Chapter 1544 Murder in Hot Spring Villa (7)
Mrs. Shimada and Ms. Yoshinaga looked at each other for a while, then turned their eyes and looked at Miss Sakai.
"Miss Sakai, you just said that you had a bad feeling when you entered the hotel?"
Miss Sakai nodded.
Mrs. Shimada sighed, "You should not feel it when you enter the hotel, but when you enter the mountain, you feel it?"
Miss Sakai was stunned.
"What's in the mountain?" Ms. Yoshiyong asked immediately.
Mrs. Shimada pointed to the direction to her right, "There is an abandoned temple on this mountain."
When I heard this, my heart rose.
"I don't know what the temple was originally made of. After my husband and I bought the land here, we converted the original building into a hotel. The house we are currently in is the building that we already have here. After we bought it, we renovated it. The layout of the rooms inside the house has been changed. I no longer remember what the original internal structure of the house looked like. There was no strange place for the seller and this house." Mrs. Shimada's expression was soothing, and her straight back also hunched over, and she seemed to relax.
She continued: "For several years, there were no strange things. Our life was peaceful. I was newly married and started a new life here, which was very busy. The same is true for my husband. This was originally the room for us. As you can see, there was not much. When the hotel management was on track and we also hired some helpers, the pace of life slowed down. My husband liked to read books and I learned illustrations. But the bookcase was not full and I was unable to make decent works. An accident happened..."
Mrs. Shimada looked in the direction she had just pointed, and her eyes seemed to pass through the paper door leading to the outside yard.
"We were all idle at that time. When we bought this place, we knew that what we bought was the land halfway up to the foot of the mountain. We didn't know who the land on the mountain belonged to. It might not be a private place. But no one had ever come to the mountain. That day, the sun was particularly bright, so we walked out of the hotel and walked into the woods from the back door. There was a path in the woods, which was the kind of road that people stepped out. We had never seen along the road. That day, we walked along the road for a long time..." Mrs. Shimada withdrew her gaze, lowered her head, and looked at her rough hands, "That's it, we saw a Torii and a shrine. They were all dilapidated and deserted for a long time. The gods and Buddhas worshipped inside were gone, the shrine was empty, and there were no tributes in front of them. We didn't know what was worshipped there, and who built it. The end of the road was the shrine. We returned later."
"Father-in-law..." Mrs. Shimada's daughter-in-law suddenly spoke, her voice changed a little.
Mrs. Shimada glanced at her, "My husband has become very strange since that day, as if he was possessed by something, always a little dazed and sometimes he would say strange things. He was good and bad. At that time, I was found pregnant. I thought his abnormal behavior was because our child was about to be born. When my husband was awake, it was very normal. He himself also thought that some of his behavior was because our first child was about to be born." Mrs. Shimada looked at Sakai
Miss and Ms. Yoshinaga, "After Xiao was born, we became busy again. We were the first time we became parents, and we had no elders around us, so we could only explore how to take care of our children and ask some elderly people in the hotel. We were in a hurry for two or three years, and my husband was still as good and bad as he was. We didn't take it seriously. After a few years, Xiao grew up and I had adapted to this kind of life, but my husband was still like that. We began to find the problem. At that time, it might have been too late..."
Mrs. Shimada sighed, "He became even more abnormal, and he became more unconscious. Several times, he ran to the shrine himself, stood there and did nothing. We were helpless. Not long after, he drowned in the hot spring pool. It was the hot spring pool behind this room."
Mrs. Shimada's daughter-in-law and granddaughter-in-law all turned pale and their eyes were vague. They subconsciously looked at the room inside.
"So, there are actually five hot spring pools here?" Ms. Yoshinaga asked calmly.
Mrs. Shimada nodded, "After my husband died, I moved away from here. Some things were packed up, and in a hurry, they were not cleaned up." She looked around, "After he died, I lived here with Guang for a while. Here, I felt more and more depressed, and Guang often woke up in the middle of the night. When we moved to other houses, the feeling was gone. I always thought that my husband might still be here. It might be... something he brought out of the shrine, and it was still here."
The Shimada family's granddaughter-in-law shivered and hugged Shimada Daki tightly.
"I have closed this place. I have never opened it. After a long time, I have forgotten these things." Mrs. Shimada straightened her back again, "I can swear to you that nothing happened in the hotel except my husband. I heard about the death of Mr. Honda and went to see his body. He is different from my husband. My husband died very calmly and he has struggled. The same goes for the police. He fell into the water accidentally and was unable to stand up after falling. And my husband... he is not like a drowning person. He struggled at all in the hot springs, and died like that..."
"That shrine..." Mrs. Shimada's daughter-in-law's voice trembled.
"Maybe it's still there. I've closed the back door long ago. The house was also sealed. Director Otsuka and others came here twice, but I didn't mention it. I told Director Otsuka that it turned out to be a suite, but the floor and ceiling were broken and it was not repaired. For safety reasons, the house was sealed and not allowed to enter and exit." Mrs. Shimada said.
Miss Sakai nodded.
Ms. Yoshinaga said: "If this is the case, it may be because of Mr. Honda's accidental death, which caused some changes." She paused, "Has Mrs. Shimada ever raised a cat?"
Mrs. Shimada shook her head, "I know what you want to ask. I have never seen the cat that the big tree saw before. There are wild cats on this mountain, but they are all very common cats. I have never seen such black and white cats."
Ms. Yoshinaga, "Then, the matter should still be related to that shrine. Can Mrs. Shimada take us to see the back door? There are many people in the crew and the management is not very strict. Perhaps Mr. Honda's accidental death is related to this."
"Just go and check the back door? I don't want to go to that shrine. Please forgive me. That place..." Mrs. Shimada's face was a little gloomy.
"Just go and check the back door to see if anyone has gone out. We don't dare to run to such a place." Ms. Yoshiyong said, "Call the director and the others together. There are a few men here. If something really happens, we can handle it."
Several people stood up.
My body was pulled, and it was probably the woman who was eavesdropping outside who was leaving.
The body passed through the wall and floated out.
I saw the woman's back.
She didn't go back to the room, but went in the other direction.
When she heard the footsteps behind her, she stopped and slowly squatted to the ground.
A blank brain restarts at this time.
The woman shivered because of fear, covered her mouth and did not dare to make any sound.
She thought about her hot spring bathing, recalling what Ms. Yoshiyong said, "Three people died", and her body couldn't help but tremble.
The yin energy on her body floated gently, floated forward, and penetrated into the floor.
Chapter completed!