Chapter 4 Chapter Four

After that, Mitarai took Enako and searched the gutters around the bar and the trash cans behind the house. Most of the garbage bins at that time were painted black and made of wood. Pull up the sliding plate on the front, and the garbage piled inside would be overturned.There is a lid on the top of the bin, and recently, in new housing estates, concrete bins with wooden lids have begun to appear, but here at Suzuki's house they are still made of wood. Mitarai opened the lid and looked inside vigorously.At this time, the rain had stopped, and the two put away their umbrellas. "Mitarai, what are you doing?" Eriko asked him.

"Looking for Suzuran." Mitarai answered casually. "Why?" Jiang Lizi asked curiously. "I can't explain it now, but don't you think it's strange? Your mommy said that the lily of the valley was still there when she went out, but now it's gone, and there are a lot of broken cups." "What the hell is Mommy?" "It's your mother." Mitarai answered with widened eyes and swung her fists. "Mitarai, let me ask you, will daddy come back?" Jiang Lizi asked her most concerned thing. "I don't know, you should ask your mother." Mitarai replied shaking her head, "If she saw her dead father in the police station, it's a pity that he won't come back."

After Mitaraiji said this, Eriko's eyes were filled with tears, and she burst into tears. "I don't want it, I don't want it, you have to think of a way." "I have no choice." Mitarai said seriously. "You can't even do Mitarai?" "I'm still a child, there are too many things I can't do." Mitarai answered, but in the end, Mitarai didn't find Suzuran. "But, even if there is no father and mother, children can still grow up, and, on the contrary, can become very powerful adults." "Really?" Eriko looked at Mitarai curiously.

"Well, I am. Neither father nor mother is needed, just one person is fine." "Mitarai, don't you have a mother?" "That's not my mother, it's my aunt." "Oh okay." At this time, they heard the ringing of bells. "Ah, it's a garbage truck! . . . oh, no! . . . " Suddenly thinking of something, Mitarai Kei cried out in panic and ran towards the main road. Recycling trucks are parked in front of the bar, and the police are handing cardboard boxes marked "Torys Whiskey" to sanitation workers.When the two were handing over, there was a crackling sound of broken glass colliding with each other in the box.

"No! Can't give it to him!... Wait a minute!" Mitarai kept yelling, trying to stop them, but the back of the truck had been opened, and the whiskey carton was placed on the loading platform.The sanitation worker closed the trunk lid, returned to the driver's seat, and the truck drove out.At that time, garbage collection trucks were just on the loading platform with a few big covers. When they were dispatched, the sanitation workers rang their hand-held bells to notify the residents on the street. "No! Wait a minute!..." Mitarai ran with all her strength and chased after the truck, but the truck was still getting smaller and smaller.

Mitarai continued to chase without giving up, and Jiang Lizi followed, but soon couldn't keep up and stopped. "Xiaojie, I can't do it anymore!..." "Hold this!" Mitarai threw her umbrella to her and continued running. "Hey, Xiaojie, where are you going in such a hurry?" At this moment, someone called his name, and Jie Xunsheng saw that Hengshan, who was pulling foreign films, was riding a bicycle from the front left. "Uncle, it's just in time!...Come here and give me a ride with a bicycle!" Yokoyama rode behind Mitarai, turned around on the road, and came to Mitarai's side.

Mitarai jumped onto the back seat of his bicycle with a whimper, and shouted, "Uncle, catch up with the truck in front!..." "Eh? Why...why?...Okay, let's go!..." Saying that, Hengshan turned on his horsepower and stepped on the pedal.The truck was already far away and was about to disappear from view. "It won't work, it's already so far away." "It's okay, it's a garbage truck, it will stop soon!..." Mitarai shouted excitedly. Encouraged by Mitarai, Yokoyama pedaled his bicycle very fast.The figure of the truck gradually grew larger.Then, sure enough, it stopped.

"Stop!..." Mitarai clapped her hands happily, urging Yokoyama, "Uncle, hurry up!..." "Okay!...Come on!..." Yokoyama pedaled desperately, and the bicycle approached the truck. The sanitation workers got out of the car leisurely, rang the bell in their hands, and went door-to-door to collect garbage.At the sound of the bell, the housewives came out to the road and dumped their garbage directly on the bed of the truck.The scene grew bigger and bigger in the field of vision. "But Xiaojie, what are you going to do after you catch up?" Hengshan asked curiously.

Mitarai didn't answer, and when he approached the truck, he quickly jumped out of the back seat.Because he often does this kind of action, he is very proficient. Ringing the bell, the figure of the sanitation worker entered the back of the resident's house.Mitarai climbed onto the loading platform of the truck that had stopped, climbed up, opened the lid, and was about to go in when a sanitation worker spotted him and rushed over in a hurry. "Hey! What are you doing, brat?!" As the sanitation worker said, he strangled Mitarai's arm from behind, then picked him up with one hand, and carried him to a considerable distance behind the truck before throwing him on the ground with a plop.

Mitarai fell down, but got up immediately, and rushed towards the sanitation worker who was about to leave. "No, give me back that whiskey carton just now! It's an important evidence!" "Hey, what are you talking about. Let go! ... Don't interfere with your work!" While tugging, another sanitation worker put the garbage on the loading platform, closed the lid again, and returned to the driver's seat.Seeing this situation, the sanitation worker here also pushed Mitarai away, let him fall to the ground, and quickly returned to the car by himself. The car started.Mitarai chased after him angrily, grabbed the cover of the truck loading platform, and finally stabilized his body after a lot of effort.Then I tried to open the lid, but it was not easy.

"Dangerous, Xiaojie!...be careful!" Hengshan shouted. When he finally climbed up, the truck braked suddenly, and Mitarai fell face-on from the cover. A sanitation worker jumped out of the car from the passenger seat and asked angrily, "Why are you such an annoying brat! You bastard, this is how you should deal with it!..." He picked up Mitarashi and placed it in the bushes of a nearby house.The small Mitarai was completely buried in the bushes, unable to struggle for a while.Taking advantage of this opportunity, the truck drove away. "Hi, are you okay?" Hengshan stopped the bicycle, put the bracket on, and approached the bushes, and when he was about to help him, Mitarashi, who was covered in injuries, had already struggled to get out from under the bushes, and shouted at Hengshan: " Chase!" He stepped onto the back seat first, and kept shouting, "Uncle, hurry up!" "I said Xiaojie, let's forget about it." Hengshan said. "No, never give up!..." Mitarai shouted firmly. There was no way, Hengshan rushed out with Jie again. "Hurry up! Get to it and be side by side with them!..." Mitaraiji ordered. Yokoyama looked behind, Mamma Mia, Mitarai stood up in the back seat. "You, what are you doing?!...Dangerous!" "It's okay, you're so slow anyway!" "Mitarai, you really are a brat who refuses to admit defeat." Hengshan was filled with emotion. The moment she was side by side with the truck, Mitarai jumped up!Barely grasping the lid of the cargo bed and the handle behind the driver's seat, he moved backward from the lid and opened the lid.He looked inside for a while, but the car shook so much he fell headlong into the garbage. "Ah! It's all right?!..." Hengshan shouted. Mitarai stood up, with fish bones on her shoulders, and black garbage all over her body.Holding the whiskey case tightly in both hands. "Uncle, follow this!" "No! The car is still driving!" Heng Shan shouted. At this time, the truck braked suddenly again. "You brat!" a voice yelled. The furious sanitation worker opened the car door and jumped onto the road. Resisting the inertia of the sudden brake, Mitarai held the whiskey carton and stretched towards Yokoyama. "Okay! I caught it!..." Hengshan swished the bicycle across the back of the truck, and took the box. "Put that on the back seat, run!..." Mitarai cried, jumped out of the truck quickly, and ran away like a rabbit. Yokoyama held down the box on the back seat with his right hand, held the handlebar with his left hand, followed closely behind Mitarai, and slipped away. In the backyard of Yokoyama's house, Mitarai Kai turned over the cardboard box that was finally recovered after a great adventure, with the mouth facing down.There was a loud crash, and a large pile of glass shards fell to the ground. "What is this?" Hengshan asked curiously. Therefore, Mitarai explained what happened before in a simple and concise manner.Hengshan was taken aback. "What, Chieko's husband died?" "Well, the police are investigating now." "Investigation?... In other words, it wasn't a traffic accident?" "It was an accident, the police thought so." "As a result, the men in the neighborhood are ready to move, and the position of the boss is vacant. The boss lady of 'Ling' is very popular." "yes?" "Yes, but Xiaojie, you don't understand this kind of thing, do you?" "I don't understand." Mitarai shook her head. "Over the 'Bing' bar, uncle, I often go too. Because the proprietress, Mrs. Chieko, is a beauty. But then again, Xiaojie, you smell so bad, you smell like garbage." "Yeah." Mitarai nodded. "When I get home, I will be scolded by that horrible aunt, I don't care." Mitarai didn't care to pay attention to Yokoyama anymore, and concentrated on observing the glass shards one by one. "Be careful, you'll cut your hands. What are you doing?" "Checking to see if it's a glass." "So, these are the fragments on the floor of the 'Bing' before? It must be the glass." Hengshan squatted down curiously, "However, this is really intentional to add confusion, the glass is all smashed or something, after all Who would do such a thing?" "I'm just going to check to see if it's all broken glass." Mitarai picked up the shards of broken glass one by one, and put the ones that looked like shards of cups back into the box. "Yes!..." Mitarai exclaimed excitedly, "Thick glass is mixed in. Look, this is not a cup." Hengshan used two fingers to pick up the piece of glass to look at. "Ah, really! Very thick. What is this?" "I don't know yet. Uncle, you can help too." "Well, what are we going to do?" "Look for this thick glass. If it's a piece of ordinary glass, put it back in the box." Then, two people picked out the thick glass shards, and put the rest back into the carton.Except for the thick glass, everything else is ordinary cup shards. Then, Mitaraiji put the selected thick glass together on the floor.Although there are many things missing, gradually, a large, glass cylinder-like thing took shape. The object was about fifteen centimeters in diameter and thirty centimeters in height.It is made of fairly thick transparent glass, and on the outside surface, there are high and low patterns like waves.The pattern is not a ring extending along the circumference, but a vertical longitudinal line. But it has no bottom.It looks like a round Jane, because the bottom part is missing.The edge of the opening on one side is very smooth, which shows that it was made like this from the beginning.The openings on the other side are all gaps, and the caliber is slightly narrower than that on the opposite side. "What is this?" Hengshan asked curiously, "Do you want to tape it up and see?" "No, that's fine, just know what it looks like." "What is this?" "Uncle, what do you think?" "If it is used standing up like this, would it be a vase? Use such thick glass." "But there is no bottom." Mitarai shook her head. "The bottom part is missing. Here, there should be a glass bottom, but it's gone." "Uncle, you often go to the 'Bing' shop, right?" "En." Hengshan nodded. "Is there such a vase out there?" "No, I haven't seen it." "The bottom is missing, which is very strange. How come only the bottom is missing, and there are fragments of other parts. Isn't it strange that there is only the bottom and not even a piece of fragment?" "what do you mean……?" "I think there is no bottom from the beginning. So, this is not a vase." "What would that be?" "What is it, what does it look like?" "I don't know, a lamp?... But I haven't seen a lamp like this in that store either." "If it's a lamp, the glass wouldn't be so thick. And you see, there's something white on it, and it's connected to a line, that is to say, there was some kind of liquid in it, up to the position of this line." .” "Liquid? What is it?" "I don't know. However, this is enough for me to know a lot. This side is the only one that is stained with white things, so this side should be the bottom." Mitarai Kai smiled and danced, "And, because there was liquid , which proves that it originally had a bottom, but it was not a glass bottom. If it were a glass bottom, the fragments would not be missing, at least one piece should be there." "Not a glass bottom? Is there such a thing?" "Uncle, keep this box with you for a while, maybe fingerprints are left on the glass. But those policemen, even if you tell them, they won't act." Then, Mitarai put all the thick glass pieces back into the box. "What are fingerprints?" Hengshan asked curiously. "The pattern on the finger like this is different for everyone." "I see. So what are you going to do next?" "Go home, it's already evening, if you don't go back, you will be scolded. The clothes are also dirty. Let's talk about other things tomorrow." The next afternoon, Suzuki Eriko's home.The funeral took place on the second floor of the "Bell" bar.Jiang Lizi's mother, Chieko, is very beautiful in a black kimono and makeup. There are many people who come to offer incense, most of them are customers in the store. Mitarai stood downstairs, and Eriko poked her head out of the window on the second floor, took a look, walked down, returned the umbrella Mitarai put here yesterday, and then said to Mitarai: "Xiaojie, I saw , Dad is sleeping in a coffin. I touched his face, it's cold, he's dead. So, Dad won't come back to life, and he won't come home again, right?" "Well, this means that he is already dead." Mitarai said with a smile. Jiang Lizi stopped crying. "But kids without a daddy make great adults, right?" "um, yes." "Really? For sure?..." "Sure." Mitarai nodded emphatically. "Mitarai, you said that, I believe it." Jiang Lizi clapped her hands and nodded with a smile, "By the way, Xiaojie, do you know why so many glasses are broken? Also, why Will Dad die?" "Well, I see." Mitarai said. "I knew that Xiaojie must know. Because even if the teacher doesn't know, Mitarai always knows." Jiang Lizi jumped up and down with excitement, and grabbed Mitarai and begged, "Tell me quickly, Why?" "I can't tell yet." "why?" "You have to catch the bad guy first." Mitarai said solemnly, "I'll tell you when I catch it. You wait at home first." Mitarai said goodbye to Eriko, and then ran to the police station in the middle of the ramp with an umbrella.In the police station, yesterday's inspector was drinking tea alone.Seeing Jie, he said, "Oh, so it's you, little brat. We met again. Is there something wrong?" "Uncle policeman, Suzuki Eriko's father, was killed by the villain 'Kach', do you know?" "What?..." The policeman was stunned, "What are you talking about? What are you talking about all of a sudden?" Then, his face slowly changed, and he flew into a rage. "Hey! Stop telling me nonsense! It's from a child's house! . . . " "Right now, Jiang Lizi's family is holding a funeral. Aren't you going to catch the murderer? The murderer will definitely come. I'll tell you who it is." This was so outrageous that the inspector even forgot to be angry, but he opened his mouth wide open.Because, it was the first time for him to hear such words from kindergarten children face to face. The inspector was stunned for a while, and finally came back to his senses. "Say... what stupid things are you talking about! That's an accident!" "Have you been dissected?" "Anatomy? What does anatomy mean?" "It's just opening the abdominal cavity." "Then... of course I know about that kind of thing!..." The inspector kicked his feet and shouted, "You kid, don't make fun of adults!... Hurry up and go home and study for me!..." "If you only know how to say such things, it will be too late. Is it okay to let him escape?" "Who wants to escape?" "The murderer!" "It was an accident! How many times do you have to say it before you understand?!...Suzuki Otozo is obsessed with speed, and sooner or later he will die because of a traffic accident!..." The inspector roared angrily, "Okay, enough trouble! Come to the side Go play! Don't get in the way of my work!" "What about work, isn't it just drinking tea!..." Mitarai said sullenly. "I just took a break just now, but I'm very busy, officer!" As soon as the words fell, Mitarai stamped her foot hard.The inspector was taken aback and took a step back. Mitarai rushed to the road outside the door and shouted loudly, "Damn it!...Why did I only go to kindergarten! If I were an adult, no matter how many murderers I could catch!...I will You can catch many, many big villains!..." Said Mitarai, staring angrily at the incompetent inspector. The inspector sipped tea leisurely, and said with a smile: "Then grow up quickly, kid. Goodbye, Bye bye!..." After speaking, he stood up and went to urinate inside. Mitarai had no choice but to go back to "Ring", stood outside the door and called out Eriko, gave her a folded piece of paper, and said, "Give this to your mother." "what is this?" "It has the murderer's name on it. Tell your mother to be careful with this man." "Can I see it?" "You can wait until mom has read it, you can ask her, and then, don't tell others after reading it." "Well. You didn't tell Mr. Police?" "I said it, but he didn't believe me, because he said that I was just a kid in kindergarten." Some tears welled up in Mitarai's eyes. "Mitarai, what shall we do in the future, mother and I?" Jiang Lizi said anxiously. "I don't know yet. But your mother will definitely find you a new father in the future." "I don't want it!..." Jiang Lizi's hair stood on end, shaking her head and screaming. "That's for later." "So, will we still see Mitarai in the future?" "If you call that person 'Daddy'." "Then I'll call him." Jiang Lizi suddenly laughed. "It will be a long time later, don't worry." Mitarai clapped her hands and said, suddenly became serious, "But, the person whose name is written on this piece of paper, you can't call him father. He is a bad person." "Well, I see." "Right now, that's all I can do." "Mitarai, you have to protect me, and mom." "Why did you tell me?" "Because of Mitarai, your family is rich and you are so smart." "Hmm, that's it. Goodbye then." After saying this, Mitaraiji turned around and hurried home.