Chapter 1: A New Beginning

It began to rain in the middle of the night until dawn, and with the awakening of the city, the number of oil-paper umbrellas on the streets gradually increased. As lunch approached, passers-by in the streets sped up their walking, and they were all in a hurry to get home to eat. In the street where pedestrians are walking briskly, a pair of young men and women with a black steel umbrella in their hands with a leisurely gait are particularly eye-catching against the backdrop of passers-by in the street.

"I haven't been back for a few months, and Chongqing still looks like it." A smile flashed in his dark eyes, and Tang Cheng, who was walking outside, was full of emotion in his heart. It had been half a month since he returned to Chongqing from Shanghai, and after staying at home for a few days, Tang Cheng reconvened the veteran policemen of the investigation team, and according to Zhang Jianghe's wishes, after a lapse of several months, Tang Cheng re-established a special investigation team. This time, Tang Cheng gave the special investigation team a resounding name, called the City Search Team.

On the way back to Chongqing, Tang Cheng imagined more than once what Chongqing was like now, which he hadn't seen for months, and when he returned to Chongqing, he found that Chongqing was still the same as before, but there were more shops and many unfamiliar faces in the streets. Tang Cheng's self-talk made Zhou Hongxiang, who was walking inside the two of them, subconsciously turn his head to look at Tang Cheng, during the time that Tang Cheng was not in Chongqing, Zhou Hongxiang barely slept well. Although there were those apprentices of Ma Ye secretly guarding the Tang family, Zhou Hongxiang was still on guard at all times, and before Tang Cheng left, he specifically told her to take care of her family.

Now that Tang Cheng is finally back, Zhou Hongxiang's heart can finally be considered to be able to fall to the ground. Although it was a rainy day today, it made people feel uncomfortable in their hearts, but Zhou Hongxiang's heart couldn't stop jumping, because Tang Cheng was going to take her to eat Western food today. I haven't seen Tang Cheng for a few months, and when I returned to Chongqing again, I looked a lot more mature, Zhou Hongxiang came out with Tang Cheng alone, and at first I was a little shy, but as time passed, the feeling of alienation between the two gradually dissipated.

"How can it be the same!" Zhou Hongxiang, who had re-acquainted with Tang Cheng, took over the conversation. "There are a lot of outsiders in the city during this time, and you don't see a lot more shops on the street! On our street, a few Zhejiang people came last month, saying that they wanted to rent a shop in our street, but Ma Ye did not agree. If it weren't for the police station's close watch, the little thugs on the street who had nothing to do would have made the street a mess a long time ago. If you want me to say, it should be arrested again, anyway, the labor camp outside the city has been short of manpower to work. ”

Zhou Hongxiang said this, after Tang Cheng came back, he had already heard it from the old policemen who came to visit. Compared with before Tang Cheng left Chongqing, Chongqing now has accommodated a large number of migrants who have gone south. Fortunately, under the joint control of the Chongqing Station and the Chongqing Police Department, most of the hooligans and gangsters who had nothing to do on the streets were arrested and sent to the labor camps outside the city for forced labor reform.

"Soon, in a few days, when the search team officially goes to work, it will soon carry out a new round of crackdown on the gangsters in the city! Now this situation is not easy to come by, and no one can destroy it, otherwise it will be the enemy of all Chongqing people, after all, no one wants to live in a chaotic city. Tang Cheng said this because the Chongqing station led by Zhang Jianghe has already mastered most of the public opinion channels in Chongqing, and there are a large number of middle-level people and intellectuals in Chongqing behind him, and the new round of strike-hard action will only win the support of the majority of Chongqing people.

While talking, Tang Cheng and the two moved forward along the street, and soon appeared at the door of this western restaurant in the middle of the street. There have been Western restaurants in Chongqing for a long time, but Tang Cheng has never been here, and today he will bring Zhou Hongmakeup to eat here, on the one hand, to take Zhou Hongmakeup out to relax, and on the other hand, Tang Cheng received a secret report from his old policeman, saying that there is something wrong with this Western restaurant.

When he was in Shanghai, Tang Cheng had already learned from Hans that in the Shanghai Concession, there had always been some foreigners secretly working for Tegaoke. Since there are foreigners in Shanghai who are willing to do things for Tegaoke for money, it is not impossible to do this possibility in Chongqing, not to mention that except for the owner of this western restaurant, who is a big-nosed old man, the others are Chinese. The Japanese, like the Chinese, are yellow-skinned Asian faces, and Tang Cheng knows that there are still undiscovered Japanese spies in Chongqing.

The business of the western restaurant is not good, but when Tang Cheng walked into this western restaurant with Zhou Hongmakeup, there were already a few customers sitting in this western restaurant with a small face. When Zhou Hongxiang was in Shanghai, he also had the experience of going to this kind of Western restaurant to eat, so he didn't have to worry too much about Tang Cheng, Zhou Hongxiang took the menu and ordered what he liked to eat. Tang Cheng didn't bother to do anything, just ordered a beef stew, and then began to secretly look at the other guests in the Western restaurant.

Tang Cheng and Zhou Hongxiang sat facing each other, both of them were obviously not in a state, but there were obvious differences. Zhou Hongxiang was absent-minded because her attention was on Tang Cheng, after all, Tang Cheng had left Chongqing for a few months before returning, and Zhou Hongxiang cherished the opportunity to be alone with Tang Cheng. Tang Cheng's attention at the moment was focused on the other guests in the restaurant, but he didn't immediately see anything abnormal.

Tang Cheng's secret observation was very careful, although some of the guests in the restaurant noticed the abnormality, but Tang Cheng and Zhou Hong's makeup and age were the best cover, and no one would suspect them at all. After secretly observing for a while, when Tang Cheng and the things they ordered were delivered, Tang Cheng immediately adjusted his state back, after all, the beef stew was still very fragrant. A beef stew in Tang Cheng was only half eaten, and a new customer arrived in the Western restaurant, wearing a gray tunic with a pair of glasses, and a brown leather bag on his right arm.

As soon as this person appeared, Tang Cheng's breathing was obviously a little shorter, and for the change in his expression, Zhou Hongxiang, who was sitting opposite, naturally noticed it. I saw Tang Cheng's eyes flash, and he quickly lowered his eyes and hid his eyes well. The man with the glasses in the briefcase, after entering the western restaurant, just glanced at it casually, and went straight to the table in the northwest corner of the restaurant. The table in the northwest corner of the restaurant was already occupied, and Tang Cheng had already observed the guests at that table before, because it was a young woman, so Tang Cheng didn't pay much attention to it.

Because of the appearance of this man with glasses, Tang Cheng began to notice the young woman who had been sitting in the corner, looking at the other party's dress and dress, there was nothing out of the ordinary disease. "That woman, I know, is a music teacher at Seongnam Middle School." Zhou Hongxiang has also been an underground party for a while, but he just followed Tang Cheng's line of sight and glanced at the table in the corner of the restaurant, and immediately found a face that he had vaguely seen.

"Her name, I don't know, the last time I accompanied my mother to the Chengnan church, I happened to see her once, she was accompanying her aunt to the church, and my mother knew her aunt." Under Tang Cheng's hint, Zhou Hongxiang lowered his voice. "She probably can't remember me, the last time I saw her was a month ago. Besides, she didn't see me from a distance, and if it weren't for the mole on her earlobe, I wouldn't remember seeing her. ”

Zhou Hongxiang's answer surprised Tang Cheng very much, a face that has only been seen once and has passed a month can still be remembered by Zhou Hongxiang, which shows that Zhou Hongxiang's memory is amazing, and he is good at grasping the characteristics of the characters to deepen his memory. "The one carrying the briefcase, I know, is a deputy section chief in Uncle Zhang's station, named Zhou Wen." Tang Cheng secretly gave a thumbs up to Zhou Hongxiang, and also explained in a low voice why he wanted to pay attention to that side.

Zhang Jianghe recognized Zhou Hongxiang as his goddaughter, Zhou Hongxiang naturally knew what Zhang Jianghe did, and the deputy section chief of an intelligence station appeared here in such a strange way, and Zhou Hongxiang also knew that it seemed unusual. "You're... Suspect that there is something wrong with this person named Zhou Wen? Will that implicate the godfather? The godfather is the stationmaster, and if something goes wrong with the people under him, it will inevitably affect the godfather. Zhou Hongxiang was faintly worried, but Tang Cheng gave her a reassuring look.

"Don't worry, Uncle Zhang is an old man in the intelligence department, if there is a problem inside, it will be solved internally, if you forcibly hide it, you will be caught. Besides, I just suspect now that if there is really a problem with this Zhou Wen, it is also his own business, and Uncle Zhang will definitely not be implicated. Tang Cheng and Zhou Hongxiang were talking in a low voice, Zhou Wen was already sitting with the young woman, although he couldn't hear the conversation between Zhou Wen and the two, Tang Cheng felt that Zhou Wen had an unusual relationship with that woman.

Finding suspicious people and things, Tang Cheng and the others slowed down their eating, and Tang Cheng did not give up observing the other people in the restaurant. About a quarter of an hour later, there were guests in the restaurant again, and they were both known to Tang Cheng and Zhou Hongxiang. Zhang Zeng and the old policemen in the same group, as soon as they entered the door of the restaurant, they saw Tang Cheng facing the door at a glance, and when they saw Tang Cheng's vague gestures, Zhang Zeng's attention immediately shifted to Zhou Wen and Zhou Wen in the corner of the restaurant.

The appearance of Zhang Zeng and the others was all planned, according to the plan of Tang Cheng and his veteran policemen, if he and Zhou Hongxiang did not go out of the restaurant within half an hour, Zhang Zeng and the others who were waiting outside would be divided into a group of people to enter the restaurant. Tang Cheng made this plan, the original intention was just to scout this Western restaurant, but they didn't expect that as soon as Tang Cheng came out, there would be a harvest, but the object of the harvest was not what Tang Cheng wanted.