It has to be said that the brain circuits of these plainclothes are very magical, but the military police are not stupid, how could they be willing to be blamed, so the two groups started blaming each other here. Tang Cheng had a good night's sleep, and when he woke up, it was already approaching dinner time. After briefly washing up and packing his equipment bag, Tang Cheng was ready to go out for dinner. Just as he was about to open the door, he suddenly heard someone talking outside the door. One of them was the Belarusian landlord of this apartment building.
The main reason why Tangcheng chose to rent an apartment here was because the landlord of this apartment building was a Belarusian. Most of these Belarusians who have long been homeless and living in Shanghai's concessions have become the poorest of the poor, and only a handful of them have purchased real estate and become apartments. But these Belarusians are very fond of money. In other words, they are all like Grandet. Tang Cheng came to Shanghai this time, but he brought enough funds for activities, so things that can be solved with money are not troublesome.
When Tang Cheng rented this place, he paid the rent for half a year at once. It was rare to see a straightforward and generous tenant like him. It's just that Tangcheng was negligent. After being angered, the Special High School and the Military Police Headquarters were willing to pay a large reward, mobilized almost the entire gang force in the concession, and began to secretly investigate the new faces in the concession. The Japanese and puppet spies or the military police came to investigate. The people who secretly hated them still accounted for the majority in the concession, so the investigations by the Japanese and puppet spies and the military police could only be fruitless.
But if another gang comes to inquire, the situation will be different, because the person being questioned cannot abandon his family and career to deal with the people of these gangs. As long as they stay in the concession, they will always have to face these gang members. Compared with the ubiquitous threats, most of them will choose to compromise. This is the case for the Belarusian landlord who is being questioned outside the door at this moment. If he drives these gang members out forcefully, then from now on, his apartment building will always be threatened and destroyed by gangs in the concession.
The Japanese are now the masters of Shanghai, and the Concession Industry Bureau has long existed in name only, and is no longer able to protect the interests of foreigners like them. The next second, Tang Cheng heard a knock on the door. After taking a deep breath, he reached out and opened the door. "Mr. Ivan, what's the matter?" Landlord Ivan secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Tang Cheng standing at the door with his usual expression. He was once a member of the Belarusian Army. From the first day he moved into Tangcheng, he could tell that Tangcheng was no ordinary person.
In order to continue to survive in Shanghai stably, the landlord Ivan wisely chose to pretend to be deaf and dumb. After all, Tangcheng was very generous and paid half a year's rent at once. Landlord Ivan also heard about what happened in the concession. Thinking that when these things happened, Tang Cheng, a generous tenant, was not in the apartment. Landlord Ivan's first reaction was that These things that happened in the concession are most likely related to Tangcheng.
The landlord Ivan, who was suddenly approached by gang forces, initially thought that these guys who were helping the Japanese were just doing errands. But what he didn't expect was that these guys asked more and more details, and finally forced him to take the key and go upstairs to open the rooms one by one for them to search. Among all the tenants, Ivan was most worried about the elusive Tang Cheng. Seeing Tang Cheng in the room with his usual expression, Ivan felt that his heart that had been hanging around had finally settled.
"Are you Zhao Song?" A muscular man with a scar on the left side of his face stretched out his hand to push Ivan away and looked at Tang Cheng who was standing in the door. Tang Cheng did not answer immediately after hearing this, but turned his head slightly and looked at the landlord Ivan who was pushed aside. When Ivan saw this, he immediately explained. He learned that the other party was here to search, but Tang Cheng did not get out of the way. Instead, he looked at the group of men in short shirts with a puzzled expression.
"Are you the police?" Tang Cheng asked back, immediately making the expressions of the men in short shirts darken. Seeing that the other party didn't answer, Tang Cheng tilted the corner of his mouth, and a hint of arrogance appeared on his face. "Since you are not the police, why are you exercising the power of the police? Since you are not the police, what qualifications do you have to search my room?" Tang Cheng didn't care about the other party's expression. He also ignored the wink from the landlord Ivan at this moment.
Tang Cheng's series of rhetorical questions sounded no problem, but what he was facing now were the gang members in the concession. These guys who were used to lawlessness would not pay attention to what the glutton said. "Hey! What are you going to do?" Tang Cheng, who was full of momentum just now, was directly pushed away by the scar-faced man. The group of men in short shirts followed and poured into Tang Cheng's room. The furious Tang Cheng shouted, but these men in short shirts who were just rummaging around ignored him at all.
Tang Cheng, who had a carry-on equipment bag, would never leave anything that could cause trouble outside, so it was impossible for the gang members who broke into the room to find anything that interested them. They were a little disappointed that they didn't find any unusual gang members, but they didn't do anything to Tang Cheng, because Tang Cheng was well-dressed, and judging from the aura with which he spoke just now, he might also have a background. "Mr. Ivan, what is going on?" Tang Cheng deliberately pretended to be confused and looked at the landlord.
Ivan, the landlord who also pretended to be pitiful, was already cursing in his heart, saying that if you don't know what's going on, then I don't know either. But he didn't want to cause trouble, so when faced with Tang Cheng's inquiry, landlord Ivan quietly informed Tang Cheng, who was full of doubts, about what had happened in the concession in the past few days. "Ah! So that's it! I went to Tianjin these days to handle goods, so I don't know what happened in the concession yet!" The answer given by Tang Cheng made the landlord Ivan feel that his back was wet. .
"You said you went to Tianjin these days, can anyone prove it?" Sure enough, the scar-faced man had been paying attention to Tangcheng. When cold sweat broke out on the landlord Ivan's back, the scar-faced man raised his head and looked at Tangcheng. . This Scarface was obviously a little boss. Maybe he heard something wrong in the tone of Scarface's words. The other men in short shirts who were wandering around the room rummaging around immediately stopped what they were doing and turned around to look at him with bright eyes. to Tangcheng. Ivan, who said bad things in his heart, no longer knew what to do. He was worried that he would be implicated.
However, Tang Cheng spoke calmly, "I have the ship ticket that arrived last night and the bill of lading. These can prove that I was in Tianjin a few days ago!" Tang Cheng was now secretly glad that he had actually obtained the order from the system. , pulled out a ship ticket and a bill of lading. When I picked up these things, I didn't know what was going on. I didn't expect to use these seemingly irrelevant things now. After seeing the ship ticket and bill of lading that Tang Cheng took out of his wallet, the expression on Scarface's face was still gloomy, but the suspicion in his eyes had dissipated a lot.
The landlord, Ivan, has been in Shanghai for many years and is already a real China hand. Now that he saw the ship ticket and bill of lading that Tangcheng produced, he was truly relieved. The gangsters can't get on the stage after all. Although they work for the Japanese, they don't dare to do anything too outrageous in the face of Tangcheng, which has no flaws. The crisis was over, but Tang Cheng's vigilance did not relax. The appearance of these gang members gave Tang Cheng a wake-up call.
Half an hour later, Ivan, the landlord who had dealt with Scarface and his friends, knocked on Tangcheng's door. "Who are you? The ticket can be old, the bill of lading can be forged, you are definitely not a businessman!" Landlord Ivan looked at Tang Cheng with a look that was no longer doubtful, but affirmative. Faced with landlord Ivan's suspicion, Tang Cheng just smiled faintly. After asking the other party to sit down, Tang Cheng took out a lighter and lit a cigarette while speaking softly to landlord Ivan.
"Since you doubted me, why didn't you expose me in front of those people just now?" Tang Cheng handed the lighter and cigarettes to the other party with a chuckle. The landlord Ivan was stunned when he heard this. Obviously, he did not think of Tang Cheng. will give this answer. Before the landlord Ivan could speak, Tang Cheng continued, "Uncle Ivan, it's a good thing to be curious, but sometimes curiosity can kill people!" After saying this, Tang Cheng reached out and lifted the sofa. Mat, take out a pistol from under the mat.
Ivan, who had been a member of the White Russian Army, was naturally no stranger to pistols, but his attention at the moment was not on the pistol, but on Tang Cheng's face. According to his experience, Tang Cheng, who seemed harmless, was actually a ruthless person. Especially when Tang Cheng slapped the pistol on the table just now, Ivan didn't see even the slightest change in Tang Cheng's expression. The calmer a person is when things happen, the more terrifying they are. This is what Ivan has learned from his experience in Shanghai for many years.
It was obvious that the young man in front of him was indeed no ordinary person. Ivan wanted to say that he was not here to threaten Tangcheng. It's just that Tangcheng didn't give Ivan a chance to explain, "Uncle Ivan, you are the landlord, I am just a tenant! Shanghai is very big, but also very small. The relationship between us is that of landlord and tenant, nothing more." !" Tang Cheng looked at the landlord Ivan with a half-smile but not a smile. Although the other person looked very tough due to his burly figure, Tang Cheng was absolutely sure that he could kill him in one face-to-face encounter.
Maybe he noticed the deep meaning in Tang Cheng's words. The landlord Ivan nodded awkwardly, grabbed the cigarette on the table and lit one. Then he didn't say anything, just stood up and left. Tang Cheng, who watched the landlord leave, still sat on the sofa without moving. He didn't know whether his warning just now would be effective for the Belarusian landlord. But he knew that it was no longer safe here, and he had to find another place to stay before leaving Shanghai.
