Protect our prophets

This may be the most magnificent house in Kanagawa.

Songxue stared at the word "Xingcun" on the house plate for a long time, then turned to Yagyu, and asked with full respect, "Does he really live in this kind of place?"

Liu Sheng was calm and composed: "We've all been here before, we just need to get used to it."

Although tennis has always been called an aristocratic sport, what you see before you is still beyond Songxue's initial imagination.

Take the Yagyu family I just met as an example.His father is a doctor, and one person works more than enough to support the family. His grandfather is also a retired professor of a certain biology department. This is the level of the ordinary middle class in this country, and belongs to the category of "very good family background".

But it is still far from "noble".

To be honest, she had only seen such a wealthy family in TV dramas before - the size of Ayanokouji's house was about the same that day, but at that time the whole house was shrouded in a funeral atmosphere, which gave her a feeling of going to the funeral parlor illusion.

Guided by the maid, they walked through the front yard, admiring the tranquil scenery of rockery, flowing water and bamboo tubes, and then turned left and right.The long wooden corridor turns and turns a thousand times. From a distance, someone stands on the corridor near the water, holding a teacup and watching the carp playing. Behind him is a small antique white square pavilion.

Tens of meters away, Matsuyuki could only see Yukimura's slightly thin profile, standing by the railing looking deserted and lonely, and suddenly sighed.

Liu Sheng gave her a questioning look.

"I'm thinking, if I win 500 million lottery tickets every day, how many years will I be able to save money to buy so much land?" Songxue said, "If this is the trouble of being rich, I am very willing."

The purple-haired boy had an inscrutable expression on his face, his glasses blocked most of his emotions, leaving only a faint smile on his lips.

"In Kanagawa, the status of the Yukimura family cannot be underestimated, but in the whole country, they still can't be like the Atobe Zaibatsu..."

"Okay, stop." Songxue hurriedly raised her hand, her tone became very cold, "I didn't come to listen to you showing off your wealth."

"When you knew this before, you didn't react so much." Liu Sheng looked at her curiously.

"Even if you say that, I don't remember..."

The maid led them into the pavilion, and the conversation between the two came to an end.

"Master Jingshi, the guests have arrived." She bowed deeply, then backed out, and walked back along the waterfront corridor, her back disappeared behind the house in a blink of an eye.

Songxue and Liu Sheng looked at each other, and he raised his chin slightly, signaling her to go in first.

Yukimura also turned around, nodded to them with a smile, and his voice was like a spring breeze: "Good afternoon. I didn't expect you to come here at this time. I didn't have time to prepare. What do you want to drink?"

Following his movements, the wind on the lake blew the dark blue hair, which flew up randomly against his cheeks, and then fell lightly, beautiful and decisive.

Songxue's attention was momentarily attracted by the sparkling lake behind him.Looking closer, the school of fish is still jumping under the surface of the water, red and golden yellow intertwined, like a ball of boiling... scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

"The environment here is really good." She leaned on the railing and couldn't help sighing, "At least it's at the level of a 5A-level scenic spot, right?"

She can come in and play without a ticket, and she feels that she has earned it.

But Yagyu could only shrug his shoulders and give Yukimura a look, as if to say: I don't quite understand what she is talking about.

Yukimura had a pleasant face, and didn't take it seriously: "The scenery is very good, and the location is at the vent of the corridor, so it's cool in midsummer."

She touched the railing under the palm of her hand, silently feeling the coolness from under the paint, did not speak for a while, and was slightly stunned.

They might have misunderstood it because they thought she wanted to feed the fish or something, Yagyu reminded in a timely manner: "The fish food is on the table."

"If you want to fish, you have to go to the backyard, where there are ornamental fish." Yukimura also said.

Songxue regained her senses, let go of her hand, corrected her attitude and said, "Oh no, I just suddenly realized something."

"Huh?" Yukimura was slightly puzzled.

She smiled at him brightly: "Kun Yukimura is really popular in school."

He still didn't quite understand: "Speaking of this suddenly, did you think of something?"

"That's right." Songxue said, "I'm thinking, what is the source of the whole thing and how did it start——Xingmura-kun felt something was wrong, and it must have been a while since he came to look for me?"

The teenagers looked at each other.

What is this all about?

After all, Liusheng knew Matsuyuki better. Following her usual train of thought, she frowned, "Do you think it was the jealousy among the girls that caused Rie Ayanokoji's death? I thought you didn't agree with that point of view.”

She shook her head, not sure.

"But I have a very strong feeling." Matsuyuki said, raising his head, looking straight into Yukimura's eyes, "Everything happened around Yukimura-kun."

Yesterday afternoon, Marui Bunta said that everything seemed to be getting weird because of her relationship.

But Songxue thinks that's not the case.

Yukimura was watched by her, but his expression was calm. He put the steaming teacup on the table, and then sat down next to him: "Sit down and talk."

His voice was gentle, but there was an undeniable force in his tone.

After the owner said that, the other two looked at each other and sat down.

"I don't want to look too self-indulgent." Yukimura said slowly, with a trace of tiredness on his face, "but I do feel a little troubled. This feeling didn't just happen recently. When I was in middle school..."

He stopped suddenly, and Liu Sheng's expression became a little nervous, as if thinking of something: "Is it because of that operation?"

Matsuyuki also has a vague memory: Yukimura was seriously ill when he was in junior high school, and was absent from the official tennis club for almost half a year, but then...

Later, after the operation, he should have fully recovered, right?

She frowned and thought, she couldn't remember clearly, did she just hear it from others recently, or was the memory hidden deep in her brain gradually surfacing?

Yukimura smiled and shook his head at Yagyu.

"What I want to say is that I am very grateful for your concern, but... it is no longer necessary now."

Excessive care will make him feel troubled.

Liu Sheng coughed dryly: "That's the way it is said, after all, it happened before, everyone will naturally feel nervous, and it's inevitable."

Yukimura looked at Matsuyuki.

"Maybe it's because I got used to it a long time ago, so my perception is a bit slow." He continued, "Do you think that's the problem?"

Liu Sheng was puzzled: "What is the problem? Is there anything wrong with it?"

Songxue sighed, patted him on the shoulder, and said earnestly: "Didn't you notice? I just said that Yukimura-kun is very popular. I didn't say that, but he is very popular among girls-in fact, this is normal. Okay There are so few men, and handsome ones are even rarer, there is such a near-perfect existence, even if all the girls in the school like him, it is not surprising."

She shrugged.

Liu Sheng: "...Are you a map gun?"

As one of the men, it feels connoted.

"You flatter me too much." Yukimura smiled wryly.

"But the truth is like this." Songxue said very seriously, "Do you think that because your family is rich, people are so after you?"

He froze for a moment and asked back, "What about you?"

"Well, in my opinion, money is one of the most important factors that trigger crime." Songxue said solemnly, "The other factor is emotion."

Liu Sheng was thoughtful, and subconsciously uttered a word: "Human nature."

"It is often mentioned in Poirot's series that he believes that the motive of murder is closely related to what kind of person the victim is. Why is this person murdered? - often because, he (or she) is a person who is easy to attract to what kind of criminal."

Songxue added: "Well, I'm not saying it's the victim's fault. I mean, from the victim, we're more likely to find out why and how the murder happened."

Yagyu nodded: "Look for motivation from a psychological point of view."

"However," she breathed a sigh of relief and shook her head, "As far as I knew about Ayanokouji before the murder, and the investigation in the past few days after the murder, I think the key point is not her.

"So who is it, me (disgusted by most girls), Yuko Matsumoto (pursued by many boys), or..."

She turned to Yukimura again.

"Whether it is among boys or girls, who is very popular and has absolute authority?"

Liu Sheng was taken aback.

Songxue also paused, thinking about her words.

"Of course, as the head of the tennis department, with such strong ability, it is also normal and not surprising to be supported and loved by boys. I am not emphasizing that this should not happen, or that this is whose fault..."

"If it's because of me—" Yukimura said slowly.

There was a hazy haze in those brown eyes.

She looked up.

"You want to protect the team members, I can understand. But, Yukimura-kun, this matter has nothing to do with the tennis club. Are you sure you really want to obstruct my investigation?"