Kaze Yo Nake (Shodensha Bunko Fu 5-14 Kyo Mawari Doshin Taira Shichiro Hikae 14)

[Machine Translation] Heishichiro Tachibana caught a boy with a kinchigiri during a drinking session at a liquor store he knew well. When he questioned the boy about his identity, he was told that his father had been exiled to Hachijojima and was living alone. He was the head of a wholesale store that sold various colors, but in the dark he mistook him for a bandit and stabbed the owner's younger brother to death. Heishichiro was surprised to learn that this was one of the cases he had investigated. Soon after securing the boy's residence, news of a pardon arrives, and the reunion of father and son is short-lived...

立花平七郎は懇意の酒屋での聞き酒会の最中、巾着切りの少年を捕らえた。身元を質すと、父親は八丈島に流されていてひとり暮らしだという。諸色問屋の手代頭だったが、暗闇の中、賊と間違えて主の弟を刺し殺したのだ。平七郎は自分が取り調べた一件だったと驚く。少年の住まいを確保した直後、恩赦の報せが届き、父子の再会を果たしたのも束の間...。