Chapter 22 Section 1

The red brick hospital full of memories in Yongzuo's mind has long been changed beyond recognition.The nostalgic red brick building has become an all-white reinforced concrete house, which looks like a high-end hotel, and most of the former green yard has been turned into a parking lot. Yusaku went around, trying to find the place where he met Sanae, Misako and Akihiko Kuwao, but he couldn't find it. I don't know if the management policy has changed, or the neurosurgery alone can't operate, or both, the name of the hospital has also changed from "Uehara Neurosurgery Hospital" to "Uehara Hospital".

This morning, as soon as Yusaku arrived at the Shimadzu police station, he immediately went to look for Nishi, and asked to investigate the building in the photo that he showed Nishi after he returned to the police station from Sugai's house yesterday. "I always feel that I have seen that building, but I couldn't remember it yesterday, so I didn't express any opinion." "Do you remember now?" West asked, holding the photo in his hand.It has not yet been decided how the photo will be investigated as the connection between the photo and the murder is unclear.

"I think it's probably the Uehara Neurosurgery Hospital in Showacho, near my hometown, so I have the impression." "Oh, it's a hospital. Listening to you, it does look like a hospital. Well, you can go for a walk." Xi Jinping stared at the photo intently. Think bravely, but fortunately the West did not ask a lot of questions. He reported his name to the front desk of the hospital and expressed his desire to see President Uehara. "Have you made an appointment with the dean?" the front desk lady in a white robe asked in surprise. Yongzuo replied: "Yes."

He made a phone call before coming here, and only then did he know that the dean Uehara Masari had passed away.The person who answered the phone was Shinichi Uehara, his son-in-law and second-generation dean. After waiting for a while, another nurse took Yong Zuo to the dean's room.As soon as the nurse knocked on the door, a deep voice came from the room: "Please come in." "Mr. Wakura is here." "Please come in." When Yuzuo stepped into the dean's room, he was greeted by a fat man.This person has a ruddy complexion and thick black hair, but he should be in his forties or fifties.

"Sorry to interrupt you during your busy schedule. I am the inspector general of the Shimadzu Police Station, and my surname is Wakura." Yuzuo bowed his head and saluted.When he raised his head, he found a woman sitting on a group of sofas in the center of the room, about forty-five or sixteen years old, with a figure that was the exact opposite of Uehara's, slender and slender.Yusaku also bowed his head to salute her, and she immediately nodded in return. "She is Harumi, my wife." Uehara introduced to Yusaku, "You said that you want to ask about the former hospital and my husband. I think I may not be able to answer in detail by myself, so it shouldn't matter if I ask my wife to come over?"

"Of course it doesn't matter, thank you for being so thoughtful." Yusaku bowed his head again. "Come on, please sit down." Uehara spread out his palms and stretched out his hand to signal Yusaku to take a seat on the sofa, while he sat next to his wife Harumi, who looked only half his age. Yong Zuo sat opposite them.The leather sofa is softer than expected, and the whole body almost sinks into it. "I was really shocked. I didn't expect Mr. Criminal Police to come to our hospital because of that murder case." Uehara took out a cigarette from the cigarette case on the coffee table and lit it with a desktop lighter.Probably no one in this area is aware of the murder of Masaaki Sugai.

"It is not yet known whether the murder case is related to your court, but even if there is only a slight relationship, it must be investigated. This is our job." "Well. The police are really hard. By the way, would you like something to drink? Brandy or Scotch?" Harumi immediately got up from the sofa. Yuzuo hastily waved his hand to stop him. "Thank you for your kindness, but we are not allowed to drink while on duty." "Really? It's a pity that I have good wine." Uehara's expression was a little regretful, maybe he wanted to drink it himself.

"Excuse me, what are you here for today?" Harumi asked.She probably felt that if her husband was allowed to receive Yusaku, the conversation would not continue.Her voice was low for a woman, and it didn't fit her thin body. "Actually, I want to invite you to take a look at this photo." Yong Zuo took out the photo and placed it in front of the two of them. Uehara twirled the photo with his fat fingers. "This is the building here when my father-in-law was still in good health." "It was called the Red Brick Hospital back then, right?" Harumi looked surprised. "You know it very well."

"I used to live nearby, and I used to play in the yard here when I was in elementary school." "Hey, that's right." Her tone of voice changed, and she narrowed her eyes as if she missed the past.It must have been a long time since she had heard it mentioned. "This is a beautiful building with an old charm. Many people were reluctant to remodel it. But it was so dilapidated that it had to be rebuilt." Uehara's tone sounded like he was making excuses. "The remodeling was eight years ago, right? At the time the former dean was..." "The old man was still alive, but he was suffering from stomach cancer. He probably knew that he was going to die soon, so he said to me: 'I will leave the hospital to you.' After taking over the hospital, we gritted our teeth and made a major renovation. In addition to the building, we also remodeled the internal structure. Before that, this place could not be separated from the personal hospital system, and it could not be maintained. As operators, we must have From what I have noticed, the hospital is also regarded as a business operation." Uehara deviates from the main topic.

Harumi probably sensed Yusaku's confusion, took the photo from her husband, and said, "This photo seems to have been taken a long time ago." "What's different?" "Yes, there is an incinerator next to it. I think it should have been dismantled almost twenty years ago." "Well, that's right. I also vaguely remember it." Uehara also came over to join in the fun, "There are still such old photos." "It was found from the belongings of President Sugai who was killed." Uehara opened his eyes wide and let out an oh. "I didn't come here today to ask anything in particular, I just wanted to confirm one thing - why does Mr. Sugai have such a photo?"

"This," Uehara looked puzzled, "Mr. Sugai has never been here, and we don't know his family..." "What about the former dean? Did you hear what he said?" "No, I hardly talked to my father-in-law about the past—have you heard anything from him?" Uehara asked Harumi. She also shook her head. "As far as I know, my father never said anything about Mr. Sugai." "Uh..." If other detectives had come here, the interrogation might have ended, but Yusaku still had a trump card in his hand. "Even if you don't know the relationship between your father and Sugai, your father and former president Guasheng should be very close friends." Hearing this at first, the dean and his wife looked at each other in surprise. "My father?" Harumi asked. "Yes. Twenty or thirty years ago, there was an accident where a patient fell from a window and died." Harumi couldn't immediately understand what the young detective in front of her was saying.Her blurred eyes wandered in the air, her lips parted slightly. "Did it happen... on the fourth floor of the South Building? A female patient fell from the building..." "Exactly." Yongzuo nodded, "The guardian of the female patient at that time should be Naosheng Guasheng." "Sniff," she clapped her hands on her chest, "I remembered, there is indeed such a thing. In the beginning, her guardian was Mr. Guasheng's father, and he took over the burden after his father died." "Exactly, you remember it well." "It was a big deal for my family. I was helping out at the house and overheard the police talking to my dad a lot." "Oh." Judging by Harumi's age, she might still be living at home at the time. "I've also heard a little about that murder case." Uehara rubbed his chin with his hands, "But my father-in-law just mentioned it hastily, and it's not convenient for me to ask." "It feels like my father really doesn't like hearing about that incident. After the murder case was solved, he didn't give us any explanation." "Where is Ling Tang? Does she know anything?" Masari Uehara's wife died five years before him. "I'm not sure about that..." Harumi tilted her head, and in the middle of speaking, she suddenly looked at Yusaku in shock, "Is there any relationship between that murder case and this incident?" "No." Yusaku eased the lines on his cheeks, "It's just because I'm interested in the relationship between Fushang and Gua Sheng's family. According to the investigation, Gua Sheng and Akira are old friends with Dr. Uehara, so they brought that female patient here for treatment. We I want to know, under what kind of opportunity, did they become close friends?" Harumi nodded and said: "As expected of the police, the investigation was really careful. But, is it necessary to investigate what happened so long ago?" "No way, this is work." Yusaku put his hands on his head—on the surface it was work, but in fact it was a personal investigation. "It's been so long, I completely forgot the friendship between Mr. Guasheng and his father, and I really don't know how they became close." Harumi said apologetically, "But, maybe..." "how?" "If I remember correctly, earlier, my father was stationed in a certain company's medical station. That company might be UR Electric, and it was called..." "Melon Industry." Yusaku said. Harumi nodded frequently. "That's the name, maybe it's the Guaran Industry. Although there are not a few companies with medical stations now, it was very rare at that time, so it must be the Guaran Industry, which was already a big company at that time." Come to think of it, this inference is reasonable. "Mr. Uehara is stationed at the medical station of Guasheng Industry...But, his specialty should be brain surgery?" "Well, that's right, although some diseases are not his specialty, it's still possible to see them." "There was a shortage of doctors at that time, and I heard that he saw all kinds of diseases." Uehara added with a proud face. "Does anyone know what happened back then?" Yongzuo asked. Uehara folded his arms exaggeratedly. "Well, who is there?" "How is Mr. Hill?" As Harumi said, Uehara clapped her hands reflexively. "Yes, he might be the right man. He was a college friend of my father-in-law's, and he's retired." Uehara got up and turned over the desk, and took out a business card from the business card holder.Yongsaku took it and looked at it, only the name "Yamazhang Kozo" was written on it, without a title. "I only saw him once at my father-in-law's funeral. If he hadn't moved, he should still be living here now." While copying the address and phone number on the business card, Yusaku asked, "You just said that he is a friend of Mr. Uehara's college days, and he is also a brain surgeon?" "It seems to be, but I heard that he didn't start his own business." "He admired my father very much," said the lady. "He seemed to be a very good scholar. But because of the war and the environment did not allow it, he said that it was a pity that he did not have the opportunity to do research." "After all, it's not easy to live by doing research alone." This sentence probably reflects Shinichi Uehara's own situation, and is full of the voices of those who have experienced it. Yong Zuo pretended to be looking at the records, and his eyes fell on the watch.He felt that he could not get any news from here. "Thank you very much for taking the time to accept inquiries today. I think I may ask for advice in the future, and I will have to trouble you two." Yong Zuo thanked and stood up. "I'm sorry, I couldn't help at all." "No, where." Yuzuo was the same as when he came in, bowing his head frequently and leaving the dean's room.Although there is no breakthrough, it is quite satisfying to find out that Masari Uehara was once stationed at the medical station of Guasang Industry, the predecessor of UR Electric, and Kozo Yamagami. Yusaku was about to walk out of the entrance of the hospital when a shout of "Mr. Wakura, Mr. Wakura" came from behind him.He looked back and saw Uehara Shinichi running towards him with his bloated body shaking. Yongsaku checked his pockets, wondering if he forgot something. "Fortunately, we caught up." Shang Yuan came in front of him, his chest heaved violently, and a stream of sweat flowed down his temples. "Did you remember anything?" Yuzuo asked after he had evened his breath. "I don't know if this matter will help. Maybe I remember wrongly, and even if I remember correctly, it may have nothing to do with it." "Appreciate further details." Yusaku and Uehara sat side by side on the bench in the waiting room.The waiting room was full of voices, and the business situation of Uehara Hospital should be pretty good. "After listening to what you just said, there is one thing that has been lingering in my mind." Uehara lowered his voice slightly, "It is the surname Guasheng. I have nothing to do with UR Electric, but I have an impression of this surname. It should be Because this surname is very special." "Can you remember where you heard it?" Yong Zuo thought, since he has nothing to do with UR Electric, it's useless to say it, but let's just ask. "Well, that happened more than ten years ago. At that time, I was still staying at the University Hospital, and I often came here. It was decided that I would inherit the place, so I came to learn the operation of the hospital first, so as to prepare for the future. At that time , a young man who felt like a high school student or college student came to see the dean." "More than ten years ago... like a high school student or college student..." Yusaku's mood began to churn. "He seemed to come two or three times. Whenever that young man came, I would be kicked out of the dean's office. So I asked the front desk for the name of the visitor. I remember she answered me, it was Mr. Guasheng." Yusaku couldn't find the right words to respond, and stared blankly at Uehara's face.Uehara also became embarrassed, and said with a shy smile, "There really isn't any connection, right?" "No, that..." Yuzuo swallowed, "I don't think it should be irrelevant, but I will keep it in mind. Thank you so much for coming here to tell me." After saying that, Yusaku stood up, bowed deeply to Uehara, and then walked towards the entrance.His knees trembled slightly, making it difficult to move forward. Yong made the building and sat down on a chair beside the small flower bed.When I sat side by side with Misako before, I was surrounded by greenery, but now I can only see concrete and asphalt. Why didn't you find it strange before? This question came to Yusaku's mind several times.Why did Akihiko Guasheng give up being the successor of a big company and choose the completely different path of being a doctor? The young man mentioned by Uehara Shinichi just now should be Akihiko Kawao.Judging from the time, Akihiko was a student of Tonghe Medical University at the time.When he went to see Dean Uehara, he may have just been admitted to university, or not long after he enrolled. The Sanae murder case at the Red Brick Hospital was related to the Guaseng family.The Red Brick Hospital is a brain neurosurgery hospital, and Sanae is a patient of this hospital, but Akihiko Kawao refuses the bright road with a bright future and turns to the path of medicine, and it is a narrow path of brain medicine that few people take. Should we think about it from the point of view that Akihiko had some form of relationship with the Red Brick Hospital when he was studying medicine? And the relationship between him and the Red Brick Hospital should not be limited to the Red Brick Hospital like Yusaku The doctor feels longing. Memories of high school flashed in Yusaku's mind.He first remembered what happened in the next class when he was a sophomore in high school. "Gua Sheng seems to be going to study abroad after he enters the third grade." A close friend told Yuzuo at the time. "Where are you going?" "It seems to be England. Go to a famous high school with rich young masters, I don't know what it is called. They say they will stay there for two years, maybe they will go to the school there in university. What the elites do is different from ordinary people." "That's right." Yong Zuo responded with mixed feelings in his heart.He didn't feel anything about Akihiko studying abroad.The Gua Sheng family's financial resources are enough to afford Huang Yan to study abroad, and he must be allowed to receive that kind of education.And brave writers have neither money nor the need.However, this is only the difference in the family environment of the two people, not the difference between the two people themselves.Yusaku doesn't take this kind of thing to heart. What makes Yong Zuo regretful is that it is very likely that he has not won him even once, and he will leave him.Yong Zuo has been working hard to get rid of the shame, but if the other party disappears, the past shame will never have a chance to be cleared. But at the same time, he felt a sense of relief, as if he had finally removed the thorn in his side: As long as Akihiko is not around, it is not difficult to win the championship in terms of performance, and he can give full play to his leadership qualities as before. These two emotions are entangled in Yusaku's heart, and he himself cannot understand his true thoughts. Leaving this aside, there was one thing that was certain at the time - Akihiko really wanted to inherit Naifu's estate. Yusaku didn't quite know what Akihiko's education direction was before that, because both of them went to the same school from elementary school to high school, and Akihiko obviously didn't want to enter the so-called private star school.In Yusaku's view, the daughter of a wealthy family will naturally attend a private school that can go straight to university.However, Akihiko, like everyone else, worked hard for the entrance examination, and was admitted to the best public high school recognized by the local area.It is said that when someone asked him why he worked so hard, he replied: "I hate having my life in other people's hands. I do what I want to do." He will not obey his parents. Yusaku once thought, then, he would not inherit that company, what a pity. Hearing about studying abroad, Yusaku thinks that Akihiko still wants to inherit the family business.From the point of view of personality, it is impossible for Akihiko to let his parents spend an extra dime for something he likes. However, Akihiko did not study abroad in the end.In the third semester of the second grade, the plan was suddenly terminated. "I heard that the British school didn't let him enroll." The friend from before didn't know where to get the gossip. "Didn't he get into trouble this winter? It seems to be because of that." The so-called trouble refers to Akihiko's unexcused absence from class.Shortly after the winter break ended and school started, he didn't come to class for a week.As it turned out afterward, he wasn't home during that time—he was completely lost. It is rumored that the study abroad program was terminated because the school that originally wanted to accept him refused him admission because of this matter. However, this is just an unfounded rumor.It didn't take long for everyone to know that Akihiko told his teacher that he didn't want to study abroad on his first day back at school. Why did Akihiko give up his study abroad plan? Why did he cut classes? Yusaku and his classmates enter the third grade knowing nothing about these things. Yusaku's high school stipulates that students must decide whether to study liberal arts or science before entering the third grade, and then they will be arranged according to each person's decision. Of course, the one who is brave to study is science.At that time, he had already decided not to go to OAU and medical university. Yusaku waited in the designated classroom, and students who also aimed at the medical department and students who wanted to study engineering came in one after another.Their school adopts a mixed class system for boys and girls, and only 10% of the girls in this class, while the liberal arts class is just the opposite.Thinking of his former classmates surrounded by a large group of girls, Yusaku felt that they were both enviable and ridiculous. Someone came to Yusaku's side.He looked up subconsciously, startled.It was Akihiko Kawau! Yusaku thought he would enter a class full of girls. I don't know if Akihiko knows Yusaku's surprise, he glanced at Yusaku, and then said in a cold voice: "Please give me your advice." "This is the science class." Yusaku said tentatively. "I know." Akihiko said sideways. "Aren't you studying liberal arts?" Akihiko twitched his cheek towards Yusaku. "I hope you don't arbitrarily decide the direction of other people's studies." "Aren't you going to inherit your father's business?" "I mean you," Akihiko looked at Yusaku impatiently, "Can you leave other people's business alone? It has nothing to do with you, right?" The two stared at each other for a while.How many times has this scenario happened? "Of course it doesn't matter." Yusaku looked away, "It has nothing to do with me." The two were silent for a long time. Although Yusaku said it had nothing to do with it, it was impossible not to care about it in his heart: Why did Akihiko choose science? Yusaku tried to calmly ask the teacher which university Akihiko wanted to study, but the teacher replied: It seems that he hasn't decided yet.After autumn, most of the students decided to choose their volunteers one after another.Only Akihiko's direction of further education is unknown, not even the teacher seems to have a clue. "Because he can probably get in anywhere," Yusaku's friends said.Obviously, Akihiko Guasheng will definitely be admitted no matter which department or department he applies for. It was a long time after the new year that Akihiko Guasheng decided to volunteer.This incident spread quickly among the students like a strong wind passing through the country.In addition to the fact that this matter attracted the attention of the public, its content also surprised everyone. It seemed that he was going to apply for the entrance examination of Tonghe Medical University - the person who was most surprised when he heard about this was probably the brave one.Is Akihiko Guasheng going to be a doctor? Are you applying for the same university as yourself? On the day of the exam, Yusaku met Akihiko in the exam room. He planned to pretend not to see him when he met him, but his feet refused to move and walked towards him.And Akihiko didn't reject people thousands of miles away. "How was the exam?" Yong Zuo asked.At that time, after finishing the Chinese and mathematics exams, there was one social subject left that day, and the next day was science and English. "It's okay." Akihiko turned his neck, answered ambiguously, and then asked, "When did you start wanting to be a doctor?" "About junior high school." "It's so early." "And you?" "I don't know. When did it start?" A gust of cold wind blew up, messing up Akihiko's bangs.He said while tossing his hair: "The fate of a person is predestined somewhere in the dark." "What do you mean by that?" "It's nothing," he shook his head, "Come on for the exam!" After finishing speaking, he went back to the exam room. This is the last conversation between Yusaku and Akihiko when they were students. At that time, something must have happened to Akihiko Kawao, and that incident changed his fate.what is it? Yusaku got up from the chair.The sunlight reflected by the asphalt road is very dazzling.He circled the grounds again before leaving the building that had once been known as the Red Brick Hospital. Back at the Shimadzu Police Station, the main members of the task force headed by the West were about to leave the meeting room, and the atmosphere was full of tension and excitement.Yusaku's intuition told him that something must have happened. "Where are you going?" Yusaku asked as soon as he spotted Oda's figure, grabbing his sleeve. Oda looked impatient, and replied rudely: "Guashengjia!" "What did you find?" Oda shook off Yusaku's hand, a disgusted smile appeared on his face. "White Porsche and white petals, we're going to catch melon Sheng Hongchang."