Hattori Hikoo sat in his chair unhappy. He already knew what happened this morning, and Jiang Xinyu had just called him to give him a detailed report.
"Tuk-tuk!" There was a knock on the door.
"Enter!"
Kako Nakamura opened the door and walked in: "Major."
"What's up?"
"I'm here to ask for your advice. Wang Tianlin asked to go to Changpan Street again. Is it too frequent?"
"We have been waiting for him for a while. The headquarters is studying and preparing to send armored vehicles to escort him to Peking. It is estimated that the decision will be made in the next two days."
"Yes." Kako Nakamura agreed and stood still.
"Any thing else?"
"I see that Major is not in a high mood. Is it because he is worried about Sato Trading Company?"
Hattori Hikoo glanced at him and said: "The case of Sato Trading Company has been solved, what should I worry about?"
Kako Nakamura chuckled and said, "Major Sato, I heard that President Sato is a fellow countryman of yours?"
"Yes, we are all from Osaka."
"President Sato's business has been booming recently. It is said that one-third of the in-demand goods on the black market in Yanjin City come from Sato Trading Company..."
"Nakamura-kun, these business matters have nothing to do with the military police. I'm tired and have nothing to do. You can go and do your work." Hattori Hikoo closed his eyes and leaned on the chair, giving the ejection order.
Kako Nakamura bowed, with an imperceptible sneer on his lips, turned around and retreated.
Wang Tianlin was fully dressed and was standing in the yard talking with Translator Zhang. When he saw Kahuang Nakamura coming out of the team headquarters, he smiled and said, "Captain Nakamura, how are you doing with your instructions?"
Even without an interpreter, Kako Nakamura could guess what Wang Tianlin was talking about. He made a gesture of invitation, and a Japanese soldier immediately opened the door of the car parked in the yard.
Wang Tianlin sat in the car with a proud look on his face and said, "Let me just say, Major is quite reasonable."
Kako Nakamura and Translator Zhang then got in and said to the driver: "Drive, go to Tokiwa Street!"
The car slowly drove out of the gendarmerie, followed by a truck to escort it.
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In the Lilac Cafe, Jiang Xinyu and Hattori Mina sat opposite each other.
"Xinyu, do you often come to this place?" Hattori Mina used a coffee spoon to stir the sugar cubes in the cup.
Jiang Xinyu: "When I was studying, I often went to drink coffee with my classmates. Since I came to Yanjin and became a police officer, I have no time, and I don't have the leisure and elegance."
"Is she a female classmate?" Hattori Mina asked with a smile.
"We all go together in small groups, both male and female students... By the way, before I came, I just called your brother." Jiang Xinyu changed the subject without leaving a trace. He wanted to find out more about the Military Police.
thing.
"Really? What does he want from you?" Hattori Mina was a little nervous, thinking that her brother was going to talk about herself and Jiang Xinyu again.
"The major was not looking for me, it was me who was looking for him to report the theft of Sato Trading Company."
Hattori Mina asked with concern: "Has the case been solved?"
"It's broken, and part of the stolen goods was recovered... Miss Mina, I remember you never asked about this kind of thing before, what happened today?"
"President Sato often comes to my home as a guest, and he is from our hometown. Naturally, I care a little about his affairs."
"Oh, so that's it..." Jiang Xinyu looked out the window thoughtfully.
Hattori Mina glanced at him and said, "Can you please stop calling me Mina-san all the time?"
"What's wrong?" Jiang Xinyu didn't react for a moment and didn't know what was wrong with this title.
"That seems... too awkward, just call me Mina..." Hattori Mina lowered her head and said shyly.
Jiang Xinyu looked at the innocent Mina Hattori and couldn't help but sigh: It would be great if you were a Chinese girl...
After coming out of the cafe, Hattori Mina looked back at the plaque and said, "We should come to this place more often in the future."
Jiang Xinyu opened the car door for her, got in the car himself, and said with a smile: "Why? Do you like drinking coffee?"
"Yeah, and I also like the name of this cafe, Lilac. It sounds full of romance..." Hattori Mina looked at Jiang Xinyu lovingly.
Jiang Xinyu avoided her gaze and said while starting the car: "If you feel like this, it means that your mind is still in the student days. After a few years, as you grow older, you will see this name again.
, you will think, oh, lilac, it’s just a flower.”
Hattori Mina covered her mouth and smiled: "No way..."
The car slowly drove away from Lilac Cafe.
Hattori Mina's thoughts fell into memories and said: "However, you are right. My thoughts are indeed still stuck in my student days. Sometimes in my dreams, they are all things that happened when I was studying in Shenyang. I really miss it.
…”
"Have you always had a good relationship with Miss Ayako?" Jiang Xinyu asked casually as he drove the car.
"Hmm...nope. When she first came to school, she was very introverted. She didn't talk much to anyone and was depressed all day long."
"Miss Ayako looks cheerful, doesn't she?"
"Now that she has grown up, Ayako preferred chatting with older people..."
Hattori Mina was led by Jiang Xinyu to her favorite topic and began to talk endlessly about interesting things from her school days.
"I sometimes like to chat with older people. They have a lot of valuable life experience, which is worth learning from." Jiang Xinyu held the steering wheel and drove the car attentively.
"If Principal Honda thought so, he wouldn't have fired Mr. Li." Hattori Mina sighed.
Jiang Xinyu was moved in his heart and said: "Mr. Li? Are there any Chinese in your school?"
"The school has a library and hired Mr. Li as the administrator. He can speak Japanese. Later, many girls were willing to talk to him, including Ayako. Principal Honda probably thought it was inappropriate and expelled him.
"
Jiang Xinyu smiled and said: "I guess that Mr. Li must be handsome and young, otherwise he wouldn't attract so many little girls."
Hattori Mina thought for a while and said: "I remember that I was fifteen years old... Mr. Li was about twenty-three or four years old. He was indeed very handsome, like a star in a movie pictorial."
"Aren't you attracted to Mr. Li?" Jiang Xinyu joked.
"When I was fifteen, I was stupid enough to study and had no feelings for men, unlike now..." Hattori Mina blushed and glanced at Jiang Xinyu secretly.
Hattori Mina was fifteen years old at the time, while Chang Hongling was actually nineteen years old. It was the age at which a young girl's love affair begins. It was perfectly normal for her to be attracted to a handsome man.