Afternoon, four o'clock, detective team conference room.
"Miss Menai, please sit down for a moment. Captain Jiang went to Dagu on business in the morning and it's almost time to come back." Zhao Yuhu put a cup of tea on the coffee table.
Hattori Mina: "Okay, thank you."
Zhao Yuhu turned around to go out, but Mina Hattori stopped him and said, "Excuse me, are you Secretary Zhao?"
"Exactly, do you have any other instructions?" Zhao Yuhu said politely.
Zhao Yuhu did not dare to show any slights to this Miss Mina. She was not only Captain Jiang's girlfriend, but also the younger sister of Major Hattori.
"I want to look up an idiom allusion. Can you help me find an idiom dictionary?"
"No problem, there happens to be a copy, I'll go get it right now."
Zhao Yuhu returned to his room, found the idiom dictionary given to him by Jiang Xinyu, and returned to the conference room again.
As soon as the dictionary was in hand, Mina Hattori knew that it was not Jiang Xinyu's.
While flipping through the dictionary, she pretended to be casual and said, "Secretary Zhao also likes idioms?"
Zhao Yuhu: "This is Captain Jiang's book. Lend it to me to learn more."
"oh……"
Didi——
The sound of a car horn came from downstairs. Zhao Yuhu walked to the window and leaned down to look down, then turned around and said, "Miss Menai, Captain Jiang is back."
"I've finished checking it, thank you." Hattori Mina quickly returned the dictionary to Zhao Yuhu.
"You're welcome." Zhao Yuhu turned around and exited, closing the conference room door behind him.
Hattori Mina walked to the window and watched Jiang Xinyu get out of the car and say something to the agents beside him. She felt confused and irritable for a moment.
Even the most innocent person can figure out one thing. There must be secrets in Jiang Xinyu’s dictionary that he doesn’t want others to know!
At the reminder of the secret agent, Jiang Xinyu raised his head and glanced upstairs, then waved to Hattori Mina and said, "I'll go up right away!"
Hattori Mina forced a smile, turned around and slowly sat on the chair.
After a while, Jiang Xinyu opened the door and walked in, saying, "When did you come?"
Hattori Mina lowered her head and said, "Just arrived."
Jiang Xinyu walked over and raised her chin, looked at her for a while, and said, "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing." Hattori Mina concealed herself, picked up the tea cup and took a sip.
"Did you quarrel with Ayako?"
"No……"
"I agreed that I would pick you up, why did you come here by yourself?"
"It's just a matter of waiting when you go home. It's better to wait here."
Just listening to these answers, there was nothing wrong, but from Hattori Mina's tone, Jiang Xinyu could feel a little cold.
This kind of situation has never happened between the two of them. Jiang Xinyu has known her for such a long time, and it was obvious at a glance that something was wrong. Hattori Mina's emotions were written all over her face.
Jiang Xinyu raised his wrist and glanced at his watch and said, "It's almost time, let's go."
Hattori Mina stood up and said, "Are you off work?"
Jiang Xinyu smiled and said, "I'm not off work, but since I'm the captain, I have some privileges."
The two walked downstairs side by side. Jiang Xinyu opened the car door and let Hattori Mina get in. He reached out and patted his forehead and said, "I forgot something, please wait for me."
He returned upstairs and went straight to Zhao Yuhu's house.
Zhao Yuhu was holding a celebrity picture album and reading it with gusto. Seeing Jiang Xinyu come in, he quickly stood up and said: "Captain."
Jiang Xinyu walked over, took a look at the cover of the album with a posing woman, and said: "If you don't read serious books, you just read these messy things!"
Zhao Yuhu said with an embarrassed look on his face: "Captain, this is sent by Niu Benzheng from the intelligence team. I just flipped through it..."
"When did Miss Mina come?"
"Uh...about twenty minutes ago."
"Did you receive it?"
"yes."
Jiang Xinyu said slowly: "She is in a bad mood. Did you say something wrong to make her unhappy?"
Zhao Yuhu was startled and said: "Captain, I didn't say anything... just, just..."
"Just what?"
"Miss Mina wanted to look up some idioms and allusions, so she asked me to borrow an idiom dictionary and said a few words."
"What did you say?" Jiang Xinyu vaguely guessed what the problem was.
"Ms. Minai thought I also liked idioms, so I said that was the book you lent me... and said nothing more."
Jiang Xinyu thought for a moment and said, "Oh, maybe she was quarreling with her family...it's okay."
Seeing Jiang Xinyu turn around and go out, Zhao Yuhu breathed a sigh of relief and thought to himself that luckily the captain was aware of everything, otherwise he would not be able to bear the blame.
Jiang Xinyu understood everything. When Mina Hattori was in the car, she took the hollowed-out idiom dictionary. The two books, one light and one heavy, made her suspicious.
On the way to dinner, Hattori Mina was not as active as before. She wanted to know what secrets Jiang Xinyu wanted to hide from her, but she didn't know how to tell her.
In fact, normally speaking, with Hattori Mina's character, she would forget about this incident in a few days.
If a person trusts another person unconditionally, he will naturally use multiple explanations for the mystery about the other person until he convinces himself.
What Jiang Xinyu is now worried about is whether Hattori Mina will tell Chang Hongling about this matter, especially if she mentions even a word to Hattori Hikoo, it will cause even greater trouble for herself!
The car drove into Russia City and slowly stopped in front of a restaurant. On the brand new signboard were red letters on a yellow background: St. Petersburg Western Restaurant.
When you walk into the restaurant, you can see Russian-style decorations everywhere. The waiters are all Russians. On the wall facing the entrance of the restaurant, there is a bust of the last Tsar Nicholas II hanging.
"Sir, Miss, please come inside." The waiter came over in broken Chinese.
Hattori Mina looked around curiously and said to Jiang Xinyu: "Is this restaurant newly opened?"
Jiang Xinyu: "It just opened last week. The owner is a Russian aristocrat. It is said that the chef is the Kremlin's royal chef and just escaped from Russia."
"oh……"
"Please allow me to specially recommend to these two distinguished guests, smoked pomfret, beetroot soup, and chicken cakes." The waiter put a beautifully printed recipe book on the table.
"Mina, what do you like to eat?" Jiang Xinyu pushed the menu over and looked at the other guests in the restaurant.
Hattori Mina: "I want to order a borscht soup, not too spicy...why isn't it on the menu?"
Waiter: "Miss, red cabbage soup is borscht, and the red cabbage soup in our restaurant is the authentic Russian dish."
Jiang Xinyu explained on the side: "In fact, they are almost the same, but the translation of the name is different. In order to cater to the taste of Shanghainese, the so-called borscht soup is much lighter than the real red cabbage soup."
Hattori Mina: "Oh, let's have one..."
As soon as the restaurant door opened, two Japanese soldiers walked in from the outside.