Hattori Jinghua pretended to be an ordinary client. After she finished speaking the lines she had planned in advance, she bowed lightly.
She didn't know that Toru Amuro and Jiang Xia had recognized her identity, nor did she realize that the two of them exchanged doubtful looks during the gap between her lowering her head and bowing.
As the mother of Hattori Heiji, Hattori Shizuka has always been very curious about the "Esuka" in the mouths of her son and husband - her son always described Esia as like a monster, but her husband admired her very much. In addition, Toyama Kazuha also seemed to have an impression of Esia.
Quite good.
The polarizing comments from people around her undoubtedly aroused Hattori Shizuka's interest. So she made slight adjustments to her trip to Tokyo.
——Originally, she only needed to arrive tomorrow to attend the wedding of her friend's son.
But now, Shizuka Hattori decided to come one day early to meet Jiang Xia. In the process, he tested his abilities, observed his character, and then took a look at his son, husband, and promising future daughter-in-law.
Who is wearing colored glasses?
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In order to achieve this goal, when Hattori Shizuka spoke, he used a Tokyo dialect that sounded very authentic at first glance. He also deliberately concealed the surname "Hattori" that easily reminded Jiangxia of Hattori Heiji, and only said that his surname was "Ikeha".
In addition, she also used a band-aid to cover the mark of the wedding ring on the ring finger of her left hand on the pretext that she hurt her hand because of her poor cooking skills, pretending that she was single - this was not only a cover-up of her identity as "Hattori Heiji's mother", but also Jiangxia's
One of the little tests of ability.
Hattori Shizuka came to this agency for the first time. And her son Hattori Heiji had never seen Jiang Xia in the detective agency.
Therefore, Shizuka Hattori didn't know the usual status of the firm, and she didn't feel there was anything wrong with Toru Amuro calling her to find Jiang Xia immediately after hearing that she wanted to find Jiang Xia. She just felt that this firm was very good.
Service spirit, or maybe after the boss saw her dress, he thought she was a wealthy customer and privately offered potential VIP treatment... Hattori Shizuka had encountered many similar things in the past.
In short, at present, Hattori Shizuka is completely unaware that his true identity has been recognized.
Jiang Xia silently looked at this elder who had fallen off the horse before meeting him but was still focusing on the performance. He had no choice but to pretend that he didn't notice anything and follow the normal procedure to accompany her in the performance.
When Toru Amuro saw Jiang Xia coming, he stood up and gave him the seat opposite Shizuka Hattori.
After that, the boss of the detective agency did not leave the office, but began to pretend to find tea to make tea, and stayed in the shop for this reason - he was a little curious about why Shizuka Hattori came here.
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Shizuka Hattori sat down elegantly, chatted for a while, and then began to tell her pre-rehearsed commission.
She took out a well-preserved old photo from her bag, placed it on the table, and then turned it to an angle suitable for Jiang Xia to see.
Jiang Xia lowered his head and looked at it for a moment, and found that it was a group photo of members of the kendo club. The members looked young and probably had not yet entered high school. In the middle, a boy with thick eyebrows was holding a trophy and grinning happily. Next to him,
He was surrounded by a circle of six club members.
"I would like your help to find the person in the middle."
Hattori Jinghua stretched out her hand, and her green-white fingertips touched the man holding the trophy a little softly: "His name is Shibata Shiro." After saying this, she thought for a moment and added, "This photo was taken in the second grade of junior high school——
That was thirty years ago. His appearance and height may have changed a lot."
Jiang Xia nodded and began to ask some routine questions, pretending that he was carefully collecting clues.
When two people communicate.
Next to him, Toru Amuro moved softly to reduce the noise, so that he could hear clearly every conversation between the two people in the room.
...It's not that he is interested in the gossip about the wife of a high-ranking police official. It's mainly because as an intelligence agent, he feels that he should remain highly sensitive and vigilant to all kinds of abnormal information.
Toru Amuro listened carefully and thought: Shibata Shiro, this is a man's name... Speaking of which, Mrs. Hattori suddenly came to Jiangxia anonymously, maybe not because she heard Jiangxia's information from Hattori Heiji, but because she heard the information about Jiangxia from Hattori Heiji.
I really came here because of Jiang Xia’s reputation as a detective.
This actually makes sense. First of all, judging from Hattori Heiji’s behavior at the door of the detective agency last time, although he knew Jiang Xia, he was obviously not familiar with Jiang Xia. In addition, many high school students of this age are still at the end of their rebellious period.
He may not tell his parents about his situation.
In other words, there is a possibility that Hattori Shizuka doesn't even know that Hattori Heiji knows Jiangxia. To her, Jiangxia is just a strange Tokyo detective.
If this is the case, then it is very intriguing that Mrs. Hattori did not call the police and find detectives in Osaka, but went all the way to Tokyo and deliberately issued a commission while hiding her name... Oh, she also specially covered her left ring finger with a band-aid.
, is it to cover the traces of the wedding ring?
……interesting.
Toru Amuro took a sip of black tea with great interest.
A second later, he looked down at the water stains on the rim of the cup and was slightly startled.
...This tea seems to be brewed specially for guests.
Toru Amuro paused for a moment, put the tea cup aside calmly, and washed the cup again for the guest.
It has been a long time since he worked for someone in his own firm and he is not very skilled in business.
Having said that, these chores should obviously be done by Jiang Xia, an employee in theory, but why is he doing it instead...
Toru Amuro looked at Shizuka Hattori, who was chatting happily with Jiang Xia, and thought about how she cherished her words like gold before Jiang Xia appeared, and sighed in her heart. Bosses these days are really losing their human rights.
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"A while ago, I accidentally lost the medal I won in the Summer Cup Kendo competition when I was in my third year of junior high school. For me, apart from the medal, the only souvenir that can record that time is a photo.
"Before I graduated from junior high school, I accidentally used that photo as a bookmark and put it in the book I borrowed from Mr. Shibata. I forgot to take out the photo when I returned the book.
"When I thought about it again, Mr. Shibata had already moved, and the contact between us was also cut off." Hattori Shizuka lowered her head slightly, looking a little embarrassed, and acted very focused, "So I want to ask
Find Mr. Shibata and help me retrieve that photo."
When Toru Amuro, who was not far away, heard this, he came up with a new guess with great interest:
Compared to this photo, Mrs. Hattori may have used the photo as an excuse to find her first love.
——Looking for your first love decades ago is actually a prosperous business for private detectives here, second only to finding cats, dogs and mistresses.