Chapter 6 Chapter 6 Lip Reading

When Professor Jiang Chuan's family members and Professor Gu Yuan arrived, it was already eleven o'clock in the morning of the next day, Sunday. It takes more than five hours by train from Tokyo to Gyeongpo.Therefore, even if you catch the earliest train from Tokyo, you will not be able to reach Gyeongpo until this time. The so-called family members of Professor Jiang Chuan are actually only two people.The "shared adversity" that Kano Tatsuya said during the wake last night refers to this person. Professor Jiang Chuan and his wife have two sons and one daughter.The eldest is a daughter, and the second and third are sons.However, both sons died in the war.Moreover, neither of them is married yet, and they have no grandchildren.

The eldest daughter Akiko got married and gave birth to a daughter.But Akiko's husband also enlisted at the end of the war and died in Hiroshima.What's more tragic is that the professor's wife also died in the war.So after the war, Akiko took her daughter and called to the professor. As a result, the only family members of the professor are the unfortunate eldest daughter Akiko and granddaughter Liulizi.Liu Lizi is thirteen years old this year, as if to add another layer of misfortune to this unfortunate family, the professor's only granddaughter was born deaf and dumb.It was later proved that, in a sense, this incident had a lot to do with this incident.

As for the grief scene when the two family members saw the professor's body, I won't describe it in detail here.In short, even Kindaichi Kosuke had red eye circles, and couldn't bear to watch it any longer. Before examining the body, Professor Furugaki asked the two doctors about the diagnosis.One is a medical practitioner in this town, and the other is a doctor who travels here on weekends.Both were somewhat overwhelmed by the arrival of the eminent forensic authority, though both were more or less determined to have died of a heart attack.Although it is not enough to overthrow my original conclusion, I have found an excuse in advance and said that I will wait for the detailed autopsy results before making a judgment.

Just like the portrait printed on the trademark of the university's eye drops, Professor Furugaki's broad and extraordinary forehead contains countless knowledge and experiences related to crime. "Then..." The famous forensic scientist was asking Ms. Kato in a soothing tone, "Mr. Kato, please tell me first, why do you think the professor was poisoned to death? After all, there are already two Experts diagnosed that he died of a heart attack." This is a closed room in Wanghailou Hotel.At Tatsuko's request, there are only four people in the room, Professor Gugaki, Tatsuko Kato, Kosuke Kindaichi, and the Police Department.

"Okay. But before explaining this, I would like everyone to know about a special talent or skill of the teacher... the teacher." When Kato Tatsuko made this important speech, his expression became solemn and nervous . "Mr. Kindaichi and Mr. Waitori Police Department just saw that the teacher's granddaughter, Ms. Liulizi, is born deaf and dumb. In order for Liulizi to receive an education, the teacher has worked hard. First of all, she must be taught to master the language. For this reason, The teacher first learned the so-called 'lip reading technique' himself."

Kosuke Kindaichi was not surprised because he saw it with his own eyes.Waiting for the police department is different, even Professor Gu Yuan, who has a deep friendship with Professor Jiang Chuan, seems a little surprised. "Mr. Gu Yuan knew that once the late Mr. Jiang Chuan started to do something, he would devote himself to it. No matter what it was, he had to figure it out thoroughly. What's more, lip-reading skills are related to his granddaughter's life Of course, I will redouble my efforts. Finally, Professor Jiang Chuan became a lip-reading master beyond the reach of any teacher in a school for the deaf. Moreover, only a few people know about this, namely Miss Liu Lizi, her mother It's just Mrs. Akiko and me."

Having said that, Kato took a breath. "Now, everyone has understood the above situation, that is, Mr. Jiang Chuan knows the special skill of lip reading. Next, let's talk about an incident that happened the day before yesterday, that is, Saturday evening. We arrived at the mirror around four o'clock. It happened that Mr. Garner was not there, and he said that he and the proprietress here went out to sea in a sailboat, so we waited for Mr. Garner to come back on the roof. During the period, the teacher had been searching for sailboats on the sea with binoculars. At this moment, the teacher was surprised overheard a horrific conversation using lip reading."

Ms. Kato opened her handbag, took out her notebook, and took out several folded papers from the notebook.When I opened it, it turned out to be a letter paper with the name of the hotel on it, with some strange horizontal lines drawn on it, which looked like shorthand symbols. "Mr. Kindaichi was sitting next door at the time, so he may know about it. That's right, the teacher suddenly remembered that he needed to write a letter to Tokyo, so he brought the letter paper from the hotel, and the terrible conversation later was recorded in on these letterheads." Professor Gu Yuan picked up the letter paper and looked at it, "This seems to be a shorthand symbol, Mr. Jiang Chuan can also write in shorthand." "Yes."

"So, how do you read these?" "There are translations that I have annotated in the back." Professor Gugaki pulled out a few sheets of paper with translations written on them from the bottom, "So Kato-kun can also take shorthand?" "Yes, Teacher Jiang Chuan taught me." Until then, there was a little sadness in Kato's voice. Professor Gugaki glanced at the translated text, raised his eyebrows, "Mr. Kindaichi, it seems that this matter is up to you." After speaking, he handed the letter paper to Kosuke Kindaichi. Kosuke Kindaichi and the Waiting Force Police Department took a look together and couldn't help raising their eyebrows.

The following dialogue snippets are recorded on the paper: Kosuke Kindaichi thought this line was very familiar at the time, but later remembered that it was the middle sentence. The above is the frightening fragment of the dialogue that Professor Jiang Chuan learned by accident while watching with a telescope, and was translated by Ms. Kato.