Chapter 21 third quarter

It was past seven o'clock when Kusanagi and the others left the wedding banquet scene. "For such a wedding banquet, let's go out to drink again!" Koga complained with a disappointed face, "The guest of honor is the deputy county magistrate, and then the county councilors will toast according to the pinyin order of surnames, and even the chief of the police department will give a speech. It’s just a gathering of local celebrities.” "Well, don't say that! After all, he is the mayor of the town, so he has his standpoint!" Kusanagi said, "Yaniuchi also noticed, and said that he arranged for us to have another drink!"

"What! Kusanagi, you are completely different from before, and you have become smoother! What's going on, Yukawa?" When asked, Yu Chuan shrugged lightly, "There is no way, he is also a civil servant." "So that's the case! It's true! Is it because you can't disobey the leader?" "What are you trying to say! You don't know the hard work of civil servants!" Kusanagi punched Koga jokingly. The second round will be held at the bar on the top floor of the hotel. Before the start, arrange for everyone to sit in the lobby bar. As soon as I arrived on the first floor, I saw a large group of people at the main entrance of the hotel. Looking carefully, they were people attending the wedding banquet in the valley, including the chief of the police station. They probably didn't participate in the second round, but it looked a little strange. Everyone looked a little bewildered.

What was even more surprising was that Tanuchi also came down by the elevator, still wearing a dress, completely different from the wedding banquet, he walked through the crowd with a serious face, and began to discuss with the chief of police and others. "Looks like something went wrong." Yukawa who was standing beside Kusanagi said. "Well, I'll go ask!" Kusanagi approached Tanai just when he stopped talking and asked him in a low voice, "What's wrong?" Gu Nei pursed his lips and shrugged, "Because of the heavy rain, there were mudslides, and some of the downhill roads were impassable."

"That road can't be walked?" Kusanagi thought of Shilu. "Yes, fortunately there was no accident, it's just that many people couldn't leave." "The mayor," a small man ran over, "just based on the situation on site, it should be able to open before noon tomorrow." "Will it take this long?" "If the rain is heavier, I don't know if it will work. Even if the soil and rocks are cleaned up, it will take a little more time for safety..." Yanai bit his lip and scratched his head, "Oops!" The round-faced police chief came over, "Mayor, do you understand the situation?"

"Understood, sorry! I have caused you trouble, please!" The Chief of the Police Department nodded, "Traffic control has already begun. There are no people at this time, and there will be no traffic chaos." "Sorry!" Taniuchi apologized again, and suddenly turned to Kusanagi as if remembering something, "By the way, let me introduce you, I said before that I have a friend from college who works in the Metropolitan Police Department, and that is him." Being introduced like this suddenly, Kusanagi was a little confused, so he took out his business card in fear, "My name is Kusanagi."

"Oh, I have seen you for a long time," the director also took out his business card, "I heard from the mayor that you have solved many suspicious cases." "Don't believe it! Only occasionally." Looking at the business card, the director's surname is Xiong Cang, and he is a kind-hearted person. At this moment, the mobile phone in the pocket of Kumakura's dress rang, "Sorry..." Kumakura answered the phone. "It's me... huh? What? What happened to the road conditions?" As soon as he said this, Kumakura's small eyes suddenly widened, and his expression suddenly became stiff.What he said next filled the surrounding air with tension—"What? A murder happened?"

The second round started a little later than the scheduled time, and there was a missing protagonist, but the young people happily surrounded the bride to take pictures.Many councilors and civil servants in the wedding banquet are intimidating, young people want to bless the bride, but everyone can let it go without the groom, and the bride is 13 years younger than Taniuchi——Koga and others seriously said angrily, "It's outrageous!" A man walked towards Kusanagi and the others. He was the one who reported the mudslide to the valley before. He shrunk his not tall figure and whispered in Kusanagi's ear, "Excuse me. Can you come here?"

"me?" "Yes, the mayor has something to tell you, and the director is also waiting for you." Kusanagi had an ominous premonition, but he couldn't refuse it. Yukawa who was on the side probably heard it too, he was drinking a cocktail. Kusanagi nodded to the man and stood up. The man introduced himself as he walked—the surname is Xiao Gao, and he is the chief of the general affairs section of the town office. "What's the matter?" Kusanagi asked. "This, it's not convenient for me to say... The mayor said he would tell you directly!" Xiao Gao said vaguely.

Kusanagi was taken to a certain room on the second floor of the hotel, which is usually used as a meeting room, with a large table surrounded by sofas, and Yanai and Kumakura were waiting there.Taniuchi has already changed into a suit, and the director is still wearing a formal dress. "Sorry, it's a bit far away." Tanai pointed to the sofa opposite him and asked Kusanagi to sit down. "It doesn't matter, what's the matter? Can you leave the bride alone?" Kusanagi asked while sitting. "It's not the time to talk about this." Tanai turned to look at Kumakura.

"The thing is like this," Xiong Cang said, "I think you noticed the phone call just now. There was a murder case. Someone has already reported the case to the department. It was the parents who were killed." "Where is the location?" "It's near here," Kumakura replied earnestly. "Going up from the road in front of the hotel is the villa area. The case happened in one of the buildings. It was my daughter who reported the case. I went to have a look at it at night, and found that the one who arrived first Parents were killed." "This is really terrible! But..." Kusanagi looked at Kumakura and Tanai, "Why are you telling me this?"

Xiong Cang's complexion changed, "Of course this has nothing to do with the Metropolitan Police Department, it is the case that the county police are in charge of. But as you know, the road is impassable now, not only the county police headquarters, but also our department has no way to send people to At the scene, even a helicopter can’t fly in this kind of weather.” "Then let the reporter be alone at the scene now?" "No, there is a police station near the villa area, and the police there are protecting the scene." "So..." Kusanagi roughly understood the situation of the case. "At least we will have to wait until tomorrow morning for the road to return to normal, but we can't just wait and do nothing. In such a case, if the first investigation is late, it will be a fatal problem." "It's natural, but there's no way if the road is blocked?" "You can't go to the scene from the department, but you can go to the scene from here." "what?" "The director said he was going to the scene himself." Guai said. "Mr. Commissioner himself..." Kumakura puffed up his chest, "Although I'm called Director, I'm also a policeman, right?" Kusanagi nodded, there was nothing strange about it. When such a big murder case happened, it was only natural for the director of the jurisdiction to come to the scene. "However," Xiong Cang frowned embarrassingly, "I'm really sorry, I'm mainly in the traffic field, and I have almost no on-site experience in criminal cases. Although I know basic common sense, if I don't do it right, it will cause irreparable mistakes But it would be bad." "So," Tanai leaned out his body, "The director came to see me and asked if I could ask you for help?" "Me?" Kusanagi leaned out his body a little bit, looked at Kumakura, "Do you want me to go to the scene with you?" "Yes," Kumakura put his hands on his knees, "If the Director is nearby but does nothing, after all..." "Not so good!" Kusanagi understood what he was going to say, but he didn't want to step into the murder scene when he came here. Kusanagi was planning to find some reason to refuse. "I'm begging you too! Please help me! Please don't embarrass me, the mayor of the town!" As if knowing what Kusanagi was thinking, Taniuchi bowed his head deeply and begged.