Chapter 58: Tang Shiming
This Deputy Director Tong brought more than a dozen people, of course, some of these people were disguised and some were fully armed.
In the end, only a multi-year opium addict was caught on the street, and it attracted hundreds of onlookers. To others, this looks like a farce!
Then let's give you a list of the causes and consequences of the whole thing now. The matter still starts when Wu Tongguang left Xingsheng Restaurant last night.
Just last night, Wu Tongguang found through on-the-spot investigation that a group of uninvited guests suddenly appeared on the second floor of Xingsheng Restaurant, which should be a group of spies on a mission.
The noodle stall that just appeared opposite the restaurant, it can be seen from the stall owner's rotten cooking skills that the noodle stall owner's mind is not running a noodle stall at all, but using the noodle stall as a guise, and in fact, he is also doing the work of stalking.
Wu Tongguang judged that the owner of the noodle stall was in the same group as a group of people on the second floor of the restaurant. After Wu Tongguang left Nanfu Street, he went directly to Shang Qingyuan according to the contact information agreed before.
Wu Tongguang did not tell Shang Qingyuan about his discovery, because he felt that it was too early to tell Shang Qingyuan about his discovery, because his own speculation alone was not enough to judge that the comrade of the Shanghai underground party was a traitor.
Wu Tongguang only asked Shang Qingyuan to send a telegram to the underground party in Shanghai, and asked him to contact their comrade who had settled at the Jixiang Hotel at nine o'clock tomorrow.
Shang Qingyuan will also tell the other party the clothes of the connector, so that the other party can quickly confirm his comrades. The specific dress is a gray long coat and a pair of dark sunglasses. This outfit was absolutely stylish in the winter of that era, and it was very easy to attract the attention of others.
After that, Wu Tongguang came up with a clever plan to surprise the snake, and he could identify whether the comrade of the Shanghai underground party hiding in the Jixiang Hotel was a traitor without bloodshed.
Wu Tongguang's plan is like this. Before the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, when Wu Tongguang was still the assistant to the president of the Nanjing Chamber of Commerce and Industry, because he had more opportunities to deal with many outsiders, Wu Tongguang was able to know many people outside his circle through contact with these outsiders he knew at the beginning.
By chance, Wu Tongguang met an addict who had been smoking cigarettes for many years through contact with outsiders.
This addict is the tall, skinny man we mentioned earlier. The thin and tall man's real name is Tang Shiming. This Tang Shiming belongs to the kind of person who was born with a golden key in his mouth.
Tang Shiming's Laozi is in the grain and oil business in Nanjing, and he is still well-known in the industry.
But the Tang family just came out of Tang Shiming, an unfortunate loser. When Tang Shiming was fifteen years old, he ran a brothel and wrapped up an oiran. When he was 20 years old, he began to go in and out of opium dens. Shengsheng treated a rich Tang family as poor.
The most infuriating thing was that in order to smoke opium, Tang Shiming sold information about his father's friend, a red capitalist who had funded the Communist Party, to the people of the Nanjing Station of the Military Command, and in the end, all the members of the family were persecuted to death by the Kuomintang.
Tang Shiming's parents were also angry with him and returned to their hometown, cut off family relations with his son of a loser, and since then have been farming in the countryside for the rest of their lives.
Wu Tongguang's clever plan to scare the grass and snakes, the protagonist is Tang Shiming. People like Tang Shiming can lose their own property for the sake of opium smoke, and he can also harm other people's families for the sake of money. Therefore, it is not a pity for a person like Tang Shiming to die, and it is only fitting for him to make the first bird.
Wu Tongguang wore four gold bars in front of the door of the cigarette pipe to block Tang Shiming, who had just finished smoking opium, Wu Tongguang took out four gold bars and shook them in front of Tang Shiming, and directly put it up straight to the point, as long as Tang Shiming is willing to cooperate with a play on Nanfu Street, then these four gold bars are Tang Shiming's as a reward.
These four glittering gold bars stunned Tang Shiming. In his eyes, these four gold bars are not gold, not money, but spiritual food that can make him want to die.
You must know that in that era, four big yellow croakers were ten catties of opium smoke! This is enough for Tang Shiming to live happily for a few months. Therefore, Tang Shiming didn't even fight, and agreed very happily.
The play that Wu Tongguang asked Tang Shiming to perform was the farce staged on Nanfu Street. First of all, Tang Shiming had to wear sunglasses in accordance with the style of clothes agreed in advance. First go to the door of the auspicious hotel and linger for a while, during which you have to pretend to look around vigilantly.
No matter who it is, as long as someone comes to ask him if he wants to stay in the hotel, then all Tang Shiming needs to do is to panic and run.
Wu Tongguang was wearing a coarse linen dress at this time, and he had already mixed in the crowd to observe the movements after that. Speaking of which, let's insert it now, Nanfu Street is very lively, and it is mixed with dragons and snakes, and it is not easy to be found by setting up ambushes here and placing eyeliner. This is something we've mentioned before. But in the same way, Wu Tongguang wants to do counter-reconnaissance, and it is not easy to be discovered by the other party when he mixes in the crowd dressed as a civilian.
Wu Tongguang saw it clearly from the side, and after Tang Shiming ran away in a panic, several vendors who set up stalls in front of the Jixiang Hotel were a little impatient. Some reached out and touched their waists, while others rushed directly to the street with an arrow step, which was clearly a posture to hunt down Tang Shiming.
It's just that these disguised peddlers don't seem to have received clear instructions for their next move. In the end, they had no choice but to give up, go back to their stalls, and continue to shout and sell their goods.
According to Wu Tongguang's explanation in advance, after Tang Shiming ran from the door of the hotel onto the street, no one stepped forward to stop or arrest him. Then he had to keep running until he reached the noodle stall opposite Xingsheng Restaurant before he could stop.
Then Tang Shiming was about to enter the noodle stall. At this time, the noodle stall owner will definitely come to ask Tang Shiming, what Tang Shiming needs to do is to raise his head, and after seeing the appearance of the noodle stall owner, he was shocked and shouted, "It's you!" "Then, flip the table, don't look back, run as far as you want.
At this point, Tang Shiming's play can be regarded as a curtain call. Wu Tongguang promised him that as long as he could run out of Nanfu Street, the four gold bars would be cashed out immediately.
Wu Tongguang had already calculated in advance, if someone really planned to arrest the Nanjing underground party on Nanfu Street, then when they were at the Jixiang Hotel, they might wait and see what happened and not attack Tang Shiming for the time being, after all, Tang Shiming had not escaped from Nanfu Street, that is to say, Tang Shiming had not escaped from their surveillance at that time.
But after arriving at the noodle stall, Tang Shiming's performance will definitely misunderstand everyone, and he has already recognized the identity of the noodle stall owner. If the noodle stall owner was a spy to arrest the underground party in Nanjing, then at this time, even if there was no instruction from his superiors, he would definitely arrest Tang Shiming as soon as possible.
Tang Shiming's play has come to this, whether it is the agreed dress or the panicked expression of the noodle stall owner. Any spy who captures the underground party will feel that Tang Shiming is the Nanjing underground party.