Covered with water

history...

This is indeed one of the few common denominators among the casualties.Although Xiao Yunhe gave the same answer, it doesn't mean he agrees with Qin Zhi's point of view: "Wait, I have doubts. This bronze tripod is originally a cultural relic, and people who can touch it will more or less agree with it." History'. Zhengguo and the students are lovers, and Tsubaki is an expert, isn't it a bit too hasty for you to judge?"

Qin Zhidao: "So we have to find a way to verify this point. The source of the bronze tripod is also a problem." It was probably because I was afraid of exposing Ichiro Maeda's true identity. Kenji Horikawa of the name.As the two of them have no known domestic background, it would be inappropriate to ask Qiao Yuan, so Xiao Yunhe came forward and contacted Tong, Director of Confidentiality, Yu as the intermediary again.

Tong Yu should have returned to the station, and quickly connected to Xiao Yunhe's call: "Hi, Captain Xiao, what's the matter?"

Xiao Yunhe said: "Hello, Tongchu, I'll just say it if I have anything to say. We are going to verify a clue, and we need the information of Keiko and Eita|Grandfather Kenji Horikawa. I hope you can provide it."

"Okay, I see." Tong Yu answered very straightforwardly this time, "I just happen to have something to report to you two about Kenji Horikawa." There was a faint sound of paper flipping on the other end of the phone, "I just received I got a piece of material showing that Kenji Horikawa participated in the war of aggression against China as an orderly soldier. After Japan surrendered unconditionally in 1945, he was defeated and returned home. Because the time has indeed been relatively long, I am working with the Japanese side on the shifting work Negotiate, I will send Keiko's situation and this material to the two of you later, please pay attention to check."

Xiao Yunhe said: "Okay, thank you." After hanging up the phone and meeting Qin Zhi's eyes, things seemed to be getting more and more interesting.

Qin Zhidao: "Tong Yu is one step ahead of us." It is almost impossible for cultural relics from the Yin and Shang Dynasties to be unearthed from Japan, and there is a high probability that they originated from China. Now the clues are stagnant in Jue Chuan's house. Tong Yu investigates Kenji's thinking It is very correct, and a relatively ideal result has been obtained in a short period of time.

Xiao Yunhe said: "Then we have to wait." The exchange of information takes time. There are Qiao Yuan in China and Tong Yu in foreign countries. The process of obtaining evidence does not require them to do it themselves, which is a rare and novel experience.

Qin Zhi said: "Let's consider other issues first." The source of the bronze tripod has been revealed, and the follow-up thorny thing is Zhengguo's last words.Qin Zhi found a piece of white paper, and re-transcribed the text on the account page.Xiao Yunhe's eyes followed his handwriting, women, water, red, resurrection, ruins... It is difficult to form a relatively complete sentence with too fragmented information.

Xiao Yunhe only thought that he was making a conjunction sentence: "Red... red...?" seems to be an attributive without a doubt.What does it modify?The woman in red?red water?Red ruins?Only living things can be "resurrected", and the woman... is it a woman?The woman in the ruins?He tried to express these chaotic thoughts in words, but vetoed after a while: "No, there are too many possible meanings." There are no less than twenty fancy patterns for simple permutations and combinations.

Qin Zhi didn't give up easily, he wrote and drew on the paper with his pen tip, and gave some reasonable answers after deliberation: "Red water can revive a woman in the ruins? Red ruins can revive a woman in the water ...the water in the ruins can bring the red woman back to life...the water in the red ruins...huh?"

Xiao Yunhe said: "I don't understand. We now have three nouns, a verb and an adjective. Adjectives are modifiers, nouns are subjects, and the only predicate is 'resurrected'—I think something has been resurrected, or can be resurrected. That's what Zhengguo wants to express."

Qin Zhi agreed with him: "Yes, adjectives are not important." He crossed out the word "red" on the paper, "If we can know what these nouns represent..."

"The simplest is 'Woman'." Xiao Yunhe said, "Zhengguo is written in Chinese characters, and 'Wu' has the same meaning in Chinese and Japanese, and it should refer to a certain woman."

"The time, place and characters, now there are characters." Qin Zhi said, "'ruins' and 'water' can both represent places. If these words were really left by Zheng Guo before his death, the content must be related to that bronze tripod. "

Xiao Yunhe said: "Hmm... a location related to the bronze tripod? The ruins... I remember that the excavation site of the Simuwu tripod was... the Yin Ruins? Does Yin also mean red? Could it be that the Congress has misunderstood it?" Mistakenly took "Yin Ruins" as "Red Ruins".

Qin Zhidao: "The Yin of the Yin Ruins is the Yin of the Shang Dynasty, and Zhengguo is a history buff, so he will not make such a simple mistake. Moreover, using 'Yin' to refer to red is not a common usage in Japanese."

Xiao Yunhe himself felt that this guess was a bit outrageous, and he didn't say anything more after being vetoed by Qin Zhi. As for the meaning of "water", it has a broader meaning, from rivers, lakes and seas to dripping into ice, it is difficult to infer without factual basis What substantive progress has been brought to them.

Xiao Yunhe said: "Forget it, you can't become a fat man by eating one mouthful." The information they have now is limited, and it seems reasonable that they failed to decipher this death message, so he didn't feel very discouraged.

Qin Zhidao: "I'm more concerned about what Zheng Guo and Tsubaki Kojiro are studying." After speaking, he got up and collected the dinner plate, and put it at the door of the room according to Yuko's request.

While receiving the information sent by Tong Yu, Xiao Yunhe replied: "I don't know. Actually, there is a place that I am a little bit concerned about. I don't know if you have noticed it."

Qin Zhi said: "What?"

Xiao Yunhe said: "Masago Kanno. You have seen the photos in the museum..." Rather than a museum, it would be more appropriate to say that it is an exhibition room with a private collection, "I just think... his character, I mean Fang Shu, including Yuko's description of his character, and his behavior...seems to be not so unified. Take the exhibits in his museum as an example, there is a big span from the farmhouse to the bronze tripod...including the bronze tripod He was a little too at ease in the later stage." Although Fang Shu made some seemingly reasonable explanations, it still failed to dispel the strange sense of disobedience in Xiao Yunhe's heart.

Qin Zhidao: "I understand what you mean, Zhengguo's character design is divided. So I'm curious, what role Tsubaki Kojiro played. Including the Horikawa family and Maeda Ichiro, there must be no relationship between the four It's as simple as we see it."

Xiao Yunhe nodded and said, "Let's take a look at the information on Keiko Maeda."

Tong Yu showed the sincerity that Xiao Yunhe expected this time. Compared with the resume template-like outline before, the materials this time are obviously much more detailed.The text shows that Keiko was born in Showa 62 (1987). She is 35 years old and unmarried. She was a lawyer before her death.Ichiro Maeda was in business in his early years and was busy with work. Keiko's biological mother died early and was always taken care of by a nanny.Later, Ichiro entered politics, married Suxian, and gave birth to another child.Keiko didn't like her stepmother, so she moved out of the house.Nowadays, the relationship between the two is always indifferent, more like pure political partners than father and daughter.In this incident of purchasing the tripod, although Keiko had some complaints about Ichiro's decision, she didn't count on Ichiro's family property to make a living, so she properly handled the various problems he encountered during the handover process.

This is not good news for the couple.Qin Zhi closed the document and re-corrected his thoughts: "What they have in common is not 'history', but 'investigation'."

Tsubaki Kojiro is a scholar who specializes in bronze ware, and Zheng Guo cooperated with him; the four teachers and students chose bronze culture as the research topic of this semester, so they will come to visit this ancient tripod that has a sense of presence recently; Keiko, in order to avoid risks, , investigated the background of Gu Ding for Ichiro Maeda; Eita Horikawa wanted to mortgage Gu Ding to save the precarious company, so he naturally became curious about the source of this "heirloom".

Xiao Yunhe: "...Damn it." If "Having had contact with Ding and conducted an investigation on Ding" is the death flag planted on everyone's heads, then they have stepped into the trap set by this death curse from the very beginning. .Once someone dies strangely because of contact with the ancient tripod, there is a high probability that his relatives and friends will investigate the cause of his death, and so on, the bronze tripod is like a black hole that continuously absorbs nutrients, as long as human curiosity is not If it disappears, it will always have the patience to wait for the next hunting target to come.

It has nothing to do with whether it is the owner of the bronze tripod. People who are interested in it will naturally do everything possible to find ways to contact and connect with it. In other words, the existence of this bronze tripod itself is already an entry-level for screening victims. condition.

Xiao Yunhe breathed a sigh of relief. According to the current inference, Qin Yao's family should not be in too much risk.My younger sister has been obsessed with chasing stars recently, even if the bronze tripod is in front of her, she will only feel that it is in the way, but it is Fang Shu and Tong Yu... Tong Yu probably did not expect that this matter would involve herself.

Qin Zhi said: "Let's go to the museum and see the real thing tomorrow."

Xiao Yunhe nodded, and the two of them ended their day's work.On one side of the tatami mats, futons had been laid, and two sets of clean yukatas were stacked on top of them, and the fluorescent lights in the courtyard were lit up.At this time, a heavy twilight has fallen outside the window. Although it is midsummer, the weather in Hokkaido will still be a bit cold at night.The two went to the back to soak in the hot spring for a while, and then Yuko brought sake to warm up, and the service in detail was particularly thoughtful.

The two clinked glasses, and the shadows of the trees outside the window swayed, bringing a refreshing aroma of grass and trees.

When the phone rang, Qin Zhi glanced at the screen and agreed to the video request sent by his sister.

As a result, as soon as the screen was connected, Qin Yao looked like she was about to cry or not: "Brother Wuwa, I, let me tell you, I'm really going to die of sadness right now, QAQ!"

Qin Zhi raised his eyebrows and asked, "What's wrong?"

Qin Yao began to roll on the big hotel bed: "Uchiyama-san's meeting has been cancelled!"

Wu Chunxing: "..." As a pure science straight man, sometimes he really can't understand women's way of thinking about chasing stars.

Qin Yao has already returned to the hotel she reserved, disconnected for the whole day, settled down the little boy, and habitually checked the forum after washing up, never expecting that the homepage of the fellow group has exploded, almost the entire page They were all mourning the news that Uchiyama Kazuki had suddenly canceled the Hokkaido meeting.Qin Yao's eyes were fixed, and the breath choked in her throat almost didn't go well—she didn't come to Japan this time just to spend the summer. Although Yoshiki Uchiyama made his debut in Tokyo, he insisted on going back to Come to my hometown.Qin Yao felt like an urban white-collar worker who was exhausted and greedy. She had been planning "Wow, I must go to that super delicious XX restaurant on X-month-X" a few months ago, but the night before The restaurant suddenly posted a blog, saying, "Thank you for your support. We decided to close the store because of the request of the headquarters. I'm really sorry everyone, we will see you again."

Qin Yao continued to burst into tears: "What can I do! I also promised others to bring my autograph back with me. This is all over TAT!"

Qin Zhi made a "hmm" sound. He didn't interfere with Qin Yao's pursuit of stars, but he also knew that Fang Shu's work in the morning should be related to the meeting that his sister said: "Brother will find a way for you, huh?"

Qin Yao received a knowing blow, thinking wow Brother Sai, do you want to be such a domineering boss!She knew that Qin Zhi was rich now, but she didn't think that her brother could reach out abroad to influence the schedule of a Japanese artist, so she just thought he was comforting herself: "The office has already spoken... what can I do? .I don’t want to be an illegitimate student...Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh why didn’t I look at the almanac before I went out…"

It wasn't until Wu Chunxing "hush" from behind that Qin Yao lowered her voice and said, "Ah, it's over, it's over, I woke up, I won't tell you and my sister-in-law anymore." After the call, she went to coax her little ancestor to sleep without mentioning it.

Xiao Yunhe looked amused: "Why, Director Qin, are you going to find Fangshu for an autograph?"

The author has something to say: Ah, let me guess if there will be a comment at the end of this chapter...