On the dark river bank, the cool cold wind blew at each person's body, constantly taking away the weight of the body.
Compared with the coldness, Numayama Banzou's unkind words were even more difficult for Xiaolan to resist.
"I'm sorry, I've been afraid of this since I was a child."
In the end, the kind-hearted Xiao Ran handed Numayama Banzou a step, and the man saw this and stopped making any sound.
If he really wanted to calculate it, he would have discovered them long ago, but he never said anything that he didn't want to deal with them, which led to him scaring the girl in front of him.
"gone."
With just a few words, Numayama Banzo planned to leave directly.
"etc."
However, when Numayama Banzo uttered two words and was about to leave, Karasawa took the initiative to stop him: "Mr. Numayama, it seems that you haven't said why you came here so late."
"Huh? Who do you think you are!?"
After hearing this, Numayama Banzou asked grumpily: "Do I have to report to you one by one what I did!?"
"Actually, we already know it even if you don't tell us."
Karasawa shined the light beam of his watch on the proposed tombstone, and said in a calm tone, as if repeating:
"There is indeed no kappa here, there is just a father who misses his son but doesn't know how to express his feelings.
That tombstone was placed by you, right?"
Karasawa's words stunned Numayama Hanzo, and then an emotion of embarrassment instantly appeared on his face. It was a subconscious reaction after someone exposed the secret: "None of your business!"
"Eh? Was that tombstone repaired by Banzo-san?"
Hearing Tangze's words, Xiaolan was stunned for a moment and then reacted: "So, the reason why Mr. Banzo appears here..."
"I'm afraid I regretted it after kicking it down, and then I came back to repair it secretly by myself."
Conan's slightly "venomous" words exposed Numayama Banzo's last cover, leaving this man who didn't know how to express his feelings at a loss.
"Anyway, I'm back anyway!"
Numamayama Banzou could no longer maintain his "grumpy old brother" side, with a look of impatience on his face: "Get me into the water, and how long are you going to make me stand here blowing the cold wind!"
"Ah, sorry, but I have one last question."
Hearing that the other party was about to leave, Tangze stopped the other party and said, "Um, although it's a bit rude, but when you destroyed the tombstone recently, did you dig out what was buried underneath?"
"Ha?! What do you mean by that!?" Numayama Banzou was shocked and angry when he heard this: "I have never done such a thing?"
"Really?" Tang Ze touched his chin and muttered: "That's weird..."
"Did you find anything?" After hearing what Tang Ze said, Conan, who had tied with Tang Ze before, couldn't help but ask.
He does not allow himself to be inferior to Tangze in terms of insight, even if there is no case now, but not in daily life!
"It's like this. Didn't Mr. Banzo kick down the tombstone during the day?" Karasawa explained: "I found that there were traces of digging in the surrounding soil."
"kindness?"
Numayama Banzou was shocked when he heard this and said: "You said someone dug up Tatsuhiko's grave?
But it’s just a simple tombstone that his friends built for him, and there’s nothing inside, so who would dig it out!?”
"Excuse me, is there anything in here?" Karasawa looked at Numayama Banzo and asked.
"Only after Tatsuhiko's accident, he found his right shoe stuck in the gap between the rocks at the bottom of the river."
Numayama Banzou's expression was desolate, as if he had aged a lot in an instant: "His friend buried the shoe in the ground as a burial mound.
I really can’t imagine why someone would dig up his stuff.”
"If you want to know, you can only confirm it yourself." Tangze said.
"In order to prevent Tatsuhiko's tomb from being tampered with, this is the only way." Koshimizu Nanatsuki agreed thoughtfully, and at the same time he was explaining to Numayama Banzo the reason why they did this.
After all, digging up the other party's son's grave to confirm, although it is not real but simple, is still very rude. It is naturally better to seek the other party's father's opinion when doing this kind of thing.
"Do something..." Xiaolan seemed to be frightened by Koshimizu Nanatsuki's words. For a moment, she thought of many scenes in the movie: "It can't be a curse or something..."
"It shouldn't be such a mysterious reason."
Seeing that Numayama Hanzo did not refute or stop him, Karasawa squatted in front of the simple tombstone, folded his hands and apologized, and then moved the stones on it aside one by one.
"If there are any traces of being excavated."
When the last stone was removed, and looking at the traces on the lower edge of the stone that were different from the surrounding soil, Koshimizu Nanatsuki said with a solemn expression.
"But we still don't know who they are and why they did it." Conan echoed in a deep voice, holding up his flashlight.
"Let's take a look first." Tang Ze didn't say much, and took two small shovels for planting flowers and plants from the tool box in the car.
"Tang Ze Criminal, do you usually carry these in the car?"
Seeing the small shovels being given to Koshizui Nanatsuki, Xiaolan on the side said with a strange expression.
"As a professional habit, you should always be prepared just in case." Tang Ze replied while wearing white gloves.
While watching Karasawa and the two gradually dig up the soil, Numayama Banzou just watched without any intention of stopping them.
Apparently, the previous conversations between several people had caused him to have doubts in his mind, and he wanted to investigate the matter clearly.
The two men moved very quickly, or Tang Ze's digging speed was very fast. His strong arms seemed to be tireless, digging out the soil one shovel after another.
With the help of Koshimi Nanatsuki, the two soon dug up an iron box.
Tangze dug around again with a shovel, loosened the surrounding soil, and then reached out and took out the box.
And when the lid of the iron box was opened, what came into view under the flashlight was a dirty white shoe.
Just like Numayama Hanzo said, it is the shoe of the right foot.
Looking at the pair of shoes, Numayama Banzou looked sad. He opened his mouth but said nothing in the end.
"The shoes are still here..." Xiaolan looked at the relic in Tang Ze's hand and said, "But there are indeed traces of digging on the surface of the soil."
"In other words, someone dug up this place and then restored it intact." Nanatsuki Koshizui touched his chin and muttered: "Who is it and for what purpose..."
"Ah, it's raining..."
Just as Conan was carefully picking up the dirty and green shoes, he suddenly felt raindrops falling on the tip of his nose, and he subconsciously looked at the sky.
In just a few moments, the rain became heavier.
"Hurry up and get in the car. I'll go back after finishing the tombstone." Karasawa handed the car keys to Koshimizu Nanatsuki and urged, "I'll be here right away."
"I understand." Koshimizu Nanatsuki took the car keys, looked at Numayama Banzo and said: "Let's go, Mr. Numayama, I'll leave this to Karasawa Criminal Investigation."
"Well..." Numayama Banzou glanced at Karasawa, his face looked much better, and then ran towards the direction of the car.
When Tangze saw them leaving, he put the shoes in his hands into the iron box, but did not put them back into the pit. Instead, he put them aside. He just filled the pit back with soil, and then removed the tombstone.
To a small recovery.
Karasawa then held the box and put it and the shovel back into the trunk, and then opened the driver's door.
"Okay, let's go back now."
Under heavy rain, the car took the group back to Guangluo Hotel.
After arriving at the hotel, Numayama Banzo got out of the car and was about to leave, but Karasawa stopped him directly: "Mr. Numayama, please come over after dinner time. I have something very important to say."
"Nothing has anything to do with me, right?" Numayama Banzo said after returning to the hotel, regaining his impatient look.
"It's related to your son." Tang Ze said with a serious face: "It's very important, so please come here."
"What on earth do you want to say!" Numayama Banzou heard Tangze's words and said with an evil look on his face: "What are you going to do!"
"Please come by all means." Karasawa did not answer Numayama Banzo's question, but replied this sentence again, and then walked into the hotel with everyone.
After asking the middle-aged front desk clerk at the hotel, everyone learned that dinner would be served in about twenty minutes, so they all returned to their rooms to fix things.
At 7 o'clock, everyone went downstairs one after another. Naturally, in addition to the five of them, the three people they met today were Tokubi Rokuro, Arakawa Ichibo and Nohira Shosuke.
Guangluo Hotel is not particularly big, and the restaurant has long tables that can seat six people.
The five of Tangze sat together, and the other three sat together at another table.
But until dinner started, Numayama Banzo didn't show up.
"It seems that Mr. Numayama doesn't intend to keep the appointment." Koshimizu Nanatsuki looked around and saw no sign of the other party, and couldn't help but ask: "Karasawa Criminal, what are you going to do?"
Seeing this, Tang Ze smiled and said, "Let's eat first. If you don't come later, you can only go and invite me in person."
Seeing Karasawa's unfazed look, Koshimi Nanatsuki shrugged and knew that the other party had his own plans, so he began to immerse himself in dealing with the dinner on the table.
Although it is just ordinary common food, because the village here is close to the forest, you can still eat a lot of delicacies and wild vegetables.
"What are you talking about?" Mouri Kogoro, who was sitting at the same table, looked confused: "Did something happen when I was looking for the mobile phone before?"
"Well, a lot of things happened. I was almost scared to death." While eating her meal, Xiaolan whispered to her father beside her how she went to find her cell phone at night.
By the time Xiaolan finished speaking, dinner was almost over.
But just when the other three Tobbe Rokuro were about to leave, Karasawa stopped them: "You three, please wait a moment. I have something important to say about Tatsuhiko."
"Tatsuhiko-kun?" Tokube Rokuro looked puzzled and asked, "I don't know what you want to say?"
"Should I stay too?" Nohira Bosuke said in surprise: "I don't seem to have any contact with that child, right?"
"It really doesn't matter, but it can solve the mystery of the kappa. If Mr. Nohira is interested, please stay and listen." Karasawa smiled after hearing this.
"Ahem...interesting..." Nohira Shosuke coughed twice, with a look of interest on his face: "In that case, I'm all ears."
"Humph, I told you there are no more Kappas. Do you really want me to kick you out!?"
At this moment, Banzou Numayama walked into the restaurant and said with a cold face.
But Tang Ze didn't care about this. After all, the other party didn't get angry like before, so he knew that he was just talking and would not actually do anything.
"So, Tang Ze Criminal, why did you call us together?"
Huang Yan, who was standing aside, saw with a wave of his hand that even his friend's father had been invited over. Coupled with the previous words of the other party and the information he had received during the previous trip, he couldn't help but become concerned about what the other party had to say.
"Before I start explaining, let me explain the matter of this letter first. This is why we came all the way from Tokyo to this hotel."
Karasawa winked at Koshizui Nanatsuki, who then took out the letter he was carrying and read the contents again.
"It turns out that the "Tatsuri Menko" you mentioned before is the client of this letter." Nohira Shosuke suddenly said.
"That's right, the other party said in the letter that he wants us to cleanse him of the sin of murder eleven years ago."
Koshizui Nanatsuki nodded and said: "But we contacted the Gunma County Police Department and found no information about the wanted criminal named "Tatsuri Menko".
After arriving here, Tang Ze Criminal realized that the name combined with "Kappa" means that someone mailed us a letter using the identity of "Kappa"."
"Isn't that just a prank!"
A look of boredom appeared on Numayama Banzou's face: "You are really good enough to come all the way here after being fooled by a letter!"
"No, if it was a simple prank, I wouldn't have sent a letter to both Karasawa Criminal and Uncle Mouri at the same time, and also included a commission fee in the envelope."
Conan shook his head and said in an innocent tone: "If Uncle Maori or Tangze Criminal do not accept the commission, then his money will be wasted."
"The only reason why the other party did this was that he was afraid that if he sent a letter to one person, the other person would not come, so he sent letters to both people." Koshimizu Nanatsuki explained shortly afterwards.
"Then what is the murder case mentioned in the letter?" Huang Yan waved and said in confusion: "Didn't you investigate it? There was no such thing?"
"At the beginning, we didn't know anything about it, but after I met you and learned about Tatsuhiko from your mouth, I knew the murder mentioned in the letter and the case of the "kappa" who had been wronged for eleven years.
Already."
After Karasawa's words fell, the expressions of everyone present changed, but compared to others, Numayama Banzou's reaction was the most intense.
"What nonsense are you talking about!"
After Numayama Hanzo heard what Karasawa said, he rushed directly from the door to him with an angry expression: "What nonsense like "kappa" is, it's nothing!
Get out, get out! You are not welcome here!!"
This chapter has been completed!