Chapter 114: Who Did You Catch?
A faint voice came from inside the wooden box.
“Comrade Qing Hu, you are the best agent I have ever seen. I hope we can meet again in the future. Take care.”
It cannot be denied that Ye Xiao had a very high evaluation of Lin Xueli, but Lin Xueli also deserved the evaluation of being the best.
What Zhong Yuan and the others thought of was just to utilize Zhao Peng to attract the Japanese’s attention, but the subsequent plan was a complete mess.
And just yesterday, after Lin Xueli met with Zhong Yuan, Zhong Yuan described his plan in detail, Lin Xueli keenly realized that this plan was not perfect.
They only had one step, which was to let Zhao Peng divert the Japanese’s sight, and they completely did not think about what to do if Zhao Peng was exposed or the Japanese reacted.
Therefore, Lin Xueli quickly patched up the loophole in this plan.
The first step was to immediately silence Zhao Peng after he passed the message to the Japanese.
This way, Zhao Peng’s line would be completely useless, and the Japanese would not be able to locate Ye Xiao through him.
After that was the withdrawal issue. Lin Xueli considered that the Japanese might react ahead of time, so he made arrangements in advance.
Mix the medicine after the transaction with Ye Xiao into the materials of Bismarck Trading Company, and send them onto the Visty cargo ship that is about to return to the homeland.
He had long bribed the French sailors on the cargo ship, so that when the ship docked at Hong Kong Island, they would take Ye Xiao and the medicine off the cargo ship, waiting for Cai Feng, who arrived on Hong Kong Island a few days ago, to pick up the goods.
And arrange for Ye Xiao and the medicine to change direction, enter from Guangzhou, and then return to Anhui Province.
Although it was much more troublesome, safety was also guaranteed, because Lin Xueli was certain that even if the Japanese reacted at this time, they would not think that Lin Xueli would go far instead of taking the near route, not using the inland waterway from Xinkaihe and Sixteen Rows Wharf, but choosing to send the special commissioner to the periphery.
Watching the crane on the ship hoist the goods onto the ship, Lin Xueli finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Waving towards the direction of the ship, Lin Xueli picked up his briefcase and walked back as usual.
After walking for more than ten minutes and passing through the warehouse, just as Lin Xueli reached the checkpoint at International Wharf, his pupils suddenly contracted.
At this time, there were obviously more than ten people at the checkpoint.
Their steps were steady and powerful, their gazes searching everywhere with a hawk-like sharpness, and the eye contact between them was extremely tacit.
These people are secret agents…
Lin Xueli instantly made a judgment in his heart.
Just as he wanted to turn back, the other party keenly spotted his figure.
“Hey hey hey, you in the long gown, come over, Special Affairs Committee is handling a case.”
Special Affairs Committee? Countless possibilities flashed through Lin Xueli’s mind. He was exposed? Impossible. If he was exposed, the other party wouldn’t be so polite.
The greatest possibility was that the Japanese had already reacted and were checking each wharf one by one. They just happened to run into them.
“I’m talking to you, what are you spacing out for? Come over quickly.” The secret agent from afar cursed and rushed over…
“Ouch!” With an exclamation, Lin Xueli was hit by the other party’s deliberate and fierce force, stumbling and his body suddenly tilting to the right.
The briefcase in his hand could no longer be held, and it flew out of his hand!
“Pa da!”
The briefcase heavily fell on the wet cement ground.
The clasp popped open from the impact, and the notebook, steel pen, customs declaration slip inside fell all over the ground, even a bottle of cooling oil specially prepared for summer…
“Kid, I called you and you didn’t respond. Are you trying to run?”
“Tell me, are you Communist Party?”
Lin Xueli stood up awkwardly and said: “Officer, you misunderstood. I am the manager of Bismarck Trading Company in the French Concession, and also a clerk of the Municipal Council.”
“When you called me just now, I thought something happened and was a bit distracted, so I didn’t come over right away.”
The secret agent said viciously: “Still freaking lying.”
“Look at you, sneaky looking, clearly not a good person.”
“Come with us…”
“Misunderstanding, misunderstanding,” Lin Xueli nodded and bowed: “Officer, it’s really a misunderstanding.”
“Everyone on the wharf can prove that I am not Communist Party, I am just the manager of Bismarck Trading Company.”
“I just came to ship goods.”
The man pulled a long face: “I don’t care what company you are from. Our order is to grab every one except foreigners.”
“Less nonsense, go.”
As soon as the words fell, the man pushed Lin Xueli onto a black van parked roadside without any explanation. At this time, the back of the van was stuffed with quite a few people, including the foreman Old Ma whom Lin Xueli knew.
After pushing Lin Xueli onto the vehicle, the man turned around and closed the door. As the footsteps faded away, Old Ma’s voice sounded beside Lin Xueli: “Manager Lin, you were also caught by them.”
“Sigh, think of a way to notify your family to raise money.”
Lin Xueli frowned: “Old Ma, what do you mean?”
Old Ma sighed: “Manager Lin, do you really think they caught you because you are suspected of being Communist Party? Ridiculous. With millions of people in Shanghai, where do so many Communist Party members come from? They are kidnapping people for extortion under the guise of catching Communist Party.”
“Look at you wearing a silk jacket, clearly someone with some money. Who else would they grab if not you?”
“Don’t worry, I’ve seen a lot of this when I was in the Green Gang. After going in, cooperate a bit, do whatever they tell you to do.”
“As long as you can pay up, they won’t trouble you. Don’t overthink it, just treat it as money to avoid disaster.”
Only then did Lin Xueli understand what was going on. Looking through the car window at the secret agents chatting enthusiastically at the checkpoint, Lin Xueyi let out a long sigh.
Shanghai, No. 625 Daxi Road, Nanjing Special Affairs Committee Shanghai Office.
Eight in the morning, Zhang Zixian carried fried dough sticks and soy milk, yawning as he went up to the second floor Intelligence Section office.
Nanjing Special Affairs Committee Shanghai Office is divided into three units: Action Team, Intelligence Department, and General Affairs Section responsible for overall coordination.
Zhang Zixian is the nephew of Director Zuo Mingquan. This is a newly established unit, so Zuo Mingquan arranged for him to be a team leader in the Intelligence Department.
The power is not great, but he can manage more than ten people.
Moreover, because of his relation to Zuo Mingquan, some shady dealings also have to go through him.
Entering the office, as soon as Zhang Zixian sat down, his subordinate Chang Mao stuck close.
“Team leader, yesterday the Action Team caught a batch of people. Same old rules, wrote down addresses, let their families come pay ransom.”
“Take a look, this is the list.”
Zhang Zixian chewed on the fried dough stick while flipping through the list in his hand: “Whoa, quite a few caught yesterday.”
“Hmm, why are they all wharf workers? Not much profit in this.”
Chang Mao said with a grin: “There are, there are. Later caught a business firm manager. That guy is pretty rich, wearing silk clothes. I reckon just that jacket is worth several silver dollars.”
“There’s such a thing? Let me see who it is?” Zhang Zixian held the fried dough stick in his mouth and flipped to the next page.
When he saw the address behind Lin Xueli’s name, his whole body shook, and a sense of foreboding arose.
“You, you fucking grabbed who? Damn it, you caused big trouble, you know that?”
“Has the letter been sent out? Speak!”
