Chapter 121: Deciding to Take Out Liu Jianming

Hua Lei couldn't be bothered to think more, she looked at Chen Yongren and said, "Ren Ge, you've worked hard; tonight I'll boil fish soup to nourish you."

Chen Yongren nodded, letting Hua Lei do as she pleased.

Originally Chen Yongren had no expectations of Hua Lei's cooking, but when she actually served the dishes, it exceeded his expectations.

The taste was not bad.

The presentation was actually passable.

Chen Yongren casually picked up a piece of meat; although the flavor couldn't compare to the chefs of big hotels, careful tasting revealed a unique charm.

"Girl, your skills A Ren't bad; who did you learn from?" Chen Yongren wondered curiously.

Hua Lei felt a little embarrassed and said, "I learned it all from my father; back then he worked as a chef in a restaurant, and I would follow him to learn things when I had free time."

"Later the times turned chaotic, business got worse day by day, and an accident broke my father's hand, so he could no longer lift a wok; he couldn't work as a chef anymore and could only do odd jobs."

After a pause, Hua Lei forced a smile and said, "As long as Ren Ge likes it, I'll cook for you every day from now on."

"Then let's see if this little cook girl of yours can satisfy me." Chen Yongren laughed.

With someone cooking at home, the food is passable, and from now on we won't have to muddle through meals.

Hearing Chen Yongren say that, Hua Lei instantly burst into a bright smile.

Being needed by Chen Yongren made Hua Lei feel much better inside.

At least she wasn't a useless waste who just loafed around waiting to die.

After eating and drinking her fill, Hua Lei voluntarily cleared the bowls and chopsticks; once everything was tidied, she lay on her own bed with a happy smile on her face.

Compared to yesterday, she wouldn't have been able to pull up a quilt, just curling up to keep warm.

Wrapping herself in the thick quilt, Hua Lei fell into a deep sleep.

Chen Yongren was lying in bed at that moment.

He carefully recalled what Fujiwara Rina had said.

Leaving aside the warship intelligence, what Chen Yongren truly cared about was the conflict between Fujiwara Kinta and Amamiya Kazuto.

Although he didn't know what Amamiya Kazuto looked like.

But in these few short days, he had heard too much information about him, and almost all of it concerned the irreconcilable conflict between Fujiwara Kinta and Amamiya Kazuto.

The police station really had nothing to offer.

The more Chen Yongren thought, the more he wanted to curse; the old devils were too cautious, always doubting his Chinese identity, so they never dared to entrust him with important tasks.

Even after letting him serve as deputy chief, they assigned Liu Jianming to monitor him.

Especially seeing how Fujiwara Kinta wanted to use Liu Jianming as bait to draw out other agents lurking in Songhu, it further showed the old devils' ruthlessness.

Liu Jianming's disguise was so good that if a genuine agent foolishly walked into his trap, what would they do?

Damn it.

He must find a way to make contact with superiors; only then would he have a chance to obtain more useful intelligence.

Also, he needed to cultivate his own people to infiltrate the Japanese.

Most importantly, he must find a way to get rid of Liu Jianming.

Even if it meant borrowing a knife to kill.

First, he also needed to figure out where the knife was.

Chen Yongren weighed the pros and cons in his mind.

First.

Liu Jianming's death must absolutely not be linked to him, otherwise it would only increase suspicion.

Use Fourth Master?

Killing Liu Jianming would indeed be easy.

But Fourth Master's military discipline is strict; he would certainly not help you eliminate someone in a murky way.

Just being a patriotic merchant, why would he need to eliminate a police station sergeant?

Just that point alone is hard to explain with normal logic.

After all.

Damn it, you can even get foreign equipment; killing a cop isn't that simple?

After thinking it over, Chen Yongren still decided to do it himself.

Hiring a hitman is too troublesome, and there's also a risk of failure; doing it himself could also net him a system reward for free.

If he let this thing continue to live, it would only keep a tighter watch on him, eventually causing even bigger trouble.

Staging it as an accident would also give the Japanese an explanation.

After all, this guy is a Japanese spy; if he suddenly died, Fujiwara Kinta and Takayanagi Hideyoshi, those two old devils, would surely not let it rest.

Suddenly.

Chen Yongren then thought of another person.

Amamiya Kazuto…

Could he exploit their conflict to divert attention?

Let these few old devils fight each other like dogs; that way, even if Liu Jianming died, they wouldn't suspect him.

……

At this very moment.

Liu Jianming was also thinking about matters related to Chen Yongren.

In front of him lay Hua Lei, as well as the files of those three men.

When Zhang Haifeng brought back the three troublemakers who had bullied Hua Lei to the police station, he happened to run into Liu Jianming,

seeing him bring people back, Liu Jianming merely asked a couple of perfunctory questions.

But when he found out that the matter actually involved Chen Yongren, he immediately became interested.

He is very interested in anything related to Chen Yongren.

After interrogating them separately, the three men's statements were eerily consistent: they all wanted to seize Hua Lei's family property, and not satisfied with that, they even wanted to take her as well.

As a result, he was given a stern talking-to by Chen Yongren.

As for Chen Yongren, they had never met him before; it was completely their first meeting.

But Liu Jianming did not believe it.

Chen Yongren had just taken leave, and he's already standing up for a girl?

How could there be such a coincidence in the world?

This girl definitely has something wrong.

Perhaps she is Chen Yongren's contact!

Because he was on leave, Chen Yongren wanted to pass along intelligence, but then discovered that his contact had met with an accident, so he risked rescuing her.

Although Hua Lei is young, the younger someone is, the more likely they are to be overlooked, making it easy to pass along information.

Perhaps she herself doesn't even know when she passed the information along.

According to the three men's statements, Hua Lei was wearing ragged clothes when she left, but when she went home to get something, she had changed into a new set of clothes.

Let me ask.

If they didn't know each other, who would be a sucker and foot the bill for a strange girl?

All the signs indicate that their relationship is not that simple.

But upon reviewing the files, Liu Jianming discovered.

The files of the three men had no issues, and Hua Lei's file had no suspicious points either.

Then where exactly is the problem?

Liu Jianming became increasingly confused.

No good.

Tomorrow I must get to the bottom of this.

Wait for Chen Yongren to return, first probe indirectly, then think of a way to contact that girl, see if we can get any useful information out of her!

……

Fujiwara Villa.

Fujiwara Rina hadn't even moved her finger halfway when Fujiwara Kinta finished.

"Rina, sorry…" Fujiwara Kinta apologized.

"It's fine…" Fujiwara Rina had long been accustomed to this, and was not surprised.

Although she felt disappointed inside, she still managed to squeeze out a smile.

Fortunately, since the lights were off, Fujiwara Kinta also didn't notice anything unusual.

Thinking about what happened this afternoon, Fujiwara Rina's heart stirred; she rested her head on Fujiwara Kinta's chest and lightly traced circles on him with her finger.

"Kinta-kun, what exactly have you been busy with lately? You're clearly off work, yet Takayanagi-kun still came to see you—don't you need to rest?"

Fujiwara Kinta still thought his wife was complaining about his condition, and helplessly explained: "You don't understand, that bastard Amamiya Kazuto actually wanted to…"