Chapter 3 second quarter

"I told you it was a misunderstanding." Shinya said. "We are innocent, trust us." Xiao Kayo stood five or six steps away from him, with his arms crossed; forming an isosceles triangle with the two, Xiao Tie sat on the sofa with his knees together. This is the living room of Hasumi's house.In the three-story Tutiancuo, the first floor is the office, and the upper floor is the residence.During the intermittent conversations between Xiao Jiadai and others, there were occasional calls from downstairs and the answering sound of the investigator answering the phone.Today is Sunday, but the detective agency has no weekend holidays, and no staff travel.

"Sister," Xiaoxi seemed a little tired. "I've said it several times, why don't you understand!" "I understand." Kayo said. "But it's impossible for Dad to accept that kind of argument." "Because Dad is more rigid?" "No, because he's the father." Shinya scratched his hair randomly with one hand, stood up abruptly, walked to the window, put his hands on the back of his head, and stretched greatly. Huh?This guy has grown taller again.For a boy of this age, the speed of growth is not to be underestimated.If he walked up to the sleeping Shinya and listened carefully, he would definitely hear the creaking and growing bones.

"Ah." He yawned. "Stupid to death." That's no wonder, I must have not slept much last night.When I think about it, I get angry. "To each other." Kayo yawned too.All night yesterday, she and I were worried about the two who hadn't returned home, and we couldn't close our eyes overnight. Plus today is another sweltering day.Half of September is over, but summer is still lingering, but it is not as hot as midsummer, and it is too cold when the air conditioner is turned on; this is where the lingering summer is difficult. When Kayo and Shinya came up, Kayo-chan opened all the windows on the balcony, not only because of the hot weather, but also because he expected that the following conversation would be unbearably hot.

"If you don't believe it, there is nothing we can do, and we are not lying." Xiaoxi said sadly.I'm in a bit of a bind.Xiaoxi, although I really want to believe you... Things go back to last night. It was a leisurely evening.These days, Kayo is relatively free at work, and it was the same yesterday, and he even had time to watch the performances of the small troupe during the day.When the head of the troupe was in trouble before, he was rescued by Xiao Jiadai.Afterwards, whenever there is a performance, they will warmly send them hospitality. Last night, a phone call came.Kayoko picked up the phone.

From the tone of his voice, the other party seemed to be a familiar friend.After a few quick answers, Kayo said: "I see, I'll be there in about twenty minutes, don't run around, understand?" After hanging up the phone, she stared at the phone for a while, speechless, He picked up the microphone again and pressed the speed dial button. "Hello, is this the boss? Hello, I'm Kayoko Hasumi." Huh?Realizing that the call was to "La Shina," I stood up. "La Shina" is a small bar where Shinya works part-time.The boss is a talent with both ability and political integrity, and he is acquainted with the Renjian family.Of course, I also like the boss.I wagged my tail at the phone, and Kayo-chan looked at me and smiled.

"Greetings from Jiu Shu, I'm really sorry. I'm sorry to disturb you when you are busy, can I borrow Shinya?" As if a different person answered the phone, Kayo said "Hello?" again, directly explaining the purpose of his visit. "I'm sorry to interrupt your work. I have something to ask you. I'm so sorry for being so sudden. Can you please pick up the teacher now?" Xiaojiadai briefly explained. "She stayed in the art classroom of the school in order to prepare for the autumn exhibition. The condition for the school to let her stay is that her family must pick her up—well, I should pick her up, but my friend called her just now. Called, said they were drinking together, and one of them was too drunk to take a taxi home—well, yes. They begged, and said I lived closest to the people who could drive. Um, yes—huh? My dad? He went on a business trip yesterday and won't be back until after noon tomorrow—well, yes. Sorry, thank you very much."

In this way, Kayo took me to pick up my friends.At the same time, Shinya rode his motorcycle to the school of the small department.Shinya also prepared an extra hard hat in order to take Seokake home. So far, the process seems to be vivid.The reason why I say this is because I have asked Shinya to pick up Kaze before, so Kayo-chan and I completely trust him—— However, at around 12:30, after taking that drunk friend home (I was uneasy along the way, worrying about what to do if she vomited in the car), Kayo and I got home, but the windows were pitch black, and the window was dark. Department has not come home.

"Did they go to 'La Shina'?" Little Kadai said to himself, and called the boss again. However, the boss thought the two of them had gone home. Little Jiadai waited at home for an hour, and for the next hour, she went to the school to look for it. After driving around her home to look for it, she waited at home for another hour, and finally she called the hotel where the director was staying. Speaking of the scariest thing in the world, there is nothing like being in a different place, but receiving news of a change at home.I am worried that the only remaining thin hair of the director will turn gray overnight.

"Anyway, wait until morning. Don't panic," the director explained. Little Kayo followed the director's instructions and waited until the sky brightened.The boss who helped to find out where the two might be going called occasionally, but they couldn't be found. In the early morning when the branch sparrows were chirping lively, Kayo drove out to look for it again.She drove towards the school, driving slowly along the route that Shin might have taken, biting her lower lip all the way. "If there is an accident, someone should be in touch." She whispered.That's right, Jin should be wearing a driver's license, and Xiaoxi is also wearing a uniform, so it's impossible not to find out their identities.

Unless it is a major accident that cannot even be identified. With the school as the center, Kayo-chan drove outwards in concentric circles, and finally found two people near the sign that was about to enter the Wangan Road, far away from the residential area.It was five twenty in the morning. Both Shinya and Xiaoke looked "haggard", and the two of them were pushing a motorcycle and walking out of a certain building. The signboard of that building stood tall against the background of the light blue sky, and it was clearly visible from the Wangan Road.The neon lights have been extinguished, but the "uniquely beautiful" signboard, painted in colorful colors, is as eye-catching as if only one finger is painted with nail polish. It reads:

“Hotel City of Love” At that moment, I begged the gods to blacken my world. "Little Kayo, my brain is not good enough to make up such a roundabout lie." Shinya said. The so-called "whispering lies" was that Kayo, who was about to stand up on the spot, pressed the horn, and the two mouths opened in a perfect O shape at the same time when they heard the sound of the horn. "Passing". Last night, Shinya left "La Shina" at about 11:40; at 11:50, he arrived at the small department's school, and drove the small department away from the school around twelve o'clock. Shinya rode to Hasumi's house along the same route that Kayo-chan used to look for it by car.Go around the school for half a circle, come to the main road, and turn into a small one-way street along the river after five minutes; the left side of the road is row upon row of buildings, and the right side is a low embankment.After riding straight for about two tram stops, I rode back to the main road.From there to Hasumi's house, it only takes a blink of an eye to ride a bicycle. However, the reason they turned to the Wangan road was—— "We saw a little girl on that one-way street. She was probably in the upper grades of elementary school, at most the first grade of middle school. She came out from behind the building and walked to the car on the side of the road. Strange, but—" The girl opened the trunk of the car and climbed inside. "It's weird and dangerous no matter how you think about it, and I just parked next to that car—" "I asked what happened to Jin, and he said he saw a little girl climb into the trunk of the car—" The two got off the motorcycle, approached the car, and saw that the trunk lid was slightly opened.There was no sound, and the trunk lid opened.result-- "A little girl was lying in it, and she was startled when she saw me. We couldn't speak for a while, and finally asked 'what are you doing', but—" The girl also called out to Shin: "Daddy!" "And then?" Kayoko asked. "That's it." Shin also spread his hands. "It's over here. When I wake up, I'm in that vulgar hotel room, with Lizi lying next to me—Miss Lizi." As if this was his line of defense, Shinya repeatedly emphasized to Kayo-chan who was staring at him: "Beforehand, I'm lying on the floor—the tie is lying on the bed." "That's when I woke up." Kayo said bluntly.The two immediately protested. "sister!" "Little Kayo, you—" "I got it, I got it." Xiao Kayo stopped the two of them, and impatiently brushed away the strands of hair hanging from his forehead. Hearing this, many people may think that it is too much to treat the defense of Xiaokei and Shinya as a lie indiscriminately.Their confessions were complete, with the conditions for a possible contingency: who was that girl?What is she doing in the luggage compartment?Also, was that "Daddy!" referring to her father? --etc. But things are not that simple. The above plot, whether it is Xiao Kayo, Xiaoke or Shinya-even for me, this is not the first time I have heard it. It was a TV show; about a month ago, when Shinya was at Hasumi's for dinner, the crowd watched a TV show about a young girl being kidnapped, and it was brilliantly filmed. "It's been a long time since I've been so nervous watching a TV series," even the director praised. There is a scene in the play, which is exactly the same as the situation described by the two.It was the scene of the girl being kidnapped from her own home: she was stuffed into the trunk of the car, but someone who happened to pass by became suspicious and opened the trunk lid for her.She shouted: "Help!" She wanted to escape, but was intimidated by the prisoner who happened to come back, and even the passers-by who opened the luggage compartment for her were arrested. The plot is almost identical, except that the girl calls "Daddy!"This kind of plot can be made up even if the brain is not good. Because of such latitude and longitude, it is no wonder that Kayo-chan looked at the two suspiciously.She pressed one hand on her temple, with an expression of crushing the headache medicine. "There are such things as coincidences in the world, really! Something like that TV show really happened." As Xiaoxi said so, Kayo-chan turned his gaze out of the window. "I don't think you two are out of your wits." She sighed. "I also think you should understand the truth. It's just..." "only?" Xiao Kayo folded his arms around his chest and smiled at the two of them, as if saying, "This is the answer."I guess the meaning is: "This kind of thing is hard to say, I know it very well." My heart hurts for other reasons, because I saw another side of Kayo that I didn't know.Before I came to Hasumi's house, maybe Kayo-chan had encountered the same problem. "I'll investigate." Xiaoxi said so abruptly, raising his head. "Investigate, investigate what?" "To prove that we are not lying, I will present evidence, so that Dad can rest assured? I don't want to be wronged like this." Shin, who was sitting on the arm of the sofa, whistled sharply. "Yes, yes, that's it." At last he regained his usual vigor. "It's not enough just to be on the defensive, let's investigate it carefully! And there is indeed a big problem with this matter, isn't it?" Kayo-chan glanced at the faces of the two of them, and folded his arms again.When faced with this kind of thing, she always didn't know how to place her hands, either crossed her chest, touched her hair, or moved things around her meaninglessly.As if if my hands were free, I couldn't help but slap the two people in front of me, or stroke their heads, and I couldn't settle down at all. "You two plan to investigate this matter together?" "Yeah." Xiaoxi glanced at Shinya and nodded. "that is not--" "Do you want to say that this is 'increasing shame'?" Shinya interjected, and Xiaoxi slammed the seat cushion on his face with precision.Little Kayo laughed. "I don't think it's a shame, but I don't think it's working." "Then what should we do?" Kayo-chan raised his index finger, touched his lips and nose lightly, and thought for a while.Soon she said: "I'll be your lawyer and prove your innocence. Is that all right?" Xiaoxi and Jin also looked at each other in blank dismay, this was the first time they had looked at each other squarely since entering the room.Until then, as if there was something dirty on each other's faces, they kept avoiding eye contact. "Really?" Shinya asked. "Well, put it on me." "Is there a charge for that?" "Don't be stupid, this is not work, so don't worry about it." Xiao Kadai smiled, and lightly bumped Shinya with his elbow. "Thank you, sister." Xiaoxi said in a low voice.The corners of her mouth droop in a coy smile; that's my favorite look. "If there's anything I can do to help, please let me know!" Shin also said quite nonchalantly.At this point, I finally used force.I barked loudly, and Shinya jumped up in fright. "Tsk, this guy is still the same, fierce, obviously an old dog." In the end, it's not because you failed to complete the task satisfactorily and send Xiaoxi home safely. "Xiezi, I will tell Dad about this matter for the time being. Before the matter is resolved, you don't need to tell Dad directly, otherwise it will only make things more troublesome." Putting him in and going home, only Lianjian and his sisters were left, Xiaoxi suddenly became depressed. "Is Dad worried?" "Of course, does it need to be said? I am also dying of anxiety." "Sorry." Xiao Xi stared at the hands resting on his lap.Xiao Jiadai sat down beside Xiaoxi and put his arms around her shoulders. "In short, as long as you are safe and sound, that's the most important thing. Are you hungry? I'm going to get something, what do you want to eat?" Xiaoxi didn't answer, and looked up at her sister's face intently. Her expression was the same as when she asked "Will our dog die?", extremely serious. "Sister, to be honest, what do you think?" "how to think?" "Do you think I really did something by following up?" Little Kayo left the small department, brought his face closer, and replied, "I don't know." Xiaoxi lay down on the sofa, and Kayo patted her buttocks. "But," Xiao Xi said to the cushion. "Even if that's the case, how bad is it?" "What did you say!" Little Gadella raised his voice, Xiaoxi sat up and said with a serious face: "Because, isn't that what's going to happen sooner or later?" "That's right..." "What time is sister?" Little Kayo seemed to have been punched unexpectedly, and was speechless for a while.I started praying to the gods to plug my ears. "That kind of thing," said Kokayo. "I'll tell you when you can drink and chat with me, you know?" Xiao Xi pouted, "Stingy." "Xizi, you must never say what you said just now in front of Dad. Do you understand?" Yes, Xiaoxi.Regardless of the era, fathers and family dogs are conservative animals, especially when both are old. "That's right, then I'll leave everything to you, Mr. Lawyer." Xiao Xi shrugged. "But, what would Dad think..."