My golden finger is not right

Eight,

Yibui took a sip of tea, his face became rosy again, he exhaled slowly, and then continued: "Actually, I only met my uncle a few times when I was very young, but I don't know why, but my impression is different. It's very profound." Ibuki added, "I really can't remember his appearance, but I only vaguely remember that he was about seventeen or eighteen years old at the time, because he dropped out of high school, and he had been working in a grocery store opened by my father. Working in the store, I usually do things like deliver goods and clean up.”

"He is actually a very gentle person, and he gets along very well with everyone. So when his murder was revealed, almost everyone said it was impossible. Shusuke is not that kind of person, it must be Mistake."

"But in fact, there is no mistake at all."

"It was he who killed."

Yibuki suddenly thought of something, stopped, and his expression became a little subtle: "Maybe there are ghosts in this world... Maybe he is really innocent..."

His mumbling made me more curious about his uncle's experience.

"Most of the things were told by my father, probably because he wanted me to judge human nature more. He explained the whole process in great detail."

"All the clues appeared in the autumn when I was four years old..."

-

Ibuki's uncle is named Ibuki Shusuke, the youngest and most favored child of his father's generation.Because Shusuke was not interested in studying, Shusuke dropped out of school in his second year of high school and went to work in his elder brother, that is, Ibuki's father's shop.

Ibuki's father is a businessman with a small amount of savings. Because of his business acumen, when he was an adult, he opened several grocery stores with the help of a piece of land deed left to him by his father and the good reputation built up by years of hard work. Business is also good on weekdays.He also liked this little brother very much in private, but he didn't take care of him because of this. On the contrary, after Xiujie came, the hardest and most tiring work in the whole shop fell on him.

However, Xiujie also knew that his elder brother was tempering himself by doing this, so he did not disappoint his elder brother's painstaking efforts, and did things seriously every day, neither complaining nor being lazy, and after all, he was a brother, and his elder brother was astute in business. reflected in him.So over time, not only did Ibuki's father appreciate him more, he gave him the position of delivering goods, and even planned to hand over one of the shops to him in a few years. The workers also greatly changed their minds about the rumored younger brother who was very favored by the boss and only knew to eat dry rice every day.

It's just that Xiu Jie, who is so highly valued, still gets in the way of others after all.

In the shop where Shusuke worked, there was a man named Hosokawa, who got Ibuki's father's permission because of his mother's pleading, and was able to stay and work here, usually doing some manual labor to earn some food money.But his character is extremely domineering, and he has great ambitions, but he was also the most sneaky and cunning in the past.

He is the person who likes to make money, he likes to go to Yibui's father when he has nothing to do, he has not learned anything in the past few years, and his ability to flatter has become unmatched by anyone.Yibuki's father also knew what kind of virtue he was, and wanted to expel him, but his poor sick mother always begged him humbly behind her son's back. Move around.

But he thinks that he has won the favor of Yi Chui's father, and he becomes more and more proud. He often brags at the wine table that he is highly valued by the boss, and that he will be able to manage a bunch of store keys in the future.The others knew what they knew, they didn't say anything, and kept toasting and complimenting him, while secretly waiting to see his jokes.

When Shusuke first came, Hosokawa saw that he was obviously the boss' younger brother, but he did the same job as himself every day, and thought that he was not liked by the boss, so he felt light and happy inexplicably.He feels that he is a big celebrity in front of the boss, and has more face than Xiujie, so he often tells him to meddle in things.Although Xiujie has a gentle personality, he is still the young master after all, and he has never been scolded in such a tone in his daily life.What's more, the trainer is usually a guy who only knows how to steal, rape and play tricks, talkative and talkative, and he is even more dissatisfied.After doing this several times, he was finally overwhelmed and began to argue with the other party.

After all, he is a young man who has studied for a few years, and he only knows to reason with the other party, but Hosokawa, seeing Shusuke's disobedience, burst into obscenities.What can you do to a guy who only knows how to swear but doesn't listen to reason.

Xiujie is also not good at talking in the market, and he has never seen such a man who is full of shit and can't tell right from wrong.I knew it was useless to talk too much, so I had no choice but to ignore it and let the other party speak ill.

Seeing that the opponent was silent, Hosokawa thought that he had won the opponent, and became even more elated.In order to completely suppress the other party into the mud, he spread rumors about Shusuke all day long, saying that the reason why he came to his brother's shop was to do such a low-level job, that he always caused accidents because of his unclean hands and feet or because of his violent personality. and so on.

But before he completely ruined the other party's reputation, this young master who was doing the same job as himself was suddenly promoted to an important position. He only had to do some easy work of recording goods with a pen and paper every day, but he still had to be tired. Work hard to move the goods.

Hosokawa's jealousy has reached its peak.But at the same time, his fear also reached its peak.

He was afraid that what he did before would make the other party give him little shoes, and he even played tricks to drive him out of the shop.

But he didn't regret it and reflect on himself. On the contrary, in order not to put himself in a miserable situation, Hosokawa thought of some terrible thoughts.

It's just that Ibuki's father trusts his own brother more than others, and he also knows what kind of person Hosokawa is.So Hosokawa not only failed to frame him several times, but was also spotted by Ibuki's father and kicked out by him in a fit of rage.

Since then, Hosokawa hated Shusuke even more, thinking that he ruined his chance to ascend.So under the accumulation of new and old hatred, he thought of a poisonous plan.

Here we must mention Hosokawa's father.

Hosokawa's father is a herb picker, and he often travels through some dangerous places in Nobiro for his livelihood.However, he always collects herbs in very peripheral areas, and seldom really steps into Nobiro.At that time, there was a legend that there was a monster eating people on Nohiro Mountain, so few people would enter the place within the boundary marker.

He has never stepped into the boundary marker, so he has not encountered any strange things for many years, except for one accident, which almost cost him his life.

After Hosokawa's father came back from that accident, he recuperated for three years before recovering.However, he seemed to be hindered by something, and kept silent about that dangerous incident. He just warned Hosokawa when he was very young, never to set foot in a certain place outside Nobiro.

Later, because he stumbled while collecting medicine, he never came back alive.

Hosokawa, although he is quite an asshole in other respects, he respects his father who died young very much.So he not only firmly remembered the places his father forbade him to go to, but also kept his promise and never set foot there.

Since my father said that this is a dangerous place, it would be enough to give Xiujie a ride, right?

So he wrote a letter in someone else's name to invite Shusuke to play in the mountains.Shusuke saw that although the agreed place was very close to Nobiro, it was only on the periphery after all, and he thought there would be no danger, so he happily went there.

And the place he went to was the dangerous place Hosokawa's father had warned him about.

Hosokawa originally thought that the other party would definitely not be able to come back after this trip, and even if he came back, he would probably have to recuperate for several years to recover just like his father.Unexpectedly, the other party not only came back safe and sound, but also worked harder at ordinary times.

Hosokawa was furious, this kid can be as lucky as he is!

He thought that this move had failed, but unexpectedly, he caught the other party's handle unintentionally.

In fact, it wasn't really a clue, he just found out that Shusuke had been sneaking up the mountain recently, and every time he came back from the mountain, he seemed to have lost his soul. He only knew about work, and he didn't seem to dare to let himself stop.

Hosokawa smelled something strange.

He thought he had spied on the opponent's deathbed, so when Xiujie went up the mountain next time, he secretly followed.

Unexpectedly, the truth not only disappointed him, but also made all his negative emotions pour out, which could no longer be restrained by reason.

It turned out that Xiujie went up the mountain so frequently to meet a woman, and this woman was extremely beautiful.

Because he was worried about being discovered, Hosokawa could only hide in a place far away, so he couldn't hear the conversation between the two clearly.But he knew in his heart that his plan of sending the other party to the west turned out to be a good thing for the other party.

He couldn't hold back the thought of destroying everything in his heart. After following and tracking the other party up the mountain for the third time, he decided to do it.

On the night before his departure, he purposely invited a few friends with similar temperaments who he got along with on weekdays to drink with him.Originally, he wanted to strengthen his courage, but unexpectedly, his mouth softened after he was drunk, and he confided his grievances with Xiujie, as well as his plans for tomorrow.

It turned out that on the day Xiujie went up the mountain, he would go to the place that the other party had agreed with the woman first, kill the woman, drag the body down the mountain, and wait for others to find out and call the police. In this way, everyone will definitely think that Shusuke is suspected of committing a serious crime.Then as long as he fabricated some more evidence, Shusuke would be dead.

Normal people's first reaction when they hear this kind of thing is definitely to call the police, but the guys who drank with Xiujie are all guys without any sense of morality.Hearing that Hosokawa described that woman as very beautiful, they were actually moved and planned to join his plan.

Hosokawa originally made this plan when he lost all reason, so if he really called Sheriff 1 in the end, with his psychological quality and the plan not being perfect enough, he and Shusuke had grievances first, Maybe it's not Shusuke who is considered the suspect in the end, but himself.

But now with the joining of these people, the three of them become a tiger and a mouthful of gold, and Xiujie has no chance to stand up.

He was full of confidence, but he didn't expect that after this trip, together with these eight malevolent men, he never came back.

Their bodies were found seven days later at the foot of the mountain by a group of playing children.

The sheriff finally found a piece of cloth from Hosokawa's body. After investigation, they listed the owner of the cloth, Shusuke who happened to be on the mountain on the day of the incident, as a major suspect.

In fact, it was Hosokawa who specially stole it from Shusuke's house in order to enhance its credibility, and was going to put it in the woman's body as evidence.

But I didn't expect that in the end this material was used by myself.

Facing the magistrate's accusation, Shusuke completely denied it, but when he heard that the deceased seemed to have been somewhere outside Nobiro, he suddenly changed his tune and immediately admitted that he was the murderer.

In the end, Shusuke was sentenced to be shot because of the solid evidence.

But Ibuki's father didn't believe that his younger brother would do such a thing at all, but Shusuke had already pleaded guilty, and there was no possibility of a comeback.So he could do it in the end, and he could only see his brother for the last time on the night before the shooting.

Facing his own brother who loves him the most, Shusuke finally told the truth - he didn't kill anyone.

Based on Shusuke's words and the information he had inquired, Ibuki's father roughly restored the truth of the matter.

But Shusuke was unwilling to reveal any information about the girl who was probably the murderer.

He took all the charges and finally went to death.

-

"My father said that when my uncle went up the mountain that day, he saw that woman, and they chatted happily all afternoon. When they were parting, the woman suddenly asked him a word..."

"If I wasn't so good, if my hands were covered with blood, would you still love me?"

"At the time, he thought it was just a lie for the other party to test his affection. Who knows... Maybe this is why uncle suddenly confessed all his sins when he heard that those people had been to the mountain before they died."

"My father told me that the last words my uncle left was 'Maybe she's really a monster'."

"Eh?"

"Because my uncle went up the mountain for the last time, that is, the night when the murder happened, he saw a boundary marker by accident. Because the surrounding weeds are too lush, it is difficult to find its existence even in the daytime."

"You mean..." I looked at him in disbelief.

"That's right, the place where my uncle met that woman is no longer outside Nobiro, but within the range of Nobiro."

I sighed and couldn't figure it out for a moment.

It is indeed impossible for humans to exist above the boundary markers, so the woman Uncle Ibuki mentioned must be a monster.

But if he had already discovered that the place where he met the woman was actually the territory of monsters, why didn't he escape?Instead, I went to see her and... Ibuki's uncle was shot after going down the mountain that time, and he couldn't go up the mountain to meet her again, so would she think...the other party was afraid because he found out her identity, so he hid If she dared not come to see her, wouldn't she... never knew that there was once a boy who died on charges of protecting her... maybe she would still resent him for his sudden disappearance...

"My father originally thought that woman was not a monster, but just knew some ways to protect herself, but he later heard that those dead... died because their hearts were ripped out alive..."

"I didn't believe there were any monsters in this world before, but now that I think about it, there is no such absolute thing, maybe... maybe?"

Yibuki filled the teacup with some more water, moistened his throat, and changed the subject: "When my uncle came down from Nobiro for the last time, she led me to the store just because my mother was going back to her mother's house. .”

"Because my father was too busy to get away, he handed me over to my uncle, and I was coaxed by him for a long time."

"But in the beginning, I hated him very much, well... I can't say that I hated him very much, I just felt that there was something about him that made me very uncomfortable, so I didn't want to stay with him, and kept crying. Later, he used many methods to make me happy, but the uncomfortable thing about him never disappeared.”

"That uncomfortable feeling is very similar to the feeling that Aoi Inudu gave me!"