Chapter 28: The Truth of the Town Referendum
The spring sun near noon is warm but not dazzling.
The wind is not noisy, gentle and gentle, and only gives a faint floral fragrance to the beautiful JK and handsome boys sitting on the wall.
The picture is warm and romantic, and it can be used as a shot for a love idol drama, but Kiyomi Ruri wants to kick Takeshi Nanahara down with one kick and make his ass fall into eight petals on the spot.
She said angrily: "Don't be sloppy anymore, tell me the cause and effect clearly!" I warn you, there is a limit to my patience, and take me for a fool again, and be careful of my ......"
"Shh
Nanahara Takeshi signaled that someone was coming, and Kiyomi Ruri quickly shut up and bowed slightly.
In fact, it doesn't matter if it's low, the place where the Seven Plains Martial Arts are selected is very good, there are trees and branches and leaves here, they can observe the courtyard from the gaps, but it is difficult for the people in the courtyard to notice them.
Kiyomi Ruri stared at the courtyard for a while, and found that there were really a lot of people who came, in addition to the people who had committed perjury such as the Yamada couple, Koga Katsu, and the Iga couple she had seen before, there were more than ten people she had never seen.
These people entered the conference room one after another with anxious faces, discussed for a short time, and then went out and began to act separately.
Some people pushed a ramen stall cart out, others went to the warehouse to pick up tools, and many more took shovels to the back of the house and quickly carried back a small box still stained with mud.
They worked together to hollow out the inside of the ramen stall car, apparently trying to stuff the small box inside, and at this time, Nanahara Takeshi jumped off the wall and greeted with a smile: "Are you busy?" β
There was a sudden silence in the courtyard, as if the movie had been frozen and everyone's movements froze.
The breeze blew, the trees rustled, and finally someone reacted, and Mrs. Yamada greeted her with a strong smile and said to Takeshi Nanahara: "Isn't this the little brother who came with Officer Okuno, how did you get here?" β
"Passing by." Nanahara Wu walked towards them calmly and said with a smile, "Seeing that you guys are busy, do you need my help?" β
"No, just pack up the food truck used for the festival, we'll ......"
Mrs. Yamada smiled politely and warmly, but the smile on her face quickly disappeared as Takeshi Nanahara passed her directly and walked straight to the ramen stall car and got into the crowd of the Oda Town Autonomous Committee. Everyone in Oda Town looked even more nervous, and subconsciously moved their bodies to surround him, and several people also clenched the shovels and sticks in their hands.
Nanahara Takeshi turned a blind eye, smiled and was about to speak, Kiyomi Ruri rushed over without saying a word, clasped his hands weakly, posed as a "right natural body", calmly condensed, and protected him into the attack range - she didn't figure out what was going on, but she could feel that the atmosphere was wrong, so she naturally rushed over to stay with Nanahara Takeshi.
It's a partner, it has to be like this, even if she is surrounded by a group of people, her scalp is numb.
Nanahara Takeshi glanced at this "pig brain" teammate speechlessly, obviously she helped him more when she stayed outside, but she didn't say anything about her, looked around, and said softly: "Everyone, don't make mistakes again and again, the police know that we are here." β
Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then looked at each other a few times, and with someone's long sigh, the sense of powerlessness quickly spread throughout the audience, loosening the fist, putting down the stick, and everyone turned ashen.
Nanahara Takeshi shook his head, walked to the small box, and glanced at Katsu Koga, who was guarding the box, and the woman with red eyes beside himβit should be his wife, Mrs. Kogaβdidn't directly reach out to open the box, paused for a moment, and bowed silently with his hands together.
Mrs. Koga's tears gushed out in an instant, and she couldn't cry, and the two middle-aged women next to her hurriedly sighed and comforted her.
Kiyomi Ruri seemed to have an understanding, but he didn't fully understand, so he asked beside Nanahara Takeshi, "What is ...... in this box?"
Takeshi Nanahara raised his head and said, "It's the 'treasure' that was originally hidden in the secret room of Tominaga, but it belongs to Koga-san and Mrs. Koga. β
Kiyomi Ruri was stunned, looked at Koga Katsu, and hesitated: "Then the murderer is Koga-san?" β
Nanahara Wuhuan shook his head, pointed at the Iga couple and said, "No, in a sense, except for the two of them, all those present are murderers. β
Kiyomi Ruri's face cracked, and he looked at the nearly twenty people except for Iga and his wife, and said in disbelief: "Set ...... Mass murder? β
"That's not right!" Without waiting for Takeshi Nanahara to answer, several uncles in the crowd stood up and said in a deep voice, "It's not a collective murder, it's a referendum in the town!" β
Town referendums are an ancient tradition.
It is said that it is a country with frequent natural disasters, a small earthquake in three days, a major earthquake in five days, typhoons and heavy rains are patronized by the month, and the village is buried by mudslides at every turn, or a fire together, and the wooden house is half a town when it burns, and in such a harsh environment, it is difficult for individuals to survive without huddle for warmth, so it is said that my small collective thinking is very strong.
No, it's super thick.
As a result, in this cultural atmosphere, town (village) referendums naturally took place.
When a person commits an evil deed, causing public outrage and threatening the interests and safety of the collective, the crowd will burn down his house, destroy his fields, smash his shop, drive him into the forest, or simply besiege him to death.
For example, if a person moves into a traditional town like Higashitamamachi, but he has a bad character, littering, picking up dogs and cats, making noise when he has nothing to do, and even petty theft, but small mistakes are constant, big mistakes are not made, and it is difficult for the police to do anything to him, so the autonomous committee of Higashitamama can initiate a "town referendum".
As long as the referendum passes, the people can kick the guy out of the town and forbid him to live here again.
The referendum has the effect of law, not child's play, and is part of the non-governmental self-government system, and it is thanks to this non-governmental self-government system that the prime minister can be changed twice in three days.
Of course, town referendums rarely occur, after all, no one usually makes such a fussful and resentful person, and directly executes people, and the central government's ability to control has greatly increased since modern times, and the law has been perfected day by day, and it is never heard of.
At most, it may have happened in some remote mountain villages, but it is almost impossible for outsiders to know about it.
Kiyomi Ruri's mother is the chairman of the town autonomy committee, and she knows a little bit about the ancient tradition of town autonomy, but she definitely didn't expect that she would see such a thing with her own eyes one day, and she was so shocked that she couldn't think about it, and muttered, "What the hell is going on?" β
The courtyard was silent, and no one in Odamachi wanted to answer, so Nanahara Takeshi sighed and said, "Yosuke Tominaga is innocent of death. β
Kiyomi Ruri set his eyes on him and said angrily: "Tell me clearly!" β
Nanahara didn't object, Kiyomi Ruri really needed to know the truth, and he also needed to confirm if there was anything wrong.
He looked around at the people present and said softly, "The cause of the incident happened the day before yesterday, and Iga-san's beloved daughter was abducted on that day, right?" β
Iga Junren was stunned for a moment, and said in surprise and suspicion: "You...... How do you know? β
Nanahara Takeshi smiled embarrassedly, "I accidentally got lost when I borrowed the bathroom, and I strayed into Ling Ai's room and saw the restraint wound on her wrist, so I had a guess." β
At that time, he suspected that Yosuke Tominaga had abducted Junhito Iga's daughter, and was discovered by the people of the town, Junren Iga killed in a rage, and the rest of the people volunteered to help him perjury under sympathy, but after the trial, he found that the situation was wrong, and then he thought about it carefully, and Junhito Iga's daughter was not dead, so who were the flowers and dolls in front of Tominaga's house for?
It can't be for a kidnapper who abducts a child, right?
This kind of person will only be spurned, and no matter how nostalgic the people in the town area are, it is estimated that they will not be able to do such nonsense, especially since there are bear dolls and dolls mixed in it, which is obviously for a child, which is even more strange.
Therefore, the abduction of Junhito Iga's daughter can only be the fuse of the homicide, not the main cause.
Nanahara Takeshi looked at everyone again and said slowly: "It stands to reason that Iga San should have called the police immediately and asked for the release of an Amber alert, but he thought that someone at that time provided him with the whereabouts of his beloved daughter, which made him feel relieved, so he didn't choose to call the police, but went directly to find someone." β
As he spoke, he observed the expressions of everyone present, and then stretched out his hand and pointed, "It's you!" β
An old man with glasses was stunned, not understanding how Nanahara Takeshi knew, but after hesitating for a moment, he thought that a group of people were blocked here anyway, and they had already "caught all the stolen goods", so he honestly admitted it, and sighed in a low voice: "I was fishing by the river at that time and saw Xiao Ai...... It was Iga-san's daughter who came to play by the river and reminded her to be careful, but then the fish nest was not good, so I changed to the back of the stone, and I vaguely heard Yosuke......
Alas, it was Tominaga who was talking to Xiao Ai, and when Igara-san came to look for his daughter, I casually talked to him, and at that time, ...... At that time, I just thought that Xiao Ai was going to play at Tominaga's house, but I didn't expect ......"
Nanahara Takeshi nodded, turned his gaze to everyone again, and continued: "Yes, no one thought that Yosuke Tominaga turned out to be an abductor, so Igara-san immediately relieved himself and didn't think about calling the police at all, and went directly to Tominaga's house to pick up his daughter.
And for some reason, probably a road encounter, Iga San met Koga-san on the road, so they went together, even before going to the river, Koga-san met Iga San looking for his daughter, because of the previous sadness, Koga-san was very sensitive to the loss of the child, and offered to look for it with him. β
After speaking, he looked at Katsu Koga and Junhito Iga and confirmed, "Is that so?" β
Koga Katsu shook his head and said with an indifferent expression: "No, it's not just because I'm sensitive to this kind of thing, I'm also a self-police officer in the town, and I naturally can't ignore this kind of thing." β
Kiyomi Ruri was puzzled: "What is there to be sad about Koga-san, why is it sensitive to the loss of children, is it ......?"
"You'll find out if you keep listening." Nanahara Takeshi didn't pay much attention to her, and continued to say, "We went to Tominaga's house together, Yosuke Tominaga didn't expect you to come so quickly, maybe your flustered speech and behavior aroused your suspicions, or when you denied it, Xiao Ai heard your voice and made a noise when she struggled, in short, you found Xiao Ai who was tied up." β
Iga Junren showed a scared expression: "It was my daughter who made a little noise, when she was tied upstairs with her hands and feet tied and gagged, struggling to stand up and couldn't stand up, she couldn't use her head to hit the ground, she only made a very slight sound, but I didn't react, it was Koga-san who became suspicious and rushed forward regardless of politeness, which saved my daughter, otherwise ......"
Takeshi Nanahara nodded to the expressionless Koga Katsu, and then said, "After Xiao Ai is rescued, Koga-san's suspicions are even greater......"
Koga Katsu suddenly interrupted him and asked with difficulty, "How do you know...... Know about Heino's disappearance? It's been five years, two months and six days since the incident, and even the patrol officers have changed twice. β
Nanahara Takeshi bowed his head and apologized, "I guess, there should be a child in the town who was unfortunately killed and died at Tominaga's house, and the flowers and dolls in front of Tominaga's house were given to her, and there is no family portrait in your living room, not even a single photo, but there are a lot of old nail holes on the wall, and it seems that many photo frames have been hung and removed, so I went to your house without telling you, and found your daughter's room, and found that the things in it were intact, but no one has lived for a long time...... I'm sorry about that, sorry. β
Koga Katsu was no longer confused, and after being stunned for a moment, he muttered: "No, it's nothing, it has nothing to do with you, my daughter was killed by Yosuke Tominaga, I didn't protect her well, and all the fault is because I ......"
Halfway through his speech, his expression turned gloomy, his eyes were red, and he lowered his head in a daze.
Kiyomi Ruri was a little confused, and asked hesitantly, "So, it was Yosuke Tominaga who abducted and killed Koga-san's daughter five years ago, and Koga-san killed him to avenge his daughter?" What about the town referendum, were all these people present at the time? β
There was silence in the courtyard, no one answered, and everyone looked complicated.
Nanahara Takeshi said: "Yes, except for Igara-san and Mrs. Iga, everyone present now was at the Tominaga family that night, including Mr. Hirakawa next door, who also visited, isn't that so, Iga-san?" β
In the subconscious of Iga Junren and his wife, they think that they are not directly related to the death of Yosuke Tominaga, or that it has little to do with it, which was discovered by Nanahara Takeshi when he was tempted before, and they just cooperated to mislead the police to investigate, even if it was the cause of the incident, but it was not as deep as others.
Iga Junren stopped talking, but Yamada Obasan, who sold tofu, answered, and sighed in resignation: "That's right, at that time, Aiko-chan was rescued, saying that Tominaga's bad boy said that he wanted her to be with another sister and become his more perfect collection, so Koga-san suspected that Heino-chan's disappearance was related to Tominaga, and beat him desperately to ask him, like crazy...... Alas, Igara-san couldn't stop him anyway, and he wasn't sure whether to call the police or not, so he ran to the town committee to ask for help.
At that time, we were preparing for the Spring Festival, and when I heard about it, I was shocked, so I went over together, and found that Aiko-chan was very frightened and injured, and Koga-san's mental state was even more ...... Well, it's even more undesirable, it's not appropriate for the child to stay there any longer, so we let Igara-san take her daughter back first. As for Uncle Hirakawa, he was at his home at the time and didn't know it, and it was only later that we needed his help to find out about all this. β
After she finished speaking, she sighed deeply, and it was estimated that there would be no good memories in the future.
Nanahara Takeshi nodded, and then said: "Koga-san must have asked about his daughter's whereabouts at that time, and he tortured Yosuke Tominaga for a long time......"
Kiyomi Ruri couldn't help but interject again: "Wait, why don't you call the police?" Wouldn't it be better to have the police look for Heino-chan? β
Nanahara Takeshi turned his head to look at her, and said in a stern tone: "At that time, no one knew that Heino-chan was hidden in the secret room of the Tominaga family, and everyone was still looking forward to her still alive. If Yosuke Tominaga is taken away by the police and bites to death and refuses to admit it, it has been five or six years since the incident, can you guarantee that the police will be 100% sure that they will find clues? If you can't find a clue, Yosuke Tominaga will go to jail for abduction, and Koga-san can't ask if he wants to ask - his daughter has been missing for more than five years, and he has been tortured for nearly 2,000 days and nights, you should understand his pain, and anyone else will make the same choice as him, there is nothing to doubt about it! β
Kiyomi Ruri was taken aback, unable to refute it at all, and honestly shut up.
Nanahara Takeshi turned his head and continued: "Unlike this pig-brained stupid girl, you are all neighbors for many years, friends for many years, and you can understand Koga-san's pain and suffering, so you just persuade, even if someone hesitated during the period, in the end, no one called the police or came forward to stop it in private, so the torture continued all night, and in the end, Yosuke Tominaga was worse than dead, it was really unbearable, and finally recruited, you opened the secret room and found the Heino-chan that was made into a specimen." β
The air pressure in the courtyard suddenly became much lower, and Kiyomi Ruri was stunned for a moment, and exclaimed, "It's made...... Taxidermy? β
"Yes." Takeshi Nanahara nodded, "Yosuke Tominaga has a psychological problem, he has a necrophilia. β
Kiyomi Riri couldn't help but look at the small box that was guarded by Mrs. Koga, and hesitantly pushed away a corner to take a look, and in an instant there was a dizziness - a little girl was red and curled up in a huge piece of amber, and her eyes were even open, confused and frightened.
Kiyomi Ruri was originally extremely empathetic, and she couldn't imagine what this innocent child had gone through, and she felt like her whole heart was going to explode when she was dizzy, and she was furious in an instant.
It's a brute, how can a man do such a thing?
No wonder Katsu Koga wants to kill him, no wonder the people of Odamachi collectively agree!
She blurted out angry words: "Yosuke Tominaga is innocent of death!" β
Nanahara Takeshi re-closed the box and said softly: "Yes, after Koga-san found his daughter, he became even more crazy, and rushed downstairs again to beat Yosuke Tominaga, and even the others did it together out of righteous indignation, but probably as soon as he rushed down, the drunk man climbed on the telephone pole and accidentally discovered the case, and then Yosuke Tominaga was killed." β
Qing saw that Liuli's body was shocked, and his attitude hesitated again, and he hesitated and said, "Did you kill it directly?" Why not hand it over to the police and let the law punish him? β
Koga Katsu, who originally listened to Takeshi Nanahara's reasoning, as if he had returned to the night of the incident, came back to his senses, his waist suddenly straightened, and he said with a distorted expression: "Give it to the police?" That scumbag is begging me to hand him over to the police! When he found someone outside the house, he cried and laughed, feeling that he could finally get out of hell and finally be saved, but how could it be, a scumbag like him didn't deserve to live! β
After a pause, a trace of pain appeared on his face again, "I can't allow him to live, when Heino-chan disappeared, he was also mixed in the neighborhood to help search around, and he didn't rest for a day and a night, I didn't suspect him at the time, and I was even very grateful to him, and I came to thank him, I can't imagine how desperate it would be if Heino-chan was alive at that time, if I knew all this......"
"I have no choice, I must kill him, no matter what the consequences are!"
Kiyomi Ruri was stunned on the spot, speechless.
Nanahara Takeshi nodded lightly and said: "Yes, such a scumbag really doesn't deserve to live, and no human being should object to this, so after you were accidentally discovered by passers-by, you immediately made a decision, you can't hand him over to the police, and immediately split up."
Koga-san took Yosuke Tominaga to the secret room to take revenge, and asked him to kneel there to endure everything that Heino-chan had experienced, and repent for his crimes forever, and the other twenty or so people immediately began to clean up the scene, wipe off the blood stains on the wooden floor, quickly ventilate the room, spray air fresheners, and go to the old Mr. Hirakawa's house next door to move in for a replacement.
There are enough of you, Mr. Hirakawa is cooperative enough, and it is not difficult to hand things over the wall, and the living room will probably return to normal in seven or eight minutes.
At this time, the patrol police arrived with the informant, and when they broke down the door and entered the house to check, you were hiding in the next door in Pingchuan's house, only a wall away from the patrol police.
Of course, it was only a very rudimentary clean-up scene, if the patrol officer had some professional equipment, or was familiar with the furnishings of the Fuyong family, or could search carefully, even if it was a look on the second floor, it would be easy to find that there was definitely an accident here, but unfortunately they saw that everything was normal in the living room, there were no victims, no bloodstains, no crooked tables and chairs, broken cups and pots, and the reporter said that it was completely different, and he didn't check too much at all, and instinctively felt that the reporter was drunk and drunk, and immediately closed the team, took the informant back to sober up.
At this time, you climbed over the wall again, and spent several hours cleaning the entire Tominaga house several times with chemicals such as detergent, and then repeatedly wiped it with clean water to ensure that there was no trace left, so that the police couldn't figure out how the murderer erased all traces in just seven or eight minutes, so that the testimony of the reporter did not have the slightest credibility, and it was impossible to determine that Yosuke Tominaga really had an accident, so he could only be treated as a missing person. β
When Kiyomi Ruri heard this, she couldn't help but let out an "ah", and the puzzle that she couldn't understand before instantly became simpler, and suddenly said: "So that's the case, they actually cleaned up the scene twice......"
Nanahara Takeshi glanced at her, didn't pay much attention to her, and said to everyone in Oda Town: "That's it, you are still not at ease, and you discussed it privately, made second-hand preparations, and collectively made up the 'non-existent square-faced broom eyebrows', so that even if the body of Yosuke Tominaga, who should always kneel in the secret room to apologize, is found, you can easily attract the attention of the police, and you will not suspect you, and completely put an end to this matter, so that you don't have to worry about it every day."
It's a pity that you lack experience in counter-searching, leaving a flaw, but it's not a big problem, I think I can't see the professional ability of the police, it's just that people are not as good as heaven, and your plan accidentally went bankrupt, so after you found out that the collective perjury was discovered, you gathered here again to discuss countermeasures, and by the way, I was going to transfer the body of Pingnai-chan first, in case the police searched out and couldn't explain it, and then it's now, I and the pig-brained stupid girl next to me appeared here. β
After Takeshi Nanahara finished saying this long list, he looked at Koga Katsu and the others, and asked politely, "Koga-san, and all of you, is there anything wrong with my speculation?" β