"Mr. Sasaki, please stay." Cheng Qianfan said politely.
"Secretary Cheng, Secretary Liu, goodbye." Sasaki Hiroyuki smiled and bowed slightly.
The two returned to the car.
"I got a painting, but it was not a waste of time." Cheng Qianfan said, putting the scroll in the passenger seat.
"This Lord Daquan..." Liu Xia said.
"What's wrong?" Cheng Qianfan started the car and turned his head and asked.
"It's quite interesting." Liu Xia carefully said with words, "I'm still willing to give you a painting."
The two visited Takaya Oizumi and gave New Year's gifts, but they didn't expect Takaya Oizumi's apartment was very cautious. Even though they had revealed their identity, they were still inspected by the bodyguards and carefully searched the New Year's gifts before they let them go.
Tokiya Oizumi accepted the gift of the next year and expressed his gratitude, but he did not mean to leave a guest for a chat. He directly served tea and saw the guests off.
It was Cheng Qianfan who took the initiative to come forward and said that he highly praised Hitoya Daquan and begged His Excellency Daquan to give the painting.
There was a little more smile on Oizumi Takaya's face, and asked Sasaki Hiroyuki to enter the room to get a pair of old works to give Cheng Qianfan.
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"It is not surprising that artists have many quirks," said Cheng Qianfan.
Liu Xia smiled, nodded, and said nothing more.
"Will you go back to Shanghai tomorrow?" Liu Xia asked.
"Yes, the boat ticket will be available tomorrow at 8:30 tomorrow morning." Cheng Qianfan said.
"I bought a gift for Xiao Zhima, and I will return to Yihelu to give it to you later." Liu Xia said.
"Then I'm not polite." Cheng Qianfan said with a smile.
"It's for Xiao Sesame, not for you." Liu Xia said angrily.
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Yihe Road, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Liu Xia took out a box wrapped in silk from the cabinet and handed it to Cheng Qianfan.
Cheng Qianfan acted as if he wanted to open it, but Liu Xia glared at him and smiled embarrassedly.
"I'll also enjoy the paintings of Lord Daquan." Liu Xia picked up the scroll that Cheng Qianfan placed casually on the table, unbuttoned the strap, and opened it to see.
"Ah." Liu Xia just glanced at it and shouted and closed it, "Why is this painting like this? Brother Fan didn't expect you to be such a person."
"What's it like?" Cheng Qianfan asked in confusion. When he saw Liu Xia glaring at him, the monk was even more confused, so he took the scroll and expanded it to see.
Cheng Qianfan's face changed slightly, then his eyes flashed, and he shook his head and shouted, "This is the painting given to me by Lord Daquan. I don't know what the painting was painted. You know this, Sister Xia."
This is a Japanese woman in a little naked dress, lying in the waves, with shrimps, crabs and fish around her, and the woman's eyebrows and eyes were quite charming.
"Huh?" Cheng Qianfan stared at the painting and suddenly exclaimed.
"What's wrong?" Liu Xia glared at Cheng Qianfan, "You are still addicted to seeing it, be careful of having needle eyes."
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"This should be the painting of Lord Daquan who copied Hokkaido Hokkaido, as expected." Cheng Qianfan said, pointing to the small characters in the lower left corner of the painting and saying, "This is a proud work of Lord Daquan who copied it in the early days."
"Hokusai Chiba?" Liu Xia couldn't help asking, "Who is this?"
"He is a famous painter in the Edo period of Japan. This person had a profound influence on Japanese paintings." Cheng Qianfan said, "It seems that Mr. Takaya Oizumi highly respects Hokusai Chiba, which is not surprising."
As he said that, Cheng Qianfan rolled up the painting and said with a smile, "Painting is a good painting, but it is indeed not suitable for people in the world."
"Please put it away carefully. When your younger brother and sister see it, at most, you can scold you. Your eldest lady will see it. It's amazing." Liu Xia reminded.
"That's natural." Cheng Qianfan said calmly, "It would be strange if Ruolan knew that Xiaobao saw this painting, Ruolan wouldn't jump up and scold me."
Cheng Qianfan chatted with Liu Xia for a few more words and left Yihe Road with paintings and gifts.
...
After Cheng Qianfan left, Liu Xia closed the office door.
Her expression suddenly became extremely serious.
She just deliberately pretended not to know Hokusai Chiba, and also pretended not to recognize Oizumi Takaya's works that were copied by Hokusai Chiba.
Of course she knew Hokusai Chiba, a Japanese painter from the Edo period.
Liu Xia was just now calm and calm, because she looked at the painting suspected of being romantic, and immediately thought of a relatively famous painting by Chiba Hokusai.
They were two octopuses attacking a nearly naked Zhuhai woman with their tentacles, just like an octopus attacking the sea woman, and like an octopus lying on the sea woman to repair it. (PS1)
These days, her mind was full of "octopus" plans to investigate the enemy. When she thought of this famous painting with the theme of octopus and the sea girl, Liu Xia suddenly felt excited.
At this moment, Liu Xia was sitting on the chair, frowning and thinking.
Big Izumi Takaya.
‘Octopus’ plan?
Is there some connection between Takaya Oizumi and the ‘Octopus’ plan?
Liu Xia also realized that her speculation was too arbitrary, and it could even be said to be a bit wild and random.
You can't connect the Japanese cabinet Ministry of Culture, Science and Technology to Nanjing to promote the enemy's extremely secretive "octopus" plan just because you think of a famous painting.
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This is a random thought without evidence.
However, Liu Xia felt that she could not control her thoughts, and she began to think involuntarily:
Let’s first assume that Takaya Oizumi is related to the ‘octopus’ plan.
Now set an anchor point and then search for evidence.
Takaya Oizumi is just an official from the Ministry of Culture and Science, so why did it attract Chu Mingyu's special attention? He personally instructed Takaya Oizumi to send New Year gifts!
In addition, today Cheng Qianfan accompanied her to see Tsuya Oizumi, and even had to go through the inspection of the bodyguards on the post. This itself is unreasonable, and it seems to show that Tsuya Oizumi's identity is actually not simple.
expert?
Liu Xia was thinking about it, an official from the Ministry of Culture, Science and Technology, a famous painter who is good at painting. Is this an expert?
...
Back at the Yadong Association where he was staying, Cheng Qianfan sat on the sofa and closed his eyes and thought.
"What's wrong?" Zhang Ping asked with Tang Pozi in Cheng Qianfan's hand.
"Based on the current situation, there is reason to suspect that the enemy is printing and forging legal currency." Cheng Qianfan said, "and Izumi Takaya, a famous painter in the Ministry of Culture, Science and Technology of Japan's cabinet, I suspect that this person played a very critical role in it."
"I remember this name," Zhang Ping thought, "You mentioned this person to me, and at that time he regarded it as an 'interesting thing'. When this person was in France, he even drew a franc and even spent it smoothly."
She looked at Cheng Qianfan and said, "So, assuming that our guess is true, the role played by this Oizumi Takaya in the enemy's counterfeiting of legal currency should be his superb painting skills."
Cheng Qianfan nodded slightly.
"Do you remember the 'octopus' plan that I have been secretly investigating?" Cheng Qianfan whispered.
In a previous secret telegram with Comrade "Farmer", he obtained the approval of Comrade "Farmer". Zhang Ping also learned about the "Octopus" plan, because Cheng Qianfan needed a helper to investigate the matter. Zhang Ping, as the mistress of "Xiao Cheng General", has recently lived in Nanjing for a long time, which is just right.
"It seems to be a little bit strange." Cheng Qianfan nodded and said.
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"It seems?" Zhang Ping asked.
"I can't say it either." Cheng Qianfan said, and as he spoke, he opened the painting that Tokiya Oizumi gave him.
"This is a more popular custom painting in Japan." Zhang Ping observed the painting openly and nodded.
She naturally knew that Comrade "Flag" was not shy, nor did she need to hide her culture and knowledge level.
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"This is a painting written by Tokiya Oizumi who copied Hokkaido, which is written here." Cheng Qianfan said.
"Hoksai Chiba was a famous painter in the Edo period of Japan. This person has a profound influence on the inheritance of Japanese paintings."
"Takaya Oizumi actually gave the painting he copied to someone, which shows that he liked and was very satisfied with this copy." Cheng Qianfan said, "This is enough to show that Takaya Oizumi admired it very much, and even admired the man Chiba of Hokusai."
"I have a certain understanding of the man, Chiba, and his paintings."
"Hoksai Chiba has a very famous painting about octopus and Zhuhai girls."
"Two octopuses were lying on the naked sea girl, invading, or picking up the woman." Cheng Qianfan lit a cigarette and said.
"I thought of this painting at that time. The word 'octopus' immediately entered my mind and almost instantly aroused my vigilance."
“It’s a kind of excitement to be exact.”
Cheng Qianfan looked at Zhang Ping and said, "So, I suspect that Takaya Oizumi has something to do with the 'octopus' plan."
"I can understand why you came up with this kind of guess." Zhang Ping thought for a while and said, "But there is no visible and tangible connection between Oizumi Takaya and the 'Octopus' plan. It is really hard to be convincing just by associations created by a painting."
"Yes, it's just association, there's no evidence." Cheng Qianfan nodded and said, "The 'octopus' plan is very important, and it's not possible to rely on some conjectures just."
"But, in other words," Zhang Ping said thinking, "just say we suspect that Takaya Oizumi may be related to the enemy's counterfeiting of fiat currency."
She took the return of Shi Qianfan and said, "Assuming that the enemy is crazy and unscrupulous in counterfeiting fiat currency, this will be a devastating blow to our economy."
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"I understand what you mean." Cheng Qianfan nodded and said, "What you mean is that the enemy's counterfeiting of fiat currency is itself very deadly to our side. From this point of view, this matter is worthy of the 'octopus' action."
"Yes." Zhang Ping nodded, "Of course, this is just some views and opinions I came up with based on your guesses and then using this to infer."
"Operation 'Octopus', Action 'Octopus'." Cheng Qianfan murmured.
He got up, paced, took a few cigarettes in succession, and said, "Zhang Ping, look, the octopus collects replenishment from the sea girl. The enemy forged a large amount of legal currency and used waste paper to grab a large amount of supplies from us. Is this also a kind of replenishment, similar to the octopus collects replenishment from the sea girl?"
Hearing Cheng Qianfan's metaphor, Zhang Ping thought carefully, and then she nodded, "I thought about it carefully. Your thoughts and metaphor are very interesting. No, the more you think about it, the more you think it should be like this."
Cheng Qianfan didn't say anything. He sat down, pressed the cigarette butt in the ashtray, then leaned back, leaned against the sofa, closed his eyes, and thought.
Zhang Ping walked to him and helped him massage his temples.
"That's probably what it is." Cheng Qianfan said.
"But no matter how reasonable the speculation is, even if we are confident that our speculation is correct, there must be evidence for such a major event." Cheng Qianfan opened his eyes, looked calm and said.
...
"What are you going to do?" Zhang Ping asked.
"I didn't know what the 'octopus' action was before, and everything was clueless, so it was like a headless fly, and I had no idea how to get my mouth down." Cheng Qianfan said, "Now I have a target of doubt."
He said to Zhang Ping, "Although it is difficult to obtain evidence from this doubting goal, it has made great progress. At least with a goal, all you have to do is to make a fuss around the goal."
"It's true." Zhang Ping nodded and said, "As long as you stare at Takaya Oizumi, you will eventually find clues about the enemy."
"This is too passive." Cheng Qianfan thought, "If Takaya Oizumi has completed the most critical work of the 'octopus' operation, then even if we are staring at him, it may be difficult for us to gain anything."
As he said that, he moved his heart and asked Zhang Ping, "What do you think is the most important thing about counterfeiting legal currency?"
"How can I know this?" Zhang Ping smiled bitterly, shook her head and said.
Then, her eyes lit up, "I remembered making mooncakes in my hometown, as long as the mold is made..."
"I understand what you mean." Cheng Qianfan also had his eyes lit up and said, "It's a carved version."
He nodded, "This can also explain why Takaya Oizumi can play a role in counterfeiting legal currency, such a confidential event."
Zhang Ping continued, "Yes, a famous painter, a master of superb skills and can draw money, is undoubtedly very important, or even irreplaceable, for the enemy's carving and printing of the carvings of the money."
"Hassumption." Cheng Qianfan looked at Zhang Ping, and asked inexplicably excited tone, "Or it is not a hypothesis. The enemy has indeed forged legal currency now, and can even make it to the extent of fake and real."
"This also shows that Takaya Oizumi may have helped the enemy forge a carved version of the fiat currency." Cheng Qianfan said, "In this case, has the role of Takaya Oizumi been reduced?"
"It's true that this is the case." Zhang Ping thought.
"So, why do the enemy still attach so much importance to Takaya Oizumi's safety?" Cheng Qianfan frowned and thoughtfully said, "The bodyguard at Takaya Oizumi's residence should be from the special high school class. I can smell the breath of those people."
PS1: There is indeed such a painting, and there is such a famous Japanese painter from the Edo period. However, this chapter is the name in the book, and it is not the name in history.
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