Chapter 3225 3237 [Circular Stage] Asking for monthly ticketsヽ(〃〃)~
Speaking of the boats he relied on for his livelihood, the old store manager recalled another incident, which made him even more distressed: "The stolen boat you helped me find yesterday - although the boat is back, the anchor on it was stolen... Oh, damn criminals, if you want to kill people, then kill people, but why did you destroy my two boats?"
Jiang Xia looked at him: "Anchor?"
The old store manager responded, "Although the waves in this area are relatively calm, when you go fishing, in order to minimize the impact of the tide, you need to bring a heavy object like this—"
He pointed to another intact boat with a heavy iron block tied to a rope on it. "Throw it into the sea. This will stabilize the boat."
"Don't be fooled by its plain appearance. It's actually quite expensive. Buying a new one will cost a lot of money." The old store manager sighed, "Not long ago, the cable on my big ship was stolen. Not long after I bought it, another anchor was lost... Oh, why am I so unlucky recently? Should I go to the shrine to worship?"
Jiang Xia nodded, as if thinking about something: "So the rope has not been found until now?"
The old store manager nodded solemnly and glanced at the police with a hint of condemnation: Look, things are being lost every other day, what kind of public security is this now?
The two police officers noticed his gaze and looked embarrassed: "Well...your boat is here day and night without any protection measures, not even a camera installed, it's really hard to prevent thieves.
"As for the lost items, we have already found two boats for you. As for the ropes and anchors, don't worry about these small things for now, don't you think, Mr. Jiang Xia?"
Jiang Xia: "I think it's better to find it."
Two police officers: “??!”
Jiang Xia: "Because these two things are also an important part of this serial murder case."
Two police officers: “!!!”
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Lawyer Ju's villa.
As the detectives and police officers left, the villa returned to peace, even quieter than when Lawyer Tachibana was there - the big devil that loomed over everyone's head suddenly died mysteriously, and although murder itself was scary, the specific identity of the deceased just diluted the fear and brought some joy.
Secretary Sakuraba, who had been very busy, also had some free time, which was rare. He was even in the mood to take some dog food and feed the dog leisurely in the yard.
While feeding, John, who was also enjoying himself, suddenly froze. Then the long-haired dog tucked its tail between its legs and suddenly started to eat madly, howling loudly, as if it was afraid that someone would snatch the food from it.
"John?" Secretary Sakuraba was looking at the dog with a sudden change of mood, feeling a little puzzled. At this moment, a voice came from behind him, "Mr. Sakuraba, you should know a lot about the case of Kumada Tatsuya five years ago."
Secretary Sakuraba turned around in surprise and said, "Mr. Jiang Xia? Didn't you go to arrest Kumada? Why did you take so long? Did he resist arrest and escape?"
"He was quite cooperative." Jiang Xia shook his head, "It's a pity that he died."
Secretary Sakuraba: "Dead?!"
Jiang Xia: "So how much do you know about his case five years ago?"
Secretary Sakuraba came back to his senses and said with an embarrassed look: "These are confidential matters, I can't tell you."
"Oh, what do you mean by keeping it a secret?" A short-haired woman in a suit also walked over from the parking lot. She sneered and put her hand on Jiang Xia's shoulder, patting him gently. "You may be able to fool a child with this, but isn't it a bit naive to use it to fool our famous detective?"
"Ms. Sugiyama?" The male secretary frowned at the female accountant who was trying to sabotage him. "It's been so long since Teacher Tachibana got into trouble, and you're just showing up now. Where have you been for so long?"
"Of course I'm traveling. These two days are statutory holidays." The female accountant said confidently, "What's that tone of yours? As soon as I heard about Mr. Tachibana's death on the news, I immediately turned back. I didn't even finish staying at the hotel I booked, and I still had to go through the trouble of getting a refund from them... Really, why did he have to die on a day off?"
Huiyuan Ai next to Jiang Xia: "..." Isn't the relationship in your office a little too harmonious and friendly...
The male secretary was also choked and didn't know how to refute for a moment.
Fortunately, the female accountant was not interested in the quarrel. She said seriously, "I heard from the news that the murderer should be 'T.K.' - could it be the T.K. in the threatening letter?"
Suzuki Sonoko: "..."T.K? That happened so long ago, isn't your information a little behind the times?
Jiang Xia looked at her and said, "You should know that T.K. refers to Tatsuno Kumada."
"Oh? You already know that?" The female accountant smiled and did not deny it:
"You probably don't know that the down-and-out Xiong Tian was once an outstanding employee of a securities company."
"He had a subordinate named Masahiko Tsuruta. Five years ago, he committed suicide by hanging himself after the incident of him misappropriating client funds was exposed."
Curacao's ears twitched: Hanging?
She had just seen a corpse hanging in the air, and when she heard this word again, she couldn't help but become sensitive - 5 years ago, her subordinates hanged themselves, 5 years later, her boss hanged himself... She always felt that there was a big connection between these two things.
The female accountant continued, "Not long after Tsuruta 'hanged himself,' the police discovered from his diary that the person who actually embezzled the client's funds was actually Tsuruta's boss, Kumada."
Suzuki Sonoko suddenly realized when she heard this: "So the man who hanged himself five years ago was just an unlucky scapegoat - Kumada found out that he had embezzled client funds, so he put the blame on his subordinates, killed him and disguised it as suicide, hoping to erase what he had done?"
"That's right! You're smart, you're worthy of being Jiang Xia's classmate." The female accountant nodded with satisfaction, "The police thought so at the beginning, so they quickly listed Xiongtian as a key suspect and took him away."
"But just before the trial, the police received an important piece of information - according to a neighbor who lived downstairs from the deceased, on the night Tsuruta hanged himself, at about 10 o'clock, he heard a 'thump' sound of a chair falling to the ground upstairs."
"That is to say, 10 o'clock in the evening should be the time when Tsuruta officially hanged himself - and at the same time, Kumada was singing in a KTV with his friends, and many people can testify to this."
"After receiving the news, Xiongtian was found not guilty and released in court."
“…”
Hanging "suicide", clues provided by neighbors downstairs, and the sound of a chair falling to the ground...
Everything that happened five years ago is like a lingering ghost. It appears silently across the vast space and time, recreating the tragedy that once happened.
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