After Daimon Goro confirmed that the students had left, he checked the door lock of the kendo hall, and stopped by the sports warehouse to see if there were any unlucky ones locked inside.
After finishing all this, he went back to the staff locker room, changed out of the "formal clothes" he had worn as a physical education teacher Damon Goro, that is, the sportswear, put on a suit, and left the school.
Social people drink a little wine after get off work, which is an important part of socializing in Japanese society.
If you don't participate in this kind of drinking activities all the year round, you will be excluded in the company, and sometimes even your work will be greatly affected because you cannot get the cooperation of your colleagues.
Daimon Goro is naturally not immune.
But today he is not attending the small gathering of the school teachers, but has an appointment with an old classmate who talked with him on the phone in the afternoon.
The appointment place is a mobile cart by the Edogawa River, called Beihai Pavilion.
In this era, Tokyo did not have such strict urban management, and the management rights at the grassroots level were basically in the hands of various self-government associations, town associations, and poles.
Such mobile vending carts are everywhere.
A skilled "general", pushing a cart full of ingredients and a small stove with an integrated gas bottle, stopped at the side of the road, hung up a "noren curtain" indicating that it was open, and a vendor's Business begins.
Although the thing hung by the street vendor that looks like a half-cut curtain is called "nuren curtain", but it is just a customary name. It doesn't matter whether it is warm or not. Hanging this thing means that the store is open.
Especially the "Beikai Pavilion" that is usually parked by the Edogawa River. The wind at this location is actually quite strong. At the end of April, which is warm and cold, people without roots probably cannot enjoy the generals of Beikai Pavilion. Craft up.
Daimon Goro found Beihai Pavilion, which was a little bit off from where he stopped today, and opened the noren curtain.
The general looked up at him, and said, "Rare guest, long time no see."
"It's been half a year. It's too cold where you are. It's a bit of a pain to come in winter." Daimon Goro directly pulled a stool and sat down, "It's the same old way, please."
"Hi." The general replied, and while taking the ingredients out of the food box, he continued the topic just now, "Drinking in the snow scene, don't have a mood, young people nowadays don't have any roots."
Damon Goro is in his thirties, but he is called a young man by the "General" of Beihai Pavilion. He has no temper. After all, when he was still a boy, the general wore that flower headband around his head and started doing business here. .
Daimon Goro also asked why the general chose such a place to do business, even if there are not many people, but the wind is still strong.
At that time, the general raised his head and looked at the Edo River flowing towards Tokyo Bay, and said in a deep voice: "Water is the road to the land of the underworld. Whenever the night is quiet, my students will come to my stall and tell me about it. Reminiscing about the past, I still carried the red flowers on my chest that I personally put on them when I sent them to the train, as if scolding me. Blame me for not seeing through the lies of those beastly bastards, scold me for not hiding them!"
Daimon Goro didn't know what it meant when he was a child, but now he understands it without asking.
Running an unknown small stall in the cold wind and watching the Edo River rushing to the sea is probably the way for the general who was once a middle school teacher to atone for his sins.
However, after so many years, General Beihai Pavilion's craft has been perfected, so he has accumulated many regular customers like Daimon Goro, and Beihai Pavilion's business is actually good.
Smelling the smell of fried fish, Daimon Goro's saliva flowed down.
He stretched his head to look at the fish that was slowly getting cooked, and said, "Among the students, I found a child who might become a dragon among men."
"Yes, congratulations." The general responded calmly.
"But he encountered some troubles, some tests, I don't know if he can survive." Daimon Goro took a sip of his wine.
The old man said in a deep voice, "Dragon, you can't be trapped."
Damon Goro sighed: "I hope so."
At this moment, Damon Goro's old friend Zuoshan inspector opened the noren curtain—although this kind of mobile vendor has no door at all and can sit without opening the curtain, but lifting the curtain is a polite gesture, which means "I have entered the store".
"It's early to get off work, inspector Sang." The general greeted.
"Today is rather special." Zuo Shan glanced at the gate, "Goro, here we come."
"Hmph. You bastard, why are you suddenly interested in my student?"
"I'm not interested." Zuo Shan signaled to the general, "It's the same as before."
"Hi." The general nodded.
"I transferred to Organized Crime Countermeasures, you know that?"
"Just found out."
"Your student, the Jinshan Pingta who beat you so hard, is the famous new pole of our department. We judge that they are likely to be promoted from the three-generation organization to the direct line within a few years."
"So fierce?" Daimon Goro asked in surprise.
"Yeah, it's that fierce. Jinshan Pingtai's battle results are brilliant, and he basically fought all the way up. From Shedi, to Ruozhong, Sheditou, Ruotou... every step is to step up the blood of other poles. .”
"It sounds like he has committed a serious crime, why didn't he just arrest him?" Daimon Goro asked, frowning.
"Ji Dao is also very sophisticated now. Most of the time they only beat people and don't kill people. If they really do kill people, we can't find evidence of crime at all, and we rarely even find corpses."
Damon Goro was stunned: "Go to Tokyo Bay to fish for cement pillars."
"This is the problem. If we want to salvage the cement pillars, we have to hire the boss of the ship and find the crew, right? And the Jidao was originally developed by organizations such as dock workers' unions."
"What about the Self-Defense Force? What about the Coast Guard?"
"The higher-ups are thinking about how to squeeze the Self-Defense Forces and Haibao out of Tokyo Bay every day. You ask us to ask them for help? Are you kidding me?" Zuo Shan shook his head, "This thing is complicated, although everyone knows that a certain Hejidao Those who don't deal with it suddenly disappear, and they should go to Tokyo Bay to fish for cement pillars, but the police have the right to fish, and they can't find reliable and skilled people, and those who have the ability to fish have no law enforcement power.
"This is the status quo, but there are other links that can be broken through, such as finding the first crime scene that has not been dealt with cleanly, but this kind of prosecutor's office may not prosecute. They only prosecute those crimes that can be convicted. After all, Japan is What about a country with a 100% conviction rate, number one in the world!"
Zuo Shan's last tone was very yin and yang.
"That's why we only recruit those criminals who have solid evidence. And the biggest evidence is the criminal's confession. How can someone who can be the team leader fail to produce a few loyal brothers who are willing to take the blame?"
He took a sip of his wine and smiled self-deprecatingly.
"Now, tell me about your student."