Chapter 19: Magpies

The young people who came to sit together waited until the guy had finished brewing the gaiwan tea and left, and seemed to be interested in the story the storyteller was telling, and they also set their eyes on the storyteller, as if listening with relish.

After listening for a minute or two, the young man suddenly turned his head to Li Yixin and asked, "Sir, are you a teacher?" How can you drink tea and bring a copy of "Hundred Family Names"? ”

When Li Yixin heard this, he also turned his head to look at the young man and replied, "I am a businessman, not a teacher. ”

"Shall I borrow this book? I want to see what my last name is in the book. ”

"What's your last name?"

"Don't have your surname Yin."

"Then take a look." The code is right! Li Yixin was a little excited in his heart, smiled and pushed "Hundred Family Names" in front of the other party, and clicked the book with his hand.

The young man opened the book, looked for it, and turned to the page with the surname Yin.

This page of the book was sandwiched by the half-page of the poem handed to him by Vice Minister Hou, and the young man glanced up at Li Yixin, and took out the half-page from his body to splice it with the half-page.

When he saw that the two sheets of paper fit together into a complete paper, he closed the book, and then whispered excitedly: "Hello, comrade! ”

"Hello, Comrade Magpie. It was the old man who asked me to come to you, and the organization is ready to officially activate you. I'll be your contact from now on, and my code name will be 'Owl'. Li Yixin also lowered his voice.

"Great! I've always wanted to work for the organization, but I've been lurking for a long time, and now the organization finally thinks of me. The young man said with some grumbling.

Li Yixin frowned: "Comrade, your thinking is not right!" As party members, we should obey the organization's arrangements and work according to the needs of the organization, rather than doing things according to our own wishes. ”

"But it's been five years since I joined the military command, and the organization has never assigned me tasks, and I wonder if the organization has forgotten me." The young man named Yin Qunli deliberately lowered his voice and said.

Although he deliberately lowered his voice, Li Yixin obviously felt that he was a little excited.

"Isn't the organization asking me to enable you now? I can understand your feelings, but intelligence work must not be rushed, and safety must be the first priority. By the way, what is your current position in the military commandery? What is a cover identity? ”

"My name is Yin Qunli, and I am now the head of the intelligence department of the military commander's Stone Town Station, responsible for controlling the military commander's traffic in and out of Stone Town. The public identity is the owner of Xinglong Barber Shop, which is located at No. 18 Sanduoli, which is a traffic station at Juntong Shicheng Station. The two guys in the store were members of the team I was in charge of in the military command. ”

The reason why Yin Qunli said in such detail is because his barbershop is now a transportation station of the military command, so he wants to tell his contact person that the two sides cannot go directly to the barber shop in the future, because in this case, it is easy to expose his identity as a member of the party organization.

"yes, I see. In the future, our joint location is in this teahouse. If I'm going to connect with you, I'll go to your barbershop and get a haircut or a wash first. We met here an hour after I left the barbershop. Li Yixin specified the time and place of the joint between the two sides to Yin Qunli.

According to the regulations of the Ministry of Social Affairs of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, intelligence personnel lurking in enemy-occupied areas cannot take the initiative to contact the upline, but the upline liaison person is responsible for specifying the time and place of the connection, which is also a security regulation for one-line contact in intelligence relations.

Such security regulations were formulated by the intelligence team of the Central Social Affairs Department in the enemy-occupied areas after it had been sabotaged many times before, and it was designed to prevent the enemy from being able to catch everyone on the entire intelligence line after the intelligence personnel in the one-line connection were arrested.

"But what if I have an emergency to report? If you can't find it, you might delay things. Yin Qunli asked.

"The emergency contact method is that you go to draw a small triangle on the wall next to Gate 12 of Xiangheli, and then immediately wait for me at the Wangjiang Pavilion in Hushan Park." Li Yixin prescribed the method of emergency contact to Yin Qunli.

No. 12 Xiangheli is the only way for Li Yixin's residence, No. 36 Xiangheli, to go to Shuncheng Avenue Company, and he passes there every day, and it is easy to find the signal that Yin Qunli asks for an urgent meeting.

"What tasks are you giving me in the organization?" Yin Qunli continued to ask.

"Not for the time being, but you can take the initiative to collect the anti-Japanese activities of the military commander in Stone Town, and find a way to check the Japanese army intelligence collected by the military commander in Stone Town and report it to the organization. Of course, the premise is that you can't reveal your identity. Li Yixin told Yin Qunli about the task assigned to him by the organization.

This was the reason for the use of magpies organizationally, because the military commander, as one of the two major secret service organizations of the Kuomintang, focused its work after the start of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression to collect intelligence on the Japanese army in the occupied areas.

In order to grasp more intelligence on the Japanese army, in addition to using its own intelligence network to collect intelligence, it is also necessary to supplement it with the intelligence collected by the military command; after all, the military command, as the intelligence agency of the Kuomintang that is now in power, has more intelligence resources against Japan than organizationally.

In addition, organizationally it is also possible to use some of the information of the military command to compare the information that has already been collected in order to identify the authenticity of the information.

"Oh, by the way, I know a little bit of news about the shootout on Chengxian Street some time ago." Yin Qunli took the initiative to report the situation to Li Yixin after understanding the tasks assigned to him by the organization.

"Tell me about it." Li Yixin was bringing the tea bowl to his mouth and preparing to take a sip of tea, when he heard Yin Qunli's words, the movements in his hands paused, and he said with interest.

Because this shootout was triggered by his failure to connect with the underground party organization in Stone Town, he was very concerned about what the military command had in mind.

"According to the information obtained by the military command, this shootout on Chengxian Street is a trap set by our party's traffic station that was cracked by the special high school."

"I already know about this, is there anything else?" Li Yixin asked.

"The military commander also knew that the exposure of this traffic station in the organization was because the director of the Stone Town branch of the secret service headquarters received an anonymous report call, and no one knew who the whistleblower was, and the military commander did not know. But they gloated a bit, and they were happy about the loss of the organization. Yin Qunli said in a low voice.

"That's all?"

"Well, that's all. I secretly confirmed this matter by using the words of several people in the military commander Stone Town. ”

"Then why would the military commanders be so interested in this shootout? You must know that this time it was the underground transportation station that we organized. Li Yixin asked with some confusion.