Chapter 17 Chapter 15 Interrogation

It was two o'clock in the afternoon when Nabeya had a date with the head of the reconnaissance section at the Adam Hotel.There is still more than an hour. The Adam Hotel is very close to the House of Representatives and can be walked on foot.Nabeya came to the cafeteria on the second basement floor of the hall.It was lunch time, and the secretaries and foreign guests were crowded there to eat lunch.Although there are more than 50 kinds of meals in Japanese, Western, and Chinese styles in the recipes, the cooking is not good, and the price is very cheap.The secretaries commonly called sumo wrestlers "easy box lunch" 700 yuan, eel rice 900 yuan, deep-fried shrimp called tempura 800 yuan, and high-quality sushi 770 yuan.The pot house asked for a beef hot pot for 1,500 yuan.He clearly knew that the food here was not good, but he still wanted to have lunch in order to get some information from the secretary who was having dinner.

The canteen can hold about fifty people.At the dining table, waitresses are eating fried noodles, rice balls, Chinese noodle soup, and chicken fried rice.These meals can be eaten for only three hundred to five hundred yuan.They chatted about lunch. "Our husband is willing to pay all the lunch money for everyone!" "That's great! Our gentleman won't even pay a penny. He says he's not obliged to pay for lunch." "Oh, how petty!" "Extremely stingy!" "That's the fault of the first secretary. He should suggest it to the husband!"

"It's useless to ask for advice. Besides, the first secretary is a person who only depends on the face of the husband, soft-boned!" Nabeya eats greasy beef hot pot while drinking tea.He saw a small man eating Chinese noodle soup among the crowd three rows of tables away. It was Hachiro Nishida. Nabeya came to the hall after eating beef hot pot. "Mr. Nabeya!" Hachiro Nishida greeted Nabeya with a smile on his face. "what!" Nabeya had no choice but to raise a hand slightly in response.Nishida quickly approached Nabeya. "Mr. Nabeya, I have something to tell you."

Speaking in a greasy but intimate tone, this is the characteristic of this "information broker". "What's up?" "It's about Mr. Kawamura." Hachiro Nishida lowered his voice. "What about Kawamura? What's wrong with Kawamura?" Nabeya thought, maybe he made up a nonsense, and then asked for money.But he thought, Nishida has always had an opinion on Kawamura, so he should find out what it is.Nishida looked around in all directions. "It's inconvenient to talk here. Could Mr. Nabeya come out for a walk with me?" Nishida wanted to find a quiet place.

"I'm going to Adam's Hotel, so let's go together and listen to you on the way." "It's also convenient for me to do so." They walked out of the hall side by side.The thin Nishida leaned against the big Nabeya, like a child.They walked through a parking lot filled with black cars.Go north along the narrow road next to the guild hall, you will see the downhill road of Sannozaka, and the back door of the guild hall is on the left.Nishida pulled Nabeya to the back door. "It's nothing else, Mr. Nabeya." Nishida leaned back and said. "Mr. Kawamura is going to buy a high-end apartment in Minami Azabu this time!"

"What! Kawamura bought a high-end apartment in Minami Azabu?" Unexpectedly, Nabeya asked in astonishment. "Ah, Mr. Nabeya didn't hear the wind at all!" "No, I don't know." "really do not know" "I really don't know, where did you hear that?" "I heard it. Hehe! Mr. Kawamura didn't tell you?" "Kawamura never mentioned it." "Of course Mr. Kawamura's first and second secretary two idiots won't know, but you are Mr. Kawamura's confidant, so I think you know." "Nishida-kun, is this news true?"

"It's on the south side of Qichuan Park in Minami Azabu 3-chome. There are many embassies nearby. It's a quiet high-end residential area. Mr. Kawamura bought a suite on the fourth floor of that high-end apartment, and he paid the highest price." "what!" Nishida understands it so concretely that it doesn't seem like a lie.But because this is what the "information dealer" said, Nabeya still didn't dare to believe it rashly.And he concluded that Kawamura would not have so much money. "Did you mistake someone?" "You underestimate me, Nishida!"

Nishida sneered a few times from his nasal cavity. "That's not what I meant..." Nabeya said with some trepidation. "Mr. Nabeya, I won't deceive you with fake news." "..." "I heard that Mr. Kawamura negotiated with the apartment in person, and the deposit has already been paid. Mr. Kawamura said that the family members will be moved to the apartment." "Oh!" "Are you pretending not to know?" "What are you pretending to be! I've never heard of it." "Who knows you, well, forget it! Kawamura's wife must move to Tokyo. Because the eldest daughter will enter high school next year, I want to send her to the Sacred Heart Girls' High School, and the second daughter who is a few years younger will also let her enter Tokyo Women's School. Anyway, I want to send both daughters to prestigious schools."

Hearing this, Nabeya believed what the intelligence dealer said.Masaaki Kawamura's wife moved to Tokyo, which was her wish for many years, and Nabeya knew about it.Mrs. Kawamura wants to send her daughter to a prestigious school in Tokyo. I have heard several times about this from Kawamura.But where did Kawamura get nearly 100 million yuan?Who is willing to give so much "political donation" to Kawamura? Seeing Nabeya's bewildered expression, Xiyu finally believed that he really didn't know anything. "Nishida-kun, you know everything about this matter, do you have any thoughts?"

Nabeya muttered in his heart: What is the true intention of this information dealer? "I'm thinking of the Reform Club." "Renovation Club?" "Mr. Kawamura is a young star of the Reform Club, right?" "That's it." "It is said that Mr. Kawamura's support meeting was held not long ago. Mr. Itakura Taisuke, the cadres of the Itakura faction, and the leader of the innovation club, Kamiyamajo Toyoto, all attended the meeting. May I ask Mr. Nabeya, the funds of the innovation club are so strong Can Mr. Kawamura live in a high-end apartment worth tens of millions of dollars?"

"The Innovation Club obviously doesn't have that kind of economic power." Nabeya said with a smile.Nishida had a reason for asking this.The Innovation Club boasts of being a youth innovation force, a youth policy group, and so on.Relying on this innovative signboard, it occupies a pivotal position among the various factions in the party.There is talk in the political circles that it has received a lot of money from various factions. "Yes, I see it that way too." Unexpectedly, Nishida nodded readily in agreement, but tilted his head to express his bewilderment. "Caoxin Club has no money. Then, is there some kind of karma?" "Friendship?" "Look, don't women like Mr. Kawamura very much? Mr. Kawamura also thinks he is the most beautiful man in politics. His relationship with some women is well known. Did Mr. buy a high-end apartment with donations from women's groups?" Nishida clings to Guoya relentlessly. "No, no! Kawamura is indeed loved by the women's community. But he has no way to make a lot of money. If Kawamura has a house in Tokyo, it will be funded by his wife's family. His wife's family is a well-known and time-honored brewery." Nabeya Justifying. "Oh, the brewery in Kyushu?" Nishida thought for a while, then there was a cunning and suspicious look in his eyes. "I don't know about buying a high-end apartment in Tokyo because my wife's natal family paid for it. But Kawamura will tell me soon." Guowu pretended to be a snake, and took out a 10,000 yuan bill to Xitian, saying that this was a little advertising fee for him. "Thank you so much!" Xiyu smiled happily: "Since it is said that it is an advertising fee, I accept it gratefully." Then he took the 10,000 yuan bill. "Then I'll go back to the guild hall from behind here, so I won't bother you." Xi Tian nodded to bid farewell to his thin figure, and quickly disappeared through the back door. As Nabeya walked Sannozaka, he thought: Nishida might have smelled something about Kawamura.What he said about the "renovation club" was just an introduction, and what he really wanted to spy on was about Kawamura and the woman.He may have heard about Oribe Satoko.There are many members of Congress among the guests of the Olibe Club, and one of them may have leaked something to the intelligence dealer Nishida. A thought suddenly appeared in Nabeya's mind. ——By the way, Kawamura may have cheated the money to buy a high-end apartment from Yoshie Iwata of "Xianghuazhuang"!I have warned Kawamura many times, "Don't go to Yoshie Iwata".The bastard!Fool!Nabeya cursed incessantly as he climbed up the Adam's ramp. Oribe Satoko, who is indifferent to Kawamura, will not give Kawamura a huge sum of nearly 100 million yuan.If it was the "donation" provided by Yoshie Iwata, who fell in love with Kawamura, then what Nishida said makes sense.However, as long as Liange does such a thing two or three times, "Xianghuazhuang" will collapse... In the end, what tricks did Kawamura use against Liange Iwata to make her spend a huge sum of 100 million yuan?Nabeya thought as he walked.Kawamura may ask her for help: "Political activities need money, please help me." Maybe Liang Jiang, with Kawamura's help, would rather "Xianghuazhuang" go bankrupt for the man he loves!Ten years ago, Liang Jiang's husband died, and she opened a hotel.The half-mature Liangjiang loves him with all his heart, and runs around for him loyally.Once Liang Jiang knew that Kawamura had used her "political funds" to buy a high-end residence in Minami Azabu and moved his wife from his hometown to Tokyo, her anger can be imagined.What is Kawamura going to do with it?It will cause an uproar. "Hmph! I didn't discuss it with me beforehand. I don't care if you ask me to wipe my ass in the future!" It was ten minutes to two.Nabeya pushed the revolving door of Adam Hotel and walked into the lobby.Nabeya thought that the Chief of Investigation Section of the Akasaka Police Station hadn't arrived yet, and when he was about to put his bulky fart on the sofa, two men standing in front of the canteen came over. "Excuse me, is this Mr. Nabeya?" A man in his forties, neither fat nor thin, of medium build, wearing a gray suit, looks like a company employee.The man next to him in a black suit was thirty-four or five years old, and seemed to be his subordinate. "I'm Nabeya." He stood up. "I am the Yamamoto Police Department of the Akasaka Police Station who called you." He politely handed over his business card, which said Yoichiro Yamamoto, Chief Investigation Section.Nabeya also took out his business card, and Director Yamamoto took it respectfully.Chief Detective Yamamoto walked in front and led them into the tea room, where they found a quiet seat with a view of the garden but far from the windows and no guests around. "Thank you very much for coming here!" The section chief bowed thirty-five degrees to Nabeya. "No, where!" Nabeya answered calmly with the majestic posture of a congressman's secretary. "He's Section Chief Sakai." The Head of Section introduced his companions.The chief also saluted him. "My name is Sakai Yoshihei." The detective chief ordered three coffees.He chatted with Guowu in an amiable manner for two or three minutes. "I thought you were busy, so just a quick question. Has Mr. Nabeya ever bought a handbag at the department store in Nihombashi?" "handbag!--" Nabeya always thought that what the other party wanted to know was about Maszo Arikawa.Hearing the handbag, he was stunned for a moment.The image of a large Osterridge bag appeared before his eyes. "Oh!" Nabeya pretended to be confused. It is a common practice of politicians to pretend to be confused about the difficulties they suddenly face, and Nabeya, who is the secretary of a congressman, has also learned this skill. "Don't you remember?" The head of the investigation section asked again with a smile on his hound-like eyes. "I really...can't remember." Nabeya denied again. Section Chief Yamamoto gestured to the section chief next to him with his eyes.Section Chief Sakai Yoshihei opened the briefcase, took out a photo from it and handed it to the section chief. "It's a handbag like this." The section chief put the photo in front of Nabeya. Nabeya was taken aback.The Osterridge handbag I bought was photographed as beautifully as a sample.It was not the handbag itself that shocked Nabeya, but this photo of the police station. The police, the criminals, the evidence photos—in Nabeya's mind, they turned like a wheel.Didn't mention my name when I bought the handbag!Strange, how do you know that the buyer is yourself?How did the police find out? ... Nabeya is feeling bored.A sudden flash in my mind - "It's that guy, made by Masahiro Arikawa." That daredevil Arikawa!I took out the "Chairman" business card and boasted in the department store, and I was also unlucky. "Do you have any memory of the handbag in this photo?" The chief of the investigation department smiled, his eyes continued to stare at Nabeya's face. "Yes, I remembered." Nabeya said helplessly, "I bought it for 700,000 yuan at the T department store in Nihombashi two weeks ago." Nabeya estimated that the police already knew the price, so he simply confessed. "It was around 3:30 in the morning of May 7th, right?" said the head of the investigation section. "Probably." "The date and time on the copy of the department store's invoice are like this. The same is true of Mr. Arikawa's copy of the invoice." The section chief said Arikawa's name for the first time. "Mr. Nabeya and Mr. Arikawa are familiar, right?" "It's the same as I said in the phone call this morning. I don't know each other very well. It's just that we are all secretaries, so we just need to know each other." "Mr. Section Chief, why did the police department investigate the handbag I bought?" Nabeya lit a cigarette, rolled his eyelids and looked at the section chief's face, his eyes showed a rebellious expression with a background of a congressman. "Knowing that this bag was bought by Mr. Nabeya, it is of great help to us. We would like to know about the situation of this handbag after we bought it through you." The head of the section didn't seem to feel the "majesty" of the congressman's secretary at all, and said without any reaction. "Who did Mr. Nabeya give this handbag to? Of course such handbags are given to women..." "I bought the bag at the department store, but is it necessary to explain where it went?" "if possible……" "I refuse to answer! To whom it is my freedom, my personal secret." The chief of the investigation section and the chief of the section picked up the coffee cups and stirred them with teaspoons with their eyes down. The other party's silence made Nabeya uneasy.Anyway, I bought a bag at a department store and gave it to Masaaki Kawamura, who gave it to Satoko Oribe.What the hell happened to it? If you want to know it, you have to explain how Kawamura gave it to Oribe Satoko.Nabeya is caught between a rock and a hard place. The section chief took a sip of the stirred coffee and put the cup on the stand. "You're right!" he said with a deep nod. "You said it was a personal secret, we have nothing to say." "..." "Let's just talk about why we traced the buyer of this handbag. Because this handbag was robbed." "what!?" Nabeya was petrified like a stone hit on the head. "The one who turned himself in was a young man. The prisoner confessed: At 6 o'clock in the morning on May 11, on Nanqingshan Road, a woman who was crossing the road along the sidewalk was knocked unconscious by a high-speed bicycle. The handbag was stolen." "..." "To this day, no one has come to report the crime!" "Mr. Nabeya spent 700,000 yuan to buy a high-end handbag in a department store and was robbed, but no one came to report the crime. This is an unbelievable strange thing." The head of the investigation section observed Nabeya's expression and said. "Yes!" Nabeya thought, "Is the woman who was attacked Oribe Satoko? In the early morning, she would not walk alone in Minami Aoyama! Could it be that Satoko gave the handbag that Kawamura gave her to another woman?" waves.I heard that she lives in Shibuya. "Do you recognize that woman's face?" Nabeya asked the section chief. "According to the young man who turned himself in, he didn't see clearly." The section chief Sakai Yoshihei next to him took over and said. "The woman covered her face with a turban. But, he said, she was a woman of about forty, neither fat nor thin, of medium build." It's hard to judge based on these characteristics alone, it looks like Zuo Dengzi and Bozi. "It is true that I bought a handbag in a department store! As for its use, it is my personal secret." Nabeya made a statement again. "Why did the police intervene when no one reported the case? Although it is a high-end product and a new bag, but everyone's situation is different, and some people will not report the case. At most, it is just a matter of a handbag, you guys What are you doing investigating this!" The Kyushu dialect in Nabeya's words became more and more concentrated. The head of the section and the head of the section looked at each other, said "Excuse me!" and left the chair, walked to a corner to discuss something in a low voice.Nabeya couldn't guess their intentions for a while.After about two minutes, the two returned to Nabeya. "I'm sorry." "Then let me explain the actual situation to you. However, this is a secret under investigation. Only tell Mr. Nabeya, please don't tell others." "Since it's a secret, I won't tell anyone about it." "Please promise!... The actual situation is that there are 20 million yuan in cash in that handbag." "Oh!?" Nabeya called out unknowingly, his face turned pale all of a sudden, and he asked in a trembling voice: "Is that true?" "It is said that there are twenty bundles of one million yuan bills in this bag." The section chief gestured with its size. "The young man had already spent 2.5 million yuan of it before he turned himself in." Section Chief Sakai added. "Did the woman who was hit by the bicycle have twenty million dollars in her handbag?" "Yes, that's the only way to judge." "Where did the woman get the money?" There is no doubt that the "woman" is Oribe Satoko.To be able to hold a huge sum of 20 million yuan in his hand, there would be no one else but her, not someone like Bo Zi. "I don't know. I haven't even figured out the identity of this woman. So..." "..." "Mr. Nabeya, you bought this handbag at the department store in Nihonbashi and gave it to someone. The clerk at the department store said that he wrote the word 'coarse product' on the wrapping paper for you. " "Yes, not bad." "We would be very grateful if you would tell us where you sent it." "Unfortunately, I can't tell you. As I said just now, this is my personal secret. Especially the recipient of the gift is a woman. It is very likely that she gave the handbag to someone else. Please forgive me for this matter." "Yes! Then, why didn't she report the crime? What do you think is the reason?" "have no idea!" "That's what we want to know as the police. We don't want to know the name of the victim right away, but can Mr. Nabeya ask the person who received the gift and tell us the result?" "Is this an exercise of police power?" "It is definitely not exercising power, it is a reference for solving crimes." "You said, there are 20 million yuan in the handbag. Is the source of the 20 million yuan suspicious?" "It's strange that after being robbed of a huge sum of money, he didn't report the crime for a long time." "Not reporting the crime to the police because there is a ghost in the money that needs to be investigated. Is that what you mean?" "yes." "The robbery of the 20 million yuan handbag has not been disclosed in the newspapers. Is that the police's intention to keep it secret?" Nabeya asked the reconnaissance section chief and section chief. "Is such that." The principal admitted. "No one reported the case. I think it is suspicious and needs to be investigated. If it is disclosed in the newspaper, it will cause obstacles to the investigation. Does the police think so?" "Simply put, that's what you said." "I have nothing to do with the 20 million yuan. I have said this repeatedly. But what do the police think about the nature of the 20 million yuan?" "There is no conclusion yet. Our preliminary speculation is that the 20 million yuan is money that we don't want others to know." "Besides these, what other doubts do the police have?" "In the early morning, a woman walking alone with a huge sum of money is also very suspicious." "Yes, that's it." Nabeya agreed. Nabeya doubted this at first.First of all, Oribe Satoko received 20 million yuan from a certain person's house in the early morning, and secondly, he covered his face with a turban.All this shows that it is a covert operation.Also, walking alone on Nanqingshan Road, which is far away from her home and Qingyetai, is also a suspicious point. "Mr. Nabeya, there is another point. Although it is not clear in the photo, there are scars here and here on the Osterridge handbag." The section chief pointed to the photo and said. "Scars?" "Yes, the scratches caused by touching something, scratched in the horizontal direction. Did Mr. Nabeya have such scratches when he bought it?" "of course not." "The clerk at the department store also testified in this way. The prisoner who surrendered said that there was white powder sticking to the scar on the handbag." "White powder?" "He said it looked as if the sand had been crushed into powder. When it was brought to the police station, the prisoner had already wiped it." "This is also suspicious." The head of the investigation section looked into Nabeya's eyes.