Chapter 24 Chapter 22 Friendship and Love

"This is your daughter Chunzi?" Totsukawa asked Wenzi while looking at the photo. "My daughter is not at home now." Wenzi repeated this sentence. "Twenty years ago, when your daughter was missing, why didn't you go look for it?" Totsukawa asked. Twenty years ago, if the woman whose body sank in the Otaru Canal was Haruko Matsumoto, why didn't her parents identify the body?It was also because no one went to identify the corpse, so the identity of the corpse was not known. "Mr. Horie—" "You mean Mr. Horie told you not to look for it?"

"Twenty years ago, when my daughter disappeared, my husband and I went to Mr. Horie to discuss it." "Mr. Horie told you not to look for it?" "Mr. Horie didn't say that, but his secretary told us not to look for it for now in order not to hurt Mr. "That's why you didn't look for it?" "Anyway, Mr. Horie is our savior." Wenzi said. "But your daughter hasn't come back, has she?" "Yes. We waited for a month, but we didn't see our daughter coming back. We couldn't care less about hurting Mr. Horie. My husband and I searched desperately."

"A month from now?" It wouldn't be surprising if it couldn't be found, because the body of the unnamed woman who drowned in the Otaru Canal had been disposed of. Totsukawa really wanted to tell Wenzi that the woman who drowned in the Otaru Canal was her daughter Haruko, but after careful consideration, she decided it was better not to say, because Wenzi might not believe that her daughter was dead. Even if she no longer thinks that her daughter who disappeared twenty years ago is still alive, but now that she has lost her husband, she may have a glimmer of hope for her daughter, so he cannot destroy her hope.

"Did you bring your daughter's things back when you moved back from Tokyo?" Totsukawa asked. "Of course I brought them back together, otherwise, my daughter would find all her things lost when she came back, which would be very bad." Wenzi said in a firm tone. "Is there any Ishizaki's diary in it?" "Ishizaki's diary?" Wenzi asked in confusion. Totsukawa suddenly felt uneasy, isn't he here too? "I heard that Ishizaki's diary is here, isn't it?" Totsukawa asked cautiously. "I didn't check and organize my daughter's things, I just kept them intact."

"Can you let me take a look?" Totsukawa asked. "Okay, because I don't know if there is Ishizaki's diary—" While saying this, Fumiko opened the door of the next room. Half of the room is filled with bookcases, three-way mirrors and wooden boxes, all of which seem to belong to my daughter. Everything looks very old, probably because twenty years have passed? The paint on the bookcase has been mottled and peeled off, but the mother is reluctant to throw it away. "Did anyone come to see you when Ishizaki died?" "What do you want me for?"

"I want something from Ishizaki. Don't you have it?" After Totsukawa said that, Wenzi thought for a while and said, "So, my daughter told me that if someone came to ask Ishizaki if he put things here, he would answer no, nothing." "So, someone came to see you?" "Yes. A friend who claimed to be Ishizaki called and asked if Ishizaki had put anything here. If so, I hope I can return it to him." "Did the other party say his name?" "Maybe, but after twenty years, I can't remember." "Did you answer as your daughter said?"

"yes." "Does the other party believe it?" "I don't seem to believe it, because I made two or three calls of the same kind later." "Is it just a phone call?" Totsukawa asked. Wenzi thought for a while and said: "After the phone call, the store in Shangbanqiao was set on fire, but I don't think the two things are related." "Arson?" "Twice in total, although it was a small fire, I still called the police, but the arsonist was never caught." Wenzi thinks there is no connection, but Totsukawa thinks there is.

Ishizaki committed suicide by leaving a letter. In the suicide note, he only accused the police of wronging good people. But if he is innocent, wouldn't he want to explain it to others? What's more, Ishizaki's actions are really too suspicious. Because when there were consecutive killings in Tokyo, Ishizaki's Porsche repeatedly appeared at the murder scene. Why would Ishizaki do this?Why not explain it in the suicide note, so as to clarify yourself? No, maybe it was explained in other suicide notes. That's why people searched after Ishizaki's death, and the person who called was one of them, Totsukawa thought.

Wenzi replied that there was nothing, and the other party would not believe it. Because the other party thought that it would be bad if Ishizaki really left other suicide notes or diaries, he set fire to the house.And set fire twice in a row, hoping to burn the things left by Ishizaki together. Twenty years later, the other party even dared to kill Sasaki, who was investigating the incident again, let alone set fire to the house. Totsukawa thought so while checking the bookcase. Haruko Matsumoto seems to like literature very much, because the bookcase is full of books on Japanese literature and world literature.Totsukawa picked up one at random and read it, as if confirming his idea, the book was full of red lines, which showed that she had read all these books.

However, there is no Ishizaki's diary or books signed by Ishizaki in the book box. Neither are the three-way mirror drawers and wardrobe. Next, Totsukawa inspected the wooden box very carefully. These wooden boxes seem to be tea chests, because when the lid is opened, there is a scent of tea.The first wooden box held her shoes and umbrella. Totsukawa opened the second wooden box. Inside were her clothes neatly placed. Totsukawa carefully took out one by one, and found a brown envelope at the bottom of the box. It is a large envelope that can only hold two or three books.Totsukawa was so excited that his heart beat wildly.

He took out the envelope. (Finally found!) Totsukawa couldn't help but yelled in his heart. Inside the envelope were two thick diaries, with Ishizaki's signature on the diaries. "I found it." Totsukawa said to Wenzi in an excited tone. When Wenzi saw the two diaries, he was a little surprised and said, "I'm sorry. Since I didn't check those wooden boxes, I didn't know there were those two diaries." "Can you lend me these two diaries for a few days?" "Although I know my daughter will refuse, but since she is not here, it doesn't matter, you take it home and watch it." Wenzi said kindly. Totsukawa hugged the two diaries tightly, went back to the hotel, and flipped through the pages. It was a diary spanning two years, starting from January 1, Showa 40.At this time, Ishizaki should have become Horie Masashi's secretary, because he called Horie Masashi "Sir" in his diary. Until now, I have not developed any special feelings for Master Horie. Totsukawa read page by page. Until January 7th, Master Horie was still in Japan, and Masahiko Horie's name was never mentioned since then, probably he has already returned to the United States. Totsukawa quickly saw the place where Horie Masahiko reappeared by speed reading. During this period, they are all recorded about Diet Horie, which makes people feel that Ishizaki respects Diet Horie very much. Horie Masahiko's name was mentioned again on July 25th. On this day, Masahiko came back from the United States. After that, it was blank for five consecutive days. Probably because Ishizaki felt a little jealous because Horie Masahiko had a girlfriend and wished him well, that's why he didn't write a diary for five days in a row. Totsukawa also had such feelings when he was young.When his friend had a girlfriend, he was a bit jealous, but when he also had a girlfriend, the feelings disappeared immediately, and he is still very close to that friend.