The bell hanging above the shop door rang again, and Qian Songlin came in from outside at this time.
Qian Songlin obviously didn't expect that there were other people in the tailor shop. He wanted to say hello to the female owner of the tailor shop, but he swallowed the words that came to his lips. Qian Songlin's unusual behavior did not escape the secret observation of Bai Zhanshan and Tang Cheng, but they both chose to remain calm. Just waiting for Qian Songlin to pretend to buy fabrics and actually walk to the fabric counter, Tang Cheng, who had been leaning over to look at the trinkets, finally stood up straight and made a gesture to Bai Zhanshan.
