Chapter 40 Section 17

Let Gong Zhisuke sit on his knees, and was swayed by the sedan chair, and rushed to Yuxipo.Heishiro felt that this was a replay of the night when Sakichi was arrested as the murderer of the Aoi murder.He was equally flustered, even his eyes were dazzled, but he still couldn't figure out the whole situation. "I'm really too careless. It's all my fault if sister Ah Chu wants to do anything wrong. No matter how much I regret it, I will never regret it." Kuminosuke bit his sleeve with a mournful face.In this way, I'm afraid it will be bitten before it gets there.Heishirou pulled the sleeve from his mouth.

"You have time to talk nonsense, why not explain it to me." Heishiro ordered in a serious tone. "You are very capable, you shouldn't panic into such a virtue, lest you feel ashamed in retrospect." Kuminosuke answered "yes" honestly, inhaling and exhaling desperately to calm himself down. "Ah Chu didn't see you at Fachunyuan, right? Are you sure?" "Yes, that's right." "Has she been in school?" "Brother Taro is always by her side. She goes to and from school, and even in the classroom, so there should be nothing to worry about."

On this day, school was over at noon, but Mr. Haruka asked the girls to learn how to be female celebrities from 8:00 pm (2:00 pm).It has been like this occasionally in the past, and Ah Chu will also participate.So Takutaro took Ah Chu home first, and only arrived at Fachunyuan eight quarters ago. "The practice of needle movement ends at seven quarters (four o'clock in the afternoon)." So far, all is well.Makitaro and Ah Chu sewed rags together. The days of late autumn are short, the sky is also stained with a thin twilight, and the sun will soon set.杢太郎 urges Ah Chu to go home.Ah Chu said she wanted to go to the bathroom.There is no toilet in the school, and it is borrowed from the back of the main hall of the temple, so Taro Taro took Ah Chu there.Because Ah Chu was shy, Taro went to the side road to wait.

After waiting and waiting, Ah Chu didn't come out. Takutaro felt uneasy for a while, and went into the toilet, but Ah Chu was nowhere to be seen.He hurried to the school, and Mr. Haruka was cleaning up.Ah Chu was not there either. "Brother Takutaro then scrambled back to himself." In other words, when Takutaro decided to stay with Chu for protection, Masagoro, who was careful in everything, sent a subordinate to Yuxipo's own team, because if Takutaro wanted to stay with Chu at all times, he couldn't take care of other work.The purpose of this subordinate is to help with work, and in case of an accident, he can immediately report to Zheng Goro.

Masagoro's subordinates reprimanded the panic-stricken Taro Taro, arranged to find Ah Chu, and rushed back to the office. "At that time, I happened to be at Uncle Zhengorang's house." Yukinosuke and Big Forehead are brainstorming together. "When I heard the news, I immediately understood what had happened, so I asked Uncle Zheng Wulang to ask his subordinates to rush to Mrs. Kui's mansion, because Sister Ah Chu must have been taken there." In the swaying sedan chair, Komonosuke almost fell, and Heishiro hurriedly supported him. "So you already solved Aoi's murder at that time?"

Yukinosuke nodded, his perfectly contoured head moved up and down following the shaking of the sedan chair. "It's just that I haven't decided how to expose the murderer. It's really difficult... All I have is speculation without any evidence." Kuminosuke pressed his eyes and let out a moan. "It's this hesitation that ruined things. I should have taken action earlier to prevent sister Ah Chu from going to the Fachun Court. But in this way, I am afraid that Mr. Haruka will become suspicious." "Sir from the school?" "Yes. Mr. Haruka should be very vigilant. I am afraid that if there is any trouble, she will run away after being aware of it. Therefore, I think that until the critical moment, it is best for Sister Ah Chu to continue to go to Fachun Academy and pretend to be something. None. I thought that since Kutaro followed, nothing would happen."

Heishiro silently shook the sedan chair for a while, letting what he had just heard settle down. "Kuminosuke." "Yes, Uncle." "According to what you just said, it seems to be doubting Mr. Haruka, did I hear wrong?" Yukinosuke's body tensed instantly. "Uncle, you heard me right. The murderer is Mr. Qingxiang. When she strangled Mrs. Kui and left the mansion in Yuxipo, she was caught by sister Ah Chu and felt bad, so she strangled her neck and threatened her. It was Qingxiang." Mr. Haruka is the one who will kill Sister Ah Chu if she is taken away now."

Heishiro had nothing to say. Yukinosuke still covered his face with his hands. "Three days ago, after listening to Uncle mention Lianzhi Smoked Tobacco and reorganizing the case I had inquired about with Big Forehead, I figured out these things. It was not until yesterday that I was sure that this inference was correct." As if complaining, Gong Zhisuke spoke low and quickly: "At the stage yesterday, I thought about whether I should report to Uncle Ming and Uncle Masagoro, and then to Brother Taro. But, as I said just now, all I have is Inference, there is no guarantee that everyone will immediately believe it."

Still trying to figure it out——Kuminosuke was very frustrated when he said these words—so he didn't tell his aunt immediately. Heishiro wanted to ask a lot of things, and his mind was very confused, and he was shaking with "hehe, hehe", so he couldn't concentrate. "Uncle, I'm sorry." Kuminosuke turned to look at Heishiro. "I didn't explain it in order. You must be confused?" "Well, to be honest, I don't understand you at all. Why is Mr. Haruka the murderer?" "But," Heishiro patted Yumonosuke's head, "I trust your head, so don't say you're not sure, tell me what you think, okay?"

"Okay." Kuminosuke turned his head to face forward, and straightened his back as much as possible in the cramped space on Heishiro's lap in the sedan chair. "Before, I thought Mrs. Kui's murder was done by someone possessed by evil spirits, it was an accident." "Ok, I know." "It was an unfortunate accident. What kind of accident, then?" Gong Zhisuke suspected that some kind of accident happened at that time. "The murderer who killed Mrs. Kui should have no grievances with Mrs. Kui. It's just that Mrs. Kui, who was sitting in that room in the mansion in Yuxipo that day, probably did something to irritate the person who later became the murderer. "

Heishiro asked, "Is that a visitor?" "Yes. When Auntie Six was busy, the man passed by the front or near the mansion, met Mrs. Kui, and was invited to sit in the room. Probably walked around the courtyard and entered the house from the edge of the porch. .The structure of the mansion allows easy access to the interior rooms." Heishiro knew this too. "Madam Kui had a very happy conversation with that person. This is a temporary visitor, and there is nothing to talk about that requires sitting for a long time, so Madam Kui didn't specifically call Ah Liu." So, it happened in this situation. Gong Zhisuke said that the key at this time is the hand towel. "Madam Kui had a cold and a sore throat, so she wore a handkerchief. The murderer grabbed the handkerchief and pulled hard, strangling Madam Kui's neck. This was also an accident." But this technique is very important in the eyes of Gong Zhisuke. "Big Forehead and I went around asking if there had been a murder with the same method before." The portrait fan murder case that happened this summer, Heishirou heard Yumi nosuke mention it several times.That case reproduced past murders and tactics, and Gong Zhisuke learned from it. "At the end of the quarrel, I strangled the other party on impulse. I grabbed the handkerchief around the neck of the other party and lost myself in excitement." Kuminosuke made a gesture of grabbing the towel and pulling it hard. "I have guessed for a long time that this time, like the portrait fan's murder, is a reenactment of previous cases. But the difference from the portrait fan is that this time not only the method is the same, even the murderer is the same person." "What does it mean?" Heishiro still couldn't figure it out. "The person who killed Mrs. Kui, that is, the visitor that day, must have killed someone in the past. At that time, he was probably angry, lost his mind, and strangled the other person's neck..." Meaning, the same situation is happening here with Aoi? "That day, I don't know whether it was the room, Mrs. Kui's words, attitude or clothes that reminded the murderer of the horrible and ominous crimes in the past, and he was extremely disturbed. In addition, Mrs. Kui was the same as the people he killed in the past. The towel sits in front of your eyes." Gong Zhisuke said that it was the culprit who made the visitor of that day—the murderer who killed Aoi—bewitched. "How did you think of this? And you thought of it from the beginning." Yukinosuke tilted his head slightly.As soon as he moved, his head brushed against Heishiro's chin. "I told you, the scene where Mrs. Kui was killed was too clean, right?" "Well, you did." "Mrs. Kui was killed for no reason. No matter what drove the murderer to kill, it has nothing to do with Mrs. Kui. It was neither money nor hatred. That thing was completely in the murderer's heart, so there was no need for Mrs. Kui to be afraid. Until At the moment of the murder, Mrs. Kui had no anxiety or doubts, and the scene was naturally not incomparably messy." What is messy is the heart of the murderer - Yumonosuke asserted.Hell is only in the heart, it is a person's hell. "Things that can make people so confused and desperate are the sins they committed in the past. No matter how hard they try to hide and forget, those are serious crimes that the perpetrators will never get rid of in their lifetime. I think it must be so." In fact, in the process of visiting around, Gong Zhisuke found that he lost his mind in the quarrel, and there were unexpectedly many murders of brothers, husbands and wives and other close relatives by mistake. "It's really tricky to talk about this in front of my uncle. But most of these cases will be suppressed and solved in secret, right?" "Well, the murderer will not be sent to Yubai Prefecture, because the relatives don't want the family scandal to be publicized." "That's why I think that the murderer this time probably has an unknown past. The thing happened, but he was not publicly sanctioned. The murderer is carrying such a crime—a crime that never existed." However, what has been done does not disappear without a trace, the emotion stays.There is guilt and there is regret. "I believe that such a precedent must be found." Kuminosuke continued. "I thought this was the truth: there was something about Mrs. Kui that day that reminded this visitor of his past sins. Mrs. Kui obviously didn't know anything about it, but this person was confused and behaved abnormally." I am afraid of what I recall, and at the same time, I am deeply afraid that my panic for no reason will make the other party feel strange and ask "what's wrong". "So far the inferences have been going well. But, Uncle, I'm too attached to the method of the murder and the handkerchief around my neck. No matter how hard I ask, I can't find out that the handkerchief was used as an excuse in a family dispute. Murder with the murder weapon." Sisters kill sisters, daughters kill mothers, husbands kill wives, there are many such cases, but there are no examples of killing with a handkerchief that happens to be around the body. "So, I changed my mind about the cause of the murder. It might not be the hand towel, but something that Mrs. Kui said or did casually—of course, Mrs. Kui didn't mean anything malicious. However, if so, it would be difficult to find out, because It's so far-fetched." At this time, the rare tobacco Lianzhixun appeared. "Ah, this is it! I think the fog in front of me has completely dissipated." Kui's lotus branches were smoked by the house and placed in a tobacco basin.Aoi didn't smoke because of a cold, but she still brought out the pipe for entertainment, and the guests happily took out the pipe. Rare, rich and fragrant smoke lingers in the room— "I turned the anchor to look for tobacco. When the murder happened, the scene was filled with a strange smell of tobacco—Big Forehead and I searched around again, and reconsidered the cases we heard in the past, trying to find out whether such cases had happened in the past. " It was found. "It happened fifteen years ago." The location is a big old clothes store in Niuyuan. "You can't tell me the name of the shop," said Gongnosuke. "Niu Yao has opened many second-hand clothes shops, and that shop is one of the time-honored ones. It not only sells second-hand clothes, but also handles costumes. It is a famous shop with a lot of money." The old clothes shop has three daughters. "Although I want to say that they are the three friendly sisters, unfortunately, they are not really. I don't know what is wrong. The relationship between the three of them is very bad. The second child and the other two sisters are especially not compatible. What's worse, the mother and the second daughter are also If you don't get along well, you will only kill her at every turn." Whether it's parents, children, or brothers and sisters, sometimes it doesn't make sense and they just don't get along.It's not that one side is wrong, but just because of the blood connection and the closeness, it's hard to deal with the deadlock. "One time, I didn't know where to go. When the three sisters were preparing together, they quarreled over the kimono. Once the dress was involved, the woman would change. Even I understand this." Chattering, wow wow, crying and shouting loudly, even the maids tried to dissuade them.The quarrel intensified, and the situation turned into a situation where the eldest daughter and the third daughter teamed up to deal with the second daughter in the middle.The quarrels of the three sisters often end in this way. "Among this, the mother is angry," Yumonosuke said in a deep voice, "but it will be fine if the three sisters scold at the same time..." The eldest daughter colluded with the third daughter and sued her mother because the second daughter was capricious.The second daughter who was sued became even more angry and cursed, and those who didn't know the truth felt that she was the one who deserved it the most. "So, the mother only called the second daughter into the room and severely reprimanded her." Everything is due to your bad nature. Every time you quarrel, you always provoke it. You don't consider your sister, don't show courtesy to your sister. How can you be so selfish and only care about yourself? When the second daughter was scolded, the eldest daughter and the third daughter went out dressed up beautifully.Only the second daughter was unlucky. So, unfortunately happened. "The second daughter, who was being scolded blindly, couldn't bear it anymore, picked up the iron pot on the long brazier in the room, and threw it at her mother fiercely." The water in the iron pot was gurgling and boiling. It would be more correct to say that it was pouring boiling water rather than throwing an iron pot.For the second daughter who was framed by her sister and took the blame alone, this may be the most revenge way to vent her anger at the moment. The crowd who came after hearing the thrilling screams saw the mother in agony clutching her scorched face, the steaming water vapor, and the second daughter who was sitting paralyzed beside the struggling mother, her face pale and gasping for breath. . "The room was filled with the smell of cigarettes that the mother smoked while scolding the second daughter." It was an extremely rare, fragrant tobacco.As soon as the water vapor evaporated, it was thick and choking. That is Lian Zhixun.The mother of the three sisters is a luxurious lady who loves imported goods from Tang Dynasty. After suffering from burns and fever for two days, the mother died writhing in pain. "Although this incident was not included in the public case, the men who handled the case knew it well because it was too tragic. In order to seal the mouths of the men, the local gang leader came out to mediate, and the details are passed down like this." Soon, the second daughter was severed and kicked out of the house.According to this Gang Yin, it seems that it was adopted by a distant relative, but what happened after that is unknown-I don’t know why you want to inquire about this, but you can’t dig up this kind of thing again, understand?little brother. "What happened to that old clothes shop?" Heishiro asked in a low voice. "It's still open. The eldest daughter has hired a wife, so I can't tell the name." Gang Yin, who spoke about the case, also said that the shop still regards tobacco as a taboo, because the death of the proprietress of the previous generation was too tragic. ——The fragrant tobacco smell mixed with the stench of burnt meat makes people want to forget it. I don't know where the sedan chair has gone?The yelling of the bearers remained unchanged. "Uncle." "Ok?" "The second daughter's name is Ah Chun." "I suppose so." Ask me again——Heishiro patted Yumonosuke's cheek lightly after he finished speaking.With wet cheeks, Yukinosuke cried.