Chapter 23 Section 7

Takuya entered the store fifteen minutes ago and sat in a window seat.After ordering coffee, put your face close to the window and keep your eyes on the road downstairs. This is the iron rule when you make an appointment with Xingzi. "Come with me tonight," Xingzi said at the beginning of the phone call: "At seven o'clock in front of the shop I often go to. Is that okay?" Her tone could not be divided. After Takuya agreed, he asked, "What's going on tonight?" "Moving," she replied. "move place?" "I decided to move to the big room. Isn't it a pity to waste an empty room for dead people?"

"Haha, that's how it is." To put it simply, Hoshiko seems to be moving from the current room to Naoki's room, and she wants Takuya to help her move. "Is this the only thing tonight?" "That's right. Is this the only thing you're not happy about?" Xingzi raised her voice, she was such a difficult woman. "No, that's not it. I thought what you wanted to talk to me about was Hashimoto's death." "Mr. Hashimoto...he seems to be dead, right?" Even with her aggressive personality, she lowered her voice slightly. "He was murdered. Have you read the newspaper?"

"I read it, but why am I involved in his death?" "Gee, no particular reason." "If there is no reason, don't talk nonsense. Seven o'clock, don't be late!" As soon as she finished speaking, she unilaterally hung up the phone. Tuo didn't add sugar or creamer, just drank the black coffee brought by the waiter, thinking: It's not without reason.For Hoshiko, Naoki is also a hindrance, and she has the motive to kill Naoki.However, she was the same as Zongfang, and Takuya couldn't find a reason for Hashimoto to attack her. After finishing half a cup of coffee, Takuya saw a Porsche stop under the window, put down the coffee cup rudely, rushed to the cashier with the bill, opened his wallet and smacked his lips when he found only 10,000 yen bills.It is also one of the iron rules to prepare money before drinking coffee without giving change.

The cashier moved slowly, probably a part-time female high school student, she handed out the change clumsily, Takuya picked it up, stuffed it into his pocket and walked out of the store. Xingzi sat in the driver's seat of the Porsche, waiting for him while tapping the steering wheel with his fingertips.Takuya raised his hand and got into the car through the door on the other side. "The cashier lady delayed the time." Tuoya made an excuse to appease her, but Xingzi drove forward without saying a word.The electronic clock didn't show seven o'clock yet.Even so, she shouldn't wait for more than three minutes.Takuya once didn't know her habit, and when he went to the toilet in the coffee shop, she left immediately.Even if it was nearly five minutes before the agreed time, she would turn around and leave without saying a word.So when you meet her, you can't take your eyes off the window of the coffee shop.

"About Mr. Hashimoto," Hoshiko said after a while at the car dealership, "I saw the pens used for crimes from newspaper photos." "It's a product of Company S." Takuya said. Xingzi snorted coldly. "Even if he was a low-level employee, my father would not be able to send that kind of cheap domestic goods. If you use your brain, you will become suspicious, but Mr. Hashimoto probably thinks that it is a high-end product." "Isn't it?" Takuya spat in his heart, that's a high-end product for us.He also almost fell victim to the murderous hands of the prisoner.

"So the prisoner is really stupid. This kind of clumsy method is impossible to kill me." "It should be." Tuoya responded, thinking to himself: Is it because I think Xingzi is weird? When we arrived at Nishina's house, the mover's truck was about to leave.According to Hoshiko, Naoki's luggage seems to have been moved from Komae's apartment and put into the warehouse behind. "I vacated that apartment and wanted to tidy up the room here by the way." Takuya followed Hoshiko into the house.The eldest daughter of the family, Saori who is currently the wife of Shinichi Sokata, also came to instruct the two maids how to pack their luggage.Unlike Hoshiko, she feels that her facial features are delicate and demure, and her facial features are also quite Japanese.Takuya re-buttoned his suit jacket and greeted her.

"I told her that there is no need to rush to move, but the child just doesn't listen, I'm so sorry!" Saori said with apologetic expression. So Hoshiko said with an angry face: "If that person moved to Komae's apartment, he would have thrown away all the things in the room, but my father and sister are both playing bad faces." Then, she took Takuya's hand Say, "Quick, let's go!" toward the stairs. Zhishu was assigned a large room of six pings facing south, with a deep red carpet on the floor.There is a simple sofa set when entering the room, and the bed and desk are placed by the window.

In addition, there are home theater groups with loudspeakers, bookcases full of professional books, etc.Seventeen-year-old Ballantine's Scotch Whiskey is placed in the TV cabinet, and curtains of the same color as the carpet are hung on the windows. "This room is amazing," Takuya said. "You can see the woods outside from the window, it doesn't feel like you're in Japan." "Originally, this room should belong to me or Saori-san. I still think that it would be great to have friends here for a birthday party. But at that time, this room was suddenly occupied by a dirty man whom I had never met before." Stolen. So, my room is a four-square-meter Japanese room, which is not suitable for making beds or hanging pink curtains at all. Do you think there are such unreasonable things in the world?"

Takuya was annoyed, he couldn't understand what Hoshiko didn't like about the Siping Great Japanese Room. "Anyway... I want to move into this room." "Actually, it's not just a problem with the room, it's a simple symbol." Xingzi accepted his statement on his own. Takuya walked to the desk by the window and picked up the small photo frame standing on the desk.In the photo are a woman in her mid-thirties and a boy in elementary school. "This is a photo of Director Nishina when he was a child. Is the woman next to him his mother?" But Hoshiko didn't answer, snatched the photo frame from Takuya, and threw it into a corrugated box aside, saying: "There is no time, please start! First, take this tattered corrugated box and throw it away." After finishing speaking, She throws old magazines and other items into the cardboard box.

After throwing away the corrugated boxes, Hoshiko ordered Takuya to move a large number of books in the bookcase into the warehouse.Takuya tied several books into a bundle with a rope, as much as he could carry with his hands.This reminded him of his work experience in college. Xingzi said that she planned to use the bookcase, TV cabinet, video equipment, etc. herself, but when Takuya asked about the bed, her expression immediately turned down. "Are you kidding? Why do I have to sleep in that person's bed?!" "But you want to use the desk?" "The bed and the desk are two different things!" Xingzi scolded and left the room.

Women are so difficult to understand—Takuya murmured so, continued with the homework of tying the books with ropes, looked around again, and sighed. He thought, sure enough, all people are not created equal.Naoki was allocated such a wonderful room and grew up in such a luxurious house.He seemed to be fifteen when he got here, but he hadn't worked particularly hard for it.It's just that the blood of the Nishina family is flowing in him.How about yourself in comparison?His own father was an alcoholic, hopeless man.Because he wanted to buy wine, Takuya had to suppress all kinds of desires. He never went into a mandarin shop, and never bought a plastic model. Takuya made another resolution, one day I will live in this room.If you marry Xingzi as your wife, this is not a distant dream.Takuya thought to himself that the books were roughly sorted out, but he found that there were still a few books under the desk.He was doing his homework mechanically, and he stopped what he was doing when he saw the title of one of the books by accident. The title of the book is "Introduction to Poker Magic".He took another look at the book he had tied up with rope just now.There are six books similar to playing card magic.This is how the same thing?Takuya's eyes fell on the scattered books, and he was stunned. At this time, Xingzi came in and asked him what was wrong.Takuya looked up at her and said he had found many books on card tricks. "That's no wonder." She said nonchalantly, "After all, that person seems to be fascinated by poker magic. He likes to let people draw cards, and then guess the number of that card, and enjoy himself." "Is he good at it?" Takuya asked with a trembling voice. "It seems so. I haven't played with him, so I don't know." Xingzi looked disinterested.