Chapter 3257 3269 [Conan: Defeat Jiang Xia! ]
Mrs. Suhua mentioned this and scratched her head in annoyance. The gem pendant on her body began to jingle:
"We did check, but when my husband found the pieces of paper, he was very angry. He shouted, 'Whoever did it! Come out and claim it!' He called everyone in the family together and asked them to pass the card around, saying that he wanted to find out who did it by looking at their expressions..."
Jiang Xia looked down at the bullets in the bag and asked, "Did he find any suspicious people?"
"No." Mrs. Suhua said truthfully, "In the end, the fingerprints of everyone in the family were all mixed up on the paper. Although the police helped us pick them out one by one, there were too many people involved, so there was no reference value."
Conan was speechless: "..." He could even erase this clue that was delivered to his door with his own hands... No wonder Uncle Maori came with confidence and left in despair.
Jiang Xia was very patient and didn't seem to be angry at all because of Fujieda Kan's stupid behavior. He asked casually, "On the way here, I saw some surveillance cameras in the corridor. Did they capture any useful clues?"
The old housekeeper just walked in from the study door. Hearing this, he shook his head regretfully and said, "These cameras were installed after this incident. I originally wanted to take this opportunity to install them all over the house. But the master said, 'It's a good thing done by our family anyway, and these few cameras are enough.'"
"Besides..." He sighed, "This house is going to be demolished soon. The master probably doesn't want to waste any more money on it."
As he was talking, Fujieda Shigeru, who had just left with him, also came over. Hearing the old housekeeper's words, the man who grew up in this house was also filled with emotion:
"I also don't want to leave this old house. There are too many traces left by my parents and my sister in it... But unfortunately, all three of them have passed away, and now it's my brother-in-law who is in charge of the family. As a tenant living under someone else's roof, I can't make any decisions about this house."
Conan looked at this unfortunate guy with sympathy: "..." He should have been the legitimate heir, but now he has become an outsider... But it was probably because this man was unwilling to inherit the family business that his parents passed everything to his sister and brother-in-law.
As Fujieda Shigeru was talking, he looked at Jiang Xia and Kudo Yukiko and said, "I am different from Mrs. Suhua. I can't come up with 10 million in commission. I have no choice but to ask you to do voluntary labor...Haha, it's really embarrassing to say this."
Kudo Yukiko was stunned: "10 million??"
Although this was not an unattainable sum of money for her, Kudo Yukiko obviously had some understanding of the prices in the detective world - 10 million was already a sky-high price.
If this money was used to hire Jiang Xia, it would be understandable, but according to Eri Kisaki... the person hired was actually Kogoro Mori?
She looked at Hibiki Eri in surprise: "When did your little mustache guy become so successful!"
“……”It would have been fine if she hadn’t mentioned it, but when she mentioned Kogoro Mouri, Eri Kisaki’s blood pressure rose.
The queen of the legal world pinched her nose to ease the violent blood flow: "It would be great if he could really do this, but unfortunately..."
Eri Kisaki sighed, leaned close to Okae Natsu and Kudo Yukiko, and whispered the reasons why she came here.
"Eight million has already been spent?" Jiang Xia sighed casually, "Uncle Maori is quite good at spending money." However, compared with the boss who scraps a car every now and then, and Gin who gets new weapons every now and then, this detective's ability to spend money is not that impressive.
When Hibiki Eri heard this, she became alert and solemnly warned him: "Don't learn from him - that bastard has nothing but experience, but he is actually a disgrace to detectives!"
Kudo Yukiko also had a new understanding of the unreliability of Maori Kogoro. She looked down at Conan and was a little worried about her mini-son who was staying there. But then she thought that with Xiaolan and Professor Jiang Xia Agasa nearby, there would not be any big trouble, so she quickly felt relieved.
Compared to this, she was more worried about another thing at the moment: "Just now when Jiang Xia and I went to the Maori Detective Agency, no one opened the door when we knocked - Kogoro wouldn't get into trouble again while you were out to clean up the mess, would he?"
"Oh, don't worry about that." Hibiki pushed the glasses frame on her nose, and a cold light flashed across the lens. "I won't fall for the same problem twice - that guy can't do anything except squirming on the sofa now."
Kudo Yukiko tilted her head in confusion: "......?"
Conan was stunned, and found another suspicious point. He whispered to Jiang Xia: "Why did you go to the Maori Detective Agency at this time? Miss Yoko should not have released any new peripherals recently."
"Can't I just stop by for other reasons?" Jiang Xia retorted, touching his pocket. "But this time, I really didn't go there for fun - it's because someone put this in the detective agency."
He took out a postcard and placed it on the desk.
Everyone came over to take a look and saw the words: [I am Maori Kogoro. There is a case I cannot solve. Please come and help me.]
"Hey, he's quite smart!" Kudo Yukiko was a little impressed by the neighbor with the mustache, "He actually knew to ask Jiang Xia for help when there was an unsolved case - I thought that with his personality, he would not be so ashamed to do such a thing."
But Hibiki frowned: "No, this is not that guy's handwriting."
Conan agreed deeply. He leaned in and sniffed it, and suddenly found that there was a very faint fragrance on the postcard, and it seemed that he had smelled it somewhere just now.
Soon, the keen detective remembered the source of the perfume.
He turned his head to look at Mrs. Suhua, and saw the woman staring at the postcard on the table with a guilty look on her face.
Conan: “…” The case is solved.
This was probably something Mrs. Suhua wrote secretly to Jiang Xia.
Combined with the excitement she had when she saw Jiang Xia at the gate of the courtyard just now... no wonder this woman was willing to spend 10 million - it seems that she doesn't value Uncle Maori, but wants to invite Jiang Xia in a tactful way.
After realizing this, Conan looked up at Jiang Xia looking at the postcard and suddenly felt happy.
——Wait, does this mean that in this matter, my reasoning has finally surpassed Jiang Xia’s?
Although it was just a small matter, Conan's heart still started beating wildly.
While the others were studying the postcard, he quietly tugged at Jiang Xia, suppressed his inner pride, and said in a deep voice, "Do you know who sent this postcard?"
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