Chapter 32 Chapter Six

In the dream, Junping was blocked in a white mist, running.Akiko's call was heard.She is finding herself.And Junping kept calling Akiko's name.Gradually, Jingzi's voice was no longer heard, and at some point, only Junping was left looking for Jingzi.However, no matter how much Junping called, the deep fog remained silent.After running for an unknown amount of time, I finally saw Akiko standing in front of me. Her figure was so blue that it was hazy, Jun Ping stretched out his hand to grab it, but it turned into a blue bird-shaped crystallization.I did grasp it, but when I opened my palm, there was no trace of the bird... There was a bird singing in the distance. In order to find this sound, I ran after it as if in a dream, and saw the blue shadow again.The bird waited for Junping to approach, but when Junping stretched out his hand, it was covered with white mist.Chasing, approaching and grabbing, disappearing.Each time, each time the bird's blue color increases...just like the color of Shirane's crater lake.Suddenly, the birdsong stopped.Where did the blue bird disappear? ... blue bird?

"Ah!" With a scream, Junping woke up from his sleep.Although it was a cool night, he was covered in cold sweat.Spreading his palms, the blue color of the moment he caught the bird in his dream still seemed to remain in his sweat.Blue Bird - why didn't you notice?So far I have only noticed that the bird is a work of origami, but I forgot its color... The midsummer sun is approaching the window.Junping waited until half past nine before calling the film studio where Akio Xia Mu worked.After confirming that Akio Natsuki was indeed left-handed, he dialed the telephone number to find the phone number of Showa-so in Kanazawa.

Called Zhaohezhuang, the administrator confirmed two things, and hung up the phone with a sigh.Afterwards until the evening, I stayed in the small and steamy room waiting for Akiko to call. The phone rang at six o'clock, and Akiko said she had just come home. "I've already had a meeting with my husband. He seems to have been working as a servant. He didn't know about the deaths of Yumiko and Natsuki. After hearing the news, he was quite shocked. He agreed to come forward to clarify to the police that he was not the deceased on Mount Shirane. Regarding the divorce, also..."

Akiko's tone was a little polite and rusty. "I want to see you. Go to your place now!" Junping said: "No, it's over with you. I..." "I'm going!" Junping said domineeringly. After putting down the microphone, he rushed out immediately. Thirty minutes later, he was already sitting in the living room of Akiko's house.Akiko's eyes were red and tired, according to her, it was because she couldn't sleep well in the night train.For Akiko who had to go to work in the restaurant at eight o'clock, Junping only asked for ten minutes to talk.In this case, only the dog barked happily and licked Junping's feet.

"You told me—it can be said that you are still deceiving me. I hope you can tell the truth." "Don't do this. It's more beautiful to be separated in a lie!...Although it's only a few days together, I want to preserve your things beautifully!" "So, please make it a truly beautiful memory! Lies are not allowed to exist... If you don't want to say it, let me make it clear. You will say that when you saw the dead body in Baigen At that time, you thought that the deceased might be the husband who was killed by Xia Mu. At that time, you suddenly made up a lie that you didn’t know who the male corpse was. But, in fact, the moment you recognized the corpse, you were sure that the deceased was Xia Mu. Although you felt that his watch was wearing The method is different from his usual habits, and there may be some special reasons, but it is true that it is not wrong to believe that the deceased is Xia Mu. The real worry in your heart is that Xia Mu and Yumiko did not die in love, but maybe your husband killed them. In Kanazawa In your apartment, when the four of you were negotiating, the one who yelled: 'I'm going to kill you two' was not Xia Mu, but your husband, right?"

"But my husband didn't kill them!" "That's right. Xia Mu and Yumiko did commit suicide in love. Xia Mu was disturbed by the embezzlement of 10 million yen in public funds, so he was forced to plan a death in love with Yumiko... But, you don't think so. Because you can't get rid of suspicion Your husband’s suspicion that he killed both of them, so he lied to the police. Your suspicion probably started in February, when your husband yelled: ‘Kill you two’, and then all three of them disappeared. Hidden in your heart. Your thought is that if your husband didn’t kill Xia Mu, then there is no way to explain Xia Mu’s disappearance. Originally, your husband hated Xia Mu. However, you want to kill him, but you have to pretend to be a love affair, so You dragged Yumiko into the water and even killed her. However, you know that the police will find out the identity of the deceased sooner or later, so you must find your husband and find out the truth before they find out. Therefore, I want to borrow Through TV, find your husband, and meet him as soon as possible to solve your doubts. In fact, your worries are unnecessary, your husband has nothing to do with the death of Xia Mu and Mingmei, right?"

"He didn't even know that the body had been found!" Akiko's lips trembled slightly. "I should have noticed it earlier. When I was about to enter the room where the two of them lived in Showazhuang in Kanazawa, because of panic, I held the doorknob with my right hand to open the door. My forehead hit the door. The handle is on the right side of the door. side, so if you open it with your left hand, there will be no such problem. Today I remembered that the administrator said that the man who lived in that room asked him to fix the door lock, and he called the administrator just now Confirmed again, and learned that he not only asked to change the lock, but also asked to change the handle originally located on the left side into a handle that can be locked from the inside of the door, and install it on the right side. The man seemed to have said that the doorknob is in the On the left side, it is inconvenient to open the door. The door of that room is connected to the wall at the end of the passage, and the passage is very narrow. If you are a right-handed person, you can easily open the door to enter the room, but left-handed people have to twist their bodies slightly. In order to open the door, the person who asks to change the handle to the right side of the door must be a left-handed person. According to this inference, the man who has been staying at Showazhuang since the end of last year is not your husband, but Xia Mu. ——On the phone just now, I confirmed one more thing. The administrator said that the female tenant who lived with Xia Mu and worked in the bar would give the guest the clothes she didn't like as gifts to the administrator's daughter. Just for the sake of caution, I just asked about The color of the clothes she presented as a gift was found to be red. In this way, it is not Yumiko who loves red among the women who live in Showaso.”

Akiko quietly got up from the sofa, with her back to Junping, standing by the window, the evening breeze blew the twilight of the garden over Akiko's white neck. "Ever heard the fairy tale 'Blue Bird'?" "Hmm!" Akiko's small voice sounded from behind. "It's a story about the blue bird that two children were looking for. It turned out to be at home. Akiko... No, Mrs. Orihara, you are the blue bird." "..." "Missing also means running away from home. So - no one would think that a person who lives in his own home is a person who left home! Appearing on the TV screen, complaining, the wife who wanted to find out her husband's whereabouts actually left home Those who run away, no one would expect such a thing.”

Junping paused, and continued the topic just now: "It's not your husband, Mrs. Orihara—you're the one who left home!"