Chapter 44 Chapter Nineteen

"Then, let me take care of this wallet for the time being. I will ask the shopkeeper and the maid about its owner at dawn." After Kono finished speaking, he returned to his room. I checked the time, and it was almost dawn.As for me, since all the investigations are left to Kono and we just have to wait for the results, I want to take a nap before he brings any new news.My spirit was extremely excited because of the conversation just now. I sat on the futon in my pajamas and lay down like this. The more I tried to make myself fall asleep, the more awake I became. The sound of cleaning made me unable to sleep even more.

In desperation, I had no choice but to get up irritably, go to the window where the mechanism was installed before, open the window, and take advantage of the bright morning sun to double check whether there are any traces of the sight glass device that would attract attention.It may be that the spirit is too excited, the brain is very tired, and I feel that there is no problem for a while, and then I feel that there is some major omission, so that I can't help but worry.However, I found that this was just unfounded worry. Even the iron wire that fixed the paper tube was removed at the scene, and there was no trace left at all.

At this moment, I was finally relieved, and then looked at the place where the mysterious figure appeared last night.The window on the second floor is too far away from the scene, so I can't see clearly, but I believe what Kono said, and there are no footprints left. "However, there may be some soft soil nearby, and it may be possible to accidentally leave footprints of gangsters." This is really abnormal. Seeing Kono's wholehearted pursuit of the murderer aroused my competitive spirit, and I was not to be outdone. A thought suddenly popped up in my mind to investigate the footprints by myself.On the other hand, I also want my brain, which has been plagued by troubles and aching from lack of sleep since last night, to breathe the fresh air outside, so I simply walked through the corridor to the atrium without washing my face, pretending to go for a walk, He casually walked to the back door of the bathing place.

But what is disappointing is that the ground is really a piece of hard soil. Even if there is a slightly soft place, it is covered with weeds, and no clear footprints can be seen at all.I didn't give up, and continued to walk along the lakeshore to the end of the courtyard. At last I caught a glimpse of a figure in the cedar wall that surrounded the courtyard, and I was startled. The shadow was coming towards me.It was early in the morning, and I didn't expect there to be people in such a remote place, so I could only stand there dumbfounded.At that time, I determined in my mind that the other party was the gangster from last night. I was ready to attack while being terrified, and subconsciously prepared to deal with it.

But after a closer look, the other party was not a suspicious person at all, but a servant who boiled bath water in the pavilion by the lake. "Good morning, hehehe." As soon as he saw me, he greeted me with a silly smile. "Oh, good morning." As I said, it suddenly occurred to me that "this person might know something", so I called out to Sanzao who was about to leave, and started talking without saying a word. "You don't need to boil water for the past two days, so you have more leisure time? But this time you really ran into trouble." "Hey, it's really nerve-wracking."

"Did you not realize that there was no murder at all?" "Hey, I really didn't notice." "Didn't there be any suspicious noises in the bath the night before? There is a wall separating it from the place where the water is boiled, and there are cracks in the wall. I think you should notice something." "Hey, the little one really didn't pay attention." Sanzao looked like he was afraid of being involved in the murder case. Since yesterday, no matter what he asked him, he couldn't get any definite answers.I don't know if I'm thinking too much, I always feel that he should know something, but I just don't want to say it.

"Where do you usually sleep?" I suddenly thought of something and asked tentatively. "Hey, the younger one sleeps in a room with three tatami mats next to the firewood place." I looked in the direction he pointed, and there was a dark mud room behind the bathing place, which was used to store coal and other sundries for burning bath water, and there was a tatami place next to it, and the door of the room didn't even have a paper door. Like a beggar's hut. "Did you sleep there last night too?" "Eh." "So, around two o'clock in the middle of the night, did you hear anything? I think there is something strange."

"Hey, I didn't hear you little one." "You didn't wake up?" "Eh." Assuming that what he said was true, then the commotion of chasing the gangster did not awaken the fool's dream at all. Even though I couldn't ask anything else, I still couldn't bear to leave and stared at Sanzao.However, what is strange is that Sanzao is also inexplicably twitching and sticking to the same spot. The man in front of him was wearing a worn-out Japanese-style cardigan jacket with the words "Lakeside Pavilion" printed on the lapel, and fine wool trousers with baggy knees.Despite its shabby appearance, it was clean-shaven, which somehow caught my attention.Didn't expect this guy to shave too - I couldn't help but think so.Although he is a fool, a little grooming like this would look neat and tidy.However, the beauty tip on his narrow forehead really makes people can't help but take a second look.