Tokyo Police

v2 Chapter 23: Memories of Mariko Umegaki

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Lin Xiuyi came to Meiyuan Juzi's room alone and knocked gently on the door.

"Come in!" Umegaki Mariko's voice came from inside the house.

Lin Xiuyi gently opened the sliding door, walked into the room, and closed the door, then Lin Xiuyi bowed to Mariko Meiyuan, and Mariko Meiyuan also bowed and saluted. She looked at Lin Xiuyi in surprise, wondering what the **** this guest was going to do to find her.

Lin Xiuyi was sitting on the tatami in front of the room, and said solemnly to Mariko Umegaki: "I have received a lot of care from you these days, I am really grateful, but I actually have another thing to trouble you today. !"

As soon as Lin Xiu finished saying this, he took out the police account from his suit pocket and showed it to Mariko Umegaki.

"You're a policeman, I really can't tell!" Umegaki Mariko said in surprise.

"Please don't worry, I'm not the Yamanashi Prefectural Police, so I'm not visiting you on official business. Ms. Meiyuan, if I can, I'd like to ask you a few more questions!" Lin Xiuyi said kindly. The search for Ayu's murder has reached a new stage. Among the three existing suspects, Lin Xiuyi felt that Meiyuan Mariko was the easiest to break through. No matter what role Meiyuan Mariko played in Ayu's murder, she There must be some secrets that I don't want to mention.

"Just ask whatever you want. Some things will have a result sooner or later, but if possible, Officer Lin, I hope that the conversation between us will not be told to the guest who works at the TV station!" Umegaki Mariko helplessly pleaded.

"Of course, I assure you that as long as it doesn't interfere with the Yamanashi prefectural police's search, our conversation will not reach the ears of a third person. Ms. Umegaki, if I'm not mistaken, before Ayu died, Steal a valuable collection from you!" Lin Xiuyi didn't go around in circles this time. Although Umegaki Mariko is also suspicious so far, the most suspicious thing is the mysterious X. After getting along these days, Lin Xiuyi has always felt that Ms. Mei Yuan is not the kind of person who can commit money and murder, but more like a worldly master living in seclusion, so Lin Xiuyi does not want to let her The Yamanashi prefectural police came to disturb Meiyuan, but the premise of all this was that Ms. Meiyuan was willing to tell the story of Ayu back then.

"Officer Lin, you really found these things, but you still made a mistake. Those things were not stolen, but I gave them to Ayu!" Umegaki Mariko smiled, and then said with some emotion.

"Can you tell me what happened ten years ago?" Lin Xiu was a little surprised by Umegaki Mariko's answer, but he continued to ask.

"In fact, I also have a certain responsibility for this matter. When Ayu was introduced to us by aunt to work, I thought she would not be able to work for long. After all, young people at that time preferred to go to places like Tokyo. , but I soon realized I was wrong!"

"Ayu is a diligent and hard-working girl. She got acquainted with Meigakiya's work not long after she came here. As long as it was assigned to her, everything was done in an orderly manner. To be honest, I liked Ayu very much at the time, and felt that I was with her. Very close."

"As the days go by, I have a little bit of understanding of Ayu's life experience. Ayu's father died due to loan sharks during the bubble economy period, and his mother also left Ayu. After her grandmother passed away, Ayu had no one to rely on in her hometown. Ayu's relatives decided a marriage for her without consulting her. Ayu came to me hoping to decide for herself. destiny."

"Whenever it's quiet at night, A-Yu is always alone and weeping. I didn't notice it at first, but after a long time, I also realized it! Once, I took advantage of the opportunity for the two of us to be alone. I asked about it."

"A-Yu was silent for a while, then suddenly knelt down in front of me and begged me: 'One of my best friends is terminally ill, the doctor said she won't live long, I want to bring her here to spend the last time day, okay?'"

"After that, Ayu brought Miyu to you, didn't he?" Lin Xiu saw that Umegaki Mariko's eyes suddenly became a little wet, so he asked. Umegaki Mariko even said it was rude, and then wiped the tears on the corner of his eyes with a handkerchief , adjusted his mood and continued:

"No, because Ayu is not Miyu's relative, so she can't take Miyu from the hospital!"

Lin Xiuyi secretly recalled the information about Miwa that he had learned from Principal Akiyama, and combined it with the results of the investigation by the Yamaguchi Police Department in the past few days. Comparing the two, Lin Xiu can tell that Umegaki Mariko did not lie. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

"Then what happened later? How did those small judgments get to Ayu?" Lin Xiuyi asked curiously.

"Ayu told me this story in a daze when he came back from Tokyo. I also considered that the Buddha Village and Shimojo Village are not far from each other. If Ayu brought Mei here, Miyu's family may also find it here, so I offered to give Ayu something and let her take it to Tokyo to sell it. If you still want to come back to work, you can wait until the Miyu thing is over. If you don’t want to come back, go to a place where no one knows them. Life..." Umegaki Mariko shook her head and sighed.

"If I'm not mistaken, you gave Ayu four small fines, a wakicha from the Warring States Period, right?" Lin Xiuyi asked excitedly.

"Yes, these are all passed down to me by my mother. I have no children, only this Umegaki house as a sustenance. It is useless to keep these things, so I just gave them to Ayu. Uh, yes, I am afraid she will bring them with me. If you go to Tokyo with these things, you will be harassed by antique shops, so I gave them a notebook with these things. The paper on the notebook has turned yellow. I hope they can use this notebook. Prove that these things are indeed not fakes!" Umegaki Mariko suddenly added.

"Notebook, what kind of notebook?" Lin Xiuyi asked curiously.

"I don't remember much either. I only remember that it was an old black notebook, and the paper inside was a little yellow. These were left to me by my mother. The notebooks were written in Chinese characters. I don't really know much about them. I understand it, so I didn't read it carefully." Umegaki Mariko tried her best to recall, and finally shook her head and said she didn't know.

When Lin Xiu heard this, he seemed to understand something in his mind!