Chapter 278
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Yi Hanxing and the old professor sneaked into the kitchen and lit the stove with some raw firewood.
"Firewood isn't easy to find here. Why don't we steam the food they've prepared so it won't go to waste?"
"That's a good idea. They can just heat it up tomorrow." The old professor said, urging Yi Hanxing: "Hurry up and light the fire."
Yi Hanxing looked at the old professor who had occupied the small stool in front of the stove to make fire: "I thought you could make fire?" Otherwise, why would he grab the position to make fire?
"Although I have seen a stove, I have never observed it carefully or used it. Of course not. I just came to take a closer look out of curiosity." said the old professor.
"Didn't you say you were working part-time to pay for your studies?" Yi Hanxing was puzzled.
"Yeah, but Americans don't use stoves like that," the old professor said. "I didn't even have a fireplace when I was in the dorm. When we start living on our own, will we be able to use those primitive things? Besides, it's not particularly cold in California, so I don't have a fireplace at home."
"You didn't see it when you were a child?"
"To be honest, my family was well-off when I was a child. Even my sisters had never been into the kitchen, let alone me," said the old professor.
Yi Hanxing immediately understood that the old professor's family was probably a landlord or a small capitalist.
In this day and age, this kind of background is not encouraged. Yi Hanxing naturally did not dwell on this issue. He rolled up his sleeves and said, "Then it's up to me!"
"It's up to you?" Although the old professor asked a question, his tone was full of affirmation.
"Then what else can we do?" Yi Hanxing replied, "Luckily, when I was at the base, I learned how to grill birds after catching them with others. Otherwise, we would have died before we even achieved our goal."
As he said this, Yi Hanxing picked up the tongs that looked like extended scissors and started a fire.
As soon as the fire started, the patrolling soldiers noticed it and immediately reported it to their superiors: "Report! There's a fire in the kitchen at 7 o'clock!"
"Is it on fire?" the leader asked immediately after ejecting.
"No! It's the light from the stove. We suspect someone has gone in. The platoon leader and the others are on guard now." The soldier said immediately.
"Come on! Follow me to take a look!" the leader called out and took a team of soldiers to the kitchen.
When entering the kitchen, everyone was ready for battle. It's better to be safe than sorry. What if someone lurked in?
Thinking of this, while the soldiers were covering each other and advancing, Yi Hanxing and the old professor were still writing drafts.
"Bang!" The door was kicked open. Yi Hanxing and the old professor looked at each other and quickly stuffed the draft paper in their hands into the stove.
No matter who came, the two were not afraid.
If the person who came was a spy, the draft paper would have been destroyed anyway, so as long as the two of them kept silent, the spy would not be able to get anything.
If it was our own comrades who came, that would be even better. Without draft paper, we have not violated the working hours regulations. We were just hungry in the middle of the night and came here to find something to eat.
As they were thinking this, they saw a group of soldiers.
The leader, of course, knew the old professor and couldn't help asking, "Professor, what are you doing here?"
People in this era were still very innocent and did not think wrongly. If it were in later times, it might just be a conversation between an old professor and a female student about twenty or thirty things. Now everyone is just curious about what the two were doing.
Seeing that the draft paper was almost burned, Yi Hanxing quickly took out his large fire tongs and said to everyone, "I was hungry in the middle of the night and couldn't sleep, so I came here to see if there was anything to eat. I met the professor on the way and invited him to join me."
"Yes, yes." The old professor quickly agreed.
Yi Hanxing continued to talk nonsense seriously: "Look, there are sweet potatoes in the stove."
It must have been someone from the kitchen team who had left it here. Yi Hanxing spotted it with his sharp eyes, so he used it as an excuse: "I was thinking of roasting some sweet potatoes to fill my stomach tonight."
As Yi Hanxing said this, the soldiers came over and indeed found two big sweet potatoes.
"I don't know which little bastard hid it secretly, but now you have a good deal." Someone laughed.
"That's right!" Yi Hanxing said.
Just when Yi Hanxing thought he had gotten away with it, the team leader narrowed his eyes, went to the stove, put out the fire with tongs, and found some scraps of paper in the ashes.
"When did we become so extravagant that we even used paper to burn fire?"
Yi Hanxing and the old professor: It’s over, we’ve been discovered!
The two knew what it meant to be lenient to those who confess, and they quickly explained that everyone just suddenly had an inspiration and wanted to draw it out for everyone to see.
For a moment, the leader of the troops suspected that these two people were spies in contact, but when he thought of the old professor's academic status and contribution to this work, he just felt that he was stupid. The Americans and Taiwan must be stupid to let scientists of this level come here to be spies.
Since they are not spies, their explanation is actually credible. They just came to work overtime secretly.
There are penalties for secretly working overtime.
Early the next morning, the researchers were notified to gather in the cafeteria.
At a table arranged in advance in the cafeteria, Yi Hanxing and the old professor were discussing dejectedly: "We shouldn't use the stove to make fire. We plan to work overtime by firelight."
After hearing this, the researcher
They couldn't help but laugh: "Our boss was also arrested for working overtime?"
"Isn't it? I heard it was done by firelight. Tell me, why didn't we think of this method earlier?"
"If you had thought of that, you would be the one doing the self-reflection now."
Yi Hanxing lowered his head.
The incident in which the old professor and Yi Hanxing were caught trying to work overtime was reported to all bases so that everyone would know that even a highly respected old professor would be criticized for secretly working overtime, so that everyone would learn from it and go to bed early and get up early to get enough sleep.
Yi Hanxing was still very embarrassed about being set up as a negative example, but he soon stopped thinking about this embarrassing thing.
"Hua Jiuchun said a lot before. We have refined the information he revealed and can know some of Ai Zi's situation." said the staff.
Yi Hanxing nodded.
The staff member continued: "According to our analysis, Aiko should be a middle-aged woman."
Yi Hanxing thought, this doesn’t need to be analyzed, we already know whether it is good or not.
The staff gave their reasons for their analysis: "According to the intelligence we previously obtained from the Red Agency, Aiko should be older than Tanaka Masako and Takema Keiko. They have never actually met, so she should be a few years older. In 1937, she should have been around 20 years old, but probably no older than 35, and no older than 40 at most. After all, as an intelligence agent who relies mainly on beauty, if she is over 35 or 40, her ability to obtain intelligence should be reduced."
Yi Hanxing agreed with this judgment. Even in the category of beauty traps, there is a saying that love fades with beauty.
"So, this beloved child is probably between thirty-five and fifty-five years old," the staff member said. "Thirty-five to forty-five is the most likely age."
The old professor and Yi Hanxing who were attending the class had no objection.
"Based on this situation, we checked all the female comrades of similar age who had frequent daily interactions with Comrade Yi Hanxing, but we found no one who met the requirements." This is why the staff emphasized women.
"So you're going to ask me if I have any candidates now?"
"No, we checked all the men again to prevent Aiko from faking it, but we still didn't find anyone who met the requirements."
Yi Hanxing frowned immediately: "Given Japan's national conditions, people with Aiko's status are basically all women. They don't believe that male intelligence officers can obtain intelligence from valuable people."
The old professor took Yi Hanxing's words to heart and said, "But there's no one who meets the requirements..."
As he said this, the old professor suddenly asked, "You meet the conditions, what are they?"
"It's his age, his face, how old he is.
To be a successful spy, Aizi should have had good connections in the original Three People's Party government so that he could obtain a lot of intelligence.
“But those who are influential in the Three People’s Party basically don’t fit the age requirement. We even checked men, but we couldn’t find this person.
Hearing this, Yi Hanxing couldn't help but say: "Did you miss someone?
"Absolutely not!" the staff said, "We even found people who only spoke a few words to you.
Yi Hanxing couldn't help but frown: "This is strange.
At the critical moment, the old professor pointed out everyone's blind spot: "I see that you are all looking for targets based on Hua Jiuchun's confession, but have you ever considered that Hua Jiuchun might be lying?
"This guy already holds a grudge against us, so we couldn't expect him to cooperate and tell us what was going on. We thought he was just trying to provoke us with those words, but was he really that easily provoked? Maybe he let them out on purpose?"
"What do you mean?" Yi Hanxing guessed: "Hua Jiuchun deliberately misled us?
"Of the information Hua Jiuchun said, at least nine are true and one is false. He is deliberately trying to confuse us." The old professor narrowed his eyes: "How else can we explain it? This Aizi knows you for sure, but he is not necessarily someone you interact with frequently.
What the old professor said made sense to everyone.
"That's right, Hua Jiuchun still holds a grudge against me. It seems that he will further expand the scope of his beloved sons in the future." Yi Hanxing said, also puzzled: "Who is this beloved son?"
When Yi Hanxing was puzzled, Yuanbao, who was once again sent to the Tian family, rushed back home after school and grabbed Yi Hongxing and said, "Dad Tian! I found a spy!
Hearing Yuan Bao's words, Yi Hongxing suddenly seemed to see Yi Hanxing from twenty years ago. On a certain day in the beginning, it was Yi Hanxing who rushed into his office in the base and told him: "I found a spy!
After a moment of confusion, Yi Hongxing immediately looked at Yuanbao: "Is there a spy among your teachers?
Yuan Bao widened his eyes slightly: "How do you know it's the teacher?
What else could it be? Yuan Bao was in contact with these people. If there was a spy, and it wasn't a teacher at the school, could it be an elementary school student? Yi Hongxing thought: This is too easy to guess.
Yi Hongxing, who felt he had guessed it, asked, "Who is it? Which teacher? What's the problem?"
Yuanbao glanced at Yi Hongxing and said, "Congratulations, I guessed wrong. I was surprised because it wasn't the teacher.
After hearing what Yuanbao said, Yi Hongxing felt a pang in his heart: It's over, Yuanbao's appearance is not my illusion, she really looks more and more like Yi Hanxing!
It's all Yi Hanxing's fault, he led the child astray! Thinking this way, Yi Hongxing completely ignored the fact that the two of them had one thing in common: they were both raised by him.
But if it wasn't Yuanbao's teacher, who could it be? Yi Hongxing couldn't figure it out: Who else could he find in Yuanbao's social circle? A student's parent?!
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