Chapter 3174 3186 [Are you also a murderer? ]
The program director was also scared by the sudden movement just now and broke out in a cold sweat: "I said so, but we are unarmed. Even if the other side only has cold weapons, it will be scary... Oh, forget it. Anyway, it's a blessing that there is no one hiding inside."
Jiang Xia nodded: "Since we are here, let's go in and take a look - compared to the other houses we just passed by, this house is really large."
He walked into the room, the candlestick in his hand illuminating the large space - there was a double bed on the right, and beside the bed there were bedside tables, dressing tables and other matching items. It looked like a bedroom.
There is an old table lamp on the bedside table. Although it is covered with dust, you can still see that the lampshade is a lovely pink.
Next to the lamp, there was a photo frame quietly placed there. Jiang Xia walked over and saw a man and a woman in the photo frame. The man was standing and the woman was sitting next to him. The two were about the same age, looking at the camera and smiling happily.
The man was the younger mayor of Jincheng, and the woman sitting next to him...
"Oh! This is the mayor's wife." The program director also took a closer look and recognized her. "It seems that this should be the mayor's wife's bedroom. Alas, seeing this kind of photo now, it's really different from what it was before - the mayor's wife was a very nice person, but I didn't expect that she died of illness so early."
Hattori Heiji remembered the riddle, picked up the photo frame without hesitation, and looked it over from front to back.
Suddenly there was a click and the pressure plate on the back of the photo frame slid open. Hattori Heiji was startled to find that there were two sheets of photo paper inside.
Jiang Xia: "Turn it over and take a look."
The one at the bottom, near the glass, was obviously the photo of the mayor and his wife that everyone had seen just now. And the one hidden in the middle...
Hattori Heiji turned it over to reveal the contents and discovered that this was also a group photo, and also of a man and a woman - only this time, the people in the photo were not the mayor and his wife, but the mayor and a beautiful young woman.
The two people stood in front of a three-story ancient building. The woman was facing the camera sideways. She had fair skin and waist-length hair. The black hair on the sides of her cheeks was neatly cut into a gentle and quiet "princess cut" style.
Hattori Heiji said, "Hmm?" and clicked his tongue, "Could this mayor be having an affair?"
"Haha, you misunderstood him." The program director saw the photo and shook his head, "This is the only daughter of Mayor Jincheng, Miss Xiaodu."
Speaking of the victim who was kidnapped and whose whereabouts were unknown, and who was suspected to have been killed and buried on the island, the program director was quite sad:
"Miss Xiaodu is just like the mayor's wife, beautiful and good-tempered. She was the most popular girl in our town. Everyone envied her back then, but who would have thought that something like that would happen to her five years ago... Oh, fate really plays tricks on us."
Conan looked at him suspiciously. Ever since he found out that Jiang Xia was surrounded by these malicious guys, he became suspicious of everyone:
"Uncle, aren't you a staff member of Kyushu TV? I remember that the headquarters of Kyushu TV is far away from here. How do you know so much about the local affairs in Okinawa?"
The program director sighed with some nostalgia: "The mayor's maid is actually my cousin. She often mentioned the mayor to me. I have been here several times, so I know so much about him. In fact, this is one of the reasons why I decided to take on this program. To be honest, our TV station is not very optimistic about this program. If it weren't for the high money given by Mayor Jincheng, and if this matter hadn't been related to me, I would definitely not appear here."
Conan: "..." The money given is a lot... You are an honest guy.
Suzuki Sonoko and Mao Lilan looked at each other, goose bumps standing up: "Wait, I think someone mentioned that in the robbery four years ago..."
"That's right." The program director said helplessly, "Four years ago, when the robbers went to the mayor's house in Jincheng to rob the golden screen, they killed a maid - unfortunately, the victim was my cousin."
When Curacao heard this, he was silent for a moment and moved away from him as if nothing had happened: According to experience, those whose family members were killed are all very dangerous.
"Luckily, the director looked weak and unarmed. Even if he stabbed me with a knife, I could just kick him down. If he was the murderer, I would be safer."
At this moment, perhaps sensing the suspicion from the people around him, the program director suddenly remembered something: "Speaking of cousins, Ikejian's mother is a sister of the mayor's wife, so he and the mayor's daughter are also cousins."
Curacao thought of the young and strong boatman: "..."
Well, the difficulty went up a little, and sure enough, nothing good happened next to Uzo.
"No wonder they both have straight black hair." Suzuki Sonoko was more concerned about something else. She muttered, "But they don't look alike. Miss Xiaodu is much prettier."
Jiang Xia took the photo of Jin Cheng and his daughter and looked at it: "The castle behind them..."
"Oh, that's the mayor's house. It's not a real castle, but an antique-style building. Many tourists thought it was a tourist attraction and ran over to take pictures." The program director laughed and recalled:
"The mayor's house is very big. My cousin told me that when the house was built, Miss Xiaodu was only four or five years old. When she saw the house, she was very happy and said that she felt like a princess living in a castle."
Suzuki Sonoko's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she felt that she was getting closer to the truth: "Since this building is very famous in the town, it is normal for others to call Miss Xiaodu who lives in the castle a princess. The strange words next to the corpse a year ago, the 'Princess' in it is indeed referring to Miss Xiaodu!"
Jiang Xia pointed to the door frame nearby and said, "Speaking of strange characters, there are some engraved here as well."
He shone the light over there, illuminating the three sets of horizontal lines at different heights on the threshold. Above each set of lines, a few words were written crookedly in hiragana.
"Graduation lines?" Hattori Heiji took a closer look and quickly recognized it. "This should be a height record that children like to draw."
He read from top to bottom: "The top horizontal bar says 'chioni', the next one is 'kachan', and the short one at the bottom is 'I' - it seems that this was carved by Miss Xiaodu when she was a child."
Mao Lilan breathed a sigh of relief: It turned out to be such an innocent thing... I hope it’s not a curse word.
Since it had nothing to do with ghosts, she became bolder. She took a closer look and looked at the line in the middle: "This should mean 'Mom'."
(End of this chapter)
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