Chapter 7 Chapter 6 Misunderstanding

what does it mean?Does monk know who the murderer is? Kosuke Kindaichi stared at the monk's face puzzled, while the monk silently counted the beads. Like a deflated rubber ball, Takezou and Liozawa stared at Hanako who was twisting like a snake. The wind was getting stronger and stronger, and the black hair of Hanako who was hanging upside down was still dragging on the ground like a black snake. After Kosuke Kindaichi came back to his senses, with his professional instinct, he held up the lantern to check the location of the corpse and how to tie the straps, then turned his head and said to Takezo:

"Takezo, can you please go and get a doctor? He should be awake by now!" Takekura rubbed his eyes as if waking up from a dream, then looked back at the monk. "Master." he shouted timidly. Monk Liaoran stood facing the meditation room, as if he hadn't heard Zhuzang's voice, his eyes were looking at nowhere, and his expression was blank. "Master, understand Master!" Zhuzang yelled again, at this moment Monk Zhiran seemed to be taken aback, and the rosary beads in his hand fell off. "What's the matter? Takezo." Monk Liao Ran hastily picked up the rosary, but his voice trembled a little.

"Mr. Kindaichi said that he wants me to call for a doctor." "Ah! Then it's hard work for you to run." Monk Liaoran swallowed, and hastily recited "Namo Sakyamuni Buddha" twice. "Then... what about my family? Shall I also inform you?" Takezo looked at the monk's face and asked with a tone of asking for advice. "The other side of our house... Well, then you should stop by and tell them that Hanako has been found, but remember, don't say that she was killed. Also, Mr. Kindaichi!" The monk looked at Takekura, then at Kosuke Kindaichi.

"I'm here." Kosuke Kindaichi looked at the monk with "please speak" eyes. "Was Hanako killed?" "It doesn't look like suicide." Kinda Kazukosuke felt amused by the monk's question, and unconsciously wanted to laugh out loud, but when he changed his mind, he realized that such an occasion could not be so presumptuous, so he hurriedly suppressed his laughter and scratched his head to cover up his gaffe . "Takezo, I think it's better not to tell my family about this. There are all women there, and it would be too pitiful to be frightened."

Monk Liao Ran finally issued clear instructions. "Okay, then I'll go first." "Hey, wait a minute...by the way, please inform the village chief and ask him to come here. By the way, Mr. Kindaichi, please inform the police station, okay?" "Qing Shui is not at the police station." "Not here?" "Yes, I heard that there was an arrest warrant from Kasaokamoto Bureau, so he sailed out to meet him." The monk touched his bald head and said: "Let's do this! Zhuzang, you should go to the police station and have a look. If Shimizu comes back, tell him to come here."

"Yes! Master, then I will go." Takekura was walking in the mountains against the strong wind, and his movements were as difficult as those of Yajirobei.Not long after he rushed out of the mountain gate, it began to rain heavily. "hateful!" Kosuke Kindaichi looked up at the sky and said with regret. "Mr. Kindaichi, what's wrong?" "rain……". "Rain? Ah! Yes! It's raining heavily, and suddenly it rains... Alas!" "It would be great if the rain would stop before dawn. When it rains, the footprints will be messed up." "footprint?"

The monk gasped and looked at Kosuke Kindaichi in surprise. "I almost forgot, Mr. Kindaichi, please come here for a while." "What's the matter?" "I have something to show you. Liao Ze, you come here too!" "Master, can the corpse be hung like this?" Liao Ze stood still for a long time, and then he said in shock. "Ah! Mr. Kindaichi, can you put the body down?" The monk consulted Kosuke Kindaichi. "I think that's it for now! Maybe Shimizu has already returned." Kosuke Kindaichi said cautiously. "Okay. Ze, then leave Hanako alone, you come here with me."

the monk ordered. So the three of them left the ancient plum tree and walked to the front of the entrance. At this time, the rain became heavier. "hateful!" Kindaichi Kosuke was disgusted by the heavy rain, and couldn't help looking at the sky angrily. "This rain is really unfortunate. By the way, Mr. Kindaichi..." The monk walked under the eaves of the porch and said: "Just now I came back one step earlier than you. I originally planned to come in through the porch, but then I realized that the door was bolted from the inside, so I went around there... Ah! Please go this way, and be careful of the danger under your feet."

The monk brought Kindaichi Kosuke to the back door of the kitchen next to the cliff, only to see that the door was pitch black. "Because the porch door is closed, I went around here, but look..." The monk held the lantern high and said: "I don't know who broke the lock!" Kosuke Kindaichi and Ryozawa couldn't help being shocked when they saw it. It turned out that the pair of foreign locks nailed into the post of the back door of the kitchen had been knocked out, and the remaining half of the nails were hanging on the post and were still dangling. "Liao Ze, when you close this door..."

"Master, it was still fine when I closed the door." "Master, who opened this door?" Kindaichi Kosuke asked. "It's not me. Just as I was about to take out the key to open the lock, I saw that the lock had been twisted. At that time, I was shocked. When I opened the door, I saw that." The monk held up a lantern to shine through the half-opened door, and saw several large mud shoe prints on the concrete floor in front of the floor. "Master, is there a thief?" Liao Ze was too scared to speak. "Look, this footprint is still very new. I saw it and called you immediately, but I was worried that the thief was nearby. Just in case, I took a lantern and looked around, and then I saw..."

The monk paused, and said as if swallowing something unpalatable: "Hanako's body." "Master, so you haven't entered the main hall yet?" Kindaichi Kosuke asked. "Of course, I don't have time!" "Then let's go inside and check it out!" "Okay, Liao Ze, you go in and turn on the light first." "Master..." "What's wrong? Ze, are you shaking? What a coward." "Master, maybe the thief is still hiding inside!" "Liao Ze, don't worry, the footprints come out as soon as they go in, there's no way a thief can hide in it... Sigh! I think I'll go in first!" "No, I'll go in first." Liozawa entered the kitchen, turned on the light, and immediately yelled: "Master, the thief came in without taking off his shoes, look at so many muddy shoe prints!" "Wow, wow, is there something missing?" "I'm checking." "Master, please lend me your lantern." Since Kindaichi Kosuke's lantern was taken away by Takekura, he had no choice but to check the back door of the kitchen with the monk's lantern. It is close to the cliff, and there is no sunshine all year round. It is a dark and humid place.Kosuke Kindaichi judged from the shoe prints that it should be the footprints of military shoes. He came in from the outside and then went out, but when he got to the ground in the yard, it was difficult to find any footprints because the ground was hard. ... "hateful!" He cursed angrily, and when he returned to the back door, the monk followed Ze and was no longer in the kitchen. "Master, Liao Ze." he yelled. "I'm here." Ze's voice came from the abbot's room. Kosuke Kindaichi held the lantern and looked into the abbot's room, only to see Zezheng opening the closet to check the things inside. "Has something been stolen?" "I haven't found it yet..." "Where's Master?" "He went to the main hall to check..." At this time, the monk Liao Ran shouted in the main hall: "Liao Ze, bring the lantern." Kosuke Kindaichi immediately sent the lantern in his hand over, while Monk Liao Ran looked down from the railing of the stairs on the south side of the main hall. "Master! Did you find anything?" Monk Liao Ran extended the lantern over the railing, and saw three cigarette butts next to the sesame oil cash box, and five or six used matches scattered beside it. "Liao Ze, have you cleaned this place?" Monk Liao Ran asked. "I come to clean it every morning, and people who come to worship are not allowed to smoke here." "It looks like a thief! This thief sneaked in through the back door, and he's sitting here smoking a few cigarettes!" Monk Liaoran looked at the matches and cigarette butts, shook his head, and said angrily and amusingly. This is the main hall, and neither cigarette butts nor matches were affected by the heavy rain. Kosuke Kindaichi picked up the cigarette butts and matches and put them on the paper, while scratching his hair excitedly, he said to the monk: "Master, look at these cigarette butts, they are all cigarettes rolled with dictionary paper!" "Not bad, and it's an English dictionary!" "Yes, this is the paper from a concise English-Japanese dictionary. This kind of paper is quite suitable for rolling cigarettes. Master, there are not many people on this island with English dictionaries, right?" "Both Wanda and Ah Yi in our family have gone to middle school, so they should have English dictionaries." "Does anyone in this house smoke?" The monk stared at Kosuke Kanedaichi with his eyes wide open as if he was taken aback, his hands were tightly grasping the orb-shaped ornament on the railing, and he was panting rapidly. "Master, what's wrong with you?" Kosuke Kindaichi couldn't help being taken aback by the monk knowing that he was panting heavily. "How is it possible, how is this possible..." "Master, who would, would smoke there?" Kosuke Kindaichi stuttered and asked. "I once saw Sanae rolling cigarettes with paper like this, and the paper was full of words. I asked her who the cigarettes were for..." "What did she say?" "She said it was uncle." Kosuke Kindaichi couldn't help but gasped and shuddered. "Master, the uncle Sanae mentioned is the one locked in the confinement room..." "Yes, that's the lunatic. I specifically told Sanae that it's okay to smoke a lunatic, but never give him matches. Sanae said she would be careful." The mouse on the ceiling knocked over something, and suddenly there was a loud noise, which shocked the monk, Kosuke Kindaichi, and Ryozawa. In the cold wind and heavy rain, Hanako's body was completely soaked, shaking in the wind and rain. Seeing this, Liao Ze murmured indistinctly while trembling: "Nan Wu..." "Master, according to your opinion, the 'thief' who came here tonight is the owner of the family locked in the confinement room?" "I didn't say that, because you just mentioned the cigarettes..." Monk Liao Ran loudly denied it. "But you just said something very strange!" Kosuke Kindaichi stared at the monk with a puzzled expression and asked. "Me? When?" "When Hanako's body was discovered just now." "When Hanako's body was found? What did I say?" "I heard you say things like 'nobody can do anything to a madman'." "Eh? Did I say so?" "Yes, you did say that. I felt very strange at the time! Master, do you think this matter has something to do with the master of the house?" "No matter who it is, there is nothing you can do to a madman. Did I say that? No matter who it is, there is nothing you can do to a madman. No matter who it is, there is nothing you can do to a madman..." Suddenly, Monk Liaoran widened his eyes and stared at Kosuke Kindaichi fiercely with a ferocious expression. Soon, his shoulders trembled, the corners of his mouth twitched violently, then he opened his hands, covered his whole face, and wobbled back two feet. three steps. "Master!" Kindaichi Kosuke asked anxiously: "Do you remember anything?" Knowing that the monk covered his face and his shoulders were shaking, he slowly took his hands away from his face and squinted his eyes to avoid Kosuke Kindaichi's sight. "Mr. Kindaichi." he whispered. "Ok" "You misunderstood. What I said has nothing to do with the owner of my family." "But, but, Master, what do you mean by that sentence? Who is that lunatic referring to?" Kindaichi Kosuke became anxious and stuttered again. "Mr. Kindaichi, I can't say, this... this is terrible." At this time, the monk began to tremble violently again. After a long while, he sighed and said weakly: "Mr. Kindaichi, there are many terrible things in this world that ordinary people can't imagine, and there are some strange things that you can't imagine. Crazy... Yes, it's almost like a lunatic. But, now I can't say, this matter, always One day I will explain everything clearly to you, please don’t ask anything now, it’s useless to ask, I won’t say anything.” The monk said, leaning out from the railing of the main hall. "I seem to see someone coming here with a light on, probably a doctor! Before he enters the mountain gate, let's go to the Zen room to have a look first!" As mentioned earlier, there is a corridor connecting the meditation room and the main hall. The meditation room is a slender building with a width of six meters and a length of twelve meters, facing east from west.Open the door at the end of the corridor, and there is a long row of tatami mats on the left and right sides, forming a long aisle.There are ten tatami mats in total, and the fifth tatami mat is just in the middle of the aisle, and the intersection of the two aisles is the center of the Zen room, where the Tathagata statue is enshrined on the incense table.In addition, there are thick and straight windows on the left and right sides of the meditation room, the entrance to the meditation room is on the left side of the aisle, and the courtyard is outside, where the ancient plum tree is. After the monk took a lantern to check every corner of the meditation room, he went to the door and saw that the door was bolted from the inside. "Well, nothing unusual. Liao Ze, is there anything missing in the abbot's room?" "Master, I haven't checked it carefully, but it seems that there is nothing unusual." "Maybe our monastery is too poor and there is nothing worth stealing. Ah! Xing'an should be here soon, let's wait for him!" Kosuke Kindaichi still couldn't figure out why the monk said that?Everyone knows that the so-called lunatic is the owner of the Onitomoto clan and Sansong.But, then again, whether it's with Sansong or anyone else, the murderer must be a lunatic!But then the monk should say: "There's nothing you can do if it's done by a lunatic." However, Kindaichi Kosuke clearly heard: "No matter who it is, there is nothing you can do to a madman..." What exactly does this mean? If the lunatic is not with Sansong, who could it be? This question troubled Kindaichi Kosuke deeply until the arrival of the doctor and the village chief.