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sleeping forest

东野圭吾

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Chapter 1 Section 1

sleeping forest 东野圭吾 7014Words 2018-03-22
Ye Liuzi killed someone!Such bad news came. Wei Xu gripped the microphone tightly and clenched his teeth.The heart beat started to speed up, accompanied by tinnitus. "Are you listening?" Yasushi Oda's vague voice came from the other end of the microphone, and Wei Xu hadn't heard him speak so timidly so far.He has always been an overconfident figure. "I'm listening." Wei Xu replied, but his voice was hoarse as if there was a mouthful of phlegm in his mouth.After coughing, he replied again: "I've been listening." Oda was silent for a while, only the sound of his rapid breathing could be heard, this silence seemed to imply that he couldn't find the words to express the situation accurately.

"It's amazing!" After a period of silence, he said, "But don't worry, this is self-defense." "justifiable defense……" "Yeah, it's not her fault." Wei Xu didn't speak, thinking about the meaning of what he said.But his brain is not working well, only Ye Liuzi's face keeps appearing. Maybe it's because Mio didn't speak, Oda added. "Actually, a thief sneaked into the office, and she killed him." Thief——Weixu kept repeating the words in his mouth, but he couldn't get those words into his mind. "Anyway, can you come over right now? We'll talk about the specifics when you come. Hey, are you still listening?"

"Well, listen, I see." After hanging up the phone, Wei Xu held the receiver in his hand and didn't let go for a long time, standing there motionless. Sitting back on the sofa, Wei Xu habitually hugged the cushion next to him subconsciously, and after realizing that it was handmade by Ye Liuzi, he hugged it even tighter. justifiable defense-- This sounds really strange to pronounce, and I don't use this word very much in my daily life. Wei Xu put down the cushion and stood up.All in all a must go.She opened the closet and looked at the wall clock on the wall, it was just after eleven o'clock.

Takayanagi Ballet is about a five-minute walk from Seibu Ikebukuro Oizumi Gakuin Station.It is a 2-story reinforced concrete building surrounded by brick walls.When Wei Xu arrived, he found that several police cars had already arrived at the door, and the surrounding residents who came to join in the fun also stretched their heads and peeped in. There were two police officers in uniform standing at the gate, probably to drive away the crowd, both of them had serious expressions. Wei Xu was hesitating whether to enter, "Are you a member of the ballet troupe?" A voice came from the side.It was a tall man in a black suit.She nodded, "I just arrived here too, let's go in together." The other party walked out after speaking.Judging from the tone of his voice, Wei Xu felt that he was probably a police officer.

After a few words with the two policemen standing at the door, he told her to go in. "I saw 'Swan Lake' performed by Gaoliu Ballet once." The young police officer said as he walked towards the building. "I went with others that time. I didn't have much expectations at first, but I was deeply attracted after watching it." Although this was the time to thank him, Wei Xu really didn't have that thought, so he changed the subject and asked him what happened to Ye Liuzi now.He shook his head and said: "I don't know much about the situation right now."

"That's it..." The office was next to the main entrance of the building, and there were men coming in and out of that door one after another.The young detective signaled to a middle-aged man beside him to let Wei Xu go in. "Take her to the reception room." The middle-aged criminal policeman said. Looking in the direction of the training hall, the young detective took Wei Xu to the reception room. When I got to the reception room, I found that there were also policemen standing there.After talking to him for a while, the criminal policeman said to Wei Xu, "You wait inside." He walked towards the office by himself.

"Just in time." As soon as she walked in, someone spoke to her immediately. It was Oda who had called her earlier.The manager of the ballet company beside him, Takayanagi Shizuko raised her head and silently nodded to Wei Xu, both of them looked tired. "what is the problem?" Wei Xu sat down opposite them and looked at their faces respectively. "I don't understand at all how..." In order to calm her emotions, Oda immediately stretched out his right hand, as gentle as when performing a ballet.He is also the head of the ballet, the action director and the director.

"Calm down," he said first, "I'll start at the beginning." "Well, thank you for your trouble." While talking, Wei Xu put his left hand on his chest, closed his eyes gently, adjusted his breathing, opened his eyes and looked at Oda.He took a deep breath, looked at the clock on the wall and said: "It was around 10:30. Teacher Gao Liu and I came back from the outside and found Ye Liu lying in the office with a strange man." "Two people?" "Yes, and the man had blood on his head, which surprised us again." Perhaps thinking of the color of the blood, Shizuko Takayanagi frowned in disgust.

"Ye Liu woke up very quickly. I asked her what was going on. She said that the man seemed to sneak in while she was going out. Actually, Ye Liu and I were together not long ago. We went I went to see the manager at the theater in Ikebukuro. Then Ye Liu took a step first and bumped into the thief. She was startled, and the man should be quite surprised, too, as if he jumped up and wanted to attack her." Wei Xu wanted to swallow, but his mouth was dry. "She basically doesn't remember the next thing, it seems that she picked up the vase on the side and waved it desperately. When she realized it, the man was already lying on the ground motionless, and she shook him tremblingly. It was found that she seemed to have lost her breath. Afterwards she may have been too shocked and passed out."

"Coma...is that so?" Wei Xu faced down, staring at his fingers inexplicably. "The police also asked about other details, but she was too excited and in a state where she couldn't calm down and narrate." Think about it too, Wei Xu thought. "Then...was it true that the man was not saved?" Wei Xu asked. "Maybe the hit was fatal." Oda replied. "But" Wei Xu licked his lips. "If that's the case, you can't blame Ye Liuzi. In such a situation, everyone will be in a hurry. If you don't resist, it is very likely that you will be killed!"

"We understand this too!" Takayanagi Shizuko spoke for the first time. "So we think it should be regarded as self-defense, and the next question is whether the police will believe it." As if restraining her headache, she pressed her temple with her right index finger. "Where is Ye Liuzi?" "It should be in the office. It's probably called on-site inspection. Anyway, it's explaining the incident to the police." Oda glanced at the policeman standing at the door and replied. On-the-spot verification-this blunt term sounds surprisingly far from real life.Wei Xu couldn't think of anything related to this word. "Anyone else contacted?" "I contacted Ye Liu's family, maybe her family members will show up tomorrow morning. I also called the director of affairs, and he will probably be here soon. I also notified other team members through other contact methods, but told them first Don't come here because it's going to be a mess." "Where's Akiko?" "Contacted. She was really taken aback, and she would definitely not listen when I told her not to come, so I advised her: 'If Gao Liu's female number one appears here, she will be in trouble if she is surrounded by reporters' , so she will listen." This should be considered a very wise move, Wei Xu nodded. Just as the words were being said, Sakagi, the director of the affairs bureau, came.He seemed to have rushed from home in a hurry, and his thinning hair was disheveled. "how is it now?" Straightening the round-frame gold-rimmed glasses, Sakaki wiped the sweat from his forehead with a white handkerchief, and sat down beside Oda. Oda repeated the same words he had just said to Mio. Hearing every word, Sakagi would frown and scratch his head, as if he was quickly clearing his mind. "It turned out to be like this. Well, I understand. I will take care of the media. As long as the brand of self-defense is used to win the sympathy of the world, it will be beneficial to us in the future. It is difficult for even the police to do things that anger the world. Let's do it." "Then please." Shizuko Takayanagi looked at Sakagi with a look of asking for help, and Mio felt the same way. "I will try my best. Anyway, teacher, you have to be careful not to be careless. Oh, yes, you too." Being reminded by Sakagi, Wei Xu also nodded in agreement. "I will arrange a lawyer as soon as possible. But speaking of it, Ye Liu is really an unlucky child." Saying that, Sakagi got up and walked out in a panic. "The unlucky boy...it really is as he said!" After watching him leave, Oda muttered. The unlucky child - Wei Xu also quietly understood the meaning of these words. Saito Ye Liuzi has known Wei Xu since she was a child.Because both of them were born in Shizuoka, their hometowns are very close. Wei Xu started to learn ballet when he was 5 years old, and the first time he went to a nearby class was at the Saito Ballet School opened by Ye Liuzi's uncle and aunt, and Ye Liuzi also went there to study. The two became acquainted immediately.There are other students too, but for some reason both admire each other.Wei Xu thinks it should be because the two of them are very similar.Both of them are well-behaved children, and they are not ostentatious. But in ballet learning, Wei Xu and Ye Liuzi are outstanding. They are also the same age, so they go to elementary school together.Wei Xu and Ye Liuzi always go to school together hand in hand, and they also go to the ballet class together after school. After graduating from middle school, the two were admitted to a high school in Tokyo at the same time, with the purpose of entering Takayanagi Ballet School.They aspire to become real dancers. When they were in high school, they became official members of Takayanagi.Always together, and always rivals. "Whenever the two of us can do 'Swan Lake.' One of us plays the white swan and the other the black swan." Wei Xu made such a suggestion, and the two of them competed on the same stage - a dream that was once unimaginable, but now it is so close to reality. Ye Liuzi was driving the car, and Wei Xu sat in the passenger seat.At that time, she had just bought a car, and Ye Liuzi was extremely happy sitting in the car and holding the steering wheel. It was raining lightly, the road started to become muddy, the vision became blurred due to the darkness, and Ye Liuzi was driving too fast. To sum up the above reasons, it is impossible to respond in time to the child who suddenly ran out.Of course, she didn't hurt the child, and immediately slammed the steering wheel.However, due to the sudden change in direction and the sudden slamming of the brakes, the spinning car body violently hit the utility pole standing on the side of the road. Weixu can't remember what happened next, probably caused a concussion.When she woke up, she was already lying on the hospital bed.After hearing what happened from the nurse, I quickly moved my hands and feet, and found that everything was normal, and I felt a burst of comfort in my heart. But Ye Liuzi was not safe, her right knee was dislocated. "It's really self-inflicted." Ye Liuzi touched her plastered leg and smiled self-deprecatingly. "Finally, I am still careless. I will definitely be scolded to death by Teacher Gao Liu and my mother. Sure enough, dancers should not drive." "Fortunately, it was a minor injury." "Having said that, it's you Weixu who let me breathe a sigh of relief. If Weixu is so tired that she can't dance, I don't know what to do." "Don't worry about that." Wei Xu smiled.She was discharged the same day. It is said that it is very difficult to keep in shape for ballet, even if you don't dance for a day, it will have an impact.Therefore, Ye Liuzi, who has stopped training for a long time, can't recover to his previous state without paying extraordinary hard work.As soon as she was able to stand up, she started the course while taking care of the work of the secretariat.Arrive at the training ground earlier than anyone else, but stay later than anyone else.After several months of hard work like this, it is still far from the level before the accident.Wei Xu once again felt the horror of not participating in training. "I want to recover soon and dance with Wei Xu!" This is a mantra she has developed recently. "Well, recover quickly." Wei Xu replied like this. If it is determined that it is not self-defense... Wei Xu recalled what happened when he talked to Ye Liuzi during the day, and talked about animated movies, Bon Jovi, and London.Thinking that Ye Liuzi like that might go to jail in the future, she felt very uncomfortable just sitting there.Now is not the time to sit, but I can't do anything. After Wei Xu waited helplessly for a while, the door finally opened, and the middle-aged man he saw at the office entrance came in.He is small in stature but broad in shoulders, without feeling overweight, with sharp eyes on his slender face. Another person walked in behind him, the young detective who brought her here, he was relatively young, he looked about 30 years old.The chiseled face carried the same kind of stern gaze, which left Wei Xu with a vigorous impression. The middle-aged man who claimed to be Ota said that the two of them belonged to the first search section of the Metropolitan Police Department.From the fact that Oda thanked Oda and the others, it seems that they have already had an interrogation about the case. Detective Ota asked questions about how the building was locked, and his usual life style.Takayanagi Shizuko explained to him that 10:00 am to 5:00 pm is the practice time of the ballet company, and from 5:00 am to 8:00 pm is the class time of the ballet school.But today is Sunday, so there is no class at school.Office hours are from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Jingzi's room is on the second floor here, and she usually lives alone.Said it was "general situation", because sometimes she would pick up her daughter Akiko Takayanagi to live here with her.The reason why they live together is to avoid the delicate personal feelings between the manager of the dance company and the dancers. It is precisely because of these circumstances that most of the time it is Shizuko who locks the door. "Is today's practice until 5 o'clock?" "I heard that it was extended for a while, and it ended at 6 o'clock." Shizuko replied. "Afterwards, all the team members went home, and you were the one who locked the door, right?" "No, Oda and I had something to do, so we went out around 5 o'clock, and I left it to Saito to lock the door, because I made an appointment with Saito to meet in Ikebukuro at 8 o'clock. So she should be the last one to leave the building people." "Who has the key here?" "My daughter Akiko and I." "Then how did Saito lock the door?" "I left her the key. She had the key when she came back from Ikebukuro alone." After asking this question, "Are you Asaoka Mio?" Ota turned to Mio and asked her about her relationship with Ye Liuzi. Wei Xu narrated the relationship between the two of them from when he was a child until now as concisely as possible. Ota only responded in a business-like manner, while the young detective next to him showed a thoughtful expression and kept nodding. "Have you known each other for more than ten years?" Ota seemed to shake his head with some emotion, "Then, Ms. Asaoka." Turning to Wei Xu again, "In your eyes, what kind of person is Saito? For example, whether he is impatient or impulsive. " "Ye Liuzi is definitely not an impatient person." Wei Xu asserted. "She has always been a calm and calm person, she doesn't lose her temper very much, she has always been calm." As Wei Xu said this, he suddenly realized that saying this might be detrimental to Ye Liuzi, and then added. "But if something like a thief appears out of the blue, she might be in a mess." Maybe he thought Weixu's concealment was ridiculous, but there was a wry smile on Ota's mouth.But the young detective still had a serious face. "I see, so have you seen the man in this photo?" What Ota took out was a photo taken by a Polaroid camera, showing the man with his eyes closed.Thinking that it was a dead person, Wei Xu was a little scared, but in the photo he seemed to be just asleep. The man has a beard, so he looks a bit old at first glance, but Wei Xu thinks he should be only about 25 years old.Affected by the flash, his face was a little pale, but he didn't feel abnormal at all. Never, she replied. "That's right, think about it." Ota spoke with a hint of meaning, and put the photo in the inner pocket of his suit.After he finished this action, Wei Xu asked. "May I ask how to deal with it?" "How? You mean?" "What about Ye Liuzi? Will she be arrested?" "No matter what form it is, after all, she caused death, so she must be arrested first." "Is she a murderer?" The voice trembled. "Well, for the time being." "Please wait a moment." Oda interrupted. "I heard from Saito that it was the man who wanted to attack her first, so self-defense should be established, isn't it?" "Well, all I can say here is that it's very likely." "It's very likely... Do you think she's lying?" "No, we want to believe her very much. However, everything must have conclusive evidence. After we get the evidence, there will be no problem." Wei Xu really wanted to ask Ota what the so-called conclusive evidence refers to, but Ota's eyes fell on her notebook, so she turned her eyes to the young detective next to her, and met his eyes.He looked at Wei Xu and nodded silently.It felt like saying "no problem" softly, and Wei Xu couldn't help but feel saved. Immediately after asking some more questions, the so-called interrogation finally came to an end. "I think there will definitely be things to ask everyone in the future, and I will trouble everyone again. We will stop here today." The two of Ota stood up, "Excuse me," Wei Xu said.The detectives looked back at her, "I want to see Ye Liuzi." Wei Xu continued. The faces of the two looked a little surprised, then Ota scratched his head and said to her: "I'm very sorry, please don't see her today, because she has already been taken to the police station." "If it's not convenient to meet today... then when?" Then Ota slapped his neck with a troubled expression. "When exactly, it's really hard to say now, it depends on how the future progresses." "That's it..." Wei Xu muttered, Ota had already walked out of the room, and the young detective followed him, but turned around suddenly when he reached the door. "Will be back, I promise." Then he bowed and left the room. Wei Xu sat on the sofa again, Oda Yasunari said to her: "He's right." Then, he lit a cigarette, "That's definitely self-defense, and they will understand soon, so you don't have to worry about anything." Probably trying to convince himself, he nodded several times. Because the investigators had already left, Wei Xu and his party were also preparing to go back.Oda lives very close to his home within a few steps, but Mio has to take the tram to get home.After Oda's negotiation, the police officers agreed to send them back. After walking out of the gate and waiting for a while, the young criminal policeman from before came over, as if he was responsible for sending them off.Although I was a little nervous and panicked when I went home with the police, but knowing that I was walking with him was finally a sigh of relief. After walking for a while, he stopped beside a blue angular car parked on the side of the road.Then he opened the door next to the passenger seat and said "please". "Is it this car?" "Well, what's the matter?" "nothing……" Wei Xu sat in without saying a word, because she said that the police were taking her, so she took it for granted that she was going back in a police car.Sitting in the passenger seat and looking around the inside of the car, I found nothing special. The detective sat in the driver's seat and started the engine. Wei Xu can't drive, so naturally he doesn't know anything about roads.What Wei Xu desperately wanted was to send her to the nearby station first, the nearest station, Fujimidai Station. "Did you enjoy ballet?" When the red light stopped, the detective asked her. "Well, very happy." Wei Xu replied, "This is the whole of my life." "I'm really envious." The criminal police started the car again, "I mean you can be so sure of your life direction, just this is a fortune." Wei Xu looked at his side face, and then returned to the windshield.There was a narrow and dark path ahead, and he was fairly skilled, so he wasn't in a bad mood. "There is a special rule of self-defense." The detective spoke suddenly.Wei Xu looked at him, "Huh?" He indicated that he didn't hear clearly. "'Law on the Prevention and Punishment of Thieves, etc.' is abbreviated as 'Law on the Prevention and Control of Thieves'. One of them is the special regulations on self-defense." "Oh" Wei Xu replied. "To put it simply, the content is: if an illegal trespasser for the purpose of stealing is killed by someone who is overly frightened, frightened or excited, he will not be convicted in law." "Then Ye Liuzi is suitable for this situation." Wei Xu raised his voice involuntarily. The criminal policeman was silent for a while, then said, "It does apply." "It's just that the premise is that she can prove the correctness of what she said." "Ye Liuzi won't lie." "Probably so, but currently there is nothing that can prove her testimony. Now some policemen have a tendency to ignore the testimony that cannot be proved." "how come……" "So the problem we are facing now is to find out why the deceased appeared in the office of the ballet company. As long as it is proved that he broke in illegally for the purpose of theft, then the prosecution will not be prosecuted immediately, and your friends will be very happy." Soon to be released. But at present whether his purpose is theft we have no idea at all." "Isn't it okay if you don't understand this?" "No, it depends on its purpose. As long as the man sneaked in and attacked her..." "Justifiable defense is established?" "Yes, under normal circumstances." "Under normal circumstances?" Wei Xu asked him, but the detective faced forward and did not answer. After arriving at Fujimidai Station, she also began to get familiar with the road.Instruct the criminal police to 'turn right over there and turn left at the next intersection'.Every time the young criminal policeman heard it, he would answer "yes" and turn the steering wheel. He parked downstairs of the apartment, and after getting off the car, he seemed ready to take her to the room, but Wei Xu declined, because he didn't want to be seen by anyone, and the criminal police didn't insist on sending her.In fact, she wasn't worried about the eyes of her surroundings, she was just not used to being sent off by others. "You have worked hard." After Wei Xu got out of the car, the detective said.After she replied thank you, she looked at him and asked, "May I ask your first and last name?" "Oh, yes." At this moment, his cheeks began to soften, revealing his white teeth from between his lips. "Kaga, 'Kaga' of 'Kaga Million Stones'." "Kaga" Wei Xu wrote these two words in his mind, and bowed to him again to thank him.
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