i'm not a detective

Chapter 219 Six Yen Coins

After Qing Jian Liuli satisfied her curiosity, she returned to the room, told Qiyuan Wu what she saw, and finally asked in confusion, "Is this the legendary spontaneous combustion of the human body?"

Qiyuan Wu didn't expect such a strange thing to happen in the hotel, but he became a little interested and asked after thinking about it: "The bamboo chair is not burnt out, so is there any grease left under it?"

Qing Jian Liuli recalled it for a while, and said hesitantly: "It seems to be a trace of grease dripping."

"What about the walls?"

"The wall...is a bit blackened by the smoke!"

Qi Yuanwu nodded slowly and said: "That does sound a bit like spontaneous combustion of the human body."

Kakumaruyuki couldn't bear it anymore, and asked curiously: "Master, what is the reason for the spontaneous combustion of the human body, and how can a healthy person be burned to ashes?"

This is the first time she has heard of such a strange thing. Sitting alone on a chair, nothing around her was burned, and she didn't make much movement, and it turned into ashes in the end?It sounds impossible!
Qiyuan Wu smiled and said: "For the time being, it is an unsolved mystery. There is no 100% reliable explanation for this phenomenon, but I personally prefer the wick effect."

"Wick effect?"

"It means that the human body continues to burn like a candle in a certain state." Takeshi Qiyuan has always been kind to his cute little apprentice, and patiently explained, "For example, people who are unconscious or severely drunk, their clothes are accidentally ignited by flames, and the fat under the skin The tissue is liquefied due to high temperature and begins to slowly soak into the clothing, the clothing becomes like a candle wick, while the human body becomes wax, continuously providing fuel until the entire body burns slowly.”

After he finished talking, he looked at the little apprentice who didn't seem to understand, and laughed again: "Someone put clothes on pigs and did a similar experiment. The burning lasted for more than five hours. The overall fire is not big, but the temperature can reach more than 300 degrees. Pigs The bone bursts under the high temperature, and the bone marrow will further infiltrate the clothing and bone fragments after the bone marrow flows out. After the clothing is burned, the bone fragments become new 'candle wicks', and finally the pig's body is completely burned out, leaving only a small amount of ashes and some dripping Splashed grease, but the surrounding environment has not been greatly affected, and even the floor has not been burned, which is consistent with the traces left by most of the spontaneous combustion of the human body, so I think this is the most reasonable explanation for the 'spontaneous human combustion phenomenon' at present."

Kakumaru Snow made up his mind, thinking about a pig in clothes with shallow flames all over his body, slowly melting, and shivering instantly, with goosebumps, and said very regretfully: "Master, You don't need to explain it in such detail, it's all a bit..."

If she had known it would be so uncomfortable, she wouldn't have asked, she knew it was useless!

It's really not good to say this kind of thing to children, and they might wet the bed at night, Qiyuan Wu nodded and smiled: "Okay, next time I'll say it differently."

Qing Jian Liuli didn't feel disgusted, but felt that she had learned a lot. She had only heard about "spontaneous human combustion" before, and she had always been dubious. She felt that people were inexplicably burned to ashes. It felt like it could make sense too.

But she couldn't help asking: "The local police seem to think it was not an accident. What do you think is the reason?"

"There are too many possibilities, and I can't tell if I haven't been to the scene." Qi Yuanwu is not a god, and the ghost knows what the local police are thinking.

Qing Jian Liuli immediately probed: "Then... shall I take you to see it now?"

Qiyuan Wu gave her a sideways look, and said with a smile: "You are here again, there is no need at all. If the local police characterize it as an accident, then we can take a look to avoid any mistakes, but now the police have obviously discovered something, and it has been Now that we are investigating, we somehow intervene in other people's work, in case we are scolded, will it be your fault?"

Qingjian Liuli thinks about it too, maybe the police already have clues to pursue, and they haven't searched the hotel extensively, they are probably busy somewhere, maybe they won't be needed at all.

Let's take a look first and then talk, anyway, I probably know what's going on.

She put the matter aside for the time being, and asked Kakumaruyuki and Naokawa Aoi, "Do you want to take a bath with me?"

There is a mountain spring bath in the hotel, and she wants to experience it when she has nothing to do.Kakumaruyuki was the first to agree immediately, jumped up and said, "I'll go with you, Sister Liuli!"

"Then let's go!"

Qingjian Liuli took Naokawa Aoi and Kakumaruyuki, who couldn't express their opinions, to take a bath together, and it took more than three hours to go there, and it was completely dark before she came back with two little apprentices, with a very serious expression on her face. happy.

The hotel's mountain spring bathing place is well maintained. The mountain spring water comes from high mountains. It's cool but not ice. It's still in a bamboo forest, which is perfect for cooling off the heat. And the little dumbbird is also very fun. It's really dumb. Put it in the pool. She can float up in a daze by herself, and she is very obedient, she has no problem with how to play with her, she is very lovable.

In the future, she would like to have such a daughter, but now she can make do with such a young apprentice.

Naokawa Aoi seemed to be having a bit of fun too, and when she came back, she stretched out her small hand to Takeshi Qihara, indicating that she smelled of bamboo, and showed Takeshi Qiyuan a handful of bamboo leaves in her hand, saying that she found it in the pool New friends, want to bring back.

Takeshi Qihara understood what she was saying, smiled and patted her head, indicating that it was okay.

Naokawa Aoi immediately gave him a smiling face, sat beside him and started fiddling with the bamboo leaves in her hand, not knowing what roles these bamboo leaves were assigned in her mind.

Kakumaruyuki also fell in love with this hotel a little bit, the bamboo forest is elegant and quiet, and the mountain spring is clear, it is really a good place to escape the summer heat.

She discussed with Qingjian Liuli to go soaking again tomorrow, ordered dinner by the way, the four of them ate another delicious meal, and then sat on the wooden corridor to enjoy the cool mountain breeze - at night, the wind direction changed and the wind started Blowing from the land to the sea, the wind is full of grass and trees.

Qing Jian Liuli holds a cup of hot tea, takes a sip of the cool mountain breeze, and secretly hums, feeling that staying in a hotel is very comfortable, without doing housework or studying, stretching out his hands for clothes and opening his mouth, at most Look at the child, it's very relaxed, let her live like this for the rest of her life, it's not impossible to discuss.

Takeshi Qihara was also very satisfied. Looking at the stars in the sky, he taught Aoi Naokawa and Yuki Kakumaru how to identify the constellations, taught them how to determine the current time and approximate location through the stars, and even broke two small grasshoppers for them with bamboo leaves.

Aoi Naokawa stared blankly at the bright starry sky with her small face up. Although she didn't know what Takeshi Qihara said would be of any use to her, she still memorized it blankly.

On the contrary, Kakumaruyuki was not very interested in these things, and when Takeshi Nanahara's words came to an end, he took out a pair of Monopoly game chess from his luggage, and wanted to play it for most of the night.

Escaping, no, the first day of summer vacation passed like this, except that one person died in the hotel, nothing special happened.

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The next day, Qing saw that Liuli hadn't finished her morning exercise, and she opened her eyes at almost eight o'clock—I slept a bit late last night, and it was a holiday, so the morning exercise time was postponed appropriately—she opened her eyes and put Kadomaruyuki and Naokawa Aoi together. After tossing, I took my two little apprentices to exercise and learn women's self-defense.

She has long wanted to train the little apprentices, but she has never had the chance, and now is just right.

Kakumaruyuki was not too happy, but the master, Takeshi Qihara, had something to say beforehand, and he couldn't handle the "uncle" Qing Jian Liuli, no, it was a mountain guardian beast, and he was forced to start practicing, ready to learn casually, but Naokawa Aoi was very obedient, She has been following Qingjian Liuli's buttocks blankly, doing whatever she is asked to do, but unfortunately she is too young, so she only needs some practice before being sent back.

She didn't go back to her room, and ran to Qiyuan Wu's place, without any movement, she sat down and continued to play with her bamboo leaves.

After nine o'clock, Nanahara Takeshi, who slept very comfortably, got up, yawned and went to wash up, and then took Naokawa Aoi's little hand to walk around the hotel kitchen, checked the freshness of the ingredients, and ordered breakfast by the way.

After breakfast, the four of them went to visit the temple on the nearby mountain together, but there was nothing interesting about that small temple. The main scenery was...the local cemetery.

Japanese people live in shrines, get married in churches, and die in temples. The main function of Japanese temples is to provide funeral services. Most of the residents of the nearby towns are buried here after death, but there is nothing gloomy here. The cemetery It is full of stone Buddha statues and Guanyin statues, plus artificially planted trees, it looks like a small mountain park, and it does look like a small scenic spot.

The abbot monk is not an eminent monk, he has hair, and the temple inherits the ancestral business. The position of abbot is also a part-time job. The main job is a stonemason. He carved the stone Buddhas in the cemetery himself, and he also sells things like tombstones. It can be regarded as a good combination of main job and part-time job, and can be self-produced and sold.

By the way, Japanese monks not only have hair, but also have wives. The abbot monk and his wife are both shogi enthusiasts.

This monk is a bit fake, but he is not a bad person. It is rare for a small temple to have visitors, but he is warmly entertained, especially when I heard that Takeshi Qihara is here to see the big game of shogi. I think he is also a shogi enthusiast, and I am very interested in it, so I tried it out After two rounds, Wu Qiyuan didn't even need to move. The little Dumbbird killed the old monk so pale and trembling that he directly conceded the defeat in the middle of the round.

The old monk is very addicted to cooking, and he wants to practice with the little dumb bird again, but at least he remembers that they came to see something new, and in the end they even saved the incense money, so they took them directly to the chess room of the big game - more than 800 chess pieces The chessboard was too big, and it was inconvenient to make paper or wood, so the old man simply carved it on the floor of the room, and took out the copied "rules of the overall game" to show them.

There is a king in the overall shogi game, but killing the king is not the end of the game. There is still a prince under the king, and the prince must be killed as well. The rules of playing chess are completely different from the current shogi. Memorizing more than 400 pieces is enough for ordinary people For those who drink a pot, don't talk about different moves, different functions, and different promotion rules.

Fortunately, both Takeshi Qiyuan and Aoi Naokawa are not normal people, and both of them can remember it with their photographic eyes. Takeshi Qiyuan roughly figured it out after reading the book, and then told Aoi Naokawa, the little dumb bird also remembered it.

The two of them immediately started to try the big game of shogi. In the Nanahara game, they held wooden poles to push the pieces on the outer circle of the board. Naokawa Aoi simply walked around on the board, but the whole person seemed even more dazed. Mosquito-repellent eyes are about to appear, and it seems that the brain is not enough after walking a few dozen steps.

The abbot and the monk watched the game nervously, but Qing saw that Liuli was not at a disadvantage, and looked at the chess game with a serious expression.

Kakumaruyuki looked at her, and said softly, "Sister Liuli, stop pretending, you don't understand, let's go out and play!"

In such a short period of time, she couldn't even remember what the more than 400 chess pieces were for, let alone those messy rules, and she couldn't understand how to play at all. I guess the idiot "Sister Liuli" has been stupid for a long time.

Qing Jian Liuli was really dizzy. Looking at the chessboard, she was mainly thinking about what kind of psychopath would invent this kind of chess. Do normal people play chess?

Forget about changing the name to Freak Chess, only Takeshi Qihara and Aoi Naokawa can play, and anyone else who plays will get sick!
But she didn't want to look too stupid, and she was a little afraid of Qiyuan Wu turning around and saying strange things, so she hummed in a low voice: "I'll understand after a while, but...you are young, I guess you can't sit still, if you want to go out to play , I will accompany you to go around the mountain."

She was being stubborn, Kakumaruyuki didn't like this, stood up and laughed softly: "Sister Liuli, please continue to study here, I'll go out by myself."

Qingjian Liuli rolled her eyes at her, got up and followed, "No, I don't worry about you running around on the mountain by yourself, I'd better go with you!"

Cut, the little thing has no filial piety at all, yesterday I washed your hair for you, and I helped you catch bubbles for a long time!

Kakumaruyuki held her down with a smile, "I really don't need it, I won't run far, sister Liuli should stay here and continue studying!"

"No, I have to watch you, otherwise you will get lost later, and your master will definitely scold me!"

Qingjian Liuli didn't want to sit here stupidly for a long time, and said hello to the abbot and monk, then pushed Kakumaruyuki out, and started to wander around the temple at will, but this small temple is just a big courtyard, with a history of less than a hundred years , they are not even counted as historical sites, there is really nothing to see, they probably turned around and left the temple gate, and began to wander on the mountain.

The scenery of the cemetery is not bad, but going to the cemetery...it's a bit too much, so they planned to go around the side of the cemetery and climb to the top of the mountain to see the scenery, but they didn't go far before Kadomaruyuki stopped , pointing to the bottom of the mountain road and said strangely: "Sister Liuli, there seems to be a small bag there."

There were not many people coming by the side of the cemetery, and the mountain road was a bit difficult to walk. Qing Jian Liuli was carefully exploring the road. Hearing the reputation, he looked over and looked carefully for a long time before he found that there seemed to be a white palm-sized stone mixed in between the gravel at the foot of the mountain road. The small cloth bag is very inconspicuous - if Kakumaruyuki hadn't been trained recently and has sharp eyes, it would be really difficult for ordinary people to notice it in the gravel.

She couldn't help but also wondered: "Someone lost something?"

"You pull me, Sister Liuli." Kakumaru Yuki took Qingjian Liuli's hand, leaned down to the bottom of the mountain path, tried to stretch her short legs, picked up the small cloth bag with the tip of her toes.

Qingjian Liuli caught it, shook it, opened the bag, and poured the contents into the palm of his hand, and found that it was a 1-yen brass coin, which is relatively rare nowadays. Looking at the white denim bag, he couldn't help but feel even more strange, "This Is it a coin purse?"

Kakumaruyuki glanced at it, counted the number of coins, and found that it was only six yen, which was enough to buy a piece of candy, so she immediately ignored it and said, "Let's go, Sister Liuli."

"I don't know who dropped it, go back and ask the master abbot!"

The amount of money was too small, and Qing Jian Liuli didn't care about it, so he stuffed the small cloth bag into his pocket and continued to lead the little apprentice to climb the mountain.

Half an hour later, they successfully climbed to the top of the hill. After enjoying the surrounding mountain scenery, they went back the same way laughing and discussing whether to go shopping in the town, catch octopus at the beach, or simply go back to the hotel to soak in the mountain spring. Entering the big chess room like this, I found that Takeshi Qihara was walking around the chessboard touching his chin, and Aoi Naokawa was standing on the chessboard staring at a piece of chess pieces in a daze.

Qingjian Liuli asked in a low voice, "How long will it take to finish?"

Qiyuan Budao: "Three days...well, six days, about half a day every day, so that Xiaokui won't be too tired."

Qingjian Liuli is speechless, will this crazy chess be played for six days?

But she didn't say anything, just come out to play, what's not to play, the little silly bird likes to play chess, Qiyuan Wu also wants to experience the complete game of big game shogi, so let them play!

She turned to ask: "Where is the abbot master?"

"Something happened in the town, he went down the mountain." Qiyuan Wu didn't take his eyes off the chessboard, answered absently, and then asked casually, "What's the matter, what can I do with him?"

Qingjian Liuli took out a small white cloth bag and handed it to him, "I found six yen coins on the mountain. I don't know who lost them. I wanted to give them to him. If he's not here, just put them in the incense box?"

The money is too little, probably no one cares, and she doesn't want to go to the owner again.

"Six yen money?" Takeshi Qiyuan took his attention away from the chess game, looked at the small cloth bag, frowned, and asked strangely, "How did you pick up this kind of thing, and where did you pick it up?"

"Under the mountain road." Qing Jian Liuli was puzzled, "What's the matter, is there any problem?"

Qiyuan Wu took two steps to the side, moved away from her, and motioned for her to open the small bag, took a look inside, and found that there were indeed six coins, and said with a frown: "Of course there is a problem, this is not the money that a living person should take, It shouldn't be in your hands..."

Qing Jian Liuli was stunned for a moment: "It's not the money that living people should take... What do you mean?"

Takeshi Qiyuan took another two steps away, and said: "It means the funerary objects. It is the ferry money used by the deceased to cross the Santu River. It should have been tied around the waist of the deceased. It is absolutely impossible to leave the body. There is no reason." Picked up by you."

tied around the waist of the dead...

Qingjian Liuli looked at the white cloth bag in her hand, and finally came to her senses, she threw the cloth bag out with a shake of her hand, and the six copper coins rolled all over the floor in an instant.

Bastard, how did I find the money of the dead?

Isn't it daytime?

　I'm guilty, I'm trying to recover...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)