Meteor is too long, just for a moment, accidentally missed, especially when it rains. Keigo Higashino's Journey to the Meteor tells the story of three children of Xingbo's family who watched the meteor but missed it because of the rain. As soon as they got home, they started another life.

Xing Bo's family is a family reunited after divorce. There are three children: Gong Yi and Taifu are boys, children of his father Xing Bo; Chennai was brought up by his wife Tazi. Three children set out in the middle of the night and secretly went to see the meteor. As a result, it rained halfway and missed the opportunity to see meteors. But when they got home, they found their parents killed. Since then, a complete family has disappeared and they have become orphans.

When they get together again to live, for the sake of livelihood, under the influence of fate, after being cheated many times, they form a deceptive trio: Gong Yi is responsible for investigating the situation, determining the object and making plans; Taifu and Chennai are responsible for implementation and implementation.

When the target of fraud was locked in Hangcheng, the appearance of Hangcheng's father caught the attention of Taifu: "That night, the night my parents were killed, that man came out from the back door." In addition, the special food cooked by Zheng Xing is exactly the same as that cooked by his father Xing Bo, from which they concluded that Zheng Xing was the murderer of his parents. So the plan has changed: from the original fraud to finding evidence and bringing the murderer to justice.

However, twelve years have passed since the case, and the police have been helpless for many years, and there is nothing they can do about it. What can they do? Where can I find evidence?

Under the planning of Gongyi, it is almost impossible to find evidence, but only to make evidence to make the murderer confess. This seems to be crooked, just like framing. However, whether the old watch of Xingbo reappears or the formula of Xingbo is put in Zheng Hang's study by Jing Nai, it seems to be very effective: because the police re-investigated the case and questioned Zheng Hang face to face.

Cheng Cheng, who is extremely rational and good at judging, found that his father did have doubts: his father, who had been watching meteors with him, was not with him the night Xingbo was killed; The formula of Honghui beef rice is exactly the same as that of Xingbo. When he heard his partner Jing Nai mention that he had eaten beef rice with the same taste, his father resolutely stopped it.

On the one hand, it is to prove whether the father is guilty, on the other hand, it is to make sure that the murderer who killed his father has criminal evidence, and cooperate with Gong Yi to deceive the political line on the basis of so-called DNA, saying that it has been compared and consistent, causing the political line to tell him the umbrella left by the murderer.

It seems that there is nowhere to escape, but it is actually Gong Yi's fantasy. The political bank does not admit to killing people for good reasons: the formula was bought from Xingbo, because the other party was in high debt and it was difficult to solve the urgent need; When I got home, I saw that the couple were dead and took the umbrella by mistake. The umbrella has been kept, waiting for the day when the truth of the case comes out.

So who killed the couple?

Police officer Kashiwabara, who has been staring at Xiaoyi, aroused Xiaoyi's suspicion: "He practiced golf swing with a black umbrella and was seen by the victim's son." It was Yuan Bo who wanted to save his sick son, but when he saw Qian Qi's intention, he wanted to kill him for money. He has written a confession and has been waiting for the day when the defendant sends it.

Gong Yi, the three of them always seem to be predestined friends with "wrong": they secretly ran away from home and missed the opportunity to watch the meteor shower because of the rain; Go astray in life and make a living by cheating; Admit the murderer and go your own way; Obtaining evidence in the wrong way almost resulted in an unjust case.

But in the end, when the truth of the case came out, when there was no heavy burden brought by parents' grievances, and because Sister Jingnai was not implicated, it was worth loving her. With the help of Cheng Cheng, the two brothers returned the money they cheated, surrendered themselves without any obstacles, and gained new opportunities.

Meteors are fleeting, but beauty always exists. Even if I occasionally make detours and go the wrong way, I uphold the belief that I am a family, do not forget the historical burden of my family, and actively promote the fulfillment of my "responsibility" with even the smallest strength, and finally remove the fetters and move on calmly, so that the beauty of the meteor will shine forever.