Chapter 45 fourth quarter

The express train taken by the Onitsuki Police Department did not stop at Kashii.After getting off the "Unzen" train at Orio Station, the next train bound for Hakata will take another 20 minutes to arrive at the station. The Onimuki Police Department is sitting on a bench on the platform waiting for the train.Because of the influence of taking a nap in the hotel, he hardly closed his eyes on the night train.Perhaps because of this, his mind is now in a state of confusion. Like Akihabara in Tokyo, Orio Station is composed of double-layer platforms that are rare in the whole country. The two-layer platforms are staggered in an X shape, and the lower platform is dedicated to the Chikuho Main Line.When Onitsuki heard the sound of the siren and stood up, a freight train was passing above the Chikuho Main Line, heading towards Wakamatsu.The next station this train will pass through should be Erdao Station.Onigiri naturally thought of the case of the black suitcase that started from the Nishima Station cargo storage, and also thought of the woman he had admired in his student days living in seclusion in an old house in a small settlement by the canal.Before the diesel train to Hakata slid into the platform, his remembrance continued.

Kashii is a small, lifeless, gray-looking station.After waiting here for 30 minutes, the Onitsuki Police Department transferred to the Kashii Line, which is also a diesel train.Perhaps because this is a branch line, there are not many passengers on the train, and the train moves slowly with the monotonous sound.After leaving Kashii, dry fields of red clay spread all over, but after diverting from the Kagoshima Main Line and heading north, the surrounding area gradually turned into a large expanse of sandy land.Looking at the window on the right, you can see the sea among the pine forests.Looking at the window on the left, you can also see the blue ocean opposite the pine forest.The train was making its way over the slender headland towards the tip of the headland.

After passing through Hebai and Goose's Nest, the diesel train arrived at Haizhong Road, a rural station.Speaking of which, the route of this branch line is indeed the same as the name of this station, and it feels like it is going all the way to the sea.If an imaginative fairy tale writer boards this train, he should compare this train to a tortoise, and imagine that he is riding on the back of a tortoise, and is heading towards the Dragon Palace.But Guiguan is an excessive realist, such fairytale thoughts will not appear in his mind, and now he is feeling impatient because the train speed is too slow.As he got closer to his destination, his impatience increased exponentially.

A whistle blew, and the train finally arrived at the terminal station—Nishitozaki. The scattered passengers sitting on their seats stood up, and Onitsuke also held the bag he had been carrying since the beginning of this trip under his arm. The last one got out of the car.The terminus of the Kashii Line is surrounded by fences made of old sleepers. It looks really poor, but under the sunshine of the southern country, just like the yellow sunflower blooming in the middle of the platform symbolizes, although it is a bit outdated, it has a Bright feeling.After walking two or three steps, Onikan saw the words on the station name board and realized that the station name he had been pronouncing "NISITOSAKI" until now should actually be "SAITOZAKI" to be correct.

When handing over the ticket at the ticket gate, Onika asked the way, and then he left the station from the west side.Surrounding the station is a desert-like sand field, and it's only past nine o'clock in the morning, but the sand is already hot enough to scorch the soles of his shoes, and Guiguan keeps wiping his sweat with a handkerchief. There are many pine forests around here, and among these pine forests are poor little houses surrounded by faded brown corrugated boards. From one of them, a voice with a tone similar to Japanese, but not Japanese, can be heard.The woman roared loudly, while the voice of the man on the other side sounded like he was kneeling and begging for forgiveness.

The station attendant told him that the destination was 500 meters away from the station. Now that he had walked to the 500 meters, he wiped his sweat under the shade of a pine tree and adjusted his breathing.The home of Satoshi Takizawa recorded in the notebook should be near here.He looked around, and there were only three small, middle-class houses that looked like office workers lived.Two of them are Japanese-style two-story buildings, and the other is like a holiday cottage, with a corrugated slate roof and creosote coating on the outside. "Excuse me." The Guiguan Police Department pressed its hat and greeted the young man who happened to pass by.The young man stopped in his tracks, and his cardigan shirt was soaked with sweat.

"Is there a person named Takizawa living around here? His name is Takizawa Satoshi." "Takizawa? I don't know, I've never heard of such a person." "Then is there anyone who has lived here for many years and is familiar with things around here?" "I think about it, that family has lived here for a long time." The young man said, pointing to the house that looked like a holiday cottage. After breaking up with the young man from the Onigiri Police Department, they headed towards the vacation cabin again under the scorching sun.After crossing the gentle slope, the field of vision widens immediately, and the blue ocean of Hakata Bay can be seen directly in front of you.Although it can be judged from the topography that there is a bay over there, but because it appeared so suddenly, the people watching it felt as if they were in another world.In front of me, a cargo ship of about 3,000 tons was floating on the sea with its red belly exposed, looking like it had nothing to do. There were four or five ships moored in the port in the distance.When the "black suitcase" case was detected a few years ago, Onimuki himself took a ferry from this bay to Tsushima Island.He continued to walk, recalling the blood-like bright red of the Hanchun flower on Yanyuan's mountain.

The Guiguan police department finally arrived at the holiday cottage. Standing in front of the house, he saw the word "Lintian" written on the house number.After calling a few times, he looked around and saw hollyhock flowers of various colors blooming in the small flower bed surrounded by bricks.Soon, a housewife came out.She is a beautiful woman with a long face and smooth skin. She is still neatly dressed in a long-sleeved dress even in the heat of summer. She is a well-groomed woman. Mrs. Lin Tian stood there, and after listening to Gui Guan's words with a full face of doubt, her snow-white face shook from side to side.

"Ms. Takizawa died more than four years ago and her home was on the other side of that pole, but the house has now been demolished and taken elsewhere." Oniguan Police Department turned to look at the telephone pole she mentioned.The location of the telephone pole is between this home and the pine forest where he stopped to rest just now, close to the center. "Is Ms. Takizawa the only one in that family?" "No, Ms. Takizawa has a husband and a daughter. The three of them lived together before the war, but her husband was killed in an air strike in Hakata. After the war, she and her daughter were the only ones to depend on each other for life."

"What about her daughter?" Gui Guan Police Department asked. Would it be possible that the woman who worked in the Dream Palace under the name "Sakiko Saito" is Takizawa Satoshi's daughter? "After Kayoko graduated from the girls' school in Hakata, she went to the city immediately. She must have been bored with the life in the country here. Even when her mother was still alive, she rarely came back." From Mrs. Hayashida's words, the Guiguan Police Department knew that Takizawa Satoshi's only daughter was named Takizawa Kayoko.Onisuke can understand Kayoko who hates the monotonous life in the country, longing for the city and leaving home, and when a country girl arrives in the city, she is doomed to embark on a depraved path.Thinking of this, Takizawa Kayoko is Saito Sakiko's guess, so it shouldn't be wrong.

"So, do you know where Kayoko is now?" "I don't know, the last time I saw her was when Ms. Takizawa passed away. She was crying there in a beautiful kimono, but I don't know where she is now. Although she came to follow after the funeral I said hello, but there was no news after that. She and I used to be classmates in elementary school, and sometimes I remembered what Kayoko said in elementary school, and I still wanted to meet her." Mrs. Lin Tian seemed to have thought of it suddenly, took out the seat cushion and asked the ghost to sit outside, and wanted to make tea.Guiguan declined her kindness and sat directly on the stage.Perhaps it was because of walking on the sand just now, but now his legs are extremely tired. Takizawa Kayoko ran away from home because of her yearning for the city, and only occasionally returned to the country, which fits well with the assumption that she might have been working in Toda Yukaku at the time.People who are prostitutes, of course, can't just go back to their hometown.In order to confirm whether the assumption that Takizawa Kayoko and Saito Sakiko are the same person is correct, Onimuki wants to obtain further evidence.By this time, he was sorry that half of the photo had been torn out.The person who tore up the photo should be Mrs. Nishinohata who was said to have a serious hysterical tendency. If at least half of the head is left, the matter can be solved perfectly. Suddenly, he remembered a sentence said by the old bustard of "Dianmen of Dreams", and he asked Mrs. Hayashida, "Are there any characteristics in Kayoko Takizawa?" "Features? This..." "Like a mole, a scar or something..." She fiddled with her dress, as if searching for her past memories. "What about the nose? Nose or ears...?" She put her hands on her lap and stared at a point on the wall.Mrs. Lintian's face is well-defined and has deep facial features. "I remembered that she had a little red dot on her left ear. I would talk to her about my childhood secrets, when I could see it clearly." "Where is the left ear?" "Here." Her slender fingers pointed to her earlobe.As he expected, the prostitute working in "Dream Palace" was Kayoko Takizawa. When Kosuke Nishinohata arrives in Osaka, he will probably spend the night in the "Yumeden". Judging from his lustful personality, this is not impossible.He fell in love with Kayoko who worked there, and for that woman, if she could be taken care of by a big businessman like Nishi-no-hata, she would be able to live a luxurious life. A woman who would run away from home because she hated life in the country would be very happy to be Nishi no Hata's concubine.Even if she hates that he has an outdated beard like a general in the army, she should be able to bear this little thing. In this way, it is easy to explain why Nishi no Hata has a photo of Kayoko, and why when this photo is found by the main room, it will make their husband and wife have a big fight.However, this is purely superficial observation, and Onizuki is not satisfied with it.Assuming that the photo of Kayoko is related to the president's mysterious purpose of going out alone, and even has great significance in his death, it is impossible for Takizawa Kayoko to have nothing to do with the case. It should be said that if the spotlight is cast on Kayoko, who was previously hidden in the dark, it will definitely bring greater breakthroughs in the investigation of the case.However, since she doesn't know where she is now, the ghost needs a photo of her. "I only have photos from my elementary school days." Mrs. Lintian got up briskly and brought a graduation album.The photo she was talking about was a commemorative photo of nearly 200 male and female schoolchildren lined up in several rows, staring at the camera with serious eyes.Even if the bean-sized photo is enlarged, it is impossible to imagine Kayoko's current appearance from the face of the innocent little girl with the head of a schoolboy. "Any pictures of her when she was a little older?" "there is none left." "Do you know friends from Kayo's school days?" If it were a photo of Kayoko graduating from the old girls' high school, her appearance in the photo would be very similar to the present.Onikaru wanted to get photos from that period, and it would be great if he could get them without going to Kayoko's alma mater in Hakata. "There were a couple of people she had a good relationship with, because I went to another girls' school, so I never spoke to them." "But at least you know their names?" "I don't know their names, but I know where they live. One of them lives in the hotel in Kashii, and the other is the daughter of the farm." It is said to be a daughter, but she should be quite old.After asking about this point, she replied that she would hear that the daughter of the hotel is married and has a shop near her home, while the daughter of the farm missed the wedding date and is not yet married. "Thank you. Is the farm farther away?" "Yes, the farm is in the suburbs, and the hotel is near the station." "Then I'll go to the hotel to ask first. Thank you very much for your assistance." After thanking him, Gui Guan left the holiday cottage and walked back along the same road.But when he got to the station, he realized that he had to wait for a long time on the hard bench before the next train arrived at the station at 10:59.