Chapter 16: Red Glass
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Three days later, the family held a memorial ceremony, and the students went to join in the condolences themselves, and the address was at the home of Funai. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
I went with Shui Jing, and along the way we discussed whether Funai's death had anything to do with the letter from the lily of the valley puppet, and I carefully recalled the situation that day.
Judging from Wennai's performance, she has been talking and laughing with Ji Mei, and the situation is very optimistic, I don't think she has ever received a letter from the lily of the valley puppet, if that's the case, she should be panicked, but why did that kind of demonic coincidence befell her.
After the police investigated the scene of Funai's death, they came to the conclusion that the moment Funai rushed over, the sand pit suddenly collapsed, but the place where the collapse happened to be buried with a severed wooden stick, if the sand pit did not collapse, the wooden stick might be buried in it forever and no one would find it, her whole person was like an object that was thrown out, in that case, there was no preparation for evasion and prevention, and when she fell heavily, she would never have thought of falling on that deadly weapon.
The results of the forensic examination were that the wooden stick pierced through the chest from Funai's tail vertebrae, killing him with a single blow.
On the verandah of Bunnai's house, Shui Jing and I met Kimi, who came to mourn at the same time.
She cried with a sad face, and has been in a state of dissolute emptiness since she suffered a heavy blow, and the appearance of Wen Nai when she died may still linger in her mind for a long time.
"You... Can you take a step to speak? ”
The voice didn't come from Ji Mei, she was just silent, and when she saw me and Shui Jing, she nodded slightly in response to our greetings, and it was a person in her twenties who spoke who claimed to be Wen Nai's sister, called Wen Hui.
She thanked us for coming to condole, and I also brought the condolences of the uncle, who is the principal, and handed it to her, which can be regarded as comforting the relatives of the deceased, Sister Wen Hui lowered her head and said.
"I've heard if there's some terrible rumor in that class... That kid seems to have received something strange before, and I don't know if it's the one you rumored to be, so I want to ask..."
Shui Jing and Ji Mei and I looked at each other suspiciously.
"Received what?" I asked.
"At first I thought it was a letter, because I saw the envelope, and I wasn't sure."
"In the beginning?"
She continued: "Funai threw it in the trash and I found it, I didn't mean to spy on other people's letters, it's just... It's just that the child's reaction was very scary, and she looked very scared, and I was worried that someone had written some threatening letter to her, so I secretly picked it up and read it after she threw it away. ”
"What's it?"
"I don't know what to say—"
"Huh?"
Sister Wen Hui looked very scared, "I don't know if that's a letter or not, I mean who wrote a letter like that..."
When I heard that the three of us were even more unbelievable, my heart began to beat faster again, as if I felt that the answer she was about to give me would make me deeply afraid.
"It's a piece of glass, a very thin and transparent piece of glass... Red..."
-- I have a sense of déjà vu.
"Sister Wen Hui, can you be specific?" Ji Mei couldn't stand the silence and finally spoke.
"The inside of the envelope was just a piece of glass, square palm-sized, thin, red, with the words 'From here', which was written... Signature in the lower right corner - 'Lily of the Valley puppet'"
The three of us looked at each other, stunned and at the same time felt a strange coldness - no one had ever seen the content of the "Letter from the Lily of the Valley Puppet", no, I should say I hadn't seen what it looked like, and today, it finally surfaced from the mouth of a deceased relative.
"Did you see it?"
"No, I don't have the guts to look..."
"Can you show us? Xiaoxi, do you dare to see it right? Shui Jing said hurriedly.
What to say? I stared at Shui Jing with wide eyes - I thought of what Dr. Sennan told me, that when He Gu came home with a piece of red glass in his hand, he walked while looking at it..."If you don't look at it, you can't go home," he replied to his classmates, and when he heard me, he was very puzzled, why can't he go home if he doesn't look at it?
――Could it be... Isn't the picture inside the glass the same thing as what you see with the naked eye?
"Sister Wen Hui, please show it to us." I mustered up the courage to say.
Sister Wen Hui shook her head: "It's gone, I think it was stolen." ”
"Stealing?"
"Yes, stealing, it's like this - I didn't dare to look at it after I picked it up that day, I guess Wennai didn't look at it either, she was more of a timid person, so she threw it away, and I was sorting out the makeup box in the bedroom that night, and I knocked over a box of incense powder, it was too late, I didn't really want to clean it up, I was going to go straight to bed and wait for the next day, but the next day I found the powder spilled on the floor... There were footprints, and then I found that the glass was gone, and I felt that the 'footprints' were directly related to the glass, and I can't say, this strong idea lingered, and the footprints should be the feet of a man, and the feet of a woman don't seem to be that big. ”
Speaking of "feet", Shui Jing and I couldn't help but shudder.
Sister Wen Hui continued: "I went to ask my father, did he come to my room, and asked my grandfather, they all said they hadn't, and I asked if there was anything lost at home?" Dad, Mom, and Grandpa all shook their heads, saying that everything was there, and there was no sign of losing anything, but I saw that Fumi Nai's expression was horrified. ”
"I felt as if she had seen something, so I went to ask her, but she went to school without telling me anything, and then... Who is going to play such a prank? What the hell took Bunnai's life..."
Sister Wen Hui choked up again, because she cried very much before we came, and her eyes that overflowed tears again at this time were already red and swollen, and she repeatedly muttered "It's terrible" and "How can this be", her emotions were a little out of control, so other related issues did not continue to be discussed. We left the house after the memorial service in the main house.
As soon as I went out, I ran into another group of people who also left Wennai's house-
The one who took the lead in front was Momoi, and behind him were Miyayama and the pseudo-mother Kanekawa, who would never stand opposite him, as well as Chiba Norito and Guanghui, who were both Momoi's sworn friends and followers, just like the die-hard guards during the emperor's period, absolutely not betraying or abandoning. They all wore white flowers on their stand-up collar uniforms, and their faces were heavy.
"Rurihi, I have something to say, let's go back to the classroom together, now."
As soon as he came up, he ordered us straightforwardly, and there was a feeling of being ruled by his class, although Momoi likes to play this kind of limelight, but on the day of Funa's accident, I could see that he was a calm and responsible person.
I looked at my watch, it was already five o'clock in the afternoon, and if I went back to school and I went home, I am afraid it would be more than eight o'clock, and my father should be worried, but when the doom was approaching, maybe I shouldn't have bothered to pay attention to this - I had no objection, Shui Jing pulled me, and next to her was Kimi, and the three of us went back to school with Momoi and the five of them.
On the way, Momoi asked me, "Did you see Yuto at Funa's house?" ”
"I don't seem to see it, there are too many people, what's wrong?"
"I don't think he's right."
Something was wrong - my heart was immediately tightened, and on the day of the accident, his mouth was wide and thin, as if he had something to say...
Momoi added, "On the day of physical education class, when I was running, he kept chanting words behind me. ”
"What does he read?"
"—Reading Bunnai's name."
I looked at Momoi in amazement, but what came to mind was "that thing" at Yuren's feet in the photo.