I have to say that the brain circuits of these plainclothes are very magical, but the military police are not stupid either. How could they be willing to be blamed? So the two groups started blaming each other here. Tangcheng had a good night's sleep and woke up
It was already approaching dinner time. After briefly washing up, Tang Cheng packed his equipment bag and was ready to go out for dinner. Just when he was about to open the door, he suddenly heard someone talking outside the door. One of them was from this apartment.
The Belarusian landlord of the building.
The main reason why Tangcheng chose to rent an apartment here is because the landlord of this apartment building is a Belarusian. Most of these Belarusians who have long been homeless and living in the Shanghai Concession have become the lowest level of the poor.
Only a handful of people bought real estate and built apartments. But these Belarusians are very fond of money. In other words, they are all like Grandet. Tang Cheng came to Shanghai this time, but he brought enough working capital.
Therefore, anything that can be solved with money is not a problem.
When Tangcheng rented this place, he paid the rent for half a year at once. It is rare to see a straightforward and generous tenant like him. It was just that Tangcheng was negligent. After being irritated, the Special High School and the Military Police Headquarters would be willing to
Paying a large reward, almost all the gangs in the concession were mobilized, and began to secretly investigate the new faces in the concession. Japanese and puppet spies or military police came to investigate, and the people who secretly hated them still accounted for the majority in the concession, so the Japanese and puppets
Investigations by secret agents and military police can only be fruitless.
But if another gang comes to inquire, the situation will be different, because the person being questioned cannot abandon his family and career to deal with these gang members. As long as they are in the concession, they will have to face these gang members all the time.
Compared with the ubiquitous threats, most of them will choose to compromise. This is the case of the Belarusian landlord who is being questioned outside the door at this moment. If he drives these gang members out forcefully, then from now on, his apartment will be
If you have a building, you will always be threatened and destroyed by gangs in the concession.
Now the Japanese are the masters of Shanghai, and the Concession Industry Bureau has long existed in name only, and is no longer able to protect the interests of foreigners like them. The next second, Tang Cheng heard a knock on the door, took a deep breath, and reached out to open the door.
He opened the door. "Mr. Ivan, what's the matter?" Seeing Tang Cheng standing inside the door with the same expression as usual, the landlord Ivan secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He was once a member of the Belarusian Army and lived in Tangcheng.
On the first day I came in, I could tell that Tang Cheng was no ordinary person.
In order to continue to survive in Shanghai stably, landlord Ivan wisely
I chose to pretend to be deaf and dumb. After all, Tangcheng was very generous and paid half a year's rent at once. The landlord Ivan also heard about what happened in the concession during this period. Thinking about it when these things happened, Tangcheng, the
The generous tenant was not in the apartment. The landlord Ivan's first reaction was that the things that happened in the concession were most likely related to Tangcheng.
The landlord Ivan, who was suddenly approached by gang forces, initially thought that these guys who were helping the Japanese were just doing errands. But what he didn't expect was that these guys asked more and more details, and finally forced him to hold the key.
Go upstairs and open the rooms one by one for them to search. Among all the tenants, Ivan is most worried about the elusive Tang Cheng. At this moment, seeing Tang Cheng in the room with his usual expression, Ivan feels that he has been hanging on
My heart finally fell to the ground.
"Are you Zhao Song?" A strong man with a scar on his left face stretched out his hand to push Ivan away and looked at Tang Cheng who was standing inside the door. Hearing this, Tang Cheng did not answer immediately, but turned his head slightly and looked at the person being
The landlord Ivan who was pushed aside saw this and immediately explained. When Ivan learned that the other party was here to search, Tang Cheng did not get out of the way, but looked at the group of men in short shirts with a puzzled expression.
"Are you the police?" Tang Cheng's rhetorical question immediately made the expressions of the men in short shirts become gloomy. Seeing that the other party did not answer, Tang Cheng tilted the corner of his mouth with a hint of arrogance on his face. "Since you are not the police, why?
Do you want to exercise police power? Since you are not police, what qualifications do you have to search my room?" Tang Cheng didn't care what the other party's expression was, he also ignored the landlord Ivan's wink at this moment.
Tang Cheng's series of rhetorical questions sounded no problem, but what he was facing now were the gang members in the concession. These guys who were used to lawlessness would not pay attention to what the glutton said. "Hey! What are you going to do?
?" Tang Cheng, who was full of momentum just now, was directly pushed away by the scar-faced man. The group of men in short shirts followed him and poured into Tang Cheng's room. The furious Tang Cheng shouted, but these men were just looking around.
The man in a short shirt who was rummaging around ignored him at all.
Tangcheng, who has a carry-on equipment bag, will never face trouble.
The things were placed outside, so it was impossible for the gang members who broke into the room to find anything that interested them. They were a little disappointed that they did not find any abnormal gang members, but they did not do anything to Tang Cheng, because Tang Cheng was wearing
Not bad, and judging from the momentum with which he spoke just now, he might also have a background. "Mr. Ivan, what is going on?" Tang Cheng deliberately pretended to be confused and looked at the landlord.
The landlord Ivan, who was also pretending to be pitiful, was already cursing in his heart, saying that if you don't know what's going on, then I don't know either. But he didn't want to cause trouble, so he faced Tang Cheng's inquiry.
, the landlord Ivan quietly informed Tang Cheng, who was full of doubts, about what happened in the concession in a low voice. "Ah! So that's it! I went to Tianjin to handle goods these days, so I didn't know about the concession yet.
What happened here!" The answer given by Tang Cheng made the landlord Ivan feel that his back was wet.
"You said you went to Tianjin these days, can anyone prove it?" Sure enough, the scar-faced man had been paying attention to Tangcheng. When cold sweat broke out on the landlord Ivan's back, the scar-faced man raised his head and looked at Tangcheng.
.This Scarface is obviously a little boss. Maybe he heard something wrong in the tone of Scarface’s words. The other men in short shirts who were wandering around the room rummaging around immediately stopped what they were doing and turned around to look at him with bright eyes.
Ivan went to Tangcheng. Ivan, who was thinking bad things, no longer knew what to do. He was worried that he would be implicated.
However, Tang Cheng spoke calmly, "I have the ship ticket that arrived last night, and the bill of lading. These can prove that I was in Tianjin a few days ago!" Tang Cheng was now secretly glad that he had actually obtained the order from the system.
, and pulled out a ship ticket and a bill of lading. When I drew these things, I didn’t know what was going on. I never thought that I would use these seemingly irrelevant things now. I have seen Tangcheng from
The ferry ticket and bill of lading were taken out of the wallet. The expression on the scarred face was still gloomy, but the suspicion in his eyes had dissipated a lot.
The landlord Ivan has been in Shanghai for many years and is already an authentic China hand. Now that he saw the ferry tickets and the bill of lading that Tangcheng produced, he was truly relieved. The gangsters could not come to the fore, even though they were acting for them.
The Japanese are good at doing things, but facing Tang Cheng, who has no flaws, they don't dare to go too far. The crisis has been passed, but Tang Cheng's vigilance has not relaxed. The appearance of these gang members has given Tang Cheng
The city was given a wake-up call.
Half an hour later, Ivan, the landlord who had left Scarface and their friends, knocked on the door of Tangcheng. "Who are you? The ferry ticket can be old, and the bill of lading can also be forged. You are definitely not
A businessman!" Landlord Ivan looked at Tang Cheng with a look that was no longer doubtful but affirmative. Faced with Landlady Ivan's suspicion, Tang Cheng just smiled faintly and after inviting the other party to sit down, Tang Cheng took out his lighter.
Lighting a cigarette, he whispered to the landlord Ivan.
"Since you doubted me, why didn't you expose me in front of those people just now?" Tang Cheng handed the lighter and cigarettes to the other party with a chuckle. The landlord Ivan was stunned when he heard this. Obviously, he did not think of Tang Cheng.
would give such an answer. Before the landlord Ivan could speak, Tang Cheng continued, "Uncle Ivan, it is a good thing to be curious, but sometimes curiosity can kill people!" Tang Cheng said
As he spoke, he reached out to lift up the sofa cushions and took out a pistol from under the cushions.
Ivan, who had been a member of the Belarusian Army, was naturally no stranger to pistols, but his attention at the moment was not on the pistol, but on Tang Cheng's face. According to his experience, it seemed harmless.
Tang Cheng is actually a ruthless person. Especially when Tang Cheng slapped his pistol on the table just now, Ivan did not see even the slightest change in Tang Cheng's expression. The calmer a person is when things happen,
The scarier it is, this is what Ivan says from his experience in Shanghai for many years.
It was obvious that the young man in front of him was indeed no ordinary person. Ivan wanted to say that he was not here to threaten Tangcheng. But Tangcheng did not give Ivan a chance to explain, "Uncle Ivan, are you?
Landlord, I'm just a tenant! Shanghai is very big, but also very small. The relationship between us is that of landlord and tenant, nothing more!" Tang Cheng looked at landlord Ivan with a half-smile, although he looked tall and tall.
He looked very tough, but Tang Cheng was absolutely sure that he could defeat the opponent in one face-to-face encounter.
Perhaps he noticed the deep meaning in Tang Cheng's words. The landlord Ivan nodded awkwardly, grabbed the cigarette on the table and lit one. Then he didn't say anything, just got up and left. After watching the landlord leave, Tang Cheng,
Still sitting on the sofa without moving, he didn't know whether his warning just now would be effective for the Belarusian landlord. But he knew that it was no longer safe here, and he had to find another place to stay before leaving Shanghai.