My daughter-in-law had just broken a cabinet of crockery and felt very guilty, so she prepared dinner with extra effort.
The guests were still praising the young lady for being calm and capable.
Unexpectedly, at night, after a few glasses of wine, the young lady’s image was shattered.
She patted Jiang Xia and sighed exaggeratedly: "You are really lucky - my father-in-law has only a few years to live, and his hands have started to shake recently. I'm afraid it will be difficult to make a masterpiece like 'Feng Shui Pill' again in the future. Your father-in-law has only a few years to live." A clay pot will definitely appreciate in value very quickly.”
The apprentice heard that something was not right and wanted to persuade her to wake up, but Kikuemon stopped her.
The old man said helplessly: "She is right. I can only produce two or three decent works a year now, which is indeed incomparable to before."
Toru Amuro was talking to another apprentice.
Hearing Kikuemon say this, he was suddenly startled: "Two or three pieces? But didn't they launch more than ten last year..."
The drunk young lady suddenly approached Toru Amuro and interrupted: "Don't mention the pottery! Tell us more about the cases you have solved. The detectives are the protagonists today."
Toru Amuro glanced at her thoughtfully. After a while, he dragged Jiang Xia, who was sitting next to him playing with the clay pot, and handed it to the young lady: "He broke it all. Let him tell the story."
Then he turned around and continued talking ruthlessly.
Jiang Xia stared at the young lady who almost touched his face: "..."
The young lady drank happily and didn't mind that there was another person in front of her.
She stretched out her hand to fish Jiang Xia, and laughed loudly: "Tell more! Although you have solved very few cases, I have long been tired of hearing it over and over again, but I am idle anyway, and it will be okay to listen to you again." She said. Then he touched his face.
Suzuki Sonoko accidentally glanced this way and happened to see the young lady's movements. Her eyes suddenly turned fierce, and she turned around and wanted to pounce on him, but Mao Lilan hugged her from behind.
Mao Lilan whispered: "Calm down. Auntie should just express her closeness and not take advantage of her!"
…
On the other side, Jiang Xia looked at the young lady speechlessly. With this amount of alcohol, he actually dares to drink...
But at the same time, he also knew that the young lady was not too drunk.
Just now, she suddenly interrupted Amuro Toru's question, which was actually a deliberate act of drunkenness.
- She didn't want to mention the quantity of pottery.
In recent years, Kikuemon has only had a few works, but the number of "Kikuemon's masterpieces" sold is much higher than this number.
This is actually because the young lady colluded with a certain apprentice and sold the apprentice's works disguised as Kikuemon's works.
Thinking of this, Jiang Xia glanced at the apprentice not far away who was full of murderous intent.
...No wonder the murderous intent is so strong - the internal strife among the outlaw gangsters is often one of the motives for murder.
Jiang Xia took a sip of juice with emotion.
…
The party continued late into the night.
The young lady was sent back to her room early because she fell drunk too quickly.
Others continued to eat and drink, and when they got sleepy, they took advantage of the situation and slept in the restaurant.
——This place is covered with tatami mats, and there are many blankets. You can sleep on the spot, and the environment is comfortable.
…
The next morning, Jiang Xia woke up in chaos. There were faint sounds of running, screaming, and the sound of police cars squeaking in my ears.
He sat up, rubbed his eyes, asked politely, and learned that the young lady died suddenly.
——She "hanged herself" in the pottery warehouse this morning. Those who had just left were still warm.
Next to them, Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko were close together, with complicated expressions, but they were much less fearful than before - they were actually somewhat used to frequent murders. And this time, the young lady walked away more peacefully, at least leaving behind a whole body.
…
When Jiang Xia arrived at the warehouse, the police had already arrived.
This time, it was finally no longer an old acquaintance with the Mumu Police Department.
It was a strange male police officer with hair that looked like coral and a square face.
When the Henggou Police Department saw Jiang Xia, their expressions changed slightly, and they were eager to get over and get an autograph - in this world, detectives are generally relatively well-known. Privately, the Henggou Police Department is actually chasing various famous detectives like chasing stars. This also includes Jiangxia.
But after struggling for a long time and remembering that he was still dealing with the case, he barely retained his dignity as a police officer and stopped where he was.
"..." It's better to wait until the case is concluded before asking for it.
…
Jiang Xia didn't know why the policeman kept staring at him.
He looked at the coral head of Henggou Police Department with slight curiosity, but soon lost interest in this strange hairstyle and turned to look at the crime scene.
——Before Jiang Xia arrived, others had already arrived and conducted a simple search of the scene.
Toru Amuro saw him entering the door, walked over and whispered: "It's a bit strange - her cervical vertebrae are broken."
People who hang themselves usually die of cerebral hypoxia, and a small number of people die tragically from cervical spine fractures.
But this time, judging from the young lady's body shape and hanging position, her cervical vertebrae were severed in an unnatural way.
Jiang Xia is now very skilled in "reasoning". He nodded and said in a normal voice: "The young lady probably did not hang herself by stepping on the clay pot, but first the rope was wrapped around her neck, and then she fell from the top of the cabinet next to her.
"If it was a suicide, there was no need to make it so fancy, so it might have been a murder - for example, someone moved her to lie on top of the cupboard while she was drunk, and then put a rope around her neck. When the young lady woke up this morning, she turned over and accidentally fell from the top of the cabinet, breaking her cervical vertebrae.
"In this case, the murderer is probably Mr. Sofu. When he turned around just now, I saw a lipstick mark on the back of his inner shirt. And at the dinner last night, the young lady was sitting next to me, and Mr. Sofu was sitting next to me. Opposite me, the young lady was sent back to the room by Mr. Otani, and there should have been no contact between the two people. The lipstick mark should have been made under more hidden circumstances - for example, in the middle of the night, Mr. Meino put the drunken When the young lady carried it to the top of the cabinet.
"Ah, look, there is a protruding iron nail on the top of the cabinet, and there is a cut on the young lady's calf. Maybe she was scratched by the nail when she fell."
…
The Henggou Police Department has been keeping its ears open, listening to Jiang Xia Expressway's reasoning.
At this time, he reacted quickly, ran to the nail and looked at it, and said excitedly: "There is really a little skin here!"
Toru Amuro: "..."
Conan also discovered something suspicious and sneaked over to discuss with Jiang Xia: "..."
other people:"……"
...This reasoning speed is unscientific!
Another apprentice looked at Jiang Xia blankly: "Did you get up in the middle of the night and see the murder..."
"He didn't!" Suzuki Sonoko interrupted, "Yesterday I was afraid that the young lady would go back to the restaurant to find him in the middle of the night, so I kept holding his arm. If Jiang Xia went out in the middle of the night, I would definitely find out!"
Disciple: "..." What image does the young lady have in your eyes?
…
Although Suzuki Sonoko's testimony sounds very unreliable.
But in fact, even if there were no witnesses, no one would doubt that a high school detective would get up in the middle of the night and leisurely watch the murder scene.
Only Toru Amuro didn't quite believe in Jiang Xia's conscience in this regard.
However, Tohru Amuro actually didn't sleep much last night - in his concept, there might be a "dangerous person trying to eavesdrop on the organization's secrets" hiding nearby.
In addition, after dinner last night, a group of people slept on the spot in the restaurant covered with tatami mats.
Therefore, Toru Amuro was most certain that Jiang Xia had never followed the murderer.
In other words, the information Jiang Xia just mentioned was really quickly deduced by him one minute after entering the warehouse.
…
In the past, Amuro Toru had no real sense of the reports about Jiang Xia's case.
After all, the murderer is written in bold in the title, so there is no suspense in reading it.
But now, he and Jiang Xia have the same information, and they even arrived at the scene earlier than Jiang Xia.
However, just when he judged that "this doesn't look like suicide," Jiang Xia had already pushed the murderer out...
For the first time, Toru Amuro truly understood the talent of this apprentice.
"..." It was a wise decision to agree to Jiang Xia's part-time job.
And such a talent was almost treated as cannon fodder by the organization and shot to death...
There was another account added to the thick grudge book in Amuro Toru's heart.
