Chapter 85 Are You Cheating?
The daughter-in-law had just broken a cabinet full of crockery and was feeling very guilty, so she prepared dinner with extra care.
The guests were originally praising the young lady for her calmness and ability.
Unexpectedly, at night, after a few drinks, the young lady's image was shattered.
She patted Jiang Xia and sighed exaggeratedly: "You are really lucky - my father-in-law will not live for many years, and his hands have started to tremble recently. I am afraid it will be difficult for him to make a masterpiece like the 'Feng Shui Pill' in the future. Your pottery jar will definitely appreciate in value soon."
The apprentice felt something was not right and wanted to persuade her to sober up, but was stopped by Kikuemon.
The old man said helplessly: "She is right. I can only produce two or three decent works a year now. It is really incomparable to before."
Toru Amuro was originally talking to another apprentice.
Hearing what Kikuemon said, he was suddenly stunned: "Two or three? But didn't we launch more than ten last year..."
The drunken young lady suddenly came up to Amuro Toru and interrupted, "Don't mention the pottery! Tell us more about the cases you solved. Today, the detectives are the protagonists."
Amuro Toru looked at her thoughtfully. After a moment, he dragged Jiang Xia, who was sitting next to him playing with a pottery jar, over and handed it to the young lady: "He broke all of them. Let him tell me."
Then he turned around and continued to ask ruthless questions.
Jiang Xia stared at the young lady who was almost touching his face: "..."
The young lady was drinking happily and didn't mind that there was a different person in front of her.
She reached out her hand and grabbed Jiang Xia, laughing and said, "Tell me more! Even though you have solved very few cases, I'm tired of hearing you tell me the same story over and over again, but I'm free anyway, so it doesn't matter if I hear you tell it again." As she said that, she touched his face.
Suzuki Sonoko accidentally glanced over here and saw the young lady's actions. Her eyes suddenly became fierce, and she turned around and wanted to pounce on her, but was hugged by Mao Lilan from behind.
Mao Lilan whispered: "Calm down, Auntie is just trying to show her affection, not to take advantage of me!"
…
On the other side, Jiang Xia looked at the young lady in silence. With such a high alcohol tolerance, she actually dared to drink...
But at the same time, he also knew that the young lady was not too drunk.
Just now, she suddenly interrupted Amuro Toru's question, actually she did it deliberately because she was drunk.
——She didn't want to mention the number of pottery.
In recent years, Kikuemon has created only a few works, but the number of "Kikuemon masterpieces" sold is far higher than this number.
This was actually because the young lady colluded with a disciple and sold the disciple's work disguised as Kikuemon's work.
Thinking of this, Jiang Xia glanced at the disciple who was filled with murderous aura not far away.
...No wonder there is so much murderous intent - the infighting among lawless outlaws is often one of the motives for murder.
Jiang Xia took a sip of juice with emotion.
…
The party continued until late at night.
The young lady was sent back to her room early because she got drunk too quickly.
The others continued to eat and drink, and when they got tired, they fell asleep in the restaurant.
——This place is covered with tatami mats and there are many blankets. You can just lie down and sleep. It is a comfortable environment.
…
The next morning, Jiang Xia woke up in chaos, and could vaguely hear the sounds of running, screaming, and the squeak of police cars.
He sat up, rubbed his eyes, and asked politely, and learned that the young lady had died suddenly.
——She "hanged herself" in the pottery warehouse this morning. She just passed away and her body is still warm.
Next to them, Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko huddled together, their expressions complicated, but their fear was much less than before - they were actually a little used to the frequent murders. And this time, the young lady passed away peacefully, at least leaving behind an intact body.
…
When Jiang Xia arrived at the warehouse, the police had already arrived.
This time, it’s finally not the old acquaintance Inspector Megure.
Instead, it was a strange male police officer with coral-like hair and a square face.
When Inspector Yokomizo saw Jiang Xia, his expression changed slightly, and he was eager to come over and ask for an autograph - in this world, detectives are generally well-known. Privately, Inspector Yokomizo was actually chasing after various famous detectives like a star, including Jiang Xia.
But after struggling for a long time and remembering that he was still handling a case, he barely retained his dignity as a police officer and stopped where he was without moving.
“……” Let’s wait until the case is closed.
…
Jiang Xia didn't know why this policeman was always staring at him.
He looked at Inspector Yokomizo's coral hair with a little curiosity, but soon lost interest in this strange hairstyle and turned to look at the crime scene.
——Before Jiang Xia arrived, others had already arrived and conducted a simple search of the scene.
Amuro Toru saw him come in, walked over and whispered, "It's a bit strange - her cervical vertebrae are broken."
People who commit suicide by hanging usually die from brain hypoxia, and a small number of them die tragically from broken cervical vertebrae.
But this time, judging from the young lady's body shape and the position of hanging, her cervical vertebrae were broken unnaturally.
Jiang Xia was now very skilled in "reasoning". He nodded and said in a normal voice: "The young lady probably didn't hang herself by stepping on the pottery jar, but was first put around the neck by a rope, and then fell from the top of the cabinet next to her.
"If it was suicide, there would be no need to make it so fancy, so this might be a murder - for example, someone took advantage of her being drunk and moved her to lie on top of the cupboard, then put a noose around her neck. This morning, when the young lady woke up, she turned over and accidentally fell off the top of the cupboard, breaking her cervical vertebrae.
"In that case, the murderer is probably Mr. Su Fu. When he turned around just now, I saw a lipstick mark on the back of his shirt. During the dinner last night, the young lady sat next to me and Mr. Su Fu sat opposite me. Afterwards, the young lady was sent back to her room by Mr. Otani, so there should have been no contact between the two. The lipstick mark should have been made in a more concealed situation - such as in the middle of the night when Mr. Mino carried the drunken young lady to the top of the counter.
"Ah, look, there is a protruding iron nail near the top of the cabinet, and there is a wound on the young lady's calf. Perhaps she was scratched by the nail when she fell."
…
Inspector Yokomizo had been listening attentively to Jiang Xia's high-speed reasoning.
At this moment, he reacted quickly, ran to the nail and took a look, and said excitedly: "There is really a little skin here!"
Toru Amuro: "..."
Conan, who also discovered something suspicious and was about to come over to discuss it with Jiang Xia, said: "..."
Others: “…”
...This speed of reasoning is unscientific!
Another disciple looked at Jiang Xia blankly: "Did you get up in the middle of the night and see the murderer..."
"He didn't!" Suzuki Sonoko interrupted, "Yesterday I was afraid that the young lady would sneak back to the restaurant to look for him in the middle of the night, so I held his arm the whole time. If Jiang Xia went out in the middle of the night, I would definitely find out!"
Disciple: “…” What kind of image do you think the young lady is?
…
Although Suzuki Sonoko's testimony sounds unreliable.
But in fact, even if there was no witness, no one would suspect that a high school detective would get up in the middle of the night and leisurely watch the murder scene.
Only Toru Amuro did not quite believe in Jiang Xia's conscience in this regard.
However, Toru Amuro didn't sleep much last night - in his opinion, there might be a "dangerous person trying to eavesdrop on the organization's secrets" hiding nearby.
In addition, after dinner yesterday, a group of people slept on the tatami-covered restaurant floor.
Therefore, Toru Amuro was most certain that Jiang Xia did not follow the murderer out.
In other words, the information Jiang Xia just mentioned was indeed what he quickly deduced one minute after entering the warehouse.
…
In the past, Toru Amuro didn’t feel much reality when he read the reports about Jiang Xia solving the case.
After all, the murderer is written in bold in the title, so there is no suspense when reading it.
But now, he and Jiang Xia have the same information, and he even arrived at the scene earlier than Jiang Xia.
However, when he just concluded that "this doesn't look like suicide", Jiang Xia had already pushed the murderer out...
For the first time, Toru Amuro truly realized the talent of his apprentice.
"……"It was a wise decision to agree to Jiang Xia's part-time job.
And such a talent was almost used as cannon fodder by the organization and shot to death...
There is another entry in the thick book of grudges in Toru Amuro's heart.
(End of this chapter)
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