Chapter 2 second quarter

They descended the mountain along the stone steps they had come from.Fortunately, it didn't rain heavily, but we still have to be careful of the wet stone steps, especially for Koichi who was carrying Jing Nai down the mountain. Back at the archway, they couldn't ride their bicycles home, because Jing Nai was already asleep, and it was impossible to carry three people.Gongyi walked with Jingna on his back, and Taifu followed behind pushing the cart. The rain continued to fall, and the raindrops hit Shizuna's sports jacket, making a "pattaptaptap" sound. Although they went back to the back door, the question is how they got the sleeping Jing Nai to the window on the second floor.

"From the outside, Dad and the others seem to be asleep. Let's sneak in quietly." "Where are the keys?" "Take it." Carrying Jing Nai's work on his back, he went around to the front door, Taisuke parked the car beside the passage of the back door, and opened the door with a chain key. At this time, a sound came from the passage, the sound of the door opening. Tai Fu peeked inside secretly, and saw a man coming out from the back door, only saw the side face, it was a stranger. The man walked in the opposite direction of Taifu. Suspicious, Taisuke went around to the front door, but Koichi was not there.Trying to open the door with "Ariake" engraved on it, it opened easily.

It was dark inside the store, but the door at the cash register was open, and light leaked in from there.On the other side of the door is the parents' room, next to the stairs. When Taifu was about to go there, Gongyi came out with Jingna still on his back. Taisu sensed something was wrong.Due to the backlight, he couldn't see his brother's face clearly, but he smelled an unusual atmosphere. "Brother..." He called out without thinking. "Don't come here." Gong Yi said. "Ok?" "Killed." Not understanding what his brother said, Taifu blinked.

"Killed." Gongyi repeated, without emotion, "Parents were killed." This time Taifu understood the meaning, but he still didn't understand the situation.He smiled inexplicably, although he clearly knew that his brother was not joking. Looking at Jing Nai who was sleeping soundly on Gongyi's back. Taisu's feet began to tremble. The rain appeared to have stopped and the taxi's wipers stopped working. Exit the short tunnel of National Route 16 and turn right at the first signal light. Not long after, the elevated Keikyu Main Line came into view, and there were several police cars parked beside it.

Hagimura Shinji got out of the taxi and walked slowly towards the scene.The narrow alleys criss-cross into four directions. On the right hand side, there is an unremarkable foreign food shop, which is a residential-style shop.The gate engraved with "Ariake" was slanted open, and policemen kept coming in and out of it. He raised his hand and looked at his watch. It was already three o'clock in the middle of the night. No wonder there were no crowds of onlookers. The shop was cordoned off. Hagi Village passed in front of the store, turned right, and started to observe the surroundings.At this time, a man appeared in front of his eyes. Although the man's face could not be discerned in the darkness, Hagimura guessed his identity quickly from the umbrella with "Golf Club" printed on it.This person's recent enthusiasm for golf is quite famous in the police station.I heard that the starting point seemed to be an invitation from the head of the Criminal Section. Behind the scenes, many people felt that playing golf was not commensurate with his status, and he himself should have heard about it.

"Hoo--" the sound of waving an umbrella. "Good shot!" Hagimura called out. The man who kept pushing the ball still had his signature scruffy beard. He stopped and looked back at Hagi Village. "It's pretty fast." The man put down his umbrella and said. "Bai Yuan just arrived in time." "I was at the police station. The superior said that the previous report should be sorted out by tomorrow, but there was no progress at all, so I fell asleep on the sofa. At this time, I received a call from here and woke up in shock .” Kashiwahara was still holding the umbrella upside down, it was a black bat umbrella.It seems that he has developed a habit. While talking, he is waving the umbrella like gesturing to push a ball, and the top of the umbrella handle is constantly rubbing against the ground.

"I was really shocked. I didn't expect to be killed in this store." After hearing this, Hagi Village confirmed to the senior who said so in a low voice, "What's going on?" "I heard that the store manager and his wife were killed in the room on the first floor. I don't know how many wounds there are, and they are covered in blood." "Bai Yuan, have you seen the scene?" "Just a cursory scan, and the forensics department will arrive." "That couple..." Hagimura said with a frown, "I just came here for lunch three days ago."

"Yeah, I ordered rice with diced beef. It's really good. Hey, I can't eat it anymore. Who would have expected it to be like this. What will happen in the next second of a person's life is really unpredictable." Hagi Village recalled the scene three days ago.In order to investigate the hit-and-run case, he went to collect evidence with Kashiwahara, and had lunch at this "Ariake" on the way back.They are regulars in the store.The food here is cheap, plentiful, and delicious. It is a savior for detectives who need physical strength. "This family has children." Hagi Village looked in the direction of the house and said, "If I remember correctly, there should be two sons."

"Three." Bai Yuan replied, "There is also a little daughter. Two boys, one in sixth grade and one in fourth grade." "I understand quite well." "I just met, no, it should be said, I just met the eldest son. When I arrived, he was standing at the door of the house. He was also the one who called the police." The memory of Hagi Village was awakened. He remembered a time when he was eating at "Ariake", he saw a tall boy walking into the store, but he couldn't remember exactly what he looked like. "Have you asked?" "That's right. However, a colleague from the headquarters is coming over, and he has to ask again, so let him rest in the room first."

"which room?" "It's on the second floor." Bai Yuan pointed at the upstairs with an umbrella and said. Hagi Village looked in the direction of the umbrella, but there were no windows. "The parents were killed, only the children survived?" "It seems to have slipped out." "Sneaked out? What time did it happen?" "Sometime between 12 and 2. Killed while the kids were out." "At this time, the children go out alone?" "There are shooting stars." "what?" "Hmm..." Bai Yuan took out a notepad from his pants pocket, "The Perseid meteor shower. I wanted to see it, so I ran to the construction site in a small suburban city."

"That's it, it's a blessing in misfortune." "He sneaked out of the house from the window on the second floor without telling his parents. The eldest son said that his parents were still alive at the time." Hagimura nodded and went around to the back door.There was a narrow passage there, and the door facing the back door was open above the passage, and there was light leaking from it, and the voice of the forensic officer could be faintly heard. Beside the back door was a warehouse with a tin roof.Hagimura looked up from the roof and couldn't help being surprised. The window on the second floor was open, and a boy was sitting on the window frame. He didn't seem to care about the criminal police below, staring at the night sky ecstatically. "Kongichi" Kashiwahara standing beside him whispered like this. "Huh?" Hagimura was puzzled. "The boy's name. The second son's name is Taifu, and the younger sister's name is Jingna." Kashiwahara sighed while looking at the notebook and shook his head slightly, "It's so pitiful." Shortly thereafter, Hagi Village's superiors arrived at the scene.At the same time, several colleagues also arrived.According to the instructions of his superiors, Hagi Village was in charge of questioning, and Kashiwahara was in charge of waiting for the search personnel from the headquarters to arrive. He was not only the first person to arrive at the scene, but also had a certain understanding of "Ariake" and the children who found the body. "Which is the time to ask questions now, no one is getting up." The experienced Yamabe muttered and walked out. "First of all, let's start from there." Hagi Village pointed to the ramen stand in the distance.Just then, the police car from the headquarters arrived. Our recommended beef diced rice bowl has a century-old history. Please enjoy it. It says so on the menu cover.Gong Yi remembered that when he first saw this passage a few years ago, he asked his father Xingbo: "Did our family start a foreign restaurant a hundred years ago?" "Fool, how is it possible!" Xing Bo replied while carving onions. "But it says a hundred years of history here." The word "history" was just learned in school. "History refers to the history of beef diced rice. You don't know, beef diced rice is a dish invented by the Japanese. Speaking of Yokosuka, you will think of navy curry. However, the Japanese must use Japanese Invented cuisine will determine the outcome.” "Yeah. But this paragraph seems to say that our family's diced beef rice bowl has a history of a hundred years." "It just looks like that, I didn't write that. It's okay, the guest misunderstood." Said Xingbo laughed loudly, and his chubby belly trembled accordingly. Gong Yi and their father are very careless about the details, very healthy, never trouble others, and never blame the children.In Gongyi's memory, his father never said something like "Go and learn" or "Come and help". Dad doesn't seem to be a business material.Tazi's mother always secretly complained to the children. "My father really doesn't know how to do business. Even the customers said that the price can be higher. But he told me that the store is characterized by high quality and low price, so he will show off his prestige. If it is reasonable to use cheap materials, but he says it is delicious You can't use such nonsensical things in your cooking. These all cost money! Does he know what he is doing?" Although I understand Toko's words, for the careless Yukihiro, cooking is special.Be it the ingredients or the cooking method, they must be consistent and will never compromise. In fact, Kohiro is the second generation, and his father founded Ariake.Although it is a simple and humble shop, the taste is recognized, and there are many customers who come from all over the world.Now that he has inherited the shop, Xingbo hates that the taste of the second generation is not as good as before. "Today's customer has been patronizing since my father's generation. He said that the taste has become more spicy than the previous generation. Why is this? What happened to my tongue?" There have been incidents like this. Although Gong Yi didn't witness it with his own eyes, he also knew that not only colleagues came to steal the recipe, but also there was an endless stream of people who wanted to learn the recipe.These are all heard from Tazi. "'Young man, although you have come here sincerely, I still can't tell you' Dad explained, 'If the recipe I came up with makes sense, and what I inherited from my father, how can I...' I heard Your grandfather only taught your father one person." Koichi still doesn't know how much the recipe is worth, he only knows that it is very important to his father.There is a small altar in the parents' room, and there is an old notebook in the altar drawer.Xingbo often took it out of the drawer to read, and sometimes jotted down a few notes.Needless to say, it is natural to write about the cooking method. Once, Gong Yi secretly looked out, and was caught by Xing Bo who suddenly broke into the room. He patted Gong Yi's cheek: "In the future, if you want to inherit my mantle, I will teach you. Don't be sneaky like peeping like a thief."