Tokyo life starting with painting

Chapter 298 My brother robbed the bank (8000 words)

Chapter 298.

"There really is a washing machine." Chihaya Higashino looked at the washing machine in front of her with a look of disbelief on her face.

She held her breath, then carefully reached out her hand and gently turned the switch of the washing machine.

With a slight roar, the washing machine started to work.

Higashino Chihaya couldn't help but took two steps back, with a look of astonishment on her face: "It really moved."

Her head was really a mess.

It is normal for the washing machine to move.

but

"Is this really my home?"

She turned her head and looked blankly into the house from here.

There is a spacious living room, a corridor adjacent to the living room, a utility room in the master bedroom and the second bedroom.

The feeling she gives people now is like an ancient person looking at modern technology, completely confused and unable to understand the situation at all.

I'm still talking about "Zhihuzheye" here, but you guys are using simplified Chinese characters.

For her, there is such a big gap.

But Higashinoji is probably changing clothes now. Higashino Chihaya feels that as an older sister, she should not go in casually.

After all, Asi is also a mature male high school student.

So she walked to the entrance hall and muttered according to memory.

"I remember that I entered my room through the entrance hall. Then I went in the direction of the living room. Then I turned left. The one at the end? Is it the utility room? My room wasn't this big before, right?"

Fortunately, there is still a room with the door number of 'Higashino Chihaya'. Higashino Chihaya can at least find her own room.

".Did my room look like this before?"

Higashino Chihaya glanced at the big bed inside, and then at the many dolls stuffed inside.

She used to like this kind of dolls, but she never collected so many.

And the furnishings of this room are basically based on her preferences.

With an indescribable emotion, Higashino Chihaya stepped into the room, came to the dressing table, and glanced restlessly in the mirror.

After all, the changes around her were so great that she couldn't accept it for a while and began to wonder if she was dreaming.

She was wearing a pair of pale white pajamas with no patterns and slippers on her feet. Her face had not changed. She had a pair of peach blossom eyes with a beauty mark next to her. At this time, she was staring uneasily at herself in the mirror, showing a bit of worry. .

Originally, Chihaya Higashino was a beauty, but this worried and weak look added a bit of charm.

She has a delicate and beautiful oval face, long black hair, and slightly curled hair at the end, which makes people particularly protective.

"It's okay. At least my face hasn't changed."

Higashino Chihaya covered her chest and 'pressed' her heart that was about to beat out again.

However, my hair is a bit too long. I used to have medium-long hair, but now it almost reaches my waist.

Higashino Chihaya shook her head after thinking about it.

So that means I'm not having a lucid dream.

I really live in this bright and spacious home.

But why are you still wearing pajamas? This is too unseemly, right? It's obviously already past eleven o'clock.

She rummaged through the closet and found that the clothes she had worn before were still there.

After putting it on, she returned to the living room, sat on the sofa and waited for Higashinoji to come out.

But while waiting, she still looked around from time to time.

At the same time, I became increasingly doubtful.

I felt like I had just been in a coma for a few days, and the whole world had changed.

The most important thing is, how did Higashinoji bring himself to a place like this?

Did you rob that bank?

This can only be done by robbing a bank, right?

No. If you sell your old house in Adachi City and rent a new house here, this is also possible.

yes

That makes sense.

Higashinoji might have sold his old house in Adachi Ward and used the money to rent a new house here. This is a reasonable explanation.

This analysis result is based on a very realistic perspective.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for her family to suddenly come up with such a large amount of money.

You must know that a lot of the family's savings were used to organize funerals and purchase parents' graves.

"If that's the case, then we can only live here temporarily."

Higashino Chihaya lowered her head and thought.

She has always been tolerant and tolerant towards her younger brother Higashikata. No matter what, she does not want to lose her temper with her brother.

Likewise, she also had many questions in her heart.

But now that his parents have passed away, the only one Higashino can rely on is himself.

If Higashikata really sold his old house, then she would have to stay calm, at least not panic in front of Higashikata.

Thinking of this, Chihaya Higashino felt enlightened, and at the same time made up her mind not to lose her temper with Higashinoji no matter what, but to communicate with him calmly.

After almost a minute or two, Higashinoji finally changed his clothes and opened the door and walked out.

Higashino Chihaya glanced at it subconsciously, and then felt her heart jump inexplicably.

Did Asta look so good-looking before?

Why does it feel like a different person?

Although Higashinoji was not very picky in terms of appearance in the past, he always had top-notch looks wherever he was placed.

But at that time, Higashinoji always had the childishness of a young boy.

Therefore, when girls meet Higashinoji, they will basically not regard him as a young male. At most, they will regard him as a student or a younger brother.

It’s not that he doesn’t have masculine charm, but more than that, he makes people think he is very immature.

After all, Higashino Tsukasa was still in his youthful rebellious stage, and his sister Chihaya Higashino took care of many things.

but now

Higashinoji really made Higashino Chihaya feel a little different.

She couldn't tell exactly what the difference was.

It just means that Higashinoji does look much better than before.

It feels like a different person, Higashino Chihaya believes it.

Seeing that Higashinoji had noticed him and was walking towards him, Chihaya Higashino immediately coughed: "Aji, you came here just in time. My sister wants to ask you something."

"Well, I understand."

Higashikata didn't say much about this.

Chihaya Higashino has just woken up, and it is normal for her to be confused about many things.

"Well, first of all, there's the problem with this house, Tsukasa. This shouldn't be our house in Adachi Ward, right?"

Chihaya Higashino raised the question that concerned her most at the moment.

"This place is located in Meguro Ward. It's close to Kita Gym, so I moved here."

Tonoji simply replied.

Sure enough, the place has been changed.

Higashino Chihaya murmured in her heart, but because she was mentally prepared, she didn't show any panic or confusion.

So she asked again: "Is this the house that Asa rented after selling his old house in Adachi Ward?"

As soon as she asked this question, she was keenly aware that something was wrong with Higashinoji's expression.

But Higashinoji's expression didn't show 'uneasiness, surprise, or astonishment' as she imagined. Instead, it looked more like surprise, or an accident.

This change in expression made Higashino Chihaya a little unclear as to what her brother was thinking.

But the words had reached this point, and Chihaya Higashino could only continue: "Aji, don't worry, even if I really sell the old house, I don't mean to blame you."

She comforted Higashinoji, and then said:

"It's just that our current living environment is a bit too luxurious and a bit unconsidered. We don't have that much money, right? Should we move to a cheaper place?"

Chihaya Higashino made suggestions based on his own ideas.

This made Toyoji on the other side a little inexplicably funny.

But while it was funny, he was also a little moved.

He originally thought that the first thing Chihaya Higashino would do after she sorted out her thoughts was to ask him about school, parents and the like.

Unexpectedly, she immediately proposed moving to a cheaper apartment.

And he didn’t even curse at himself for ‘selling his old house and renting an expensive apartment’, he just had a serious discussion with himself.

Although he never did this, he paid off the apartment in full solely with the money he earned from his comics.

But Higashinoji still felt Higashino Chihaya's feelings.

However, it is better to tell her the specific situation here, so that she will not be able to take off the blame later.

Higashinoji organized his sentences a little, and then said: "Actually, I didn't sell the old house."

"Not sold?"

Looking at Higashino Chihaya's face with wrinkled slender eyebrows and not quite understanding, Higashinoji also smiled and planned to tell her about the manga.

But the words haven't been spoken yet.

Higashino Chihaya over there seemed to understand something: "So that's it, Asi, have you recovered the insurance money from your father and mother?"

Higashino's parents naturally pay national insurance every year.

After their deaths, Chihaya Higashino and Tsukasa Higashino should also receive an insurance payment.

However, the insurance company temporarily refused to provide high insurance compensation.

In their words, there are doubts about the death of Dongye's parents.

Because when Higashino's parents died, there were no witnesses around, and there were no surveillance cameras.

Therefore, it is difficult to conclude that the entire incident is a homicide.

In other words, they think this may be a method used by the Higashino family to defraud high insurance premiums——

Higashino's parents probably committed suicide to defraud the insurance company of insurance compensation.

Perhaps many people think it is impossible, how could such insurance fraud cases occur in Japan.

But in fact, Japan does, and there are many similar cases of insurance fraud.

For example, a wife kills her husband just to pay high compensation.

Or farmers in a village secretly cut off their fingers with lawnmowers to cheat their insurance.

Even though in Japan, defrauding insurance premiums is a serious crime, they are still willing to do it.

After all, who is willing to work hard when you can make money just lying down?

To sum up, the insurance company used this reason as an excuse to refuse to compensate for the insurance.

He said that he would only be willing to hand over the insurance money belonging to the Higashino family to Higashinoji and Higashino Chihaya until the murderer was arrested and the whole incident came to light.

At that time, Higashino Chihaya went to the insurance company many times for this matter, but basically came back without success.

In her opinion, maybe Higashino was able to move herself into this kind of house because he had caught up with the generous insurance money.

But Higashinoji on the other side was speechless after listening to Chihaya's analysis.

How can he recover any insurance money?

After all, this was the first time he heard Higashino Chihaya mention such a thing when he came to this world.

And now that he knows, he must get the money back.

——Although Higashinoji is not short of this money, things that belong to the Higashino family must belong to the Higashino family.

The worst case scenario is to file a lawsuit and make the matter bigger.

The insurance companies in Japan are just bastards. Although there are cases of insurance fraud, there are also cases where insurance companies refuse to compensate, and there are many of them.

They won't give in without something hard.

Thinking like this, Higashinoji shook his head at Higashino Chihaya again, indicating that she thought wrongly: "I didn't recover any insurance money."

".The insurance money hasn't been recovered either?"

After receiving this answer from Higashinoji, Higashino Chihaya was completely stunned.

Nothing?

This shouldn't be the case.?

So how did Higashino move to such a brand-new apartment?

Could it be that he really robbed a bank? Or did he do other shameful things?

After all, the methods of getting rich are clearly written in the criminal law.

Could it be that Higashinoji really went bad and did some bad things?

The more she thought about it, the more worried she became about Higashinoji, with sweat on her face.

Seeing that Chihaya Higashino seemed to want to cry, Higashinoji did not hesitate and explained simply: "Sister Chihaya, I actually make money by drawing comics."

"drawing comic?"

After hearing Higashinoji's words, Chihaya Higashino felt that they were too outrageous.

Comics. It’s called Japan’s tertiary industry. Chihaya Higashino really knows about it.

But she had seen Higashinoji's work in sketching class before.

It felt more like an alien than a person.

You can’t even draw well, but you still want to draw comics with backgrounds? Isn't Toyoshi just kidding himself?

Is it possible that the comics industry is now embracing ‘abstract art’?

And I have to buy this apartment through comics

This is even more of a joke.

At least Chihaya Higashino didn’t believe it.

It's not that she doesn't have confidence in her brother, it's just that these words are too outrageous. Compared with drawing comics, she feels that her brother's intention to rob a bank may be more convincing to her.

Higashinoji clearly understood that his sister didn't believe it.

This made him sigh.

really.

When his sister suffered from mental symptoms in the past, he felt that she was a bit dull.

The results are now back to normal.

It feels like this dull personality has no intention of getting better at all.

He didn't bother to argue. After thinking about it, he walked directly into the room and looked through the sample issues sent to him by Urashima Publishing House, as well as some posters and figure peripherals for comic products.

He put these things into a box and placed them directly in front of Higashino Chihaya.

"Sister Chihaya, you can take a look."

Facts speak louder than words.

Next to him, Chihaya Higashino glanced at him.

She still felt that her brother was more likely to rob a bank.