Chapter 38: Sorting out
"Mr. Shibata, the real purpose of this farce directed and acted by yourself is probably to find the mastermind behind the murder of Mr. Kikuchi Takashi back then......"
Lin Xiuyi suddenly broke through Mr. Shibata's purpose, and couldn't help but make Ms. Furuzawa feel a little surprised, she couldn't understand why the housekeeper of Yukizhuang would try his best to deal with her.
"That's right, over the years, I've been thinking about finding out the murderer who killed Guizhi back then. It's a pity that after all these years, I have never found anything. If it weren't for the appearance of that "Love Letter", which once again awakened my fighting spirit, I don't think I would have been able to wait for the day when the truth will be revealed. ”
Butler Shibata said to Ms. Furuzawa and Mr. Morris without changing his face, with both anger and a hint of relief in his tone. Although the surname used by Shibata Butler at the time in the incident of Kikuchi Takashi's accidental death was Maeda, Hayashi Shuichi still vaguely guessed the true identity of Shibata Butler.
Just when the arrows came out of the window in Shibata's housekeeper, Lin Xiuyi vaguely felt that something was wrong. After all, everyone was waiting to listen to Koichi Asai's welcome speech. No one noticed what was happening outside the main door of the ballroom. But at this time, there was a sudden power outage. Immediately after, it was Butler Shibata who fell down the window. However, Lin Xiuyi felt a little puzzled that it stands to reason that the position of Asai Koichi at that time was obviously better than that of Shibata Butler, and Asai Koichi as the master was obviously much more important than Shibata Butler's goal.
Although he vaguely felt that something was wrong at that time, Lin Xiuyi did not immediately think that this would be a farce directed and acted by Butler Shibata. It wasn't until he returned to the house from the kitchen that Lin Xiuyi, who had gradually calmed down, slowly became suspicious.
Although the door lock of the kitchen was broken, there was no obvious sign of intrusion. After all, it had been raining heavily on the hill since before the servants left the kitchen, but there were no obvious footprints or traces of water on the ground inside and outside the kitchen. Although the prisoner can explain everything by taking off his shoes, shouldn't the perpetrator who rushes in rush in care get out of here as soon as possible after he succeeds? After all, bows and arrows are not as good as pistols, and if everyone present at the time rushed up, the perpetrators would not be able to stop them at all.
"Mr. Shibata, can you please ask what is the relationship between you and the deceased Mr. Kikuchi Takashi......
Lin Xiuyi asked Steward Shibata with some confusion. After all, a housekeeper avenges his former employer, if it is not for some special relationship, it is unreasonable......
"Gui Zhihe...... Actually, it's my own son, but ...... Please don't get me wrong, I just couldn't raise him on my own, so I gave him to Mr. and Mrs. Kikuchi, who were unable to have children, to adopt as an adopted son. The kind-hearted Kikuchi couple not only treated Kikashi as if he were their own son, but also hired me to stay by Takashi's side as the housekeeper of the family......"
Shibata recalled the happy time at the beginning, and the hatred in his heart couldn't help but increase a little, he pressed his cheek to the bowstring, and stared at Ms. Furuzawa standing downstairs, if it weren't for Mr. Asai being blocked in front, Shibata's arrow would have been shot out long ago.
"So...... I am afraid that you were the first to discover the clogs from the scene, Mr. Shibata!"
Lin Xiuyi said to Mr. Shibata in an affirmative tone.
"Yes...... It was I who took the clogs with me, and I was desperate to know what his future wife would be like because of Kishi's marriage. So I kept quietly watching him. Unexpectedly, I saw Takashi rolling down the stairs. By the time I rushed to Takashi's side, his neck was already broken. I could only watch helplessly as he slowly swallowed his last breath in my arms...... I...... Me!"
"So, you found out that Mr. Kishi's geta was tampered with?"
Lin Xiu asked Mr. Shibata with empathy.
"Yes, those clogs were given to him by Takashi's fiancée, and the front teeth of the clogs on his left foot were originally broken, but they were later repaired with glue, and if you don't look closely, you can't see it at all. I was ...... I knew then that this was not an accident at all. ”
"It's a pity that in a place like Hakone, the local police may not be able to find such obvious traces. Or what if you find out? The vicious woman on the other end of the phone is not in Japan at all, and she is a descendant of an aristocracy, so the police will never dare to do anything to her. ”
"I felt that if I relied entirely on the police, Takashi's death would only be treated as an accident! So, I simply hid the two clogs, and instead took Takashi's slippers and put them on the scene, and from that moment on, I secretly made up my mind that I would definitely find Takashi's fiancée and ask her face to face. As it turned out, things turned out exactly as I had predicted......"
If it weren't for Lin Xiu seeing through all this, Steward Shibata would definitely kill the pair of dog men and women standing below immediately. But the arrival of Lin Xiuyi gave Shibata a glimmer of hope, and he desperately wanted to know what reason his son Shiki was killed.
"I'm sorry, guys! Please give me a little time, I think some things should be made clear! If my guess is correct, Ms. Furuzawa, as Mr. Kishi's fiancée, you probably didn't want Mr. Takashi to die! I think your original idea was probably just to hurt Mr. Kikashi a little, so that you could use the rumors that the painting "Love Letter" was a bad work to get the Kikuchi family to dispose of this seemingly ordinary but actually priceless painting at a low price...... But unfortunately, perhaps because of fate, Mr. Takashi passed away in the end......"
Dramatically, though, Mr. Takashi's death did add to the notoriety of Love Letters. However, due to the accident of the third deceased, Takuya Maezawa, this painting passed by Ms. Furuzawa again. I think...... That's why President Maezawa was killed!"
As soon as Lin Xiuyi finished speaking, he suddenly came to Mr. Asai, and as long as he took one step further, Morris's knife could touch Lin Xiuyi's neck. But Morris couldn't make up his mind to do so. Everyone present heard these words very clearly, and unless Morris could kill all the sober enemies, including Hayashi Shuichi, Genzhizhu, Asai Koichi, and Shibata Steward, he would not be able to cover up his crimes at all. Moreover, although the hostage of Koichi Asai works well in Lin Shuichi, it may not be able to play any role in Shibata, who is bent on revenge.