Chi Feichi screwed on the bottle cap and looked sideways at Mouri Kogoro's outfit.
He thought it was a vegetable garden planted in a large yard, but he didn't expect it to be a rooftop vegetable garden. There shouldn't be many vegetables to harvest. Is his teacher's dress too grand?
Mao Lilan looked at Kogoro Maori who was leading the way into the apartment building excitedly, and complained in a low voice, "I also think my father is overprepared, but he has been looking forward to harvesting a few days ago, and prepared straw hats early this morning.
With the shovel, Conan and I saw how excited he was, so we decided to do whatever he wanted."
Mouri Kogoro stood in front of the elevator and found that the elevator door had opened. He turned around and greeted, "Hey, you guys move faster!"
Mao Lilan stepped forward quickly and said to Chi Feichi with a helpless smile, "Ms. Mejiro is doing financial work on the first floor of the building here. She still has work to do and will be busy until after eleven o'clock in the morning, so let us get there first.
I went to the rooftop vegetable garden to wait for her. I think she hasn’t arrived yet. My dad is just too anxious..."
Mouri Kogoro entered the elevator and glanced at his daughter who was complaining about him with a speechless expression. As soon as the three of them entered the elevator, he immediately pressed the door close button.
Using the light in the elevator, Conan looked up at Chi Feichi's face again and asked directly, "Brother Chi, is he feeling unwell?"
"Yes, Brother Fei Chi, your voice sounds a little hoarse. Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?" Mao Lilan also turned to look at Chi Fei Chi's face.
His expression was unremarkable, still cold and indifferent, but there was something wrong with Chi Feichi's voice.
"My face looks bad when I wake up in the morning, and I get thirsty easily, just like Kogoro drank too much the night before," Conan analyzed while stroking his chin, "But his voice is not hoarse, so if Brother Chi didn't go to sing karaoke yesterday,
, I just have a cold..."
Chi Feichi casually said 'hmm'.
It is impossible for a famous detective to guess the third possibility.
Seeing Chi Feichi's perfunctory response, Conan choked and asked with half-moon eyes, "What on earth is going on?"
Chi Feichi was silent for a moment. If he said he was going to sing karaoke, he might be asked who he was going with...
"a little sick."
"Ding!"
The elevator reaches the roof of the sixth floor.
The roof of the building is spacious and open, surrounded by hollow iron railings.
A large vegetable garden was opened in the middle, and long and long areas were divided with cement.
On the land, plants are neatly arranged and full of vitality, exuding the fresh smell of earth and fruits.
There is also a scarecrow standing in the field, with a straw hat tied to the stand and a hanging white cloth used as the head. Loose clothes with blue and white vertical stripes are spread on the T-shaped wooden stand to serve as the body. The waist of the clothes is tied with hemp rope.
From time to time it was blown slightly by the wind.
"You must have been hiding at home because of a cold, right?" Mouri Kogoro walked out of the elevator, looked at the vegetable garden with large tracts of vegetables in front of him, and said refreshed, "Actually, if you are not feeling well, you need to go out for a walk.
Come on, your cold might get better faster!"
Chi Feichi walked out of the elevator and looked at the vegetable garden in front of him, feeling that he would indeed feel better.
The premise is that you ignore the figure lying over there...
"I also think it would be better to go for a walk!" Conan looked up and said to Chi Feichi with a smile. He noticed that Chi Feichi was staring at a corner of the vegetable garden. He turned around in confusion and saw the person lying on the ground among the green plants.
, his expression changed, and he ran forward quickly.
Mouri Kogoro also saw the man who fell to the ground and ran over anxiously, "Hey, hey, what's going on?"
Chi Feichi followed and observed the situation.
I was hit as soon as I got out of the elevator. That's probably what happened.
The man lying in front of the railing has short hair and white stubble. He looks to be in his sixties or seventies. He wears black-rimmed glasses. He is taller and has broad shoulders. He is wearing a gray short-sleeved T-shirt and a red pair.
Sweatpants.
The man's head was facing the elevator. Next to his head was a blue water tank more than 30 centimeters high. There was a short pipe attached to the water tank. It seemed to be used to water the vegetable garden. There were blood stains on the corner of the water tank.
His legs were bent, facing the railing, and next to his feet was a pool with a tap. The edge of the pool was very low, only five centimeters higher than the ground, and there were traces of stepping and sliding on it.
Looking at it this way, it seems that when the old man came here to tidy up the vegetable garden, he stepped on the edge of the water tank and slipped. When he fell backward, the back of his head hit the corner of the water tank...
"It's hopeless." Maori Kogoro squatted beside the old man, checked the situation, sighed, turned to Maori Lan seriously, "Xiaolan, it looks like an accident, but I still call the police and let the police
Come and take a look!”
"Okay!" Mao Lilan nodded quickly, took out her cell phone and called the police.
Chi Feichi walked to Maori Kogoro's side and looked at the blood on the ground on the back of the old man's head. He saw a white towel dropped by the railing in the corner of his vision, and turned to look over, "Teacher."
"Huh?" Mouri Kogoro was still squatting next to the deceased, looking up at his apprentice in confusion.
"This old gentleman has a towel tied around his neck. Why is there another one here?" Chi Feichi stared at the towel, recalling the relevant plot in his mind.
The towel fell in front of the railing, not far from the feet of the deceased. It was stained with large brown marks. It looked like rust on the railing, but the rust was stained too much, almost covering half of the towel. Why?
It looks a little strange...
"It looks very new," Mouri Kogoro stood up, walked to the fallen towel, leaned over and looked at it without hastily picking it up with his hands. He looked at the railing next to him with a thoughtful look on his face, and quickly opened his eyes.
Liang said, "That's right! Maybe he took an extra spare towel and hung it on the railing. When he was tidying up the vegetable garden, he used the towel hanging around his neck to wipe the sweat. As a result, the towel was covered with sweat, and he
I wanted to change a towel, so I walked here to get it, but I stepped on the edge of the pool and accidentally fell!"
Conan staggered, and after he regained his balance, he pointed at the towel and reminded, "Uncle, are the traces on it blood?"
"It looks like rust on the railing," Mouri Kogoro just glanced casually, then looked at the old man who fell to the ground, "However, the way he fell to the ground was a bit strange, as if he was pointing his finger at his face..."
The old man lay slightly sideways on the ground, his left hand was pressed to his side, his right elbow was bent on the ground, pointing at his face, and a mobile phone fell not far from his side.
Chi Feichi looked at the old man, then turned to look at the vegetable garden. After seeing the broken bricks in the narrow aisle of the vegetable garden, he turned and left thoughtfully.
"Huh?" Conan noticed that Chi Feichi was looking at the vegetable garden, but he was not sure where Chi Feichi was looking. When he saw Chi Feichi heading to the other side of the roof, he quickly trotted to follow him.
"Dad, Officer Memu said they will be here right away and will arrive in about half an hour!" Mao Lilan came over with her mobile phone. When she saw Conan running past, she quickly turned around and warned, "Conan, be careful, don't slip.
!”
"I know!" Conan responded without looking back, and trotted to keep up with Chi Feichi, who was walking slowly to the railing on the side of the house. He bent down and took a breath, once again resenting his smaller body.
Chi Feichi stood in front of the railing, stuffing his hands in his trouser pockets, not reaching out to touch the rusty railing, and looking into the distance.
Outside the building is the bank of Tsumutsu River.
The Tsumutsu River is a long river that passes through Mikawa Town and Cupido Town. The riverbank is also very long. Some sections are wide enough to be opened to traffic, and some sections have only a small road that can only be used for walking.
Likewise, some sections of road are so lively that many people go for a drive at night, while others, like the section in front of me, are remote and clean, with few people to see.
Not far away, the river that goes straight forward turns and flows in another direction, and the riverbank road also curves over. Looking out from here, you can see the green grass slope, and you can also see three cyclists on the road on the slope.
The child smiled and said a few words to his companions from time to time, and kept moving forward along the river road.
This road looks familiar, it seems to be one of the routes leading to Didan Primary School.
Conan breathed enough and approached the railing. He imitated Chi Fei and looked out into the distance. After finding no clues, he raised his head in confusion and asked, "What is Brother Chi looking at?"
"Did you hear the singing?"
Chi Feichi asked softly.
Looking at the road, he suddenly remembered a scene in Dr. Ali's memories that he had seen in his previous life.
A group of children sang "Seven Children" and walked on the riverbank road in the sunset, laughing together and heading home. Their childish voices were neat and loud.
When Dr. Ali was a child, this nursery rhyme seemed to be very popular and many children could sing it.
"Song, singing?" Conan listened carefully. Apart from the sound of wind, there was only the sound of crows flapping their wings not far away. He began to suspect that Chi Feichi was hallucinating, "I didn't hear it.
, what kind of singing did Brother Chi hear?"
Of course Chi Feichi couldn't speak "Seven Children". He turned his back to the railing and looked at the scarecrow in the vegetable garden. He remembered a song, took out his phone from his pocket, unlocked it, opened the notepad, and typed quickly with his fingers, "
scarecrow."
Crow and scarecrow are words that are often associated together.
Conan's head was full of questions, "Huh?"
Chi Feichi squatted down next to Conan, humming softly, still staring at the phone screen as he typed, "When fields lie calm and wind stands still, Run home, Run home..." (When fields lie calm and wind stands still, Run home, Run home...)
, run home quickly)
It's hard to say whether it's a light or quiet melody. There's an air of the underworld in the humming of a male voice that's too calm and has a slightly lower voice.
Conan felt the wind blowing from all sides, and seemed to have blown into his clothes. It made his skin crawl, and he looked at the scarecrow in the vegetable garden.
A crow hovered near the scarecrow, no crow, only the sound of flapping wings.
Chi Feichi's typing fingers stopped for a moment, and he tried to recall the melody. The melody he sang was also a bit stumbling, "As the crows make night of the fading sun, Hide now, Hide now..." (When the crows crow,
Night is coming, hide quickly, hide quickly)
Conan turned his head and looked at Chi Feichi's face, which was squatting against the light and illuminated by the phone screen.