Uyama Hiideomi held the manuscript that he had read two-thirds of, and suddenly felt that something was not quite right.
When I raised my watch and looked at it, I was so frightened that I broke into a cold sweat!
Because "The Summer of the Bird" written by Maijo Keisuke seems to have some kind of magical power.
Let Uyama Hinodechen fall into it without knowing it.
After realizing the passage of time, I suddenly realized that I had been browsing in front of the table for more than four hours!
My throat is very thirsty, as if it's dehydrated.
Uyama Himideomi wanted to stand up and look for water. He shook the kettle in front of him and found that there was no water in it.
And my legs were numb from kneeling for too long. I couldn't stand up at all for a while, and my legs kept shaking.
Seeing that Maijo Keisuke was still sleeping soundly beside him, Uyama Hinideomi could only sigh and slapped his legs for a while, then slowly stood up, moved to the faucet, and drank a few swigs of water.
After relieving his thirst, Uyama Hiideomi looked at the Japanese food on the table, then looked at Maijo Keisuke, who was sleeping soundly beside him, and the remaining manuscript of "The Summer of Totori". Uyama Hiideomi hesitated a little.
Should we eat first or read the manuscript first?
Just read it in one go, so you don’t have to worry about the plot all the time.
With this thought in mind, Uyama Hiideomi stuffed the Japanese food into the refrigerator, picked up the remaining manuscripts again, and entered the strange story of "The Summer of the Bird"...
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I (Tatsumi Sekiguchi) followed Shutaro Kiba to visit the former servants of the Kuonji family, Tokizo and Tomiko. They were both servants of the Kuonji family a long time ago.
Tokizo and Tomiko were obviously reluctant to accept the investigation, but when they heard that Kiba was a detective, they couldn't refuse and could only deal with us unwillingly.
However, among all these perfunctories, I discovered an interesting thing, that is, the Kuonji family seems to be unable to give birth to a boy. The president of this generation, Kuonji Yoshiuchi, entered the Kuonji family as a wife.
This shows that no one in the Kuonji family can inherit the family business except Kuonji Kikuno.
The same goes for their next generation, who only have two daughters, Liangzi and Genzi, and no sons.
That's why Naito or Muro can only be allowed to marry into the family and inherit the Kuonji family's family business.
Although I don’t know if this clue is related to the incident, it feels a little weird when I think of the three babies who died mysteriously, the frog-faced baby that Enokizu had a vision of, and the Kuonji family’s inability to give birth to a baby boy.
So I asked Xiang Fuzi: "Do you know, frog-faced babies?"
When Tomiko heard my words, his legs softened and he fell directly to the ground.
"You, how do you know this..."
Tomiko slumped to the ground as if a tight string had been broken, and his previously perfunctory expression became extremely frightened, as if he had grown older in an instant.
When Shutaro Kiba saw Tomiko like this, he was very curious and asked:
"Frog-faced baby? What on earth is going on?"
Tomiko sat on the ground with a sad face and began to speak in a hoarse voice:
"I...I also heard from the old man. It is said that the ancestor of the Kuonji family was originally a magician in the countryside of Sanuki and had a prominent position."
"The Kuonji family specializes in praying for people, and they also have gods at home, and the Kuonji family seems to have a boy god."
"Once, a wandering monk came to the Kuonji family. The monk had a secret scroll that could help people heal. It was very powerful. The patriarch of the Kuonji family was very jealous when he saw the scroll, so he sent the boy god to curse it. Kill the monk!"
"But the monk's magical power was too strong. He turned all the curses into return curses and returned them, bringing disaster to the village."
"The patriarch of the Kuonji family saw that the monk was so powerful, so he tricked the monk into reconciling, invited the monk to his home, and gave the monk to drink toad poison, causing the monk to die in pain!"
"It turned out that the monk used a curse before he died, cursing the Kuonji family, saying, 'If you use frog poison to kill me, I will use frog poison to curse you and curse your family to perish'!"
"From now on, any boy born in the Kuonji family will have a frog face and will not live long. Therefore, the Kuonji family has always been a woman, and no one is willing to marry the daughter of this family."
When I heard this, I felt very surprised. I couldn't figure out how such a strange folklore story had anything to do with the frog-faced baby Enokizu saw.
Could it be? Are there really such things as ghosts and spells in this world?
Shutaro Kiba was not interested in these folklore stories and continued to ask Tokizo and Tomiko about the mysterious deaths of Gezi, Makuro, and the baby.
But after learning that three babies died mysteriously, each family received a compensation of 1 million yen.
You know, this is the 27th year of the Showa era (1952). Let alone one million yen, even one hundred thousand yen is a huge sum of money. Kuonji Hospital is not a big hospital, how can it be possible to spend three hundred yen at once? Wan compensation for the families of dead babies?
Tokizo sighed and said that the three million yen was actually brought by Mu Lang's wife to Kuonji's house. The reason why he married into the family was not because he had no money. On the contrary, after Mu Lang's mother passed away, she left him a large amount of money. Money, this money is the huge sum of three million yen.
When I heard the news, a strange idea came to my mind!
I suspect that the director of Kuonji Hospital and his wife killed Murang for the three million yen!
But when I expressed this idea, I heard Tokizo retort:
"Mu Lang is not worried about the handling of the money. No matter how Mrs. Kuuanji and Master handle the money, Mu Lang will not be angry, because he truly loves Jianzi."
I don’t understand why Tokizo said this without any reason, let alone what help these clues can bring to me and Kiba.
I just remember that Tokizo finally told us something about Ryoko.
Although the Kuonji family has always said that Ryoko was in poor health and could not get pregnant, in fact, Ryoko was pregnant when she was young, but whether the child was finally born or not is unknown as Tokizo was a servant.
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I returned home and had a dream.
I dreamed that I had become a child, being held by a woman who looked like a mother in a kimono and attending a seaside festival.
The woman wanted me to watch the night market, but I kept staring at the monk beside me, which made her unhappy, and she pushed me down on the beach.
I wanted to apologize, but I couldn't pronounce my mother's name, which made my mother very angry.
When I woke up from the dream, I realized with my wife's comfort that that person might not be my mother, but Ryoko Kuonji. I don't know why I imagined her to be my mother.
I don’t know what this meaningless dream is all about.
All I know is that it’s time to end this matter!
I’m going to find Kyogokudo, Enokizu, Kiba, Atsuko, whoever it is! I want them to help me solve the mystery of the Dekuonji family.
I...I want to save poor Miss Ryoko!
Uyama Hiideomi looked at the manuscript with only over a hundred pages left, and combined with the development route of the story, he realized that the story was about to have its final answer.
However, Uyama Hinodeomi failed to find any clues related to the case.
What happened to Jianzi? Why can’t I give birth after being pregnant for twenty months?
Why did Mu Lang disappear? Naito said before that Makuro was working in an evil laboratory for making androids, was that groundless?
Why did Ryoko ask for help from Sekiguchi Tatsumi? How does her pregnancy twelve years ago relate to the story?
Will the vicious curse unleashed by the monk on the Kuonji family really prevent the Kuonji family from giving birth to a boy?
What does all this have to do with the three babies who died mysteriously?
What did Enokizu see in the secret room?
And most importantly, why does the protagonist Tatsumi Sekiguchi always look so awkward?
Depression, aphasia, poor memory, emotional instability, and a dream in which Ryoko turned into his mother?
With Mr. Maijo Keisuke's ability to lay ambush, Sekiguchi Tatsumi's weird character must be a kind of ambush!
However, Uyama Himideomi really couldn't guess how this kind of hidden line would help the story?
