1212 [Arrears of the detective's salary] Ask for a monthly pass (?)?
Outside the villa, in the beautifully landscaped banquet hall.
After Jiang Xia got the doctors' business cards and memorized the addresses, phone numbers and names, she stopped hanging out with this group of aloof party guests.
He went to take a glass of Coke in a goblet, and then continued to park in the corner of the venue to carry out his commission.
——President Ichikawa's attitude is a bit strange. The Riddler seems to prefer to let the detective stay in the party corner. Jiang Xia tried to sneak into the villa, but was blocked by the housekeeper.
Jiang Xia then followed suit, took out his notebook, recalled the conversation between the two Miss Ichikawa just now, recorded it one by one, and prepared it for submission to the client later.
…
Not long after, the servants set up the outdoor stage.
President Ichikawa quickly stepped onto the stage and picked up the microphone:
"Thank you all for taking the time to come to my birthday party. This time, I mainly want to inform you of one thing - I plan to step down as president in the near future, which means I am retiring.
"Next, I will sell all the stocks in my name and the company's operating rights to Asahi Industrial."
"..."
There was dead silence in the venue.
After a while, whispers broke out, and among the noise, someone couldn't help but ask loudly: "Then what should we do?"
——A large part of the people who came to the party today are relatives of President Ichikawa. Originally, some of them could also get a share of the inheritance.
"What should you do?" President Ichikawa repeated their words and laughed sarcastically, "Well, it's hard to tell the details, but in short one thing is certain - I will not let everyone present, from me
Get a penny here.”
"..."
Among the silent crowd, Jiang Xia couldn't help but be infected with a bit of the detective's aggressive attributes: "..." You just said you would give me another million after the matter is completed...
Mao Lilan felt the restlessness of the crowd and suddenly remembered something.
She looked around and whispered worriedly to Jiang Xia and Suzuki Sonoko: "Have you seen Conan?"
"No." Suzuki Sonoko was used to this naughty kid getting lost, "I must have found something interesting again and slipped away to play with it secretly."
…
Conan did find something interesting.
But I couldn't play secretly, but was played by others.
——By the time he broke free from the anesthesia, a long time had passed.
Conan sat up from the ground, pressed his forehead, looked at his surroundings, and found that he was locked in the basement.
He was stunned for a while, then suddenly remembered what happened before he fainted, and hurried to the door, trying to open the door, but the door was locked tightly and he could not open it at all.
Conan always feels like something is going to happen tonight.
He took out his cell phone and wanted to contact some classmates outside, but after a closer look, he found that there was no signal here.
"Oops, that bottle of poisonous wine..."
…
In the banquet hall.
After Ichikawa Kotaro announced that he was resigning, he returned to the villa bathed in everyone's different looks.
Thinking about the faces of those guys who looked like they were eating flies when they heard that they "cannot get the inheritance", Ichikawa Kotaro couldn't help but feel very happy - he abandoned the property that he had worked hard for through health and moral integrity by any means, so why should these people take it so easily?
Walk?
As he left, the atmosphere in the banquet hall completely calmed down.
Jiang Xia thought of something and looked at the butler: "I remember that when Mr. Ichikawa gave the commission, he said he would observe his two daughters at the banquet tonight. In this case, has the commission been ended?"
"Of course." The butler nodded, "Please come with me."
He led several people to the villa.
This time I didn't go to the study room, but went to the living room.
When she arrived at the door, Jiang Xia glanced around and saw a few familiar people standing in the room - Ichikawa Kotaro, his two daughters, and the personal doctor.
He was about to go in, but was stopped by Ichikawa Kotaro:
"Then it's time for our family to talk. Just give me your investigation results. Just wait next door and the housekeeper will give you the remaining one million."
Jiang Xia didn't have any objections to this, so he responded and put the notebook without much content into his hand.
Then the old housekeeper also entered the living room, and the door was closed from the inside.
"It's weird." Suzuki Sonoko mouthed in dissatisfaction and tried to peek through the crack in the door, but failed miserably.
"Okay, let's go find Conan." After all, Mao Lilan's family is in a detective agency, and her resistance to the Riddler is much higher than that of Suzuki Sonoko.
She is still more concerned about the whereabouts of the missing Conan than other people's personal affairs: "Conan will not be captured by some dark-minded people to vent his anger, such as being used as a sandbag or something... The faces of the guests at the banquet are so scary
.”
"Maybe he went to the bathroom." Jiang Xia looked around and pointed in the direction, "Let's go look over there."
…
At the same time, stay in the living room.
Different from the terrifying atmosphere in the banquet hall just now, at this time, several people in the room were enjoying themselves - at least that's how it seemed on the surface.
The second daughter, Ichikawa Mizue, was sitting on the sofa, looking at her father who was in charge, and forced a smile:
"Honestly, I don't object to dad's decision. Things like wealth are really the sweetest when you get them through your own efforts." - Huh, old-fashioned old man, wait until you die, even if you don't want to,
I can also get a retained inheritance, which is enough for me to live in glory for decades.
and……
Ichikawa Mizue smoothed her hair and gloated in her heart: Someone must be more anxious than her.
Just as he was thinking about it, his eldest daughter Ichikawa Kazushige also smiled and said, "Me too."
She was holding a red wine box in her hand.
As he spoke, Ichikawa opened it gracefully, took out the red wine, poured it out:
"To celebrate my father's birthday, I specially brought this bottle of famous wine from 50 to 7 years ago. I have been saving this wine for a long time and was reluctant to open it. Now it seems that only in the hands of a tasteful person like my father, it will not be unopened.
Insulting its value."
She poured out a glass of wine calmly, put it in a clear goblet, and handed it to Kotaro Ichikawa.
Ichikawa Kotaro took it casually and did not comment on their words. He just picked up the wine and looked at it like he usually tasted wine, and then smelled it.
…
the other side.
Jiang Xia took two classmates and walked around the villa for half a circle, and soon stopped at the door of a basement.
"There seems to be movement in here."
After Jiang Xia finished speaking, he was about to reach out and twist the locked doorknob, and then gave way to Mao Lilan.
But at this time, he suddenly felt a sense of crisis.
Jiang Xia suddenly raised his hand and pushed Suzuki Garden to the side. Almost at the same time, Mao Lilan also took half a step back.
There was a loud bang. A tin can crashed through the basement door, covered in debris, passed between them, and hit the opposite wall heavily.
