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Chapter 1045

a few days later.

According to the false information released by the Japanese, Yan Yiting should have arrived in the port city at this time, and Li Fengzhou and Judd Town probably did the same.

The two are in a relationship of one light and one dark, and Yan Yiting of the bright line has two functions.

The first is to attract monitors.

The second is to cover the real negotiators at the same time.

So the itineraries of the three must overlap to some extent.

This is easy to understand, Yan Yiting can't leave, and the other two come to Hong Kong City, so the meaning of cover will be lost.

Dai Chunfeng, who was in the mountain city, became very anxious after knowing the situation, and sent power to Gangcheng Station several times, requesting to determine the target's foothold as soon as possible.

But Zuo Zhong still sat firmly on the Diaoyutai, because according to his plan with Kuang Fuan, if he wanted to find Li Fengzhou and Judd Town, he had to wait for the other party to arrive at the port city.

It wasn't until Lao Dai called that he was coming to Hong Kong by plane, and Zuo Zhong, who didn't want to change his teacher yet, started to act and left the hotel with Gui Youguang.

Wellington Street, Central.

The two of Zuo Zhong were walking on the crowded street. On both sides of the road were shops with various signboards, and the sound of hawking was endless.

The big bald head looked left and right, wondering what they were doing here, and cautiously asked questions in Japanese.

"Sir, what are we doing here? Could it be that the two people mentioned in the hometown news live here?"

Dodging to avoid a pedestrian, Zuo Chong glanced at Gui Youguang, and also asked him a question in Japanese.

"Have you ever heard the saying that hand over the gun but not the gourd?"

"heard about it."

Gui Youguang was a little puzzled, but still nodded. This sentence was widely circulated in the Republic of China, and the protagonist in it was the Jin army.

It is said that after Yan Baichuan became the governor of Jin Province, he rectified the troops and distributed a new-style military water bottle to everyone. The soldiers were very happy and carried the bottle on their backs every day.

But not long after, a strange phenomenon appeared. Many soldiers would turn on the kettle and take a sip from time to time during marching and training.

Yan Baichuan was very puzzled when he saw this. This action was not like drinking water, but rather like drinking. Drinking alcohol in the army is a felony, which made him furious.

So a surprise inspection came, but the result was very surprising. The soldiers' water bottles were all filled with aged vinegar.

As a native of Jin Province, Yan Baichuan also grew up eating vinegar, and he knew its taste well, so he waved his hand and let it go.

Since then, it has become an upright act for the Jin army to carry vinegar in the kettle. No matter in garrison or marching and fighting, drink vinegar when you are thirsty, and drink vinegar when you are hungry.

Sometimes squatting in the trenches with the bullets whizzing above my head, I would take a sip of vinegar to calm myself down and relax.

Even if you lose a battle and become a prisoner, it's a pleasure to hand over the gun, but there's no way to hand over the pot of vinegar.

However, Gui Youguang still doesn't understand what this has to do with finding Yan Baichuan's negotiators. They can't search every house to see who has vinegar gourds.

Zuo Zhong raised his hand to stop his doubts, glanced at the plaques of the shops on both sides, and said softly as if he was looking for something.

"Don't you understand, no matter how hidden those people mentioned in my hometown are, they always have to eat, and they have a habit of eating.

There are more than 30 people from Jin Province, even if some of them don't like to be jealous, the amount of vinegar consumed by others every day is not a small number. "

Get up early and open the door seven things, firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea, this old saying is true.

As an ordinary person, living at home, working hard all his life, is nothing more than turning around these seven things.

But after a closer look, firewood, rice, oil, and salt are the core┴, and no one in the world can live without three meals a day. In the words of ordinary people, it is a hard job, and the money in the pocket is the most tested.

Tea with soy sauce and vinegar is a combination of their own habits in life. Some people like to drink tea, some people don't eat soy sauce, and some people like vinegar.

For example, people in Jin Province can not drink tea or eat sauce, but they must have vinegar every day. They must not live without vinegar.

For most of the "Old West", without vinegar for a day, the food is tasteless, and life is not exciting.

Kuang Fu'an's idea of ​​finding negotiators from "basic clothing, food, housing and transportation" is correct. Since "living" is not feasible, he should start with "food".

Whether it is Li Fengzhou or Judd Town, they are all standard natives of Jin Province, and so are the guards if there is no accident.

Because the township party is the basic requirement for the appointment of personnel by warlords in various places, it is impossible for Yan Baichuan to hand over such an elite unit as the pistol company to "outsiders".

Then things are simple. There are not many shops in Hong Kong City that can provide so much edible vinegar at one time. As long as you find a shop, you can find your target.

Gui Yuguang suddenly realized, and just about to say something, he heard Zuo Zhong raised his chin and said something to a certain shop across the road.

"Here we are, "Bazhen" vinegar store, go in and ask if anyone has bought a large amount of edible vinegar recently, and find out the reason yourself. I will be on guard outside┴."

After finishing speaking, Zuo Zhong walked away, walking in the crowd and quickly disappeared.

This time the Japanese are very abnormal, no one knows if there is any other party's eyeliner around the vinegar shop, so we should be more cautious in our actions.

On the other side, Gui Youguang pondered for a moment and quickly thought of the reason, then stepped across the road and walked into the "Bazhen" vinegar shop.

10 minute later.

Zuo Zhong, who was leaning on the corner telephone pole to read the newspaper, suddenly closed the newspaper, nimbly jumped onto a tram, handed out the fare to the conductor, and shouted in Cantonese.

"No, I borrowed~"

Under the disgusted eyes of the passengers, he came to the rear of the carriage and stopped, standing beside Gui Youguang and silently looking out the window.

The warning bell rang all the way, and the tram finally stopped at Sheung Wan, and the passengers swarmed down from the doors and joined the pedestrians.

Zuo Zhong and Gui Youguang also got out of the car and left quickly along the road, one left and one right. When the tram started to drive away again, there were only hurried pedestrians left around the platform.

"How is it, have you gained anything?"

After a long time, in an alley hundreds of meters away from the tram platform, Zuo Zhong, who had already taken off his coat and fake beard, asked Gui Youguang beside him.

"I used the excuse that I just opened a northern noodle restaurant and wanted to order vinegar for a long time, so I found an excuse and chatted with the manager of "Bazhen" for a while."

While talking, Gui Youguang took off his coat and put it on his body┴, he took off his wig and threw it on the roof beside the road, then took out a peaked cap from his pocket and put it on his head, reporting the investigation results.

"The other party said that people in Hong Kong and refugees from surrounding provinces are rarely jealous, whether it is wholesale or retail, the sales of "Bazhen" edible vinegar have not increased recently.

And what they sell is sweet vinegar, which tastes completely different from the mature vinegar in the north and Jin Province. He told me that there are only two places in the entire Hong Kong City that sell mature vinegar.

One is the Jin Provincial Guild Hall, and the other is the "Dongzhaihao" vinegar shop. Many people know about the first one, but not many people know about the second one, because the market of "Dongzhaihao" is mainly overseas.

The location is in Western District, and the workers and bosses are all from Jin Province in Hong Kong before and after the war. Most of the raw materials used are shipped from the north, and the taste is not much different from the local vinegar in Jin Province. "

Dongzhai...

Zuo Zhong had a premonition that they were not far away from finding Li Fengzhou and Judd Town, but at this time, they had to be more cautious and never let down their vigilance.

After thinking about it, he whispered a few words to Gui Youguang, that it was time to use Chao Hou and Gangcheng station, and the next deployment and control operation needed manpower.

Compared with Jinling and Shanghai, the area of ​​Hong Kong Island is small, and it is not difficult to monitor and track them. It is enough to spread the hands.

After hearing the order, Gui Youguang kept nodding, repeated the order again, and then turned into a fork in the road and walked towards the direction of Shanghuan.

Zuo Zhong himself walked around the complicated streets of Hong Kong Island a few times, and once again connected with Kuang Fu'an, informed him about the "Dong Zhai" and asked him if he had any other gains.

There may be omissions in the information provided by the manager of the "Bazhen" vinegar shop, and the information from the underground party can minimize deviations.

Kuang Fu'an did not disappoint him, and after writing down the address of the "Dongzhai Ship", he revealed a new piece of information.

The intelligence personnel of the underground party lurking in a hotel discovered Yan Yiting, who checked in with his followers two days ago, and many mysterious people appeared around him.

At the same time, several officials from the Japanese Consulate in Hong Kong visited each other yesterday, and the two sides had "secret talks" in the room for five or six hours.

As he said that, he also took out a few photos that were not very clear, and they were the scene of Yan Yiting and the ghost chatting in front of the hotel, which seemed to be secretly taken.

Holding the photo in his hand and looking at it, Zuo Zhong sneered, the Japanese were afraid that they would not find Yan Yiting.

Then Kuang Fuan added that those mysterious people were very vigilant, and the intelligence personnel of the underground party could not monitor closely for a long time.

But through observation and analysis, the other party should not be a native of Hong Kong City, because several of them have frostbite on their hands and speak with a northern accent.

Kwantung Army Intelligence Department!

When Zuo Zhong heard the word chilblain, he immediately thought of this old opponent. It seems that the Japanese didn't trust the intelligence personnel in Hong Kong City, so they specially transferred the elite from the far northeast.

That's right, even Dong Qiang could find out that he was being followed, and the level of the other party's actions was indeed questionable. If he was the commander of the devil, he would not be at ease.

In addition, Zuo Zhong was once again amazed by the intelligence gathering ability of the underground party. Dozens of agents at the Gangcheng station spent a lot of money, but got nothing in the end.

However, it took only two days for the underground party to find the person, take photos, and conduct a preliminary observation of the relevant personnel. The efficiency of the operation is really amazing.

Putting the photo in his pocket, Zuo Zhong proposed to Kuang Fu'an that the "Dongzhai" should be under double surveillance by the underground party and the Guo party, and followed the clues to find the residence of Li Fengzhou and others.

Kuang Fu'an did not hesitate, and immediately agreed. In fact, even if Zuo Zhong didn't say anything, he would conduct an investigation on his own. The information obtained by himself is more credible.

Zuo Zhong┴ is well aware of this, saying these words is just to show his attitude and sincerity.

After roughly discussing the next division of labor, Kuang Fu'an did not stay long, and politely said goodbye and walked out of the meeting place, and several pedestrians who had been wandering around for a long time also left immediately.

Watching this scene, Zuo Zhong showed a slight smile. He still didn't trust him.

(End of this chapter)