Chapter 46: Joy and Disappointment
"Uncle, did you say that my father and the director have known each other for a long time?" After Tang Cheng came down from the director's office upstairs, he looked a little distraught, and secretly thought about it for a while, and then finally told Zhang Jianghe the question in his heart. Zhang Jianghe was slightly stunned when he heard this, he guessed that the summoning of Tang Cheng upstairs was not as simple as chatting about the past, but he couldn't think of why Tang Cheng would ask such a question.
"Why do you ask?" Zhang Jianghe stopped what he was doing, and then took out a cigarette from the cigarette case on the table and lit it, putting on a posture of being willing to listen. Zhang Jianghe is the person Tang Cheng believes most in the intelligence department, except for the system, Tang Cheng has almost nothing to hide from Zhang Jianghe, so he didn't think at the moment that Zhang Jianghe was playing sloppy with him.
Tang Cheng stretched out his hand and scratched his head a little irritably, and after half a sound, he whispered, "I've always heard that the one upstairs is not easy to talk to, but when I met him several times, he was kind to me. You know, if it weren't for my father, I wouldn't have come to help out in the intelligence department, and the guy upstairs wouldn't have noticed if it wasn't for my father. But why do I always feel that he values me very much, Cao Wanchun was scolded upstairs and the dog was bloody, but I didn't have anything, this is not normal! ”
Tang Cheng's words sounded a little messy, but Zhang Jianghe already had the answer in his heart, the one upstairs was not short of people, and there was no shortage of good hands in the intelligence department, and there was no shortage of Tang Cheng, a hairy boy. The real reason, Zhang Jianghe naturally won't tell Tang Cheng, because it will involve the one in the presidential palace. "I said that you kid is hypocritical, and the director values you, that's a good thing! Could it be that you still hope that the director will be comfortable scolding you like he scolded Cao Wanchun? ”
Zhang Jiang's ability to fish in troubled waters has long been perfected, and just a few casual words of joking scolding successfully made Tang Cheng forget the previous question and focus on Cao Wanchun's scolding. "Uncle, you didn't see that just now! Captain Cao has been hunched over in front of the desk, and the big man of 1.8 meters was scolded by the director for being a small man of 1.7 meters, I wondered if he had practiced any kung fu such as bone shrinking skills, that scene looked too cola! ”
As soon as Cao Wanchun was scolded in the director's office, Tang Cheng's face became a little more vivid, and then his eyebrows fluttered and he learned what happened in the director's office before. Cao Wanchun often said in front of Tang Cheng that he had a lifelong friendship with Zhang Jianghe, and his relationship with Tang Cheng's late father Tang Qishan was also very good, but in Tang Cheng's impression, after his father died, this Captain Cao never went to Tang's house once.
Only those who have visited the Tang family after his father's death will Tang Cheng regard the other party as his father's old friend, such as Zhang Jianghe, as for Cao Wanchun, it is just the other party's own talk. "Don't go around talking about this, Cao Wanchun's virtue is a little worse, but this person is the confidant of the one upstairs, if the one upstairs knows that you are slandering Cao Wanchun behind your back, he will definitely not give you good fruit to eat!" Zhang Jianghe glared at Tang Cheng angrily, his eyes containing warnings and reminders.
"Uncle, I'm not stupid, I'm just here to say this casually, knowing that things that harm others and are not beneficial to myself, how can a smart person like me do it." Tang Cheng, who was warned by Zhang Jianghe, immediately grinned, this funny appearance caused Zhou Hongxiang to laugh, Zhang Jianghe couldn't hold back, and he also chuckled. "Why don't we go to eat hot pot at noon?" Seeing that Zhou Hongxiang and Zhang Jianghe's mood was not bad, Tang Cheng smiled and took out a note from his pocket and slapped it on the table.
"I thought I wouldn't want the money this time, but the one upstairs signed a note directly, saying that he could get the money directly if he took the property." Tang Cheng's expression showed a hint of pride, Zhang Jianghe reached out and grabbed the note on the table, the signature of the director on it was indeed correct, but the amount on the note was a little large, 200 yuan. Seeing that the 200 yuan was just fiat currency and not the ocean, Zhang Jianghe pursed his lips with disdain, but in fact, his heart was full of doubts, and he said that the stinky boy upstairs was really different from Tang Cheng.
Zhang Jianghe's deliberately disdainful expression was looked at by Tang Cheng, and Tang Cheng, who guessed Zhang Jianghe's thoughts at once, was a little embarrassed to reach out and rub his nose. "Although it's just fiat currency, fiat currency is also money! Besides, 200 pieces of fiat currency is enough for the three of us to eat meat for more than a month. When Zhang Jianghe heard this, he secretly made eye contact with Zhou Hong, and the two immediately held back their laughter, but in their hearts, they had already regarded the chattering Tang Cheng as a fool.
Until lunchtime, Tang Cheng, who had already gone to the finance side to receive the money, did not see Cao Wanchun coming, so he began to urge Zhou Hongxiang and Zhang Jianghe to dress and leave. "Put on your coat, quick, let's go out to eat today. I originally thought of bringing Captain Cao with me and inviting him to a meal, which was to soothe his broken little heart. But this person has no mouth, it's all like this, and he still doesn't show up. I don't think let's wait, eat more later, even if it's for Captain Cao. ”
Cao Wanchun didn't come, and the car that Tang Cheng borrowed was not returned. The three of them drove away from the compound of the Intelligence Department, and after asking Zhou Hongxiang and Zhang Jianghe, Tang Cheng drove along the street all the way north, and after about three street corners, the car slowly stopped in front of a donkey meat restaurant. "The dragon meat in the sky, the donkey meat on the ground, I heard that the cook of this donkey meat restaurant came from Baoding. I've always heard that this house tastes good, and today I just have time, so I can feast on it. ”
Zhang Jianghe stood in front of the donkey meat restaurant and sighed for a while, and then strode into the donkey meat restaurant, Zhou Hong's makeup was unknown, but he followed Zhang Jianghe into the donkey meat restaurant, only Tang Cheng looked around after entering the door, and there was a faint trace of vigilance in his expression. Zhang Jianghe had obviously eaten donkey meat, and after sitting down at a table by the window, Zhang Jianghe ordered several donkey meat dishes in a row. Tang Cheng was silent, but when he sat down, he happened to touch the young man.
After having physical contact with the young man, Tang Cheng then took the opportunity to go to the counter to ask the guy to help him go out to buy cigarettes, and he also had a coincidental contact with the shopkeeper of the donkey meat restaurant. After having physical contact with the young man and the shopkeeper, Tang Cheng, who was still clear in his heart, finally relaxed, and the vigilance in his eyes had turned into a faint joy at this moment. Dressed in donkey meat dishes, Zhang Jianghe and the three of them ate heartily, but when checking out, Zhang Jianghe was almost stubborn to go to the counter to settle the bill, Tang Cheng couldn't resist him, so he had to give this opportunity to Zhang Jianghe.
Zhang Jianghe went to the counter, did he really want to go to the checkout, Tang Cheng didn't pay attention to it at all, and he was willing to give Zhang Jianghe this opportunity, but the street vendor across the street outside the window immediately attracted Tang Cheng's attention. Through two physical contacts with the guy at the donkey meat restaurant and the shopkeeper, Tang Cheng had already confirmed that this was a secret contact point for the underground party, so he judged that Zhang Jianghe's sudden clamoring to come over to eat donkey meat was not as simple as accidental.
Zhang Jianghe's hidden identity, Tang Cheng had long known, he originally thought that Zhang Jianghe had already lost contact with his upline, and he might only be a deep diver who would not be enabled in the future. That's why he will unscrupulously get involved with Zhang Jianghe, because a deep diver who is likely not to be awakened for the rest of his life will not do any harm to himself and the Tang family. It's just that after getting along for a long time, Tang Cheng has become more and more aware of the helplessness and sense of loss that Zhang Jianghe has hidden deep in his heart.
"Uncle, Zhongtong has heard that the limelight is very loud these days!" When Zhang Jianghe came back from checkout, Tang Cheng suddenly said something irrelevant to Zhang Jianghe. Waiting for Zhang Jianghe to look at him with inquiring eyes, Tang Cheng put down the tea bowl in his hand before continuing, "Look, the vendor on the other side of the street, that is Feng Qianshan's person, I saw that person last time. Tang Cheng's voice was not loud, but in Zhang Jianghe's ears, it was like a heavy drum on the side, which shocked his heart for a while.
Zhang Jianghe was flustered, but he couldn't see the slightest on his face, just with the help of a cigarette lighting, he looked out through the window on his side. Sure enough, there were a few vendors on the other side of the street, and the man Tang Cheng was talking about was holding a pack of cigarettes and handing them to a man in a long shirt at the moment, who looked like he was just an ordinary cigarette vendor. It's just that Zhang Jianghe's eyes are not bad, just when the hawker turned around, Zhang Jianghe's eyes shrank, and the piece that protruded from the hawker's waist when he turned around was definitely not a valuable item that had to be carried on his body.
Zhang Jianghe found suspicion at a glance, and he also believed in Tang Cheng's memory, and in the more than half a year that he had a close relationship with Tang Cheng, Zhang Jianghe had never found that Tang Cheng's memory was wrong. Just as Zhang Jianghe was smoking a cigarette and secretly thinking about countermeasures, Tang Cheng suddenly suggested, "Uncle, the donkey meat in this house tastes good, should we bring some back?" I'll be able to have a few drinks with you in the evening. ”
"Okay, I'll go and tell the shopkeeper to buy some more fire, and we won't have to cook at night." The third one next door is a pickle shop, you and Hongmakeup go to buy some pickles and come back, and there are not many pickles left at home. When Zhang Jianghe used pickles to separate Tang Cheng and Zhou Hongmakeup, and paid the shopkeeper of the Donkey Meat Restaurant, Zhang Jianghe deliberately folded one of the banknotes into a triangle, but the other banknote was folded into a square.
Zhang Jianghe didn't have the same system skills as Tang Cheng in hand, and he had always been eager to contact his superiors, and while he was happy, he was secretly vigilant, folding banknotes was the most secret way for him to contact his superiors. The shopkeeper of the donkey meat restaurant took the banknotes handed by Zhang Jianghe, but he didn't show anything, just flattened the two banknotes and put them away. Seeing this, Zhang Jianghe was a little disappointed, because the other party did not react to the signal he sent.