The agent who came up from downstairs stayed in the Tianzi private room for about ten minutes, and then pretended to leave the teahouse and went down to the lobby on the first floor, nodded lightly to Yuan Shiheng, who was full of inquiry, and then left.
Yuan Shiheng suddenly became excited, he lived up to the preparation work he had done, and now he had finally identified the target person and was about to start acting.
After another hour or so, after Xu Wenwu and Dong Xianda finished talking about work, they left the private room first, went downstairs, and walked out of this Lanting teahouse.
What he didn't expect was that just as he was about to walk out of the door of the teahouse, a fat tea customer who was originally concentrating on reading the newspaper seemed to have an itch in his throat, cleared his throat and spit out a mouthful of sticky phlegm to the ground.
Outside the teahouse, a person who was shining shoes at a shoeshine stall happened to have finished polishing his shoes and stood up to pay, while another person who was looking at the comb at the street stall also seemed to be dissatisfied with the stall owner's asking price, put down the comb in his hand, and prepared to leave.
Xu Wenwu walked out of the Lanting Teahouse, looked at the streets on the left and right, as if he was not familiar with this place, and wanted to find the direction after coming out, and then turned left and walked to the street.
This is what he has always been in the habit of, and when he leaves the joint location, he always subconsciously looks around to see if there are any eyesores around him.
Xu Wenwu's pace was not fast, and he was still holding the book he brought under his armpit, which had two functions.
One is that it can be used to prove his identity, especially when he is interrogated by the Japanese, because his cover identity is the owner of the Tongwen bookstore, and carrying a book with him seems to be very consistent with his cover identity.
Another function of this book is that he can use it to observe whether there is a 'tail' prop behind him, and if someone is following him behind his coat, then he can pretend that he has not kept the book clamp steady and fall to the ground, and then use the opportunity to pick up the book to take a look at the situation behind him.
For a long time, Xu Wenwu has used this method to observe the situation behind him, because it is impossible for him to walk and turn his head suddenly, which will seem very abrupt, and it will easily attract the attention of the people around him.
According to the usual practice, Xu Wenwu kept walking along the street to the end, and then began to turn, and at the moment of the turn, the book he was holding under his armpit fell, so he bowed down at the bend and picked up the book on the ground, and at the same time his eyes quickly glanced in the direction he came from.
Pedestrians on the street are in a hurry, and there is no person who walks very slowly or suddenly stops to pretend to look at something of interest on the side of the road, and generally speaking, the stalker will be a little caught off guard when the target person suddenly stops or looks backwards, and takes temporary measures to cover up their purpose, which will expose the stalker's tracks.
And generally speaking, in order not to follow the target, the tracker is behind the tracked target, and the faster the target goes, the faster the tracker will be; If the target is slow, then the tracker is slow, which is actually easy to expose the tracker as well.
Xu Wenwu was still very satisfied with the situation behind him, because the speed and reaction of the pedestrians behind him were not unusual, as if he was indifferent to him accidentally dropped a book on the ground.
Several other people walked past him and hurried forward.
So Xu Wenwu continued to pick up the book on the ground, patted the ashes, and continued to clinch his armpit and turn right to continue walking.
Unbeknownst to him, the two stalkers did not even look at him when his book fell to the ground, and continued to walk at the same pace, while one of them, with his leather shoes shining, had already overtaken him and walked in front of him when he picked up the book from the ground.
The man's steps even quickened slightly, and then he glanced at a young couple who had just walked out of the silk village on the side of the street with imperceptible eyes, and then walked forward more than twenty meters into a street shop.
The young couple looked at Xu Wenwu, who was passing in front of them, and smiled similarly, and the woman said to the man next to her: "I want to go to the park for a walk, can you accompany me?"
” "Okay, I'll accompany you wherever you want to go, let's go."
After speaking, the man bent his right hand, and the woman naturally took the man's hand and followed Xu Wenwu not far behind, walking unhurriedly.
Xu Wenwu didn't notice the abnormality behind him, he still crossed the street at the speed just now, and after reaching the end, he stopped again, where did a child selling cigarettes on the side of the street pay for a pack of cigarettes, and at the same time glanced at the street again with seemingly casual movements.
Xu Wenwu still couldn't find anything unusual during this observation, because he didn't see the familiar faces he had last observed, which meant that no one was following him, which made him feel a lot more relieved.
So Xu Wenwu turned the corner and walked half a street away, then he stretched out his hand and beckoned a rickshaw and left.
His destination was Xizigong South Street, which was across the street from the Tongwen Bookstore on Shamao Street, which was not a street, there were not many pedestrians, and there were various small alleys like a maze.
Every time Xu Wenwu went back with his comrades in the party, he would get off the bus here, and then go through those alleys and return to the Tongwen bookstore.
Since there are few pedestrians here, he can easily spot the 'tail' behind him if anyone is still following.
This method is also a last resort for him to counter-track, once he finds the 'tail', he can shake off the 'tail' behind him through these labyrinthine alleys.
When Xu Wenwu stretched out his hand, the young couple following him seemed a little surprised, but soon they turned their eyes to a man in a suit and leather shoes who was buying a newspaper on the street, and then calmly overtook Xu Wenwu and walked forward.
And the man in the suit and leather shoes also began to reach out to recruit the rickshaw after buying the newspaper, and by the time he recruited the rickshaw, the rickshaw Xu Wenwu was sitting in had already gone away.
He hurriedly said to the rickshaw driver: "Follow the rickshaw in front, the car price is double!"
” After getting off at Xizigong South Street, this person hurriedly stopped the rickshaw driver who was pulling him forward, stopped on the spot, and then got out of the car after paying for the car, and walked into Xizigong South Street as if he was looking for an address.
Xu Wenwu didn't stop after getting out of the car, and went directly into a small alley and disappeared into the depths of the alley.
And the man in the suit and leather shoes quickened his pace, walked to the intersection of the alley and Xizigong South Street, and glanced into the alley, but did not follow in, but left on foot.
Because he found that the terrain in that small alley was very complicated.