Spy Wars: I can get rewards by being a bully!

Chapter 249 Who did it?

Chongwenmen Street, grocery store.

The shop wasn't doing much business, and the clerk was dusting the floor with a feather duster.

Shopkeeper Sun was sitting at the counter, fiddling with an abacus and writing a few words from time to time.

Seeing this, the young man said, "Boss, don't count it out. Without the coal we use to burn and eat, we will definitely lose money this month. I still think we have to buy it from the black market..."

Shopkeeper Sun put down his pen and adjusted the abacus beads. "You, you, you are losing money now, but if you buy goods from the black market, if they are found out, our shop may be in jeopardy. Didn't we make some money in the past two years? It's enough for us to survive for a while. Maybe it will be fine after a while."

The young man looked worried. "Well? Boss, I don't think it's going to work out. Well, you're right. If I can't do this any longer, I'll rent a rickshaw and support you."

Shopkeeper Sun smiled and said, "It's not that serious yet. I asked you to read and write. Have you practiced the few words I taught you?"

The young man stopped talking immediately and looked very busy, sweeping here and wiping there.

Shopkeeper Sun shook his head and then began to daydream, not knowing what he was thinking about.

After a while, a tall man walked in. "Hey, it's getting warmer now. Do you have any mothballs?"

The young man rushed over and said, "Yes, yes, I'll get it for you right away!"

When he looked up, he found that he recognized this person. He was the new friend of his boss.

"It's you, boss. A guest has arrived!"

Shopkeeper Sun raised his head and said, "Oh, you are here. There are mothballs in the shop. If you are not busy, come and have a cup of tea."

The tall man was not polite, "Of course, I'm thirsty after walking around for a long time."

The young man thought to himself, he's still drinking tea, but this guy seems like a money-grubber. If he has to drink tea every time he comes back, how much money will he have to pay for the tea?

Selling those two mothballs is not enough to compensate for the loss.

Jiao Zhenguo and Manager Sun went to the back, and the waiter brewed two bowls of large-leaf tea and brought them over.

Then he went to the front and looked at the shop, continuing to worry with the feather duster in his hand.

"Old Sun, a factory in the outer city caught fire yesterday. It was a Japanese factory that produced bedding. There should be a troop heading south. I guess 80% of them are going to participate in the battle on the Jinpu Line."

Shopkeeper Sun frowned and asked, "Did you burn it?"

Jiao Zhenguo smiled and said, "I would like to do that, but I don't have anyone available. I can't set the fire myself. I don't know who did it, and they used gasoline. Could it be someone from the Renaissance Society?"

Shopkeeper Sun nodded, "Maybe. It could also be the students from the Anti-Traitor Group. Their families are either rich or noble, so it's possible that they got gasoline."

"I've taken over this case, but I don't know if I can find out anything. You'd better report to the higher-ups. Judging from the size of that factory, it should produce a lot of clothing and military supplies. If the Japanese really replenish their troops on the Jinpu Line, the war will be much more difficult."

Manager Sun was stunned. "You took over the case? Is there any risk? Old Jiao, you should be cautious and wait for instructions from above. Don't take any action without authorization. As for reporting to the superiors, I will arrange to send a telegram, but you also know that the south is not in harmony with us. Even if we tell them this ambiguous information, they will not take it to heart. And our forces near the Jinpu Line are very weak, and we are powerless!"

Jiao Zhenguo took a sip of tea and said, "Don't worry. If I don't do anything, will the Japanese trust me? I knew this case was sensitive, so I went there on purpose. Anyway, I didn't start the fire, and I haven't done anything out of line recently. I hope they will investigate me, which will make me safer. I came here this time to tell you that I won't come to contact you for a while. I don't know when the Japanese will investigate me."

Manager Sun nodded and said, "Have you found anyone in the detective team who can be won over?"

Jiao Zhenguo thought for a moment, "Those detectives are only after profit and cannot be trusted. As for the others with real power, most of them are bent on working for the devils. My immediate superior, Deputy Director Gao, and his confidant Lin Ze are all like this. In short, the situation is not easy to open up."

Shopkeeper Sun sighed, "Take your time. Your safety is the most important thing."

The two didn't talk for long. Jiao Zhenguo went to the front and took the mothballs that the waiter had packed. He threw a few small coins on the counter and said, "The extra money is your reward. Get me some good tea next time."

The boy's face turned red and he stammered, unable to speak.

Jiao Zhenguo laughed, patted him on the shoulder, and walked out of the shop.

Shopkeeper Sun also came out from the back and looked at the somewhat bewildered young man. "You should be kind to others. Look, someone has said that to you, right?"

The waiter put all the money into the drawer of the counter, and did not leave any tips for himself. He said embarrassedly: "There is not even one or two ounces of Biluochun left. You still need to drink it normally..."

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Lin Ze stayed in the office after returning from the headquarters.

I kept thinking in my mind, who set the fire?

He originally had some doubts about Jiao Zhenguo, but Jiao Zhenguo's subsequent performance ruled him out of suspicion.

If Jiao Zhenguo had started the fire, he certainly wouldn't be stupid enough to get involved in it again.

Lin Ze also considered whether Jiao Zhenguo did this on purpose to make others think that he had no guilty conscience, but after some thought, he ruled out this possibility.

Doing so is too risky. Jiao Zhenguo has worked so hard to infiltrate the inner circle. Doing such a thing rashly would obviously not be worth the effort.

Could it be that after I notified the headquarters, the headquarters asked the Beiping Station to do it?

But this doesn't seem right. Even if the headquarters gave orders to the Beiping Station or other hidden personnel in Beiping, they should have been targeting intelligence. Now that the factory has been burned down, wouldn't this alert the enemy?

Is it to delay time?

But even if we do this, how long can we delay it?

After thinking about it, I wonder if it was Shunsuke Aburatsu who did it!

If the assassination of Wu Ziyu was an order given by the polar bear big brother to the team that Shunsuke Azuzu was in out of his own interests, then if the arson was committed by Shunsuke Azuzu, what was his purpose?

After thinking it over and over again, he still had no clue, so Lin Ze simply asked Niu Saner to drive to the scene to take another look.

At the factory, except for a few detectives who were still watching, the rest had already evacuated.

I don’t know if Jiao Zhenguo has discovered anything.

When the detectives who stayed behind to guard saw Lin Ze coming, they thought about his brutality and lowered their heads and pretended not to see him.

Lin Ze didn't have time to pay attention to them. He walked straight over and walked around the ruins of the factory left after the fire.

Now with the trace observation technique, Lin Ze observed very carefully.

Suddenly, several footprints caught his attention.