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Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Kashii Railway Station and Kashii Tram Station

point and line 松本清張 6266Words 2023-02-05
one Tokai Shigetaro returned to the residence at seven o'clock.Although the sound of opening the door was loud, no one came out to greet him.I was taking off my shoes in the doorway, when my wife greeted me inside and said, I'm back, let's take a shower.Open the curtain and go in. The wife is weaving a cold sweater, and the dining table is covered with white cloth. I guess you came back late, let Yuzi eat first.Sumiko went to the movies with Mr. Nitta.You take a shower first. Shigetaro took off his suit silently.The suit was old and the lining was worn out.When the trousers were folded, dust and sand were scattered on the mat.I'm tired of walking all day today, and I don't even bother to talk much.

Because of work, I often can't go home on time.In order not to keep the wife and daughter waiting for a long time, it was agreed that dinner would be served after half past six. Sumiko was the name of the daughter, and Nitta was her husband who was about to get married.The two are going to a movie tonight, so they are not at home. Shigetaro still didn't say a word, got into the bathtub to take a bath. Does it fit?The wife is asking about the temperature of the bath water. Very good, Shigetaro seemed too troublesome to even answer.If it's troublesome, I don't even want to say more.It is his habit to soak his whole body in hot water and think about things.

He was thinking about the man and woman who died in love yesterday.In the end is why things suicide.Now, the family members of the deceased have sent a telegram from Tokyo, stating that they will come to pick up the body, and perhaps the truth will come to light.The newspaper said that Sayama, the alternate section chief, had a major relationship with the corruption incident of the Ministry of XX that was exposed.Although Sayama is not open-minded, he seems to be a good person.Moreover, according to the newspaper, Sayama had a deep relationship with Ah Shi, and Sayama once said something he regretted.From this point of view, it is obvious that Sayama embarked on the path of death to solve the two problems of corruption and women.No, the corruption incident was probably the direct motive for the suicide, and the woman issue was probably the fuse that added fuel to the fire.

While brushing his face with hot water, Shigetaro was thinking: The two of us arrived at Hakata Station on the Asakaze train together, and the woman left Sayama in the hotel, where did she go?Sayama stayed at the Tanbaya Hotel on the night of the 15th.The dining car meal tickets he picked out from his pocket proved that this day was the day he arrived in Bodo, and he immediately went to the hotel alone.At this time, the woman did not show up.For five days from the 16th to the 20th, Sayama stayed in the hotel and waited anxiously for the woman to contact him.Where has this woman named Ah Shi been these few days?

Shigetaro wiped his face with his hands: he thought again: Sayama stays at home all day, waiting for her contact, obviously it is very important.At eight o'clock in the evening on the 20th, the long-awaited call finally came.It was a woman's voice, probably Ah Shi.But why, instead of Sayama on the phone, why did you call Sugawara?He lodged under a pseudonym, and the two obviously had an agreement in advance.Sayama listened to the call and went out immediately.That night, he ran to the coast of Kashii and committed suicide.He killed himself in such a haste.Since it was so easy to meet, why not take it slow?

Thinking of this, Shigetaro got out of the tub, sat on the side without soaping himself, and ignored the cold.If there is no time to be happy for the last time, it means that the situation is serious and cannot be delayed any longer. If there is such an urgent matter, then what is it?Speaking of which, they don't even have suicide notes. Of course, not all suicides have suicide notes.Generally speaking, most of those who died with a suicide note were young people, and many people over middle age did not leave a suicide note.A suicide without a suicide note must involve a wide range of issues.Sayama may have another reason for not leaving a suicide note.The woman died with the man, so she didn't leave a suicide note.In this sense, this is suicide.Yes, suicide.But

Shigetaro suddenly felt that his body was getting colder and colder, and quickly got into the tub again: But, the meal ticket for the dining car is only for one person, and this cannot be resolved. Am I suspicious? My wife cried out, "Hey, why can't you finish washing?" two After taking a shower, Tokai Shigetaro went to the dining table to eat.He likes pouring two glasses at dinner and tasting wine slowly.I have traveled a lot today, and I am tired, so the wine tastes even better. The wife is sewing.The scarlet flower cloth is very bright, needless to say, this is the clothes of the daughter who is about to get married.The wife's attention was entirely on the needle point.

Hey, rice, he said, putting down his glass. Yes, I only stopped the work in my hand for a while, packed the food, picked up the clothes again, and waited for him to finish eating before filling the food while carrying the needle. You can also have a cup of tea with me, okay? No, I don't want to drink.When the wife answered, she didn't even lift her head.Shigetaro looked at her face while poking rice with chopsticks.The age of the wife is not too young.At this age, I don't even have the mood to drink a cup of tea with my husband when he eats. At this time, the daughter came back.With a contented expression all over his face, he was very excited.

What about Mr. Nitta?Mom asked.The daughter took off her coat, sat down and said that it was delivered to the door of the house, and then went back.There is a three-pointed pride in the words. Shigetaro gave up the idea of ​​reading the newspaper, and asked his daughter, Hey, Sumiko, why don't you have a cup of tea with Nitta-kun when you come back from watching the movie? Ah, Dad, this question is out of the question.A cup of tea is common. Really, if this is the case, what is he thinking about.For example, Nitta-kun is hungry and wants to eat something.But you are so full that you can't eat anything

Where is such a thing. you listen.At that time, Nitta-kun said, I want to eat something now, so you just look outside at the window and wait for me for a while, do you think there will be such a thing? Well, the daughter thought about it for a while and replied: Let's go to the restaurant together.It's nothing special. Yeah?go together?What if you don't even want to drink tea? yes.At that time, as long as I was with Nitta-san, it was better than anything else.If you can't eat anything, just drink a cup of coffee and just be with you. This is true, and the father repeatedly praised it.The wife who has been listening straight to the side and has never spoken can't help laughing. Why do you ask this?

Don't talk too much, Shigetaro picked up the cup of tea that no one would like to drink with him, and drank it down in one gulp.Why do you have to accompany Nitta-kun? It's not a matter of appetite, it's a matter of love.replied the daughter. Sure enough, yes.Chongtaro said in his heart that this sentence was well said, and it immediately clarified what was in his heart.It's not about appetite, it's about love, and yes, that's the problem. The meal ticket on the train meal card stated that there was one guest, which made Shigetaro Torikai puzzled. A man and a woman traveled all the way to Kyushu to die in love.The degree of love is naturally better than usual.However, on the train, when the man gets the meal card to eat, the woman doesn't want to eat anything, not even going to have a cup of coffee with her. Is this human nature?The seat is a reserved seat, even if two people walk away, there is no need to worry about the seat being occupied.Maybe it's the women who are careful, especially to stay and take care of things on the luggage rack?It doesn't look like it either.From Shigetaro's point of view, there must be some contradiction between Sayama and the woman named Toki. It is precisely because of the contradiction that after arriving in Bodo, the relationship between the two people is wonderful.The woman left Sayama in the hotel for five days, and she didn't know where she went.On the fifth day, she called the man to call him out, and committed suicide that night.Ah Shi's actions are not like the strong feelings she had before Qing died, and there may be other meanings. However, the two corpses lying side by side on the coast of Kashii, no matter from which angle you look at it, are love deaths.At this time, the appearance of the scene appeared in front of his eyes again, it was definitely love death. (Thinking of this, maybe I still have too many doubts.) Tokai Shigetaro stared ahead, smoking slowly, thinking hard. three The person who picked up the two bodies came to Fukuoka from Tokyo the next day.After the final autopsy, the dead body has been placed in the morgue of the hospital. Kenichi Sayama's body leader was his elder brother, forty-two or three-year-old, with a mustache, fat, and putting on airs.He took out the business card of the branch manager of such and such a bank and handed it to the police. In Ah Shi's case, her mother, a sixty-year-old woman, and a woman who was only twenty-seven or eight years old, who deliberately dressed up, took the lead to lead the corpse.This woman is Ah Shi's partner at Akasaka Koyuki Restaurant, the waitress Tomiko. However, a strange phenomenon appeared.The corpse leaders on both sides never talked.Whether in the investigation room of the police station or in the reception room of the hospital, the two sides stayed together for a long time, avoiding sight.The reason for this atmosphere is Sayama, the manager's elder brother.He had a face full of resentment towards these two women, and kept a straight face all the time.Judging by his expression, he seemed to want to scold.As a result, the two women did not dare to approach, and hid aside tremblingly. This situation was even more obvious when the inspector listened to the three confessions. According to Your Excellency, what is the reason for your younger brother to commit suicide? The branch manager heard the question and immediately answered with airs: What she did this time really made people blush.The reasons for his suicide have been published a lot in the newspapers, but I really don't know much about the affairs in his institution.I don't know if it was because of the corruption incident, in order to cover up the fault of the boss, he died.The last time we met was about three weeks ago, and he looked very calm.He usually doesn't like to talk too much, so he didn't say anything special. His wife passed away three years ago. A few days ago, I mentioned that I wanted him to remarry.But he never intended to remarry, so he couldn't persuade her to do so.As soon as this incident came out, I realized that he still had such a woman.My younger brother is an honest man. Some relatives and friends have mentioned to me that he is very troubled by women.But this stupid guy didn't say a word to me, it's really annoying.What is especially annoying is that the other party turned out to be a waitress at Akasaka Restaurant.If it's a decent woman, I'll forget it. I can't look down on such a woman.As far as I can see, my younger brother has never had any experience playing with women. Whenever he meets a woman who will make a vow of eternal love to a man, he is played with by others, so much so that they fall in love with each other to death.It must be that this woman encountered something that she had to die and brought her younger brother to this road.All in all, it is hateful that Brother Shedi's life was ruined in the hands of this woman. The manager cast his eyes of hatred on the leader of the woman's corpse.The two women dared not speak, nor did they dare to look up, they could only hear his voice getting louder and cursing. When Ah Shi's mother was interrogated by the inspector, she answered like this. Ah Shi's real name is Sangshan Xiuzi.Our whole family lives in the countryside of Akita and has farmed for generations. Ah Shi was once married, but she did not rely on her husband's luck. After getting divorced, she went to Tokyo to work.Before being hired by Xiaoxue Restaurant, she had changed two or three shops.I only send two or three letters to my family every year. I don't know how my life is going.In addition to her, I have five children, and I can't take care of that much.This time something happened, Xiaoxue Restaurant sent a telegram to inform me, and only then did I get the news, which is really sad. The old woman stopped every sentence, and managed to finish the sentence with great difficulty.There are many more wrinkles on the face than people of this age, and the corners of the eyes are red, and it is difficult to see clearly. Tomiko, the waitress at Xiaoxue Restaurant, had a different story. Ah Shi has the best relationship with me, so Xiaoxue's proprietress asked me to come here on behalf of everyone.Ah Shi came to work in the restaurant three years ago.She is very considerate in entertaining guests and they all like her.Having said that, she doesn't seem to have any particularly good customers outside the restaurant.Ah Shi is a cautious person and rarely talks about her own affairs, so people who are close to her like me don't know much about her daily life.However, none of us has heard of her romantic affairs.This time she committed suicide, which is indeed surprising.Such a prudent person would do such a thing, starting from the proprietress, everyone was surprised.I don't know Sayama.After the photo was published in the newspaper, the proprietress and the other waitresses said that they had never seen this man, and that he was definitely not a guest of the restaurant. However, Yaeko and I happened to meet Ah Shi with that man at Tokyo Station.Yaeko is also a waitress at Koyuki Restaurant, our friend. By chance?What's going on here?At this time, the inspector asked her. It was the evening of the fourteenth.There is Mr. Yasuda, who is a regular customer of the restaurant.Yaeko and I went to the platform of Tokyo Station to see this gentleman off, and by chance, we saw Ah Shi and that man board the special express train.We were standing on platform 13, there was no train in the middle, so we could see platform 15.Mr. Yasuda said, Hey, isn't that Ah Shi? We saw it afterward.Ah Shi was walking into the platform with that man, and took the special express train bound for Kyushu.We were surprised that Ah Shi traveled to other places by train with the man, which is very interesting.Later, because we wanted to find out Ah Shi's secret, we became very curious.After seeing Mr. Yasuda off, he and Yaeko ran to platform 15 and looked in from the window of the express train.At that time, Ah Shi was sitting next to that man, talking happily.We were dumbfounded. At that time, didn't you talk to Ah Shi? They were happily traveling, so why should we bother, so we went back without saying hello.The man I saw at the time was indeed Sayama, the one whose photo was published in the newspaper.Thinking about it afterwards, it turned out that they went out this time to commit suicide.We can't even dream of it.Ah Shi reported leave to the restaurant the day before, and it seemed that he committed suicide in a planned way.She is a nice person, but she did such a poor thing.Why must he die? We really can't find the answer from Ah Shi.As I have already said, she seldom talks about her own affairs, so we can't find out the detailed reasons, but according to the newspaper, Sayama is related to the corruption incident and cannot be avoided.Did Ah Shi express sympathy for him, so he made such a bad move? The confessions of the three people who received the corpse were roughly as above.Detective Tokai Shigetaro listened carefully. Four The corpse was taken away by the corpse leader.They cremated the bodies separately in Fukuoka City and returned with the ossuaries.The death of love at the Kashii coast ended smoothly, without even a single objection, and it was forgotten by people over time. Tokai Shigetaro wanted to speak, but there was no room to put his beak.Two things were still swirling in his mind.One thing is a guest, a train meal card meal ticket.A matter of love and appetite.The other thing is that the woman didn't even live with Sayama for one night, and she didn't know where she went in the past five days. However, if these two incidents alone raise doubts about the death of love, the arguments are too weak.The inspector will certainly not accept it.Even if he tried his best to consider objectively, there were not many arguments he could rely on.Having said that, Shigetaro is still unwilling to agree with the theory of love death in his mood. If he can't answer these two points clearly, he will never give up. Isn't it love death?It occurred to him once.That's okay, I won't tell anyone, try asking someone alone.He made up his mind and felt lighter. Shigetaro immediately thought that he should go to the scene of Kashii Coast where the suicide body was found. He got off the city tram at Hakozaki, and then transferred to the Western Railway tram bound for Washiro.If you go to Kashii, you can take the train or tram.Trams route closer to the coast than train lines. I got off at the Kashii station of the tram and walked to the scene on the coast, it only took ten minutes.After leaving the station, there are still a few families, passing through the pine forest, there is no human habitation in front of it, only the vast coast full of strange rocks remains.This area is artificially reclaimed land. The cold wind is still blowing, but there is some spring in the sea.The color of the cold winter has dropped a lot, and Shiga Island is already covered with a layer of mist. Tokai Shigetaro stood at the scene.There are no traces at the scene, and the surrounding area is full of uneven black stones, which have no characteristics. Even if they fight here, they will never leave any traces.Compared with the surrounding scenery, this place looks really desolate. Shigetaro wondered why Sayama Kenichi and Ah Shi chose such a place to die.Love dead always prefer to choose a more comfortable place when committing suicide, or a hot spring, or a tourist area.However, maybe it's because the place has a good view; it's just that the rocky ground is too hard, and it would be better if it was grass. However, Chong Taro suddenly remembered that suicide was a matter of night.Leaving the hotel at eight o'clock, and dying here around ten o'clock.He must have chosen this place in the first place and came here directly.It was very dark that night.It seems that the terrain must have been known for a long time. If this is the case, then Sayama and Ah Shi must have been here before.Such action would not be taken without knowledge of the place. Shigetaro sped up a little, and walked back in the direction he came from.Passed the tram station and walked towards the train station.The distance between the two stations was at most five hundred meters.On both sides of the road, there are more shops. When I arrived at the station, I walked to the telegraph station, took out an old notebook from my pocket, found the address I wrote down, and sent two telegrams, asking questions to Sayama Kenichi's brother and Ah Shi's mother.After deliberating for a long time, the telegram was limited to twenty characters. After telegraphing, he went into the station and checked the timetable.Twenty minutes later, there will be a down train to Hakata. While waiting for the train, he put his hands in his pockets and stood at the station gate looking out.The place is very quiet, nothing has changed outside the station.One eatery said it was closed.The other is a small grocery store, and a fruit shop.A truck was parked in the square, and two or three children were playing around, bathed in the warm sunshine. Shigetaro looked at the scene absently, and suddenly, a small question mark appeared in his mind. I used to think that Sayama and the others took the tram to Kashii Station. However, isn’t it possible that they also took the train to get here?He looked back at the timetable, and the upbound vehicle from Bodo arrived at 21:25. Tokai Shigetaro closed his eyes.After thinking about it for a minute, he gave up the idea of ​​taking the train and walked slowly to the small shop in front of the station.He was going to ask some questions, and his heart was pounding.
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