After checking for a long time, Ziwu Maoyou was not found. Most of the dozen or so Chinese residents were businessmen, and there were even two people who were on official business from the puppet Nanjing government. Zhou Renjie was very frustrated and told Fatty and Xiao Cui
Continuing to stay on guard, he returned to the detective team.
In room No. 87, Hattori Mina was sitting on the sofa, chatting absentmindedly with Yamaguchi Ayako.
Yamaguchi Ayako leaned against the window with her arms folded, looked at Hattori Mina with a half-smile, and said, "Still thinking about that Officer Jiang?"
Hattori Mina blushed and pretended to be angry: "He's talking nonsense again, what do I want him to do?"
Yamaguchi Ayako walked over, sat next to Hattori Mina, and said, "Let me tell you, Jiang Xinyu looks pretty good, but there is just one problem that may prevent you from being together."
Hattori Mina blurted out: "What's the problem?"
Yamaguchi Ayako smiled and said, "You said you didn't think about me, but you didn't mean what you said."
"Hey, don't say half of what you said, okay?"
"Okay, okay, I won't tease you anymore. Mina, have you ever thought about it, he is Chinese and you are Japanese, how can you be together?"
"There are many examples of Japanese and Chinese getting married now."
"Hey, you're thinking of getting married? It seems like you really like Jiang Xinyu?"
Hattori Mina simply stopped hiding it and said, "What's wrong with liking him? He's just different from others!"
"There is an old Chinese saying that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It really makes sense."
"Stop talking about me, what about you?"
"What are you doing? Are you trying to match me up with your brother again?"
"My brother is a very nice person..."
"I believe in Buddhism, so I believe that everything is caused by fate. If fate comes, I will not refuse. On the other hand, even if I like the other person, I will not feel regretful if there is no fate."
"What do you mean, you don't like my brother?"
"It's not a question of whether you like it or not, it's a question of whether you have the fate."
Hattori Mina rolled her eyes: "Okay, I'll tell your brother exactly what you said and see how he understands it."
Yamaguchi Ayako: "Mina, don't get me wrong, I'm not implying anything to you, I'm just saying this to myself."
"I know, I'm not that stupid, I know how to tell my brother." Hattori Mina stood up and put on her coat.
"Are you leaving now?"
"Brother asked me to go back early today. He has something to talk to me about, hehe, Xuan Miao, right?"
"Okay then, come early tomorrow morning and go out with me to buy some clothes."
"OK."
When Hattori Mina left the room, Yamaguchi Ayako immediately came to the window, opened the window and leaned downstairs to look downstairs. A few minutes later, Hattori Mina appeared in front of the hotel. She got into a rickshaw and quickly disappeared from sight.
Yamaguchi Ayako closed the window, turned around, opened the cupboard door, took out the suitcase, put on a gray lady's hat, found a coat, put it on, and left the guest room with the suitcase.
Outside the hotel, Fatty and Xiao Cui were leaning in the corner, chatting casually.
"Fat brother, it's already past three o'clock. How long should we stay?"
"How do I know? The captain didn't say anything before he left..."
"You can't be here at night, right?"
"...Uh, let's go back at five o'clock, at most five o'clock."
"Five o'clock, I guess if Yang Feng really changed the suitcase, his accomplices would have run away long ago..."
"Shhh! Look, does the suitcase that woman is carrying look like Yang Feng's suitcase?"
Xiao Cui followed his gaze and saw Yamaguchi Ayako standing at the door waving for a rickshaw.
"Exactly the same!...This little girl is very pretty. What does she do?"
"No matter what she does, let's go and follow her!"
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Yamaguchi Ayako was sitting in the car with her suitcase close to her side.
The driver asked while pulling the cart: "Miss, judging by your accent, are you from out of town?"
"Um."
"Where are you going on Qiaodong Road?"
"No. 5 Qiaodong Road."
"No. 5 Qiaodong Road... I remember that place seemed to be a longevity shop. Did you remember the address correctly?"
"Um."
"That's alright..."
Yamaguchi Ayako's indifference made the coachman shut up, and he pulled the coach on the asphalt road like flying.
More than half an hour later, the rickshaw parked on the side of Qiaodong Road. The driver put down the handlebar and wiped the sweat from his head: "Miss, we've arrived."
Yamaguchi Ayako got out of the car, paid the fare, and looked around for the sign for No. 5 Qiaodong Road.
The driver pointed to a somewhat dilapidated shop and said, "That's No. 5 Qiaodong Road."
"Thanks."
"You're welcome, I'm just waiting for work here. If you want to come back later, come find me."
"OK."
This street is the most lively and prosperous place on Qiaodong Road. There are restaurants, rice shops, oil shops, blacksmith shops, grocery stores, bookstores, pharmacies, barber shops, cloak shops, and all kinds of trading shops.
The facade of Shoucai Shop is not big. After years of exposure to wind and sun, the black paint on the plaque has peeled off in large pieces, and the five characters "Qiaodong Shoucai Shop" can barely be made out.
Coffins are coffins, and general Coffin shops also carry tombstones, wreaths, paper figures, horses, and other items related to funerals.
Yamaguchi Ayako hesitated at the door, then walked in carrying her suitcase.
In the shop, a lean middle-aged man, wearing a melon cap and a gray cloth gown, was sitting at the counter, smoking a hookah one after another. When he saw a customer coming to the door, he stood up.
Yamaguchi Ayako: "Excuse me, is the shopkeeper here?"
"I am."
"I'm from the Paint Factory in Fanggong Town, Baoding. We have a batch of low-priced black paint to deal with. Are you interested?"
The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, looked at Yamaguchi Ayako, and said slowly and logically: "There are two paint factories in Fangong Town, which one are you?"
"Shengyuan Paint Factory."
"Oh...then let's study the price?"
"Can."
"Please come inside."
The shopkeeper lifted the back door curtain, and just as Yamaguchi Ayako was about to walk in, the door rang, and Fatty and Xiao Cui walked in one after the other.
"stop."
Yamaguchi Ayako was shocked, so she pretended it was not her and continued walking to the back door.
The fat man took out his pistol, loaded the bullet with a click, and shouted: "I'm talking about you!"
The shopkeeper put down the door curtain and said politely: "Who are you two?..."
Fatty: "From the detective team."
Xiao Cui also took out his pistol and pointed the barrel at the shopkeeper: "Don't move either!"
The shopkeeper said with a smile: "Two sirs, if you have something to say, if you use a knife or a gun, you will scare my guests.
The fat man stared at Yamaguchi Ayako and said, "Guest? What does she do?"
Yamaguchi Ayako turned around and said calmly: "There is no need to tell you what I do."
Fatty: "Hey, that's not a small tone. Let me tell you, on the ground in Yanjin, no one except the Japanese dares to talk to our detective team like that!"