Espionage: You're tasked with spying, but you'll blow up the Special Higher Police?

Upon seeing the portrait, Qingxia was extremely nervous, but outwardly she maintained an indifferent demeanor, rolling her eyes and saying, "I don't know him, I don't know him. These backstreets and alleys are full of poor old folks, where would any suspicious person come from? Besides, you seem to be a respectable person, is this how you ask about people?"

The agent was taken aback. Seeing Qingxia gently rubbing her fingers together while holding the melon seeds, he instantly understood. He pulled out a few bills from his pocket and stuffed them into her hand: "It was my fault. Now, may I ask you, ma'am, have you seen the person in this portrait? Or have any suspicious people appeared nearby?"

Qingxia put the money away with a look of delight, then shook her head at the other person with a smile, saying, "Never seen it before, hehehe~~~"

"you!"

The agent felt he had been tricked and was about to lash out when his companion stopped him: "We're just here to investigate; don't alert them."

Qingxia knew this place was no longer safe. She had to transfer the experts to Zhou Hongyi as soon as possible so he could take them to the police station. But she couldn't show any urgency yet. She continued to sway her hips, munching on sunflower seeds and humming a little tune as she walked into the alley.

"Brigitte Lin, how's your husband's illness? You look radiant today, you must be almost better."

Just then, the woman who had argued with Qingxia earlier returned from the riverbank carrying a basin of clothes. She asked from a distance, but when she got closer, she realized that there were two strangers standing there, and they didn't look like good people at all.

The agent, who had just been tricked by Qingxia, put on a stern face, took out the portrait, shook it, and said, "We are looking for someone, a suspicious man. Have you seen the person in this portrait?"

Qingxia inwardly cried out in alarm. This older sister had no idea what they did for a living. If she let something slip, everything would be over.

However, to Qingxia's surprise, the woman she had argued with stared at the portrait from left to right, pretending to be deep in thought, and said, "Why does this look a bit like my deceased husband? Oh dear, what bad luck! What are you looking for here with a portrait of a deceased man? Move aside, don't block the way."

Qingxia was taken aback at first, then a deep sense of gratitude welled up in her heart.

The agent, having been tricked by two ordinary women, was enraged. He stepped forward, knocked the laundry basin out of the woman's hand, and overturned all the clothes she had just washed onto the ground.

"Damn it, you filthy women, you even dare to mess with me!"

"Hey, are you trying to kill me? What are you doing? You ungrateful brat, still acting tough? You look down on women, don't you? Were you born from your father's belly? Don't you have a mother? I've seen plenty of lowlifes like you! Neighbors! Help! Someone's bullying me! Someone's bullying me! They're taking advantage of me because I don't have a man, how am I supposed to live? I don't want to live anymore!"

Upon seeing this, the woman pointed at the spy's nose and cursed him a few times. Then she simply sat down on the ground, kicking her legs and crying out.

"What's wrong? Aunt Liu, who's bullying you?"

"You son of a bitch, how dare you bully our neighbor? Where did this punk come from, looking for a beating?"

"Oh dear, you even bully widows! Have you no shame? Two perfectly healthy young men, eating other people's food and doing nothing, you're disgracing your ancestors!"

"Where did this person come from? I've never seen them before. Quickly go to the police station and call the police. Tell them there are suspicious people here!"

Hearing the commotion, the neighbors in the alley all dropped what they were doing and rushed out. Some wore aprons, some held soup ladles, and they all gathered together, cursing the two spies mercilessly.

They might be good at bullying the weak and torturing prisoners, but when faced with so many ordinary people, their momentum was instantly overwhelmed. Moreover, these people used a variety of insults, leaving the two men red-faced and unable to do anything but throw out a few harsh words before fleeing in a sorry state.

"Aunt Liu, are you alright?"

When the neighbors saw that they had successfully driven away the two suspicious men, they cheered and helped the woman on the ground up.

"Those two bastards dirtied my freshly washed clothes, but it's okay. I've had my fill of scolding them today, so I'm not at a loss. We're all neighbors, so we should stick together. Those two didn't seem like good people. Everyone should be careful next time and not let them sneak in. Who knows if they'll steal something?"

Although the people living here belong to the lowest rungs of Shanghai's society, and none of them have even a spare two ounces of flour, they are still very afraid of being robbed. Qingxia walked up to Aunt Liu, gently patted the dirt off her pants, and whispered, "Sister, thank you for earlier."

Widow Liu squeezed her hand, gave her an "I understand" look, and said softly, "I know you're not bad people, and those two guys don't look like good people either. I don't care what you do, but I know we can't help bad people harm good people. It seems this place is no longer safe. This afternoon, Huanhuan from Old Niu's family is going to the neighboring county to do carpentry work. Take this opportunity to have him give you a ride. He has a donkey cart. Hurry up."

Qingxia knew that saying more would be useless. She kept the kindness of her neighbors in mind, quickly walked back into the house, and looked at the expert Wang who was practicing walking there. She whispered, "Just now there were two strangers at the alley entrance holding your portrait and asking around. To be on the safe side, we'll leave here in a little while on Huanhuan's donkey cart from Old Niu's family. Anyway, we don't have anything we need to take. Let's destroy what we need to destroy and leave quickly."

Qingxia only brought some personal belongings; everything else, like the clothes that Expert Wang was originally wearing, had long been cut into shreds and thrown far away.

At that moment, a carpenter named Niu Huanhuan from next door was going to the suburbs to make furniture for someone, so Qingxia took Expert Wang on Huanhuan's donkey cart and headed towards Jing'an District under the cover of the neighbors.

The villagers in this alley also sensed that the "man who was about to die" that Brigitte Lin mentioned was not one of them. He exuded elegance and scholarly air, clearly a cultured person, fundamentally different from them, these poor folks.

However, no one in the neighborhood bothered to investigate further, because they knew that the people those spies were looking for must be good people, and if they were good people, why wouldn't they help them?

The donkey cart traveled along the Huangpu River towards Jing'an District. When it reached a wide open area, the little girl in Qingxia's arms suddenly started crying.

The crying attracted passersby, as well as several sharp-eyed agents dressed in uniform.

Qingxia was shocked and quickly covered her daughter's mouth with her hand. She then covered her, the child, and the expert Wang with a blanket, huddling them together with the carpentry tools and timber.

"I told you not to bring the baby out, but you insisted on bringing her out anyway. Before we even got there, she started crying and fussing for milk. What were you going to do?"

"Do you think I want this? If I don't take the child out and leave her at home, your old mother will feed her all sorts of weird things. Last time she even gave my precious little girl talisman water, and I haven't even settled the score with her yet!"

"What do you mean 'my mother'? She's your mother too! How dare you talk to your mother like that?"

Suddenly, at that moment, a young couple living two doors down from Qingxia and her family were arguing in the street behind their donkey cart, holding their child, which quickly attracted everyone's attention.

Their children are about the same age as Brigitte Lin's children, so it's natural to assume that the crying just now was made by their children.

Brigitte Lin had just breathed a sigh of relief, but before she could even relax, her heart jumped into her throat again.

"Stop the donkey cart up ahead!"

"Oops!"

Qingxia tensed up, forcefully covering the child's mouth. She listened to the approaching footsteps, when she was suddenly interrupted by another voice.

"Hey, make way! Make way! Make way! The mule's startled! The mule's startled!"

Old Li, who lived at the alley entrance and drove a mule cart, sped wildly through the street, almost hitting a secret agent on the roadside.

"Damn it! Stop that mule cart! Everyone, get on your bicycles and chase after it!"

The spies who originally intended to stop the donkey cart were completely distracted by the mule cart that was running away like crazy, allowing Qingxia and the others to escape danger once again.

In this way, the neighbors in the alley tried their best to help the donkey cart in which Qingxia and her family of three were hiding to pass through the danger zone smoothly until they arrived at the entrance of the Jing'an District Public Security Bureau.