Ying Lili nodded slowly in agreement, "Yeah."

Chapter 15 Clothing store, reunion (3)

"Don't agree in this kind of place, there are only three of us, it's easy to become two-on-one..." Wan Lihua couldn't help laughing, stretched out his hand and gently pushed Hayasaka, "Did you do it on purpose? Suddenly you started to run on me."

"How come, I'm just stating the facts." The smile in Hayasaka's eyes was also a little thicker, which shows that she is in a pretty good mood at the moment.

Seeing Wan Lihua and Hayasaka smiling, Ying Lili was also infected by this atmosphere, but just as the smile rose to her lips, she was washed away by the bitterness lingering in her heart.

Not wanting to spoil the mood of the two of them, she subconsciously lowered her head to hide, and her eyes naturally fell on the information sheet left in the middle of the counter.

Seeing the handwriting that read "Tangerine Sixteen Nights", Ying Lili couldn't help being attracted to the handwriting. The owner of the writing was undoubtedly what her mother had mentioned... Wan Lihua's brother.

Otherwise, it would be too coincidental for a completely irrelevant person with the surname Ju to appear here.

Shizayoi's handwriting is clean and neat, and the brush strokes between the strokes are a bit flamboyant, which reminds Ying Lili of Dianthus... It's just that it is different from Dianthus's jumping and wanton, but the handwriting in front of her is obviously full of restraint, which fits her mother's description, but at the age of 17, she can take care of affairs on behalf of the head of the Tachibana family.

And most importantly...

"What's wrong? Is there anything wrong here?"

In the end, Ying Lili's attention stayed too long, and the two people who were joking also noticed, Wan Lihua asked quickly, and turned the paper over to look at it.

"Ah, it's nothing..." Ying Lili was inexplicably embarrassed, "I just think... Wan Lihua's brother writes beautifully."

It was not right to be so abruptly interested in a stranger's handwriting.

"It's beautiful, probably better than the handwriting on the greeting card sent by Miss Wanlihua." Hayasaka complained calmly.

Wan Lihua pursed her lips, "My handwriting is not ugly."

"Indeed." Hayasaka nodded, "It's just not enough."

"Okay, okay, since the person you are comparing with is my elder brother, I don't care about it." Wan Lihua rested her chin with one hand.

Although the face is full of jokes, there is a bit of drumming in the heart.

Personally, she wished she could pull the collars of these two people now and tell them that that person was still alive and more outstanding than before.

But before Shizaye left, he repeatedly told him to keep it secret.

Now it won't be revealed because of the handwriting...

However, Ying Lili didn't pursue the question any further, she looked back thoughtfully with somewhat troubled eyes.Just at this time Sayuri had already got the uniform she wanted and walked out.

"Yinglili, do you want to chat with your friends for a while? Then mom will wait for you outside."

"No, no need..." Ying Lili shook her head hastily, she looked at the two who hadn't seen each other for seven years, although they were still recognizable in appearance, they were no longer as immature as they were seven years ago, and looked even more youthful.

It's been so long since I took a good look in the mirror, what should I look like now.Ying Lili asked herself silently in her heart.

"Hey? Are you leaving?" Wan Lihua was very reluctant.

"I'm sorry, let's talk again next time." Ying Lili finally smiled, but felt a little sorry, "I want to go back first, and I didn't clean up properly when I went out today."

Wan Lihua's eyes sparkled, "Yes, then you can come to my house to play next time, or I will take Hayasaka to your house to play with you."

"Hey... ah, yes, yes." Ying Lili froze for a moment, almost unable to react.

"By the way, let's exchange contact information by the way, and so does Xiao Ai." Wan Lihua happily took out her phone.

"Well, I mean, so I can pass the time." Hayasaka said nonchalantly.

"Let me tell you, if you really have a complaint, just say it..." Wan Lihua retorted with a smile.

Then Ying Lili hurriedly took out her mobile phone at the urging of the two and exchanged contact information again.She almost forgot to bring her mobile phone before she went out, and her mother reminded her to take it.

Sayuri's original intention was to avoid getting separated from Yinglili on the street so that she could find her, but now she didn't expect it to come in handy for other purposes.

After exchanging contact information, Wan Lihua said goodbye to Sayuri politely, and then watched them leave.

"Actually, you don't have to do that." Hayasaka spoke slowly after they disappeared outside the door.

Wan Lihua was taken aback for a moment, looking puzzled, "I just want to re-establish contact, is it too hasty?"

"No, I mean...you don't need to learn the way of Shizhu to communicate, just be yourself." Hayasaka shook his head, "A person can't live like another person after all, and Shizhu definitely doesn't want to see you like this."

"Uh...not really." Wan Lihuaxin said that it was probably the influence of getting along with him day and night for seven years.

"Wanlihua itself has such a warm and hospitable personality. I think maybe Hayasaka-san thinks too much."

Izayoi's voice sounded leisurely at this moment, startling the two of them again.

"Measured?" Wan Lihua asked with a smile.

"Measured." Izayoi nodded.

It's a bad habit to disappear without a sound and appear again without a sound.Hayasaka murmured inwardly.

"Master Tachibana taught me that I was the one who talked too much." Hayasaka nodded.

"Ah...I'm just explaining for Wan Lihua..." Shiliuye pointed at himself, "Is my tone bad?"

"I think it's your sudden appearance that frightened people!" Wan Lihua frowned, she didn't know what to say.

Sure enough, he is also a person who can't put on airs, Hayasaka thinks that he is overthinking, "I'm just joking, please don't take offense."

"Really..." Shiliuye picked up the list and prepared to give it to the clerk, "Wan Lihua was busy chatting, so she didn't know how to give this to the clerk for me. It was so lively just now, I heard it all inside."

"Yes, it's a pity that you didn't get to meet Ying Lili." Wan Lihua said sincerely.

In response to this, Izayoi tapped her head lightly with a piece of paper, and said with a low laugh, "What are you talking about..."

For a moment, even Wan Lihua couldn't hear his emotions at the moment, and could only watch him dully as he went to give the things and then returned.

"By the way, my father called me just now and asked me to go over there for a while. I can't accompany you to dinner later." Sixteen nights said seriously.

"It's business, right, I know." Wan Lihua didn't care about it, she said obediently: "You go, it's not bad once or twice."

"But the restaurant has already been reserved." Izayo raised his finger, "That restaurant has a high score, and the taste is said to be good, but it's a pity to make a reservation in advance."

Hearing this, Hayasaka felt that it was too late for him to leave, but there was no need to leave.

"So if it's convenient, can Ms. Hayasaka have a meal with Wan Lihua?" Shizayo asked calmly, "It happens that you are old friends, so having a meal together is better than chatting here."

"I'd love to, but today's not a day off..." Hayasaka said.

"It's simple, just explain that I met Wanlihua who went out to relax, but she is not very familiar with the changes in Tokyo these years, and she doesn't know the way, so you accompany her around." Sixteen nights suggested without thinking, "Afterwards, in the name of Wanlihua, just send a thank you gift to the door to confirm, how about it?"

"Perfect." Wan Lihua clapped her hands.

"As a temporary idea, it's not bad." Sixteen nights responded to Wanlihua quite proudly.

Hayasaka shook her head involuntarily. She didn't doubt that it was some kind of calculation, but it was just that it was so well arranged when there was something temporary, so it was reasonable that Wan Lihua would like it so much.

"In that case, I'd rather be respectful than obedient." Hayasaka said to Izayoi, "Master Tachibana, please worry about it."

"Ah."

It was not easy for Izayoi to correct her politeness, so he nodded.

"Then I'll be excused."

After waving hands with Wan Lihua quietly, he opened the door and walked into the bright spring street.

No.16 The Rumor of the Murderer (1)

After having a working meeting with his subordinates, Ju Yan, who returned to the office, saw Izayoi sitting on the reception sofa in front of the desk drinking tea, without moving his eyelids, he closed the door naturally and walked over, putting the things in his hand on the table.

"Come on, how's your date with Wan Li going?"

"What else can I do? After all, Father said yesterday that he had something to ask me for, so I can only temporarily cancel it." Shizaiye said innocently, "You can't blame me like this, can you?"

"Really." Ju Yan was noncommittal, he sighed, "I have wronged that child, if the case hadn't been progressing, I wouldn't have called you here now."

Izayo put down his teacup and shook his head calmly, "It's all right, I just met Hayasaka in a clothing store, so I temporarily changed the itinerary and asked Hayasaka to accompany Wan Lihua for dinner."

Ju Yan was taken aback, "Hayasaka...it was the Shinomiya family who sent me to the prison—"

"Hush..." Izayo made a silent gesture, "Even if this is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Department, be careful that the walls have ears."

"Heh, he's really a cautious guy." Ju Yan was helpless, so he didn't continue talking.

In order to show his sincerity in joining the Tachibana Family, Izayoi confided a lot of information about the Shinomiya Family to Tachibana Chika and Pan, and the husband-in-law Juyan, who was not in charge, only heard a little from his wife when he was staying at the Tachibana Family in Kyushu.

As an elder himself, he didn't have a bad impression of that little girl. On the contrary, after hearing about it, he saw in Ai Hayasaka that she was involuntarily similar to his wife, and couldn't help feeling sympathetic.

It's just that the police chief who is not good at expressing his emotions and always has a straight face, this kind of mood is not even known to Izayoi.

"In short, although it is still the same, I think there is no problem for now, it's just a meal." Sixteen nights smiled.

"Wanli...have you said that?" Ju Yan asked.

"Regardless of their identities and stances, we really had a sincere relationship back then, so there was no need to add too much psychological burden to her." Shizaiye pointed at his cheek, "Wan Lihua is different from me, she has a straightforward temper. She knows this kind of thing, and she can't pretend to be ignorant."

"Dare to say it, boy. Can you know Wanli better than me, a father?" Ju Yan picked up a folder and threw it in front of Shizaye, "This is what I said before."

"After all, my father is busy with work, and I might be the one who spends more time with Wan Lihua." Shiliuye picked up the folder and read it, "Well... these are all files that are handled internally."

While Izayoi was looking through, Juyan sat down and looked at Izayoi.

"In the beginning, some gangsters died." Ju Yan said calmly, "I thought it was a private fight to kill people..."

"Then several gangsters died, including the gangsters who were hostile to the first deceased, which looked very much like seeking revenge—" Shizayoi repeated the general situation of the case.

"As a result, an official who had secret dealings with the underworld died in his residence last month. We only found out about this after investigating the home." Ju Yan folded his arms, his face serious, "Originally, we wanted to investigate in the direction of silence—"

But unexpectedly there was no resistance. At first, Juyan thought that there were no higher-level government personnel involved, but who knew it would stop here, without any progress.

Originally thought that there would be a backlog of unsolved cases again, Ju Yan didn't intend to continue asking, and wanted the departments in charge of these cases to continue to deal with them.

"Judging from the current situation of the deceased, the scene of the crime, and the forensic examination... it really doesn't seem to matter." Izayoi said lightly, "But I think the police officers of the Metropolitan Police Department should have discovered that every deceased died cleanly, and all of them were fatal with one blow."

Or the neck, or the heart, or even the brain.The dead were all instantly killed by devastating injuries.

There is no resistance, no torture, and no trace of fighting.

"The site has been investigated, and all of them are located in surveillance or inaccessible places." Ju Yan said.

It's just that, Juyan was still thinking about what direction to ask the police to investigate, but when Izayoi heard about it, he threw out a noun lightly.

Zero Saki is a thief.

Like an urban legend, a group of murderers who were active in the past and disappeared many years ago.

If it is the group of monsters who have honed their killing skills to the extreme, maybe this is really possible.

And that's where the problem lies.

Izayoi can guess like this, but the police chief can't hand over a clue like an urban legend. It's okay for subordinates to have doubts. The difficulty is that there is no guarantee that the idea that even this clue is not counted will be taken seriously and taken as the main direction of detection.

——On the premise that the difficulty of investigation is excluded.

"So I'm a little embarrassed that Father is so interested in one of my jokes." Izayo roughly scanned the file and closed it, "I just think it might be like this... Irresponsible, it can even be said to be very interesting."

"What?" Ju Yan frowned.

Izayo spread his hands, "There are too few clues in the case, and I didn't come to Tokyo for vacation... I have to go to school and take care of Tachibana's family in Tokyo for my mother."

The implication is that he does not intend to help at all, and secretly intervenes in the investigation of these cases.

"I don't intend to help." Ju Yan was very calm, "Then you go back, it's still early, maybe go back, and we can watch a movie together."

"... Huh?" Shizaiye felt that this did not seem like Juyan's straightforward attitude.

He was so concerned about this unsolved case that he pulled Shizayo over. It was impossible for Shizayo to say "it can't be done" and leave after reading it.

"After all, Wan Li also complained to me, saying that you are too busy and have less time to spend with her recently." Ju Yan's tone was deep, "Okay, you can go, I'll just talk to Wan Li about it later."

"Say..." Izayo grinned, "What are you going to say, Father?"

"Let's think about it, tell Wanli how troublesome this is, even you can't do anything about it." Ju Yan was thoughtful, "It's rare that you abandon your date with her and come here, the child will be sad, right?"

"Hey, hey... Father, you are going too far, Wan Lihua is your precious daughter, and you are willing to make her sad?"

"No way, children always have to suffer a little to grow up." Ju Yan put on a strict father's attitude.

Everyone knows that he usually dotes on Wan Lihua the most, and it is thanks to Shiliuye's staring that Wan Lihua did not develop an arrogant character.

There is no doubt that Tachibana is using this excuse to "threat" Izayoi.

Of course, strength can also be equated with non-existence.

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