Chapter XXIV Preparations
There are two basements in Tang Cheng's residence, one is a place where food and miscellaneous items are piled up on weekdays, and the other has been cleaned by Tang Cheng himself and is now Tang Cheng's private laboratory. Tang Cheng did not deliberately avoid the Edmund couple when he fiddled with those Chinese medicinal materials, and he even called Edmund for help several times during the experiment, which made Hans who received the report very puzzled. "I don't know why, maybe he wasn't worried that I could understand why!"
Edmund took advantage of the opportunity to go out and went to see Hans, just like he said at the moment, even if he was called by Tang Cheng to help in the basement, he still couldn't understand what the Chinese medicine powder that Tang Cheng fiddled with could do. Hans was helpless when he heard this, Chinese medicine is broad and profound, not to mention Edmund, who has not been in China for a long time, but he has changed his own Chinese expert, who has lived in China for many years, and still does not know much about Chinese medicine.
"Could it be that he's making medicine for the wounded soldiers in the lone camp?" Hans suddenly remembered that he had seen the scene of Chinese medicine treating external injuries, and he couldn't find the answer from Edmund, so he thought that Tang Cheng was using those Chinese medicinal materials to make wound medicine. At this moment, Tang Cheng was busy in the basement of his residence, he didn't know that Edmund had reported his every move to Hans, and he didn't expect that Hans actually thought that he was making wound medicine.
According to the recipe obtained from the lottery in the system, Tang Cheng has already ground all the required Chinese medicines into medicinal powder according to the amount, and then only needs to mix the medicinal powder together and make it into incense with the method of making incense. But Tang Cheng's use of incense is aimed at those White Russian Tuanding who take care of the lonely military camp, and these Bairussian Tuanding will not stay in one place or closed space honestly, so Tang Cheng still needs to make some small changes to the Mi Incense he has created at this moment.
Tang Cheng saw Boss Yu again, it was noon two days later, Boss Yu's face still didn't look very good, as soon as he saw Tang Cheng appear, Boss Yu couldn't wait to take Tang Cheng to the warehouse behind. "I've received a reply from HQ that they don't agree with your plan to rescue the Lone Army Camp, and that HQ is asking you to take action against the Zodiac immediately." As Boss Yu spoke, he paid attention to Tang Cheng's reaction, but he didn't find any anger or anxiety in Tang Cheng's face.
"You don't have to keep staring at me, in fact, I would have guessed that the headquarters would reply like this, after all, Shanghai is far away from them, and the lone military camp is also far away from them." Tang Cheng's tone was calm, but when he lit a cigarette, his fingers still trembled slightly, showing that he was not at peace in his heart. "Lao Yu, immediately you reply to the headquarters, just say that the Zodiac Society, I will deal with it, and there will be action in the near future. As for the lone camp, I will also rescue them, and I can't watch them being treated like prisoners. ”
Tang Cheng said that when the officers and soldiers of the lonely military camp were treated as prisoners, a layer of water vapor appeared in Boss Yu's eyes, the lonely military camp in Jiaozhou Park, Boss Yu had been there, and he knew better than Tang Cheng what the conditions were. "I don't want to persuade you, but as an elder, I still have to say more. If I were you, I would put down some things and concentrate on dealing with the Zodiac first, and once the affairs of the Zodiac are satisfactory to the above, maybe the matter of rescuing the lone army camp will take a turn. ”
Boss Yu's words were very tactful, and Tang Cheng also understood that people meant well, but the insistence in Tang Cheng's heart would not change because of one or two sentences. "Lao Yu, thank you for the reminder, but I think that there will always be some fools in this world who like to do things that others dare not do. Maybe I'm one of the fools, because I can't stand being locked up in barbed wire like a prisoner by the British. ”
Seeing that Tang Cheng's emotions began to get excited, Boss Yu wanted to speak, but Tang Cheng grabbed the placket on his chest and whispered. "Lao Yu, they are all heroes, and heroes should not be locked in barbed wire. This is Chinese soil, and the heroes of the Chinese should not be humiliated by the rude and impudent White Russians, so I must rescue them and return them to the battlefield that rightfully belongs to them. Boss Yu, whose face was flushed, looked at Tang Cheng stupidly, because Tang Cheng's eyes were full of moisture at this moment.
"I don't know what the bigwigs above are thinking, and I don't understand why the Shanghai Station has not specified a targeted rescue plan, I don't want to know any of this. Now, when I'm in Shanghai, I'm going to do something they wouldn't dare to do. As for what you said before, the above disagrees, the bullshit, the shit, and I am not from your intelligence department, even if I disobey the so-called orders from above! I don't care, sir! ”
It was only at this moment that Boss Yu learned from Tang Cheng's angry words that the young man in front of him was not from the Intelligence Department. "My late father, who was one of you, was shot and killed more than a year ago while hunting down Japanese spies. I am the only child in my family, and I will not be recruited under either military law or intelligence regulations. But I still came to Shanghai because I wanted to do something for the country, just like I insisted on rescuing the lone army camp, just to let the people of this country know that there is still hope and that the country has not forgotten them. ”
Under Boss Yu's questioning, Tang Cheng did not hide his life experience, and learned that Tang Cheng was the descendant of the martyr of the Intelligence Department, and when Boss Yu spoke again, he did not have too many scruples. "Since I joined the Intelligence Department, I have been running this tea farm in Shanghai, and half of the income from the tea farm is used for the expenses of the Shanghai station, and the remaining half is used by me to maintain this contact point. I don't know exactly what you want to do, but what weapons and equipment do you need, just ask, I'll figure it out. ”
When Tang Cheng saw Boss Yu for the first time, he only felt that it was difficult for this guy with a straight face to speak, but he didn't expect that Boss Yu would also have impulsive and desperate times, but since Boss Yu had already opened this mouth, Tang Cheng had no intention of going down politely. "What? Hardware processing factory? You want to make something small yourself! Then I have to think about it, there are many young and old people in the concession of this kind of small factory you mentioned. "Boss Yu, who was going to give up everything, didn't expect Tang Cheng to help himself, just to introduce a small hardware factory that could process things by himself.
There are many small factories with only one or two lathes in the concession, especially in some repair shops, which also have lathes. Boss Yu is a native of Shanghai and has lived in the concession for many years, but after thinking about it for a while, he thought of a good place. "I know a Swede, he has been in Shanghai for seven or eight years, originally came to Shanghai to sell Swedish lathes, but he didn't expect to smash the goods in his hands. Later, he used the lathe that was not sold, and opened a factory in the concession to process small hardware, and now his son York Jr. is managing the factory. ”
Following Boss Yu to this small factory owned by the Swedes, Tang Cheng found that the lathes inside were indeed Swedish goods, and the lathes were very well maintained, which greatly exceeded his expectations in advance. "No problem, the amount of processing in the factory during this time is not very large, I can extend the lunch break by an hour, and you can come here at noon every day and use these lathes and tools." Little York, who manages the factory, is very talkative, mainly because the remuneration given by Tang Cheng satisfies Little York.
"What the hell are you going to do? There are a lot of workers in this scene, so you might as well leave it to them to do it, and save yourself from running here every day. Boss Yu, who didn't know the inside story, was very puzzled by Tang Cheng's plan to get started in person, but no matter how he persuaded him, Tang Cheng still refused to change his decision, because he didn't want someone to think of himself or Boss Yu from those small bits and pieces afterwards.
"You don't care about these things, you should help me quickly contact the person in charge of the concession condolence group, I will meet with them as soon as possible to discuss the plan." He also had to think about the rescue plan, and he had to deal with the Zodiac Society, and Tang Cheng had to find time to make some small bits and pieces that he needed by himself. Tang Cheng, who was completely short of time, could only hand over some things to Boss Yu for help, because the opportunity he needed was getting closer and closer.
At present, the Japanese army has been seriously ill and assembled, and plans to go south to capture the capital Nanjing, intending to break the resistance of the people. Tang Cheng knew that the people**, who were ostensibly going to actively resist in Nanjing, would eventually abandon the capital city of Nanjing and the hundreds of thousands of people and rout troops in the city for various reasons. He knew that his own personal strength was not enough to change this situation, but Tang Cheng, who was in Shanghai, had no intention of making the Japanese army in Shanghai feel better.
According to the consistent tendencies of the Japanese, when the news of the final capture of Nanjing by the Japanese army reached Shanghai, the Japanese expatriates living in Shanghai and the Japanese troops controlling Shanghai would surely celebrate with great joy. Tang Cheng planned to rescue the lonely military camp trapped in Jiaozhou Park and leave Shanghai at this time, and at the same time create a troublesome situation when the Japanese were celebrating. Therefore, in order to leave the lone military camp in Shanghai, to attract the attention of the Japanese army in Shanghai, and at the same time to let the Japanese know that the Chinese will not give in.
Over the next few days, Tang Cheng began to follow his own plan, going back and forth between his residence and Little York's factory, and in the evening, Tang Cheng haunted some gangster casinos and smoke houses, waiting for the perfect time to make a move. Hans, who was secretly spying on Tang Cheng, did not find any unusual behavior in Tang Cheng in the reports he received in the past few days, and Edmund reported that Tang Cheng went to the Swede's factory, and only used two tools to machine them.
Now that it is already the *** era, it is difficult for Hans to understand why Tang Cheng still has a soft spot for processing tools in person, because he doesn't know that every time Tang Cheng processes those small bits and pieces in the factory, they have always been collected in the carry-on equipment bag, and Edmund has never seen those things at all.