Chapter 19 Section 6

Sugai Masakiki's study is just the opposite of Guasheng Naoming's, focusing on practicality rather than decoration.There was not even a picture in the room, and every wall was crammed with bookcases and cupboards.The ebony desk, as large as a bed, held a computer and fax machine. "That day... the day before the murder, my husband ran to this room as soon as he got home, as if he was looking for some information." Xing Hui said lightly.It's only been a day since her husband was killed, but she, who shouldered the burden of the Sugai family, seems to have regained her composure.

"What information?" Oda opened the drawer and asked while looking inside. Xing Hui shook his head. "When I brought the tea, I saw him seem to be reading a book. That's not unusual, and I didn't pay much attention to it, so I didn't tell the police." "What kind of book is that?" Yusaku asked. Resting his cheekbones with his palms, Xing Hui tilted his head slightly and said, "In my impression... it looks like a folder." "how thick?" "It's quite thick, roughly like this." Xing Hui used his hands to measure the width of about ten centimeters, "And it feels quite old. When I glanced at it, the paper was all yellow."

"The folder... the paper is yellow." Oda rubbed his face with his right hand, as if enduring a headache, and then asked the man standing beside Xing Hui: "Mr. Weito, what about you? Do you have any impression of that folder? " "No, unfortunately I don't have any impression." Suoto tightened his narrow shoulders.Xing Hui heard that Zhengqing's study was going to be investigated, so he called him. "The day before the murder, I heard that you and Mr. Xu Bei went to Guasheng's house to look at the library of Guasheng's former president? Just now, my wife said that the old folder she saw was taken from Guasheng's house?"

"may be." "What the hell is that? You should know it in your heart, right?" "No, because," Sudou showed timid eyes, "I have told other policemen several times. President Sugai said that he wanted to visit the former president's library by himself, and Mrs. Guasheng and I have been in the lobby all the time. Therefore, I have no idea what books President Sugai is interested in." Oda sighed heavily. Yong Zuo decided to give up the hope of getting valid testimony from Xinghui and Wei Teng, and began to search for the thick folder that Xinghui remembered.Huge bookcases stretch from floor to ceiling, but there aren't many folders.Looking around, there seemed to be nothing in the bookcase that they were looking for.

"Did you see anything when your husband looked up information here, like an English dictionary?" Oda asked impatiently after checking under the desk and in the bookcase. Xinghui tilted his head and thought for a while, then pointed to the cabinet beside Yusaku: "There is no English dictionary, but when I came in, he took out a notebook with a black cover." That cabinet had ten drawers without handles. "I think it came out of the top drawer." Bravely reached out to pull the drawer.Oda also strode over, looked inside, but didn't see the notebook. "There's nothing inside," Yusaku said.

Xing Hui also walked over. "Huh? Really..." She looked at the empty drawer and her eyes widened. "There are a lot of things on the other floors. How is this cabinet classified?" Oda asked while opening the drawers below the second floor one after another. "I don't know the way of classification. The cabinet should be the relics left by my husband's father." "President Sugai's father...was one of the former presidents?" Oda asked. "yes." Yusaku and Oda looked at the items in the drawer in turn.Sure enough, as Xinghui said, they found a piece of information about Zhengqing's father, Subai Tadakiyoshi, when he was the president, including the construction plan and operation plan of the new factory.Perhaps these are the practical textbooks he left behind for his son to learn management.

"Your husband often reads the materials here?" Regarding Oda's question, Xinghui tilted his head and said "I don't know", and then said: "My husband once said that although these old things can replace father's photo album, they are not helpful for work. So I think he should Not very often. He did, however, take a notebook out of here that day." "The notebook is gone." "It seems so." Xing Hui showed an incredulous expression. "Does Mr. Suto have any memory of that notebook?" Suddenly asked by Oda, Suoto quickly shook his head and denied, "Today is also the first time I know about that cabinet."

"Oh." Oda looked regretful. Two documents are missing. Yusaku was thinking in his mind, one was a thick folder, and the other was a notebook with a black cover.What they have in common is that both are old materials.Why did they disappear from this study? "Has anyone entered this room from yesterday to today?" Yong Zuo asked. "Here?" Mrs. Xinghui clasped her hands in front of her chest like an opera singer, facing straight ahead, with only her black eyes looking diagonally upwards, "The scene yesterday was very chaotic... Maybe someone from the family came in. "

"Was it only your family and servants who were in this house yesterday?" "No, there are a few relatives who came tonight. Oh, and..." She clapped her hands lightly, "Akihiko also came when it was still early in the sky. Fortunately, there is him, otherwise it would be only my son Junhe, who is really busy Don't come." "Akihiko...Kuasheng Akihiko?" Hearing this name suddenly, Yusaku's heart twitched.But he was not surprised.Because he believed that Akihiko had something to do with the murder.Did Akihiko Kawao ever enter this study? Could it be that he took the two missing documents? However, Yusaku couldn't understand the meaning behind Akihiko's actions at all.

"We have temporarily investigated here today. If you think of anything, please feel free to contact us." Oda concluded the investigation and closed the drawer with his hands.The drawer on the first floor seemed to be stuck by something and couldn't be completely closed. "Strange." Oda bent down to look inside, raising his eyebrows in surprise. "Why?" Yuzuo asked. "There seems to be a piece of paper stuck inside." Oda reluctantly reached in, and carefully pulled it out.It seems to be a photo between the fingers. "What building is this?"

Oda stared at the photo, but refused to let Yusaku look at it, as if saying: He took it out, and only he can see it.He asked Xinghui again: "Do you know what this is?" When the photo was handed in front of her, she immediately shook her head: "I haven't seen it before." Oda handed the photo to Suoto again, Yusaku finally saw the photo.Suto said, "I don't know. What is this? It looks like an old building from the outside." "Really, it looks like a castle." Xing Hui also interjected. Both of them said they didn't know, and Oda didn't seem too interested.However, he still said, "Can I keep this photo?" After getting Xing Hui's consent, he carefully put it in his suit pocket. If Oda had noticed Yusaku's expression, he probably wouldn't have put away that photo so easily. Yusaku even felt that his face turned pale.He never forgot the building in that photo - it was the red brick hospital!