Chapter 5 Chapter 4 Mysterious Music Score

The police are really amazing.It's hard to underestimate how many clues they've uncovered when our minds were blank. They were able to discover that it was not Hara Sakura who was going to the D building restaurant, but her substitute - Chieko Sagara. This discovery was really surprising.The so-called bolt from the blue refers to my current mood.In other words, the person I was anxiously looking for that night was not Sakura Hara, but Chieko Sagara?what the hell! "Miss Sagara, you should be very clear about how important this matter is to this murder case, right?" Police Department Asahara stretched his neck across the table, observing Sagara's expression carefully.

"Ok……" Just when Xiang Hao couldn't pluck up the courage to speak, she suddenly became nervous again, rubbing her handkerchief as if she was about to break it.A group of people stared intently at Sagara without moving.In an atmosphere that made people almost breathless, the question and answer between the police department and Sagara continued. "According to what you said just now, if Ms. Hara Sakura didn't come to Osaka that night and turned back to Tokyo halfway, then this case would be completely different. Could it be you..." "No, your statement is not correct."

"Incorrect?" "The teacher should have come to Osaka that night. That's what we agreed." "Miss Sagara, what is going on here? Could you please explain the situation exactly, why Ms. Hara Sakura returned to Tokyo halfway? Why did you want to be her substitute? Depending on the situation, maybe we have to change the investigation The direction of the situation may not be certain. I hope you can tell what you know in detail." Sagara kept rubbing his handkerchief, and it took a long time before he said what happened in a slow tone of thinking over every word.

"Sooner or later, you and the police will know about this matter. Maybe it's better for me to tell you sooner. However, what happened yesterday was too unexpected. It made me panic, so I didn't have time to say it. The teacher and I originally wanted to Take the train bound for Kobe at 10:00 am on the 19th. This is the scheduled itinerary, so Mr. Hara Satoshiro, tenor Mr. Ono, and assistant Amamiya all came to Tokyo Station to see us off. At that time, Mr. Ono gave the teacher a bouquet of roses. Nothing strange happened before the departure of the train. Shortly after the train started, the teacher suddenly became restless and said to me: "I have something that must be done. Go to Shinagawa, and go to Osaka by yourself...' I was taken aback, but the teacher ignored me and continued: "This matter should be settled soon, I will take the next train, tonight To Osaka.' I think everyone should know that there is another train departing at 11:15 after the 10:00 train, as long as you take that train, you can arrive in Osaka at 9:8 that night. The teacher said she I will take this train to catch up... Then the teacher suddenly remembered something and said: "But everyone knows that I will take this train to Osaka. I think Mr. Tsuchiya, the manager, will definitely wait for me. If I am late When the hour is up, everyone will feel very strange. I know it is too much to ask of you, but it only takes one hour, please be my substitute for the time being.'”

A group of people held their breath and listened quietly to every word Sagara said. "So quiet that you can hear a needle drop on the ground" must be used to describe this kind of time.In this silent atmosphere, Sagara continued talking. "At that time, the teacher said: 'You and I are very similar in size and appearance. And we are wearing the same coat. If we put a veil on our face, I believe it should be able to hide from everyone's eyes and ears temporarily. You replace When I go to the D Building Hotel, I just need to make them think that I will take the 8:00 train to Osaka. After that, you just have to find an excuse to go out. After an hour, I will pretend that I just returned to the hotel from outside...' Teacher She spoke very seriously. How should I put it, the tears in her eyes made it hard for me to refuse, so I had no choice but to agree. The teacher also said: "The more troublesome thing is the signature on the hotel accommodation slip and Mr. Tsuchiya. The accommodation slip is Said that your finger is injured, delaying the time for a while, and I will sign it myself later. As for Mr. Tsuchiya, I think he will definitely pick me up at Osaka Station. You have to try to get rid of him and arrive at the hotel one step earlier. It’s okay to go out before you come here. If there is any situation, please adapt accordingly. In short, just don’t let anyone know that I’m going back to Shinagawa from here. You must not be seen through. This is a matter of life and death for me ...'"

"A matter of life and death...? Is that what Teacher Yuan said?" "Yes. Teacher, she did say that. And she didn't just say that with her mouth. At that time, the teacher's expression and tone of voice seemed to be afraid of something..." "etc!" The Asahara Police Department stopped Sagara from continuing, turned to Mr. Satoshiro, and said: "Mr. Yuan, I want to ask you, is there anything that has made Madam feel threatened or frightened recently?" "Well... I have no idea at all." Mr. Satoshiro raised his eyebrows, his expression slightly sullen.

"Let's put it this way, our attitude towards getting along is that well water does not interfere with river water. She lives hers and I live mine. We usually lead completely different life styles... However, if such a serious problem occurs, she will Even if I don't discuss it with me, I should be able to get a glimpse of it just by looking at her expression. But I really have no idea this time." "Does anyone else know about this?" A group of people looked at each other helplessly, but no one knew what was going on.However, it could be seen that the police department did not expect anyone to know, so they did not show disappointment, but turned to Sagara again.

"Sorry to interrupt you. Then please continue." "Well, it's probably what I said just now. We hurriedly deduced what I just said, and the teacher got off at Shinagawa. So I took the suitcase that the teacher gave me..., but The bouquet was taken away by the teacher himself. When I arrived in Osaka, fortunately, I didn’t see Mr. Tsuchiya at the station, so I hired a car to go to the D Building Hotel, and I smoothly stayed in the room that Mr. Tsuchiya had booked for the teacher in advance. Rest For about five minutes, I worried that if Mr. Tsuchiya came and found out that I was pretending to be a teacher, things would get out of hand. So I didn't stay long, and I went from the hotel to the relative's house at Tenka Tea House. That's all I know. If It would have been fine if I said it yesterday, but I was really flustered yesterday, I thought that as long as the teacher came one bus later, it wouldn't cause any major problems..."

After Sagara said what he was holding back in his heart, it seemed that he had finally let go of a big stone in his heart.However, she still looked at the police station worriedly.The police then asked: "According to what you just said, Ms. Hara Sakura was fine before getting in the car, right?" "yes." "So she got restless after getting on the train?" "Well... this..." "Yes or no?" "Well, that..., I think back now, something was wrong when the teacher was still on the platform before getting on the bus. There was a little problem at that time, and the teacher has been a little restless since then."

"Something went wrong?" "Well, that, how should I say..." "Miss Sagara, you should be very clear that this murder case is not trivial. Please tell me everything you have seen, even if it is a trivial matter that you think has nothing to do with this murder case. Judge whether what you said is related to the murder case. , Whether it is worth pursuing, that is the job of our police." "Well..., actually, it happened like this. As I said just now, Mr. Ono, who went to Tokyo Station to see him off, gave the teacher a bouquet of roses. The teacher happily accepted the bouquet of flowers, but since the bouquet of flowers... ..., I think it must have fallen from the bouquet of flowers, but the teacher said afterwards that there was no such thing. Anyway, a piece of paper fell on the platform at that time, just beside me. I picked it up and took a look. Look, that's a sheet of music. I handed it to the teacher. She looked at the sheet of music in disbelief, with a surprised expression on her face, and then hurriedly put it into her handbag. I think the teacher should be From then on, something went wrong. As soon as the train started, the teacher immediately took out the sheet of music from the handbag, as if studying something seriously.”

"Isn't that what you're talking about?" The police department frowned, and took out a sheet of music from the handbag spread out on the table and handed it to Sagara.Sagara took a look and said, "Well, that's right. There's a spider-like ink stain here, and I'm very impressed." "That is to say, Teacher Yuan became wrong after reading this music score?" "Ok." "But, why? What mystery is hidden in this score..." "Let me take a look." The conductor Makino Kenzo stretched out his hand from the side, picked up the sheet of music for a closer look, and said to the police department: "Mr. Police Department, please listen to my opinion. This is not a musical score." "Not sheet music...?" "Yes. At first glance, there are a lot of notes drawn on this stave, which is why it is mistaken for a musical score. But as long as you show it to someone who understands a little bit of music theory, you will immediately find that there is no such crappy music in the world. There are many vocalists here, so if you ask them to read it, you will know that this is not sung at all. That is to say, this stave does not make sense at all.” "In that case, isn't this a secret signal...?" "I don't know if it's a cipher. All I'm saying is it's not a sheet music, that's all." After Makino finished speaking his opinion intermittently, the room fell into silence again.And anyone can feel that this quietness has a little more deep anxiety and fear than before.This indescribable sense of fear and doubt weighed on me almost out of breath. Although Makino said he didn't know if that was a secret code.However, as long as he listened intently to Sagara's words, anyone would suspect that there was a secret code hidden in the score.If there are really secret signs hidden in this score...This doubt planted the seeds of uneasiness in our group.Absurd, absurd, absurd!That was an out-and-out code word.As a musician, when anyone makes a code, he will first think of using the score.But, but, but... The police department glanced at the faces of the people present with eyes that saw something incredible.Suspicion grew in his eyes.Just when the police department couldn't help but want to speak, Kenzo Makino spoke almost at the same time as him.Good guy!He first pretended to cough dryly, and when he opened his mouth, the words seemed to burst a dam, and he forcibly dug out the seeds of anxiety dormant in our hearts in one breath. "Mr. Police Department, you will think that we are not unreasonable to be suspicious. Look at us, everyone has an expression of ignorance and conspiracy. But we are definitely not accomplices in this murder. As for why we are What about the weird expression on your face? There is a reason for that. If you were a police officer in Tokyo, you would definitely show this disturbed expression like us..." After Makino said this, he cleared his throat unnaturally again. "Shoji Fujimoto..., do you know this person? A well-known record singer, the darling of the pop music world, "My Heart Is Like Rain" is his first song since his debut. He was killed in May this year, and the prisoner is still alive today. The case was not caught, and the case fell into a stalemate. This murder case caused us a lot of trouble. Because the murder case involved many musicians, several scandals in the music industry surfaced, so we were very impressed with this murder case. When Akira Fujimoto When Er was killed, he was also holding a sheet of music, a mysterious sheet of music. Just like now, many people doubted whether it was a code." The room fell into silence again.After a while, Makino broke the silence with his unnatural dry cough. "When Mr. Police Department mentioned that the sheet music might be a code, what happened in our minds coincided with the case of Saturday, 11-8-20. In other words, an inaccurate question arose in everyone's mind... . . . and that's why we're unusually restless." The police department raised his eyebrows and said sternly: "The murder case of Fujimoto Shoji...well, I've heard of it. As for the code in the music score... from what you said, I seem to have heard of it too. So you think this murder case is the same as Fujimoto Shoji's murder case Related?" "No, no one..., at least I don't think so. Although everyone is a musician, pop singers and the few real musicians here are people in completely different fields. Especially Ms. Hara Sakura Master, I really can't imagine any relationship between her and Fujimoto Shouji. From the point of view of the two cases, the only thing in common is the code of the score. If a musician wants to make a code, he will naturally choose the score... ..." "So, none of you know Fujimoto Shoji at all?" The police department interrupted Makino's words, and looked around at everyone with glaring eyes.Facing the stern eyes of the police department, our group didn't even dare to take a breath, and even I felt like I couldn't breathe.Because everyone knows that one of us has a deep friendship with Fujimoto Shoji, no, maybe it should be said that it is a fate that keeps cutting. "I know Fujimoto very well. He is my student." The voice of the baritone Shiga flute came slowly from behind a group of people.Oops, he finally reported his name, if he pretends not to know him, he will be fine... "you……?" "yes." "So, you should be very clear about Fujimoto Shoji's private life?" "When Fujimoto was killed, the police in Tokyo asked me this question many times." A slightly tired smile appeared on Shiga's slightly sad face. "However, I don't know anything about his private life. Although Fujimoto is my student, he moved to the record industry not long after he became my student. And he is so popular that we have drifted apart recently. So if You asked me if there was anyone in this group who had anything to do with him besides me, and I couldn’t answer your question. There is one more thing I want to make clear first. In Osaka." "I see." The police department carefully chewed what Shiga said just now, and suddenly raised his eyebrows again and said: "In this murder case, when the cipher score was delivered to Ms. Hara Sakura at Tokyo Station, you were also in Osaka, weren't you?" At this moment, tenor Ono let out a breathless scream.I have noticed just now that Xiao Ye was unusually restless before this, and kept repeatedly clenching his fists and spreading his palms, or his lips were trembling. It seems that he finally couldn't help it and was about to explode . "No! No!" "Huh? What..." The police department looked back at Ono reflexively.Seeing his expression, the police immediately frowned. "Mr. Ono, what are you saying wrong?" "That sheet of music..., that sheet of music didn't fall from the bouquet. Sagara misunderstood her. I..., I didn't put that kind of thing in the bouquet!" "Oh, so that's what you were referring to. It's really a question of who the score is. If it didn't fall from the bouquet you sent, then where did it fall?" "I don't know that either. I don't remember things very clearly at that time, because I didn't realize that it had such a great significance, so I didn't pay special attention to it. But I can swear that the score must not be from It fell out of the bouquet!" Why did Ono get so angry over such a trivial matter?Why did he make himself sweaty, tense, and even out of breath for this?The police department must be as skeptical about this as I am, but he deliberately pretended not to notice and asked: "So that's the case, but in this way, who else was by Ms. Hara Sakura's side at that time? I already know that you and Ms. Sagara were there, besides you..." "And me." Mr. Hara Satoshiro said without hesitation. Mitsuki Shunsuke said: "This is the quotation from Tsuchiya Kyouzo's notes. There is still a lot of content in this note, and it is very interesting. If you continue to quote it, Master Yuri and I will never show up. I have to bear the pain here." Interrupting Tsuchiya's notes, I will review this murder case from the perspective of Master Yuri and myself. Of course, if necessary, I will refer to Tsuchiya's notes at any time in the following parts. As far as the code is concerned, the score of the mystery in this chapter is actually very naive and basic. I think readers should be able to solve it with a little bit of brainstorming.Attached here is the sheet music, please try it. "