In this way, Lin Jiangbei fell off the ground and fell behind the rickshaw of Hengshan Qiuma, and rode slowly for more than 20 minutes. Seeing that he was about to reach the intersection of Disway Road and Broadway Road, Lin Jiangbei felt that the two smells left by Hengshan Qiuma in the air were getting stronger and stronger.

Considering that it was not far from the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai on Huangputan Road, it was possible for Yokoyama Akima to get off the rickshaw, so Lin Jiangbei carefully observed both sides of the road.

Soon, he spotted Yokoyama Akima on the side of the road. I saw Yokoyama Akima walking unhurriedly towards the southwest corner of the intersection of Broadway Road and Disway Road.

Lin Jiangbei looked forward in the direction of Hengshan Qiuma's line of sight, and saw two shoe-shine stalls on the corner of the street, and a man and a woman shoe-shiner were sitting on the pony, waiting for the guests to come to the door.

Could it be that Yokoyama Akima wants to shine his shoes?

While thinking about it, Lin Jiangbei pinched the brakes, stepped sideways, and got off the bicycle.

Sure enough, I saw Yokoyama Akima walk to the two shoe-shine stalls on the corner of the street, sit down on a small wooden chair in front of the male shoemaker, stretch his feet forward, step on the small wooden box in front of the chair shoemaker, and signal the male shoemaker to help him shine his shoes.

Lin Jiangbei couldn't help but feel a move in his heart. With the Japanese nation's habit of loving cleanliness, when Yokoyama Akima goes out in the morning, he must wipe his leather shoes clean, and it is impossible to go out in dirty leather shoes.

And after Yokoyama Akima left the house, he got into a rickshaw directly on the side of the road on Disway Road, and almost never walked any road, and his leather shoes would not be dirty at this time, but why did he choose to shine his shoes at this time?

As an agent of the Special High Division of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Police, Yokoyama Akima will never do useless work, every move has a purpose, Lin Jiangbei feels that Yokoyama Akima will definitely not go to a simple shoe shine at this time.

Seeing that the female shoe-shiner's booth next to the male shoe-shiner was still empty, Lin Jiangbei decided to polish his shoes himself.

Although this will directly take a picture of the tracking object of Yokoyama Akima, it violates the relevant principles when carrying out tracking tasks in intelligence work, and it is easy to expose yourself.

But as the saying goes, if you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you get the tiger?

It's rare to have such an opportunity to observe Hengshan Qiuma up close, Lin Jiangbei can't let it go in vain? What's more, Yokoyama Akima may not be a simple shoeshine, but has another purpose!

The so-called artist is bold, so Lin Jiangbei also pushed the bicycle, came to the corner of the street, took the bicycle to the side of the road, sat on the wooden chair of the female shoe-shiner, stepped on the small wooden box-like foot, pointed to his leather shoes with his finger, and said to the female shoe-shiner: "How much is the nong-shine shoes?" ”

He had learned the authentic Shanghai dialect in the Hangzhou training class, and he was not timid to speak it at this time.

"Mr. Nong, don't worry, I won't charge Nong more, even the shoe polish belt is handmade, I only charge Nong a dime for a pair of leather shoes, Nong can be cut?" Said the shoemaker.

"Wake up West Thanon (want to die, you)?" Lin Jiangbei scolded angrily, "Polishing a pair of leather shoes, even shoe polish with handwork, Zhabei only receives three cents, although the public concession is a little more expensive, at most five cents, Nong dares to charge me a dime, Nong Dang Allah is the port capital (Hantou)?" ”

"Don't be angry, sir, you can talk as much as you want!"

Seeing Lin Jiangbei angry, the female shoemaker hurriedly accompanied the smiling face and said to Lin Jiangbei.

As if she was afraid that Lin Jiangbei would regret it, the female shoemaker hurriedly pulled away from the drawer of the wooden box, took out a protective paper card from it, stuffed it into Lin Jiangbei's shoes, surrounded Lin Jiangbei's feet, and then took out a tube of East China leather shoe polish, quickly lit some shoe polish on the front and back of the leather shoes, picked up a brown brush and wiped it.

When Lin Jiangbei first came over, Hengshan Qiuma was still secretly vigilant in his heart, and he had been carefully observing Lin Jiangbei's movements. But at this time, he couldn't help but relax in his heart, thinking that Lin Jiangbei was really an ordinary shoe-shine customer, so his attention was no longer on Lin Jiangbei.

At this time, the male shoe-shiner had already lowered his head and held a brown brush, finished the shoe polish of one leather shoe for Yokoyama Akima, and was earnestly motioning for Yokoyama Akima to put the other foot on the wooden box.

Yokoyama Akima changed one foot and put it on the wooden box, reached out and took out a box of Concord cigarettes from his pocket, stuffed one into his mouth, reached into his pocket and touched it, and exclaimed, "Oops, I forgot to bring a fire." ”

Then he reached out and took a dime out of his pocket, handed it to the shoe-shiner, and said to him, "You run an errand for me, and go to the grocery store next door and buy me a box of matches." ”

"Great!" The male shoe-shiner answered, reached out to take the money from Yokoyama Akima, got up and ran to the grocery store next to him.

After a while, he ran back from the grocery store, holding a box of matches and a few cents in his hand, and said to Yokoyama Akima: "Boss, this is the match and the nine cents that have been recovered, you can take it." ”

Yokoyama Akima only took the match, pointed to the remaining pennies with his finger, and said to the male shoe-shiner: "Forget the nine cents, you take it, and use it as a shoe-shine fee and errand fee!" ”

"Thank you boss, thank you boss!" The male shoe-shiner looked overjoyed, stuffed the pennies into his pocket, and sat down to polish Yokoyama's shoes diligently.

There's something wrong with that box of matches!

Although Lin Jiangbei didn't sweep his eyes to Hengshan Qiuma, he only used the corner of his eye to keenly notice that the male shoe-shiner handed Hengshan Qiuma the box of matches with four big characters printed on it: Yongan Department Store.

In other words, the box of matches handed to Yokoyama Akima by the male shoe-shiner was definitely not something he had just run to a grocery store far away to buy.

During the Republic of China, Shanghai's commerce was very developed, and the competition in the department store industry was also very fierce. In particular, the four major department stores in Shanghai are competing to increase their investment in advertising, such as the box of matches that Hengshan Akima just received, that is, Yongan Department Store, one of the four major department stores, in order to promote itself, specially ordered a batch of matches printed with its own company name and address, and then sent them out for free to attract customers.

Therefore, it is impossible for this kind of advertising match to be placed in a grocery store for retail, and it is likely that this male shoe-shiner has long hidden it on his body.

Maybe the male shoe-shiner had just gone to the grocery store and actually bought a box of matches, but when he walked out of the grocery store, he mixed the match he had just bought with the box of matches he had hidden on his body.

As for why he did this, it must be because he happened to sit next to him to polish his shoes, and Yokoyama Akima deliberately let this male shoe-shiner perform such a play out of caution.

As for the female shoe-shiner who shines her shoes, there is obviously something wrong with it. Generally speaking, the shoemakers who shine shoes on the streets of Greater Shanghai have their own fixed territory. For example, today's piece of land on the corner of Broadway Road and Disway Road basically belongs to the two of them, and if other shoe-shiners rush over, there will definitely be disputes and conflicts.

The male shoe-shiner also said to Yokoyama Akima just now, and Yokoyama Akima often takes care of his business, which also shows that he often sets up a stall here to shine shoes. As Yokoyama Akima, the Japanese marines in charge of patrolling the Hongkou area would arrange this territory for the male shoe-shiner and help him drive away all the unsightly competitors.

Therefore, since this female shoe-shiner is here, she must have an extraordinary relationship with this male shoe-shiner.

I complained that I had just come to shine my shoes, and the female shoe-shiner asked for a dime, thinking that she was disgusted with herself and planned to drive herself away in this way. Unexpectedly, she didn't eat this set, but used authentic Shanghainese to get mad at her, she was afraid of provoking unnecessary right and wrong, and finally had to change her mind.

Now it seems that the male and female cobblers are the informants of Yokoyama Akima, who often uses the time before work to shine shoes and then exchange information.

Regarding the method of using matchboxes to transmit information, it is not too uncommon, Lin Jiangbei received such training when he was in the Hangzhou training class. And Yokoyama Akima and the pair of male and female shoe-shiners obviously went to the same end and chose the same way......

Yokoyama Akima had already pulled out a match from the matchbox, lit the cigarette, and then stuffed the matchbox into his trouser pocket, held the cigarette in his hand, and began to swallow the clouds and spit out the fog.

And at this time, the female shoe-shiner had already polished Lin Jiangbei's leather shoes. Lin Jiangbei was worried that his stay here would make Hengshan Qiuma suspicious, so he didn't stay longer, paid the female shoe-shiner five cents for shoeshine fees, and then got up and stepped on his bicycle and rode forward in the direction of Disway Road.

While riding, Lin Jiangbei pondered in his heart about the pair of male and female shoe-shiners.

I really didn't expect that he only followed Yokoyama Akima for more than 20 minutes, and he had such a huge gain.

Although it is not known whether the two of them have anything to do with the Japanese moles in the U.S. Marine Corps, there is no doubt that this pair of men and women are informants of Yokoyama Akima.

Since the two of them are fixed to shine their shoes at the Broadway intersection, it is not difficult to figure out where they came from. And then investigate or follow up through the social relationship between the two of them, and there will definitely be something to gain.

Two or three minutes later, Lin Jiangbei rode to the end of Disway Road and came to Huangputan Road on the Huangpu River, with the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai in front of him.

Thinking that Toyamai was still in Shanghai and might be haunted by the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai, Lin Jiangbei was ready to turn the handlebars and stay away from the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai first. But just as he was about to turn the handlebars, his eyes fell on a building next to the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai.

Suddenly, he recalled in his mind what the instructor of the Hangzhou training class had said: The U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai was the same as the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai. In the 21st year of the Republic of China, that is, in 1932, the 128 Incident in Shanghai, because the Japanese army attacked the Zhabei area, the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai moved the consulate to the middle Jiangxi Road south of Suzhou Creek for security reasons......

Subconsciously, Lin Jiangbei felt that the Japanese mole in the US Marine Corps must have something to do with this matter.

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