Seeing an aisle between the two buildings, Fan Keqin turned around and turned in at a normal pace. After that, he walked straight again, observing his surroundings as he walked.
After walking for a while, Fan Keqin came out of the building. Sure enough, it turned into that kind of small western-style building. To be precise, they are not all small Western-style buildings, because some of them are in the Chinese style. Others have a more concise style.
But everyone can see that these small buildings are all villas. Of course, some of them cover a larger area. Some come with yards, some don't. Those with yards are basically the kind with transparent iron railings. Of course, there are also courtyard walls whose masonry structure is invisible to the naked eye.
There should be roughly similar buildings in this area. Due to detailed inquiries with Hua Zhang, Fan Keqin naturally knew where the mansion of Mei's agency was. At this time, Fan Keqin was not on the street where Meiji was located, but was walking through the buildings on the opposite side.
The buildings are like trees in the woods, and the plum blossom mechanism is like a stone in the woods. Since most of these small buildings are independent, it looks like a forest with sparse trees. Therefore, when people walk through it, due to movement, they will always see the stone through the gaps between the trees.
Fan Keqin did not walk on the street where Mei's Agency was located, so in this way, he could observe Mei's Agency. But even if someone inside the Mei Agency could see him, it would not arouse any suspicion.
That's it. Fan Keqin walked at the far end for a short half circle and basically had a good view of the front of the Mei Agency. Talking about the mansion where the Mei Agency is located, Fan Keqin compared it with other architectural references. The main building, that is, the mansion itself, does not occupy a large area, about fifty times forty. There are two floors in total.
In addition, there is a yard outside the main building of the Mei Agency. If this is included, the area occupied will become larger. There are many trees planted in the yard, so although the yard walls are also made of iron railings, these trees still block a lot of sight. Only the section from the courtyard entrance to the main part of the mansion can be completely seen.
Along the way, Fan Keqin was at the far end, making a large circle, so he naturally spent more time observing.
It was also because of this that Fan Keqin noticed that the few plainclothes people at the door of Mei's agency were not fixed. He definitely saw the other two people walking out of the mansion, following the original two people at the door, as if they were meeting and saying hello, and then the original two people walked into the mansion. It's definitely a changing of the guard.
There were also people coming out or entering the mansion on the second floor, all in civilian clothes. How many others came out of the mansion? They turned a corner and entered among the trees planted in the yard.
Fortunately, it is winter now and there are no lush leaves to block it. Therefore, Fan Keqin could vaguely see that these people were smoking and talking about something. As for why we didn't chat in the mansion...who knows.
Ten minutes later? Fan Keqin had already walked around the side of the mansion. There's nothing interesting to see from the side? Although the main building of the mansion can be seen through the trees, there is nothing else.
He followed Fan Keqin to the back of the mansion to observe. It's almost the same as the front. But behind the mansion is a back street. It was relatively deserted, and Fan Keqin still didn't dare to get too close. Is it because it's deserted? So walking back from the street next to the mansion will be very eye-catching.
Then Fan Keqin came to another side? It looked similar to the left side he passed before. They are all trees. Through the sparse trees, you can see the main part of the mansion.
At this time, Fan Keqin no longer hesitated. Turn around and walk directly away from the mansion. After about ten minutes, Fan Keqin was already sitting on a bench in a nearby open small park.
There were not many people in the small park at this time. There were only a few young men and women having sex in the park. Fan Keqin quietly lit a cigarette and slowly thought about everything he observed. Combined with the previous investigation and understanding reported by Hua Zhang. Start thinking about various possibilities in your mind.
But it's certainly not a good time to customize any plans right now. After all, we haven’t investigated the high-end apartment area of the Japanese Consulate yet. Therefore, Fan Keqin was actually just "reviewing" the situation he had just investigated in his mind. I recalled everything about Meiji Mansion and its surroundings and tried to remember it.
Finally, Fan Keqin threw the cigarette butt on the ground, stepped on it and crushed it. After I got up and left the park, I saw a few rickshaws on the opposite side. Then I boarded one and told the other party the location. Start heading towards the high-end apartment area.
About twenty minutes later, Fan Keqin got out of the car and paid. His current position is actually just entering the edge of the map he looked at yesterday. Three streets further in is the central area.
So Fan Keqin started walking along the street. After a while, he saw the Japanese Consulate appearing in his sight.
This consulate is actually smaller than the previous mansion owned by Mei. But it also depends on how you calculate it. After all, the area here is more prosperous than where Mei Guan is located. Land is also relatively valuable. Just like a normal two-bedroom apartment of about 50 meters in the center of Shanghai in later generations, it is definitely more valuable than a large house covering an area of several acres in the suburbs.
Of course, this may be a bit inappropriate. After all, Mei's agency is not located in a suburb, and there are quite a few small western-style buildings around it. The transportation is not very convenient. If you don't have a car, you have to walk a long way to get on public transportation.
For example, when Fan Keqin came here, he walked for a while, passed through a park, and then walked for about ten minutes before he saw a rickshaw. In addition, the planning is definitely not as good as that of later generations, and some of the surrounding supporting facilities are not up to par.
But things are different here at the consulate. There are basically everything around. There are a lot of merchants, residential areas, shops and so on on both sides of the street.
Fan Keqin strolled forward normally on the street opposite the consulate. As he passed by, he roughly estimated that the total length of the front building of the consulate was only about thirty meters. When passing by, the side was only twenty meters. In other words, the overall area of the consulate was only about 600 square meters.
There is no yard, it is directly adjacent to the street. But there was a guard platform at the door, with a heavily armed little devil standing on it. Behind the guard platform is a guard box, the upper half of which is made of glass...
