Chapter 165: Black Cat Bar
This June day is like a child's face, changing as soon as you say it.
It was still sunny in the morning, and by noon, there was lightning and lightning, followed by heavy rain, but not long after, the sky was filled with red glow again.
This God is born with a fickle face.
"Mengyao, have the hospital been injured recently? There have been too many knife injuries?" Lu Xiyan asked, "Is the public security in the French Concession so bad?"
"Doctor Lu, it's not peaceful recently. There are many vicious cases of robbery and murder. Even the concession police officers were robbed and killed." Xi Mengyao said with some concern.
"I didn't pay attention to this. What's going on?"
"How can I know? Anyway, this matter is indispensable to the Japanese." Xi Mengyao smiled embarrassedly.
"Well, I'll ask Tang Jin. If this continues, the hospital's trauma medicine consumption will be too fast. The trauma surgery in our department has increased by 30% this month." Lu Xiyan nodded and said.
Drugs are tight and prices are rising. Guangci Hospital, the largest hospital in the French Concession, has also experienced a shortage of drugs. The price of trauma drugs in the market is one price per day.
Generally, public security cases are not under the control of the Political Department. In recent days, Lu Xiyan, the political department consultant, has been relatively leisurely.
I am a little sorry for the salary that Tang Jin gave him.
The man couldn't help but mutter. As soon as he said a few words about Tang Jin, Tang Jin's phone number was hung in his office.
"Lao Lu, if you have time tonight, come out to drink?"
"Okay, but you know how much I drink. If you drink too much, you have to send me back." Lu Xiyan smiled and agreed.
"Okay, let Ma Xiaowu pick you up, he knows the place." After saying that, Tang Jin hung up the phone.
Ma Xiaowu knew the place. Maybe others wouldn't care too much about this sentence, but after becoming a "military advisor" for this period of time, he became sensitive. He became sensitive. Any sentence, even a word, used in a different tone, would have different meanings.
He didn’t know what Ma Xiaowu knew, what does it mean?
The relationship between Ma Xiaowu and Tang Jin and the others is much closer than that between him and Tang Jin. Otherwise, it would be impossible for him to know something that even he did not know. Ma Xiaowu knew.
Hopefully he thought about it.
Ma Xiaowu doesn't look like a very cunning person, after all, he is not very old.
"Xiao Wu, come to pick me up after get off work. Old Tang treats me tonight. He said you know the place." Lu Xiyan thought for a while and called Ma Xiao Wu at home.
...
Zhu Bao San Road, a bar street in the French Concession, with thirteen bars opened in the streets less than a hundred meters. The place where Ma Xiaowu knew about it was the Black Cat Bar.
This is a very small bar, with only a neon sign with a black cat logo at the door, which is easy to enter and exit by one person. If a person with a slightly larger body size, it is really not easy to enter.
This is a typical English country bar. After entering, there are seven or eight steps, and the closet is placed against the wall. There is a long row of counters in front of the counter, and a row of single-post round stools on the outside of the counter.
When Lu Xiyan and Ma Wu came in, they had already seen Tang Jin and Qi Huan. They were not sitting in front of the counter, but were sitting in a locker in the corner.
They ordered a glass of beer, and they were chatting in a word.
Seeing Lu Xiyan, Tang Jin waved his hand.
Lu Xiyan and Ma Xiaowu walked over.
"Brother Tang, this place is pretty good and quite romantic." Lu Xiyan sat down and said, "And it's quite cool, how can I do it?"
"Haha, there is a water circulation system here, which pumps the cold well water from the ground, then circulates through these pipes, and then returns to the well." Tang Jin said, "So, of course, it's not hot here."
"Awesome, who came up with this system?"
"I'm the owner of the bar, I'm from MIT." Tang Jinchong waved his hand at the middle-aged bearded uncle wearing a vest and a big bow tie in the bar counter.
"Jack, this is Lu Xiyan, Dr. Lu!"
"Hello." Lu Xiyan hurriedly reached out to him.
The middle-aged bearded uncle named Jack smiled slightly, reached out and introduced himself politely, "Dr. Lu, my name is Tian Miao, my English name is Jack, and the guests all like to call me Captain."
"Dr. Lu is my good friend and the consultant of the Franchise Room. He has a very good medical skills. Jack, if you have any problems, you can go to Guangci Hospital to find him directly." Tang Jin smiled.
"Is that true? I will ask Dr. Lu to take care of me in the future. I always feel like I can't help myself recently." Tian Miao's eyes lit up.
Can't do it?
Lu Xiyan smiled awkwardly, without saying a word, and said intently, where are you unable to do it?
"Lao Lu, what are you drinking?"
"Ice beer, no matter what you drink this day, it's better to drink." Lu Xiyan said.
"Okay, then let's get a slap first."
"I have just arrived German tan beer here. Do you want to give you some?" Tian Miao said with a smile.
"good."
German stout beer tastes good. Lu Xiyan has drunk it in France and feels quite nostalgic. It is not easy to drink authentic German stout beer in Shanghai.
"Old talk, this Jack?"
"Opening a bar is a side job, and his job is an intelligence broker." Tang Jin whispered, "He only does international intelligence business, and of course, he occasionally does some arms smuggling."
“Martial smuggling?”
Lu Xiyan was shocked. Arms smuggling was strictly prohibited. Most people would never have this channel. This bearded man who looked a little vicissitudes actually had such a deep background.
"Don't underestimate him. He really studied in the United States in his early years. He studied at MIT with a double master's degree in machinery and chemistry. After returning to China, he worked at the Hanyang Iron Factory, went to the Northeast, and stayed at the Fengtian Arsenal for five years. Later in September 18th, Shanghai was proficient in the six languages of English, French, Russian, German, Italian and Spanish. Shanghai is the Far East Intelligence Center. There are various intelligence exchanges here every day. Although Jack is not the most famous, his news is the most accurate and the price is the most reasonable." Tang Jin explained in a low voice.
"Tang, use your dark beer slowly!" Tian Miao came over with a slaughter of dark beer and four glass cups.
"Come and toast!"
"Consultant Lu, you don't know yet. Detective Tang has been promoted, Inspector General!" Qi Huan said.
"Is that true, what happened at the right time?" Lu Xiyan said in surprise.
"I just got the news. If it was announced to the public, it would take a few days." Tang Jin smiled. It was basically overwhelming that Chinese people were able to become inspector general in the judicial arrest room, but Tang Jin was still young, so what happened in the future is still unclear.
The Inspector General is already a senior executive of the legal arrest house and has a certain say.
"Congratulations, Brother Tang." Lu Xiyan raised his glass and said, "Why did Tang Jin suddenly ask him to come out to drink today and bring him to such a place.
It turns out that people feel refreshed when they are happy!
"Thank you." Tang Jin said, "The Political Department of the Filing House may set up a spy squad next. The squad leader must be the French, but we are still the ones who do it."
"This spy squad is specifically responsible for cooperating with the Japanese."
"Cooperate with the Japanese's work?" Lu Xiyan said in surprise, "What does it mean?"
"That is, all cases involving Japanese expatriates and anti-Japanese wars, including arrest, interrogation, extradition and other matters of suspects, will be handled by this spy team. If the spy team cannot handle it, it will be reported upwards." Tang Jin explained.
"The French are going to bow their heads to the Japanese, too?"
"That's about this. The Public and Directors Bureau hopes to maintain the security and personnel safety of the French Concession as much as possible, and does not want to over-angry the Japanese." Tang Jin said.
"Bullying the weak is afraid of the strong, and the French are so timid!" Qi Huan hummed angrily.
"I can only talk about this in private, but I can't talk about it to the outside world, come and drink." Tang Jin raised his glass and said.
"Why haven't Lao Cao come yet?"
"Yes, he is usually very punctual." Qi Huan couldn't help but mutter.
After waiting for about half an hour, a beer pill was over. Another one was asked for another. Cao Bin came late. He clasped his fists to apologize when he arrived, and even punished himself with three glasses of beer.
"What's going on? Lao Cao, you have always been very punctual and never been late?" Tang Jin asked.
"I forgot to bring my wallet when I went out, so I turned it back and got it." Cao Bin smiled, "This is not that Old Tang is going to be promoted. I will buy this order tonight."
Excuse!
Everyone could hear that Tang Jin handed over the drink tonight and would let Cao Bin pay for it. Isn’t this slap him in the face?
Seeing through but not saying it out loud, Tang Jin, the master, didn't say anything about this kind of thing. Of course he wouldn't pick it out. Although he was in this circle, they didn't want him to know some things.
He was also so happy that he pretended to be confused.
"Jack, let's have two more stout beer!"
Jack smiled slightly and made an "OK" gesture. The customer was God, not to mention that the customers who came to him all had extraordinary identities.
Adventurers, pilots, journalists, lawyers, down-and-out soldiers, etc., are frequent visitors of this Black Cat Bar.
In a while, many people came into this bar one after another.
More than half of the attendance.
Lu Xiyan's French and English are OK, and he can understand Japanese, but not other languages, such as Spanish and Russian, so he can't understand them at all, and German can understand some words.
The guests in this bar can gather a Eight-Nation Alliance.
"This bar is an intelligence exchange. You can spend money to buy intelligence and exchange information. As long as both parties are willing to do so, you can buy anything and sell anything." Tang Jin introduced.
"Is military intelligence OK?"
"Yes, but military intelligence is not easy to obtain, the price is more expensive, and life-threatening, so generally, the transaction is not carried out here, but is negotiated and carried out in private." Tang Jin explained.
"I understand." Lu Xiyan nodded.
"I don't come often. Cao Bin is a regular here. He is very familiar with Jack. He has had several pleasant cooperations with each other." Tang Jin said.
"If Brother Tang hadn't brought me here, I wouldn't have known that Shanghai would be the same place. I would have been so ignorant." Lu Xiyan smiled.
"You can meet anyone here, and it's not uncommon to meet Japanese people." Tang Jin said.
While speaking, a charming figure appeared at the door, with a black hollow cheongsam, bulging in front and back, and holding a folding fan in his hand, with red lips like hooks.
"Why is she here?"
"Brother Tang knows me?"
"Old Lu, it's not surprising that you haven't seen it before. She is Takeuchi Yunko." Tang Jin said.
"She is Takeuchi Yunko?" Lu Xiyan had never seen Takeuchi Yunko himself, but he had seen it in the photo. After Tang Jin said this, he immediately recognized it.
Chapter completed!