Chapter 21 Section 8

Back at the apartment, Yusaku took out an old notebook from the desk drawer.The handwriting written on the cover with a pen has become blurred unconsciously.The readable text is: Investigation Records of Bizarre Deaths in Brain Surgery Hospital and Cangxing Division That notebook existed more than 20 years ago, and it recorded the results of Koji's investigation into the case of Sanae's death in the red brick hospital. He dug out this notebook because he accidentally found that photo in Sugai Masaki's study during the day. Why does Sugai Masaki have a photo of the red brick hospital? Where did the "black notebook" that was originally placed with that photo go? What is Masaki going to investigate?

Yusaku doesn't understand the relationship between the Red Brick Hospital and Sugai Masaki.However, he has already noticed the relationship between Guasheng Naoaki and the Red Brick Hospital—it was Sanae's murder case. When my father was investigating the murder case, a well-mannered gentleman came to the house.He left after a long talk with his father, who soon stopped investigating. At the elementary school graduation ceremony, Yusaku learns that the gentleman is the father of Akihiko Kawao.Since then, Yusaku has been thinking that maybe Sanae's murder case is of great significance to the Guaseng family.

If this inference is correct, it would not be surprising that Masaaki Sugai would be interested in that murder case.The cabinet where the photo was placed was full of relics left by Zhengqing's father.In this way, from the point of view of time, doesn't it also coincide with the time of Sanae's murder? Yusaku once again set his sights on the notebook.He thought, if this case is related to Sanae's murder, he can't pretend to be someone else. The first time he saw this notebook was in the winter of the second year after he became a policeman and was officially assigned, which was also the winter when Xingji died.

Kouji often said to Yusaku: "After I die, the funeral should be kept simple, and all the certificates should be burned." Sometimes, he also said: "After I die, you should remember to tidy up the drawers of the shrine. There are things in it for you." It was more than two weeks after his father died that Yusaku had time to think about these words.He followed his father's instructions one by one for the funeral.Even without my father's instructions, the funeral had to be simple. Yusaku remembered his father's last words and checked the shrine.What exactly did the father want him to read? He found an old notebook folded in half in a small drawer—it was the "Investigation Records of Bizarre Deaths in the Brain Surgery Hospital".

It was not the police's information, but Xingji's investigation record on the murder case, so it also contained some drafts and simple notes. The main content at the beginning is roughly as follows: 1. Discovery of the body After 7:00 a.m. on September 30, a nurse on duty at Uehara Neurosurgery Hospital was walking in the courtyard south of the hospital when he found someone lying on the ground.Notified by the nurse, two on-duty doctors arrived and found that the woman had no pulse or vital signs.The hospital immediately contacted the Bureau.At 7:20 a.m., two policemen and two patrol officers from a nearby police station arrived and cordoned off the area for surveillance.At 7:30, the criminal police and forensic personnel of the Bureau's Criminal Division arrived at the scene to conduct investigations.

2. Situation of the dead body The body was confirmed by the nurses as that of Hino Sanae, a patient in the hospital.She was wearing white pajamas, barefoot, face up, lying in a large font on the south side of the building, directly below her own ward. An autopsy revealed that the cause of death was intracranial hemorrhage caused by a depression in the skull.In addition, the spleen and liver were damaged, and there were large areas of internal bleeding on the back. 3. On-site The deceased's ward was on the fourth floor of the south building of the hospital.The beds were messy and the windows were not closed.Slippers are neatly placed beside the hospital bed.The deceased's luggage and a simple mist set were placed in the ward, and there was no abnormality.

Judging from the position of the body and other circumstances, the deceased may have fallen from the window of the ward for some reason. 4. Eyewitnesses and witnesses No one has seen Sanae Hino since the hospital's lights-out time is 9:00 p.m.Also no one was found who knew if the windows were open. However, according to the testimony of Ichiro Sakamoto (56 years old), who lives in the ward next to Hino Sanae, he heard footsteps in Hino Sanae's room in the middle of the night, as well as a sound similar to a woman screaming.Sakamoto tried to call the nurse, but was too lazy to get out of bed and fell asleep later.He was not looking at the clock.

In addition, two patients living in the south ward heard something falling.Both said they didn't take the matter to heart. 5. The identity of Hino Sanae Hino Sanae was sent to the hospital seven years ago, and the person who sent her to the hospital was the then president of Guarang Industrial Co., Ltd. (died three years ago).Guasheng said that Hino Sanae's father was kind to him, so he took care of her on her behalf, but she may have intellectual disabilities, so she asked the very friendly Dean Uehara Masari to treat her.Uehara made a promise and prepared a personal ward for her on the fourth floor of the South Building, where she will be treated until today.

Hino Sanae's household registration is in Chita County, Nagano Prefecture. His father died in the war, and his mother also died of illness.Ask people in her hometown, and no one knows about the Hino family.There is a woman who is said to have lived next door to her house, and all she knows is that Sanae is in junior high school. Zhiming, the son of Xiang Guasheng and Akira, asked how his father met Sanae, and learned that Hehuang found her begging in the busy market by chance. After learning that she did not have a decent place to live, he decided to take her home and take care of her.But she had many problems in her daily life, so Kazuki decided to put her in therapy.

Naoaki and Uehara had never heard of the kind of favor Kazuaki received from Sanae's father, but Naoaki respected his father's last wish, continued to pay for the treatment and took over the guardian's obligations, and Uehara continued to treat her in principle.However, after seven years of treatment, there was no significant effect.The cause of Sanae's intellectual disability remains a mystery. 6. Hino Sanae's personality and life She has a honest personality, honest and shy, and although her IQ is only equivalent to that of a junior elementary school student, she can take care of most of her personal affairs by herself.She is not good at reading, can hardly count, and usually cleans the yard.She is highly wary of adults, but seems to enjoy being around children.The headmaster acquiesces to the neighborhood children playing in the yard, so she seems to look forward to their visits every day (Yusaku seems to go often too).

She gets up at seven and goes to bed at nine.This routine is said to have never been disrupted. All the densely recorded content in the notebook shocked Yusaku's heart, and the content conveyed in detail why Sanae was in that place. Yongzuo recalled that when he saw this notebook for the first time, what shocked him was that "she seemed to be looking forward to their visit every day".Yusaku back then also looked forward to going to the hospital to play. However, there are some contents in this notebook that make people unable to immerse themselves in emotions blindly, no, it should be said that most of them are suspicious.The most important point is the relationship between Sanae and Guasheng and Akira—perhaps it should be said that it is the relationship with Guasheng and his son. After reading this part of the records, it will not be surprising that it is related to the bizarre murders of Naoaki Guasheng and Sanae.After all, he is Sanae's guardian. However, Yong Zuo couldn't understand Nao Ming's reaction to the murder case. He might have persuaded the police to give up investigating the murder case. Yong Zuo still remembers that Xing Si's boss once came to the house for the case, and it seems that he spent a long time trying to persuade Xing Si, but failed, and walked away angrily.He might have said something like this at the time: "He Cang, don't be too stubborn, and you haven't found conclusive evidence of homicide. Besides, killing that woman is of no benefit to anyone. Judging from Sanae's IQ, even if the suicide It's unlikely, and it could have been an accident. It was a cloudless night, and Sanae probably woke up in the middle of the night and tried to open the window to look at the stars, but leaned out so much that she lost her balance and fell. That's it. You just Tell yourself that..." Kouji mentioned in his notebook that the Shimadzu Police Department seems to have had a negative view of the homicide from the very beginning. The boss can't convince Xingji.A few days later, Guasheng Zhiming appeared in person.Yong Zuo believes that the fact that the boss came to the house before was the result of Gua Sheng's family persuading the police. This time Xingji accepted the opponent's opinion and stopped the investigation. I don't know what Guasheng Zhiming said to his father.For Yusaku, this is also the biggest mystery.There is no record in the notebook. But Yusaku is convinced that his father Xingji has never given up on the view that "Sanae died of homicide".He wrote several reasons in the middle of his notebook: Sanae sticks to bedtime and wake-up times.Testimonies from the nurses mentioned that it was impossible for her to get out of bed in the middle of the night.So maybe she opened the window in the middle of the night to look out? Whose footsteps did the patient in the next ward hear? Sanae was wearing slippers in the ward. Sanae was barefoot.Even if you just open the window to look outside, you usually wear slippers, right? I heard that once upon a time someone took Sanae to the roof of the hospital.She cried and made a fuss.Does she have a fear of heights? If so, it would be impossible to lean out of the window. On the night of the murder, several people witnessed a large black car parked in front of the hospital gate.Isn't that the vehicle prepared by the murderer? Looking at these suspicious points all the way, Yusaku can fully accept Xingji's reasons for insisting on the murder theory.What is even more suspicious is why the police didn't investigate further? Yusaku looked at the notebook, determined to try to find out the truth.He felt that Xingji wanted him to do the same.Although Xingsi did not make a name for himself in the police circle, he always went all out for every case and handled the case in a way he could accept.His only regret is probably this "bizarre death in a brain surgery hospital". However, when Yusaku got the notebook, it was already impossible to re-investigate the murder case.To this day, how many people still remember that case? Yong Zuo knows that the only way is to ask the people of Gua Sheng's family directly, maybe they know the truth of the matter.But it is not easy to take action, even if you ask them, there is no way to start.If they suddenly visit the door and ask them to tell the truth about Sanae's death, they will only be regarded as crazy. Bravely thinking about it, there was no solution, but because I was busy with heavy work every day, unconsciously, the mood of thoroughly investigating the truth gradually faded. He did not expect that this murder case would involve the Red Brick Hospital. Think bravely and try it out.I don't know how much this murder is related to the Sanae case, but let's do our best. "This murder case is my case, and it has a lot to do with my youth." Yongsaku shook the notebook in his hand and shouted in his heart.