Chapter 42: Suruga-juku

"You've done a great job!"

"You've done a great job!"

……

Lin Xiuyi had just gotten out of the car, and immediately many policemen in blue uniforms saluted him, Lin Xiuyi just nodded in response and did not speak. Although Lin Shuichi's level is not very high in the Metropolitan Police Department, the policemen who maintain order on the periphery are basically from the nearby Kichijoji Police Station, and for these policemen, the police department from the Sakurada Gate Honten is already a very remarkable figure.

Lin Shuichi and Miki wore the armband of the search mark, and the red coat of arms on their chests made many uniformed police officers envious. After all, for all police officers, it is a great honor to be able to enter the search class work.

Under the greeting of each other, Lin Shuichi and Miki entered the area within the cordon, and then went straight to the office of Sosuke Tomosaka on the third floor, at this moment, the people of the identification section are busy at the scene, they will move all the items in this office back to the Metropolitan Police Department, and then do further monitoring. However, before that, the forensic department needs to take pictures of the objects at the scene in order to record the position of all the objects in them when they are found.

The cameras used in forensics classes are still old-fashioned film cameras, and the purpose of this is to ensure that the photographs taken cannot be easily tampered with. After all, in the age of digital storage, it is not difficult to photoshop a photo.

"Where did Tomomi Yano find her necklace?"

Lin Xiuyi asked as he stood at the door of the room, holding a photo taken when Tomomi Yano's necklace was found. He didn't bother his colleagues who were busy inside. However, he still cares a lot about the location where this necklace was found, after all, the location itself is also an important clue.

"Behind the books on the filing cabinet. We also stumbled upon it!"

Miki raised her hand and pointed to the filing cabinet behind her desk, which was just a simple iron filing cabinet. It doesn't look special, but the most important thing about this filing cabinet is that it is locked, which means that if you want to put the necklace in the filing cabinet, you must use the key to open the filing cabinet.

"Did the lock on the filing cabinet be open when you found the necklace?"

Lin Xiuyi pointed to the filing cabinet mentioned by Miki and asked carefully.

"No, it's locked!" Miki said with certainty.

Lin Xiu nodded knowingly and didn't say anything more. In fact, it doesn't matter if this filing cabinet is locked or not, because the lock on this filing cabinet can be easily opened even by ordinary people, and in Lin Xiuyi's description of the prisoner, an important feature is that the prisoner has rich experience in theft, and it is not difficult for a veteran thief to open such a filing cabinet.

"Is this office used by Sosuke Tomosaka alone?"

"Hi, each teacher at Suruga Juku has their own private office. It is said that the teachers here are all competitive, and the relationship is not harmonious on weekdays, and there is not much ...... interaction."

Miki and Lin Shuyi observed the scene for a while, and then left the place. Next, they will investigate the staff of Suruga Juku. In addition, the site was still in the early stage of investigation, so Lin Xiuyi simply took a look at the situation there.

In the office of Yuhiko Watase, the head of the Suruga Juku Kichijoji branch, Shuichi Hayashi asked in detail about Sosuke Tomosaka.

"Excuse me, how is Tomosaka-sensei's relationship with the other colleagues at Suruga Juku?"

After a brief greeting, Lin Xiuyi directly raised the question in his heart.

"Forest Police Department, do you know how a cram school is run? Although the products we sell are knowledge, we are more concerned about the people who impart knowledge. As a simple example, it would be more appropriate if you could think of an organization like ours as a brokerage firm in the arts industry......"

Hearing Watase Yuhiko's explanation of answering the question, Lin Shuichi couldn't help but feel a little strange, not to change Yuhiko Se was not to sell Guanzi, he quickly explained to Lin Shuichi what an educational institution like Suruga Juku was like.

"For the students who come here to tutor, there is no difference in the knowledge we impart, the real difference is in the people who impart this knowledge. So the teachers we sign are basically in a competitive relationship. To put it simply, the more popular the teacher is, the higher his status in Suruga-juku......"

Hearing such an explanation from Yuhiko Watase, Lin Xiuyi also understood what the other party meant. This means that the teachers in the cram school are not the kind of colleague relationship in the school, but the competition relationship between each other for student resources, so the teachers here can't talk about any interpersonal relationship, everyone should want each other to die......

"Is that why you have separate offices for all your teachers?"

"Yes, the teachers' handouts are all dependent on their survival, and if they were allowed to share a room, it would be difficult to say what would have happened. The relationship between us and the teacher is actually a partnership, and if the teacher's lessons here are well received by the students, he will naturally get more monetary rewards...... So the keys to the office are in the hands of the teachers themselves!"

Lin Shuichi heard a layer of potential meaning from Watase Yuhiko's words, that is, he was eager to end this matter as soon as possible and minimize the damage, so he was willing to cooperate with the police investigation of Tomosaka-sensei.

"However, you rely so much on the personal abilities of these teachers, aren't you afraid that they will be poached by other institutions?"

Lin Shuichi pondered for a while, and soon found the shortcomings of Suruga Juku's management introduced by Yuhiko Watase. So Lin Xiuyi asked the other party about this question again. To be honest, if it is possible for competing teachers to frame Sosuke Tomosaka, wouldn't Suruga-juku, as the biggest victim of teacher job hopping, have more reason to act unfavorably against Sosuke Tomosaka?

"Forest Police Department, you are very smart, in fact this situation is indeed very common. Therefore, we have prepared a teaching assistant for each teacher to serve as a reserve after they leave the school, and if a teacher leaves Suruga-juku, the assistant teacher will be immediately promoted to the position of teacher and continue the lesson......" Watase replied confidently

"Then Mr. Tomosaka's current teaching assistant is ......," Lin Xiuyi asked cautiously.

"Tomosaka's assistant teacher is called Nakai Ryuya, but he hasn't been here for long, and I actually admire the Ono-kun of the past more, but unfortunately he has resigned......" Yuhiko Watase said regretfully.