Chapter 6 Uncle's actions

Sotaro sat in front of Zhenzi with a cheerful expression, insisting that his brother must still follow. Can't imagine committing suicide.Kenichi had no reason to commit suicide.He wouldn't do something like that.Even though Sotaro Uhara said this, he couldn't convince him. "He's alive. He must be alive somewhere." Although he speaks forcefully, there is no content.The uncle's tone was a bit reckless, he was sure that his younger brother must be alive and would not commit suicide. His firm belief comes from the love of his flesh and blood, just like a stubborn old man.Can't make any sense.The child silently waited for his next words, but there was none.

When the waitress brought tea, Zhenzi raised her head and said: "However, Xianyi hasn't shown up until now, brother, do you have any clues?" The uncle didn't answer immediately, he reached out to pick up the tea bowl, blew on it, and replied: "I don't have any clues, but he has been unhurried since he was a child. Before marrying you, once, he didn't say anything to us, and went to Kyushu alone. This time, he may not go. Where, after a few days, it will quietly come back, and I don’t know.” The uncle took a sip of tea. Zhenzi was silent.What does uncle come to Kanazawa for?Just to worry about my brother, let's take a look at the situation.

But his tone didn't take Xianyi's safety as a big deal.Or did he drop by to have fun on the way of a business trip, and in order to reassure Zhenzi, he casually said some innocuous words, expressing concerns that were not considered comforting? "What do people in the corporate office think?" The uncle noticed Zhenzi's gloomy expression, and he couldn't help but feel it. "Everyone is at a loss. One day before returning to Tokyo, the sudden disappearance is like a mystery. The people in the company are at a loss, and Mr. Honda has caused a lot of trouble.'"

If, as the uncle said, Xianyi's mood is capricious and he hides somewhere temporarily, it won't be so troublesome.You can't say this directly, you can only refute the uncle's nonsense in a roundabout way. Soutaro Uhara smoked in silence, his cheerful expression cast a little shadow.Zhenzi thought, her words still contradicted him.The uncle frowned and said: "All in all... Xianyi is really shameless. We have only been married for a few days, and let Zhenzi worry so much." It seems that the uncle has nothing else to say. "No, no, don't worry about me, but what you worry about is the safety of Xianyi. Brother, you can rest assured that Xianyi has no reason to commit suicide. But there are other things to worry about." Zhenzi He glanced at Sotaro.

"Anything else to worry about? What do you mean?" the uncle asked. "Will you be hurt by others? Judging from the lack of news so far, there are some ominous signs." The uncle inserted the cigarette butt into the ashtray and said with a smile, "It's impossible. Because there is no reason for Xianyi to be killed." Or "for no reason".He went on to say: "If it was homicide, there must be resentment or something to do with money. Xianyi is not the kind of person who invites resentment. As an older brother, I know his character very well. He is very timid, much more cowardly than me."

Sotaro emphasizes Kenichi's weak character. "'Therefore, resentment and the like are unimaginable. As for money, did Xianyi hold the company's money at that time?" "No, it seems not." "Then he won't bring a lot of money. It is absolutely impossible to be killed because of money. From this point of view, Zhenzi, your worries are unfounded." The uncle tried hard to convince her. "I would also like to think so, but after hearing from the police that an unidentified corpse was found, I was very disturbed, so I went to the countryside of Noto to have a look."

The uncle opened his eyes wide, stared at Zhenzi and said: "To Noto? Did you go to Noto?" "Yes, it is said that there is a corpse of a thirty-five or six-year-old man who committed suicide. I went to see it. It was a strange person. When I heard the characteristics, I thought it was Kenichi." "When did you go?" "On the 17th, I came back here very late, and it was on the coast where traffic is very inconvenient." "Where?" "At Noto West Coast, at the end of Takahiro, change to a bus at Uza." The uncle didn't seem to respond, he took out his cigarette and lit it again.

"You're a little nervous again, don't overthink it." He finally spoke up. "Zhenzi, I thought you should go back to Tokyo first. Rather than worrying about it here, you might as well go back to Tokyo and wait for the news." "Well, that's what Mom said on the phone." "Yes, you go back to your mother's house, or live with your sister-in-law for a while. How about taking a break?" "Well, I think so too." "Then let's do this." The uncle said. Zhenzi stared at the uncle's face. "Brother, what are you going to do?"

"me?" The uncle's expression was not very clear. "I just came here and wanted to investigate Xianyi's whereabouts. However, the company is very busy and I won't stay here for long." investigation?What method will the uncle use to investigate?Zhenzi wanted to ask him, but couldn't speak right away.She hesitated because she saw that her uncle seemed to have scruples about her.At this time, the phone rang. "Mr. Honda is here," the foreman said on the phone. "Mr. Honda from the company is here. He is Kenichi's successor. He has really worried about him this time. Let him come?" Zhenzi said to his uncle with the handset.

"He came at the right time. I want to see him too and thank him." The uncle got up and straightened the cushion. Honda Ryoo entered the room modestly as usual.He found that there were guests in the room, and hesitated for a moment. "This is Uhara's older brother." Zhenzi introduced. Honda respectfully bowed his knees and saluted his uncle. "Thank you for your trouble." Sotaro Uhara put his hands on the tatami and thanked him. "When did you arrive?" Honda and his uncle sat down facing each other. "For the express train this morning, I called the capital office, and they told me the hotel where Zhenzi stayed." The uncle saluted slightly.

"You're welcome. Are you tired? Did you come straight from Tokyo?" "No, I went to Kyoto on a business trip and transferred from there." "It's really hard to arrive early in the morning." "Well, however, I got out of the car and looked at the city of Kanazawa in the morning. I was very satisfied. I walked on the street for a while. It really deserves to be an ancient city in the northern country." Dabozi put a cigarette on the street and smiled at Honda. "Hmm...?" Honda didn't know how to answer for a while, he glanced at Zhenzi, then lowered his head, and took out a cigarette as well. The two men exchanged polite remarks, and both felt awkward when they met for the first time.For some reason, the eldest uncle stood up without mentioning Xianyi. "Kegan, I still have something to do, come back in the evening." The uncle said, bowed to Ben Duo, walked out of the room, and Zhenzi sent him to the door. "Is the man surnamed Bendo behaved?" the uncle said in a low voice as he walked. Zhenzi understood what her uncle meant, and thought, it's time to go back to Tokyo. "Goodbye Uncle Guangda shook his shoulders and walked towards the road. Looking at his back, Zhenzi remembered the night when he came back from Noto, he saw that man at the station who looked very much like his uncle. The man was submerged in the sea of ​​people, so he couldn't see clearly, but no matter how he looked, he looked very similar.But my uncle came from Kyoto this morning.That is an illusion! Back in the room, Honda wobbled around, doing nothing. "Did my visit offend your brother?" He narrowed his eyes as he spoke. "No, no, nothing. My brother is still very grateful to you. Don't think so." "Really?" Honda snorted, still concerned. Ben came to visit in the morning to tell Zhenzi that the head office had called, but so far, Kenichi Uhara has not heard anything. "Your brother came here, is there any clue?" Honda asked. "No. He doesn't have a clear idea." Zhenzi deliberately concealed what his uncle said. "Really? Honda was silent for a while, then suddenly remembered something, and asked: "Did your brother really arrive this morning?" "What?" Zhenzi couldn't help but cast a glance at Honda. "I think what your brother said is a bit strange." Honda blushed a little. "What are you referring to?" Zhenzi asked nonchalantly.Honda said: "What I mean is that after he arrived in Kanazawa, he lost walking in the streets. There was only one express train from Kyoto arriving at the station in the morning. The "Japan Sea" departing from Kyoto was at 23:50, and arrived at Jinze. Ze is five fifty-six. At this time, it is not yet dawn in Jinze!" Zhenzi couldn't help but startled. The uncle did say that he came from Kyoto by express train.Strange to say, wandering the streets before dawn.He spoke as if in sunny Kanazawa. The eldest brother-in-law is not from Kyoto—Zhenzi's intuition reminded her.He must have heard someone say that the express train from Kyoto arrives in Kanazawa in the morning.For a moment, he didn't realize that it was still dark on a winter morning. ——It seems that what he said was a lie. Zhenzi immediately remembered the man who looked like his uncle in the crowd at Kanazawa Station that night.All those people got off the Noto Wajima train.Sotaro came on the same train as Sadako, but they were not in the same carriage. "Mr. Honda, was there a train from Tokyo or Kyoto when I arrived that night?" Zhenzi asked. With a surprised expression on Honda's face, he took out a small timetable from his pocket. "You arrived at 21:28..." Honda turned two or three pages. "No. The train from Ueno, Tokyo arrives at 19:12, and the train from Kyoto arrives at Kanazawa at 18:6. There is no train arriving around 21:28." In the evening of the same day, Honda reported to Sadako about the strange actions of his elder brother Sotaro Uhara. "I saw your brother in the street today. He probably didn't notice me. I saw him coming out of a wonderful shop." "Wonderful shop?" Sadako asked. "It wouldn't be surprising if it was a regular resident. But—he came out of the laundry." Laundry shop?Zhenzi was surprised. "Not far from that shop, there is another laundry room. I kept an eye on him, and your brother went into that shop again, and came out again immediately." "According to this, he seems to have been running all over the city's laundry and dyeing shops." Sadako held his breath and was speechless. When Sadako heard Honda say that Sotaro Uhara switched from one dye shop in Kanazawa City to another, his heart fluctuated inexplicably. "What is he going to do after the dyeing?" Zhenzi stared at Honda's face. "I don't understand." Honda also showed an incredulous expression. "Ma'am, do you have a clue?" "Not at all." Sadako understood Honda's mood when he asked the question.Xianyi lives in the same family with his brother and sister-in-law.There are special circumstances that cannot be seen from the outside.Honda believed that the uncle's strange behavior of visiting the laundry shop for no reason had something to do with it. "Your brother came to Kanazawa from Tokyo and suddenly went to a dyeing shop. What's the matter?" It's not that the uncle has something to do with the dyer, but that Shi Yi has some relationship with the dyer, and the uncle went to investigate. "Is he inquiring about Mr. Uhara from a large laundry and dyeing shop?" Honda expressed the same opinion. "I think so, Kenichi has been here for a long time." Kenichi has been working in Kanazawa for the past two years.As a bachelor, he must have clothes to ask the laundry and dyeing shop to wash.However, why did the uncle go to investigate? If it is necessary, he should explain it to Zhenzi, but what is the reason for him to investigate quietly by himself? "I don't know whether to say this or not." Honda blushed for a while, and said awkwardly: "I thought your brother knew about Mr. Uhara's disappearance to some extent." Zhenzi couldn't help but startled, she thought Honda's idea made sense. It was not easy for the elder brother to leave Tokyo, because he was busy with work, and when he learned that his younger brother was missing, he couldn't come to Kanazawa immediately.Now he is optimistic.Then he must have his special basis for being optimistic. After the eldest brother came to Kanazawa, he was very active in finding this basis.He said he came here after a business trip to Kyoto.In fact, he went secretly to Neng Shou to investigate the situation. If this is true, why did he hide it?Why don't you tell Zhenzi about your actions? He is Xianyi's elder brother, and only the elder brother knows part of the younger brother's secrets.But he didn't want to tell his brother's wife Zhenzi. Zhenzi thought for a while in silence, lowered his head, and said in a low voice: "I don't know either. Maybe." "Ma'am! Maybe my thoughts are a bit too much. I dare not say. Shall we go to the laundry shop and ask what your brother needs from the laundry. How about it?" Zhenzi raised her face and said: "No' Honda stammered; "Doing so may incur distrust of your brother. But at this point, it doesn't matter. If your brother's visit to the laundry and dye shop is related to Mr. Uhara, we also need to know .It's just that we don't want your brother to know, and secretly ask how it is after washing and dyeing? This also makes sense, thanks to Ben Duo's enthusiasm.The eldest brother's search for a laundry and dyeing shop may have something to do with her husband's disappearance. "I'll go with you." Zhenzi said with determination. "That's good." Honda showed a relieved expression. The shop changed into out clothes in the next room, thinking that Honda, like himself, also had doubts about his uncle's actions.From this point of view, when Honda first met his uncle, he did not have a good impression of him.The same goes for the uncle.He once asked the detective in the corridor: "Is that man surnamed Bendo behaved?" Thinking of going back to Tokyo immediately. At the same time, it also means Zhenzi's self-confidence.Honda looked at her with special eyes.He is very self-respecting, and occasionally shows off, which makes Zhenzi at a loss.Honda was sensitively aware of his uncle's eyes.It seems that he doesn't like his uncle either. When the two left the hotel, it was already dark.They still took the little green tram.Amazingly, this green tram has been integrated into Zhenzi's daily life. At a small stop on the way downhill, Sadako Honda got off. "I saw him from here." Honda pointed to the side street at the crossroads, and at the eighth corner, he counted five or six houses. Under the embroidered light, there were two bicycles parked in front of the back door of the store, loaded with laundry. Bamboo basket for things. Walking into the store, two men stood side by side in front of the big table, ironing clothes with a big iron in their hands. Honda went up to ask, but Zhenzi stood behind him and listened. "Yes, someone like this did come to ask during the day today." The man who looked like the boss put down the iron, looked at them, and replied.On the table lay a pile of pressed white shirts. "He came to ask Mr. Uhara Kenichi if his clothes had been washed here." "So did you accept his clothes?" Honda asked. "No, just to be on the safe side, I checked the account book again, and I didn't accept Mr. Uhara's shirt." "Top, what do you mean?" Honda asked back. "He said probably only the jacket, double-breasted, dark gray." Zhenzi remembered that her husband was wearing a dark gray top when he went to Kanazawa. "However, we did not accept it, we could only tell the truth, so he left." The owner of the laundry shop picked up the handle of the iron again. The two left the laundry shop, looking at each other. "Why did Uhara-san just send the coat to the laundry?" Honda asked in bewilderment. "I also do not understand." It is unusual to just send the coat to the laundry and dye shop.Why not send the trousers to the wash?Changed pants, just washed the pants, that's true.And it's a bit strange to just wash the shirt. Does the uncle know about Xianyi's habit? Zhenzi suddenly remembered and asked: "Mr. Honda, do you remember what color shirt Uhara was wearing when he left the office for the last time?" "Yes—" Honda thought for a while, then said: "It's dark gray. He's wearing the same suit as when I came from Tokyo." "yes?" From this point of view, it is not known that Xianyi did not send his coat to the laundry and dyeing shop since then. "Did she always wear that suit when she was in the office?" "Yes. That's right." Honda replied brightly. So, Kenichi sent the shirt to the laundry after he disappeared.What's the reason for only washing clothes?Is it particularly dirty?But how did the uncle know? Now there is only one assumption, and that is that Kenichi is hiding somewhere in Kanazawa City, otherwise there is no reason to just send the jacket to the laundry and dyeing shop. Why does Kenichi hide in the city silently?It's also probably hidden somewhere now.The strangest thing is that the eldest uncle understands his situation to some extent. Honda took Sadako to another dyeing shop. "Yes, there is indeed such a gentleman who came to inquire, but we have not accepted it here." The boss replied. "Let's look at another one." Honda said to Zhenzi. "No, I'll figure it out." Zhenzi was tired, and she felt that if she went to look for each other, the result would be the same. "Yes." Honda looked at Zhenzi sympathetically, and said: "Then find a place in the neighborhood and have a cup of tea." The coffee shop is just opposite.When the member asked for coffee, he spoke out what was in his heart. "Mr. Honda, I want to take the train back to Tokyo tomorrow." "Ugh?" Honda held the coffee cup in his hand and stared at her. "You still have to go back." He said, showing a disappointed look. Seiko avoided his sight.One of the reasons she wanted to leave Kanazawa temporarily was because of Honda's existence. "I've been here for such a long time without realizing it. If I don't go back to Tokyo, I can't understand some things. I want to go back and implement it." This is her true mood. Honda nodded silently.But he still has a disappointed expression, which makes Zhenzi feel stressed. "Then will your brother go back together?" Honda looked at Sadako's face. "No, I'll go back alone, at most I'll call him and tell him." This sentence means that she doesn't trust her uncle, or that she and his uncle are in opposition. It may also be that Honda understood what she meant, so he returned to his normal expression. "That's fine." Honda cautiously agreed. 'My uncle may have to stay in Kanazawa for a while.I will write to you about his actions during his stay. " Staring straight at Sadako's face, Honda said as if making a "declaration".