My Spy Years

  Chapter 1095 Risk

  Cheng Qianfan took out the white gloves from the briefcase and put them on carefully.

  He came to the wall opposite the loveseat.

  The curtain on the wall has been drawn, covering the map behind the curtain.

  To be precise, it is not fully covered, and there is a short gap at the joint of the curtain.

  Cheng Qianfan didn't directly open the curtain, he measured it with his palm, about half a foot.

  Glanced again, using the middle line as the benchmark, it was slightly closer to the left curtain.

  Remembering these situations silently in his heart, Cheng Qianfan finally opened the curtain.

  There are two maps on the wall.

  One map is the map of Europa, which is the map he 'explained' to Imamura Heutaro just now with a map stick.

   There is also a map called "The Complete Map of China Gemyu".

  In fact, there are also two maps on the wall behind Cheng Qianfan, one is the "Map of the Great Japanese Empire" and the other is the map of Shanghai.

  …

  Before, Cheng Qianfan opened the curtain, his eyes swept over the two maps, he had a natural stop on the map of China, and then he focused all his attention on the map of Europa.

   It was at that glance that Cheng Qianfan keenly captured the 'new changes' on this map.

   On the map, several place names were circled with red pencils, as if they were written.

  If the scribbles and handwriting on this map were of normal pencil ink color, even if Cheng Qianfan was interested in the newly added content on this map, he would not arbitrarily choose to take the risk of coming back to secretly take pictures.

  Because Cheng Qianfan is familiar with Imamura Heutaro, and there is no red pencil on Imamura Heutaro's desk.

  Heitaro Imamura will not use red pen in other cases unless he uses red handwriting where it must be signed with red pen.

reason?

  No reason should be a personal habit, maybe it is related to personal superstitions, customs, etc. This is the judgment Cheng Qianfan has obtained from silent observation over the past few years.

  In this way, it is not Heitaro Imamura himself who painted and wrote marks on this map with a red pencil.

Who is this guy?

  Cheng Qianfan knows Hyotaro Imamura very well. Imamura seems to treat his subordinates and students with a gentle and friendly attitude, but in fact this is a person who pays great attention to the etiquette of the strict class in Japan.

Take today as an example, Kentaro Miyazaki is Hyoutaro Imamura's favorite student, and he is answering Hyoutaro Imamura's class questions. Scribble and mark on the map.

  So, based on his understanding of Imamura Hyoutarou's living and working habits and temperament, Cheng Qianfan judged that the person who scribbled and marked on this map of China should have an extraordinary status.

  At the very least, this person should have the same status as Imamura Heutaro, the counselor of the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai.

  A senior Japanese diplomat in Shanghai and another senior Japanese official no less than Heitaro Imamura held talks in the study, and very formally added a new mark on a military map.

  Cheng Qianfan naturally wouldn't think that these two were just chatting casually.

  …

  Cheng Qianfan quickly found the newly added mark on the map he had glimpsed earlier.

  To be precise, there are three places that are circled with red pencils.

   Nanchang.

   Sui County.

  Changsha.

   Beside the three place names, some fine markings were added.

  Cheng Qianfan didn't have time to think about the meanings of these three place names, nor did he have time to carefully read the Japanese written in red pencil on the map.

  He picked up the camera and pointed at the map to take pictures, but found that the light was not enough.

  Cheng Qianfan glanced at the desk lamp on the desk. He silently memorized the position of the desk lamp on the desk, then picked up the desk lamp horizontally with one hand to fill in the light, manipulated the miniature camera in his hand with the other, and snapped the shutter.

  …

"beautiful."

   "Beautiful to the extreme."

  Kogoro Imamura stroked Er Zhujin in his hand, admiring in his mouth, and his eyes were full of joy.

The Genroku period was the heyday of the Tokugawa shogunate, and the economy was extremely prosperous. Giant cities such as Edo, Osaka, and Kyoto and a series of small industrial and commercial cities developed, and the townsman class rose. This era has a special feeling in the hearts of many Japanese. significance.

  The Genroku period is considered to be the renaissance period in Japan.

   For example, the emphasis on classical culture.

   Advocates directly studying the classics of Confucius and Mencius, tracing back to the pre-Qin Confucianism, and restoring the ancient spirit distorted by the successors.

  Advocating the humanistic spirit, a large number of common people's culture appeared, "Ningyo Joruri" (puppet rap opera), "Kabuki" (dance drama), arts and crafts (Ukiyo-e, woodblock prints), etc.

   There are even a large number of civilian novels that boldly depict people's pursuit of material desires, such as "A Generation of Sexy Men", "Five Women of Sexy Women", "Nippon Yongdai Collection", and "The World's Chest Calculator".

  In addition, natural science has also been developed, such as the development of ancient medicine, mathematics, and the prosperity of Western science introduced from the Netherlands.

   Natural philosophy and atheism have also been promoted and developed to a certain extent.

  This social atmosphere is very similar to the Western Renaissance.

  Although these renaissances are not as vigorous as in Europe, they are only in an "infancy" state.

   However, this in itself is a kind of progress.

   From the perspective of Japan today, although Japan during the Genroku period did not have the magnificence of the European bourgeois revolution, it was a great improvement compared to the lifelessness of the Qing Dynasty in China.

  During the Genroku period, many Japanese studies, such as literature, history, and philosophy, reached or approached the level of breaking through the feudal era.

  And this kind of social background finally gave birth to the Meiji Restoration.

  Therefore, many Japanese believe that the cultural prosperity of the Genroku period is the deep national memory of the Japanese nation.

  In the eyes of Imamura Kogoro, these two pieces of Erzhu gold from the Genroku period entrusted his own reverie and worship for the beauty of this era.

   "Kentaro is really a good young man." Kogoro Imamura said in his heart, remembering three years ago, he was very wary of Kentaro Miyazaki at the beginning.

  I still remember the time when Ryono Sakamoto arranged for Miyazaki Kentaro to take a nap in the upstairs guest room, and he hurried up to check...

  …

Um?

   Kogoro Imamura frowned.

   Miyazaki Kentaro went up to get the briefcase, why hasn't it come down yet?

   Not right.

  When the counselor leaves, the door of the study will definitely be closed.

  The door is closed, and Miyazaki Kentaro naturally can't get in, so what is he going up for? Even if he found the door closed after going up, he should call him to open the door!

   Kogoro Imamura has a gloomy and serious expression.

  He had no intention of doubting Kentaro Miyazaki.

  However, no matter what the reason was, Miyazaki Kentaro didn't come down for a long time, nor did he ask him to open the door, something was wrong!

Putting down the Er Zhu Jin from the Genroku period in his hand, Kogoro Imamura left the door in a hurry. After walking two steps, he returned to his room, opened the drawer, took out a very small "palm thunder" pistol, and hid it in his palm. , walked quickly towards the direction of the stairs.

  …

  Cheng Qianfan first gently put the desk lamp back on the desk.

  He walked towards the bamboo basket in the corner.

   This is used to put paper scraps, melon peels and other garbage.

  Cheng Qianfan squatted down and rummaged in the bamboo basket.

  He saw the crumpled paper.

  Cheng Qianfan spread out the paper carefully.

   Here is a simple map drawn by hand.

   Or it can only be seen that the map is vaguely drawn, because the paper is wet with tea.

  Some Japanese characters were also written on the paper.

  Cheng Qianfan rubbed the paper with his hand, it is still wet now, but a certain part of the paper tends to be dry to the touch, it belongs to being splashed with tea, and it has been slowly drying.

  Cheng Qianfan secretly speculated that this piece of paper should have been thrown in the bamboo basket for two to three hours.

   With a thought in his heart, he picked up the moistest part of the paper and put it on the tip of his nose to smell it.

  Cheng Qianfan's expression changed slightly, and he nodded.

  He put the paper on the desk, laid it flat under the desk lamp, picked up the miniature camera, adjusted the focus, fine-tuned the standing position at the same time, and pressed the shutter three times in a row.

   After finishing all this, Cheng Qianfan crumpled up the piece of paper and carefully put it back into the bamboo basket:

  When he picked up the paper, he noticed that the paper was under an apple core. He crumpled the paper up again and pressed it under the apple core.

  Cheng Qianfan looked at the desk.

  Under the reflection of the lamp light, there is a faint reflection at the position where the paper was placed just now.

   This is the reflection of moisture.

  Cheng Qianfan immediately wiped it gently with gloves.

   Can't use force.

  Using force will leave hand marks and palm marks.

  His eyes rested on the desk lamp.

Cheng Qianfan noticed that there was a deviation between the position of the desk lamp and its own position before he took the desk lamp to fill in the light just now. He gestured with the palm of his hand above the desk, raised a finger to mark the distance, and then moved the desk lamp to the position where the desk is close to the document About one centimeter.

   After taking another look, he nodded in satisfaction.

   At this moment, an accident occurred.

  The cord of the desk lamp rubbed against the documents on the desk, and several documents fell to the ground.

  Cheng Qianfan was shocked, he immediately realized where the problem was.

  Just now he picked up the desk lamp as a supplementary light for taking pictures. The light wire of the desk lamp was originally bent, but he pulled it apart. Now that he put the desk lamp back, the light wire is still straighter than before, and also 'longer'.

  The elongated light wire just scratched the document paper on the desk.

Cheng Qianfan first glanced at the desk lamp, then at the lamp wire. Holding the lamp wire with his left hand, he rubbed it up and down lightly to confirm the proper 'length' of the lamp wire itself, and then Cheng Qianfan quickly moved the lamp between his right fingers. The thread is twisted and bent in different places.

   Taking another visual inspection, I judged in my heart that unless Imamura Heutaro also marked the light line, there should be no flaws.

  …

   Then.

  Looking at the scattered documents on the ground, Cheng Qianfan's expression became extremely serious.

  He picked up the paper and glanced at it.

  His heart sank.

  These pages were not from the same document, so he couldn't determine the order in which these pages were placed on the desk.

   This is extremely troublesome.

  Cheng Qianfan's mind was like a movie playing fast thinking, the picture two minutes ago, and even the picture of the conversation with Imamura Heutaro in the study before was quickly skipped in his mind.

  He sighed in his heart, remained silent, and stared at the few pages of documents.

  He failed to recall the order in which these pages were placed.

   At this moment, there seemed to be footsteps coming from the other side of the stairs.

  Cheng Qianfan's hearing is sensitive, he judged that the distance was a bit far, and he should still be going up the stairs.

  Is Kogoro Imamura coming?

   Is Er Zhu Jin finished appreciating?

   Still feel something is wrong to check?

   However, this is not important anymore.

  Cheng Qianfan was extremely anxious, he had experimented before:

  It takes about thirty-nine seconds to get from the stairway to the study near the inner side at a normal pace.

  Every time he comes to the study, he will memorize it in his heart. After many experiments, and then take an average, the final conclusion is seventeen seconds.

  However, Imamura Kogoro is shorter than him, and his steps are slower. Taking this factor into account, Cheng Qianfan judges that Imamura Kogoro should take nineteen seconds.

  Nineteen seconds, he didn't have time to deal with the mess here.

  …

Just at this time.

   "Butler Imamura, butler Imamura!"

   "Butler Imamura, butler Imamura!"

   "Butler Imamura, butler Imamura!"

   Downstairs, there was a sudden shout.

  Cheng Qianfan heard Li Hao's voice.

   Then he heard footsteps that were approaching and moving away.

   This is Imamura Kogoro going down the stairs and going back.

  …

  Cheng Qianfan temporarily ignored these pages.

  He held the miniature camera in his hand and pressed the spring, and the card opened. He took out the small film and the card slot, put the film into the card slot, and closed it.

   Then put the camera directly into the briefcase.

  Then put the film into a silk bag in the briefcase. There were five or six small yellow croakers and a stack of banknotes in the bag. He scattered the banknotes and covered the film.

   Having done all this, Cheng Qianfan put the briefcase back on the seat, just like the 'forgotten' position before.

  Then, Cheng Qianfan picked up the red wine gift box on the ground and walked towards the door.

   Suddenly stopped.

  He came to the desk and put the few pages on the corner of the desk.

   Having done all this, he walked back.

   is walking backwards, walking gently.

  …

   Downstairs.

  Time goes back ten seconds.

   Kogoro Imamura stood at the entrance under the stairs and asked, "What's the matter?"

   "Housekeeper Imamura, please call Brother Fan, time is running out." Li Hao said.

   "When is it too late?" Kogoro Imamura asked with a frown.

   "Brother Fan promised his sister-in-law to tell the young master a bedtime story before going out today." Li Hao said, "It's too late, the young master will..."

   "I see." Kogoro Imamura shook his head. He had heard that Kentaro loved his son very much. Maybe he loved his house and his wife, and he also loved his Chinese wife.

   Kogoro Imamura went up the stairs again, turned right, and walked straight towards the study in the corridor.

  …

  "Uncle Xiaogoro." Cheng Qianfan stood at the door of the study, looking bored. He saw Kogoro Imamura coming from a distance, and shouted happily, "You counted it, the study is locked."

   "Why didn't Kentaro call me?" Imamura Kogoro took a deep look at Miyazaki Kentaro, put his palm in his left hand, and took out the key with his right to open the door.

   "It's not good to disturb Uncle Kogoro's research on the ancient culture of the empire." Cheng Qianfan said with a smile, "Just wait a while."

  The door was unlocked, but the door seemed to be stuck by something.

  Cheng Qianfan took the initiative to push it forward, but it didn't open at first, and then with a strong force, the door was knocked open, with a gust of wind, only to see a few pages of paper falling from the desk.

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