Chapter 747 Dig a Trap Ask for a Monthly Ticket ()
As soon as he finished speaking, before Jiang Xia and Conan could reply, a vicissitudes of life laughter suddenly came from the side.
Someone naturally joined Huihara Ai's conversation:
"Haha, they are indeed not normal, but they probably don't have the guts to kill anyone. Kids, why don't you go look for other suspicious people nearby? Maybe some criminal killed someone nearby and dumped the person into our store to divert the police's attention."
Jiang Xia was startled, stopped and looked towards the source of the sound.
The person who started the conversation was the old lady who played the role of "Grandma Aqing" from the young master's hometown. Grandma Aqing was hunched over, with all white hair, and looked very old... No wonder she considered him a "child".
Although Conan is about the same age as Jiang Xia, he has become accustomed to addressing children in this way.
He looked at Grandma Aqing and said, "I heard that you don't like 'Lao Yang' very much either?"
"Yes, he curses people very badly, using words like 'idiot', 'idiot', 'empty mouth', and he doesn't show mercy to a slow-witted old woman like me."
Grandma Qing took a long drag on her cigarette and exhaled the smoke quietly. "None of us workers like Lao Yang. The store manager used to have a good relationship with him, but after they became rivals for Madonna, they stopped interacting with each other. If I hadn't been so extravagant and didn't save any money, I wouldn't have come here to work and endure the bullying."
"But speaking of it..."
Grandma Aqing suddenly smiled, and wrinkles piled up on her face.
She looked at Madonna who was mopping the floor nearby and said, "Fortunately you stayed over at my house last night, otherwise we wouldn't have any 'alibi'."
Jiang Xia followed her gaze to Madonna and asked casually, "You come here to work, is it also for a living?"
The pretty Madonna actress shook her head: "I just love working here."
I don't know when "Porcupine" ran out of the room - he had been crying so hard and forgot to bring his handkerchief, so he wanted to find some tissues to wipe his face.
Suddenly hearing what Madonna said, he burst into tears and said sourly: "Yeah, who doesn't want to play Madonna?"
“…”
Madonna's eyes twitched when she felt him staring at her with resentful eyes. She felt that the reason why she came to work here was suddenly brought to the same level as him.
She sighed and explained, "I'm different from you. Rather than liking this job, I'm doing it for my sister. She loves Natsume Soseki's works, and her favorite is the novel "Young Master".
"After hearing about this specialty restaurant, she always wanted to come and work here, but unfortunately, she died of subarachnoid hemorrhage before that..." Madonna shook her head helplessly as she recalled the sad things.
"After she passed away, I wanted to carry on her legacy and work here for a while, as a way to remember her and have something to talk to her about during the memorial service... I didn't expect that after coming here, I found this job really interesting, so I stayed here."
"Of course you find it funny. Lao Yang likes you, so he won't scold you." Porcupine bit a corner of the tissue and snorted vaguely. But he immediately thought of something and showed an expression of sudden enlightenment:
"However, with such a serious reason, it's no wonder that Lao Yang assigned the job of playing Madonna to you. Although it's unfair competition, there's really nothing we can do about it..."
He shook his head and sighed and walked away.
Jiang Xia silently looked at his back: "..." No, even if there were no such heavy reasons, the role of "Madonna" could not be played by a burly man with a height of 1.8 meters and a weight of 180, with tendons all over his body... Unless the sign at the door was changed from "Young Master Pavilion" to "Cowherd Pavilion" or something like that...
However, these words were a bit hurtful, so Jiang Xia kept his mouth shut and didn't say anything.
It wasn't entirely out of consideration. He was mainly afraid that the "porcupine" would burst into tears after hearing it, and once again destroy the spirit of the innocent passers-by...
…
With the results of questioning the suspect, Jiang Xia left the area where employees gathered and found Sato Miwako who was busy next to the body.
The yard was open to the sky with relatively little shelter. In addition to the police, there were a few employees watching the fun.
"How is it?" Officer Sato's eyes lit up when he saw Jiang Xia approaching, and he smelled the scent of someone getting off work. "Do you have any clues?"
Then Jiang Xia shook his head.
"...I see." Sato Miwako sighed quietly, then quickly cheered up and turned to Jiang Xia, "It's almost time for dinner, you should go back first. If we don't get any clues, we'll just disband for the time being. Also, that..."
Officer Sato felt embarrassed to always take up the detective's personal time and wanted to work harder on his own.
But then he thought, Jiang Xia had been in this restaurant for so long, but he still couldn't solve the case. So they...
Her originally swollen confidence unconsciously deflated a little.
Miwako Sato cleared her throat, looked towards the pine tree next to her, and said with a guilty conscience, "If you are free tomorrow, you can come and have a look again."
Jiang Xia responded, but did not leave.
…
Miwako Sato didn't pay attention at first.
After handling the scene, a few people were left on guard while the others prepared to return to the police station.
She arrived at the parking space and just as she opened the car door, she suddenly heard the passenger door being opened as well.
Sato was startled and looked over there quickly. She found that Jiang Xia nodded at her, then got into her car naturally and closed the door.
"……?"
Miwako Sato was a little confused at first - she suddenly found Jiang Xia staying here. She subconsciously thought that Jiang Xia was unwilling to accept that he failed to solve the case quickly and wanted to stay to continue looking for clues, but he accidentally delayed until he got off work at the same time as them.
But soon, she suddenly thought of another possibility.
Miwako Sato looked around and also got into the car.
The door of the back seat of the car also clicked, and two fake children slipped in, then closed again.
Officer Sato saw Conan and Haibara Ai in the rearview mirror, but didn't care about the three people's freeloading.
She turned to Jiang Xia, and an idea suddenly occurred to her: "Have you found the murderer?"
Jiang Xia hummed, "I have a general idea, but I haven't started looking for evidence yet. The murder happened last night, so there was plenty of time to clean up the scene. In fact, the murderer may have taken the time to return to the real scene this morning and did some further cleaning. Now of course we have to find physical evidence, but it may be troublesome, so... why not set a trap tonight and let the murderer jump in himself."
"The real crime scene..." Sato Miwako was stunned. "In other words, this is not the real crime scene, and the body was moved here later?"
(End of this chapter)
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