Chapter 17: Matters of the Heart

"What's your name? I'm asking your real name? What mission did you bring to Nanjing? Who's your upline? Who is downline? How else can I contact your upline? Tang Cheng lowered his voice to ask these questions, sounding chaotic, but in fact, Tang Cheng was deliberately guiding Wang Shouyi's thinking consciousness, as long as Wang Shouyi's thinking consciousness began to think about and answer with Tang Cheng's questions, the corresponding scenes and characters would involuntarily appear in his mind, and Tang Cheng could take the opportunity to copy these scene memories.

Asking the same question several times in a row, Tang Cheng successfully copied a fifteen-second memory from Wang Shouyi's mind, who had not yet fully awakened. After Wang Shouyi woke up, he probably couldn't remember what he had said in a state of anesthesia, but the memories that Tang Cheng copied were extremely clear. However, Tang Cheng did not inform Zhang Jianghe of the clues he found from Wang Shouyi, because if he didn't do a good job of foreshadowing, Tang Cheng was afraid that the clues he said would be thought by Zhang Jianghe to be his own guess.

When Tang Cheng asked Wang Shouyi, Zhang Jianghe was still outside the ward to ask the doctor about Wang Shouyi's injuries, and when he entered the ward, Tang Cheng had already stood in the corner of Wang Shouyi's ward with an expression of indifference. "Don't alarm him yet, continue to monitor the Lord." Zhang Jianghe glanced at Wang Shouyi, who was still in a coma, and immediately decided to transfer the center of action to the math teacher named Ren Yuan, and it was impossible for this person named Wang Shouyi to leave the hospital in a short time.

Tang Cheng had no objection to this, in fact, when Zhang Jianghe had just confessed to his cronies, Tang Cheng seemed to be nothing, and was actually replaying in his mind the fragments of his thinking and memory that he copied from Wang Shouyi. Tang Cheng asked Wang Shouyi too many questions just now, so the memories he copied from Wang Shouyi's mind were all scattered, although it was only fifteen seconds long, there were at least four or more scenes.

In this memory replayed by Tang Cheng, the first scene that appeared was a stone pillar, which can be found in many places in the city, but a small half of the signboard faintly revealed behind the pillar gave Tang Cheng the best hint. "It's a clinic, so that's easy to do." After confirming that the small signboard behind the pillar had the word "clinic" on it, Tang Cheng was attracted by the graffiti under the pillar, and Tang Cheng, who had watched countless spy movies in later generations, immediately felt that the graffiti should be related to Wang Shouyi.

The scene of the next day was the café, and the character who appeared was the math teacher named Ren Yuan, but unfortunately, the memory scene copied by Tang Cheng was silent, so he didn't know the content of the conversation between Wang Shouyi and Ren Yuan. The third scene that appeared in the copy memory was what Tang Cheng was most interested in, and in this third scene, it was also the one with the most items.

A radio, manuscript paper, pens, books, a lighter, and an ashtray covered in ashes—all these things combined to create a scene that made Tang Cheng happy. As a spy war fan who has watched the spy war drama "Latent" more than a dozen times, such a scene is exactly the same as the scene in which the protagonist in the play uses the code book and radio to receive tasks, Tang Cheng can now be 100% sure that Wang Shouyi's way to receive instructions is through the radio.

Zhang Jianghe said that the period of contact between the Japanese spies and the upper and lower lines will not exceed a week, or five days, and now that he has figured out the way of Wang Shouyi's contact with the upline, then the next step is how to persuade Zhang Jianghe to search Wang Shouyi's residence. Following Zhang Jianghe out of the hospital, Tang Cheng returned to Wang Shouyi's residence again, Zhang Jianghe left two of his subordinates here, and Heizi was also waiting for Tang Cheng here.

"Fifth brother, it doesn't seem like we can help if we stay here, why don't we go home early today? The eldest sister said in the morning that she would eat dumplings at home tonight. "Compared with Xiaohai and the others, the sunspots who don't like to talk too much only have the disadvantage of being delicious, especially when eating dumplings, that energy doesn't look like a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy. Tang Cheng glared at Kuroko angrily, and the latter shrunk his neck and didn't continue, but the longing in his eyes was too obvious.

"Let's go, go home and eat dumplings." Tang Cheng thought about it, and he didn't seem to have anything else to do, so he took Kuroko and prepared to go home. At this time, a gunshot suddenly rang out from a street shop, and before Tang Cheng could react, he saw a man in a short shirt rushing out of the shop and running towards the street in front without looking back. Tang Cheng, who reacted immediately, immediately reached out and grabbed the sunspot, and the two of them, like other passers-by, immediately moved to the other end of the street.

Being able to shoot in the downtown area is definitely not a trivial matter, although he has already hooked up with the relationship of the Military Intelligence Department, but Tang Cheng knows that the Military Intelligence Department is not omnipotent. "Fifth brother, who did you say was the one who shot just now?" Tang Cheng and the two walked quickly with the flow of people, but Heizi turned around to visit as he walked, and asked Tang Cheng even more. Tang Cheng frowned secretly, but for a while, he didn't know how to answer.

"You kid shut up for me, there are some things that can only be seen and not said, be careful of getting into trouble." Tang Cheng scolded with a dark face, Heizi didn't dare to ask any more questions, and the two bypassed the street corner in front of them, and Tang Cheng breathed a sigh of relief. Although Nanjing City is the capital of the Nationalist Government, the situation is becoming more and more chaotic, and there have been several cases of shooting at such people in the street this month, and Tang Cheng feels that he should not make preparations for going south in advance.

Back at home, Tang Cheng's mood was slightly better, the steaming dumplings exuded an attractive fragrance, and a mouthful of noodle soup made Tang Cheng have a deeper understanding and perception of the word home. After eating dumplings, Tang Cheng went out under the pretext of having something to do, and went straight to Sun Xin's yard. "Uncle Sun, what did you think about the incident I told you last time?" Tang Cheng was not polite to Sun Xin, and directly clarified his intentions.

Going south at home, this is something that Tang Cheng has mentioned to Sun Xin a long time ago, and Sun Xin said that he needs time to think about it, and Tang Cheng also needs to prepare enough money and things. Now Tang Cheng has enough money and things in his hands, and the rest depends on Sun Xin's intentions. Unlike the Tang family, Sun Xin is a native of Nanjing, and the Chinese pay attention to their homeland, and he is a cultural person like Sun Xin who teaches Chinese studies.

"Boy, have you figured it out?" Sun Xin's rhetorical question made Tang Cheng feel that his worries were superfluous, especially looking at Sun Xin's expression at the moment. "The current situation is really not good, and the government has always wanted to use the international community to restrain the Japanese, but foreigners are foreigners after all. Chinese pay attention to morality and morality, while foreigners only pay attention to interests, and now that the Japanese are powerful, I am afraid that the hope of the national government will eventually be disappointed. Sun Xin has his own judgment on the current situation, and Tang Cheng also nods his head frequently in this regard.

"Uncle Sun, so you agree to go south?" Tang Cheng asked a little weakly. "I've been dealing with the Military Intelligence Service for a while, and I've heard from them that a lot of senior executives and dignitaries are planning to buy land and houses in the south. This month alone, the low prices in Wuhan, Changsha and Chongqing have risen by 20%, and I wonder if the land prices in the south may continue to rise if they go any further. Tang's words actually have only one central idea, that is, to go south as soon as possible, otherwise it will cost more.

Seeing that Sun Xin was still a little hesitant, Tang Cheng hurriedly said, "Uncle Sun, I got a sum of money this time, although it is not a lot, but it is enough for us to go south to buy property." We are not nobles, we just ask for a coarse tea and light meal, as long as we can have a place to stay, it is better than those refugees, you say, is this the truth!" With the belongings sent by Zhang Jianghe, Tang Cheng is now confident to say this, after all, those belongings are enough for them to live well in Chongqing.

Sun Xin only said that he had time to think about it before, but in fact, it was because of the shy attention in his pocket, but now that Tang Cheng said that money is not a problem, Sun Xin is really a little moved. Seeing that Sun Xin seemed to be still hesitating, Tang Cheng immediately smiled and said, "Uncle Sun, I didn't mean that I had to leave now, as the old saying goes, the poor are rich, so many people go south, there are still many preparations to be made before this, but I am not in a hurry." I'm here today just to ask for a clear decision from you, Uncle Sun, so that there won't be any deviations when you get it. ”

Sun Xing never treated Tang Cheng, who was only 18 years old, as a child, especially Tang Cheng's words today, which made Sun Xin look at him even more impressively. After groaning slightly, Sun Xin simply gritted his teeth and gave an answer on the spot. "Okay, my old man will also sacrifice his life to accompany the gentleman, I know what your kid is pulling the old man south for, but I have something to say in front. My students don't know if it works or not, and on the side of the Military Intelligence Department, don't pull it down, the left and right are just helping, and whoever works depends on whom. ”

Sun Xin's words made Tang Cheng immediately applaud, a professor of Chinese studies can say such a thing, obviously not a person who reads dead books, such a person should live well. "Uncle Sun, I've known you for so long, and today I know what ginger is old and spicy." Tang Cheng's words sounded like he was praising people, but thinking about it carefully, Sun Xin couldn't help but roll his eyes at Tang Cheng, and said in his heart that this kid was scolding people around the corner.

"Don't talk about me, you kid, stick a whole body of hair for you, I think your kid is almost less than being a monkey on Mount Emei. Monkey spirit monkey spirit, it's a kid like you, and you have the face to say old man, me!" Sun Xin put on a bearded and glared at Tang Cheng to refute, but the grinning Tang Cheng didn't take it seriously at all, since Sun Xin had agreed to go south and took the initiative to talk about it, Tang Cheng knew that there was basically nothing wrong with this matter.