Once the little toe hit something hard, the piercing pain would shock the brain, not only stopped the movement of the hand, but even the consciousness was in a trance for an instant.The biggest effect when this happens, though, is neither the pain itself nor the confusion, but the feeling of an idiot. Standing with folded arms in front of the Shinagawa branch of Republic Bank facing Yamanote Avenue, forty-six-year-old Takeo Takezawa watched the sparse customers entering and exiting the bank while thinking about his failure this morning.At that time, he carefully shaved in front of the mirror in the bathroom of the apartment, and was about to come out to pick out a tie to match his suit when the little toe of his right foot kicked a five-kilogram dumbbell.

This dumbbell worth nearly 3,000 yuan after tax was a promotional item that Wu Ze bought from a department store a few days ago.When he entered the bathroom, he specifically confirmed its location and stepped over it, but after waving the electric shaver up and down in front of the mirror for a while, he completely forgot about it.Although the pain subsided quickly, the unexplainable sense of comfort, or frustration, still remained in Wu Ze's heart. This is not acceptable, otherwise it will affect the success rate of the business.Doing this kind of business, the most important thing is "confidence".

I am not an idiot.I am not an idiot.I am not an idiot. ——Wu Ze muttered several times in a low voice, and looked at the bank gate again.It happened to be the time when the slightly fat middle-aged man left the cashier window and walked towards the glass revolving door. Akisuke Chikushi, 43 years old, lives in Arakawa Ward, phone number 3802-xxxx.Although he has the same name as a famous actor, his head is not flowing silver hair, but short black hair, and there is a lot of baldness on the top of his head.Wu Ze stared at the thin-haired head bathed in the spring sunshine, and shook the hand holding the leather bag vigorously.I am not an idiot.I am not an idiot.I am not an idiot. ——Wu Ze walked over slowly.Shosuke Chikushi is about the same height as Takezawa, who is thin and thin.

"Mr. Chikushi...Mr. Chikushi." Wu Ze yelled twice, Chikushi stopped, turned his head, and looked at Wu Ze with questioning eyes. "Mr. Chikushi, I'm sorry, can I take up a little of your time?" Chikushi Akisuke blinked his small eyes a few times, as if searching in his mind whether he knew the person in front of him.Of course it is impossible to know.After all, today is the first time the two meet. "I'm very sorry to interrupt you suddenly, I'm—" Wu Ze took out his business card from the inside pocket of his dark gray suit and handed it over.Chikushi Akisuke held the business card in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully.

"The Bank Inspector..." "Yes. The Republic Bank here entrusted me to investigate a fraud case, and Mr. Chikushi's assistance is needed in some places." "Assist? ... But ... how do you know my name?" This is a natural question.Wu Ze explained: "Because the branch manager inside just contacted me—Mr. Chikushi, did you receive cash at the cashier window just now?" "Well, the company's money." "The one on the far left in a row of windows?" "right." "The teller at the window is a man in his thirties, right?"

"Ah, yes." "Wearing glasses with silver rims?" "um, yes." Wu Ze leaned in front of Akisuke Chikushi and lowered his voice: "Can I check the cash you just received?" "what?" Wu Ze gestured to Chikushi Akisuke with the black bag in his hand, and said straightforwardly: "It may be a counterfeit banknote. —— I don’t know if you have seen the news. Since April, two batches of counterfeit banknotes with a high degree of imitation have been found in Shinagawa District .The area police station and our investigation showed that both batches of counterfeit banknotes flowed out of this bank. Moreover, the cash was handed over directly by a teller at a certain cashier window."

Chikushi Shosuke frowned, as if he was thinking about something. "You mean..." "The teller at the window exchanged the cash secretly. He hid the cash in the ATM and gave the counterfeit banknotes to the customer. It should be an accomplice who works in a printing factory. The counterfeit banknotes are highly imitated." Chikushi Akisuke looked at the bag in his hand. "Hey, you mean...these are counterfeit banknotes?" "No," Wu Ze shook his head lightly, "I'm not sure yet, that's why I need Mr. Chikushi's assistance, please let me check."

Takezawa warned himself not to look too eager - but not too laid back - while extending his right hand to Shosuke Chikushi.Akisuke Chikushi looked back and forth between Wu Ze's right hand and his bag several times, muttering in his mouth that he didn't know what he was talking about. — Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up.It's a pity that Shosuke Chikushi just frowned, as if he was still thinking.Wu Ze stretched out his left hand and slowly touched the back of his head. "Any questions?" A man in a suit came to the two of them, with a serious expression on his face, wearing silver-rimmed glasses, his hair combed neatly, and a small rectangular name tag pinned to his chest. The name printed on the name tag was ——

You bastard—Wu Ze cursed secretly in his heart.He carefully concealed the feelings in his heart, and responded to the passer-by with a calm attitude: "No, it's nothing. There's no problem." "real?" "real." Looking at the two of them with a puzzled expression, Shosuke Chikushi sneaked a glance at the name tag of the assistant to the branch manager, and said cautiously, "Well... just now this person said that he wanted to check the cash I received. So I was thinking, what should I do..." The lips of the man wearing a famous brand are slightly protruding, looking a bit like a dolphin.He let out a low "Ah" and looked carefully at Shosuke Chikushi and Takezawa.

"Could it be... the matter entrusted by our branch manager?" Wu Ze nodded. "Yes, that's the thing." "So, from which window did the guest get the cash?" "Well, just now." "In that case, please leave it to me. I'll go to the money counter in the bank to confirm it, and it will be ready soon." Akisuke Chikushi seemed relieved at last, "haha" laughed, and touched the shiny top of his head with sparse hair. "Oh, it turns out to be true." "It happened so suddenly that it surprised you." The man with the name tag shrugged apologetically.

"This kind of thing happened in the bank, and it also disturbed the customers. As a bank, we also feel very shameful-so sorry, can you please wait here for a while, and I will keep the cash for the time being, confirm Is it okay to return it to you immediately after that? Of course, it’s okay for you to wait in the row.” "Ah, then I'll go in and wait." "Okay. So cash?" "Let's go in and talk. It's a bit ostentatious to take money here." "OK." The man with the name tag said, "Then I'll wait for you in the bank," and turned back to the bank. Chikushi Shosuke turned to Takezawa. "I'm sorry, I couldn't believe you just now. He suddenly told me to check the cash or something." "It's okay. It's common for people to be suspected in investigations like ours. In fact, on the other hand, it is because everyone maintains a high degree of vigilance that the number of fraud cases in society will gradually decrease. So I also want to thank everyone." "Yeah, that's how it is in this era. But I really didn't expect that there are bad people in the bank, so I really can't be careless. ——Ah, by the way, it's not convenient to tell others about this, right?" "Confidentiality, if possible. The Assistant Branch Chief will explain this to you later. After all, I am only a prosecutor." "Understood. Then I'll go there first." "Thank you for your assistance." Wu Ze bowed deeply, then turned around quickly while raising his head, and blended into the crowd.Walking along the sidewalk for a while, turning a corner, Wu Ze stopped.After waiting for a while, the man with the name tag just now came. "Where's the money?" Wu Ze asked, the man patted the inside pocket of his suit and said, "Here." "Let's go." Wu Ze dropped his sentence and walked away. The man chased after Wu Ze, and approached with a somewhat sissy face. "I said, Lao Wu, what happened just now?" This person called Wu Zezhufu "Old Wu", as if he had called him that way since he was a child.At most, it is the difference between calling "Xiao Wu" when I was a child, "A Wu" when I grew up, and "Old Wu" when I grew up. "Don't you think my acting skills have improved a lot?" "I don't think so at all." "You are asking too much." "You recited the wrong lines." "What line?" "The original 'Is there any problem' should be 'What's wrong'." "Hey, isn't that the same thing?" "It's completely different. You didn't hear what we were talking about before, and it's weird to pop up and ask 'what's the matter?'." "Ah, that's it." "There is no 'that's how it is'. In our kind of business, if you make a small mistake, your life will be gone. If you make another mistake next time, I won't be able to take you along with me." "Old Wu, don't say that." "Don't get so close." "Old Wu." "Don't eat garlic before work." Wu Ze frowned.The man stretched out a hand, covered his mouth, let out a breath, and rolled his eyes on purpose.That side face no longer showed the appearance of an upright assistant to the bank branch manager, and it completely changed back to Wu Ze's current partner, Lao Tie.There is a year difference between him and Wu Ze, forty-five years old this year, but following Wu Ze is like a middle school student following behind a senior. "You are not allowed to eat garlic or anything. You didn't say anything during dinner last night. Aren't I just eating dumplings in front of your eyes?" "I was thinking about things back then. You don't know how to pay attention, you bastard." This time, the trap set by the two people is the so-called classical deception.Although the variations vary, they have been performed all over the world since ancient times.Wu Ze selected the target and investigated some simple personal information in advance.In case the other party has doubts, whether one's own side has the other party's information is often enough to determine the success or failure of the business.Whether you just call out "you" or call out the other person's name directly, the trust you receive will be very different.Under appropriate circumstances, fluently speaking the address and phone number of the other party during the conversation can gain the trust of the other party.In fact, it is very simple to obtain this kind of information in advance, as long as you spend a little money, there are plenty of ways. The reason why Lao Tie intervened halfway was because he saw that Chikushi Zhangsuke, who had taken advantage of him, seemed to have doubts about Wu Ze.In fact, for this kind of business, the more people there are, the more complicated the tactics are, and the possibility of failure will increase accordingly. Therefore, it is best for Wu Ze to solve it from the beginning to the end.But if the other party seems to have a lot of worries, it is necessary for the old iron to appear as an assistant to the branch manager, which is just in case.Wu Ze raised his left hand and stroked the back of his head, which was the signal for action. "By the way, old iron, why do you still use that weird name?" Lao Tie let out an "ah" and took out his name tag from his trousers pocket. "Assistant to the Branch Manager Shi Xiayingyu".This is a small prop made by a handy old iron for today. "This is an anagram." "Anagora—" "Mum. Wordplay. I'm obsessed with this lately." "Change the text arrangement of 'Shi Xiayingyu'?" "Right. The hint is Yingyu. Yingyu means English. English." Lao Tie seems to have just graduated from junior high school, but I don't know why his English is very good. "History of England?" Walking in the crowd of people on the street, Wu Ze tried to think about it, but he couldn't think of anything, so he had to give up. "what are you talking about?" "I still don't understand, Lao Wu. Shi Xia, ishigasmi." When Lao Tie said the last word, he was a bit foreigner. "Reverse the string of letters - oops, I am sagisi." "I am...sagi...si." "Ah," Wu Ze whispered, "Really." Wu Ze couldn't help but want to stop and praise Lao Tie, which is rare, but he still didn't say anything after thinking about it, and hurried forward again. The pronunciation of "骁" (liar) in Japanese is "sagisi". "If you have time to think about that kind of thing, it's better to memorize the lines. It's silly." "Yeah, Tokachi." "what?" "anagram." Walking to Shinagawa Station, the two of them took a JR stop and got off from Tamachi to take a taxi. "Go to Asagaya." "Oh, Asagaya, I see." Wu Ze leaned back on his seat, checking the envelope he had brought from Lao Tie earlier.I counted them with saliva on my fingers, and there were a total of thirty-five 10,000 yuan notes.The old iron next to him whistled silently. "After partnering with you, success has continued. Sure enough, I still have a few skills." "What big things a half-layman is talking about." Although Wu Ze was smiling wryly, he really felt in his heart that the recent business was not doing well because of the role of Lao Tie.To do this kind of business, you must have the awareness of a certain probability of failure, but since you partnered with Lao Tie and asked him to take money from the hands of the bad guys, the success rate has been astonishingly high.This dolphin face is really easy to make the other party trust. Wu Ze put the banknotes back in the envelope, pointed his head to the driver and said, "Driver—it's rare that the weather is so good, please help me take a detour around the moat." "Are you going to the Imperial Palace? That's a long way around." "I know." "The fare is also expensive." "I know I know." "Ok." The driver changed direction and drove to Sakurada Avenue. "Should I go around Chidorigafuchi by the way? The cherry blossoms are beautiful at this time of year." "Ah, cherry blossoms are good." The driver seemed a little proud, driving the taxi slowly along the right hand side.Chidorigafuchi is a famous cherry blossom viewing spot, all white petals are reflected on the water of the moat.Wu Ze stared at the scenery outside through the car window.A "beautiful" sigh came from next to him, followed by the old iron's garlic smell.Wu Ze snorted, rolled down the car window, and the soft spring breeze blew in.In the reflection of petals on the water surface of the moat, a water bird is swimming gracefully. "I said old iron..." Wu Ze asked subconsciously. "How do you say scam in English?" "heron." "Hairong—why does it sound like drugs? It's a completely meaningless word." Having said that, Wu Ze basically has no concept of any English words. The line of sight turns back to the moat.The blooming cherry blossoms are competing to stretch their branches, as if trying to stick out of the water.In the depths of the lawn behind the cherry trees, there is a yellow landscape, is that rape blossoms? At this moment, the driver stared at the rearview mirror, and suddenly said something unexpected. "Guest, you were taken advantage of just now." Wu Ze was startled and turned to look at the driver. "……What did you say?" "Ah, that means it wasn't a heron just now, my guest." Wu Ze became more and more confused. "Because egrets, the feathers should be white, right? But the one just now was brown." Wu Ze looked at the old iron next to him.Old Tie was turning his head and looking out the rear window, saying something like "really, it's a duck, duck".Wu Ze also turned his head to look behind.The brown waterfowl just now was floating lightly on the water surface of the moat. It turned out to be this. "Old Tie, that Hai Rong just now—" Just to make sure. "Can it fly?" "Hey, are there any others that can't fly?" The old man looked surprised.Fraud - Heron.It seems that the old iron was also wrong.It's understandable that the driver got it wrong, but the person who was scammed just now would also get it wrong.Old Tie, his brain is still a bit off-line after all. "Oh……" It was too troublesome to explain this kind of thing, Wu Ze kept silent and looked out the window, shrinking his neck and looking up at the sky.In the spring-like light blue, two white clouds floated in the sky like the huge wings of a flying bird. "Really, egrets can fly..."

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