Lao Wu nodded, didn't say anything, and buried himself in eating noodles.
Lao Hou looked at the door of the small restaurant and whispered to Lao Wu: "After eating, you can go back, I'll keep an eye on it."
After you go back, you should inform those comrades who have been transferred from other places to come to me on Confucian Temple Street and monitor the small restaurant by changing shifts. ” After Lao Wu left, Lao Hou has been slowly sitting on the food stall and eating noodles.
He found that the food stall was not an ideal long-term surveillance point, as no one would sit at such a food stall all day long.
Lao Hou looked around again, and finally found a place suitable for long-term surveillance of a small restaurant, a small tea shop facing the street.
This small tea shop is not big, but there are a lot of bamboo chairs and small wooden tables, which is the favorite place for ordinary people who are shy to drink tea, including rickshaw drivers.
So there are quite a lot of people in the small tea shop, and the business looks very good, but the key point is that this small tea shop is not directly opposite the small restaurant at No. 66 Confucian Temple Street, but diagonally opposite this small restaurant, and the distance is a little far, and the main entrance of the small restaurant is almost invisible.
It stands to reason that the location of this small tea shop is not good, but Lao Hou thinks that this place is good, because there are many people coming and going here, and sitting here for a long time is not eye-catching.
And he also found that if he sat next to the door of this small tea shop, he could just see the chalk mark on the wall next to the main entrance of the small restaurant, which was the best monitoring position.
After eating a bowl of noodles, Lao Hou bought a newspaper from the children who were wandering around the street and selling newspapers, and then walked into the small tea shop.
The door of the small tea shop is not big, but it is very deep, and it is not dark the further inside, because there is a small patio inside, where the sunlight shines in, but it is more popular with those toiling people tea customers, so there are many people under the patio and next to the patio, and it is not crowded on the small wooden table near the street.
Lao Hou quickly chose a place and sat down, there were already a few tea guests sitting at this table, and when Lao Hou sat down, he smiled at these tea guests.
And those tea customers are either workers who have just gotten off work, or people who carry work for others, in short, they are all at the bottom of society.
They couldn't help but look a little in awe when they saw that Lao Hou looked very poor and sour in his clothes, but he was holding a newspaper in his hand.
Because in the eyes of these people, those who can read and hyphenate are capable people.
There have also been some barely literate tea customers in this tea shop, and they also show that they can read in front of these tea customers, and some people even deliberately carry a thick thread-bound book to pretend, so it is not particularly abrupt for Lao Hou to sit down with a newspaper.
One of the tea guests also specially asked Lao Hou: "Big brother, it seems that you are a literate person, can you read the newspaper in your hand to us, what interesting things are written on it?"
” Lao Hou was not annoyed, and said with a smile: "I only know some words, and I don't recognize some of them, and they may not recognize me either."
I bought this newspaper to put on a façade, and besides, in this situation, what can be happy in the newspaper?
I just wanted to see what kind of short-term jobs could be done in this newspaper. ” The tea guest didn't expect Lao Hou to be so honest, but he thought that Lao Hou was very realistic, so he couldn't help but talk to Lao Hou a few words.
In this way, slowly, Lao Hou and a few tea guests on this table became acquainted, chatting all over the world, and drinking two sips of tea to moisten his throat when his mouth was dry.
Lao Wu has been gone for a while, but the other comrades that Lao Hou asked Lao Wu to notify have not yet arrived, and Lao Hou can't help but be a little anxious, because he thinks that if the traitor appears, it will be easy to be detected by him alone, and it is best to have a few comrades to follow him in sections so as not to leave a trace.
The more you can worry about something, the more things will turn out like this.
Just when Lao Hou didn't say a word to a few tea guests at this table, he suddenly found a somewhat familiar back in the corner of his eye, passing by this tea shop and slowly walking in the direction of the small restaurant.
Lao Hou was shocked, and hurriedly pretended to be like he needed to change his sitting posture to make himself more comfortable after sitting for a long time, and turned his body to the inside of the tea shop, and at the same time picked up the newspaper and began to read, the newspaper was just enough to block his face, so that the person who walked outside the tea shop could not see his appearance.
Lao Hou immediately began to recall in his heart who the back figure that made him a little familiar was, and where he had seen it.
Because he thinks that if it is a party comrade he has met, then it is really possible that he is the traitor.
Of course, he couldn't rule out the possibility that the person might just happen to pass by, and it depended on whether the person was going to enter the small restaurant.
Lao Hou kept staring at the back with the spare light of reading the newspaper until the man walked to the door of the small restaurant and stopped, then looked left and right, and walked into the small restaurant.
When the man looked left and right, Lao Hou finally saw the side face of the man, and he suddenly remembered that he had seen that person in a café in Shanghai, and he had personally notified the other party to come to work in Stone Town!
Although Lao Hou didn't want to be sure that person was a traitor, maybe that person just came to this small restaurant to eat by chance, but even if he didn't want to equate this comrade with a traitor emotionally, the other party's coincidental appearance here made Lao Hou's reason gradually inclined to this person to be the traitor he was looking for.
The reinforcements have not yet arrived, but Lao Hou thinks that it is no longer important, because once the other party comes out of the cafeteria and erases the chalk mark on the wall at the door, then Lao Hou will not follow that person, because he knows the identity and address of that person in Stone Town!
Lao Hou put down the newspaper and continued to pretend to talk to the tea customers around him, but his attention was always on the door of the small restaurant.
After about twenty minutes, the man walked out of the small restaurant, then walked to the wall of the door, pretended that there were pebbles in his shoes, held on to the wall with one hand, took off one shoe, knocked it on the wall, and then put on his shoes and left.
When the man left, he found that the chalk mark on the wall had been erased.
Since then, Lao Hou has finally determined in his heart that Dong Xianda, who he personally transferred from Shanghai, is the traitor!
And Dong Xianda and Yuan Shiheng are in contact with a dead mailbox!
For this discovery, Lao Hou was both surprised and blamed himself.
What blamed him was that he now knew that Dong Xianda, who he had personally selected and sent to work in Stone Town, was actually a traitor who had broken into the party organization by the Central Union, and caused the sacrifice of Comrade Gong Xie Cheng and the exposure of Xu Wenwu's cover identity.