Chapter 11 Advancement of Scouting

1 An hour later, a young reporter came in and said: Mr. Tamura, a call from the head office. Tamura responded, Huo Di stood up from the chair and said: Excuse me.There is good news for you soon.Tamura smiled at Longxiong and walked out of the reception room. During this hour, Tamura called Tokyo and asked people from the head office to investigate on the spot.The answer came quickly. The phone receiver was already on the table, Tamura grabbed it hastily and said: Hello, it's me.Ah, Xiaoxin?How about hard work? Tokyo's voice came from the earpiece: I went to the Red House Bar to see that the female proprietress Junko Meii was sitting in the bar.

What, in the store?Tamura widened his eyes and asked, Hey, did you see clearly?You won't mistake the other waitress for the shopkeeper, will you? Although I wear glasses, I wipe them clean every day, you can't go wrong.I was still talking to the shopkeeper. Tamura snorted and suddenly remembered another thing. Wait, is the female shopkeeper always in the shop?No, during these four or five days, have you ever left Tokyo?You didn't ask this, did you? I think, it's not even necessary to ask your Excellency to advise you on this point! You are very clever.As expected of Xiaoxin.It can also please girls.

Stop flattering me.You will be disappointed.The female shopkeeper said that she has not left Tokyo for the past two months.Of course, I pretended to ask casually.Later, I confirmed it to a waitress who was very interested in me, and I did not leave. The other party's young voice replied.Tamura was silent because his mind was in a mess right now. Hey, the other party called him, is there nothing else? Um.For a moment, I couldn't think of words to say, but I heard: The deputy director said that he had something to do, and now it's up to him to speak.Then came a hoarse and deep voice:

Hello, Oda?How are you?Do you have any idea? Not yet, but soon.Tamura was most troubled by the deputy director. Then you come back right away.Once you leave, you will be too busy. Isn't it embarrassing for you to be so intolerant?It's only been two days since I've been here, and things are just getting started! You can hold your breath!The club is so busy, don't you want to stay forever and never come back?I heard that the case cannot be solved for a while, and the detection team has already prepared for a long-term battle.We can't stay with you to the end.When you were on a business trip, you also said that the case was in its final stage.

Didn't today's newspaper say that a gap can be opened by finding out the origin of the stretcher? That's just talk.The layout cannot but be embellished frequently.In fact, the police are desperate. Tamura privately agrees with this view.Even the investigation of a stretcher has not progressed, which shows how slow the investigation work is.Even if the owner of the stretcher was found out, such a smart criminal would never show his feet immediately. If he told the deputy director that the background of the case was right-wing forces, he might be able to change his mind, but before he had conclusive evidence, it was not convenient for him to say so bluntly.

What's the matter?So busy! Another case of corruption occurred.I can't handle it without you as an old hand. Come back by tonight's night train. Tamura put down the phone in disappointment. Seeing Tian Cun walking back with an unhappy face, Long Xiong guessed that there must be something wrong. What's wrong? How come it doesn't matter.Not a good thing anyway. Tamura sat down on the chair and let out a few mouthfuls of smoke. The proprietress of the Red House did not leave Tokyo.This is one of them. oh. Order me to return to Tokyo immediately.This is the second.Tamura's face was tense.

Tamura is convinced that the woman who went to Uji Yamada to contact Funazaka is Umei Junko from the Red House Bar, but Tatsuo judges that it is Uesaki Etsuko.Even though the matter has developed to this point, Long Xiong still cannot tell Tamura about the situation. Uesaki Etsuko was also involved in the case, which Longxiong didn't want to tell anyone.He didn't understand why he did it.No matter what, it would be against Long Xiong's intentions to report on her.He could feel that this conflicting emotion was very strong. It seems that there is not much progress in solving the case. Tamura ignored Longxiong's mood and said, so the deputy director told me to go back for the time being.Just now I suddenly had an idea that it might not be a bad idea to go back to Tokyo.

Longxiong looked at Tamura's face that changed rapidly.Just now he was grimacing, but now a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.He used to be such a moody person. Hey, didn't you just say that the proprietress Junko Umei never left Tokyo?I think that must be a lie.Come to Funaka, who else but her?When I get back to Tokyo, I will expose their lies.I'm going to track down the proprietress, maybe I can accidentally find a breakthrough. Tamura's eyes sparkled, and he said with a smile. Long Xiong felt very sorry for his friend, but even so, he was still unwilling to tell about Etsuko Uesaki.Now even I can feel how painful the expression on my face is.

Regarding the activities of Hideaki Funasaka, I have asked the correspondent Uji Yamada to pay attention, and he will contact me when the time comes.To be honest, even if I am here, I can't do anything concrete.Tamura has been bent on returning to Tokyo.I'm going back to Tokyo first, how are you doing? Well, with a thoughtful look on his face, Long Xiong actually made up his mind. The woman who came to find Funasaka Hideaki must be Uesaki Etsuko.Judging from the appearance and figure mentioned by correspondent Uji Yamada, it is not bad at all.Etsuko is now in Mizunami.She acts as a liaison between Funasaka and Horiguchi.

The correspondent said that he had seen her four or five days ago, and he knew her whereabouts from the conversation he heard at the Ruilang Post Office during the day. In terms of time, there is no discrepancy.Etsuko Uesaki probably left Tokyo for Uji Yamada, received some instructions from Funazaka, and then went to Mizunami.Ruilang is the station where the man got off the train late at night.Thinking about it this way, the person who called himself Horiguchi must be lurking near Mizunami! Long Xiong decided to go to that town again. The post office replied on the phone that they had no cash on hand and asked to pick it up at noon tomorrow.Long Xiong thought, well, then I will rush to the Ruilang post office to see what happened.Go see Uesaki Etsuko who has withdrawn 100,000 yuan in cash.Must be able to meet her.

Then I will return to Tokyo later.Long Xiong pretended to be calm and said that he was trying his best to suppress his excitement. That night, Tamura took the train back to Tokyo.Long Xiong sent him to the station, and Tian Cun poked his head out of the car window, waved his hands and finally left. Long Xiong stayed in the hotel in front of the station for one night.Early the next morning, I took the early train and set foot on the Central Line heading east. This time I will definitely see Uesaki Etsuko.At noon she goes to the post office.Hurry up.Hurry up.Ryuo watched the winding Tsuchizaki River from the window.But he was absent-minded, and he seemed to turn a blind eye to the scenery on the river. We arrived at Ruilang Station at 11:32.The wind outside was cool, sharp, and strong, as if a typhoon was coming. All over again.Long Xiong immediately walked up the road to the post office.Look around while walking, just in case you can meet Uesaki Etsuko along the way.But the passers-by are all locals. I pushed open the door of the post office and walked in. There were two or three customers inside.All men.The clock on the front wall of the post office said a quarter past eleven.Unexpectedly in time. Long Xiong sat on the guest chair in the corner.Smoking a cigarette leisurely, his eyes never leave the window with the exchange sign.He looked at it every time the door was opened. When it was nearly twelve o'clock, I started to feel a little flustered.It was like a tryst with a lover.It was strange that although he was intertwined with the case, he didn't have that gloomy feeling at all.I don't know how many times the door has been opened, but it wasn't her who walked in. No sooner had the clock struck twelve than the window was shut.Put up a half-hour break sign.The staff of the post office opened the lunch box on the table and kept looking at Long Xiong. There was no work until half past twelve, so Long Xiong had no choice but to walk out of the post office.This hour seemed to him almost unbearable.Before half past twelve, he walked back to the post office, still sitting on the chair.The people standing in front of the exchange window were all irrelevant people.He panicked again.As if the graceful figure of Uesaki Etsuko was about to appear in front of her eyes, the leather shoes made a crisp sound. It's one o'clock and it hasn't come yet.Only then did Long Xiong feel that something was a little strange.In an instant, a thought flashed through my mind, has it already happened? The female clerk spoke to Long Xiong from the window: what's the matter with you Long Xiong also knew that he sat at the post office for too long.People will find it strange.Long Xiong stood up, walked over resolutely and asked: I'm waiting for a lady who wants to withdraw one hundred thousand yuan in cash. The female clerk with a round face looked at Long Xiong's face in surprise and asked: do you know her know.Long Xiong swallowed a mouthful of saliva. The expression of the young female clerk seemed quite hesitant, and she couldn't decide whether to tell Long Xiong.As a result, he said as if making a small decision: She has already taken it in the morning. Long Xiong couldn't help being surprised.Although Cai had estimated this possibility just now, unexpectedly he guessed it right. morning?I've been waiting here since half past eleven in the morning!Long Xiong said in despair. She came around ten thirty. So, the cash at the post office was ready early.too early.If only as said on the phone, it would be a good afternoon.Long Xiong was so regretful that he wanted to stamp the ground with his foot. Long Xiong still holds a glimmer of hope. The lady who came to withdraw the money is a tall person in her twenties, right? Yes.The female clerk looked wary. long face, big eyes, straight nose When talking about Uesaki Etsuko's appearance, Longxiong unconsciously described her as a beauty.The female clerk probably thought it was ridiculous, and said with a faint smile on her mouth: Yes, a very nice guy, not a local. Sure enough.Long Xiong made another last effort and asked: It turned out to be someone I knew.I don't know the name of the drawer in some cases, can you let me have a look at this withdrawal? The face of the female clerk showed a vigilant look again, and she silently looked at the male clerk sitting opposite.He has been listening to her conversation with Long Xiong. The male clerk got up from his chair and went to the window and said: Not according to the rules.If you really have any situation, please give me a business card.Just looking at it is not absolutely impossible. His kindness to Long Xiong probably did not arouse any suspicion.Besides, listening to Long Xiong's talk about some situations, one may feel that things are very unusual.Long Xiong handed over his business card. Ah, you are from Tokyo. After the male clerk looked at the business card, he ordered the female clerk to get the receipt.He didn't use the rules as a shield, that's enough for Long Xiong to be grateful. The female clerk took out two money orders from the folder and showed them to Long Xiong.She held the end of the money order warily with her finger. The amount on the face of the bill is 50,000 yuan each, and the payee is a woman, but not Uesaki Etsuko's name. It reads: Yoshino Sadako, Shinjo, Baba Village, Kitakoma-gun, Yamanashi Prefecture. Long Xiong took out his notebook, knowing it was a pseudonym, so he copied it down before making any plans. It bears the circular stamp of the Tokyo Kyobashi Post Office.The date is one month ago. Everything fits the bill. After thanking the two staff members, Long Xiong walked out of the post office and went to the street.Uesaki Etsuko is still in this town.Just got to the post office three hours ago. Withdrawing 100,000 yuan in cash is probably for Horiguchi, the murderer, Yamamoto of the Red House Bar, for his spending, right?So he should still be here.But where are the two of them?Who is Uesaki Etsuko?She has a very close relationship with Funazaka and the financier Kitaro Yamasugi. Could it be that she is only acting as a liaison?Or is there something else? Long Xiong's mood became gloomy.He did not want to imagine that Uesaki Etsuko had any special relationship with the prisoner.He shook his head.What kind of emotion is this?Was he deeply infatuated with her? Where are the two of them nearby? 2 The stretcher was picked up by a boy at the seaside of Manazuru, Kanagawa Prefecture, and he reported it to the police station.The scene is under a very high cliff, and above the cliff is the Tokaido Line railway track.On the afternoon of April 28, before three o'clock, the young man walked under the cliff and saw the train going south passing by, but he didn't see anything thrown from the train.That is, the stretcher hadn't landed there yet.It was later found out that the train was the Hatsushima Express bound for Ito. After the boy walked by, he played for twenty minutes on the reef that stretched into the sea.While walking back, go to the scene area to find a stretcher that wasn't there when you came.Nine minutes after the Hatsushima opened, the West Sea Express passed by nearby.This stretcher, with canvas rolled into a stick, was apparently thrown from the West Sea. On that day, the Xihai was the train on which lawyer Senuma was pretended to be a patient and carried into the carriage on a stretcher.The stretcher was transferred from the Odawara Police Station to the detection team.The detection team took the stretcher thrown away by the kidnapper as physical evidence of important clues and began to investigate the origin of the stretcher. There are three manufacturers of stretchers in the city.The criminal police took a stretcher to verify, and found out that it was a product of Zuobo Medical Equipment Factory.Stretchers in this factory have particular attention to the sewing method of the canvas, which can be seen at a glance, because each factory has its own sewing method. According to the canvas and wood used in the stretcher, the Saiki Medical Equipment Factory concluded that it was a product in 1952.No wonder the stretcher was old and dirty. At that time, the factory produced a total of 250 stretchers, all of which were made of neem wood.One hundred and fifty were sold in bulk directly to hospitals and nursing homes, and the remaining hundred were wholesaled to Whale House Medical Distributors.Whale House is sold to small local hospitals or to door-to-door customers based on orders.As for the retail part, no buyer can be found in the store, and those who usually have an order relationship are registered in the account.The detection team made a list based on the sales accounts of Saeki Equipment Factory and Whale House Sales Office, and decided to investigate one by one.These situations have been reported in the newspapers. From the fact that the stretcher is very old, the detection team estimated that it might be a hospital supply.So we started with the hospital first.It's a huge project.Although the name of the hospital is listed on the list, it is extremely troublesome to check only the one produced in 1952.Some have been used and scrapped, and some have been lost for a long time, which does not match the hospital's accounts.If these are all checked one by one, it will take a lot of patience. Several criminal policemen went to investigate separately, unexpectedly, they got clues very quickly. When policeman A went to Ariyoshi Hospital, Kamezawa Street, Sumida District, the city to inquire, the chief of the general affairs section immediately replied: If it is such a stretcher, our hospital has indeed lost one. Detective A immediately pricked up his ears and asked: When was that lost? The general affairs section chief checked the work diary and reported the date.When he heard that it was the day before Lawyer Senuma was taken away from Tokyo Station, the detective couldn't help but his heart beat. He immediately rushed back to the detection team and sent the stretcher kept there to the hospital. At this time, three experienced criminal policemen followed him. It is this one.That's right, it's the one that was stolen from our hospital.The chief of the general affairs section recognized it at a glance, and said with certainty. How did you steal it?Please talk about the situation in detail.The criminal police took out their notebooks and prepared to make records. This stretcher was placed in Building No. 3 at the same time as the other stretchers, and stood against the wall at the door. As the chief of the general affairs section said, he led the criminal police to the place where the stretcher was placed in Building No. 3 to have a look.The hospital is quite large, and the third building is the surgery.Like other hospitals, sundries were piled up at one end of the corridor, and the stretcher was also standing there against the wall. The stretcher was placed here, but suddenly someone took it away, carried it on his shoulders, and went out from there.The chief of general affairs pointed to the exit in the backyard of the hospital and said. On your shoulders?A criminal policeman asked back, how did you know?Did anyone see it? A nurse saw it.Said to be a man in his thirties, wearing a white shirt and black trousers.The nurse thought it was a handyman in the hospital.Because there are many miscellaneous staff in the hospital, many of them don't know each other.Then the man walked around from the backyard to the front door, put the stretcher into the waiting taxi, got in himself, and drove away. Is this what the nurse saw too? No, another nurse.She didn't think it was strange when she saw that person walking out in a grand manner.It wasn't discovered until ten days later when the supplies were counted.Because it was an old stretcher, no police were called at that time. The criminal police sorted out a record, attached a schematic diagram, and reported it to the detection team. The day of the theft was the day before lawyer Senuma left Tokyo, and the day after the lawyer was kidnapped at the vigil at Toshiichi Tamamaru's house.Obviously, this stretcher was purposefully and plannedly stolen from the beginning to send lawyers out of Tokyo Station. If you take a taxi with a stretcher, the driver should be impressed, and immediately check the taxi companies in the city.The leader of the detection team gave an order. In less than two days, it was found out.The driver was impressed by the passenger carrying a stretcher.The young driver immediately came forward and said: The passenger was in the car on Kanda Misaki Street at two o'clock that afternoon. He was a man in his thirties, wearing a white shirt.I can't remember how long it looked like.I took the car to Youji Hospital on Guize Street, and when the car drove into the gate, he got out of the car and asked me to wait for ten minutes.In less than ten minutes, he came out carrying a stretcher.He put the stretcher on the side of the bridge, sat in himself, and let me drive back to Kanda.I thought he was from the hospital at all.When we arrived at Kanda, he told me to stop at the Suruga platform, and he got out of the car.I collected the fare, and before leaving, I glanced at him.He set the stretcher upright on the ground and stood there with his hands on his hands, the sun shining on his face.It looked like it was waiting for another car.I drove the car towards Ginza without looking back at him. According to the driver's testimony, the man was planning to transfer to another car at the Suruga stage, so he checked the taxis again.No other driver picked up a passenger on a stretcher.The head of the detection team said: If I didn't take a taxi again, it must be my own car.They were afraid that their car numbers might be remembered when they brought their own cars into the hospital, so they took a taxi first, got off at Suruga Station, and made an appointment to wait for their own cars there.Did anyone in the vicinity see him on the spot? It doesn't matter if you ask this question, it's useless to ask dozens of criminal policemen to go out and ask.Not only did no one see him get in his own car, no one even noticed that he was standing there with a stretcher in a white shirt.This area is full of traffic and lively.Nearby is the shopping street, and everyone is very busy. The thread stops here abruptly. However, the investigation is being carried out in secret on another front.The so-called secrecy is to prevent information from being leaked to the newspaper. The recent investigative work has been carried out without the eyes and ears of the newspaper.Since the progress of the police investigation is disclosed in the newspaper, the prisoner may know the steps of the investigation, which does more harm than good.Of course, newspapers can be used in reverse sometimes, but most of the time it brings obstacles to the investigation.Now, unlike before the war, newspapers can be banned from publishing news. The secret investigation began with the identification of the bullets in Tianmaru Toshiichi's body.He was shot with a pistol in Shinjuku, a bullet piercing his abdomen and embedded in a post in an alcove.Another shot went through the bedding and got under the matting.This shot was pierced through the mouth when the victim was lying on his back on the quilt. Two small bullets, covered with a copper casing, are shiny.It was determined that the murder weapon was an American-made 1911 Model 45 caliber Colt automatic pistol.The detection team was shocked.This type of automatic pistol is a weapon issued to soldiers by the US garrison authorities. However, the prisoner was not a foreign garrison, but undoubtedly Japanese.For personnel related to the US military, mainly those who work in the garrison, the first thing worth considering is translation.In fact, there are indeed many translators who later became hooligans and so on.It was the translator who was initially suspected of focusing on the investigation.However, with perseverance and hard work for a long time, I didn't even find a trace of clues. The spread of American pistols was not necessarily limited to the Japanese working in the garrison.Some mistresses and jeep girls of the U.S. military don’t need money after playing, but they want a pistol, and then sell it to the Japanese on the black market at a low price of five or six thousand yuan. This is not uncommon. A criminal policeman put forward this view, which is quite popular. Most of the mistresses and jeep girls of the US garrison are concentrated near the Tachikawa base, where it is possible to find clues.The detection team turned to this aspect. After the case happened, after the bullets were used to identify the murder weapon as a 45-caliber automatic pistol, the investigators worked hard with great patience and took a considerable amount of time.The prostitutes near the Lichuan base all have tight mouths, for fear of affecting their own livelihood.Therefore, when these issues are mentioned, everyone remains silent, like a stubborn stone.In addition, it is also because almost all of them have done some ignorant things. Some seasoned criminal policemen, persevering, finally pried their mouths closed like oyster shells.The good thing is that there are constant infighting among the prostitutes, and the criminal police take advantage of their discord to induce each other to report each other's privacy and find clues from it. American soldiers gave them pistols as rewards, and they either gave them to their lovers and pimps, or sold them to street hooligans at a low price of five or six thousand yuan.The hooligans then resold them at a price of seven to eight thousand yuan to brokers who specialize in purchasing US military supplies.These brokers changed hands again, and the price has been raised to 10,000.This is generally the case. It is not only difficult, but also almost impossible to investigate such intricate transfers and resales just by asking around and asking one by one.Even if you catch prostitute lovers and reselling brokers, if they claim that they don't know the name and address of the buyer, they will still hit a wall. However, the detection team was calm.There is only this case of physical evidence, so I have no choice but to pursue it blindly.And it was carried out in great secrecy, without revealing any news to the newspaper.Do not ask people to know, persevere, and carry out investigation work for a long time in this way. At the same time, the investigation of the Senuma kidnapping case ran aground on the stretcher.After a group of criminals got off at various stations on the Tokaido Line separately, their whereabouts were unknown.From the perspective of the reporters who entered and exited the police station, the detection team was depressed and anxious. When the heat of summer subsides and walking around the streets is more comfortable, an old criminal police detective named E hears reliable information and returns to the detection team.A considerable amount of time had passed since the murder.This old criminal policeman runs around the Lichuan base every day, regardless of the weather, regardless of the shadows. A jeep girl named Molizi got a 45-caliber Colt pistol from a good black soldier in February this year.The person who lived with her at the time had a quarrel with her and told me about it. Detective E reported to the director that I asked Jasmine again, but she was quite straightforward and told everything.The gun had been given to her lover, a pimp named Ann.Ah An later changed her mind and hooked up with another woman. This time, she was jealous and hated.I went to look for Ah An, but that guy has quit his job and his whereabouts are unknown. Hearing this, the team leader immediately had a question in his mind, whether that Ah An was the murderer who shot the murderer. I asked about An's appearance in detail.He is only 21 or 2 years old, wears glasses with high myopia, and is short in stature. E Interpol first denied the team leader's suspicion.I asked the pimps one by one.It seems that Ah An is not very gregarious, and no one knows his whereabouts.However, someone told me that in April of this year, he got drunk and fought with American soldiers and broke his leg.Because it's a pimp, it's always just a fight about the reward.He didn't wash his hands and quit, probably because he had a quarrel and broke his leg, so he couldn't do it.Where exactly he wandered, there is no news at all.Later, I thought that if I inquired with his new concubine, I would be able to find out the news.I went to find that woman, but she had already left Lichuan's lair.The criminal police said sternly, and I asked around again, and finally found out that she had moved to the vicinity of the Yokosuka Barracks.So I went to Yokosuka. Did you find her there?asked the team leader urgently. found it.Walking made my legs straighten.When I saw her, I asked Ann where she was. She said that she was hospitalized because of a broken leg.He also told me that the hospital is Ariyoshi Hospital in Kamezawa Street, Sumida District, Tokyo. What hospital?The team leader asked in amazement, Yuji Hospital?Did she really tell you so? good.I was afraid of forgetting, so I wrote it down in the notebook. Yuji Hospital, isn't that the hospital where the stretcher was stolen?Moreover, Building No. 3 is also the hospital for surgical patients! good!The director couldn't help showing an excited look on his face, he stood up and said, go to Youji Hospital immediately and find An. The team leader said he wanted to personally interrogate, so he hurriedly called a car.They pretended to go to the toilet so as not to attract the attention of journalists.Slipped out through the back door, and after a while the three criminal policemen met at the back door. 3 As soon as the team leader arrived at the hospital, he called the head of the general affairs section and explained his identity. There was a man named An, whose name I don’t know, who fought with American soldiers and was hospitalized with a broken leg. Is there such a person? Ah, there is one. The Chief of General Affairs opened the patient list. His name is Xiaochai Annan. He suffered a broken tibia in his left leg and has been hospitalized since April. We need to meet him. Xiaochai Annan, twenty-two years old, the team leader of the X No. Kokubunji Street, Tokyo, asked the criminal police to record it. Hearing that he wanted to see him in person, the head of the general affairs section stood up first and led them through the long corridor of the ward. Excuse me, the team leader stopped the general affairs section chief, where was the stretcher stolen? The chief of the general affairs section pointed and said, it was there.At one end of the corridor in Building No. 3, there are still three stretchers standing.The team leader looked at the place where the stretcher was placed, looked at the entrance of the ward, and urged: Alright, let's go see Xiao Chai Annan. The ward is very narrow, with four beds and three patients lying on the bed.After the chief of the general affairs section pointed Xiao Chai Annan to them, he evaded and walked away. There was an unpleasant stench in the ward.Xiao Chai Annan was reading a book with half of his body propped up.Seeing a stranger walking in, he raised his head and looked over, the light reflected from the glasses. Are you Xiaochai? The team leader was afraid that the people in the same ward would hear him, so he whispered and handed him his business card. This A'an named Xiao Chai Annan, seeing this scene, his face suddenly changed color. You do not have to worry about.I'm not here today for your business, but to ask you about an acquaintance. The group leader seemed to comfort him with a soft voice.Ah'an nodded obediently, his expression still very vigilant. You sold a guy an American 45 caliber automatic pistol? There was a look of horror in A'an's eyes. Well, of course it is illegal.But now we are not here to pursue this matter. We want to know who bought it?The team leader said gently. Jasmine told me, right?Only then did Ah An speak, with the childishness of a teenager in his tone. is her. This ghost woman, there is nothing she can do about it. Don't get angry.How about it?Can you tell us? I think about it. Ah'an looked thoughtful, not because he was hesitant to tell the truth, but because there were many buyers, and he didn't know which one he was referring to.The director noticed it and took out the photo from his pocket.It is a simulated photo of a murderer in Shinjuku City. Ah An stared at the photo, but there was no response. Was it ever sold to such a person? I don't know this person.Ah An's tone was very indifferent, but he still held the photo and didn't let go. Think again. Sir, has anything happened to this man with the pistol?Aang asked back. Seeing that the expression on his face seemed to have moved, the group leader said without any concealment: Didn't you read the newspaper? Haven't seen it since hospitalization. No wonder, he shot and killed people in Shinjuku.The bullets are Colt automatic pistols of 45 caliber. Ah An was silent for a while.I struggled to move my casted leg. Are you about the same age as this photo? Well, about thirty years old. Ah An shut his mouth again and looked at the photo.At this time, the team leader knew by intuition that Ah An knew this person. I know a person who is not quite like the picture, the age and the individual parts of the face.You see, the hair style is somewhat similar to the eyes. The simulated photos are really not very good. Well, so did you sell him the pistol?Don't worry, just talk, it won't hurt you. Aan swallowed his saliva.In order to make the other party relax, the team leader sat on a bed next to him and crossed one leg. The pistol you sold him was a 45 caliber, right? Ann nodded yes. Um.What's his name? Surname Heichi. The criminal policeman standing next to the team leader quickly wrote down in a notebook with a pencil. black pool.So, what is called Blackpool? Blackpool, Blackpool.Well what's it called?I forgot. Can't remember? It was ten years ago.Really forgot. ten years ago? Yes.At that time we all called him Mr. Heichi. teacher?The group leader's eyes almost popped out. He worked as a middle school teacher.I was in first grade then.An replied. The team leader switched positions with his legs.To calm himself, he took a cigarette from his pocket and smoked it. oh, I get it.This man Blackpool used to be your teacher, right?The group leader asked next.Things sorted out one by one. Yes.However, we only studied with him for a year, and then he resigned and left the school to go elsewhere.The vigilant look on Ah An's face has faded. Where is the school? My hometown is Haruno Village, Minamisaku County, Nagano Prefecture, and the school is called Haruno Middle School. The criminal police made records in their notebooks. Just at the east foot of Mount Yatsugatake, the scenery there is really beautiful.Ah An seemed to miss his hometown very much, and he became very easy-going when talking about these things. Oh, so Mr. Blackpool taught you when you were in the first grade of middle school, right? Ah, it was when I was thirteen. Is Teacher Heichi also from your village? I think so.Because he came to teach from Yokori by bicycle.Hengweili is in the mountain, a mile and a half away from the school.I was still young at that time, and I didn't know much about the situation in Mr. Heichi's house. Oh yes.Later, Teacher Heichi resigned from his teaching position, where did he go? I heard that I went to Tokyo.Because I'm still young, I don't know the details.He was very good at gymnastics, and he was only twenty-one or two years old at the time.He is very young, he is said to be a teacher, but he is actually more like a big brother.We nicknamed him Brother Black. Ah An's eyes seemed to be recalling some past events in his youth. Well, then ten years later, you saw this black elder brother again in Tokyo, didn't you?The team leader got to the heart of the matter. Yes, I met by chance at Fuchu Racecourse.He has forgotten me, but I still remember him.I felt very close, so I called him teacher.That was the first time I met him, in February of this year.It was a cold day and we were talking to the crowd at the racetrack.An said. Did he mention the pistol at that time? Well, Teacher Heichi asked me what I was doing, and it was useless for me to hide it from him, so I honestly said that I was a broker, buying and selling Yankee supplies.So he thought about it and asked me if I could get a pistol.I felt a little surprised at the time, wondering if he wanted to.He said with a wry smile that he wanted to use it for personal protection, and the work he was doing was a bit dangerous, so he couldn't tell me that he must help me get one. He has the money, and the price is more expensive.I wondered in private, this black elder brother is probably not doing his job properly.At that time, I happened to buy one from Jasmine, and I was about to sell it, so I agreed.The next day was also the day of the horse race. We made an appointment to meet at the racetrack. So you handed it over to him? yes.The next day, as agreed, I handed it over to him in person.For the face of the former teacher, the price was very cheap, and I sold it to him for 7,000 yuan.But Brother Hei gave me an extra thousand yuan.He is really rich enough.Ah An asked, what exactly does that teacher do? Probably no legitimate occupation.The team leader only answered this sentence and continued to ask, do you remember what date the pistol was given to him? It was mid-February and there was a horse race on a Sunday.Just check it out. That day was February tenth.The murder in Shinjuku happened two months later. Didn't see each other again? No.However, a very thin man in his twenties and seventeen years old came to me and said that Teacher Heike had sent him here.Because I told the address to the teacher.The man said the teacher wanted me to get him another pistol.I thought it was too risky, so I reasoned that there was no way to do it now, and I refused. When was that? I remember it was March. What about that person's name? He didn't say.A pair of eyes are sneaky, which makes people hate it at first sight.Sir, that man keeps haunting me, always coming to the hospital.He went to the apartment to find me and knew that I was hospitalized here.He said he wanted to buy a pistol and asked me to tell him where he could get it. Wait a minute, when was that? I can't remember the date, but it seems to be near the end of April. When the team leader heard this, he closed his eyes and thought about it. It must have been a few days before the stretcher was stolen. Do you remember the number on the pistol you sold? I didn't look at it. The leader stood up.A'an looked at it, and there was a look of panic in his eyes again. Sir, did Kuroike-sensei kill someone with the pistol I sold him? yes.You've found us a job. After the director finished speaking, he followed the criminal police and walked out of the ward. The detection team held a detection meeting. The team leader reported the investigation process at the meeting.At the end, he offered his opinion: I think the murderer in Shinjuku must be this guy Kuroike.He worked as a bartender in the Red House Bar and called himself Yamamoto.He played a role in the case that Lawyer Senuma wanted to investigate.Toshiichi Tianmaru of the law firm followed the trail and pinned him down, so he shot and killed Tianmaru on the spur of the moment.As for the murder weapon, there was no doubt that it was a pistol bought from Xiao Chai Annan.According to the identification results, it was an American-made 1911 45-caliber Colt automatic pistol.Afterwards, either Heichi or his accomplice still wanted a pistol. According to Xiao Chai Annan's testimony, it was a thin man who had approached Xiao Chai but was rejected by Xiao Chai.等小柴腳上受傷，住進有吉醫院，那個瘦子又去醫院問他買手槍的門路。這次小柴還是一口回絕。問題在於那天的日期，小柴不記得，還沒查清。我估計可能在擔架被盜竊的前幾天或前十幾天。換句話說，當時，那個人看見有幾副擔架立著放在醫院的走廊上。以後，黑池殺田丸潛逃，同夥又進一步綁架瀨沼律師，感到有必要把律師隱藏起來，以避開我們的搜查。這樣，他們便定計把律師裝成病人送出東京站。幹這件事兒，要用擔架，而擔架是特殊用品，如果買一副新的，怕留下蛛絲馬跡。這當中，準是同夥中的那個瘦子，想起去醫院找小柴時，看到過立在走廊上的擔架。他大概說到醫院偷一副很方便。大夥都同意這麼辦，事情也正如他們設想的那樣，輕而易舉地辦成了。這樣一來，瀨沼律師便給放上擔架，由東京站擡進南下的西海號快車。這個推論，我想離事實大概不會有多大出入。 組長的分析，誰都沒有異議。 偵緝一科里科長也趕來參加會議，熱心聽完介紹後，便向前探出身子，臉色通紅地說道： 黑池身上現在還帶著手槍。潛逃的時候，難保不會幹出什麼事來，應該趕緊逮捕。犯人已經查到這個程度，希望各位全力以赴，乘勝追擊。 矢口組長低下頭，宛如在暗暗發誓。 當晚的偵查會議開得十分熱烈。會上，誰都覺得光明在望。 隔了兩天，派到長野縣進行調查的刑警寄來報告說： 經查春野中學所存職員名冊，黑池，名健吉，於一九二五年七月生於原籍長野縣南佐久郡春野村橫尾里。一九四七年在該校代課，一九四八年退職。