tokyo writer

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He stood at the door, looked at the gift in his hand, then adjusted his clothes, and then rang the doorbell.

Soon, the door opened, and a woman in her 60s came out and looked at him suspiciously.

"Hello, are you the editor of "Tokyo Youth"?"

Hideki Auzu was about to reveal his identity, and was taken aback when he heard this, but just when he was about to say that he was from "Youth in April", the woman said again.

"Didn't you say that the manuscript fee is settled every month? Didn't you just pay it last time? Could something be wrong?"

After hearing this, Awazu Hideki immediately realized something was wrong.

Royalties?Billed once a month?

No, I have been paying attention to "Tokyo Youth", and all the writers who have published works on it know that there is no such person as Masakazu Otsuru.

Are there any other unknown collaborations?

It seems that this matter has become more interesting!

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Awazu Hideki noticed something was wrong, but he didn't show it, but smiled.

"Excuse me, are you the mother of Teacher Oguan?"

The woman nodded and opened the door.

"Why don't you come in and talk about it in detail. Zhenghe is out and will take a while to come back."

Awazu Hideki waved his hand, "No, I'm actually here to find you."

After saying this, he handed over the gift in his hand to the woman, "In order to thank you for your support to Teacher Daguan, the editorial department specially prepared a gift for you."

The woman smiled and said, "How embarrassing this is", but she took the gift naturally.

Seeing her subordinates, Awazu Hideki declined the offer to come in for tea, said "Farewell" and left.

He just wanted to get away as soon as possible, and then investigate slowly.But if you leave without doing anything, it will be more abrupt.

I can only hope that this woman doesn't think too much, and just thinks that she is an ordinary editor of "Tokyo Youth".

After leaving Okinawa Masakazu's house, Awazu Hideki walked about two streets away, then found a phone booth, inserted a phone card and called Oshiro Toshika.

After the call was connected, he immediately reported the situation in detail.

After learning about the situation, Oshiro Lixiang asked him to stop other unimportant proofreading work and concentrate on investigating the situation.

In addition, an additional sum of money was allocated to him.

After Hideki Awazu received the funds, he found a detective agency with cooperation experience that day and asked to investigate Masakazu Ohuki thoroughly—including his family relationship, asset status, interpersonal contacts, and the relationship with "Tokyo Youth".

After being entrusted, Detective Affairs arranged for a senior detective to conduct a follow-up investigation on Masakazu Otsuru himself for about two weeks.

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Setagaya Ward, Aoyama Detective Agency.

Awazu Hideki sat on the sofa with an ordinary-looking middle-aged man and chatted about the results of this investigation.

"Awazu-san, this is a series of photos I took."

After the middle-aged man finished speaking, he put a stack of photos on the coffee table, while Awazu Hideki lowered his head, picked up the photos and looked at them.

In the photos, a thin, sullen man was either playing pachinko or drinking alcohol with his arms around a woman.

Awazu Hideki raised his eyebrows and asked, "Ando-san, please briefly tell us about your achievements."

The middle-aged man nodded and began to talk.

"The family relationship of the respondent is relatively simple, but his growing environment is somewhat harsh. His father is alcoholic and has domestic violence, and his mother is gossip and haggling. Because of the influence of his parents, the respondent has a bad temper and poor interpersonal relationship. friend."

Awazu Hideki nodded, and according to the photos provided by the other party, it can be seen that Ohuki is gambling and lusting with himself.

The middle-aged man continued: "According to the chats among their neighbors, I also learned one thing."

"Please tell me."

"When Ouguan Zhenghe himself was shortlisted for the Newcomer Award for Mystery Literature, his mother yelled loudly in the shopping street that her son would become a great writer, which aroused some people's resentment. After the award failed, their family became a laughing stock instead. .”

The middle-aged man took out a notebook and continued to read.

"But he was shortlisted for this award after all, so soon a publishing house contacted and published his work, but the final sales of this work were still unsatisfactory. This also led to the poor economic situation of Daguan Zhenghejia, I even received subsistence allowances for a period of time,”

Awazu Hideki frowned and asked again: "Aren't his parents working?"

"His father had a precarious izakaya job, his mother did not. But the reason for their family's poor situation is that Ohuki Masakazu himself often spends money freely."

Awazu Hideki sighed, this person has already got so many bad habits before he became famous, even if he wins the award, he probably won't go far.

Just as he was sighing, the middle-aged man said again: "But in January, their family's financial situation suddenly improved."

He pointed to a photo of the other party drinking on the coffee table.

"According to my conversation with the owner of the supermarket on the shopping street, the wine he drank was cheap and low-quality wine, but in the middle of January, he suddenly bought high-end foreign wine and even high-end wagyu beef. "

Awazu Hideki asked: "What is the economic improvement? What does it have to do with "Tokyo Youth"?"

The middle-aged man shook his head.

"The specifics are still under investigation. But I found through tracking that a black high-end business car often parked downstairs on Monday nights. Then a person wearing a mask walked into his home with an envelope, and Walked out with a thick paper bag. So I suspect that the transaction between them should be through cash."

Awazu Hideki thought about it, feeling more and more wrong.

Generally speaking, the payment of manuscript remuneration between the editorial department and the writer is often done directly through bank transfers. After all, it is very inconvenient to store a large amount of cash.

Unless there is any special reason?

"Ando-san, I would like to trouble you to continue the investigation. It is best to take a frontal photo of the person wearing the mask. Besides, it is best to know the specific contents of that file bag."

Hearing this request from Awazu Hideki, the middle-aged man smiled wryly, "Awazu-san, your second request is a bit too difficult."

"If you can get the news inside, it's easy to discuss the remuneration." Awazu Hideki met his gaze and said seriously: "As a regular customer, you should know that what I said is true."

The middle-aged man pondered for a while, gritted his teeth and agreed.

In the worst case, just buy some bugs and miniature cameras. I really don’t believe that I can’t handle it!

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