Chapter 8 Section VIII

To practice Poison Death Warehouse, the following conditions must be fulfilled first. First, the two of you must be alone.Not only can no third party see me with him, but also no one can know that I have met him. Second, don't make warehouse holders suspicious.This plan can only be successful if he eats the taiyaki I gave him without any suspicion. The question is what to do after he eats it?Suppose I succeed in poisoning Kuramochi, can I leave his body alone?But then again, it was impossible to move his body.In this way, after committing a crime, one must quickly flee the scene without being discovered by anyone.Of course, any physical evidence that may become clues for police investigations cannot be left behind.As for where to buy taiyaki, it must also be carefully considered.If the clerk remembers what I look like, all the plans will come to naught.

After weighing the above situation, I couldn't help sighing.No matter how I think about it, I don't think things are going smoothly.But even so, I still don't intend to give up.The determination to carry out the poisoning and murder plan was my only spiritual support at that time. Considering the end, I would like to investigate Kuramochi's daily routine first.If you know his daily schedule, you might be able to find a chance to strike. After school the next day, I hurried to the station to catch a tram.Needless to say, the destination is of course the town where I lived before.

The Kuramochi family runs a tofu shop on the shopping street, and there is a bookstore on the opposite side, about 20 meters away from the tofu shop.I decided to stand and read in that bookstore while observing the situation of the Kuraji family.It was almost dinner time, and the shopping street was full of people, and I never looked suspicious.In addition to me, there are many middle school and elementary school students standing and reading manga magazines. Kuramo's parents are at home dealing with guests.After five o'clock, many housewives with vegetable baskets lined up in the store.I remembered that Cangchi once said: "A piece of tofu is only a few tens of yuan. How many years will this kind of business last?"

After six o'clock, Kuramochi came out of the shop.He stepped on the old bicycle left in front of the store, not knowing where he was going.He rode past the bookstore where I was, and didn't seem to notice me.I wonder where he is going?I want to follow him, but the other party is riding a bicycle, and it is impossible to catch up with him. I went to spy on him the next day as usual.It was raining that day, and when I went to the bookstore with an umbrella, I saw that the boss put all the books at the door of the store into the store in order to prevent the books from getting wet.If you enter the store, you can't monitor the warehouse manager.As a last resort, I had to move to an old model shop a little further away.When I was in elementary school, I used to buy a model of the Thunderbirds from that model store.

Probably because of the rain that day, there were two or three kittens passing by on the road, and the tofu seemed to be selling poorly.Waiting and waiting, Kuramo came out again.He went out earlier than yesterday, but after all, he didn't ride a bike and started walking with an umbrella.Seeing that the opportunity was not lost, I immediately left the model shop to start tracking, feeling like I was a criminal policeman or a detective.Kuramochi didn't notice what was behind him at all, walking alone in the rain.He may be in a hurry and feels a little faster on his feet. After a while, we came to a residential area by the river.I have an impression of this place.Former Kuramochi once took me here to play backgammon.He stopped in front of the house that could only be called a wooden house, holding an umbrella and looking around.I immediately covered my face with an umbrella and hid in a corner aside.

I put away my umbrella, poked my head out from the inside of the building, and saw Kuramochi squatting in front of that room.There were several potted plants there, and he seemed to be moving one of them.He stood up and touched the handle of the old door.I know he's picking the lock.As soon as the door opened, he quickly entered the room. I stayed there for more than ten minutes, but there was no sign of Kuramochi coming out.I don't know what he's doing in there. This is a big gain.I am sure that he must have been here yesterday as well.And if he unlocked it himself, it meant that no one else was in the house.

The next day was sunny.After school, I go home first, change my clothes before going out.I got on the tram and got off at the same station, but instead of going to the shopping street, I went straight to the house by the river.The time of arrival was exactly around six o'clock. I hid behind the van parked on the side of the road, and soon Kuramochi appeared on his bicycle.Like the day before, he looked around, took out the key from under the potted plant, and then opened the door to enter the house.I'm sure when he entered the house, he left there.At that time, I had already slowly sketched out the murder plan in my mind.

Where to buy taiyaki is a big question.I looked around for several stores and chose the one with the most customers.I bought two taiyaki there, walked into a nearby park, sat on a bench, and took out a taiyaki after making sure no one was there. First of all, I carefully broke the skin of the head part of the fish without leaving fingerprints, exposing the stuffing inside.Next, I reached into my pocket and pulled out a small paper packet with Shenggong on it.I spread out the wrapper and sprinkle it cautiously over the filling.As far as I know, when Kuramochi eats Taiyaki, he starts with the head of the fish.If his habits have not changed, he should have eaten all the Shenggong I mixed in at the first bite.Then, I pulled another secret weapon out of my pocket—the starch paste I'd made the night before with cornstarch.I was thinking earlier, how to restore the broken skin of taiyaki?It turned out to be a good way.I didn't expect that the experimental class in elementary school would come in handy in unexpected places.

In order to avoid contact with the air, I put the starch paste in a plastic bag.I dipped my fingers into the starch paste and stuck the taiyaki skin together.The result is even more perfect than imagined.If you don't look carefully, you shouldn't find that someone has tampered with this taiyaki. Finally, I pinch off the tail of the other taiyaki with my fingertips and put both taiyaki back together in the bag.Needless to say, pinching off the tail is naturally for marking.When everything was done, I got up from my chair and headed to the station. Looking back now, I didn't want to kill Kuramochi at the time, but I was intoxicated in the plan of poisoning and killing people.It is precisely because he enjoys it that he is able to prepare well and monitor Kuramochi without giving up.

I got to that room before six o'clock.I knew which direction Kuramochi was coming from, so I decided to ambush a little further away. About ten minutes later, Kuramochi arrived.He put the bicycle in front of the house and took the key from under the potted plant.Action routine as usual.After he entered the house, I started to act. It is important that no one is around.If I am ever seen entering the house, the project must be terminated. I stood in front of the door, took two deep breaths and knocked.There was no such convenience as an intercom or doorbell in that room, and it took me a lot of effort to control the sound of knocking on the door.If it is too low, the people in the room may not be able to hear it; if it is too loud, it may be heard by people nearby.Before Kuramochi answered the door, my whole heart was hanging in the air.

After a while, there seemed to be a reaction in the room.Cang Chi replied: "Here we come." The door opened slowly. When he saw that it was me who came, he couldn't react for a while, and after blinking his eyes several times, he said, "Huh? How could it be you?" "Hi," I tried to sound cheerful. "haven't seen you for a long time." "Why did you come here?" He still looked confused about the situation. "I saw you when I came near here. I wanted to call you, but you entered this room." "Yes." He seemed to accept my words, with an expression of "there is such a coincidence in the world". "How did you come here?" "I go to a friend's house and hang out on the way home." "That's it." "It's you, what are you doing in a place like this?" "Me? I'm working part-time." He smiled secretly, finally showing his proper expression. "work to earn a living?" "Come in and talk." Nothing has changed in the house from the previous visit.The difference is that the tables and chairs used to play backgammon are gone.As for the piece of paper on the wall with the rules of the game, it is still there. There is only a narrow Japanese room and kitchen in the house.The tatami mats were burnt brown and fluffed everywhere, and the kitchen was black and dirty.There is a low dining table in the Japanese room, on which are many thin strips cut from corrugated paper.There is a corrugated cardboard box next to the low dining table, which contains a cover made of corrugated cardboard, about the size of a fingertip. "What are u doing?" "You just said I'm working part-time." He sat cross-legged in front of the low dining table. "Let me show you something nice." "Ok." Kuramochi took out a thin purple cloth from his pocket.He held the cloth in both hands and, like a magician, showed me both sides of the cloth. "Okay, I don't have any hands or feet, and this piece of cloth has no mechanism." After finishing speaking, he clenched his left hand into a fist, and stuffed the cloth into his left hand little by little.After it was completely stuffed into his hand, he spread out the left back in front of me, and the piece of cloth was gone. "what?" I found it incredible, but I immediately discovered that Kuramochi was wearing a skin-colored sleeve on his left thumb. "What, that's a trick to trick three-year-olds." "It is true to say so, but you were not deceived by me just now." Kuramo took off the sleeve on his thumb and put it on the low dining table.The case contained the cloth just now. I hold it in my hand, it is very textureless. "Are you doing something like this?" "Cut the corrugated paper into such a size, stick it with paste, and put it in the box after it dries. It's really not someone who earns five yuan like this." Although he shrugged his shoulders to express his helplessness, he still picked up the scissors, Cut the corrugated paper, as if every second counts. "Do you do it every day?" "Yes. I plan to make a hundred today. But it's only five hundred yuan." "Why do you do this kind of thing? And it's still in this kind of place." "The mother-in-law who lived next door died. This job was originally done by the mother-in-law. After Uncle An took over the job, he didn't do it anymore, so I had to take it over." "Uncle An?" "You know? Didn't you play backgammon with him?" "Oh, that's the guy..." Dirty Japanese jackets and work pants came to my eyes.That person seems to be the owner of this room. "The busker would keep yelling if he ran out of props. Uncle An helped out because of the friendship of his neighbors, but he didn't like to do fine work, so I took it as part-time job. If you have time If so, do you want to do it? I will share the money with you as much as you do.” "No, just do it." "That's it." While Kuramochi was talking, his hands were not idle.Seeing the number of covers made of corrugated paper increase one by one, his movements are very proficient, probably he has done a lot of them before. "Are you familiar with Uncle An?" I asked tentatively. "Well, that's right. He taught me a lot of interesting things. You can learn more useful things from him than what the school teacher taught you." He raised his head and gave another smirk. "That person's backgammon is very strong, right?" "Yeah. But he is no longer good. His skills have been seen. Once a guest who looked like a student came and won him three games in a row. It seems that the guest has never been seen before. The next day , Another guest came, and he won three games in a row, and then left. Only then did Uncle An realize that something was wrong. He was being targeted by other players who played gambling games. The other party thoroughly analyzed Uncle An's chess moves , Uncle An has no chance of winning no matter how many rounds he plays. He is worried that the other party will come to ask for a big bet in the future, so he quit." "Is there such a person?" "It seems that there are people who play chess, billiards, mahjong, I heard there are people who play anything." I never knew these things, so I just nodded. "Back then," I said, "you brought me here because you thought I couldn't win?" I thought Kuramochi would be a little shaken, but his hand cutting corrugated paper didn't even shake.After deftly applying the paste, he replied calmly: "Yes." "At that time, there were no guests. Uncle An was having a headache, so I brought a few people over." "That is to say, you and Uncle An are in the same group? You deliberately win and lose sometimes, so as to keep the guests hopeful." "Are you holding a grudge against this matter?" Cang Mo stopped what he was doing and looked up at me. "Honestly, I'm a little bit annoyed." "However, the game is real. If you are really capable, you can win three games in a row and go home with bonuses like those who play gambling games." I have nothing to say about being so robbed by him.Having said that, I still can't accept it. "I spent a lot of money on backgammon." "I guess. To be honest, I didn't expect you to be so fascinated, so I was a little worried at that time. I didn't say this to lie to you." "Okay, another one is ready," he said.He finished another case. "Where did Uncle An go?" "Probably help on some road construction section. After work, he will go to the roadside stall to drink, and he will not be at home most of the night." "Did you tell your parents you were here?" "No. I told them that I was playing at a friend's house. Anyway, the children in my family are herding cattle and eating grass." In other words, even if he died here, he would not be discovered by anyone until Uncle An came back.I was careful not to fumble around carelessly, lest I leave fingerprints. I put the paper bag on the low dining table and said, "Do you want this?" "what is that?" "Taiyaki." Kuramochi stopped what he was doing.His eyes were as bright as when he was in elementary school. "is this okay?" "I bought two, let's eat one each." "Thanks. I'm just hungry." Kuramochi smiled. I took the taiyaki with the tail out of the bag and handed it to him.My heart beat faster and I felt my fingers tremble. "Let's put it over there. I'll eat it after I finish this." Kuramochi said. I tore the paper bag slightly on one side and placed it on a low dining table before placing the taiyaki on top.The marks repaired with starch paste are completely invisible. "I'm not saying that because you bought the taiyaki, but maybe I should apologize to you for another thing." "another thing?" "Just the curse letter thing. You remember?" I let out an "ah". Kuramochi looked embarrassed and wiped his hands with a handkerchief. "Have you ever received a postcard with the word 'kill' written on it?" I nod.My heart started pounding, but for a different reason than before. "I wrote your name on the curse letter." My eyes widened when I heard that.He said in a panic, "I didn't do that because I hated you. I thought it was just a child's play, so I wrote your name on it half-jokingly." "You can't do that even if you're half-joking?" I swallowed, and then continued, "The person whose name is written doesn't want to." "Probably. That's why I apologize to you." "Do you know how bad it made me feel when you did that?" There was anger in my voice. "Ouch, don't be so angry. I did it half as a joke and half as an experiment." "experiment?" "I wanted to find out roughly how many people would get involved after receiving that kind of letter. It turned out to be twenty-three people, right? If everyone participated, it would be two hundred and forty-three people, so there was a response about one-tenth of that." I was surprised that he knew the number twenty-three.However, I immediately understood his ruse. "You want to know the result, that's why you tell me that you can be saved by carving the number on the torii...?" "Yes. Twenty-three is carved beautifully on the torii." I was disgusted by his bright expression. I carved that number with such a miserable mood, and my finger was cut by the carving knife. "Why do you want to know that number?" "Well, that's the point. I said, you've received twenty-three postcards, that's why you're so unlucky. Suppose it's a healthier thing, like asking the other party to send a thousand-dollar bill to the postcard. Last person on the list." "Nonsense. How could anyone send money to a stranger." "That's hard to say. Because I will write the content of the letter like this-after the money is sent, please write your address and name at the end of the list. In this way, in a few days there will be two hundred and forty-three Personally send you a thousand yuan note." "Yeah...?" I looked at Kuramochi's face.He smiled treacherously. "How? Interesting?" I retracted my jaw without saying a word.This thing is really interesting.When I saw the curse letter, I didn't think of that kind of thing at all. "However, will someone not send money and just put their name on the list?" "That's the problem. I'm still trying to figure out how to prevent this kind of embezzlement of other people's money." "You said you were thinking... are you really going to do it?" "One day," Cang Mochi smiled with the corners of his mouth crooked. "Look at how hard I've worked so hard, and it's only five yuan each. In the next era, it's not hands and feet that make money, but here." Cang Chi pointed to his head. "So..." he continued. "I will do that kind of experiment. I'm really sorry to use you. But please forgive me. I still think about you, although I don't know if you are aware of it. Your name is wrong, right? Tajima He Xing's character for 'lucky' should have been written as 'Xin'. If I write the correct name, I will feel sorry." "So that's what happened." "So I want to apologize to you. I'm sorry." He bowed his head. "It's over." I said. "That's right. So, can I eat this?" Kuramochi reached out for Taiyaki. "Ah, wait a minute." I picked up the taiyaki before he did. "This got on my hair. I'll give you this." After finishing speaking, I handed him the Taiyaki without a tail in the bag. "I don't care." "No, I'll eat this one." I put the poisoned taiyaki into the bag. "Aren't you going to eat?" "Hmm. I don't really want to eat right now." "That's right. Then, I won't be polite." Kuramochi, like before, bit off the taiyaki fish head in one bite, and smiled on his face after swallowing it. "Cold, but delicious." "Really." I nodded. "I said Tajima, how is the new school? Is it fun?" "How should I say it?" I knew my expression was stiff. Hearing what I said, Kuramochi seemed to read my mind and said: "No matter where you go, there will be people you hate. The important thing is to make the other party afraid of you. No matter what method you use, as long as you make the other party afraid You'll be fine. Uncle An said that human beings will eventually take action to escape from what he fears." "Yeah." I replied ambiguously.Kuramochi eats Taiyaki with great relish. The reason why I let Kuramochi eat the poisonous Taiyaki was not because he apologized to me for cursing the letter, but to be precise, his unique way of speaking confused me and I lost the idea of ​​​​killing him.When I thought about it more carefully later, I found something suspicious in his apology.He said that he deliberately wrote Tajima Kazuko as Tajima and Xin by mistake, so I really want to ask him, what happened to the wrong name he wrote in the yearbook before I transferred to school?He wrote both sides wrong. He may have already subconsciously noticed that I found out who wrote my name on the curse letter.I probably made him aware of this when I mentioned backgammon tricks.He knew that I had seen through that he and that man named Uncle An were accomplices, so he thought it might be the best policy to take this opportunity to share another matter with me. I thought about this shortly after I said goodbye to Kuramo, but I had no intention of trying to kill him again.To put it bluntly, I feel very disappointed. After leaving the station, on the way home, several young people walked in the opposite direction.At first, because of the darkness, I couldn't see their faces clearly. When I got closer, I realized that they were the last person I wanted to see. "Oh, the blackbird is taking a walk." A malicious smile appeared on Kato's face. I ignored him, trying to just pass by.But they had a lot of free time, and they weren't going to let me go in silence. "Hey, wait." Someone grabbed my arm. "When we pass by, you have to wait!" Kato said. "Get down on your knees and apologize!" said another. I stared at Kato's face.This behavior seemed to hurt his self-esteem, and his face changed again. He grabbed my neckline with both hands and said, "What kind of expression do you have!" Then he lifted me up.Even so, I glared at him. "What are you holding?" Someone snatched the paper bag from me, looked into the bag, and said with a smile, "What, it's Taiyaki." "Here!" Kato took the taiyaki in his hand, with a contemptuous smile on his face. "Eat such a shabby thing." After finishing speaking, he planned to bite down. "It's poisoned inside." I said. Kato opened his mouth wide and stopped moving.Then he reached out and grabbed my collar. "Don't be so silly." "If you think I'm lying, eat it. You're going to die." Kato looked at me with disgust.The others grinned. "I mixed Shenggong." "ㄕㄥㄍㄨㄥ'?" "It's also called gong dichloride. Eating 0.2 to 0.4 grams is enough to kill you. I mixed a lot of it in the fish head." "Stop talking nonsense! Why would you have something like that?" "For..." My gaze swept over the faces of Kato and the others.I don't know where the courage came from, and my heart swayed, "To kill you!" "What!" Kato pressed his arms against the wall. "He's a liar, Kato," someone said. "I know, this must be a lie. Boy, do you think we will be afraid if you say that?" He widened his eyes. "So I told you to eat it. If you eat it, you will know if I am lying. You will die." Kato looked at Taiyaki and my face in turn, with a bewildered look on his face. "Why do you carry the poisonous taiyaki on you?" "How many times do you want to ask?" I shook my head. "Didn't I just say that it was for you to eat?" "Listen to your nonsense!" "Kato, let's just let him talk nonsense. Then, feed the wild dogs and cats over there. If they are fine after eating, it will prove that this guy is lying." Kato let go of my neckline with an expression on his face that he felt that his companion's proposal made sense. "Okay, then let's do animal experiments. Anyway, nothing will happen. Hey, Tajima, prepare me mentally for tomorrow, don't run away!" "Don't run away!" Hearing what I said, Kato's face twisted even more.In the next second, with the force of the impact, stars burst out in front of my eyes.When I came back to my senses, I slumped down on the road, with the burning feeling of having eaten a fist on my cheek.I wiped my mouth, and there was blood on the back of my hand. "I still have that poison. I can also mix it into your bento!" Kato smacked his lips and spat at me, hitting my sneakers. "Get a dog or a cat, everybody." They started walking.I also heard the "kill you tomorrow" voice. When I went to school the next day, I packed several packets of Sheng Gong and put them in my uniform pocket.I'm going to show it to them in case they fail the animal experiments. However, I am superfluous. When I appeared in the classroom, Kato and the others didn't come over, they just looked at me with resentful eyes.But when I stared back, they looked away. It doesn't matter what method you use, as long as you make the other party afraid of you——I remembered what Kuramochi said.Then I wondered, was it a dog or a cat that was used for the experiment? -------------------------------- Note: