Under the Arakawa River bank in Tokyo, there is an antique second-hand bookstore.
After the founder of this store died, the heir hired Mr. Yan, his father's good friend, as the contract boss, and his grandson came to help sell books on weekends. Second-hand bookstores not only circulate old books, but also human stories.
Chapter one? June in name only.
In the rainy season, a beautiful guest found Grandpa Yan.
Juzi, who just got married, was followed by a strange man after work two months ago and fled into this old bookstore in horror.
Grandpa Yan saw a suspicious man running away outside the shop. He and his grandson sent Juzi home.
Juzi's sister Misako suddenly disappeared for four months. Before he disappeared, Misako called Juzi and said, "Beware of fangs and claws".
Misako once eloped with a married man. This time, Misako brought some clothes and bankbooks, which also increased the possibility of her running away from home. Juzi called the police, but completely ignored them.
A strange thing happened at Juzi's wedding last week. When the guests came home, they found that the cover of the gift novel was viciously painted with blood-red "fangs and claws".
Juzi thinks that her sister's disappearance has something to do with these graffiti. She thinks the graffiti was a prank played by the man who followed her that night.
Therefore, Juzi hopes that Grandpa Yan can identify the man Suzuki that night, hoping to draw the attention of the police to this series of cases.
I took my father Yan to her sister's senior apartment, and the investigators from the hotel where the wedding was held also came. Dad Yan immediately recognized the stalker that day.
Suzuki admitted that he followed Juzi and that his work overlapped with Juzi's. He started pestering Agatha a year ago, and Misako called him home to negotiate with him, but all ended in discord.
Suzuki once said that he looked like the hero in Square and Claw.
Juzi asked Suzuki if he killed Misako because his sister was in the way. He denied this, saying that he didn't know the book Fang and talons until he received a phone call from his sister.
On this day, Mr. Yan met a guest. He is engaged in pipeline installation and often uses functional coatings. He can sense the temperature difference and develop color with the increase of temperature.
Yan Torre suddenly realized that he handed the gift novel to the guests for testing. As expected, the result was expected.
At this time, due to the landslide caused by the spring rain, a body was found.
The sky began to cry. Looking at the heavy rain outside, Grandpa Yan muttered, "It must be tonight."
That night, Mr. Yan captured Mr. and Mrs. Juzi alive. They tried to push him off the bridge near Suzuki apartment. Suzuki also has a pair of sneakers stuffed with suicide notes.
It turns out that Juzi's wedding gift is not only a novel, but also a cake. The graffiti in the novel is written with low-temperature hair color functional paint, and it is completely exposed when it meets the dry ice in the cake.
Juzi is most suspicious of this kind of practical joke. Juzi killed her sister, took her inheritance and buried her body as a missing person.
Misako's property is not only a luxury apartment, but also the money in the vault. They didn't know how to open the vault at first.
Under duress, Misako said that he found the password on Fang and Ah Claw, and the key was on Fang and Ah Claw's shelf.
After days of rain, Misako's body was found, and Juzi and his wife began to panic.
They wanted to fabricate a murderer before the identity of the body was revealed, so they framed Suzuki.
They tried to kill Suzuki, disguised as suicide and forged a suicide note, but they still couldn't feel at ease, so they chose rainy days to let the rain blur their handwriting.
Chapter two? Leave silently.
Luye's father died of a heart attack. He found that the bookcase in his father's apartment was full of 302 identical books, the title of which was Diary of Uncle Waving the Flag, written by Chang Liang.
The book tells that the author stands guard at the intersection near his home every day. This intersection is a dangerous road. Chang Liang was worried about the children's safety and volunteered to be a flag-waving uncle.
Lu is also curious about why there is such a book in his father's bookcase. He found Mr. Chang Liang's family and learned that Chang Liang was killed.
Lu also found that his father's account book has a monthly income of 30 thousand yen, which comes from second-hand bookstores.
Lu also found Grandpa Yan. He said that his father came to sell the books in the bookcase, emptied the bookcase and bought all the diaries of Uncle Waqi.
This book describes many cars and pedestrians passing by at the crossroads, and Lu also suspects that his father may have found some "unfavorable descriptions" in the book.
So intimidating the parties, they earn 30 thousand yen a month. The threatened party wants to get back the root of the accident-Chang Liang Yiwen and kill him.
Lu also decided to go to the police station to find out his father's secret, so that he could arrest the murderer of Mr. Chang Liang.
"Coincidence is terrible", and I want to make the truth one step closer.
Mr. Chang Liang did make a mistake. He wrote down the license plate of a car. Master cheated, mistress was recorded by Mr. Chang Liang.
The shopkeeper was afraid that things would be exposed, so he found Mr. Chang Liang and killed him.
After Chang Liang's death, his son felt embarrassed to leave the books published by his father at home, so he found Lu Ye's father through Yan's father and paid a certain safekeeping fee for his father to keep these books, so he earned 30 thousand yen a month.
Chapter three? Don't apologize for years
The persimmon family who runs the grocery store will be haunted. This rumor has been widely circulated in the right-hand man's home, and this rumor has certainly reached Grandpa Yan's ears.
Ishizaki's grandmother can see a strange mother and son standing by the bed every night, so she often suffers from insomnia.
Later, in order to rebuild, Shibazaki razed the foundation to the ground and found an ancient air-raid shelter, which actually contained two white bones and a mother and son.
After that, Grandma Shiqi moved to an apartment to live with her son, and never dreamed about the mother and son again.
Suddenly one day grandma disappeared and everyone came to help find her. Grandpa Yan asked his grandson to look in the bomb shelter and found her figure.
Grandma took a lot of sleeping pills and hid them in the bomb shelter. Although she saved her life, she is unconscious and may die in her sleep.
Grandpa Yan thinks grandma knew there were bones in the bomb shelter. At that time, during the war, materials were scarce and everyone was exhausted.
Maybe grandma doesn't know what happened to the mother and son from destruction to now.
But the death of mother and son has always been branded in grandma's heart. Unlike soap operas, real life never ends at the best time.
Chapter four? Bragging horn
One day, the old bookstore caught a little boy Xiaofeng who was going to steal. At that time, he was stealing a children's book called Blowing Horn.
Grandpa Yan accidentally found that the child was covered with numerous bruises and traces of cigarette burning, and he immediately called the police.
The horn of bragging is different from its appearance, and its content is somewhat gloomy and bleak.
There is a boastful trumpet in the book. He has been telling lies, and all the other instruments in the band hate him.
One day, the town was involved in the war, and the band leader called on everyone to go to the battlefield, and the horn responded enthusiastically.
Trumpet performed well on the battlefield, but he and the captain were captured in a battle.
The enemy said that many people were cheated and killed because the trumpet boasted that war could make money.
After the war, the trumpet returned to his hometown and met Piccolo, who criticized him. All other musical instruments were destroyed in the war, and only the trumpet was a good thing to preach the war.
The trumpet is worried that piccolo's words will reach others' ears. He played music loudly, trying to cover up the sound of piccolo.
Piccolo died, but the trumpet became an iconic musical instrument and was put in the town museum.
From beginning to end, The Horn of Boasting tells the story of swindlers taking advantage.
Mr. Yan read this book and thought that Xiaofeng chose this book to send a distress signal to the surrounding area.
According to the police investigation, Xiaofeng has a good family and is still a returning child.
Xiaofeng's mother is very upset and can't get along with her neighbors. She once disagreed with other parents in the observation activities organized by Xiaofeng School, and the atmosphere was very embarrassing.
Xiaofeng's mother felt that Xiaofeng was bullied by her classmates at school, crying that she had never abused her children and was willing to let the state organs come forward to solve things.
Grandpa Yan believes that if the perpetrators are parents, the children must be biased. As soon as they heard that they would be handed over to the state organs for investigation, the children were frightened and begged not to do it again. This is a copy of Blowing the Horn.
On this day, Xiaofeng's teacher visited Grandpa Yan and asked to read the book Xiaofeng stole.
After seeing it, Yan Torre saw Gong Yong's angry expression, which is definitely not the expression that a teacher who is worried about his students should have. Father Yan felt that he was uneasy about observing the enemy.
Grandpa Yan persuaded Xiaofeng's parents to let Xiaofeng go to his house for a change this weekend.
That night, grandpa Yan, who was waiting for him, found Mr. Gong Yong hiding near the garage and peeping into the house.
It turned out that Grandpa Yan deliberately let the police reveal it to Teacher Gong Yong. Xiaofeng left home without any danger and his parents and classmates, and he was willing to tell who the perpetrator was.
Sure enough, Mr. Gong Yong was taken in.
What's more despicable is that he threatened Xiaofeng's sister, who is in the first grade, and tried to frame Xiaofeng's mother as if nothing had happened.
Chapter five? Twisted mirror
Yukiko picked up a book on the subway, named Tan of the Red Beard Doctor, with a business card on it, which read Shoudao Shiro.
Yukiko was deeply attracted by the last story. In this story, there is a woman named Arong. Her parents regard her children as a tool to make money. In order to protect his moral integrity, Ah Rong deliberately disguised himself as an idiot.
Later, Arong got pregnant. She doesn't even know who the father is. A Rong said: "A man is like a car that may break down at any time."
Yukiko looked at the face in the mirror expecting to be selected, but always let herself down. She felt that her face and figure deprived her of the happiness of her life.
Even if self-confidence is restored after plastic surgery, the family will definitely reveal this secret.
Yukiko was shocked by Ah Rong's words, and she had an impulse to find out the owner of this book.
Yukiko found Shiro Akishima according to the address on the business card. He said that he had never read the book. He put his business card in a second-hand bookstore, which is a new way of publicity.
This book was recommended by an acquaintance and deliberately released on the subway to stimulate the performance.
Five days later, Yukiko saw a couple commit suicide by drowning in love in a newspaper with the name of Shiro Akishima printed on it.
Shiro Akishima is a clever young man, but he is heavily in debt and misappropriates public funds. He was assisted by his boss and his lover Jingjiang.
Maybe they committed suicide for fear of auditing the company's accounts, but the real reason for their double suicide is unknown.
Chapter six? Lonely hunter
A girl, Qiu Zi, found Grandpa Yan. Her father is a mystery writer, Anda and Lang. Anda and Lang were separated in a sea fishing.
Ten years after her disappearance, Qiu Zi and her mother wanted Grandpa Yan to get rid of her father's books.
The Lonely Hunter is a work written by Anda He Lang when he disappeared, and there is still one third unfinished, which is the part of solving puzzles.
The Anda family had a serious conflict with the publisher on how to deal with this work, which also appeared in the newspaper.
Later, the Anda family received many anonymous postcards, saying that they wanted to finish the last part of Lonely Hunter, restore the murder in the work to reality, and finally uncover the mystery.
Unexpectedly, the murder case really happened. According to the plot in the novel, first a civil servant man was assassinated, and then a pink-collar family.
Just after the second murder, the authors Anda and Lang appeared. He explained on TV that in order to continue his career as a writer, he must transform and bring his most taboo realism into his works.
When he wrote the last film of Lonely Hunter, but couldn't continue to write it, he decided to escape from all this and stay in the city.
Anda and Lang explained that this work could not be completed because there was no connection between the five murders in the book and there was no motive, so the plot of the novel could not be coherent.
After that, the suspect also disappeared.
At that time, the media focused all their attention on the Anda family, and even second-hand bookstores were put on the table.
Suddenly one day, a thin man found Grandpa Yan with a kitchen knife and said that Grandpa Yan and Anda and Lang were on TV, which ruined his creation.
Seeing that Grandpa Yan was going to be stabbed, Sun Ziren rushed up and stood in front of Grandpa.
The serial killer who was puzzled by the lonely hunter was caught because he became angry from embarrassment.
We are all lonely, so we long for humanity and pursue gentleness between people.