Chapter 23 Section VI

It was another long trip. They had lunch in Kumamoto Prefecture, rested for about 30 minutes, and then hurriedly set off again regardless of fatigue. Omuta, Saga, no matter which towns we pass by, they are very quiet.The road is bathed in the midsummer sunshine unique to the southern country, and people wearing straw hats walk past from time to time. Since she didn't sleep much last night, Keiko Sugihara felt drowsy.She glanced at Yosuke Tachibana quietly, and Yosuke was holding the steering wheel energetically, staring straight ahead. "Are you tired?" Sugihara Keiko asked softly.

"Not tired yet!..." Yosuke Tachibana said vigorously. "Would you like me to replace you? But I..." In Karatsu, they reached the sea and headed west along the bay.It was nearly five o'clock in the afternoon when they drove into the East Matsuura Peninsula.The heat of the sun has also subsided. The road extends all the way to the peninsula.Because the surrounding mountains are very high, it is hard to believe that it has entered the semi-"island".The high mountains blocked the sunlight, and the cobblestone mountain roads were not so clear. After a while, the car started to go downhill. At this time, you can see the "Huzi Town" with many residents near the entrance to the sea.

The calm sea reflects the setting sun, and the ripples on the orange-red sea are really beautiful.Further forward is Zhenxi Town.This picturesque town is even cuter than Sugihara Keko imagined, as peaceful as in a deep sleep. Before entering Zhenxi Town, they saw the police station, which was at the foot of a mountain.Tachibana Yosuke drove the car over. A policeman in his forties was sitting on a chair with an electric stove at his feet, cooking something, and the surroundings were filled with the smell from the pot.At the entrance, there are several beautiful woody flowers and trees. "Sorry, I want to inquire." Yosuke Tachibana stepped forward and said.

Sugihara Keiko has a strong dislike for the police, which gradually arose in her heart after Zhenbi Xiumin was killed.However, I don't know why, Tachibana Yosuke is not like this. "Where is Mr. Hamaguchi's house in Jinnishi Town?" "There is this person. There are four households named Bangkou. There used to be a lot of people named Bangkou here!..." The policeman replied with a local accent. "What's his name, Bangguchi?" the policeman raised his head and asked. "I don't know much about this. I only know that he is a patient who has been hospitalized and is relatively young."

According to the nurse, the wife of "Hangguchi" who was hospitalized was young and beautiful, and it seemed that "Hangguchi" was not too old. "Otherwise, I'll tell you the families with the surname Bangkou one by one, and then you go find them?" Sugihara Keiko also thinks that this is the only way, but it will take a lot of time. So the policeman turned off the electric stove. "I'm sorry." Yosuke Tachibana said softly. The policeman stood up and spread a map on the table. There is a "Y"-shaped estuary on the peninsula, which separates the east and west sides of the island. The east side is called Huzi Town, and the west side is called Zhenxi Town.

The policeman pointed to the northern end of Zhenxi Town with the index finger that was yellowed by smoke, at the place marked "Cape Hado": "This is a family, but there is no man in this family, only a girl and her mother." "How old is this girl now?" Tachibana Yosuke asked. "Twenty-two, three, working in the Fisherman's Association. She also has an older brother, but he died four years ago." Sugihara Keiko noticed this time all at once. "How did you die?" Sugihara Keiko asked suddenly. "Is this... I didn't figure it out..."

While looking out the window, the policeman sat back next to the electric stove, and then he let the two of them sit on the two chairs next to them, and spoke casually to the two of them. "It was her elder brother who started working in Nagasaki after graduating from high school... At first, he worked in a shipyard. However, he changed several jobs within a short period of time. Judging from his letter , the family only knew that he was always changing addresses, and they didn’t know what kind of work he was doing. Of course, in this day and age, there are many young people like this—very few young people go back to their hometown honestly after graduation, and they all want to go Breaking out in a big city—and, of course, job security."

After the policemen in the countryside finished speaking, they looked at Keiko Sugihara and Yosuke Tachibana again, as if guessing their ages so as not to hurt others. "This Hamaguchi... what is his name Hamaguchi?" Tachibana Yosuke asked. "Hangguchi Mitsuhiko. He was only twenty-four or five years old when he died." "How did he die?" Yosuke Tachibana asked seriously. Pointing to the direction of Cape Hado, the policeman sighed and said, "Six years later, he returned home. The next morning, he died in the sea there. The direct cause of death was myocardial paralysis."

"Did you commit suicide...?" Sugihara Keiko exclaimed. "Whether it was a suicide or an accident, we haven't figured it out yet. Because that day, he went out for a walk very early and didn't come back for a long time, so the whole family went out to look for it. As a result, they saw his body on the shore. Because someone saw , he went to the seaside by himself, and besides that, he never saw any other suspicious fishermen, so it is hard to say that he committed suicide. It was March and the weather was very cold, so he fell into the seawater In the middle, it must have caused a paralysis of the heart function. However, suicide or something is not certain. Since there was no other basis at the time, the case was settled in this way."

Saying that, the policeman also frowned. "Did someone tell the reason for suicide?" Tachibana Yosuke was a little excited. "Yes!..." The policeman nodded, "After investigation, I found out that after Mitsuhiko Hamaguchi resigned from the shipyard, he joined a gang that secretly sold marijuana when he was a band member. Moreover, he himself was poisoned Yes. Until he came back, he was hiding in a hospital in Asu. After he was poisoned by marijuana, he had almost no withdrawal symptoms, so he didn’t tell the doctor, and the doctor couldn’t issue a medical certificate.” The policeman shook his head lightly and sighed "However, after he was hospitalized, his other accomplices were all captured by the police in a secret transaction; therefore, he could no longer return to Nagasaki, so he returned to his hometown. When he died, he was at home The morning after."

This seems to be the reason for not knowing the patient's name from Dean Xiaogongshan.All he said was depression, maybe that was a symptom of marijuana intoxication.It's impossible to know for sure... However, Keiko Sugihara was thinking about whether Mitsuhiko Hamaguchi committed suicide.Generally, people with depressive mental illness often commit suicide when they are hospitalized, before and after discharge, and in the early morning. This is what she heard when interviewing a psychiatrist.This kind of patient is afraid of a new life, a new day, and loses the courage to live, so he will... "Does he have a wife?" Tachibana Yosuke asked again. "It seems not." The policeman thought for a while. "But in Nagasaki, there seems to be a woman who lived with him, but at his funeral, that woman did not show up." After the two asked about the address and house number, they said goodbye and returned to the car. The surrounding sky has darkened.On the sea lower than the road, the setting sun has disappeared, and the sea, sky and mountains are all dark blue.The car turned on its lights and headed up the hill again. Between Huzi Town and Zhenxi Town, there is a small hill.Although there are a few vegetable fields on the hillside, there are no houses to be seen, and the surroundings are deadly silent. Mitsuhiko Hamaguchi’s home is on the hillside of the cape. No matter how you look at it, it looks like a small farmhouse, and there are no other houses around. There is a small hotel in the distance. It is a white concrete building, very far away from the sea. Close, and very noticeable in the dark. The car drove into a fallow field, and the two got out of the car and walked across the field path.The lights in the next room were off, but the main room was on, and the light was shining through the crack of the door to the outside. Yosuke Tachibana and Keiko Sugihara stepped forward and knocked lightly on the door. A girl with a very fit figure in a calico blouse came out slowly.She has fair skin and big eyes, giving people a fresh and bright feeling. Tachibana Yosuke handed over the business card and said, "I'm a friend of Mr. Hamaguchi Mitsuhiko. I happened to pass by here today, so I came to bother you... Are you his sister?" "Yes! . . . " said the girl, putting her hands on her knees, and saluting with characteristic courtesy. "Oh, Master Lingtang...?" "I just went to someone else's house..." Mitsuhiko Hamaguchi's younger sister stared at Keiko Sugihara and the others with a cold and wary gaze. "Oh, I'm also your brother's friend in Nagasaki..." Sugihara Keiko said with a smile on her face. "I didn't know about your brother's death for a long time. I'm really sorry. I didn't hear about this misfortune until recently when I met someone who also knew Mr. Mitsuhiko." Tachibana Yosuke said with a smile. "That's right..." Mitsuhiko Hamaguchi's younger sister responded casually. "Before he passed away, we had many contacts. In my impression, Mr. Mitsuhiko was a very attractive and very good friend." Sugihara Kiko's cheeks were stained red by a kind of shyness she had never seen before, speaking so casually to the deceased who had never met before.However, as if echoing the words just now, the image of a thin young man of twenty-four or five years old was superimposed on the girl's face. What a miraculous illusion this is! "So, we all came up with a special episode of memories, and we came here to chat with you..." Keiko Sugihara smiled and nodded, "In the six years since your brother left Nagasaki and returned here, have you seen Has anyone ever been particularly close to him?" Mitsuhiko Hamaguchi's younger sister gradually relaxed her vigilance and listened more carefully to their speech than before.However, she looked at Keiko Sugihara with some puzzlement. "During my stay in Nagasaki, my family and I knew almost nothing, such as where we lived and who we were in contact with..." "Well... Then, when he was admitted to Asu Hospital four years ago, didn't the family visit him?" "No, we didn't know where he lived before he came back." Mitsuhiko Hamaguchi's sister shook her head and said. "So, he came back to this house alone?" Tachibana Yosuke interrupted and asked. Sister Mitsuhiko Hamaguchi fiddled lightly with her hands on her knees. After a while, she raised her head and said "no", but shook her head immediately. "Could it be sent by a young girl?" Tachibana Yosuke said suddenly. Hamaguchi Mitsuhiko's younger sister's eyes widened immediately after hearing this: "Yes!...you..." "Do you know that man's name?" "I don't know. She's gone again right now." "Immediately? Why?..." Yosuke Tachibana tilted his head curiously. "Because my mother came back then." This time, Hamaguchi Mitsuhiko stared at mid-air and fell silent again.In her pair of young eyes, it can be seen that it is full of anger-like emotions. "My mother was very resentful that my brother became like that, and of course she didn't like the girlfriend he had. She often said this to me. Therefore, when the woman saw my mother come back, she left immediately." "So, this woman never came again?" Keiko Sugihara asked in surprise. "Hey, just this once..." Mitsuhiko Hamaguchi's younger sister looked towards the invisible sea. "About ten days after my brother's death, I saw her standing at Shimosaki, but as soon as I approached, she ran away as if she was afraid of being discovered by me..." Hamaguchi Mitsuhiko's younger sister murmured He murmured, "I saw that she seemed to be crying." Yosuke Tachibana and Keiko Sugihara looked at each other wordlessly.In silence, they heard the wind on the headland. "So, have you encountered any strange things at home recently?" Mitsuhiko Hamaguchi's younger sister.Immediately turned into a teasing smile.She looked at Sugihara Keko, who was startled: Maybe she saw through her lie? "Several people have come to inquire about my brother recently!..." She said suddenly. "Ah?..." Yosuke Tachibana couldn't help raising his head, "Who else has been here?" "That's not true. At the end of May, a man once came to inquire about my brother's affairs." "Who is it..." Yosuke Tachibana repeatedly asked, and Mitsuhiko Hamaguchi's younger sister took out a business card from the back room for the two of them to read.Unexpectedly, after they saw it, they couldn't help but "ah". Section Chief of Production Department of Kyushu TV Station——Sen Jie It says so on the business card...