Chapter 19 Chapter 19: The Hanger Exuding the Fragrance of Lavender
The Domo Cemetery was shrouded in twilight.It was getting late, and it was the end of the year, and there was no grave-sweeping person.Enter the main entrance of the cemetery and turn right to the management office. Starting from the main entrance square, there are three roads extending radially into the park.On the head, there are tall trees such as pine, cypress, beech, Himalayan fir, like a forest, with lush and dense branches.Flocks of finches flew from the treetops and circled in the cold sky with heavy sunset clouds.There was still a glimmer of the setting sun in the sky, but it was already pitch black in the woods.Looking into the distance, the smoke and clouds are vast.There seems to be a layer of mist floating on the nearby ground, the air is humid, there is no wind, and a fragrance of fallen leaves comes to the nostrils.
The forest is silent and solemn, and the ground is covered with a layer of fallen leaves like a carpet of shoes to step on quietly.There are dwarf plants such as pearl flowers, rhododendrons and ditangs planted on the ground, which are neatly trimmed, which reminds people that there must be a hundred flowers blooming here during the flowering season.
The road in the forest is very wide, and there are tombs of different shapes lined up on both sides of the road.Some cemeteries are very large, the iron gates are tightly closed, and weeds are overgrown inside.Although some cemeteries are small, they are neatly maintained.Rich people forget their ancestors; poor people respect their ancestors even though they are poor.The tombs of the two are quite different, forming a sharp contrast.A woman in mourning clothes walked towards her, holding a brand new wooden bucket in her right hand.She was the woman who had been on the bus with her, and it was likely that her husband's grave was also here.After leaving the car, it had been more than two hours. She had been in this cemetery for a long time. After sweeping the grave, she must be immersed in the pain of missing her husband.
"You know this woman?" Yuanchi asked, he found something from Dongju's expression.
"No, when we came, she was in the same car as us."
"Oh, it seems that there is such a person in the car." Yuanchi didn't ask any more.
The woman passed by with her head down, and when she walked by, it still made people smell a faint fragrance of lavender.She left a lonely long shadow on the ground, and that sad figure touched Dongju's heart.
After a while, I came to the spirit tower in the bushes, and there was a picture board of "the fifth tomb area" nearby.The entrance to the cemetery is flanked by frosted glass lanterns.The gray spirit tower sits on the six-square-meter site in the center of the cemetery.The tomb is in the shape of a "five-round pagoda".A stone ball is built on the square foundation stone. On the stone ball is a roof-shaped stone, and on top of it is a gem-like stone.
The stone used to build the pagoda is grayish granite. The face of the stele—that is, the same side of the foundation stone, spherical stone, roof stone and gem-shaped stone—is engraved with a Sanskrit character on each of the four stones. name.Dongju wanted to ask Shinozaki what the four Sanskrit characters meant, but he didn't come out of his mouth.Dongju knew that it would be better not to engrave an inscription on the tomb of Unit 731.
The spirit tower made of stone, covered in a gray armor, looks creepy.There are newly offered flowers in the flower tube.The cemetery is very tidy, and it seems that Shinozaki is very conscientious.
"Who has visited the grave?" Shinozaki looked at Hana and said.
"Isn't this the flower you offered?"
"There are new ones." Shinozaki pointed to the chrysanthemums in the flower tube.At this time, Dongju seemed to smell the fragrance of lavender again, and Dongju felt that the chrysanthemums in the flower tube were very similar to the bouquet of flowers swaying on the lap of the woman in the car.
"Why don't the people who sweep the tombs of the Spirit Tower go to my place?" Shinozaki thought for a while, but couldn't figure it out.
The back figure of the woman in mourning dress that gradually faded away in the twilight reappeared before Dongju's eyes.
After Touju learned from Shinozaki that the name of the one-handed ghost was "Futani", he immediately checked whether there was anyone named "Futani" among the people around Yoshinori Chizuru.
I checked his supporters, secretaries, friends, and confidantes, and read all the information I could collect. Let alone "Ergu", there are no Sangu, Jinggu, and Hegu that are slightly related to "Ergu".
Even if Qianlong and Ergu had any activities, it was more than thirty years ago. No matter how many years this kind of activity lasts, it will not continue to this day.
In this way, time passed day by day, and the detection of the Yang Junli case has entered its second year. Although the outline of the "731" inheritance has been basically clarified, it has not yet been linked to Qianlong, and it has not been proved whether Terao's allowance was paid by Qianlong.To find out the truth of the incident, it is still as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack.
On January 16th when the pine branches were removed, Dongju received a call from Terao.Shinozaki's whereabouts were provided by him, but he forgot to tell him the results of the investigation. Although there is no need to tell the details of the investigation, at least he must thank the person who provided the information.When Dongju heard that the other party was Terao, he felt very guilty.
Fortunately, Terao didn't seem to care: "Have you met Mr. Shinozaki?"
"Thanks to you, I learned something new, and I just wanted to thank you." Dongju said anxiously.
"That's good." Terao said without surprise. "I have other business to call you now. Now, I have a rare visitor here."
"A rare visitor?"
"Recently our dean was on TV, and this former team member came after watching TV."
"Oh."
Terao felt that Dongju didn't seem too surprised, he didn't know that Yabuhata had told Dongju about it.
"I call him the original team member because he was a young player in the same period as me. After the armistice, he became a bandit in Manchuria. On the retreating train, he got off the train halfway and defected to the Eighth Route Army (Communist Party)."
"His experience is really extraordinary!" Dongju echoed, not interested in it.No matter how tortuous and complicated the experience was, he didn't want to ask if it had nothing to do with the detection.
"Actually, on the night of December 22, Showa 19th, this former youth team member happened to be at Mr. Okuyama's house, that is, the night my sister suffered misfortune."
"What did you say?!" Dongju was so excited that he almost jumped up from his chair.
"He seems to know a lot about his sister, but he won't tell. He's still with me now. Can you come right away?"
"Come here, come here, come right now." Dong Jufei rushed out of the room as if he could not wait for the clue that was delivered to the door.
The former "731" team member introduced by Terao is called Morinaga Kiyoto, who currently lives in Oita City and runs a grocery store.This time, in order to transform my store into a supermarket, I visited and studied in the suburbs of the capital.After seeing Yabushita on TV, he stopped by to visit Yabushita, and met Terao, a fellow student here by chance.
From this person's appearance, he does not look like a person with complicated experiences, but his appearance and demeanor are like a village master.On his short and slightly plump body, he was wearing the kind of narrow-necked suit that no one wears nowadays, and a thin tie.There are a pair of ugly eyes on the round face with a gray beard, and the nose is a bit red.The back of the bald head's head looked like someone had hit it with a hammer, and there was a circular pit with a diameter of three centimeters.
When Dong Ju greeted him for the first time, the other party's expression was indifferent and stagnant.His emotional ups and downs have been weathered by the long years and flattened by the rollers of fate. They can no longer stir up waves, and have withered and withered long ago.Dongju originally thought that he still had great ambitions to develop the company and invest in new plans. It seems that this kind of thinking is the result of Terao's preconceptions.Morinaga's expression is like a vast wilderness where the shadows of clouds are fluttering and the dry grass is rustling by the wind, which makes people unable to figure it out.
"On the night of December 22, Showa 19th, were you in Mr. Okuyama's official residence?" Dongju immediately asked a substantive question.Terao has already given him a brief introduction to the purpose of Dongju's investigation and the relationship between Okuyama and Harumi Terao.
"Yes." Morinaga nodded slowly.
"That night, Terao-kun's sister died. I suspect she was killed. Have you noticed anything unusual?"
"I found it." Morinaga said straightforwardly.
"Can you tell me?" Dongju suppressed his excitement and asked Morinaga.Maybe from Morinaga's words, we can catch Chiro's criminal evidence.
"Yes, because I also think that the murderer of Okuyama must be caught. This time I can visit Yabushita and meet Terao-kun, there must be some reason." Morinaga said calmly.
On the night of December 22, Showa nineteenth year, Okuyama invited me to the official residence for dinner.Okuyama likes me very much and often calls me home for dinner.
At nine o'clock in the evening, it was almost time to turn off the lights. I was just about to go back to the youth team dormitory when someone knocked lightly on the door hastily. Mrs. Okuyama opened the door, and Qian Lingyidian quickly came in.
Okuyama and Qian Ling went into another room to have a secret talk. After a while, Okuyama came out nervously, told me to go back to the dormitory quickly, and ordered me not to tell anything about Qian Ling's visit to the official residence tonight.
I don't know what happened, but I guess there must be something unusual.I obeyed Okuyama's order and never divulged the secret.On the morning of the second day after returning to the dormitory, I heard the news that Kinjiro Okuyama found the body of Harumi Terao last night.I immediately realized that there must be ghosts among the three of Okuyama, Chunmei, and Qianyu.
However, Okuyama likes me very much, and I have promised in person that I will not disclose the secret, so I have kept the situation and doubts I have seen in my heart.
"After returning to China, you still didn't say, is this also to fulfill the promise you made to Okuyama?" Dongju interjected.
"I also have the same meaning. I returned to China in the first ten days of April in the 23rd year of the Showa era, and I finally returned to the country where I was born and raised! I was so happy that I forgot to check this suspicious point again. And I didn't know that Okuyama and Chien The whereabouts of Yu can't grasp the evidence that Qian Ling killed Terao Harumi."
As Morinaga said.He just went to Okuyama's house on the night Harumi Terao died.Suspecting that Qian Ling had killed someone was just his speculation.However, the information provided by Morinaga connects Chirao with Terao Harumi for the first time.There is no doubt about Qian Ling's suspicion of killing Terao Harumi (including Okuyama).
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