Mouri Kogoro was silent for a moment and said expressionlessly, "Fei Chi, can't you let Fei Chi stay under your clothes?"
What if the client is frightened and the client drives them away?
Chi Feichi waited until Feichi finished looking at the photo, then grabbed Feichi's neck and pulled Feichi back, "Sorry."
"I'm sorry, Mr. Torada, this is a pet raised by my apprentice. Nowadays, these children just like to keep some strange pets." Mouri Kogoro smiled awkwardly and said hurriedly, "But don't worry, this snake has a bad temper." Very good, he usually doesn’t bite, and even if he is carried around by children, he will never attack anyone!”
Conan who was once bitten: "..."
Haha, even the uncle has learned to use Chi Feichi's saying "I don't usually bite" to fool people.
Mouri Kogoro who was once bitten: "..."
In order to appease his client, he told lies without conscience.
"Yeah, really..." Hutian Zhixin saw Feichi retreating into Chi Feichi's sleeves, sitting down again, and forced a smile, "It is true that there are not many people who keep snakes."
Mouri Kogoro looked at the photo and got back to business, "But this centipede..."
"This centipede was trampled to death and put there before the blood stains dried." When the door of the living room was opened, Torada Naotobu's wife Torada Tatsuei was wearing a blue-green kimono and holding a tray with tea cups. Standing at the door, he said with a gloomy expression, "In other words, someone saw my son's miserable condition and didn't help to call for help. They even put such a terrible insect in a pool of blood and watched him die. All he had to do was say, 'You You deserve it!"
Seeing that Torada Tatsuei was also full of resentment, Mouri Kogoro said, "But this centipede might also have been swept up into the air by the tornado and then dropped there..."
"The person who discovered the body was my second son Shigeji," Torada Naobu said angrily. "He said that there are no centipedes around there at all. Someone must have refused to save his brother!"
"Second son?" Mouri Kogoro was a little confused, "Didn't you just say that the deceased Mr. Yoshiro was the only one who could inherit the family business?"
"Hmph..." Torata Naobu snorted dissatisfiedly, "That guy Shigeji who is obsessed with digging for treasures all day long, I no longer regard him as my son!"
"Then what?" Conan couldn't help but ask, "Who do you think is more suspicious? Didn't you just say that someone has a grudge against the Torada family?"
"The Ryuubi family has always been in conflict with our Torada family," Torada said with determination, "The person who refuses to save my son must be a member of the Ryuumi family!"
"That's why their son was punished by God not long ago and died!" Torada Naoxin said.
"Dead, dead?" Mouri Kogoro was a little surprised, "Did another incident happen recently?"
"That's right, they actually thought that it was done by our Torada family," Naonobu Torada said with a look of dissatisfaction, "Because the police have not yet investigated the mystery of his son's death, and their family also invited a detective, so we That’s why I invited you to come and fight against them!”
Maori Kogoro:"……"
He always thought that the commission was to investigate the cause of death, but he never expected that it was to confront the detectives hired by others.
"You said 'the mystery of the death of the son of the Tatsuo family'? Is it because the son of the Tatsuo family died in a strange way?" Koshimizu Nanatsuki asked aloud, "Isn't it an accidental death?"
"No, their dead son Koji was tied up and buried in the soil. His head was hit many times with blunt objects until he died," Tatsuei Torada stepped forward and said, bending down to put the tray on the table. , bringing the cup of tea on it to the table, "And the murderer put a dead centipede in the blood on his forehead before the blood dried up, and then fled, so the Longwei family has always suspected that it was us. Even if their son dies, they will also kill their son.”
"Being tied up and buried and then beaten to death..." Mouri Kogoro frowned and thought for a moment, then raised his eyes and asked, "Mr. Naotobu, is your family really irrelevant to this matter?"
"Mr. Mori, it's really rude of you to ask that," Naobu Torada said with a look of displeasure, "There will never be that kind of person in our family! Even if the relationship between our two families has always been bad, we still suspect that he is from their family. I won't save my son until he dies, but we won't even think about killing their son. If anyone in our family is related to this matter, how can I find you, a famous detective?"
"Ah, I just want to confirm," Mouri Kogoro smiled sweatily and asked, "What about the person who found Mr. Koji's body?"
"It's their second son, Ryuuki Kage." Tatsuei Tarei finished putting down the tea and stood up with a tray. "The celebrations in our village are about to begin recently. Their Ajing is the young man with the best riding and shooting performance here." He has always been a candidate for horseback shooting performances, and he discovered Koji’s body on his way home after practice.”
"The body was discovered by the younger brother after his tragic death, and a dead centipede was placed before the blood dried up." Mouri Kogoro paused, "So, is there anyone who resents both of your families?"
"It's impossible. Our Torada family treats people fairly in the village. My wife Darei and the head of the Ryuubi family, Ryuubi Shishi, are also the ones responsible for preparing celebrations for the village every year," Naonobu Torada affirmed. "They will resent us. The only family is the Longwei family."
"Since the head of the Ryūwei family can prepare for the celebration with Mr. Shi, it means that their family is also respected and loved by other villagers in the village. The only ones who are dissatisfied with their family are the Torada family, right?" Conan asked in an innocent tone, "What's the conflict between your two families?"
"This..." Naobu Torada looked up with a heavy face and looked at his wife Tatsuei Torada, then looked at Mouri Kogoro and said awkwardly, "Actually, I don't know, but I have been warned to the Ryuubi family since I can remember. If you are not a good person, you want to resent the Tatsumi family!"
The corner of Mouri Kogoro's mouth twitched slightly, "Yeah, really..."
"But the children of your two families seem to have a good relationship, right?" Koshimizu Nanatsuki saw the others watching and explained, "When I came here two years ago, I saw a horse riding and archery performance at the celebration. The villagers It was said that the performer was Mr. Akei from the Tatsuo family in the village, and there were four young men and women congratulating him at that time. They seemed to be very close friends, including the two sons of the Torada family, right?"
"Two years ago..." Naobu Torada recalled it and nodded quickly, "Yes, those should be my two sons, his wife and his eldest brother. Although we don't deal with them in this generation, But our son’s generation grew up together, and we have a pretty good relationship, even A Jing’s wife later played with the four of them.”
"Is Mr. Shigeji at home now?" Mouri Kogoro asked, "I think it's better to ask him about the situation when he found Mr. Yoshiro's body. Maybe he noticed something abnormal at that time..."
Torada Tatsuei led a group of people to find Torada Shigeji, but Torada Naobu did not want to see his second son at all and did not follow.
Torada Shigeji looks a lot like his father, with a short, plump figure and a big nose. However, compared to Torada Naoshito, who has a clean and dignified appearance, Torada Shigeji has messy hair and a band tied randomly on his forehead. He was wearing a bandage, and the stubble on his chin was not shaved off, making him look sloppy. It was no wonder that Torata Naobu didn't want to see his son.
However, Shigeji Torada seemed to be much more easy-going and honest than his father. After hearing the purpose of the group's visit, he thought carefully about it and said that except for the dead centipede, he didn't find anything strange.
"At first, I thought it was the people of the Tatsuo family who refused to save my brother," Torada Shigeji sighed, "until that happened to their Koji too..."
"Do you have any stories between the Torada family, the Ryūbi family, and Centipede?" Conan raised his head and asked.
"There is no story," Shigeji Torada recalled with a puzzled look, "but as for the centipede pattern, I seem to have seen it at a celebration..."
"Really?" Mouri Kogoro asked quickly, "Where is the centipede pattern?"
"This..." Shigeji Torada scratched his head, "I just remember seeing it before, and I saw it many times."
"It's on the flag, right?" Koshimizu Nanatsuki looked a little helpless when he saw Torada Shigeji was so confused. He said, looking at the armor in the room behind Torada Shigeji, "their village's celebration. There will be people wearing that kind of armor to perform, and among the flags used for the celebration, one of the flags has a centipede pattern on it."
"Ah, that's right," Shigeji Torada turned to look at the armor in the room and said with a smile, "During the celebration, the men in the village will have to imitate the armor during the war, but that is just a plastic replica issued by the village. , very cheap and light to wear.”
"Does the centipede flag have any special meaning?" Mouri Kogoro asked again.
"I'm not very clear about this." Shigeji Torada said with an apologetic smile and scratched his head.
When Mouri Kogoro saw that Shigeji Torada was too confused to ask for any useful clues, he sighed silently and turned to the others, "Then let's go to Mr. Akei from the Tatsuo family and ask. He found Mr. Koji Maybe something will be found when the body is found..."
"Mr. Mori, I won't take you there," Torada Darei said with a straight face, "Our two families didn't usually interact with each other very much before. After this happened, the children no longer interacted with each other as before. Long The Ojia family is in the big house on the other side of the village. If Mr. Mori wants to go, he can go and see it by himself. However, as a person who performs the riding and archery performance in the celebration, he should practice riding and archery in the woods behind their house for this year. Prepare for the celebration performance.”
The detective team went to Longwei's house on their own, and Huihara Ai also took Mikayue with him.
Koshimizu Nanatsuki has been to the village before. Although he only stopped by to see the celebration during his investigation, he knows the square where the celebration is held in the village and the general route, and he can also give a simple guide.
Since Torada Eita said that Ryuubikage might be in the woods, Mouri Kogoro was worried that he, the detective hired by the Torada family, would be defeated by the Ryuubi family, so he decided to go directly to the woods to look for Ryuubikage without going to the door of the Ryuubi family first.
When the six of them arrived at the woods behind Longwei's house, Longwei Jing, who was wearing a riding suit, was still practicing. He rode his horse past the target standing on the roadside, drew his bow and nocked an arrow, and the arrows he shot accurately hit the wood one after another. The center of the target also shattered the wooden target into two halves.
Koshimizu Nanatsuki led the way to the woods. When Ryuubi Kei rode back to the tree and talked to the young woman waiting under the tree, he introduced in a low voice, "That is Mr. Ryuubi Kei, the rider at the celebration two years ago. He is the one who performs the shooting show, and he always hits the target, which is really wonderful. As for the person talking to him, he should be his wife..."
quiet.
Mouri Kogoro, Mouri Ran, Haibara Ai and Conan looked at Ryuuki Kage with scrutinizing eyes.
Why do you feel that the level of riding and shooting is not that strong?
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