Chapter 1204 1212 [Detective’s Wages in Arrears]
Outside the villa, in the beautiful banquet hall.
After Jiang Xia got the doctors' business cards and memorized the addresses, phone numbers and names on them, he stopped hanging out with this group of aloof party guests.
He went to get a glass of Coke in a goblet, and then continued to stay in the corner of the venue to carry out his commission.
——President Ichikawa's attitude is a bit strange. This riddle man seems to prefer to let the detective stay in the corner of the party. Jiang Xia tried to sneak into the villa, but was stopped by the housekeeper.
Jiang Xia then followed suit and took out his notebook, recalling the conversation between the two Miss Ichikawas and writing it down one by one, preparing to give it to the client later.
…
Soon, the servants set up the open-air stage.
President Ichikawa quickly took the stage and took the microphone:
"Thank you all for taking the time to come to my birthday party. This time, I mainly have one thing to inform you - I plan to step down as president in the near future, which means I will retire.
"Next, I will sell all my shares and company operating rights to Asahi Industries."
“…”
There was dead silence in the conference hall.
After a while, the whispers suddenly exploded, and amid the noisy voices, someone couldn't help but ask loudly: "What should we do then?"
——A large number of people who came to the party today were relatives of President Ichikawa. Originally, some of them could have gotten a share of the inheritance.
"What are you going to do?" President Ichikawa repeated their words and laughed sarcastically. "Well, it's hard to tell you the details, but one thing is certain - I won't let anyone here get a penny from me."
“…”
In the silent crowd, Jiang Xia couldn't help but be infected with a bit of the detective's argumentative nature: "..." You just said that after the matter is done, you will give me another million...
Mao Lilan felt the restlessness of the crowd and suddenly remembered something.
She looked around and whispered worriedly to Jiang Xia and Suzuki Sonoko: "Have you seen Conan?"
"No." Suzuki Sonoko was used to this naughty child getting lost. "He must have found something interesting again and sneaked away to play with it."
…
Conan did find something interesting.
But I wasn't able to play it secretly, and someone else played with it instead.
——By the time he came out of anesthesia, a long time had passed.
Conan sat up from the ground, pressed his forehead, looked around, and found that he was locked in a basement.
He was stunned for a moment, then suddenly remembered what happened before he fainted. He hurried to the door and wanted to open it, but it was locked tightly and he couldn't open it at all.
Conan always feels that something is going to happen tonight.
He took out his cell phone and wanted to contact some classmates outside, but when he looked carefully, he found that there was no signal.
"Oh no, that bottle of poisoned wine..."
…
In the banquet hall.
After announcing his resignation, Kotaro Ichikawa returned to the villa amid various looks from everyone.
Thinking about the frightened faces of those guys when they heard that they "couldn't get the inheritance", Ichikawa Kotaro couldn't help but feel very happy - he had used all means, abandoned his health and morals to work hard to gain the wealth, so why should it be taken away so easily by these people?
With his departure, the atmosphere in the banquet hall became completely solemn.
Jiang Xia thought of something and looked at the butler: "I remember when Mr. Ichikawa commissioned me, he said to observe his two daughters 'at tonight's banquet'. In this case, is the commission over?"
"Of course." The butler nodded, "Please follow me."
He led several people to the villa.
This time he didn't go to the study, but went to the reception room.
When he reached the door, Jiang Xia took a quick look and saw several familiar people standing in the room - Kotaro Ichikawa and his two daughters, and the private doctor.
He was about to go in, but was stopped by Ichikawa Kotaro:
"Now it's time for our family to talk. Just give me your findings. Wait next door, and the butler will give you the remaining one million."
Jiang Xia didn't have any objection to this. He responded and put the notebook with not much content written on it in his hand.
Afterwards, the old butler also entered the reception room and the door was closed from the inside.
"It's weird." Suzuki Sonoko pouted in dissatisfaction and tried to peek through the crack in the door, but unfortunately failed.
"Okay, let's go look for Conan." After all, Mouri Ran's home is in a detective agency, and her resistance to Riddler is much higher than Suzuki Sonoko's.
Compared to other people's personal affairs, she is more concerned about the missing Conan: "Conan won't be captured by some dark-minded person to vent his anger, such as using him as a human sandbag... The guests at the banquet all look so scary."
"Maybe he went to the bathroom." Jiang Xia looked around and pointed in a direction, "Let's look over there."
…
At the same time, in the living room.
Different from the terrifying atmosphere at the banquet just now, at this moment, the people in the room were having a great time - at least that's what it seemed on the surface.
The second daughter, Ichikawa Mizue, sat on the sofa, looking at her father who was in the main seat, and forced a smile:
"Honestly, I don't object to Dad's decision. Wealth is the sweetest thing when it is obtained through one's own efforts." - Humph, you old and conservative man, when you die, even if you don't want to, I can get a share of the inheritance, which is enough for me to live a glorious life for decades.
and……
Ichikawa Mizue smoothed her hair and felt gloating in her heart: there must be someone more anxious than her.
Just as I was thinking about it, my eldest daughter Ichikawa Ichishige also smiled and said, "Me too."
She was holding a wine box in her hands.
As he spoke, Ichikawa opened it gracefully, took out the red wine, opened the bottle and poured it out:
"To celebrate Dad's birthday, I brought this bottle of famous wine from 1957. I kept it for a long time and was reluctant to open it. Now it seems that only in the hands of a tasteful person like Dad can its value be preserved."
She calmly poured a glass of wine into a clear goblet and handed it to Kotaro Ichikawa.
Ichikawa Kotaro took it casually without commenting on their words. He just picked up the wine, looked at it, and smelled it as he usually did when tasting wine.
…
The other side.
Jiang Xia took two classmates and walked around the villa for a while, and soon they stopped at the door of a basement.
"There seems to be some movement in here."
After Jiang Xia finished speaking, he was about to reach out and turn the locked door handle, then give way to Mao Lilan.
But at this moment, he suddenly felt a sense of crisis.
Jiang Xia suddenly raised his hand and pushed Suzuki Sonoko to the side. Almost at the same time, Mao Li Ran also quickly stepped back half a step and moved away from the gate.
With a loud bang, a tin can crashed through the basement door, covered with debris, passed through them, and hit the opposite wall heavily.
(End of this chapter)
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
