Chapter 292 The Disaster of the Brainpower Ceiling (Monthly Ticket Plus)
When Jiang Xia entered the house, a hot aroma hit her face. The hot pot on the table was bubbling, with soft tofu, mushrooms, beef and other ingredients stewed in it.
Jiang Xia sat down at the table and looked up at the clock on the wall.
It's almost eight o'clock in the evening.
In the living room of the neighboring Yannei family, there is a clock. Every hour, it will emit a low sound to tell the time, which can be faintly heard around the courtyard wall.
Thinking of this, and thinking of Kudo Yusaku who was wandering outside, Jiang Xia leaned against the wall, facing the table, pretending to be staring at the food and distracted.
In fact, he let Miyano Akemi pass through the wall with the shikigami and built a puppet behind the house.
A few seconds later, "Miss Anonymous", who was once loved by major newspapers, dressed in a black long dress, adjusted her wide-brimmed hat, and left silently along the courtyard wall.
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The world-renowned mystery novelist, the non-staff consultant highly respected by the police, and the world's intellectual ceiling, Kudo Yusaku, is currently wrapped in a thick windbreaker reserved for villains, exploring and walking around the Yuuchi residence.
As a smart man who is quite experienced in "coaxing Kudo Yukiko", he knows that if he shows up now, Kudo Yukiko will only dislike him and even scold him.
So he had to choose a cool enough time to appear - Yukiko's mind is sometimes like a child, easily influenced by various factors. In short, Kudo Yusaku thought it would be best to wait for Jiang Xia to start solving the puzzle, and then he would step out and comment, filling in the part that the children failed to solve, and become a hidden hero.
Originally, Yusaku Kudo wanted to use his son, who had secretly swiped his card without telling him, as a stepping stone on the road to reconciliation - in the eyes of the innocent old father, this was what Conan should do.
However, what surprised Kudo Yusaku a little was that Yukiko did not bring her son, but instead brought Jiang Xia, who recently changed her career and became a detective.
This made Kudo Yusaku fall into deep thought.
After pondering for a while, he decided to stick with the original plan, of course, removing a few of the original sarcastic lines as appropriate...
The prerequisite for achieving this effect is to obtain as many clues about "Uncle Yifang" as possible.
Thinking of this, Kudo Yusaku, wearing a stylish windbreaker, climbed into the Ayano house, silently came to the outside of the warehouse, intending to go in and look for the Ayano family's past letters.
When I pushed open the warehouse door, the clock struck eight in the evening.
The creaking of the wooden door was covered up by the sound of the bell, and it also covered up some other subtle movements.
For example, the sound of approaching footsteps.
...For example, a knife attack from behind.
As soon as Kudo Yusaku walked into the door, he suddenly found that the shadow under his feet was wrong. He was about to turn his head when he suddenly felt a pain on the side of his neck.
Kudo Yusaku's eyes went dark and he fell down in despair.
Anonymous, who was following behind him, grabbed him, dragged him into the warehouse, and closed the door.
The big and small Kudo are equally weak in terms of fighting power, but they both like to be mysterious and handsome lone rangers...
Jiang Xia unskillfully carried the big Kudo that he had captured for the first time, and turned to look around the warehouse, where a lot of sundries were piled up.
He quickly found a suitable location, dragged Kudo Yusaku behind some debris and hid him, and gave him an injection of anesthesia to prevent the brainpower wandering around from pushing things in a direction that would be difficult to detect.
For Jiang Xia, it would be unreasonable not to pick up something to take home after coming all this way.
Moreover, in the original plot, Yusaku Kudo did not do anything in the middle except appearing at the end to complete the information, so knocking him out and stuffing him into the warehouse, rounded off, was equivalent to not changing anything. Jiang Xia's conscience was alive and kicking.
After spending a little time and defeating Kudo Yusaku physically, Jiang Xia disposed of the anesthetic needle, dispersed the puppet, and returned his consciousness to his body.
In the bustling restaurant, he sat up straight, turned his head to check his watch, then looked at the dishes and chopsticks placed in front of him, and praised in a slightly exaggerated manner: "It smells very good, I feel like I can eat the whole pot."
Hiromi Yuuchi smiled with enjoyment, even though this was mainly due to the hotpot base, she was the one who put the ingredients in, so in a rounded manner it was her cooking skills that were praised.
Hiromi Yuuchi handed the serving chopsticks to Jiang Xia, and calmly turned the pot to face the side with the most beef. She then said modestly, "It tastes good only because you're hungry. We have too many people here, so we start eating later than most people." She glanced at the watch and said, "It's already eight o'clock."
Kudo Yukiko also looked at the watch and nodded in agreement. It was indeed a bit late for dinner, and she was actually very hungry.
Jiang Xia saw the direction their eyes were looking at, picked up two pieces of fish tofu with confidence, and started eating dinner.
The inference experts in this world have very accurate intuition, but they also have a weakness that cannot be considered a weakness - they attach too much importance to science and pay too much attention to alibis.
When Jiang Xia was driving the puppet to knock Kudo Yusaku unconscious, it was exactly the time when the clock struck eight o'clock in the evening.
Now, Kudo Yukiko's memory of dinner time has also been strengthened. If Kudo Yusaku wakes up and intuitively suspects that it was Jiang Xia who knocked him out, then after asking Kudo Yukiko, he can only get the answer that "Jiang Xia had been sitting in the restaurant before eight o'clock."
In short, all the bad things have nothing to do with Jiangxia.
After resolving his worries, Jiang Xia ate his meal with peace of mind while starting to wait and see.
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During dinner, stepmother Machiko, who was having a great time at the wedding banquet, called back and told Hiromi Yuuchi that she bought firewood yesterday and could boil water for everyone to take a bath.
In this age where bathtubs are prevalent, the bathing device of the Yanai family is actually a huge wooden barrel.
By the time dinner was over, the water was almost ready.
There is a certain order for taking a bath. Thirty years ago, Uncle Yoshifusa was always the first to take a bath, so now, the uncle who pretends to be Yoshifusa's friend is also the first to take a bath every night.
During the bathing time, he would leave the Brazilian guy in the hall. Ostensibly, it was to let the "bodyguard" keep an eye on other family members to prevent anyone from going to the bathhouse to plot against "Uncle Yifang". In reality, it was to let the Brazilian guy stay in a crowded place so that he would not be easily attacked.
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After dinner, when the fake Uncle Yoshifusa was on his way to take a bath, Hiromi Yarouchi received another call from her stepmother Machiko.
The noise from the wedding banquet came through the phone. The stepmother said she would be home at 11 o'clock in the evening and hoped that Hiromi Yurouchi could help her keep the bath water warm until then.
After agreeing, Hiromi Yuuchi hung up the phone.
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At the same time, in the woods next to Yan Nei's house.
A luxury car was parked quietly.
In the car, stepmother Machiko, who was "attending a wedding banquet," put down her cell phone and pressed a button on the recorder.
As the tape stopped, the lively sounds of the "wedding banquet" came to an abrupt end, and the only sound in the car was the sound of the wind in the woods.
Machiko smiled coldly, put on her raincoat, picked up a kitchen knife, pushed the door open and got out of the car, ready to kill "Uncle Yoshifusa" who was taking a bath.
(End of this chapter)
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