My Spy Years

  Chapter 724 Extremely Arrogant Mr. Cheng

  The Office of the Deputy Counselor and Special Assistant to the Consulate General of the Consulate General of Japan in Shanghai.

   "Professor Taniguchi is from Kobe, so I added two more Kobe dishes to let the professor feel the taste of his hometown." Heitaro Imamura said with a smile while holding the microphone.

   "It's already been arranged, Dazuo Guisaburo will cook in person." Imamura Kogoro said.

   "Very good." Heitaro Imamura nodded in satisfaction. Saburo Osako is the head chef of a high-end Japanese restaurant on Deswell Road. He is from Kobe, and he is good at Kobe cuisine.

   Bang Bang.

   There was a knock on the door.

   "That's it." Imamura Heutaro hung up the phone, looked in the direction of the office door, "Come in."

   Naito Kotsuba pushed the door open and came in with a panicked expression.

   "Mr. Counselor, something happened."

   "What's the matter in panic?" Imamura Heutarou glared at Kotsu Naito with a sullen face, "What's going on?"

   "Sakamoto-kun called, and Professor Taniguchi was assassinated." Naito Kotsuba said hastily.

   "What?" Imamura Heutaro was shocked.

"Sakamoto-kun's phone line to your office has been busy, and then he called me." Naito Xiaoyi helped Imamura Heutaro put on his windbreaker coat, handed him the top hat, and followed Imamura Heutaro's footsteps while walking explain.

   "What's the specific situation?" Imamura Heutaro had a gloomy expression, "How is Professor Taniguchi now?"

"I was attacked at the entrance of the Sakura Guest House. A gunman shot directly at close range. Professor Taniguchi was shot twice." After a pause, Tsubasa Naito looked embarrassed and said, "The professor was shot in the neck and abdomen. Very pessimistic, I'm afraid..."

   "Bag duck!" Imamura Heutaro, who has always been polite and elegant, cursed restlessly, "Prepare the car."

"yes!"

  …

   Right at this moment, the phone on the desk rang, and Kotsu Naito rushed straight up to pick up the receiver.

   "I'm Kotsu Naito, Mr. Counselor is by my side."

   "I see." Naito Kotsuba hung up the phone and looked at Imamura Heutaro, "The call from Sakamoto-kun has sent Professor Taniguchi to the Imperial Army Hospital for emergency treatment."

   "Where's the shooter?" Imamura Heutaro asked.

   "Sakamoto-kun didn't say, it's a mess over there." Naito Kotsuba said.

   "Go to the Army Hospital."

   "Hai."

  The two left the office in a hurry. Just as they left, the phone rang faintly behind them, but the two of them didn't bother to go back to answer the phone.

  …

  Japanese Army Hospital in Shanghai.

  I saw a car flying the imperial flag galloping towards it, and the Japanese soldiers at the checkpoint were about to intercept it.

  A Japanese army sergeant ran quickly and gestured for the sentinel to let him go.

   "Is this Counselor Imamura?" Sergeant saluted, "Please follow me."

  Heitaro Imamura, accompanied by the Japanese Army Sergeant Cao and his assistant Kotsu Naito, came to the operating room, and saw the distraught Sakamoto Ryono.

   "Bastard!" Imamura Heutaro grabbed Sakamoto Yoshino by the collar as soon as he came up, and directly scratched his ears.

   "Are you awake now?" He looked at Sakamoto Ryono angrily.

   "Hai."

   "I hit you not only because Professor Taniguchi was assassinated, but also because your state just now made me angry." Heutaro Imamura said coldly, "Do you understand?"

   "Hai."

   "How is Professor Taniguchi?" Heitaro Imamura asked directly.

   At this moment, the lights in the operating room went out, and several doctors came out, behind them was the operating bed, and there was a person lying on the bed, covered with a white cloth.

   "I am Heitaro Imamura, Deputy Counselor of the Consulate General of the Empire in Shanghai. The injured person is a famous scholar of the Empire..."

  "Counselor Imamura." A middle-aged military doctor interrupted Heutaro Imamura, "This gentleman was already dead when he was sent to the hospital. This gentleman couldn't accept the result and begged us to continue the rescue."

   As he spoke, he pointed to Ryono Sakamoto, showing a helpless expression.

   "Thank you." Heitaro Imamura was very angry, but he didn't get angry at the doctors, and bowed slightly.

  …

  Hintaro Imamura walked to the bed, lifted the white cloth, and saw the face of the corpse.

  Hiroyuki Taniguchi has an obvious gunshot wound to the neck.

  Hintaro Imamura continued to pull the white cloth away, and he saw the wound on his abdomen.

  Both gunshot wounds were fatal.

This is the first time he has met the famous scholar of the empire, Professor Hiroyuki Taniguchi, an advisor to the military department. He planned to hold a banquet tonight to clean up the dust for Hiroyuki Taniguchi. He even called Kentaro Miyazaki to attend the dinner. , intending to create a surprise for the pair of teachers and students, but did not expect such a bleak scene.

   "Tell me, what happened?" Imamura Heutaro asked in a deep voice.

   Hiroyuki Taniguchi is a well-known scholar who is famous in the cabinet. He had an accident just after arriving in Shanghai, and was assassinated at the entrance of the guest house of the Consulate General. As such, he bears some responsibility.

   At this time, Sakamoto Yoshino, who had received two big ear scratches, became more clear-headed. He recounted the incident while thinking about memories.

   Meanwhile, Heutaro Imamura would chime in to ask questions.

   "You mean, the assassin was a Westerner?" Imamura Heutaro was surprised.

   "It's a young man with a European face." Said Yoshino Sakamoto, "This person pretended to be selling cameras, attracted the attention of Professor Taniguchi, and then suddenly pulled out a gun and shot."

  He had a painful expression on his face, "It happened so suddenly that we didn't have time to react."

  …

  Heitaro Imamura had a sullen face. He wanted to reprimand, and even had the urge to slap Ryono Sakamoto two more times, but considering Sakamoto Nagayuki's face, he forcibly held back.

  Hintaro Imamura forced himself to control his anger and calm down.

   "The shooter didn't shout slogans, didn't do anything else, and just shot?" Heitaro Imamura asked, staring at Ryono Sakamoto.

   "No, just shoot." Sakamoto Yoshino shook his head.

  Hintaro Imamura was lost in thought.

   No slogans were shouted, and there were no other superfluous actions. This does not seem to be an assassination for political purposes.

   It seems to be directed directly at Professor Hiroyuki Taniguchi?

   It's just that Hiroyuki Taniguchi's superficial identity is only a famous scholar, and he didn't directly participate in the war. Such an influential public figure, why did the other party want to attack Hiroshi Taniguchi?

   In addition, there is an extremely important point, that is:

   One of Hiroyuki Taniguchi's group has just arrived in Shanghai. Even if the other party wants to attack Hiroyuki Taniguchi for some purpose, how does he know where Hiroyuki Taniguchi is staying?

  Hintaro Imamura frowned.

  …

   "Where are Taniguchi-kun's students?" Heitaro Imamura asked.

   "Miss Haruko fainted from fright, and several other people were also frightened. I arranged for them to wait in the guest house temporarily." Sakamoto Yoshino said.

   "Didn't you ask to come to the hospital with the car?" Imamura Heitaro immediately caught a key question.

  Ryono Sakamoto thought for a while, "Maybe they were frightened, I let them stay in the guest house, and they didn't make any other suggestions."

  Hintaro Imamura shook his head lightly, this is not normal.

   "Where's the shooter?" he asked.

   "This person shot and killed Professor Taniguchi, which attracted the attention of the soldiers in the guest house. A gun battle broke out between the two sides. The gunman was shot multiple times. He was taken away by Captain Morimoto of the guest house for interrogation."

   Paused for a moment, Sakamoto Yoshino continued, "Captain Morimoto said that the gunman is dead."

   "Why wasn't it sent to the hospital for emergency treatment?" Naito Kotsuba interjected and asked.

   "Captain Morimoto judged that this person would die soon and could not be saved. He said that the interrogation should be done as soon as possible." Sakamoto Ryono said.

  Hintaro Imamura sighed deeply, paced around for a while, and said, "Naito, you call the consulate general and ask Hojo to go to the guest house to participate in the interrogation and get a first-hand interrogation statement."

  Hidetoshi Hojo is a second-class military attache in the military attache of the Imperial Consulate General in Shanghai. Most importantly, Hojo has another identity. He is a close friend of Heutaro Imamura and a secret member of the Iwai Mansion.

   "Hay!"

  …

   "Uncle Imamura, it was my ineffective protection that led to the assassination of Professor Taniguchi."

   After Kobai Naito left, Yoshino Sakamoto said guiltily and regretfully.

   "Although I'm really angry." Hyoutaro Imamura glanced at Ryono Sakamoto, shook his head and said, "But strictly speaking, Taniguchi-kun's assassination has little to do with you."

   As he spoke, he sighed, "Who would have thought that someone would be so cruel to the unarmed Taniguchi-kun."

  At this moment, Imamura Heutaro has calmed down, and he can analyze the matter rationally. He admits that Hiroyuki Taniguchi's security work is not in place, but it doesn't seem to be the security's fault.

  Probably because, as he said just now, he never expected that someone would attack such an unarmed and famous scholar as Hiroyuki Taniguchi.

   "Uncle Imamura." Yoshino Sakamoto glanced at Hiroyuki Taniguchi, who had become a corpse, and said with a sigh, "Professor Taniguchi died, Miyazaki-kun's side..."

  Heitaro Imamura also let out a long sigh, yes, Hiroyuki Taniguchi was killed, and he needs to tell Kentaro Miyazaki the bad news.

  It's a pity, he originally planned to create a surprise for the teachers and students to meet unexpectedly tonight.

  Kintaro is a person who respects his teacher very much, so he must be very sad to hear this sad news suddenly.

   "Kintaro, I will call to inform you." Imamura Heitaro said in a deep voice.

   Right at this moment, Tsubasa Naito, who was on the phone just now, came back.

   "Report Mr. Counselor, Hojo-kun has been informed to go to the Sakura Guest House." Naito Kotsuba said.

   Then, with a strange expression on his face, he said, "One more thing."

   "What's wrong?" Imamura Heutaro asked.

  …

   "Report to the Counselor." Kotsuba Naito said, "When we left the Consulate General, the phone in your office rang, and it was Miyazaki-kun."

   "Kintaro?" Imamura Heitaro shook his head slightly. He guessed that Miyazaki Kentaro called to inquire about the dinner.

   "Miyazaki-kun went to Xianshi Department Store to pick out gifts, and was assassinated when he left the department store." Naito Kotsuba said.

   "What?" Imamura Hyoutaro almost suspected that there was something wrong with his ears, "You said Kentaro was assassinated?"

   "Yes." Naito Kotsuba said, "Miyazaki-kun was assassinated at the entrance of the department store. Fortunately, his subordinates responded in time and shot and killed the shooter."

  Hintaro Imamura fell silent, his expression changing again and again.

   "Who did it?" he asked.

   "Miyazaki-kun said that the assassin was one of Xia Wenqiao's subordinates." Naito Xiaoyi said.

   "Xia Wenqiao's person?" Imamura Heutaro was puzzled, "Isn't this person cooperating with him?"

"The specific situation is unknown at the moment." Naito Kotsuba said, "Miyazaki-kun's call was answered by Saito-kun. He called to inform you, Mr. Counselor, that the incident happened suddenly and he wanted to investigate it. I'm afraid he can't Come to dinner tonight."

  Hintaro Imamura's face was gloomy and uncertain. After thinking for a while, he said to Kotsu Naito, "Naito, go secretly to see Miyazaki and ask about the situation carefully."

   "Hai."

  …

  The deputy chief inspector of the police station in the Central District of the French Concession and the well-known Mr. Cheng was assassinated at the entrance of Xianshi Department Store, which immediately alarmed the police station in the public concession.

   "Deputy Chief Inspector Cheng, this gunman..." Anthony, the British inspector of the Laozha arrest house, pointed to the dead body of the gunman being transported away by the car, with an unhappy expression on his face.

  The corpse was shot more than a dozen times, especially in the abdomen, as if it had been beaten into a hornet's nest.

  He had already inquired about the situation from some of the surrounding Sanguang yards just now. After Xiao Cheng survived a catastrophe, he fired a lot of shots at the corpse as if venting.

   "I'm worried that he's not completely dead." President Xiao Cheng, with a cigarette dangling from his mouth, said calmly, "A few more shots."

   After finishing speaking, he glanced at Anthony provocatively, "What? Is there a problem?"

   "Deputy Chief Inspector Cheng, this is the public concession, not your central area of ​​the French Concession." Anthony lowered his voice, "You have no right to shoot and kill people here, let alone abuse test questions (not typos)!"

  Cheng Qianfan flicked the cigarette ash and grinned.

  He just stared at Anthony and smiled at the same time.

  Anthony frowned, he hated this kind of smile, he felt disrespected.

  Suddenly, the smile on Cheng Qianfan's face disappeared instantly.

  Mr. Xiao Cheng looked at Anthony coldly, and the corner of his mouth raised a cold arc, "Mr. Anthony, you should be glad that I am not injured."

   As he spoke, he threw the cigarette **** on Anthony's riding boots, shook his head, and snorted, "I was injured on your site, and I will demolish your old gate patrol house!"

  Anthony was angry. He jumped up and kicked the cigarette **** off his riding boots, pointed at Cheng Qianfan's nose and cursed, "Cheng Qianfan, you are crazy, do you know what you are talking about? You are provoking the British Empire."

  …

   "I'm crazy." Mr. Cheng gritted his teeth, grabbed Anthony by the collar, and exhaled smoke from his nostrils.

  Anthony immediately felt a rush of heat.

   "Someone is going to kill me!" Mr. Cheng said word by word, "Someone is going to kill me! Did you hear that!"

The patrols in the Laozha patrol room, including several Chinese arresters, and a dozen red-headed assams, saw their boss Anthony being grabbed by Mr. Cheng's collar, and they all looked at each other in blank dismay. Guns, some looked left and right before raising their guns. After a few Hua arresters hesitated, they looked at each other for a while, and finally raised their guns slowly.

  Hou Pingliang, Li Hao, Lu Jiufan and others also immediately pointed their guns at each other.

   "Cheng Qianfan, you lunatic, I want to arrest you." Anthony was extremely angry.

   "Tell your people to put down their guns." Cheng Qianfan let go of his hand, patted Anthony on the cheek, and said coldly, "You should be very clear about the consequences of provoking me."

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