Chapter 28 Section five

The next day, the tenth.The morning papers described the man who died in Hamamatsu in considerable detail, complete with hastily rushed portrait photographs.The police officers in the headquarters who were waiting for the report looked like Jiang Taigong staring at the buoy, but they were not as relaxed as Jiang Taigong.Because ten days have passed since the case happened, but there is still no trace of Zhiduo.The anxiety in their hearts made them frown, and they had greater expectations for the movement of the buoy. After three o'clock in the afternoon, the Asakusa Bureau contacted the search headquarters, saying that a dentist in the jurisdiction informed them that he had an impression of the man's appearance.For the sake of caution, the agency dispatched officials to investigate, and it was confirmed that it was Genkichi Narayama who was staying at the simple hotel in the valley 5-chome. After he said he was going to travel on the afternoon of the 8th, he never returned to the hotel.His age was fifty-four, which matched the man poisoned to death on the train.Sudou and Seki will pay a visit to that inn immediately.

Valley 5-chome is located in the north of Toden Laibashi Station, and the inner area is called "Valley DOYA Street". There are many simple hotels, and it is also the base camp for black market transactions of drugs such as methamphetamine and boulders that have been widely reported in newspapers and magazines.It goes without saying that DOYA is the pronunciation of "宿 (yado)" in reverse. They got off the tram, and as soon as they stood on the sidewalk, they saw a map drawn in paint before them. "Five-chome Sanban...so that's it, just go here." Guan nodded to himself.Go to the second alley in the direction of Sumida River and turn right. The fifth house is the simple hotel "Orange House", which is their destination.

"It might be raining, let's go faster." Sudou said. The gloomy weather makes people feel that the rainy season is not far away, it is only after four o'clock, but the surroundings are gray, approaching dusk.The two walked faster because they were wearing shirts and neither had a raincoat. The sight of hotel advertisements and part-time job postings jumbled across collapsing concrete walls and utility poles, combined with the gloomy skies, conveyed an air of misery unique to the region.Just as it was drawn on the map, there is a shoe store around the corner.The fact that residents here scrape by a meager livelihood, even taking old shoes to repair, is a symbol of poverty in this depressed area of ​​the valley.

Although they are all called "DOYA", there are still high and low points.Some hostels have large cafeterias and large tiled bathrooms. The facilities are so good that they are not like simple hotels, but like second-rate hotels, but there are also extremely simple and simple hotels with only five or six 1.5 ping rooms. And the "Orange House" hotel, even if viewed from a benign point of view, is closer to the latter.From below, it can be seen that the roof of the second floor is damaged, and the surfboard has been turned up.The whole building looks very old. The lower half of the gray wooden wall has moss and turned green, and some of the boards have fallen off, exposing the dirt wall.

"Excuse me!" Guan called after unceremoniously pulling open the wooden lattice door. On the concrete floor inside the door, clogs and sandals with toe marks and split-toe shoes covered with mud were left there. wait outside.Someone responded quickly, and a young proprietress in a sky-blue plain dress appeared, wiping her wet hands with her apron as she walked. "Are you going to ask Mr. Narayama about it?" Knowing that the two of them are criminal police, the proprietress asked. "Yes, I hope you can tell us as much as possible. First, what is his age?" "Well, he said he was fifty-four years old. I don't know if what he said is true or not, but he is already old, and he doesn't need to pretend to be young, right? He's not a girl."

The young proprietress seems to be a talkative person, which suits the criminal police.She is thirty-two or three-year-old with a long, pointed face, and a plain one-piece dress is not suitable for her at all. If she changes into a neat bathrobe, she can dress up as a fresh and refined woman. "I heard he's two fours." "Yeah, he goes to Miwa's job security in the morning, and he mostly looks like a scavenger. When I took Hagi Mochi to my aunt's house in Senju, I saw him by the bridge. But, I was sitting on the train at the time, so I didn’t say hello to him. Ah, it’s not Hagi cake, it’s red bean rice. Since it’s an offering to God Baiji, it must be red bean rice.”

"What did you do before?" "what?" "I said, what did you do before you came here?" "It's disgusting, don't look at me like this, I was very serious when I was a lady, and I always helped with housework at home—" "It's not you, I'm talking about Narayama Genkichi." "Oh, I'm so sorry. I heard that he used to be a gardener. Although he was very skilled, his family was unfortunately affected by the war, and none of them remained. After that, he changed completely. No, it means changed It's not that he became a bad person, he became an alcoholic, and later he was fired by a client because of a drinking mistake, so he had to be a two-four. However, he came here in January this year, and before that he had been They all live in 'Narakomaya'."

Covering her mouth with one hand, she explained in a frivolous tone that "Narukomaya" is a three-chome simple hotel.Narayama Genkichi ran to them after arguing with the proprietress there. "Is he a grumpy man?" "No, that incident was the fault of the proprietress of 'Narakomaya'. She is very 'smoky' and often quarrels with others. Mr. Narayama is a very nice person." "His friendship status?" "Well, few people come to him, and he rarely visits others..." "Where are the letters?" "No, there is only a reminder form for the resident tax."

"When was the last time he went out from here...?" Sudou asked the situation from the beginning. "No. 8. It was rare for him to go to work that day, and he slept in the quilt all morning. He didn't look like he was sick, and I wondered why he could be so idle. After three o'clock, he got up After that, I actually went to the public bath to take a bath. I thought it was very strange, so I asked him: "Why do you go to take a bath during the day?" He replied with a smile: "It's nothing, I have to go out for about five days I’ll be back soon. When I’m not around, let me take a look at the room.’ What’s more strange is that he, who was living in poverty before, actually paid the rent owed to the last month and the previous month to this month. I was shocked and asked him: "What's wrong with you, where did the money come from?" He smiled silently, and after a while he said: "I finally have It's sprouting, I wish I could die after a flower,'" she said, with white spittle coming from the ends of her lips.

"Did he say where the money came from and where he was going to travel?" Sudou stared at the corner of the woman's mouth, his eyes seemed to be looking at something dirty. "No, he didn't say anything. It's just my feeling that he was ordered not to say anything." The minister detective nodded, staring at a corner of the wall, taking a moment to collect his thoughts.The money to pay the rent is, of course, a thank you gift from him as a substitute.Although it is not known where Narayama met Chita, it is easy to infer that Chita used sweet words to persuade Narayama to go to Osaka, and gave Narayama poisoned whiskey as a farewell gift.Narayama left Tokyo in a hurry, but he didn't know that this would be his death journey.

"...Master Police, the newspaper said that Genkichi was killed in Hamamatsu." "That's right." "Hamamatsu is in Niigata, right?" "No, it's Shizuoka." "Ah, is it Kyushu?" I really don't know what to say.An expression of not knowing whether to laugh or cry appeared on Guan's face, but the other party didn't notice it at all. "The murderer poisoned the whiskey and made him die after drinking it on the train, didn't he? That murderer was really wicked. Ah Yuan was not Sakyamuni, and he may have done some bad things, but there is no need to kill him. After the murderer is caught, he will definitely be sentenced to death, right? Even if he killed someone recently, the murderer only came out after being imprisoned for two or three years, it really doesn’t make sense.” The proprietress looked agitated and was talking frothy. "Where is he going?" "He has a ticket to Osaka with him." "Osaka……" "It's not Osaka in Hokkaido, it's Osaka next to Kyoto." "I know this, but Ah Yuan is a native of Tokyo. His greatest pride is that he has never set foot outside Tokyo in his life. When it comes to leaving Tokyo, he has only been to Saitama Prefecture." "Is that so? By the way, did Genkichi ever believe in shamanism?" Zhita will know Narayama, perhaps because Narayama is a shamanist.But the proprietress shook her head like a hand-cranked drum. "He seems to believe in the Patriarch?" "That's right, since I'm here, I want to take a look at Ah Yuan's room." "This way please." The proprietress said, pointing to the stairs. Genkichi Narayama's room is on the second floor, about 1.5 ping.The width of the closet in the room is about half the size, and a piece of faded department store wrapping paper is pasted on the closet paper door, probably to block the hole.Narayama was so poor that all he had was willow suitcases and thin quilts for bedding, so it didn't take much time to investigate.In less than ten minutes, they had seen everything they needed to see, but they still didn't find anything. "Sorry for the interruption, thank you for your assistance." Sudou said when the two walked out of the gate. "You have to catch the murderer quickly. After you catch him, please sentence him to death immediately." The proprietress put on her sandals and sent the detectives to the wooden lattice door. "Ah, it seems to be raining. What should I do? I just put my clothes on the air." She looked at the sky and said worriedly. The two criminal policemen walked along Laishi Road to the license plate of Tears Bridge.On the dim road, gray dust floating in the air can be seen.It looked like it might rain at any moment, but not a single drop of rain had yet fallen.If all goes well, it should be possible to return to the police station without getting wet. The faint sound of thunder from a distance was mixed with the noise of the tram. "Knowing that bastard, where did he hide?" Guan originally wanted to kick the pebbles by the side of the road hard, but he still couldn't get out. "He won't be hiding for long. I have a hunch that we will know where he is hiding in a short time," said the minister of criminal police.And his prophecy soon came true.

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