Imamura Kogoro squinted his eyes and looked at the documents falling from the desk.
There are four pieces of paper.
Two fell on the table, one fell on the bamboo basket, and one fell on the double sofa.
He frowned subconsciously and looked down at the ground.
The door shaft of the study door had just been oiled recently, so it shouldn't be difficult to push open.
His gaze rested on a spot on the ground.
Kogoro Imamura's left hand was in front of him, which ensured that when he bent down to pick something up, the small pistol in his palm would not be seen.
This is a small section of pencil lead, with a bit of pencil wood attached to one end of the lead.
It must have been this small piece of pencil lead that got stuck on the lower edge of the door.
"What did Li Hao shout just now?" Cheng Qianfan didn't give Imamura Kogoro time to continue thinking. He walked into the study casually, put the red wine gift box on the desk, then picked up his briefcase and asked casually road.
"Your men said that you should go back and tell your son a bedtime story." Imamura Kogoro said.
"やばい!" Cheng Qianfan raised his wrist to look at the time and exclaimed. Then he waved his hand at Imamura Kogoro, "Uncle Kogoro, I'm going back first."
"Go, go." Seeing Miyazaki Kentaro's anxious look, Imamura Kogoro couldn't help laughing.
"Goodbye, Uncle Kogoro." Cheng Qianfan held the briefcase in his hand and left quickly, and soon heard footsteps on the wooden stairs.
'It seems that Kentaro really likes tigers,' Imamura Kogoro said in his mind.
Kentaro Miyazaki's son's Chinese name is Cheng Bi, and "Ben" means Tiger Ben.
Japanese name, named after 'tiger', Miyazaki Nobutora, nicknamed tiger.
In order to give his son a good name, Miyazaki Kentaro visited Imamura Hyoutarou with gifts of preserved fruit and wine, and asked the teacher to name his son.
Imamura Kogoro didn't know what method Kentaro used to win the counselor's favor. Imamura Hyoutarou actually named Nobutora Miyazaki Kentaro's son.
This is no ordinary name.
The name comes from Nobutora Takeda, a famous daimyo from the Imperial Warring States period.
Takeda Nobutora was the daimyo of Kai during the Warring States Period of the Empire. He was a doctor of Sakyo, Mutsu Mamoru, and a guardian of Kai. He was the father of Takeda Shingen, a famous military general during the Warring States Period of the Empire.
Takeda Nobutora (たけだのぶとら) is the son of Takeda Nobutora.
He was born on the sixth day of the first lunar month in the third year of Mingying (1494).
In the fourth year of Eisho (1507), Takeda Nobutora died, and thirteen-year-old Takeda Nobutora succeeded him as the eighteenth generation governor of the Kai Takeda family.
In the fifth year of Eisho (1508), the 14-year-old Takeda Nobutora put down the civil strife of his uncle Takeda Nobute, who was a hostile family member, resolved the civil strife that could not be resolved in the era of his father Takeda Nobutora, and unified Kai. He was hailed as "" "The Tiger of Kai".
In the seventh year of Yongsheng (1510), he attacked the Oyamada Nobutaka family in the county, recruited his son Nobuyou to surrender, and betrothed his sister to Nobuyou, thus pacifying the county.
Later, Takeda Nobutora commanded the whole country as the leader of Kai's leadership of the Genji. This king showed the style of a strong general in the face of the crisis of the survival of the Takeda family by the people of the country.
It can be said that Nobutora Takeda supported the Takeda family for thirty-five years despite being isolated and in financial straits.
The family fortune he finally handed over to his son Takeda Harunobu was dozens of times better than when he inherited it and became the head of the family.
Objectively speaking, Takeda Nobutora cannot be compared with the top figures of the Imperial Warring States Period.
Strategically, Takeda Nobutora initially united with Uesugi to confront Imagawa and Hojo with the intention of encroaching on Kanto; later he married Imagawa, made peace with Hojo, and turned to attack Shinano, which was wise.
But for this transformation, the time Nobutora Takeda spent and the amount of national power he wasted was staggering.
From the initial one-sided superstition of "the Takeda cavalry is invincible" and his own tactical ability, he later realized his mistake after hitting a wall. The Takeda family paid a high price for this:
The damage to people's livelihood in the territory was very heavy.
This also led to Takeda Nobutora being exiled from the family for a time.
Imperial historians believe that Takeda Nobutora lacked not tactical ability but strategic acumen.
It is simply impossible for Kai's poor and weak national power to support a staggeringly consuming foreign war, and to fight against two major forces at the same time.
Takeda Nobutora only found the right way to expand after a bloody blow: go north to Shinano, expand his power and then move towards higher goals.
This correct strategy was inherited by his legitimate son Harunobu, and later facts proved that the conquest of Shinano laid the cornerstone of the Takeda family's foreign wars.
The common view within the empire is that although Takeda Nobutora was wrong, he was indeed the greatest contributor to the rise of the Takeda family.
The Imperial Warring States Daimyo Takeda clan came to glory in the hands of Takeda Harunobu, but the foundation for all this was laid in the hands of Takeda Nobutora.
Because of this, the name Nobutora has a special meaning in the empire, which means that it was from this person that the family laid the foundation for its rapid development!
…
Kogoro Imamura even felt that he had a growing fondness for Kentaro Miyazaki, not only because Kentaro Miyazaki always respected him and treated him sincerely, but also because Hyoutarou Imamura named Kentaro Miyazaki's son Nobutora.
For Kogoro Imamura, who is obsessed with studying the history of the Imperial Warring States Period and admires the heroes of the Imperial Warring States Period, the name Nobutora also has a special complex.
With these thoughts in his mind, Imamura Kogoro placed the 'Palm Thunder' hidden in the palm of his left hand on the desk.
He shook his head.
Maybe I am too sensitive to doubt...
In other words, it's not that I'm doubting anything.
Imamura Kogoro threw the pencil refills in his hand into the bamboo basket. He knew that this was just his subconscious vigilance reaction.
Miyazaki Kentaro is a student whom the counselor trusts, and he has also been secretly observed and screened by him for a period of time.
In addition, as far as within the Iwai Mansion is concerned, Naito has been reporting and investigating Kentaro Miyazaki before, saying that there is a problem with Kentaro Miyazaki. Therefore, the empire conducted a secret investigation. The results of the investigation proved that Kentaro Miyazaki had no problem.
As Hyōtaro Imamura said in a casual conversation with him, such an investigation is not a bad thing for Kentaro Miyazaki. Being able to withstand the investigation of the Imperial Military Police Department is equivalent to an endorsement of Kentaro Miyazaki's loyalty.
Pick up the documents and papers scattered on the floor and put them on the desk.
Imamura Kogoro suddenly fell into deep thought.
He put the papers on the desk, then walked out of the study and closed the door.
Open the door with the key again.
When he opened the door, the papers on the desk were not blown off.
Imamura Kogoro shook his head. He understood what was different. He just pushed it lightly and the door opened. There was almost no wind, so the documents on the desk would not be blown off.
Imamura Kogoro has closed its doors again.
Then he pushed the door open violently.
He looked up at the desk.
The document paper was blown by the wind that came in when the door opened, and one page fell to the ground. Although several other pages were also blown, they did not fall.
Imamura Kogoro frowned.
When Kentaro Miyazaki helped push the door open just now, these pages fell down one after another.
Imamura Kogoro placed the documents casually on the desk near the edge of the desk.
Exit the study room again.
close the door.
The door burst open.
The wind started blowing when I opened the door, and the few pages of paper were successfully blown away by the wind this time.
Imamura Kogoro stepped forward, picked up the paper on the ground, put it back on the desk, and said thoughtfully:
Are these pieces of paper on the table?
he does not know.
Hyōtaro Imamura was picked up just now. He was resting downstairs and did not come to the study to clean it immediately, so he did not know these details.
However, based on his understanding of Hyoutaro Imamura, the counselor pays great attention to neatness and arranges items neatly. Even if something should be placed somewhere, the counselor will pay special attention to it.
Therefore, documents and papers were scattered around the table, which did not seem to be in line with the counselor's habits.
Of course, some unexpected situations cannot be ruled out, such as the counselor getting up from his seat and leaving his desk, and accidentally bumping into these documents.
These are all possible.
Imamura Kogoro pulled out the seat and sat down.
Then he stood up and walked out from behind the desk.
He frowned slightly.
He didn't touch the papers on the desk.
However - Imamura Kogoro shook his head. He was on the thin side, and the counselor was fatter than him.
Putting this doubt that was not a doubt in his mind for the time being, Imamura Kogoro looked at the bamboo basket.
When he was doing the experiment, he suddenly thought of a question:
When I opened the door, the pen refill got stuck on the lower edge of the door.
So, if the pen refill had always been there, then when Kentaro Miyazaki and the counselor left, the door would have been stuck because of the pen refill. This means——
The study door cannot be closed!
Can't close the study door?
But Kentaro Miyazaki was waiting at the study door for him to get the key to open the door? !
Imamura Kogoro was already inclined to believe that he was having random thoughts out of professional sensitivity. Miyazaki Kentaro was a loyal person who had been investigated by the Imperial Military Police Headquarters in Shanghai and internally screened and certified by Iwai Mansion.
However, at this moment, there was a trace of doubt in his heart.
He walked to the bamboo basket in two steps, bent down and rummaged through the bamboo basket, and found a small piece of pencil lead.
First pull the door inwards.
Then place the pencil lead on the ground.
Imamura Kogoro pretended to go out and left, and he opened the door.
Then, he was surprised to find that the lower edge of the door passed through the pencil lead smoothly and successfully closed the door.
Then he opened the door with his key.
Um?
The door is stuck again?
Imamura Kogoro pushed hard, but he didn't push away the first time.
He pushed again.
The door was pushed open, a gust of wind swept in, and the pages of documents on the desk were blown off one after another.
Imamura Kogoro was stunned for a moment, staring at the documents on the ground.
He remembered that he had just put the document paper on the desk casually, not specifically on the edge of the table.
So--
What does this mean?
These documents and papers were normally placed on the desk. Just now, Miyazaki Kentaro pushed the door hard. The reason why these papers were blown down was because Miyazaki Kentaro opened the door harder that time?
Imamura Kogoro became even more unpredictable.
He recalled carefully that it seemed that Kentaro Miyazaki was indeed very forceful when he helped him push the door open.
Imamura Kogoro looked at the small piece of pencil lead on the ground again.
Then he looked surprised, looked at the lower edge of the door thoughtfully, and nodded.
I see.
Throwing the pencil lead into the bamboo basket, Imamura Kogoro shook his head. He felt that his nerves were too tense, and he studied for a long time a few pages of paper and a small piece of pencil lead stuck in the door.
However, Imamura Kogoro knew that if there was another time, he would do this again.
He is the last barrier to protect the counselor's safety and keep the secrets of this study. This is the meaning of his existence, no matter how neurotic or even threatening he is.
…
Li Hao drove quietly. Although he had many concerns and questions in his heart, Brother Fan didn't speak, so he didn't ask.
Cheng Qianfan opened his briefcase and took out a small pencil sharpener.
Xiaobao left this pencil sharpener in the car. He found it funny and put it in his briefcase.
Cheng Qianfan took out the lighter, turned the wheel, and lit it.
He used the flame to bake the blade of his pencil sharpener.
He had just used a pencil sharpener to repair the small piece of pencil lead, and there would be pencil shavings left on the knife.
The pencil used by Hyōtaro Imamura was specially made, and the paint on the pencil was different from the paint used by ordinary students, so the evidence was destroyed.
"Xiaobao is really clever." Cheng Qianfan's mouth raised a gentle arc.
His movements on the broken pencil tip were also inspired by Xiaobao.
When Xiaobao teased Lu Qiming in school, he used a small pencil tip:
My little girl was very skillful. She sharpened the tip of the pencil a few times. It looked like an ordinary pencil tip, but it had an 'ordinary' curvature and a small bulge. Then she just laid the pencil on the curved surface. On the ground, when the door was closed, the pencil rolled and the door closed smoothly.
Then when the door was opened, the pencil was lying on its stomach and would get stuck in the door. In this way, Xiao Ming would be locked in the classroom and unable to get out.
However, this is useful for children, but not for adults, because it will not jam too hard. Just push the door hard and let the pencil end roll over again, and you can open the door.
…
"Haozi, I want to thank you this time." Cheng Qianfan put the pencil sharpener back in his briefcase and said to Li Hao, "If I hadn't called out Kogoro, I might have been blocked by Kogoro."
He asked Li Hao curiously, "Why did you call Kogoro at that critical moment?"
"I don't know if that was a critical moment." Li Hao received praise from Brother Fan and grinned happily, "Brother Fan, when you entered the Imamura Mansion, I sat in the car first, and then I thought about helping Brother Fan keep an eye on it. , just get out of the car and pretend to smoke under the streetlight."
Streetlight?
Cheng Qianfan immediately understood which position Haozi was talking about.
Looking up under the streetlight, you can just see the glass window at the corner of the stairs.
The glass is ground glass, so you can't see clearly inside, but you can see people's figures when they pass by.
"Did you see Kogoro walking up the stairs?" Cheng Qianfan asked.
"Yes." Li Hao nodded, "I just thought, Brother Fan, you haven't gone downstairs yet, and I don't know if you have done everything well. It would be terrible if you were hit by Kogoro, so I called Xiao Goro, I'll help you delay for a while, so that I can remind you that Kogoro is going upstairs."
"Good boy!" Cheng Qianfan was very happy. He rubbed Li Hao's hair from behind with a joyful smile on his face, "You've made progress."
He is really, really, really happy.
Not only because Haozi helped him, but almost saved him once.
It was even more because it was Haozi who helped him.
Well, there is also Xiaobao.
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