Chapter 41: Coincidental
"Why are you here? I called back yesterday, didn't you say that you should accompany your mother to deliver books to school today? Zhao Dashan and the others were still guessing the identity of the woman in red, but they saw that Tang Cheng had already strode up to greet them, and looking at the expressions of the two, they should be acquaintances. Could it be that this woman in red is the guest in the captain's house? A group of veteran policemen led by Zhao Dashan secretly guessed in their hearts, and several people looked at each other with grinning, and found that their eyes were full of dirty colors.
The woman in red who appeared at this moment was Zhou Hongxiang, who had been living in Tang's house since coming to Chongqing, and Tang Cheng had a phone call with Zhou Hongxiang last night, knowing that Zhou Hongxiang would accompany her mother and sister today to donate books, paper and pens to a church primary school in the city. Suddenly seeing Zhou Hongxiang here, Tang Cheng's first thought was to wonder if there was an accident, but he saw that the expression on Zhou Hongxiang's face was not nervous and flustered, so he immediately dispelled this idea.
Zhou Hongxiang didn't pay attention to the dodgy glances of Zhao Dashan and the others, but smiled at Tang Cheng, "The primary school was built by the church, and there are only three teachers, and they are all from the church. I didn't understand what they said, but my aunt saw that I was bored, so she asked me to go out for a walk, and I happened to meet a friend, so I followed her here to have a look. When Zhou Hongxiang said the word friend, Tang Cheng's eyes looked back over Zhou Hongxiang's shoulder, and just happened to see a young woman who was getting down from a sliding rod not far behind Zhou Hongxiang.
It's been almost four months since she came to Chongqing, and Zhou Hongxiang has made friends in the city, Tang Cheng is not surprised by this, but this young woman who is getting off the slide makes Tang Cheng have a very familiar feeling. Zhou Hongxiang was wearing a red dress today, and the young woman who came down from the slider was wearing a black skirt with red edges, and the two stood together, but they were just as heroic.
"How are you?" Tang Cheng looked at the young woman with a familiar look, and when the other party walked to Zhou Hongjiao's side, he suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed at Tang Cheng, looking at the surprise on her face, he obviously recognized Tang Cheng. The other party's voice, although it was only four words, turned on the switch of Tang Cheng's memory like a key, and the Tang Cheng assassin who looked at the other party couldn't help but widen his eyes, he was not unfamiliar with this voice.
The other party spoke, Tang Cheng finally remembered where he had seen this young woman, after all, the feeling of being hit in the face by a spicy pig's trotter was probably something Tang Cheng would never forget in his life. "Hongyi, you really misunderstood him, he is a policeman, how can he be a thief?" After taking Tang Cheng to explain the situation to Zhou Hongxiang, Zhou Hongxiang first covered his stomach and was very happy for a while, and then proved his identity to his friend for Tang Cheng, worried that the other party would not believe Zhou Hongxiang, and forced Tang Cheng to take out the police ID as well.
"Actually, I wouldn't have done it on purpose that day, I often go to that small shop, and suddenly I see someone climbing on the roof and sneaking around, then of course I have to shout to catch the thief." After the young woman who was called red by Zhou Hongmakeup saw Tang Cheng's police ID, a trace of embarrassment appeared on her face, but in her words, she put all the responsibility for that night on Tang Cheng, and as for her, she was completely irresponsible.
"Where are you going? I remember the school was in the south of the city, how did you come here? Tang Cheng saw that if he continued, he might be about to get involved in the fact that the small shop had closed down, so he changed the topic abruptly. Zhou Hongxiang didn't doubt him, and the young woman named Hongyi didn't think much about it, where would Tang Cheng think that Tang Cheng would open the topic, but she didn't want to expose the inside story of the small shop being involved in the spy case.
"Hongyi has a gouache shop here, and she asked me to come and see the new goods!" Zhou Hongxiang's answer made Tang Cheng frown slightly, and turned around to sweep the shops on the street, and the gouache shop here seemed to be the only one where he wanted to close the door and arrest people. Could it be said? How could there be such a coincidental discovery in the world! Tang Cheng's face had changed, and he turned to look at the young woman, "Your surname is Luo?" Is it called Luo Sanmei? When Tang Cheng spoke, his right hand was already raised to make a gesture.
Before the young woman beside Zhou Hongxiang could reply, Zhao Dashan and the others who saw Tang Cheng's gesture had already walked over quickly, faintly surrounding Tang Cheng and the three of them in the middle. It wasn't until this moment that Zhou Hongxiang suddenly realized that something seemed to be wrong, and she was about to ask Tang Cheng about to speak, but was stopped by Tang Cheng with a gesture. "Your surname is Luo? Is it called Luo Sanmei? You said there was a gouache shop for you, wasn't it the one behind me? ”
Tang Cheng repeated the previous question again, and also emphasized the gouache shop, and then thought of the police ID he had just seen, Luo Sanmei, who was nicknamed red, could only nod at Tang Cheng and admit that he was Luo Sanmei. This is really an unexpected joy, Tang Cheng, who may not have any joy on his face, saw that Zhao Dashan had already led someone to block the direction that the other party could escape, so he continued to ask the other party with a cold face.
"About half an hour ago, I led someone to catch a shoemaker in front of your gouache shop, and according to what we know so far, this so-called shoemaker, his belongings were stored in your gouache shop before. I'm wondering now, how did you meet this shoemaker? Did he come to the door on his own initiative? Or was you introduced to each other? You have to answer my question clearly, and I want to remind you that the consequences of telling a lie are serious. ”
When he was still in Nanjing, Zhou Hongxiang had the experience of cooperating with Tang Cheng's operation, and he also followed Zhang Jianghe to the Nanjing headquarters compound of the Intelligence Department many times, so once Tang Cheng's face became cold, Zhou Hongxiang knew that this matter was definitely not Tang Cheng alarmist, and it might really be a big thing that could kill people. "Hongyi, what does he ask you, you'd better tell the truth, don't tell lies." Zhou Hongxiang hurriedly turned her head to look at her new friend, and the eagerness in her eyes was not pretending at first glance.
Luo Sanmei looked at the tender face, in fact, she was taken away by her elders since she was a child, and seeing that Zhou Hong's expression did not look like a fake, Luo Sanmei knew that she might be annoyed. "Cobbler? I don't know any cobblers. Are you mistaken? I'm a gouache shop, and the clerks and customers are all women, so how could I agree to a shoemaker casually storing things in the shop? ”
It is true that the owner of the gouache shop is Luo Sanmei, but she doesn't come here every day, she just vaguely remembers that there is a shoemaker outside her gouache shop who doesn't appear every day, but she doesn't remember the appearance of the shoemaker. "Ahh I remembered that there was indeed a shoemaker outside the gouache shop, but that man didn't come every day. If you hadn't mentioned it, I wouldn't have remembered the shoemaker! ”
Luo Sanmei's answer was beyond Tang Cheng's expectations, but when he saw Zhao Dashan's vague eyes, Tang Cheng Amashi reacted. If it's not that Luo Sanmei has a problem, then the female clerk in the gouache shop has a problem, after all, Luo Sanmei doesn't come here every day, and if the clerks do things secretly, they can completely avoid Luo Sanmei. "Do you know about each of the clerks in your store?"
"There are a total of four clerks in the store, two of them are distant relatives from my countryside, and the other two were introduced by Luo Sihai, saying that they are from Jiangbei like him." Luo Sanmei's answer made Tang Cheng frown slightly, why is there still that Luo Sihai thing here? But immediately, Tang Cheng's brows stretched again, just as he was going to rectify this Luo Sihai, the situation that Luo Sanmei just said could just be used to make some articles.
"Leave your home address, get out of here right away, and we'll visit you if there's anything we need to check with." With Zhou Hongxiang present, some of Tang Cheng's methods were not easy to show, but he still stretched out his right hand to Luo Sanmei at the end. Just when the two shook their right hands, Tang Cheng mentioned the question related to the shoemaker again, and Luo Sanmei's answer was exactly the same as before.
"Alright, you guys go back!" Having already gotten what he wanted from Luo Sanmei, Tang Cheng immediately let go of his right hand and turned his gaze back to Zhou Hongxiang. "It's a bit complicated, I don't know if it's related to your friend yet, and we're going to have to check with the clerk in the gouache shop soon. According to the steps, this gouache shop may be temporarily closed for a few days, tell your friend, don't worry, after we find out, the normal operation of the gouache shop will not be affected. ”
Zhou Hongxiang knew that what Tang Cheng was doing must be related to the Japanese spies, so she didn't doubt Tang Cheng's words, but just persuaded Luo Sanmei, who was panicked, to go step by step. "Immediately investigate and inquire about the four clerks in the gouache shop, Luo Sanmei's answer just now shouldn't seem like she was lying, the problem should be with these clerks, especially the two introduced by Luo Sihai." Seeing Zhou Hongxiang and the two leave, Tang Cheng called Zhao Dashan to teach him face-to-face, and he planned to question the four clerks in the gouache shop.
Among the four clerks who were strictly guarded in the gouache shop, the first to be called out was a distant relative of Luo Sanmei, and with just a few basic problems, Tang Cheng and the others had already gotten what they wanted. "Your name is Wang Xiang? Luo Sihai introduced you to this gouache shop? The clerk who was asked by Tang Cheng and the others was called Wang Xiang, and the answers of the other three had already focused on this Wang Xiang, and when Tang Cheng saw this woman for the first time, he vaguely felt that this woman looked a little strange.