Chapter 3144 3156 [Are you going to Okinawa too? ]
Maori Kogoro looked around, then looked right, and a confused question mark slowly popped up above his head: "What's wrong? Did I say something wrong? Uh, could it be that Ms. Ritsuko's husband is here too?"
As he spoke, his eyes fell on the crowd and he noticed a strange head with coral curls next to the table - he didn't seem to have seen this person yesterday.
When Inspector Yokomizo looked up, he happened to meet the eyes of Maori Kogoro. He was stunned for two seconds and waved his hands quickly: "I am not the husband of that lady! I am a criminal police officer from Shizuoka Prefecture. I came here today to thank Mr. Jiang Xia for his help to us last night!"
"Jiang Xia's help? Last night?" Maori Kogoro was stunned. After a moment, he scratched his head, vaguely feeling that he seemed to have missed something. "Did something happen last night?"
Conan wiped his mouth and looked at the old man speechlessly: "Sister Ritsuko is dead."
Maori Kogoro was shocked: "Who?!!"
In the distance, Vodka looked at the confused detective through the camera with mixed feelings: "I really want to be like this guy, sleeping soundly next to Uzo for a whole night, waking up to find that not only did I not go to jail or die, but I also successfully solved the unstable factors in my marriage... This is really a blessing for a fool."
Opposite the restaurant's own surveillance.
Although Inspector Yokomizo is not as fanatical as Officer Yamamura in Gunma Prefecture, he is still well-informed compared to many of his colleagues who are just wasting their time.
As a policeman who reads the newspaper every now and then and is particularly interested in difficult cases, he stared at Maori Kogoro and thought for a few seconds, and finally remembered: "You are the Maori detective in Tokyo! Although you haven't solved many cases, every issue is a classic - I have heard a lot about you!"
"Hmm..." Kogoro Mouri shook hands with him while still in a daze: the person who was lively and drinking with him last night suddenly turned into a corpse today... Although such things were not uncommon in the past, the feeling between seeing the process with one's own eyes and hearing about the death of a person afterwards is still somewhat different.
Kisaki Eri glanced at him, snorted, then got up and left.
Kogoro Mori was startled and was about to follow as if nothing had happened, but suddenly a person appeared from the side.
"Hello! Are you Detective Maori?" The short man with bangs in a 3:7 ratio was talking to Maori Kogoro, but his eyes kept glancing at Jiang Xia, "I'm a staff member of the TV station, this is my business card..."
"TV station?" Seeing that he couldn't catch up with Eri Kisaki, Maori Kogoro had to stop and looked at this tactless guy with displeasure, "What do you want?"
The little guy rubbed his hands together, stuffed his business card into his hand, and then quickly jumped to the side of the table and handed his other business card to Jiang Xia with both hands: "I didn't expect to meet you here by chance - you are the program director of Kyushu TV series, Taketomi Masao."
Jiang Xia nodded and took the business card. Under the eager gaze of the waiters, he skillfully returned a business card of his own and asked politely, "What do you want to talk to me about?"
The program director chuckled and said, "We have a detective program here - the Great Detective Showdown on Ryugu Island in Okinawa. I wonder if you... and this Maori detective, are interested in it."
Although it was a showdown between famous detectives, they had a limited budget, so they did not target the most famous detectives at the beginning. Instead, they invited several regular detectives who often appeared in the entertainment industry, were easy to invite, and knew the price list well.
Originally, the program was being planned smoothly, but yesterday, the production team suddenly received bad news - the detectives who were traveling together were trapped in a village with a broken bridge.
It has been raining for days in the village. By the time the bridge and road are built to welcome them back to modern society, it will be too late.
So the program director had to make preparations for both scenarios in a very anxious manner. On the one hand, he prayed that this group of detectives running around could get away from there as soon as possible. On the other hand, he tried to find other detectives who could be on the show as soon as possible to prevent delays.
"I wanted to visit a detective in Osaka, but the detective said he was coming to Izu, so I just waited here. I didn't expect to meet you here..."
The program director looked at Jiang Xia happily, and when he felt like he was at his wit's end, he looked up and was suddenly surprised to see a huge diamond-studded pie slowly falling towards him.
Everyone in their line of work knows that the most popular detective show recently is the one that Jiang Xia appeared on not long ago.
——Although it ruined a well-known journalist who had just won a big award and should have had a bright future, the explosive influence had already made countless TV stations jealous.
At the same time, this also made them deeply aware that compared with making up some artificial puzzles, playing house with hired detectives, and reviewing past cases, real cases that are happening and a detective who can solve those cases are the most eye-catching elements for the audience.
When they were planning to make this program, they also thought about inviting Jiang Xia. However, Jiang Xia himself rarely appeared on programs, and coupled with the fact that the variety show he had recently become popular, his value must have increased a lot. As a small TV station that is not rich, they did not put Jiang Xia on the list of candidates in the end.
But now...
"A person who lives in Tokyo and a person who stays in Kyushu all year round actually met in Izu. This must be God's will."
The program director encouraged himself in his heart: "If I don't ask now, I'm afraid I'll have to sit up at two or three in the middle of the night a week later and regret it so much that I won't be able to sleep."
"Furthermore, Jiang Xia has not appeared on any other shows since that variety show. This shows that either he has offered a sky-high price that even TV Tokyo cannot afford, or he has no interest in these things, so no money can keep him."
"The TV stations in Tokyo are very wealthy, and Jiang Xia has never had any negative reports about money, so the former should be ruled out. As for the latter..."
The program director touched his chin: According to his experience, many people who decisively say "no" on the phone and email are actually not good at refusing in person - especially young people who don't have an agent, are not professional in the entertainment industry, but only work part-time out of interest.
Besides those old detectives who have lost their dreams, other detectives will be more or less interested in the case itself - as long as the answer to the difficult problem selected by the program team is described in detail, Jiang Xia will surely...
Jiang Xia looked at the director who was hesitant to speak for a long time and couldn't get to the point, playing with his business card and said, "Okay, when will we shoot?"
"Our show..." The director stopped talking abruptly. He almost jumped up. "What did you say?!"
(End of this chapter)
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