In the early morning of this day, Han Zhirong went to work normally, holding his briefcase, stepped into the office building of the Provincial Office, went up the stairs, and exchanged a few words with familiar colleagues, came to the door of his office, took out the key, opened the door, and pushed the door in.

As usual, he picked up the thermos on the table and shook it, then turned around and went out the door, went to the water room downstairs to get a pot of hot water, and came to the window of the mailroom, and asked, "Lao Liu, is today's newspaper here?" ”

The porter Lao Liu looked up and saw Han Zhirong, and hurriedly agreed with a smile: "Section Chief Han, the newspaper has been delivered, I'll get it for you!" ”

As an important government department of Shanxi Province, the Provincial Office will subscribe to the major publications issued in Taiyuan on time every day as long as it is slightly influential, and the major newspapers will also take the initiative to send newspapers to the Provincial Office building for public officials to consult.

Lao Liu Tou knew Han Zhirong's habit of taking away a few newspapers every day, so he had already prepared them.

"This is the "Jinyang Bulletin", this is the "Shanxi Daily", "Sanjin Metropolis Daily", "Xinmin Daily", "Shanxi Communication" and "Taiyuan Daily", a total of six copies, all of them."

These newspapers are all received by Han Zhirong on a regular basis, and Lao Liu Tou rolled several newspapers into a ball and handed them out of the window.

Han Zhirong took the newspaper, nodded at Lao Liu and smiled: "This day is boring, just rely on these to pass the time, thank you." ”

Leaving the mailroom, Han Zhirong held a kettle in one hand and a newspaper in the other, and walked up the stairs briskly and returned to his office.

Unhurriedly took out the tea leaves, brewed tea, sat on the seat, took out a cigarette from his pocket, took out a dot, took a deep breath, exhaled comfortably, and then picked up the newspaper, selected a copy of "Taiyuan Daily" in his hand and read it carefully.

In fact, among these newspapers, the other newspapers were all used by him as cover, and what he really needed was this "Taiyuan Daily".

At this time, his eyes swept over, and suddenly his eyes tightened, and his figure suddenly froze, and then he hurriedly took it in front of him, watched it carefully, and confirmed it for a long time, this was indeed an order from the headquarters of the Military Command Bureau to wake him up.

He couldn't help frowning, his heart was full of contradictions, and he was anxious, for these three months, he had been looking forward to this day, so that he could be relieved of such a fearful day as soon as possible.

But he did get the news today, but he was scared, he hesitated for a moment, picked up the phone on the table, and dialed the dial, but as soon as he dialed halfway, he immediately stopped.

After thinking about it, he put down the phone, got up and walked out of the office, went down the stairs, and walked out of the office building of the provincial office, to a nearby department store, and walked in.

I went straight to the counter and said to the shopkeeper, "Make a call." ”

"Feel free!" The shopkeeper hurriedly nodded in agreement.

When the phone was dialed, Han Zhirong glanced at the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper was very sensible to let him aside, Han Zhirong turned sideways and whispered: "Boss, the goods you want have arrived, and you need to receive it in person, okay... Okay, see you at the old place at half past ten in the morning! ”

After a few short sentences, Han Zhirong put down the phone, took out a banknote and put it on the counter, turned around and left in a hurry.

The shopkeeper picked up the banknote, looked at Han Zhirong's back, and muttered: "Hey, make a phone call, it's sneaky, and it's not a good way." ”

At around nine o'clock in the morning, at No. 23 of the school captain's camp, in the banker's compound, in the safe house of the Japanese Special High School, two agents of the Japanese Special High School who were in charge of guarding the safe house, Akiyama and Asano, were checking the doors and windows of every room in the residence.

Akiyama, who was a little older, closed a window, locked the pin, and then turned to Asano, who was cleaning the room, and said, "Every corner must be carefully checked, and the head of Yoshioka called just now, and we want to meet with the connector today, and we want to make sure that there are no problems." ”

Asano nodded in agreement, and asked suspiciously, "Didn't we just meet two days ago?" Why do you want to meet again? ”

Akiyama is also an old agent with relatively rich intelligence experience, and said lightly: "There must be special circumstances, otherwise it wouldn't be so frequent." ”

"Who do you guess this Chinese is? Why does Team Leader Yoshioka value him so much that he has to meet him in person every time. Asano guessed.

They have been guarding this safe house for a long time, and they have met Han Zhirong several times, and each time Yoshioka Masao came forward in person, so they also have some curiosity about Han Zhirong's identity.

Akiyama shook his head and smiled: "What can make Team Leader Yoshioka value, of course, is not a simple person, I guess it should be the intelligence officers of the Chinese government, I heard that this conflict, and killed a lot of Chongqing agents, it is estimated that it has something to do with this person." ”

While the two of them talked, they checked each room, and then Akiyama ordered, "You go to the front door to have a look, pay attention to observe if there are any suspicious people nearby, and I'll go to the back door." ”

"Yes!" Asano agreed, walked to the front door, and just opened the courtyard door, and was about to go out, when he saw a person blocking the door.

The man was about forty years old, with a slean face, wrinkled forehead, a dirty coarse cotton jacket, a tattered felt hat, and cloth shoes with big toes exposed.

The beggar was about to raise his hand and knock on the door, but when he saw Asano coming out, he quickly grabbed Asano and shouted, "You are Master Zhuang, right?" I've been waiting for you for a long time. ”

Asano was suddenly grabbed by his hand, and was suddenly startled, and quickly pushed the beggar away, the force in his hand was not small, and he directly pushed this person out a few steps, fell to the ground, and shouted: "Bastard, yours, who is it?" ”

He was not fluent in Chinese, and he was Japanese when he heard it, but the beggar didn't pay attention to it at all, got up, pounced again, and shouted: "Master Zhuang, I am a relative of your own family, from the countryside of Jinnan, I really can't survive, so I came to take refuge in you, why don't you give me a bowl of rice......

After that, he hugged Asano's thighs tightly and cried and howled, causing the people around him to look sideways.

Asano's eyes flashed with a hint of murderous intent, he had always been rude to Chinese, seeing the beggar entangled, he was immediately annoyed, reached out and grabbed the other party's collar, pulled it up hard, followed by a punch, knocked the other party down again, and scolded in his mouth: "Get out, otherwise, I will arrest you and put you in prison......"

When they made a fuss, the people around them also came close to see the excitement, and there were many discussions, and the movement became louder.

At this time, Akiyama also rushed over from the back door when he heard the sound, and hurriedly asked Asano, "What's the matter?" ”

Asano shook his head and said helplessly: "This beggar is here to find the merchant surnamed Zhuang who lived here before, and said that he is his relative, which is really troublesome!" ”

Akiyama couldn't help frowning when he heard this, he knew about the boss of the village, so he didn't have any doubts, glanced around, and saw that there were a lot of people watching the excitement, and he was secretly anxious in his heart.

At this time, two Japanese patrol officers rushed over when they heard the noise, and the guards here were sufficient, and the slightest movement on the street would be handled by the Japanese police and patrols.

When Akiyama saw them at a glance, he hurriedly greeted them, beckoned the two patrol officers in front of him, and whispered a few words.

The two Japanese patrolmen nodded quickly, turned around and waved their batons, and whipped the beggar heavily, and the rough man was so painful that he let out a few screams in his mouth, and ran away, and the patrolman drove him away, and soon disappeared.

Just when the front door was in trouble, Xu Chengyan and Ji Yun came to the back door of the compound, gently pushed the door, and the inside had been killed.

The two of them looked left and right, and while no one was paying attention, they approached the courtyard wall, set up a scaffolding, borrowed each other's strength, and gently and skillfully climbed over the courtyard wall.

When their feet landed on the ground, they could still hear the noise of the front door, and the two of them kept walking in front of a door in the main building.

Xu Chengyan stretched out his hand and pushed, this time it was not dead, and he was happy in his heart, which saved a lot of hands and feet, and they saved a lot of time.

Gently pushed the door in, waited a little to make sure that there was no one, and quickly walked through the hallway to the stairs.

After previous investigations, they already knew the layout of the building, and they had already designed the course of action.

Xu Chengyan waved his head to Ji Yun, Ji Yun nodded slightly, and in a flash, he turned into a side door on the opposite side of the stairs, which was a storage room, uninhabited, and a good place to hide.

Xu Chengyan went directly up the stairs to the second floor, where the stairs were facing the main living room, where the room was spacious and central, and it was the place where the host entertained important guests.

He walked lightly to the door of the room, listened intently, made sure that there was no one in the room, pushed the door in, and gently closed the door with his hand back to restore its original position.

This living room is very spacious, the red pine floors have just been beaten with tung oil, and they are spotless, and the large glass windows facing the sun are polished brightly, and the room is brightly lit.

There is a large table on the east side, on which there are all kinds of pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and there is an extremely rare gilded table clock on the side, which constantly makes a "click" sound.

In the middle of the living room, there are two symmetrical rows of sofas, separated by a coffee table with a teapot full of fruits.

Xu Chengyan stepped forward and touched the teapot, the temperature was still hot, and touched the apples on the table, and there were water stains left by the freshly cleaned ones, which were obviously just prepared.

He must be sure in his heart that his previous judgment was not wrong, this place was well prepared, the house was cleaned, and there were prepared tea and fruits, this must be the room where Yoshioka Masao and Han Zhirong met.