Chapter 35 second quarter

We stand in front of the ghost needle grass. Detective Tanio, Detective Takenashi, Abbot of Jian, Father Karamaki, Auntie, Torii, Matsutsuki, the old house owner, Rin, and Maya and I all gathered in the corner of the vast garden—everyone They all focused their attention on Zhenbei.While waiting for him to speak, I peeked at Maya standing beside me from time to time.What she just said has been circling in my mind. "I heard that Mr. Tang Jianmu's sickle in the warehouse is missing-so please come here to gather. I hope that I can stop what is about to happen in time, so I invite everyone to come here. I am really sorry."

Shinbi bowed to everyone. "sickle……?" It was Torii who spoke, his face was as pale as white paper, his eyes wandered in panic.He was obviously terrified. "Just now, two criminal policemen brought a report. I asked them to analyze the composition of the ashes in the lowest layer of the stepped kiln yesterday." Zhen said in a loud voice: "Calcium phosphate was detected in the ashes. Do you know what this means? - It means that large animals were burned there, and it may be a surprising number of rats. But this time the situation is special. I think the detected phosphoric acid Calcium is an ingredient in the human body, that is, I believe that the kiln used to burn corpses."

"Huh? But, Mabi-san, the bottom floor—" Father Tang Jianmu tilted his head, opened his mouth and asked, and nodded vigorously. "That's right, the incinerator is too small, and a human body can't fit in it at all. And there is an iron grid separating the connection with the next kiln." "Yeah, so—" "But this is the current state, which was not the case 20 years ago. At that time, the kiln was not a stepped kiln, but an ordinary cave kiln, located at the current lowest level. There should be something like a hole in the kiln wall , you can transport the things to be burned in and out, am I right?"

Father Tang Jianmu put his chin back and nodded. "It does have a door, otherwise it wouldn't be called a kiln." "As long as there is a door, a human body can be easily stuffed in. Twenty years ago, Mr. Kizawa's body was put into that kiln and burned in this way." Yuzawa's remains—— "Mr. Mabei, this is impossible." It was Song Yue who spoke. "Because the kiln started burning Buddha statues the morning after Chirazawa's disappearance. Didn't Torii also say yesterday that he checked the inside of the kiln before lighting the fire."

Songyue looked at Torii, and Torii nodded vigorously frequently. "Yes, yes, that's right, I checked carefully. How could there be Jiuze's body..." "Really?" Zhenbei asked with curled lips, "That's strange. The kiln was only ignited after Mr. Kizawa's body was put in. It should be you—you, Mr. Wei Ze, and Mr. Okajima three times." After personally killing Mr. Nirazawa with a sickle, his body was burned in that kiln." Torii shook his body as if he had been slapped in the face, and turned to Mabi. "Kill, kill? Why are we doing this... Niozawa and Miss Jasmine..."

Mabi interrupted Torii's staccato speech. "Are you going to use the same argument from yesterday again? That is, you heard Miss Jasmine and Mr. Jiuze having a dispute, saw Miss Jasmine fleeing, and then heard Mr. Jiuze say words full of resentment." "Yes, that's right... That guy... Kizawa and Miss Jasmine..." "That's the excuse you came up with yesterday, right? Mr. Yuzawa is impossible to live, and you know this very well in your heart. Because you killed Mr. Jiuzawa with a sickle and burned his body——in the parking lot When you saw the sickle pattern on the scene, you and Mr. Wei Ze suddenly worried about Mr. Okajima's safety. This is because you think someone is taking revenge on you for what happened twenty years ago, right?"

"No...we will be scared when we see that pattern, because after being murdered by Miss Jasmine with a scythe, Kizawa left words of resentment...so..." "Impossible. Mr. Torii, you said that yesterday - you saw Miss Jasmine running from the darkness and throwing something under the porch of the dormitory, and you never dreamed that it was a grass mower sickle." ——Miss Jasmine hurried over from the darkness—— ——After she ran towards the dormitory, she threw something under the porch—of course, I never dreamed that it was a scythe for mowing grass—— "Mr. Tang Jianmu found the sickle under the verandah and gave it to the owner of Songyue. For the past twenty years, no one except the two of them and the old owner of Songyue knew about it. In other words, Mr. Torii , before yesterday, you should have no idea about the scythe, so why do you feel scared when you see the pattern in the parking lot?"

Torii was speechless. "I don't know who did it, it could be you, or Mr. Okajima or Mr. Wei Ze. In short, you killed Mr. Chirazawa with a sickle, burned his body, and then put The blood-stained weapon was thrown under the porch of the dormitory and hidden. You may have thought that when the dormitory was relocated, the hidden weapon would be buried in the soil, but Mr. Tang Jianmu never expected to find it.” Torii opened his mouth, unable to speak. "Yesterday, you heard for the first time from the owner of Songyue and Mr. Tang Jianmu that the scythe you hid on the porch of the dormitory had been discovered a long time ago. At the same time, you also learned that Songyue had a huge misunderstanding. That is to say, the owner of Songyue house mistakenly thought that it was Miss Jasmine who committed the crime against Mr. Jiu Ze. Obviously, you did it. So, you made up a story based on the words of house owner Song Yue, saying that you heard Miss Jasmine and Mr. Jiu Ze in the dark. Dispute--heard Mr. Yuzawa's resentment--you made up this story on the spur of the moment, the purpose of course is to cover up your crime."

Shino looked down at Torii with stern eyes. "What you are afraid of is not that Mr. Jiu Ze is still alive, but that Miss Jasmine is still alive. You think that Miss Jasmine will come to take revenge on you because you killed Miss Jasmine's lover." —Ah, that guy is still alive... that guy is still alive— —Hey, Torii, you idiot— ——Weize, don’t you think so?Do you feel the same way?that guy-- That's what they said in the parking lot. ——Weize either escaped—or was killed—either escaped—or was killed—— Those were the words Torii muttered to himself when Wei Ze disappeared.It turned out that it was Jasmine.

"Living in this small world..." The words came out of Torii's pale mouth.His body gradually went limp. "It's going to get lost..." Torii got down on his knees, turned his neck like a robot, and looked at Mabi. "It will make people lost... Living in this small world, it will make people lost..." —Here is the gopher hole— "Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing - we can't tell the difference. Back then, too, we couldn't tell right from wrong. We didn't think it was bad - and we didn't realize how terrible something we had done. I, Okajima, and Wei Ze all think that Niuzawa is an eyesore——we all hate Niuzawa..."

Torii looked at a certain point in the sky and muttered to himself. "He is obviously the most junior apprentice, but the master is full of praise for him, and Miss Jasmine also likes him—at the beginning, although we thought he was an eyesore, we didn't want to kill him. So, seeing him depressed Widow Huan, seems to be troubled by something, and wants to hear his troubles..." "You want to hear about his troubles—what did he say?" When Mabe asked, Torii said intermittently as if whimpering: "He said he wanted to marry Miss Jasmine, who was pregnant with his child, but the old house owner made a condition—that's why he was troubled." Song Yue showed a surprised expression.This was no wonder, because he had no idea that Jasmine was pregnant. "The condition is - will their son inherit the Ruixiang house in the future?" Torii's expression of slowly nodding his head was very ugly - ugly twisted. "When we heard him say that, we changed our minds. We didn't expect Miss Jasmine and Kizawa—although we thought they had feelings for each other before—but we didn't expect to have a child. Me, Okajima, and Wei Ze are very happy. I like Miss Jasmine. Although we didn't say anything, we both decided to give up Miss Jasmine. This has become a secret agreement between us. I didn't expect that guy, Niozawa——to make Miss Jasmine pregnant with his own child— Not only that - Jiuze's son will inherit the Zuixiangfang, the seventh generation of Songyue, what should we do? We came here earlier than Jiuze, and have been working in Ruixiangfang. You have to work under the son of Jiuze. This is too unreasonable, and of course we cannot accept it." Torii suddenly raised his head and looked at Satsuki. "Master, you should be able to understand, right? No one can bear to hear such words! How can you keep calm?" Torii leaned towards Matsuzuki begging for help, raised his thin face and smiled sneeringly.It was a terrifying smile that one couldn't look at, Songyue looked down at the figure of her disciple indifferently. "—So, you just killed him?" Hearing Mabei's question, Torii still had an ugly smile on his face, and turned his upper body around. "Yes, we killed him. That night, I discussed with Okajima and Wei Ze, and lied that we could solve his troubles - ask him out of the dormitory. We ambush in the dark, Okajima and Wei Ze Grab his hands from both sides, and I slash his head with the scythe." Several people present lowered their heads, others looked up at the sky, and no one spoke. "After you killed Mr. Yuzawa, you put the body in the kiln at that time and burned it." "Yes, we burned him. We stuffed his body in, closed the door, and burned the firewood." "The result—Miss Jasmine appeared?" Hearing Mabi's question, Torii smiled like a devil. "You know it very well—that's right, Miss Jasmine came over from the dormitory. For some reason, she actually walked towards the cave. We hid in a hurry, and Miss Jasmine stood in front of the door for a moment, then suddenly opened the door Seeing Jiu Ze's body burning inside, he crazily called Jiu Ze's name, and then rushed into the fire." "So, you feel—Miss Jasmine witnessed your criminal process." "That's right, we really think so, and this is the only possibility. We think that Miss Jasmine is here to rescue Jiu Ze who was stuffed into the cave by us." Torii shook his head desperately. "We have been hiding in the dark and observing, our minds are in a mess, we don't know what to do - our bodies are trembling constantly, looking at everything in front of us. Someone saw us, someone knew that we had killed someone. We have been waiting for Miss Jasmine to come back came out of the cave, but Miss Jasmine never came out, we thought Miss Jasmine was also dead..." "I didn't expect Miss Jasmine to come out of the cave?" "Yes, she crawled out by herself, then stood up staggeringly, and she didn't know where she was going. We just stood there, there was no way to chase her..." "So, the next morning, Miss Jasmine disappeared from Ruixiang's house. A few days later, you saw a group of crows gathered on the mountain again, so you thought—after Miss Jasmine rushed out of the fire, she went up the mountain alone, and as a result died there." "Yes, yes, we do think so, and we do hope so." I try to remember. - After a few days - I saw a lot of crows gathered on the hill.Many, many crows— That's what Song Yue said before.Songyue saw the group of crows and thought it was Jiu Ze who died on the mountain.Niozawa, who was cut by Jasmine with a sickle, went into the mountain in a near-death state and died there.But Torii and the others also saw the group of crows, thinking that the crows were eating Jasmine's body. too weird. A few days after Jiuze and Jasmine disappeared, Songyue received a call from Jasmine, so she thought it was Jiuze's body, which attracted groups of crows to gather.Jasmine called Songyue and said that she killed Jiu Ze. In this way, it is obviously inconsistent. "In this case, what happened to the phone call?" Songyue expressed my doubts. "That was indeed Jasmine's voice, and she told me that she killed Jiuze with a sickle." Zhenbei turned to look at Songyue with sadness on his face. "She told you so curtly and inarticulately—didn't she?" That's right, Songyue said that yesterday. "Actually, everyone misunderstood." Zhenbei sighed heavily, with a lonely expression on his face. "Mr. Torii and the others think that Miss Jasmine witnessed their murder; the owner of Songyue House thinks that Miss Jasmine killed Chirazawa, or caused him to be seriously injured, and escaped from Ruixiang's house; cause suicide." Everyone looked up at Mabi at the same time. "What happened should be like this - that night, Miss Jasmine saw Mr. Jiu Ze walking out of the dormitory alone, but couldn't wait for him to come back, so she walked out of the porch worriedly, only to find that the kiln was burning. At that time, Jasmine The young lady knew that Mr. Yuzawa was worrying about getting married, so she went to the kiln. Although she couldn't believe it, she still mustered up the courage to open the door of the kiln and looked inside. Unexpectedly——she The most dreadful thing happened right in front of her eyes." She saw Chirazawa's body burning. "Miss Jasmine rushed into the fire recklessly, but she soon knew that it was impossible to pull Jiuze out of there. After Miss Jasmine left the cave, she left the Ruixiang room disheartened. I guess she should have walked Going down the mountain——At that time, Miss Jasmine never dreamed that it was Mr. Torii who killed Mr. Niuzawa and threw him into the fire. She thought that Mr. Niozawa chose to end his life because he was worried about getting married— —I believe she thinks so." That's why she called Songyue and said she killed Jiuze?If so, why did Jasmine say that she killed Jiuze with a sickle?Logically speaking, she shouldn't know that Jiu Ze was killed by a sickle. no, no— I immediately thought of a possibility. "Did you find out too?" Shinbi looked at me with a sad smile. "When Ms. Jasmine called the owner of Songyue, she must have had serious burns on her face, so her voice was muffled, her speech was slurred, and she couldn't speak much—owner of Songyue, please think back to twenty years ago , when Miss Jasmine called you, what exactly did she say?" Songyue looked directly at Zhenbei, as if thinking about the meaning of this question, and finally said slowly: "At the time, Molly did have a lisp, and seemed to be struggling to get the words out. She said something like, 'I killed Kizawa-scythe, he-I killed-I killed him' ..." At this time, Song Yue's eyes widened.Zhen really said in a low and bleak voice: "That's the thing. Miss Jasmine actually said kiln (kA-mA), but you thought it was sickle (kA-mA). Miss Jasmine couldn't speak clearly because of her face burns. And that day , Mr. Tang Jianmu just found the sickle covered with blood under the porch of the dormitory. So, when you heard what Miss Jasmine said, you immediately thought of the sickle. If you didn't find the sickle, you should not mistake what Miss Jasmine said , because you are brothers and sisters who grew up together." "How could... such a thing..." Songyue spoke intermittently, and covered her cheeks with trembling hands.Eyes protruding from his bloodless fingers wandered aimlessly in the air.It seems that he deserves a great shock.The lover of the biological sister was killed, but the younger sister mistakenly believed that the lover committed suicide because of herself.When the younger sister told the older brother about this, the older brother misheard what she said, and mistakenly thought that his younger sister was the murderer. Then, twenty long years passed like this. No one knows the truth. "A few days after Mr. Yuzawa and Miss Jasmine disappeared, you saw a group of crows gathered on the mountain. The house owner of Songyue thought it was Mr. Yuzawa's body, but Mr. Torii thought it was Miss Jasmine's body." Mabe turned and looked at the mountains towering against the dark sky. "The group of crows should not be eating human corpses, but foxes or wild boars—I guess it should be so. Of course, it is impossible to confirm it now." Looking at the withered and yellow mountains, I feel a kind of endless sentimentality. so-- Is Jasmine dead or alive?Where did she go after leaving Ruixiang's room?Was the boy she was carrying born into this world?When I was about to ask a question— "I'll continue," Mabe looked back at us, "let's talk about what happened this time."