Those audio tapes were sealed by Miyano Akemi in plastic bags and stuck under the float ball of the toilet water tank.
After Bai Heqing entered the toilet of the villa, he first searched all possible places in the toilet, and finally found it here.
"This is what your mother left you."
Opening the plastic bag, Shirakawa Kiyoshi handed the tapes to Miyano Shiho who stood behind him and looked at him quietly.
But Miyano Shiho did not reach out to take it, but looked at him with slightly suspicious eyes.
"Why do you know these things?"
She had just heard Bai Heqing talk about these tapes alone. Before that, her sister had never told her about such a thing.
She is still suspecting that all this may be a drama directed and performed by Bai Heqing. As for the purpose...maybe it is a "warmth card" deliberately played to allow her to continue the organization's research?
"Your sister told me when I took you to America ten years ago."
Bai Heqing didn't care, but took her out of the toilet and explained:
"The suggestions on the direction of research progress that I told you later were also obtained from your sister, including the several tapes here, which were left behind by your mother.
It's just that at that time I only took away the tape about the research direction left by your mother, and the rest that were specially given to you were kept by your sister. "
"Then why have I never heard my sister say this to me before?" Miyano Shiho directly asked the question in his heart.
"Because your sister and I agreed at the time that she would hand these things over to you at the right time, but I didn't expect that she would never have the chance again, and in the end she would have to take you to get them back... …”
Bai Heqing said, sighing slightly with a slightly helpless tone, while Miyano Shiho fell silent again and did not answer his words.
The two of them just walked through the first floor of the villa and towards the main entrance.
"Ah! Mr. Lei! Please wait!"
At this moment, Mr. Dejima came out and called him.
"Is there anything else? Mr. Dejima?"
As soon as he opened the door, Bai Heqing stopped and didn't turn around. He just looked sideways at him.
Miyano Shiho also looked at the middle-aged man who seemed to be his father's childhood playmate with confusion.
"Well, I actually want to ask, has Hou Si told you anything about the rent? Ahem..."
Mr. Dejima looked quite embarrassed at this time.
Seeing his appearance, Miyano Shiho suddenly realized.
No wonder this middle-aged man responded to Bai Heqing's inquiry just now, and his attitude was extremely good. She had previously doubted whether all of today's events were Bai Heqing's plan to target her...
Now it seems that Mr. Dejima is worried about the rent?
After all, the ownership of this villa is still owned by the Miyano family, and Dejima signed a rental contract with her father.
Now, almost twenty years have passed, and even if the monthly rent is not very high, it is still a lot to accumulate. For this small office in Dejima, this is probably not a small sum.
"ha……"
When Bai Heqing heard this, he also made an expression of sudden realization.
He really has not considered this aspect. After all, the Miyano couple passed away more than ten years ago, and no one will come to him to collect rent in the future...
Well, maybe not necessarily.
Thinking like this, Bai Heqing looked at Miyano Shiho beside him and asked with a smile:
"Shiho, what do you think?"
But Miyano Shiho just glanced up at him, then reached out and snatched the tape from his hand.
"What does this have to do with me? Just decide for yourself."
After saying that, she ignored Bai Heqing, turned around and walked out by herself.
"Well, Mr. Lei..."
Mr. Dejima behind him was still looking at Shirakawa Kiyo eagerly, his eyes moving back and forth between Miyano Shiho and Shirakawa Kiyo.
Why did Mr. Lei ask the little girl such a thing?
Having said that, what does Mr. Lei mean by bringing this little girl here today? Mr. Lei looks so young, this can't be his daughter, right?
Shiho...hiss, looking at it this way, this little girl does seem to have some resemblance to Houji, right?
Could it be...
"Since she said let me make my own decision..."
Just when Mr. Dejima was brainstorming, Shirakawa Qing lowered his head and thought for a moment, then looked at him and said with a smile:
"Then Mr. Dejima, please continue to save this money."
"ah?"
"This money is so clean. Who knows, she will need it one day in the future. After all, it is a house that has been rented for twenty years in black and white. Mr. Dejima should not think about defaulting on the debt..."
"This, this won't happen! Mr. Lei, please don't worry..."
Although he felt bitter in his heart, Mr. Dejima still nodded in response, but then his curious eyes bypassed Shirakawa Kiyoshi, looked at Miyano Shiho outside the villa, and asked tentatively:
"Well, Mr. Lei, this little girl named Shiho, could she be..."
"Shh, don't ask any more questions."
Bai Heqing raised his index finger in front of his mouth and deliberately interrupted him with a mysterious tone.
Without waiting for him to ask any more questions, he turned around and left, closing the door.
But his move made Mr. Dejima freeze on the spot. Bai Heqing's actions and expression just now gave him a strong sense of familiarity, as if he had seen a very similar scene before. …
Subconsciously, he also raised his index finger in front of his mouth. Mr. Dejima suddenly looked up, with an incredible look on his face.
He remembered!
That was almost twenty years ago!
The morning when Houji and his family were picked up by that black car!
【Houssi! Where is the address of your new institute? I'll go check it out when I have time! 】
[Shh, don’t ask any more questions. 】
At that time, it was a middle-aged man in the black car who stopped him at the door of the villa and wanted to see off the Houji family.
The middle-aged man and Mr. Lei in front of me, their positions, movements, and expressions on their faces when they said this sentence are almost exactly the same!
Even the appearance of the two people closely overlaps with the vague memory in Mr. Dejima's mind!
Perhaps the only difference between the two is that the middle-aged man who stopped him at that time looked to be in his thirties, while the current Mr. Lei looks like he is only in his early twenties...
Could it be that Mr. Lei is the son of that middle-aged man?
An idea suddenly came to Mr. Dejima's mind.
From this point of view, the little girl just now must be Houji's little daughter. She is really shameless even at her age...
In other words, is Hiroshi still cooperating with that mysterious large consortium?
Forget it, this is not something he should consider. He should first prepare the rent money for the past twenty years...
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