In front of the Delta Western Clothing Store, there is a sign with three eye-catching characters written on it: Big discount.
It was almost closing time, and there were very few customers in the store. Zhao Guisheng sat absentmindedly at the counter, glancing at the door from time to time.
Zhang Meifang brought a cup of hot tea and gently placed it on Zhao Guisheng's hand: "How about you go inside and rest, I will take care of you outside."
"Oh, I'm not tired." Zhao Guisheng picked up the tea bowl and took a sip. He looked up at the clock on the wall. It was now 7:20 pm.
After sending away the last customer, Zhao Guisheng stood up and walked outside the door. He looked around casually, took off the big discount sign and returned to the store.
"Meifang, something is wrong..."
"What's wrong?"
"In the past few days, strangers have often been wandering around, and they seem to be coming towards us."
"Could it be a spy?"
"Probably."
"What should we do?"
Zhao Guisheng thought for a while and said, "Let's do this. You can leave now and go to Lao Xiao's place in Nankai. If everything goes well after a while, you can come back."
"how about you?"
"I can't leave. If both of us leave, it will definitely arouse suspicion. Besides, the radio station is still in the store, so we must find a way to send it out."
"I stay, you go."
"Stop arguing, you don't know how to deal with the situation."
"But……"
"Comrade Meifang, this is an order!"
"... Do you think this will work? I'll take the radio away now so that it won't be too much of a burden when you evacuate."
"No, it's so late. You're carrying such a big box. It's too eye-catching. You can't bring anything with you. Try to get rid of him, and then go to Nankai to find Lao Xiao."
"I carry a suitcase with me every time I go to the bathhouse. It should be fine. If I am safe, the radio station will also be safe."
Zhao Guisheng thought for a while and felt that what Zhang Meifang said made sense. If the agents really waited until the agents started arresting people, the radio station would not be able to hide them anyway.
Thinking of this, Zhao Guisheng said: "Okay, remember one thing, you must confirm that you have got rid of the tracking before you can go to Lao Xiao!"
"knew."
"Move faster."
Zhao Guisheng was responsible for keeping watch outside, while Zhang Meifang quickly entered the back room. After a while, she came out carrying a suitcase.
"I'm leaving, please be careful."
"good."
Zhang Meifang took a deep look at Zhao Guisheng and left the clothing store without looking back.
There is a small restaurant next door. This is the time when there are the most customers. Zhang Meifang stood at the door and said loudly: "Guixiang, Guixiang!"
Guixiang is the proprietress of the restaurant. When she heard someone calling her name, she trotted out quickly: "Hey, Meifang, what's going on?"
Zhang Meifang said: "I'm going to take a bath in the green pool, and I want to ask you to go with me..."
"That's not possible today. I'm so busy in the store that my feet hit me on the back of my head and I can't walk away."
"That's it, okay then, I'll ask you out next time."
"Meifang, look how good you are. You have been clean all day long. Look at me again. I am so smoky that I don't even look like a woman."
"What's the point of being clean? Making money is the real thing..."
The two women chatted for a few words and then left.
After waiting for another ten minutes, Zhao Guisheng calmly closed the door. Before closing the door, he chatted with a passing neighbor at the door, trying his best to look like everything was as usual.
After closing the store door, Zhao Guisheng quickly walked into the back room, opened the closet door and groped inside for a while, before taking out a thick stack of letter paper. These were all very important documents.
"Tuk-tuk-tuk! Tuk-tuk-tuk!"
Suddenly there was a knock on the door.
Zhao Guisheng did not dare to delay, so he hurried to the kitchen, opened the stove lid, and threw the letters in his hand into the stove.
Outside the Delta Clothing Store are agents from the action team. Not far away are Jiang Xinyu and Shen Zhifeng.
Hearing the continuous knocking on the door, Guixiang came out of the restaurant and said dissatisfied: "Hey, stop knocking, the door is about to be broken, and Boss Zhao is not deaf..."
After seeing clearly the formation outside the western clothing store, Guixiang swallowed back the second half of her words.
Shen Zhifeng waved, and the agent responsible for monitoring the tailor shop hurried over.
"Is there anyone in the store?"
"Yes, Zhao Guisheng is here."
Shen Zhifeng thought for a moment and ordered: "Quick, open the door!"
Everyone in the action team went to see Jiang Xinyu. They knew very well whose subordinate they were. Their boss was watching from the side, so how could they obey other people's orders?
Jiang Xinyu shouted: "Why are you still standing there? Hurry up and open the door!"
A big-bodied secret agent took a few steps back, shouted, rushed over, and knocked open the door with a bang.
The agents swarmed in and quickly took Zhao Guisheng out of the kitchen and said to Jiang Xinyu: "Captain, this guy is burning something in the back."
Jiang Xinyu strode to the kitchen. There was only a piece of ashes left in the furnace. On the remaining scraps of paper, words such as order and execution could be vaguely seen.
Shen Zhifeng said regretfully from the side: "He must be burning documents, we are still a step too late."
Jiang Xinyu waved his hand and ordered: "Search!"
The agents began to rummage through boxes and cabinets, searching for valuable clues.
When Zhao Guisheng approached, Jiang Xinyu looked him up and down and said, "Zhao Guisheng, don't you want to say something now that things have come to this?"
Zhao Guisheng stood up and said: "I have nothing to say. If you want to kill or cut into pieces, it's up to you."
Jiang Xinyu said coldly: "Okay, if you don't want to talk here, then let's move to another place! Someone come and cuff him."
Zhao Guisheng was secretly glad that judging from the current situation, Zhang Meifang should have escaped smoothly. As long as Zhang Meifang and the radio station were safe, the organizational losses had been reduced to a minimum.
Shen Zhifeng looked around and said to his men: "Where is Zhang Meifang?"
"Zhang Meifang went to Bishui. Oh, she took a suitcase with her."
Before Shen Zhifeng could speak, Jiang Xinyu immediately ordered: "Sun Jie, take a few people and go to Bishui immediately to bring Zhang Meifang back!"
Sun Jie took two special agents and hurried to Bishui to arrest people.
"Captain, I found a hidden compartment under the bedroom floor!" A secret agent came to report.
Naturally, there is nothing in the dark compartment. This was originally where the radio station was hidden.
Soon, Sun Jie came back to report that Zhang Meifang was not found in Bishui. Judging from the situation at the scene, she jumped out of the window of the changing room and ran away.
Jiang Xinyu said: "It seems that in that suitcase, there are either important documents of the Communist Party or a radio station. Of course, the radio station is more likely."
Shen Zhifeng was so angry that he slapped his agent in the face with his backhand: "How do you do things when you can't even look down on a woman!"
The agent covered his red and swollen face and said defensively: "Deputy Director Shen, you can't blame me entirely. We don't have enough manpower. We can only leave one person at the entrance of Bichichi. If I had known this, I should have informed Director Feng..."