[Three Days, One Issue] Little Date's Flower

Valley House is a rare serious hotel on the slopes.Compared with Amin's helper's house, this place gives people a more rigid feeling-the reason is probably that except for Ms. Fengzi, all the other shop assistants are male.

Miss Fengzi is the proprietress in the legend, the owner of the river valley house.

When I saw her, I could still see that the originally good-looking face had turned gray, as if she hadn't slept peacefully for several days.

"Little Rihe...Little Rihe..."

Holding a puppet, talking wildly to himself.

I secretly put on my fourth brother's replacement police uniform under the bridge not far from the river valley house, pretending to be Mikayue-kun, and asked the accountant in charge what happened, but the old man also said he didn't know.It was really like a ghost, on the night of April [-]th, Miss Fengzi suddenly went crazy.

However, even if you want to attribute the cause to ghosts and gods, there have been no strange things such as the wind blowing here.The neighbors can't help but regard this as a haunted house, coupled with the rumors that the proprietress has murdered someone, there is no one there for a while, and only Miss Fengzi sits in the hall desolately.

I imitated the fourth brother's tone and continued to ask.

"Then do you know who Xiao Rihe is?"

"Xiao Hiyori?"

"Yes, or a name with a similar pronunciation."

"Oh... ah, there is indeed one, signed 'Rihe', who is the young master or young lady who has been keeping in touch with the master."

"Master or Miss?"

"Yes. Because he has never been here, I don't know whether he is a man or a woman. I just think he should be young. The words on the cover page are neatly written, like a child who has just gone to school."

"Where are those letters?"

"My boss hid them, and now all I know is the one I had with me when the accident happened, and I received it in the attic."

The letterhead was placed in a box with great care.When I opened the envelope, I could faintly smell the fragrance of makeup powder.

"This is caused by repeated reading before the accident happened to the owner."

The accountant explained.I finished reading it by the light of a narrow skylight in the attic. I wrote a few lines with simple diction and immature fonts. It is a love letter written by a young man to a woman.

"Miss Fengzi:

I almost write your name with trembling hands.As I said before, my hard work has finally paid off—the noble person I told you about last time came to find me at home and gave me a big opportunity.

Yes, yes, I still can't believe it when I write this line, I'm going to get ahead!I can come to you at last, not as a poor brat to shame you, but as a man.

Thank you 800 million gods!

Thank you Jehovah!

Thank you for being the best!

That requires a few days in a place where you cannot write letters, so please wait for me, wait for me a little.When I get back, I will tell you that sentence myself.Then roses were sent, and invitations were sent to the uncles.

Please join me in thinking about what to write on it.

Hiyori"

There is no doubt that this is a last letter carrying love.

As if with the passing of spring, when the summer cicadas urged a tree to wither, Miss Fengzi's love also flew away like falling cherry blossoms.

She must know that Xiaohiwa was buried in the fire with Sakura from Tsunoshima—yes, after reading this letter, I can affirm that it was not being abandoned but the truth of her lover’s death that caused Miss Fengzi’s illness .

If not, why didn't she hate Xiao Hiyori, but wanted to take revenge on a painter who had nothing to do with her?

I think that the painter who was called noble by the teenagers and hated by Ms. Toyoko was probably the one who died tragically in the Fujiwara mansion.

But who told her the truth?

I checked with the accountant again about Miss Fengzi's whereabouts around April [-]th.This time, he seemed to think of something suddenly, and he hesitated for a moment before saying that someone sent money to the owner that evening.

"There was such a thing before. Every once in a while, someone asked a student to send money. The host had received it several times before he became ill. I thought it was an acquaintance, so I didn't take it to heart. Now that I think about it, it was indeed there. Afterwards, the boss muttered and took out the letter in his arms and looked at it under the lamp for a while, and then something went wrong."

"Did they say anything?"

"It was just a discussion about religious beliefs. If the students said they didn't believe in them, it was over."

"So... do you still keep the envelope containing the money?"

"There was no envelope, it was sent directly by the student, in a purse."

"Let the students send it directly? ——Is the amount of money large?"

"A few yuan or ten yuan at a time, not too much, not too little. The owner has been subsidizing the orphanage over there in the Sakai world, and often wrote letters of thanks, so I thought it was the boys who had been kind in the past who came to repay the favor. , so I didn’t pay much attention to this matter—why, are those people related to some event?”

"No, just in passing. Do you know anything about the student?"

"Of course, it's the young master of Poding Kinoshita's family."

——As expected.

From his description of the amount of money and the lack of an envelope, I roughly guessed that the student who pretended to be someone else must be Mr. [-]st Term.

The gentleman was undoubtedly of good character, and that was why he was not at all good at disguising.

However, it never occurred to me that I would send money to River Valley House.At first, I thought that all the money he saved every month would be given to Old Man Kinoshita and Amin, but after thinking about it, eight yuan is not a big amount for a first-term gentleman who often works part-time. Sick, he really wouldn't work so hard.

Why do you want to send money to Miss Fengzi?

No doubt, the answer is obvious.However, the death of Xiao Hiyori can be regarded as the fault of Mr. Fujiwara at most. Even if such a principled person may atone for his father's wrong crimes, he will never cover up his father's crimes without reason after learning about them.So in his mind, Mr. Fujiwara must have played the role of the victim in the fire.

How is this possible?Even the old man Kinoshita himself said: I have sinned, and I have also become an evil spirit.

No, no, wait a minute.

I suddenly realized that there was a hidden meaning in that short confession.

I "also" became a ghost.

This means that before the fire broke out, there were at least two or more murderers in the mansion.

Painter, small day and, entrepreneur, Chinese lady, housekeeper and Mr. Fujiwara.There must have been a more complicated story between the six people.Only Mr. Yiqi knows this story, and he probably participated in it, so he refuses to let himself go as if he has carried everything on his back.

The mystery is like a chain surrounded by layers, which is only tightened by an iron lock. Therefore, if you want to get in touch with the truth that makes him seal his heart, you must first grasp the most easily exposed joint, which is the truth of the Fujiwara Mansion.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but want to run out immediately and use this police uniform to investigate the people around me.However, for a murder incident on an island, there must be very little news in the market; if you walk around in a police uniform, the chances of being discovered by others are also extremely high.

The only way is to ask the police, such as contacting the fourth brother.However, the secret identity of the old man Kinoshita made this only passage impossible.

——What should I do?

To give it a go, I thought of Mikayue-kun.

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*Jiaofan: The abbreviation of Jiaofan Office, that is, the police station.