Fan Keqin continued: "I plan to take a look and maybe book one with you in a few days."
"Of course." The waiter smiled and said, "If you need anything, you can tell us."
"Okay." Fan Keqin said, "You are busy."
After sending away the waiter, Hua Zhang whispered: "Is there something wrong with this restaurant?"
She didn't know the situation yet, but Fan Keqin certainly couldn't explain it to her in detail here. He nodded and said, "Maybe, so I plan to take a look."
In fact, as soon as Fan Keqin entered this restaurant, he felt that the location was good. It is because of the characteristics of Dongshan Road. People say there are too many and many people say there are too few, and many of the people living around are white-collar workers. Some of the spies and infiltrators of the Little Devils will basically not hide at the bottom of society, such as pulling rickshaws, carrying labor, loading and unloading coal piles, and the like. This is a hidden identity that most little Japanese spies would not choose.
In fact, this is indeed the case, because people who are too low-level basically have no access to any effective information. Unless there are special circumstances. For example, the situation is very dangerous, and then all of a sudden they are pretending to be the lowest level person. This creates a gap with his usual disguised identity, thus deceiving his opponent and escaping smoothly.
In addition, it is a bit inconvenient to pretend to be someone from the bottom. For example, when delivering a message, you say that you pretend to be an idle laborer standing guard, waiting for work, such as someone unloading coal. It's a waste of time. You said that since you are pretending to be such a person, then in order to be true and not exposed, you have to really stand on guard and wait for your return. But you have to stand on the big post, won't you waste time? You said that when you do this job, you must be running for your life. But you asked for leave in order to deliver a piece of information. You have to spend three days fishing and two days drying nets. You are not consistent with your cover identity. Then your exposure risk will be virtually increased.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, the little devil's latent spies are at least those who do some small business on their own. For example, get a cart and sell small items in the streets. It's so convenient and free of time, and no one can see the flaw. Isn't it just to join a certain company and work as an accountant, bookkeeper, etc.? In this way, you have some status, at least you are a person with some knowledge. In this way, if the task requires you to go to a slightly higher-end occasion, you will have to disguise again. If you meet an acquaintance, you may have to disguise yourself again in an instant. Risk of exposure.
After considering these considerations, Fan Keqin actually didn't have any idea about Gong Wu Rongbao's old classmate. What Miyatake Yongho said at that time was that this old classmate of his was wearing a very nice suit. The material is very good. What's the meaning? Does that mean that after sneaking in, this old classmate of Gongwu Rongbao used to hide his identity as someone with some money? At the very least, he is a white-collar worker, a teacher, a cheater, a person of the same level.
Moreover, he went in and out of Western restaurants, which further confirmed this. Taking a step back, it would not be against the law for him to enter a Western restaurant.
During subsequent inquiries, Fan Keqin also asked Gongwu Rongbao to talk about what else he saw at that time. Including the situation around Sri Lankan Western restaurants. Of course, Gongwu Yongbao didn't remember it clearly. After all, he only looked at it twice because he was his old classmate, so he didn't pay too much attention to it. Anyway, there won’t be any intersection or horizontal connection.
However, through Miyatake Yoshiho's recollection, there were no cars parked near the entrance of the restaurant or on the edge of the street. Does this mean that this old classmate of Gongwu Yongbao's current cover identity is a bit rich, but he is not particularly rich.
In addition, Miyatake Yongho suspected that this Sri Lankan Western restaurant might be their regular meeting point. But Fan Keqin thinks there is another possibility. That was Miyatake Yongho's old classmate. Maybe the place of residence where he concealed his identity was around Dongshan Street.
Because there is a clue that can support Fan Keqin's conjecture. That's why Gongwu Yongbo said that when the waiter at the front desk of the Sri Lankan Western Restaurant talked to Gongwu Yongbao's old classmate, his smile was not a purely professional smile. It's probably a sign of seeing an old customer, a familiar customer. So if Miyatake Yongho's old classmate really wants to live around here, then he may visit the Sri Lankan Western Restaurant from time to time.
Fan Keqin was thinking about this while acting with Hua Zhang, playing the role of a passionate little lover. When the food came, even I couldn't eat it quickly. After all, they are little lovers. The two of them are in a team, and the relationship is on fire, so it is impossible to eat too fast.
Especially since Fan Keqin also ordered a bottle of red wine, it would take a little longer to drink the small wine.
After about half a bottle of wine, Fan Keqin felt that time was almost up and told Hua Zhang that he had to go to the bathroom. And Hua Zhang also knew that Fan Keqin might be going somewhere other than the restaurant to investigate. So he nodded with a smile.
Fan Keqin stood up and walked out of the restaurant. He pointed to a waiter outside and asked to the right, "Is that the direction of the restroom?"
"Yes sir." The waiter immediately nodded and confirmed with a professional smile.
In fact, this was a hint from Fan Keqin. What does it mean? Once Fan Keqin goes the wrong way, but he also goes to the right, then it becomes reasonable for Fan Keqin to go the wrong way. Because you didn't specify where the restroom is. Instead, it was guided by Fan Keqin. Was it on the right side? You said yes. Then Fan Keqin would have every reason to take the wrong path, no matter where it leads. Of course, this is just in case. It's better not to be discovered than not to be discovered.
Fan Keqin turned right and saw an upward, wider staircase appearing on the left. This should be the way to the private room on the second floor. However, Fan Keqin did not go up, but continued to walk forward, passing directly by the door with the restroom sign and entering a not deep corridor.
This corridor was only three or four meters long. When Fan Keqin walked in, he smelled a kitchen smell. But after he entered the corridor, he saw that not far ahead, just over ten meters, was a door. Looking out of the window next to the door, Fan Keqin knew that this door was the back door of the Sri Lankan Western Restaurant. It is completely possible to get out...
