Chapter 5 Section five

Starting from the entrance of the store, they walked slowly along the middle of the table into the house. To be honest, even if there is something wrong, Koichi has no confidence to find out.Whether it was in the store or at home, he had never observed it so carefully.Sometimes Koichi confused where the folding table was placed, and Koichi didn't notice it at all. "Is there anything different inside the cash register?" the white-haired man asked. Koichi glanced back and forth inside the cash register, looking at the tableware, seasonings, etc., but there was nothing particularly noteworthy.

"Where is your portable safe?" "Safe?" "Things that put turnover in." Yeah, I got it.Gong nodded. "There's the money." He pointed to the inside of the cash register, where there was a square aluminum can about 30 centimeters in size, with "curry powder" written on it with a marker. "This jar?" "Ok." The white-haired criminal policeman pulled the jar to his side, and gently unscrewed the lid with gloved hands. There were several banknotes and small change in it. "It's actually here..." "Dad said that the safe is useless, isn't that the same as telling the thief that there is money here?"

The white-haired detective and the other detectives looked at each other, and then he closed the lid. Pushing open the door next to the cashier, they walked in, and in front of them was a place that made Gong Yi a little afraid-the door of the parents' bedroom.Thinking of having to step in there, Gong Yi couldn't help but feel heavy. "Before entering the house, can you take a look at the back door?" the white-haired detective said. Gong nodded and opened the door in the corner. There was a narrow passage behind the door, and the back door was at the end of the passage.It is also a wooden door, which can be locked.

There was a basket next to the back door, and there were transparent plastic umbrellas randomly placed in it, Kouichi's eyes stopped. "What's wrong?" the detective asked. "That umbrella doesn't belong to my family." Gong Yi said. "Ah," the white-haired detective walked up to the basket, but did not touch the umbrella, "how do you tell?" "Because none of us have such an umbrella, and if we put the umbrella in a basket, it will be troublesome if the basket is used, and we will be scolded, so we will never do it." The white-haired detective nodded, not intending to leave, he beckoned others to come over, and whispered something in his ear.

Afterwards, Koichi inspected the house and found nothing else.The children's room was still the same as it was before they slipped out last night. As for the parents' room, before Koichi had time to take a good look at it, the blood stains on the tatami burned his sight. It was almost noon when Gong Yi returned to the hotel.As soon as she walked into the room, she saw Jing Nai sitting on a low stool and stacking paper cranes.Tsushima-sensei is also beside her.Taifu seemed to be on the other side of the partition. "Ah, brother, how is it? Home is still there?" Jing Nai asked.

"It's still there, I told you it's fine." Gong Yi sat down beside her. "Ariake-kun, can I leave for a while? I want to make a phone call." Tsushima-sensei said. Well, he replied. After Mr. Tsushima went out, he looked at the table and said, "What are you doing?" "I'm folding a thousand origami cranes, and I want to give them to my mother." Jing Nai replied briskly, humming a song. Looking at the paper crane folded by the little hands with heart, the sad memory hit Gong Yi again, instantly setting off a thousand layers of waves in his chest, and finally, the wall of his heart was broken.

Koichi grabbed Shizuna's hand, and the paper crane in his hand was broken and fell to the ground. Shizuna looked at Koichi timidly and again with a surprised face, "Brother..." "It's useless, don't waste your time doing this." "what?" Get up together and push open the partition. "Don't do this, brother Tai is sick and sleeping." Indeed, Taifu curled up in the bed.Kouichi lifted the quilt, and saw Taisu, who was huddled like a turtle, with a surprised expression on his face. Koichi grabbed Shizuna's hand and pulled it to Taifu's side. "It hurts~" Jing Nai said through tears.He reached out and cupped his sister's cheeks in his hands.

"Jing, listen carefully. Mom and Dad are gone. They're dead." Jing's big dark eyes rolled around, and immediately, seeing her, her cheeks flushed. "Liar." "It's true. There wasn't a fire. It was a homicide. Parents were killed by bad guys." Jingna broke free from Koichi's hand, tilted her head, kept waving her hands and feet indiscriminately, crying loudly, and ran around the room. Gong Yi hugged Jing Nai tightly, as if to protect her whole body. "Don't, don't." The younger sister kept punching and kicking. "We are the only ones left..." Gong Yi gritted his teeth and spit out this sentence.

At this time, Taifu, who had been silent all this time, suddenly let out a mournful cry, and began to wail loudly as if he wanted to vent all the emotions that had been pent up until now. "Did you sell such an umbrella last night? I want to check the cash register and it will be clear." The man with thinning hair was thinking while arranging the shelves of sandwiches and rice balls.On his chest is the store manager's badge. "Can I trouble you to check it out?" As soon as Hagimura finished speaking, the store manager sighed with a bored expression, as if he found it very troublesome. "Please wait a moment." With that, he walked towards the cashier.

Hagi Village scanned the brand-new storefront back and forth, and there were almost no traces on the walls or the ground.When he glanced at the wine cabinet, he remembered that there seemed to be a wine shop nearby. There is a convenience store along National Route 16, and Hagi Village is investigating inside.His partner, Kashiwahara, stood in front of the magazine rack with a lack of interest on his face. "Well, only one was sold last night. Speaking of which, that customer didn't say a word." The store manager stared at the long cash receipt and muttered to himself. "Were you in the store?" Hagimura asked.

"Well. Basically, I'm all alone at night." "Do you remember what that person looked like?" The store manager recalled bitterly with a sullen face. "I just remember it was a man. Originally, we wouldn't look at the customer's appearance carefully..." "Clothes, body shape, etc., do you still have any impression? How old is it?" The store manager waved his hands with a begging expression on his face. "I don't remember. I'm sorry, please don't ask me. My memory is not very good." "Then, please contact us if you think of anything." Hagimura handed over a note with the contact number of the search headquarters. "Okay, okay." The store manager took the note and put it aside, obviously planning to throw it away as soon as the criminal police left. Hagi Village called Kashiwahara and walked out of the shop. "Although it's impolite to say this to you who are serious about investigating, but it's useless to ask these things." Bai Yuan said gruffly. "It's not that I don't know." "It's useless. Just like what the store manager said just now, how can the employees of the convenience store remember the appearance of the customer. Moreover, the umbrella may not necessarily be bought yesterday, it may also be brought." "If that's the case, it's not discounted. But the prisoner probably bought it yesterday, because it didn't start to rain until midnight. So we should fully consider the possibility that he didn't bring an umbrella." Bai Yuan shook his head. "It's meaningless to check the umbrella. You can't find anything." "Then let me ask you, why did the prisoner leave the umbrella behind?" "The relationship between running away in a hurry, it's left behind. The rain is probably about to stop when you run away, so it's normal to forget." "Didn't you listen to the forensic department? No fingerprints were left on the umbrella. How could someone who even considered this be so careless?" "He may have wiped it off before committing the crime. Moreover, we can't tell whether he did it on purpose. If the prisoner wears gloves, it will not leave fingerprints either." Bai Yuan snorted. "Do you think the prisoner is a thief or an acquaintance?" "Judging from the situation at the scene, it should be an acquaintance who attacked the couple while they were not paying attention." "I think so too. In other words, the prisoner didn't force his way in, but the couple opened the door to greet him. It's not winter, so wearing gloves at this time is too strange. I think the prisoner wiped off the fingerprints on the umbrella after the murder. But Compared to this, wouldn't it be more convenient to take the umbrella away? He didn't do this because he was worried that he would get in the way when he escaped, and he was sure that there would be no handle left on the umbrella. Perhaps, the umbrella was picked up and stolen there. Hagi Village couldn't immediately refute Kashiwahara's statement, and indeed what he said had some truth. According to Koichi Ariake, the plastic umbrella placed by the back door did not belong to their family.Forensic results showed no fingerprints on the umbrella.After carefully observing the umbrellas left by the prisoners, Hagimura and the others investigated the shops that sold the same umbrellas. "Although I understand what you said, I finally found something left by the prisoner. Isn't it normal to investigate its source?" "It's normal." Bai Yuan shrugged. "How to put it, I always feel that they deliberately asked us to check these unimportant things, and the main clue is still in charge of the first search section." "Main lead?" "Prior borrowing." "Well, it really is still related." "Maybe." About 2 hours ago, investigators who were in charge of investigating the relationship between the murdered couple found information worth exploring.A while ago, a famous couple borrowed money from an acquaintance.It seems to say that the loan cannot be repaid due to poor management.The exact amount of the loan is still uncertain, but Ariake Yukihiro once asked his junior high school classmate who is now a private doctor, saying: "The more the better, at least one million is needed, can you help me find a way?" The criminal police are guessing why Such a small trattoria would cost so much money. "However, the criminal police who investigated the business situation of 'Ariake' believed that they should not need such a large amount of money, and they should not default on bank loans." "It should not be a legitimate means of borrowing." "usury?" "That's something to take into account. But it could be worse. The owner of 'Ariake' likes to gamble. I'm afraid it has something to do with it." "Like gambling?" Hagi Village was a little surprised, which they didn't investigate. "I heard it occasionally in the store before. Bicycle races, horse races, mahjong, it seems that I bet on everything. I don't know if there is any clue here." "Have you told the investigation section 1 about this?" "Say it." Bai Yuan shook his shoulders and smiled, "They made us take as many detours as possible. The job of finding out the source of the umbrella is left to us rural criminal police, well~ It's only a matter of time before we thoroughly investigate this. They just don't like us participating in the investigation." "Killed for borrowing money to pay off gambling debts?" "possible." "But the creditor has no reason to kill the borrower." "Common sense is right. But we can't insist on it, maybe we will kill people if we can't agree." "That's right." Hagi Village still felt that it didn't make sense. At this moment, the sound of the BB machine came from Kashiwahara's chest. "Oh, oh, what's the rush?" Bai Yuan looked around and put his hand inside his jacket.There is a telephone booth about 20 meters away.