My spy diary

Chapter 43 Troubleshooting (please recommend and vote monthly)
Si Ma Lane.

This is a small alley one person wide and only a dozen meters deep.

There are residential areas on both sides of the alley, with the road in front and behind on one side and the vegetable market on the other.

When Zhang Yi and others arrived, they saw a group of children playing hide and seek in the alley.

He was smart and ran away immediately when he saw several tough men, leaving only a three- or four-year-old child crying on the spot.

Hearing the child's cry, a woman wearing a coarse cloth walked in from the alley. She held the child in her arms with a vigilant look on her face and was about to leave immediately, but was stopped by Zhang Yi.

The woman's face changed, and she said tremblingly: "Boss, the children are not sensible, so I am presumptuous."

"Don't worry, we are not bad people and we won't do anything to you. Just ask a few questions." Zhang Yi waved to the monkey and whispered a few words.

Then set your sights on the dead mailbox behind the elm tree.

The so-called dead mailbox is a storage device used by agents to transmit intelligence, receive instructions, or place small spy tools. There are fixed, portable, etc.

It could be behind a turned head, or it could be a dog.

But no matter what it is, it must not be easily discovered by others, and it must be accurately identified by the contact person.

Finally, it must be located somewhere where the spy would have a reason to be at any time.

Therefore, fixed dead mailboxes are usually set up in remote alleys, or in parks, water tanks in cafe bathrooms, under seats in movie theaters, etc.

The dead mailbox behind the elm tree was originally supposed to be a movable brick, but now it was completely covered with mud.

The graffiti under the dead mailbox has also been manually erased.

Want to cover up.

Zhang Yi sneered and watched the monkey running over with chocolates and candies.

After taking it, he smiled and looked at the curious boy who had stopped crying in his mother's arms.

He handed the chocolates and candies to the boy and asked, "Little brother, do you want to eat them?"

The little boy may have only eaten candy, but he was immediately attracted by the beautifully packaged chocolate and reached for it directly.

Just as his mother wanted to stop him, she was stopped by Liu Kui's fierce look.

Seeing that the little boy had torn open the chocolate and licked it, Zhang Yi asked:

"Little brother, do you often hide and seek here?"

"correct."

"Oh, have you ever seen any adults come here?" Zhang Yi said and pointed to the dead mailbox behind the elm tree.

"No." The little boy shook his head and concentrated on eating chocolate.

Liu Kui snorted coldly, looked at the child's mother with a grin, and threatened:
"Let him think carefully, otherwise"

"Okay." Zhang Yi felt that Liu Kui was going too far. We are not Japs entering the village. Although he was a little disappointed, he still said kindly to the woman:
"Okay, let's go."

Seeing the woman running away with fear on her face, Zhang Yi said to several people:
"Separate the candies and chocolates, and ask the children nearby to see if you have seen anyone entering the alley in the past few days, especially staying at the elm tree."

"Yes." Although several people were a little disapproving, they still took the order.

Zhang Yi walked through the alley and fixed his eyes on the vegetable market opposite. If he could take the opportunity to buy vegetables, he could stop by.
Half an hour later, I saw Monkey leading a dirty little boy of six or seven years old.

He said with joy on his face: "Captain, I have gained something."

"Oh", Zhang Yi immediately looked at the little boy.

But the little boy stared straight at the chocolate in the monkey's hand, swallowed his saliva and asked:
"I told you, are you really going to give me foreign candies?"

"Of course, as long as the information you tell is useful, I will buy you another box, but if you dare to lie,"

"Who is lying? I won't lie. I am Sun Wukong, and I want to beat Tathagata Buddha." The little boy was very courageous, with a look of disdain on his face.

"Okay, Sun Wukong, let's talk about it." Zhang Yi laughed dumbly.

"Yesterday, no, the day before yesterday, we were playing hide and seek. We saw an aunt carrying a vegetable basket enter the alley. She stayed under the elm tree for a while, wondering what she was doing."

"Oh, the aunt holding the vegetable basket? Do you remember what she is wearing and what she looks like?"

"How do I remember this? He seems to be wearing gray clothes. I don't know what he looks like. My piercing eyes haven't been trained yet." "Sun Wukong" frowned, and then asked urgently:

"Can you give me chocolate now?"

"Okay, keep your word." Zhang Yi nodded, let the monkey take the person away, and muttered:

"Gray clothes, holding a vegetable basket, middle-aged woman." He concluded that this woman was either a housewife or a servant of some family, and she must live not far from here.

Immediately he ordered Liu Kui: "Call the team immediately to allocate manpower. Some people will search nearby and inquire, and some will keep an eye on the vegetable market. I must find the person."

"Yes." Liu Kui responded solemnly. He didn't expect Zhang Yi to dig out clues about Japanese spies from a few brats. He secretly cursed his luck, but said:

"The captain really knows everything."

"Haha." Zhang Yi smiled, he was also a dead horse but still a living horse doctor.

After working all afternoon, I gained nothing.

It was not until 5 p.m. when more and more people were buying food and cooking that we finally made a discovery.

But these days, ordinary people wear coarse linen clothes, and only those from better-off families wear floral cotton cheongsams. Those women wearing silk brocade cheongsams will not come to the wet market.

So at this moment, the action team intercepted more than thirty women buying vegetables from the vegetable market.

For a moment, the crowd was in a commotion. Some people were begging and wanting to go back early, and some aggressive ones were already making noises.

Zhang Yi winked at Liu Kui, who flashed the gun in his hand with a cold face, and the crowd fell silent instantly.

Zhang Yi observed the changes in the expressions of these women and asked the monkey to find the little boy again and identify him.

"Sun Wukong" heard that there was chocolate to eat again, so he came quickly.

His small face flashed across the faces of the frightened women, pointing at one person and saying, "It's her."

Zhang Yi and Liu Kui were overjoyed. They were about to instruct plainclothes people to arrest people, but they saw "Monkey King" frowning and shaking his head, pointing to another person and saying: "Her."

"Who is it? You little bastard." Liu Kui slapped the boy on the back of the head.

"Sun Wukong" said with a sad face: "It seems so, but it seems that he didn't wear the clothes that day."

"Oh," Zhang Yi nodded and looked at the two isolated women in the crowd.

A man in his thirties, wearing a gray coarse cloth jacket, trousers that were obviously a little too short, and a pair of black cloth shoes with stains on them.

The skin on her face was dry and exposed to the sun and wind. Although she looked delicate, it was full of traces of life. There were wrinkles at the corners of her eyes.

At this moment, she was being stared at, with a fearful look on her face, and her body was trembling a little.

The other one was about forty years old, wearing a sea-blue jacket. Although she looked like a servant, her hair was meticulously styled. Although she was a little reserved and scared at the moment, she was undoubtedly much calmer than the previous woman.

"Catch them."

Zhang Yi waved his hand, and some plainclothes men rushed towards him.

The thirty-year-old woman's eyes were red as she was being held up, and she bit her lips to prevent herself from crying.

The meticulously dressed woman struggled and said: "What are you doing? Let me go. My husband is from the staff department."

Before she could finish her words, Liu Kui slapped her hard.

"Stretch out your hands."

Zhang Yi stepped forward and looked directly at the two of them.

The former raised his hands tremblingly in fear and confusion. Zhang Yi took a look and saw that there were marks on them, some dirt on his nails, and his rough hands were covered with calluses.

The latter was still resisting, but two plainclothes men pulled his hand out.

Zhang Yi grabbed the woman's well-maintained hand, stared into her stubborn and resisting eyes, and turned her hand over with force.

This woman's fingers are slender but curved, which is the result of long-term telegraphing.

Zhang Yi sneered: "That's her, take her away."

Then he motioned to his men to let go of the first woman, took out a few large sums of money from his pocket, and said, "I'm sorry, sister-in-law, I'm presumptuous. Take this money back to improve your life."

After saying this, he stuffed it into the woman's hand without waiting for her to speak.

"Where are the others? Captain?" Liu Kui asked.

"Register all names and addresses, and then release them." Zhang Yi ordered, thought for a while and then said:
"Give them a dollar each as an apology, that's all."

"Yes." Liu Kui agreed, holding his tongue, and secretly scolded Zhang Yi for being soft-hearted and having no place to spend the money. These women just dismissed him, and none of them dared to say a word.

He was about to execute the order when he heard an exclamation and saw Zhang Yi rushing out.

(End of this chapter)