Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 39 Noodle Stall Intelligence Station

The next morning, Wang Gensheng set off for the county town with a huge sum of money.

Since this time they were going into the county town to establish an intelligence point, Wang Gensheng naturally would not bring many people with him and would go alone.

In order to travel quickly, Wang Gensheng chose a warhorse as his means of transportation.

I have to say that it is different with a warhorse. At least the forward speed has increased by four or five times.

Therefore, although the county seat was more than 100 miles away from Wangjia Village, reaching 120 miles, it only took two hours to get there.

This county town is naturally different from the town. It not only has a wall several meters high.

Especially there were Japanese soldiers checking people at the city gate. After watching from a distance, Wang Gensheng found that this county town was really not that easy to enter.

Almost everyone who entered had to be checked by the guards composed of Japanese and Japanese soldiers, and those who brought goods were checked especially carefully.

Therefore, let alone carrying firearms or other weapons, even carrying a throwing knife would be difficult.

And the most important thing is the two silver dollars that Kong Jie gave him.

Even though these two silver dollars only had the purchasing power equivalent to about 20,000 yuan, it was a huge sum of money in that era. You have to know that this was an era of material scarcity.

It’s like a silver dollar in this era could buy about seven or eight kilograms of pork, which is equivalent to the purchasing power of about a hundred yuan.

But don’t forget that for ordinary people in ordinary families in this era, being able to eat meat once a month was already considered wealthy.

The average worker of this era earned only a dozen silver dollars a month.

The annual income of farmers was even worse, some even had less than 100 silver dollars. Therefore, most farmers of this era actually relied on sweet potatoes or wild vegetables as their staple food, and white flour buns were considered a luxury.

Therefore, the 200 hard yuan in Wang Gensheng's hand was a huge sum of money in that era.

However, Wang Gensheng discovered that the Japanese soldiers and traitors who were checking the city gates searched people's bodies but did not seem to check shoes, so Wang Gensheng finally thought of a way to avoid the inspection.

The pistol, silver dollars and throwing knives were all buried in a woods outside the city.

Only about twenty of the two hundred silver dollars were left in the soles of his shoes, and a throwing knife was also hidden in the soles of each shoe.

The sole of the shoe, which is more than 20 centimeters long, is just the right size to hold the throwing knives. Although the throwing knives and silver coins are a bit uncomfortable to wear, it is the only way to do it in order to enter the city.

In fact, the reason why the Japanese didn't check the soles of shoes was because a pistol couldn't be hidden in the shoes, so there was naturally no need to check. Besides, taking off shoes was troublesome, and there was also the smell. After all, people in that era were not very clean.

Because of their tattered clothes, the Japanese soldiers let them into the city without any inspection.

Wang Gensheng, who entered the city, was a little confused, because he really had no idea how to set up this intelligence station!
When I watched spy movies before I traveled through time, the scenes were directly set in intelligence stations disguised as restaurants or teahouses where people listened to music.

However, there is no explanation as to how these restaurants and teahouses became intelligence stations.

For example, in the game Bright Sword, there are also scenes of connecting at the intelligence station. For example, in the eleventh level of Bright Sword, Li Yunlong was invited by Chu Yunfei to go into the city, and then he got some information from a roadside noodle stall and a traitor officer.

Then he met Chu Yunfei in a teahouse and then at night when he killed Lieutenant Colonel Ichiro Hirata in Juxianlou, it would have been impossible without the cooperation of the underground intelligence staff.

It is even possible that the roadside stall selling jelly is an intelligence station of the Eighth Route Army. However, it is not an easy task for Wang Gensheng to set up an intelligence station. After all, this is his first time in the city and he is unfamiliar with the place. It is not easy to find someone he can trust.

However, the hunger in his stomach interrupted Wang Gensheng's thinking, so Wang Gensheng didn't think much about it and just found a roadside noodle stall and ordered a bowl of jelly and started eating.

After all, if you go out occasionally, you should treat yourself to a good meal. You know, more than half a year has passed since the time you traveled through time that night.

The food of the Eighth Route Army was indeed not very good. Every day they had sweet potatoes and mixed grain rice, plus some wild vegetables and there was no oil or fish in the food.

Even though Wang Gensheng was already a battalion commander, his food was no different from that of ordinary soldiers. He ate whatever the ordinary soldiers ate and did not receive any special treatment.

In fact, not to mention him as the battalion commander, even the regimental commander Kong Jie was the same. Of course, Wang Gensheng paid for all the expenses during his business trip out of his own pocket.

You should know that the Eighth Route Army soldiers also received allowances. The most basic soldiers, that is, soldiers without any positions, received a monthly allowance of only 1.5 silver dollars.

Of course, the backbones are not much better off. They get an additional 0.5 yuan for each promotion, which means two yuan for squad leader, two and a half yuan for platoon leader, three yuan for company commander, three and a half yuan for battalion commander, four yuan for regimental commander, four and a half yuan for lieutenant commander, and only five yuan for chief lieutenant commander.

Therefore, Wang Gensheng also has some personal property, so he can still afford to eat some noodles when he is on business trips.

Of course, it is not enough to go to a restaurant like Juxianlou. A casual meal in such a place would cost several or even dozens of silver dollars.

But to be honest, the jelly sold at the roadside noodle stall that Wang Gensheng found was really not that good.

Wang Gensheng, who had eaten all kinds of noodles before traveling through time, could only describe this bowl of jelly in two words: unpalatable!
It wasn't even as fragrant as the sweet potatoes he usually ate. Of course, Wang Gensheng also noticed at this time that it seemed that not many people were eating at this roadside noodle stall.

Of course, even though it tasted bad, Wang Gensheng's stomach was rumbling with hunger, so he just made do with finishing the bowl of jelly that the boss had served him.

While Wang Gen was eating the jelly, a middle-aged woman at the noodle stall said to the stall owner:

"Boss, how about we borrow some more money to pay the rent for next month? If we don't open the noodle stall, where else can we go?"

However, the noodle stall owner shook his head and said:

"Not to mention whether I can borrow it or not, even if I can, what's the use? I can only survive next month, but what about the month after that? If business doesn't improve, it's useless!"

Listening to the conversation between the two, it is obvious that this unpalatable noodle stall is going to fail. This is also normal. No matter what kind of business you are doing in that era, especially the catering business, if the food doesn’t taste good and can still last long, then there is a problem.

After hearing this conversation, Wang Gensheng had an idea in his mind, which was to set up a noodle stall intelligence station in this county town, imitating the noodle stall where Li Yunlong met in "Bright Sword".

After all, although this noodle stall intelligence station looks simple, it is at least much cheaper than Chu Yunfei's teahouse intelligence station!
Although there are people coming and going on the roadside and it is not as quiet as a teahouse, it is precisely because of this that it is even more inconspicuous.

(End of this chapter)