Chapter 2082-2090 [Change of Mind]
The group took Akane Katori's photo and went to the place where the shoes were picked up to ask people, hoping to find clues about the bride's disappearance and whereabouts.
After walking around for a while, a waitress finally remembered something: "I seem to remember her. I remember her hurriedly entering the windmill cabin alone. After that, I didn't pay any attention to that place anymore - it was around one o'clock in the afternoon."
With the exact time, the next thing is clear.
"An alibi for kidnapping Miss Katori?" Grandma Ohga laughed. "Well, since the detective wants to play this kind of game, let's cooperate. During that time, I was in my room doing the accounts."
Da He's father also cooperated: "My wife and I are also here with mother."
The three oldest people spoke up, and the others followed suit.
Sister Da He: "I'm riding a horse at the stable."
Uncle Da He: "I'm drinking in the house." Celebrating his nephew's resignation in advance.
After Daha's family finished speaking, only one person was missing.
Jiang Xia looked at the dark-skinned man: "What about you?"
Junichi Takahashi thought for a moment and said, "I think I'm looking for someone at the Crystal Dream Theater - yes, that's it. I also took a few photos by the way. The hands on their flower bed clock are inlaid with glass, very beautiful."
As he said this, he took out his camera, found the photos he had taken and handed them to Jiang Xia as evidence.
The photo shows a beautiful flower bed with two long needles in the middle arranged in the shape of a clock. It looks like an ordinary garden product, but it can actually be used to tell time. Judging from the time shown by the pointer of the flower bed in the photo, it was indeed a little after 1 o'clock.
After asking all the questions, it seemed that there was nothing to be gained. Jiang Xia handed the black man's camera to Conan and asked him to print out the photos. Then everyone dispersed and went about their own business.
Maya Hashimoto made an excuse to go to the bathroom and quietly slipped away.
Jiang Xia glanced at his watch, threw Mist Tengu over, and watched him leave.
Curacao looked at him once, then again, and finally couldn't help but walked over and asked in a low voice, "What did you send him to do?"
She had to make some plans for her own safety in advance.
Jiang Xia: "I don't know either. Maybe he just wants to relax."
Curacao: “…”
Just at this time, Daha's uncle passed by.
Jiang Xia caught someone and asked for information: "You seem to know something about Miss Katori's family?"
When Uncle Da He heard him ask this, he became interested: "Do you also suspect that the woman stole the ring?"
Jiang Xia: "I need to listen to the situation first to confirm."
Uncle Ohga knew everything and said, "You can find out by asking somewhere else, so I'll just tell you directly. Miss Katori's father was a well-known glass craftsman in Nagasaki, but he passed away ten years ago. It seems that he committed suicide. Some people said that he committed suicide because our bank forced him to pay back the money, and they also said that we were heartless and ungrateful... Humph, it's just unreasonable."
Suzuki Sonoko passed by and heard it, and was shocked: "Suicide?"
Uncle Da He nodded and said, "He hanged himself in the glass workshop that my mother bought. Ten years ago, that workshop still belonged to Katori's father. At the beginning, he used his own glass workshop as collateral to borrow a large sum of money from our bank. Later, he couldn't pay back the money, so the workshop naturally became ours.
“It is only natural to pay back debts, but some people maliciously speculated that my mother urged her to pay back the money in order to get the workshop.
"And when Katori couldn't pay back the money and committed suicide, he actually chose to hang himself in the glass workshop that no longer belonged to him... Fortunately, our main sales channel is in Tokyo, and no one minds the products produced by glass workshops where people have died. Otherwise, not only would we lose the money we lent, but even the collateral we took back would have depreciated significantly - you see, this family is so unpretentious, and it's only because Shinya that boy is blinded by love that he wants to marry his daughter."
Uncle Da He provided a lot of information, and the more he talked, the more excited he became. He went to drink while cursing.
Just then, Conan came back after finishing his work. The diligently working elementary school student found a few photos and handed them to Jiang Xia: "I printed out photos of Ohga's family. Let's go to various places to confirm their alibis - we have to find the missing Miss Katori first."
…
Unexpectedly, after asking around, I found out that everyone in the Okami family had an alibi when Katori Akane was kidnapped.
——Dah He’s grandmother was with Da He’s parents at the time, Da He’s uncle was drinking and chatting with a beautiful waiter he had just met, Da He’s sister was very charming, and the staff at the horse farm had a deep impression of her. Everyone had a witness to prove their absence.
"Could it be...could it be true?" Suzuki Sonoko had seen many strange cases with Jiang Xia, so she whispered to the detective, "So the meaning of the hydrangea in the background of the photo is also suspicious, 'change of mind'. Could it be that he really cares about Miss Katori's fiancé and accidentally went astray?"
Jiang Xia: "It's possible. But isn't there another person?"
Suzuki Sonoko: “Hmm?”
Jiang Xia: "The glass craftsman we met on the Shinkansen."
Suzuki Sonoko: "But I remember he went to the Crystal Dream Theater and took a picture of the clock in the flower bed at the entrance as evidence. He was the only one who produced evidence before."
Mao Lilan also came over at some point. She had encountered quite a few cases recently. After hearing this, she couldn't help but whispered, "It's a bit suspicious. Obviously, the other people in the Ohga family don't care, but he, who should be the least concerned, is trying very hard to prove himself."
Conan stood on tiptoe: "..." Why do you have to stand so high to whisper? Can't you just squat down? High school students are amazing!
Jiang Xia raised his hand to hold down the jumping elementary school student: "Go to the Crystal Dream Theater and you will know."
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The group then went to the Crystal Dream Theater, which is where Junichi Takahashi said he was at the time.
Once here, the two detectives saw a problem.
Even Suzuki Sonoko tilted her head. She stared at the clock on the flower bed at the door: "I always feel like something is a little weird..."
Jiang Xia found the self-identification photo that Junichi Takahashi took when he came here, and compared it with the real flower bed.
Mao Lilan was surprised and said: "Why is the color of the flower bed different... No, it's the angle that's wrong!"
Curacao had been following them silently, but when she heard these words, she raised her head, glanced at the photo, and immediately understood the problem.
Although the clock on this flower bed shows the time, there are no specific scales on the edge of the flower bed.
When Takahashi Junichi took the photo, he did not stand in front of the camera, but stood slightly off to the side. The original time he took the photo was 2:05 p.m., but with this subtle change, the time shown in the photo looked like 1:05.
(End of this chapter)
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