The library of the annex is very large, with large bookshelves several meters high placed neatly next to each other around the surrounding walls. A canvas depicting a map of the world hangs in the middle of the room.
The collection of books in this library should have been collected according to the interests of the late Eijiro Tone. Shirakawa Kiyoshi and Mary walked in and found that every large bookshelf inside was filled with different books or magazines.
Among them, Bai Heqing noticed a small bookcase no more than one meter high in the corner next to the library door. He opened it and found a pile of yellowed newspapers inside.
Bai Heqing picked up the newspaper on top. The headline on it read: Everyone celebrates! The traitor has been arrested!
The content of the newspaper, to summarize, is that during the war more than ten years ago, a pseudo-leader who was supported and enslaved the people of Singapore during the war was captured and convicted by the Singaporean authorities at the time.
The picture accompanying the newspaper showed a haggard-looking white man wearing prison uniform.
Bai Heqing put down the newspaper and picked up the next one.
The content of the next newspaper seemed completely unrelated to the first one. It was about the post-war reconstruction plan of Singapore by the British Empire at that time. The entire article was a tribute to the British government at that time.
【Um? 】
However, in a line of obscure text on the side of the newspaper, Bai Heqing captured a key message.
During the Singapore reconstruction plan fifteen years ago, Clyde was also one of the project leaders appointed by the British authorities at that time.
This surprised Bai Heqing.
It turns out that Clyde not only appeared in Singapore fifteen years ago, but was also one of the leaders of the reconstruction plan.
Does this mean that he was actually the one who ordered the demolition of Kitakami Kazuhiko's house?
"Shirakawa, look."
At this time, Mary, who was standing next to Bai Heqing and was also flipping through the newspapers, suddenly handed over the two newspapers in her hands.
The two newspapers respectively recorded what Kazuhiko Kitakami said at dinner today, that his father Haruki Kitakami tried to negotiate with the authorities regarding the demolition of the Kitakami family home, and that Haruki Kitakami was kidnapped and disappeared. .
"Yang Douxin, he was the police chief in charge of this case at the time." Mary said, pointing to the contents of one of the newspapers.
In the kidnapping case fifteen years ago, the person responsible for investigating the case was Singapore Police Chief Yang Douxin at the time. This newspaper not only contained his own speculations about the murderer, but also a mugshot of Yang Douxin in police uniform.
"This is really unexpected information..." Bai Heqing said meaningfully as he looked away.
"I originally thought that the three heirs designated by Eijiro Tone should all have some deep friendship with Kitakami Kazuhiko's father in the past, but now it seems that the real situation may not be the case.
Kitakami Kazuhiko's family was an absolute victim in the reconstruction plan. The house was demolished, his father was kidnapped and disappeared, his mother committed suicide in grief, and the rich young man's life disappeared overnight. Kitakami Kazuhiko himself also lived in Japan.
It would make sense if Kazuhiko Kitakami was designated as the heir to the inheritance out of sympathy for his old friend.
But compared to him, Clyde and Yang Douxin seem to have nothing to do with Eijiro Tone. No matter how he looks at it, he should not designate these two people as heirs of the inheritance. Of course, this is only on the surface..."
"From another perspective, these two people are related to Kitakami Kazuhiko's family."
Mary picked up what he was saying.
"One is responsible for demolishing the Kitakami family's house, and the other is responsible for investigating the disappearance of Kitakami Kazuhiko's father. This is the only connection between the three. Fifteen years later, the two of them, together with the young master of the Kitakami family, became... The heir to Eijiro Tone's legacy.
Therefore, I think the case of the Beishang family fifteen years ago may not be as simple as what is recorded in these newspapers. "
"I remember that Kitakami Kazuhiko mentioned during dinner just now that after he fled to Japan, Tone Eijiro tried to protect or pass over the Kitakami family's residence out of friendship for his old friend."
Bai Heqing thought about it and said, "It's strange to let the son of my old friend live in a foreign country, but yet he did his best to protect his old friend's house..."
"Could the Kitakami family's residence be the key to Eijiro Tone's inheritance?" Mary asked with a frown.
"Make a hypothesis." After thinking for a while, Shirakawa Kiyoshi said: "Fifteen years ago, for some reason, Tone Eijiro knew the whereabouts of those inheritances. They might have been hidden somewhere in the Kitakami family's residence. In other words, it is the whereabouts of the inheritance in the Kitakami family's residence.
Of course, the people in the Beishang family didn't know this.
In order to obtain this inheritance, Eijiro Tone found two helpers. First, Clyde, one of the leaders of Singapore's reconstruction plan at the time, wanted to use the power in Clyde's hands to force Kazuhiko Kitakami to move out of his house.
But Eijiro Tone did not expect that his old friend would be so stubborn and refused to move away no matter what.
Therefore, Tone Eijiro came up with another way. He found someone to kidnap Kitakami Kazuhiko's father. The police chief responsible for investigating the case at the time was his other assistant Yang Douxin.
Since the whereabouts of Kitakami Haruki could not be found, coupled with Clyde's constant pressure, under the pressure from many aspects, they finally forced Kitakami Kazuhiko's mother to death and forced the Kitakami family to give up the house.
After that, Eijiro Tone got the inheritance as he wished, but at the same time he also broke his original promise, leaving behind his cooperators Clyde and Yang Douxin, and came to England alone with this inheritance. And stay anonymous on this isolated island...
It wasn't until fifteen years later, perhaps out of conscience, that before his death, Eijiro Tone named his two collaborators and the son of his old friend, Kazuhiko Kitakami, as inheritance. Heir..."
Having said this, Bai Heqing paused and narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Of course, these are just my guesses... Since they are guesses, there is another possibility.
That is, Eijiro Tone never made this will at all, and he never thought about dividing the inheritance.
It was his two sons who accidentally learned what happened that year from Eijiro Tone before he died.
The two young masters were afraid that these knowledgeable people would hold on to the inheritance in the future, and because they really couldn't find where their father's inheritance was hidden.
That's why I deliberately made such a will. On the one hand, I wanted to use these people to find out the inheritance, and on the other hand, I wanted to use this to trick all these people into this isolated island, and then get rid of them one by one. "
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(End of chapter)
