Chapter 8 Yurakucho Station

The three of them got off at Yurakucho Station.The Yamanote Line train that Shiho and others were taking was stuck at Yoyogi Station, and it took about 20 minutes for the train to resume operation. As soon as I walked out of the central exit, the station square surrounded by the Tokyo Traffic Kaikan and Yurakucho Itocia was crowded with people.Because it is close to Ginza, women's clothes and dresses on the road are much more fashionable than other stations, and it feels like a street for mature adults.Shiho thought to herself, when she grows up, she will also become a mature woman suitable for walking in such a bustling street.

Shiho and the boss of Kirimura followed behind Mickey and Mickey, and walked towards the Wako Building on Harumi Avenue.After passing Ginza Mitsukoshi and walking a short distance, the store is in the alley, and the signboard says "Antique Specialty Sfera". "Sfera is Greek for gem." While showing off his knowledge, Mickey and Mickey pushed open the door of the store, and a pleasant doorbell rang immediately.The small store is filled with furniture that looks like antiques, with a deep luster reminiscent of a long history: classically shaped lamps reveal soft lights, creating an atmosphere like an old European library.

"welcome." The elegant white-haired middle-aged man who fits the atmosphere of the store seems to be the boss.Shisui watched a movie "The Prodigal Son" with her father before. The boss is like the white-haired actor in this movie, showing a charming and gentlemanly demeanor appropriately. "I bought this brooch here." Mickey Mickey asked the boss to see the brooch on his collar. "Thank you. Yes, I still remember that you came with Ms. Inumaru, who won the Sugawara Award. I think she didn't win the award when she came to visit the shop." Shisui and Boss Wucun glanced at each other, it seems that it is true that Mickey Mickey had been in a relationship with a well-known writer.Well, Mickey Mickey is a handsome man, and it's only natural to be a woman, but this one is really surprising.The boss of Wucun Village whispered in her ear:

"What a great couple." "I bought this from Marseille, France." The boss looked at the brooch and smiled happily: "Do you still have this brooch?" This time it was Shiho who asked the question.She looked around the store and didn't see the same brooch. "I only bought four at the beginning, and they were sold out in no time. Miss, do you want it too?" Miss! ? "Yes, I want to give it to my father as a birthday present." This is Ginza, so you have to behave gracefully, not to mention I'm a young lady. "This is the first time a small shop meets a customer who carries a schoolbag."

The boss put his hand on his chest and saluted very politely.Shiho felt like a princess. Mickey and Mickey next to him and Boss Kirimura suppressed their smiles, seeming to be contemptuous of others, but Shiho didn't want to lose her composure in Ginza, so she decided to ignore their existence. "I'm so sorry, I hope there are other gifts that can be replaced." "By the way, what kind of customers bought the other three?" One of the four was of course Mickey Mickey, and she wanted to ask the other three. "Two are ladies, and they said they were going to give to her husband. The other is a male customer, who fell in love with this brooch at first sight and bought it without thinking."

"Who is that male customer?" "I don't know the name, but he said he was a doctor." The boss suddenly seemed to think of something, snuffed his nose, and continued to sniff. "This scent... I remembered that the customer also wears the same perfume. It smells very special, so I was very impressed." "Really?" Shiho asked further.The boss seemed a little surprised and nodded affirmatively. "It's the scent of anapaula." The boss of Kiri Village used to play a prank on the Yamanote Line train and sprayed perfume on Mickey Mickey, and now the fragrance permeates the whole store.

"I told the gentleman that this perfume smells very special. He told me that this perfume can remove the smell of disinfectant, and doctors love it. So, are you a doctor too?" The boss stretched out his hand towards Mickey and asked Mickey. "No, I'm not that good, I'm just a little writer." In this way, if you can call yourself a writer, everyone is a writer, and it’s fine for the vagrants to call themselves writers. "Did that doctor only buy brooches?" Shiho raised her head and asked the boss. "After your question, I remembered that he also bought a ballpoint pen, saying that he was going to give it to his son?"

"He has a son?" "Yeah, I heard that your age is about the same as yours, miss. It seems that his grades in the cram school are not very good, which makes him very troubled." On the surface, the boss seems to have an elegant temperament, but in fact he seems to talk a lot and his tongue is not tight, but this is just right for Shiho. "Do you want to be admitted to a school that is difficult to get into?" "That's right, it's the famous family known as Jingming Middle School. I think his son is also working hard." "Jingming Middle School!" The boss of Wucun narrowed his eyes.

"Boss, may I ask that doctor..." The boss of Wucun suddenly listed a few characteristics, but the boss said with a surprised face: "Yes. Do you know each other?" The boss of Wucun fell into deep thought, and did not answer: Why would he know the characteristics of that doctor? "I'll contact you when the brooches are in stock." The boss handed Shisui a note. "Okay, thank you. Sorry for your trouble." Shiho wrote her address and phone number on a note and handed it to the boss.The three of them thanked each other and left. "Hey, Shiho, it's time to tell me what kind of medicine you sell in your gourd. Why did you go to that store?"

Kirimura Boss asked Shiho, who was feasting on a colorful fruit sundae.After leaving the antique shop, the three walked into a nearby cafe.Instead of going to a normal chain store, I chose this high-priced restaurant in Ginza to treat Shiho to a sundae. The purpose is to find out the truth. "Let me watch the video just now." Shisui chewed on an apple while pointing at the bag of the boss of Wucun Village.He put the laptop on the table, turned on the screen, and found the video of Kintaro being run over by a train on the Yamanote Line. "See? The focus is on the person who wants to help Kintaro."

The man was wearing a dark brown coat. Since he was wearing a hat and was often photographed from behind, his appearance could not be seen clearly.On the platform, he reached out his hand to Kintaro who fell down the track, and told him to catch him.Kintaro held his hand at first, but then shook it away forcefully.At the same time, the train slid into the platform.If Kintaro hadn't shaken off his hand, he should have been saved at the critical moment. "Sure enough, it looks like Kintaro let go of his hand." Mickey Mickey's words still hint at Kintaro's suicide.Indeed, if you only look at Kintaro, you might think so. "I told you to focus on the man in the hat!" Shiho played it again.The two big men stared at the screen intently, while Shisui ate up a sundae in twos and twos, but they still didn't seem to find the problem.How stupid are these two people? "Hey, can I order another sundae?" The boss of Wucun, who was staring at the screen intently, responded with an "um", and didn't listen to Shisui's question at all.She was not polite at all, and immediately asked the waitress to add some.Two thousand and two hundred yuan per guest, more expensive than Shisui's allowance for a month.When the second sundae served was finished, the boss of Wucun finally snapped his fingers. "So that's what happened! I was so careless that I didn't notice the brooch on the collar." "That's right." Shiho whistled a march. "What do you mean?" Mickey Mickey opened his eyes wide.This person is still the same, so dull that it is impossible to imagine that he is a reasoning writer. "Look here." At the beginning of the film, the man in the hat is standing next to the photographer Cangnei Meng, and the chest on the dark brown coat flashes a golden light for a moment.Shiho pressed the pause button here. "Ah! My brooch!" It was a golden brooch with a small clock on the rod end.Zooming in on the still frame, it can be seen that it is fastened to the collar with a safety pin. "Let me fast-forward a little bit." Shiho pressed the fast-forward button, and the image moved quickly, and it didn't take long to come to the scene where the man stretched out his hand. "Look carefully at his collar." Mickey Mickey stared at the picture.Because it was shot from the oblique rear and from the gap between the crowd, the angle was very strange. There is only a flash of the picture of the man's collar. "Strange? The brooch is missing..." That's what Shiho discovered.The brooch on the collar disappeared at some point. "But I don't understand. Why does this incident become evidence to deny Kintaro's suicide?" Mickey Mickey wondered. "You really are always so dull." Shisui and Boss Wucun looked at each other and then smiled, as if he had also discovered something.Not only that, but his face was full of confidence, presumably he not only understood, but also solved other mysteries, but Shiho didn't know.Who is that hat guy?Obviously he killed Kintaro.

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