Chapter 26: Premonition (2)

"This is a sketch of the county town I made, I will divide the area according to this map, starting after dinner, the two of you will carefully search for all suspicious people and places in the demarcated area, don't ask me why, just do it." Tang Cheng's face looked a little stern, and even a person like Liu Shishi didn't dare to come up and ask what was going on, and the people sitting in the hall who were about to eat had to nod their heads.

Tang Cheng's side, excluding the injured Jiujin and Liu Shishi, who had to stay behind the cyclamen, turned into 13 people, and happened to form 13 pairs one-on-one with the family brought by Huang San, so Tang Cheng divided his map into 13 areas. "All of us should wear military uniforms and firearms, and if we encounter the soldiers of the garrison regiment patrolling the night, we must not make a noise, just remember what we find suspicious and come back to report me." Tang Cheng's explanation made Lao Dongbei and the others even more confused, and only a guy like Niu Laogui, who was about to become fine, could vaguely guess some suspicions.

Because of Mrs. Huang's explanation, Huang San, the head of the family, naturally went all the way with Tangcheng, Macheng is only a small county, and it is impossible to have street lights everywhere like Shanghai, so Tangcheng can only rely on the lights from the windows of the residents on the street to illuminate themselves. "Company Commander Tang, I brought all the people here, and I myself have followed you, so can you sue me for the reason?" Striding past a piece of water on the ground, Huang San took out a cigarette and handed it to Tang Cheng who was walking beside him.

"It's not a big deal, it's just a means of prevention, and it's also for the good of Macheng." Tang Cheng, who lit the cigarette in his mouth with the match drawn by Huang San, spit out a puff of smoke and looked at the house on the street. "I'm afraid that Macheng will be the same as Mengcheng traitor spies who were bought by the Japanese, Commander Huang has always said that there will be troops of the national army stationed in Macheng, but it has been a week, and the national army stationed in Macheng still has not moved at all, and now the defense of Macheng can only rely on the garrison regiment, in case there are traitor spies who are bought by the Japanese in the county, then I dare not think about the consequences."

"Japanese people aren't that powerful, are they?" Huang San, who was shocked by Tang Cheng's words, looked at Tang Cheng in disbelief, if there were really Japanese spies in the county town that Tang Cheng said, Huang San didn't need to think carefully to know what the garrison was going to face. "Hmm" Huang San, who was a little distracted, accidentally burned his mouth by a cigarette butt, and hurriedly threw the cigarette in his hand on the ground, Huang San felt that his heart was about to jump out of his cavity.

"It's not that strict, I just have this hunch, I just don't know what the results of the search will be." Huang San's cousin in the last encirclement and suppression of horse bandits had already doomed him to be a caretaker, so Tang Cheng couldn't tell him too much, and the only thing Huang San could help Tang Cheng now was to be a good guide and point out the direction for Tang Cheng, so that Tang Cheng would not get lost in the alleys of the county seat. With the panic just now, Huang San suddenly quieted down, Tang Cheng was also happy to be quiet, only when he couldn't figure out the direction, Tang Cheng would ask Huang San out loud.

"Am I being too sensitive?" Sitting in the hall of the cyclamen, Tang Cheng asked himself, after a full 3 hours of searching, the 13 teams sent out had already returned 12 teams, and the people who came back said that they had found no abnormality, and Tang Cheng himself began to waver. Only the team of the old Northeast has not returned, but Tang Cheng has no hope, the kind of person in the old Northeast will not carefully explore the suspicious, it is completely a Madaha-style man.

Sure enough, after continuing to wait for half an hour, Lao Dongbei, who smelled of wine, came back with the Huang family who was teaming up with him. "It's not that I have to drink, it's that the sixth uncle has to keep me, but his family's wine is really strong, and if I don't drink it for a day, I will panic." Seeing that everyone in the hall was staring at him, Lao Dongbei, who had a wine burp when he entered the door, hurriedly explained to Tang Cheng and them.

"Who is this sixth uncle? Do you know him well? "Tang Cheng, who rarely drinks alcohol, is not familiar with the taverns in the county town at all, so naturally he doesn't know which sixth uncle in the mouth of the old northeast is talking about." I let you go out to search the county, not to let you run to drink, if you can't control your mouth and make a mistake, you will suffer in the future. Tang Cheng, who was a little unbearable by the smell of wine in Lao Northeast's mouth, changed his face, he didn't want Lao Northeast to be involved in military law in the future.

"Didn't you find any suspicious places or people?" Covering his nose and driving away the old Northeast who had come in front of him, Tang Cheng looked at the Huang family who was teaming up with the old Northeast. These members of the Huang family are all locals, and they are familiar with the people in the county as they are with the people in Tangcheng who are familiar with wars, so don't look at the bosses who went out to search are wearing military uniforms, but the main body of the actual search team is those sent by the Huang family.

The family member who was asked by Tang Cheng shook his head and said that their group did not find anything abnormal, but Tang Cheng saw a trace of doubt in his eyes. "The Leofoo Tavern we went to doesn't seem to be much the same as usual, there is an extra young man in the tavern, and Uncle Six said that it was the child of his distant relative, but when he came to Macheng, he didn't say that he had any relatives, and the regular customers who often go to the Lukfook Tavern know about it." At Tang Cheng's suggestion, the family finally voiced his doubts.

"Leofoo Tavern?" Tang Cheng whispered this somewhat familiar name, as if he had heard this name from Liu Shishi's mouth when he took Liu Shishi out for morning exercise in the morning. "Squad Leader Niu, you take me to see this Liufu Tavern tomorrow, I heard that he likes to greet the people of the garrison there." After working for hours without a little gain, Tang Cheng finally locked his suspicions on this Leofoos Tavern.

"Company Commander Tang, do you mean to say that this Lukfook Tavern is weird?" Niu Laogui reacted the fastest, and he had already heard some signs from Tang Cheng's words. From the time Huang San brought people to Tang Cheng at night, and then Tang Cheng took out a hand-drawn sketch and said that he wanted to search the county seat, Niu Laogui has always felt that there is something strange in it, and Tang Cheng, who rarely drinks alcohol, will lobby to go to see the Leofoo Tavern, Niu Laogui has already guessed that the abnormality of Tang Cheng tonight is not good because of this Leofoo Tavern.

"It's just a suspicion, it's not sure yet." When Liu Shishi and the others went upstairs to sleep, Tang Cheng, who had been sitting in the hall, talked to Niu Laogui about the matter, "When we were in Mengcheng, we found that there were traitor spies in the city who were bought by the Japanese, and the county magistrate of Mengcheng was almost assassinated by the Japanese soldiers in ambush when he went out, Macheng is the east gate of Wuhan, there is no harm in being careful." Even in the face of Niu Laogui, Tang Cheng still didn't say anything about finding someone peeping at him when he returned to the city in the morning, "This is a troublesome matter." "Niu Laogui has not experienced the situation like Mengcheng, so naturally he will not know Tang Cheng's worries, but if Macheng really has Japanese spies in Zài, it is not good news for Macheng and the garrison." I've also been to the Leofoo Tavern, the shopkeeper is a guy in his 50s, and everyone here calls him Uncle Six, I didn't see anything wrong with that person when I arrived, and the people from the garrison group went, and the food and drinks were always slightly cheaper than other drinkers. ”

"Is the business of the Leofoo Tavern good?" After listening to Niu Laogui's words, Tang Cheng asked a question, and after getting an affirmative answer from Niu Laogui, Tang Cheng was even more sure of his judgment, this tavern was indeed strange. If the business of the Liufu Tavern is not good, the shopkeeper Sixth Uncle's familiarity with the soldiers of the garrison regiment can still be said, but Niu Laogui clearly said that the business of the Liufu Tavern is very good, since the business is very good, why should the shopkeeper named the sixth uncle look at the people of the garrison regiment differently.

If it's to find a backer, then you don't have to give preferential treatment to a defeated soldier like Lao Northeast, just go directly to Commander Huang, why be so kind to those big-headed soldiers. Tang Cheng thought quickly in his mind, strung together what Niu Laogui said and tried to find flaws in it, the shopkeeper's hospitality and boldness, the tavern business was booming, except that suddenly there was a young man who was not a local in Macheng, this Luofu Tavern didn't seem to have any flaws, "No flaws is the biggest flaw" Tang Cheng suddenly remembered what Liu Shishi said to him in the morning, Lao Dongbei didn't go to the Lukfook Tavern to drink last night, but he was kept by the sixth uncle of the shopkeeper to drink. Liu Shishi also said that the sixth uncle of the shopkeeper likes to ask about some things related to the garrison regiment, if it is just a small talk between drinkers, he can talk about something else, why does he always like to ask about the garrison from the mouth of the people of the garrison regiment.

The Huang family's family can also be sure that the young man in the Luofu Tavern is not a native of Macheng, although the young man rarely speaks, but judging from the face of the young man, this person is not a strong banker. The Luofoo Tavern has been open in Macheng for many years, and he has never heard of any relatives in the shopkeeper, and suddenly a young man who said that he is a distant relative, which has to surprise Tang Cheng.

Tang Cheng tried to find out the problem in the clues that he connected together, but after thinking about it for a long time, the doubts that he had locked before were overturned by himself one by one, and after thinking about it, Tang Cheng couldn't find anything wrong with this Leofoo Tavern. "It's night, go to bed early, he can't run if there's something wrong, and if you go and see it with your own eyes tomorrow, you'll know it all." Niu Laogui, who had been sitting in the hall with Tang Cheng, couldn't hold it anymore, persuaded Tang Cheng a few words, and went upstairs to sleep first, leaving Tang Cheng himself still sitting in the hall and meditating.

"Forget it, I don't want to think about it, it's always going to come." Tang Cheng, who was sitting alone in the hall, continued to sit for a while, and finally got up and went upstairs, all the suspicions were just waiting for tomorrow to go to the Leofoo Tavern to be clear, and it was useless to be in a hurry now.