Chapter 123 Moonlight - Four Signatures

"Calligraphy? Sheet music also has calligraphy? Miwako Sato, who was acting as a silly white sweet, looked like she had been living for a long time, "I heard that there is calligraphy in Chinese, and it seems that there is calligraphy in English." However, I have never heard of music scores and calligraphy. ”

"I'm talking about English calligraphy." Du Kang said, "As for whether the score has calligraphy or not, I don't study music, so I really don't know. However, I do speak English calligraphy. ”

"Oh, English calligraphy." Sato listened, looked at the entire score again, and found that he couldn't find the English that Du Kang spoke, "Is there English here?" ”

"Look at that half note, isn't it the letter O in English?" Du Kang said. Narumi Asai next to him also looked like he was studying seriously.

"What's wrong with this O?" Although I can't remember what a half note is, Miwako Sato still knows what an O is.

"From the eighteenth century to the present, there are four main types of English calligraphy that are commonly used. Copperplate, Spencerian Script, Ornamental Penmanship, Business Penmanship. Du Kang said, "Heh, it's quite a kind of meaning of four signatures." ”

"Of course, in the Middle Ages there were Uncial and Gothic. Well, there is also Italic (Italian body), which has a long history, because of its cute appearance, so it is also called Yiduli. ”

People who call themselves intellectuals are always happy to do popular science work for others.

And the murderer obviously practiced round calligraphy. Well, the word round body is a kind of unprofessional profile in our country, and I don't know if there is such a similar saying in Japan. To be precise, it should be called Copperplate. The literal translation is called steel plate printing. Of course, according to the style, Copperplate is divided into ES and ER. Because it was too cumbersome to explain English calligraphy, Du Kang explained it in plain language.

"Well, by the way, I don't know if you've ever heard of the so-called flower body. I don't know if there is one on the Japanese side, but we have such a statement on our side anyway. The so-called flower body, to be precise, is the Ornamental Penmanship, which is mostly used for signatures. Du Kang remembered the two letters OZ that Belmodo had seen in his room written on the wine, and added.

Du Kang explained his cognition, and by the way, he gave a group of people popular science, "Looking at the arc of the half note and the writing angle, you can see that the murderer wrote this half note as the lowercase O in the circle, the two ends of the two spindles are very thin, and the middle is thicker. ”

"When I say spindle, I mean look, the two heads of the letter O." Du Kang stretched out the index finger of his left and right hands, pointed to the upper right of the half note with his right hand in the air, and pointed to the bottom left of the half note with his left hand, so that Miwako Sato could look carefully. "Write on the left first, and then write on the right, it's not like we usually write it in one stroke."

"And the part of the run, the murderer treats it as a hairspring of letters." Du Kang pointed to a half note with his thick fingers, which were relative to the notes, and explained it to the people who came next to him.

"If it is considered a copperplate, then the dipping pen used by the murderer should be the kind of diagonal point tip pen. It is the kind of pen nib that is not attached to the barrel, but is connected by a flange at the head of the barrel. Well, the flange is the kind of adjustable metal piece that is angled out and used to connect the nib to the barrel. ”

"You're amazing." Miwako Sato said, "But what's the use? ”

"You know, the dip pen looks very classical, especially in those movies, it looks very tall. In fact, if you are really asked to write, it is very difficult to write well without some practice. "I've also practiced Copperplate fonts. Because I have practiced our domestic round body, commonly known as the orchard, I grabbed the oblique rod and wrote it, and the result was a big mess. ”

"Oh." Miwako Sato still doesn't look interested. However, Du Kang did not feel embarrassed and continued. It has even intensified and gone further.

"Speaking of which, I wrote my English name John, but I forgot how to write J's Copperplate, and I put a letter similar to T on it. Then hn wrote it back together, and instead of John writing it, he wrote a Tom out. I was also ridiculed by my first love. ”

Du Kang couldn't help but think that he was going to pose with Zhi Baoxian at that time, but it turned out to be ugly. Time flies, and the troubles of that time have now become precious memories.

"Don't go far." Hearing Du Kang's nonsense, Miwako Sato took the initiative to interrupt very consciously.

"Oh, sorry, sorry. Thinking of my first love, I feel a little fluttery. Du Kang said with a smile, looking like a spring breeze, "By the way, where did you go?" ”

"It's hard to write with a dip pen." Although I don't know what Du Kang sells, Miwako Sato still reminds him.

"Oh. It's hard to write with a dipping pen. Du Kang remembered what he had just said, "The writing of the dipping pen is very dependent on the tip of the pen. What a quill or something, it's just looking at the commotion. To really write something, you still have to test the tip of the pen. And the steel of these nibs is also very important. ”

"Look at it, if it's written online, I won't comment on it. If you look at the notes that are written on the room, none of them are out of line or underneath. What does this mean? ”

"This shows that the murderer is very good at calligraphy." Miwako Sato said, "What's the use of this? ”

"It's still very skilled," Du Kang added, "to be able to write such an entire article with the bleeding of a wound before clotting, and the font is smooth." It shows that the murderer is a person who can skillfully use a dipping pen. ”

"Actually, it also means that the murderer knows the normal clotting time of the human body." Of course, Du Kang didn't say this. Otherwise, he would have pointed to Asai Narumi's face and said, "If you see him, it's him, it's him, it's him, he's the murderer." ”

"What's the use of that?" Miwako Sato still didn't understand what Du Kang meant, "Speaking of which, there should be very few such people in China." ”

"Think for yourself."

In other words, there must be information in such a carefully written score. It is not a work of diversion from the eyes of a copycat. Mori Kogoro next to him came to such a conclusion.

"So, let's go back, police department." Du Kang patted Twilight Thirteen on the shoulder, "Try it on that piano and see if it's a tune." ”

"Hurry up and tidy up the scene." Twilight Thirteen also felt that what Du Kang said made sense, but he still explained to the police at the scene.

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"Big brother, it seems that what Du Kang said about the craftsman spirit in Japan has become the spirit of craftsmanship, which is still a bit reasonable." Vodka smoked a cigarette and flicked the ash on the ashtray at the bar, saying to the gin next to him.

Based on some bad tastes, Du Kang naturally can be black and black for the country next to him. And the "craftsman spirit" is naturally to be instilled in gin.

"Du Kang's words are very interesting." Gin said this, and then added inwardly, "As if I knew there was such a thing." ”

"Big brother, what should I do about this?" Obviously, the falsification of steel mill parameters is a very suitable thing for extortion. In particular, Japan, which is known as the spirit of craftsmanship, can be blackmailed to death.

"Wait for Du Kang to come back." Du Kang pinched a cigarette, "If he has an idea, then let's talk about it." ”

Obviously, this incident on Moon Shadow Island did not test Du Kang's level, or rather, in addition to "stability", he did not see Du Kang's other level. However, since Du Kang took the initiative to bid cards, it would be a pity not to see his playing style.

"Big brother, it's so cheap for him."

Obviously, Vodka didn't understand why Gin had an attitude towards Du Kang, and thought that Gin was going to send "political achievements" to Du Kang.

"I want to see what he does, too." Gin said with a mysterious smile on the corner of his mouth.