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Chapter 56 Contradictions
Tetsuya Uehara also looked at the ID card information.

He asked curiously, "Do you two have a marriage certificate?"

When Watanabe Ichiro heard this, he rubbed his hands awkwardly and shook his head. He smiled bitterly and said, "You have seen what is happening in our family."

"As long as there is love, whether there is a certificate or not, what difference does it make?"

Watanabe Ichiro's eyebrows were drooping, and his whole face was wrinkled into a bitter look.

He said, "Officer, I bought my son to fulfill a wish."

"Since that child came, Maki's mental state has become much more stable."

"Officer, can you please not punish me?"

Ichiro Watanabe begged for mercy.

Fujiwara Saeko was unmoved. She said, "Whether you will be punished or not depends on whether anything happens to the child."

"Originally I had to take you to the detention center, but considering your family's special circumstances, I will ask a colleague to look after you."

Fujiwara Saeko called Uehara Tetsuno.

She asked quietly, "Tetsuno-kun, what do you think?"

What do you think about Tetsuya Uehara's vision of Yuan Fang?

He subconsciously wanted to respond, Sir, I think there is something fishy about this matter.

He coughed, calmed himself, and replied seriously: "On the surface, Watanabe Ichiro really loves his wife. This cannot be false."

"However, a lot of love is very morbid. It is possible that Ichiro Watanabe first tortured Maki to madness so that she could not leave him."

Fujiwara Saeko said, "Tetsuno-kun thinks the same as I do."

"I think it would be better for us to go ask Maki's biological parents."

"Tetsuno-kun, are you available to come along?"

Tetsuya Uehara nodded. As long as he wanted, the world could really be peaceful.

He felt that this child trafficking case was becoming more and more interesting, and he was indeed curious about the truth of the incident.

After a while, a police car came to take over. They came to look after Watanabe Ichiro's family, while Fujiwara Saeko took Uehara Tetsuno and set off to the original address of Oda Maki's family.

……

after an hour.

The original residence of Maki Oda's family is not too far from Ichiro Watanabe's home, and can be reached in an hour by car.

Her family conditions are good and her home is a beautiful single-family house.

Fujiwara Saeko and Uehara Tetsuno got out of the car.

Seeing the police coming, the nearby residents looked at the place curiously.

Just then, a woman who looked somewhat like Oda Maki came home carrying a basket of vegetables.

Fujiwara Saeko stepped forward and showed her police ID.

She said, "Hello, Kansai Police Department."

"Ma'am, do you know Oda Maki?"

The woman, who was already in her fifties but still had charm, was stunned. She was in a daze, as if she was recalling something.

After a while, tears flowed from her eyes.

She wiped her tears and said quickly, "Yes, I know her."

"I am Oda Maki's mother."

Fujiwara Saeko and Uehara Tetsuno looked at each other, it seemed that something was really fishy.

Fujiwara Saeko continued to ask: "Did your daughter disappear many years ago?"

"But I didn't find any police records for your family."

The woman looked around and saw the neighbors staring at her curiously.

She said, "Would it be convenient for you to come into the house and talk?"

Fujiwara Saeko nodded.

They followed the woman into a house. To their surprise, the house was beautifully decorated on the outside, but the inside was a bit shabby.

The decoration inside is very old. The walls are only covered with a layer of white putty, and there are not even any tiles on the ground, leaving only cement dust.

The woman welcomed the two men into the hall, and she found many handkerchiefs and placed them around.

Tetsuya Uehara looked at the handkerchief thoughtfully.

Fujiwara Saeko comforted her, "Madam, there are no outsiders here now, can you talk to me?" The woman nodded.

Just as she was about to speak, her eyes turned red. She picked up the handkerchief beside her and wiped her tears.

She cried and said, "Maki, is she, is she doing well?"

"The police are here. Is she having a hard time?"

"Is she dead?"

Fujiwara Saeko gave the woman some time to calm down.

She said, "Ma'am, I'm sorry, I can't tell you about Ms. Maki's situation."

"Can you tell me about Ms. Maki?"

The woman said slowly: "Maki is a good child and has always been my pride."

"She had always done well in exams since she was young and was admitted to university. Later, for some unknown reason, she became bewitched and fell in love with a cripple who had nothing, and ran away with him."

"At that time, we called the police and they came to mediate, but Maki said he would not come back no matter what."

The woman raised her head with red and swollen eyes.

She said hopefully, "Officer, could you please talk to Maki? Mom has been waiting for her to come back."

"Your room has been cleaned up by your mother."

"Let's just pretend nothing happened. Go back to your mother and let her take care of you, okay?"

Fujiwara Saeko's heart was touched.

She said, "I, I will try my best to pass it on."

After the visit, the two left the building together. When they walked out of the house, they saw the neighbors around them pointing and talking about the place.

Fujiwara Saeko said: "It seems that Watanabe Ichiro really didn't buy Miss Maki as his wife."

"He used sweet words, didn't he?"

"It's just that Maki's mother said that she was a normal woman and even went to college. Why has she become a fool now?"

Fujiwara Saeko crossed her arms over her chest and asked suspiciously, "Is Watanabe Ichiro hiding something?"

"Besides, it doesn't make sense no matter how I think about it. How could a beautiful college girl like Watanabe Ichiro?"

Uehara Tetsuya said: "Watanabe Ichiro may not be telling the truth, but Maki's mother is not telling the truth either."

"She has a lot to hide."

"Hey?"

Fujiwara Saeko was surprised by Maki's mother's crying and her words of leaving a room for Maki and wanting to take care of her, which touched her deeply.

Tetsuya Uehara recalled.

He said, "Saeko, you can figure it out. Think about it carefully."

"How did Mrs. Maki prepare so many handkerchiefs just in time? How much of her crying was real and how much was fake?"

Fujiwara Saeko was stunned. She reorganized her memories from the time she met Mrs. Maki to the present.

Now, without Mrs. Maki's distressed look, she could think about the matter calmly.

Mrs. Maki's actions revealed many contradictions, which began to confuse Fujiwara Saeko.

She is very unfortunate, but in order to arouse her sympathy, she puts so many handkerchiefs around her. Is that a real performance?

Real grief isn’t like that, and real crying isn’t like that.

Fujiwara Saeko had seen many heartbroken people, but they didn't cry like this.

Mrs. Maki cried very rationally, very…

Very cinematic.

Looking back now, Mrs. Maki’s tears aren’t so touching.

Most importantly, Fujiwara Saeko discovered the most fatal point.

If Mrs. Maki really cared about her daughter, her home was only an hour away from Ichiro Watanabe's home. How could she not even know whether her daughter was alive or dead?
Fujiwara Saeko began to wonder, was she eager for Maki to come back because she loved her, or was she afraid of the rumors from the outside world?

Was her crying more about sincerity or hurt vanity?

Seeing the puzzled Fujiwara Saeko, Uehara Tetsuya slowly said: "Saeko, people are very contradictory and complicated."

“No one knows how much of sincerity is posturing, how much of nobility is baseness, how much of depravity is holiness.”

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