111. The one who steals the secret message
There was no news all afternoon, Tan Jing forced himself to stay in his chair, he couldn't do anything now, he could only wait for people to be sure that it was safe to contact him on his own initiative, if the plan was exposed, then any action he took related to it would affect him.
At eight o'clock in the evening, the phone at his home rang, Tan Jing almost rushed over to pick up the receiver, but it was Zuo Boying on the other side of the phone, his tone was light and happy, and he asked him with a smile: "The secretary said that Tan Jun you want to have dinner with me, but unfortunately I have just finished my busy work now, and I don't know if there is a chance for a free dinner." β
"No," Tan Jing refused without hesitation. Zuo Boying laughed deeply, and Tan Jing knew that what he was waiting for was not dinner, but the phone, or the person who called.
He added: "But you can have a breakfast...... Because you haven't replied for a long time, I've eaten. β
"I'm really sorry, there was an emergency in the afternoon, and I have been busy with that thing." Zuo Boying apologized decently, "I will definitely be on time, please tell me the time and place, and if it is convenient, I would like to know in advance what you want to ask me." β
"Yu Fangfei," he said, the excuse had been thought of a long time ago, "she used to have a secret relationship with Miangu Shinfu, and now she has been arranged to be with me, and I want to know who the person behind her is." β
Zuo Boying seemed surprised, but he didn't say anything, just answered and hung up the phone.
Breakfast was held in Boss Wang's fried shop, which was Tan Jing's intention, but Boss Wang was not there, and the guy in the store said that he went to the dock to collect live shrimp.
"It seems that there will be a supply of raw fried shrimp in two days." He led Zuo Boying to sit down at the greasy Eight Immortals table in the store, while the latter frowned, careful not to let his sleeves get stained with oil.
"The call you made to me yesterday took me by surprise." Zuo Boying spoke first, Tan Jing was the only outsider who broadcast the phone into the police station yesterday, he was waiting for a call that didn't come in the end, it was impossible not to suspect him, "What's wrong with Yu Fangfei, let you ...... like this?" Afraid. β
"I feel very uncomfortable when Consul Qichuan puts her next to me," Tan Jing said, knowing that these conversations would eventually reach Qichuan Xun's ears, "Yu Fangfei was once subject to Miangu Shinfu, and Mianya Jinfu wanted to plot against me. β
"Why yesterday." Zuo Boying was not led away by him, he stubbornly held on to this point in time and did not relax, which almost made Tan Jing suspect that he had locked him.
"I spoke to Secretary Ono just the day before yesterday." Tan Jing replied, "She told me that Yu Fangfei took the initiative to ask to see the Consul General...... From what I know of her, she's not someone who switches sides quickly. β
The guy served two hot raw fried, Zuo Boying picked up one of them with chopsticks, but he didn't put it in his mouth, only frowned: "Do you suspect that she was instructed by someone to pretend to defect to the Consul General?" β
Tan Jing nodded slightly, and the man brought two bowls of seaweed soup, which was thick, with eggs and dried shrimp, and even a layer of sesame oil floating on the soup noodles.
But Zuo Boying still didn't eat, and the fried food was clipped to his chopsticks, but he just didn't put it in his mouth: "Yesterday we encountered an emergency. β
Tan Jing's nerves tensed, he knew that the first stage of the temptation was over, and at the same time, he also knew that he might never be able to clear Zuo Boying's suspicions...... Unless another real underground party is caught.
"There is a gentleman in the Political Security Bureau who has died, surnamed Qian," Zuo Boying, who switched to Japanese, and he was very attentive to this conversation, obviously more comfortable in his native language, "There was an assassination plan against him, we killed one of them, and captured two, who claimed to be from Yan'an." β
A startled expression appeared on Jin Xianzhen's face, Tan Jing gasped, looked at Zuo Boying nervously, and secretly lowered his voice: "Director Qian, is he dead?" β
"No," Zuo Boying examined his expression, "we got an information that someone would come to us before this assassination took place, and this person was the one who planned the entire assassination operation. β
Tan Jing was stunned for a few seconds while holding his chopsticks, and repeated uncertainly: "The person who planned the assassination will give us a message?" β
Zuo Boying was still staring at him: "It's ridiculous, isn't it, that person is the person among us, and he needs to use such a little trick to gain trust." β
Tan Jing was stunned for a few seconds, then threw away the chopsticks as if he was burned by fire, and the person also bounced up from the chair: "What do you mean by this, do you think the person who reported the news was me?" β
"Oh, no, no, Tan Jun, please calm down," Zuo Boying put down the frying and stood up to reassure him, "Your importance to us is self-evident, and your merits are obvious to all, you don't need to use such clumsy means to gain trustβbecause we have given you enough trust." β
Tan Jing sat down in the chair again, his brows furrowed, and his face was deep in thought. Zuo Boying put the chopsticks back in his hand, he held them unconsciously, and after a while, he slapped them on the table again: "Sasaki-kun, please go with me to meet Consul Sukawa, I am willing to answer your questions in front of the Consul General and clear my grievances." β
"There's no need for this, Tan Jun, not at all," Zuo Boying had to reassure him, "I never doubted you...... Just a little to blame you, your call came at the right time, maybe just in time to block the call we're waiting for, you know, our enemies are cunning, and the slightest bit of something unusual will make them change their minds. β
"You've taken two prisoners," Tan Jing said, "have they confessed anything?" β
"Very little content, and not much use," Zuo Boying replied, "they are just executors, and the executors don't need to know the whole picture, they just need to know what they are going to doβthey don't even know that this is a show, they only know that their superiors are asking them to retreat immediately when they hear the code." β
Boss Wang's style, Tan Jing thought, he always cuts the information very hard, even if he catches two or three of them, he may not be able to piece together a complete piece of information.
Zuo Boying's driver appeared at the door of the fried shop, bowed to him, and said sorry for disturbing their breakfast, but Consul Qichuan was waiting to meet Director Zuo.
When he left, he didn't touch a single bite of the food that belonged to him. Tan Jing recalled his movements when he carefully protected his cuffs, and couldn't help but smile, he was really a high-ranking person.
Tan Jing's rhetoric could not dispel Zuo Boying's suspicion of him, but fortunately, Tan Jing had no previous convictions in front of him, he had the same habit as Qi Chuan, and when there was no obvious evidence, he would never casually put what he thought between his lips and teeth, so as not to startle the snake or harm the innocent.
Sukawa didn't care about yesterday's little accident, because there were more important things to deal with. When Zuo Boying knocked on her office door, Sukawa Shun was staring at a piece of paper that had not been translated.
"Do you know where this came from?" Qi Chuan Shun raised the paper to show him, and at the same time smiled slightly, revealing the mystery without waiting for him to answer, "Chongqing, this is a telegram from Xingya Academy." β
Zuo Boying was taken aback: "The confidential documents of the consulate were stolen?" β
"It doesn't have to be the consulate, it's not even necessarily the Hamaya," said Sukawa, "and we were only one of the recipients of the telegram that sent the exact same cipher to several units, asking the person receiving the telegram to provide the necessary assistance to the name mentioned in the cipher. β
"You're saying that the people who steal the information are not necessarily hiding in the seashore."
Qi Chuan Xun nodded slightly: "There is only the original text of the secret telegram, there is no result, there are two possibilities, one is that the person who stole the information did not get the real content of the telegram himself, and the other is that they have already translated it, but our people only got this original text." β
Just as Chongqing and Yan'an have been trying to plant spy personnel around the Japanese, Japan has also been actively sending spy personnel to Chongqing. The information in the hands of Qi Chuan Shun came from the spies planted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the past, and Zuo Boying knew that her code name was "Xianhe", but he didn't know where she was planted.
"Whether Chongqing got the original text or the result only needs to see if the people mentioned in this secret message can come back alive. But before that...... "she tapped the nail of her index finger on the table, "I'm going to make sure the spy who stole the secret message isn't in my consulate." β