Chapter Seventy-Three: A Boring Day (1)
Under the shadow of street lamps and neon signs of street shops, Zhou Hong's entire face and ears are red, like boiled shrimp and crabs. Tang Cheng hated to directly slap himself, Zhou Hong's appearance at the moment, Tang Cheng was not uncommon in those youth film and television dramas in later generations, and those nymphomaniac students were like this when they met handsome seniors or were alone. To be honest, Zhou Hong's makeup is not very beautiful, but her heroic eyebrows and dark eyes give Zhou Hong makeup a kind of Mo Min's aura.
And Zhou Hong's makeup is not short, Tang Cheng visually measured that this woman is at least close to one meter seven in height, a woman of this height does not conform to the public's aesthetics in this era, but Tang Cheng, who came from later generations, has a soft spot for this tall woman. Damn it! Tang Cheng secretly scolded in his heart, how could he suddenly think of this, Tang Cheng suddenly didn't dare to look at Zhou Hongxiang anymore, but just whispered to Zhou Hongxiang who was at a loss.
"This is not a place to stay for a long time, it's better to go home quickly, if there is anything, I'll talk about it when I go back!" Tang Cheng always felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, but for a while, he was never sure where this uncomfortable feeling came from. Zhou Hongxiang didn't speak, but was pulled into the rickshaw by Tang Cheng, and then went all the way back to the residence. When he returned to his residence, Tang Cheng and Zhou Hongxiang were separated, but Tang Cheng didn't sleep very well all night.
Zhang Jianghe slept early and got up early, but Tang Cheng's unexpected lazy bed made Zhang Jianghe a little surprised, since he moved here, as long as Tang Cheng did not go home at night, he would always get up early to practice boxing the next day, and today was a big accident. "You mean, the two of them went out last night and came back together?" After breakfast, Zhang Jianghe heard an even more surprising news from the mouthroom of the housekeeper William.
"This kid, isn't he taking a fancy to Miss Zhou!" Zhang Jianghe didn't have the heart to read the newspaper anymore, and with a smile on his face, he couldn't help but rub his chin. "But with his stubborn donkey temperament, Miss Zhou may not take a fancy to him!" His family knows his own affairs, what kind of character Tang Cheng is, Zhang Jianghe knows it all too well, in Zhang Jianghe's memory, Tang Cheng seems to have never had a good relationship with young women around him.
Besides, Zhou Hongxiang was a member of the underground party in Shanghai, but Tang Cheng's late father was from the Intelligence Department, coupled with Tang Cheng's extremely complicated social relations in private, Zhang Jianghe didn't think that Zhou Hongxiang would fall in love with Tang Cheng. Tang Cheng, who slept until after breakfast, did not know that William and Zhang Jianghe, who were idle, arranged themselves in private. When he came down from upstairs, Zhou Hongxiang was chatting downstairs with Zhang Jianghe, and when he saw Tang Cheng appear in the living room on the first floor, the expressions and reactions of the two were completely different.
Seeing Tang Cheng, Zhang Jianghe immediately remembered the news that William told him, and he couldn't help but show a smile on his face. And when Zhou Hongxiang saw Tang Cheng, his eyes immediately became distant, but he would pay attention to Tang Cheng from time to time with the corner of his eye. Zhou Hongxiang, the appearance of a child, how could he escape Zhang Jianghe's eyes, and then look at Tang Cheng, just caring about dealing with the breakfast served by William, Zhang Jianghe couldn't help but secretly scolded a foodie in his heart.
Tang Cheng didn't know that Zhang Jianghe scolded him for being a foodie in his heart, while eating breakfast, he recalled what happened last night, the more he thought about it, the less he thought about it, and the things that happened last night seemed to be very wrong. After a hasty breakfast, Tang Cheng secretly gave Zhang Jianghe a look, and then went upstairs to the study to wait for Zhang Jianghe. "What did you do when you went out with Miss Zhou last night?" As soon as Zhang Jianghe, who came upstairs, entered the study, he asked about last night's incident.
"You... How do you know we went out last night? Tang Cheng almost didn't jump out of the chair directly, he went out with Zhou Hongmakeup last night, and that was after Zhang Jianghe went upstairs to rest.
"Hmph, if you don't want people to know unless you do it, I can tell you, Miss Zhou is a poor person, don't harm her!" Tang Cheng's reaction was regarded by Zhang Jianghe as a sign of weakness, and he immediately warned Tang Cheng with a straight face, but Tang Cheng was confused at the moment, and almost forgot why he was looking for Zhang Jianghe and went upstairs.
"Uncle, don't tell me this yet... You listen to me first..."Tang Cheng, who couldn't cry or laugh in his heart, immediately told Zhang Jianghe everything that happened last night, 1510, hoping that Zhang Jianghe could help him solve his doubts. "I just feel that something doesn't seem right about what happened last night, like those men in black, if they were gang members in the concession, they would never let us go so easily."
Although the concession is a paradise for foreigners, there are also many gang forces in the concession, and the means used by the gang forces to obtain money are nothing more than cheating, kidnapping, kidnapping and extortion. As Tang Cheng said, if the men in black they met last night were members of the concession gang, and they had such an opportunity to make money, those gang members would definitely not do nothing, and let Tang Cheng and them leave. After listening to Tang Cheng's words, Zhang Jianghe also felt that something was not quite right, but he was not present last night, but he couldn't make a correct judgment just listening to Tang Cheng.
Tang Cheng was helpless, so he had to go out to find Hans with many questions, and he also needed Hans's help to find clues about the affairs of Bai Zhanshan. "Are you sure that this person named Yuan Cheng is a traitor from the Shanghai Station of the Intelligence Department?" Holding the photo provided by Bai Zhanshan, Hans squinted at Tang Cheng with a depressed face. "The secret battle between the intelligence department and the special high class, this time is getting more and more lively, if there is a traitor in the intelligence department at this time, the special high class should strike while the iron is hot, but I have not received any news from the special high class to start a new round of operations."
Hans's words made Tang Cheng slightly stunned, Hans's words sounded like raising his own doubts, but Tang Cheng heard something different from them. "What do you mean? Do you think this is a fake news deliberately released by the Shanghai station? But I don't think they can do any good by doing that!" Tang Cheng groaned thoughtfully, and before Hans could answer, an even stranger thought suddenly popped into his mind.
Hans expressed doubts about whether this Yuan Cheng really betrayed the intelligence department, because Bai Zhanshan did not provide other useful clues and information, and Tang Cheng actually began to wonder if this matter would be a trick that Bai Zhanshan had set for himself. "It shouldn't be what you think!" Hans saw Tang Cheng's doubts, and immediately opened his mouth and smiled. "You have a good relationship with the Intelligence Department, and you've always helped them with things, so if it were me, I wouldn't have fallen into trouble with a guy like you."
But if Yuan Cheng's matter was not deliberately aimed at himself, it was last night, why did Bai Zhanshan behave so weirdly? Zhang Jianghe couldn't help himself find out the answer to the matter of going out with Zhou Hongmakeup last night, and Hans didn't provide much help to himself about Yuan Cheng's matter, and Tang Cheng, who left the restaurant, seemed to be a little heavier in his heart. Tang Cheng left Hans's restaurant and did not call a rickshaw on the side of the street as usual, but walked along the side of the street with the purpose of the pedestrian stroll.
Walking through two streets in a row, Tang Cheng suddenly found that someone seemed to be following him behind him, and Tang Cheng, who did not rashly turn back, just paid attention to the window glass of the street shop with the corner of his eye, and did not find the follower, and walked directly into a café on the street. As is the custom of Tang Cheng, he chooses a location close to the street window so that he can easily observe the situation outside the store.
Only this time, Tang Cheng did not sit down in the window seat facing the street, but chose a seat in the middle, back to back with a pair of foreign men and women. After sitting down, Tang Cheng took out a lighter and a silver cigarette case from his pocket, smoking was not forbidden in cafes in this era, Tang Cheng only needed to turn the silver cigarette case to a certain angle after lighting a cigarette, and he could see the situation outside the café window from the back of the silver cigarette case that was as smooth as a mirror.
Tang Cheng's hand was learned from Hans, and even this silver cigarette case and lighter were snatched from Hans's hand, but after personally verifying it at this moment, Tang Cheng felt that this hand was actually not easy to use, mainly because the things seen on the back of the cigarette case were too blurry. The waiter quickly brought Tang Cheng's coffee, and like everyone else in the café, Tang Cheng asked for a newspaper. While flipping through today's newspaper and sipping coffee, Tang Cheng looked very leisurely at the moment.
"Margaret, you know, this batch of medicines is worth a lot. If it weren't for my father's serious illness and my hurry to return to the United States, I would never have sold at such a price. The foreigner sitting behind Tang Cheng had a low voice, as if he felt that Tang Cheng, who was sitting back to back with them, couldn't understand English, so he just lowered his voice slightly, but he didn't take too much precautions.
The foreign woman named Margaret looked like she was in her 30s, and she just laughed softly at the mention of her companion. "Mike, while I'm sorry that your father is seriously ill and hospitalized, that's your problem, not because of our business. In fact, if you don't give me this batch of medicines, I believe that absolutely no one in Shanghai will take your batch of medicines, even though they are all valuable goods. The woman's chuckle made the foreign man with his back to Tang Cheng a little angry, and his voice became louder.
"Margaret, you can't do this, I know you have a good relationship with the Japanese, but this is our business, and since it's a business, we shouldn't be mixed with other things. You know, I'm an ordinary businessman, I don't have political leanings or political opinions, but I don't want to be associated with the Japanese. There was a hint of irritability in Michael's voice that had been deliberately suppressed, and Tang Cheng's heart moved, and then he paid more attention to the conversation between the two behind him.