That happened a long time ago during the Meiji era.
At that time, the Hanaya family built this mansion.
At that time, there was a maid named Rina working in the Hanaya family. She was very popular in the family because of her gentle and kind personality and her ability to take care of others.
The character of Yamato Nadeshiko also attracted the eldest son of the Hanaya family at that time. The two soon fell in love and began a "forbidden love" with a huge difference in status.
This is not a trivial matter. After all, it is not uncommon to see couples being separated because of "incompatibility" even now, not to mention in the Meiji era.
What's more, the other party is the eldest son of the Hanaya family.
As expected, when the Hanaya family learned about this, everyone was extremely angry.
They thought that Rina had seduced the future heir of the Hanaya family in an attempt to get rich overnight.
So as a warning, they killed Rina's beloved black cat.
After that, their methods became more and more extreme, but under such circumstances, the eldest son remained silent and did not dare to stand up.
Seeing her lover's behavior, Rina was disheartened and finally chose to commit suicide in the rose garden she had carefully cultivated.
After that, the Hanaya family began to encounter misfortunes one after another.
First, there was the old lady of the Hanaya family. After being accidentally pricked by a rose while admiring flowers, she contracted a strange disease and died soon after.
This incident reminded the Hanaya family of their deceased Rina, and they felt it was unlucky, so they wanted to demolish the rose garden that Rina had carefully tended before her death.
But something even stranger happened. The construction workers were injured one after another since they started working.
Gradually, rumors began to spread in the Hanaya family, saying that it was Rina's wronged spirit that was causing trouble.
After that, no craftsman dared to take this job anymore.
After that, a number of unfortunate things happened one after another, such as the treasures in the house were stolen and the women who were away from home were kidnapped by robbers.
After this series of events, the story began to spread that anyone who attacked the Hanaya family's rose garden would be cursed.
"So, in this case, I'm afraid someone is trying to use the 'Curse of the Red Rose' to cover up their murder."
After hearing the "Curse of the Red Rose", Tang Ze did not react at all, but immediately gave a very realistic judgment.
These kinds of supernatural tricks may scare others, but for Tang Ze they are the most "clear-headed" cases.
After having a general understanding of the situation, Karasawa asked Mr. Tomi and Asami to deal with the body at the crime scene first.
He led Naoki Kamii to find the four people who found the body at the scene to question them and obtain their statements, and to learn more about their details.
First of all, there are the owners of the Hanaya family, Hanaya Kozaburo and his wife Hanaya Fumiyo.
In addition, Hanaya Fumiyo basically uses a wheelchair because of her leg problems.
From the conversation, we learned that although Hanaya Yukisaburo is the male head of the Hanaya family, in fact, because he is just a son-in-law who marries into the family, he is at most an external executor, but the person in charge of the family is still his wife.
After that came his son-in-law Masahiko Hanaya and a distant relative of the Hanaya family, Yuji Yamamoto.
And Yamamoto Yuji was the first person to discover the body.
According to him, it has been almost ten years since he last came to Hanaya's house, and he has been staying there temporarily during this period.
This morning, I came here alone because I wanted to see the rose garden that I hadn't seen for many years. As a result, I saw this scene. Then I called the other three and hurriedly called the police.
"Excuse me, who is generally responsible for taking care of this rose garden?"
After understanding the basic situation, Tang Ze asked.
"It's me." Hanaya Yukisaburo pushed up his glasses and replied, "I really like roses, so I take care of them myself.
Even though I always get hurt because of it.”
"Then may I ask, did you notice anything unusual here this morning compared to the past?" Naoki Kamii continued to ask.
"No, except for the fact that there is a corpse in the rose garden, everything is the same as usual." Hanaya Yukisaburo looked at the garden and shook his head slightly.
"Then does anyone have any idea why the criminal placed the body in the rose garden?" Tang Ze tried to understand everyone's opinions on this matter.
But after hearing Tang Ze's words, everyone's expressions changed and they fell silent.
In the end, Hanaya Fumiyo sighed deeply, then gently pushed his wheelchair, stroked the flowers in front of him, and said with a heavy face, "This really is the 'Curse of the Rose'..."
"Curse? Why do you think so?" Tang Ze heard this expected answer, but continued to guide the topic without any expression.
No matter what the other party's idea is, whether it is strange or not, there must be a reason why the other party has this idea, and this is the reason he wants to know.
"It's embarrassing to say, but the rumors from the Meiji era are actually true."
Hanaya Fumiyo sighed and said, "Rina hanged herself in this rose garden.
Also, a few days ago, because Miss Yuko who was staying there didn't know about the curse, she cut off a rose...
Legend has it that all craftsmen who tried to destroy roses were harmed without exception, so this must be the "Curse of the Rose"...
"To be honest, the fact that Yayan picked and cut a rose was enough to scare me..."
Hanaya Yukisaburo said with an ugly expression: "I didn't expect something like this to happen this time..."
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