My Spy Years

Vol 3 Chapter 722: The most familiar stranger

Chapter 722 The most familiar stranger

Placing the phone away, Cheng Qianfan had a pensive expression on his face.

Hintaro Imamura called and said that he was invited to accompany him as he was hosting a banquet for distinguished guests at home recently.

'Mr. Xiao Cheng' naturally readily agreed, saying that he would go to the appointment on time.

Because they were worried that the phone would be monitored, the two did not speak in the name of teachers and students. This was an invitation sent to Cheng Qianfan, deputy chief inspector of the Central Police Department of the French Concession, in the name of Heitaro Imamura, Special Assistant to the Consul General of the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai.

Hintaro Imamura called, which in itself was not a problem.

Inviting him to dinner is no problem.

The senior officers of the patrol house knew that Cheng Qianfan had a close relationship with Japan, especially Heitaro Imamura of the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai.

And this kind of friendship is exactly what the French Concession authorities need and are happy to see.

Everything seemed normal, but Cheng Qianfan just felt that something was wrong.

This is a feeling that cannot be described in words, that is, he subconsciously feels that there may be a problem, but he can't tell where the problem is.

…

'Mr. Xiao Cheng' naturally doesn't need to strictly abide by the commute time. When it was an hour before the end of get off work, Cheng Qianfan ordered Li Hao to prepare the car.

"Brother Fan, where are you going?" Li Hao asked casually after starting the car.

"Hintaro Imamura is hosting a banquet at home for distinguished guests, please invite me to accompany you." Cheng Qianfan said, "Go to the warehouse."

He began to think about what gift to choose this time. Unlike the previous gifts, this time there were distinguished guests present, so the gift he chose was naturally a real door-to-door gift.

Besides, it was Heitaro Imamura who called the police station. This is a relatively public visit, and the gift he prepared must be in line with the status and occasion.

Then he saw Hiroko stunned for a moment, then smiled, and muttered in a low voice, "Fortunately, it wasn't Jiro Sanben who asked Ho to accompany you."

"What did you say?" Cheng Qianfan asked immediately.

"It's nothing, Brother Ho, I said Sanben Jiro..."

Cheng Qianfan made a gesture to signal Haozi to be quiet, and there was a dazed expression on his face. No wonder he always felt that something was wrong. It turned out that it was the familiarity brought by the status of "companion".

Previously, Jiro invited him to accompany the "VIP" Mao Kexin three times. That incident was one of the most dangerous experiences in his lurking career. Naturally, it left a deep impression on him, so when he encountered the same incident today, he Subconsciously feel strange.

Cheng Qianfan laughed lightly and shook his head, feeling a bit overwhelmed.

"Let's go." Cheng Qianfan said.

…

Li Hao started the car, and just as he was about to pass through the gate at the gate of the patrol room, he saw a little girl running over and waving her arms at the car window.

"Brother Hao."

"Brother Fan, it's Xiaohuan." Li Hao stepped on the brakes, turned his head and said to Cheng Qianfan, then rolled down the car window and reprimanded, "Xiaohuan, you are looking for death, and almost hit you."

"Brother Hao, is Mr. Cheng in the car?"

"What do you want from me?" Cheng Qianfan poked his head out, "Your lady wants to do something with me?"

Xiaohuan is the little maid beside Ying Huaizhen.

Or it can also be understood as the hired girl child labor for cleaning, serving tea and water.

After being reprimanded by Li Hao, the little girl felt wronged, but she didn't dare to show it on her face. When she heard Xiao Cheng's question, she hurried to the car window and took out an envelope from her body.

"Mr. Cheng, Miss asked me to give this to you."

"What?" Cheng Qianfan took the envelope and asked casually.

"Sir, you will know when you open it." Xiaohuan said, and then she seemed to remember something and added, "Miss called a lady surnamed Xia when she got home yesterday to ask for something."

"Got it." Cheng Qianfan pinched it with his hands, knowing that it should be a photo, he took out a legal coin from his body, and handed it to the little maid, "Go back."

The little maid got the reward, she smiled with joy, bowed, and ran away happily.

Cheng Qianfan looked at the back of the little maid running away happily, smiled and shook his head, he rolled down the window, "Drive."

"yes!"

…

Cheng Qianfan was holding the envelope in his hand, and the corners of his mouth were raised. He just said something casually yesterday, and Ying Huaizhen remembered it in his heart. According to what the little maid said, Ying Huaizhen called Xia Xiaoying at night, please Xia Xiaoying Washed a photo.

Women are born to act.

If he didn't know that Ying Huaizhen was ordered to seduce him, Cheng Qianfan would definitely be a little moved in his heart.

Then he chuckled and shook his head, yes, Ying Huaizhen hooked up with Xiao Cheng, the well-known boss in the French Concession, under the order of Xiao Mian from the Shanghai Special Affairs Team.

Cheng Qianfan subconsciously put the envelope into the inner pocket of his suit. After thinking about it, he found it inappropriate, so he picked up a book on the left.

He poured the photo out of the envelope, and was about to put the photo in the book. Out of professional habit, he picked up the photo and glanced at it.

Just this one glance, Cheng Qianfan stopped putting the photo.

"This person is..." He took the photo up close to look at it.

Ying Huaizhen is wearing a beautiful cheongsam, which makes people more beautiful. The cheongsam perfectly embodies a woman's beautiful body.

Cheng Qianfan's attention was on the background of the photo taken behind Ying Huaizhen.

A car was parked on the side of the road below the theater building, only half of the car was in the mirror, and a few people stood beside the car and talked.

…

"Sakamoto Ryono." Cheng Qianfan first recognized his good friend Sakamoto.

Ryono Sakamoto, in a suit and leather shoes, was chatting with several people, to be precise, he was talking to the person in the middle.

this person-

Because of the camera angle, the person who was talking to Sakamoto Ryono was only photographed in profile.

But—Cheng Qianfan's eyes suddenly tightened!

This profile face actually looks like Hiroyuki Taniguchi.

In the "relics" of Miyazaki Kentaro during his lifetime, although there is a photo of him and Hiroyuki Taniguchi, of course, it only has a positive face.

However, Cheng Qianfan has seen photos of Hiroyuki Taniguchi's left face, right face, and even back photos.

This is a secret order issued by Dai Chunfeng himself, ordering the agents of the Secret Service to obtain the photographs of Hiroyuki Taniguchi in Tianjin through legitimate means.

These photos were brought over by Qi Wu, who was on business in Shanghai. Cheng Qianfan carefully studied the photos, and after confirming that Hiroyuki Taniguchi's physical characteristics and back image were firmly remembered, he destroyed the photos.

This matter was personally arranged by Dai Chunfeng. The entire "secret filming" operation was very cautious and careful, and the degree of secrecy was also very high. Even the special agents of Tianjin Station who participated in this operation were all transferred back to the rear to work afterwards.

In addition, if Hiroyuki Taniguchi's identity is not special, this person is a famous literati and archaeological expert in Japan. If he dies suddenly, it will attract attention and suspicion, which is not beautiful. Otherwise, Dai Chunfeng will directly order Hiroyuki Taniguchi to be killed.

Because of this rigorous and sufficient preparation, Cheng Qianfan quickly determined that the person who was talking to Sakamoto Ryono was none other than Miyazaki Kentaro's "mentor" Hiroyuki Taniguchi.

At the same time, Cheng Qianfan also instantly thought of Hyotaro Imamura who was going to host a banquet for distinguished guests, and asked him to accompany him:

Now it is clear that the distinguished guest that Imamura Heutaro is going to entertain is none other than Hiroyuki Taniguchi.

Moreover, Cheng Qianfan even understood that Imamura Heutaro's move should be to create a surprise between him and Taniguchi Hiroyuki.

Where is this a surprise?

It was a life-threatening panic.

Having figured out what was going on, Cheng Qianfan let out a long breath.

Although Shanghai in November already felt the chill, Cheng Qianfan was sweating coldly on his back at this moment.

…

Miyazaki Kentaro's mother has long since passed away.

and no other relatives.

Miyazaki Kentaro was relatively quiet when he was a child, and his residence was a bit remote. Except for playing with Mrs. Imai, he didn't have much contact with other children and neighbors.

When he reached middle school age, Miyazaki Kentaro left home to study.

It is natural for teenagers to change a bit when they grow up.

Therefore, if one of the people living in the world is most familiar with and understands Miyazaki Kentaro when he grows up, it must be Hiroyuki Taniguchi.

It was already past two o'clock in the afternoon, and it was three hours and another quarter of an hour before going to Imamura Heutaro's house for a banquet.

It can be said that time is extremely tight.

Cheng Qianfan didn't panic, let alone lost his head.

Every major event, you must be more calm. This is one of the necessary skills for top agents to survive the cruel latent career.

…

Cheng Qianfan closed his eyes and fell into deep thought.

He is thinking, remembering.

Recalling the records about Hiroyuki Taniguchi in Kentaro Miyazaki's diary, this is the most direct and valuable information he has to know about Hiroyuki Taniguchi.

Although he didn't know when and where he would meet Hiroyuki Taniguchi before, and it was even impossible for the two to meet for a long time.

However, Cheng Qianfan has always been a character of planning for a rainy day. He has already studied the relevant information countless times, and it can even be said that he knows it by heart.

The recollection at this time is nothing more than confirmation that no detail will be missed.

In addition to the records in Miyazaki Kentaro's diary, Cheng Qianfan is still recalling his correspondence and telegram exchanges with Hiroyuki Taniguchi.

After pretending to be Kentaro Miyazaki, it is impossible for him not to contact Hiroyuki Taniguchi. Cheng Qianfan found several replies from Hiroyuki Taniguchi in Kentaro Miyazaki's "relics", and a letter that Kentaro Miyazaki did not have time to send to Hiroyuki Taniguchi .

He carefully studied the letter that had not been sent, and then sent the letter to Hiroyuki Taniguchi.

Later, after receiving Hiroyuki Taniguchi's reply, Cheng Qianfan found Sanben Jiro in particular, and he expressed his concern about sending the letter to the teacher again under his current latent identity.

Finally, Jiro Sanben made a decision, and Kentaro Miyazaki did not need to reply after that, and he could send a report to Hiroyuki Taniguchi through the telegraph machine of the Special High School.

If so, in the past two years or so, the contact between Cheng Qianfan and Hiroyuki Taniguchi, apart from the letter written by Kentaro Miyazaki himself, is the several telegram exchanges between him and Hiroyuki Taniguchi up.

…

Through the diary, Cheng Qianfan has studied the relationship between Miyazaki Kentaro and Taniguchi Hiroyuki meticulously and meticulously.

The relationship between Miyazaki Kentaro and this mentor is somewhat special:

From an academic point of view, Miyazaki Kentaro respects Hiroyuki Taniguchi.

Hiroyuki Taniguchi was very strict with Miyazaki Kentaro, and even beat and scolded him frequently.

Perhaps it is for this reason that Miyazaki Kentaro is not close to Taniguchi Hiroyuki, which is very clearly reflected in his diary, and Miyazaki Kentaro privately called Taniguchi Hiroyuki "Sword and Axe", this nickname also shows that some problems.

Cheng Qianfan gently rubbed his temples.

The relationship between Miyazaki Kentaro and Taniguchi Hiroshi is not close, which is good news.

However, despite this, Hiroyuki Taniguchi knows Miyazaki Kentaro very well after all.

There must be a lot of things that the teacher-student pair only knew.

For example, Hiroyuki Taniguchi said something, explained something, or Kentaro Miyazaki asked Hiroyuki Taniguchi for help, or even whether there was some kind of conflict between the two. Only people know.

Once Hiroyuki Taniguchi and Kentaro Miyazaki talked about the relationship between teachers and students, and mentioned a certain event in a certain year, month, and day, Cheng Qianfan probably couldn't catch up.

…

also-

"Haozi." Cheng Qianfan said.

"Brother Fan."

"Give me the magnifying glass."

"yes."

Li Hao took the magnifying glass from the glove box and handed it to Cheng Qianfan.

Picking up the magnifying glass, Cheng Qianfan carefully studied the photos, his attention was on Sakamoto Yoshino and the other people around Taniguchi Hiroyuki.

As Hiroyuki Taniguchi, it is impossible to travel alone. He will have assistants or security personnel by his side.

Cheng Qianfan took a magnifying glass and looked carefully.

On the left side of Ryono Sakamoto is a middle-aged man. Although this person is facing the front, he can't see clearly from a little distance away.

There was a woman beside Hiroyuki Taniguchi, and Cheng Qianfan stared at the woman's face carefully:

do not know.

The young woman is flanked by a young man.

This person is profiled, and Cheng Qianfan cannot see the other person's face.

At the far end, there was another man, who was smoking a cigarette, turned sideways, and could not see his face clearly.

Cheng Qianfan shook his head lightly. He either couldn't see these people clearly, or he didn't know them.

This 'unknown' refers to the fact that he did not see photos of relevant people in the diary and other 'relics' left by Miyazaki Kentaro.

However, this does not mean that Miyazaki Kentaro did not know these people.

The more likely situation is that these people know Kentaro Miyazaki, but they are not very familiar with them, or that Kentaro Miyazaki has a very general attitude and perception of these people, so he did not save relevant photos or group photos of these people.

Of course, it may also be that Miyazaki Kentaro does not know these people.

However, the first case cannot be ruled out.

…

Cheng Qianfan lit a cigarette and took a light puff.

Time is too tight and there are too many unknowns.

Once he goes to the banquet tonight, it is very likely that he will be found out, and this banquet will become a non-return banquet.

Looking for an excuse?

Avoid the dinner party invited by Imamura Heutaro first?

Cheng Qianfan fell into deep thought.

This method can be adopted in an urgent situation.

However, for a person with his identity and work, the most taboo thing is 'lying'.

Yes, for potential agents, the most likely to be exposed is the 'lie'!