"yes!" Lin Jiangbei pondered for a moment and decided to think in a different direction. Then he asked Robert George, "Mr. George, are there any of the people in your Consulate General who live near Broadway?" ”

Robert George glanced at Lin Jiangbei slyly, "Boss Cheng, this issue is not included in the agreement we discussed before, and it needs to be calculated separately." ”

"Okay, just do the other thing." Lin Jiangbei said, "Regarding this issue, I will add three more small yellow croakers to you, what do you think?" ”

Add three more small yellow croakers, a total of eight small yellow croaker, for Lin Jiangbei, but you need to process a few more sulfonamide injections, and the profits will come out, so you can't worry about this.

"Three small yellow croakers are three small yellow croakers, since you become the boss, there is naturally no problem!" Robert George laughed, then pointed to his nose with his finger and said, "Then I'll tell you the answer now, among the current staff of our Consulate General, I am the only one who still lives near Broadway Road." ”

"What? You're alone? ”

Lin Jiangbei didn't expect that he would get such an answer from Robert George's mouth after spending three small yellow croakers.

He was still wondering if he was pursuing in the wrong direction, and perhaps the Japanese mole who colluded with Yokoyama Akima was not from the headquarters of the Fourth Expeditionary Force of the US Marine Corps, but from the US Consulate General in Shanghai.

This is because the US Consulate General in Shanghai has a naval attaché office, and the naval attachés and military observers in it themselves have the authority to inspect the headquarters of the Fourth Expeditionary Force of the US Marine Corps, and they also have access to the secret information inside the command of the Fourth Expeditionary Force of the US Marine Corps.

In addition, there are members of the Marine Corps who serve as guards at the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai, who are simply sent from the 4th Marine Regiment and have inextricable ties with the 4th Expeditionary Force Command. So it's not too strange if the Japanese mole that came into contact with Yokoyama Akima is hiding among them.

But now living near Broadway is Robert George, the head chef of the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai, and he is the only one, which has to make Lin Jiangbei doubt his judgment again.

If Lin Jiangbei hadn't met Robert George before, and it was another staff member of the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai who came to provide him with the news this time, maybe Lin Jiangbei would have wondered if Robert George would be the Japanese mole who provided information to Yokoyama Akima.

But Lin Jiangbei has now met with Robert George and talked to him for most of the day, and based on his intuition alone, Lin Jiangbei can judge that Robert George is definitely not the mole who was dragged into the water by Yokoyama Qiuma.

Even if we put aside the direct reasoning and reasoning purely logically, Robert George could not be the Japanese mole. Otherwise, when he heard that the purpose of Lin Jiangbei's trip was to investigate the Japanese mole, where would he sit here so calmly and negotiate the conditions and remuneration with Lin Jiangbei first, and then provide Lin Jiangbei with such detailed information?

I can't say that I can't just perfunctory Lin Jiangbei a few words, so I just find an excuse to go back and clean up the tail of my hand that may expose you, so maybe it will take so long to sit here and talk with Lin Jiangbei?

Not to mention that when Lin Jiangbei asked the U.S. Consulate General who still lived near Broadway Road, he didn't think about whether he would be exposed, but wanted to cunningly want to borrow this news and trick three more small yellow croakers out of Lin Jiangbei's hands.

Seeing Lin Jiangbei's surprised and disappointed appearance, Robert George couldn't help laughing, "I'm sorry, Boss Cheng, I'm sorry that my answer disappointed you." But the fact is that I am the only one who lives near Broadway in the Consulate General in Shanghai. ”

Speaking of this, he glanced at Lin Jiangbei, "Boss Cheng, you don't doubt that I myself may be the Japanese mole you are looking for, right?" ”

"How not?" Lin Jiangbei's face became serious, "Mr. George, I won't tell you, I do suspect that you are the Japanese mole I am tracking this time!" ”

"Haha!" Robert George laughed a few times, and then said, "It's normal for you to have this suspicion, who made me meet your tracking conditions!" Therefore, I have no objection to you reporting me to your superiors as a subject of suspicion, and I have no objection to your superiors informing us of this news to our consul general. But before you do that, you must give me the eight little yellow croakers you promised me. ”

After listening to Robert George's words, Lin Jiangbei was even more sure that Robert George was definitely not the target of his investigation, otherwise he would not have the courage to say this.

Of course, if Lin Jiangbei really can't find the suspect in the end, when the investigators of the US Naval Intelligence Agency arrive in China, they will also report Robert George as the suspect.

But before that, Lin Jiangbei still wanted to work hard to find out the real Japanese mole.

"Mr. George," Lin Jiangbei said, "Please rest assured as soon as possible, I am absolutely one yard to one yard, even if you are really the Japanese mole I tracked down, I will definitely pay you the eight little yellow croakers I promised before!" ”

"Very good, Cheng Boss! I didn't read you wrong! Robert George gave Lin Jiangbei a thumbs up, "No matter what the final outcome of this matter is, you, a Chinese friend, I have made up my mind!" ”

"Alright, Mr. George, let's not talk about that." Lin Jiangbei faced Robert George's praise, and didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "I'll put your question aside for the time being." In addition to you, do you have any other staff in the Consulate General in Shanghai, such as the Naval Attache of the Consulate General, or the members of the Marine Corps who are responsible for the security work of your Shanghai Consulate General live in the area on the north bank of the Suzhou Creek? ”

"Boss Cheng, who lives near Broadway, although I'm the only one. But there are still several people living on the north bank of the Suzhou Creek, but none of them are in the naval attaché's office, nor are they the marines in charge of the security work of the consulate general. ”

Robert George said and reported the names and positions of those men. These men had nothing to do with the Naval Attaché's Office and the Marine Corps, which was in charge of guards, and they had nothing to do with the 4th Marine Regiment of the Marine Corps. The place where I live is also far from Broadway, and the suspicion of Japanese moles is very low.

"And where do several members of your Consul General's Naval Attaché Office, as well as those Marines who are responsible for the security of the Consulate General, live?" Without a clue, Lin Jiangbei asked a third question, and then said to Robert George: "This third question, I asked you from the perspective of a good friend, so don't talk to me about any reward." ”

"I didn't plan to take revenge on you, Cheng Boss, I think as a friend, you are a bit of a villain's belly with a gentleman's heart!" Robert Joe Zhi bluntly criticized Lin Jiangbei before he said: "The members of the Marine Corps who are in charge of security work all live in the dormitory in the embassy. ”

"As for the officers and military observers of the Navy Attaché Office, although I don't know the specific address, I should be living near the Consulate General on Jiangxi Middle Road. If you really need their specific addresses, I'll have to go back to the Consulate General and ask you about it. ”

From Robert George's answer, Lin Jiangbei felt that neither the military attachés of the Navy Attaché Office nor the marines in charge of security work were very suspicious.

"Then I'll leave this matter to Mr. George, and you must inquire about it for me when you get back. If they really live near your consulate on Jiangxi Middle Road, then you don't have to tell me. If it is clear that they do not live near the Consulate General on Jiangxi Middle Road, but live in the area on the north bank of Suzhou Creek, please ask Mr. George to tell the news to the shopkeeper Leng, and then let the shopkeeper Leng tell me again! Lin Jiangbei said.

"OK, no problem!" Robert George readily agreed.

It took eight small yellow croakers, but the final result was nothing, and Lin Jiangbei was really a little unwilling. He thought for a moment, and then asked Robert George, "Mr. George, can you tell me exactly where you live on Broadway?" ”

"Hehe, I said we're friends, what's inconvenient?" Robert George smiled and said, "I live in the Broadway building. ”

Broadway Building, designed by the British architect Frank Farreleigh, was invested and built by the British-funded enterprise Yeguang Real Estate Company in 1933, and was completed and put into use in 1934.

The main purpose of Yeguang Real Estate Company's investment in the construction of Broadway Building is to provide hotels and apartments for foreigners coming to Shanghai, and the main objects of hotels and apartments are the owners and senior staff of British and American foreign companies.

Because when the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai moved to Jiangxi Middle Road, Robert George matched the residence of Yeguang Real Estate Company and let Yeguang Real Estate Company take over the interior decoration business of the new consulate building of the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai, so the owner of Yeguang Real Estate Company generously waived Robert George's top fee and reserved a large apartment for Robert George in the Broadway Building.

At this time, when Lin Jiangbei asked, Robert George had nothing to avoid, and directly told Lin Jiangbei where he lived.

"Broadway?" Lin Jiangbei couldn't help but be shocked, "Mr. George, you must have noticed that at the corner of the intersection of Broadway and Disway Road, there are two shoe-shine stalls. ”

"That's right! That place is there are two shoe-shine stalls. Robert George nodded and said, "From the balcony of the apartment where I live, I can see the two shoe-shine stalls. I've been there a few times to polish my shoes! ”

Hearing that Robert George's apartment balcony could directly see the stalls of the two shoe-shiners, and Robert George had also gone to those two stalls to polish his shoes a few times, Lin Jiangbei was even more pleased.

"Mr. George, when did you move to live in the Broadway Building?" Lin Jiangbei has the impression that he has heard people say that the Broadway Building was only completed more than two years ago. The U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai moved to the south bank of the Suzhou Creek more than three years ago, so Robert George certainly didn't go to live in the Broadway building when the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai moved to the south bank of the Suzhou Creek, when the Broadway building was not yet built.

"I only moved to Broadway in November 1934." Robert George replied.

"When you moved to Broadway, did you notice that there was a shoeshine stall on the corner of Broadway Road and Disway Road?" Lin Jiangbei asked again.

"Probably not, right?" Robert George looked down and thought for a while, then said, "I remember that when I first moved to Broadway, this was supposed to be an umbrella repair stall. Later, about half a year later, the umbrella repair stall suddenly disappeared, and then a pair of male and female shoe-shiners appeared. ”

"So those two shoe-shiners only moved to that corner in 1935?" Lin Jiangbei pondered for a moment, and then asked, "Mr. George, since you can also see those two shoe-shine stalls on the balcony, and you have polished your shoes a few times in the past, have you found anything unusual about those two shoe-shiners?" ”

"Unusual place?" Robert George looked down for a while, then shook his head and said, "I really haven't paid attention to this. ”

Just when Lin Jiangbei was about to be disappointed, Robert George suddenly said again: "By the way, I passed by there two afternoons ago, stopped to shine my shoes, and happened to meet an old acquaintance who was also shining shoes there. This old acquaintance was a Belarusian tailor, and when our Consulate General was still on the site of Huangpu Beach, he often went to our Consulate General to cut clothes for the staff inside. ”

Because when he was in Los Angeles before, Lin Jiangbei's cracked Chiwei and Mo spy team was covered by a tailor's shop, and when he heard the word "tailor" at this time, Lin Jiangbei's eyes couldn't help but light up, and he hurriedly asked: "What is the specific time?" ”

"I think it was two days ago!" Robert George replied in the affirmative.

Wasn't it just two days ago when the U.S. Marine Corps Fourth Expeditionary Force Command had just sorted out that classified information and reported it to the U.S. Navy's Asian Fleet Command?

Although it is not known how this Belarusian tailor came into contact with the command of the 4th Expeditionary Force of the US Marine Corps, from this point in time, the suspicion of this Belarusian tailor is indeed very great.

"Mr. George, can you tell us more about this Belarusian tailor that you know about?" Lin Jiangbei said.

Robert George lowered his head again and thought about it carefully, and then slowly spoke: "If I remember correctly, that Belarusian tailor should be called Rodiotov Lionovsky, and his current age should be around fifty years old, because he likes to drink very much, and every time he goes to our Consulate General, there is always a smell of alcohol on his body, and the people in our Consulate General have nicknamed him Old Drunkard." ”

"Coming to the door with the smell of alcohol on your body to cut clothes, this is too disrespectful to customers, isn't it?" Lin Jiangbei shook his head and said, "Aren't you Americans very particular? How could you agree to let such a tailor come to his door and cut clothes? ”

"Isn't this because Belarusian tailors were in demand at the time?" Robert George shook his head and smiled: "These staff of our Consulate General cannot afford to hire the three master tailors of Eleonora Garnet, Zingrova and Linova, so they have to settle for the next best thing and ask a Belarusian tailor like the old drunkard to provide us with the service of cutting clothes." Besides, in good conscience, in addition to being a little addicted to alcohol and smelling of alcohol, the old drunkard's tailoring skills are still very good. ”

I see!

Lin Jiangbei nodded and agreed with Robert George's statement.

From the twenties onwards, the high-end tailoring industry in Shanghai, especially in relation to Europeans and Americans, was occupied by Belarusian tailors who had fled from the Soviet Union. In particular, the three Belarusian master seamstresses, Eleonora Garnet, Zingrova and Linova, whom Robert George mentioned earlier, are not only famous among Europeans and Americans in Shanghai, but also in the entire international fashion industry.

In particular, Eleonora Garnett is known as the world's top fashion design master, and the clothes she designed are extremely sought-after even in Europe and the United States, and are named "Shanghai Brand".

This, in turn, led to the popularity of Belarusian tailors in Shanghai among the European and American diaspora in Shanghai, so that even if the Belarusian tailor named Rotyodov Lionovsky was an old drunkard covered in alcohol, he was able to enter and leave the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai to cut clothes for the staff inside.

"Well, Mr. George, you go on." Lin Jiangbei made a gesture at Robert George, motioning for him to continue.

"I remember that the old drunkard was not only in our Consulate General, but also in the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai and the German Consulate General in Shanghai next door to us." Robert George then continued, "Later, after our Consulate General moved to Jiangxi Middle Road on the south bank of Suzhou Creek, the old drunkard once got drunk and had a conflict with our new Consul General, and was forbidden to come to our Consulate General. ”

"Two days ago, when I touched him when I polished my shoes, I asked him about his situation, but he reacted very coldly, and left in a hurry!"

Speaking of this, Robert George stopped and looked at Lin Jiangbei, "Boss Cheng, isn't it that Japanese mole that you think you want to track down has something to do with the old drunkard?" ”

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