Chapter 9 quit smoking day

If I had known earlier, I would have bought some desserts——Nagao suddenly felt his mouth was very lonely. There was a pot of tea in the corner of the room of the criminal team, Yongwei really wanted to go over and pour a cup of tea, but after thinking about it, forget it. He had already drank three cups of tea from morning to now. When he was pouring the third cup of tea, the minister Gu Tian even teased him: "Group leader! Did you eat too much salt this morning?" If he pours tea again this time, he doesn't know how to make fun of Yongwei. never mind!Be patient!It's hard to make up your mind... Yongwei kept admonishing himself in his heart, and his eyes narrowed involuntarily.

Now that I think about it, maybe it was a boring attempt.No!In fact, quitting smoking itself is not a boring thing, but Yongwei’s motivation. If he tells others why he quit smoking, people will laugh out loud, and even laugh at him: “Oh! When did the team leader become so romantic.” It's not romantic, it's just that after smoking for so long, I really want to end it, but... "Team leader!" Someone called Yongwei in a low voice.Nagao opened his eyes, and Kawada was standing right in front of him. "What's up?" His mouth has been suffering all day today, Yongwei asked Kawada angrily.

"Sorry! I interrupted you to think about something! I want you to go and see Mukai." "Mukai?" "It's the thief who stole women's underwear last time. He's a bit weird!" "Weird? Didn't he say he was the owner of the coffee shop?" "He opened the store after he was fired from the company," Kawada said. "That's why you think he's weird. Is it because of his strange attitude?" "He has a very noticeable mole on his jaw, a slightly crooked nose, and a slightly hoarse voice." "Ah! I remembered, the rape case last time!"

In the summer of half a year ago, two consecutive rape cases occurred in Yongwei's jurisdiction, and they happened twice in a row within a week. The two cases are only the number of cases reported by the victims, and there may actually be more. According to the victim's description, the criminal's characteristics were exactly the same as Mukai's. Yongwei took the lead in investigating these two dishes, but the prisoner was never caught. Originally, Yongwei thought that the prisoner might commit another crime, so he deployed many people at the scene where the criminal committed the crime, but the prisoner seemed to have an insight into the police's intentions. The same case never happened again.

"When this Mukai was being interrogated, he desperately kept talking about his theft of underwear, as if he wished the police would finish the interrogation quickly so as not to ask about other things." "Okay! I'll go see him!" Yongwei stood up. He has been reviewing the written reports of other cases from early to now, and there is no urgent matter, so he is so idle that his mouth is flustered. He thought, if he went to see the suspect and talk to him, his mouth would not be so lonely. Mukai Hiroshi was arrested by the patrolling police for the current crimes of trespassing and theft.

At about 8 o'clock the night before yesterday, when he climbed onto the bracket of the apartment balcony and peeped into other people's houses, he was spotted by the police officers on patrol. When the police shined a flashlight on him and asked who he was, he panicked and climbed off the support, fell heavily and was taken back to the police station by the police.Once at the police station, make a simple Following the transcript, police found five pieces of panties in his jacket pocket. Hiroshi Mukai is 32 years old this year. He is the operator of the cafe "People" near the station and has no criminal record.

Nagao and Kawata went to the interrogation room after learning the general background information of Mukai Hironori. A table for interrogation was placed in the middle of the interrogation room, and Interpol Hirakawa and the suspect sat facing each other. As soon as Hirakawa saw Yongwei, he immediately got up and gave up his seat, and walked to the table by the window. He seemed to be here to assist in the investigation and recording. : Nagao sat on the chair that Hirakawa had vacated, pulled it up, and yelled loudly at Mukai, who kept shaking Mukai's shoulders. "Why! You seem to be shaking! What are you afraid of?"

"No such thing!" Mukai said softly. As soon as Yongwei walked in, Mukai didn't dare to look him in the face, and kept his head down. After answering Yongwei's first question, although he raised his head a little, he returned to the original posture after answering. "In that case, why do you keep looking at the floor! Look up at me! Are you afraid to look at me because of your guilty conscience?" Mukai raised his head suddenly angrily, there was really a mole on the center right of his jaw, and his nose was also a bit crooked. "How about it? Dude! Let's open the skylight and tell the truth. Since the matter of you stealing women's panties has been covered one by one, why don't we discuss it together if there is something else? Like this You will feel much more at ease!"

"Sorry! Is there any smoke!" Mukai deliberately changed the topic, and sure enough, as Kawada said, his voice was indeed a bit hoarse and deep. "Smoke? Yes! Seeing that you have performed well so far, let me satisfy your craving!" Yongwei put his hands in his pockets, thinking, he will ask to smoke at this time, most likely he wants to go all out, tell everything, and use the cigarette butts he has smoked for saliva testing. But when Yongwei reached into his pocket, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, because there was no cigarette in his pocket at all. "Kawada! Do you have any cigarettes?" Yongwei asked Kawada who was standing beside him.

"No, because I don't smoke." Yongwei was thinking about quitting smoking, and it would be very inconvenient for him to encounter such a situation. At this time, Hirakawa by the window said: "I have cigarettes!" He stood up and handed a pack of HILITE (a type of cigar sold publicly in Japan.) and a lighter to Nagao.The shape of the cigarette box was still intact, as if it had just been opened, with only about one or two cigarettes smoked. "Here! Your cigarette!" Yongwei held the cigarette in his left hand and handed it to Mukai. "Think slowly while smoking, I have something to ask you after smoking!"

"Thank you!" Mukai looked at Yongwei slyly, lowered his head gently and took out a cigarette. Nagao held the lighter in his right hand to light Mukai's cigarette, and Mukai greedily held the cigarette in his mouth and pushed his face close to the lighter. "Team leader, you can have one too!" Hirakawa said to Yongwei. "Thank you! But... no need!" Yongwei replied ambiguously to Hirakawa that he didn’t want to tell the story of his smoking cessation. If he said it, it would immediately become a new topic for the criminal police. At that time, many people would definitely ask him about his motivation for quitting smoking. Yongwei didn’t want to face this kind of embarrassment scene. Mukai suddenly started coughing, as if he had been choked, and Yong Wei thought that it might be because he hadn't smoked a cigarette since he was arrested last night, so he was choked suddenly, but for a moment, he felt that Mukai's appearance was strange. Mukai pulled the collar of the shirt desperately with his left hand without a cigarette, so strong that even the buttons on the collar were torn off, but his hand was still pulling the collar desperately. The unextinguished cigarette slipped from Mukai's right hand to the table and flicked to the floor. "Hey! Mukai! What's the matter? Are you okay?" Kawata quickly reached out his hand to support Mukai's body, but Mukai leaned in the opposite direction and fell off the chair. Hiroshi Mukai is dead! When Nagao noticed Mukai's abnormal behavior in the interrogation room, he immediately instructed Kawata and Hirakawa to take Mukai in a patrol car to the internal medicine hospital about 200 meters away from the police station, because it was faster than calling an ambulance. However, when Kawada and Hirakawa rushed Mukai to the hospital, it was too late, and Mukai's breathing, heartbeat, and pulse all stopped.Doctors were unable to revive him with electric shocks to the heart. Since he died suddenly and suddenly, he had to undergo a forensic examination. After the forensic examination, it was found that although Mukai died of suffocation, the fact that he died suddenly was probably caused by cyanic acid poisoning. Further examination must be carried out by the Forensic anatomy judgment. Nagao was always holding the last HILITE that Mukai smoked. When Mukai died suddenly, he saw the cigarette that fell from Mukai's hand on the ground, and immediately extinguished the fire, wrapped it in a handkerchief and put it in his pocket. At that time, he didn't realize that Mukai's death was related to this cigarette, but that once a crime happened, it was one of the common sense of criminal Cao that he should keep the scene intact. Yongwei sent the cigarettes to the laboratory for examination, and the test results were extremely surprising. Potassium cyanide solution exists in the butt part of the cigarette. "At present, there is no way to determine the concentration. It must be sent to the forensic science classroom of the university for further detailed investigation. There are still Mukai's tooth marks on the cigarette butts. It can be seen that Mukai's smoking is the habit of biting the cigarette butt with his front teeth. This method It is easier to get saliva on cigarette butts, so when saliva is mixed with potassium cyanate solution, its toxic effect is like swallowing potassium cyanate poison." A member of the Prefectural Police Inspection Section reported the results of the inspection to Nagao in detail. Generally speaking, death due to potassium cyanate compound poisoning is nothing more than three possibilities: suicide, homicide, and accident. In Mukai's case, it seems unlikely that he would commit suicide based on other indications. . Regardless of whether Mukai died of poisoning with a cigarette in his mouth or with Kou, the cigarette was not his own in the first place, and he had no chance to mix it with poison in front of the three of Yongwei. But on the other hand, if it is said that he was poisoned by an accident, the possibility of this possibility is very small.The so-called accident refers to, for example, the cigarette butts stained with potassium cyanate solution due to some negligence or coincidence in the manufacturing process of the cigarette factory.But after thinking about it, this is impossible, because if potassium cyanate compounds are used in the manufacturing process of cigarettes, then there may be such mistakes in the process, but potassium cyanate is not used in the manufacture of cigarettes at all Compounds, so it is impossible to stain potassium cyanate on cigarette butts due to negligence in work. Of the three possibilities, only the last remained - homicide.That is to say, someone put poison in the cigarette beforehand. After this incident happened, it was not immediately included in the search team like ordinary homicide incidents.And it was not published on the same day. If it is widely reported in the media that a suspect in the interrogation died suddenly because he smoked a cigarette handed to him by the interrogating officer, it will undoubtedly embarrass the police.Therefore, after the incident happened, the police immediately blocked all news. Of course, they did not want to hide it for a lifetime and not publish it. At least they had to wait until the criminal was brought to justice, so that the attack of public opinion would be relatively mild. The reason why this incident can be suppressed for the time being can be said to be good luck, because what happened today was not the T Central Police Station, but the South Police Station. There is a press conference in the T Central Police Station, and there are often several reporters stationed there, so as long as there is any disturbance in the Central Police Station, it is impossible to deceive these shrewd reporters. Although there is a "reporter's room" in the South Police Department, it is a small police station after all. Normally, unless there are special circumstances, there will be no reporters stationed here. Most of them come once a day to ask the deputy director for some new explanations. Going back to the Central Police Station, some reporters didn’t even come, but the Central Police Station called to inquire. Because of this, the reporters did not find out what happened in the South Administration. Nagao, Kawada, and Hirakawa were called to the first search section of the police headquarters that afternoon. They were all at the scene when Mukai died suddenly, so they were important participants.They are interrogated here as reference persons. The Yoshimoto Police Department is responsible for the investigation of Yongwei. In the first search section, his position is the team leader, and there is a team of police officers under him. "Mr. Nagao, you..." Yongwei is a police officer. Although Yoshimoto is older in terms of class, he is a few years younger than Yongwei, so he calls Yongwei "Mr." "You usually smoke quite a lot, so it just so happened that you didn't bring any cigarettes when this case happened. You also borrowed HILITE cigarettes from Hirakawa Shoko to give to Mukai. Why didn't you bring any cigarettes?" "I just quit smoking!" "Quit smoking? When did you start?" "From today." "Today? So today is the first day you quit smoking?" "Well! If I don't quit smoking today, I will have cigarettes on my body, so I can give my own cigarettes to Mukai. Maybe Mukai can escape. It's too late now, and it's useless to say this!" "The day when you made up your mind to quit smoking was the day when Mukai was unlucky. By the way! Is your motivation to quit smoking because the doctor won't let you smoke?" Gibbon stared into Yongwei's eyes and asked him. Although his voice was gentle, his eyes were extremely sharp. "No, it's not the doctor's order, but because I thought I smoked too much before...how should I put it! Anyway, I wanted to quit smoking because of a sudden inspiration." "A brainstorm! Then what causes you to have a brainstorm?" "There's no particular reason!" Nagao answered Yoshimoto straight away.If he told Gibbon why he quit smoking, it would make the problem even more complicated.And even if he told the reason, Gibbon might not understand it. "Actually, I am the same as you. Sometimes I suddenly make up my mind to quit smoking tomorrow, but often within two days, I start smoking again." Nagao smiled cautiously. ——Nagao's wife passed away five years ago. It was too late when the doctor found out that she was suffering from uterine cancer. The cancer cells had already moved from the ovaries to the liver. Masami, the eldest daughter who was still in the third grade of high school at the time, planned to drop out of school in order to help with housework because of her mother's death. Nagao had to beg his younger sister to move in with him.Nagao's younger sister, Hatsune, used to be married to a civil servant, but because her husband was a gambler, he borrowed a lot of money from loan sharks, and the two finally divorced. She is now an insurance salesman. Chu Zi also has a son who is in elementary school. After moving to Yongwei's house, she only needs to pay half of the rent, which is a lot less burden for a delicate woman who has to support her family. Now Yami has graduated from junior high school and is currently working in a branch of a securities company. She feels that her father has been widowed for many years, and she wants to find a partner for him.In Masami's company, there is a 35-year-old part-time woman named Chieko Nishimura, and Masami tries her best to match them up.Chieko was married once when she was 22 years old. She was dissatisfied with her husband's attitude towards life, and she didn't get along well with her sister-in-law, so she finally embarked on the road to divorce. Since then, she has engaged in various jobs and is currently living a single nobleman life. "She's pretty, has a cheerful personality, and can cook well!" Masami kept praising Mikkeko in front of Nagao. "Although she has done various careers, but then again, the police family must be stronger than other families, and her social experience must meet the requirements." "No matter what kind of work she has been in, she has never followed the trend. She is a very independent woman. Although Ms. Nishimura only works part-time in the company, her performance is quite high! The company has always hoped that she can become a full-time employee , but she likes to work part-time, she thinks it will give her more time and freedom, and the salary is enough for her to spend, so she doesn't want to become a regular employee." Unable to resist Masami's request, Nagao finally agrees to meet Mikieko. The first time I met Nagao, I liked Mikieko very much. She is just as Chimi said she is a beauty, her eyes are expressive, her personality is very cheerful, and what Nagao likes the most is her intelligence.Whenever Nagao talks about work, she answers fluently, which shows that she has a very broad understanding of work itself and is responsive. After meeting for the first time, Nagao left a very good impression on Gan Zhizi, and he told Gan Zhizi through Yami that they should see each other for a while. This was about half a year ago. However, this marriage also dissipated in the end. Yesterday Mikie Nishimura said to Nagao: "I don't want to hang out with you anymore." "Ah! Do you have any dissatisfaction with me?" Gan Zhizi's sudden words made Yongwei fall to the bottom of the valley in an instant. He kept asking Qian Zhizi why he broke up with him, and even thought he heard it wrong. For the past six months, they have met about every 10 days or so, and they took a taxi together to the motel for the night. Seeing that the good things are going to be a couple, Nagao is also planning to ask the director to be their witness, but he did not expect the attitude of Mikkeko There will be a sudden 180-degree turn. "I don't have any dissatisfaction with you. You are a very honest and serious person." "Then why did you break up with me?" "If I have to say it reluctantly, I can only say that it is because you are too persistent and serious. I don't have the confidence to live a happy life with you. Once I marry you, I will feel suffocated." "But at the beginning we dated on the premise of marriage! And we have already..." "It's two different things. Although we have an intimate relationship, it doesn't mean that I want to marry you! The reason I slept with you is because I like you, and I am a woman, and I also have women's desires. If you insist If we think that our relationship is based on marriage, I can't help it." "But I'm a policeman! How do you say..." "I understand what you mean, but it is because you are a persistent and serious observer that I want to break up with you. You are too devoted to work, I need a man who loves me wholeheartedly, but I always feel that you love you I don't have the confidence to be your housewife in this situation." In the coffee shop, Yongwei talked with Mikieko for more than an hour, but Yongwei still couldn't win back Chieko's heart. As soon as he got home he wanted to quit smoking. Although the two started dating through a blind date at the beginning, but for Nagao, his feelings for Mikieko are the feeling of love, like the love of young people, the love of a 46-year-old, but this love of the middle-aged is short-lived after all. , ended without fully understanding the situation.Thinking of Mikieko, Nagao felt sad, thinking maybe he would never have such passion again, or even a woman like Mikie Nishimura would never appear again. In other words, this may be the last love affair in my life. Just when he was immersed in the feeling of broken love, a sudden idea flashed into his mind. He decided to quit smoking as a commemoration of the crushing of his last love. This is a psychology that others cannot understand, because most people will not associate "last love" with smoking cessation. "Can I ask you a question?" Nagao suddenly asked Yoshimoto Police Department. "Xiao! What's the matter?" "When I handed Hirakawa's cigarettes to Mukai, he only took out one to smoke. Do other cigarettes have potassium cyanate compounds in the butts?" "No!" "There are 17 cigarettes left. According to the laboratory report, all of these 17 cigarettes are not poisonous." "So only the cigarette that Mukai smoked was poisonous!" "The identification section said that if it is poisonous, the butt of the cigarette will change color. Did you notice that when you gave the cigarette to Mukai?" "No!" Yongwei shook his head. "I didn't notice it at all, because that kind of cigarette is usually yellow or brown on the outside of the butt part, and I can't remember what color it is, just remember that there is color. So even if it did change color, I wouldn't give it a shot I just noticed it, and I never thought there would be a problem with this cigarette, so I didn't pay special attention to it. Did Hirakawa say anything about this pack of cigarettes?" "I don't know. Someone else is responsible for asking him." "I think the problem is where Hirakawa bought the pack of cigarettes, because he had no reason to poison himself." "Why?" Yoshimoto asked Yongwei with sharp eyes. "Can you prove that it wasn't Hirakawa who poisoned you?" "I don't have any evidence, but...he has no motive for murdering him at all!" "I understand why you think so." Gibbon sneered mockingly. "Is the police department suspicious of Hirakawa?" "No! That's not what it means... Speaking of which, who knows that you quit smoking today?" "About quitting smoking?" "In other words, does anyone know you didn't have cigarettes?" "No one knows because I never mentioned it." "Does Hirakawa not know?" Yoshimoto never let go of this question. "He probably doesn't know." Yongwei was a little impatient when asked by Yoshimoto. Yongwei and Hirakawa left the county police headquarters together. Hirakawa's interrogation time was longer than Yongwei, and Yongwei had been waiting for him for nearly half an hour.Kawada was much more relaxed than the two of them.After Yongwei was questioned, Kawata had already returned to the police station. After leaving the headquarters and walking south for a while, there was a small coffee shop. Nagao and Hirakawa walked in after confirming that there was no one outside the window.After being interrogated for a long time, without even a cup of tea, my throat was so dry that it was about to split. After the waitress brought the coffee, Nagao couldn't wait to question Hirakawa. "Is there any clue about that pack of cigarettes?" "clue?" "Like where did you buy it, or did someone give it to you?" "I bought it from a vending machine! In fact, I didn't buy it after I lost the money, but picked it up." "Found it?" "Yes! I often buy cigarettes from the vending machine next to the bus stop near my home. I also bought cigarettes from this machine this morning. I just put in a 10 yuan coin, and a pack of cigarettes fell out of the exit. I didn’t invest any more money, and took out the cigarettes and put them in my pocket. I was still thinking that buying a pack of cigarettes for 10 yuan was really a profit, but I didn’t expect to…” "What? Could it be that this companion is exactly the same as the toxic case a while ago?" Incidents of poisonous juice from vending machines have often occurred in Japan these days. When many people buy juice from vending machines, they only pay for one can and get two bottles of juice. He drank the whole bottle and died of poisoning, because one of the two bottles of juice was poisonous.Although this kind of case has not occurred in the jurisdiction of Nagao, it has been heard from time to time in various parts of Japan.In fact, the vending machine did not automatically drop two bottles, but the prisoner put the poisonous juice into it in advance. "Actually, I also thought about this at the time, but I saw that the appearance of the cigarettes was complete, the packaging was not opened, and even the seal of the red envelope was intact, so I didn't expect it to be poisonous." "Are you sure the red tape is intact?" "Of course I'm sure about the gong! At that time, I thought about the poisonous juice, so I paid special attention." "Hey! Then what method will the prisoner use to poison? That's right! Could it be by injection." Yongwei answered by himself.Indeed, if a syringe is used, the venom can be injected into a cigarette quite simply, which is much simpler than doping an easy-open can of juice. "I think so too, but when I unpack cigarettes, I'm used to starting from the tinfoil part. I don't know if there are pinholes when I unpack them. I can't remember right now, so I'm not sure." "Wait a minute, maybe we can verify it!" "You just said that you put the cigarettes in your pocket after you took them out of the vending machine, so you unpacked them after you arrived at the police station? Therefore, this tinfoil is still in the waste basket of the criminal department!" Yongwei looked at his watch, it was only 4:30, so he should have time to go back and look for it. "No, it's useless!" Hirakawa shook his head. "I already smoked one at the bus station this morning. The bus came later than usual today. I got impatient and took out one to smoke. I unpacked it at that time, and I smoked it again when I arrived at the bureau. One, and then went to the interrogation room." "However, one thing is certain is that the gangster must have poisoned with a syringe, and the gangster may have poisoned blindly without a target." "Probably!" "I was still worrying about whether someone hated you and did such a thing." "Hate me? Why?" "If you didn't buy this pack of cigarettes from the vending machine today, but put it in your drawer, what would you do?" "I'll probably put it in my pocket, and I'll think maybe I forgot to put it in a drawer." "If this is the case, even if it is opened, you will not doubt it, so it is very likely that this pack of cigarettes was placed in your drawer to kill you. So I was thinking just now, if this pack of cigarettes is really Cigarettes are put in your drawer, so the culprit is likely to be someone who can enter and exit the criminal unit at will, so the scope of the search is narrowed, but now you say that you picked it up in a vending machine, then the above-mentioned Hypothetical possibilities are no longer valid." "Yeah! I can't think of anyone who wants to kill me!" Hirakawa smiled self-deprecatingly, but his smile seemed a little listless. Yongwei was startled when he saw the newspaper the next morning, which reported that a suspected theft had died suddenly in the interrogation room of the Southern Bureau. It was even a new headline in the local newspaper, although the content generally only stated that the cause of death of the deceased was suspicious, but it published a photo of the deceased. Since the news was reported to the newspaper, when Yongwei left the South Administration, the deputy director was still surrounded by reporters. At this point, it seemed that he didn't want to release a new explanation, so he had to show his words. When returning to the Criminal Division, Section Chief Fujisaki stopped Yongwei. Fujisaki pitifully begged Nagao to go out on patrol this morning. "Going out to patrol? Alright! If you stay here, you will be miserable later!" Yongwei smiled self-deprecatingly, he understood how the section chief didn't want him to stay in the department. Nagao and Hirakawa slipped away through the back door.Hirakawa's position is also the same as Nagao's. "Do you remember Shibuya Taeko?" Yongwei asked Hirakawa immediately after leaving the police station. "Takeko Shibuya?" Hirakawa's footsteps suddenly became slow. "What's wrong? Did you forget? It's the victim of the rape case last time!" Shibuya Takeko is a clerk in a clothing store in the city, and her boyfriend is a medical student. When they were walking in the park, they were attacked by thugs. The thugs seemed to want to steal their money, but the college student It was at this juncture that she escaped, so she was humiliated. The next day, she went to the South Office to report the case against an unknown gangster. At that time, Yong Wei asked Hirakawa to assist him in completing the investigation. "Oh! I remembered!" Hirakawa seemed to have already remembered the victim. "I want to find her where she lives." Hearing this, Hirakawa stopped suddenly. "Hey! What's the matter? Why didn't you leave? Mukai, who died yesterday, had a mole on his jaw, and his characteristics matched what Shibuya Takeko said at the time. Talk to her and maybe you can find some clues." "But we don't have a picture of Mukai!" "You are honest, you are honest. Didn't the newspapers publish his photo today? The photo is very clear. I think she should have seen it too. That photo is more similar than the forensic photo. myself." "I don't want to go, must I go?" Hirakawa looked very confused and hesitated. "Noisy! Strange! Why don't you dare to see her?" "Actually, I dated her!" "Acquaintance, private? Doesn't she have a boyfriend who studies medicine?" "After that incident, she was indignant at his running away and broke up with him." "So that's the case, and then she fell in love with you, a kind and kind criminal policeman. If that's the case, what's the inconvenience?" "No! No! She has been trying to forget about it, and I will try not to mention that, so if now..." "Hey! Wait a minute!" Yongwei suddenly grabbed Hirakawa's hand. "Hey! Could it be you who poisoned Mukai to death?" "How...how could it be! Team leader, how could you doubt me?" "When you saw Mukai in the interrogation room, you immediately thought that he had insulted Shibuya Takeko, and he poisoned the cigarettes in order to get revenge. If you said that you dated her and planned to get married, you would feel like killing Mukai Not surprising." Yongwei grabbed Hirakawa, pulled him to the side of the road and questioned him in a low voice. "This... this... oops! It is impossible for the two of us to get married. I really want to marry her, but she refuses!" Hirakawa stammered. "Did she say that the police officers are too persistent and serious, which makes her feel suffocated?" Nagao patted Hirakawa on the shoulder as if he had come here.I thought to myself, is it the common psychology of modern women to hate men who are too persistent and serious? "She didn't say so clearly, but she just didn't want to marry me. The day before yesterday she told me that if I want to find a marriage object, I might as well find another woman." "The day before yesterday?" Nagao smiled wryly. It was the day before yesterday that he broke up with Mikie Nishimura. Could it be that day was the criminal police's day of death? Hirakawa shrugged helplessly, he remembered the scene when Shibuya Taeko told him these words, this love affair actually came and went quickly. "Let's go! Let's have a cup of tea!" Yongwei patted Hirakawa's shoulder reassuringly. After entering the coffee shop, Hirakawa still sighed frequently, and what he ordered was not coffee, but milk. He said that his stomach was very uncomfortable. "What's wrong? You seem very troubled." Yongwei spied on him with words, the reason why Yongwei brought Hirakawa here was to let him tell the story.Therefore, he felt that Hirakawa seemed confused about whether to say something or not. "I really don't understand women's hearts." Hirakawa shyly touched the cup in front of him. Yongwei is still not smoking today, and his mouth is not as uncomfortable as yesterday. Judging from this situation, this smoking cessation may be successful. "Even if a woman wants to kill a man, can she go to bed with him?" "There is often only a thin line between a woman's love and hate. When she cuddles to the point of wanting to kill you, it may also mean that she loves you deeply...Hey! Forget it! Let's stop talking about this kind of Buddhist principles, Open the skylight and speak honestly? Are you talking about Shibuya Takeko?" Although Nagao remembered Shibuya Takeko's face, his impression was vague, and he only vaguely remembered her as a plump woman. One can imagine why the criminals had the mentality of insulting her at that time. "This... this... yes." "Then who is the man you're talking about, and who does she want to kill?" "Team leader!" Hirakawa called out to Yongwei, and suddenly looked straight at Yongwei with a serious expression. "Actually, I lied. I didn't pick up the pack of cigarettes from the vending machine, but she gave it to me." "Her? Are you referring to Shibuya Taeko?" Nagao asked Hirakawa urgently. "Yes, it is." "That's why, if Shibuya Takeko gave you the cigarettes, it means that she wants to kill you. When you were questioned at the prefectural police headquarters, why didn't you report to your superiors? What kind of plaster are you selling in your gourd?" Nagao noticed that his voice was getting more and more excited, so he lowered his voice embarrassingly. "I was shocked when I found out there was poison in the cigarettes because it meant she wanted to kill me." "That's right! If you were the one who smoked that cigarette, you would have died long ago. In this way, you will never be able to find out who gave you the cigarette for the rest of your life." "When the matter has developed to this point, I don't hate her at all. I believe she has no reason to kill me. That's why I want to cover it up for her and let the case fall into the fog." "Stuck in the fog! I understand. You deliberately said that you picked up the cigarettes in the vending machine. In this way, the investigation policy will turn to the direction of murder without motive. You are only now clarifying the truth. Is it because of your Professionalism made you speak out?" "No, that's not the case. I just still don't believe that she will kill me. I think maybe this pack of cigarettes was given to her by someone else, and she forwarded it to me. The reason why I tell you this is because I hope The team leader can help me investigate." "Does Shibuya Taeko smoke too?" If the answer is yes, then Hirakawa's guess may be true. "She can't smoke!" Hirakawa shook his head. "Since it's this foreign country, isn't it far-fetched for someone to give her cigarettes?" "It's true to say so, but what about the truth? Are you sure, team leader? You've seen her too. Do you think she looks like someone who can kill?" "At the time, I really didn't feel that way." "That's right! Besides, it won't do her any good if she kills me!" "It makes sense. That's all right, you start from the beginning about her giving you cigarettes." Nagao had to change his mind, because Shibuya Takeko really didn't seem like a murderer. "She gave it to me the night before yesterday, and she said I forgot to take it away." "The night before yesterday? The day she said she didn't want to marry you? Where is it?" "At her apartment, when she told me she didn't want to marry me, I asked her if everything we'd ever been together was just a joke to her? She said maybe! I couldn't believe my ears, and then , I went to bed with her after taking a shower. When I was about to go home, she gave me a pack of HILITE from the drawer of the tea cupboard." "The drawer of the tea set? What a strange place! Then what? You just said that Taeko said you forgot to take that pack of cigarettes?" "Once I went to her house to stay overnight, I happened to run out of cigarettes. For the convenience of the future, I bought an extra pack of cigarettes and put them at her house, but I kept forgetting that pack of cigarettes, so she said that." "So that's it. Think again about the expression on her face when she handed you the cigarette?" "I'm also very skeptical about this matter, because if she really wants to kill me with that pack of cigarettes, she will always have a weird look when she hands me the cigarettes, but she is as usual, smiling and putting the things away. Give me." "Was she smiling then?" How strange.Yongwei thought that if Taeko had known the poison in the cigarette for a long time, and could pass it to Hirakawa with a smile as if nothing had happened, then she would be a born criminal.平川再怎么说也跟她同床共枕过，如果说要递毒烟给他，假若是一般人，一定有点神情异样的。照这么推断，在香烟里注入氰酸钾溶液的或许不是涩谷多惠子。 涩谷多惠子工作的服装店后面，有一间小房间，供店里三名店员轮流休息。 永尾和平川把多惠子叫到这个房间来，涩谷多惠子见到平川升没有任何异样神情，眼神自然，可以感受到她依然对平川很亲密。 “涩谷小姐，我刚才听说你和平川交往过，除了平川之外，你有没有其他亲密的男朋友？” “亲密的异性朋友吗？没有。” 涩谷多惠子摇摇头否认了永尾的问话，但是永尾自她的眼神中看到一丝迷惑。 “站在你的立场自然不得不这么回答，这是你对平川的体贴，是不是因为平川就在你面前，如果你老实说有其他的男朋友，会伤害到平川，所以你才不承认的吧？”涩谷多惠子没有作答，抿着嘴一言不发。 “但是，我希望你能了解，现在我们正在调查一件杀人案件，倘若你不肯实话实说，会为我们带来许多困扰的唷！到时候情势所迫，我们得监视你的一举一动。” “真的是在调查谋杀案吗？”涩谷多惠子不安地询问永尾。 “喏！就是今天报上登的案件。”永尾从口袋里掏出一张剪报。 “报上说的很清楚，这个叫向井的男人就是死在你给平川的香烟上，因为烟里有毒，平川不晓得把烟给向井抽，向井就当场中毒暴毙！” “骗人！这不是真的！” 涩谷多惠子的视线不定地在永尾和平川之间转来转去。 “真的！我还被上级怀疑。”平川说。 “这么说你们认为是我下毒的。” “不是的，我没有这个意思，我只希望能从你这儿找到一些线索。你愿意说实话吗？你想跟平川分手是不是因为以前那名医学系的男朋友又回来找你了——他的名字是……” “增泽！增泽辰男。”， “你和增泽破镜重圆了吗？” 涩谷多惠子轻轻地点点头，羞愧地看看平川。 “他写了好几封道歉的信，大雨滂沱时他还一直站在我的屋外，看到他这一片诚心，所以我就……” “这也无可厚非，他毕竟是你喜欢过的男人，增泽会抽烟吗？” “不抽！” “那么，他在你家看到那包烟时不会觉得很奇怪吗？” “有，不过你怎么会知道呢？平川回家时忘了把那包烟带回去了，我把烟搁在电视机上，翌日，增泽就来我家了，他看到烟，就问我没抽烟怎么会有烟。我告诉他是刑警先生来询问上次那件案件时忘了带回去的，可是他好像不相信我的话，他的表情有点不屑的感觉。” “好！我明白了！”永尾向平川说。 “凶手一定是增泽！他是医学系学生，注射器、毒药他都可以轻易弄到手，又加上他怀疑你和她之间有暖味关系，这一点或许不能限定是你，或许是他怀疑有一个经常出入她家喜欢抽烟的男人和多惠子有暖昧关系，他想那个人一定会再回来，届时涩谷也会把烟还给他，如果在烟里下毒就能杀了他。而且他自己也能完全置身事外，倘使平川真的抽毒烟而亡，就永远找不到毒香烟来自何处，绝对是找不到犯人的。” “这……这……”涩谷多惠子悲痛地嚎陶大哭。 永尾心想，这次的案件中受伤最深的莫过于涩谷多惠子。但是以长远的眼光来看，眼前的她虽不幸，却避开了未来的不幸。 假若她真的和增泽这种男人结婚，成了众人羡慕的医生夫人，也绝不会幸福。况且，增泽或许根本没有意思想跟涩谷多惠子结婚。