Chapter 8 third quarter

Looking at the future newspapers, I know that the criminal who killed Okase has not been caught yet. There was something tricky about it, and the local papers might have covered it in detail, but the Tokyo papers didn't say a word about it.This is the ending of a sensational news figure. If the prisoner is caught, the Tokyo newspaper will definitely publish it, but now there is no sound, which means that the search and arrest has encountered difficulties. Takehachi Sochii resumed his original work order. For Okase Masahira, he lived a life like a criminal policeman, but now it seems that this is meaningless.

Yamazaki sits downcast at his desk every day, lazily meditating.Suddenly, one day he called Takehachi Sujii to him: "You said that Masaaki Okase hid the money in the tombs of his ancestors and mother, but now it seems that's not the case!" Yamazaki said in a low voice. "That's what I thought at the beginning." Takeuchi Sujii said embarrassingly, and then he started smoking his cigarette sullenly. "I don't think so. I think there are other things hidden. The so-called other things are things that can be sold at current prices at any time, such as gems and precious metals."

In short, before the murderer was caught, Yamazaki refused to give up the idea of ​​finding gold easily. Yamazaki has been going out a lot these days.Contrary to his usual listless demeanor, he suddenly became restless.Perhaps it was the weather that prevented him from staying in the dingy, cramped editing room.Where he went is unknown.Going to a coffee shop for tea?Wouldn't that be a waste of time! As the editor-in-chief, he delegated all the specific work to the editors, and he just glanced at the proof before going to press, and the task was considered completed.He didn't mention the Okase incident any more.

Not even the newspapers mentioned it, twenty days had passed since the incident. There was a man, Takehachi Sotsui, who came back from an interview and walked into the editorial department. A jacket hung on a round clothes rack in the corner.Takehachi Sukui recognized at a glance that it was Yamazaki's clothes.The strange thing is that there is a white thing stuck to the back of the clothes. Takehachi glanced at the editorial room, and saw Yamazaki wearing a shirt and reading the newspaper there.The rest of the editors are busy with their work. Takehachi touched the white spot on Yamazaki's jacket with his fingertips, and it turned out to be white straw.

Takehachi Sokui recalled the scene of the stable attendant using a wooden fork in front of the racetrack in the middle of the bridge to pick up straw for fodder. It may be that the straw clippings there were blown up by the wind and stuck to Yamazaki's jacket. Could it be that Yamazaki went to Fuchu Racecourse? Takehachi Sokui didn't say anything about it, pretending not to know, and buried himself in the proofs. Takehachi Sochii sat at his desk and thought: Yamazaki didn't stop there, he must have gone to see the stable attendant Sueyoshi!But what was he going there for? The two of them had gone to Sueyoshi together before, but Sueyoshi just said that Okase asked him about the condition of the horses. It seems that Yamazaki did not believe Sueyoshi's statement.

Yamazaki went to Sueyoshi after going through various considerations.Although I don't know what the reason is, it is certain that it has something to do with Okase's hidden money. Maybe Yamazaki will tell himself what happened.But Yamazaki didn't call him until after get off work. Yamazaki took off the jacket from the hanger and put it on, he didn't notice the straw chips stuck to his clothes and being taken away by Takehachi Sokai. "Mr. Yamazaki!" Just as Yamazaki was about to leave the office, Takehachi Suzui caught up and stopped him. "What's the matter?" Yamazaki turned around.

"I'm going back too, how about going to have a cup of tea nearby?" "Okay!" Yamazaki instinctively felt that Takehachi Sujii might have something new to tell him, so he responded, "Then sit down for a while!" The two came to a small tea shop near the newspaper office.There were not many guests, so they found a quiet corner to sit down. "Mr. Editor, the Okase case seems to have no end, and the murderer is still not caught." "I pay attention to the newspapers, but there has been no news. It's no wonder that the police in the countryside can't compare with the Metropolitan Police Department in Tokyo!"