Time, June 2 at 10 a.m. sharp.

The Shizuoka Prefectural Police Headquarters received a report that Ryuzo, the head of the Miyamoto family, a famous family in Shizuoka City, was found dead in his bedroom bed at 8 a.m. that day, in the nature of murder. Because of the seriousness of the case, the prefectural headquarters immediately dispatched Okamoto, an experienced police officer, to investigate collectively with a number of police officers.

When Okamoto and his colleagues arrived at the Miyamoto residence, they immediately began their workflow.

First of all, the general environment at the time of the crime, the complexity of the situation first blinded the ordinary police officers who handled the case, and even Okamoto needed to think carefully and quietly observe everyone in this house.

There is no doubt that the incident occurred at the time of the landfall of Typhoon Pamina, which was a warning that had been in place a week earlier. The whole Miyamoto family, who has their own lives on weekdays, except for a second son who is not angry, is actually gathered in this family mansion, and the direct reason is to escort the old man who has not long been ill home, which is a clue worth paying attention to.

The head of the family, Ryuzo, the old woman Chiyo, the eldest son's family of three, the eldest daughter's family of three, plus the second daughter's family, as well as the widower's younger brother and his only son, in the eyes of the police's professionalism, each of them can be made up with a set of murder attempts, which is already a list of suspects with more than a dozen people.

After all, the Deep Mountain Mansion, which was blocked by the storm, was like a large secret room. Unless there are bad guys who brave such a storm to go up the mountain to commit crimes, just to cover up clues such as footprints, the relatives of the deceased who are present are precisely the most suspected candidates for murder.

Then there are the servants in this mansion. Reina, a maid in her forties, and a middle-aged male butler who is silent, as well as a forest ranger, two ordinary servants, and a cook who basically doesn't show up in front of the Miyamoto clan, a total of seven people.

As for the family personal doctor, of course, he was not a servant, as a high-ranking worker, his status was undoubtedly at least equal to that of a lawyer, and he was currently more respected by the Miyamoto family. According to the family of the deceased, Officer Okamoto easily learned that the deceased's heart disease had been getting worse in recent years.

It's a pity that the deceased didn't die simply from another heart attack, even if he had just been hospitalized a few days ago.

Murder at a glance.

Although the murder weapon has not yet been found, the direct cause of death is undoubtedly a sharp blade through the chest.

In turn, the deceased's body was covered with bruises. Although he is already an old man in his seventies, considering that he was hospitalized two or three days ago, the family members themselves took the initiative to prove that these bruises have only appeared now.

In other words, the deceased was first beaten brutally, and then killed directly by a sharp blade through the chest!

The identity of the murderer was speculated by the family of the deceased to be a theft and murder, because many of the finances in the old man's room were indeed stolen. Although important possessions such as passbooks, which were kept intact because they were kept in a safe, the gold bars in the suitcase under the bed, as well as many jewels in the women's boudoir in the opposite room, were undoubtedly stolen.

This is a point that makes the police handling the case very entangled - the passbook is placed in the safe, is there no need for gold bars?

The person responsible for answering this question is the younger brother of the deceased.

"Isn't it just seven or eight gold bars, and that's just a few dollars?"

Well, you're rich, you're capricious.

So, the face of the case is very clear.

On June 1st, that is, last night, a thief took advantage of the typhoon landfall and heavy rain to sneak into the mansion of the famous gate and Miyamoto family in Shizuoka Prefecture, which is located deep in the mountains and dense forests. In the two rooms at the end of the corridor on the right wing on the third floor, he stole a lot of valuable jewelry and red gold bars, but in the process, he clashed with the old man in the room and brutally killed him.

According to the family of the deceased, during the time period of the incident, the work and rest in the Miyamoto Mansion were as follows:

The deceased's younger brother, Miyamoto Ryui, sat in the village and played mahjong all night with the other three women of the family, namely Miyamoto Chiyo, Miyamoto Junko, and Miyamoto Shizuko, in the same reception room on the first floor.

The deceased's eldest womb, Ben Longteng, sat with his wife Xia Fei, his son Nao, and his brother-in-law Zhiya in the reception room on the first floor, chatting freely about business matters, and the specific topics involved trade secrets, which were not disclosed to the police.

The deceased's eldest son, Ben Tai Po, was in the recreation room on the ground floor, playing billiards with the servants.

As for Moko Miyamoto, the only granddaughter of the deceased, at 7 o'clock in the evening of May 31, before the incident, the storm had stopped a little, and she rented a car and went to Tokyo.

Officer Okamoto smiled subtly at the time, "So, each of you has your own alibi, right?" ”

Miyamoto Ryuai replied naturally: "Hitting a child on a rainy day is also idle." There are so many people and cats in one house, what else can we do if we don't stay together and play something? ”

That's the truth.

Except for the deceased himself, because he had just been discharged from the hospital, he could only rest alone at the end of the corridor of the right wing on the third floor, such a corner as usual.

Then, he was brutally murdered by thieves.

"The news of the typhoon's landfall started a week ago, and the first time I heard it, I was watching TV in a bar."

Officer Okamoto did not question it, but said to the family of the deceased: "So, it is indeed possible that there were really robbers, and they have been planning to take advantage of the theft since then." What you may not know is that in China's coastal areas of Guangdong, those drug smugglers are specially dispatched in time for the summer rainstorm and typhoon. This is not a precedent for you, it is really not a precedent......"

"So, if we can't find clues from inside the house, I'm afraid we won't be able to find any clues. In such a big storm, you stayed up all night together, until this morning you found that you were dead. Tsk, no matter how big the marks outside the house are, they should be washed away, unless the surveillance probe at your gate ......"

Of course, there was that thing, and the police went to check it at the first time, but they couldn't find anything.

"The iron gate of our yard is as high as the fence, and it is the same for thieves to enter from anywhere. So when we place the probes, we also distribute them very evenly......"

The police carefully observed the video during the crime, but did not see the scene of the thief climbing over the wall, which proves that there were two situations at that time, either they were very familiar with the distribution of probes and could find a way, or they were simply insiders who committed the crime.

"That's it, it's so......"

Officer Okamoto, although he is old, has a very smart brain, and whoever his gaze sweeps to him subconsciously feels a pang of nervousness.

"So I have a question for you......

He said slowly: "Miss Moko, who rushed to Tokyo before the crime, had to leave during the heavy rain for what reason? Then, when will she be back? ”

At this moment, Okamoto stared at the questioned, and looked at it with good eyes.

He found out through his experience that these people surnamed Miyamoto were really nervous.