murder begins in summer

Risako Eguchi was wearing a patterned gray double-breasted coat with a loose and thick hemp-yellow sweater skirt underneath, and she was standing at the door dragging a large suitcase, smiling docilely in the morning light.

It's hard to connect her with the assassination on a cruise ship more than a year ago.

After shaking hands with the three brothers one by one, she bowed again, said "sorry for the sudden visit", and greeted their old father who was far away in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and then let the housekeeper accept her few gifts , put away his suitcase again, and sat down on the sofa.

There are three sofas in the living room, one long and two short. On the long sofa, Qiu Shili sat next to Shi Zhanyang, imitating his eldest brother, and gracefully raised one leg.On the short sofa, Shi Yizhou and Li Saeko were sitting cross-legged absent-mindedly across the coffee table.

Risako glanced over the tall Renaissance sculpture by the fireplace, and then at Cézanne on the wall, "Christmas—does my cousin have any vacation plans?" She warmed her hands with a cup of tea and asked casually, Japanese used.

Shi Zhanyang looked at her with a smile, "It depends on what Miss Jiangkou does."

Risako also laughed, "Oh, it's really embarrassing to say it," she lowered her eyes loosely, "I just came out to escape. Taking advantage of the lack of things recently, I will travel for a few days and hide from my uncle and aunt at home."

Shi Zhanyang nodded and listened silently.

Risako said distressed again: "I really don't understand them. Not only do they introduce me to strange partners every day, but they also recruit me in college, recruit those little boys with acne, and force me to meet them, as if I It’s like being unable to get married for the rest of your life.” She took a small sip of her black tea, then carefully wiped off the lipstick stains on the rim of the cup with a handkerchief, “I deserve to be the group leader, I’m so useless and ashamed!”

Shi Zhanyang showed a kind and clear expression, "The elders are like this. If you don't have a family when you reach the age, you will inevitably be anxious."

"Oh, the reasoning goes like this," Lisako sighed for a long time, and suddenly looked at Shi Yizhou, "Second cousin——no, second cousin, should we be the same age?"

Shi Yizhou couldn't understand Japanese, sitting here was just a monk ringing the bell, he didn't seem to expect that he would be questioned, he just pulled up his mask for a while, looking suspiciously at this man whom he only met a few times when he was a child relatives.

So Risako asked again in English.

"I'm 21 years old." Shi Yizhou tried to correct the pronunciation distortion caused by the air leakage of the teeth.

"Me too." Risako stroked her hair and smiled softly, "The month should be earlier than you, remember you were born in summer."

Shi Yizhou didn't answer any more, he seemed a little surprised, but didn't believe her.After all, the Eguchi Group has only had a notoriety in the Shi family recently, and it's not that he doesn't understand.

After that, the few people chatted for a while, basically Risako was chattering, Shi Zhanyang answered her politely, and Qiu Shili occasionally answered a few questions.Risako didn't seem to intend to treat herself as an outsider, so she was taken by the housekeeper to tour around the small building, amazed all the way, and then strolled for two steps in the guest room area on the third floor, obviously wanting to stay. Zhan Yang followed behind as a landlord, and could see everything clearly, but he didn't accept her at all.

"Uncle Feng," Shi Zhanyang reminded the housekeeper in the corridor, "Get the car ready, and send Miss Jiangkou to the hotel to rest after lunch. In the past few days, ask a few guys to accompany her all the way, and take care of her carefully."

Risako looked back at him, and said with a smile: "What should I do? I went to several houses to ask, and I came to join my cousin because there was no vacancy. San Francisco is so big, there is no room for me, right?"

"Don't worry, don't worry," Shi Zhanyang said patiently, and greeted her outside the guest room, "Some bosses are my friends."

Hearing this, Risako didn't insist anymore, and walked out of the room honestly.After being around for so long, no one is a person who can't understand.The lunch afterwards was also amicable, but Shi Zhanyang left the table temporarily to answer an emergency call, and when he came back, his expression remained the same, and no one asked him what was wrong, only Qiu Shili gave him a new bowl of hot black-bone chicken soup.

Before leaving, Risako stood at the door when she came, glanced at the second child who was on the dining table without taking off his mask, and suddenly said: "Cousin, can I ask your second brother to take me to the hotel? I haven't said a few words...I've been going around by myself these few days, and I don't need you to accompany me."

Her tone sounded very polite, Shi Zhanyang handed her leather gloves to her, "Of course you have to ask my second brother himself."

Risako stuffed her red slender hands into her fingertips, raised her eyebrows, and looked at Shi Yizhou, "Is that okay?" She asked softly.

Under the mask, Shi Yizhou was expressionless and didn't take his coat. He just put his pockets in his pocket and slowly went down the steps in front of the door. He pulled open the door of the old Cadillac, dragged the driver out, sat in and honked the horn.

Risako seemed to be very happy, she stepped down a few steps on her high heels, her movements were as light as an ordinary girl, "Cousin, Third Cousin," she turned back to say goodbye, "Goodbye, I'm sorry to interrupt you rashly."

"Goodbye." The two on the steps waved to her.

Shi Yizhou drove very fast, didn't say a word on the road, didn't even look at Li Saeko, just rolled the window to the lowest position, let the cold wind blow in, and filled the car.

"Are you sulking?" Risako said, "I might understand what's wrong with you."

Shi Yizhou sneered and dismissed it.

Risako was not annoyed, she actually shut up too, and just kept quiet all the way.

Arriving at the door of the hotel contacted by the butler, the cold winter sunlight leaked through the gaps between the buildings, hit the glass, and reflected into the interior of the car.The doorman was dressed very thinly and straightly, and came up to them in twos and threes and helped them open the car door.

But Risako was not in a hurry to go down, she raised her hand suddenly, and while Shi Yizhou was reacting, she took off his mask.

"It's more handsome not to wear it." She blinked, and the English with a Japanese accent seemed very gentle.

Shi Yizhou wanted to snatch it, but she dodged it again, "You will be more handsome if you don't sulk." She put the mask on her face directly, and carefully took off the hair and earrings in the earbands. come out.

"It's none of your business." Shi Yizhou lowered his head, took out an iron box from his trouser pocket, and poured a handful of pills into his hand.

"Do you like candy?"

Shi Yizhou sneered, showing [-]% contempt in front of this female underworld leader who insisted on pretending to be innocent, "Then your organization makes money by selling sugar."

Risako was still not angry, she put a small object in his palm, suppressed the pile of black pills, "Try this."

Shi Yizhou stared at the small square wrapped in gray-green sugar wrapper, "What is this?"

"My favorite candy, matcha toffee, is very common in department stores in Japan," Risako said, peeling one for herself, removing the mask and putting it in her mouth, "sweetness makes me relax , maybe it will make you happy?"

Shi Yizhou responded, sprinkled the handful of black "sugar pills" casually, stuffed the taffy and the iron box into the pocket of his trousers, put his hands on the steering wheel, closed his mouth tightly, his face full of eyes. A kind of chaser without squinting.

Risako smiled, and was helped out of the car by the doorman. She bent down and leaned back to ask, "Are you going home?"

"Do not."

"Where to go then?"

"Las Vegas." Shi Yizhou turned around, pulled off her mask, and made a gesture to close the car door, "Don't see you again!"

"If you don't hate it, welcome to find me in Kyoto! Anytime!" Shi Yizhou heard Risako shouting so loudly through a layer of iron shell, and he didn't look in that direction again.The mask I put back on again has a powdery smell that is common to women, but it is mixed with a faint sweet smell, stuffy between the mouth and nose.Unconsciously, he took out the toffee, peeled off the wrapper, and put it in his mouth.

unpalatable.toothache.The Japanese are all the same.he thought so.Then he sprinted onto the highway, speeding up and throwing his phone out the car window.

Shi Yizhou really went in the direction of Las Vegas.

On the other side, Shi Zhanyang also received a notice from his subordinates, confirming that Risako Eguchi entered the hotel alone.In fact, he could see from the very beginning that this so-called cousin was very interested in the second child. Of course, he would not naively think that this woman was looking for a marriage partner-the so-called drunkard didn't mean to drink.Shi Zhanyang had sufficient reason to speculate that most of the reasons for her coming all the way were Qiu Shili.

Two days ago, he released a message that he took the fourth child to Hawaii to visit his father, leaving the second and third child at home.

Risako came here today after hearing the news.

What Shi Zhanyang wanted to prove was confirmed.He never believed in any coincidences—when he met Risako's perfect smile, he became more and more certain in his heart that regarding the rubidium ore and the whereabouts of that chip, the Eguchi Group had already regarded Qiu Shili as an extremely important object of attention.As for the existence of the omamori with the other half of the information, he was still not sure how much the Eguchi group knew.

Thinking about it this way, Yizhou's purpose when Risako approaches is very obvious. He at least has a place in this family, and he is also the corner that is most likely to be broken or spoiled.Li Saeko asked the second child to give it to her, which was also expected by Shi Zhanyang. Although the second child did not know any effective information, he still didn't want to suffer from a stumbling block from his own family at this juncture, so while answering the phone at lunch, A large number of men were arranged to prepare for surveillance.

He was relieved to learn that the second child drove to Las Vegas and spent a lot of money to gamble on Vietnamese beauties.

After receiving this news, dozens of hours after Lisazi left the manor, Shi Zhanyang was flying over the Pacific Ocean, and Qiu Shili and Lao Si were beside him.But they didn't want to avoid the unexpected guest, nor did they go on vacation. The phone call at lunch was actually from my father's nurse, who actually said that he had a blood clot in his head, and the medical conditions on the island were limited, and the patient's physical condition was not suitable. Flying at high altitude, there may be a big problem.

The fourth child didn't seem to care much about this, and had already fallen asleep with the puppy in his arms, while Qiu Shili, with dark circles under his eyes, was using Shi Zhanyang's computer, anxiously rushing to the small island with a few The brain surgery specialist sent an email.

After typing the email finally, he raised his head and found that his eldest brother hung up the phone at some point and was on the opposite sofa, looking at him intently.

"Sleep for a while." Shi Zhanyang threw over a blanket.

Qiu Shili walked up to him with a blanket in his arms, forced him to sit down, and covered the two of them with the blanket, "Will he die?"

"Maybe." Shi Zhanyang put his arms around his younger brother, took his leg and put it on his lap, and said calmly.

Qiu Shili fell silent, curled up his legs, and laid his upper body quietly on the elder brother's chest.

Shi Zhanyang knew he wasn't asleep, so after a moment of silence, he asked, "Nana, what are you thinking?"

"I was thinking, he's actually pretty pathetic."

"Yes."

Shi Zhanyang's logic is that the saddest thing about this incident is that at this age, when his father was seriously ill, none of the four sons under his name seemed to be really sad for him.

But the father himself should know the reason for this best.

"I'm still thinking," Qiu Shili said again slowly, his breath was moist and warm, "It's so comfortable to be hugged, if on the day I die, brother is next to me, holding me like this, my death It wouldn't be sad."

Shi Zhanyang laughed, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

Qiu Shili lay down, raised his eyelids and looked at his elder brother, "We are all going to die, and we all have to admit it."

Shi Zhanyang lightened his hand and touched his eyelids like soap bubbles, "You are not the age to think about this issue."

"When we are old? We are sick like our father, and we can't even sit on the plane."

Shi Zhanyang smiled, he pinched Qiu Shili's nose, and twisted it like a punishment, "Then I may become an old man one step earlier than ナナ, please take care of me for a long time, and then, one day, I will fall on you bosom-"

This was blocked by Qiu Shili. He covered his elder brother's mouth with his hands, his eyes were round and round, and his eyes really looked like a puppy, "I will wait for you to wake up, brother."

Shi Zhanyang wanted to tease him, and said sullenly: "If you die, you won't wake up. It's best to bury me."

Qiu Shili's expression remained unchanged, and he was still covering him tightly, with a lot of stubbornness, as if he was saying something that had become a law, "Don't bury him! I must lie next to you and tell you I'm going to kill myself! I've said it ten times, if you don't get up and stop me, I'll just stick the knife in and I won't bury you unless I'm with you."

Shi Zhanyang thought that once he talked about this kind of thing, he would definitely see the red eye circles of his younger brother, but not now, Qiu Shili's eyes were the eyes when he swore poisonously, and he couldn't see any softness inside, and his whole body was ruthless.

He suddenly felt that it was impossible, the topic had gone seriously off track, and such a distant and absurd thing, thinking about it would only increase his troubles - shouldn't the sick old father and the failure of the Disney itinerary be the most embarrassing thing now?

So when Shi Zhanyang took advantage of Qiu Shili's unpreparedness, he started to tickle him, pinched his flat belly, and scratched under his ribs. Finally, Qiu Shili couldn't hold back his strength, and wanted to hold back a laugh but still let out a chuckle.At this time, you can possess and kiss.

Zhan Yang tried this trick repeatedly.

At that time, the three of them, and a few confidantes with black faces, stayed in Hawaii for less than half a month.With the efforts of experts from all walks of life, my father was rescued, but he fell into a hemiplegia that was neither embarrassing nor embarrassing. He couldn't even get out of the bed.I can still speak, but it is difficult to think clearly, and I have to use my right lip to lead my left, speaking very slowly and vaguely.

Shi Zhanyang reacted very quickly. He blocked the matter extremely carefully. Only his absolutely trusted confidants and Qiu Shili knew the fact of the paralysis. The second younger brother, who was drunk with money and money, didn't leak any news.

Even the fourth child just took a look from a distance outside the ward, seeing his father motionless, he was told that he was just still in a coma.

Apart from these, Shi Zhanyang was not in a hurry to do any more actions, but insisted on guarding at his father's bedside every day, taking care of him with all his heart, and handing over to the nurse at night.On the third night, on the terrace of his own property, the moonlight and the sound of the waves were indistinct, the cool breeze and the swing were swaying. He was hugging Qiu Shili sticky when he received a call suddenly, so he had to put on his pants and rush to the ward.

Qiu Shili has already formed the habit of driving for his eldest brother. When his eldest brother goes up, he obediently waits in the driver's seat of the car downstairs.

"I'm almost... dying," my father coughed.

Shi Zhanyang helped him wipe the saliva from the corner of his mouth, and fed him some light salt water, "You have to live well. The family still can't stand up without you."

The father smiled vaguely, "The second child is going to separate, you...you can see it."

"Well, it's best for him to divide it himself," Shi Zhanyang sat down beside the bed, "Take away a few factories, and take away a few business chains, all of which are dirty, so that we don't have to rush, what do you think?"

After quite a long time, his father didn't speak, and Shi Zhanyang looked at him silently, and turned the light to the darkest.The exposure of such embarrassment may also be a kind of torture, but the wind on the distant sea is refreshing.

In the end, before Shi Zhanyang was about to leave, his father told him to come closer, and told him all the triple codes of the secret room in the basement of the house.The secret room is the beginning of everyone's earlobe shackles, and it contains more secret records of contacts, accounts, product plans and data.

"Thank you." Shi Zhanyang said.

"Please rest assured." He said again.

"Let's go, let's go," my father was so weak that he seemed about to fall asleep at any time, talking about his last instructions, "Do things, be clean, don't leave troubles, don't... be impulsive."

Within a few days, Shi Zhanyang left the island with his younger brothers, leaving his father behind to continue recuperating.As soon as he got home, he focused his attention on the secret room. Those things that were once restricted, with the input of the triple password, and with the opening of the stone door and the safe, appeared in front of him.

He picked out the most critical part, and spent a few nights memorizing it in his head, and a few more nights for Qiu Shili to memorize it. After confirming that there were no conflicts in the memory of the two, Shi Zhanyang took those large stacks of files. Throw them into the fireplace and watch them burn to ashes.

After all, my father always likes to play the trick of restraining each other. If his mind is not clear one day, he will tell his second child the password——Shi Zhanyang refuses to accept this risk.

After opening a new year, the business is particularly intensive, and the volume has also increased.The news circulating in the outside world is that the elders of the Shi family are temporarily retiring, but several invisible big buyers show up one after another. Only they know that the old one can no longer work, so they handed over to the young people A brand new olive, they chose to start a direct cooperation with Shi Zhanyang.

In the past, the business was dangerous. Sometimes it was because the buyers were bullied, and the suppliers were also troubled.Nowadays, this situation has been greatly improved. For Qiu Shili, after staying in the company and the factory for a long time, there are fewer opportunities for real swords and guns to go shopping, but the busy things only increase. After a month, he and Shi Zhanyang didn't even have a vacation.

Finally, at the end of May, on a sunny afternoon when a large sum of money was credited, Shi Zhanyang called and asked Qiu Shili to come to his office.

Qiu Shili walked through a small corridor, passed by the crowded secretary's office, and knocked on the door of the eldest brother.

Shi Zhanyang was sitting on the edge of the desk, drinking tea from a teapot, waiting for him.

"I'm too tired recently." Shi Zhanyang said.

"It's okay. I've earned more." Qiu Shili said, thinking silently in his heart, except that he was so busy that he had less time for intimacy, there was really no harm.

"It will be Children's Day in a few days," Shi Zhanyang put down the teapot, and met his gaze with a smile, "ナナ, should we fulfill our promise."

Qiu Shili was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes lit up, "Yes, yes, I will make the itinerary, and I won't let outsiders arrange it." Then, he walked over and sat on the edge of the desk, and was caught by Shi Zhanyang. Hugging, he wrapped his arms around those shoulders knowingly, bit his lower lip and kissed, giggling while kissing.

Three days later, on a cloudy blue morning, Qiu Shili held his elder brother with one hand and his younger brother with the other, and the surrounding crowd was crowded.

Looking up, the spire of the castle was in front of him, and he finally came to this paradise.