Chapter 9 Chapter two

"Oh?……" Kosuke Kindaichi, who was sitting in the corner of the room, seemed to be forgotten, smoking a cigarette silently by himself.Sudden.He frowned, scanning the faces of the people in the living room one by one. Since the beginning of the banquet, the atmosphere has been very harmonious, but suddenly it seems that some resistance has been mixed in, and the atmosphere suddenly becomes tense.When Kosuke Kindaichi sensed that the cause lay in the young woman who had just arrived, he stared at her with interest. The woman stood at the door of the living room, quickly glanced at the smoky room, and then with a slightly unnatural smile, greeted this and that in the living room.At this moment, someone told the Robinson couple, and they rushed forward to greet them.

"Call! Mrs. Fujimoto..." Robinson came to the door of the living room and said casually.Suddenly, he realized that he had made up his mind, so he hurriedly corrected it. "No. I'm sorry! Ms. Kawasaki, you are very welcome to come in this rain." "I don't know anything about your going back to China..." Saying this, the woman shook hands with Robinson: "I was shocked when I received my wife's letter today. It was too sudden! Mrs. Robinson." She turned her beautiful eyes to Lady Maccaret: "Why didn't you tell me earlier? Look at me, I'm in such a panic."

She spoke in both English and Japanese. "letter……?" Mrs. Robinson showed a puzzled expression, but it was immediately crushed in her innocent smile: "sorry!" Then, Mrs. Robinson also told the woman in half English and half Japanese.It seems to explain that she has been too busy recently.She took the woman's hand and walked into the living room while talking. Kosuke Kindaichi, Green Hill's newest resident, doesn't know the Yuan woman, but she appears to be a popular figure on the street.The air that was tense for a while eased up again, and people greeted the woman one after another.

The woman responded tactfully, and in the end, she joined Grandma Kido's gang.This woman appeared to be about thirty years old, and her name seemed to be Yasuko Kawasaki.She was slender and graceful, and her pale face contrasted perfectly with the black dress. When Kindaichi Kosuke first saw her standing at the door of the living room with a reserved expression, for some reason he always felt that she was as beautiful as a witch.And it seemed that this demon girl smelled the air of tragedy. Even so, Kosuke Kindaichi didn't understand the reason for the tense atmosphere just now. Could it be that there was some conflict between the arrival of this woman and the atmosphere of the banquet?

Robinson initially called the woman Mrs. Fujimoto, but later hastily corrected it to Miss Kawasaki.This shows that this woman may have been the wife of a man with the surname Fujimoto, and after the divorce, Yi restored her father's surname. There was another point that puzzled Kindaichi Kosuke.It was when Yasuko Kawasaki said, "I was shocked when I received a letter from my wife today", a trace of doubt flashed across Mrs. Macarit's face. What exactly is contained in it? "Miss Kawasaki, I heard that you are currently living in Omori's apartment, how are the conditions?"

The former Navy Lieutenant Commander Yamamoto Saburo asked.At some point, he also joined Grandma Kido and her group. I know Saburo Yamamoto and Kosuke Kindaichi very well. Saburo Yamamoto is probably because he has been stationed in the UK for a long time, and his English is very good.He had a house in Green Hills before the war, and since the war he has been teaching English in his home.Because he taught patiently and meticulously, many people learned from him.While earning a living teaching English, he also painted.When he was in the navy, he liked painting as a hobby. After the war, he devoted himself to studying hard and practiced hard. Recently, he has gradually shown his prominence in the painting circle.He was well-bred in the British style, the fashionable man of today.

"Oh! Sir, it's really embarrassing to say, the surroundings are messy, and it's always hard to settle down. After all, it's hard to find a good place like Green Hill!" When Yasuko Kawasaki talks, she always likes to slightly pause her long neck.This makes Kindaichi Kosuke feel that she is as charming as a witch. "So how about moving back here?" Yamamoto kindly suggested. "Giggle... But, how ridiculous!" "What's so ridiculous!" Mrs. Nakai interrupted.She is the wife of an important person in a certain company, and is famous for her warm heart in Green Hills.Her face was plump and round, with her jaws bulging out in a stately manner.

"I think you should not be polite." "It's not polite, but..." "Since this is the case, there is no reason to give up the right to live in the Green Hill that I like. The new constitution recognizes our freedom of residence! Don't be so weak, you..." "? Haha, this matter is not easy to solve." Yamamoto said with a steady smile. He has a gentle face, and when he smiles, wrinkles gather at the corners of his mouth. "Grandma Kido, please wait for a while." It seems that Mrs. Nakai wanted to solve the problem in one fell swoop. She insisted on calling Grandma Kido who spoke to foreigners in English.

"Taizi wants to move back to Luqiu. Don't you have a spare house there? Let Taizi live in your place!" "Ah! Is that so? My place is very convenient, I can come here anytime...but as soon as Taizi comes, I can rely on him even more." The old lady known as Kido's grandmother is named Ikuko, and she is the widow of a doctor of science.She looks to be nearly seventy years old, but her back is straight, her body is slightly thin, and she is very tough. Dr. Kido died during the war, and left the widow a considerable amount of property, but as a post-war decliner, now speaking, there are only real estate and sometimes a little royalties for the works of the deceased husband.The eldest son died in the war, and the daughter-in-law married someone else. Now Grandma Kido lives with the couple of the second son and the children of the eldest son and the second son.

Because her second son's salary alone was not enough to live on, Grandma Kido began to teach tea ceremony and ikebana, and she had many proud students.Recently, under the mobilization of others, Grandma Kido began to make decorative dolls, half for entertainment and half for making money.Among the wives of Luqiu, Grandma Kido was the central figure, and her spacious home became a women's club. "Look, Grandma Kido also agreed, so let's move here! Don't worry about this or that." "It's not because of any concerns..." Wrinkles gathered on the bridge of Taizi's nose, and she smiled feebly:

"But, Mrs. Nakai..." Just as Taizi was about to say something in a low voice, the maid led three male and female guests to the living room door. "Mr. Tetsuya Fujimoto and his wife and their friend Seiichi Ide are here!" In an instant, the air in the living room became tense again, Kosuke Kindaichi turned his head to Yasuko as if exploring. Yasuko Kawasaki was silently watching the raindrops blowing on the glass window, her fairy-like pale face became gloomy...