spy shadow

Chapter 4 Returning to the scene again
The car drove all the way into the French Concession and came to the gate of the police house.

There were several police officers waiting for Chu Lingyun outside the gate. The leader was a man in his 30s, wearing a black police uniform. When he saw Chu Lingyun get off the car, he greeted him with a smile.

"But Captain Chu is here, I'm Gao Zhengliang."

The man clasped his fists to salute Chu Lingyun, and Chu Lingyun returned a military salute.

"I'm Chu Lingyun, hello Inspector Gao."

Chu Lingyun had never met Gao Zhengliang before, but he had heard of him. He was a Chinese detective in the French Concession. He was very powerful in the French Concession and won the trust of the French.

"Captain Chu, you're being polite, we'll handle the handover now."

Chu Lingyun was here to send someone off, and Gao Zhengliang was not too polite with him. After Gao Zhengliang signed, Qian Cang Xiaoye officially handed over to their patrol room.

"How are you going to deal with Qian Cang Xiaoye?"

Putting away the documents, Chu Lingyun asked casually, Gao Zhengliang looked around, and sighed slightly: "How else can we deal with it, it depends on the meaning, but Mr. Henry, the boss of Beixi Foreign Trade Co., Ltd., is very dissatisfied. If it’s better, you can still redeem people, if it’s not better, it’s probably suspended.”

"Can the Japanese redeem people?" Chu Lingyun asked.

Gao Zhengliang nodded and said: "It's not a big case, it's just a commercial espionage. Of course, people can be redeemed."

"I see, thank you Inspector Gao."

Chu Lingyun watched Qian Cang Xiaoye being carried into the patrol room by them, and then left. After the car drove out of the French Concession, Chu Lingyun immediately asked the driver to stop, went to a nearby restaurant, and used the public phone to call the team.

"I'm Chu Lingyun, let Nixiu answer the phone."

"Captain, I'm Niach, what's your order?" Niach's voice quickly came from the other side of the phone.

"Go to the French Concession right now, and ask me how the patrol office knew about Qian Cang Xiaoye's arrest, and where did they get the news."

"Captain, don't worry, I'm going now and I'll give you news soon."

When Nixiu got the order, he agreed very readily. Chu Lingyun put down the phone and didn't return to the team. Instead, he asked the driver to take him to the noodle shop where he was arrested in the morning.

He came to the place where the man in the felt hat was in the morning and looked around.

After a while, he arrived at a shoe shine booth at the crossroads. This shoe shine booth is not far from the noodle shop. The location is very good, and he can see everything in the noodle shop.

If he wants to observe the noodle shop, this location is definitely his first choice.

"Boss, do you shine your shoes?"

The owner of the shoeshine stall was a young man. When he saw Chu Lingyun, he immediately greeted him with a smile. Chu Lingyun looked at the leather shoes on his feet, where he was sitting, and raised his legs to let him shine them.

When you shine your shoes here, you only need to turn your head to see everything in the noodle shop.

"Ask you something. Did you see a man wearing a black hat around here between [-]:[-] and [-]:[-] this morning?"

"Look at what you asked. There are so many people coming and going here, and there are many people wearing hats. How can I notice them all, and I don't have a watch, so I don't know the time."

The stall owner quickly polished his shoes and answered Chu Lingyun's question with a grin.

Chu Lingyun took out a piece of legal currency from his body. At this time, the legal currency has just been released and it is still very strong. One piece of legal currency is close to the purchasing power of a silver dollar.

"It was when the noodle shop over there arrested people in the morning, you carefully recalled the memories, and tell me the truth, this dollar is all yours."

"Thank you boss, I'll think about it." The stall owner quickly took the money, and smiled even more: "I remembered, a boss with a hat came to me this morning. He didn't polish shoes, but repaired shoes. shoes, there is a scar next to his left eye, I asked him what happened, he said he fell, but I can see that it was not a fall, but a knife wound."

"How can you be sure it's a knife wound?" Chu Lingyun asked with interest.

"To be honest with the boss, my previous generation of Chinese medicine practitioners, I can still see what's going on with simple skin trauma. Unfortunately, in my generation, I didn't learn from my dad when I was young. My dad died early, so I can only come out to polish shoes. , otherwise I can become a doctor and be respected by others."

While polishing the shoes, the stall owner said, "That man saw the noodle shop arresting people, and left without repairing the shoes. Fortunately, he gave the money in advance."

After a while, Chu Lingyun polished the leather shoes. His craftsmanship was good, and the leather shoes became shiny after being polished, which made Chu Lingyun look a little more energetic.

Chu Lingyun's heart moved slightly, and he suddenly asked, "Are you here to shine shoes regularly, or are you here occasionally?"

Seeing the 'huge' shoe-shine fee given by Chu Lingyun, the stall owner answered all questions: "I have a fixed booth, and there are also mobile ones, but this location is good, and I don't have to run around to shine shoes for others."

"Do you have many shoe shiners?" Chu Lingyun asked again.

"Many, of course, there are more than 300 shoe shiners in the whole of Hankou. There are so many people in Hankou, many people need our shoe shiners."

"Well, I'll give you a chance to make money, do you want it?"

Chu Lingyun stood up and stared straight at the stall owner. The stall owner smiled even more, and immediately nodded and said, "Boss, you are generous. If you give me a chance to make money, it's for my face. Of course I want it."

Chu Lingyun took out a pen from his pocket, found another piece of paper, and said while writing, "Tell all the shoe shiners that if you see this man with the scar on his left eye again, call him immediately. This person can get a reward of 20 yuan."

After speaking, Chu Lingyun took out another five yuan and handed it to the shoe shiner.

"I'll give you five dollars for your hard work, but you have to make an agreement with them, just find someone to call, and don't say anything else, let alone ask."

"Okay, boss, don't worry, I will definitely arrange everything for you. If you can earn 20 yuan, these people are not crazy enough to find them."

The shoe shiner wiped his hands on his body first, and happily accepted the five yuan that Chu Lingyun handed over.

He shines shoes here, and he only earns a few dollars a day, but now he just passes on a message to his brothers, and the money is too easy to earn.

If he can meet the man with the scar again, he can earn the 20 yuan himself, which is equivalent to earning an extra fortune

"You don't need to look for it deliberately, just call when you meet. Remember, this matter must be kept secret. If something goes wrong, I'm the only one to ask."

When Chu Lingyun was speaking, he deliberately revealed the Browning pistol pinned to his waist. Seeing the gun, the smile on the shoeblack's face disappeared instantly.

"Don't worry, boss, I know what to do."

The reason why all the shoe shiners were mobilized was not a whim by Chu Lingyun.

In what the shoe shiner said just now, Chu Lingyun noticed a detail. In the morning, the felt hat man's shoes were not completely repaired, so he left in a hurry.

In this case, he may go to the shoe repair booth to continue repairing shoes.

Even if he couldn't find it, there was no loss for Chu Lingyun, it was just a matter of spending a few extra dollars.

After ordering the shoe shiner, Chu Lingyun got up, returned to the car and returned to the Military Intelligence Office.

As for the man in the felt hat who appeared in the morning, Chu Lingyun was not completely sure that he was an accomplice of Asano Ono and Yuki Endo, but he could only be sure that there must be something wrong with him.

Of course, it is also possible that this person has something behind his back, so he left immediately when he saw someone paying attention, but doing intelligence is different from doing other things, you must pay attention to any suspicious points, and investigate even if there is a little bit of suspicion.

It’s not that Chu Lingyun didn’t think that this person might be from the Red Party, so he didn’t arrange for people from the Military Intelligence Department to investigate. It’s best to find outsiders. It’s really the Red Party, so proper arrangements can be made so as not to cause accidental injury .

(End of this chapter)