Chapter 50: A Chance Encounter on the Street
"You're so daring! Who else knows about the Lihua Ballroom last night? As soon as he saw Tang Cheng the next day, Hans, who had been anxious all night, hurriedly pulled Tang Cheng to his office, and before Tang Cheng, who was walking behind, closed the door of the office, he was already impatient to ask Tang Cheng. Hans was so impatient, Tang Cheng knew that the other party was half worried about himself, and half worried that the matter would leak out and be known by the special high class.
"Don't worry, all the people in the know have all died in the Lihua Ballroom last night. The people on my side can all keep their mouths shut, and they will never leak things out. Tang Cheng pretended to be a joke that he had thought of a long time ago, this was the first time he admitted in front of Hans that he still had a helper behind him.
Sure enough, as Tang Cheng had predicted in advance, when Tang Cheng said these words in person, Hans, who was originally full of urgency, was obviously stunned for a moment, and then sat down in the chair a little stiffly, and paid attention to Tang Cheng from time to time with the corner of his eye. Tang Cheng didn't think so, still with that indifferent expression, and sat down opposite Hans.
"You called me early in the morning, and you had to ask me to come to you, tell me, what the hell is the matter?" After sitting down opposite Hans, Tang Cheng, who was quiet, took out a cigarette, threw one to the other party first, and then lit a cigarette himself and smoked it. The smell of tobacco quickly spread through the office, and after Hans took a few puffs of cigarettes in quick succession, he spoke in the eyes of Tang Cheng.
"I got the news early in the morning that the special high school was very concerned about the matter of the Lihua dance hall last night, and they contacted Zhang Xiaolin of the Green Gang last night, trying to lobby the French Concession through Zhang Xiaolin to Huang Jinrong, and asked the French Concession patrol room to secretly cooperate with the special high school in the upcoming search and arrest operation in the French Concession." Although it has been a few hours since Hans said the news at this moment, in Hans's opinion, it is still somewhat useful, at least it can remind Tang Cheng.
"Hans, you're too sensitive!" After hearing the news revealed by Hans, Tang Cheng shook his head. "Although Huang Jinrong is a big man in the Green Gang and has a good relationship with Zhang Xiaolin, he will never allow the special high school to act in the French Concession." As a senior netizen who has read countless online articles of the Republic of China in later generations, Tang Cheng knows too well that Huang Jinrong, a tycoon of the Green Gang. Although Huang Jinrong is a big man in the Green Gang and has done a lot of things as a traitor, Huang Jinrong has no good impression of the Japanese when it comes to major issues of right and wrong.
Tang Cheng's perception of Huang Jinrong surprised Hans, especially when Tang Cheng said Huang Jinrong's name, there was obviously a hint of admiration in his tone. Hans couldn't help but think that Tang Cheng, which came from a mysterious background, might have some kind of inexplicable connection with the Green Gang, especially with Huang Jinrong. Tang Cheng didn't know what Hans was thinking at the moment, and even if he knew that Hans had linked him to Huang Jinrong, he would laugh it off, because it was nonsense at all.
It's always a pleasure to chat with Hans, because there is no conflict of interest between Tang Cheng and Hans, and after telling Tang Cheng in detail about the information he has, Hans is still very worried about Tang Cheng. "Hans, thank you for your concern, I'll be careful! This is Shanghai, a place where the jungle eats the strong, and a few dead people don't matter at all. Tang Cheng's expression was still unfazed, after all, when he went to Hongkou District to do something, Tang Cheng had already expected the reaction of the Japanese. After chatting with Hans for more than two hours, he left the restaurant's Don Town, with the money he had seized from disposing of the stolen goods in his pocket.
With money in his pocket, he naturally had to spend a little, and with the address provided by Hans, Tang City soon appeared in an English clothing shop, where English tailors were said to be very skilled. Tang Cheng made three suits and four shirts in one go in this British clothing store, and was patiently fiddled with by the British tailor for a long time before he measured the size, and when Tang Cheng left the British clothing store with the bill, he found that he had spent more than 2 hours here.
As soon as he walked out of the door of the garment store, Tang Cheng couldn't help but listen to the footsteps, and at the same time, he secretly scolded in his heart. Subconsciously glanced to his left side first, and then Tang Cheng turned around and walked to the right, quietly following the two people who had just walked past the door of the garment shop. The moment he walked out of the store, a slightly familiar face appeared in Tang Cheng's sight, but he was stunned for a moment, and Tang Cheng remembered that this slightly familiar face was one of the three faces he copied from Hayakawa Meiji's memory.
When he found the target, he naturally had to follow first, so Tang Cheng didn't hesitate at all, and followed behind the two people in front of him. The two people who were being watched by Tang Cheng didn't seem to notice anything unusual, just like the other pedestrians on the street, they just followed the flow of people all the way. When passing the intersection ahead, Tang Cheng, who had been following all the way, suddenly noticed that one of them seemed to have discovered something, so he immediately followed behind the two women, crossed the street, and walked into the bakery on the other side of the street. He Chengguang turned around, but he didn't find any suspicious people behind him, but he still didn't give up when he always felt strange in his heart, and after walking through the street, he still turned around several times, but still didn't find anything.
"He Sang, you are too careful, although it is said that this is the French Concession, but we are people from the special high class, and we dare not do anything to us as far as the patrol of the Concession is calculated." He Chengguang stopped moving forward several times, and finally aroused some dissatisfaction with Hasegawa on his side, although both of them were plainclothes spies of the special high class, but Hasegawa Kiyokawa was Japanese, and he was virtually one level higher than He Chengguang. But I don't know what kind of wind the section chief smoked, he actually told himself to follow He Chengguang's orders, and from the beginning of the meeting with He Chengguang in the morning, Hasegawa Kiyokawa held a fire in his heart.
The sense of superiority revealed in Hasegawa's words can be heard by a fool, but He Chengguang didn't care about this, he was still engrossed in looking around at the passers-by at the corner of the street, trying to find out the target that he had always felt unhappy about. It's just a pity that He Chengguang stood in place for a while, but he still couldn't find any strange passers-by. Tang Cheng, who came out of the bakery, looked at He Chengguang and the two people standing at the street in front of him from a distance, the corners of his mouth tilted slightly to reveal a sneer of disdain, and he called a rickshaw on the side of the street.
Tang Cheng's rickshaw drove past under the pretext, but Tang Cheng, who didn't squint, didn't look at He Chengguang and the two who were standing in place, and He Chengguang didn't deliberately pay attention to Tang Cheng in the rickshaw. For him, Tang Cheng in the rickshaw is too young, young to the point that he can't pay attention to anything else. No suspicious person was found, and under the continuous urging of Hasegawa, He Chengguang had to follow Hasegawa and continue to walk west along the street, not far from here, where Hasegawa rented.
Ordered to enter the French Concession, Hasegawa assumed the alias Zhao Yong, rented two houses in the French Concession, and the other two were responsible for the connection with several gangsters in the concession. Hayakawa Mingji and Sun Baohua were killed in the Lihua Ballroom, and Hasegawa Kiyokawa only found out the next day, he originally thought that he could succeed Hayakawa Mingji as the leader of this three-person team, but he didn't expect that the special high school would appoint He Chengguang as the team leader.
The rickshaw that Tang Cheng was riding was slowly moving through the street, and the rickshaw driver who took a piece of Tang Cheng's ocean deliberately slowed down according to the guest's request, but He Chengguang and the two, who were dozens of meters behind them, did not know that the person who was watching had moved in front of them. Tang Cheng on the rickshaw had already activated his skills and firmly locked on Hasegawa, as long as he was still within the scope of the skill, even if Hasegawa entered the room, he would not be able to escape Tang Cheng's lock.
With a smile on his face, he was very familiar with the people he knew, and Hasegawa, who looked harmless to people and animals, took He Chengguang to his rented residence. He Chengguang didn't have any evaluation of Hase's performance, but after entering the residence, He Chengguang stood by the windowsill as usual, and looked out through the window for a while, and after confirming that there was nothing unusual, it was completely relaxed. "He Sang, don't worry, we have been renting here for more than a month, and the people who live here are already familiar with us." Kiyokawa Hase, who took off his coat and suit, wore a black sweater inside, and after lighting the stove in the middle of the room, the cold room quickly warmed up.
He Chengguang and the two were in the house, not far from them, at the entrance of the alley, standing Tang Cheng in a dark coat. Thinking about it secretly in his heart for a while, Tang Cheng threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, hugged the bag of bread with one hand, and slowly walked into the alley. The alley is full of old residents, and the appearance of a fresh face like Tang Cheng in the alley immediately attracted the attention of the residents. It's just that Tang Cheng doesn't care about this, the fake beard on his lips and his already slightly darkened complexion make Tang Cheng hide his true face.
Hasegawa and the two, who were boiling water to make tea in the house, didn't know what was going on outside the house, after all, there was no unusual sound in the alley. Hasegawa poured the boiling water into the teapot, and suddenly heard someone knocking on the door, He Chengguang's reaction was much faster than Hasegawa's, just got up and stepped forward, and the whole person was already standing by the door, and a knife tip was faintly exposed in his right hand. "Who?" Hasegawa Kiyokawa hurriedly put down the teapot in his hand, made a calm gesture to He Chengguang, and asked out loud when he walked to the door.
There was no response outside the door, but the door continued to knock, and He Chengguang leaned sideways against the wall behind the door, signaling Hasegawa, whose face couldn't help but change, to open the door. "Who are you looking for? Here..."Hasegawa opened the door, and what appeared in front of him was an unfamiliar face, but before he could finish speaking, he was punched on the Adam's apple by Tang Cheng outside the door.