Chapter 32: The True Story
"What?" The first to call out was Xia Baiyan, "But Hanako, she ...... She ......"
"Sit down, everybody." Yang Wenbin pointed to the two chairs in the corner, "It's a long story. β
Everybody, you look at me, I look at you, they all sit on the chairs.
"In this case, the most confusing thing is the secrets of the murderer." Yang Wenbin said, "This murderer, or the mastermind behind the scenes and the third person, his whereabouts are so secret that we don't even have a suspicion." I have always been puzzled by this, because it is impossible for the master of the case not to be involved. If he hadn't been involved, he would not have been able to arrange such a delicate and ingenious case. So, why on earth did he not make us doubt after all this time? β
"Why?" Li Hong asked suspiciously.
"Because he's dead." Yan Junli said this coldly, his eyes were cold and terrifying, "The only thing that will not be suspected is the dead, our murderer is very smart, smart enough to use this method to hide from the world." I've been wondering what brought Liu Yang from behind the scenes to the front of the stage. Liu Yang is a very important pawn behind the scenes, although I don't know what benefits the murderer gave Liu Yang so that he was able to sacrifice his life to protect the murderer. So if it weren't for the fact that the murderer was in an extremely dangerous situation, he wouldn't have pushed Liu Yang out to be his shield. β
"So we thought about it," Yang Wenbin continued with Yan Junli's words, "At that time, there was only one person we were suspicious of, and that was Keiko Nakano. β
"Keiko Nakano?"
"Think about Keiko Nakano." Yang Wenbin walked up to Li Hong and Xia Baiyan and asked, "When was the last time you saw her?" I mean, alive? β
Li Hong and Xia Baiyan glanced at each other, and said in unison, "Red Maple Garden." β
"That's right, it's not just you, it's Yan Junli and I, the last time the four of us saw Keiko was the same, the first and last time, in the Red Maple Garden not long after Xie Fengming's death. Where did Keiko Nakano go for the rest of her time? Of course, we didn't think much about it after that, because the next thing we saw Keiko's body and Liu Yang who appeared at the scene of the crime. Yang Wenbin began to pace in the cramped room of the ward, "But there is a strange thing, you will find that although this woman has only appeared once in the case, almost everything is inextricably linked to her. The place where Xie Fengming died was Hongfeng Garden, an industry under her name, and Liu Yang was her personal secretary, and the deceased twenty years ago had the same surname as her. All of this pointed the finger at the woman until her own death. β
"So Keiko is indeed dead." Li Hong said confusedly, "She was wearing Keiko's clothes, her hair was still coiled, and she was the address that Team Yan heard from a reliable informant at the timeβ"
"Okay, okay," Yan Junli sighed and rubbed his eyebrows, "That 'reliable informant' is actually her husband. β
"What?" Li Hong's eyes widened.
Yang Wenbin spread his hands, "So, what if the information that the skeleton gave us from the beginning was wrong?" After all, he is Keiko's husband, and that man is not a good person, he has a reason and ability to help Keiko tell this lie. β
"We believe the skeleton's words and rush to the aquarium, and first of all, our minds will subconsciously think that Keiko is there." Yan Junli said, "Keiko also knows this, so she was able to arrange her fake death." The dead body was dressed in the kimono we wore the last time we saw Keiko, with her hair coiled, and with the fit of the later time of death, no one suspected that it was Liu Yang who killed Keiko and was accidentally bumped into by us. But if you look closely, you can find some suspicious spots on the corpse. β
"What's the doubt?" Xia Baiyan interjected.
"Hair, clothes, skin." Yang Wenbin turned his head and asked Li Hong, "When we found that the clothes of the corpse were tidied up, you once said that it was difficult to tie the knot. β
"yes." Li Hong said, "I don't even know how to tie it." β
"Then this matter is strange, even the encyclopedia Li Hong doesn't know how to tie the knot, how can Liu Yang, a man with five big and three thick, know about it?" Yang Wenbin narrowed his eyes, "There is also the hair of the corpse, when Yan Junli and I found the corpse, the hair of the corpse was coiled, but when I went to see the corpse the next day, her hair had already spread out, Yan Junli said that it was scattered by herself in the process of carrying the corpse, so the problem came." How can a Japanese woman like Keiko Nakano, who often has to tie her hair up, spread her hair with just a little movement? The corpse's face is disfigured, but the skin doesn't lie, and the murderer's loophole is that the corpse used to replace it is still older than herself, so the skin of this corpse is slightly more wrinkled than the skin of Keiko, who is in her thirties. β
"But ......," Li Hong said, "the time of death is just right, so there will be no problem with this, right?" β
"Speaking of which, Xiaohong, you said it yourself." Yang Wenbin curled the corners of his lips, "The corpse has been frozen, if you buy a piece of raw meat, in order not to let it spoil, it will be put in the refrigerator, and the murderer also used this method to prolong the death time of the corpse." When Yan Junli and I first found the corpse, the blood and tears flowing from the eyes of the corpse were proof that the corpse had been cryopreserved. β
"So, is Keiko the murderer?" Li Hongdao, "But what did you say at the beginning, 'Hanako Nakano' is the murderer in this case?" β
"I really, really admire this murderer, she deceived everyone, including me, her plan was flawless, but no matter how she hid it, the truth is the truth, and it will not disappear because she hides it." Yang Wenbin slowly took out the envelope from his pocket, took out the yellowed paper, and unfolded it in front of everyone, "Let's start with this." β
Everyone's eyes focused on the piece of paper, and then Li Hong and Xia Baiyan's expressions changed, and their mouths opened in surprise.
"Forensic Doctor He, you should have an impression of this record," Yang Wenbin showed Forensic He the contents of the paper, but the latter did not respond, just remained silent.
"This is the autopsy report you wrote by yourself twenty years ago, and it is the female corpse that was splashed with sulfuric acid on her face and abandoned under the red maple leaves. But the name on this is not what we all think of as 'Hanako Nakano'. Yang Wenbin said word by word, "It's Keiko Nakano." β
"How can it be ......" Even Xia Baiyan was completely shocked, and stammered, "But...... But the legends I've heard, and Keiko and the people around her, say-"
"No, that's not the point." Li Hong interrupted Xia Baiyan's words, and accurately found the crux of the problem, "If the deceased twenty years ago was called Keiko Nakano...... And who is the woman we know? β
"Oh, that's the long story." Yang Wenbin folded his hands, propped himself on his chin, and said in a flat tone, as if he was really just telling an old story from twenty years ago, "It is said that twenty years ago, on Hongfeng Mountain, there was a family. Her mother is a Japanese immigrant, her name is Keiko Nakano, her father's name is Du Yong, she is a local, and they also have a young daughter named Hanako. But the youngest daughter Hanako is not living happily, because this small family of three is full of serious domestic violence. Husband Du Yong became increasingly dissatisfied with his wife, Keiko, and this resentment turned into extreme violence and distorted abuse. And the most likely reason is that Du Yong cheated on a woman named Xie Mingqing, in the outdated mountain village twenty years ago, divorce was impossible, Du Yong beat and scolded his wife over and over again to get a little psychological comfort. β
Keiko endured violence day after day, but she was born a cowardly and gentle woman, and she had neither the guts nor the ability to resist Du Yong. But Hanako at the time rebelled. I believe Hanako Nakano has been feeling the twists and violence of this family since she was very young, and the extreme abuse and extreme endurance drove this teenage girl into madness. Maybe it was just an ordinary night, maybe it was at some point after school that her father or mother completely drove her crazy to the end, made her pick up a dinner knife, and killed her biological parents with a knife. She must have hated her parents to the extreme, so she used sulfuric acid or other acids to corrode the corpse's face beyond recognition. β