Chapter 42 first quarter

Izutsu Heishiro was lying in the room. But he was not in Hatchobori's dormitory, but in Sakichi's residence in Oshima.Obviously it's the first time to visit, but that's the case with the so-called "treating other people's homes as one's own". The sliding doors facing the verandah were all open, and to be honest, it was a bit cold.But behind the wall that separates the small backyard, there is a forest surrounding the samurai mansion, half of which still has red leaves, and the other half has withered, full of emptiness, forming a unique scenery, so Heishiro endured Chill to appreciate.

Zoji was sweeping the backyard just now, but now he picked up fallen leaves and dead branches, and roasted sweet potatoes there.Ah Hui was also working diligently, and after covering Heishiro's feet with cotton shorts, he finally sat down. "It's such a quiet place." He said that he came to some distant place, but in fact, this place is also in the territory of Fukagawa, and he only thought so because he was in a relaxed mood. Then, Heishiro told Sakichi and Ah Hui about Mr. Haruka, and also told them all the things that happened in Yuxipo that night. When he finished speaking, the sweet potatoes were roasted, and Ah Hui made hot tea.

"Then, this time Yumonosuke's deduction is all right again." Zoji narrowed his eyes.The fire that was obviously burning with branches and leaves no longer smoked, and the lavender smoke was almost dissipated. "From beginning to end, nothing was wrong." Mr. Haruka who came out of the closet of Yuxipo's maid's room, Ah Chun, confessed everything after being transferred to her own fan. That day, she really just sat in the sunflower room. "Half a month before that incident happened, a suspicious man targeted the maid Ah Liu's child, and Ah Liu was very worried. At that time, I heard Ah Liu mention it, and I also met the noble lady in the mansion—Mrs. Kui."

It can be seen that Aoi knows Mr. Haruka. "I happened to pass by the mansion that day and heard the voice of A Dao or A Xing singing a football song. I suddenly remembered that I heard that I didn't have to worry about that suspicious man anymore. Since I didn't know the details, I thought it was just a matter of time to find A Six asked what happened next." Ah Liu is busy in the house.Haruka walked into the wall while looking for Ah Liu, walked through the courtyard, and came to the room where Aoi was alone. After saying hello, Aoi said, "It's not easy to talk there, please come in." Haruka-san entered the room and started gossip.

Aoi was having a cold at the time. "Oh, do you have a cold?" "Yeah, it's really boring." —— Ah Liu is busy, so I can't come over to entertain him. I don't know if the husband likes tobacco? I have a very strange tobacco here!Fragrant is intoxicating. That is Lian Zhixun. "The sin of the past - the irreparable regret that I personally caused, awakened in my mind." Aoi was surprised to see that Haruka's face had changed, worried that she might be unwell.Haruka was sweating coldly and shivering intermittently, as if she had contracted a cold and fever in the blink of an eye.It looked really unusual.

"I still remember that Mrs. Kui said so." —Oh, sir, what's the matter?His face was blue, as if he had seen a ghost. At this moment, Heishiro asked Haruka, "Could it be that Aoi looks a lot like the mother you killed by mistake?" But Haruka shook her head. "It's not like, my first mother was not such a beautiful woman. It's just..." At that moment, Haruka's look in her little self-portrait made everyone present unforgettable for a lifetime.Not staring, not resentment, but knowing that that thing is there, knowing that that thing insists on following me, but still avoiding, retreating, turning a blind eye for a long time, and now finally facing it bravely.

"It's just that my mother was wearing a kimono with a Kikyo pattern at that time. I didn't remember it until that moment." Hearing what she said, a chill ran down Heishiro's back. When Aoi was killed, a newly sewn Kikyo kimono was hanging on the hanger in the room. And the Aoi phantom conjured up by the illusion troupe is indeed wearing a Kikyo kimono. That's Aoi—to borrow Soichiro's words, that's "Aoi herself", but is it also Ah Chun's mother? Aroma of bellflower kimono and sprigs of incense.In that room that day, Ah Chun's sins awoke.

Aoi couldn't help but feel strange seeing Haruka's chaos.Although she was panicked and lost the ability to judge due to the sin of awakening, Haruka still knew in her heart that if Aoi became suspicious at this time, it would jeopardize the life she had so hard to get and her identity as Mr. Haruka Hoharuin. "I can't let Madam doubt me—I don't know if this will plant some source of disaster and lead Madam to trace my past." Can't let Aoi discover that Mr. Haruka Fachunin, whom everyone admires and loves, is actually Ahchun who killed her mother. So she tried to stay calm.But Aoi is a woman with a lot of experience in the world. Although she cooperates with Haruka, her eyes are different.Haruka also saw it.

"I thought to myself, I can't leave it alone, I must try to cover it up." So, she pretended to leave the room, and took advantage of the gap to attack Aoi, grabbed the handkerchief around her neck and pulled it hard, and then she became so excited that she couldn't remember anything. When fleeing the mansion later, Haruka met Ah Chu.She happened to be heading home from errands and was walking down the path. What happened next was as everyone expected—— From Heishiro's point of view, the brilliant technique of the illusion troupe made Achun reveal everything and made her feel a little more relaxed.

As for letting Aoi's phantom wear a Kikyo kimono, Heishiro originally thought it was Yumonosuke's idea, but after asking, it was not. "I didn't know that Miss Achun's mother was wearing a platycodon kimono when she was killed until I heard Miss Achun mention it." It is said that the proposal came from a troupe actress who played Aoi. ——Women kill women, and there are kimonos on the scene.That being the case, there must be something to the kimono.I'll just wear this kimono. The eyesight is also amazing.But it's a pity that Heishiro was as busy as a headless chicken trying to clean up the aftermath, and he couldn't see the actress after all, and he didn't even know what the foreman looked like.

"How is Chun now?" Sakichi asked while stepping on the fire carefully. "Most likely they were sent back to their adoptive parents' home." "Most likely? Uncle, don't you know?" "Well. We just want to find out who killed Aoi. We originally agreed to let Mr. Saeki and Hachisuke take over the rest." Since he can be the head of the Tan family of the monastery, the one who adopted Ah Chun must be a respectable family in the local area, and they will definitely suppress the matter secretly just like Minato did to Sakichi.Heishiro had expected this. I don't know how Saiki Jonosuke told Ah Chun's adoptive parents, but it was really clever.Until Heishiro and others finished questioning Ah Chun thoroughly, the family who served as the head of the Tan family of Fachun Academy did not intervene. That night, Heishiro temporarily wrote to Saeki for mediation, and Saeki replied with a short note.When I opened it, there was a word written in the center: "Cheng"