"This...Brother Karasawa, Mr. Funamoto was indeed in the room next to his wife's when the criminal committed the crime.
But he's only about 160cm tall, and he has a leg injury. He wouldn't be able to commit the crime in a wheelchair, right?"
Seeing the two people confronting each other, Inspector Megure quickly raised questions, seemingly trying to excuse them while also changing the subject.
"Inspector, I think you still remember the location of the pearl earrings."
Tang Ze reminded: "One of them was placed on the dressing table, and the other was worn on the ear of the deceased."
"Yes, I remember you said at the time, Brother Tangze, that it was very likely that Mrs. Funamoto was taking off her earrings when she was suddenly called to the balcony." Inspector Megure nodded.
"Inspector Megure, aren't you curious?"
Tang Ze smiled and said, "How on earth did Mr. Funamoto make his wife rush out to the balcony without even taking off the other earring?"
"Huh? Reason?" Officer Megure asked in confusion, "What reason?"
"Ms. Shigeno, I remember you said that Mrs. Funamoto loved looking at the stars, right?"
Karasawa did not directly answer Inspector Megure's doubts, but looked at Shigeno Takami for confirmation.
"Well...that's right." Shigeno Takami nodded, but her face was full of confusion as she didn't know why Tang Ze suddenly asked this question.
"That's the key." Tang Ze looked at the puzzled crowd and smiled. "I'm afraid that's what Mr. Funamoto shouted at the time—"There's a meteor! Up there!"
And it was this sentence that became the death knell for Madam Jianshi!"
"Yes, because the shooting star flashed by in the night, that's why Mrs. Jianshi didn't even bother to take off her earrings and ran straight to the balcony."
After hearing Tang Ze's reminder, Gao Mu police suddenly realized: "Besides, Mrs. Jian Shi has always liked Xing Xing."
"That's right, and the phrase 'on top' is also a lead-in, just to make Mrs. Jianshi raise her head upwards."
Tang Ze explained: "This way, he can shoot upwards from the lower position of the wheelchair.
Because Mrs. Jianshi's head was raised to the sky at this moment, and he was in a relatively low position, the bullet would penetrate from the back of her head to her forehead.
This will create the illusion that someone over 180cm tall is shooting from above."
"And if we do that, the muzzle of the gun will be pointing upwards, so there won't be any bullet holes around the mansion." Tang Ze smiled and said, "After all, if there were no obstructions, the bullet would have pierced the victim's head and would have flown straight to the riverbank."
"But what about the balcony glass?" Inspector Megure nodded after hearing what Karasawa said.
"It's very simple. Mr. Funamoto is in a wheelchair and his leg is injured. He can't reach the glass above, so naturally he has no way to break it." Takagi explained with a smile.
"What about the pearl part?"
Inspector Megure raised his doubts again after hearing this. "Even if he really killed his wife on the second floor, he couldn't have thrown the pearl jewelry outside with his broken legs after all."
"On this point, I can only say that the previous search was not thorough enough."
Tang Ze's words startled the two of them, and then Inspector Megure quickly asked, "Are you saying that the pearl jewelry is still in the room?
That's impossible. The places where it could be hidden have been checked."
"Then I wonder if you, Officer Megure, have checked inside the vacuum cleaner?"
The answer given by Tang Ze stunned the two of them, and Tatsujin Funamoto's face changed drastically after hearing Tang Ze's words, and he could no longer maintain his previous evaluation.
"Vacuum cleaner…"
Officer Megure was stunned, while Takagi next to him looked panicked: "No, no, we didn't check there.
But isn't Mr. Funamoto a machine idiot?
And he was in a wheelchair, so it would be hard for him to use the vacuum cleaner and put it back without anyone noticing."
"That's right. If Mr. Funamoto used the vacuum cleaner himself, it would be hard to avoid being noticed. But if it was Ms. Shigeno, that would be different, right?"
"I... I'm not..." Shigeno Takami was shocked when she heard what Tang Ze said, and hurriedly tried to explain, but Tang Ze raised his hand to stop her.
"I know, Ms. Shigeno, you know nothing."
Tang Ze's words dispelled their concerns. He looked at the puzzled crowd and smiled, "I wonder if you still remember what Ms. Shigeno told us on the second floor about the three of them and their actions on the day of the incident?
Touji Funamoto has been running around and playing downstairs since the evening, while Ms. Shigeno is cleaning up the mess Touji made.
"What does this mean?" Inspector Megure asked in confusion, "Aren't all children like this?
Is it any wonder that they make a mess at home?"
"If it were any other day, it wouldn't be a problem, but it had to happen on that day." Tang Ze smiled and said, "Everyone, please think carefully about what holiday it was."
"I know! I know!" As Tang Ze finished speaking, Conan on the side responded enthusiastically: "February 3rd is the solar term, we have to spread beans!"
"Throwing beans...could it be..." Inspector Megure obviously realized something.
"That's right. I'm afraid that brother Touji was pestering father that day and asked him to wear the devil mask and accompany him to scatter beans."
Tang Ze looked at Funamoto Tatsujin and said, “Because the pearls are very similar in size and shape, and more importantly, there are a lot of them, they can easily get mixed up with the beans.
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