Chapter 22 third quarter

Takehachi Sochii arrived at Koriyama Station. The question he is most concerned about is when did the stable attendant Sueyoshi and the contestant "Hinodi" arrive at Koriyama Station on June 16? On the same day at blackjack, at the same station, who took the box containing the body of Yamazaki Jiro?And Takehachi Sokui deduced that it was Sueyoshi. But there is an obvious illogicality, that is, how did the body of the editor-in-chief Yamazaki get into the box? Takehachi Sokui wanted to put this issue aside for a later time.The problem was that the truck had to reach Koriyama Station before the box could be picked up.Otherwise, it would be absolutely impossible for Sueyoshi to pick up the boxes at the same station.

The director of the freight department received Wuhachi's business card and immediately interviewed him.The man was a fat man of thirty-two or three years old.Looks very kind. Takehachi Sotsui put the main point of the question on the time when the livestock transport vehicle arrived at Koriyama Station, and everything else was incidental.If this question is not in line with reasoning, all other questions will be untenable. "Please wait a moment." The freight officer made a summary on the piece of paper with a red pencil: "Is it the livestock transport vehicle that departed from Tabata Station at 20:50 on June 15?"

"yes." "Livestock transportation, what kind of livestock are you transporting?" When asked here, the director seemed to think of something, "Oh! Is it a sports horse participating in the Fukushima horse race?" He smiled as he spoke. He also seems to be a fan of horse racing, so when the date is mentioned, he thinks of horse racing. "Now I'll check it out for you." The Director returned to his desk, looking for something.Desks and filing cabinets are full of papers. The sound of trains passing by, the sound of engines of large trucks, and the calls of porters could be heard constantly in Muhachi's ears.

The director managed to find a form from among the hills of files.He smiled back in front of Soi Takehachi: "I found it. The train with the livestock carriages did leave from Tabata Station at 20:50 on the 15th, but it arrived at this station too late. It was the next day on the 16th. It's ten past eleven." "What, twenty one ten?" "yes." Seeing Takeuchi Sotsui's surprised look, the director checked the form again, fearing that he had read it wrong.That's right. Arriving at 21:10 meant that he was ten minutes behind Moji's livestock cart.

Even if it arrived just after 21:00, it would be too late for Sueji to pick up the box as soon as he got off the truck, let alone arrive ten minutes later?Takehachi Sokui's previous reasoning collapsed at once. "Is this arrival time accurate?" "Absolutely." The director said with a smile: "This form is the record of truck arrivals at the station in the past three months. It is different from the timetable sold. It is the actual record of entering and exiting the station. Written after checking by personnel." Takehachi was discouraged.He would have liked to ask some side questions, but when the fundamental question went awry, the rest fell off.

"When the livestock truck arrived at this station, did the personnel on the station see the person who jumped from the livestock truck onto the line?" "How should I put it...the follower of the livestock cart brings water to the horse, buys things by himself, someone will come down!" "I want to know more details." "What exactly do you want to know?" The director felt that the question asked by Sui Jingwuba was very strange, so he asked a rhetorical question. Takehachi Sukui couldn't tell the truth here.Because the box containing the body of editor-in-chief Yamazaki was picked up from this station.If it is said that it is for the investigation, it will inevitably cause an uproar, so it is better to proceed quietly.

He made an excuse and changed the subject again. The director of the cargo department left the scene, not knowing where he went.Came back twenty minutes later.The fat director was sweating and wiped his forehead with a handkerchief. "Just now I went to look for the person on duty that day. Someone remembered the livestock carriage, but no one came down. The train stopped at this station for 20 minutes, but the doors were closed." "Why are they all closed?" "Probably the crew members fell asleep! Because it was already twenty past twenty when we arrived at this station."

All the speculations of Takehachi Suzui have come to naught. However, he still wanted to find out the face of the person who picked up the box.The irony is that it was presumed to be Moji before, but now it cannot be Moji, but someone else. He came to the pick-up area, found the person in charge, and handed in his business card.Because he came from Tokyo later, the other party took a higher look. "Since that incident happened, many people have come to the newspaper and asked the same question." "I'm very sorry." Takehachi Suijing said, the general situation was published in the newspaper, and he wanted to inquire about the details that were not published in the newspaper.

"What's not published in the newspaper is not enough for reference!" The attendant seemed to be a little impatient and said: "He wears a peaked cap covering his face, and he is wearing a light brown raincoat. He is about forty years old." "What does it look like?" "I don't remember clearly. People in the newspaper office asked me this, so I couldn't answer. In hindsight, he covered his face with a peaked cap, so he deliberately didn't let people see his features! He was very tall and tall, and he was wearing a raincoat The shoulders are as flat as if on a clothes rack."

This is the characteristic of Sueji.No matter in terms of age and stature, there was no one else except Suekichi. Takehachi Suzui was a little puzzled.It is unreasonable for Sueji to appear here. In order to verify, Sokui Takehachi told the attendant again about Sueyoshi's appearance in his memory. "Yes. It looks very similar to what you said." The attendant immediately affirmed it.It is certain that the person who picked up the goods was Suekichi. But Takehachi Sukui was not as happy as before.The livestock truck did not arrive until ten minutes after the blackjack box was picked up.And Sueyoshi, who was riding a livestock transport vehicle, couldn't show up at the pick-up window at that time anyway.

Takehachi left there and walked out of Koriyama Station.There are many restaurants in front of the station, and he drank two glasses of soda in a row at a cold drink hall.The swollen head felt a little refreshed. He took out the notepad and checked the departure and arrival time of the vehicle containing the corpse box and the livestock transport vehicle again. △Around 20:30 on June 15, the box was transported to the Freight Division of Tabata Station. △ At 21:30 on the 15th, the box was shipped out by a truck from Tabata Station. △At 19:05 on the 16th, the freight train arrived at Koriyama Station, and the boxes were unloaded. △At blackjack on the same day, the consignee appeared and took the box away. △At eight o'clock on the 17th, the abandoned body was found at the scene. △At 20:50 on the 15th, the livestock transport vehicle sent by Tabata arrived at Koriyama Station at 21:10 on the 16th.There is a ten-minute gap between the time of picking up the box and the arrival time of the livestock transport vehicle. Takehachi Sojii looked at the materials he had sorted out and thought about it for thirty minutes. Outside, buses bound for Fukushima, Mito and the suburbs flowed endlessly.The stewardess kept playing the flute. Suddenly a thought appeared in his mind: just now he heard at Koriyama Station that the doors of livestock cars are sealed. The timetable is correct.It would be a big mistake to think that Suekichi fell asleep in the car.How can I be so naive? When the car arrived at Koriyama Station, there was no one in the livestock car.Since there are no people but horses, the vehicles are airtight. Needless to say, the person went to pick up the box, but not at Koriyama Station, but got off the livestock car at the station in front, and went to Koriyama Station to pick up the box.The testimony of the person on duty in charge of picking up the goods introduced Sueyoshi's appearance in detail, and it seemed that there was absolutely no mistake.The problem was how he took the box away. If Sueyoshi got off the livestock truck and went to Koriyama Station to pick up the box at blackjack, what kind of transportation did he use?It was night at that time, the bus had already closed, and of course there was no taxi traffic like in Tokyo. Takehachi Sochii borrowed the train timetable from the clerk.Because it is a store in front of the station, there are preparations for this kind of service. With trembling fingers, he flipped to the northeast line.His eyes suddenly lit up as he looked at a row of tiny columns of numbers. He found the "hope" sent from Ueno at 16:30.This train arrives at Koriyama Station at 20:25, and it is very suitable to pick up the boxes at 21:00. This train arrives at Sukagawa, one stop before Koriyama Station, at 20:13. Although livestock trains must stop at every station, they arrive at Sukagawa Station before express trains.That is to say, it is not impossible for Moji to get off the livestock transport vehicle and wait on the platform for the express train at 20:13. Sueji arrived at Koriyama at 20:25, took out the box at 21:00, walked in the dark inside the station, and then carried it into the livestock car that came later (arrived ten minutes later), he had the key of the car, and the switch was free . In this way, the box containing the dead body in the livestock transport vehicle was temporarily hidden, and the next stop Wubaichuan was reached at 21:50, and then the box was thrown to the scene not far from the station during the parking time.Because there is not much parking time at this time, it cannot be taken to a very far place.So throw the box on the grass near the switch for this reason. Takehachi could not help knocking his knee. This is a break from the time plot that Suekichi took out the box. The second is to answer how the editor-in-chief Yamazaki turned into a dead body and was put into a box.It was he who delivered the box to Tabata station himself.It is a mystery that the shipper died and got into his own checked box. However, if we can figure out that Sueji got out of the cattle car on the way and took the express train that came after him, then perhaps the solution to this strange problem will not be so difficult. At this time, Takehachi Sotsui once again tabulated the train timetable on paper. It can be seen from the above table that the editor-in-chief Yamazaki took the express from Ueno at 21:40 on the 15th.Arrive at Oyama Station at 22:51, and arrive at Fukushima at 2:21 the next day.It is 8:50 to the terminal station Akita. The wagon loaded with horses departed from Tabata Station at 20:50 and arrived at Xiaoshan at 22:50. Oyama Station, this is a strange place. Knowing that the livestock transport vehicle and the "Tsugaru" arrived almost at the same time, Takehachi Sokui was shocked.This can provide conditions for Sueyoshi to wait for the subsequent express train "Hope" at Sukagawa. After the livestock transport vehicle departed from "Tsugaru", it still stopped at Oyama Station. So, can such a presumption be made? Just when Yamazaki was sitting on the seat of "Tsugaru" in the parking lot, Sueyoshi got off the livestock car parked at the yield line, appeared on the platform suddenly, and walked over. Previously, Yamazaki visited Sueji for this matter and got to know each other.Sueyoshi led Yamazaki into his compartment. The excuse may be that he wanted to tell Yamazaki some inside information about Okase Shohei's murder.Therefore, Yamazaki would happily listen to Sueyoshi's informant, and would have no doubts about what he said. Yamazaki gets into the livestock car.For the convenience of the people who follow the car, some empty space is left in the livestock car, which is the temporary resting place of Moji. The livestock truck drove off. Sueji saw the right moment and quickly killed Yamazaki Mon.It is estimated that after the departure from Xiaoshan Station, the car was driving on a sparsely populated road. But what happened to the box?As shown in the previous chart, Yamazaki was checked in at Tabata Station at around 20:30 on the 15th, and the box was loaded on the 1911 train from Omiya.Arrived at Koriyama Station at 19:05 on the 16th.The boxes were unloaded here and handed over to the luggage room. On the same night at blackjack, a man like Moji took the boxes away. This has been considered many times. So at which station did the livestock transport vehicle and the 1911 train from Omiya stop at the same time?Then it was Sueyoshi who took out the box that was in the truck, loaded it into the livestock truck, and put the dead Yamazaki back into the box. However, this also makes no sense.In the livestock truck, Sueji can do whatever he wants, but in the box truck, he can't.It is possible that the box is stacked with other goods and the box cannot be pulled out immediately.Even if it is taken out, it cannot escape the eyes of the flight attendant of this train.Besides, he didn't have the key to the car door, and if he smashed the door, he would be found immediately.What's more, the flight attendant said that he had inspected the truck compartment many times. So where did that box end up on the livestock truck?How did you put Yamazaki's body in it, and then move it back to the 1911 train at a certain station? Likewise, Sueyoshi couldn't do it without the key to the 1911 train. So, is it possible to take the box out of Koriyama and put the corpse in the livestock truck?The box was filled with something else of the same weight as a human body, which was actually a corpse. However, this can't be done either.It is very close from Koriyama to Wubaichuan Station, and it can be reached in 20 minutes by a livestock transport vehicle.The parking time in Koriyama is very short. In such a short time, it is too late to move the box in, untie the rope, replace the body in, and tie the rope again.Besides, it will take time to throw the boxes on site. Really couldn't figure it out, Takehachi Sujii held his head and thought hard.There must be an article on that box. How did they do it?Takehachi looked at the train diagram and muttered to himself. Suddenly he thought of a question that he had ignored. That is, the editor-in-chief Yamazaki must take the "Tsugaru" express. If Yamazaki takes other trains, this kind of plan cannot appear. Yamazaki did not ride the Tsugaru out of his own decision.There must be a condition that you must ride "Tsugaru" and be entrusted by someone.if not like this.It was impossible for Sueyoshi to lure Yamazaki into the cattle car at the Oyama station. It wasn't that Sueyoshi stumbled upon Yamazaki by accident and tricked him into the livestock wagon.It is an action after careful planning.The premise of this plan is that Yamazaki must become a passenger of the "Tsugaru" Express. Takehachi Sochii recalled the process of Yamazaki riding "Tsugaru". At around 9:20 on the 15th, Yamazaki left home to go to work under false pretense.It is unclear where he went from then until he became a corpse.If he took the "Tsugaru" express, then the reasoning above would be logical. Yamazaki took that train to go to Fukushima.That is to say, he was not at ease to let Takehachi Suzui investigate Okase's murder, and wanted to investigate it alone.For this reason, he once went to the Fuchu Racecourse and inadvertently stained straw clippings on the back of his jacket. With whom did he agree to take the "Tsugaru"? Takehachi Suzui thought of former member of parliament Toreuhei Tateyama and horse trainer Nishida who went to Akita on the same day and the next day.Okase Shohei embezzled huge sums of money from N Province before he was imprisoned, and there were signs of depositing them at the Tateyama former congressman.He repeatedly went to the Kagurazaka restaurant where Tateyama Toppei frequented, probably just to ask for a bill! Behind Okase's death is the shadow of Tateyama.The black shadow had swung over the head of Yamazaki who was investigating the matter, wanting his life - because Yamazaki held the conclusive evidence of Okase's murder. What is the evidence? Assuming that Yamazaki arrived in Fukushima safely, Takehachi Sochii must investigate the whereabouts of the former member of Tateyama and the horse trainer Nishida on the 16th. By the way, the actions of the stable attendant Sueyoshi must be clarified.Of course, the manipulations done on the box had to be figured out before that.