Chapter 23 chapter 2

"why?!" From the direction of the entrance, Yayezi's voice almost screamed.Misako and Sonoko who were in the living room got up together when they heard the sound, and the maid Sumie also rushed out from the kitchen. They ran to the porch, only to see Yayezi hiding Hongchang behind him.Confronting her are several detectives headed by the Western Police Department, and Yusaku is among them.When Misako saw him, he glanced at her too. "Please tell me, why did you arrest this child? He didn't do anything!" Yayezi slightly opened his arms to protect Hongchang, and took a step back.

Seeing this, Misako understood that the West and the others had come to take Hongchang away. "Whether he didn't do anything, we police will judge for ourselves. In short, I hope he can go to the police station with us." Although the tone of the West is gentle, there is an irrefutable meaning.He looked at Hong Chang, not Ya Yezi. "I don't agree. If you have something to say, please talk about it here." Yayezi shook his head excitedly.Hongchang lowered his head without saying a word. "Hey!" West sighed deliberately, "Then I'll tell you the reason."

"Okay, I'd like to hear what you have to say." Yayezi stared at Xixi. Xifang still didn’t let his eyes meet her, and only asked Hongchang, “You usually drive that white Porsche to university classes, huh?” Hongchang seemed to swallow a mouthful of saliva, his Adam's apple moved, and he replied vaguely: "Yes." "That day, the day the murder happened?" "Ok……" "Okay." Xixi nodded, looked at Yayezi's face and said, "Since the incident, we have been trying our best to search for clues, and finally found a person who saw a white Porsche near Zhenxian Temple during the day."

"No way..." Yayezi showed a dumbfounding expression, "It's ridiculous to suspect my family Hongchang because of such a trivial matter. White Porsches are everywhere on the road." "That's not the case." Xixi immediately denied it, "That kind of car is not so cheap that it is everywhere, but this is a subjective matter... However, if you hear this, Madam should understand: the witness Some people even remember that the Porsche seat cover is red. It matches Mr. Hongchang’s car.” Yayezi was suddenly at a loss for words, and turned his face slightly to his son who was hiding behind him.Hearing what the police department said, she must have felt uneasy.The person involved, Hong Chang, remained expressionless on his pale face.

"Speaking of which, you should understand, right? Come on, please make a step." When Xixi defeated the opponent and said so proudly, Yuanzi suddenly threw out a sentence: "He has an alibi." The surrounding air seemed to tremble because of her sharp tone, and everyone's eyes were focused on her. "Brother Hongchang has an alibi, doesn't he?" she said again. Xixi said inexplicably: "Alibi? Unfortunately, Mr. Hongchang didn't have one. His whereabouts were unknown for an hour between 12:00 noon and 1:00 pm." "One hour is not enough." Yuanzi pushed back, "If you want to commit a crime, you have to go home to get the crossbow first, don't you? If you go home first and then go to Zhenxian Temple, one hour is too late."

There was confidence in her eyes.Misako wondered if this would increase the credibility of her words. But the western police department stared into her eyes, sighed heavily, and then shook his head slightly. "I understand why you are so confident in your conclusion. But unfortunately, we have already removed the firewall." "Firewall?" The person who asked the question was Yayezi.So West looked at her. "When we began to suspect Mr. Hongchang, the alibi naturally became a problem. As Ms. Yuanzi said, it is impossible to commit a crime in only one hour, so there may be a trap in it. After a period of headache thinking, we realized that we never Lied in the first place. The arrow was indeed stuck in the back of the victim, and the arrow was matched with the crossbow. However, it is not necessarily the arrow that was shot by the crossbow."

Misako opened her mouth in surprise, and Ayako did the same.But Hongchang and Yuanzi did not see this change. "If you think about it carefully, it's actually very simple. Just hold the arrow like this..." Xi Xiyi clenched his fist and swung it vigorously, "or stab it from behind like a knife. You don't need to use a crossbow at all. Mr. Hongchang only He went out with an arrow. Of course, he created the illusion that the crossbow was in the study in advance, which was a simple trap." "Have you found a crossbow near the scene where Mr. Sugai was killed?" Sumie, standing behind Misako, asked over her shoulder.

When Misako looked back, Cheng Jiang's face turned pale. "Yes. It's not far from the murder scene. It's just," Xi said, "it was discovered the next day after the crime. The murderer probably threw it away on the night of the crime." Chengjiang murmured: "How could this happen..." There was deep sorrow in her voice.Misako couldn't help staring at her face again. "But... But, isn't this strange? As soon as the body was found, the police rushed here to check if the crossbow was there. At that time, the crossbow was indeed missing." Yayezi resisted desperately.

But Xi Jinping seemed to have expected her to do this long ago. He closed his eyes and shook his head halfway through what she said. "That's easy too. As long as someone hides the crossbow before the police come." "Who would do that? No one at all..." Yayezi said halfway, looking back at Yuanzi, "Is it you? That's why you left school early that day?" "No. Don't talk nonsense!" Yuanzi cried out, "What evidence do you have? This is just your wild guess." There was an unexpected smile on West's face.As if playing a trump card, he took out a plastic bag from the inside pocket of his suit.

"Do you know what is on the head here? This is the white chrysanthemum petal found in this entrance the day after the murder. We have fully investigated the shoes of the relevant people, and there was no such thing on the ground on the day of the murder. So I think, in After we collected the group, the people who came back to this house went to a place with white chrysanthemums, and the petals stuck to their shoes and were brought back. Only Mr. Akihiko and Mr. Hongchang met this point. Where are there white chrysanthemums? Woolen cloth?" He reached into his suit pocket again and took out a photo. "This is the scene where Mr. Sugai was killed. If you look carefully, you will find that the white petals at the feet are photographed in the photo, because the white chrysanthemums enshrined in front of the tomb were scattered all over the ground. Therefore, we will combine the petals we picked up here with the murder scene. The petals were compared, and it was found that the two were the same flower grown under the same conditions. This proves that one of Mr. Akihiko and Mr. Hongchang had been to the scene of the murder.”

Xixi took off his shoes, walked into the room, and stood in front of Hongchang who was hiding behind Ayezi with his head bowed. "We also investigated Mr. Akihiko's alibi. But no matter how you think about it, he couldn't have had enough time to commit the crime. So you may be the only person involved. Well, please tell the truth. It's up to now , no matter how much you deny it, it’s just a waste of effort.” The voice of the police department rang through the house. Under everyone's breathless gaze, Hong Chang turned his head slowly.He looked at the west, without any expression like a puppet, only opened his mouth. "You guessed wrong." He whispered. "Wrong guess? Guess what was wrong?" West raised his voice anxiously. Hong Chang licked his lips and looked at the police department with sincere eyes. "I did go to the cemetery, but it wasn't me. He was killed when I arrived."