In the blink of an eye, it was sunrise and sunset, close to the evening of local time, the freighter finally arrived in Osaka, the third largest city on the island of Honshu, Osaka is the distribution center of passenger flow and logistics in Honshu, very prosperous, as soon as the ship entered the port, the boiling sound of the whole freighter was submerged, on the side of the ship, Geng Chaozhong was carrying a suitcase, standing with the classmate surnamed Liu, looking at the scenery of the port.

"I can't wait for more than a week without touching the ground!" Liu shouted excitedly.

"Xuejun, when the ship arrives, it's time for us to say goodbye." Geng Chaozhong smiled slightly.

Liu's official name is Liu Xuejun, and he came to Japan to teach and learn railway technology at Tokyo Railway, but Geng Chaozhong did not tell Liu Xuejun his true destination, and claimed to him that he was staying on the ship in Osaka.

Liu Xuejun and Geng Chaozhong were mixed up along the way, and the relationship was quite good, and when he heard Geng Chaozhong's farewell words, he couldn't help but feel a little lost, but after all, he was a teenager, and in a blink of an eye, he was happy again, and said with a smile:

"Brother Zhou, Osaka is not far from Tokyo, if you are free, you can go to Tokyo to play with me, you are coming, I have a treat!" You've treated me to a lot of food on board. ”

"Haha, that's a good relationship, but I can't stay in Japan for long, and if I say goodbye today, I'm afraid it will be difficult to meet in the future, so it's better to say goodbye in advance." Geng Chaozhong looked into the distance and said.

"Yes," Liu Xuejun nodded rarely, looked at Geng Chaozhong sincerely, and said, "Then Brother Zhou, you really don't leave a contact information with me?" When you are alone in a foreign land, it is always good to have someone to take care of. ”

"No need, if it's fate, I'll see you again." Geng Chaozhong smiled and opened his eyes to look down.

The ship, already docked.

Walking off the boat with the flow of people and waving goodbye to classmate Liu, Geng Chaozhong quickly disappeared into the crowd.

This time I came to Japan, my public identity was a visiting scholar of "Jinling Women's University", and his destination was "Tokyo Normal University" in Tokyo, which happened to be the same road as Liu Xuejun, but when he arrived in Honshu, Geng Chaozhong was no longer willing to go with that young man - after all, he came to Japan with a mission, and there were still many things to deal with after getting off the ship, at least, to meet the contact person arranged by the "secret service" in Osaka.

Osaka is the largest port city in Honshu and a hub for passenger traffic to Nara and Tokyo, and any intelligence agency will have branches at such important transportation nodes, and the Secret Service is no exception.

After leaving the port and stepping on the tram, Geng Chaozhong soon came to the bustling area in the center of Osaka - Osaka Castle.

Located in the center of Osaka, Osaka Castle is the symbol of Osaka and is one of the three most famous castles in Japanese history, along with Nagoya Castle and Kumamoto Castle. The magnificent city gate, the tall and steep city wall and the two wide moats inside and outside are very spectacular, but when you enter the inner city, it is refreshing - the plain fang is inserted into the arch, the gray flag falls to the ground, all kinds of temples and dwellings are not colorful, elegant and simple, so that Geng Chaozhong has a feeling of dreaming back to the Tang and Song dynasties as if he was in a different world.

When entering the city, it was raining lightly, stepping on the bluestone paved streets, through the ticking eaves, Geng Chaozhong finally came to a hut with a banner of "Selling Goods", and hesitantly walked in.

"Welcome, what do you need?"

There was only one middle-aged man in his forties wearing a kimono in the store, and when he saw Geng Chaozhong coming in, he put his hands on his waist and bowed diligently.

"I want to buy a set of clothes, the kind with a soft collar." Geng Chaozhong asked tentatively.

"Sorry sir, I'm here in the grocery store, although I have everything, but I don't have clothes, sir should go to the front garment store and have a look!" The middle-aged man nodded with regret on his face, and a gleam flashed in his eyes.

"I've been to ready-to-wear stores, but they say I want clothes that only you have." Geng Chaozhong stared into the man's eyes.

"That's right," the middle-aged man sighed, then turned his head to look around, then pulled his collar, revealing the bright red lining inside the kimono, and turned back:

"What do you think of the one I'm wearing?"

The middle-aged man wears a Japanese-style kimono, but it is slightly different from the usual kimono, although it is also blue and white, but the inner lining is bright red, which is very rare in the elegant kimono.

Seeing the middle-aged man pull open his collar, Geng Chaozhong's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said, "Yes, it's the one on you!" ”

The man smiled, he looked at Geng Chaozhong carefully, his face suddenly changed, and he said:

"Inside, please!"

Geng Chaozhong nodded and walked quickly to the inside, but the middle-aged man walked outside the store and hung a "inventory" sign at the door, then closed the door and walked back to the house quickly.

"The sky is full of red and the ground is red, and I am from Nanjing." Geng Chaozhong smiled and stretched out his hand to the man, and the Japanese in his mouth also switched to Chinese.

"It's been hard all the way, the boss has long said that you are coming, I have been waiting for many months, and I thought the task was canceled!" The man bowed slightly, and his words and deeds were still distinctly Japanese, and it was clear that he had been in Osaka for a long time.

"There's something trivial at home, and I'm really embarrassed to delay it for a while." Geng Chaozhong also owes slightly - follow the local customs, and it is not bad to adapt to Japanese life from now on.

The man looked at Geng Chaozhong's actions, couldn't help but smile, straightened up, relaxed his waist, and said with a smile: "Pretending to be Japanese all day, more tired than his mother and grandson, today I met my family, I can finally be a Chinese again, by the way, I am Liu Hongbo." ”

"Sure enough, it's Stationmaster Liu, by the way, you're from the Northeast?" Geng Chaozhong heard the man's accent.

"Yes," the middle-aged man Liu Hongbo sighed, the sadness in his eyes flashed, "The mountains and rivers are broken, the homeland has fallen, and the wife and child at home have died at the hands of the Japanese, but unfortunately I have no power to restrain the chicken, so I can only stay in Japan and be a fake Oriental devil!" ”

"It will pass," Geng Chaozhong nodded sympathetically, then looked around, and said in surprise: "You are alone here?" ”

"Yes, it's just me," the man smiled, "Why, do you think our Secret Service's Osaka branch is huge?" Or do you think that I, Stationmaster Liu, still have one hundred and ten people under my hands? ”

"Haha!" Geng Chaozhong smiled.

Over the years, the acting boss has set up some sub-stations in Nanyang, Japan, and the Soviet Union, and I thought that even if the secret service was established not long ago, but after all, it is one of the top secret agencies in China, and Osaka is such an important city, there should be three or four people, but I didn't expect it to be so small, so small that there is only one person!

"The funds are limited, how can it be wasted in an idle place like me, if it is not for the convenience of contact and arranging some back roads, this person is too much," Liu Hongbo laughed, looking very open-minded, he raised his hand, made a cup of tea for Geng Chaozhong, and said solemnly:

"How long are you going to stay this time?