"Is the policeman you are talking about one of the three regular customers I mentioned?"
"It should be so. I have only been here for a short time and have only seen one of the three old customers. I don't know if he is the same, but the clothes he wore that day were made by me for the first time for Master Tian.
That one was made for one of our regular customers, and I’m sure he was wearing that one piece of clothing.”
Sun Shaohua nodded. He felt that there must be something wrong with this person. He just didn't know whether the identity of the policeman was true. Sun Shaohua felt that he was afraid of it. After all, if he lied and was found out, he would need more to round it up. These people are not stupid. After all,
Just fooled young people.
"Put it on your back, it should be a pistol, right? Can you tell which one it is?" After Sun Shaohua finished speaking, he took the shell gun and M1911 and asked the apprentice to identify them.
"Somewhat like this one." The apprentice pointed at the M1911 and added, "But it seems to be a little different. The grip is darker, and there is no small hammer on the butt of the gun."
According to the apprentice's description, Sun Shaohua felt that it should be a horse gun. This gun is indeed equipped in the police system, but it only requires an officer, and ordinary officers are not able to use it.
After asking for some more details and confirming that nothing was missing, Sun Shaohua arranged a room for the three of them to rest in the store. He was about to go upstairs to check out the situation when he happened to meet the team member who had just taken the order.
"Brother Hua, you really guessed it. There's a lot of stuff in what this guy told you, but he's not even aware of it."
"Any findings? Tell me..." Sun Shaohua took the interrogation record, looked at it a few times, and motioned to the team members to tell them what they found.
"Brother Hua, I just found something wrong in his description of how he came to renovate the tailor shop. I carefully interrogated all the details and found that the real master here is probably the tailor."
"Well..." Sun Shaohua nodded, not surprised.
"Brother Hua, have you found out?" The team member was a little depressed, thinking that he had discovered it himself.
Seeing this, Sun Shaohua replied: "I just learned about the situation from a few apprentices, and I have this feeling, but there is no evidence to confirm it. Please explain your findings in detail."
"Okay..." The team member's mood increased a lot, and he described the whole process in detail. It was nothing more than the best. Everything in the store was vaguely decided by the tailor.
"Other than these, what about the other discoveries?"
After hearing this, the team member said: "There is one more thing that I think is very important. At the beginning of the 21st year of the Republic of China, that is, in 1932, he received intelligence for the Japanese. According to his recollection, it should be his first time.
once.
During that time, the shopkeeper and the tailor acted very strangely. The shop was no longer running well, and they often closed the shop and went out. They were even more anxious that day. After he came to the shop, they told him that there were several important customers to pick up.
Answer, let him send the clothes and get the size.
He was not very happy at the time, because he was going near Xiaguan Pier, and time was tight, so he had to run. Finally, the shopkeeper promised to increase the money, so he went.
Before he left the street, he saw the shopkeeper and the tailor leaving in a hurry. On the same day, he rushed to a restaurant near the pier and met the customer. The customer took the clothes and gave him the size in a sealed envelope.
I speculate that the envelope will definitely not contain any size, but should be intelligence. The person he handed over to him is either a Japanese spy or a traitor who was bribed to instigate rebellion, but I am more inclined to the former."
"Oh? Tell me the reason. Does he have any impression of the other party?"
"I have an impression..." The team member nodded and explained: "He recalled that the other party arrived before him, but he did not blame him, but was polite. Not many people usually treated him like this, and it left a very impression on him.
Deep, this is one of the reasons why I think the other party is a spy. According to his description..."
The team member told Sun Shaohua exactly what he had told him, emphasizing that the other party's clothes, appearance, and temperament were definitely not ordinary people and were suspected of being members of the public.
"Are you sure there is nothing wrong with his description?"
"This..." The team member hesitated for a moment and said: "There may be some discrepancies, but they shouldn't be too big. From his description, I am really impressed by this person. What's wrong, Brother Hua? Is there any problem?
"
"There's no problem, it's just the appearance he described. I just heard something similar. The other person is a police officer..."
Sun Shaohua told the team members about the situation provided by the apprentice. What the team members thought of was asked to find a map. After Sun Shaohua finished speaking, he marked it.
Ten minutes later, the team members looked excited and said to Sun Shaohua: "Brother Hua, look, I have isolated a large part of the locations he told me. Although the first ones are not in Xiaguan, they are vaguely surrounding Xiaguan."
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From this point of view, one of our targets should be in Xiaguan. At first, he went to Xiaguan to hand over. It was probably because he encountered some emergency situation and the other party could not leave too far or for some reason, so he chose to hand over nearby.
Since he chose to be nearby, his residence is probably nearby, and there is a police station at the Xiaguan Pier not far away, so this is the most suspicious place right now."
"Well..." Sun Shaohua nodded and said with a smile: "The analysis is very good. I remember that at the end of the 20th year of the Republic of China and the beginning of the 21st year of the Republic of China, a lot of big things happened. Around the time when he went to Xiaguan, there were
Nothing big happened?"
"It really happened..." The team member thought for a moment, responded, took out the interrogation record, and said: "At the end of the 20th year of the Republic of China, the biggest event was the September 18th Incident launched by Japan in Northeast China. At the beginning of the 21st year,
It was 128 in Shanghai. These two Japanese people only arrived not long ago, and this period of time was the most abnormal.
Something big happened in Xiaguan at that time, and at the time when he was meeting, Japanese warships were approaching Xiaguan. Could it be that he was there to receive relevant information?"
The team member paused, his eyes brightened, and continued: "If so, then this intelligence also contains other information. The three people in the store acted at the same time, which means that at least three people were contacted at the same time, and the other two spies were personally contacted.
, is obviously more important.”
Sun Shaohua thought for a moment, shook his head, and said: "This is not necessarily true, it may also be because this person's family is outside the south of the city, and Xiaguan is in the north of the city. They are far away, and he basically does not have much interaction with Xiaguan on a daily basis.
In this way, it can be prevented to a large extent from accidentally knowing the identity of the contact person and the safety of the other party can be protected. This also shows that the person who contacts him has a high status and is probably a Japanese spy in person.
If this guess is true, then we should also be able to identify another target, which is likely to exist in the south of the city and outside the city, and he may often intersect with him on a daily basis."
"Yes..." The team member nodded and replied: "Brother Hua, the possibility is not small. He was left behind for a different purpose at first. He was probably prepared for a certain group of people. It should be something
It will be activated directly only in case of emergency.”
"There is a possibility. If the target is really a policeman, he mainly wears uniforms on a daily basis and often makes various clothes. It will indeed be easier to attract attention."
The two chatted for a while and analyzed various possibilities. The team members who went out to search for the person walked into the store with five idle young people. As soon as the few people came in, they stayed aside and did not dare to be presumptuous.
The team member leaned close to Sun Shaohua's ear and whispered: "Brother Hua, the leader among the five, that apprentice is hanging out with him. He is Boss Sun's man, and he basically knows the whole situation."
Sun Shaohua nodded and gave a few instructions in a low voice. The team members led the team and took the other four people away for questioning alone. The leader was called aside by Sun Shaohua.
"Do you smoke?" Sun Shaohua handed the person a cigarette, asked him to sit down and started asking. He did not go straight to the topic, but first learned about the missing apprentice.
According to the other party, the missing apprentice was quite honest and loyal. Of course, he was among the gangsters. In the eyes of ordinary people, he was just a bad young man.
"... He knows what he says, but he doesn't have the patience to do things and is a little greedy for money. I can't say he is greedy. He just wants to get rich to prove to his parents..."
The little boss introduced the apprentice's situation to Sun Shaohua in a relatively clear manner, allowing Sun Shaohua to have a general understanding of him.
"What about before he disappeared? Was there anything unusual, or did he reveal anything?"
After hearing this, the little boss was silent for a moment, and then said: "There is indeed something. A few days before he disappeared, he came to us for a drink in high spirits, and he spilled the beans when he was drunk.
I'm not sure what the specific matter was. It seemed that he knew some secret and kept telling us that he was going to make a fortune. Several brothers saw that he didn't seem to be lying, so they went to him to inquire the next day.
He was very strict and didn't say anything. He denied it at first, but later he got tired of being asked, so he asked us to help him find someone, and he would share the money with us afterward.
At that time, I was just a little gangster, and I had not yet joined Brother Sun, so I was very tight-lipped, so I went there. The one I was following was an officer, a major with two bars and one star. At that time, everyone was muttering in their hearts, and they didn't really want to do it.
But thinking that it was related to a major, and that he might really have a lot of money, he bit the bullet and went for it.
But within a few days, he disappeared, and his parents and the police all came to find us. We were so frightened at the time that we didn’t dare to disclose the matter to anyone else, for fear that he would disappear without any explanation.”
"That's what happened! Tell me about the officer. What did you see when you followed him?"
"Well..." the little boss organized his speech and said: "Actually, I didn't see anything useful. We only saw him one day.
That day he put on his military uniform and went to the security headquarters. After a while, he came out again and went to find a woman. He wandered around the street for a few hours and later moved into the woman's home.
We have checked the woman's name, and her name is Wu Tian. Judging from their relationship, she may be the lover whom the officer kept outside. Unlike a couple, there are more cases where something happens to someone before they are investigated."
Sun Shaohua nodded and asked: "Then have you ever suspected the tailor shop?"
"I'm suspicious..." The little boss nodded and explained: "He is usually at the tailor shop, and when he runs out he is looking for us. I know for myself that we have nothing to do with his disappearance, so I immediately suspected the tailor shop.
At that time, because an officer was involved and someone might have died, I also found that the tailor shop was extremely concerned about us and did not dare to do anything out of the ordinary. This was enough for half a year.
Half a year later, when the matter was about to come to an end, I quietly started to pay attention to the tailor shop, but after several months of continuous attention, I found nothing unusual, and the police didn't care much about it, so I slowly let it go."
After hearing what he said, Sun Shaohua didn't say much. It was human nature to protect himself. After all, he was a murderer and an officer. If he didn't pay attention, he would be shattered into pieces. He was not a street gangster who could be dealt with. He quietly investigated.
It's also kind.
"You have been paying attention to the tailor shop for a few months. You should have some idea of the whereabouts of the two shopkeepers! Tell me."
"Okay, as a shopkeeper, he often travels out, basically buying goods and delivering clothes to your door. But I only know that he is in the places he often goes around, and I don't dare to follow him further.
As for Tailor Tian, he usually works in the shop, either cutting clothes or tutoring a few apprentices. He rarely goes out, and when he does go out, he comes to do tailoring or walks around and goes to some small shops. "
Sun Shaohua asked the shopkeeper where the tailors often go. After writing them down one by one, he said: "I'll ask another question. Think about it carefully. Is there any clothes that the shopkeeper has sent to you that are beyond your notice? When he comes back, the tailor will go out, or
Do you go out at a relatively fixed time that day or the next day?"
The little boss rubbed his head, thought carefully for a few minutes, and hesitated: "It seems to have been like this a few times, but I can't be sure..."
"Where did you go? Is it the same place?"
"It's really..." The little leader's eyes lit up and he hurriedly said: "Just two streets away from here, there is a small tea house selling tea. He went to buy tea several times."
"He likes tea?"
"Yes! He usually takes a small teapot when he rests in the shop, or even when he goes out for a walk, and sips it in small sips, like a lifeblood.
And he is very picky. If the apprentice's parents give him tea, he will rarely take it, and he will not drink it if he accepts it. He must choose it himself.
Although the tea house is not big, the owner is very well-connected. It is said that he is from Fujian, and he can get a lot of high-end and rare goods from the production area. When we ask for help and deliver tea, we get it from him.
The tailor is a regular customer there, and the tea he chooses is all good. Neighbors say that before he got married at that age, he just drank up all his wife's books."
So, Sun Shaohua remembered that during the search, many jars of tea were indeed found in the tailor's house on the second floor. There was also a tea room on the first floor with multiple sets of tea sets. He thought it was for entertaining customers, but it seemed that it was mainly for his own use.
‘Could it be that teahouse?’ Sun Shaohua was a little hesitant. No radio or other items were found in the tailor shop. The shopkeeper also lived on the second floor of the shop. There was no information to prove that he had other residences.
Judging from the composition of the Japanese spy team, there should be a carrier pigeon who controls the radio station and the code book. It is unlikely that such an important person will be contacted by the shopkeeper who runs errands. The tailor who calls the shots should be personally responsible. The location is somewhere nearby.
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‘Could it be a tea house?’ Sun Shaohua asked himself again. He always felt that it was too easy. Other clues were still vague and vague. How could he find such an important situation so easily?
‘Impossible, absolutely impossible? Or are you really so lucky...’ Sun Shaohua fell into deep thought, and finally decided to study it carefully to avoid falling into other people’s traps...