Chapter 529 Insights in subtleties
Cheng Qianfan is thinking.
When I passed Peng and Ou's house just now, there were gaps in the curtains and no light came through the house.
He saw no sign of 'all is well'.
There was no signal warning him that important comrades were missing or arrested.
Obviously, Peng and Ou haven't come back yet, and Shao's mother is not at home either.
Cheng Qianfan was anxious.
His intuition told him that this secret operation of Shanghai Special Higher Education School was extremely harmful.
No matter which side's strength is lost, the anti-Japanese strength is also damaged.
In addition, it is now close to nine o'clock in the evening, and Peng and Ou still have not returned home. Cheng Qianfan is inevitably a little uneasy:
He had to worry that Araki Harima’s target was Peng Yuou.
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Send Bai Ruolan and Xiaobao back to their home in Yandli, while Cheng Qianfan drives back to the patrol room by himself.
On the way, he stopped the car on the side of the road and got out to smoke.
I don’t know why, Shanghai’s winter is extremely cold this year.
Cheng Qianfan’s fingers holding the cigarette trembled slightly.
He took a few puffs, and the smoke he exhaled was quickly blown away by the cold wind.
Be calm. If you don’t care, you will be in chaos.
Cheng Qianfan organized his thoughts again.
Under the streetlight, the young Comrade Huo Miao stood by the car door, leaning slightly against the car door. His eyebrows were slightly knitted, and a snowflake fell gently and fell on his hair.
It’s snowing.
The second snowfall in Shanghai in the twenty-seventh year of the Republic of China.
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After calming down, Cheng Qianfan was more and more inclined to agree with his analysis and speculation just now.
It is extremely unlikely that the target of this operation of the Super High School is the Red Party.
Thinking of the "assassination" of Yang Fuyuan that occurred in Hongkou District during the day, it is most likely that the special high school went to the Shanghai Station of the Lixingshe Secret Service.
Cheng Qianfan highly suspected that the Special High School Division had discovered extremely important clues from this case.
It may even be an important clue related to the top management of the Shanghai Station of the Secret Service.
Although there is a very low possibility, Cheng Qianfan is highly worried about the possibility, that is:
The Special High School took this opportunity to severely damage the Shanghai Station of the Secret Service, and even wiped out all of them in one fell swoop!
Other than this, it would not have been enough for Araki Harima, who presided over the operation, to be personally commended by Masao Nishida after his success.
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The Shanghai station of the Lixingshe Secret Service is in danger!
All the scattered information, all the scattered threads are connected by a thread called "Bold Hypothesis", and when picked up, it turns out to be these ten words!
Cheng Qianfan was also shocked by his hypothesis and conclusion!
Although this was just his guess, Cheng Qianfan's heart sank, and his intuition told him that this guess was possible.
Have to guard against it.
The burning cigarette **** burned his hand.
Cheng Qianfan dropped his cigarette butt.
Fu took out another cigarette, held it in his mouth, and played with the lighter in his hand, but did not light it.
He is a highly confident person and has strong self-confidence in his own analysis and judgment.
Time is running out and the situation is grim. It stands to reason that he should report to Dai Chunfeng:
Send a warning to Shanghai Station from bottom to top, and then from top to bottom.
However, the problem is that all this is just his speculation, and he cannot provide any substantive evidence to support his speculation.
Get in the car and start the car.
Cheng Qianfan flicked the lighter, lit the cigarette, stepped on the accelerator and drove towards Xue Huali Road.
His mind was working rapidly.
The most important thing now is to seize all the time to investigate and verify.
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The source of everything is the assassination of Yang Fuyuan!
He decided to start from the source.
Yang Fuyuan was assassinated, so what was the result - was this person dead?
Cheng Qianfan was inclined to believe that Yang Fuyuan was dead. From the chat among his men, he learned that it was said that multiple gunmen opened fire at the same time. The car was smashed, and the passengers had little chance of surviving.
Some people even said with certainty that witnesses saw Yang Fuyuan's body being carried away by Japanese military police.
However, Yang Fuyuan's eldest son Yang Qifa found Xiu Gongshen and asked Xiu Gongshen to help find connections to ask for Yang Fuyuan's body from the Japanese. This seemed to inevitably make Cheng Qianfan a little suspicious.
Is it possible that Yang Fuyuan is not dead?
This person was extremely lucky to escape the disaster?
Just like last year, Gu Xingyi was ambushed by the Secret Service, but mysteriously separated from the convoy in advance, thus escaping.
So, Yang Fuyuan is not dead, but now he is pretending to die?
Cheng Qianfan only felt a headache. The two results represented two completely different directions of investigation.
If Yang Fuyuan is confirmed to be dead, it means that the news of the operation was not leaked in advance, and the direction of investigation will be based on the investigation of this case by the Special High School Division.
The most likely possibility is that an agent from the Secret Service was captured by the Special High School Section, and this person provided some important information.
And the most dangerous situation is that a certain Shanghai Station executive who organized the assassination of Yang Fuyuan was targeted by the Super High School -
Even he himself has been captured by the Super High School—
Even more so, this person has already confessed, and the entire Shanghai station has been confessed.
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If Yang Fuyuan is not dead, then it means that there is a traitor within the Secret Service. The whole case itself is a situation that attracts the Shanghai Station of the Secret Service to join -
It can also be explained that the traitor within the Secret Service was not of high rank and was most likely an ordinary member of the team involved in this operation. The purpose was to lure out a senior executive of the Shanghai Station who was responsible for the operation and then arrest this person.
kindness?
Cheng Qianfan’s eyebrows moved slightly:
After this detailed analysis, no matter what the situation, the most critical person seems to be the senior person who organized the operation at Shanghai Station!
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“Inspector!”
“Inspector!”
Cheng Qianfan strode into the arresting hall.
The patrolmen who were on night duty put down their tea cups, romantic newspapers, Pai Gow, playing cards, and melon seeds, and stood up one after another to salute.
Inspector Xiao Cheng nodded slightly, entered his office, and closed the door with a bang.
All the patrolmen looked at each other. It seemed that the patrol leader was in a bad mood. Everyone should pay attention.
At this moment, the door to the inspector's office opened again.
Cheng Qianfan stuck out his head and said, "Lu Jiufan."
"arrive!"
Lu Jiufan quickly agreed and trotted over.
Cheng Qianfan took out a few French coins from his wallet and said, "Go and get some food and drinks for extra meals."
"yes!"
“Thank you, Inspector!”
“Inspector of the Four Seas!”
All the patrolmen cheered.
At the same time, I breathed a sigh of relief.
“Little monkey, come here.” Cheng Qianfan shouted again.
“Here we come!” Hou Pingliang agreed, entered the office, and the door was closed.
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“Inspector.” Hou Pingliang shook his hands and stamped his feet.
“I don’t have a standing position.” Cheng Qianfan glared.
Speaking, he took out a pack of cigarettes from the drawer and threw it over.
Hou Pingliang caught it steadily and smiled happily.
"Did anything happen in the area when I was not in the patrol room today?" Cheng Qianfan took out a cigarette and held it in his mouth. Hou Pingliang quickly took out the match box and lit a match.
Li Hao and Hao Zai are Cheng Qianfan’s top confidants.
However, everyone knows that these two people secretly help the inspector to manage the black market business, so they often go out to work and do not stay in the patrol room.
Hou Pingliang is Cheng Qianfan’s eyes in the patrol room.
Hou Pingliang rubbed his temples and recalled.
He knew that the inspector was not asking about the cases that had been reported to the third patrol, but about some strange, interesting, or noteworthy things that happened in the jurisdiction.
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Cheng Qianfan did not rush Hou Pingliang. The little monkey was loyal to him. He seemed to be stubborn at times, but he was actually quite careful in doing things.
This is how Cheng Qianfan ‘investigates cases’.
He had previously speculated that the key person here was the senior executive of the Shanghai Station of the Secret Service who organized the assassination of Yang Fuyuan.
However, at this point there were no clues for him to continue investigating.
At this moment, Cheng Qianfan will not act blindly.
He will first understand the information he has access to. For today, he chooses to understand what is happening in his own jurisdiction, in order to clear his mind and avoid falling into a dead end.
At the same time, I also hope that from the information I can understand and have access to, there are no clues that can be connected to this matter.
This is the policy that Cheng Qianfan himself summarized.
As an agent whose identity is absolutely secret, the most taboo thing is to inquire too much about information and intelligence that he should not inquire about or understand, or that is unfamiliar to him.
For an agent of his level, all sources of intelligence information are basically and must be accessible to him as "normally" as much as possible.
This is the safest approach.
It is also the most effective approach.
Yes, Cheng Qianfan thinks this is the most effective approach.
He insists on the view that the safest and most effective work for intelligence personnel is in the environment and field with which they are most familiar.
Taking today's events as an example, even from the information Hou Pingliang told, he did not capture any effective intelligence information related to the "Assassination of Yang Fuyuan" case.
However, Cheng Qianfan can judge from this seemingly messy information, whether there is a fire in the backyard of his 'base', the Third Patrol Area of the Central District, and whether he has exposed any hidden dangers.
When he is sure that he is safe, he will consider the next step.
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Hou Pingliang said as he thought.
Speak whatever comes to mind.
This is also what Cheng Qianfan has always asked of him. This way of saying what comes to mind is the most authentic and effective, and will not miss some seemingly unimportant details.
Because once the human brain thinks carefully, it will subconsciously analyze and filter some information that it considers irrelevant.
However, irrelevance is a judgment based on analysis.
Perhaps information that seemed inconsequential to Hou Pingliang was extremely critical to Cheng Qianfan.
“Sanwei Heng has a bad guy who puts bugs in Dou Hua’s hooves in an attempt to blackmail his boss Fan Laosan for three days.”
“Fan Lao San called the police, and it was Lu Jiu who called the police. He beat Zha San and demanded Fan Lao San’s filial piety.”
“Someone was making trouble at Qiu Dayan’s gambling stall. White Russian thugs broke the legs and feet of two foreigners.”
“Boss Xia went to Yuchun Creek to take a bath and got into an argument with someone. The man was beaten up and Boss Xia was compensated a large amount of disturbance fee.”
"Xia Wenqiao? Did he have an argument with someone when he came, or did it happen after he took a bath?" Cheng Qianfan interrupted the little monkey and asked.
"When I came," Hou Pingliang thought for a while and said, "Boss Xia was not interested, so he just stayed for a while and then left."
Cheng Qianfan secretly noted this in his mind. This thing was a bit strange. He couldn't tell what was strange at the moment, but he just felt it was a bit strange.
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“A strange thing happened at the Cabaret restaurant on Father Jin Road.” Hou Pingliang thought for a while and said.
"What's weird?" Cheng Qianfan flicked the ashes from his cigarette, picked up the tea cup, blew on the tea leaves, and took a sip of tea.
“Lou Lianxiang is gone.” Hou Pingliang whispered.
He naturally heard that his inspector, Xiao Cheng, once had an idea for Lou Lianxiang, but because the man behind Lou Lianxiang was quite powerful, the inspector had no idea that he could succeed.
"Missing?" When Cheng Qianfan heard the name, his eyes showed a strange light, and he frowned and asked immediately.
“I first said that I was missing, and then I said that I was not missing. It was a mistake.” Hou Pingliang said, “However, my subordinates think that Lou Lianxiang may really be missing.”
“Tell me in detail.” Cheng Qianfan said with an inexplicable smile on his lips.
“At first, the little maid Ajuan beside Lou Lianxiang discovered that Lou Lianxiang was missing.”
“Ajuan is looking everywhere.”
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Hou Pingliang said whatever he thought of, and he repeated his words in some places. However, Cheng Qianfan quickly figured out the whole thing.
The little maid looked for Lou Lianxiang everywhere, and soon attracted the attention of other people including the guests.
Lou Lianxiang is the mainstay of this cabaret restaurant. Many customers come here because of her. Her disappearance is not a small matter.
There was chaos at the scene.
However, soon the cabaret boss Niko Lokovsky came out and said that Miss Lou was unwell. He arranged a car to take Miss Lou back to her residence to rest. The little maid didn't know about this and talked nonsense, which made everyone worried, especially Apologize.
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“Something’s wrong.” Cheng Qianfan exhaled a puff of smoke and shook his head.
"Yes, this is wrong. There is no reason for Miss Lou to go home on her own and leave Ajuan in Cabaret." Hou Liangping said, "Many people know that Lou Lianxiang is very good to Ajuan and treats her as a child." Just like a biological sister, Lou Lianxiang would never leave a place like Cabaret by herself, leaving Ajuan there."
“Okay, little monkey, you are very capable. Not bad.” Cheng Qianfan glanced at Hou Pingliang in surprise and said with a smile.
Hou Pingliang chuckled. He did not dare to tell the inspector what he thought.
In his opinion, any woman who is favored by the inspector will definitely not be able to escape.
Even though Lou Lianxiang is being protected by someone, sooner or later this woman is destined to be Inspector Cheng.
The little maid Ajuan next to Lou Lianxiang is so handsome.
The inspector took Lou Lianxiang as his concubine.
His little monkey, as a close subordinate of the inspector, married Ajuan as his wife. This is very reasonable!
Therefore, Hou Pingliang paid special attention to the master and servant Lou Lianxiang and Ajuan, so he knew more and thought more carefully:
My wife should be careful.
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“I was afraid that others would know about Lou Lianxiang’s disappearance, so I said that on purpose.” Hou Pingliang said. At this time, he looked strange and glanced at Cheng Qianfan, “And there is one thing that is very strange...”
“What’s strange?” Cheng Qianfan asked.
"I later found A-Juan, and A-Juan mentioned something." Hou Pingliang pretended to recall, secretly observed the inspector's expression, and said with a little uneasiness, "A-Juan said..."
“What did Ajuan say?” Cheng Qianfan glared at the little monkey, “Don’t hesitate.”
“Ajuan said, ‘The young lady answered the call from the master, and he will come today.’ Now, ‘the young lady has disappeared, maybe she left with the master.’” Hou Pingliang breathed a sigh of relief and said.
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