"Who told you that my mother committed suicide?"
After a brief moment of shock, Miura Aya looked angry: "My mother died of illness!"
"Is it because of illness..."
Koshizui Nanatsuki recalled the two middle-aged women discussing Mrs. Miura's suicide in a serious manner, and was speechless: "That kind of rumor is too outrageous."
"Rumors are the kind of things that get more and more outrageous by spreading false rumors."
Karasawa and Koshimizu Nanatsuki explained, and at the same time comforted Miura Aya and told her not to be too angry.
Unexpectedly, the other party seemed to realize something after hearing Tangze's words, and immediately asked: "Are you talking about the message that my house is called a haunted house?"
"You know." Koshimizu Nanatsuki said.
"Of course, and it is said that it is for this reason that it cannot be sold." Miura Aya said with an angry face: "Let me know, I have to make him look good!"
"But since you know this news, it proves that you have dealings with the real estate agency." Tang Ze keenly grasped the key information.
"We contacted her once." Miura Aya let out a sigh of relief.
"Excuse me, when did this happen?" Koshimizu Nanatsuki asked, taking a sip of coffee.
"When?" Miura Aya thought for a moment and said, "I remember it was when I decided to sell that villa.
But at that time, because my mother passed away, we seemed to no longer live in the villa."
"is that so."
Tangze nodded clearly, and then asked about the subsequent disappearance of the villa, but after the other party said he was not sure, he ended the conversation.
"If Ms. Miura is right, then the message about the haunted house three years ago appeared before the house was sold, and the disappearance happened afterward." After Aya Miura left, Karasawa put down the coffee in his hand and mused.
"Senior, why do you seem to be more interested in haunted houses than searching for missing persons?"
Koshimizu Nanatsuki joked: "Obviously you were the one preaching at the beginning, but now you are more active than me."
"Because I think the ancient house has an inexplicable connection with the skeleton, and the disappearance is another mystery."
After drinking the last bit of coffee, Tang Ze straightened his clothes and stood up, saying, "Let's go and ask about the two missing children."
Both children's files have their home addresses, so there is no need to bother to check the addresses.
There was no order of visits to the two children's homes, so they looked at the distance and planned to go to Yuika Aoki's flower shop first.
However, because there were children among the people they wanted to visit, the children were obviously not out of school yet on this working day, so the two decided to take care of lunch first, take a short break and wait for the primary school students to get out of school before visiting.
During working hours, the two of them didn't have any requirements for lunch. They just found a small rice bowl restaurant to eat, and then rested at the coffee shop next to the flower shop.
After the woman from the flower shop went out to pick up the girl on the file, the two of them went to visit her.
After explaining the situation, Aoki Weixiang's mother talked about what happened when Aoki Weixiang disappeared: "Weixiang's child disappeared last year, but he came back in about two days."
"Weixiang went to that empty villa, right?" Tang Ze looked at Mrs. Aoki and said, "Can we ask her a few questions?"
"Can."
With Mrs. Aoki's permission, Koshimizu Nanatsuki came to Aoki Yuixiang with a smile: "Kid Weixiang, why do you want to go to that villa?"
"I have no memory of what happened in those two days." Aoki Yuixiang shook her head with a dull expression.
"Then I wonder if you know this boy?"
Koshimi Nanatsuki showed her a photo of another missing boy, Eguchi Daigo, but the girl shook her head and said, "I don't know him."
"But he is your classmate in the same grade~" Tangze said with a smile.
"We are not in the same class." Yuika Aoki said timidly.
"Is that so?" Tangze nodded to show understanding, and then showed it to Mrs. Aoki: "Then do you know the other person?"
"I don't know him." Mrs. Aoki looked at the photo and shook her head: "I have never seen this child before."
The two of them were not too discouraged when they found nothing after questioning. Koshimizu Nanatsuki on the side took out a few photos: "These are the snack bags that my sister found in the empty villa where Weixiang stayed for two days. These are the ones you ate, right?"
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These photos were taken when the forensic department came later, and Tang Ze and the others took them with them before going out to investigate.
"Someone else gave these to me." Yuika Aoki looked at the snacks in the photo and smiled sheepishly: "Uncle Ichiro woke me up and gave me these, and then I went home."
"Who is Uncle Ichiro?" Hearing the sudden appearance of the new name, Koshimizu Nanatsuki became energetic and asked quickly.
"Uncle Ichiro from the park." Yuika Aoki said.
"Is that so?" Tang Ze nodded, and immediately went to the flower shop without asking any more questions.
"That girl named Weixiang is hiding something."
After getting in the car, Koshimizu Nanatsuki spoke directly: "I just took the photos of snacks to deceive her, making her think that I had done some research and confirmed that they were what she ate.
At that moment, the other person's face was a little flustered. She didn't dare to deny it casually, so she could only admit it and said the information "Uncle Ichiro from the park".
But other than that, I think everything else is false."
"Maybe there is something hidden."
Tangze started the car and walked towards the villa area: "But before we go to find that boy, let's go find "Ichiro of the Park". Maybe we can gain something else."
"There seems to be only one park near the villa area, and the person with such a nickname seems to be...a homeless person?"
Koshimi Nanatsuki looked a little weird when he said this: "But the homeless man buys snacks for his children..."
"Some of those people were once very wealthy, so don't look at people with stereotypes."
Tangze said: "Maybe they are living a miserable life now, but that doesn't mean they won't be kind to their children.
And it’s not yet confirmed that the other person is a homeless person, what if it’s just a celebrity who often hangs out near the park.”
"I was the one who made the first impression." Koshizui Nanatsuki patted his forehead, and when he saw Karasawa starting the car, he was a little worried and said, "You're not in a hurry, don't drive so fast!"
"Don't worry." Tang Ze bowed his hands and arrived near the villa area smoothly.
After parking the car, the two went to a nearby park, but after asking a few people walking in the park, they didn't get any useful information.
However, the two of them tried to find the homeless man but couldn't find it for a while. After discussing it, they planned to return to the villa to check the situation.
After the bones were excavated and analyzed, the people here have evacuated.
The main reason is that the skeleton has been buried in the soil for three years. Apart from the fact that the body is worthy of protection, there are no clues left around it, so no one was sent to protect the scene.
However, as they approached the villa, Karasawa determined that the two men who had been behind them since they left the park were following them.
However, the two men were so bad at following them that even Koshimizu Nanatsuki discovered they were following them.
However, the two of them had a tacit understanding and did not look back. Instead, after entering the courtyard of the villa, they waited at the door and waited for the two of them.
"Wow ah ah..."
When two men who were dressed in a somewhat shabby manner entered the courtyard and found Tang Ze standing on the left and right next to the gate, they couldn't help but scream.
"What, what are you doing? Don't be so scary all of a sudden!"
"It's too much, isn't it?"
The two men were so frightened by Tang Ze and the others that they bluffed and loudly accused them.
However, Tang Ze would not be frightened by the two people's attacks. Instead, he looked at the two of them with a cold face: "Tell me, why are you following us?"
"Who, who is following you!" A bald man on the side said harshly: "We are going to the park from here. Dinner will be served now, and if we don't go, there will be nothing!"
"Yes, this is a shortcut. Everyone who is here often knows it." The tall man with a big beard quickly agreed.
"Huh? Are you familiar with that park?" Karasawa did not ask any more about the two men following him, but changed the subject and asked about the target they were looking for: "Then have you ever heard of "Ichiro of the Park"?
"
"Of course I know." The bald man nodded: "But what happened to him?"
"I have something to ask him."
Tangze smiled and took out the criminal evidence and showed it to the two of them: "Although I think you already know our identities, I still want to make it clear now and ask for your cooperation."
After being tricked like this by Karasawa, the two of them had no choice but to take them to find Ichiro even if they wanted to act stupid.
According to the explanations of the two people, it was dinner time. There was a charity group setting out meals every day by the lakeside next to the park, so Ichiro must have been getting meals at this time.
Soon, Tang Ze and the two followed each other to the bottom of a river, where several white sheds were erected, and some young men and women were busy in the sheds.
Although this open space looks messy, you can see the orderliness in the chaos, and there are many people in poor clothes queuing up to receive food.
"The one wearing black clothes is Ichiro."
The bearded man pointed out the men in line to the two of them, and without waiting for the two to speak, he pulled his companion and ran towards the end of the line: "Eat! Eat!"
Ignoring the two men's somewhat guilty attempts to run away, Karasawa and Koshimi Nanatsuki went straight to the man in black.
"Excuse me, is this Mr. Ichiro?"
Tangze came to the man and took a look at him, and found that he was a little out of place with the people around him.
Although the other party's clothes are a bit old, they are very clean unlike those others, and the whole person looks much neater.
But people like him are the outliers here, and most of the people around him are dirty.
"I am, who are you two?"
Ichiro raised his glasses and looked at the two of them and asked.
"This is what we do." Koshimizu Nanatsuki took out his criminal certificate to identify himself: "There are some things I want to ask you."
"The criminal is looking for me?"
Ichiro seemed a little stunned, but he calmed down quickly: "I wonder if you can wait a while for me to finish receiving the meal. It's not easy to talk here, right?"
"sure."
Tangze nodded, but did not leave but started chatting with the other party: "By the way, I don't think Mr. Ichiro has the temperament of an ordinary tramp. Why..."
"Most of the people here were not born homeless."
Ichiro interrupted Karasawa: "The dust of the times is like a big mountain falling on everyone, not to mention that at that time it was not "dust" but a mountain collapse.
And I was the unlucky guy who was hit by this "rock".
As for you feeling out of place, it's just an illusion that I'm cleaner than them.
But in fact, I am just a homeless man who goes to the school gate to resell some second-hand books and makes a living.
The weather is pretty good now, but it will be difficult in winter, so I can only accept assistance to save more money to survive the winter."
He had already been given the time to speak. After finishing his meal, Ichiro walked towards the open space aside: "Let's go over there and talk."
"OK."
Tangze followed him and asked with interest: "Speaking of which Mr. Ichiro sells second-hand books, which school does he usually go to?
There are, different types of books sold at different levels of schools***, such as fairy tale books sold in elementary schools, comics, magazines, etc. sold in middle schools and high schools.”
After finishing the meal, the other party found a place to sit nearby, and the two men who had followed Tang Ze before also quietly sat aside, listening with their ears raised.
However, Tang Ze simply ignored the two of them to see what tricks they planned to play.
"If you have anything to do, just tell me quickly."
After sitting down, Ichiro began to eat while urging Tang Zedao.
"Actually, the main reason I came today is to ask you about this girl."
Nanatsuki Koshimizu on the side took out the photo and showed it to the other party. Unexpectedly, the other party pointed at his chopsticks and said in surprise: "Who is this?"
"Don't you recognize him?" A light flashed through Koshimizu Nanatsuki's eyes, and when she looked at Ichiro, there was a look of scrutiny in her eyes.
"I don't know." But Ichiro didn't seem to notice it at all, and even his eating movements didn't stop at all, completely denying this.
"Then what do you say about giving this child snacks?"
Koshimi Nanatsuki took out the photo of a bunch of snack packaging again: "That child said that you gave her these snacks."
"Ah."
After hearing Koshimi Nanatsuki's words, Ichiro laughed at himself and pointed at the photo with his chopsticks: "Do you think I am someone who has so much spare money to buy these snacks?
To be honest, the money spent on these things is enough for us people to survive for two days in the winter.
Do you understand what two days in winter are?”
No need to explain much, both of them knew what the other wanted to express.
The cold at night in winter is enough to freeze a person to death. Even if there are welfare facilities, they are still not comprehensive.
And these former people can almost stay in Internet cafes, and regular customers like them may get some discounts or care.
This amount of money is nothing to ordinary people, but to them it is free washing and a warm house in the cold winter.
It can be said that it is completely life-saving money.
In this case, would he be willing to spend money to buy these flashy snacks and give them to children who have nothing to do with him?
This chapter has been completed!