Chapter 31 3. Abnormal calls

After the phone call with Yi Chuan, Jiu Mu really wanted to contact Rinko immediately, but after all, he was in the office and it was not convenient to make a call. Hisaki was smoking a cigarette, thinking about what he was going to talk to Rinko later. What he wanted to ask most was why she wanted to be a permanent lecturer at the cultural center.Yi Chuan guessed that maybe she needed money, but was the reason really that simple?Seeing her helpless look, Yi Chuan wondered if she wanted to run away from home. Anyway, why didn't you tell yourself first about such an important matter? Although he had to ask clearly, the first thing to do for this was to ask her to meet.

Jiu Mu opened the notepad, and as the seasons changed and entered the twelfth lunar month, there were more year-end parties and entertainments, and tonight and tomorrow were already scheduled. But as long as Rinko is convenient, even if she is absent from the party, she still has to go to see her and listen to what she has to say. Jiu Mu tidied up his thoughts, put out his cigarette, and walked out of the room with his mobile phone. He came to the stairwell as usual, and pressed Rinko's phone number after making sure there was no one around. At 2:30 in the afternoon, as long as there is nothing to do at this time, Rinko should be at home.

A slightly low-pitched bell rang, two or three times, and no one picked up the receiver until the fifth. He waited expectantly to hear Rinko's voice, but another voice answered. hello hello Jiu Mu instantly took the phone away from his mouth, and held his breath. The voice on the phone was undoubtedly that of a man. Hello. A man's voice came from the phone again, and Jiu Mu escaped to cut off the phone. Rinko has no children, and there should be only the husband and wife at home, so is the man Rinko's husband?I heard that he was about forty-seven or eighty-eight years old, but his voice was full of air, and he sounded much younger.

But why is he at home at this time? It was strange to hear that he was a professor of medicine and was at home during the day. Are you going home in a hurry, or are you resting at home with a cold? His voice doesn't sound like he has a cold. Could it be that there is something urgent at home? In short, if the phone rang several times and the man answered it, then it means that Rinko is not at home or it is inconvenient for someone to answer the phone even though she is at home. The more Jiu Mu thought about it, the more uneasy he became, and various situations came to mind. Could it be that the husband and wife are arguing at home?

The reason may be Rinko's affair, or it may be that she often goes out recently. In short, there was a quarrel when the husband questioned her. In the end, the wife was crying and couldn't answer the phone, so the husband had to come out to answer it.But the caller hung up without saying a word. Will this arouse the husband's suspicion and criticize his wife more severely. Just because he felt ashamed and felt wronged, Jiu Mu tried his best to think of the bad. He really wanted to get in touch with Rinko, but he was in no mood to call again if her husband came to pick him up again.

call later He wanted to calm himself down, but he didn't want to just go back to the office, so he went to the staff cafeteria in the basement for coffee. Lunch time had passed, and there were few people in the restaurant. The colleagues he knew gave him a slight nod of greeting and left. Seeing him drinking coffee alone in the afternoon, will they talk about him behind his back, saying that he is very free now. Jiu Mu thought about such boring things for a while, but his mind was soon filled with things about Rinko. Thirty minutes have passed, call now, maybe Rinko will answer the call, if it is her husband who answers the call, then just hang up when you hear the voice.After making this decision, he walked out of the restaurant, walked back to the stairwell, and pressed the phone number.

This time he was ready to hang up the phone at any time, put the phone to his ear, and heard the same ringtone as before. The last time the man answered the phone on the fifth ring, but this time it rang six times in a row and no one answered, seven, eight, and tenth rings, still no one answered, Jiu Mu cut off the phone.Waited for a minute and called again, but no one answered after the same ten rings. Did Rinko's husband go out after answering the phone just now?Is Rinko still not at home? Hisaki was half relieved and half disappointed leaning against the wall of the stairwell. Where did Rinko go?

To be honest, he always thought he could contact Rinko whenever he wanted to talk to her.Thinking about it carefully, the only thing that connects Rinko and himself is a telephone line. Once it fails, the other party will disappear immediately.Like now, is Rinko sick or missing?As long as she doesn't take the initiative to contact her, she won't be able to find her. In the past, I thought the bond between the two was extremely strong, but why is it so easy to break now?That's the fragility of an affair relationship, isn't it? Thinking of this, Jiu Mu misses Rinko even more and wants to see her.

But no matter how anxious he was, he had no way of looking for him. He could only wait for a while and make a call in the evening or at night, or wait for her to call his cell phone. There was no other way. Jiu Mu gave up continuing to make phone calls, returned to the office, and flipped through the materials he was reading. Recently, in order to compile the history of Showa, I collected some materials focusing on social customs in the early 20 years of Showa. After reading it, I found many interesting things. Especially after entering the Showa decade, with the suppression of speech and ideology, bloody incidents such as the February 26 incident have also increased, and at the same time, the number of sexual homicides between men and women has also increased.

The Abe Sada incident is one of them.At that time, Ishida Yoshizo, who was running a restaurant in Nakano District, Tokyo, was strangled to death with a belt by Abe Sada, a waitress who lived in the restaurant, and then cut off his genitals. This unprecedented murder case was really lively for a while. What Jiu Mu cares about is naturally the content of the incident, but what he is more interested in is the court's judgment on this rare case.The prosecution asked for a ten-year sentence, but the sentence was only six years. After serving the sentence, he was commuted as a model prisoner. In fact, Jo Abe was released after only five years in prison.

Behind such a tender judgment, the judge does not seem to think that this is a simple homicide, but a martyrdom caused by two people who love each other too deeply, passionate sex, or a crazy behavior caused by extreme passion. At that time, just after the February 26th incident, the military power was on the rise, and Japanese society as a whole was heading towards war. In such a dark social situation, why was this kind of love murder that ran counter to militarism able to be dealt with so leniently? This is what Hisaki was interested in. He collected the defense words of the lawyers at that time and the reactions of ordinary people to this incident at that time, and wanted to explore the Showa era from a different starting point from the past. Hisaki's intentions are inflated in various forms, and it is impossible for him to predict when it will be completed. In short, he read the materials for a while, thought about Rinko for a while, and then read the materials for a while, and it was five o'clock in the afternoon in a blink of an eye, the winter days were short and the dusk was thick.