"Give me a plate of melon seeds, the five-spice kind." Jiang Xinyu said to the waiter.
"Just a moment, we'll be here soon." The waiter agreed and stepped back.
Jiang Xinyu thought for a long time, stood up, came to the counter, and said, "Use the phone."
The boss was busy making plans and said without raising his head: "As you wish."
"Hey, look for Ray-Ban." Jiang Xinyu dialed the number of the Sheriff's Office of Hongqiao Police Station.
"Who?" Ray-Ban said lazily on the phone.
"I am Jiang Xinyu."
"What's going on? We can't go back to the bureau to talk about it."
"If the driver class wants a car, you should go to Chunlai Teahouse immediately. Remember to bring more people, there is a big case!" Jiang Xinyu said in a low voice.
Lei Ban immediately became energetic and said, "Are you a rebel?"
"Stop asking, hurry up!"
"Okay, I'll be there soon!"
Putting down the phone, Jiang Xinyu raised his wrist and glanced at his watch. It was now 12:20. It would take fifteen minutes at the fastest to drive from Hongqiao Police Station to Chunlai Tea House.
He did not return to his table, but went straight to table No. 3, pulled out a chair and sat down, took out the postcard from his pocket and put it on the table.
The round glasses eyes lit up and he whispered: "Hello."
"Hello."
“How was the journey??”
Jiang Xinyu nodded and said: "Smooth."
The round glasses looked around and said: "Let's make a long story short, the organization sent me to contact you, mainly because I want to know the Japanese army's city defense deployment in Yanjin. How is it going? Is it difficult?"
"It's not difficult. How do I contact you after I get the information?"
"Still in this teahouse, I sit here for a while every Wednesday at noon."
"No, this method of connection is too dangerous, and it happens too frequently. It's easy to be targeted."
"...then what can you do?"
"There should be a transportation station, right? Tell me the address and connection method, and I'll find an opportunity to send it directly there."
"Uh... I have a one-way communication with you and cannot have horizontal communication with the traffic station, so I'm afraid your suggestion won't work."
There was a screeching sound of brakes outside. Two cars from the police station parked on the roadside one after another. Ray-Ban got out of the car first, followed by six or seven policemen, who walked towards the teahouse in a menacing manner.
Jiang Xinyu took out his pistol and said to the round glasses: "In this case, we can only talk in another place."
Looking at the black muzzle of the gun, the round glasses said in shock: "You, what do you mean?"
Jiang Xinyu sneered: "Don't you understand yet?"
Lei Ban had already led people into the teahouse and shouted: "No one should move!"
The policemen raised their pistols and attacked everyone in the teahouse as if they were facing a formidable enemy.
Jiang Xinyu waved and said: "Lei Ban, handcuff this gentleman and search his body!"
A policeman came over, handcuffed the round glasses, searched his body, and said to Jiang Xinyu: "Chief Jiang, no weapons were found."
When Jiang Xinyu pointed his gun at the round glasses, he specifically observed that the two guests at table 4 next to him were not too panicked. This was a very unusual behavior.
"Take them both back!" Jiang Xinyu pointed at the guests at table 4 and ordered the police.
Lei Pen came over and said in a low voice: "Xin Yu, the superiors are strictly forbidden to arrest people indiscriminately. We don't want to leave the mutton uneaten and get into trouble again."
Jiang Xinyu picked up the postcard on the table, patted it in his hand, and said: "Don't worry, the evidence is conclusive and you will definitely not be wrong! As for these two people... I suspect they are his accomplices!"
Lei Pen knew that Jiang Xinyu never did anything he was unsure of. Since he was so sure, he had nothing to be afraid of. He ordered his men to handcuff all three of them and escort them back to the police station.
When he arrived at the police station, Jiang Xinyu didn't waste a minute and immediately brought the round glasses into the interrogation room.
"Name." Ray Ban asked.
The round glasses lowered their heads and remained silent.
Jiang Xinyu sat aside and fiddled with the things he found from the round glasses, including his wallet, keys, half a pack of Sanbaotai cigarettes, and a box of matches, but he had no ID.
The RB people are very strict about document inspection. Anyone found without a document will be arrested immediately. Therefore, whether they are underground party members or military commanders, it is absolutely impossible not to carry a good citizen certificate.
"I'm waiting for you!" Jiang Xinyu took out a cigarette from half a pack of cigarettes, lit it, and said to Lei Ban.
The round glasses widened their eyes in surprise. Ray-Ban was startled, and whispered: "Isn't it too hasty to use torture after just asking a question?"
Jiang Xinyu said calmly: "These rebels must be dealt with hard, otherwise it will be a waste of time! Torture!"
Two policemen stepped forward and took off the tops of the round glasses, and tied them to the wooden stakes. The executioner walked over with a leather whip, ready to start.
"Wait a minute, wait a minute!" Round Glasses shouted repeatedly.
Jiang Xinyu looked at him and said, "If you are a smart man, confess now to avoid suffering any physical pain!"
The eyes in the round glasses rolled around and said: "It's okay to confess, but I must tell Major Hattori!"
Sure enough, it’s Hattori Hikoo!
Jiang Xinyu said to himself in his heart.
After discovering the secret letter on the postcard, Jiang Xinyu focused on analyzing whether it was the underground party or the military command, thinking that no matter which party it was, as long as he did not contact him, there would be no danger.
But Jiang Xinyu ignored one issue. If this matter was a trap set by RB, it didn't matter whether he went to contact table 3 or not.
In fact, as long as Jiang Xinyu showed up at Chunlai Teahouse at the appointed time, he was basically confirmed to be a latent member of the anti-Japanese organization!
Now if we push the whole thing back, we will find a lot of doubts. There is a mailbox on the wall outside Jiang Xinyu's house. Why did the postman clip the postcard to the door?
The postman's working area is basically a few fixed blocks, and he should be very familiar with the area he is responsible for. The probability of not noticing the mailbox right in front of him is almost zero.
Excluding the factor of not seeing the mailbox, it was because the "postman" wanted to confirm that the recipient could receive the postcard. It was even possible that he knew that Jiang Xinyu was at home at the time, so he knocked on the door and clipped the postcard to the door.
Ever since Jiang Xinyu made an impassioned speech to Hattori Hikoo at Chang Hongling's house last time, the person spying on him has indeed not appeared again.
But as long as Jiang Xinyu cannot prove his "loyalty to the empire", Hattori Hikoo's suspicion will not be alleviated.
After a period of peace and quiet, Jiang Xinyu's psychological precautions became somewhat relaxed. After thinking of these doubts, he immediately quickly analyzed how things happened!
If Hattori Hikoo secretly checks himself, there is another way besides phone monitoring, and that is email checking!