After Bai Zhanshan left Chongqing, the daily affairs of the search team were handed over to Zhao Dashan and Lao Fu to deal with, Tang Cheng himself either accompanied his family or hid in a small building in the backyard of the military camp, Tang Cheng's small life was very leisurely. In early April, the Battle of Taierzhuang ended with the victory of the Nationalist army, but in May, bad news followed.

The Japanese army suffered a major defeat at Taierzhuang, and immediately changed its operational thinking, and on May 10, Xiamen fell, followed by Hefei and Xuzhou on May 14 and May 19. In June, in order to block the Japanese army's continued westward advance, Chiang Kai-shek adopted the method of "replacing soldiers with water" and ordered the opening of the ferry Huayuankou, located 17 kilometers north of Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, China, on the south bank of the Yellow River, causing the artificial Yellow River to burst its banks and divert it, forming a large Yellow Flood Area. Chiang Kai-shek tried to use the Yellow River to break its banks to stop the Japanese army from moving south, but his intentions did not succeed, and the Japanese captured Anqing on June 12, thus opening the prelude to the Battle of Wuhan.

The danger is approaching Wuhan, and the dignitaries and nobles who moved to Wuhan with the national ** seem to have nothing on the surface, but they have already panicked. Thanks to the two strike-hard operations led by Tang Cheng, the public security environment in Chongqing has been greatly improved, and although it has not completely cut off public security cases, on the whole, Chongqing's public security environment and market prosperity have already surpassed those of Wuhan, which is currently panicked.

In this situation, the wealthy people who temporarily lived in Wuhan invariably sent their families or henchmen to Chongqing in an attempt to find a place for their families in Chongqing. "Captain, fortunately, you have a vision, those dilapidated houses we have put down, as long as they are slightly repaired, they can be sold immediately. At present, the first thing for the foreigners in the city is to buy a house, and now I am afraid that the houses we have on the plate will not be bought and sold. Under the fruit tree in the backyard of the barracks, Tang Cheng was lying comfortably on a bamboo recliner, and the person sitting next to him was Qin Dachuan, the accountant of the search team.

Zhao Dashan came to Tang Cheng for the old houses that Tang Cheng bought before, a large part of these old houses were confiscated from the criminals after the search team handled the case, and some of them were purchased by Tang Cheng with his own money. "Mr. Qin, the matter of repairing the house will be left to you. There are many refugees looking for work on the other side of the wharf, and giving them a bite to eat is also a good deed. You tell them that as long as they do a good job, the farms outside the city will recruit a group of agricultural workers before the year. ”

The Battle of Wuhan is about to begin, and it is not far from the time when the national ** will move to Chongqing as a whole, Tang Cheng has made so many arrangements in Chongqing in advance, and now it is finally the harvest season. No matter what time it is, the four things of clothing, food, housing and transportation will always be necessities. Tang Cheng's appetite was not so big, but he instigated and united with the local garrison to establish a farm outside the city in advance, and bought a large number of old houses in the city.

Qin Dachuan walked on the front foot, and Lao Fu went to the backyard of the barracks with a sweat on his head, "Captain, the horse gang from last time came, and it was the pigtailed woman who came, and I want to see you by name." Lao Fu has been wandering around the dock these days to inquire about the news, and was approached by the people of the Ma Gang, Lao Fu didn't care about the surprise, so he stabilized the people of the Ma Gang first, and rushed back to the barracks as soon as possible to inform Tang Cheng of the news.

"Horse gang?" Tang Cheng pondered for a moment, then got up from the recliner and sat up. "Did they say what they came to Chongqing to find me?" After detaining the batch of tobacco transported by the Ma Gang, Tang Cheng also deliberately detained the Ma Gang in the labor camp, and later Zhang Jianghe felt that it was inappropriate, so Tang Cheng released the Ma Gang and gave them a deadline to leave Chongqing. However, Tang Cheng didn't expect that the people of the Ma Gang would still have the courage to come to Chongqing, and they would name him to see him.

Lao Fu shook his head when he heard this, Tang Cheng immediately got up and stood up, paced around the recliner for a while, and Tang Cheng made a decision. Tang Cheng still put the meeting place in the labor camp outside the city, and the people of the horse gang were personally escorted to the farm by Lao Fu, and Tang Cheng, who was holding a telescope early, saw the pigtailed woman at first sight. "Miss Zhou, I haven't seen you for a long time, and you look very good!" Tang Cheng, who was waiting at the door of the small building, looked harmless to humans and animals, but Zhou Shengnan's heart was already full of anger.

If it weren't for Tang Cheng leading people to intercept the tobacco and soil transported by his horse team, how could he have lost so much money in vain? If it weren't for the fact that they lost a lot of money in vain, the batch of arms ordered with the British would not have been snatched away by their opponents, and without arms and money, the Zhou family would have fallen to the point where it is now. Tang Cheng didn't know what Zhou Shengnan was thinking at the moment, he just smiled politely at the other party, and then made a gesture to invite the other party into the building.

Zhou Shengnan came to Chongqing this time, the purpose was to get Tang Cheng's help, and after he was released from the labor camp, Zhou Shengnan asked an acquaintance in the city to inquire about Tang Cheng's details. If he didn't know that Tang Cheng had the power of the military command Chongqing Station behind him, Zhou Shengnan would never have left Chongqing honestly, and now that the Zhou family is in trouble, the only thing Zhou Shengnan can turn to for help is Tang Cheng. "When you forced us to leave Chongqing within a time limit, you said that if I had something in trouble, I could come to you for help, does your sentence still count?"

Zhou Shengnan is a woman, but he talks and does things as straight as a man, and after Tang Cheng sat down opposite him, Zhou Shengnan didn't want to waste time, so he went straight to the point to explain his intentions. Knowing that the other party came to Chongqing to ask for his own help, Tang Cheng secretly breathed a sigh of relief, before Zhou Shengnan appeared, Tang Cheng had been worried that the other party had come to find a back account with him for that batch of cigarettes. Tang Cheng nodded when he heard this, as long as he opened his mouth to speak, Lao Fu was the first to speak.

"Miss Zhou, what our captain said must count, but it also depends on what you want to help? We can't ask our captain to do something that ordinary people can't do, so our captain must go too, right? Lao Fu's words are not nonsense, people like Zhou Shengnan do things according to their preferences, Lao Fu is worried that the other party will make unreasonable demands or tricky things to embarrass Tang Cheng, and now that he has said it, it is better to turn his face for a while. Since Lao Fu had already opened his mouth, Tang Cheng didn't speak, just waited for Zhou Shengnan to give an answer.

"Captain Tang, don't worry, our Zhou family is not a shameless person! What I said may be tricky for others, but for you, Captain Tang, it's just a gesture! Zhou Shengnan held back the anger in her heart, thinking about the safety of her family, she could only lower her figure and tell Tang Cheng about it in a good voice. Captain Tang, this is the way things are, my family's opponent is pressing step by step, and my Zhou family has no way to retreat, otherwise it will be difficult for the Zhou family to survive. ”

As he spoke, Zhou Shengnan opened the small box he had been carrying, and took out three pieces of jade of different colors from the box and placed them on the table. "I heard that Captain Tang loves jadeite, this is a fine jadeite handed down by my Zhou family for generations, as long as Captain Tang helps my Zhou family get through this difficulty, this is the piece of jadeite that is Captain Tang's yours." The Zhou family has been heirloom in Kunming for six generations, and the jadeite that can be regarded as a fine product by the Zhou family can not be an ordinary product, Tang Cheng only glanced at the three jadeites on the table, and he already liked it.

"Stuff is good, I love it!" Tang Cheng, who secretly liked it in his heart, was not polite, and reached out and gathered all the three pieces of jade in front of him and played with them one by one. "Since you came to me with something, and I like the things you brought, let's be a villain first and then a gentleman, and make the Tao clear first, lest you come to complain about me again because of these three pieces of jade in the future." The three pieces of jade that Zhou Shengnan brought were not small in weight and volume, Tang Cheng liked it in his heart, but he didn't agree to Zhou Shengnan immediately.

"I can already make a rough guess about what you just said, and I believe that when you left Chongqing, you must have asked someone to inquire about me. This time I brought something to ask me for help, I should have taken a fancy to my relationship with the Chongqing Station of the Military Commander, I guess your plan is to use me to get in touch with the Kunming Station of the Military Commander, and then use the name of the Military Commander to force back the opponent of your Zhou family, right? Tang Cheng's words made Zhou Shengnan secretly look sideways in her heart, she didn't expect Tang Cheng's reaction to be so fast.

Zhou Shengnan was silent, which showed that Tang Cheng's inference just now was completely correct, and he was right about Zhou Shengnan's plans and thoughts. Tang Cheng wasn't angry, but continued, "Miss Zhou, I can help with this favor!" But I also want to remind you that once you have a relationship with the military commander, your Zhou family will have more trouble in the future. Don't think that after taking the military command, your Zhou family will be able to worry about it from now on, because the military commander is not easy to get along with! ”

What is the reputation of the military commander, Tang Cheng knows it, but Zhou Shengnan doesn't know, that's because she doesn't know about the military commander, and she doesn't know that the degree of blackness in such a powerful department as the military commander far exceeds that of bandits and bandits. Zhou Shengnan's heart was already shaken, but when he saw the faint smile on Tang Cheng's face, he was angry in his heart, and his head was hot, so he gritted his teeth at Tang Cheng and said. "My family can't live anymore, where can I take care of the future, I don't regret it."

Tang Cheng was surprised when he heard this, but he didn't expect that this Miss Zhou was a ruthless person who acted decisively, and Tang Cheng, who was about to answer the other party, suddenly changed his meaning when the words came to his mouth. "Miss Zhou, I promised you this, but these things you brought are not enough, we still need to talk about it!"