Chapter 23: Memories of Juko Uragaki
"Knock! knock!" Lin Xiuyi came to the door of Meiyuan Juzi's room alone and knocked lightly.
"Please come in!" came Umegaki Juko's voice from inside the room.
Lin Xiuyi gently opened the sliding door, walked into the room, closed the door casually, and then Lin Xiuyi bowed to Mei Yuan Juzi, and Mei Yuan Juzi also bowed back when he saw this. She looked at Lin Xiuyi with some surprise, not knowing what was going on with this guest coming to her.
Lin Xiuyi was sitting on the tatami mat in front of the door, and said solemnly to Uragaki Juzi: "I am really grateful to have been taken care of by you a lot these days, 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 Umegaki Juzi.
"You're a policeman, I really can't see it!" Uragaki Juko said in surprise.
"Don't worry, I'm not a Yamanashi prefectural police officer, so I'm not visiting you on official business. Ms. Umegaaki, if I may, I'd like to ask you a few more questions!" Lin Xiuyi said kindly. The search for Ayu's murder case has reached a new stage, and among the three existing suspects, Lin Xiuyi feels that Uragaki Juzi is the easiest to break through, no matter what role Umegaki Juzi played in Ayu's murder case, she must have some secrets that she doesn't want to mention.
"Ask whatever you want, some things have to come to an end sooner or later, but if you can, Officer Lin, I hope we don't have to tell the guest who works at the TV station!" Uragaki Juko pleaded helplessly.
"Of course, I assure you that as long as it does not affect the search of the Yamanashi Prefecture police, the conversation between us will not reach the ears of a third person. Ms. Umegaki, if I'm not mistaken, Ayu stole a valuable collection from you before he died!" Lin Xiuyi stopped going around in circles this time. Although so far, Uragaki Juko is also a suspicious person, but the most suspicious is the mysterious X. After getting along these days, Lin Xiuyi has always felt that Ms. Umegaki is not like the kind of person who can do things to make money and kill people, but more like a master of the world who lives in seclusion, so Lin Xiuyi doesn't want the Yamanashi County Police to disturb Umegaki, but the premise of all this is that Ms. Umegaki is willing to tell Ayu about the past.
"Officer Lin, you really found these, but you are still mistaken, those things were not stolen, but I gave them to Ayu!"
"Can you tell me what happened ten years ago?" Lin Xiuyi's answer to Umegaki Juzi was a little surprised, but he continued to ask.
"In fact, I have a certain responsibility for this. When Ayu was introduced to us by my aunt, I thought she wouldn't be able to work for long. After all, young people at that time preferred to go to places like Tokyo, but I quickly realized that I was wrong!"
"Ayu is a hard-working girl, and she has not been here long after she is familiar with the work of Umegakiya. As long as it is the things that are given to her, everything is done in an orderly manner. To be honest, I liked Ayu very much at that time and felt very close to her. ”
"As the days passed, I more or less understood Ayu's life experience. Ayu's father died due to loan sharking during the bubble economy, and her mother also left Ayu, and after the death of her only loving grandmother, Ayu has no one to rely on in her hometown. Ayu's relatives set up a family affair for her without consulting her. And Ayu came to me in the hope of being able to decide her own destiny. ”
"In the dead of night, Ayu is always alone and sad and weeping. At first, I didn't notice it, but after a long time, I realized about it! ”
"Ayu was silent for a moment, then suddenly knelt down in front of me and begged, 'I have a best friend who is terminally ill, and the doctor said she doesn't have long to live, and I want to bring her here to spend her last days, okay?'"
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"Later, Ayu brought Miyu to you, right?" Lin Xiuyi saw that Uragaki Juzi's eyes suddenly moistened a little, so he opened his mouth to ask, and Uragaki Juzi said rudeness, and then wiped the tears on the corners of his eyes with a handkerchief, adjusted his emotions and continued:
"No, because Ayu is not Miyu's relative, she can't take Miyu from the hospital!"
Lin Shuichi secretly recalled in his heart the information he had learned about Miwa from Principal Akiyama, combined with the results of the investigation by the Yamaguchi Police Department in the past few days. Compared with the two, Lin Xiu could judge that Mei Yuan Juzi was not lying.
"Then what happened later, how did those little judgments get to Ayu?" Lin Xiuyi asked curiously.
"Ayu told me about this in despair when she came back from Tokyo, and I also thought that Ubutu Village and Shimojo Village were not far away, and if Ayu brought Mei here, Miyu's family might also find it, so I offered to give Ayu something to bring to Tokyo to sell, and if you still want to come back to work, you can wait until Miyu's affairs are over before coming back, if you don't want to come back, you can find a place where no one knows them to live......" Uragaki Juko shook her head and sighed.
"If I'm not mistaken, you gave Ayu four small coins, a handful of warlords from the Warring States Period, right?" Lin Xiuyi asked with some excitement.
"Yes, these are all passed down to me by my mother, I have no children, only this plum wall house as a sustenance, it is useless to keep these things, so I simply gave them to Ayu. Well, by the way, I was afraid that she would be harassed by the antique store when she brought these things to Tokyo, so I gave them a notebook with them, and the paper on the book turned yellow, and I hope they can use this notebook to prove that these things are indeed not fakes!" Uragaki Juko suddenly added.
"Notebook, what kind of notebook?" Lin Xiuyi asked curiously.
"I don't remember much, except that it was an old black notebook with a little yellowed paper. These are all left to me by my mother, and the book is written in Chinese characters, and I don't really understand it, so I haven't read it very carefully. Uragaki Juko tried to recall, but finally shook her head and said she didn't know.
As soon as Lin Xiu heard this, he seemed to understand something in his mind!