The shoemaker asked me like a customs inspector: “Do you have any relatives in Cuba?”
I wonder if you know me, why would you ask any test questions? Isn't it fun to tease the younger generation
"No need," the shoemaker uncle said coldly, "I can support myself by repairing shoes. I will give the information to anyone who can avenge my sacrificed comrades. Director Jiang, please come back, I will follow you The TV show is criticizing the national football team!"
"Okay, okay, you can continue to be free, but don't forget who gave you your freedom! Anyway, in your current situation, there is no effective channel to deliver intelligence to anti-American countries, even the nearby North Korea , if you give them information for free, they won’t believe it!”
The shoemaker uncle spoke first. Even through the door, the breath of the old angry young man came to his face. Surprisingly, his anger was also laced with grief.
"Uncle... it's Xiaoqin... Ren Xiaoqin who lives upstairs introduced me... I want to buy a bug... is it available?"
"That's enough, that's enough," the shoemaker waved and asked another question, "Who is Ren Xiaoqin's father?"
Their voices were basically at the same volume as the TV, and they could only be heard clearly if they were standing at my distance. The fruit seller nearby looked at me with disdain, someone who has ears between walls. I pointed to the watermelon on her stall and signaled that she would buy it later. Only then did she happily leave me alone.
I immediately became alert, "Are you saying that Aunt Ren's silver necklace was left in the Taekwondo gym and you picked it up?"
A person who must be a female student said the above words in an unkind tone.
The phone suddenly vibrated in his trouser pocket.
The shoemaker was stunned for a moment, and then turned up the volume of the TV to cover up the conversation between the two of us.
As he spoke, he took out a small black box from the shoe cabinet that was about 2 cm long, 1 cm high, and looked like a smaller version of a matchbox. Open the back cover and see a battery slot for a lithium button battery.
"Hello?"
The tone of the government staff's response was like Wang Yongping, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Railways, who said, "Whether you believe it or not, I believe it anyway."
He Ling was noncommittal on the phone.
After all, I was asking for help, so I said with a shy face: "Senior... Revolutionary senior! Can you sell me a useful eavesdropping device? For short-range eavesdropping, just across the room!"
So I changed my mind and took the bus.
"I bought this bug for a very noble purpose! What I monitored was a spy sent by US imperialism!"
"The country has let me down so much! My comrades who died in Yugoslavia have not avenged them for so long!"
"What a pity!" the shoemaker sighed, "Why are there so many people coming and going, but no one can help me deliver the information!"
"You have to calm down, now is not the time..."
"Do you know who I am?"
Having achieved his goal, He Ling snorted arrogantly, "Let's meet at the Petersburg Western Restaurant on the Pedestrian Street at eight o'clock on Friday night! You have to book a table in advance! If you ask me to stand there in line then, don't say I won't. Return the necklace to you!"
"I don't know, who are you? You sell insurance?"
I don’t know if it’s the mother-in-law, but it’s very likely that she’s the stepmother! If you don’t please such a stepmother who is good at martial arts now, life will be difficult in the future! Snow White’s stepmother also found a hunter to kill Snow White. It was easier for me, the stepmother, to do it myself! A bone-breaking flying kick can make my blood splatter in the living room!
If you want to ask why, it’s because you need to go through security check when taking the subway! Eavesdropping devices are illegal devices no matter what. If they were discovered, wouldn't they create complications and become trapped in a cocoon
Ai Shuqiao is now an American in terms of nationality, so it is not too outrageous to say that Su Qiao is an American spy.
"Who are you buying the bug to bug?" the shoemaker asked, "If it's to bug Xiaoqin, I won't sell it to you!"
Su Qiao only stayed at my house for half a month, so I guess I won’t need to replace the battery when she leaves.
I was a little angry, "Although that silver necklace is not valuable, it is a relic of Aunt Ren's mother. Since you picked it up, why didn't you inform us earlier?"
Perhaps because she was worried that she would be bumped into by Aunt Ren who came home early when she wandered downstairs with me, Xiaoqin reluctantly carried the cans and nutritional supplements into the unit door. Before leaving, she asked me to keep in touch with her. You can call her whenever you miss her.
"Uncle, how did you analyze it? Can you teach me?" I humbly asked for advice.
"Humph, Ye Lin, has your mother-in-law ever mentioned to you that her silver necklace was lost somewhere?"
After parting ways with Xiaoqin, I went alone to the outside of the shoe repair shop in the market and found that the sliding door was still closed, but the yelling and cursing inside had stopped, and a small mobile TV was playing a discussion program about the national football team's loss.
"No matter how big or small you are, call me Sister He Ling!" She was quite unhappy.
"Well..." I frowned, "I only know his surname is Huo..."
The shoemaker shook his head, "I didn't analyze it. When Xiaoqin came to see me, she showed me your photo. She took it with her mobile phone."
"For your requirements, this 'Zhonghua Type 1' is enough. If it is too complicated, it will easily expose your flaws. By the way, there is also this small receiver. You can also take it, plug in the earphones, and use the radio. Almost. Because the listening distance is close, the battery of the bug only needs to be replaced every half a month... "
"Ah... I thought it was who it was, but it turned out to be Uncle He's daughter He Ling..."
The shoemaker continued to ask: "Do you know anyone from the Venezuelan, Iranian, or North Korean military?"
It was troublesome to take the bus from Xiaoqin's house back to my house. I had to change the bus halfway. Fortunately, the two buses were not too crowded. I even got a seat on the second bus. I held my school bag and sat on the wide seat in the last row. , only five more stops before you can get off the bus and go home.
"I'm He Ling." The other party finally reported his name.
I carefully put the bug and receiver into my schoolbag and asked the shoemaker uncle: "How much should I pay?"
"I'm sorry, I no longer work in the government department. Collecting intelligence is my hobby. I am free to give the information to whomever I want."
I said with a smile: "Ms. Ren Hongli! A former world champion in women's Sanda, now a full-time martial arts instructor. She has participated in movies such as "The Sword", "The Town", "The Devil Comes Down to Earth", "Chu Liuxiang" "Blood Sea and Wild Sands", "Tang Bohu vs. Chu Liuxiang"..."
I have a black line on my face. Although I am not a cent-cent person, my biological sister is an American. In your eyes, she is at least well-connected with foreign countries. You gave me a free set of eavesdropping equipment. I really deserve it.
"Don't know? It's okay not to know!" The shoemaker tugged at the black and white beard on his chin, "It seems that you are Ye Lin, Xiaoqin's boyfriend, right?"
Aunt Ren did say that I was her son-in-law at the Taekwondo gym, which was really embarrassing in retrospect.
"What are you apologizing for?" I pretended to be stupid.
Walking out of the vegetable market with the bug in my schoolbag, I suddenly remembered that I probably wouldn't be able to take the subway home today.
After thinking about it carefully, I had no reason to get angry with He Ling, so I changed my tone to a gentler tone:
I quickly retreated, acting as if I had just come from a distance. Sure enough, I opened the door and met the dismayed Director Jiang. He patted the dust on his suit, shook his head and walked out with a sigh.
The shoemaker uncle was carrying the pony and was about to sit back in front of the TV. His face was as lonely as Ximen Chuixue's.
"Of course... you humiliated me in the ring!" He Ling said bitterly, "Not only did you make me lose so miserably, but... you also ripped off my training clothes and ate my tofu. If you hadn't seen For Uncle Ye’s sake, I won’t let you go so easily!”
"Apologise to me first."
"Why?" He Ling chuckled on the phone, "The woman named Ren Hongli who came to the Taekwondo gym last time didn't she claim to be your mother-in-law?"
"Watermelon costs two yuan and a pound." The fruit lady hurriedly introduced it to me.
After all, buying a bug is illegal. After I entered, I immediately closed the sliding door and pushed the latch.
It turns out that I feel uncomfortable holding the information in my hands. Do you want to find a channel to get rid of it? But even if you ask people when you see them, the chance of meeting someone to contact them is too low! Everyone is just here to get their shoes repaired!
"I'm not in the mood for business right now," the shoemaker said angrily.
I approached the shoemaker quietly, looking like I was here to buy drugs. I lowered my voice very low and said into the shoemaker's ear:
So I went to the fruit seller at the vegetable market and bought a watermelon and gave it to the shoemaker uncle to quench his thirst. He originally wanted to shirk the offer, but I told him that it was inconvenient to take the watermelon with me on the subway, so he accepted it.
"I've had enough of waiting! I want to do things my own way!"
"Hu Lai! Can you stop being so ridiculous! How much intelligence did you steal from the U.S. Embassy and give it to anti-American countries? If you want to give it, you should also give it to your motherland!"
After buying the fruit lady, I simply put my ear to the sliding door of the shoe repair shop. I couldn't help but be curious about the conversation between a former intelligence agent and a government worker.
"Anyway, you have to apologize to me, and you have to treat me to dinner. Ordinary food is not enough, at least it has to be Western food."
"Hey, hey, you're kicking your nose in the face! At least tell me who you are?"
I shook my head like a rattle.
I asked Xiaoqin not to make Aunt Ren angry. Xiaoqin was a little surprised that I suddenly cared about her mother so much, but she didn't think too much about it. She just thought I was trying to please my future mother-in-law.
When he saw me who was nearest, he looked at me sternly. He probably thought that I was definitely not a kind person because of my appearance, and that I might be a spy sent by North Korea. I turned around and faced his gaze for a while without fear of the slanting shadow. He walked away feeling bored.
"Wait until I come out and buy it." I waved my hand and stepped into the shoe repair shop. "Don't worry, I can't run away!"
"Stop dreaming!" The government worker slammed the table where the sewing machine was placed. "You are just a shoe repairman now. Why would the North Korean military come to you? I advise you to hand over the information to the country. That way I I will guarantee that your frozen pension will be paid out on time, and I will increase your salary by two levels!"
"Russian-style Western restaurant?" I asked casually, "Are you used to the taste there? I heard that the Western food there is a bit rough, although the portion is quite large, I like it better..."
"No!" I wondered, "Does the purchase of listening devices have anything to do with relatives in Cuba?"
Eh? If Xiaoqin eavesdrops on me, then sell it, right? What an irritating uncle!
He Ling said slightly angrily: "I didn't pick it up, it was picked up by other male students. They thought I lost it, so they gave it to me. The price of silver is now less than 4 yuan per gram. This kind of necklace It doesn’t look like an antique, how do I know you treat it like a treasure?”
"That's not necessarily true!" The shoemaker uncle sneered, "I have almost pieced together the deployment of nuclear weapons by the US military in South Korea. As long as the North Korean military comes to visit my thatched cottage, I will give them the information!"
I thought it was Xiaoqin calling, but when I pulled it out, I saw it was an unfamiliar number.
I was standing outside the door and was about to knock on the door, but I heard the conversation of two people inside. One was naturally the shoemaker uncle, and the other was a younger man. He kept speaking in an official tone, as if he was from the government. staff member.
"Eh? I don't even know who you are, why are you asking me to apologize?"
"Eh? How do you know?" I admired Comrade Hu Lai's intelligence analysis ability so much that he was able to analyze who I was and what my name was through the above two questions!
The shoemaker's face was full of displeasure: "Didn't I say I wouldn't charge you? Anyone who is an enemy of the Americans is my friend! Remember to disgust the Americans!"
"Who is Ren Xiaoqin's mother?" The shoemaker really wanted to test me.
"Comrade Hu Lai!" The government worker stomped his feet angrily, "I advise you not to go too far! It's not that the country doesn't know about your behavior, and we can arrest you at any time! We only let you go in consideration of your contribution to the country. If you keep doing this, it’s very detrimental to the country’s major policies!”
The shoemaker uncle named Hu Lai snorted, "China doesn't dare to provoke U.S. imperialism. Aren't there other countries in the world that dare to provoke it? For example, Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, North Korea..."
The shoemaker suddenly became interested, "Really? I thought your generation had fallen for the sugar-coated bullets of U.S. imperialism. I didn't expect there were patriotic young people like you! In this case, this bug is free of charge. I gave it to you!"
But I still laughed along and said shamelessly:
"He Ling...sister, Auntie Ren really values that necklace. Take good care of it and don't lose it again. I will definitely treat you to dinner, and I will definitely treat you to western food! When is it convenient for you?"
"You don't care if I'm not used to it, why don't I just want to try something new?" He Ling seemed to be playing with some small keys, making a jingling sound, "There are many foreigners who go to Petersburg West. The restaurant, I heard that even the proprietress is a foreigner, isn’t it very charming? You just know how to eat! By the way! Don’t forget to apologize to me at the dinner table!”
"Okay, for Uncle He's sake, He Ling...sister, why should I treat you to Western food?"