The bookstore next door also had a back door. The bookstore owner, who had been summoned by the street vendor, had already left through the back door with his staff. Tang Cheng, who was waiting in the store, looked at the store across the street through the street window in a good mood. Plainclothes uniform. The plainclothes Zhongtong who had been waiting on the opposite side of the street did not notice anything unusual in the bookstore. By the time he realized that something was wrong, the bookstore owner and the clerk who left through the back door had already disappeared.
The leader of the Zhongtong team who rushed over was furious, but at this time, they had completely lost track of their target. Tang Cheng, who had been acting as a spectator, was overjoyed. Seeing the angry faces of these plainclothes officers, Tang Cheng suppressed a smile in his heart. Shopkeeper Ma, who had been secretly paying attention to Tang Cheng, until this moment, believed that Tang Cheng did this to see Zhongtong's joke, rather than to help the underground party next door escape.
Tang Cheng did not choose to leave through the back door of the store, because he knew that the angry Zhongtong plainclothes would definitely pay attention to the surrounding situation. Once they discovered that he sneakily left through the back door of the store, the matter would be related to him. It’s related. So he did not choose to leave immediately, but stayed in the back hall of the store, pretending to read the intelligence materials compiled by the store manager. As expected by Tang Cheng, the Zhongtong plainclothes officers discovered that the bookstore next door was empty and immediately searched the surrounding shops.
"Captain Tang, why are you here?" Ignoring Shopkeeper Ma's obstruction, plainclothes Zhongtong forced his way into the back hall of the store. He immediately saw Tang Cheng in the back hall, who was reading intelligence materials. Tangcheng, which has had many conflicts with the Central Unification Committee, is now a thorn in the side of the Central Unification agents. Very few of the Central Unification agents in Chongqing know about Tangcheng. Suddenly seeing Tang Cheng appear in front of them, among the plainclothes officers of the Central Government, some plainclothes agents who knew Tang Cheng immediately exclaimed.
"This store belongs to our search team, why can't I be here!" Tang Cheng looked up at the other party, and while putting away the intelligence materials on the table, he said lightly, Tang Cheng's calm expression This appearance actually frightened the few Zhongtong plainclothes men who broke into the back hall of the store. The search team has a store in the city to help collect intelligence in the city. This is not a very confidential matter, so Tangcheng's reaction at the moment cannot explain the problem.
The situation was immediately reported to the little leader of Zhongtong, and he learned that Tang Cheng was in the back hall of the shop next door. The little leader of Zhongtong was also suspicious, but he had no evidence in his hand to prove that Tang Cheng appeared here and was related to There is a connection with the bookstore next door. Tang Cheng's arrogance left the other party with nothing to do. After quickly searching the shops around the bookstore and finding nothing, the angry plainclothes officers could only leave in despair.
"Let's just keep the past things in our stomachs. If we see the people in the bookstore next door again, just treat them as if we don't know them!" Tangcheng, who was watching Zhongtong's people leave the street and was about to leave, before walking out of the store, Don't forget to tell the shopkeeper Ma and the little boy. Tangcheng sent someone to send a warning to the underground party in the bookstore next door. On the one hand, he did not want to watch the underground party members being arrested, and on the other hand, he preferred to do things that undermined the Central Government, which was more interesting than searching for Japanese spies.
After leaving the shop, Tang Cheng wandered around the city for a while before returning to the hotel in the city. By this time, Zhao Dashan and the others had already returned to the hotel. Tang Cheng couldn't help but chuckle when he learned that the middle-aged man being followed by Zhao Dashan and the others had already gotten rid of the plainclothes Zhongtong officer who was following him. "Don't pay attention to this matter. I just don't want those guys from Zhongtong to have an easy time. I can just torture them once. If I do this kind of thing too much, I'm afraid they will be discovered by Zhongtong."
Tang Cheng knew that Zhao Dashan was not a thoughtful person, so he casually made an excuse and cleverly excused it. But what Tangcheng didn't know was that Zhao Dashan was already surrounded by people arranged by Zhang Jianghe, who quietly reported the matter to Zhang Jianghe. Although Zhang Jianghe seemed to have no desires and desires since he lost an arm, he was an old Jianghu after all. He just carefully considered the message he received and immediately guessed something strange from it.
I have to say that Zhang Jianghe's premonition was very accurate, but he also underestimated Tang Cheng's ability to put on airs. When Tang Cheng led people back to the military camp, Zhang Jianghe immediately called Tang Cheng to his office and asked Tang Cheng about what was going on in the city during the day. Case. Tang Cheng, who was questioned by Zhang Jianghe, immediately became alert. Seeing that Zhang Jianghe's expression did not look like he was chatting in ordinary times, Tang Cheng spoke half-seriously. "It's not a big deal! Just when I was eating, I happened to encounter some plainclothes officers from the Central Government who seemed to be staring at people, so I made a joke with them."
In front of Zhang Jianghe, Tang Cheng roughly recounted what happened during the day. He did not add any exaggeration, but only concealed the fact that he had found someone to inform the bookstore owner. "The Zhongtong side is getting worse and worse now. They actually sent newbies to keep an eye on the city. I think they can't even compare to our new recruits. It's really too bad!" Tang Cheng said half-truthfully. Zhang Jianghe frowned when he heard the words full of ridicule.
"Uncle, don't believe it! If you don't believe it, you can ask Zhao Dashan and the others. I asked them to follow one of the Zhongtong plainclothes, but guess what? I didn't find that Zhao Dashan and the others didn't tell me, and they were still caught by me. The target you were following was dumped, so why do you think their abilities are not bad?" Tang Cheng tried his best to change the topic, but Zhang Jianghe was still confused about why Tang Cheng wanted to participate in the Central Unification Operation.
"Then why, I just don't want to see those guys in Zhongtong live in a better life! As soon as I see their people, I think of those guys in Zhongtong who broke into my house with guns. I didn't do anything to trick them. , I already know the general idea, otherwise, hum! I have to kill a few of them!" Tang Cheng suddenly realized that it would be nice if he had a rude temper like Bai Zhanshan, at least he could say anything. Unbridled nonsense.
Tang Cheng's words made Zhang Jiang very angry, but he didn't realize that after being fooled by Tang Cheng, the things he originally wanted to verify from Tang Cheng had already been completely forgotten by him. While Tang Cheng and Zhang Jianghe were fighting wits in the office, Xu Qinglai, who had successfully escaped from danger, had also successfully transferred to another secret stronghold in the city with a traffic officer disguised as a bookstore clerk. Xu Qinglai, who had temporarily settled down, carefully considered what happened today, but still couldn't recall where he made the mistake.
Recalling what the street vendor said to him when he came into the store, Xu Qinglai frowned. He didn't really care about the situation he was in now. He was just worried about the offline people he was contacting today. The bookstore run by Xu Qinglai is also a secret stronghold of Chongqing's underground party organization in the city. He left the bookstore today to deliver a piece of confidential information. The process of connecting and transmitting information went very smoothly, but what Xu Qinglai didn't expect was that just after he returned to the bookstore, strangers came to warn him and summon him.
If it were him before, he would never easily believe a stranger's words, but at that time, Xu Qinglai believed the stranger's words for no reason, and immediately left through the back door of the bookstore with the traffic officer pretending to be a boy. Be cautious, this is a principle Xu Qinglai learned after more than ten years of underground party life. If he had not been accustomed to being cautious, Xu Qinglai might have been imprisoned long ago.
"Second uncle, I went back to that street to check it out. Not long after we left, a group of plainclothes agents broke into our bookstore. Now the bookstore has been closed." Just when Xu Qinglai was puzzled, At that moment, Xu Chong, disguised as a bookstore boy, came quickly from outside. Xu Chong is Xu Qinglai's nephew, and he is also Xu Qinglai's full-time traffic officer. Although Xu Chong is only seventeen years old this year, he has been engaged in intelligence work with Xu Qinglai for several years, and he can be regarded as an experienced underground veteran. party member.
Knowing that the bookstore had been closed by the secret agents, Xu Qinglai was secretly glad at the moment, but he still couldn't figure out who was going to call him to warn him. The news that the bookstore was sealed by the secret agents and that Xu Qinglai managed to escape was soon known to the top leaders of the Chongqing underground party organization. Like Xu Qinglai, they also wanted to know who had called Xu Qinglai to warn him before the incident. According to Xu Qinglai's report, all suspicions were focused on the hawker who went to the bookstore to summon a message. However, there were not tens of thousands but thousands of hawkers walking around the streets in Chongqing with burdens like this.
With so many street vendors, trying to find the person who sent Xu Qinglai a message was as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack. The Chongqing underground party organization, which had no clue, finally had to give up the idea of looking for that vendor. After a day of thinking, Xu Qinglai finally felt that his flaw might have been in the restaurant where he passed the information. After checking with his downlines, even if Xu Qinglai didn't want to believe it, he could only admit that the trouble was his fault.
Fortunately, because someone was secretly helping me, trouble didn't arise, and my downline was not exposed. Apart from the fact that I couldn't move around the city for a short period of time, I seemed to have lost the bookstore. Xu Qinglai, who was secretly feeling pain, took Xu Chong to Jiangbei that night. In the next period of time, he would temporarily leave Chongqing and go to sleep in other places.
Zhongtong lost its target for no reason, and those who carried out the task naturally could not escape a scolding. Like Xu Qinglai, people like Zhongtong also couldn't figure out what the problem was despite their brains. The few Zhongtong plainclothes officers who had seen Tang Cheng did not think of Tang Cheng as their problem, because they thought that Tang Cheng did not know the content of their actions.
