Chapter 125 British Coffee and Teahouse (please give me monthly votes for collection and recommendation)
Hearing Cheng Qianfan's order to bring weapons.
Hao Zai nodded, took out a cloth bag from under the bed, opened it, and found a Mauser C96 rifle. He also took out a spare magazine and put it in his pocket.
Cheng Qianfan took a look. The advantage of the Mauser pistol is that it is relatively common. It is almost impossible to use the gun to detect people. It also has the characteristics of strong firepower.
The disadvantage is that the gun body is wide, making it difficult to conceal it with you.
In fact, the most suitable revolver for agents is a relatively compact revolver, but this gun is more difficult to obtain.
However, in Shanghai, as long as you want it and have money, you can get it on the black market.
The United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries are widely equipped with Webley .455in revolvers and Webley .38in revolvers.
The British army was very dissatisfied with the range of these two guns. There was a saying among the British: "If you can shoot a target at 50 yards with a **** Webley revolver, I guarantee you can shoot a target with a Lee. Field shoots targets at 800 yards."
In Cheng Qianfan’s view, the British are just hypocritical. Of course, the British are still the most powerful country in the world and have a strong military industry, so they do have the capital to be hypocritical.
He planned to find a way to get some Webley revolvers from the black market in the British and American Settlement in the future.
The Indian patrols in the British and American Concessions are quite strange. They will "scrapped" their revolvers for various reasons, and then these brand-new revolvers will soon flow into the black market.
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French Concession, Xiafei District, No. 34, Xiafei Road.
This is a beautiful Western-style building facing the street. The owner of the store was very creative and divided the store into two. One side is a cafe and the other side operates a tea shop.
Engraved on the copper signboard is: British Coffee and Tea.
You can see it clearly from the signboard.
It not only meets the needs of the young bourgeoisie who pursue Western-style life, but also attracts Chinese people who are keen on traditional teahouses.
In the afternoon of the day he left Hangzhou, after obtaining Yu Ping'an's permission, he 'arraigned' Eguchi Hideya again.
Eguchi Hide also mentioned a detail.
Before being sent to Hangzhou to perform the mission, Inoue Mansion arranged for him to apply for a job as a waiter in this tea shop and learn how to be a new tea shop waiter.
In fact, the Hengrun Teahouse in Hangzhou advertises itself as a new-style teahouse, aiming to attract the favor of officials and their wives who pursue Western life.
Cheng Qianfan thought secretly, there are two possibilities.
This British tea shop has nothing to do with Japan, and Eguchi Hing only came here to "learn from his master".
However, this possibility is extremely low. The most likely possibility is that there is a Japanese influence behind this new-style tea shop that flaunts British style.
Before leaving Hangzhou, Yu Ping'an handed over the task of investigating this tea shop in Shanghai to Cheng Qianfan's hidden team.
This can be regarded as the first real task that Cheng Qianfan’s team has received.
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“How is it?” Cheng Qianfan asked, he was studying Hao Zai.
He led Haozi carefully around the tea shop.
“Something’s not right.” Hao Zai said.
"Tell me."
“There are two more side doors.”
Cheng Qianfan nodded, Hao Zai was indeed very smart and observant.
Generally speaking, the conventional configuration is one front door and one back door.
This British coffee and tea shop is located on both sides of the back street, with two small and even somewhat hidden side doors. If you don't look carefully, few others will notice this.
After exiting one of the side doors, turn left and you will see a small alley. Through this small alley, you will find a small river.
Of course, it is not ruled out that the shop owner has eccentricities.
However, this situation is more intriguing in the eyes of the agents:
The biggest advantage of this layout is that it facilitates evacuation.
"Evacuate!" Cheng Qianfan saw a group of patrolmen approaching from a distance. He whispered to Hao Zai. The two of them went around a small alley and quickly disappeared into the night.
Cheng Qianfan took Hao Zai back to the safe house.
“Starting tomorrow, keep an eye on this tea shop.” Cheng Qianfan ordered, “Find out who the owner of this tea shop is, where he often goes, and who he comes into contact with.”
"clear."
The reason why I brought weapons today is because the status of the night inspection is unclear. If something unexpected happens, for example, if the opponent happens to take action and a sudden encounter occurs, it will be more troublesome.
Fortunately this did not happen.
During the day, there is no need for covert surveillance.
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Cheng Qianfan always felt that this tea shop was a little weird, not just because of Eguchi Hideya's confession.
Tea shop.
A flash of inspiration flashed through his mind.
The Rite Huang San whom Lao Mo confessed to ran a drug store. The name of the drug store was "Baicao Store" and its location was also on Xiafei Road.
Is there some secret connection between this ‘Herb Shop’ and this British coffee and tea shop?
As expected, the token found from Lao Mo was the identity plate issued to the traitor by the Inoue Mansion.
Hiroshi Endo’s group is affiliated with the Inoue Mansion.
Two stores that seemed to have no connection at first, after such a detailed analysis, there was a hidden connecting line.
Although we have always had information about two Japanese special strongholds, Huang San’s ‘Baicao Shop’ and the Huichang Teahouse in Chenghuang Temple.
However, due to security concerns, Cheng Qianfan has never found an opportunity to ‘put the intelligence on the table’.
Because he could not explain the source of the intelligence.
Now, it seems that there is such an opportunity.
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Ma Sinan Road.
Peng and Ou haven't fallen asleep yet.
As a senior official of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Red Party, there is too much pressure on his shoulders.
Especially when Zhuang Ze rebelled and was almost infiltrated into the Red Party by the Party Affairs Investigation Office, Peng and Ou broke into a cold sweat.
Fortunately, Comrade Xinghuo warned in time, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.
Now, the reason why he has been unable to sleep peacefully is still that comrade "Xinghuo".
More than a month has passed since that warning, and Comrade Xinghuo has not contacted the organization again.
This made Peng and Ou extremely worried.
The organization has tried its best to cover up and accuse Zhuang Ze of being a "traitor" in order to protect this intelligence source.
Has the organizational cover-up been seen through by the enemy?
Comrade ‘Xinghuo’ is in danger?
Peng Yuou had some guesses about the identity of "Xinghuo". His intuition told him that this Comrade "Xinghuo" should be Lao Liao's top line, and the ace agent who arranged to infiltrate the enemy before Comrade "Zhulin" died.
It is not easy for an organization to cultivate such a king agent.
If this comrade was damaged or sacrificed because of this incident, Peng and Ou would be extremely sad, and he himself would not be able to forgive himself.
If he fails to protect his comrades, he will feel that he has neglected his duty.
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The next day, the early morning sunshine filled the earth.
Cheng Qianfan put on a clean and tidy police uniform and looked carefully in the mirror. He was a handsome young man.
Eat Liu Ada’s wontons.
Hello to the neighbors and prepare to go to the Central Patrol Room at No. 22 Xue Huali Road.
“Brother Fan, save me.” The young man ran back from the alley and threw himself on Cheng Qianfan.
Cheng Qianfan skillfully put the boy down to the ground, laughed and walked away.
The mournful cry of a young man came from behind: Brother Fan, you are hurting me again.
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