Chapter 2779 2791 [Death Picks Up Food, Turn the Table]
Inspector Yokomizo scratched his head in annoyance: "A kid wants to eat soup dumplings. What does this have to do with the murder of a film producer who was poisoned? Or is the murderer really between you and the screenwriter?"
Jiang Xia returned to the round table where the murder had taken place: "It's hard to explain it with just words, why don't you sit down and take a look?"
Henggou Police Department: "..."
If it was a few minutes ago, he would have just scolded this disrespectful high school student and told him not to disrupt the scene, but now...
He was actually a little curious about how the murderer poisoned the patient.
Considering that the police would conduct experiments to test whether certain methods were feasible when solving cases, Inspector Yokomizo made a decision after a moment of hesitation.
He simply waved his hand and said to the others, "Sit back at the table and recreate the scene when the deceased was poisoned!"
——That’s right, this is not condoning high school detectives to destroy the scene, this is just a necessity for solving the case.
…
At the police officer's command, the group returned to their seats in confusion, and then sat down in rows at the table according to the previous seating arrangement.
Conan had understood by now. He whispered something to the waiter, then trotted back to the table and jumped onto the seat he had just sat on.
"I was just like this..." Conan was about to demonstrate the strange rotating table thing he had encountered before, but at this time, Jiang Xia reached out and fiddled with the round table.
Conan tried to turn the table but was no match for his opponent's strength and was forced to let go: "..."
Inspector Yokomizo looked at it with a puzzled look on his face. Suddenly, a fragrant hot steam wafted over from the side - a waiter brought a meat bun over.
"What are you doing?" Inspector Yokomizo looked at the waiter in confusion, "Is it time to serve the food now?"
The waiter was stunned and pointed at Conan: "But this kid just said that Mr. Jiang Xia asked me to give this kid a bun when he starts reasoning."
This sounded a bit confusing, but Officer Yokomizo quickly understood it. His eyes twitched and he said, "What does reasoning have to do with steamed buns? I think this kid is probably hungry, so he's using Jiang Xia's name to trick people into giving him steamed buns."
Conan felt a little disappointed: "..." You are half right.
He was just trying to get away with it, but at this moment, Jiang Xia stretched out his hand and said, "Give it to me. I was a little hungry just now."
Officer Yokomizo: "..." He had been staring at Jiang Xia the whole time, and Jiang Xia had never spoken to the little brat. It seemed that the little brat had used Jiang Xia's name to ask for buns without permission, and Jiang Xia helped him to take it - they were indeed a group of naive students, who could actually come up with such boring things at the crime scene.
Jiang Xia took the bun and put it in his mouth without even looking at it. Seeing this, the director suddenly slammed the table and shouted angrily: "Don't eat it carelessly!"
Everyone at the table was stunned. Even Officer Yokomizo was startled by him: "He was just eating a bun, why are you shouting?"
The director snorted coldly: "I think he thinks he has lived too long! - This table has just been poisoned and he is touching here and there. What if he gets potassium cyanide on his hands and eats it along with the buns?"
Inspector Yokomizo: "..." Then yell at him. I'm not his guardian. Why are you yelling at me? Besides...
Inspector Yokomizo cleared his throat and said, "The forensic officers have checked and found that apart from the deceased's wet wipes, there is no cyanide on the other parts of the table. He ate it, so what?"
Conan blinked his big innocent eyes: "Probably die."
Henggou Police Department: "?!"
Mao Lilan: “?!”
The dizzy high school girl took some time out of her busy schedule and slapped him. With a whoosh, the bun flew out of Jiang Xia's hand and fell to the ground.
Where it landed, a group of people suddenly scattered and looked at the innocent meat bun as if it were a monster.
"..." Jiang Xia touched his numb hands, took a handful of wet wipes that Suzuki Sonoko stuffed into his hands, and wiped his fingertips as if nothing had happened:...Why do you believe everything Conan says?
Beside him, Inspector Yokomizo was still in shock: "What happened? How did the poison get on your hands? Explain it to me now!"
Jiang Xia: "How do you usually turn the round table when you eat?"
Inspector Yokomizo said blankly: "Just turn it like this." He stretched out his finger, pressed the table and pushed it casually.
Jiang Xia reached out and adjusted the round table, then asked him, "What about this?"
Inspector Yokomizo looked down in confusion and found that there were preserved eggs and scrambled eggs with shrimp in front of him. The two plates were very close to each other and close to the edge of the table, so he couldn't push them by pressing on the table like before.
However, this little thing certainly could not stump an intelligent human being. Inspector Yokomizo instead grabbed the thick edge of the round table... and then was suddenly stunned.
He suddenly loosened his hand, looked at his fingertips, and then looked at the round table in front of him: "Could it be... the poison is on the bottom of the round plate?! But how can the murderer be sure that the deceased will touch this place?"
Jiang Xia: "The deceased hated egg-based foods. I heard that when he came here to eat, he specifically asked his companions not to order preserved eggs and scrambled eggs with shrimps. But just now, when he suddenly found these two foods on the table, he showed more disgust than seeing a plate of bugs."
Inspector Yokomizo asked several acquaintances of the deceased: "Is this true?"
“Ah, yes, yes.” The assistant director said quickly, “Kawabata is allergic to eggs, especially eggs with a fishy smell. It is said that he wants to vomit when he smells them. Preserved eggs and scrambled eggs with shrimp… these are probably the things he least wants to see in the world.”
Jiang Xia nodded: "The deceased was busy chatting with Xiaolan and his attention was not on the round table. Once he looked at the table and saw the two plates of eggs in front of him, he would undoubtedly turn the round table immediately and push the two disgusting foods away."
Inspector Yokomizo finally understood: "So the murderer specifically smeared the poison on the bottom of the round plates where the two plates of eggs were, and then quietly turned the eggs in front of the deceased while everyone was busy eating. The deceased could only stretch out his hand and keep turning the eggs away. In the process, his hands would be stained with the deadly potassium cyanide again and again.
"Then the Peking duck was served and the deceased picked up the wrap, which caused the potassium cyanide to stick to the wrap. After eating the wrap, he became poisoned and fell to the ground and died."
Jiang Xia nodded like a pleased teacher: "So the timing of applying the poison is also very important - of this whole table of dishes, only the Peking duck needs to be directly cooked.
"In this case, if the poison was applied too early, someone else might come into contact with the cyanide first and be accidentally injured. If it was applied too late, the murderer would lose the opportunity to poison the victim after he finished eating Peking duck."
(End of this chapter)
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