Chapter 56 Section five

When the Onitsuki Police Department came near Hishinuma's house, the wooden door behind the house just opened, and a young woman came out with a vegetable basket.She was wearing a one-piece apron and looked down at what looked like a shopping list in her hand.Guiguan intuitively thinks that this woman is Dasangdai. The Guiguan Police Department stopped her and asked her, and she was indeed Dasangdai.At first she seemed a little timid, afraid to speak, but soon, Gui Guan's friendly smile made her let go of her guard, and said that she was going out to buy meat for frying, lard and vegetables.Inside the basket was a vessel for oil.The ghost followed her pace and walked back along the way she came.When they passed by, the housewives, without exception, looked at their strange combination with surprised eyes.

The matter of his interrogation of Dasangdai will reach Wenjiang's ears sooner or later, and no matter what he does, he can't hide it.Therefore, he declared his position and took Dasangdai to Hikawa Shrine.Although Dasangdai kept saying that if he went back late, he would be scolded by his wife, and he couldn't decide whether to follow the ghost, but she seemed not used to insisting on her own opinion, and soon gave up struggling and obediently followed. The two climbed up the stone steps, turned a corner beside the stone lion, and saw a bench in an ancient fir forest.Guiguan took out a handkerchief, waved the dust off the bench, asked the woman to sit down first, and Guiguan sat beside her.The cicadas kept singing.Except for four or five children loitering with bug nets, there was no one else.

"Do you remember when you went to Nagaoka with your wife?" Onigiri Police Department asked that unresponsive face.Seeing her expression, people broke into a cold sweat over whether she could understand what she said. "……yes." "Who were you with at that time?" "...I'm with my wife." "Did you not leave her halfway and take the train alone?" "No, I've been with her all the time." Dasangdai replied slowly, with a look of inability to understand why the other party asked such a question. Oni Guan bent down and patiently tested and confirmed one project from various aspects before switching to another project.Gui Guan also didn't want to spend too much time on the questioning, causing her to be scolded by Wen Jiang, but there was nothing he could do about it.

However, after such serious and practical interrogation, the information obtained by Onika still does not come from the testimonies that the Seki Detective and Sudou Minister Detective asked before.Dasangdai insisted that she and Wen Jiang took the train from Omiya Station to Nagaoka early in the morning. When they got on the train, Mano Seiko, who was housekeeper, also helped to transport the suitcase to Omiya Station. And she and Wen Jiang were together until the train arrived at Nagaoka.When she spoke, her tone was slow, and her emotions didn't waver in any way. This way of speaking made her words more like facts. No, it shouldn't be "more like", but "basically" is the truth.Looking at Dasangdai's blunt and straightforward face, it doesn't look like he is lying, nor does he seem to have the talent for lying.If Wen Jiang asked Dasang to give false testimony, in front of the veteran criminal police officer Sudou, how could she, who seemed to have a bad brain, deceive her until the end without showing her feet.

Not only that, the train they took was the train that left Omiya for Niigata at 6:26, and the date of that day was June 14th, all of which were exactly the same as what Seiko Mano had just described.Looking at the testimonies of the two of them together, Wen Jiang was indeed sitting on the train from Nippongi Station to Wakinoda Station when Zhita Banping died in Kurojo, just as she said. Oniguan Police Department pondered.Dasangdai's bloated body was fidgeting, paying attention to the time frequently.Next to the hall of worship, the children quarreled over the cicada, and at the same time, a girl's high-pitched cry came.In the fir forest, the sunset is gradually getting thicker.

"... Excuse me, can I go?" "Please." Although the Guiguan police department was still a little unwilling, they could only agree feebly.Even if the questioning continues, it seems that there will be no new discoveries, and Guiguan no longer has any excuses or reasons to keep her.If you think later that there is something you haven't asked, call her again, there is nothing else to do. "Sorry for wasting your time. If you are scolded by your wife, just tell her that I kept you." After thanking him, Guiguan added this sentence.He was also not sure whether Dasangdai could get Wenjiang's understanding and forgiveness after blaming him for delaying the dinner preparation time.Thinking of this, Guiguan felt sorry for this round and kind woman, and also regretted that he stopped her for so long.

"If I have anything else to ask, I will call you. What is your phone number?" The Onitsuki Police Department stood up and asked after brushing off the dust on his pants.Dasangdai stood up with the vegetable basket in his arms like a baby, put his hand into the pocket of the kobou uniform, and began to grope for it. "...I wrote down the phone number on a piece of paper. If I don't write it down, I will forget it immediately." As the woman spoke, the movements of her hands never stopped. "Let me help you get something." "Feel sorry." After she handed the shopping basket to Guiguan, she continued to search her pockets, and finally she found a folded piece of green paper. She spread the piece of paper with her thick fingers slowly, and began to read and write. Phone number on the inside.

"...Thank you." Onigiri Police Department closed the notebook and thanked, inadvertently saw the piece of paper in Dasangdai's hand.It was a simple label with a green background and red brush characters printed on it with lithograph: "Echigo Yuzawa Bamboo Leaf Candy". Ghost Guan also has an impression of this label, as he doesn't drink alcohol, he has a special preference for sweet things.Five years after the end of the war, when he was traveling to Niigata, he found this brand of bamboo leaf candy on the platform of Yuzawa Station and bought it.But it was just a tasteless, unpalatable candy made by pouring white sugar syrup on bamboo leaves and folding them in half.Even ghosts are furious. In order to satisfy the discerning taste buds of customers, this kind of candy may have been improved to make it much tastier, right?

"When did you buy this bamboo leaf candy?" "The guy who sat in front of me on this trip bought it for me." "This doesn't seem very tasty, does it?" The woman shook her fat head to express that she didn't think the candy was bad.Perhaps because Dasangdai was born in the countryside, he had never eaten any good food in his life, so no matter what he ate, he thought it was delicious. "...I was going to buy this on the way back, but since it was a night train and I didn't know the name of the station, I couldn't buy it." There was regret in her tone, as if she still couldn't forget Zhuye Tang.Guiguan wasn't listening seriously at first, but these words pierced his ears like a needle.

"So you got this on the train out?" "That's right." "The so-called outbound journey, do you mean when you go to Nagaoka with your wife?" "yes." Finally found the doubt.What caught his attention was the fact that Echigo-Yuzawa Station was actually located on the Joetsu Line.Judging from the testimony of Dasangdai just now, she should have taken the cross line to Nagaoka, but this woman insisted in front of others that she took the Shinkoshi line to Nagaoka with Wen Jiang, and there was also a female college student Seiko Mano Confirm the authenticity of this testimony with Captain Matsuno.

Judging from the number of witnesses and the credibility of their testimony, there should be no doubt that they crossed the line.But in this case, there is only one reason for Oni Kan to be highly interested in the episode of Bamboo Leaf Candy: the same is to go to Nagaoka, and if you catch the crossing line, you can shorten the distance by nearly 100 kilometers.Assuming that Wen Jiang said that she was lying about crossing the line by letter, but in fact she was going to Nagaoka by crossing the line, she would have more leeway in terms of distance and time.Could she have spent this time committing crimes...? The Onigan Police Department regained consciousness and saw Dasangdai still standing there awkwardly holding the vegetable basket.The setting sun leaking from the shade of the trees dyed her normally rosy face even more rosy.