Chapter 31 Section 31

For a moment, he didn't understand this sentence.Just then, the drinks arrived.Xingcheng reached out to grab the cup without hesitation and took a sip. It was ICE TEA. Saori opened his mouth in surprise. "That, that's mine..." Xing Cheng compared the glass in his hand with the coffee cup on the table, and suddenly remembered that he ordered coffee. "Ah, sorry, that... made a mistake, what should I do?" Sasuke narrowed his eyes and smiled. "It's okay. Drink it, I'll have my coffee." "Is that okay? I'm sorry." Xingcheng took out a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped the sweat from his temples.

"I'm sorry. It's because I asked too much, so I was taken aback." "No, that's not the case... Well, I was really surprised." Xingcheng sipped his ice tea and said, "Why do you want to visit my house?" "You mentioned it before, your house is a house where Germans lived, so there are many places where Japanese and Western are combined." "Speaking of which, it was indeed mentioned." Just completely forgot about it now.He felt like he was done talking about Azabu Juban shop and cuisine with Saori, and it turned out that they had also talked nonsense.He just mentioned it casually at the time, but she still remembered it.This immediately made him secretly excited.

"Although I don't think it is necessary to redecorate for me as an international student, since I plan to live there for a long time, I want to see how I can live more comfortably. Sorry for the unkind request." Xing Cheng propped his hands on the table and shook his head heavily. "It's nothing. This is convenient at any time. I always get your help on weekdays, and I want to repay it occasionally." "Really? Please don't take it seriously, be blunt. I don't care." "Really. It's just that I'm afraid visiting my house won't help you."

"It will definitely be useful, thank you very much. That's great." Saori raised his coffee cup.It seemed that because the stone in her heart had fallen, her smile became brighter. Being able to help her made Xingcheng a little carried away with joy.On the other hand, however, his chest was suddenly clouded, needless to say, naturally because he had a premonition that he would never see her again. About a week after Mabori Coast found a suspicious car missing, Hagi Village went to the relevant store to investigate.This store is located in Sakuragicho, Yokohama, some distance from the station, next to the gurgling Ooka River.

The storefront is a two-story building with a wooden structure, and the first floor is a store.The front wall is paneled with glass and covered with posters, so you can't see the inside of the store.This is not to promote products, but to prevent passers-by outside from seeing the customers in the store.If this kind of store doesn't take into account the feelings of customers who buy AVs, it must be doing poorly. The name of the store is "GOODSOFT", which is also engaged in selling and buying, and the words "buy at a high price" are posted under the signboard. When Hagi Village walked into the store, there were hardly any customers.In addition to some second-hand DVDs, CDs, photos, etc. are also placed side by side in the store.However, the main sales in the store are still related to AV, and the container occupies more than half of the store.There are also rare VHS (VIDEOHOME SYSTEM) videotapes. These are obviously copies, and DVDs are also copies.

The clerk was a young man named Tsujimoto.He looked very pale and was unusually thin.When Hagi Village entered, he didn't even say "welcome".So when Hagi Village showed the police account, he suddenly became uneasy, and even his stooped back straightened. Initially, Tsujimoto claimed not to have seen any of these.When Hagi Cunyi asked in a stern tone, he opened his mouth again and admitted that it was something from their shop.The plate was labeled as something the store had used two years ago. Hagi Village almost exclaimed.Finally found out the source of the DVD. "Why did you lie?" When Hagimura asked, Tsujimoto half-smiled and replied with a look of fear of getting into trouble:

"These were stolen from our store, probably." "Stolen? When?" "Ten days ago." Tsujimoto glanced at the calendar on the wall and replied, "I register every time I go to the store, look around, and immediately find that a thief has come in." Tsujimoto lives in Ooka and works in the store from 4 pm to 11 pm every day, so there is no one in the store at midnight. "Report it lost?" Hearing Hagimura's question, Tsujimoto frowned and scratched his head. "The president didn't report the loss because he thought it was troublesome."

"President?" Tsujimoto opened the drawer of the cash register and took out a business card with Shigeo Ueda printed on it.He runs a recycling shop elsewhere and is Tsujimoto's uncle. According to Tsujimoto's words, Ueda always showed his face when the door was closed, taking away the day's turnover.If there is a purchase, Tsujimoto is responsible for reporting to him how much he bought and what he bought. "He doesn't trust me at all. Therefore, there is no way to put more money here. The thief must be very disappointed. There is not even a dime in the cash box."

"But isn't it troublesome to buy without money?" "He put 50,000 with me. When buying, use this money to pay the customer, and then the president will make up another 50,000." "So that's it, was the 50,000 stolen?" "This money has always been in my wallet. Only 50,000 yuan can't be put in the cash register. Fortunately, it was kept by my side. The president always felt that the theft was my fault and wanted to deduct my salary." Hagimura smirked and didn't answer.He wondered if the 50,000 was still in Tsujimoto's wallet.It is not impossible to misappropriate it temporarily and make it up in a hurry later.

"Did you notice that the DVD was stolen?" Hagimura asked. "Well~ But the president said that it's unsalable anyway, so it just saves you the trouble of throwing it away." Hagimura's eyes fell on the DVD in his hand. "Where are these? If the labels from two years ago are still attached, are they not placed in the store?" Tsujimoto nodded and pointed upstairs with his index finger. "On the second floor. The thief seems to have climbed in through a window on the second floor." "The second floor? Can I go and see it?" Tsujimoto pursed his lips in embarrassment.

"If you decide on your own, you don't know what the president will say." "I didn't report the loss. I haven't talked to your president yet. This handle can save you, please cooperate." "...In that case, okay." Tsujimoto walked inside, and after a while, he stopped and turned around, "Where did you find that DVD? What are you investigating?" "It happened to be discovered during the investigation of another case. It is not an accident and has nothing to do with you. Therefore, you don't need to know the details, and we will not tell you, sorry." "Well... well, it's fine if it has nothing to do with me." There is a door inside the shop, once you open it, there are stairs in front of you.What a strange structure, Hagimura muttered to himself. "It used to be a cafeteria here." Tsujimoto said as he climbed up the stairs, "After removing everything from the kitchen, it became a single-room shop like today. The president said that there are strange places everywhere." "Canteen? What kind of canteen." "Who knows, that's all I know." Tsujimoto replied after thinking for a while. It can't be a foreign restaurant.This idea suddenly flashed in Hagi Village's mind.However, he immediately rejected this idea, reflecting on his preconceived notion that no matter what he encountered, he always immediately associated it with "Ariake".There is no evidence at all that this store is related to the robber's murder fourteen years ago.What's more, he didn't even know if this shop was a foreign food shop. On the second floor, there are two Japanese-style rooms with six tatami mats and four and a half tatami mats, but they cannot sleep at all.Cardboard boxes containing DVDs and VCDs filled the entire room, and a thick layer of dust had accumulated on the outside of the boxes, as if it had not seen the sun for a long time. "I used to come to clean it from time to time, but I can't sell these. It's troublesome, and now it's piling up. How to deal with these?" Tsujimoto said nonchalantly, "It would be great if the thieves took them all away. what." "It's impossible to sell it?" "It can't be sold. These are not bought by customers, but bought at a low price from a closed VIDEO production company and a store that has closed down. If an adult can handle it, it's full of masterpieces with poor picture quality, C-level movies with good picture quality but low cost, who would pay for them? The president doesn’t even screen the content, any educational video tapes, even the company introduction video tapes.” Hagimura smiled wryly, looking at the cardboard boxes beside him.The top disc is for weight loss exercises. "The DVD you showed me just now was supposed to be there." "I have a good memory. I thought the adult ones would be kept in the closet." "Wait a minute!" He yelled to stop Tsujimoto from moving to the other side. "Has it been moved since it was stolen?" Tsujimoto nodded. "Only the windows. Well, repairs, that's all." Hagimura looked at the window. There was a small hole near the keyhole of the crescent lock, and a piece of plastic tape was pasted there. "If the president says it can't be repaired properly, it will be stolen again." "Can this window be climbed from the outside?" "Who knows. But there is an alley behind, so it's really hidden." Hagimura nodded and put on his gloves.Trying to avoid touching things around him, he moved to the closet.Pushing open the partition door of the closet, the lower floor was full of boxes, and the upper floor was supposed to be the same, with square traces of no dust clearly left on it.It appears the cartons were there until the theft.At this time, Tsujimoto said: "Those DVDs were originally in a box at Mr. Police's feet." Hagimura looked down at his feet, where there was an empty box.If you put all the DVDs in the lost car, it will be full. "Why only steal these?" he murmured. "Because it's an adult?" "There are more for adults." There are many other cardboard boxes in the closet.They all look like adults. Hagimura, who was looking back and forth inside the closet, stopped at the ceiling, where the wooden boards were shifted and the inspection hatch was open. "Is that what it used to be there?" "where?" "The ceiling of the closet. Be careful and try not to touch things around you." Tsujimoto tiptoed cautiously and leaned over to look at the ceiling of the closet. "I don't know." After a moment of contemplation, he said, "I haven't seen it there recently." Hagimura sighed, at this moment, something shiny appeared in the corner of his eyes.On the inside of the closet. He squeezed it between his gloved hands, feeling his body suddenly heat up. "The president should be Mr. Ueda, please contact him immediately." "Eh? Do you want to call the president?" "It's better to report the loss." "Is that so?" Tsujimoto took out his cell phone and peeked at Hagimura's hand while dejected, "What is this?" Hagimura involuntarily pursed his lips into a smile. "Since it has nothing to do with you, it's okay to tell you. This is the lid. The lipstick lid."