A few days later.

According to the false information released by the Japanese, Yan Yiting should have arrived in the port city by now, and the same is probably true for Li Fengzhou and Juade Town.

There is a relationship between the two, one light and one dark. The bright line Yan Yiting has two functions.

The first is to attract the monitor.

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

Therefore, the itineraries of the three people must overlap to some extent.

This is easy to understand. Yan Yiting cannot be gone before the other two arrive in Hong Kong City. That would lose the meaning of cover.

Dai Chunfeng, who was in the mountain city, was very anxious when he learned about this situation. He sent several calls to Gangcheng Station, requesting that the target's foothold be determined as soon as possible.

However, Zuo Zhong still sat firmly on Diaoyutai, because according to his and Kuang Fuan's plan, if he wanted to find Li Fengzhou and Juade Town, he had to wait for them to arrive in the port city.

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

Wellington Street, Central.

Zuo Chong and the two walked on a crowded street. On both sides of the road were shops with various signboards, and the sound of hawking could not be heard.

The bald man looked left and right, wondering what they were doing here, and carefully asked questions in Japanese.

"Sir, what are we doing here? Do the two people mentioned in the news from my hometown live here?"

He dodged to avoid a pedestrian, glanced at Gui Youguang, and asked the other person a question in Japanese as well.

"Have you ever heard of the saying that you should never give up jealousy when you give up a gun?"

"heard about it."

Gui Youguang was a little confused, 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 Shanxi Province, he reorganized the troops and gave each person a new military water bottle. The soldiers were very happy and carried the bottle with them every day.

But not long after, a strange phenomenon occurred. Many soldiers opened the water bottle and took a sip from time to time while marching and training.

Yan Baichuan was very puzzled when he saw this. This action did not look like drinking water, but like drinking. Drinking in the military was a serious crime, which made him furious.

So a surprise inspection was carried out, and the result was very surprising. The soldiers' kettles were all filled with old vinegar.

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

From then on, it became an honorable act for the Jin army to bring vinegar in their kettles. Whether they were stationed or marching to fight, they drank vinegar when they were thirsty and when they were hungry.

Sometimes I would squat in a trench, with bullets flying around my head, and I would drink some vinegar to calm down and relax.

Even if you lose the battle and become a prisoner, it is quite satisfying to hand over a gun, but there is no way to hand over a jealous pot. This saying has spread like this.

But Gui Youguang still doesn't understand what this has to do with the negotiators looking for Yan Baichuan. They can't search every house to see who has the jealous gourd.

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

"Don't you understand? No matter how hidden the people mentioned in my hometown are, they always have to eat, and they have a bad 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 jealousy consumed by others every day is not a small number.”

There are seven things to do when you wake up early to open the door: firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea. This old saying is true.

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

But upon closer inspection, firewood, rice, oil and salt are the core. No one in the world can live without three meals a day. In the words of ordinary people, it is a hard job that tests the money in your pocket.

Sauce-vinegar tea is a combination of different habits in different people's lives. Some people like to drink tea, some people don't like sauce, and some people are jealous.

For example, people from Shanxi Province can drink tea or eat soy sauce, but they need vinegar every day. They cannot live without vinegar.

For most "old Westerners", if jealousy disappears for a day, the food will be tasteless and life will not be exciting.

Kuang Fuan's idea of ​​​​looking for negotiators from "food, clothing, housing and transportation" is right. Since "housing" is not feasible, let's start with "food".

Whether it is Li Fengzhou or Juade Town, they are all standard natives of Jin Province, and so are the guards if nothing unexpected happens.

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

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

Gui Yuguang suddenly understood. Just when he was about to say something, he heard Zuo Zhong raise his chin and say something to a shop across the road.

"Here we go, Bazhen Vinegar Store. Go in and ask if anyone has purchased a large amount of vinegar recently. You can find the reason yourself. I'll be on guard outside."

After saying that, Zuo Zhong walked away and disappeared quickly among the crowd.

The Japanese are very unusual this time. No one knows whether there are spies around the vinegar shop, so they should be more cautious in their actions.

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

ten minutes later.

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

"No, I borrowed it~"

Amid the disgusted looks of the passengers, he came to the rear of the carriage and stopped, standing next to Gui Youguang and looking out the window silently.

The warning bell rang all the way, and the tram finally stopped at Sheung Wan. Passengers poured out of the car doors and merged into the pedestrians.

Zuo Zhong and Gui Youguang also got off the bus and walked away quickly along the road. When the tram started to drive away again, only hurried pedestrians were left around the platform.

"How is it? Did you gain anything?"

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

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

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

"The other party said that the Hong Kong city and the refugees from surrounding provinces are rarely jealous. Whether it is wholesale or retail, the sales volume of "Bazhen" vinegar has not increased recently.

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

One is the Shanxi 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 for "Dongzhaihao" is mainly overseas.

The address is in Sai Wan, and the workers and bosses are all from Jin Province who came to 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."

Dongzhaihao...

Zuo Zhong had a hunch that they were not far away from finding Li Fengzhou and Juade Town. However, at times like this, they had to be more cautious and never let down their guard.

After thinking about it, he whispered to Gui Youguang that it was time to use Chao Hou and Gangcheng Station. The next control operation would require manpower.

Compared with Jinling, Shanghai, and Hong Kong Island, the area is small, so surveillance and tracking are not that difficult, as long as the manpower is spread out, it is enough.

After hearing the order, Gui Youguang kept nodding his head, repeated the order again, then turned into a fork in the road and walked towards the upper ring.

Zuo Zhong himself walked around the complicated streets of Hong Kong Island a few times, contacted Kuang Fuan again, reported the information about the "Dongzhai", and asked the other party if he had any other gains.

There may be omissions in the information provided by the manager of the "Bazhen" Vinegar Shop, and with the addition of information from the underground party, the deviation can be minimized.

Kuang Fuan did not disappoint him. After writing down the address of the "Dongzhai", he revealed the latest situation.

Underground intelligence agents lurking in a hotel discovered Yan Yiting, who checked in with his entourage two days ago, and many mysterious people appeared around him.

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

As he spoke, he also took out a few unclear photos, which showed the scene of Yan Yiting and the Japanese chatting in front of the hotel. They looked like they were taken secretly.

Taking the photo in his hand and looking at it, Zuo Zhong sneered. The Japanese were afraid that they wouldn't be able to discover Yan Yiting.

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

However, through observation and analysis, it seems that the other party is not a local of Hong Kong City, because several of them have frostbite on their hands and they also speak with a northern accent.

Kwantung Army Intelligence Department!

When Zuo Zhong heard the word frostbite, he immediately thought of this old enemy. It seemed that the Japanese did not trust the intelligence personnel in the port city and specially transferred elite personnel from the far northeast.

Also, even Dong Qiang can find out that he is being followed, and the level of the other party's actions is indeed questionable. If he were the commander of the Japs, he would not be at ease.

In addition, Zuo Zhong was once again amazed by the intelligence-gathering capabilities of the underground party. Dozens of agents at the Gangcheng Station spent a lot of money, but nothing was gained.

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

Putting the photo in his pocket, Zuo Zhong proposed to Kuang Fuan that the underground party and the fruit party should conduct double surveillance on the "Dongzhai" and follow the clues to find the residence of Li Fengzhou and others.

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

Zuo Zhong knew this very well and said this just to show his attitude and sincerity. Now is not the time to fight among ourselves. Why don't we all be honest?

After roughly discussing the next division of labor, Kuang Fuan did not stay long, politely said goodbye and walked out of the meeting point. Several pedestrians who had been lingering nearby for a long time also left immediately.

Watching this scene, Zuo Zhong showed a smile. He still didn't trust him. It didn't matter. There would be opportunities for cooperation between the two parties in the future. He thought about it and got up and left.
Chapter completed!