Zhu Fu Gaoming followed Zetian Hiroki to the front yard and saw a certain kid lying on the edge of the pond watching Fei Chi drinking water. He couldn't help but turn his head and look at Chi Fei Chi who was in the side hall looking for a letter, helplessly. Sighed.
He was a little worried. Is it really okay to let such a calm and big-hearted Chi Feichi take care of the children?
Looking at it this way, it seems that the parents of this child have a big heart.
Sawada Hiroki didn't let Zhu Fu Gaoming worry, and didn't get too far forward. He waited for Fei Chi to come back from swimming around, then took out a handkerchief to wrap Fei Chi, and looked up at Zhu Fu Gao Ming.
Zhu Fugao understood clearly and turned around to go into the house, "Let's go. Do you want me to hold you?"
"No need." Hiroki Sawada lowered his head and wiped the water off Fei Chi's body with a handkerchief.
Zhufu Gaoming looked at the kid stumbling forward step by step, sighed again, took one step, stopped for a long time, waited for Sawada Hiroki to catch up, took another step, and stopped for a long time.
By the time the two returned to the side hall, Chi Feichi had already found all the letters.
After Kenichi Chi passed away sixteen years ago, everyone sent a letter.
Then it was thirteen years ago, ten years ago, nine years ago... The people who sent the letters no longer sent them uniformly. In a certain year, they received three letters, and in a certain year they might only receive one.
Aoi Kobashi would send a letter every one or two years, but it stopped five years ago. Akashi Shusaku sent a letter three years ago, and then in the past three years, the six former residents did not send any letters. .
In order to prevent omissions, the two of them went through it again and found two letters from the letters sent by Nagano whose signatures did not look like their real names.
"Let Mr. Chi open these two letters and confirm them first," Zhu Fu said wisely. .
Chi Feichi opened the letter above, read the content, and found that it seemed to be the old man's pen pal back then. He handed it to Zhufu Gaoming, "Pen pal, the letter stated that he lived in Kyoto. It was a postcard sent when he traveled to Nagano."
Zhu Fu Gaoming took the letter, read it, carefully restored the letter and the postcard inside, and put them back into the envelope.
"This letter seems to have nothing to do with it." Chi Feichi handed the next letter he opened to Zhufu Gaoming. "It is an entrepreneur who lived in Nagano Prefecture more than ten years ago. He seems to be a childhood friend of my grandfather. After hearing the news about my grandfather’s death, I sent him a letter to commemorate the past.”
Zhu Fu Gaoming took the letter, and after reading it, he pretended to be serious. He looked at the pile of letters that were picked out, frowned slightly, and said softly, "Are there only those twenty-nine letters? Although there are very few letters compared to here, But if you need to find clues from it, you probably need to study it several times, and I'm afraid it will take a while to finish reading it..."
Chi Feichi took out his phone to check the time and found that it was already past five o'clock in the afternoon. "Do you remember to go back?"
"I came to Tokyo this time to investigate the people involved in this case. The victim, Mr. Shusaku Akashi, had a conflict with a professor from Toto University two years ago. The other party had some disputes over the commission of illustrations, but the professor went there last year. He was abroad and didn't come back until half a month ago. He couldn't be the murderer. I have sent copies of the relevant evidence back to the department by fax, but there are still important exhibits with me. I told the department that at 8 p.m. I'll be there in a little while," Zhu Fu Gaoming explained patiently, and then looked at the pile of letters that were picked out, "But I think it's best for you to read these letters first and then give them to me. That is, He said, either I go back first and ask you to go to Nagano with the letter tomorrow, or you take the letter and go back to Nagano with me. No matter what, it seems that it will waste a lot of your time..."
After saying that, Zhufu Gaoming suddenly stopped being entangled and said with a smile, "But if you have time, this may not be a good thing. What I said about moral friendship before has come true. You can go to Nagano during this time." , I will be responsible for the food and accommodation."
Chi Feichi thought about it for a moment, looked at Zhu Fu and said wisely, "You can go there tonight, but you may not only have to be responsible for my food and lodging."
After Zhufu Gaoming was stunned for a moment, he smiled and bent down to look at the well-behaved and quiet little shota, "Of course, my uncle is also responsible for Xiaoshu's food and accommodation. You can tell him whatever you want to eat."
"Actually, there is another person..."
…
Half past six in the evening.
At the intersection of Yoneka Town 5-chome, Nanatsuki Koshimizu was standing on the street with a backpack on his back. He saw a white car slowing down and stopping in front of him. He saw Chi Feichi hugging him and lying on the passenger seat window looking out. The little boy looked at Shota, smiled, opened the back seat door and got in the car.
The white car drove away from the spot and headed towards the highway from Tokyo to Nagano.
"I have prepared everything, including pajamas suitable for sleeping, warm clothes that can be easily put on, a small water bottle, cold medicine..." Koshimizu Nanatsuki sat in the back seat, opened his backpack, rummaged through a pile of things, and started reading from the inside. He pulled out a small car model and handed it to Hiroki Sawada in front of him, "There are also small toys and snacks to relieve boredom on the road, but you should eat snacks in moderation."
From the passenger seat, Chi Feichi turned around to say hello, "Yue Shui, sorry to trouble you."
Asking Koshizui Nanatsuki to help buy things for Sawada Hiroki when he goes out is second. His main purpose is to let Koshimizu Nanatsuki get familiar with Zhufu Gaoming, and then through this incident, Yamato dares to Help those people look familiar.
If Nanatsuki Koshimizu goes to Nagano for investigation in the future and accidentally gets involved in a case, or if he encounters trouble and needs to contact the police, of course the more police officers he is familiar with, the better.
"I didn't think carefully," Zhu Fu Gaoming sighed with some self-reproach while driving the car, "I have never taken such a small child on a long trip, so I didn't consider that I should prepare some things before setting off. "
"It's nothing, it's not too much trouble. I went to the baby products section of the mall and bought all these things at once," Koshimizu Nanatsuki excitedly rummaged through his backpack, "and the store clerk also helped recommend a lot of things. For example, diapers and slings that are convenient for carrying children, this one will probably be used as well.”
Sawada Hiroki: "..."
No, these are the most useless.
Chi Feichi: "..."
It can't be said that Yueshui was deceived by the store clerk. For a normal one-and-a-half-year-old child to go on a long trip, bringing these would have avoided a lot of trouble.
"And the clerk knew that I was in a hurry, so he rinsed a new water cup for me and filled it with hot water." Koshizui Nanatsuki was satisfied after counting the 'materials' for making, and took the water cup in his hand for later use, and pulled up his backpack. Zizi, then asked in confusion, "But why are you all suddenly in a hurry to go to Nagano and even have to buy things at last minute?"
"Actually, it's because of me," Zhufugu Gaoming said, "Let me introduce myself first. I am a police officer from the Shinno Police Station in Nagano Prefecture. My name is Zhufugu Gaoming. I am currently investigating a suspected murder case."
"Brilliant?" Nanatsuki Koshizui was a little surprised, "That's not..."
"Yes, it has the same pronunciation as Zhuge Kongming, the famous military strategist from the Three Kingdoms period in ancient China," Zhufu Gaoming explained, "but the writing method is different."
"Kong Ming, Class A of the second year..." Koshimizu Nanatsuki recalled, "In that mystery book, the background seems to be Nagano Prefecture. The protagonist is a primary school student with the same name as Zhuge Kong Ming. He is obviously just a primary school student, but he is extremely smart and... It’s calm, and the author, Aoi Akashi, is also from Nagano Prefecture.”
"The protagonist of that mystery book is indeed based on me..." Zhufu Gaoming turned to look at Chi Feichi and explained, "Miss Xiaoqiao Aoi and I are elementary school classmates, although I have not been asked not to continue the investigation. , but for this reason, I thought it would be better to take those letters with me to the Xinye Police Station instead of taking the letters back alone."
Chi Feichi nodded to express his understanding.
Zhufu Gaoming also told Koshizui Nanatsuki why he was looking for Chi Feichi, and how he decided to go to Nagano.
"I see, four of the six residents who originally lived there left the House of Hope one after another. Only Miss Aoi Kobashi and Mr. Shusaku Akashi stayed and got married there," Koshimizu Nanatsuki murmured, sorting out his thoughts. Then he raised his eyes and looked at Morofu Gaoming who was driving in the front seat, "Officer Morofu, you said that Miss Aoi Kohashi passed away three years ago, because I have read her reasoning and paid attention to her affairs. I heard that she died of illness. , has she always been in poor health?"
"Her heart has always been bad," Zhu Fu Gaoming said. "Three years ago, when she was looking for something in the warehouse, she suddenly suffered a heart attack and collapsed."
"Didn't she bring any medicine with her? Where is her husband, Mr. Shusaku?" Nanatsuki Koshizui paused and apologized, "I'm sorry, I just feel that in the past three years, the remaining young couple in the House of Hope passed away one after another. Mr. Shusaku is also confirmed to have committed suicide, and I want to confirm whether there will be any problems with Miss Aoi Kohashi’s death.”
"It's nothing, you just asked the key point," Zhu Fu Gaoming suddenly felt that 'this is the normal communication mode of smart reasoning people'. He felt more and more that the previous communication with Chi Feichi was not normal at all. With Chi Feichi's In terms of reasoning ability, he felt that Chi Feichi should be able to notice these problems, but they just didn't ask, as if there was no such thing as curiosity. "Three years ago, when Miss Xiaokui had a heart attack, Zhou Zuo was painting in the studio. The painting was not found at all. By the time he found Miss Xiaokui in the warehouse, Miss Xiaokui had been dead for a long time. However, after investigation, the police could confirm that there was no doubt about Miss Xiaokui's death. It was indeed just a tragic accident, that is, from After that, people nearby started calling the House of Hope the House of Death without any hope.”
"The House of Hope did bring hope to those people, didn't it?" Koshimizu Nanatsuki expressed dissatisfaction with the change of title.
Even after listening to what Zhu Fu Gaoming said, she admired old Mr. Chi Jianyi, and he was Chi Feichi's grandfather. Those people called the Pavilion of Hope the Pavilion of Death because of an accident... She felt that those people's brains ill!
"Those people nearby just feel sorry for the death of Miss Xiaokui," Zhufu Gaoming suddenly wanted to force Chi Feichi and deliberately sighed, "Although I also think this is unfair to Mr. Kenyi, this time Mr. Shusaku died there, and the scene was very strange. I think the rumor that there is a curse in the Death Hall will spread even more seriously."
Mr. Chi isn’t curious? Don't you want to wash away the 'stain' of your grandfather's good deeds back then?
If you want to know, ask him.
He was more curious, whether a certain person was too calm and could not bear to ask him, or whether he really lacked curiosity.
Chi Feichi lowered his head and watched Hiroki Sawada dismantling and reassembling all the toy car models, without showing the slightest concern about the topic.
Never mind whether it is the Pavilion of Hope or the Pavilion of Death, whatever the name is, it is just a false name, and the Chi family will not lose a piece of meat.
A place with such a harmless name as 'Twilight Pavilion' is not necessarily a kind place. Many more people have died than the Death Pavilion.
